180 motifs match “clothes” — showing the first 100; narrow the words for the rest  ·  back to the chapters

• God divests self of earthly raiment and clothes self with lightning. A179.7
• Deity clothes his father the sky after he has separated him from earth. A625.2.4
• Mountains from stones dropped from giant's clothes. He carries the stones in his clothes but loses them as he walks. A963.1
• Snow from feathers or clothes of a witch (Frau Holle). A1135.2.1
• Shame for nakedness appears to first woman. (Leaves for clothes). A1383.1
• Creator paints on clay models of men clothes that they are to wear. A1453.6
• Why a certain tribe wear clothes like dogs (supposed descendants of a bitch mother). A1683.2
• Bat, diver, and thornbush shipwrecked. Bat brought money, bush put on clothes, and diver brought leather. All shipwrecked. Diver is looking for his leather. Bush looks for his clothers and holds fast to all passers-by. Bat is abroad only at night to escape creditors. (Cf. A2471.4, A2491.1.) A2275.5.3
• Bush loses clothes in shipwreck: hence catches passerby looking for clothes. (Cf. A2792.1.) A2741.4
• Serpent's bite produces ornaments and clothes. B103.6.1
• Tabu: profaning hallowed clothes and vessels. C93.2
• Tabu: Bondo women not to wear clothes. C181.6
• Tabu: touching certain clothes. C545
• Tabu: touching old clothes. (Abandoned clothes should be thrown away.) C545.1
• Tabu: touching clothes of certain person. C545.2
• Transformation by changing clothes. D537
• Prince procures magic object from bathing fairy when he steals her clothes. D838.10
• Magic clothes. D1050
• Clothes produced by magic. D1050.1
• Magic clothes – miscellaneous. D1069
• Magic clothes produce love. (Cf. D1050.) D1355.11
• Magic object furnishes clothes. (Cf. D1470.) D1473
• Magic wand furnishes clothes. (Cf. D1254.1.) D1473.1
• Saint spreads his cloak (or other clothes) upon the water and rides to his desired destination. (Cf. D1053.) D1524.1.3
• Clothes carry owner over water. D1524.2
• Speaking clothes. (Cf. D1050.) D1610.26
• Magic clothes answer for fugitive. (Cf. D1050.) D1611.7
• Magic power from donning magician's clothes. (Cf. D1052.) D1721.0.1
• Magic sight by turning clothes inside out. D1821.9
• Invulnerability only when dressed in certain clothes. (Cf. D1344.) D1845.2
• Clothes burned by magic. D2089.8
• Clothes cling supernaturally to body. D2171.6
• Dead grateful for clothes (shirt). E341.4
• Wraiths of persons drowning appear in dripping clothes. E723.7.8
• Clothes of wicked person burn when owner dies. E767.2
• Extraordinary clothes in otherworld. F166.3
• Color of fairy's clothes. F236.1
• Fairies in red clothes. F236.1.1
• Fairies in blue clothes. F236.1.2
• Fairies in white clothes. F236.1.3
• Fairies in gray clothes. F236.1.4
• Fairies in gleaming clothes. F236.1.5
• Fairy in green clothes. F236.1.6
• Fairy wears boorish clothes. F236.5
• Fairies wash their clothes: they are heard only at this task. F271.9
• Fairy comes into man's power when he steals her wings (clothes). She leaves when she finds them. F302.4.2
• Fairy comes into man's power when he steals her clothes. She leaves when she finds them. F302.4.2.1
• Fairies give beautiful clothes. F343.5
• Fairy leaves when he is given clothes. F381.3
• Spirits dressed in antique clothes. F401.1
• Water-spirits are clad in clothes of gold and silver. F420.1.6.2
• Color of water-spirit's clothes. F420.1.6.6
• Water-spirits mend clothes. F420.3.2.5
• Spirits pull off person's bedclothes. F470.1
• Giant's clothes. F531.4.7
• Marvelous sensitiveness: man feels little point of simple thorn in middle of his clothes. F647.9.2
• Expert swordsman cuts clothes bag in two. (Cf. F611.3.3.1) F667.3
• Extraordinary dress (clothes, robe, etc.) F821
• Golden clothes. F821.1.1
• Brass clothes. F821.1.2
• Clothes of light (worn by Adam and Eve). F821.7
• Clothes which do not wear out. F821.8
• Clothes remain ever new. F821.11
• Clothes hung on sunbeam. F1011.1
• Man washes clothes blindfolded. F1017
• Tearing hair and clothes from excessive grief. F1041.21.6
• Devil dressed in blue clothes. G303.5.4
• Devil dressed in hunting clothes. G303.5.5
• Devil hides in clothes of people running from storm. G303.6.2.12
• The devil as tailor to a dandy. The dandy demands clothes sewed without thread. The devil disguised as a tailor makes them. In church the dandy's clothes fall to pieces, leaving him naked. G303.9.9.11
• Recognition by exact fitting of clothes. H36
• Werwolf killed and recognized by man's clothes under the wolf's skin or rosary on the neck. H64.2
• Heroine in menial disguise discovered in her beautiful clothes: recognition follows. H151.6
• Suitor test: correct wearing of clothes. H312.6
• Bride test: wearing deceased wife's clothes. H363.1
• Man marries girl bringing his clothes soonest. H375.2
• Skillful companions create woman: to whom does she belong? Woodcarver carves a doll, tailor clothes her, gardener gives her speech (or the like). (Answer sometimes given: her father, her mother, or her husband). H621
• Riddle: what were the clothes of Adam and Eve? (Their hair.) H812
• Task: washing enormous number of clothes (and other articles) in short time. H1096
• Fear test: stealing clothes from ghosts. H1431
• Test: sewing clothes into boy's hands and tearing them off together with the skin. H1505
• Flea and fever exchange night-lodgings. Flea had attacked abbess and been chased all night; fever, a washerwoman who nearly froze it to death by going to the river and washing clothes. They exchange and succeed. J612.1
• More than one swallow to make a summer. Spendthrift youth seeing swallow concludes that summer has come and sells his clothes. There is frost the next day and he is cold. J731.1
• Brother who conforms to naked people's customs honored. Two brothers go to the land of Naked People. One of the brothers wears clothes and is punished. J815.2
• Man to be judged by his own qualities, not his clothes. J1072
• Guests strike man who tries to interfere in their quarrel. It is their host in old clothes. Guests are humiliated but forgiven. J1072.1
• Accused woman to go three times around building naked: guilty one begins to strip off her clothes. J1141.1.8
• Thief suspected of crawling through hole must take off clothes. He is full of scratches and confesses. J1141.7
• The gift of the fool. Of three brothers the shoemaker makes shoes for the queen and princess; the tailor, clothes; the fool – children. J1272
• Wearing all his clothes. Shivering king (rich man) to tattered peasant: "Aren't you cold?" Peasant: "No, if you wore all your clothes as I do, you wouldn't be cold either!" J1289.5
• Why the black clothes. A man goes forth in black clothes. People are curious as to the reason. "I am wearing mourning for the father of my son." J1304
• No clothes needed for Day of Judgment. Friends tell a man that the next day is the Day of Judgment and urge him to kill a lamb and give a feast. He apparently consents. He then burns up their clothes. They will not need clothes on the Day of Judgment. J1511.7
• Priest forbidden to have female servant ostentatiously washes his own clothes. Bishop reverses the order. J1539.1
• Clothes thrown into the cooking food. A trickster when told that food cooking is clothes being boiled retaliates by throwing his dirty hose into the pot. J1561.1
• Welcome to the clothes. A man at a banquet is neglected because of his poor clothes. He changes clothes, returns, and is honored. "Feed my clothes," he says, "for it is they that are welcomed." J1561.3
• The guest who could not keep warm. He keeps calling for more bed clothes. The host finally piles a ladder, a trough, etc., on top of him until he calls for help. J1563.1
• The forehanded servant. A parson boasts that when he asks his maid if certain work is done she always answers that it has been done long ago. A guest wagers that she can be trapped if she is asked whether she has thrown the parson's suit of clothes into the tub of water. She overhears the wager and has the suit in the water before he asks the question. J1614
• Fool cannot tell sex of nudes, since they have no clothes on. J1745.1
• Hens in mourning. Fool puts black clothes on his hen's necks. He tells people that they mourn their mother. J1886
• Fool in new clothes does not know himself. J2012.4