62 motifs match “clothing”  ·  back to the chapters

• Clothing of gods. A158
• Sun-snarer: fast sun. The sun goes too fast to dry clothing. The hero snares the sun's legs with a rope as he is climbing up from the underworld. He releases the sun upon the promise to go more slowly. A728.2
• Acquisition of clothing. A1437
• Plants from clothing of deity. (Cf. A2615.) A2625
• Tabu: selling used clothing. C782.1
• Tabu concerning clothing. C878
• Transformation: clothing to other object. D454.3
• Transformation: one article of clothing to another. D454.3.1
• Transformation by putting on skin, clothing, etc. D530
• Disenchantment by covering with deliverer's clothing. D789.1
• Magic underclothing. D1058
• Word charms woven in clothing produce love. D1355.18.1
• Clothing protects from evil spirit. (Cf. D1050.) D1385.19
• Magic clothing furnishes treasure. D1455
• Murder by abuse of clothing of victim. D2061.2.2.5
• Rubbish magically becomes food and clothing. D2105.3
• Spells to recall dead lover. Boiling dead man's head, bones, or carcass in a pot, or burning a piece of lover's clothing or cat in a hot oven. E218
• Return from dead to demand clothing stolen from grave. E236.1
• Ghost pulls bedclothing from sleeper. E279.3
• Clothing of wild huntsmen. E501.8
• Otherworld clothing never wears out. F166.3.1
• Fairies have yellow (golden) hair (clothing). F233.5
• Fairies wear gay clothing. F236.6
• House spirit leaves when gift of clothing is left for it. (Cf. F348.11.) F405.11
• Spirit slashes clothing. F473.6.2
• Clothing of brownie. F482.2
• Extraordinary clothing and ornaments. F820
• Extraordinary clothing and ornaments – miscellaneous. F829
• Swallowed person bereft of clothing. F922
• Food does not spoil saint's clothing. F1091
• Witch bewitches clothing. G265.8.2
• Devil in green clothing with hat. G303.5.2.1
• Articles of clothing with name embroidered on them taken as tokens. H86.2
• Identification by cloth or clothing. H110
• Identification by cloth or clothing – miscellaneous. H119
• Clothing (cloth) as chastity index. H431
• Task: making many shirts (clothing an army) from one hank of flax (wool). H1022.2
• Task: clothing an army from one hank of flax; countertask: making horseshoes for cavalry from one needle. (Cf. H951.) H1022.2.1
• Task: stealing beautiful clothing of a witch. H1151.23
• Poisoned clothing test. Attempt to kill hero by poisoning clothing. H1516
• Forethought in provision for clothing. J730
• Do not discard clothing till cold weather is over. J731
• Rich Brahmin wearing poor clothing is treated as a beggar. J1072.2
• Host hides meat in his clothing. It attracts his dog and he is exposed. J1562.3
• "I don't understand." Foreigner asks who owns property, clothing, servants; whose wife an attractive woman is; whose funeral is in progress? Answer to each question is "I don't understand," which foreigner takes to be a person's name. (Cf. J1152, J1741, X111.7.) J1802.1
• Keeping rain from the trunks. Numskulls take out the clothing and cover the trunks to keep rain off. J2129.6
• Clothing the servant. The master is to clothe the servant (at his expense). The servant insists that his master shall put on his clothes for him. J2491
• Coward is frightened when clothing catches on thistle. (Cf. N384.2.) J2625
• Woman dares husband to try his sword on pile of clothing which hides her paramour. Stops him just in time. Later the paramour entices her to come to him. Exposes her naked, except for face, to his friends. K1213.1
• Husband beaten by paramour. Husband, dressed in wife's clothing, is beaten by forewarned paramour. The latter says that he is testing the wife's fidelity to her husband. K1514.4.1
• Paramour placed in chest and covered with clothing. K1521.2.1
• Tiger in sheep's clothing stolen by sheep-thief. K1621
• Humble disguise. (Cap o' Rushes, Peau d'âne Allerleirauh.) Usually in rough clothing. (Cf. K521.4.3, K1812, K1816.) K1815
• Girl hides lover under clothing upon which she sits. K1892.2
• Man in woman's clothing poses as bride for beggar. K1911.4
• Death in the graveyard; person's clothing is caught; the person thinks something awful is holding him; he dies of fright. N384.2
• Penance: man wears huge serpent coiled around him in lieu of clothing. Q522.8
• Holy man passes through fire for his faith. Only his clothing burns. V222.8
• Saint never wears woolen clothing, but skins of wolves and other beasts. V462.5.1.1
• Lie: remarkable clothing of remarkable man. X1021
• Fortune personified as a matron in fine clothing. Z134.1
• Cold depreciated and praised. Depreciated, takes revenge by becoming colder; praised, makes reward, gives clothing. Z139.4.1