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

• Coming of culture hero (demigod). A513
• Shooting stars spirits coming down to earth to make woman pregnant. A788.3
• End of world heralded by coming of Antichrist, a gigantic destructive one-eyed monster. A1075
• Races dark-skinned from bathing after white men. All peoples bathe in the river, the white man first, then in turn, the Spaniard, the Indian, and the negro – each becoming darker because of the condition of the water. A1614.2
• Worm, thinking that world is coming to end, blinds self so as not to see calamity. (Cf. A2332.6.4.) A2284.3
• Cock helper advises of coming enemy. B122.7
• Dog warns of coming. B134.3.1
• Dog (transformed man) prophesies coming of enemy. B141.4.1
• Crows announce coming of hero to otherworld. B143.0.8.1
• Faithful horse weeps for coming death of saint. B301.4.1.1
• Fish promises to spare man in coming flood. (Cf. B375.1.) B527.1
• Tabu: coming suddenly on supernatural creatures. C52.2
• Tabu: coming to Ireland in time of peace. C755.3
• Disenchantment by overcoming enchanted person in fight (contest). D716
• Three soldiers in the enchanted manor. Curiosity overcoming them they forfeit the power of disenchanting the princesses. Seven seven-year-old boys break the spell and save the princess. D759.10
• Self-returning magic coin. Keeps coming back. (Cf. D1288.) D1602.11
• Means of becoming magician. D1711.0.3
• Saints have foreknowledge of coming of guests. D1812.0.2
• Hero has foreknowledge of coming of guests. D1812.0.2.2
• Fakir has foreknowledge of coming of guests. D1812.0.2.3
• Washers at the ford. Appearance of female figure washing bloody armor, chariot cushions, or human limb (at ford) as sign of coming disaster in battle. (Cf. A485.1, E761.1, M301.6.1, Z129.2.2.) D1812.5.1.1.6
• Magic power to "see" who will die during coming year. D1825.6
• Listening at church door on Halloween to hear the names of those to die in the coming year. (Cf. D1825.6.) D1827.1.1
• Butter magically kept from coming. (Cf. D1573, D2083.) D2084.2
• Return from dead to prophesy coming of Christ. (Cf. M363, M364.7.2.) E367.3
• The Flying Dutchman. A sea captain because of his wickedness sails his phantom ship eternally without coming to harbor. E511
• Mortal's coming to fairyland foreknown to fairies. F256.1
• Fairy prevents butter coming. (Cf. D2084.2.) F369.6
• Homecoming giant heard far away. F531.3.8.3
• Armies miraculously separated (kept from coming to battle, etc.). F1097
• Cannibal disenchanted by overcoming it. Becomes maiden. G33.1
• Devil's coming heralded by piercing whistle. G303.6.3.5
• Suitor test: overcoming princess in strength. H345
• What is most pleasant? Love. (In spite of childbirth pains women continue becoming pregnant.) H659.13.1
• Task: coming neither on nor off the road. (Comes in the rut or the ditch at side of the road.) H1051
• Task: coming neither on horse nor on foot (riding nor walking). H1053
• Task: coming neither on horse nor on foot. (Comes on another animal.) H1053.1
• Task: coming neither on horse nor on foot. (Comes sitting on animal but with feet reaching ground.) H1053.2
• Task: coming neither on horse nor on foot. (Comes with one leg on animal's back, one on ground.) H1053.3
• Task: coming neither on horse nor on foot. (Coming drawn by an animal on net, trough, or sledge.) H1053.4
• Task: coming neither on horse nor on foot. (Walks on a stick horse.) H1053.5
• Task: coming neither on horse nor on foot. (Crawls on all fours.) H1053.6
• Task: coming neither naked nor clad. H1054
• Task: coming neither naked nor clad. (Comes wrapped in net or the like.) H1054.1
• Task: coming neither naked nor clad. (Comes clothed in own hair.) H1054.2
• Task: coming neither naked nor clad. (Comes with part of body clothed.) H1054.3
• Task: coming "neither in softness nor in hardness." (Comes clad in garments of mountain down.) H1054.4
• Task: coming neither barefoot nor shod. (Comes with one shoe on, one off; or in soleless shoes.) H1055
• Task: coming neither with nor without a present (game). (Lets bird fly as the reaches it toward king.) H1056
• Task: coming neither by day nor by night. (Comes at twilight.) H1057
• Task: coming neither with nor without a companion. (Comes with an animal.) H1061
• Task: coming neither washed nor unwashed. (Comes partly washed.) H1062
• Task: coming neither hungry nor satiated. (Eats a thin soup, a leaf, a single grain, or the like.) H1063
• Task: coming laughing and crying at once. (Rubs eyes with a twig to simulate crying.) H1064
• Task: annihilating (overcoming) army single-handed. H1135
• Task: overcoming savage buffalo. H1161.2
• Task: overcoming elephant. H1161.3
• Task: overcoming robbers. H1162.1
• Task: overcoming dragon. H1174.2
• Fear test: behaving as if enemy is coming in order to see who will flee and who will stay and fight. H1405
• Wasp twits butterfly with coming from ugly chrysalis: unimportant where you come from. J312.1
• Foolishness of premature coming out of hiding. J582
• Fox sees all tracks going into lion's den but none coming out. He saves himself. J644.1
• Wise man stores grain against coming famine. J711.4
• Claim that dog-head captured game. Two hunters, one with dog and other with dog-head, dispute. The claim that the dog-head captured the game is allowed and then the alarm is raised that the owner of the, game is coming to punish the theft. J1214.1
• The parson's share and the sexton's. During the sermon the parson bids the sexton see if anyone is coming. The sexton: "A man is coming with a wheel on his shoulder" J1269.1
• Persistent beggar invited upstairs. A beggar will not come in but insists on the man coming down to the door. When he asks alms the man bids him come upstairs. Then he says he has nothing for him. "You made me come down for nothing; I make you come up for nothing." J1331
• The cynic and the big gates. Coming to a little town with big gates, he says, "Close the gate so that the town won't run away." J1442.6
• Ignorant people told religious holiday is coming the next day: camel appears and is feasted. J1738.7
• Fools try to hedge the cuckoo so that they will have summer the year round (the coming of the first cuckoo being the sign of the coming summer). J1904.2.1
• She knows best: woman denies accusation of adultery. Husband dismisses the truthful accusers saying that she knows her shortcomings better than anyone else, and she denies it. J2342.3
• The house without food or drink. A fool and his son meet women mourning a dead man. "He goes to the place where there is darkness and nothing to eat or drink." The son: "They must be coming to our house." J2483
• Contest in flying with load. One animal chooses cotton; the other, seeing that a rain is coming, chooses salt and wins. K25.2
• Contest: harvesting the hay. The man calls out, "The wolves are coming!" The ogre is intimidated. K42.0.1
• Deceptive drinking contest: rising and falling tide. Buffalo and heron wager as to which can drink the sea until the water falls. The buffalo drinks as the tide is coming in; the heron drinks in the falling tide and wins. K82.1.1
• Trickster lights torches and bluffs old woman into giving him money. Torches alleged to belong to man coming to collect damages from her. K335.0.10
• Robbers coming to steal from stable frightened away by bear staying the night there with his keeper. K335.1.9
• Giant tricked into becoming mouse. Cat eats him up. K722
• Jackals persuaded to enter pit to escape coming storm. Killed. K811.2
• Adulteress kills home-coming husband. K1510.1
• Husband in hanging tub to escape coming flood. The priest who has thus duped the husband enjoys the wife. K1522
• Trickster makes woman believe that her husband is coming to punish her adultery. She confesses. K1572
• "St. George's Dogs" (wolves). The man says, "St. George's dogs are coming!" The ogre flees. K1725
• Herdsman threatens invasion with enormous herds: bought off. He hires himself as herdsman of all his master's flocks for ten years. He then sends notice to surrounding peoples that he is coming with his master's flocks to graze. They bribe him to stay away. K1784
• Maidservant's confederate feigns coming out of woman's bedroom. K2112.2.3
• The three hunchback brothers drowned. A drunken man is employed, by the woman who has accidently slain three hunchback brothers, to throw one into the river. He does so. Then she puts another out and finally the third. The man thinks they keep coming to life. Finally he sees the woman's hunchback husband and drowns him. K2322
• Dwarf-deer pastes other animal's eyes shut and pretends that hunters are coming. K2382.2
• Prophecy by Jesus that certain people shall live "till coming of Patrick." So it was. M300.1
• Saint prophesies that certain man will have a warning of coming death. M341.0.1
• Coming of religious leader prophesied. (Cf. M300.1.) M363
• Coming of Christ (Christianity) prophesied. M363.1
• Coming of Antichrist prophesied. M363.1.1
• Prophecy: coming of Messiah. M363.2
• Coming (birth) of saint prophesied. (Cf. M363.1.2.) M364.7
• Coming of saint prophesied by druids. M364.7.1
• Coming of saint (Christianity) prophesied by heathen. M364.7.2
• Hero's coming prophesied. M394
• Enduring and overcoming curses. M420
• Which is more beautiful, nymph of Luck or of Ill-Luck (Luck when coming, Ill-Luck when going). N141.3
• Army drowned by unnoticed incoming tide. N339.7