34 motifs match “continue”  ·  back to the chapters

• Music-box continues playing when it is touched contrary to tabu. C915.1.1
• Spinning wheel continues spinning because woman has worked at forbidden time. C916.4
• Continued thirst from breaking tabu. (Cf. C924.) C949.5
• Magic object causes continued sneezing. D1372
• Magic ring causes continued sneezing. (Cf. D1076.) D1372.1
• Forgotten fiancée reawakens husband's memory by detaining lovers through magic. Heroine takes up residence near home of her forgetful husband. She is apparently going to permit a lover to sleep with her when she detains him by having him try to place some magic birds on their roost. They continue to fall down throughout the night. (Or the lover is left magically sticking to a calf's tail or other object.) The thwarted lover tells of his experience, and in this way the attention of the husband is gained. D2006.1.1
• Man magically made to believe himself bishop, archbishop, and pope. When he continues to refuse payment to the magician, the latter shows him the reality. D2031.5
• Magic discomfort: continued breaking of wind. (Cf. D2079.1, G303.6.2.15.1.) D2063.5
• Magic gift: power to continue all day what one starts. One woman measures linen; another throws water on pig. D2172.2
• People magically continue hurting themselves. Try to drive ox but drive themselves; to stab it but stab themselves; etc. D2184
• Slain warriors revive nightly. Continue fighting the next day. E155.1
• Dead body incorruptible. Beard and fingernails continue to grow. E182
• Vampire's power overcome by endurance and prayer. Hero continues to pray without looking or speaking while vampire punishes him. E251.1.1
• The Wild Hunt. (Cf. F282.) (Die Wilde Jagd, Das Wütende Heer, Odinsjæger, Chasse Fantastique.) A ghostly hunter and his rout continue the chase. E501
• Wild huntsman wanders because he wished to continue hunt after death. E501.3.7
• Blazing stick continues to burn even in water. F964.4
• Fury enables wounded soldiers to continue fighting. Die at end of battle. F1041.16.6.7
• Devil comes and works with man who continues to work after night. G303.22.9
• Symbolic invitation to continued liberality. H595.1
• What is most pleasant? Love. (In spite of childbirth pains women continue becoming pregnant.) H659.13.1
• Task: pasturing a cow which continues to run all day. H1112.2
• The doctor no longer needed. As the fool starts for the doctor the wife changes her mind. He continues to the doctor so as to tell him about it and to say that now he need not come. J2241
• Dupe denied food until hands are clean. Grass burned around food makes continued washings unavailing. K278
• Dupe digs till he dies of exhaustion. Rabbit entertains the wolf with his antics until the rabbit's wife can change to another hole. The wolf continues to dig. K1061
• Fugitive kills pursuer and takes his extraordinary horse to continue flight. R233
• Husband tries to reform wife by killing a recalcitrant horse in her presence. She thinks he has lost his mind and continues in her ways. T251.2.3.1
• Habitual food and drink continued even when it is harmful. U139.1
• Virgin forbids devil to take robber as long as he continues to say two "Aves" daily. V254.9
• Badly wounded warrior continues fighting. W33.1
• The liar outdoes the tricksters who try to catch him in a lie. He continues the lie the tricksters have made up to catch him. (Cf. K306, L142.1.) X909.2
• Man plows through stump which catches the back of his pants in cleft. His oxen continue to pull; he holds onto the plow, pulls the stump out of the ground. X1237.1.1
• Watch continues to run indefinitely when lost (swallowed). X1755.1
• Lie: warrior whose horse is cut in two continues to ride on the half horse. X1864
• Endless tales. Hundreds of sheep to be carried over stream one at a time, etc. The wording of the tale so arranged as to continue indefinitely. Z11