51 motifs match “covering”  ·  back to the chapters

• Wind comes through holes in sky when gut covering is cut. A1122.4
• Origin of animal characteristics: body covering. A2310
• Why certain animals are bare of covering. A2317
• Tabu: consuming feast without discovering a new wonder. C287
• Disenchantment by removing (destroying) covering of enchanted person. D720
• Disenchantment by removing skin (or covering). D721
• Disenchantment by hiding skin (covering). When the enchanted person has temporarily removed the covering, it is stolen and the victim remains disenchanted until it is found. D721.2
• Disenchantment by destroying skin (covering). D721.3
• Disenchantment by covering with cloth. D777.1
• Disenchantment by covering with deliverer's clothing. D789.1
• Resuscitation by laying flesh on pyre and covering with cloth. E134
• Resuscitation by covering body for certain time. E134.1
• Soul hidden in a series of coverings. This motif is combined with several others. Usually the soul will be hidden in an egg, in a duck, in a well, in a church, or a similar series. E713
• Person with unusual covering. F521
• Big ears. One used as mattress and one as a covering, and the like. F542.2
• Task: covering mango tree grove with fruit in a single night. (Cf. H1023.17.) H1103.3
• Task: recovering lost objects. H1132
• Task: recovering lost object from sea. H1132.1
• Task: recovering lost ring from sea. H1132.1.1
• Test: recovering ring from water. H1132.1.1.1
• Task: recovering lost key from sea. H1132.1.2
• Task: recovering strap from sea. H1132.1.3
• Task: recovering pen from sea. H1132.1.4
• Task: recovering lost fish-hook. Done by Sea-king. H1132.1.5
• Task: recovering cooking-spit from sea. H1132.1.6
• Task: recovering crown from sea. H1132.1.7
• Task: recovering object in large fire. H1132.2
• Task: recovering object from python's hole. H1132.3
• Task: recovering money owed by a foreign king. H1182.1
• Task: discovering ring-thief. H1199.9.1
• Quest for covering that is kept in an emerald box by the well. H1348.1
• Test of championship: sitting on pillow covering egg without breaking egg. H1568.1
• Fool unacquainted with sausage. He squeezes the inside out and takes the covering for a sack. J1732.1
• Hero keeps on leading his horse without discovering that it is dead. J2047
• Lacing the shoes. Fool laces bedcovering to shoe. J2161.3
• Protecting as the stork does. Man has had stork protect him from rain by covering him with his wing. Man tries to protect his wife from rain with his arm. J2442
• Contest in scratching skin off each other: covering self with several ox-hides. K83.2
• Deceptive land purchase: as much land as can be covered by saint's hood. Only by snatching up hood does seller prevent it from covering whole territory. K185.4.1
• Thief feigns illness to be taken in victim's house. (Cf. K341.2.2.1.) Ransacks it while "recovering." K325
• Disguise by painting (covering with soot, etc.) so as to escape. K521.3
• Covering self with clay so as to escape. K521.3.1
• Remedy: covering with dry leaves. Victim burned up. (Cf. K1013.2.) K1010.1
• Rat leaves serpent behind, through spared to rescue him. The two are imprisoned together in a sevenfold cloth covering. The serpent refrains from eating the rat so that the latter can gnaw the cloth for them. The rat gnaws his own way out and leaves the serpent. K1182
• Covering the whole wagon with tar. K1425
• Adulteress tells how she may save her husband's life. Discovering him under the bed, she tells lover that at temple she has learned that her husband is to die soon unless she prevents death by sleeping with a strange man. The husband is satisfied. K1532.2
• Disguise in wooden covering. K1821.9
• Covering with honey and exposing to flies. Q464
• Punishment: shaving head and covering with tar and driving forth on back of donkey to sound of drum. Stranger thinks he is being honored. Q473.5.1
• Substituted sword. Husband leaves wooden sword in scabbard of wife's paramour upon discovering their infidelity. T247.1
• Poverty-stricken couple wrap newly-born child in altar-coverings. V135.1
• Saint sees vision of flames covering Ireland quenched except for sparks; then great light appears, dispelling darkness. Flames are those of the faith brought by St. Patrick; they become less until restored by St. Columkill. V515.1.3