72 motifs match “covers”  ·  back to the chapters

• What creature has sweetest blood: gnat's tongue torn out. Assembly to decide who has the sweetest blood so that it may be the food for the serpent. Gnat discovers that man has the sweetest blood. Rather than let him tell this secret, swallow tears out his tongue. Gnat can only buzz. (Cf. A2344.2, A2426.3.2.) A2236.1
• Helpful animal recovers magic food-producing skin from river bottom. B531.3
• Fish recovers ring from sea. B548.2.1
• Fish recovers key from sea. B548.2.2
• Frog recovers keys from sea. B548.2.2.1
• Duck recovers lost key from sea. B548.2.2.2
• Fish recovers lost fish-hook from sea. B548.2.3
• Fish recovers pen from sea. B548.2.4
• Fish recovers lost urn from sea. B548.2.5
• Frog recovers Sacred Host from water. B548.5
• Helpful animal discovers jewel. B562.1.0.1
• Tabu: relieving souls in hell. Boy who tends kettles in hell not allowed to raise covers to relieve poor souls. C741
• Magic object acquired by trick exchange. By means of second magic object hero recovers first. (Often mixed with D832). D831
• Arrow shot into air discovers iron pit. D1314.1.6
• Saint's bachall discovers gold. (Cf. D1277.) D1314.3
• Druid by magic discovers whereabouts of abducted wife. (Cf. F322.2.) D1816.5.1
• Sickness of princess dependent on witch's fire. When fire is high, princess is very sick. Princess recovers when fire is put out. (Cf. D2065.4.) D2064.2
• Witch burns her child's legs for wood, then covers child with sheet and child is whole. D2161.3.3.1
• Fairy recovers stolen cup by posing as a beggar. F361.2.1
• Giant with one eye in the neck which he covers with his lower lip. F531.1.1.1.1
• Sandhill grows around lover keeping watch till it covers all but his head. F969.6
• Man discovers his wife is a witch. G250.1
• God discovers the devil. G303.1.2
• God discovers the devil in a piece of solid foam. G303.1.2.3
• Devil wooes woman; she discovers identity in time to escape with aid of minister who swallows candle after getting devil to promise she could live as long as the candle lasted. (Cf. K551.9.) G303.12.5.4
• Magician recovers lost object with devil's help. G303.22.2
• "Do not go where an old man has a young wife": counsel proved wise by experience. Discovers a murder in an inn. J21.3
• "Keep head dry, feet warm, and eat meat": counsel proved wise by experience. King recovers from illness. J21.29
• Jackal covers up his inability to cross stream by saying he is looking for shallowest part. J873.1
• Clever jackal covers up his clumsiness in catching cows by saying he was running to and fro because he was looking for the fattest calf. J873.2
• Ears not to be cut off a second time. Executioner discovers that the prisoner's ears are of stucco, having been clipped for a previous offense. J1184.2
• The sacrament for sale. Sick woman calls the parson but recovers meanwhile He insists on her taking the sacrament and charges for it. "Set it here on the table; perhaps I can sell it again." J1261.2.1
• A man without a stomach. The man complains that he is a mere slave of his stomach. His wish is granted and the stomach taken away from him. He discovers soon that life has become very uninteresting to him, and recovers his stomach again. J2072.4
• "Cover with straw." Fool covers his mistress with straw and suffocates her. Should have thatched roof. J2489.8
• Rebuke for going with a naked head in public. The woman rebuked has lost her hair in sickness. Forthwith she covers up her head with her dress and exposes her body. J2521.2
• Clever girl discovers robber and cheats him. K434
• Disguised robber in night-lodging tries to pull up confederate on rope: princess discovers him and catches him. K434.2
• Conqueror of robber discovers his money-stick. Thinking that he has killed the robber, the man takes his stick or knife with big handle. The robber recovers and, disguised as a beggar, inquisitively looks at the stick. The man is suspicious and by examining finds much money inside it. K437.4
• Sham blood and brains. Fox covers his head with milk and says that his brains have been knocked out. Frightens bear. K473
• Escape by shamming death: blood and brains. The trickster covers himself with paint (or the like) so that he will be thought to have bled to death (or with milk so that it will be thought that his brains have been knocked out). K522.1
• Woman covers fleeing man with placenta of goat and with blood to convince pursuers she has just given birth and thus prevents their capturing him. K522.1.1
• Hero tests the rope on which he is to be pulled to upper world. By placing stones on the rope he discovers his companions' treacherous plan to cut the rope. K677
• Making the beard golden: "such a one". A man named "Such a one" persuades an ogre to have his beard gilded. He covers it with tar and leaves the ogre caught to the tar-kettle. The ogre with his tar-kettle wanders about and asks everyone, "Have you seen such a one?" K1013.1
• Holding down the hat. Dupe persuaded to guard hat supposed to cover something valuable. It covers a pile of dung. (Dupe's goods are sometimes stolen.) K1252
• Physician treating man's eye covers his one good eye. Entertains his patient's mistress. K1516.1.1
• Girl covers nurse's one good eye so that she cannot see her lover. K1516.2
• Adulteress covers husband's eyes during incantation. Meanwhile paramour escapes. K1516.4
• Husband discovers wife's adultery. K1550.1
• Husband discovers wife's adultery by riddling conversation. In this indirect manner the wife confesses and promises reform. K1557
• Husband discovers paramour's love letter in his wife's purse after having made her drunk. K1557.1
• Trickster discovers adultery: food goes to husband instead of paramour. K1571
• Trickster discovers adultery: gets food prepared for paramour. K1571.0.1
• Trickster discovers woman's paramour and hides him in outhouse: rewarded by husband. K1574.2
• Wife takes servant's place and discovers husband's adultery. The husband says that he is going into a state of meditation with a cloth over his face. He substitutes a servant and goes to his mistress. The wife finds the deceit and takes the servant's place. On his return the husband tells the supposed servant of his adultery. K1585
• Retrieving the buried treasure. Buried money is stolen. Blind owner pretends that he is going to bury more. Thief returns the money hoping to get all. Blind man recovers original treasure. K1667.1.1
• Blind man asks thief to invest a larger sum for him. The greedy thief puts back the stolen money hoping to get more. The blind man recovers his money. K1667.1.2
• Scald-head disguise. To avoid having his gold hair seen, the hero covers his head with a cloth and says that he has the scaldhead. K1818.2
• The stupid monk recovers the stolen flocks. A nobleman steals the abbot's flocks, saying that the monks have no use for them since they eat no meat. The most learned of the monks tries to recover them, but without success. The most stupid is then sent. Asked to dinner, he eats till he can hold no more. He tells the nobleman that he ate as much as possible since he could take back with him only what he had in his stomach. The nobleman pleased with the reply returns the flocks. L141.1
• King shown he is less powerful than God. In spite of all his plans, his servant recovers the lost (exchanged) treasure. L418
• Lover's spur catches in sheet when he tries to escape. Uncovers mistress. N386.1
• Man discovers he is married to wer-tiger. N399.3
• Abducted princess wishes that she were with rejected suitor; discovers that she is. N425
• Hunter accidentally discovers beautiful girl being secretly reared in a cave. N724
• Knight covers foal with his coat to protect it from storm. Q51.1
• Minister's son recovers prince's lost wife for him. R131.11.5
• Son recovers father's bones. R154.2.2
• Master discovers that slave girl he wants to marry is a near relative. T410.1
• Dumb man recovers speech in order to confess. V23.2
• Stingy farmer encourages help by promise of hot lunch. The servant discovers that the hot lunch is a mustard sandwich. W152.12.2
• Architect commits suicide when he discovers that his pupil has surpassed him in skill. W181.2.2
• The forgetful man counts the days of the week. On Monday they go to mill, etc. He thus discovers that it is Sunday. Z24
• Stronger and Strongest. The frost-bitten foot. Mouse perforates wall, wall resists wind, wind dissolves cloud, cloud covers sun, sun thaws frost, frost breaks foot. Z42