42 motifs match “creature”  ·  back to the chapters

• Angels created on fifth day with other winged creatures. A52.2.5
• Sea creatures as ancestors of goddess. A111.3.2
• Primeval crab pulls first five living creatures out of his side. A1211.8
• Man created by supernatural creature, not deity. A1291
• Bad women from transformed hog and goose. Peter, having only one daughter, foolishly promises her to three men. He asks the Lord to create two others. This request is granted. The first creature he meets on two successive mornings he is to greet, and they will be transformed. He meets a hog and a goose. His two new daughters have these characteristics. A1371.3
• Hoarded game released. Animals are kept imprisoned by malevolent creature. Released by culture hero. A1421
• 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
• Creator sends two deities to tatoo all creatures: origin of animal markings. A2412.0.1
• Cobra writes letters on prince's tongue: "Having heard all kinds of creatures talk, you will understand them." B165.1.3
• Obedience of the feathered creatures to the commands of saint. B256.5
• Tabu: coming suddenly on supernatural creatures. C52.2
• Tabu: seeing supernatural creatures. C311.1
• Tabu: uttering name of supernatural creature. C432
• Guessing name of supernatural creature gives power over him. (Tom-Tit-Tot). C432.1
• Tabu: uttering name of malevolent creature (Eumenides). To avoid the evil results of naming these creatures other names are substituted. The Furies are spoken of as Eumenides; rats and mice as "the large" and "the small". C433
• Tabu: not to allow any other creature on raft. C747
• Tabu: supernatural creatures being abroad after sunrise. C752.2.1
• Transformation through greeting: first creature to be greeted will be transformed. (Cf. A1371.3.) D526
• Supernatural creatures change size at will. D631.4
• Creature born from egg changes size at will. D631.4.4
• Disenchantment by feeding transformed creature. This is done contrary to commands. D775
• Magic power to see invisible creatures. D1825.3
• Land where all creatures are friendly to one another. F111.5
• Monstrous creatures in otherworld. F167.11
• Doors left open to let night creatures pass to and fro. F406.1
• Water-spirit as ape-like creature. F420.1.3.11
• When dead man's body is thrown into lake, water turns pitch black and all living creatures therein die. F934.5
• Demons. Malevolent creatures (not usually further defined). G302
• Bhrat, fierce flesh-eating creatures made by Creator in fit of anger. G312.5
• Ogre's ashes cast on stream cause rapids to stop. Also kill all creatures in the stream. G655
• Supernatural creatures propound riddles. (See also H541.1.1, H543, G681.) H540.1
• King: Show me a ruby eight for a pice, nectar eight for a pice, and a faithless creature worth one-eighth of a pice. Minister: The lamp sells at eight for a pice and gives more light than any ruby; the water is the real nectar; and the dog is worthless and faithless lover because he follows anyone who feeds him. H587.1
• Riddle: what is the creature that is of all countries, that is loved by all the world, and that has no equal? (The sun.) H762
• Supernatural creature as helper on quest. H1233.4
• Quest for creature with a single horn mounting to heaven with single red hair on its head. H1331.7
• Peasant ashamed of being thrown off by ass. Shameful to be thrown by such a creature. J411.4
• Care in selecting the creature to carry one. J657
• Other creatures with mistaken identity. J1769
• Treasure pointed out by supernatural creature (fairy, etc.). N538
• Hospitality to saint repaid: neither he nor his posterity will ever be hurt by venomous creatures. Q45.1.3
• King imprisons all living creatures. R9.6
• Big voice: little creature. (Frogs, crickets.) U113