80 motifs match “cutting”  ·  back to the chapters

• Why trees do not talk. All ask to be spared when man begins cutting them. A2791.1
• Tabu: cutting certain trees lest tree-spirits be offended. C43.2
• Tabu: cutting sacred trees or groves. (Cf. C43.) C51.2.2
• Tabu: cutting down tree wherein resides deity. C93.6
• Tabu: cutting branches of tree. C513.1
• Tabu: cutting down tree. C518
• Cutting elder tree fatal to man. (Cf. C920.) C518.1
• Cutting white thorn tree fatal to man who cuts it. (Cf. C920.) C518.2
• Tabu: cutting hair. C722
• Tabu: cutting hair during certain time. C722.1
• Disenchantment by cutting person in two. D711.2
• Disenchantment from bird by cutting off bill. D711.3
• Disenchantment by cutting off and reversing bodily members. (Cf. D711.1.) D712.1
• Disenchantment by cutting off animal's limb. D712.1.1
• Disenchantment by cutting in two. D712.1.2
• Self-cutting shears. (Cf. D1183.) D1601.12
• Fortune told by cutting sand. D1812.3.2
• Waking from magic sleep by cutting off finger. D1978.1
• Cat in wood-pile prevents axe from cutting. D2186
• Resuscitation by cutting off heads of birds which contained the soul of dead person. E29.5
• Hand of vampire severed by cutting off hand of drawn figure. E251.1.2
• Knockers kick rungs out of ladders, cutting off escape of trapped miners. F456.1.2.1.4
• Hero tests sword by cutting steer in two. F611.3.3.1
• Victim kills swallower from within by cutting. F912.2
• Turning table, cutting notches in it causes witch to reveal herself. G257.3
• Giant killed by cutting his foot (feet) off. G512.6
• Stupid ogre duped into cutting off his own buttocks. G528
• Suitor task: cutting open magic gourd. H335.2
• Bride test: thrifty cutting of cheese. Three girls tested. First eats rind and all, second cuts away good cheese, third cuts away just enough. H381.2
• Bride test: cutting up a monster fish with scaly hide. H383.5
• Chief asks another for cutting of yams to complete his yam patch (daughter in marriage). Reply that seed yams for the year are shrivelled and old and it is too early for seedlings (his daughters are too young or too old). H611.3
• Task: getting fruit from top of tall tree without cutting tree. (Cuts roots of tree.) H1038
• Task: cutting and bringing leaves from thorn thicket without tearing them at all. H1046.2
• Task: cutting down huge tree which magically regrows. H1115.1
• Task: cutting down a giant tree. H1115.3
• Task: cutting firewood from rocks with brass axe (rock struck to splinters by lightning used). H1116.1
• Task: cutting down tree without scratching for stinging insects. (Scratches surreptitiously while gesticulating.) H1184
• Fear test: cutting devil's fingernails. H1422
• Test of strength: cutting tree with one stroke. H1562.1.1
• The laughing ass. King has trickster's horse's tail cut off. Trickster retaliates by cutting off part of upper lip of king's ass. At trial the animals are brought forth. Everyone laughs at the ass. Trickster: "If everyone laughs at the ass, how could the ass help laughing at her companion without a tail?" Freed. J1169.5
• The sound of shaving. An unskillful barber keeps cutting a man's face. A noise is heard. The man: "What is that?" Barber: "A smith shoeing horses." Man: "I thought it was someone being shaved." J1484
• Taming the bull by cutting off his horns. It makes him the more violent. J2107
• Improving the wife's face by cutting off her nose. J2119.1.1
• Cutting at the plow. Literal fool told to cut at plow if it sticks on roots cuts at bullock's legs. J2465.8
• "Cutting the paper of the accounts" (falsifying accounts). Fool cuts up account books. J2489.4
• Thief shows knife-maker use of purse-cutting knife: cuts his purse and robs him. K341.8.3
• Cutting thongs of sleds prevents pursuit. K637
• Escape by cutting fetters on stones, etc. K649.11
• Cutting rope to kill ogre who is climbing the rope to reach his victim. K678
• Elephant killed by cutting off trunk which is poked into cave after victims. K825.2
• Man kills giant bear by crawling inside and cutting his way out. K952.2.1
• Woman makes trouble between man and wife: the hair from his beard. She tells the wife to increase her husband's love by cutting a hair from his beard. Also tells the husband that his wife will try to cut his throat. He kills his wife. K1085
• Deceiver in swinging contest killed. Old woman planning to kill hero in swinging game by cutting rope is killed when hero cuts the rope first. K1618
• Disguise by cutting one eye out. K1821.6
• Disguise by cutting off hair. K1821.10
• Covenant between saints confirmed by cutting off their thumbs. M201.4
• Man kills son thinking that he is cutting a branch. N325.1
• Boy while cutting trees comes to one which happens to be bound up with the life of an ogre. Ogre bribes him with large fortune not to cut tree. N699.5
• Peasant is cutting wood in front of his house as guests arrive. P411.2
• Cutting off a man's (woman's) hair as an insult. P672.2
• Punishment for cutting off bird's tongue. (Cf. Q451.4, Q552.5.1.) Q285.1.1
• Punishment: cutting throat. Q421.3
• Cutting into pieces as punishment. Q429.3
• Cutting hair as punishment. Q488
• Ogre tries to retain fugitive by tempting him with gold ring; but he takes ring by cutting off the hand. R231.1
• Murder by cutting. S118
• Murder by cutting adversary in two. S118.1
• Murder by cutting throat. S118.2
• Murder by cutting off uvula. S139.5
• Mutilation: cutting off hands (arms). S161
• Mutilation: cutting off fingers. S161.1
• Mutilation: cutting off legs (feet). S162
• Mutilation: cutting off toes. S162.3
• Mutilation: cutting off heelbone. S162.4
• Mutilation: cutting (tearing) out tongue. Often to prevent revelation of secret. S163
• Father abandons his daughter in forest and leaves axes tied so that they move in wind. Daughter thinks he is cutting wood. S338
• Finger cut because of absorption in the charms of beloved. The person cutting food cannot take his eyes off the man (woman) opposite him. T26.1
• The obstinate wife: cutting with knife or scissors. At the end of the argument the man throws his wife into the water. As she sinks she makes with her finger the motion of shearing with the scissors. T255.1
• Girl escapes from undesired lover by cutting off her plaits of hair. T327.7
• Saint feeds children by cutting off cow's teats and pouring milk into them. T611.5.2