41 motifs match “daily”  ·  back to the chapters

• Daily life of the gods. A150
• Daily life of the gods – miscellaneous. A159
• Valhalla. The hall of warriors who go to Odin. They die and are resurrected daily. A661.1
• Daily course of sun across sky. A726
• Sun and moon make daily tour under direct orders of God. A726.1
• Mouse gathers rice for man: may eat a little of his rice daily. A2223.3
• Animal's daily work. A2450
• Devastating fish carries off daily victim. B16.4
• Grateful snake gives gold piece daily. B103.0.4.1
• Deer lick saint's tomb daily at noon. B251.2.6
• Otters supply man with fish and burning wood daily. B292.7
• Compulsion to bathe in certain waters daily. C663
• Injunction: to perform certain act daily. C687
• Injunction: to visit saint daily. C687.1
• Daily transformation. D621
• Daily beating of men transformed to dogs. Necessary unless hero himself is to be transformed. D691
• Magic sword slays a man daily. D1402.7.1.1
• King eaten every morning: revived daily. E155.6
• Ghosts roast girl daily in oven and devour her flesh. E251.3.1.1
• Dead find no rest since someone daily knocks at grave. E419.2
• Fairy grateful to mortal for daily food. F332.0.1
• Growing and ungrowing grass. Produces one pod daily till the fifteenth of the month; thereafter one pod shrinks each day. (Cf. F811.12.) F817.1
• Human being devoured daily. G15
• Cannibal ogres eat daily ten men, ten women, ten children from the same tribe. G94.2
• Father's counsel: let pilav be your daily food. (Eat frugally.) H588.2
• How far is it from one end of the earth to the other? A day's journey, since the sun makes it daily. H681.1.1
• Riddle: how much does the sun earn for his daily work? H715
• How much does the sun earn for his daily work? A day's wages. H715.1
• Task: counting daily how many leaves fall off a tree. H1118.2
• Father with handsome son and hideous daughter. Advises both to look in mirror daily lest son exchange handsome face for bad character; daughter to triumph over face by good manners. J244.1
• Twenty better than ten. A numskull is asked how many daily prayers (Moslem) there are. "Twenty." – "There are only four." – "I said that there are twenty; that is even better." J2213.5
• "Come tomorrow". The devil keeps calling daily until the gate with the inscription rots. He then claims his debtor. K231.12.1
• Prince vows to marry no woman unless he can beat her daily. M134
• Daily beatings as punishment. Q458.1
• Angel passes daily over blessed stone. V242.3
• Daily life of angels. V247
• Virgin Mary will not let devil (authorities) take robber noble who daily says "Ave". V254.8
• Virgin forbids devil to take robber as long as he continues to say two "Aves" daily. V254.9
• Hog tired of his daily food. Goes to the judge and gets better food assigned to him, but the fox cheats him out of it. W128.1
• Lie: clouds beaten by man until they promise to water his crops thrice daily. X1642
• Brahmin worships idol and sets sacrifices before it daily. Rat devours offerings and he sets it up as his idol as a being more powerful than his idol. When cat devours rat, he worships it instead. His wife accidentally kills the cat, so he sets her up to worship. He happens to slap her and she loses consciousness. Thereafter he worships himself as most powerful after all. Z42.3