33 motifs match “darkness”  ·  back to the chapters

• Gods of darkness and light. Darkness thought of as evil, light as good. A107
• Deity emerges from darkness of underworld. A115.4
• Deity arises from shell of darkness where he has been for million ages. A115.6
• God dwells alone in darkness. A151.13
• Primeval darkness. A605.1
• Sun, moon, and darkness as god's three children. A700.8
• Great darkness due to awk swallowing the sun. A721.2.1
• Sun's night journey with reversed face. It returns from west to east by the same way that it came, but it turns its light side to the sky and leaves the earth in darkness. A722.2
• Sun thrown on fire: period of darkness, rain. A1068
• Night (darkness) in package. Released. A1174.1
• Animal scorches self while putting out fire in land of fire, woe and darkness. A2218.1.1
• Tabu: drinking from certain river between two darknesses. C263
• Magic darkness. D908
• Saint's hand illumines darkness. (Cf. D996.) D1478.1
• Magic bag controls storm, mist, darkness, etc. (Cf. D1193.) D1540.1
• Darkness of lower world. F80.1.2
• Voyage to Island of Darkness. F129.4.5
• Giants in a region of darkness and cold. F531.6.2.6
• Land of darkness. F706
• Extraordinary mist (darkness). F962.10
• Premature darkness. (Cf. F961.1.) F965
• Darkness comes in daytime in order to save life of maiden about to be executed. F965.1
• Premature darkness at time of execution of innocent people. F965.1.1
• Impenetrable darkness. F965.3
• Extraordinary darkness not dispelled by artificial means. F965.4
• Give coals orange color, let glimmer of gold appear like expanse of heaven, prepare two heads of darkness. (Request for chickens for breakfast.) H599.6
• Letting in the light. Backwoods preacher tells couple that they are living in darkness. The woman responds that she has been trying for years to get her husband to cut a window in the house. J1738.6
• The house without food or drink. A fool and his son meet women mourning a dead man. "He goes to the place where there is darkness and nothing to eat or drink." The son: "They must be coming to our house." J2483
• Slaying under cover of darkness. K914.3
• Illusory night (darkness). K1889.5
• Miraculous darkness as punishment. Q552.20.1
• In darkness of night trickster instead of her chosen lover elopes with girl. T92.4.3
• 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