65 motifs match “descend”  ·  back to the chapters

• Creator's descendants. (Cf. A32.) A7
• God descends from heaven. A171.0.3
• God descends on rainbow. A171.0.3.1
• God descends in form of shooting star. A171.0.3.2
• Demon god lies in wait for spirits descending to underworld. A317
• Demigods descend from heaven. A513.1
• Culture heroes and descendants. A592
• World parents: sky-father and earth-mother as parents of the universe. The sky-father descends upon the earth-mother and begets the world. A625
• Star descends as human being. A762
• Whole tribe descended from lone woman-survivor of doomed city. A1006.7
• Mankind is descended from marriage of human being and animal. A1224.0.1
• Mankind descended from tadpoles. A1224.1
• Mankind descended from worms or larvae. A1224.2
• Mankind descended from fish. A1224.6
• First man descends from sky. A1231
• First man descends on earth, falls in love with and marries a fairy. A1275.9
• Fomorians descended from Ham (or Cain). A1659.1.1
• Why a certain tribe wear clothes like dogs (supposed descendants of a bitch mother). A1683.2
• Animal's seeking attitude from ancient loss. The ancient animal loses something. Its descendants are forever seeking for the lost object. This explains the characteristic bearing of certain animals. (Cf. A2471.) A2275.5
• Human beings descended from seals. B631.2
• Helpful horses descended from heaven. B811.1.1
• Man calls on devil to descend chimney when angry at wife. The devil comes, makes pudding black. C12.5.5
• Number of screams from stone indicates number of kings to descend from man standing upon it. D1311.16.1
• Tree from which one cannot descend. (Cf. D950.) D1413.1
• Cherry tree from which one cannot descend. (Cf. D950.4.) D1413.1.1
• Pear tree from which one cannot descend. (Cf. D950.5.) D1413.1.2
• Fig tree from which one cannot descend. (Cf. D950.8.) D1413.1.3
• God descends to found royal dynasty. F32.1
• Divine cow descends to earth. F35.1
• Fairies as descendants of early race of gods. F251.1
• Fairies descend chimney. F275
• Giants as descendants of Cain. (Cf. F535.0.1.) F531.6.1.9
• Pygmies descendants of Cain. (Cf. F531.6.1.9.) F535.0.1
• Marvelous sensitiveness: man refuses to eat fifth descendent of stolen cow. F647.10
• Altar cloths descend from heaven. F962.12.2
• Man meets his future descendants and is instructed by them. F1099.8
• King descends to bottom of sea in glass barrel to learn wisdom from observing fish. J52.2
• Mule as descendant of king's war-horse. Fails to mention his mother. J954.1
• Beggar claims to be emperor's brother. (All men are descended from Adam.) Emperor gives him small coin. Beggar protests. Emperor: "If all your brothers gave you that much you would be richer than I." J1337
• Hired man shows in saying grace how better food has resulted from arrival of unexpected guests. Nebraska text: O Lord of Love who art above|Thy blessings have descended:|Biscuits and tea for supper I see|When mush and milk was intended. J1341.12
• Ancient and modern ancestors. To a prince who boasted that he was descended from the Trojans a doctor replies: "My people are of Nurenberg. Everyone knows who they are; but of the Trojans no one knows anything except that Aeneas was a traitor and Romulus a robber." J1357
• Son of God to see king. When steadily unable to be admitted to presence of a king, a clever man demands an interview saying he is the son of God come down to earth and will condescend to see the king. When asked to show the king Heaven and the path to it, the pretender retorts that when he was sent down by the Father, he was told to look to matters relating to this earth. J1675.8
• Boy in hole escapes descending log by digging hole. K615
• Wolf descends into well in one bucket and rescues fox in the other. K651
• Prophecy: preeminence of man's descendants. M310.1.1
• Prophecy of preeminence to descendants of man provided they do the will of saint to be born. M310.1.1.1
• Blessing of saint to descend from generation to generation. M321.1
• Prophecy: descendant of mistress shall serve that of handmaid. M369.2.5
• Curse: descendants to be unshapely. M442.1
• Curse: descendants of nine robbers never to exceed nine. M461
• Curse on village: descendants never to exceed certain number. (Cf. M475.) M461.1
• King descends to bottom of sea in glass barrel to study ways of fishes. P15.6
• Vengeance for destruction of fairy-mound pursues king's descendants. P17.0.3
• Parents descend to hell instead of sons. P241
• Man's descendants shall serve those of his brother. P251.5.6
• Deity descends and makes king and wronged subject change places. Q7
• Reward: royal line of descendants. Q112.0.7
• Descendants of man who endured pain without crying out not to meet violent deaths. (Cf. Q84.) Q154.1
• Mary-image descends and chastises clerk who scoffs at its rude carving. (Cf. Q225.) Q552.7
• Manna does not descend on Sabbath. V71.1.1
• Image of Jesus descends from cross and wounds nun leaving convent. V122.1
• Column of light descends from heaven upon chosen man. V222.1.3
• During a flood the Virgin descends into the streets to save her image from the flood waters. V284
• Long life sacrificed that descendants may be kings as prophesied. (Cf. M314.) W215.3
• Brown hair as sign child is descended from goddess. Z146.1