77 motifs match “desire”  ·  back to the chapters

• Desire of man for sun causes flood. A1017.1
• Cow grants all desires. B184.2.1.3
• Elephants have sexual desire only after eating mandrakes. B754.2
• Tabu: refusing to elope with woman who desires it. C192
• Meat takes on taste of any dainty desired. D476.3.1
• Magic object indicates desired place. D1314
• Magic arrow indicates desired place. (Cf. D1092.) D1314.1
• Magic antimony, rubbed on hero's eyes, will make whatever he looks at become far or near, as he desires it. (Cf. D1246.) D1331.3.3
• Magic water causes sexual desire. (Cf. D1242.1.) D1355.2.1.2
• Eaten fruit causes sexual desire. (Cf. D981.) D1355.14
• Magic lake: whoever dies in it will have his desires fulfilled in future birth. (Cf. D921.) D1470.1.45
• Saint spreads his cloak (or other clothes) upon the water and rides to his desired destination. (Cf. D1053.) D1524.1.3
• Food has taste of any dainty desired. (Cf. D1030, D1359.4.) D1665
• Drink has taste of any liquor desired. (Cf. D1040.) D1665.1
• Fruit has any taste desired. (Cf. D980.) D1665.3
• Sympathetic magic. Magic results obtained by imitating desired action. D1782
• Magic results obtained by imitating desired action. D1782.1
• Reverse magic. Magic results obtained by imitating reverse of desired results. D1783
• Magic discovery of desired place. (Cf. D1314.) D1816
• Rain or snow avoids certain places according to the desire of a saint or monk. D1841.4.4
• Fountain of any temperature desired in otherworld. F162.8.1
• Automatic service in otherworld: any sort of food desired furnished. F183.1
• Land of plenty. Yields everything to heart's desire. F701
• Fountain hot or cold as desired. F716.3
• Sea yields people whatever they desire. F931.9.2
• Earl throws jar of water after undesired messenger. F1041.16.11
• Human blood (flesh) accidentally tasted: brings desire for human flesh. G36.2
• Old man says his arm is getting thin – indicates desire for human flesh. G95
• Lover has head cut off at girl's desire. H333.1
• Father's counsel: on wishing to drink wine go to the vat and drink it. (Stench in vat so great that desire for wine is turned to loathing.) H588.4
• Question (propounded on quest): Why does no one desire to eat fruits of a certain tree? Answer: Tree in its last birth had been a very learned man who gave his knowledge away. H1292.2.1
• Question: What is it women most desire. Answer: Sovereignty. H1388.1
• Choice between bad master, bad official, or bad neighbor. Bad master can do evil if he desires to do so; bad official can harm a poor person and complain against him to his master; bad neighbor can betray secret things about his neighbors. Bad neighbor worst. J229.5
• Choice between desire and duty. J233
• Weather to please one only. Attempt to please everyone with weather unavailing. Weather given therefore without regard to men's desires. J1041.1
• Death's three messengers. Warns man by loss of appetite, loss of desire for drink, and sickness. Man does not recognize the messengers. J1051
• Any boon desired. Stingy king insists on trickster asking any boon desired. By asking king to perform disgusting act, trickster compels king to give expensive gift. J1593
• A snake for the real daughter. Stepdaughter, married to a snake, appears decorated with jewels. Stepmother desires a snake be procured for her daughter. She is swallowed instead. J2415.7
• Thief pretends to have recovered stolen horse. Returns it to owner after using it all he desires. K416.1
• Saint who desires broth containing no butter receives broth into which butter has been poured surreptitiously through hollow mixing-stick. (Cf. K498.) K499.2.1
• Saint who desires pottage of nettles containing no milk receives pottage into which milk has been poured surreptitiously through pipe. The secret is revealed, and the saint blesses the cook's successors. K499.2.2
• Illness feigned to escape rendezvous with undesired mistress. K523.0.1.1
• Girl asks undesired lover to take off his boots. She pulls off one partway and escapes. K1227.4
• Girl asks undesired lover to follow her but not to step on her shadow. K1227.6
• Escape from undesired lover by alleging menstrual period. K1227.10
• Princess made to speak desired words when hero threatens to report (falsely) her amorous conduct. K1271.1.2
• Wife surprises husband in adultery and shames him into giving her all she desires. K1271.3.1
• "No!" The princess must answer all questions by "No". By clever framing of his question the hero wins her to his desires. K1331
• Telling a story to allay a woman's amorous desires. K2111.0.1
• Undesired combat between sworn (blood) brothers (foster brothers). N731.2.2
• What the princes most desire: king asks each of three sons separately. Answers: to study, to make pilgrimages, to build a great kingdom. Last chosen. P17.13
• "Friendship without refusal." Friends bind themselves each to grant every desire of the other. P319.7
• King promises daughter she may marry anyone she desires. Q115.2
• Punishment for desire to murder. (Cf. Q210.1, Q469.4, Q552.19.2.) Q211.8
• Desire to commit adultery punished. Q241.1
• Undesired suitor hiding under girl's bed is killed. Q411.2
• Undesired suitor killed asleep in his tent. Q411.2.1
• Undesired suitor's messengers imprisoned. Q433.11
• Flogging as punishment for desire to commit adultery. (Cf. Q241.1.) Q458.0.6
• Punishment: millstone hung around neck. Woman has had desire to kill frog. (Cf. Q211.8.) Q469.4
• Miraculous drowning as punishment for desire to murder. (Cf. Q211.8.) Q552.19.2
• Princess rescued from undesired suitor. R111.1.9
• Lovers elope to prevent girl's marriage to undesired fiancé. R225.2
• Man shows himself willing to sacrifice his child to prove his desire to follow God. He is prevented by abbot. S263.2.3
• Sexual desire as original sin. T8
• Fainting away for love (or sexual desire). (Cf. F1041.1.6.1.) T24.2.1
• Escape from undesired lover. T320
• Virginity saved in spite of torture. Undesired suitors give up task. T320.1.1
• Wife sets fire to house to escape undesired lover. T320.6
• Escape from undesired lover by miracle. T321
• Undesired lover drugged and carried out. T322.3
• Escape from undesired lover by strategy. T323
• Princess escapes from undesired lover by fleeing disguised as a bishop. T323.1
• Girl escapes from undesired lover by cutting off her plaits of hair. T327.7
• Monk cures himself of desire for dead sweetheart. He digs up her remains. T334
• Young man sleeps on girl's mat without touching her to signify his desire. T356
• Conception after reciprocal desire for each other. T514