39 motifs match “destroyed”  ·  back to the chapters

• World catastrophe. The world is destroyed. The incidents are usually the same whether a final destruction is thought of or a destruction which may be overcome by a renewal of the earth. A1000
• World destroyed by rain of stones. A1099.1
• Hole of winds: stopper destroyed. The hole is stopped with a wooden stopper, which is destroyed. The country dries up. A1122.1
• Swallows lift Christ's crown of thorns from his brow: why their nests are not destroyed. (Cf. A2431.3.5.) A2221.2.4
• Animal's revenge for being criticized by a bird: nest destroyed. B275.4
• Magic object destroyed. D866
• Magic object destroyed because of feigned sickness. D866.2
• Water of life destroyed to prevent immortality: too long life would become tiresome. D1346.1.1
• Talking statue, when destroyed, cannot be replaced for thirty thousand years. (Cf. D1268, D1620.) D1661.1
• Murder by sympathetic magic. An object or an animal is abused or destroyed to bring about the death of a person. D2061.2.2
• Animals abused or destroyed to cause death of person. D2061.2.2.7
• House destroyed by magic. D2089.6
• Ghost laid when house it haunts is destroyed or changed. E451.8
• Life dependent on external object or event. Person's life is mystically connected with something else and comes to an end when that thing is destroyed. E765
• Fairies' underground palace cannot be burned by fire nor destroyed by water. F222.1.1
• Fairy queen's beauty temporarily destroyed by intercourse with mortal. F304.2
• Home of dwarfs is endangered or destroyed. F451.4.4
• Giant destroyed by army. F531.6.12.6.1
• Witch can be destroyed only by burning her to death. G275.3.0.1
• Miscellaneous ways in which the devil may be escaped or his power destroyed. G303.16.19
• Creditor: "The destroyed bond was a cubit in size." Debtor: "That is a lie; it was only a span." J1141.1.3
• Fool thinks gold is being destroyed when snails crawl over it. J1816
• Gullible king gives large sums to minister for construction of imaginary weapon and then more to have it destroyed. K499.7
• Dupe's property destroyed. K1400
• Dupe's goods destroyed. K1410
• Plowing the field: horse and harness destroyed. The youth is told to come home from plowing when the dog does. He beats the dog so that it runs home; then he destroys the horse and harness and goes home. K1411
• Repairing the house. House or furniture destroyed. K1415
• Dupe's animals destroyed or maimed. K1440
• [First Edition: K1490. Dupe's property destroyed – miscellaneous.] K1490[1st ed.]
• Contract with the devil destroyed. M218
• Person pursued by misfortune. (Placidas, Eustacius.) His goods are destroyed, his wife carried off by a ship captain and his children by animals. N251
• The luckless son and his envious father. Seeing a luck-bringing animal at his son's house, the wizard father orders it to be destroyed, but the grandchildren eat of its meat and become fortunate. N251.6
• Train of troubles for seven brothers for having destroyed bird's nest. N261.1
• Great warrior destroyed by king when he asks for princess in marriage. P41.1
• Criminal's property destroyed as punishment. Q486
• Fortress built on Sunday destroyed by tempest. (Cf. C631, Q223.6.) Q552.14.1
• Fairy mound destroyed to rescue person confined in it. R121.8
• Pagan shrines and idols, or magic books destroyed by fire from heaven. V356.2
• Foreigner wonders why city with so many judges has not been destroyed. X332