39 motifs match “distance”  ·  back to the chapters

• Size and distances of the universe. A658
• Why animals scent from distance. A2475
• Why deer scent people from distance. A2475.1
• Dragon can hear a child cry even at great distance. B11.12.6
• Animal travels extraordinary distance. B744
• Rue, when burned, keeps evil spirits at a distance. (Cf. D965.16.) D1385.2.2
• Magic telepathy. Influence at a distance. D1785
• Saint gives king power of long distance sight. D1820.2
• Sounds heard from distance at time of death. D1827.1.4
• Person hears call for aid from great distance. D1827.2
• Magic journey by making distance vanish. The road is contracted or the earth folded up. D2121.4
• Distance of otherworld. F137
• Giant sees great distance. F531.1.1.4
• Giant steps prodigious distance. F531.3.5
• Saint's voice heard from considerable distance. F556.4
• Person sees enormous distance. F642.8
• Skillful marksman can hit egg from great distance. F661.4.3
• Marvelous marksman can shoot eye off needle at quarter-mile distance. F661.5.5
• Remarkable herdsman. Sits on mountain top. Cows come from great distance at his call. F679.1
• Marvelous paddle sends canoe enormous distance with each stroke. F841.2.7
• Ogress can extend leg or arm any distance. G365.2
• Mother test: milk goes long distance into child's mouth. H495.2
• Devil held off from person by answering his riddles. St. Andrew the Bishop, and the Devil. The Devil, in form of beautiful maiden visits a holy bishop. St. Andrew appears as a pilgrim, answers the questions through which the devil seeks to keep him at a distance and discomfits the devil. (Cf. B302.22.3.) H543.1
• Reductio ad absurdum of riddle: stallions of Babylon. "Why is my mare restless when stallions of Babylon neigh?" Hero beats cat for having strangled a cock last night in Babylon (impossible distance away). H572
• Riddles of distance. H680
• Riddles of terrestrial distance. H681
• Riddles of heavenly distance. (Cf. A658.) H682
• How far from earth to heaven? The devil knows for he has fallen this distance. H682.1.10
• Rice pot on pole, fire far away. As easy to cook rice thus as to warm a man at a distance from a lamp on a balcony. J1191.7
• False judgment of distance in clear atmosphere of mountain area. J2214.12
• Shooting test won by deception: proof of good sight. A man puts a dead hare under a tree and shows it to his dog. He tells people to look at the hare under the tree. At the distance no one can see it. He tells them that he will shoot it. He shoots and has his dog bring the hare. K31.2
• Escape from captor by throwing objects to great distance which captor tries to procure. K622.2
• Long distance sexual intercourse. Trickster by magic has intercourse with woman across stream. K1391
• Travelers mistake brushwood at a distance for a ship. K1886.4
• King to be succeeded by whoever can carry his dead body a certain distance. P17.12
• Penance: carrying water in mouth from a distance and watering dry staff until it blooms. Q521.1.2
• Lie: the great stable: distance to stall. Cow has calf and the calf grows up and has calf before it can reach its stall. X1036.1
• Lie: hunter shoots projectile great distance. X1122.1
• Formulas of distance. Z92