53 motifs match “divide”  ·  back to the chapters

• Goddess divides time between upper and lower worlds. Persephone spends six months on earth and six in Hades. A316
• Inhabitants of heaven divided into companies. A661.1.1
• Moon stolen and divided into quarters. A755.4.2
• Why grain of wheat is divided. A2793.2
• Fox as divider of dying man's gifts. B294.1
• Hero divides spoil for animals. B392
• Waters magically divide and close. D1551
• Magic salt causes waters to divide. (Cf. D1039.2.) D1551.1
• Magic rod causes waters to divide and close. (Cf. D1254.2.) D1551.2
• Magic root causes waters to divide and close. (Cf. D967.) D1551.3
• Magic powder causes waters to divide. (Cf. D1246.) D1551.4
• Saint's bachall causes sea to divide. (Cf. D1277.) D1551.5
• Magic stick causes waters to divide. (Cf. D956.) D1551.6
• Magic brick causes waters to divide. (Cf. D935.4.) D1551.8
• Apple divided and eaten as love charm. (Cf. D1355.7.) D1905.2
• River with flow magically divided. (Part stands still, rest flows.) D2151.2.1.1
• Otherworld island divided into four parts. F134.3
• River divides into two parts after rape in its bed. F932.10
• Identification by matching parts of divided token. H100
• Wise carving of the fowl. Clever person divides it symbolically: head to head of house, neck to wife, wings to daughters, legs to sons; keeps rest for himself. H601
• Apple test of worthiness for friendship. Father gives son three apples to offer to those he meets. If the man eats all, avoid him; if he divides, make friends with him. (Cf. H1557.1.) H1558.0.1.1
• The lion's share. Ass divides booty equally between himself, fox, and lion. Lion eats ass. Fox then divides: gives lion meat and he takes bones. J811.1
• Lion divides the booty. Best part goes to himself as king of beasts; second, as strongest; third, as most valiant; fourth – "touch it if you dare." J811.1.1
• Solomon's judgment: the divided child. Two women claim a child. Judge offers to cut it in two. Real mother refuses. J1171.1
• The ring to be cut in two and divided between quarreling persons: real owner laments the waste of the gold. J1171.1.1
• Solomon's judgment: the divided bride. Three suitors dispute over a woman. When it is proposed to divide her, true lover is discovered. J1171.2
• Clever dividing which favors the divider. J1241
• Dividing two sheep and a ram: trickster to divide with two friends. You two take one sheep; the ram and I will take the other. J1241.1
• Division of the fat and lean fowls. Two fat fowls and one lean one at meal. Hero is lean, his two hosts fat. He is to divide. One lean fowl for the two fat people; two fat fowls for the one lean man. J1241.4
• Hog's head divided according to scripture. To be divided among three students according to their skill in quoting. First: "And they cut one ear off" (takes ear). Second: "And they gave him a box on the ear" (takes other ear). Third: "And they took him away secretly" (takes whole hog away). J1242.1
• Three men divide a large fish by quoting scripture. J1242.2
• Inherited gold ring divided between three by selling it and dividing the money. J1243
• Husband and wife separate and divide property. Man keeps the house, gives the wife the road. J1541.4
• Divided ownership of cow. The brother who owns the front end tries to drive the cow and will not let the owner of the rear end milk her. J1905.3
• Mutual agreement to divide food. Trickster eats other's food and then refuses to divide his own. K231.1.2
• Owner pretends to help burglars to divide booty: handles weights so loudly that police are summoned. K432.2
• The heller thrown into others' money. A rascal sees robbers dividing their booty. He puts a red string through his only coin (a heller) and slips it into the others' money. He claims the money as his and says that he has marked it with a heller having a red string through it. The robbers divide. K446
• Entrails substituted for meat. Prometheus divides slain ox so that bones and entrails seem to be choicest part. (Zeus is not deceived.) K476.1
• Tiger to help foxes divide their young. Foxes escape into hole. K579.5.2
• Blind men duped into fighting: money to be divided. Trickster says that he is giving one of them money to be divided with the others. Gives it to none. They quarrel and fight. (Cf. K1883.6.) K1081.1
• Bargain: to divide all winnings. M241
• Dividing the winnings: presents (favors) from man's own wife. After the agreement to divide all winnings the first man receives favors (presents, kisses) from the second's wife. He faithfully delivers them. M241.2
• King's son comes home just at his father's funeral, when the heritage has to be divided. N699.2
• Friends want to divide good and evil. P310.1
• The sacred partnership. Man is abducted by pirates and kept in slavery forty years. Upon his return his friend divides his earnings with him. P319.4
• Lion divides slain bullock. The thief who demands half of the bullock driven off; the traveler who modestly withdraws invited to take half. Q3.2
• Spendthrift knight. Divides his last penny. He is later helped by the grateful person. Q42.1
• Child divides last loaf with fairy (witch, etc.). Rewarded. Q42.1.1
• Man who divides his food with beggar is later freed from captivity by him. Q42.1.2
• Envy punished: the found purse. Three men find a purse. They are loath to pick it up, since they will have to divide. The king sees this and assigns them their proper punishments. Q302.1
• Wolf as commander orders all booty divided, but keeps his own. U37
• Man divides money into three parts: (1) for the poor, (2) for pilgrims, (3) for himself and family. W11.3
• Fox spoils his food rather than divide with ape. W152.1