42 motifs match “draws”  ·  back to the chapters

• Why the hedgehog draws himself up: shame at sight of a good man. A2479.4
• Angel horse. Horse draws angels' chariot. B41.2.1
• Grateful bull draws one hundred carts for wager for master. B587.3
• Elephant draws plow to mark boundaries of empire. B599.3
• Snake attaches itself to a woman's breast and draws away her milk while she sleeps. B765.4.1
• Boiling lock of lover's hair draws him to sweetheart. D1355.3.5
• Magic bag draws person into it. (Cf. D1193.) D1412.1
• Magic pot draws person into it. (Cf. D1171.1.) D1412.2
• Magic object draws person (thing) to it. D1420
• Magic object draws lover (husband) to woman. D1425
• Magic object draws woman to man. D1426
• Magic hair draws back quiver from which it has been taken. (Cf. D991.) D1428.1
• Magic object draws person (thing) to it – miscellaneous. D1429
• Magic object draws storm away. D1541.2
• Magic pestle draws storm away. (Cf. D1254.3.) D1541.2.1
• Magic pearl draws storm away. (Cf. D1071.) D1541.2.2
• Magic staff draws water from stone. (Cf. D925.1, D1254, D1567.6.) D1549.5
• Girl's heart magically removed and fed to man draws her to him. D1905.1
• Witch draws rain or snow from clouds with wave of his hand. D2143.1.9
• Water-maiden enamors man and draws him under water. (Cf. F302.3.4, G264.) F420.5.2.1.1
• Rainbow draws to itself fisherman and his boat. F439.1.1
• Lodestone draws ship to it. F806.1
• Giant fisherman. Draws in ships with his line. G322.1
• Ogre draws victims under water. G336
• Ogre draws girl over waterfall. G426
• Man recounts unpleasant happening to king when in good humor and draws laugh; rest draw punishment. J823
• To decide which is master and which servant they are to put heads through window and servant's head is to be cut off. Servant draws back. J1141.1.6
• Series of clever unjust decisions: plaintiff voluntarily withdraws. (1) Man pulls off borrowed horse's tail: he shall keep horse till tail grows on. (2) Man falls out of bed and kills a baby (or causes a miscarriage): he shall beget a new baby for the mother. (3) Man falls from a bridge and kills boatsman's son: shall allow boatsman to fall from bridge and kill him. J1173
• The wine-spilling host rebuked. A host spills his customer's wine so that he must buy more. He consoles the guest with "It is a sign of the great abundance you shall have this year." With the same remark the guest draws the spigot from the host's wine cask. J1511.5
• Officer disarmed by sentry. Army major approaches sentry, takes away his rifle, and reproaches him for allowing himself to be disarmed. Sentry draws pistol from inside shirt, demands return of unloaded rifle. J1526.1
• Numskull thinks the extinguishing of lights at the church presages a fight. Draws his sword. J1823.3
• Buyer draws picture of grindstone on his order list. The grocer sends him a cheese. The buyer has forgotten to draw the hole. J2685
• The doubly-feed lawyer. A lawyer takes a car as fee from a widow and an ox from her adversary. He pleads for the latter saying that the ox draws the car. K441.2
• Pretended flight draws victims. K929.4
• Woman draws a pelt to her instead of her husband. A woman asks of her husband a hair which will magically draw him to her. He gives her a hair from a pelt. K1281
• Priest draws a sow to him instead of a woman. He asks for a pubic hair which will draw the woman to him. Sow's bristles substituted. Sow rushes to church. K1281.1
• Woman excites peasant (secretary), who draws line on floor and dares her to cross it. When she does, adultery is committed. K1588
• Ignorant doctor draws his prescriptions by lot. K1955.9
• 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
• Virgin Mary withdraws the sacrament from a scoffer. (Cf. Q225.) Q553.1
• Pagan sybil draws picture of Madonna and Child in sand. Result of vision. V341
• Man draws sixty (300) carts of wood. X953.1