53 motifs match “drives”  ·  back to the chapters

• God drives chariot over waves. A171.0.1
• Wind drives buffaloes for god. A199.4
• Charioteer of the sun. Sun drives his horses and chariot across sky. A724.1
• Jesus drives evil spirits into hogs: hence short snouts. (Cf. A2335.4.1.) A2287.1
• Jesus drives evil spirits into hogs: hence "toes" on back of foreleg. (Cf. A2371.2.2.) A2287.1.1
• Basilisk. A mythical lizard or serpent whose hissing drives away all other serpents. B12
• Animal drives carriage. B295
• Broom, transformed into porcupine, drives away would-be ravisher. B524.5
• Saint's bachall drives back flooding river. (Cf. D1277.) D1549.3.1
• Magic song drives back flooding sea. (Cf. D1275.) D1549.8
• Breathing on enemy drives him onto knife. D2061.2.9
• Saint drives over bog as over land. D2125.0.2
• Saint drives lake into sea. D2136.4.1
• Saint's breath drives away the devil. D2176.3.3.4
• Ghost drives away his relatives who are trying to get estate from his wife. E236.6
• Ghost drives priest into oven. E264
• Bite of wild huntsman's dogs drives other dogs mad. E501.15.6.3
• Sight of dead woman spinning drives people insane. E561.1
• Dead person drives horses. E582
• Chanting song of St. Nicholas drives fairy away. F382.5
• Thumbling drives wagon by sitting in horse's ear. F535.1.1.1
• Thumbling drives mule. F535.1.1.1.1
• [First Edition: F581. Woman who drives those who see her mad. (Inadvertant duplication of F1041.8.1.)] F581[1st ed.]
• Strong hero drives huge log into frozen ground. F611.3.2.1
• Strong man drives anvil into ground. F614.1
• Strong man sent to devil's mill: drives devils to master's house. F615.1
• Hero drives spear through seven iron plates. F625.1
• Devil drives horse and wagon. G303.7.3
• Devil drives carriage drawn by horses whose nostrils shoot fire. G303.7.3.2
• Devil drives several teams of oxen. G303.7.5
• Devil rides on hog, drives another. G303.7.6
• Devil drives six he-goats. G303.7.7
• Troll drives two he-goats. G304.3.2.2
• King: What is your mother doing? Youth: She drives away the hungry and compels the filled to eat. (Drives away the hungry hens and stuffs the geese.) H583.4.4
• Monotony of restriction to one's favorite food. Counselor refuses to arrange extramarital pleasures for his lord. Ruler feeds him only his favorite food until the counselor protests the monotony. Ruler drives home his point. J81.0.1
• Cat only drives rats away; if she killed them she would no longer have employment. J766.1
• Things on highway belong to the public. Man reproves another for picking his cherries that overhang the highway. He is told that things on the public highway belong to no one in particular. He invites the man to climb the tree for better cherries, drives off with his horse and buggy, giving the same answer about things in the public highway. J1511.14
• The blacksmith's and the horse-trader's dreams. They are forced to sleep together because of lack of room. The blacksmith tells the horsetrader that he often dreams that he is striking the bellows and that he may accidently strike him in the night. The horsetrader retaliates by dreaming that he is riding a horse and drives the spurs into the blacksmith. J1622
• Simpleton drives goats into a well, because he thinks it would be cooler for them. J1959.1
• The marked coat in the wife's room. A procuress obtains a woman for her client by leaving a marked coat in her room. The husband drives the wife away and she joins her lover. The procuress then goes to the husband and alleges that she lost a coat with certain marks. The husband is deceived and takes the wife back. K1543
• Fox feigns to be playing with sheep: dog drives him off. K2061.2
• Peasant has kind words for daws, but drives them from his seeds. K2090.1
• Reed pricks and drives away dog that urinates on it. L391.1
• Father drives away bad son whom the mother prefers. P233.2.1
• Hero drives retreating warriors back into battle. P551.4
• Saint (hero) drives chariot over person who displeases him. Q227.3
• Cruel mother expels (drives away) child. S12.5
• Nagging wife drives husband to prepare for suicide. T253.1
• Saint drives away an army by bringing upon it a dense and smoky cloud. (Cf. D2163.4.) V229.7.1
• Uncharitable knight drives bargain even in giving alms: devoured by serpents. His alms of corn turn to serpents. V422
• Saint never drives fly or gnat from his face. W10.1
• Tiger lies in water with mouth open: cat drives fish in. X1114.2
• The goat who would not go home. One animal after another tries in vain to persuade the goat to go home. Finally a wolf (bee) bites him and drives him home. Z39.1