81 motifs match “dying”  ·  back to the chapters

• Dying culture hero. The culture hero teaches people how to die by dying himself. A565
• Steadying the earth. A857
• Why dogs howl when man is dying. A2427.2.1
• Fox as divider of dying man's gifts. B294.1
• Cock hears inaudible voice of dying man. B733.2.1
• Cat must be kept from dying person because it will catch the person's soul issuing (from mouth) in form of mouse. (Cf. E731.3.) B766.1.1
• Tabu: studying occult books. C825
• Magic sword thrown into lake by dying hero. D878.2
• Magic power of dying man's words. D1715
• Dying peasant summons greedy bishop for heavenly funeral; the bishop dies hearing the message. D1715.2
• Dying man commands cloud to bear message to man's wife. D1715.3
• Dying man's power of prophecy. D1812.2.4
• Death evaded. Person enters on the next life without dying. D1856
• "The Two Sorrows of the Kingdom of Heaven": Elijah and Enoch pass to otherworld without dying. D1856.1.1
• Forgetting Charon's fee. Philosopher forgets to put coin in mouth before death (Charon's fee). Charon: "Don't you know the custom?" Answer: "Yes, but I couldn't put off dying for a quarter!" E489.3
• Dead friends come for dying man's soul. E722.2.9
• Wraith of dying woman goes to see children for last time before death. E723.4.4
• Shooting star signifies that someone is dying. One star for each person. At his death it falls. E741.1.1
• Translation to otherworld without dying. (Cf. F12.3.) F2
• Man goes to heaven without dying. (Cf. D1856, F2.) F11.2
• River rises to prevent body's being carried over it against dying man's wish. F932.8.1
• Lover dies beside dying sweetheart. F1041.1.2.1
• Devil as three gentlemen. They come for a dying man. G303.3.1.11
• Devil appears to dying man. G303.6.2.8
• Task assigned by dying child. H937
• Quest to Paradise to get oil to anoint dying father's body. H1265
• Observation of dying people for a year takes man's thoughts from lust. J62
• Wise words of dying father. Counsel proved wise by experience. J154
• Dying saint leaves wise message to followers. Message is cryptic, but is finally made clear. J154.1
• Wise words of dying woman (queen). (Cf. J154.) J155.6
• Wisdom from fool: the present returned. Nobleman gives fool a present; he is to give it to no one who is not a greater fool. Master is dying; doctor tells fool that master is going to take long journey. Since master is making no preparation, fool gives him the present. Master thus brought to repentance. J156.3
• Mouse (fly) dying in meat tub is happy that he has eaten to satisfaction. J861.3
• "But by a fine fellow!" Dying toad thus comforts his paramour, the frog, whom he is leaving neither married nor widow nor maiden and pregnant. J865.1
• Priest bringing Host to dying man sees thief on his fig tree. Shouts vituperations at him. J1261.2.6
• Mice die of hunger. Complaints against underpaid priest that he does not stay at home. Says he cannot stay at home for the mice are dying of hunger since he receives only forty florins a year. J1269.10
• As you surely will. After her husband's death a woman cannot find a hammer and anvil. She goes to a dying neighbor and says, "If you die, as you surely will, and go to Heaven, as you surely will not, ask my husband where he left the hammer and anvil." The dying man's wife replies, "If you go to Heaven, as you surely will, if you die as you surely will not, do not run around and get into trouble, but sit down by the Eternal Father and observe and keep still." J1481
• Priests say dying woman's unfulfilled request for mangoes must be paid in golden mangoes to them. Priests burned with iron since she had asked to be cauterized. J1511.18
• Ignorant priest forces rolls of cloth instead of bread down a dying man's throat. J1738.1
• Servant sent to doctor finds trip futile. Doctor may not be in and, if he is there, he may not give the medicine. He may give the medicine but it may not have any effect; or, if it does have any, he has to die someday anyway and the medicine will not prevent him from dying. J2241.2
• Fatal game: dying and reviving. Hero has power of resuscitation but fails to revive his enemy. K856
• Dying woman lures paramour into chest. Asks husband to bury chest with her. K1555.0.1
• Overlooking the insult. Man consoles daughter whose husband is dying by telling her he has picked another husband for her. She feels insulted. No sooner does her husband die than she asks her father for details. K2052.4.3
• Dying man's promise will be kept. M251
• Promise of dying man to bring news of other world. (Or two friends agree that the first to die shall bring news). M252
• Deathbed promise concerning the second wife. Promises his dying wife that he will not marry unless the bride meets the specifications the dying wife imposes. M255
• Promise to dying man broken. M256
• Dying monster's request and promise. Hero is to drink his blood, suck his eyes and brains, and give his heart to his loved one to eat. He will become marvelously strong and his wife will have three sons and four daughters with great powers. M257
• Dying hero's request and promise to disciples. M257.1
• Promise to dying man sacred. M258
• Promise to dying father leads to adventures. M258.1
• Promise to dying father not to wed woman of certain tribe. M258.2
• Promise to dying father to bury him in his homeland. M258.3
• Prophecy of king taking a cruel stepmother to her sons after her death enacted before eyes of dying queen by sparrow family living in tree by palace window. M369.2.1.1
• Dying man's curse. M411.3
• Dying father condemns weak son to be servant of his brothers. M438.5
• Feast for those who have not known sorrow. Dying Alexander's letter to his mother orders such a feast. No one comes. N135.3.1
• The sun brings all to light. The murderer repeats as he sees the rays of the sun, the last words of the dying man, thus betraying the crime. N271.1
• Murder revealed by unusual names of boys. The dying man leaves message to name his sons "O God" and "O king" (or the like). This arouses the king's curiosity and brings the murder to light. N271.2
• Treasure buried by dying man. N511.1.0.1
• Each of four kings does something to save dying falcon. N836.2
• Dying king names successor. P17.3
• Dying hero sends greetings to friends. P310.3
• Dying man asks friends to let his son inherit his friendship together with his father's weapons. P310.4.1
• Son insists on following father's trade. This has been kept secret at request of dying father who was unsuccessful. Son learns from mother. P401
• Dying priest looks greedily on ripe plum: is reincarnated as insect feeding within plum. Q551.5.1.3
• Dying lover sends his sweetheart his ring. (Cf. T81.) T61.4.5.1
• Man dies at bedside of dying sweetheart. T81.1
• Woman falls in love with dying warrior. T89.1
• Dying man assigns bride to his brother. T141.1
• Child born with claws as result of curse by dying peddler murdered by its parents. T551.9
• Newborn child kisses dying mother. T585.6
• Dying hero wants to be buried in the clothes of his brother who killed him. V68.3
• Dying man refuses to believe in life to come. V311.2
• Ass insults dying lion. W121.2.1
• Visiting friends take everything from house of dying man. W151.2
• Eats up the money. Old man before dying eats his money. In church, son wants to cut corpse open and get the money. The devil: "Don't spoil the skin." Shakes money out of the corpse's throat and takes the skin. W151.7
• Dying miser tells son to extinguish candle just as soon as he dies. W153.11.1
• Dying like Christ – between two thieves. The dying man has the lawyer and the notary stand on either side of him. X313
• Dying lawyer says, "I appeal". X315
• Dying lawyer asks delay. X315.1
• Lie: air from healthy climate revives dying person. X1663.1