37 motifs match “eels”  ·  back to the chapters

• God's throne on wheels. A152.3
• God of eels. A445.2
• Fiery wheels in hell. A671.2.4.6
• King of eels. B243.2.2
• Animal feels agitation at sight of native land. B773.1
• Transformation: leaves to eels. D441.5.1
• Mountain opens and lets ship on wheels out, permitting magician's escape. D1552.4
• Sword shrieks when it feels the bone. D1610.9.1.1
• Divination from sound of chariot wheels. D1812.5.0.12
• Father feels that son is in danger. (Cf. D1812.0.4, D1812.5.1.1.4.) D1813.0.3
• Spirit makes wheels come off wagon. F473.6.6
• Giant with heels in front. (Cf. A526.8, F451.2.2.1, F517.1.5, G303.4.5.6.) F531.1.3.2
• Giant with club as large as wheelshaft of mill. F531.4.4
• Marvelous sensitiveness: man feels little point of simple thorn in middle of his clothes. F647.9.2
• Ship on wheels. (Cf. D1553.1.1.) F841.3.2
• Cart of lapis lazuli and gold with golden wheels. F861.3.1
• Man is maltreated in dream so that he feels it next day. F1068.2.1
• Devil has no heels. Bitten off by wolf who was created by devil. G303.4.5.7
• The devil unpeels a bold woman's skin. G303.20.5
• Fearless hero frightened by being awakened by eels put down his back. H1441.1
• Blind man who feels young wolf recognises his savage nature. J33
• Little men preferred to big men. Preacher prefers small men because the intellect has difficulty in reaching to one's heels. J493
• King given three wheels to control his anger. J571.2
• Filling cracks with butter. Numskull sees cracks in the ground and feels so sorry for them that he greases them with the butter he is taking home. J1871
• Dupe waits for rear wheels of wagon to overtake front wheels. Is told that money is thus made. J2066.7
• Snakes in pond to be killed: eels also killed. J2114
• Escape on ship on wheels after having deceived the captor into laying away sword and helm to receive pretended gift. K611.3
• 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
• Enemy host imprisoned by earthen walls thrown up by hero's chariot wheels. R5.1
• Clothes of knight who kneels in mud before host as it passes miraculously kept clean. V34.4
• Horse kneels before stolen sacrament. V35.1.1
• Man converted to belief in future life on deathbed. Feels sure nevertheless that nothing will come of it. V311.1
• Boy to see whether it is raining: calls dog (cat) in and feels of his paws. W111.2.4
• Boy to see whether there is fire in the house: feels of cat to see if she is warm. W111.2.5
• Refusal to fight wounded enemy. Hero feels it dishonorable to fight with sorely wounded enemy, because it would be said he died of previous wounds rather than the ones hero might inflict. W215.2
• Lie: plow without horse or wheels. X1855
• Lie: child throws down mill-wheels from one town to another. X1856.2