28 motifs match “entering”  ·  back to the chapters

• Origin of physical defects. Wicked people entering heaven on rope fall to earth and are injured. St. Peter misunderstands what God says and lets them fall. A1338
• Tabu: man entering woman's quarters in her absence. C182.2
• Tabu: single person entering one's house after sunset. C752.1.3
• Tabu: entering chariot less than three weeks after having eaten horseflesh. C756.4
• Bedstead at doorway prevents spirit from entering. (Cf. D1154.1.) D1385.22
• Resuscitation by demon's entering corpse. E121.6.1
• Thumbling steals by entering keyhole. F535.1.1.11.1
• Barbed lance. Causes one wound on entering and nine on retiring. F832.1
• Elephant allows jackal to quench his thirst by entering through his mouth to his stomach. F929.1
• Witch who is out of skin is prevented from reentering it when person salts or peppers skin. (Cf. G275.8.1.) G229.1.1
• Suitor test: entering princess's chamber. H344
• Is town too full of anchorites? Saint entering holy town is sent cup full to brim of milk by its worldly-minded fakirs that he may know the town can hold no more anchorites. Saint floats a flower on milk and returns cup. H607.4
• Rocks falling together and thread entering needle's eye suggest sexual intercourse: hence its beginning. J86
• Wise man before entering a quarrel considers how it will end. J611
• Unjust claimant of woman duped into entering jar. Jackal as judge declares that real husband shall enter jar woman carries on her head. J1172.3.1
• Man sleeping in stable (abandoned cabin) thinks entering animals are ghosts: kills them. J1782.4
• Means of entering house or treasury. K310
• Deception into entering bag. K711
• Deception into entering box (or prison). K714
• Victim tricked into entering box. K714.2
• Dupe tricked into entering hollow tree. K714.3
• Victim tricked into entering basket. K714.4
• Fox deceives lion into entering pit. K714.9.1
• Capture of castle by pretending to surrender and entering. K777
• Minister dupes raja into entering body of dead parrot, then enters rajah's body. K1175
• Other means of entering into girl's (man's) room (bed). K1349
• Husband hides in curtain to catch paramour. On entering, paramour threatens to kill husband if he should appear. K1514.4.2
• Entering a garden by swimming down a stream that flows into it. K2377