28 motifs match “fallen”  ·  back to the chapters

• Insect having fallen on back grateful for being turned over. B364.3
• Tabu: picking up card fallen to ground. C525
• Killing with head of fallen enemy. D1402.23
• Reading from a book makes fallen tree stand up. D1571.3
• Fallen trees upraised at saint's request. D1602.2.1
• Fairies as fallen angels. F251.6
• Camels having fallen from sky into girl's eyes; she tells her mother that some grains of sand have fallen down from sky. F615.3.1.2
• Tuatha De Danann as demons (fallen angels). G303.1.7
• Test of death by putting burning wood in the mouth of fallen warriors. H248.4
• Special power of chaste woman: raising fallen elephant. H413.4
• How far from earth to heaven? The devil knows for he has fallen this distance. H682.1.10
• Task: filling glasses with water that has neither fallen from heaven nor sprung from the earth. (Uses horse's sweat.) H1073
• Tiger, jackal, and bear each learn to fear man. They report him as head-thumper (he has beaten the tiger), turn-twister (he has swung jackal by tail), and top-tumbler (he has fallen out of tree on bear). J17.1
• The rescuers' Sabbath. A Jew, fallen into a pit, refuses to be rescued on Saturday, his Sabbath. The next day he calls for help but the Christians refuse to rescue him on Sunday, their Sabbath. J1613
• Christ's image has broken his arm. A man refuses to have anything to do with the crucifix because once an image of Christ has fallen on him in church and broken his arm. Reminded that this image is not the same, he replies that it is the son of the other and is just as bad. J1823.1.2
• Numskull forgets name of certain food and thinks that it has fallen into sand. J1924
• Fallen king in disguise recognized by former ally and helped. K1812.18
• Prince substitutes peasant girl for the king's daughter he has got for his father but with whom he himself has fallen in love. K1911.1.9
• Vow never to give more than one blow in a fight and never to beat a fallen enemy nor take his weapons. M166.1
• Man thanks earth for saving his life; had he fallen into well he would have blamed Fortune. N111.4.1
• Thief crushed to death by fallen fragments of wall he has bored. N339.15
• Heads of fallen enemies piled up after battle. P555.2.1
• Conception after shadow of man has fallen on bathing girl. T532.8.1
• Monk under pressure from abbot forgives the crucifix which has fallen and hurt him. He says that nevertheless there will always be hatred between them. U221
• Fallen angels. V236
• Fallen angels become fairies (dwarfs, trolls). V236.1
• Angels appear above grave of fallen girl through virtue of prayers said by her lover (young monk). V243.1
• Ruler reproaches son for bringing him the head of his fallen enemy. Latter given honorable burial. W11.5.6