75 motifs match “falling”  ·  back to the chapters

• Falling stars as pieces of the moon. A788.1
• Earth from creator's spittle falling on primeval water. A814.10
• Squirrel's markings and immunity from falling as reward by deity. A2221.8
• Eagle saves man from falling wall. The grateful eagle swoops down and takes the man's hat, and thus gets him away from the wall that is about to fall. B521.2.1
• Falling to ashes as punishment for breaking tabu. C927.2
• Falling of two trees reveals Savior's will as to separation of friends. D1311.4.0.2
• Magic collar indicates falsehood by squeezing throat (hand, foot), truth by falling to ground. (Cf. D1068.) D1316.8
• Dew falling on St. John's Night restores sight. (Cf. D902.2.) D1505.5.2.1
• Image of Virgin saves painter. Stretches forth hand and keeps him from falling. D1639.2
• Magic object keeps falling down. D1649.1
• Magic elk's head keeps falling down. (Cf. D1011.) D1649.1.1
• Magic birds keep falling off perch. D1649.1.2
• Falling of shields as evil omen. (Cf. D1101.1.) D1812.5.1.25
• Falling of book satchels as evil omen. (Cf. D1266, D1641.11.1.) D1812.5.1.26
• Saint prevents rocks from falling. D2149.4.1
• Magic help from falling. D2166
• Slamming (falling) door to otherworld. F156.4
• Giant thinks hammer-blow on head is a nut falling. Man strikes with all his might. F531.5.4
• Giant's head gnawed by foxes: thinks soot is falling on him. F531.5.4.2
• Hair so stiff that apples falling on it would be impaled. F555.8
• Hair so curly that nuts falling on it would be held. F555.9
• Marvelous sensitiveness: injury from rose leaves falling. (Cf. F647.9.) F647.3
• Perilous falling gate. Cuts horse in two as rider goes through it. F776.2
• Rising and falling sky. Sky rises and falls at horizon, giving periodic access to the other world. F791
• Extraordinary threefold death: falling from rock and tree, drowning. F901.1
• Books show sorrow for owner's death by falling from shelf. F994.1
• Giant's hair grows into rock. He is thus kept from falling from cliff. G122
• Ball falling into water puts person into ogre's (witch's, water spirit's) power. G423
• Falling into ogre's power – miscellaneous. G450
• Falling into ogre's power through fascination with his daughter. (Cf. G530.2.) G455
• Ogress tricked into falling into boiling spring. G519.1.4
• Ogre killed by blades falling in his food. G519.4
• Recognition by tear falling from tree where girl has been abandoned. H151.14.1
• Ordeal by creeping under a sod partially detached from the earth without its falling down. H228
• King: What are you doing? Youth: I boil those which come and go. (Beans which keep rising and falling in water.) H583.6
• Man uses umbrella under trees. (To protect self from falling branches and bird droppings.) H591.2
• "Move stool before sitting on it": counsel proved wise by experience. Man thus saves self from falling into well. J21.34
• Rocks falling together and thread entering needle's eye suggest sexual intercourse: hence its beginning. J86
• Ass turns on his driver who would save him from falling over the precipice. J683.1
• Crow alighting on falling tree thinks his weight made it fall. J953.11
• Falling star supposed to have been shot down by astronomer. J2275.1
• "Thank Fortune it wasn't a melon." Man contends that melons should not grow on slender vines but on tall trees. He is hit on the nose by a falling nut. Is thankful it wasn't a melon. J2571
• Person frightened into falling down a cliff. J2611
• Men must go to look in the pool to see if rain is falling. J2716.1
• Man put out tubs to see if rain is still falling. J2716.2
• Deceptive drinking contest: rising and falling tide. Buffalo and heron wager as to which can drink the sea until the water falls. The buffalo drinks as the tide is coming in; the heron drinks in the falling tide and wins. K82.1.1
• Escape by asking to die falling from a tree. K558.1
• Dupes deceived into falling over precipice. K891.5.4
• Dupe induced to stand under falling tree. K982
• Dupe tricked in race into falling into a pit. K1171
• Falling beam in cave kills travelers lured within. K1172
• Deceptive nocturnal noise. Wood-spirits imitate falling of trees, etc. K1887.2
• Ugly women complain of falling flowers. King hearing them supposes them delicate and beautiful. K1984.4
• Punishment: transformation into falling star. Q551.3.5.1
• Murder by crushing beneath falling tree. S116.5
• Falling in love. T10
• Sluggish prince reformed by falling in love. T10.1
• Gambler reformed by falling in love. T10.1.1
• Girl continually falling in love. T10.3
• Falling in love with person never seen. T11
• Love through dream. Falling in love with a person seen in a dream. T11.3
• Falling in love at receipt of girl's amulet. T11.4.7
• Falling in love with reflection in water. Princess thus first sees prince. T11.5
• Falling in love with one's own reflection in water. (Narcissus.) T11.5.1
• Falling in love with beautiful voice. T11.8
• Falling in love – miscellaneous. T29
• Falling in love while playing game. T34.2
• Falling in love while playing draughts. T34.2.1
• Falling in love with someone of a different caste. T91.7.2
• Falling furniture threatens bridal couple. Furniture etc. arranged by jealous rival so that it will fall. T175.1
• Conception from falling rain. T522
• Conception from falling star. T525
• Conception from feathers falling on woman. T536
• Saint falling into an abyss found perched in the branches of a tree which projected from the cliff. As soon as the man is drawn up, the tree vanishes. V222.10
• Lies about falling. X1731