125 motifs match “fast” — showing the first 100; narrow the words for the rest  ·  back to the chapters

• Sun and moon placed in top of tree. Hero makes the sun and moon and fastens them to the top of the "World Tree" (cf. A652), but they give no light at first. A714.2
• Sun-snarer: fast sun. The sun goes too fast to dry clothing. The hero snares the sun's legs with a rope as he is climbing up from the underworld. He releases the sun upon the promise to go more slowly. A728.2
• The four world-columns fastened immovably by two gods with their mother's hairs. A841.0.1
• Origin of religious feasts and fasts. A1541
• Origin of religious fasts. A1541.7
• Bat, diver, and thornbush shipwrecked. Bat brought money, bush put on clothes, and diver brought leather. All shipwrecked. Diver is looking for his leather. Bush looks for his clothers and holds fast to all passers-by. Bat is abroad only at night to escape creditors. (Cf. A2471.4, A2491.1.) A2275.5.3
• Horse so fast fly cannot light on him. B184.1.1.1
• Animals fast. B251.5
• Fox fasts as penance. (Cf. B251.4.) B253.3
• Animal fasts to express sympathy. B299.5.2
• Tabu: fasting on holidays. C634
• Transformation to travel fast. D644
• Magic whip holds person fast. (Cf. D1208.) D1411.2
• Magic grass holds person fast. (Cf. D965.12.) D1411.3
• Magic object holds person fast. D1413
• Magic stick holds person fast. (Cf. D1254.) D1413.13
• Magic window holds person fast. (Cf. D1145.) D1413.15
• Magic door holds person fast. (Cf. D1146.) D1413.16
• Magic earth-mould holds person fast. (Cf. D935.) D1413.20
• Magic grass holds person fast. (Cf. D965.12.) D1413.21
• Magic cloth holds person fast. (Cf. D1413.0.1.) D1413.22
• Magic drinking-tube holds person fast. (Cf. D1255.) D1413.23
• Grave holds person fast. (Cf. D1299.1.) D1413.24
• Self-fastening line. (Cf. D1272.1.) D1601.13.2
• Continually slamming doors grateful for being fastened. (Cf. D1146.) D1658.1.4
• Magic power by fasting. (Cf. G224.16, P623.) D1733.3.1
• Oracular twigs work only if man has fasted. (Cf. D1311.4.0.1.) D1733.3.1.1
• Magic results from fasting. D1766.8
• Fasting a part of magic ritual. D1766.8.1
• Faster one walks, longer the trail. The slower, the shorter. D1783.3
• Beautification by fasting. D1866.3
• Vision of food arises to tempt fasting women. D2031.16
• Man with power of evil eye cannot look at any living thing before breaking fast in the morning without causing it to wither and die. D2071.0.3
• Saint ends epidemic by fasting. D2162.1
• Locality sanctified against pestilence (by angel) as result of prayer and fasting. (Cf. D1586.) D2162.3
• Resuscitation by fasting. E62.1
• Ghost laid by fasting. E443.7
• Wild huntsman wanders for failure to keep fast day. E501.3.5
• Reincarnation by fasting. E607.4
• Soul fastened to spine. E714.13
• Soul of hermit who fasts to death for worldly fame would be damned but for past good deeds. E754.4
• Fairies bind man fast to ground after he has attempted to capture fairy prince and princess. F361.2.3
• Extraordinary strength from fasting for 12 years and eating nothing except earth. F611.3.0.1
• Skillful fencer keeps sword dry in rain. Swings it so fast. F667.1
• Man who is too heavy for any horse walks faster than horseback riders. F681.9
• Boy runs so fast snow makes rainbow behind him. F681.13
• Tree grows miraculously fast from seed. F811.19
• Girl child fed on infant boys' flesh to make her grow faster. G72.3
• Devil disguised as man tells of trip to heaven and hell. Heaven is full of wretches who weep, fast, and pray. Hell is full of wealth, power, and good living. G303.9.7.4
• The devil dies when he is fastened in hell's door by his beard. G303.17.3.2
• Devil helps man place cart wheel when it becomes unfastened. G303.22.4
• Fairy will marry king only if he will either cut off son's head or give up fasting on eleventh day. H313.2
• Give coals orange color, let glimmer of gold appear like expanse of heaven, prepare two heads of darkness. (Request for chickens for breakfast.) H599.6
• Contest in fasting. H1545
• Test of steadfastness of love for God: though warned in dream man refuses to part with sacred stone. H1573.5
• Wisdom from fasting. J179.4
• Intemperance in fasting. J565
• Fool fasts on roof till he becomes so weak he falls off. J565.1
• The swallow and the hemp-seeds. Swallow in vain urges other birds to eat seed as fast as it is sowed. Ridiculed, he builds his nest among the dwellings of men. Later, birds are caught in nets made from the hemp. J621.1
• Dividing the eggs: one man's hand in the pot at a time. Trickster alternates hands so fast that the other man never gets to put his hand in. He finally puts his foot in the pan. J1241.5
• Will lunch with Christ. Priest tells condemned man after confession that he will dine with Christ that evening. Mule that carries him to scaffold goes very fast and criminal says, "At this rate I shall lunch with Christ." J1261.3
• Wife prepares the pestle. Tells guests husband uses it against guests. They flee. Tells husband they left because she refused to give them pestle. Husband pursues to give them the pestle, but they run the faster. (Cf. K2137.) J1563.5.1
• Lighting the cat's tail. Woman wishing to punish a cat fastens cotton to its tail and lights it. The whole village is burnt. J2101.1
• Fasting the first month. Numskull having enough food to last him eleven out of the twelve months fasts the entire first month so as to get the ordeal over. He starves with eleven months' supply on hand. J2135.1
• The polluted clothes. A Brahmin washes clothes to purify them. As they hang to dry, a dog walks under them and the Brahmin fears that they are polluted. By putting himself on all-fours like a dog and fastening a leaf like a dog's tail he experiments and decides that the dog must have touched the clothes. He therefore destroys them instead of rewashing them. J2184
• Fool writes letter very slowly: recipient cannot read fast. J2242.2
• The reckoning of the pot. A man counts the days of the fastmonth by throwing a pebble each day into a pot. His daughter throws a handful of pebbles in. Asked the day of the month, he says that it is the 125th. J2466.2
• "Stick fast to everything you undertake." Foolish son seizes an ass by tail and gets kicked. J2489.9
• Hare and tortoise race: sleeping hare. In a race between the fast and the slow animal, the fast animal sleeps on the road and allows the slow animal to pass him. K11.3
• Deceptive contest in fasting. K53
• The horse swifter than the rain. Caught in the rain, a trickster finds that his horse will not budge. He undresses, puts his clothes under the horse's belly and keeps them dry. When he reaches the king, he reports that his horse has run so fast that he has had no time to get wet. The king buys the horse. K134.2
• Deceptive bargain: fasting together. The servant girl eats secretly; the miser starves. K177
• Blame for theft fastened on dupe. K401
• Dupe's food eaten and then blame fastened on him. Trickster eats the common food supply and then by smearing the mouth of the sleeping dupe with the food escapes the blame. K401.1
• Blame for theft fastened on inanimate objects. K419.9
• Blame for theft fastened on fairies. K419.10
• Tail buried (hair tied). Dupe bound fast and then attacked. K1021.1
• Ogre's (dwarf's) beard caught fast. K1111.1
• Casual words uttered by dupe used to cheat him of his property. A miser is persuaded by his servant to fast nine days. He calls out on the fifth day "the half" and on the ninth "the whole". She makes people believe that he is making his will and giving everything to her. It is so ordered. K1155
• Horse's intestine fastened to stone. Horse twists intestines out of himself. K1444
• Prophecy of a plague consisting of "a flame of fire" which shall destroy three-fourths of the population of Ireland. Plague can be prevented by fasting, etc. M356.2
• Secret remedy revealed by departing animal. House spirit (or bird) leaves saying, "If you knew what valerian is good for, the people would not die so fast." N452.2
• Fasting (as a means of distraint). P623
• Fasting against God. P623.0.1
• Clerics fast against God for revelation. P623.0.1.1
• Fasting against the Devil. P623.0.2
• Fasting against fairies. P623.0.3
• Fasting against saints. P623.0.4
• Fasting by saints causes tree worshipped by pagans to fall. P623.0.5
• Fasting to enforce saint's dues. P623.0.6
• Calves not let to cows during fast. P623.0.7
• Keeping fast rewarded. Q26
• Neglect to fast punished. Q223.9
• Neglect to fast punished by sight of dragon ready to carry man off to hell. Q223.9.1
• Musician flogged for eating a kid on Friday (day of fast). (Cf. Q458.) Q223.9.2
• Penance: fasting in sackcloth and ashes. Q523.10
• Lone fasting as penance. Q535.4
• Captive buried alive to his neck fastens his teeth on jackal that comes to eat him and companions. Rest flee when they hear him howl. In struggles to get free jackal loosens earth around captive, who manages to free himself. R212.1.2
• Girl fastened by hair to rafter. S182
• Ring of Fastrada. (Tove's magic ring.) Lover keeps body of dead mistress (wife) intact by means of magic ring. When ring is removed from her finger, the body immediately decays and he is cured of his love. T85.4.1