77 motifs match “filled”  ·  back to the chapters

• River in hell filled with weapons. A671.2.2.2
• Lake originally filled with palm wine. A920.1.16
• Disenchantment fails because conditions are not fulfilled. D791.3
• Magic conjuring bag. Filled with nail parings, human hair, feet of toads, and the like. D1274.1
• Clairvoyance by looking at object filled with water. D1323.12
• Magic wishing-object. Object causes wishes to be fulfilled. D1470.1
• Magic lake: whoever dies in it will have his desires fulfilled in future birth. (Cf. D921.) D1470.1.45
• Magic goblet (cup) cannot be filled. (Cf. D1171.6.2, D1472.1.14.) D1652.5.1
• Upon praying of a saint, sea or pool is filled with sand so that people are able to cross with dry feet. D1766.1.5
• Warning in dream fulfilled. D1810.8.3.1
• Dream warns of illness or injury. The dream is fulfilled. D1810.8.3.1.1
• Saint causes waters to be filled with fish. D2106.1.1
• Return from the dead because last will was not fulfilled. E236.4
• Ghost laid when vow is fulfilled. (Cf. E415.3.) E451.3
• Bonga house filled with snakes, tigers, and lions. F221.2
• When girl (princess) is born, earth is filled with light. F960.1.6
• Barrel filled miraculously with penitent's tears. F1051.1
• Garden filled with flowers on innocent girl's approach. H216.1
• King: What is your mother doing? Youth: She drives away the hungry and compels the filled to eat. (Drives away the hungry hens and stuffs the geese.) H583.4.4
• Task: carrying water in sieve; sieve filled with moss. H1023.2.0.1
• Task: emptying in one day a barn filled with manure. H1102.2
• Task: stealing gold-filled horn of wild three-horned ox. (Cf. H933.2.) H1151.7.1
• Task: crossing weed-filled stream. Hero spreads cloth on weeds and floats across. H1197
• Task: picking ruby out of a tray filled with identical rubies. H1198
• Test: going without fear through a wilderness filled with all manner of beasts. H1408
• Wisdom from books bought at great price. (Sibylline). Nine books first offered at certain price. Finally after this is refused and the owner throws six of them into the fire, the king pays the same price for three of them. Finds them filled with wisdom. J166.1
• Man refuses rich marriage with house filled with dangerous wild animals. J347.5
• Barber paid to change color of woman's face burns her with acid. He has fulfilled contract. J1161.6
• Error was in the honey. Trickster takes jar filled with earth but with honey on top as bribe to the judge. He takes the decision in writing. Cheat is discovered and judge sends message that an error has been made. Reply: the decision was right; the error is in the honey. (Cf. J1176.3.) J1192.2
• Small jug preferred. Man asks that large jug be filled with wine. Is told to go to the river. Is accommodated when he presents small jug. (Cf. L251.) J1317
• Priests say dying woman's unfulfilled request for mangoes must be paid in golden mangoes to them. Priests burned with iron since she had asked to be cauterized. J1511.18
• Overheard conversation: "Money hidden in wall (field)." Thieves take box filled with stone (or dig up field). J1517.2
• Woman exchanges a horse for a sack of bones. She has been falsely told that the sack is filled with gold. J2099.1
• Man who asks for good weather given a box full of hornets. He thinks that it is filled with the weather. J2327
• Guess what I have in my hand and I will give it to you to make egg-cake with. What does it look like? What outside and yellow inside. It is a hollowed turnip filled with carrots. J2712.1
• Jumping frog contest. Frog filled with shot. K17.4
• Sale of a sausage filled with blood. K141
• Trickster fills his gallon jug half full of water, then has it filled with rum at the store. When seller refuses credit, he pours back half gallon of the liquid – now half rum and half water. Sometimes trickster repeats operation, getting richer mixture with each transaction. K231.6.2.2
• Refusal to tell about the Rhine treasure, though condition demanded is fulfilled when the only one who knows where it is is killed. K239
• Payment of the egg-white. A man dreams of an egg hanging under his bed. An interpreter demands half of what he finds as his fee for interpreting the dream. The man finds that the egg is a silver cup filled with gold crowns. He gives the interpreter part of the cup but none of the gold. The interpreter says, "He gave me some of the egg-white but none of the yolk." K249.2
• House filled with smoke so that owner gives trickster lodging. K336
• Stealing the platter for the intended gift. Thief asks for silver platter saying that it is needed for an intended gift of confections. Servant carrying platter is told to wait until it is filled. Thief disappears with it. K362.3.1
• Reward for the bag of lead. A man sews up lead in a bag and feigns to have found it. A merchant claims it and thinking it filled with gold pays him a large reward. K476.2.2
• Wolf announces dawn prematurely to collect debt. The contract is to be fulfilled at daybreak. The wolf imitates the cock and crows, but is caught. K494
• Captor's bag filled with animals or objects while captives escape. K526
• Basket tied to wolf's tail and filled with stones. Wolf is persuaded that it is filled with fish. K1021.2
• Importunate lover beaten with canes filled with straw. He thinks he is severely wounded. K1218.8
• Opposing witnesses's pockets filled with dung. Discredited. K1291
• Wife shows husband her milk-filled breasts and squirts milk in his eyes allowing lover to escape unseen. K1516.9
• Unjust banker deceived into delivering deposits by making him expect even larger. In order to make the impression of honesty he delivers the one chest of money. The ten chests which he then receives are filled with stones. K1667
• Trickster makes believe he has found a purse (which he had filled with lead). Merchant claims it and pays ten crowns for it. Trickster wins ensuing suit. K1696
• Mock sunrise. Contract is to be fulfilled at dawn. Wolf makes fire as mock sunrise. Is caught. K1886.3
• Demon enters person and refuses to leave until wishes have been fulfilled. K2385
• Vow fulfilled in next existence. M107
• Bargain or promise to be fulfilled at all hazards. M202.0.1
• Promise to be fulfilled when iron shoes wear out. M202.1
• Prophecy of grief fulfilled by death of relative (friend, etc.). M340.1
• Prophecy: death by particular instrument. In spite of all precautions the prophecy is fulfilled. M341.2
• Prophecy of death fulfilled. M370.1
• Prophecy wittingly fulfilled by wazir that he will murder the raja, but unwittingly causes his own death twelve years hence. M370.1.1
• Child pronounces blessing according to which countries are to be filled with what they are later famous for. M393.1
• Parricide prophecy unwittingly fulfilled. N323
• Money (treasure) unwittingly given away. Unlucky man given a loaf which is filled with gold exchanges it for another loaf. N351
• Prophecy of future greatness fulfilled when hero returns home unknown. Parents serve him. N682
• Minister acts as stepping-stone in midst of flame-filled trench so that king can step across from one side to the other. P116
• Wolf cut open and filled with stones as punishment. Q426
• Prisoners put into pit filled with corpses in order to starve. Q465.2
• Punishment: throwing into water-filled lime pit. Q465.4
• Prison filled with snakes. (Cf. Q465.1.) R41.3.1
• Dead man gutted and filled with stones. S139.2.2.2
• Eyes torn out and filled with sand. S165.4
• Bridal chamber filled with coiled snakes. T172.1
• Negligent priests buried under bags filled with words omitted from service. V5.2
• Stolen sacred hosts put into coffin. Before death, a woman asks to put a bag into coffin. It is filled with hosts. (Cf. C55, D1031.1.1.) V35.2
• God under compulsion: suppliant threatens to mutilate (crush) holy image if his wish is not fulfilled. V123.1
• House of saint filled with fragrance. V222.4
• Tales filled with contradictions. Z19.2