45 motifs match “fingers”  ·  back to the chapters

• Marvels concerning God's arm and fingers. A123.5.2
• Culture hero has seven pupils in each eye, seven toes on each foot, seven fingers on each hand. A526.5
• Animals from severed fingers of woman. (Cf. A2102.) A1724.1.1
• [First Edition: A2102. Fish from Woman's severed fingers. (Cf. A1724.1.)] A2102[1st ed.]
• Markings on cod-fish. From devil's fingers. A2412.4.3
• Transformation: stretching fingers to make ladder. D485
• Sound of wild hunt avoided by sticking fingers in ears. E501.17.5.8
• Ghostly fingers leave mark on person's body. E542.1
• Ghostly fingers leave mark on man's hand. E542.1.1
• Life token: rings will exchange places on girls' fingers. E761.7.14
• Water-spirit returns kidnapped man in return for release of his long hair. Victim's father has wound the hair around his fingers. F420.5.2.2.1
• Forest-spirits with wings and with backward-pointing fingers and toes. (Cf. F401.9, F451.2.2.1.) F441.4.4
• Jinns have no bones in their arms: they have only four fingers and no thumbs. F499.3.1
• Person with unusual fingers. F515.1
• Person's fingers not separated from one another. F515.1.1
• Armless people have legs growing from their shoulders. Use toes in place of fingers. F516.1.1
• Hands with unusual fingers. F552.1
• Hands with unusual number of fingers. F552.1.1
• Fingers of saint (angel) give light or fire. (Cf. F544.3.2.) F552.1.2
• Human fingers not separated. F552.1.4
• Youth crushes coins to powder with fingers. F614.12
• Man can lengthen swords by twirling them between his fingers. F679.2
• Fire drops from fingers of warrior whenever he wills it. F683.1.1
• Ladder of fingers (toes). F848.2
• Dew of blood from fingers of repentant woman. F962.4.2
• Biting fingers to see if one is dreaming. F1041.13
• Five devils created by Adam create other devils in the same manner. Adam has created five devils by wetting five fingers with dew and shaking them behind him; God had commanded him to wet one finger. (Cf. G303.1.4.1.) G303.1.5
• Troll lights fingers. G304.2.1.1
• Rakshasa. Dog or ape-shaped; red hair and eyes; mouth reaching from ear to ear; ears pointed like spears; shape-changers; cannibals; three heads, five feet, four eyes, no fingers, bear-neck, horns. Attack women. G369.1
• Ears, fingers and noses of demons cut off as proof of killing them. H105.5
• Thief detected by sieve and shears. Sieve put on open shears and then grasped by two fingers so as to balance. Charm recited. If sieve trembles when name is called, that person is guilty. H251.3.3
• Woman's question to her husband disguised as woman, how many men she had in one night. This is properly understood as, how many helpers he had, and answered by lifting ten fingers. H582.3
• Discussion between priest and Jew carried on by symbols. E.g., priest raises three fingers (Trinity); Jew raises arm (one God); etc. H607.1
• Clergy in no need of spectacles. Many do not pray at all, many know their prayers by heart, and the great prelates look through their fingers J1263.5
• Putting fear into him. A plaintiff insists that the judge shall put some fear into the defendant debtor. The judge puts his fingers over the eyes of the defendant and cries, "Boo! Now give him his money." J2492
• Deceptive contest in pulling fingers. The man has an iron finger. K74
• Eyes, ears, fingers of corpse substituted for those demanded of victim. K512.2.0.3
• Escape by making sheaths of bark for fingers: hero leaves without awakening nymph wives who make him sleep with fingers in mouth. K521.4.6
• Fortress captured as harper puts garrison to sleep with music while besiegers place fingers in ears. K776.1.1
• Friar adds missing nose (fingers) to unborn child: foetus is imperfect and he will substitute for absent husband. Is praised by the latter on his return. K1363.2
• Fingers as false token of wife's unfaithfulness. She has substituted a maid and the gallant has cut off the maid's finger. K2112.1.1
• Mutilation: cutting off fingers. S161.1
• Tempted man burns off his fingers. Frightens his temptress. T333.2
• Child nourished by sucking its own fingers. T611.1
• Sign language. Message delivered by means of the fingers, etc. Z175