45 motifs match “fishes”  ·  back to the chapters

• Angel of fishes. A445.0.1
• Flood from animals' boring into ground (turtles, crawfishes, etc.). A1016.1
• Sea makes extraordinary noise and throws out fishes at end of world. A1063.1
• Gold comes from gourd received from fishes. A1432.2.1
• Silver coins from pumpkin received from fishes. A1433.2.1
• Creation of particular fishes. A2110
• Bear fishes through ice with tail: hence lacks tail. (Cf. A2378.2.4.) A2216.1
• Pike helps Christ cross stream: made king of fishes. A2223.4
• Sea-beast: when it belches landward, it causes disease; upward it kills birds; downward, fishes and sea animals. B16.4.1.1.2
• Parent of all fishes. B60.1
• Mermaids are like fishes in the water, like men on land. B81.0.1
• King of fishes prophesies hero's birth. B144.1
• Kingdom of fishes. B223
• Parliament of fishes. (Cf. B236.2.) B233
• Council of fishes decide to get rid of men (who eat fish). B233.1
• Election of king of fishes. (Cf. B233, B243.) B236.2
• King of fishes. (Cf. B236.2.) B243
• Various fishes as king of fishes. B243.1
• Herring as king of fishes. B243.1.1
• Eel as king of fishes. B243.1.2
• Shark as king of fishes. B243.1.3
• King of various kinds of fishes. B243.2
• Magic meal of fishes. D1032.1
• Meal of fishes protects against demons. (D1032.1.) D1385.27
• Loaves and fishes, eaten at night, restored next morning through power of saint. D1652.1.10.1
• Giant fishes whales. F531.3.12.2
• Strong man bathing and diving in river catches thousands of fishes in his beard. (Cf. X1112.) F634.1
• Sea with fishes with bodies like men and sharp razor-like snouts. F711.6
• Man fishes up two blind women from a well. F1065
• Piercer-of-souls: fishes men. G322
• The sausage rain. (Or rain of figs, fishes, or milk.) A mother in order to discredit testimony of her foolish son who has killed a man makes him believe that it has rained sausages. When he says that he killed the man on the night it rained sausages his testimony is discredited. J1151.1.3
• Maid rebukes pilgrim for eating too much. "If both of us had been present at the miracle of the loaves and fishes you would have eaten me too!" Pilgrim: "I wouldn't have eaten you but I would have chewed on you a bit!" J1346
• Fishes to stop at his house. Fool directs them as he places them in stream. J1881.2.3
• How the fishes got there. Guests of host who waters his wine put little fishes into the wine jug. "Now I confess that I put water into the wine; otherwise the fishes could not be there." J2281
• Fish promised in return for bacon. Later: "Drink up the river, you shall then have fish. All the fishes there are mine." K231.11
• Guard (owner) sent to see a cat which fishes for her master. Goods stolen in his absence. K341.11.1
• Bird catches fishes by imitating voice of friend. K756.3
• King of fishes eats his subjects as they pay him their respects day and night. K815.17
• Trickster tells lies to fishes and causes them to fight. K1084.1
• Little fishes escape from the net. The large are caught. L331
• King descends to bottom of sea in glass barrel to study ways of fishes. P15.6
• Plenty of fishes as reward for rescue. Q53.2.1
• Punishment: small catch of fish for child-murderers. Fisherman and his wife have always caught three fishes. From greed they kill their child in order to have more fish for themselves. But they thereafter catch but two fishes. (Cf. Q211.4.) Q553.5
• Beasts and fishes exchange places: fatal to both. U136.2
• Fat man so unwieldly he fishes from his window in the street. X151.2