34 motifs match “following”  ·  back to the chapters

• Tabus following childbirth. C154
• Food tabus following childbirth. C154.1
• Tabu: following three red men to certain place. C863
• Disenchantment by following enchanted woman through lake to underwater castle. D759.5
• Two friars perceive no passing of time from Shrovetide till following Easter while they talk of Christ. D2011.2
• Cure after following instructions received from saint in dream. D2161.4.0.1
• Student revives whole family following instructions given by demon. E181.2
• The unquiet grave. (Cf. D2151.1.2.3.) Dead unable to rest in peace. Aside from the references given in the numbers immediately following, see E200–E399 passim. E410
• Revenant with hat of birch. Note: in the motifs immediately following, it is frequently impossible to tell whether the spectral ghost (E421) or the living corpse (E422) is thought of. E422.4.1
• Skillful marksman throws rushes into a curtain. The first remains and each following one lodges in the one before and remains attached to it. F661.7.1
• Following witch's fire into her power. G451
• Identity tests. Recognition. Elaborate means are employed in folk-literature for the recognition of persons even though they have been separated a very short time. The various means used are detailed in the following discussion. H0
• Task: shepherd in God's service tending sheep and following where they go. On the way, he sees many wonderful things. (Cf. F171.0.1.) H1199.12.1
• Priest walks in the mud. Congregation follows evil ways of priest. He walks in mud but they will not follow him. He thus shows them the folly of following his evil ways. J82
• Palamides, having injured Ulysses, seeks advice from him. Following the advice proves fatal. J646.1
• Beware of following an interested adviser. J758
• Testimony gradually weakened. Witness agrees to the following facts in succession: that the person relating the facts may have been in anger, that he may have misunderstood, that he may not have heard it at all. J1151.3
• Robber innocent because he is merely following traditions of his ancestors. J1179.4
• Disastrous following of misunderstood instructions. (To burn land, then sow seed. Opposite done.) J2460.1
• Literal following of instructions about actions. J2461.1
• Literal following of instructions about greetings. Numskull gives wrong greeting and is told how to give the correct one. When he tries it, however, the conditions are wrong. J2461.2
• Foolish bride gives away dowry. While her parents are away from home, a matchmaker and a suitor come to the foolish girl. By following her mother's advice literally, she gives away her dower to the tricksters. J2463.1
• Disastrous following of instructions. J2465
• Literal following of the count. J2466
• Victim lured into following deer sent by demon to cave. Dies of suffocation. K714.7
• Innocent confessor duped into being go-between for adulteress and lover. By following suggestions in her false accusations to confessor the lover reaches her side. K1584
• Following luminous tree in the desert. K1886.1.1
• Vow to marry off two daughters to first two men father looks at on the following morning. M138.1
• Adventure from following animal to cave (lower world). N773
• Adventure from following ogre to cave. N773.1
• Son insists on following father's trade. This has been kept secret at request of dying father who was unsuccessful. Son learns from mother. P401
• Customs following wedding. T137
• Message of chastity: uncooked meat left behind. Man conducting a woman leaves uncooked meat behind each night of the journey as a sign to the husband following that she has not been touched. T386
• Man escapes from bear by running for a long time, from summer to winter. Bear chases man in July; he finally crosses a river on the ice. The bear falls in or stops following (in December). X1133.2