61 motifs match “follows”  ·  back to the chapters

• Sun sister and moon brother. Brother visits sister at night. She marks him to identify him. He flees and she follows with flaming brand. She is sun and he the moon. A736.1.1
• Cleric goes with saint whom his cow follows. B159.3
• Faithful dog follows master's dead body when cast into river. Supports body. B301.1.1
• Faithful horse follows dead master to grave. B301.4
• Faithful lion follows man who saved him. B301.8
• Helpful animal's injunctions disobeyed. Disaster follows. B341
• Injunction: to give sample of food to dog before eating. Misfortune follows failure to do so. C685
• Tabu: loosing bridle in selling man transformed to horse. Disenchantment follows. C837
• Spring follows saint to his country. D927.4
• Person follows magic receding well. (Cf. D926.) D1420.2
• Saint's flagstone follows him. D1641.2.1
• Resuscitation by arrangement of members. Parts of a dismembered corpse are brought together and resuscitation follows. (Sometimes combined with other methods.) E30
• Dead sweetheart in the form of a white rabbit follows seducer. E211.1
• Empty shoe follows wild hunt. E501.10.1
• Ghost light follows ghost. E530.1.1
• Ghost watches (follows) its own corpse. E599.3
• Hero shoots monster (or animal) and follows it into lower world. F102.1
• Boy follows nut into lower world. F102.4
• Dwarf follows countess around like a little dog. F451.5.8.1
• Devil follows corpse when a lawyer is buried. G303.25.8
• Devil follows corpse of a procurator. G303.25.8.1
• Attention drawn and recognition follows. H151
• Attention drawn by magic objects: recognition follows. H151.1
• Attention drawn by helpful animal's theft of food from wedding table; recognition follows. H151.2
• Attention attracted by hints dropped by heroine as menial: recognition follows. H151.5
• Heroine in menial disguise discovered in her beautiful clothes: recognition follows. H151.6
• Enchanted heroine seen temporarily disenchanted: recognition follows. H151.6.1
• Husband attracted by wife's power of healing: recognition follows. H151.8
• Abandoned child joins parents in game: recognition follows. H151.9
• Hero is served at table by his unknown son: recognition of his wife follows. H151.11
• King: Show me a ruby eight for a pice, nectar eight for a pice, and a faithless creature worth one-eighth of a pice. Minister: The lamp sells at eight for a pice and gives more light than any ruby; the water is the real nectar; and the dog is worthless and faithless lover because he follows anyone who feeds him. H587.1
• 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
• Wisdom from philosopher: worldly honor like shadow. If one goes toward it, it flees; if one turns his back on it, it follows and at times catches up with one. J152.6
• Cum grano salis. Instructions of mother followed literally by one daughter when she marries. All goes wrong. Second daughter follows them in conformity with her father's explanations and all is well. J555.1
• Ass follows after lion and is punished. Ass and cock are surprised by lion. Cock crows and scares lion, who runs. Ass thinks that he has scared lion and pursues. J952.2
• Dog follows lion. Flees at lion's roar. J952.3
• Miller, his son, and the ass: trying to please everyone. Miller blamed when he follows his son on foot; when he takes the son's place on the ass; when he takes the son behind him; and when he puts the son in front of him. J1041.2
• Detection of theft by finding bag-repairer. Two men are in a lawsuit and before witnesses seal the documents in a bag to await arrival of the king. One of the men cuts the bag open, changes the documents, and has a repairer sew it up again. On the king's arrival the change is discovered. By having a fine carpet repaired the expert repairer is discovered. Confession follows. J1141.5
• Hired men sing of displeasure with food; change song when food is improved (cante fable). The Westmoreland text follows: (Mowers sing this very slowly, mow in tempo)|Curds and whey, Iv-ve-ry day,|(After the food is improved they sing and work in tempo)|Ham and eggs, mind thy legs. (Cf. K1546.) J1341.11
• Sharing joy and sorrow. Man pledged to do so with his wife follows instructions literally. Beats her – a joy to him and a sorrow to her. J1541.1.1
• A wise man follows a fool against his better judgment. Both are put to death for their foolishness. J1714.1
• Dog follows washerwoman with bundle hoping for meat. J2066.6.1
• Foolish bridegroom follows instructions literally. J2462
• Wife follows written instructions. She is to follow instructions which the husband has written down on a card. He falls into a brook and is about to drown. She goes home to see what his instructions on this point are. J2516.3.1
• Thief guards his pursuer's horse while the latter follows a false trail. Steals the horse. K346.1
• Trail of stolen goods made to lead to dupe. The crane in revenge for the loss of her young ones strews pieces of fish from the dwelling of the mongoose to that of the snake. The mongoose follows the trail and kills the snake. K401.1.1
• Friar undertakes to awaken girl. He follows her mother's order according to his own interpretation. K1354.3.1
• "Big 'Fraid and Little 'Fraid." Man decides to frighten another (or his son or servant). He dresses in a sheet; his pet monkey puts on a sheet and follows him. The person who is doing the scaring hears the victim say, "Run Big Fraid, run; Little Fraid'll get you." The scarer sees the monkey in the sheet, runs home. (Cf. K1833.) K1682.1
• Poor girl chosen rather than the rich. Treasure follows. L213
• Saint uses kind words to pagan priest who has just smitten a Christian. This causes pagan to repent. Conversion follows. L350.2
• Friends in life and death. In pursuance of the pledge, the living follows the other to the world of the dead. M253
• Bad luck follows man who shoots stork. N250.1
• Bad luck banished and freed. The poor man in some way banishes his bad luck and becomes prosperous. Out of envy his rich brother sets it free; it then follows him. N250.4
• Tree follows murderer. N271.9
• Child follows bird and loses its mother. N313
• Hero attempting to escape from tiger plays music and tiger follows. People marvel and give him money and he is rewarded with princess's hand. N691.1.1
• Magic punishment: tongue protrudes from mouth of sinner and blindness follows. Q551.8.6
• Man buried alive with king escapes from the tomb. Follows noise made by sea animal and finds way out to sea. R212.1
• Pursuer follows successive night campfires (each brighter than last). R272
• King sees how male stork kills his unfaithful wife. Follows its example. T252.2.1
• Deaf persons: search for the lost animal. A inquires for his lost animal. B talks about his work and makes a gesture. – A follows the direction of the gesture and happens to find the animals. He returns and offers an injured animal to B in thanks. – B thinks that he is blamed for injuring the animals. Dispute. Taken to deaf judge. (Cf. X111.14.) X111.1