27 motifs match “formerly”  ·  back to the chapters

• Fire in hell. Christ created fire in hell from his blood; formerly hell was cold. A671.0.2.1
• Formerly seven suns. A720.1
• Formerly great heat of sun causes distress to mankind. A720.2
• Formerly seven moons. A759.5
• Cliffs become hard. Were formerly soft but become hard by God's order. (Cf. A975.) A968.1
• Formerly men plowed and cattle were their masters. A1101.2.1
• Formerly men ate grass: cattle ate rice and pulse. A1101.2.2
• Formerly men dumb: birds and animals talked. A1101.2.3
• Formerly men could go safely beneath the sea. A1101.2.4
• Change in bodily form at fall of man. Adam's body was formerly horn-like. (Cf. A1281.1.) A1310.1
• Formerly animals have ears like elephant's: hare bites them off. A2216.7
• Frogs formerly were ducks stolen from Eden by Cain. God changed them to frogs; and so frogs sound like ducks in the spring. (Cf. A2162.) A2426.4.1.1
• How tiger formerly cooked its food and why it changed. A2435.1.2
• Origin of straw. Formerly whole blade became grain. Straw left for dog. A2685.2
• Formerly animals and man spoke the same language. God took the power of speech from the animals because men refused to kill speaking beasts. B210.3
• Bear could formerly lift mountain. B746
• Knockers as ghosts of giants who formerly lived in area. F456.1.1.2
• Formerly I was daughter, now I am mother; I have a son who was the husband of my mother. (Girl has nursed her imprisoned father through a crack in the prison wall.) H807
• Shipwrecked shepherd distrusts the sea. He had formerly envied sailors. J11
• King has earthen vessels placed on table among the golden ones. He had formerly been a potter and prefers the vessels which he had made to the ones now molding him. J913
• How the tower was built. Fool gives three explanations: (1) It was formerly a deep well; dug up and set out; (2) it was built by a very tall man; (3) it was built flat on the ground and then set up. J2711
• Ogre terrified by woman's legs. He has formerly been caught in a vise. On his approach, the man's wife stands on her head and ogre thinks her legs are a vise. He flees. K1755
• Impoverished husband begs from wife's new husband. He has formerly refused this man charity. L432
• Impoverished husband begs from wife he has formerly expelled. L432.3
• Hero captured by man he has formerly rescued: rewarded. N763
• Monk unsuccessfully tempted by woman he formerly loved. T331.8
• Pious man charitable to man who has formerly refused him charity. V435