37 motifs match “getting”  ·  back to the chapters

• Forgetting leashes of hounds as bad omen. D1812.5.1.21
• Forgetting by stumbling. A name or formula is magically forgotten when one stumbles (or jumps). D2004.5
• Forgetting by stepping over log. D2004.5.1
• Magic forgetting of wife when husband removes shirt she has given him. D2004.6
• Forgetting Charon's fee. Philosopher forgets to put coin in mouth before death (Charon's fee). Charon: "Don't you know the custom?" Answer: "Yes, but I couldn't put off dying for a quarter!" E489.3
• Wild hunt avoided by getting out of its course. E501.17.5.2
• Precautions taken with corpse before burial to prevent evil spirits from getting, using body. (Cf. E431.) E752.10
• Getting rid of fairies. F381
• Spirit (demon) baffled by scolding and getting last word. F405.4
• Dwarf prevented from getting into his stone before sunrise till he promises to do what hero demands (especially forge weapons). (Cf. D451.3.4.2, D451.4.1.12, F451.5.2.13.) F451.3.2.1.1
• Old man says his arm is getting thin – indicates desire for human flesh. G95
• Witch stretches out her hand and brings water from ocean without getting out of her bed; is recognized. G259.5
• Devil wooes woman; she discovers identity in time to escape with aid of minister who swallows candle after getting devil to promise she could live as long as the candle lasted. (Cf. K551.9.) G303.12.5.4
• Explanation of phenomenon: large pond emptying itself into several smaller pools (man may spend without getting any return). H614.2
• Task: getting fruit from top of tall tree without cutting tree. (Cuts roots of tree.) H1038
• Task: getting ring from python's hole (help from python goddess). H1132.3.1
• Test of curiosity: the clock. A man is promised a beautiful clock if he can mind his own business for a whole year. He does. The giver tells him he is the second man who almost made sure of getting the clock. The man asks how the other missed getting it; he loses the clock himself. H1554.2
• Man retains questionable bride for fear of getting one who is worse. J229.9
• Host wants to learn Hebrew even at risk of forgetting his own language. J344.2
• Softening bread-crusts. An avaricious master feeds bread-crusts to his servants. "The crusts are already getting soft." J1341.1
• Directions for getting pay given in return for directions for healing. J1551.4
• Getting rid of the cat. In a land in which cats are not known, one is bought at a great price. It eats many mice. By misunderstanding, they think the cat is a monster. In order to get rid of it they set the house on fire. J2101
• Getting the calf's head out of the pot. A calf gets its head caught in a pot. A fool cuts off the calf's head and then breaks the pot to get it out. J2113
• Getting all the eggs at once. A peasant kills his hen so that he can immediately get all the eggs she will lay during the next year. J2129.3
• Getting a sword to lift the cheese. A numskull sees a cheese by the side of the road and tries to lift it up with his sword, but the sword is too short. He leaves the cheese and goes away to borrow a longer sword. Meantime someone else takes the cheese. J2173.2
• Getting a box on the ears. The man, advised to cure his wife with a box on the ears, goes to the pharmacy and gets one. He cures his wife. J2494
• Trickster fills his gallon jug half full of water, then has it filled with rum at the store. When seller refuses credit, he pours back half gallon of the liquid – now half rum and half water. Sometimes trickster repeats operation, getting richer mixture with each transaction. K231.6.2.2
• Devil loses his grain and gets thistles. God grants the devil one grain crop, which he can create by calling its name. The devil is tricked into forgetting the name and calling "Thistles". Hence his crop is of thistles. K249.1
• Monk entrusted with care of getting husband for girl, takes dowry himself. K361.4
• Getting honey from the wasp-nest. The dupe is stung. K1023
• Shammed discussing of peace while getting reinforcements. K2369.7
• Man dreams of large jars full of wealth, which he can get if he will sacrifice his wife for the getting. N531.5
• One third of kingdom and the king's daughter as reward for getting victory-stone during the night. Q112.0.4
• Getting advice from a woman in bed. T453
• Dwarf king (fairy) laughs at the absurdities he sees about him. (1) Sees man who is to die that day complain that his shoes are too thin. (Cf. J2174.) (2) Sees women adorn their heads when they are immoral below. (Cf. J2050.) (3) Sees man remove from his wife's garment dust gathered while she lay with another man. (Cf. J2301.3.) (4) Sees persons making plans while forgetting to say, "If God wills." U15.0.1
• Oil well digger runs out of money, leaves the country, forgetting to tell his driller. He returns fifty years later, finds the driller still drilling away. W37.1
• Lie: man uses remarkable means of getting out of tree stump. X1133.1