27 motifs match “hammer”  ·  back to the chapters

• Creator with hammer and chisel in hands. A18.5
• God with hammer. A137.1
• Hammer of thunder god. A157.7
• Heavenly smith is hammering on the moon. A744
• First poetry composed in imitation of tones of hammer on anvil. A1464.1.1
• Compressible hammer. (Cf. D1209.4.) D631.3.5
• Magic hammer (Mjölnir). D1095
• Magic hammer. D1209.4
• Hammer in coffin maker's shop makes noise to announce a death. (Cf. D1209.4.) D1322.1.1
• Magic hammer gives strength. (Cf. D1209.4.) D1335.13
• Magic hammer beats person. (Cf. D1209.4.) D1401.6
• Magic wishing-hammer. (Cf. D1209.4.) D1470.1.46
• Automatic hammer kills enemy. (Cf. D1209.4.) D1601.5.2
• Self-returning hammer. (Cf. D1209.4.) D1602.15
• Speaking hammer. (Cf. D1209.4.) D1610.14.3
• Knockers test entries and supports by tapping them with hammers. F456.1.2.2.3
• Persons whose heads are stone-hammers. F511.0.3
• Giant thinks hammer-blow on head is a nut falling. Man strikes with all his might. F531.5.4
• Strong man with giant hammer and shield. F612.3.2
• Strong man kills many with hammer. F628.2.6
• Diamond does not break when struck with sledge hammer; penetrates iron instead. F826.3
• Sick child from witchcraft is put on anvil; smith strikes violently but brings hammer down gently, three times. G271.9
• Dispute of hammer and anvil. J461.6
• As you surely will. After her husband's death a woman cannot find a hammer and anvil. She goes to a dying neighbor and says, "If you die, as you surely will, and go to Heaven, as you surely will not, ask my husband where he left the hammer and anvil." The dying man's wife replies, "If you go to Heaven, as you surely will, if you die as you surely will not, do not run around and get into trouble, but sit down by the Eternal Father and observe and keep still." J1481
• Thor is to give his hammer in return for Freyja as wife. He masks as a woman and kills the giant who is to receive the hammer. K235.2
• Message of death fatal to sender. (Gang nach dem Eisenhammer.) A man is sent by the king to burners of a kiln who have been instructed to throw the first arrival into the fire. The intended victim goes elsewhere and the king's son (or the man's accuser), who next arrives, is burned instead. K1612
• Worship of hammer (axe). V1.9.3