119 motifs match “hanged” — showing the first 100; narrow the words for the rest  ·  back to the chapters

• God of the hanged. A310.3
• Original moon changed into sun and sun into moon. A736.8
• Why God changed right hand into left. Man loses hand with which he gives devil a box on ears. A1311.2
• Death comes into the world by treachery of the gods: stick used by man for scratching his back is changed into cobra. A1335.14
• Bad women because of head exchanged with devil. Devil (serpent) and woman fight. St. Peter cuts off their heads and exchanges them. A1371.1
• Why men no longer know time of death. Custom changed when men began to repair fences with stalks when they knew they were to die the next day. A1593
• Foreigners heads exchanged with those of devils in fight. A1610.1.1
• Animals from transformed men according to favorite food. One man asks for flesh, one for blood, etc. They are changed to mice, cats, and bugs. (Cf. A1811, A1853.) A1715.4
• Animal characteristics changed by stretching. A2213.4
• How caribou got antlers. Exchanged his teeth for walrus's horns. (Cf. A2247.) A2326.1.2
• How ox got horns. Exchanged for horse's teeth. (Cf. A2247.) A2326.1.4
• Why partridge has pretty feet. Exchanged with peacock. (Also told of jay and flamingo.) (Cf. A2241.) A2375.2.1
• Woodcock's ugly voice. Exchanged with thrush. (Cf. A2245.1.) A2423.1.1
• Thrush's beautiful voice. Exchanged with woodcock. (Cf. A2423.1.1, A2245.1.) A2423.2.1
• 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
• Ring-dove's nest. Exchanged with gull. (Cf. A2247.) A2431.3.3
• Gull's nest. Exchanged with ringdove. (Cf. A2247.) A2431.3.4
• How tiger formerly cooked its food and why it changed. A2435.1.2
• Food of dog. (Cf. A2247, exchanged with cat.) A2435.3.1
• Food of cat. (Cf. A2247, exchanged with dog.) A2435.3.2
• Mandrake from blood of person hanged on gallows. (Cf. A2664.) A2611.5
• Tree on which Judas hanged himself cursed. A2721.5
• Dragon from transformed horse. White horse plunges into water and is changed into a dragon. B11.1.2
• Tabu: taking down corpse of hanged man. C541.5
• Transformation: material of object changed. D470
• Tin changed into silver. D475.3.2
• Oil changed to jewels. D475.4.9
• A cup of marble changed into one of crystal. D475.5
• Rock changed into milk. D476.1.7
• Stream changed to egg. D476.1.8
• Bone-powder changed into cheese. D476.1.10
• Edible substance changed to inedible. D476.2
• Cooked meat changed to raw. (Cf. D476.4.) D476.2.2
• Bacon changed to iron. D476.3.2
• Bacon changed to different foods. D476.3.2.1
• Wine miraculously changed into other object. D477.0.1
• Water changed to other substance (or vice versa). D478
• Transformation: water changed into oil. D478.7
• Water changed into balsam. D478.8
• Color of object changed. D492
• Color of hair suddenly changed. D492.3
• Size changed at will. D631
• Animal's size changed at will. D631.2
• Size of object changed at will. D631.3
• Partial transformation – color changed. D682.4
• Magic object exchanged for worthless. Foolish brother (wife) exchanges old object for new. D871.1
• Immortality exchanged. Wounded Centaur immortal but cannot be cured. He gives away his immortality to Prometheus and is thus allowed to die. D1853
• Immortality exchanged for death on alternate days. D1853.1
• Weather changed on confession of deed. D2140.3
• Curse magically changed to blessing. D2175.5
• Hanged man warns youth against visiting sweetheart. Takes youth's place and receives shot meant for him. E366.2
• Hanged man thirsty; demands water to drink. E422.0.1
• Ghost laid when house it haunts is destroyed or changed. E451.8
• Thirsty when hanged, corpse asks for water on Hallowe'en. E545.6.1
• Organs exchanged with those of animal. E789.1
• Changeling is sickly (often the fairy exchanged for a baby is an elderly, infirm member of the fairy clan whom the fairies are tired of caring for). F321.1.2.3
• Voice changed by work of silversmith (goldsmith). F556.2
• Voice changed by medicine. F556.3
• Demon's size changed at will. (Cf. D631.7.) G302.3.0.1
• Devil buys a woman's hair; the silver coin which he gives in payment is changed to a piece of wood and she dies. G303.25.13
• Devils arrange a wedding feast for a woman who hanged herself. G303.25.17.3
• Sword magically changed to wood when executioner is to decapitate innocent person. H215.1
• Gallows rope breaks when innocent person is hanged. H215.2
• Grass refuses to grow: indication of innocence of man hanged there. (Cf. E631.2, F974.) H215.3
• What does God do? He brings low the proud and exalts the lowly (said by shepherd masking as bishop to king, who has exchanged places with him). (Cf. H562.) H797.1
• One eye exchanged for wisdom. (Odin.) J163.3
• Fox about to be hanged asks to be allowed to see geese. (Cf. J2174.) J864.2
• Priest may eat communion supper. Thief about to be hanged is told that if he truly repents he will eat Lord's Supper in heaven. "If that is true, won't you eat the supper for me; I'll reward you well." J1261.2.3
• Against his will. A thief condemned to the gallows tells the king, "I do what you do and it is against my will." King: "You shall also be hanged against your will." J1285
• The cynic and the fig tree. Man tells friend that his wife has hanged herself on a fig tree. Friend: "Give me a shoot of that tree!" J1442.11
• The cynic's wish. When he learns that a woman has hanged herself from a tree he explains: "Would that all trees bore such fruit!" J1442.11.1
• Can drink only one kind of wine at a time. Priests come to an inn where host gives them good wine and bad. They insist on having all good since they must drink only one kind of wine. On their return he serves them with all bad. They claim to have had the rule changed. J1511.15
• Throw at a rich man. Philosopher gives a penny to a man who throws stones at him but advises him that it will be wiser to throw at one who can afford to give more. The advice is followed and the rascal is arrested and hanged. J1602
• Taking cold in effigy. A traitor is hanged in effigy naked. Later the citizens sue for peace and arrange a meeting. They find him in a hot room swathed with many blankets. He says that he has taken cold when the night wind blew on him as he hung naked from the gallows. J1628
• Did the calf eat the man? A fool, liking the shoes on the feet of a man hanged on a gallows, cuts off the swollen feet in order to carry off the shoes. In the room in which he sleeps that night is a newborn calf. The next morning the man takes the shoes but leaves the feet. Peasants agree that the calf has eaten the man all but the feet. They burn the house to destroy the calf. J1815
• His last request: a red cap. A man about to be hanged keeps asking for his red cap which he has left in prison. He has no thought of his real peril. J2174.1
• Wholesome food for the day of hanging. A man about to be hanged is very particular about his bread lest it impair his health. J2174.2
• "If you had hanged me you would have really been in trouble." (Similar to J2185.) J2185.1
• Husband made to believe that yarn has changed to tow through his carelessness. Thus his lazy wife is relieved from spinning. J2325
• Plowing contest won by deception: hare exchanged for horse. God and the devil contest in plowing. The devil plows with a horse, God with a hare. While the devil is asleep, God takes the devil's horse and plows the field. When he wakes, the devil thinks the hare has plowed so much and gladly trades his horse for the hare. K41.1
• Animals made by magic exchanged for real ones. The magic animals disappear. K139.1
• Devil cheated by pretended hanging. The man has promised himself to the devil in return for money. He stuffs his clothes with straw and hangs them up. The devil thinks the man has hanged himself and is satisfied. K215
• Color of devil's cows changed while he sleeps so that he does not know them. Only those not changed (all black, all red, etc.) belong to the devil. K483
• Uriah letter changed. Falsified order of execution. A messenger is sent with a letter ordering the recipient to kill the bearer. On the way the letter is changed so that the bearer is honored. K511
• Clothes changed so as to escape. K521.4
• Respite from death until clothes are changed. K551.4.1
• Man allowed to pick out tree to be hanged on. Cannot find one. K558
• Deception into allowing oneself to be hanged. ("Show me how!") Executioner must show the hero how to use the gallows. The hero hangs the executioner. K715
• Pursuer persuaded to take fugitive's place in supposed swing. Hanged. (Cf. K852.) K845
• Deceptive game: hanging each other. Dupe really hanged. K852
• Fatal deception: changed message from oracle. K981
• Substituted string causes ogre to be killed. Intended victim of cannibal is marked by thread around ankle. Changed in night to host. K1611.1
• Noose changed so that ogre's daughter is dragged to death. K1611.4
• Substituted letter. A letter is changed on the way to its destination so as to falsify the message. K1851
• Son of the king and of the smith exchanged. K1921.1
• Calumniated wife: substituted letter (falsified message). The letter announcing the birth of her children changed on the way to the king, so that the queen is falsely accused. (Cf. K2115, K2116.) K2117
• Matron of Ephesus. (Vidua.) A woman mourns night and day by her husband's grave. A knight guarding a hanged man is about to lose his life because of the corpse he has stolen from the gallows. The matron offers him her love and substitutes her husband's corpse on the gallows so that the knight can escape. K2213.1
• King shown he is less powerful than God. In spite of all his plans, his servant recovers the lost (exchanged) treasure. L418
• Devil at gallows repudiates his bargain with robber. Ring turns to rope. The judge cannot find a rope and is about to release the thief because of the miracle. But the ring in the box presented by the devil as a bribe turns out to be a rope. The man is hanged. M212.2
• Eyes exchanged for food. A starving man lets himself be blinded in return for food. M225