78 motifs match “hanging”  ·  back to the chapters

• Size-changing god. A120.2
• Tree hanging from sky. A tree hangs upside down in the sky. By its branches men pass back and forth to the upper world. A652.2
• Sky immortal, changing skin like a snake. A702.9
• Animal languages learned by exchanging tongues with helpful dragon. B217.6
• Cow with changing colors. Changes every four hours: white, red, black. B731.4
• Bird with changing color. B731.13
• Tabu: changing ritual. C65
• Transformation by changing clothes. D537
• Magic object acquired by exchanging letters. (Cf. K511). D836
• Rejuvenation by changing skin. D1889.6
• Tree with all sorts of cakes hanging from its branches springs from one cake. D2106.3
• Dogs with eyes hanging out over mouth in wild hunt. E501.4.1.4
• Iron chain hanging from heaven. F51.1.6
• Tower hanging in the air in the otherworld. (Cf. H1036.) F163.7.1
• Giant (giantess) with lips hanging down on the breast. F531.1.4.2
• Old man with hanging eyelids. So old that the eyelids hang down to his chin and must be lifted up. F571.1
• Trees with green birds hanging by claws. F811.9
• Sitting (hanging) on a sunbeam. F1011.2
• Exchanging things with the devil. The cheat appears later. G303.9.9.10
• Ogre deceived into hanging himself. G524.1
• Act of truth: island sinks into sea, after hanging of man who has appealed to God to cause the phenomenon as indication of his innocence. (Cf. F948.) H252.5
• Task: changing the course of time. H1026
• Hanging test. Unavailing attempt to kill hero by hanging. H1533
• Litter of puppies tested by throwing them one by one at hanging hide of wild beast, and keeping the one that grips hide. Puppy grows up to be great hunting dog. H1588.1
• Wisdom acquired by hanging in a tree. J162
• Dissuasion from suicide. Man dissuades simpleton from hanging himself by telling him that hell is a place of pain and torments. J628
• The double fool. A numskull caught changing meal from others' sacks into his own. Miller asks him what he is doing. "I am a fool." "Why then don't you put your meal into their sacks?" "I am only a simple fool. If I did that I should be a double fool." J1393
• Compliments from the hangman. A man complimented a hangman on the good job he had done in hanging a thief. The hangman takes off his hat: "One thief I hang, to the other I take off my hat." J1398
• Overheard conversation: "My money is hanging in the tree." Thieves stung by hornets. J1517.3
• 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
• Having the head dressed before hanging. A man who has hurt his head in trying to hang himself has the head dressed by a doctor and then goes and hangs himself. J2174.3
• God cheats devil at mowing. God mows with a chisel, the devil with a scythe. God deceives devil into changing scythe for chisel. K42.2.1
• 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
• Payment of the egg-white. A man dreams of an egg hanging under his bed. An interpreter demands half of what he finds as his fee for interpreting the dream. The man finds that the egg is a silver cup filled with gold crowns. He gives the interpreter part of the cup but none of the gold. The interpreter says, "He gave me some of the egg-white but none of the yolk." K249.2
• Thieves disguised as interior decorators. Steal hangings in palace. K311.7
• Thief distracts attention by apparently hanging (stabbing) himself. K341.3
• Trickster dupes rival by exchanging beds: receives his food. Overhears maiden tell rival she will bring food at night, waits until rival is asleep and carries him to another bed, takes his place, and is fed by maiden. K499.8
• Escape by shammed hanging. K522.8
• Jackal in tiger's house has permission to sit with tail hanging down between bamboo stems. Enlarges gap thus made and escapes. K563.1
• Deceptive game: hanging each other. Dupe really hanged. K852
• Vergil in the basket. A lover who is to be pulled up to his mistress's window is left hanging in the basket in the public gaze. K1211
• Husband in hanging tub to escape coming flood. The priest who has thus duped the husband enjoys the wife. K1522
• Taking king's place by changing dresses. K1810.1.3
• Disguise by changing bodily appearance. K1821
• Disguise by changing name. K1831.0.1
• Disguise by changing voice. K1832
• Prophecy: death by hanging. M341.2.23
• Release from curse by pricking louse and hanging it on wall. M429.5
• Changing of luck or fate. N130
• Acts performed for changing luck. N131
• Luck changing after cohabitation. N131.1
• Luck changing after change of name. N131.4
• Luck changing after change of place. N131.5
• Hanging in game or jest accidentally proves fatal. N334.2
• Flower-friendship. Friends take oath of brotherhood by exchanging flowers. P311.2
• Hanging as punishment for stealing from a church. Q411.11.2
• Punishment: hanging. Q413
• Threat of hanging. Q413.0.1
• Hanging as punishment for theft. (Cf. Q212.) Q413.1
• Hanging as punishment for adultery. (Cf. Q241.) Q413.2
• Hanging as punishment for imposture. (Cf. Q262.) Q413.3
• Hanging as punishment for murder. (Cf. Q211.) Q413.4
• Hanging as punishment for impudence. (Cf. Q326.) Q413.5
• Impudent suitor or his messenger hanged or threatened with hanging. Q413.5.1
• Hanging as punishment for denying pagan gods. (Cf. Q225.2.) Q413.6
• Hanging as punishment for silence about hidden treasure. Q413.7
• Hanging as punishment for treachery. (Cf. Q261.) Q413.8
• Hanging by one foot as punishment for treachery. Q413.8.1
• Hanging by tongue as punishment. Q451.4.9
• Punishment by hanging up by the feet. Q462.2
• Penance: hanging for a thousand years head downward over a fire of chaff. Q522.6
• Murder by hanging. S113.1
• Slaves killed by hanging. S113.1.1
• At a hanging the witnesses are bigger thieves than the culprit. (Cf. U10.) U119.1.2
• Usurer's ingratitude toward servant. Dismisses him and charges him for a rope which he had cut while saving the usurer from hanging. W154.1.1
• Blind man reaches his home hanging on ox's tail (or in other ridiculous situation). X123.1
• The nailed wolf's tail. Wolf's tail nailed to tree. Wolf runs away and leaves his skin hanging. X1132.1
• Lie: Rome hanging by thread. X1561