26 motifs match “happens”  ·  back to the chapters

• Magic jewel carried off by bird. This happens when the jewel is examined by daylight. (Cf. D861.7.) D865
• Magic sight of incident before it actually happens. D1825.7
• Apparently dead persons revived when certain thing happens. Proper prince appears, or the like. E68
• Ghost finds rest when certain thing happens. E451
• Life bound up with external event. Death to come when certain thing happens. E765.4
• Man taken to upper world sees all that happens on earth. F10.2
• "Nothing happens that does not work for one's good": counsel proved wise is experience. J21.52.8
• Intemperance in charity. A waste of time to make a bed for a dog who lies down wherever he happens to be tired. Likewise a waste of time to help unappreciative people. J562
• The tailor's dream. A tailor dreams that at Judgment Day he sees a flag made up of all the pieces of cloth he has stolen Upon waking he asks his servants to warn him if they ever see him tempted to steal again. This happens. He replies, "The piece I am about to steal does not fit into the flag." J1401
• Unjust oath countered by another. A woman entrusts three coins to a headsman. He denies her claim which she fails to substantiate in ordeal. She now claims more and happens to succeed with ordeal. J1521.4
• The hare at third remove. A man receives a present of a hare. Later a crowd comes to him for entertainment saying that they are friends of the man who presented the hare. This happens a second time. He serves them clear water. "It is the soup from the soup of the hare." J1551.6
• Useless trip to find a name the wife already knew. Fool goes to astrologer for child's name, but forgets it on way home. Later wife happens to use the word and reminds him. But he cannot see the use of the trip when she already knew this word. J2241.1
• Numskull is told that he is to die when his horse breaks wind three times. When this happens he lies down for dead. J2311.1
• Quarreling prince and princess vow that if they are married he will desert her on the wedding day and she will make him eat boiled rice and thin broth for six months. It so happens. M149.4
• Prophecy: three-fold death. Child to die from hunger, fire, and water. It so happens. M341.2.4
• Prophecy: girl shall have a hundred lovers, shall marry her servant and die from spider's bite. This happens. M345.1
• Prophecy: king will have head pounded by strange queen. Due to peculiar set of circumstances this happens. M369.9
• Wish for exalted husband realized. Girls make wish that they may marry king (prince, etc.). It so happens. N201
• Stupid man grabs tiger in the dark, ties it up, and saddles it, believing it to be a horse. It happens to be the tiger for whose capture a reward has been offered. N691.1.2
• Boy while cutting trees comes to one which happens to be bound up with the life of an ogre. Ogre bribes him with large fortune not to cut tree. N699.5
• Bed-partner to receive payment from first man she meets in the morning. It so happens: she marries the man and he makes her wealthy. T456
• Minister always says, "It is for the best," when anything happens. W25.2
• Accidental cannibalism. A man eats up the dried meat of a Jew on shipboard. It happens that the Jew is carrying his dead father back home for burial in this form. (Cf. G60.) X21
• Deaf persons: search for the lost animal. A inquires for his lost animal. B talks about his work and makes a gesture. – A follows the direction of the gesture and happens to find the animals. He returns and offers an injured animal to B in thanks. – B thinks that he is blamed for injuring the animals. Dispute. Taken to deaf judge. (Cf. X111.14.) X111.1
• Brahmin worships idol and sets sacrifices before it daily. Rat devours offerings and he sets it up as his idol as a being more powerful than his idol. When cat devours rat, he worships it instead. His wife accidentally kills the cat, so he sets her up to worship. He happens to slap her and she loses consciousness. Thereafter he worships himself as most powerful after all. Z42.3
• Toad asks magpie in tree to throw down a chestnut. Magpie refuses, saying it might break its beak. Toad promises, if that happens, to get a horsehair to tie it up again. Magpie throws chestnut and breaks beak. Toad asks ass for hair, but ass first demands grass; mower demands sheep; shepherd, pup; mother dog, bread; baker, stumps. Toad cuts the stumps and gets the hair. Z43.1