63 motifs match “hearing”  ·  back to the chapters

• Animal characteristics: voice and hearing. A2420
• Animal's hearing. A2428
• How animal lost hearing. A2428.1
• Remedy learned from overhearing animal meeting. The hero learns how to cure his own blindness and the sickness of the king (princess). B513
• Tabu: hearing or listening. C885
• Magic object affects hearing. D1332
• Spittle restores hearing. (Cf. D1001.) D1506.1
• Dying peasant summons greedy bishop for heavenly funeral; the bishop dies hearing the message. D1715.2
• Hearing thunder on setting forth a good omen. D1812.5.2.3
• Hearing bird cry a good omen. D1812.5.2.5
• Hearing cuckoo call a good omen. D1812.5.2.5.1
• Hearing heron's cry a good omen. D1812.5.2.5.2
• Magic sight and hearing. (Cf. D1331.) D1820
• Magic hearing. D1827
• Magic hearing of noises which portend death. (Cf. D1812.) D1827.1
• Magic power of hearing. D1922
• Magic insanity caused by hearing strange sound. D2065.2.1
• Sorrowing father magically restored as lost son approaches. He had lost strength, sight and hearing when son left home. D2161.4.10.4
• Saved soul leaps from body on hearing heavenly music. (Cf. E754.) E722.2.5
• River in paradise with terrible roar. Robs people of hearing. F162.2.8
• Person of remarkable hearing. (Cf. X936.) F641
• Marvelous sensitiveness: fracture from hearing man chopping wood. F647.8.1
• Marvelous sensitiveness: stitch in side from being told about hearing a man chopping wood. F647.8.1.1
• Whole epic remembered from one hearing. F692.1
• Miraculous cure for leprosy. Rage at hearing for first time of Christ's passion causes cure. (Cf. F950.3.) F955
• Woman dies on hearing of her husband's death. F1041.1.2.2
• Woman swoons and is near death at hearing of husband's or lover's death. F1041.1.2.2.1
• Death from hearing of wife's death. F1041.1.2.2.3
• Death from hearing of son's (sons') death. F1041.1.2.2.4
• Madness from hearing prophetic voice from air. F1041.8.8
• Madness (rage) from hearing about brother's death. F1041.8.10
• Man cries at hearing of friend's death. F1041.21.4
• Man senseless from grief at hearing of father's death; one doesn't feel that he cuts himself with his knife, the other presses dice so that he bleeds. F1041.21.5
• Task: shearing flock of sheep in one day. H1106
• Recognition of good health by hearing voice. H1582.1
• Priest preaches about bishop's amour. Bishop has fined priest for incontinence. Priest hides and witnesses amorous intrigue between bishop and abbess, hearing bishop refer to the abbess's charms in biblical similes. Priest incorporates overheard references in his introduction to the Mass and is asked for an explanation. Bishop returns his fine. J1211.1.1
• Weaver hearing of tax for every doorway of weavers takes his door to the khan: will not return for the sidewalls of his house. J1289.13
• The account-book of mistakes. A king, hearing that a man keeps an account-book of people's mistakes asks to see about his own record. He reads that the king has made a mistake in trusting a certain sum of money to a servant. King: "How if he comes back with it?" "I shall cross off your name and put him down for making a mistake." J1371
• The cynic discusses heaven. Hearing a man discoursing at great length about heaven, he asks, "When did you come down from there?" J1442.8
• The king no priest's son. A pope in writing to a king says, "To our dear son Frederick." Upon hearing this the fool cries out, "That is a lie; he is no priest's son. I knew his father and mother and they were both honest people." J1827
• Ass brays on hearing a conch shell. Owner thinks he must have been a saint in a former life. J2211.4
• Oil is cheap (or spilling oil is good luck). Man hearing this breaks oil vessels. J2214.7
• Plenty of holy water. A fool hearing of the effectiveness of holy water for the forgiveness of sins pours the whole supply over himself. J2513
• Contest in hearing. K86
• Deceptive division of animals for shearing. The trickster shears the sheep; the dupe the pig. K171.5
• Robber persuaded to climb down moonbeam. A man hearing a robber enter tells his wife aloud that he always makes a prayer and then enters the house by climbing down a moonbeam. The thief tries it and falls. K1054
• Wife surprised in adultery feigns death. Comes "back to life" on hearing husband say he has seen nothing. (Cf. K1538.) K1549.2
• Tiger frightened at hearing unknown wind. K1727
• Ugly women complain of falling flowers. King hearing them supposes them delicate and beautiful. K1984.4
• Vow not to eat before hearing of adventure. M151
• Blind promise (rash boon). Person grants wish before hearing it. M223
• Servant overhearing conversation realizes the misery of his employment. N455.11
• Criminal accidentally detected: "That is the first" – sleepy woman counting her yawns. Robber hearing her flees. (Cf. N612.) N611.2
• Old woman gives her only cow believing she would receive a hundred in return from God. A bishop hearing of her faith sends her a hundred cows. Q21.1
• Reward: hearing voice of God. Q144
• Whale-boat. A man is carried across the water on a whale (fish). (He usually deceives the whale as to the nearness of the land or as to hearing thunder. As a consequence the whale runs into the shore or is killed by lightning.) R245
• Woman dies on hearing of lover's or husband's death. (Cf. T211.9.1.) T81.7
• Christ, not having married, knew nothing about suffering. So thinks the man after hearing all about Christ's torments. T251.0.2
• The obstinate wife: cutting with knife or scissors. At the end of the argument the man throws his wife into the water. As she sinks she makes with her finger the motion of shearing with the scissors. T255.1
• Hearing masses causes triumph in tournament. Angel takes absent knight's place. He is delayed by going to mass. V41.2
• Charity rewarded above prayer or hearing of masses. V410.1
• Two persons believe each other deaf. A trickster tells each of two persons before they meet that the other is hard of hearing and must be shouted at. A great shouting takes place, and each thinks the other out of his wits. X111.3
• Lie: person with remarkable hearing. (Cf. F641.) X936