65 motifs match “hence”  ·  back to the chapters

• Moon cut in two by sun: hence waxes and wanes. A755.4
• Stars as children of sun eaten by their father. Hence no stars in the day. A764.1.1
• Earth originates from fish brought from bottom of sea. The fish is hacked with knives; hence, mountains. A811.1
• Goddess in anger breaks herself into five parts: hence, five branches of a river. A934.11.3
• Cloud on lofty male mountain induced by a beautiful female mountain to bow to her feet: hence their present shape. A969.2
• Spider carries large stone on head and drops it: hence spiders under stones. (Cf. A2433.5.3.) A2211.6
• Lizard swallows fish bone: hence head bobs up and down. (Cf. A2474.1.) A2211.9
• Frightened rabbit puts head in charred tree: hence black ears. (Cf. A2325.2.) A2212.1
• Ancient animal squeezed: hence small size. (Cf. A2302.) A2213.1
• Animal pressed: hence facial or bodily marks. (Cf. A2412.4.) A2213.2
• Tortoise pressed into earth: hence humpy back. (Cf. A2356.2.9.) A2213.2.2
• Baboon pressed on hot, flat rock: hence bald place on his back. (Cf. A2317.10.) A2213.2.3
• Mole struck on head in attempt to steal fire: hence his flat head. A2213.5.1
• Fish struck by coconut: hence flat tail. A2213.5.2
• Ant thrown from heaven: hence narrow waist. God decides dispute between ant and spider in spider's favor. (Cf. A2355.1.2.) A2214.2
• Unicorn thrown from ark and drowned: hence no longer exists. A2214.3
• Crab thrown to ground: breaks into small pieces. Hence crabs are small. A2214.4
• Tortoise dropped by eagle: hence cracks in his shell. (Cf. A2312.1.1.) A2214.5.1
• Bat falls from high perch due to extreme heat of sun's rays, breaks bones, etc. Hence peculiar feet and nose. A2214.6
• Stick (leaf) thrown at animal's rump: hence tails. (Cf. A2378.3.3.) A2215.1
• Bowl placed on turtle's back: hence his shell. (Cf. A2312.1.) A2215.3
• Red fruit thrown at rail's (bird's) head: hence red lump on head. (Cf. A2321.8.) A2215.4
• Fox struck with churn-dash: hence white tail. (Cf. A2378.8.1.) A2215.5
• God throws diver's feet after him; hence his feet reach backward. (Cf. A2371.2.9.) A2215.6
• Bear fishes through ice with tail: hence lacks tail. (Cf. A2378.2.4.) A2216.1
• Devil pulls off goats' tails: hence lack tails. (Cf. A2378.2.2.) A2216.2
• Moon splits hare's lip with hatchet: hence hare-lip. (Cf. A2211.2, A751.5.1, A2342.1.) A2216.3
• Bush-rat bites off tortoise's tail: hence tortoise's short tail. (Cf. A2378.4.4.) A2216.4
• God as falcon has tail cut off: hence falcon's short tail. A2216.6
• Chipmunk's back scratched: hence his stripes. As he is trying to escape, bear catches him with his claws and marks him permanently. (Cf. A2413.2.) A2217.2
• Raven caught in smoke-hole: hence is black. (Cf. A2411.2.1.5.) A2218.1
• Coyote burnt when hay is set afire: hence yellow patch behind his ears. A2218.4
• Eel burned by torch: hence red eyes. A2218.8
• Ox helps patriarch who in joy kisses him on the lips: hence no hair on ox's lips. A2221.5.1
• Loris refuse to look at sun who comes out when they are dancing: hence never looks at sun. A2231.13
• Griffin disdains to go on ark; drowned: hence extinct. A2232.4
• Ass betrays deity's secret: hence his ugly bray. A2239.3
• Boy borrows python's hands and feet: hence python lacks them. (Cf. A2371.3.1.) A2241.8
• Spider hands box to ant and refuses to take it back: hence ants carry huge loads. A2243.1
• Buffalo and cow exchange hides: hence bad fitting hides. (Cf. A2311.6.) A2247.1
• Jesus drives evil spirits into hogs: hence short snouts. (Cf. A2335.4.1.) A2287.1
• Jesus drives evil spirits into hogs: hence "toes" on back of foreleg. (Cf. A2371.2.2.) A2287.1.1
• Plantain disobeys mother: hence bears but one stalk. (Cf. A2771.2.) A2722.1
• Devil throws sand at aspen: hence rough bark. Angered because aspens will not cease quivering. (Cf. A2751.2.1.) A2734.1
• Devil throws tar at tree: hence tar in tree-heart. (Cf. A2755.3.) A2734.2
• Sky rests on top of trees: hence flat leaves. (Cf. A2761.3.) A2741.3
• Bush loses clothes in shipwreck: hence catches passerby looking for clothes. (Cf. A2792.1.) A2741.4
• Fuschia belongs to devil: hence ball and red petals. A2743.1
• Tiger guides lost man home; hence men do not eat tigers. B563.4.1.1
• Magic sword returned to lake whence it was received. Taken back by lake spirit. (Excalibur). (Cf. D813.1.1.) D878.1
• Giant comes to bake too soon; spills dough. Giant who has common oven with another thinks he hears companion in next valley scraping the kneading trough. He bakes his dough but finds he is too early and that he has only heard himself scratching. He spills the dough: hence fruitful soil. (Cf. F451.7.2, F455.3.5.) F531.3.7
• Women learn witchcraft by masking as men. Hence women are witches. G286.1
• Rocks falling together and thread entering needle's eye suggest sexual intercourse: hence its beginning. J86
• Man criticizes the devil because his deeds are not fair. Devil says that they are strong nevertheless. Hence strong speakers rather than clever are to be preferred. J246.1
• Culture hero throws coconuts to various islands, but forgets one he stands on: hence none now on that island. J2031.3
• Logically absurd defenses. Thief brought to judgment for breaking into house blames mason for building poor house. Mason blames maker of mortar, who blames potter, who blames pretty woman who diverted his attention. She blames goldsmith who caused her to go for her earrings. Goldsmith has no one to blame but he is too old to make a good execution. Hence a shopkeeper across the way is convicted. J2233
• Devil loses his grain and gets thistles. God grants the devil one grain crop, which he can create by calling its name. The devil is tricked into forgetting the name and calling "Thistles". Hence his crop is of thistles. K249.1
• Weasel induces cuckoo to tell him that it cries at night when asleep. Hence weasels can kill cuckoos. K815.10
• Holding up the roof. Fox pretends to be holding up the roof; hence cannot help the bear, who must do the threshing alone. K1251.1
• Adventurer on otherworld island sees great hornless oxen guarded by giant: tries to frighten them. "Why dost thou frighten the stilly calves?" says the huge herdsman. "Where are the dams of these calves?" asks the adventurer. "They are on the other side of yonder mountain," said he. So he went thence. K1784.2
• Prophecy wittingly fulfilled by wazir that he will murder the raja, but unwittingly causes his own death twelve years hence. M370.1.1
• Wager: woman to turn somersault in middle of public square. It is performed not exactly in the center of the square; hence she loses. N56
• Punishment: transformation of lovers into lion and lioness for desecrating temple. They have had sexual relations in the temple. It was believed that lions do not mate with each other; hence their sin could not be repeated. Q551.3.1
• The bad custom in the world: the young die as well as the old. Hence youth enters monastery. U251
• Stones turn to gold for charitable money-lender. Hence money borrowed for wedding is never refused by lenders. V411.4