60 motifs match “hoots”  ·  back to the chapters

• Four suns at first: culture hero shoots three down. A716.1
• Slave shoots arrow into leg of sun's horse. A732.2.1
• Why owl hoots at night. (Cf. A2426.2.17.) A2427.3
• Snake shoots rapids of mighty river. B748
• Transformation: stretching tree. A tree magically shoots upward. D482.1
• Transformation: stretching cliff. A cliff magically shoots up into the air. D482.4
• Disenchantment at midnight after owl hoots three times. D791.1.8
• Magic shield shoots balls of fire among enemies. (Cf. D1101.1.) D1402.0.1.1
• Coconut shoots restore sight. D1505.18.1
• Magic arrow flight. Man keeps ahead of arrow which he shoots. (Cf. D1092.) D1526.1
• Magic tree shoots forth leaf, flower, and fruit at once. (Cf. D950.) D1667.1
• Magician shoots an arrow of each finger against enemy. D2091.14
• Ascent to upper world on arrow chain. Hero shoots arrows which join one another in the air to form a chain. F53
• Hero shoots monster (or animal) and follows it into lower world. F102.1
• Man shoots into wreath of mist and brings down fairy. She becomes his wife. F302.4.1
• Strong man shoots arrow as far as otherworld. F638.4
• Skillful marksman shoots meat from giant's hands. F661.1
• Skillful marksman shoots pipe from man's mouth. F661.2
• Skillful marksman shoots apple from man's head. Tell. F661.3
• Skillful marksman shoots spear through nose-ring. F661.3.1
• Skillful marksman shoots eggs scattered over table. F661.4
• Archer shoots eggs through middle. F661.4.1
• Archer shoots and marks egg in nest without breaking it or disturbing other eggs. F661.4.2
• Skillful marksman shoots animal (man) through eye. F661.5
• Skillful marksman shoots serpent through left eye. F661.5.1
• Skillful marksman shoots bird through eye. F661.5.2
• Skillful marksman shoots left eye of fly at two miles. F661.5.3
• Skillful marksman shoots both eyes of an ogre. F661.5.4
• Skillful bowman shoots crater of Vesuvius open. F661.6
• Husband shoots arrows, barely missing wife's ears. F661.9.1
• Man shoots pearls from wife's nose-ring. F661.10
• Hero shoots arrow and cuts thread. F661.12
• Well shoots up high as pillars, and discharges itself into navigable streams. (Cf. D926.) F718.11
• Tiny bow shoots through muskox hide. F836.4
• Man shoots the devil with a silver gun. G303.25.7
• Youth shoots raven and takes feather to raven's sister as token. H78.1
• Owl thinks echoes of his hoots are sounds of praise. J953.16
• Aaron's censer. A man strikes a priest with a cane: "This is Moses' staff." The priest shoots with a pistol: "This is Aaron's holy censer." J1446
• Hunter mistakes louse on his eyelash for game. He shoots several times before he notices the trouble. J1759.2
• Person in haunted house shoots off all his toes thinking they are ghosts. (Cf. J1838.) J1782.8
• Numskull shoots grasshopper which lighted on the shoulder of his friend and kills friend. J1833.1
• Man flogs his shot. On a rainy day when shot will not go a man flogs the shot. It goes and he shoots a deer. J1864
• Cowboy shoots his wife when she breaks her leg (or is injured in another way). J1919.9
• Would have shot himself. Fool shoots full of holes a garment left out at night to dry. "It is a good thing I did not have it on or I would have shot myself." J2235
• Race won by deception: bow and arrow. Certain goal to be touched. Man shoots arrow and wins. K11.8
• Shooting test won by deception: proof of good sight. A man puts a dead hare under a tree and shows it to his dog. He tells people to look at the hare under the tree. At the distance no one can see it. He tells them that he will shoot it. He shoots and has his dog bring the hare. K31.2
• Thief as umpire in contest. Three men are quarreling over the possession of a rescued girl. The umpire will give her to the one who soonest returns with the arrow he shoots. While they run, he takes the girl. K342
• Ring to put on corpse's finger. A thief holds a corpse up to a lord's window. The lord shoots the corpse and leaves to bury it. The thief goes to the lady and gets a sheet to bury the corpse in and a ring to put on his finger. K362.2
• Robber cheated by substitution. Spending the night in company with a suspicious-looking stranger, the man does not go to sleep, but leaves his clothes in bed and waits to see what will happen. When the stranger wakes up in the night, he stabs at his sleeping companion, who shoots him down. (Cf. K525.1.) K437.1
• Bending the tree. Hero bends tree over but when he catches breath the tree shoots him to the sky. K1112
• Abandonment on stretching tree. A man is induced to get into a tree which magically shoots upward. K1113
• A man in place of a cuckoo. A cruel master commands his serf to climb a tree and imitate the cry of the cuckoo; he shoots the "cuckoo." K1691.1
• Bad luck follows man who shoots stork. N250.1
• Persons fall asleep on rock, which magically shoots upward. N314
• Each likes his own children best. Snipe asks sportsman to spare its small ones, easily recognized as being the prettiest in the forest. To be on the safe side he shoots only the ugliest he can find. They are the young snipes. (Often told of the ape.) T681
• Hunter shoots ram-rod full of ducks. X1111
• Lie: hunter shoots projectile great distance. X1122.1
• Lie: person shoots many animals with one shot. X1122.2
• Shooting off the leader's tail. An old blind bear is being led by a young bear, whose tail the old bear has in his mouth. The hunter shoots off the young bear's tail and seizes it. Thus leads the old bear home. X1124.1
• Lizard eats cricket, frog eats lizard, snake eats frog, eagle eats snake, man shoots eagle; animals escape except lizard. Man takes eagle home. Z49.10