50 motifs match “horse's”  ·  back to the chapters

• Springs originate from horse's hoof-prints. (Cf. A901.) A941.1
• How ox got horns. Exchanged for horse's teeth. (Cf. A2247.) A2326.1.4
• Why horse's penis is long. A2365.2.1.1
• Man with horse's mouth. B21.3
• Straw on horse's back restrains him. (Cf. D1276.) D1442.2
• King asleep in mountain will awake when his horse's shoes are worn down. Every seven years the horse goes around the castle. He must wear his half-inch silver shoes to thinness of cat's ear before the king awakes. D1960.2.1
• Sounds of driving cattle: horse's hoofs, whip-popping, calling to cattle, rattle of spurs: ghost of slain cowboy. E337.1.4
• Revenant as man with horse's head. E425.2.2
• Soul as black or white spirit over coffin. Black if condemned. Can be seen by peeping between horse's ears. E722.1.1
• Horse's leg cut off and replaced. E782.4
• Person with horse's head. F511.0.9.1
• Person with ass's (horse's) ears. Midas. F511.2.2
• Person with horse's hoofs. F517.1.6
• Thumbling drives wagon by sitting in horse's ear. F535.1.1.1
• Person with horse's foot. F551.1.2
• Horse's head for extraordinary use. F874
• Horse's head nailed over gate (door). F874.1
• Horse's forehead as golden chair. F874.2
• Horse's skull used as pillow. F874.2.1
• Horse's tremendous leap. F989.1.1
• Combat with horse's sex organ. (Cf. D1469.5.) F998
• If witch grabs horse's tail on bridge, man is safe from her. G273.4.1
• Devil has horse's foot. G303.4.5.3
• Test: guessing nature of devil's wine glass. Answer: horse's hoof. H523.6
• King: What do you see? Youth: One and a half men and a horse's head. (Himself, the legs of the king on horseback in the door, and the horse's head.) H583.1
• Riddle: seven tongues in a head. (A horse's head in which a bird's nest is found with seven birds in it.) H793
• Task: filling glasses with water that has neither fallen from heaven nor sprung from the earth. (Uses horse's sweat.) H1073
• The laughing ass. King has trickster's horse's tail cut off. Trickster retaliates by cutting off part of upper lip of king's ass. At trial the animals are brought forth. Everyone laughs at the ass. Trickster: "If everyone laughs at the ass, how could the ass help laughing at her companion without a tail?" Freed. J1169.5
• Series of clever unjust decisions: plaintiff voluntarily withdraws. (1) Man pulls off borrowed horse's tail: he shall keep horse till tail grows on. (2) Man falls out of bed and kills a baby (or causes a miscarriage): he shall beget a new baby for the mother. (3) Man falls from a bridge and kills boatsman's son: shall allow boatsman to fall from bridge and kill him. J1173
• "Why didn't you stay on the horse?" The rider: "I couldn't; you see, it ended there" (pointing to horse's head). J1483.4
• The hungry fox waits in vain for horse's scrotum (lips) to fall off. J2066.1
• The bear riding the horse lets his paws fall on the horse's flanks. He is caught on a tree and leaves his claws in the horse's flesh. J2187
• Imitation of miraculous horse-shoeing unsuccessful. Christ takes off a horse's foot to shoe it and then successfully replaces it. (Cf. J2401.) J2411.2
• The horse swifter than the rain. Caught in the rain, a trickster finds that his horse will not budge. He undresses, puts his clothes under the horse's belly and keeps them dry. When he reaches the king, he reports that his horse has run so fast that he has had no time to get wet. The king buys the horse. K134.2
• Escape by reversing horse's (ox's) shoes. K534.1
• Respite from death granted until wolf reads horse's passport. Wolf kicked to death. (Cf. J1608.) K551.18
• Respite from death granted while wolf counts hairs in horse's tail. Wolf kicked to death. K551.19
• The bear bites the seemingly dead horse's tail. Is dragged off by the horse. K1047
• Wolf (lion) as sham doctor looks at horse's foot: kicked in face. K1121.1
• Hot tin under the horse's tail. The smith promises to make the horse wild. The numskull on the horse's back. K1181
• King induced to kiss horse's rump: trickster then threatens to tell. K1288
• Horse's intestine fastened to stone. Horse twists intestines out of himself. K1444
• Tying cat to balky horse's tail to make him move. K2383
• Prophecy: son will tie father to a horse's leg and strike him fifty blows. M312.0.5
• Prophecy: death by horse's head. Man is killed in that way. M341.2.5
• Release from curse by putting pins around horse's heart and then boiling it. M429.2
• Horse accidentally poisoned instead of master. An attempt is made to give the hero a poisoned cup. He is on horseback and spurs his horse away to avoid the cup. The poison is spilled and enters the horse's ear and kills him. N332.2
• Bells on horse's mane. P651.2
• Punishment: tying to horse's tail. Q473.2
• Wife's paramour tied to horse's tail and conducted through streets. (Cf. Q241.) Q473.2.1