65 motifs match “hundred”  ·  back to the chapters

• God with hundred eyes. A123.3.1.2
• Five hundred years travel across universe. A658.2
• Valhalla has five hundred and forty doors. A661.1.0.1
• Hundred-headed serpent (monster). B15.1.2.10.2
• Mermaid lives for three hundred years under lake. B81.13.12
• Grateful bull draws one hundred carts for wager for master. B587.3
• Hyena with three hundred sixty-five different colors. B731.14
• Disenchantment at end of two hundred years. D791.1.4
• Disenchantment at end of nine hundred years. D791.1.5
• Disenchantment possible at the end of seven hundred years. D791.1.6
• Two hundred years of unfailing life and happiness offered to warrior by fairy woman in exchange for one day's delay of battle. D1857.2
• Sleeping Beauty. Magic sleep for definite period (e.g., a hundred years). D1960.3
• One sack of charcoal makes a hundred. D2106.2
• Hundred-league stride. D2122.2
• Five hundred years to journey from earth to heaven. F76.1
• One hundred doors in palace of otherworld king. F165.1.0.1
• Changeling betrays his age when his wonder is excited. Usually pottage is boiled in an eggshell. The changeling: "I shall soon be a hundred years old but I never saw this done before!" F321.1.1.1
• Dwarfs come into the land by the hundreds. F451.3.14.1
• Hundred-handed giants. F515.0.2.1
• Giant's ears six hundred feet long. F531.2.2.2
• Person hundreds of years old. F571.7
• Nine hundred horses draw chariot in which strong man rides. F639.12
• City with hundred palaces and gardens; in one everything is of gold, in another, silver, etc. F761.1.1
• Wood of sixty trees nourishing three hundred men apiece. F812.2
• Shield concealing one hundred men. F839.2.1.1
• Cup of three hundred colors. F866.1
• Sea piles up to height of sixteen hundred miles. F931.10
• River piles up to a height of three hundred miles. F932.8.6
• Person wanders unceasingly for hundred and fifty years. F1032.1
• Valley of the one hundred giants. G105
• Suitor contest: carrying one hundred jugs of water from sea to castle in one day. H331.10
• Suitor contest: eating one hundred carcasses at a sitting. (Cf. H1141.) H331.17
• Man asked to kill thousands, press hundreds beneath his arm, etc. (To shave his head, put some hairs under his arm, etc.) H599.4
• Task: making shawl-cloth one hundred cubits in length out of one cocoon of silk. H1022.4.3
• Task: carrying hundreds of sheep across stream one at a time. H1111
• Task: eating three hundred fat oxen. H1141.2
• Task: capturing ninety pigs, ninety horses, and one hundred wild oxen. H1154.2.1
• Quest for flower that sends forth its fragrance for hundred miles around. H1333.5.0.1
• The only person in the bath. Servant reports to master that there is but one person in the public bath Master finds three hundred. Only one person had removed stone from his path; rest had stubbed toes. He was only one worthy of the name of man. J753.1
• Fox with three hundred fables ready to tell against lion conveniently forgets them. J811.6
• Will spend the funeral money now. King asks how much his funeral will cost. "Give me the three hundred ducats now and when I am dead throw me into the Tiber." J1261.5
• Safe since no white man is near. White man asks Indian if he can safely leave some of his belongings inside the Indian's lodge. The Indian assures him that he can: "There is no white man within a hundred miles of here." (Cf. X600.) J1373
• Who gets the beehive. Badger: "I was a hundred years old when grama grass first grew." Crane: "My daughter was a hundred years old when grama grass first grew." Wolf: "I am only eight years old, but we shall see who gets the beehive." J1451
• Milk from the hornless cow. A king demands a hundred men's drink from the milk of a hornless dun cow from every house in the land. Wooden cows are made and bog-stuff substituted for milk; the king must drink it. J1512.1
• One wrong and five hundred good deeds. A man steals a large sum, keeps half and distributes the rest among five hundred persons. He says that he has committed one wrong but has done five hundred good deeds. J1605
• The cat's only trick. She saves herself on a tree. The fox, who knows a hundred tricks, is captured. J1662
• To eat a hundred onions. Choice of eating 100 onions, receiving 100 blows, or paying 100 coins. Fool tries onions in vain, then the blows, and finally must give the coins. J2095
• Man prefers small oysters, since he will get more to the hundred. J2213.8
• Buying foxes "as they run". Man sells three hundred foxes to buyer who agrees to "take them as they run": reds, silvers, crosses. He gets a large payment to bind the bargain, waves his hand at the woods: "I sold them as they run; and they're running." K196.1
• Cow makes a hundred-fold return. The trickster has a cow that leads the parson's cows to him. He thus tests the parson's text, "He who gives in God's name shall have it back a hundred-fold." K366.1.1
• Penniless wooer. "House of my father with one hundred fifty lights and goat pen." When the servant in bed so remarks the master marries his daughter to him. Arrived at the hut, he explains that the lights are the stars whose beams enter through the cracks in the roof. One goat is tied to the tree. K1917.4
• Frog, tortoise, fish each tell of how long they expect to live. Frog alone does not expect to live to a hundred and ten years and alone escapes fisherman's net. L395
• Woman with three hundred sixty-five children. Punished for self-righteous condemnation of unchaste girl. L435.2.1
• Prophecy: girl shall have a hundred lovers, shall marry her servant and die from spider's bite. This happens. M345.1
• 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
• Hundred rajas fall in love with one woman. T27.3
• To reach beauty young man climbs eight fences watched by one hundred guards. T46.1
• Children envious of money given by deceased father to bishop. In vision they take their father's body up and find a quittance saying that he has received more than a hundredfold reward. V415
• "I surely saw a hundred wolves (snakes)." – "There weren't so many as that." – "Well, what made the noise in the bushes?" W211.2
• Would not lie for a trifle. Liar tells of shooting large number of animals with one shot (an odd number, usually 99). When asked why he did not make it a round number (or an even hundred), he replies indignantly that he would not lie for one pigeon (rabbit). X906
• Lie: goat carries one hundred cartloads of grease. X1244.1
• Endless tales. Hundreds of sheep to be carried over stream one at a time, etc. The wording of the tale so arranged as to continue indefinitely. Z11
• Endless tale: hundreds of birds in snare fly away one at a time. Z11.2
• Formulistic number: sixteen hundred. Z71.16.7
• Three hundred and sixty-five. Z72.6