35 motifs match “imitation”  ·  back to the chapters

• God created angels by striking one small stone with another. Lucifer created devils by imitation. A52.0.8
• Deity's limitations. A196
• Origin of death from bad creator's unsuccessful imitation. The bad creator attempts in vain to endow his creations with life like the good creator. Fails and thus introduces death. A1335.2
• First poetry composed in imitation of tones of hammer on anvil. A1464.1.1
• Creation of monkeys: old woman thrown into fire. In unsuccessful imitation of Christ, the smith throws an old woman into the fire. She becomes a monkey. (Cf. A1710.) A1861.2
• Animal characteristics: imitation of other animal or object. A2272
• Animal cries: imitation of sounds. (Cf. A2425.) A2272.1
• Peculiar limitations of fairies. F255
• Youth announces fire in imitation of priest's metaphorical language. The fire set by cat's tail gains headway. J1269.12
• Imitation and the real pig. Imitator of the pig's cries applauded. Fool brings real pig but fails. J2232
• Foolish imitation. J2400
• Fatal imitation. (Cf. J2411.1, J2411.2, J2413.4.2, J2422.) J2401
• Types of foolish imitation. J2410
• Foolish imitation of miracle (magic). J2411
• Imitation of magic rejuvenation unsuccessful. (Cf. J2401.) J2411.1
• Foolish imitation of sham death and return (= resuscitation). J2411.1.1
• Unsuccessful imitation of a god: lions fall out of the furnace instead of men covered with gold and silver. J2411.1.2
• 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
• Unsuccessful imitation of magic production of food. (Cf. J2425.) J2411.3
• Imitation of magician unsuccessful. Person does self injury. J2411.4
• Imitation of jumping into fire without injury: dupe burned up. J2411.6
• Imitation of magic production of garden and lake unsuccessful. J2411.7
• Unsuccessful imitation of magic sewing. J2411.8
• Foolish imitation of healing. J2412
• Imitation of the prescription. A peasant envying a doctor's fee for giving him a plaster and predicting a son, poses as a doctor. He predicts a son for a eunuch and gives a plaster for heart disease. J2412.3
• Imitation of diagnosis by observation: ass's flesh. A doctor tells his patient that he has eaten too much chicken, and this the patient confesses. The doctor's son wants to know how the diagnosis was made. The doctor says that as he rode up he observed chicken feathers and made his conclusions. The son imitates. He sees an ass's saddle. Diagnosis: you have eaten too much ass's flesh. J2412.4
• Imitation of diagnosis by observation: stick under table. J2412.4.1
• Foolish imitation by an animal. Tries to go beyond his powers. J2413
• Foolish imitation of lucky man. Because one man has had good luck a numskull imitates and thinks he will have equal luck. He is disappointed. J2415
• Foolish imitation of leader. J2417
• Foolish imitation – miscellaneous. J2420
• Not to sleep for three successive nights. The sleepy man: "I am just thinking, that on earth there are more crooked trees than straight ones ... more hills than plains ... more water than land ..." The devil goes to ascertain these things, meanwhile the man sleeps. Unsuccessful imitation by another man. K216.3
• Formula-tale (Ehod) saves girl from devil. Unsuccessful imitation. (Cf. Z20.) K555.2.1
• Capture by imitation of animal's voice. K756
• Thief climbing rope discovered and rope cut. He has tricked the guardian of the food-supply in the tree (by imitation of the owner's voice or the discovered pass-word) to let down the rope. K1622