36 motifs match “instrument”  ·  back to the chapters

• Devil (ogre) steals thunder's instruments. A162.3.1
• Animal plays musical instrument. B297.1
• Transformation: man to musical instrument. D254
• Transformation: instruments of torture to lotus flowers. D454.16
• Transformation by playing musical instrument. D523.1
• Magic musical instruments. D1210
• Magic musical instruments – miscellaneous. D1239
• Musical instrument causes magic sleep. (Cf. D1210.) D1364.25
• Magic musical instrument causes person to dance. (Cf. D1210.) D1415.2
• Magic musical instrument calls animals together. (Cf. D1210.) D1441.1
• Magic musical instrument tames animals. (Cf. D1210.) D1442.13
• Magic musical instrument as cure for disease. (Cf. D1210.) D1500.1.27
• Self-playing musical instruments. (Cf. D1210.) D1601.18
• Magic musical instrument reproduces songs sung in heaven. (Cf. D1210.) D1601.18.0.1
• Speaking musical instrument. (Cf. D1210.) D1610.34
• Instrument's ornamental figures climb down and run about as harper plays. D1627.1
• Magic musical instrument plays only for owner. (Cf. D1210.) D1651.7
• Waking from magic sleep by removal of enchanting instrument. D1978.3
• Resuscitation by withdrawal of wounding instrument. E21
• Invisible ghost plays musical instrument. (Cf. E548.) E402.1.3
• Ghost plays musical instrument. E554
• Reincarnation as musical instrument. The Singing Bone. A musical instrument made from the bones of a murdered person, or from a tree growing from the grave, speaks and tells of the crime. E632
• Reincarnation: man-object-man. In most of the versions of E632 (Reincarnation as musical instrument) the hero (heroine) finally comes back to life in his usual form. E648
• Fairies' musical instruments. F245
• Giant plays musical instrument. F531.6.17.4
• What animal has one voice living and seven voices dead? (Ibis, from whose carcass musical instruments are made.) H842.3
• Test: dancing on sharp instruments. H1531.1
• King ridiculed for inventing trifle of musical instrument but praised for constructing a great mosque. J372
• "High-born alone recognizes one of equal rank with himself." Jackal sees man with instrument he is unfamiliar with, comes up to him and salutes him "Lord of Delhi." Man calls him Lord of Jungle and tells above. J814.3
• Object with a hollow as instrument of cheats. K499.2
• Husband unwittingly instrumental in wife's adultery. (Usually shares his bedmate with others, not knowing that she is his wife.) K1544
• Horses frightened by instruments of war are backed into enemy's ranks. K2351.5
• Prophecy: death by particular instrument. In spite of all precautions the prophecy is fulfilled. M341.2
• Man condemned to lose his eye is allowed to choose the instrument. P511.2
• Instrument or tool for unlawful work becomes attached to person holding it. Q551.2.5
• Knife (other sharp instrument) as childbirth precaution. T582.4