63 motifs match “itself”  ·  back to the chapters

• Location of settlement at place a cow stops and where milk flows by itself. B155.2.2
• Snake kills itself by biting part of body (when in danger or torture). B752.3
• Snake attaches itself to a woman's breast and draws away her milk while she sleeps. B765.4.1
• Snake sucks poison from bite it has itself made. B765.8
• Tongue of woman who breaks tabu protrudes and entwines itself around a post in the home. C948.3
• Magic loin cloth can transform itself into anything. D697.1
• Snake disenchanted by being allowed to wrap itself three times around person's neck. D759.8
• Magic fountain indicates road for saint by removing itself. (Cf. D925.) D1313.11
• Magic stone hits everything and returns by itself. (Cf. D931.) D1401.5
• Magic formula causes silver to hide itself in mountain. (Cf. D1273.) D1555.3
• Lamp (fire) lights itself. (Cf. D1162, D1275, D1781.) D1601.7
• Razor whets itself. (Cf. D1173.1.) D1601.8
• Ale serves itself. (Cf. D1045.1.) D1601.23
• Chariot collects flowers by itself. (Cf. D1114.) D1601.33
• Felled tree raises itself again. (Cf. D950.) D1602.2
• Image of Virgin veils and unveils itself. D1623.1
• Object removes itself. D1641
• Fountain (well) removes itself. (Cf. D925, D926, D927, D941.) D1641.1
• Muirlan (ball) removes itself. (Cf. D1256.) D1641.5
• Grave removes itself. (Cf. D1299.2.) D1641.8
• Magic cross removes itself. (Cf. D1299.3.) D1641.9
• Magic fire removes itself. (Cf. D1271.) D1641.10
• Magic book removes itself. (Cf. D1266.) D1641.11.1
• Lake removes itself. (Cf. D921.) D1641.12
• Coffin moves itself. D1641.13
• Object travels by itself. (Cf. D1641.) D1643
• Stick of fire comes to river bank of itself. (Cf. D1271.) D1643.1
• Inexhaustible object. Keeps magically renewing itself or expanding. D1652
• Coin multiplies itself. (Cf. D1288, D2106.) D2100.2
• Object magically attaches itself to a person. D2171.1
• Whatever goldsmith proposes to make comes into existence by itself in the forge. D2178.7
• Life token: music box plays by itself as owner awaits burial. E761.7.11
• Rainbow draws to itself fisherman and his boat. F439.1.1
• Well shoots up high as pillars, and discharges itself into navigable streams. (Cf. D926.) F718.11
• Test of king (pope): his candle lights itself. H41.3
• Test of a god: when his image is bound it frees itself. H45.3
• Explanation of phenomenon: large pond emptying itself into several smaller pools (man may spend without getting any return). H614.2
• Bird tries to puff itself up to look like peacock. Kills itself. J955.1.2
• Diving for reflected fruit. Meantime rascal steals the fruit itself. J1791.11
• Object sent to go by itself. J1881.1
• Table thrown out of the sledge; to go home by itself. J1881.1.4
• Spinning wheel is sent home by itself. The man asks his wife if it has arrived before him, finds that it has not. "I thought not. I came a shorter way." J1881.1.5
• Animal sent to go by itself. J1881.2
• Sea foolishly accused of cruelty. Sea says that it is calm itself, but the wind blew it up and broke the ship. J1891.3
• Self-returning cow. A cow allows itself to be sold; then returns to its master. K366.1.3
• Dividing the discovered oyster. The umpire takes the oyster itself as fee and gives each contestant half the shell. K452.1
• Treasure reveals itself only at certain times. N541
• Treasure reveals itself only on Christmas at midnight (or Christmas Eve). N541.1
• Treasure reveals itself once a century. N541.2
• Treasure opens itself. N552
• Treasure opens itself for destined hero. N552.1
• Treasure removes itself from time to time. N562
• Treasure having removed itself eventually returns. N562.1
• Crow lets itself be caught so as to save king of crows. P361.9
• Snake helps girl who permits it to wind itself around her body. Q82.1
• Woman gives birth to a fruit. Can transform itself to girl. T555.1
• Child born of slain mother cares for itself during infancy. T612
• Nature will show itself. U120
• Nature will show itself – miscellaneous. U129
• Thieving nature of the fox will show itself. U129.1
• Ground elevates itself to give protection or comfort to saint. V229.13
• Humor concerning sex. [Note: Thousands of obscene motifs in which there is no point except the obscenity itself might logically come at this point, but they are entirely beyond the scope of the present work. They form a literature to themselves, with its own periodicals and collections. In view of the possibility that it might become desirable to classify these motifs and place them within the present index, space has been left from X700 to X749 for such motifs.] X700
• The death of the little hen described with unusual words. Each act of mourning described by a neologism: the table untables itself. (Cf. X1506.) Z32.2.1