69 motifs match “knife”  ·  back to the chapters

• Catfish transformed from children still carry marks of children's knife holder. A2261.3.1
• Transformation: blade of grass to knife. D451.5.2
• Transformation: leaf to knife. D451.8.2
• Magic knife. D1083
• Magic carving knife. (Cf. D1083.) Magic knife (weapon). D1173
• Magic two-edged knife indicates direction. Points in proper direction; bends downward to indicate wrong direction. (Cf. D1083.) D1313.8
• Knife sings as warning of fraud. (Cf. D1083.) D1317.17
• Magic knife conquers enemy. (Cf. D1083.) D1400.1.4.3
• Magic knife stuck in tree causes wine to flow. (Cf. D1173.) D1472.2.11
• Magic carving knife serves twenty-four men at meat simultaneously. (Cf. D1173.) D1583
• Sign of the cross made over sword (knife) endows it with magic powers. D1766.6.2
• Breathing on enemy drives him onto knife. D2061.2.9
• Magic journey by throwing knife into whirlwind. D2121.8
• Sight of wild hunt causes one to stick axe or knife in foot. E501.18.9
• Life token: scissors (razor, knife) drip blood. E761.1.7.2
• Life token: knife stuck in tree rusts (becomes bloody). E761.4.1
• Fairies give haymakers dinner each year until one of men keeps a fairy knife. They give no more food even though the man returns the knife. (Cf. F353.) F343.17
• Fairy gifts stop when man steals fairy knife. F361.2.4
• Spirits driven off by knife-thrusts and pistol shots. F405.2
• Power of Will-o'-the-Wisp over person neutralized if person sticks his knife into the ground. F491.3.2
• Extraordinary knife. F838
• Extraordinarily sharp knife. F838.1
• Knife with handle half gold and half silver. F838.2
• Bleeding knife. F991.1.1
• Turtle's war-party. Turtle recruits war-party of strange objects (knife, brush, awl, etc.) and animals. Because of their nature the companions get into trouble. F1025.2
• Man senseless from grief at hearing of father's death; one doesn't feel that he cuts himself with his knife, the other presses dice so that he bleeds. F1041.21.5
• Knife plunged into earth comes out bloody. F1066.1
• Cannibal sharpens knife to kill captive. G83
• Witch with knife-like tail. G219.8.2
• Knife in bed as protection against witches. G272.3
• Ogress with knife tail defeated by hunter. G510.5
• Ogre killed with knife (sword). G512.1
• Giant killed with magic knife. G512.1.1
• Ogre deceived by showing sharp knife or sword for nose or tongue. G572.2
• Recognition by knife. Man who is werwolf recognized by knife which was carried away by the wolf. H132
• Recognition of man acceptable to God: knife leaps into his hand. H192.1
• Criminal detected by having child hand knife to him. H211
• Cuckold's knife cannot carve boar's head. H425.1
• Task: splitting a hair with a blunt knife. H1023.14
• Quest for marvelous golden wood for knife handle. H1359.1
• Robbers' false plea admitted: counteraccusation. Robbers claim a man's knife. In court: "The knife may indeed be theirs. I and my father were attacked yesterday by robbers. I fled. On returning I found my father killed and this knife in his body." Robbers condemned. J1162.2
• Marking the place under the cloud. Numskulls leave a knife in the field, marking the place by putting it under a heavy cloud. Next day the cloud is gone and the knife lost. J1922.2
• Fools try to use buffalo tongue as a knife. J1971
• Deer lost through premature celebration. A fool in celebration of the capture of a deer puts his clothes on the bound deer. He throws a knife to cut the deer's throat but the knife cuts the snare and the deer runs away with the clothes. J2173.4
• Fool frightened by stirring of the wind. Falls on a knife and kills himself. J2622
• Fearing the earthquake. Fool worries lest earthquake make him fall against an open knife. J2634
• Alleged resuscitating knife sold. (Cf. D1083.) K113.6
• Thief shows knife-maker use of purse-cutting knife: cuts his purse and robs him. K341.8.3
• Trickster gives a woman a knife to cut him a slice of white bread. He gets the whole loaf when he says that he has just cut a dog with the same knife. K344.1
• Trickster cuts up partridges with his knife. He is given all of them when he tells his companions that he is an executioner. K344.1.3
• Conqueror of robber discovers his money-stick. Thinking that he has killed the robber, the man takes his stick or knife with big handle. The robber recovers and, disguised as a beggar, inquisitively looks at the stick. The man is suspicious and by examining finds much money inside it. K437.4
• Compassionate executioner: bloody knife (sword) from slain animal substitute. K512.1.1
• Dupe persuaded to throw away his knife. Later must go hungry because he has no knife to cut the meat. K1141
• Whetting the knife: the whole blade whetted away. K1418
• Husband persuades wife to light wicks and carry knife in hand before committing adultery: lovers frightened away. K1569.6
• Bloody knife left in innocent person's bed brings accusation of murder. K2155.1.1
• Attempt to kill by throwing knife. K2388
• Knife accidentally strikes girl's throat and kills her. N331.1.1
• Precious knife and belt as gift on unknown helper's spearshaft outside his tent. Q114.1
• Penance: killing oneself with wooden knife. Q522.2
• The obstinate wife: cutting with knife or scissors. At the end of the argument the man throws his wife into the water. As she sinks she makes with her finger the motion of shearing with the scissors. T255.1
• Child born carrying knife and calabash. T552.3
• Child born with knife and shield. T552.5.3
• Sheath and knife as analogy for mother and unborn child. T579.1
• Knife (other sharp instrument) as childbirth precaution. T582.4
• Man will not lift knife to cut rope about to hang him. W111.1.2
• Learning a trade in bed. Working independently, the lazy fellow spoils the materials received – starts making something big, which at the end turns to nothing. For example, begins with forging a plough: this becomes an axe, the axe a knife, and knife a needle, the needle – nothing. (Cf. J2080.) W111.5.9
• Roast pigs run around with knife and fork in back ready for eating. X1208.1
• Where have you been, goose? – In the fields. – What have you in your beak? – A knife. – etc. (Tile, water, ox, firewood, old woman, friars, mass, shirt.) Z39.4