131 motifs match “lame” — showing the first 100; narrow the words for the rest  ·  back to the chapters

• Lame god. A128.5
• God represented with arrow of flames. A137.14.1.1
• Flames surround God's throne. A152.2
• Divinity departs in column of flame. A192.2.4
• Stygian river. River in lower world. In Greek myth five such rivers in Hades, Styx (hate), Acheron (mourning), Kokytus (lamentation), Lethe (forgetfulness) and Pyrephlegethon (flame). A672
• A "flame of fire swifter than a blast of wind" as punishment for the sin of the Irish. A1031.1
• Origin of lamentations for the dead. A1547.3
• Animal cries a lament for person lost when animal was transformed. (Cf. A2260, A2425.) A2275.1
• Animal cries a lament over animal's transformation. (Cf. A2425, A2426.2.5.) A2275.2
• Why ravens have crooked legs and walk lame. A2371.2.3
• Hound flame of fire by night. B19.4.4
• Dog that is hound by day and flame of fire by night. B182.1.5
• Birds lament saint's departure. B251.2.9
• Transformation: tongue to flame. D457.14.2
• Oracular flame. (Cf. D1271.) D1311.5
• Lamp gives him who looks into its flame a vision of the Most High. (Cf. D1162.1.) D1323.19
• Flames draw person into them. (Cf. D1271.) D1412.3
• Self-generated flame. (Cf. D1276.) D1609.2
• Dung and wood burst into flames of their own accord. (Cf. D956, D1026.) D1649.4
• Magic power of the lame. D1716.2
• Lameness magically cured. D2161.3.7
• Lame animal magically cured. D2161.3.7.1
• Flames issue from corpse's mouth. E421.3.7
• Life bound up with light (flame). E765.1
• Tree half green and half in flame in otherworld garden. F162.1.2.4
• Bonga girl (fairy) appears as flame. F234.3.2
• Fairies lame miller who throws sod into his kiln where fairies are cooking oatmeal; the oatmeal scalds them. F361.17.1
• Knockers lame miners who bother them unduly. F456.1.2.1.5
• Mouth of man emits flames when open for speech. F544.0.3
• Rock bursts into flames at hero's death. (Cf. F964.3.4.) F960.2.3
• Nature's lament at the Temple's destruction. F960.3.1
• Heavenly bodies lament. F961.0.3
• Frogs cast themselves into oven-flames and devour bread. F989.24
• Face of angry warrior lights up with flame. F1041.16.6.4
• Flame as miraculous index. F1061
• Flame indicates presence of beautiful woman. (Cf. F1041.8.1. and cross references.) F1061.1
• Color of flame indicates what is burning. Blue for furniture, white for money, red for person. F1061.2
• Flame indicates place where innocent person was murdered. F1061.4
• Witch cripples or lames through illness. (Cf. G269.11.) G263.4.3
• The devil is always to blame. Even when he tries to be helpful to man. G303.9.3.4
• Devil inflames saint's injured eye. G303.9.6.2.1
• Devil is blamed by monk for taking what does not belong to him. Devil denies accusation. G303.25.10
• Flame issuing from mouth as sign of royalty. H41.4
• Found mortar taken to king reveals peasant girl's wisdom. Peasant finds mortar in his field and against his daughter's advice takes it to the king, who demands the pestle as well. Peasant laments that he has not followed daughter's advice. King summons her. H561.1.2
• Riddle: the father not yet born, the son already at the top of the house. (Flame and smoke.) H763
• Test of curiosity: mouse in jug. The new Eve. A woman has boasted of a lack of curiosity and blamed Mother Eve. The king entertains her in his castle. She may see everything but must not look into a certain silver jug. She does so and finds a mouse in it. (Cf. H1557.2.) H1554.1
• Adam's (Eve's) disobedience blamed: blamer immediately disobeys orders. (Cf. H1554.1.) H1557.2
• Old racehorse in mill laments vanity of youth. J14
• House dog blames master for teaching him lazy habits. J142.1
• Man blames master for not correcting him in youth. J142.2
• Youth made lame: had kicked his mother. J225.1
• Lion makes lame goat his lieutenant. J421.2
• Associating with a bad friend is fatal: swan and crow. Swan is blamed when crow drops filth. J429.2
• Unpaid servant refuses to blame master: later rewarded. J571.8
• Thornbush blamed by fox for wounding him. He should have known better than to lay hold of something whose nature is to lay hold of others. J656.1
• Miller, his son, and the ass: trying to please everyone. Miller blamed when he follows his son on foot; when he takes the son's place on the ass; when he takes the son behind him; and when he puts the son in front of him. J1041.2
• Mother crab blames her children for not walking straight. J1063.1
• B warns A not to tie his horse near B's. Horses fight and A's is killed. In court B plays dumb. A says B could talk the day before, and repeats conversation. Judge blames A for not taking advice. J1141.1.12
• Plea by shifting blame to another. J1166
• Barber operating on child's skin kills it: blames mother for child's thin skin. J1166.1
• The ring to be cut in two and divided between quarreling persons: real owner laments the waste of the gold. J1171.1.1
• The cat in the warehouse. One of four companions is left in a warehouse to care for a cat which has a broken leg. Cat scratches self near flame and sets warehouse afire. The three must pay the one left behind. Broken leg could not walk and it was the three legs belonging to the three traders which caused the fire. J1175.1
• "You don't blame a toolmaker for making all manner of tools, both harmful and helpful, so why blame God for making bad beasts as well as good ones?" J1262.6
• Transmutation of the quail. Bishop brought quail on Friday orders them cooked. Blamed. If he can turn bread into the body of the Lord why can he not turn quail into fish? J1269.5
• Sleeping on salt. Priest blamed for large amount of wine he drinks tells people to consider his great thirst. He has slept on a sack of salt and has enough thirst for a week. J1322.2
• Thief makes a lame excuse. J1391
• Lame excuse: one cannot drink because he has no teeth. J1391.6
• Daydreamer has lost his chance for profit. He has broken his master's pots while dreaming of future profits. He has therefore lost more than the master and excuses himself of blame. J1493
• Why captain takes lame and one-eyed soldiers into army. The lame cannot flee from the enemy; the one-eyed soldiers will not see enough to make them afraid. J1494
• The sound of the harp. An apprentice harpmaker is blamed that he has not made the harp sound. He throws the harp at his master's head and breaks it to pieces: "There you have your sound." J1626
• Cow punished for calf's misdeeds. Blamed for not teaching calf better. J1863
• Object foolishly blamed. J1891
• Carpenter blames the nails. On his deathbed refuses to forgive nails which ruined his tools. J1891.2
• The wall accuses the crowbar. But the man who uses the crowbar is to blame for the downfall of the wall. J1966
• Frogs reprove ass for lamenting when he falls into morass. "What would you do if you had to live here always?" J2211.1
• God blamed for scarcity of food. J2215.4.1
• God blamed for heavy rain. Since he is an old man he should have known that more rain was unwelcome. J2215.5
• God blamed for letting pumpkin vines produce larger fruit than nut trees. J2215.6
• Robbed man blames thief for not warning him so that he could have witnesses to the theft. J2223.1
• Logically absurd defenses. Thief brought to judgment for breaking into house blames mason for building poor house. Mason blames maker of mortar, who blames potter, who blames pretty woman who diverted his attention. She blames goldsmith who caused her to go for her earrings. Goldsmith has no one to blame but he is too old to make a good execution. Hence a shopkeeper across the way is convicted. J2233
• Young heir too frank in celebrating his father's death. He says to the mourners, "When your fathers die, I too will come and lament their departure." They brand him as a fool. J2358
• Race won by deception: sham-sick trickster. The trickster feigns lameness and receives a handicap in the race. He then returns and eats up the food which is the prize. K11.5
• Trickster temporarily lames valuable horse and buys him for trifle. K134.8
• Payment to lame man who claims that man's father lamed him. K251.6
• Blame for theft fastened on dupe. K401
• Dupe's food eaten and then blame fastened on him. Trickster eats the common food supply and then by smearing the mouth of the sleeping dupe with the food escapes the blame. K401.1
• Blame for theft fastened on inanimate objects. K419.9
• Blame for theft fastened on fairies. K419.10
• Peacock helper dances before enemy army of hero; flame of fire from her tail burns them all to ashes. K916.1
• Fox rings the bell. The bear eats a horse which has a bell tied around its neck. The fox rings the bell and gets blamed. K1114
• Trickster pretends lameness and is taken on woman's back: violates her. K1382
• Bluff: small (lame) hero makes demon believe he is a god and threatens to eat him. Demon terrorized. K1715.7
• Animal feigns lameness. K1818.5
• Hidden man behind image gives unwelcome answer to suppliant: image blamed. K1971.8
• Women pretend to weep over warrior's wounds while attempting to inflame them. K2014
• Animal nurse wounds self so as to throw blame for eaten young on other animal. K2153.1
• Evidence of crime left so that dupe is blamed. K2155
• Lame child as hero. L112.8
• Former poverty chosen over new riches. Weaver laments loss of water vessel. Offered many new, but prefers old and modest life. L217.1
• Prophecy of a plague consisting of "a flame of fire" which shall destroy three-fourths of the population of Ireland. Plague can be prevented by fasting, etc. M356.2