39 motifs match “larger”  ·  back to the chapters

• Making the earth larger. Gradually extended during creation. See references to A812 in which this idea is always involved. A853
• Animal's body made larger. (Cf. A2213.3.) A2301
• Mouse's body made larger. A2301.1
• Spider's body made larger. A2301.2
• Coyote's body made larger. (Cf. A2213.3.) A2301.3
• Bat's body made larger. (Cf. A2213.3.) A2301.4
• Flying-squirrel's body made larger. (Cf. A2213.3.) A2301.5
• Person becomes magically larger. D55.1
• Person becomes larger. D486
• Demon becomes larger. D486.1
• Animal becomes larger. D487
• Houses magically made larger. D488
• Objects made larger – miscellaneous. D489
• Small leaves become larger. D489.1
• Animal becomes magically larger. D2038
• Giants meet successively larger giants. F531.6.8.7
• [First Edition: G303.3.3.5.1. A man rides horse which is the devil. As he rides, it becomes larger and larger and finally throws him over his head.] G303.3.3.5.1[1st ed.]
• Devil becomes larger and larger. G303.3.5.1
• Today's catch of fish traded for prospective larger catch tomorrow. J321.1.1
• "Eat small fish now if you wish larger ones later." Bishop refuses to eat small fish as he used to when an abbot. "Then I used small fish to catch big ones I have now!" J703.2
• God of the earth. Question from the king: "Who are you?" "I am God." "Make my eyes larger." "I am only God of the earth and have power only below the girdle." J1441
• Peasant surprised that king is not larger than other men. J1742.4
• God blamed for letting pumpkin vines produce larger fruit than nut trees. J2215.6
• Scientific query: why does not the sea get larger when it rains in it and nothing flows out? J2371.1
• Robber induced to give respite and come to man's office to get promised larger sum. Cheated. K439.7
• Fox eats his fellow-lodger: accuses another and demands damages. He spends the night with a cock in a house. He eats the cock but in the morning accuses the sheep of having eaten it. In the next inn likewise he says that the ox has eaten the sheep, etc. In compensation he demands a larger animal each time. K443.7
• Trickster receives huge sum on trifling credit by chain of borrowings. Pays small sum in advance for first sum borrowed. Pays this borrowed sum in advance for larger, etc. K455.10
• A plea for a larger audience. Fox asks cock to come down from a tree and sing for him. Cock asks fox to awake his companion, a dog, first. Dog kills fox. K579.8
• Small animal in mouth of larger causes captor to spit him out. (Defecates.) K683
• Unjust banker deceived into delivering deposits by making him expect even larger. In order to make the impression of honesty he delivers the one chest of money. The ten chests which he then receives are filled with stones. K1667
• Blind man gets back his stolen treasure by making thief expect a larger one. K1667.1
• Blind man asks thief to invest a larger sum for him. The greedy thief puts back the stolen money hoping to get more. The blind man recovers his money. K1667.1.2
• Bluff: hero professes to be able to perform much larger task than that assigned. K1741
• Small animals dupe larger into trap. L315.15
• Future hero as child isolated from world kills increasingly larger game with superior weapons. T617.1
• When shower falls, small stone becomes larger, large stone wastes away. Vision of present and future state of Irish church. V515.1.3.1
• Man demands ever larger gifts. W154.26
• Man catches fish with larger fish inside. X1154.1.1
• The great frog. Eaten by one larger and this in turn by crow. X1342.1.1