46 motifs match “laughter”  ·  back to the chapters

• God of laughter. A489.4
• Origin of pleasant and unpleasant women. Contest arranged by Virgin Mary – laughter forbidden for some time. A1372.7
• Origin of laughter. A1399.1
• Why we have rats: one escapes from slaughter of rats. A1854.1
• Tabu: slaughtering buffalo in temple. C93.5
• Three meditations on death which prevent laughter. D1273.1.1.4
• Scent of flowers from laughter. D1773.1
• Drops of blood presage slaughter. D1812.5.1.1.5
• Rice paddies flooded or dried by toad's tears or laughter. D2149.5
• Journey to Isle of Laughter. F111.1
• Fairy music causes joy (laughter). F262.3.6
• Laughter from chagrin. F1041.11.1
• Princess brought to laughter by people sticking together. H341.1
• Princess brought to laughter by small animals. H341.2
• Princess brought to laughter by foolish actions of hero. H341.3
• Princess brought to laughter by indecent show made in quarrel with old woman at well. H341.3.1
• King: What is your sister doing? Youth: She is mourning last year's laughter. (Nurses child, the fruit of last year's love affair.) H583.5
• Maiden (to king): Shall I feed you with loss or gain. (A slaughtered hen or milk.) H583.9
• Man whose laughter brings rain will not laugh: brought to laughter when people who, unknown to each other, have gone to sleep in same dark room frighten each other. H1194.1
• Young ass avoids food eaten by animals before being slaughtered. Runs to his mother and asks to have all remains of the hog's food taken out. J12
• Escaped lamb delivers himself to shepherd rather than to slaughter. J217.1
• Clever laughter and response of wife stops husband from fondling maid. J1545.7
• Why the pigs shriek. The sheep does not understand why the pig being carried to slaughter shrieks. J1733
• Laughter of boy thought to be spirits' laughter. J1784.1
• Drinking the moon. The numskull sees a cow drink from a pool where the moon is reflected. The moon goes under a cloud. He thinks the cow has eaten the moon and slaughters her to recover it. J1791.1
• Man avenges self on animals by wholesale slaughter. J1866
• Man avenges brother's death by wholesale slaughter of wild pigs. J1866.1
• Absurd ignorance about slaughtering animals. J1906
• The slaughter of the ox. In preparation, the feet are cut off the evening before. J2168
• Thief advises that slaughtered meat be hung up over night. Meantime he steals it. K343.2
• The stingy parson and the slaughtered pig. The stingy parson does not want to give any one a part of his pig, which he has just slaughtered. The sexton advises him to hang the pig up in the garden over night so as to make everyone think that it has been stolen. The sexton steals it himself. K343.2.1
• Herdsman slaughters animals entrusted to him. K346.2
• Theft by posing as doctor. Trickster advises wife to slaughter pig and have the trickster eat it all. K352
• Child's curiosity exposes thief. Thief steals pig. Slaughters it together with one of his own and takes both to market. Puts little pig inside large one to avoid paying tax on two. Boy notices three hind legs. Thief is caught. K433
• Girl substituted for boy to avoid slaughter by father. K514.1
• Slaughter of drunken enemies in banquet hall. (Cf. K811.1.) K871.2
• Slaughter of animals by stampede. K927
• Orphan hero lives with grandmother. Avenges slaughtered kin. L111.4.1
• Calf pities draft ox: is taken to slaughter, ox spared. L456
• Prophecy: wholesale slaughter to be inflicted by colossal wheel rolling over Europe. M341.2.20
• Slaughter of innocents to avoid fulfillment of prophecy. M375
• Slaughter of children to prevent fulfillment of parricide prophecy. M375.2
• Man's inordinate laughter brings unfortunate results. N399.2
• Pet swan saves self by singing death song. Master about to mistake the swan in the dark for the goose that is to be slaughtered. N651
• All new-born male children slaughtered. S302.1
• Conservative but absurd way of slaughtering hog stubbornly kept. U139.2.1