39 motifs match “learning”  ·  back to the chapters

• God of eloquence and learning. A465.3
• God of eloquence and learning as inventor of ogam alphabet. A465.3.0.1
• Goddess of eloquence and learning. A465.3.1
• Acquisition of wisdom and learning. A1480
• Means of learning future. (Cf. D1810.8, D1976.2.) D1812.3
• Learning to read by magic. D1819.4
• Fairy escaped by learning and using his secrets. F381.4
• Reading without learning the alphabet. F695.1
• Learning to read in extraordinarily short time. F695.3
• Man dies on learning of wife's adultery. F1041.1.3.5
• Woman dies of broken heart on learning that her former husband is still alive. She had remarried thinking him dead. F1041.1.3.7
• Suitor test: learning girl's name. H323
• Suitor test: cleverness and learning. H327
• Test of learning. H502
• Test of religious learning. H502.1
• Quest: learning what death is. H1376.1
• Quest: learning what fear is. H1376.2
• Quest: learning what fear of Death is. H1376.2.1
• Quest: learning what anger is. (Cf. H1394.) H1376.3
• The learning of fear. H1440
• Stones shaken in jar: difficulty in learning many dialects. J98
• Learning the virtue of patience from children. When their meals are stolen, they quietly search for them. J124
• Simple holy man puts philosopher out of countenance when he says to him that wisdom came before learning. J1217.2
• The backwards and forwards dance. Dupe persuaded to pay for learning this dance (really moving toward and away from a fire). K153
• Theft by posing as master of the house and learning where goods are hidden. Wife deceived in the dark. K362.4
• Vow not to eat before learning secret. M151.1
• Prince to give up life in exchange for learning a secret. M232
• Which is more important, learning or wit? N141.1
• King learning of queen's adultery abdicates. P16.1.2
• King may judge against all save one of highest rank in religion or learning. P19.4.1
• Soldier dies happy on learning of enemy's rout. P461.2
• Patriotism: king learning that nation will triumph whose king dies in battle, allows self to be killed. P711.9
• Cruel father, learning that he is to be killed by his son, puts to death all children born to him. (Cf. M375.) S11.3.4
• Husband learning from augurs that his wife will die if he saves self from serpent, lets self be bitten to death. T211.1.2
• Learning to pray. V51
• Saint helps with learning. V223.4
• 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
• Learning the Bavarian language. A caretaker of an estate recently sold to a Bavarian sits among the swine so as to learn Bavarian. X652
• Little ant finds a penny, buys new clothes with it, and sits in her doorway. Various animals pass by and propose marriage. She asks what they do at night. Each one replies with its characteristic sound, and none pleases her but the quiet little mouse, whom she marries. She leaves him to tend the stew, and he falls in and drowns. She weeps and, on learning the reason, bird cuts off its beak, dove cuts off its tail, etc. Z32.3