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

• Food of gods: meat of "cow of plenty". A153.5
• Hoarded game released. Animals are kept imprisoned by malevolent creature. Released by culture hero. A1421
• How frog lost tail. (Cf. A2242, lent to squirrel.) A2378.2.6
• Why certain animals are plentiful. A2582
• Why pigs are plentiful. A2582.1
• Why yams are small but plentiful in certain place. A2794.2
• Animal with horn of plenty. B115
• Animal with tail of plenty. B115.3
• St. Valentine's Day for bird assembly. B232.1
• Tabu: fraudulent sacrifice. C57.1.1
• Tabu: tasting milk of "cow of plenty", dedicated to the gods. C241.1
• Tabu: uttering name of malevolent creature (Eumenides). To avoid the evil results of naming these creatures other names are substituted. The Furies are spoken of as Eumenides; rats and mice as "the large" and "the small". C433
• Werwolf. A man changes periodically into the form of a wolf. He is usually malevolent when in wolf form. D113.1.1
• Saint's staff as an excellent pilot at sea. D1313.5.1
• Woman's arm-tassel lent to ogre compels her to follow him. D1427.2
• Water gradually envelops girl filling pitcher and drowns her. Work of malevolent rice-spirit. D1432.1
• Charm makes cows give plenty of milk. (Cf. D1273.) D1449.1
• Horn of plenty (cornucopia.) (Cf. D1011.1, B115, D1475.1.) D1470.2.3
• Magic kettle (cauldron) turns stones to excellent food. D1472.1.11.1
• Saint orders the cicadas to sing the praises of God or be silent, because they disturb his preaching. D2156.7
• Malevolent return from the dead. E200
• Dead lover's malevolent return. E210
• Dead relative's malevolent return. E220
• Dead spouse's malevolent return. Usually to protest with survivor because of evil ways. E221
• Dead mother's malevolent return. E222
• Dead relative's malevolent return – miscellaneous. E229
• Other malevolent revenants. E260
• Malevolent revenants – miscellaneous. E279
• Ghost violently brands drunkard with "D". E279.5
• Malevolent return from the dead – miscellaneous. E290
• Miscellaneous acts of malevolent ghosts. E299
• Locations haunted by non-malevolent dead. (Cf. E270–E284 for locations haunted by malevolent ghosts.) E330
• Non-malevolent road ghosts. (Cf. E272, E581, E582.) E332
• Non-malevolent churchyard ghost. (Cf. E273.) E333
• Non-malevolent ghost haunts scene of former misfortune, crime, or tragedy. (C.f. E336, E337, E338, E339.) E334
• Non-malevolent mine ghosts. (Cf. E275.1, E334.5.1, F456.) E336
• Non-malevolent ghost haunts building. See E281, E402. E338
• Non-malevolent ghost haunts house or castle. E338.1
• Non-malevolent ghost haunts church. (Cf. E283.) E338.2
• Non-malevolent ghost haunts cloister. E338.3
• Persons who die violent or accidental deaths cannot rest in grave. E411.10
• Dog saves man from malevolent living corpse. Dog killed, man safe. (Cf. B524.1.1.) E439.3
• Wild hunt as omen of plentiful year. E501.20.2
• The dead are silent. E545.0.2
• Bongas. Roughly equivalent to fairies. Generally malevolent, but often not. F201
• Fairies scare treasure-seeker away from hoard. They get bigger and bigger, and cause violent storms until seeker leaves. Cf. D2141.0.2. F244.4
• Malevolent or destructive fairies (= pixies). F360
• Malevolent or hostile beings in otherworld. F360.0.1
• Malevolent fairies – miscellaneous. F369
• Ox lent fairies must not be worked after sunset. F391.1.1
• Familiar spirit equivalent to man's soul. F403.2.2.3
• Malevolent water-spirits. F420.5.2
• Schrätel. An elf-like, male, malevolent wood-spirit. F441.1
• Malevolent dwarf. F451.5.2
• Malevolent mountain-men. F460.4.4
• One giant invites another to a feast (wedding). Latter must be satisfied that food is plentiful. F531.6.8.4.1
• Silent person. F569.3
• Silent princess. F569.3.1
• Land of plenty. Yields everything to heart's desire. F701
• Huge tank has no water in spite of plentiful rains. F935.1
• Blindness cured by striking head violently on tree. F952.4
• Buttons burst as consequence of violent emotion. F1041.6
• Necklace bursts as consequence of violent emotion. F1041.6.1
• Giant ogre. Polyphemus. (For motifs concerning giants who are not malevolent but merely large, see F531.) G100
• "Black" and "white" witches. Malevolent and benevolent. G220.0.1
• Exorcism by violent treatment of the witch in person. G271.5
• Sick child from witchcraft is put on anvil; smith strikes violently but brings hammer down gently, three times. G271.9
• Demons. Malevolent creatures (not usually further defined). G302
• Devil repays a kindness: returns coat lent him and brings the one who had shown him kindness back home when imprisoned. G303.22.1
• Brother-Dead. Trapper of game; silent; pursues trickster. G323
• Sick prince's pulse beats violently when his loved one passes by. H175.3
• Suitor task: controlling violent tide. H335.6.1
• Silent princess gives right answer when talking monkey is given wrong one by suitor-prince. H343.2
• Task: causing silent person to speak. H1194.0.1
• The monkey and the lost lentil. Lets all others he has in his hand fall in order to search for it. J344.1
• In time of plenty provide for want. J711
• With a silent person one is alone. Angered bishop will not answer when addressed. Relents when priest says, "Since there is no one here I may heed the call of Nature." J817.3
• Bad singer thinks he is talented: driven from theatre. J953.2
• Philosopher does not join in with gossipers. He is silent because he fears that some day he may talk too much and not be able to keep silent. J1074.1.1
• Man does not court ugly woman: she might say yes. Therefore he keeps silent. J1074.2
• During the silent period. Nun asked why she did not call for help when raped. She says, "It was during the silent period." J1264.4
• Multiplying his talents. Priest is entrusted with reforming five dissolute nuns. Gets all five with child. The priest is rebuked for not using his "talents" when tempted. He answers: "God gave me five talents and I have added five more!" (Pun on word talent.) J1264.7
• Why soldier is silent before king: is always so when questioned by stupid person. [Inadvertant duplication of J1714.5.] J1369.5
• Counterfeit money burned up. A priest who has lent money to a Jew, but will not lend to a farmer, on being reproached by the latter, says that the money he lent the Jew was "false". When the Jew gets to know of this, he claims that as soon as he heard the money was false he burnt it up. J1511.10
• Man refuses to lend horse: sued for consequent damages. The would-be borrower gets one from another neighbor. He overworks the horse and renders him useless. The owner of the horse sues the man who had refused to lend his animal. Reasoning: "If he had lent his horse this would not have happened to mine." Settled by compromise. J1552.3
• King's capriciousness censured: the ass in the stream. A nobleman seeing an ass letting water in a river remarks that it reminds him of his king. He explains to the king that just as the ass puts water where it is already plentiful, so the king awards wealth where it is not needed. The king says that it is all in the nature of the nobleman's fate. Subsequent events prove this. J1675.3
• Forty wise men foretell violent rainstorm. Failing to convince people, they go into a cave. After the shower they come out. The people call them fools. J1714.3.1
• Old man silent in king's presence asks king what he himself does when in company with a fool. [Inadvertant duplication of J1369.5.] J1714.5
• Family do not realize that Lent has arrived until it is Palm Sunday. Then they explain that Lent will be short because it has been a short winter. J1743.2
• Bishop struck for breaking the peace. At a wedding after a period of silent prayer the bishop begins an antiphony. The fools walks up and strikes the bishop: "You have made this shouting in the church." J1823.2
• Fool does not milk cow for a month so that she will give plenty for a feast. J1905.1
• Taming the bull by cutting off his horns. It makes him the more violent. J2107
• Pig sees goat return decked with ornaments and plenty of food; goes out and imitates trick played by goat but is beaten instead. J2415.6
• A lentil in the soup. You said you wished a lentil soup; so I put one in. If you had wished more lentils you should have said so. J2469.1
• Plenty of holy water. A fool hearing of the effectiveness of holy water for the forgiveness of sins pours the whole supply over himself. J2513
• Fraudulent permission sold. K157
• Man collects toll fraudulently, stamps "Brass Gate" on receipts he gives. People think this is some Government phrase. K157.1
• Horse withheld as sacrifice to a saint refuses to move. The deceiver takes the horse to the church planning to remove him again, but the horse will not stir until a money equivalent has been paid. K231.3.4
• Persons deceived into eating meat in Lent, the meat being disguised as butter. (Cf. K499.2.1, K499.2.2.) K498
• Abduction by fraudulently giving signal of husband's return. (Cf. K1354.3.2.) K755.1