35 motifs match “lights”  ·  back to the chapters

• The heavenly lights. A790
• Heavenly lights originate from firmament. A790.1
• Origin of the Northern Lights (Aurora Borealis). A795
• Fly indicates successful suitor. Girl to marry man on whom specially marked fly lights. B152.2
• Tabu: lighting or extinguishing lights on sabbath. C631.4
• Tabu: lighting fire before king lights one. (Cf. C756.) C751.1.1
• Lamp (fire) lights itself. (Cf. D1162, D1275, D1781.) D1601.7
• Countermagic against Evil Eye: returning glance of Evil Eye blights the original glancer. D2071.1.5
• Ghost-like lights. E530.1
• Life-lights in lower world. Each light mystically connected with the life of a person. When light is extinguished, person dies. E765.1.3
• Fairy lights seen in low places. F217.1
• Spirit puts out lights. F473.2.3
• Will-o'-the-Wisp lights people to their homes. F491.2
• Resplendent beauty. Woman's face lights up the dark. F574.1
• Mountain of seven lights. F759.8
• Deity lights a great fire, and all the children ogress has devoured come out of it. F913.2
• Exhibition of lights at saint's birth. F960.1.3
• Extraordinary flights through air. F1021
• Face of angry warrior lights up with flame. F1041.16.6.4
• Blue lights follow witches. G229.7
• Devil as crow misleads travelers, puts out their lights. G303.9.9.17
• Troll lights fingers. G304.2.1.1
• Test of king (pope): his candle lights itself. H41.3
• Magic idol as chastity test. Turns black in presence of unchaste woman. Lights up in presence of chaste woman. H411.9.1
• Aesop with the lantern. Aesop goes for fire to a neighbor's in the daytime and lights a lantern so as to bring the fire back. Fool asks him what he is hunting for with the lantern in the daytime. "I seek a man" (not a busybody). J1303
• Numskull thinks the extinguishing of lights at the church presages a fight. Draws his sword. J1823.3
• Absurdly modest wish: no lights on certain night except in her own house. J2076.1
• Lighting the cat's tail. Woman wishing to punish a cat fastens cotton to its tail and lights it. The whole village is burnt. J2101.1
• To pay beggar for standing in tank all night. Beggar sees lights in temple. Payment refused since beggar has thus warmed himself. K231.14
• Trickster lights torches and bluffs old woman into giving him money. Torches alleged to belong to man coming to collect damages from her. K335.0.10
• Penniless wooer. "House of my father with one hundred fifty lights and goat pen." When the servant in bed so remarks the master marries his daughter to him. Arrived at the hut, he explains that the lights are the stars whose beams enter through the cracks in the roof. One goat is tied to the tree. K1917.4
• Ghostly lights frighten treasure seekers. N576.2
• Woman must relight magic fires as punishment. Magician in revenge for ill-treatment causes the lights of the city to go out. They can be relighted only from the naked body of the woman in the public square. None can be relighted until all have applied their torches. Q492
• Flights. R220
• Lights show where the body of saint is buried. V222.1.4