62 motifs match “lips”  ·  back to the chapters

• Causes of eclipses (sun or moon). A737
• Origin of eclipse of moon. A737.0.1
• Eclipse caused by monster devouring sun or moon. A737.1
• Cause of eclipses: mother's curse laid upon her third son. A737.2
• Toad causes eclipses of the sun. A737.3
• Ghosts of the sun's children return to cause eclipse. A737.4
• Moon's eclipse caused by moon's interfering between attacker and person attacked. A737.5
• Eclipses caused by animal hiding sun behind his body. A737.6
• Eclipses from quarrels between moon and sun. A737.7
• Eclipses when sun smears his face on account of mourning. A737.8
• Sun hides face in shame: eclipse. A737.8.1
• Eclipse as punishment by deity. A737.9
• Eclipses because sun cannot endure tragic happenings of history. A737.10
• Partial eclipses because of ailments of sun or moon. A737.11
• Condition and nature of the moon – miscellaneous. For eclipse of the moon see A737, where both eclipses of the sun and moon are handled. A759
• Continuous world-eclipse. A1046
• World-eclipse ended by bat making sun smile. A1046.1
• Flies on the ark. Noah tries to keep them out. Devil says that either the flies go in or he does. Noah chooses the lesser of two evils. Later the devil slips in nevertheless. A2031.2
• Ox helps patriarch who in joy kisses him on the lips: hence no hair on ox's lips. A2221.5.1
• Origin and nature of animal's lips. A2342
• Why ox has no hair on his lips. (Cf. A2221.5.1.) A2342.2
• Bees (ants) leave honey on lips of infant to show future greatness. B147.3.1.2
• Magic lips. D992.2
• Magic lips of animal. D1011.5
• Flowers fall from lips. D1454.2.1
• Eclipse as evil omen. (Cf. F961.1, F965.2.) D1812.5.1.4
• Tankard caused to stick to person's lips. D2171.1.2
• Revenant with cold lips. E422.1.4
• Lips of giant. F531.1.4
• Giant (giantess) with lips hanging down on the breast. F531.1.4.2
• Remarkable lips. F544.1
• Lips on side of face. F544.1.3
• Lips used as a spear. F544.1.4
• Man's beauty eclipses splendor of sun. F574.1.4
• Eclipse of sun and moon in God's proximity. F961.0.2
• Eclipse of sun at important historical events. (Cf. A737.) F961.1.9
• Troll stretches neck so long that fire comes from lips. G304.2.1.2
• Roses from lips as sign of royalty. Princess laughs roses. H71.4
• Drinking-tube as chastity index: retains taste of another's lips. H439.2
• Princess defeated in repartee by means of objects accidentally picked up. E. g., Hero: What red lips you have! Princess: There is fire inside. – Hero: Then boil this egg (producing egg). H507.1.0.1
• Mistaken identity. A bride slips up behind her husband and kisses him. He is annoyed. She: "Pardon me, I did not know it was you" J1485
• Husband mistaken for lover in bed. Farmer has whiskers shaved off, hair cut short. He gets home late, slips into bed with his wife. She runs her hand over his face, says: "Young man, if you're goin' to do anything, you'd better be agittin' at it, 'cause Old Whiskers'll be here pretty soon." J1485.1
• Serfs congratulate their master. The delegate slips and falls, cursing: "The devil may take you!" The serfs outside think this was the congratulation, and all cry in chorus: "You and your family!" J1845
• Kernel tries to escape death. A fool eats nuts. A kernel slips from him. The fool: "Everything tries to escape from death." J1875.1
• The hungry fox waits in vain for horse's scrotum (lips) to fall off. J2066.1
• To imitate the leader. He slips and all fall to floor. J2417.2
• Deceptive eating contest: hole in bag. The hero slips his food into a bag and makes the ogre believe that he is the greater eater. (In many versions the hero cuts open the bag; the ogre imitates and kills himself.) (Cf. K82.1.) K81.1
• Bargain: if the sun reverses its course. Because of an eclipse the sun is held to have done so, and Atreus becomes king. K194
• Stone thrown to attract attention of shark guardians. Man then slips in cave and steals lobsters. K341.16
• The heller thrown into others' money. A rascal sees robbers dividing their booty. He puts a red string through his only coin (a heller) and slips it into the others' money. He claims the money as his and says that he has marked it with a heller having a red string through it. The robbers divide. K446
• Fresh hides spread on grass; girl slips up and is deflowered. K1339.1
• Making sheep laugh and dance. Told to bring in sheep laughing and dancing, trickster cuts off their upper lips and breaks their legs. K1445
• Wife feigns death and slips out to lover. K1538.1
• Fresh hides spread so that enemy slips and falls. K2352.1
• Needle kills an elk. Slips into his stomach. L391
• Lips sewed together as punishment for slander. (Cf. Q263.) Q451.12
• Punishment of Tantalus. Stands in a pool that ever recedes from his thirsty lips; branches of fruit spring away from him; stone over his head continually threatens to fall. Q501.2
• Eclipse as punishment. Q552.20
• Half of house in which false judgment is given slips down hill. (Cf. Q265.) Q559.8
• Sun and Moon captured by creditor, thus causing eclipse. R9.1.2
• Mutilation: chin and lips cut off. S166.5
• Pig licks sleeping man's lips: man thinks he is being kissed. X31.2