72 motifs match “liver”  ·  back to the chapters

• Spring breaks forth where animal delivers book left behind by saint. A941.5.4
• Origin of the liver. A1319.5
• Origin of race colors from eating of ox. Those who eat livers are black; those who eat lungs and blood are red. A1614.4.1.1
• Cuckoo delivers other birds from their cruel king: they agree to hatch out cuckoo's young. A2229.5
• Why deer's tail tastes like liver. A2378.9.4
• Cow with tallow liver. B15.7.9
• Grateful fox fetches fox liver as remedy. B514.1
• Tortoise has no liver or teeth. B723
• Tabu: women not to eat genitals (heart, liver, etc.) of animals. (Cf. C221.3.1.) C229.2
• Man's liver snatched away because of broken tabu. C948.4
• Disenchantment by covering with deliverer's clothing. D789.1
• Disenchantment when superhuman task is finished. Enchanted person appears every seven years in human form and puts one stitch in a smock. When it is finished, she will be delivered. D791.1.2
• The deliverer in the cradle. Enchanted person can be delivered by child rocked in a cradle made from an oak sapling after it has grown great. D791.1.3
• Magic bird-liver eaten unwittingly. D859.4.2
• Magic liver. D997.3
• Magic liver of animal. D1015.4
• Magic bird liver. D1015.4.1
• Human liver as medicine. D1248
• Divination from gall and liver of pig. (Cf. D1015.2.) D1311.10.2
• Snake liver prevents disease. (Cf. D1015.4.) D1500.2.8
• Animal liver cures blindness. (Cf. D1015.4.) D1505.14
• Liver of shining goat heals blindness of raja. D1505.14.1
• Blood and liver of black dog sacrificed to bring rain. (Cf. D1016., D1015.4.) D1542.1.7
• Liver of deer vitalizes. (Cf. D1015.4.) D1594.0.1
• Letter delivers self. (Cf. D1266.) D1601.32
• Inexhaustible human liver. (Cf. D1003.) D1652.19
• Haruspices: divination by condition of animal's liver. D1812.5.0.5
• Wizard compels thief to deliver stolen property in person to the owner. D1817.0.1.3.1
• Return from dead to punish theft of liver from man on gallows. E235.4.4
• Soul (life) in the liver. E714.5
• Spirit delivers false message. F402.1.9
• Swallowed person eats on swallower's liver (heart) until disgorged. (Cf. F914, F915.1.) F912.3
• Witch says her knees are beads (liver is lead, stomach is copper, or the like). G229.4.4
• Witch takes out man's liver. G262.5
• Quest assigned by wife through appeal to husband's love for her. He is sent for liver of dangerous animal. H1212.2
• Quest for cow with liver of tallow. H1331.3.2
• Quest for liver of thunder and heart of dragon. H1332.6
• Escaped lamb delivers himself to shepherd rather than to slaughter. J217.1
• Man desirous of traveling sent six miles to deliver a letter. Told that he has now seen the world, for he will never see more than valleys, hills, fields, meadows, water, streets, cities, and villages. J1076.1
• Eunuch visits augurer to see whether he is to be a father. "When I look at the livers, you are to be a father. When I look at you, I see that you are not even a man." J1271
• How he would act if he were a hawk. A hawk steals a piece of liver from a trickster and flies away with it. The trickster likewise steals some liver from another man and escapes to a high place with it. He says that he is seeing how he would act if he were a hawk. J1391.4
• Carrying his own message. A man who is away from home writes a letter to his wife but can find no messenger. He delivers the letter himself and then goes on back to where he has been. J2242
• Alleged messenger from relatives in distress given goods to deliver. J2326.4
• Rabbit sold as letter-carrier. Alleged to be a swift deliverer of letters. K131.1
• Man contracts for load of hay on the road (without making any payment), orders the seller to deliver it at a certain inn. He then goes to the inn, sells the hay to the innkeeper, and pockets the money. The owner of the hay delivers it at the inn, tries to collect at the inn; the trickster absconds. K282.1
• Delivery boy is frightened into giving up his chickens. Trickster upturns his eyelids and puts on boar's tusks. K335.0.9
• Deposit money secured by false order to banker's wife. When banker refuses to redeliver deposit the owner presents false tokens to wife. K362.6
• The stolen cow successively pawned. In one night a thief pawns a cow four times, always stealing it immediately and finally delivering it back to its owner. K408
• Thief cannot remember whom he delivered the goods to. Though he has eaten the food trusted to him, he claims to have delivered it, but cannot remember the person who opened the door. K419.1
• Jackal, swallowed by elephant so it can drink water in his belly, eats elephant's liver and kills him. K952.1.1
• Hidden paramour taken to his own wife. He hides in a chest. The chest is taken by a creditor who unwittingly delivers it to the paramour's wife. K1216
• Letter delivered to wrong man. He substitutes for the lover. K1317.2.2
• Father delivering daughter to be eaten by cannibal is himself eaten. K1614
• Unjust banker deceived into delivering deposits by making him expect even larger. In order to make the impression of honesty he delivers the one chest of money. The ten chests which he then receives are filled with stones. K1667
• Jealous queens tell child-bearing queen to put her head in the hole at the bottom of grain-bin, so that she fails to see what she delivers. K2115.0.1
• Treacherous ruler of city under siege sends sons to deliver city to enemy. K2369.3
• Dividing the winnings: presents (favors) from man's own wife. After the agreement to divide all winnings the first man receives favors (presents, kisses) from the second's wife. He faithfully delivers them. M241.2
• Captured bird promises to deliver fifteen birds in exchange for freedom. M244.2
• Unborn child will become nation's deliverer. M311.5
• Delivery of child fated to rule retarded in order to avoid fulfillment of prophecy. M376.4
• Deliverer of curse. M411
• Man sent away from battlefield to deliver message the only survivor of battle. N693
• Heart and liver of murderer torn out. (Cf. Q211.) Q469.6
• Heart and liver of son to be torn out. (Cf. S194.) Q469.6.1
• Goddess delivers and restores goods of man thrown into jail. R110.1
• House burned (torn) down to deliver man imprisoned in it. R121.3
• Deity promises deliverance of promised child to mother in dream. S255.1
• Pregnant abbess secretly delivered of her child by Virgin Mary. T401.1
• Queen delivered of a piece of flesh; abandoned and saved, it gradually separates into forms of boy and girl. T569.1
• Prolonged labor: woman has childbirth pains for 100 days but is not delivered. T584.5.1
• Woman has meat (liver) stolen by bird. Recovery chain (similar to Z41). Z41.1
• Sign language. Message delivered by means of the fingers, etc. Z175