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

• Deity lives in forest. A151.7
• Thunder spirit lives in world below earth. A284.3.2
• Culture hero still lives. A570
• Creator lives in lowest sky beneath us. A651.2.0.1
• Moon is hare covered with silver, which lives in crystal house with fifteen windows. It rests on a chariot and travels around Mount Meru. A759.4
• Rainbow lives in a hole. A791.8.1
• Men and animals readjust span of life. At first, thirty years are given to all animals and to man. For the animals it is too long, for man too short. Man is given a portion of animals' lives. Years 1–30 vigorous (man's own); 30–48 burdens and blows (ass's); 48–60 no teeth (dog's); 60–70 foolish (monkey's). A1321
• Horse lives from time of Adam on. A1881.0.1
• Why ant lives in ant-hill. A2432.1
• Why fly lives on dung heap. A2432.9
• Why the elephant lives without a hut. A2432.10
• Why the chimpanzee lives with men. A2433.2.4.1
• Why hare lives in bush. (Cf. A2282.) A2433.3.3
• Why coney lives among rocks. (Cf. A2241.7.) A2433.3.5
• Why hog lives in sty. A2433.3.6
• Why goat lives with men. A2433.3.8
• Why squirrel lives in tree. A2433.3.9
• Why porcupine lives in high places in mountains. A2433.3.11
• Why beaver lives along rivers. A2433.3.12
• Why elk lives in woods. A2433.3.13
• Why wolf lives in woods. A2433.3.14
• Why bear lives where he does. A2433.3.17
• Why leopard lives where he does. A2433.3.18
• Why monkey lives in tree. A2433.3.19
• Why mole lives underground. A2433.3.20
• Why tiger lives in jungle. A2433.3.21
• Why owl lives where he does. (Cf. A2229.3, steeple.) A2433.4.1
• Why cock lives in town. (Cf. A2250.1.) A2433.4.2
• Why ptarmigan lives in country. (Cf. A2250.1.) A2433.4.3
• Why parrot lives in tree. A2433.4.4
• Why kingfisher lives in the air. A2433.4.5
• Why nit lives at edge of hair. (Cf. A2236.6.) A2433.5.1
• Why fly lives amid filth. (Cf. A2239.2.) A2433.5.2
• Why spider lives under stones. A2433.5.3.1
• Why tortoise lives in logs in stream. (Cf. A2282.) A2433.6.1.1
• Why oyster lives in salt water. A2433.6.2
• Why common crab lives underground. A2433.6.3.3
• Why iguana lives in stream. A2433.6.4
• Why toad lives in cold place. A2433.6.7
• Why elephant lives in Nigeria. A2434.3.3
• Why goat lives with man. A2513.4
• Dragon lives in lake. B11.3.1.1
• Dragon lives under the ground. By his movements a building or village will be dislodged. (Cf. A1070.) B11.3.5
• Dragon lives beneath tree. B11.3.7
• Dragon lives in isolated island. B11.3.8
• Horned armadillo lives underground. B15.3.4.2
• Mermaid. Woman with tail of fish. Lives in sea. B81
• Mermaid lives for three hundred years under lake. B81.13.12
• Thief lives alone with 20 cats that help him keep intruders away. B292.6.1
• Wolf fetches a man to remove thorn from his children's paws. Does not attack the man's livestock. B381.1
• Animal lives in person's stomach. B784
• Crow lives nine generations of men, deer 36, raven 108, phoenix 972, nymphs 9720. B841.2.1
• Lake under which supernatural smith lives. D921.3
• Magic object furnishes livestock (oxen, horses, etc.). D1477
• Magic calabash furnishes livestock. (Cf. D965.2.) D1477.1
• Magic ring furnishes livestock. (Cf. D1076.) D1477.2
• Magic egg furnishes livestock. (Cf. D1470.1.8.) D1477.3
• Magic basket (box) furnishes livestock. (Cf. D1171.11.) D1477.4
• St. Cecilia withstands three blows of beheading sword and lives three days after. D1840.1.3
• Dead husband returns and lives with his wife. He is invisible to others. (Cf. F378.) E321.2
• Ghost lives midway between heaven and earth. E481.5
• Wild huntsman lives in room on farm. E501.15.8
• Reincarnation: former lives remembered. E601
• Life bound up with that of animal. Person to live as long as animal lives. E765.2
• Girl lives until her cowslip is pulled. E765.3.4
• Headless man lives four (seven) years. (Cf. Q551.8.5.) E783.7
• Demon eats sand; gambler lives wretched life in otherworld. F171.8
• Bonga lives in tree. F216.2
• Fairy family lives in neat cottage. F221.4
• Fairy lives in a shell. F225
• Woman (fairy) lives only on milk from fairy cow. F241.2.5
• Fairy mistress. Mortal man marries or lives with fairy woman. F302
• Fairies abuse livestock. F366
• Man lives with fairies seven years. F379.3
• Fairy minstrel lives among mortals to learn of their heroic deeds. (Cf. F262.3.) F393.1
• Demon lives in tree. F402.6.1
• Demon lives at root of tree. F402.6.1.1
• Spirit of earthquake lives underground (below earth). F438.1
• Dwarf king lives in a mill. F451.4.2.5
• Dwarfs suspend large millstone on thin thread over head of mortal, to show what anguish dwarfs felt when mortal endangered their lives. F451.5.4.2
• Enchanted princess lives with dwarfs. F451.5.4.3
• Frau Holle lives with dwarfs. (Cf. F475.1.) F451.6.10
• Giants' awful amusements, playing with men's lives. F531.3.15
• Giant lives under lake. F531.6.2.2.2
• Giant lives in fairyland. F531.6.3.2
• Person lives by smoking tobacco. Never eats. F561.4
• Boy lives on ox. Never walks on ground. F562.1
• Girl lives in fruit and comes out only to be bathed by her twenty sisters. F562.4
• Boy lives in ant-hill. F562.5
• Wild man. Man lives alone in wood like a beast. F567
• Man lives for nine generations. F571.8
• Man lives under river. F725.4
• Seven rooms in ascetic's house: in one, human heads; in another, horses; in third, dogs; in fourth, pots; in fifth, pile of men's arms; in sixth, a kitchen; in seventh, ascetic lives. F771.11
• Tiger lives on self-cooking food. F989.22.2
• Person lives without food or drink for a year (or more). F1033
• Person lives on water (from holy well) for a year. F1033.1
• Person lives on after being cut through by sword. F1096
• Person lives on after having heart cut free. Heart moves about within his chest. F1096.1
• Person lives on with intestines exposed. F1096.2
• Abandoned infant lives by eating corpse of murdered father. (Cf. S350.) G25