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

• Living person becomes god. A104.1
• God of the living and the dead in the otherworld. A108
• Home of god where he is the only living one. A151.0.1
• Tree in hell made of living heads of the dead. A671.2.3
• Stars thought of as living beings. A761.6
• Primeval crab pulls first five living creatures out of his side. A1211.8
• Origin of death because people weary of living. A1335.9
• Man must labor for a living: at first everything too easy. Full crops produce themselves, trees drop sugar etc. A1346.2
• Why peasant is always busy: he is eager to produce food for all living beings. A1655.1
• Why Chapperbands coin false money for a living. A1689.8
• All living things from Jesus' spattered blood. A1724.3
• Why stork must hunt for living. A2452.2
• Living boys or girls transformed into plants. A2617.1
• Living animals transformed into plants. A2617.2
• Sea horse. Horse living in sea. B71
• Sea cow. Cow living in sea. B72
• Bird reveals dead rider. Calls out in human voice at seeing living woman riding behind dead man. B131.4
• Frog living in person's stomach rises into throat, croaks every spring. B784.0.1
• Tabu: buying gallows flesh or living flesh. C781.1
• Tabu: throwing "living fire" into river. C851.2
• Man with power of evil eye cannot look at any living thing before breaking fast in the morning without causing it to wither and die. D2071.0.3
• People living on mountain dedicated to angel free from plague. D2162.4
• Ghost returns to slay man who has injured it while living. E232.2
• Ghost beats living man with whip. E261.5
• Dead carry off living. E266
• Dead tears living to pieces. E267
• Tear from upper world of mortals falls on departed in lower world. Dead brother sends message of comfort to living. E361.1
• Ghost returns to aid living. E363
• Ghost aids living in emergency. E363.1
• Ghost returns to protect the living. E363.2
• Ghost warns the living. E363.3
• Dead reassures living. E363.4
• Dead provide material aid to living. E363.5
• Ghost aids living otherwise. E363.6
• Ghosts bestow gifts on living. E373
• Return from dead to teach living. E377
• The living corpse. Revenant is not a specter but has the attributes of a living person. He wanders about till his "second death", complete disintegration in the grave. (Cf. E261.1.3, E268, E461.) E422
• Body of living corpse. E422.1
• Living corpse returns every night, shows gradual wasting away of body. E422.1.9
• Revenant with hat of birch. Note: in the motifs immediately following, it is frequently impossible to tell whether the spectral ghost (E421) or the living corpse (E422) is thought of. E422.4.1
• Dog saves man from malevolent living corpse. Dog killed, man safe. (Cf. B524.1.1.) E439.3
• Ghost laid when living man speaks to it. E451.4
• Fight of revenant with living person. (Cf. E261.1.3.) E461
• Fight of living person with dead in the grave. E461.2
• Revenant overawed by living person. E462
• Living man in dead man's shroud. Refuses to let corpse return to grave before he tells how to resuscitate woman living man has killed. E463
• Two dead men struggle over living man. E467.1
• Intimate relations of dead and living. E470
• Ghost kisses living person. E471
• Revenant sleeps in same bed with living but without contact. E472
• Cohabitation of living person and ghost. This usually involves sexual relations. (Cf. E321.2, E322.6, E339, E378.) E474
• Offspring of living and dead person. (Cf. E322.1, T540.) E474.1
• Quarrel of dead and living causes removal of dead to own land. E481.0.2
• Why living cannot go to land of the dead. E489.8
• Living smith must repair wagon belonging to wild hunt. E501.15.5
• Ghost of race horse wins race in competition with living horses. E521.1.3
• Ghost eats living human beings. E541.2
• Dead beg food from living. E541.5
• Dead man touches living. E542
• Ghost leaves a ring with the living. E544.1.2
• Living person in service of a dead man. E596
• Condemned soul released because of tears of living. E754.1.8
• Dead and living go together to gate of heaven. E754.2.3
• Soul strives to be heard by the living. E759.1
• Dead place net across river to prevent living man from returning to earth. (Cf. F105.) F93.1.1
• Dead oppose return of living from land of the dead. (Cf. F93.1.1.) F105
• Island in otherworld garden inhabited half by dead and half by living. F162.1.2.5
• River in underworld from tears of living. F162.2.12
• Living mountain. (Cf. F1006.) F755
• When dead man's body is thrown into lake, water turns pitch black and all living creatures therein die. F934.5
• Inanimate objects act as if living. F990
• Extraordinary heads act as living objects. F1001
• Inanimate object acts as if living. F1009
• Devil disguised as man tells of trip to heaven and hell. Heaven is full of wretches who weep, fast, and pray. Hell is full of wealth, power, and good living. G303.9.7.4
• Piśāca. Drinks blood and eats human flesh. Eats corpses and makes living waste away. G312.1
• Rectum snakes. Snakes which creep into living man and devour him. G328
• Riddle: why are there more living than dead? (There are some of the dead of whom we still speak.) H773
• Riddle: what was the walking tomb with the living tenant? (Jonah and the whale.) H821
• Riddle: what animal is good living but not dead? (Ass.) H841.1
• Riddle: what animal is good dead but not living? (Hog.) H841.2
• Riddle: what animal is good living and dead? (Cow.) H841.3
• Riddle: what animal is not good living or dead? (Wolf.) H841.4
• What animal has one voice living and seven voices dead? (Ibis, from whose carcass musical instruments are made.) H842.3
• Quest for the living harp. H1335
• High wages bring expensive living. J342
• Barber leaves inexpensive village for high wages in city. Finds cost of living more than enough to take all his profit. J342.1
• Monk chooses solitude and loneliness to company and temptation. By living alone he escapes sin. J495
• Frog persists in living in puddle on road. Disregards advice of another frog and is run over. J652.1
• King living apart from wife brought to sense of duty by philosopher. Asks if there is harmony among the cities and republics of Greece: philosopher tells him to ask it of his own house. J816.1.1
• Sons united make living; separated fail. J1021.1
• Repartee: "If you can't see the soul in the living man, how can you expect to see it in the dead?" retorts wise man to atheist. J1262.7
• The abbot's luxury and the cardinal's. Cardinal rebukes abbot for living in luxury beyond that of the founder of his order. Abbot asks cardinal if the cardinals of St. Peter traveled in the luxury he does. J1263.4.1
• Living crucifix chosen. Peasants take their old crucifix to an artist for a new one. The artist asks them whether they want a living or dead crucifix. Argument: living God takes less for upkeep and he can be killed later. J1738.2
• Letting in the light. Backwoods preacher tells couple that they are living in darkness. The woman responds that she has been trying for years to get her husband to cut a window in the house. J1738.6
• Living toad or beetles thought to be lost food and therefore eaten by numskulls. J1761.7
• Dead mistaken for the living. Man with abhorrence for corpse sleeps with one thinking it alive. (Cf. H1410.) J1769.2.1
• Statue mistaken for living original. (Cf. K1840.) J1794
• England must be full of widows. So concludes widow's daughter, who makes her living by spinning, when she sees so much warm goods from England. J2214.11
• Peasants want a living God. An artist, ordered to make a crucifix, asks peasants if they want a living God. They say yes. "If we don't like him we can kill him ourselves." J2495.4
• The sacrifice of the cock is at last carried out. Postponed until a hawk carries off the cock. Then the woman says, "O holy St. Martin, I have long owed you a living sacrifice. Take the cock as sacrifice, and may it be pleasing to you." K231.3.3