54 motifs match “looks”  ·  back to the chapters

• Loris refuse to look at sun who comes out when they are dancing: hence never looks at sun. A2231.13
• Lemur looks where forbidden: has big eyes. (Cf. A2332.3.1.) A2234.3
• Bat, diver, and thornbush shipwrecked. Bat brought money, bush put on clothes, and diver brought leather. All shipwrecked. Diver is looking for his leather. Bush looks for his clothers and holds fast to all passers-by. Bat is abroad only at night to escape creditors. (Cf. A2471.4, A2491.1.) A2275.5.3
• Why rat's tail looks like a folded leaf. (Cf. A2317.12.3) A2378.9.5
• Why diver always looks at sea. (Cf. A2275.5.3.) A2471.4
• Why dog looks back at person who has beaten him. A2471.6.1
• Why mason-wasp looks for fireplace. A2471.8
• Dog looks for the most powerful master. Stays for good in man's service, since man fears no one. A2513.1.1
• Why fruit of sago palm looks like an eye. A2791.9
• Why fruit of date palm looks like breasts of old woman. A2791.11
• Man looks at copulating snakes: transformed to woman. (Cf. D12.) D513.1
• Lamp gives him who looks into its flame a vision of the Most High. (Cf. D1162.1.) D1323.19
• Magic antimony, rubbed on hero's eyes, will make whatever he looks at become far or near, as he desires it. (Cf. D1246.) D1331.3.3
• Magic mirror renders invisible. Does so when owner looks into it. (Cf. D1163.) D1361.28
• Bear knows if person looks at his track. D1813.0.1
• Corpse of saint sits up and looks at people who open grave and come to claim his body. E235.8
• Gift barrel of ale which never runs dry goes dry when maid looks into bunghole. F348.9
• Demon looks like a mountain. F531.2.11
• Sack of earth in giant's hand looks no bigger than a pea in hand of a man. F531.2.15
• Boat looks like gold. F841.1.10.1
• Bird's red eye cooks meat. Looks so intently at it that it heats and cooks. F989.2
• Witch cannot be hurt if she looks attacker in the face. G221.4
• Devil appears when a woman looks at herself in the mirror after sunset. G303.6.1.4
• Princess wins wrestling match with suitor by revealing her breast. He looks and is beaten. H331.6.1.1
• Stone breaks when unchaste woman looks at it. H411.1.1
• King overlooks wife's unfaithfulness rather than to cause troubles of state. J221.1
• Senator overlooks wife's adultery rather than impair his reputation. J221.1.1
• Greedy pig looks up into tree for figs. This causes his death. J514.4
• Greedy man dissatisfied with gold looks for jewels; finds only iron and eventually nothing. J514.5
• Farmer looks at his hay on ground after a rain: "If I was a God, I'd be a God and not a damned fool!" J1261.1.4
• His father has been in Rome. A young man comes to Rome who looks like the emperor. Latter asks him if he mother has ever been in Rome. No, but my father has been here often. (Not son but brother.) J1274
• Hungry shepherd attracts attention. He tells of a cow with four teats who bore five calves. They ask what the fifth calf does while the other four are nursing. "It looks on just as I am doing now." J1341.6
• The weighted order-cards. To a man going on a voyage, various people give commissions for purchases, which he writes down on cards. Some give him money; some promise it on his return. On ship he looks the cards over, placing the proper gold on the proper card. A wind blows into the sea those not weighted with gold. J1382.2
• The rejected bread resought. Numskull looks for bread that he threw away a year before. J1923
• How he looks in his sleep. A man stands before mirror with his eyes shut to see how he looks in his sleep. J1936
• The numskull buys water at market. He looks at bread. The merchant: "It is as good as butter." He decides on butter. The merchant: "It is as sweet as oil." He decides on oil. The merchant: "It is as clear as water." He decides on water. J2478
• Thief tells his pursuer that the thief has gone to heaven by way of a tree. While the man lies on the ground and looks up, the thief steals his horse. K341.9
• Girl tells the thief money is in chest. When he looks in chest, girl drops lid on him. K434.3
• Conqueror of robber discovers his money-stick. Thinking that he has killed the robber, the man takes his stick or knife with big handle. The robber recovers and, disguised as a beggar, inquisitively looks at the stick. The man is suspicious and by examining finds much money inside it. K437.4
• Fencer calls opponent's attention to something behind him: when opponent looks around he cuts off his head. K832.2
• Female confederate disrobes before hero, who is attacked when he looks away. K832.3
• Giant's (giantess's) head cut off as he (she) looks out. K912.1
• Wolf (lion) as sham doctor looks at horse's foot: kicked in face. K1121.1
• Deceptive report of birth of heir. Queen tells king anxious for an heir that she is to give birth to a son, but that ill will befall the son if king looks upon him. K1847.1.1
• Penniless wooer: patch of land. After marriage he takes the bride to look at his land. He puts on soiled clothes. She looks at the land; he points to the patch on his clothes. "That patch is mine." K1917.1
• Sham physician predicts the sex of the unborn child. "From one side it looks like a boy, from the other a girl." The woman bears twins and the husband pays the doctor. K1955.3
• Vow to marry off two daughters to first two men father looks at on the following morning. M138.1
• Beggar accidentally overlooks money put into his way. N351.2
• Dying priest looks greedily on ripe plum: is reincarnated as insect feeding within plum. Q551.5.1.3
• Man with obedient wife looks young; with disobedient, old. T254.3
• King rewards knight with large sum of money. Chancellor: "If you saw such a sum it would seem large to you." King answers that it looks small and doubles it. W11.12.1
• Man looks for strangers so as to bestow hospitality on them. W12.2
• Servant to call his master at daybreak: looks into dark closet to see if it is yet light. They sleep till noon. W111.2.1
• Stingy man does not eat butter; only looks at it and enjoys the thought. W152.15