518 motifs match “man's” — showing the first 100; narrow the words for the rest  ·  back to the chapters

• God makes man's hand rigid so he can no longer torment captive. A185.2.2
• Deity assists at man's wedding. A185.5
• Universe from parts of man's body. (Cf. A831.2) A614.1
• Why the sky receded upward: it was struck by a woman's pestle. A625.2.2
• Raising the sky: striking with broom. Old woman's hump strikes clouds as she sweeps. She strikes at sky with broom and thus raises it. A625.2.3
• World-fire because of man's arrogance. A1031.5
• Fettered monster's vain attempt to reach sword with man's help. Could he reach it he would escape. A1074.2
• Creation of first man's (woman's) mate. A1275
• Creation of first woman from man's rib. A1275.1
• First woman's mate made from transformed tree. A1275.6
• Arrangement of man's bodily attributes. A1310
• The lizard hand. Man's hand is modeled on that of the lizard. A1311.1
• Origin of knee-caps. A stone that magically joins self to woman's body. A1312.1
• Why the center of man's eye is black: blackened by spirits to make themselves invisible. A1319.7
• Why man's neck is its present size. A1319.13
• Origin of man's skin. A1319.14
• 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
• Man's growth and maturity. A1360
• Man rules all animals. God gives greatest strength to lion, but because of man's wisdom lion is in his power. A1421.1.1
• [First Edition: A2102. Fish from Woman's severed fingers. (Cf. A1724.1.)] A2102[1st ed.]
• Bird has red spot on its tail as reward for having moved woman's organ to its present position. A2229.6
• Animal characteristics: punishment for planning man's downfall. A2236
• Nit tries to bore through man's head: must remain at edge of hair. (Cf. A2433.5.1.) A2236.6
• Ring-dove eats man's grain: man may kill him. Similarly francolin and guinea fowl. A2238.2
• Snake sucks milk from woman's breast. A2435.6.2.1
• Dog looks for the most powerful master. Stays for good in man's service, since man fears no one. A2513.1.1
• Barren trees as punishment of earth for disobedience at man's fall. A2721.8
• Tormenting beast in man's stomach. B16.0.2
• Cat devours flesh of man's legs. B16.1.1.3
• Serpent sucks man's breath (blood). B16.5.1.2.1
• Bull with man's head. B23.2
• Satyr reveals woman's infidelity. B24.1
• Snake body-woman's head. B29.2.3
• Siren. Bird with woman's head. B53
• "Finngálkn", bird with a man's head. B57
• Bird betrays woman's infidelity. (Cf. B134.1.) B131.3
• Dog betrays woman's infidelity. (Cf. B1313.) B134.1
• Boar guards holy man's swine. B256.6.1
• Parrot and sparrow argue right to inherit property left by man. Sparrow says his interests are the same as man's; parrot says that he caused all man's wealth, since man sold his feathers. People's decision for parrot. B271.1
• Fox as divider of dying man's gifts. B294.1
• Wolf fetches a man to remove thorn from his children's paws. Does not attack the man's livestock. B381.1
• Snake creeps into man's mouth and heals him. B511.1.1
• Eagle saves man from falling wall. The grateful eagle swoops down and takes the man's hat, and thus gets him away from the wall that is about to fall. B521.2.1
• Owl saves man from plunging over cliff. Flaps wings and arrests man's attention. B521.5
• Animal overcomes man's adversary. B524
• Animals overcome man's adversary by force. B524.1
• Animals overcome man's adversary by strategy. B524.2
• Fish bears men-children. Has swallowed rinsings of man's mouth. B631.3
• Snake attaches itself to a woman's breast and draws away her milk while she sleeps. B765.4.1
• Man commends wife to devil. Devil takes the charge seriously and guards woman's chastity during husband's absence. C12.4
• Man swears he will chastise devil for poaching. The devil appears; the man runs; the devil takes man's wife. C12.5.6
• Tabu: shooting at consecrated wafer. Man's ghost wanders. C55.2
• Tabu: women not to touch man's weapons. (Cf. C835.2.) C181.3
• Tabu: man entering woman's quarters in her absence. C182.2
• Forsaken merman. Tabu: association of fairy's (merman's, etc.) human wife (husband) with human relatives. C713
• Tabu: merman's wife not to stay till church benediction. C713.1
• Golden apple thrown to remind merman's wife not to forget to return to him. C713.4
• Woman's breasts dry up because of broken tabu. C942.4
• Man's liver snatched away because of broken tabu. C948.4
• Man's lungs cut out because of broken tabu. C948.5
• Transformation to resemble man's mistress so as to be able to kill him. D40.2.1
• Black man's color altered to white. D57.2
• Petrification when woman's voice is heard. D529.1
• Cat's paw cut off: woman's hand missing. A man spends a night in a haunted mill, where he cuts off a cat's paw. In the morning the miller's wife has lost her hand. (Cf. D142, D621.1.1.) D702.1.1
• Hog's forefoot cut off: woman's hand missing. D702.1.2
• Head transferred from one man to another; second man's head in first man's hand. D711.1.1
• Disenchantment of animal by admission to woman's bed. D734
• Magic dead man's tooth. D1009.2.1
• Cereal from man's body. D1033.0.1
• "Hand of glory" renders light invisible. Candles of human fat from dead man's hand make light invisible except to man holding it. (Cf. D1162.2.1.) D1361.7
• "Milk-medicine" causes milk to appear in woman's breast. (Cf. D1241.) D1379.5
• Garment proof against all but man's own sword. D1381.3.1
• Holy man's cloak burns person up. (Cf. D1053.) D1402.0.1.2
• Magic hair in man's eyebrow kills all who see it. (Cf. D991.) D1402.2
• Hangman's noose gives luck in gambling. (Cf. D1278.) D1407.2
• When spying follower accidentally touches holy man's cloak he loses his eyesight and falls down senseless. (Cf. D1053.) D1410.8
• Woman's arm-tassel lent to ogre compels her to follow him. D1427.2
• Magic wooden fish attracts live fish to fisherman's net. (Cf. D1268.) D1444.1.2
• Ashes from burned snake-woman's body will turn anything into gold. D1469.10.1
• Stream flows from man's head. (Cf. D992.) D1472.1.34.2
• Dead man's tooth as cure for toothache. (Cf. D1009.2.1.) D1502.2.1
• Hangman's noose cures scrofula. (Cf. D1278.) D1502.2.3.1
• Wound healed by water from place wounded man's heel dragged. (Cf. D1240.) D1503.16
• Maid cuts off pap to heal man's serpent wound. (Cf. D1009.3.) D1515.4.1
• Murdered man's head will cause earth to burn up or sea to boil: must be carried about. (Cf. D1278.) D1549.7
• Saint's (man's) breath makes icicles (snow, water) burn. D1566.1.4.2
• Mentula loquens. A man's member speaks and can be silenced only by his mother-in-law. D1610.6.2
• Magic drinking horn with a man's head speaks. (Cf. D1171.6.3.) D1610.25
• Man's body emits light. D1645.10
• Apple (or ball) containing man's soul can be split only by man's own sword. (Cf. D981.1.) D1651.10
• Sword causes a man's death every time it is drawn. D1653.1.1.1
• Magic power of dying man's words. D1715
• Dying man commands cloud to bear message to man's wife. D1715.3
• Possession of magic knowledge and witchcraft from having eaten of father-of-man's corpse. D1735.4
• Dying man's power of prophecy. D1812.2.4
• Holy man's fall from horse a bad omen. D1812.5.1.14
• Man's strength made equal to that of angel. D1830.1
• Shaman's wife controls weather. D2140.2
• Horses (oxen) from sea put temporarily into man's service. D2156.10
• Woman's labor pains magically eased. D2161.1.3