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

• Culture hero has marvelous dogs. A524.1.1
• Culture hero has marvelous horses. A524.1.2
• Origin of emeralds from marvelous vase broken into pieces. A978.3
• Dark brown patches on soil mark place where marvelous cow (Glas) and her calf lay. A989.1
• Marvelous tree survives deluge. A1029.1
• Cow gives marvelous supply of milk through virtue of saint. B597
• Fanciful marvelous strength of animals. B740
• Tabu: revealing the marvelous. C423
• Marvelous cow offended disappears. C918.1
• Transformation: water to marvelous drink. D478.4
• Magic (marvelous object) given back to placate crying child. D883
• Marvelous ruby teaches bird's speech. (Cf. D1071.) D1301.3
• Magic branch when used as a threshing pole produces marvelous harvest of rice. (Cf. D954.) D1563.1.6
• Marvelous post wears down at top instead of rotting from bottom. (Cf. D956, D1250.) D1688
• Book written by man with marvelous memory. D1910.0.1
• Marvelous tree grown from otherworld fruit. F162.3.0.1
• Marvelous hand without wrist. F552.4
• Marvelously wise man. F645
• Marvelous sensitiveness. F647
• Marvelous sensitiveness: meat (wine) tastes of corpse. Has been near grave. F647.1
• Marvelous sensitiveness: suffering from merely seeing work done. F647.2
• Marvelous sensitiveness: injury from rose leaves falling. (Cf. F647.9.) F647.3
• Marvelous sensitiveness: women blush in presence of male statue. F647.4
• Marvelous sensitiveness: woman refuses to look at male fish. F647.4.1
• Marvelous sensitiveness: woman smells like a goat. F647.5
• Marvelous sensitiveness: meat is dog's flesh. F647.5.1
• Marvelous sensitiveness: food has been raised in particular kind of manure. F647.5.2
• Marvelous sensitiveness: man recognizes milk of his stolen cows. F647.5.3
• Marvelous sensitiveness: wine shows through woman's white throat. F647.6
• Marvelous sensitiveness: ulcer from moon's rays. F647.7
• Marvelous sensitiveness: fainting from noise of wooden pestle and mortar. F647.8
• Marvelous sensitiveness: fracture from hearing man chopping wood. F647.8.1
• Marvelous sensitiveness: stitch in side from being told about hearing a man chopping wood. F647.8.1.1
• Marvelous sensitiveness: blister on back from lying in rose leaves. (Cf. F647.3.) F647.9
• Marvelous sensitiveness: man feels little point of simple thorn in middle of his clothes. F647.9.2
• Marvelous sensitiveness: man refuses to eat fifth descendent of stolen cow. F647.10
• Marvelous sensitiveness: clarified butter was someone's leavings. F647.11
• Marvelous sense of smell. (Cf. F647.5.) F652
• Marvelous marksman can shoot eye off needle at quarter-mile distance. F661.5.5
• Other marvelous powers. F680
• Marvelous runner. F681
• Marvelous runner keeps leg tied up. To prevent him from running away. F681.1
• Marvelous runner outstrips March wind. F681.2
• Marvelous runner swift as thought. F681.3
• Marvelous runner swift as sight. F681.4
• Marvelous runner can run round earth in five minutes. F681.5
• Marvelous runner catches wild game on the run. F681.6
• Marvelous runner runs backwards. F681.7
• Marvelous runner captures two of every wild animal. F681.8
• Marvelous swift plower. F681.10
• Marvelous swift mower. F681.11
• Marvelous jumper. F684
• Marvelous climber. F684.1
• Marvelous withstander of cold. F685
• Body with marvelous heat. Melts snow thirty feet around and serves as fuel for man's companions. F686
• Man with marvelous voice. F688
• Marvelous swimmer. F696
• Marvelous ball player. F697
• Culture hero as marvelous ball player. F697.1
• Saint as marvelous ball player. F697.2
• Marvelous juggler. F698
• Additional marvelous powers. F699
• Marvelous dancer. F699.1
• Sea issues from marvelous cask. F711.1
• Rivers with marvelous underground connections. Euphrates, Tigris, Tiber, and River Boant really the same which flow through oceans and underground. F715.3
• Marvelous stream containing little black fish bursts forth from mountain. (Cf. A934.9.) F715.3.2
• Lovely garden under water, with marvelous tree. F725.7
• Mountain with marvelous objects at top. F759.1
• Marvelous oranges grow upon tree limbs which are sharp knives. F811.7.2.2
• Marvelous tree (trees) of extraordinary age. F811.21
• Marvelous garden with gold and silver flowers, bees. F818.1
• Five demons keepers of marvelous garden and palace. F818.2
• Marvelous paddle sends canoe enormous distance with each stroke. F841.2.7
• Marvelous cures. F950
• Marvelous cure without seeing person. F950.7
• Cripple marvelously cured. F953
• Mountebank undertakes to bring the city's incurables back to health. Effects marvelous cures. F958
• Marvelous cures – miscellaneous. F959
• Marvelous cure for poison. F959.6
• Marvelous picture falls from sky in storm. F962.12.3
• Marvelous light. F969.3
• Marvelous light reveals man hiding from saint. F969.3.1
• Marvelously swift horse. F989.17
• Hero's marvelous sword falls and cuts off hand of enemy. (Cf. F833, N331.) F1087
• Marvelous manifestations at death of witch. G278.1
• Marvelous horse identified by prince though in form of miserable worn-out one. H62.3
• Who will find the most marvelous thing? Each finds some marvelous thing. It turns out, that to save the girl's life all the things must be used together. H355.0.1
• Suitor test: bringing marvelous tree. H355.3
• Task: stealing cattle which are guarded by a marvelous dog. H1151.8
• King possessing one marvelous object sends hero on quest for another like it. H1218
• Quest for marvelous thing seen in dream. H1229.3
• Quest for marvelous objects or animals. H1320
• Quest for marvelous water. H1321
• Quest for marvelous pillar. H1322
• Quest for marvelous remedy. H1324
• Quest for marvelous bird. H1331.1
• Quest for three feathers of marvelous bird. H1331.1.2
• Quest for marvelous boar (pig). H1331.2
• Quest for marvelous cattle. H1331.3
• Quest for marvelous horse. H1331.4