56 motifs match “members”  ·  back to the chapters

• Universe from parts of creator's body. Ymir makes the world from his members – mountains from bones, cliffs from teeth, heavens from skull, etc. A614
• Why other members must serve belly. Result of a debate between members of the body. A1391
• Animal characteristics from throwing members at ancient animal. A2215
• Animal characteristics: members bitten or cut off. A2216
• Why goat's and cat's members are as they are. A2365.2.0.1
• Animals with unusual limbs or members. B15
• Other animals with unusual limbs or members. (Cf. B20, B142, B92.) B15.7
• Animals with members of precious metal (jewels). B101
• Fanciful bodily members of animals. B720
• Tabu: calling profanely on the members of God. C94.4.1
• Magic growth of members for breaking tabu. C946.3
• Disenchantment by cutting off and reversing bodily members. (Cf. D711.1.) D712.1
• Magic bodily members – human. D990
• Magic bodily members (human) – miscellaneous. D1009
• Magic bodily members – animal. D1010
• Other bodily members of animals – magic. D1029
• Other bodily members of bird – magic. D1029.0.1
• Bodily members as advisers. (Cf. D990.) D1312.1
• Magic object causes members to grow long or short. D1376
• Magic object restores bodily members. D1518
• Person remembers all he has ever learned. D1911
• Resuscitation by arrangement of members. Parts of a dismembered corpse are brought together and resuscitation follows. (Sometimes combined with other methods.) E30
• Resuscitation with missing member. In reassembling the members, one has been inadvertently omitted. The resuscitated person or animal lacks this member. E33
• Resuscitation with misplaced head. (Cf. M221.) In restoration of several persons simultaneously through reassembling of members, the heads are placed on the wrong bodies. Sometimes the damage is repaired, sometimes not. E34
• Resuscitation by assembling members and leaving in cask for certain time. E37
• Failure to resuscitate because of premature disturbance of members to be left in cask for certain time. E37.1
• Vital bodily members. They possess life independent of the rest of the body. (Cf. F1096.) E780
• Animal bodily members transferred to person or other animal retains animal powers and habits. (Cf. E781, E782.) E780.2
• Vital bodily members – miscellaneous. E789
• Fairies take persons up in air in chariots for a fortnight or a month. The lost are finally found in fields bereft of sense and with one of the members missing. F329.3
• Remarkable power of recognition. Man remembers all people he has met. (Cf. F692.) F654
• Disintegration: man eats himself up or dismembers himself. F1035
• Witch with iron members. G219.1
• Fear test: staying in haunted house where corpse drops piecemeal down chimney. Dead man's members call out to hero, "Shall we fall, or shall we not?" H1411.1
• The belly and the members. Debate as to their usefulness. All mutually useful. J461.1
• Debate of tongue and other bodily members. J461.1.3
• Monk's cordon cannot stand the strain. Franciscan claims that his cordon will save him from Hell. Benedictine answers that he once had a dream in which he saw St. Francis throw his cordon to save members of his order in Purgatory and so many clung to it that it snapped. (Cf. Q291.1.) J1261.8
• Standing up for the friendless. Preacher in backwoods asks congregation members who are friends of Jesus to rise. No one rises. "What, are there no friends of Jesus in this house?" A cowboy rises to his feet: "Stranger, I don't know who this man Jesus is. I never heard of him before, but I'll stand up for any man who hasn't got any more friends than he has." J1738.5
• Inability to find own members, etc. J2020
• Same climate at home and abroad. Because his members look the same in the two places. J2274.3
• Fox holds conversation with his members, attracts attention, and is caught. He scolds in turn his feet, eyes, ears, and tail. In his excitement he sticks out his tail from his hiding place. J2351.1
• Healing with the cherry tree. A man whose wife refuses to talk remembers that a priest drank black cherry juice whenever he lost his voice. He cannot get the cordial but concluding that a limb of the cherry tree will have the same effect beats his wife with is. She is cured. J2412.5
• Mutual agreement to sacrifice family members in famine. Trickster refuses to carry out his part of the bargain. K231.1.1
• Members of dupe's family killed. K1460
• Horse, clothes, and members of rider's body exchanged for food. M225.1
• Bodily members wagered. N2.3
• Inherent enmity between members of a family. P201
• Rains withheld until king remembers to have monks' huts roofed as promised. (Cf. Q266.) Q553.7
• Dord fían. A call used by members of a fían (warrior band) for summoning aid. R187.1
• Child with extraordinary members (limbs). T551
• The hare's last will. Surrounded by hunters and hounds, the hare considers to whom each of his members will be allotted. Succeeds in escaping. U242.1
• Blasphemer paralyzed in all members except tongue which had once said "Ave Maria". V254.3.1
• Virgin Mary saves life of man who at devil's instigation has castrated himself. She will not, however, restore his severed members. V256.4
• Chains involving the eating of an object. (Members of the chain not interrelated.) Z33
• Chains involving other events without interrelation of members. Z39
• Chains with interdependent members. Z40