28 motifs match “missing”  ·  back to the chapters

• Disenchantment with missing member. While in transformation a person loses a bodily member. When disenchanted, he still lacks the member. D702.1
• 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
• Druid divines whereabouts of missing person. (Cf. D1711.4.) D1816.5
• Resuscitation with missing member. In reassembling the members, one has been inadvertently omitted. The resuscitated person or animal lacks this member. E33
• Person with missing bodily member cannot rest in grave. (Cf. E235.) E419.7
• Phantom cart driver wanders because of blasphemy. "Peter Rugg the Missing Man." Boasts that he will reach home despite storm or never see his home again. He always travels in hard shower of rain or just ahead of one. E512
• 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
• Husband shoots arrows, barely missing wife's ears. F661.9.1
• Witch in form of cat has hand cut off: recognized next morning by missing hand. G252
• A cat in form of an old woman has hand cut off; recognized next morning by missing paw. G252.0.1
• Devil's unfinished work cannot be completed by human hands. One stone missing in church, etc. G303.14
• Missing female poet discovered through test of poetic ability. H12.1
• Recognition by missing member. H57
• Recognition of resuscitated person by missing member. H57.0.1
• Recognition by missing finger. H57.2
• Recognition by missing toe. H57.3
• Recognition by description of woman with missing hands. H57.4
• Recognition by missing hair. H75.6
• Identification by nurse. Long-missing person identified by his childhood nurse. H183
• Test: supplying missing half-stanza. H509.4.1
• Quest for missing ring. H1386.2
• Choice of freeing one son: adopted son or long-missing son. J226.1
• Skeleton has all his ribs. Indian examines skeleton of man at museum, finds there is no rib missing, concludes that ministers have deceived him in telling him the story of Adam. J1262.8
• A step-ladder for setting the table. Servant who leaves off the salt is instructed to bring in the step-ladder so as to see what is missing. J1573.1
• Friar adds missing nose (fingers) to unborn child: foetus is imperfect and he will substitute for absent husband. Is praised by the latter on his return. K1363.2
• Missing girl reveals identity and saves man condemned for kidnapping her. N692.1
• Wife proves her faithfulness. Had substituted for husband's mistress. Proves legitimacy of her child by producing tokens and by child's missing toe (like her husband's four-toed foot). T318