34 motifs match “months”  ·  back to the chapters

• Goddess divides time between upper and lower worlds. Persephone spends six months on earth and six in Hades. A316
• Great flood lasts eight months. A1010.2
• Determination of the months. A1160
• Certain foods tabu one (two) months before childbirth. C152.3.2
• Life prolonged a thousand years by traveling six months each year. D1855.5
• Magic sleep brought on by combing hero's hair lasts six months. D1962.3.1
• Supernatural person (adulterer) causes sun to stand still for nine months. (Cf. T481.) D2146.1.1.2
• Baby giants four months old "two feet broad in the chest and twelve feet high." F531.2.14
• Person does not sleep for many months (years). F564.3
• Long sleep, long waking. (Six months sleep followed by six months waking, or the like.) F564.3.1
• Person sleeps for nine months. F564.3.4
• Symbolic interpretation of playing cards. Soldier reproved for playing cards during church says that playing cards are his prayerbook and calendar. Ace: one God, one Faith, one Baptism; 2: old and new Testaments; 3: Trinity; 4: evangelists; 5: wise virgins; 6: days of creation; 7: sabbath; 8. Noah's family; 9: ungrateful lepers; 10: commandments; knave (jack): Judas; queen (of Sheba); king: God; 12 face cards: 12 months; etc. H603
• How much is king's beard worth? The months July, August, and September. H712.1
• Riddle: twelve cypresses with thirty boughs each. Years and months. H721.3
• Riddle: palace consisting of 8760 stones; twelve trees, thirty branches, each with black and white cluster of grapes. Year, months, days, hours. H721.4
• Pigeons cover the sun's rays with their outstretched wings and lengthen night to six months so that hero's task can be completed in one night. H982.1
• Test: repeating incantation continuously for months. H1508.1
• Test of memory: Solomon asks Marchus question, receives answer; fourteen months later he asks second question based on first, again receives correct answer; four months later asks third question based on first two, again receives correct answer. H1595.1
• Too much for his income. Child born two months after marriage. Husband returns wife to her father (uncle) saying: "I can't afford a child every two months." J1276.2
• Numskull bales out the stream. He comes to a stream but not wishing to get his feet wet he sits down to wait for the stream to run down. He helps to bale the stream out with a hazelnut shell and keeps it up for months. J1967
• Fasting the first month. Numskull having enough food to last him eleven out of the twelve months fasts the entire first month so as to get the ordeal over. He starves with eleven months' supply on hand. J2135.1
• Woman gives birth to child fourteen months after husband's departure. The latter is made to believe it is legitimate. J2342.2.1
• Quarreling prince and princess vow that if they are married he will desert her on the wedding day and she will make him eat boiled rice and thin broth for six months. It so happens. M149.4
• Prophecy: death within two months. M341.1.2.3
• Prophecy: death in three years and three months. M341.1.2.4
• Curse: not to be able to love the same woman more than twelve months. M455.2
• Penance: staying for ten months rooted to one spot, with eyes closed, while birds build nests in one's hair. Q541.5
• Six months' respite from unwelcome marriage. T151.1
• Other respites from unwelcome marriage (three months, two years, etc.). T151.3
• For first six months bride of prince is only to sit an hour or two in his house. T165.7
• Long pregnancy: twelve months. T574.1
• Child two months old speaks. T585.2.1
• Seven years, seven months, seven days. Z72.2
• Twelve months as youths seated about fire. Z122.3