59 motifs match “morning”  ·  back to the chapters

• God of morning star. A251
• Sun as fire rekindled every morning. A712
• Sun eats all his own children except morning star, while moon keeps all her children in hiding. A764.1.2
• Origin of Morning Star. A781.1
• Sun, moon, and stars bring forth first parents. Sun and moon beget son; morning and evening star beget daughter; these, the first parents, are at first without understanding, but it is awakened later by demigods. A1271.1
• Bad women from transformed hog and goose. Peter, having only one daughter, foolishly promises her to three men. He asks the Lord to create two others. This request is granted. The first creature he meets on two successive mornings he is to greet, and they will be transformed. He meets a hog and a goose. His two new daughters have these characteristics. A1371.3
• Origin of birds' morning-songs (from singing angels). A2425.2
• Why cock wakes man in morning. A2489.1
• Origin of wild morning glory. A2665
• 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
• Disenchantment by maiden sitting at head of enchanted king's bed on morning of St. John's day. D759.7
• Manna. Food from skies in basket each morning. D1031.0.1
• Magic ring awakens person in morning. (Cf. D1076.) D1317.5.2
• Loaves and fishes, eaten at night, restored next morning through power of saint. D1652.1.10.1
• Man with power of evil eye cannot look at any living thing before breaking fast in the morning without causing it to wither and die. D2071.0.3
• King eaten every morning: revived daily. E155.6
• Person who never said "good morning" cannot rest in grave. E411.6
• Lovers buried apart found in one grave each morning. (Cf. E631.0.1.) E419.6
• Ascent to upper world by holding on to morning star. F63.4
• Fairies leave at rise of morning star. F383.4.2
• Apples at Christmas. Tree bears apples only at Christmas. Blossoms at midnight and is full of apples by morning. F971.5.2
• The danced-out shoes. Every morning girl's shoes are danced to pieces. F1015.1.1
• 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
• "If you have to go to a prostitute, go early in the morning." H588.17
• "When you go to the bazar, eat your morning meal first." H588.18
• Riddle: white brother, black sister: every morning brother kills sister; every evening sister kills brother; they never die. (Day and night.) H722.1
• Riddle: bird nests on top of one cypress in morning, on top of another in evening. (Bird is the sun.) H725.1
• Riddle of the Sphinx: what is it that goes on four legs in the morning, on two at midday, and on three in the evening. (Man, who crawls as a child, walks in middle life, and walks with a stick in old age.) H761
• Task: hatching eggs immediately; countertask: sowing seeds and bringing in crop next morning. (Cf. H951, H952.) H1023.1.2
• Task: sowing rye and bringing crop next morning. (Cf. H1023.1.2.) H1023.17
• Quest to morning star for answers to questions. H1282
• Which does the more work. Wife shows that she does many more tasks in one morning than the husband. J1545.3.1
• Priest frightens away parasitic guests. Tells them he has that morning confessed man with plague. J1563.8
• Hungry man eats intestines of fish next morning after refusing to do so the evening before. J1606.1
• Boy thinks terrapin hatches from bedbug eggs. Small boy examines bedbug eggs under pillow every morning. One morning he finds a terrapin there. "I don't see how we raised this so quick." J1772.1.1
• Fools think evening star is morning star. Start morning journey evening before. J1772.7
• Did the calf eat the man? A fool, liking the shoes on the feet of a man hanged on a gallows, cuts off the swollen feet in order to carry off the shoes. In the room in which he sleeps that night is a newborn calf. The next morning the man takes the shoes but leaves the feet. Peasants agree that the calf has eaten the man all but the feet. They burn the house to destroy the calf. J1815
• Pumpkin tied to another's leg. A numskull ties a pumpkin to his leg at night so that he shall know himself in the morning. Someone ties the pumpkin to another's leg and the numskull is not sure of his identity next morning. J2013.3
• The messenger without the message. A fool is told that he is to go to a neighboring castle the next morning. He is to take letters, but the next morning without reporting for instructions the fool goes on the journey. He is given a bag of stones to carry back. J2192
• Newcomer undresses to swim a five-foot stream. He has walked all morning toward a mountain that seems only five miles away, but which is actually sixty miles from his starting point. J2214.12.1
• The woman who asked for news from home. Gets many impossible answers, which she believes. E.g., "The cock has become sexton." – "Yes, that is why he sang so well in the morning." J2349.4
• Wager as to who shall rise (speak) first in morning (last up to get reward). They are carried to funeral pyre before they will give in. J2511.1
• Trickster feigns ability to influence the sun; sells services. Sun to shine on fools' backs as they go to town in morning and return in afternoon. K154
• Deceptive bargain: first to say "Good morning." The first to give the greeting shall have the disputed property. The trickster is early on the scene and witnesses the other's adultery. He may keep the property without saying good morning. K176
• First to greet the other in morning will lose beauty contest. Dispute is to be settled thus. (Cf. H1529.) K176.1
• Fox eats his fellow-lodger: accuses another and demands damages. He spends the night with a cock in a house. He eats the cock but in the morning accuses the sheep of having eaten it. In the next inn likewise he says that the ox has eaten the sheep, etc. In compensation he demands a larger animal each time. K443.7
• The cut-off nose. (Lai of the Tresses.) A woman leaves her husband's bed and has another woman take her place. The husband addresses her, gets no answer and cuts off her nose (hair). In the morning the wife still has her nose (hair). The husband is made to believe that it has grown back by a miracle (or that he was dreaming). K1512
• Vow to marry off two daughters to first two men father looks at on the following morning. M138.1
• Girl sleeps in garden to meet lover. Discovered next morning and married. T36
• Sorceress marries a man every morning and transforms him to some kind of animal in the evening. (Cf. D621.) T113.1
• Shrewish wife gives husband beating every morning. T251.8
• Bed-partner to receive payment from first man she meets in the morning. It so happens: she marries the man and he makes her wealthy. T456
• Servant to close door at night: leaves it open so that he will not have to open it next morning. W111.2.2
• Farmer gets help up early in morning for a light breakfast: a glass of water and a lantern. W152.12.1
• Deaf peasant: the wedding invitation. Lord: Good morning, Peter. Peasant: I come from Bingen. – L. What is the hog worth? – P. Two weeks from next Sunday (the wedding). – L. Shall I come to the wedding? – P. Three and a half gulden. X111.4
• The deaf bishop. The drunken priest says, "In the morning I take a drink of rum and afterwards four or five little drinks." X111.13
• Lie: the stretching and shrinking harness. Man driving team with wagon uphill in rain finds on arrival at the top of the hill that the tugs of rawhide or buckskin have stretched and that the loaded wagon is still at the bottom of the hill. He unhitches the horses and throws the harness across a stump. Sometime later, or the next morning, the sun comes out and shrinks the tugs, drawing the load to the top of the hill. X1785.1
• Woman meets a pig. "Good morning." "Why are you up so early?" "I am not up so early. I have drunk seven vats of milk and eaten seven plates of porridge and I shall eat you." She ate the pig. Z33.3