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

• Sun-snarer: burnt mantle. A boy is angered because the sun burned his mantle. He makes a snare and catches the sun and delays him so that everything is burning up. A mouse finally gnaws the snare in two. A728.1
• Mouse created by Lucifer; cat by Michael to destroy mouse. (Cf. A1811, A1853.) A1751.1
• Creation of cat: sneezed from lion's nostrils. Devil as mouse gnaws hole in bottom of ark. Noah asks lion's help. Lion sneezes and cat comes from lion's nostril and eats mouse. A1811.2
• Creation of mouse. A1853
• Creation of mouse by devil in ark. (Cf. A1811.2.) A1853.1
• Creation of titmouse. (Cf. A1710.) A1918
• Mouse's nose pulled out long. A2213.4.3
• Mouse gathers rice for man: may eat a little of his rice daily. A2223.3
• Owl as watchman goes to sleep: does not see by day. He is placed as watchman of wren who is imprisoned in a mousehole. (Cf. A2332.6.6.) A2233.3
• Why mouse is crushed whenever she crosses a road: elephant's curse. A2239.9
• Why elephant hurts himself when running through the grass: mouse's curse. A2239.10
• Mouse's body made larger. A2301.1
• Mouse's body made smaller. A2302.1
• How mouse got his eyes. A2332.1.1
• Why titmouse has no tongue. A2344.2.4
• Food of mouse. A2435.3.7
• Why mouse does not defend self against cat. A2462.3
• Friendship of cat and mouse. A2493.9
• Friendship of fox and titmouse. A2493.10
• Friendship between mouse and butterfly. A2493.28
• Enmity between cat and mouse. (Cf. A2281.) A2494.1.1
• Enmity between dog and mouse. A2494.4.3
• Enmity between owl and mouse. A2494.13.4
• Mouse as beast of ill-omen. B147.1.2.3
• Magic mouse. B183.1
• Magic mouse to be flayed. Mouse orders hero to flay him and to use skin for magic purposes. Later the skin is returned to the mouse. B183.1.1
• Magic mouse causes disease. B183.1.2
• Speaking mouse. B211.2.8
• Singing mouse. B214.1.9
• Lawsuit between owl and mouse. B270.2
• Wedding of mouse. (Cf. B284.1.1.) B281.2
• Wedding of mouse and weasel. B281.2.1
• Wedding of mouse and cockroach. B281.2.2
• Wedding of titmouse with another bird. B282.8
• Wedding of crow and titmouse. B282.22
• Crow refuses to marry titmouse, since she is 100 years old. B282.22.1
• Wedding of frog and mouse. ("Frog went a-courtin'"). B284.1.1
• Mouse makes boat of bread-crust. Takes animals and birds into boat. It capsizes. B295.1
• Lion is freed from net by mouse. Mouse asks that his son marry lion's daughter. Request granted. The mouse is trampled to death by his bride. B363.1
• Lion spared mouse: mouse grateful. Later releases lion from net. (Cf. B363.) B371.1
• Helpful mouse. B437.2
• Deer in net freed by friendly animals, a crow, a mouse and a tortoise. B545.1
• Rat (mouse) gnaws net. B545.2
• Animals recover lost wishing ring. Grateful cat, dog, and snake compel mouse to steal it from thief. B548.1
• Marriage to mouse. B601.3.1
• Cat must be kept from dying person because it will catch the person's soul issuing (from mouth) in form of mouse. (Cf. E731.3.) B766.1.1
• Noah's curse admits devil to ark. Devil persuades Noah's wife to stay out of ark till Noah shall call devil in. Noah at last loses patience and calls out, "The devil! Come in!" The devil comes in and turns himself into a mouse. C12.5.1
• Tabu: killing shrew-mouse, sacred to the gods. C92.1.3
• Tabu: eating mouse. C221.1.1.7
• Tabu: looking into jug. Woman does so and finds mouse in it. C324
• Transformation to mouse for breaking tabu. C962.1
• Transformation: man to mouse. D117.1
• Transformation: man to titmouse. D151.6
• Transformation: mouse to person. D315.2
• Transformation: mouse to another animal. D411.6
• Transformation: mouse to horse. D411.6.1
• Transformation: mouse to cat. D411.6.2
• Magic mouseskin. D1025.3
• Magic mouse-skin bears person aloft. (Cf. B183.1.1, D1025.3.) D1532.1.1
• Mouse's prayer to gods about her children granted. D1766.1.6
• Revenant as mouse. E423.2.11
• Soul in form of mouse. E731.3
• Cat, dog, and mouse ward off evil spirit. Man takes these animals along with him as protection. F405.5
• "Tell to mill-mouse that the field-mouse is dead." F405.7.1
• Water-spirit as mouse. F420.1.3.8
• Thumbling hides in a snail shell, in a mouse hole. F535.1.1.10.2
• Dress of raw fur. Cat-fur, mouse-fur, or other undressed fur. F821.1.3
• Witch in form of mouse. (Cf. D117.1.) G211.2.5
• Devil in form of mouse. G303.3.3.2.4
• Attention drawn by gold and silver decorated mouse: as princess turns after it, suitor recognizes her. H151.1.2
• Task: mouse to fight single-handed with king's state elephant and destroy it. H1161.3.1
• Test of curiosity: mouse in jug. The new Eve. A woman has boasted of a lack of curiosity and blamed Mother Eve. The king entertains her in his castle. She may see everything but must not look into a certain silver jug. She does so and finds a mouse in it. (Cf. H1557.2.) H1554.1
• Test of leadership (obedience): swallowing mouse without vomiting. H1567.1.1
• Mouse teaches her child to fear quiet cats but not noisy cocks. J132
• Town mouse and country mouse. Latter prefers poverty with safety. J211.2
• Mouse on lion's mane. Lion angry at impudence of mouse. J411.8
• Association of mouse with cat ceases as soon as mutual danger has passed. J426.1
• Mouse, bird, and sausage keep house together. When they exchange duties all goes wrong. J512.7
• Improvident mouse eats grain stored for famine. Loss is discovered and grain placed elsewhere. Mouse, who has saved nothing, starves. J711.2
• Mouse (fly) dying in meat tub is happy that he has eaten to satisfaction. J861.3
• Titmouse ruffles feathers to seem big as a bear. Her young ones know her. J955.1.2.1
• Good bath. A cat seeing a mouse leave a bath says, "Good bath!" Mouse: "If I had not seen you!" J1422
• Scotsman thinks moose is a mouse, asks what rats look like in this country. (Cf. X1423.) J1759.1
• The cat and the candle. A man has a cat trained to hold up lighted candles on its head. The king has a mouse let loose. The cat drops the candle and chases the mouse. J1908.1
• Cat transformed to maiden runs after mouse. J1908.2
• Trying to catch light in a mouse-trap. J1961.1
• The cat and the eel-pie. Woman puts cat in flour bin to catch a mouse. The cat eats the pie in the bin and loses interest in the mouse. J2103.1.1
• Fortune to go to direction cat jumps. King will give wealth to person toward whom the cat jumps. Clever woman has brought mouse along and thus entices the cat. K2.1
• Contest: who can go deepest into the earth? Wren goes into mouse hole. K17.1.1
• Mouse's tail in mouth of sleeping owner causes him to cough up magic object. K331.4
• Mouse's tail in mouth of sleeping thief causes him to cough up swallowed magic ring. K431
• Titmouse receives permission to sit on branch and sing before being sacrificed. K551.3.7
• Cat fails to be beguiled into releasing mouse. The mouse tells the cat a tale. The cat answers at last, "Even so, I eat you up." K561.1.1
• Animal captor persuaded to talk and release victim from his mouth. Usually cock and fox, fox and wolf, or mouse and cat. K561.1
• Giant tricked into becoming mouse. Cat eats him up. K722
• Deceptive game: fox wants to be frightened; titmouse whistles for dogs and the fox is nearly caught. K869.1
• Mouse runs into buffalo's ear and overcomes him. L315.1.1
• Mouse torments bull who cannot catch him. L315.2
• Elephant killed by mouse who runs up open end of trunk to head and there smears poison over his brain. L315.5.1
• Mouse stronger than wall, wind, mountain. L392