72 motifs match “naked”  ·  back to the chapters

• Man at first naked. A1281.3
• Origin of shame for nakedness. A1383
• Shame for nakedness appears to first woman. (Leaves for clothes). A1383.1
• Negroes as curse on Ham for laughing at Noah's nakedness. A1614.1
• Tabu: looking at supernatural wife naked. C31.1.3
• Tabu: goddess seeing mortal husband naked. C313.1.1
• Weakness from seeing woman (fairy) naked. C942.3
• Disenchantment by naked virgin undergoing frightful journey at midnight. She must come naked and alone on St. John's night between twelve and one, climb the castle walls, and enter the treasure chamber. D759.3
• Magic from maiden walking naked in public. D1796
• Naked ghost asks for shirt and promises luck on market for man. E412.3.2
• Revenant as naked woman. E425.1.2
• Naked woman pursued and cut in two by rider. E501.5.1.1
• Journey to land of naked people. F129.7
• Fairies are naked. (Cf. F420.1.6.7.) F238
• Naked tribe. Sun, cold, wind, rain do not harm them. F568
• Naked men (boy). F568.1
• Country of the naked. F709.1
• Girl dies of shame at being seen naked. F1041.1.13.1
• Woman dies of shame at seeing naked man (husband). F1041.1.13.2
• Witch causes man to strip naked and imitate a jockey riding himself. G269.21.3
• The devil as tailor to a dandy. The dandy demands clothes sewed without thread. The devil disguised as a tailor makes them. In church the dandy's clothes fall to pieces, leaving him naked. G303.9.9.11
• Girl sleeping naked awakened: is she a goddess? If mortal, she will cover herself; if a goddess, will not. H45.5
• Suitor test: standing naked in river through a winter night. H328.4
• Task: coming neither naked nor clad. H1054
• Task: coming neither naked nor clad. (Comes wrapped in net or the like.) H1054.1
• Task: coming neither naked nor clad. (Comes clothed in own hair.) H1054.2
• Task: coming neither naked nor clad. (Comes with part of body clothed.) H1054.3
• Endurance test: scalding mush scattered on heroine's naked body; rasp-tongued dogs lick wounds. H1503
• Test: sleeping naked on floor in cold. (Suitor test.) H1504
• Women to appear naked in beauty contest. H1596.3
• Men shamed for their cowardice by woman standing naked before them. (Usually connected with Jus Primae Noctis [T161]). J87
• Brother who conforms to naked people's customs honored. Two brothers go to the land of Naked People. One of the brothers wears clothes and is punished. J815.2
• Accused woman to go three times around building naked: guilty one begins to strip off her clothes. J1141.1.8
• Black beans, white soup. Question: How can black beans make a white soup? Answer: How can a white whip on the naked flesh make black welts. J1291.1
• Man asks naked Indian if he is not cold. Indian asks if man's face is cold. Man replies that it is not. Indian replies: "Me all face!" J1309.1
• Taking cold in effigy. A traitor is hanged in effigy naked. Later the citizens sue for peace and arrange a meeting. They find him in a hot room swathed with many blankets. He says that he has taken cold when the night wind blew on him as he hung naked from the gallows. J1628
• Fool at baths believes he is someone else. Sees everybody naked. Puts straw on his shoulder to identify himself. Straw floats to another bather. "You are me and I am you!" J2012.6
• Poor man thinks idol in temple is poorer than he since it is naked. J2216
• Naked person made to believe that he is clothed. J2312
• Not naked but with a hood on. She confesses that she has had relations with the priest. J2499.2
• Couldn't wait to dress. The overzealous visitor rides naked to see his friends. J2517
• Rebuke for going with a naked head in public. The woman rebuked has lost her hair in sickness. Forthwith she covers up her head with her dress and exposes her body. J2521.2
• Bringing the devil an unknown animal. The man sends his naked wife on all fours in tar and feathers. The devil has never seen such an animal. K216.2
• Trickster exacts promise of marriage as price of silence after having seen a princess naked. K443.6
• The emperor's new clothes. An impostor feigns to make clothes for the emperor and says that they are visible only to those of legitimate birth. The emperor and courtiers are all afraid to admit that they cannot see the clothes. Finally a child seeing the naked emperor reveals the imposture. K445
• Lover left standing in snow while his mistress is with another. He later tricks her into standing a whole day in July in a tower naked exposed to the sun and flies. K1212
• Woman dares husband to try his sword on pile of clothing which hides her paramour. Stops him just in time. Later the paramour entices her to come to him. Exposes her naked, except for face, to his friends. K1213.1
• Adulteress frightens paramour with cries of "Rape!" Then she removes her husband's suspicion by feigning a fit. Later the paramour tricks her to his room and shows her naked, except for face, to her husband. K1213.1.1
• Three women humiliate importunate lover. First has him hide on thorns, second has him fall into a hole, third has him fall asleep in the street. In revenge he shows them naked, except for face, to his friends. (Cf. K1213.1.) K1218.4.1
• Girl shows herself naked in return for youth's dancing hogs. K1358
• Seduction by giving aphrodisiac. Woman tricked into standing naked in stream; medicine put into water. K1395
• Lucretia seduced through threat. Sextus says he will kill her and leave a naked slave in her bed to bring dishonor on her house. She yields. K1397
• Trickster sets fire to barrel of tow in which paramour is hidden. The paramour, naked, runs out carrying wisps of burning tow. The trickster tells the husband that he has raised the devil. K1554.1
• The devil in the barrel. The naked lover hides himself in a sooty barrel. The husband receives from a curious gentleman a good sum of money for showing him the "devil". K1555.2
• The husband prepares to castrate the crucifix. The artist's wife's paramour poses as a crucifix when caught. When he sees the husband's preparations, he flees naked. K1558
• Tables turned on procuress by chaste wife. The old woman is enticed into the wife's room, beaten, and driven forth naked. K1683
• Villain brings (threatens to bring) naked servant to woman's house. Threat of false accusation of indiscretion forces woman to yield. K2112.4
• Bargain: woman rides naked through streets to obtain freedom for citizens. Godiva. M235
• Loser of shooting wager to go naked into thorns for bird. N55.1
• Naked soldier becomes general. Stripped for bathing he takes his place as guard when the king unexpectedly arrives. King invites him to come naked to the castle, where he is chosen as husband by a general's daughter. N684
• Naked leper. P162.1
• Undutiful children ridicule father while he is drunk and naked. P236.5
• Injured husband will not kill a naked man. P641
• Bold woman who danced naked in church is stricken with leprosy. Q222.5.3
• Seducer, who had disguised as woman, is led naked through streets. (Cf. Q243.2.) Q473.3
• Woman must relight magic fires as punishment. Magician in revenge for ill-treatment causes the lights of the city to go out. They can be relighted only from the naked body of the woman in the public square. None can be relighted until all have applied their torches. Q492
• Lazy wife taken naked in bundle of straw to a wedding. (Cf. Q321.) Q495.1
• Penance: creeping naked through thorns. Q522.3
• Man goes forth naked: cursed with nakedness throughout life. (Cf. Q556.) Q589.2
• Husband's indiscreet boast about wife brings about his death. King regards his wife as so beautiful that he has a friend view her naked through a crack in the wall. Wife learns of his act, goes over to the man who has viewed her, and with the latter brings about the king's death. T295
• Dead not to be buried naked. V68.4.1
• Ridiculous nakedness or exposure. X52