35 motifs match “ocean”  ·  back to the chapters

• Goddess as mother of Pacific Ocean. A109.2
• Combat between god of light and dragon of ocean. A162.2
• Ocean under this world. A816.2
• Earth let down from sky on to primeval ocean. A817
• Ocean the son of Earth and Heaven. A921
• Ocean made from blood. A922
• Ocean from creator's sweat. A923
• Ocean from urine. (Cf. A933.) A923.1
• Miscellaneous origins of the ocean. A924
• Giant drinks up ocean. A928
• Rivers and streams offspring of marriage of Ocean and his sister. A938
• Monster three-legged ass. Stands in the ocean. Has three feet, six eyes, nine mouths, two ears, one horn, a white body. Two eyes are in eye position, two on top of his head, two on his hump. He renders powerless by the sharpness of his eyes. He has three mouths in his head, three in his hump, and three in the inner parts of his flanks. Each mouth is the size of a cottage. (Cf. B13, B15.1, B15.2, B15.4.) B15.7.2
• Crocodile carries man across river (ocean). B551.3
• Turtle (tortoise) carries person across river (ocean). B551.5
• Monkeys construct a bridge across the ocean. B846
• Transformation: man to ocean wave. D283.5
• Stones cast in the ocean keep dry. D1841.4.3.2
• Man with legs so long he can steady boat as he stands in ocean. F517.0.2.1
• Giant wades the ocean. F531.3.1
• Rivers with marvelous underground connections. Euphrates, Tigris, Tiber, and River Boant really the same which flow through oceans and underground. F715.3
• Tree in midocean. F811.4.1
• Cow lowers ocean by drinking. F989.11.1
• Extraordinary descent into ocean. F1022
• Descent into ocean in glass box. F1022.1
• Jumping over a ditch which is really an ocean. F1071.2
• Witch stretches out her hand and brings water from ocean without getting out of her bed; is recognized. G259.5
• Devil piles sand in ocean so that vessels may run aground. G303.9.9.5
• Riddle: what is the mother who devours her children when they grow up? (Ocean and rivers.) H734
• Task: bringing the foam of the ocean in a large piece of cloth. H1049.1
• Task: measuring ocean. H1144
• Wisdom taught by parable: cloud which gives rain to thirsting crops or drops it in ocean. J88
• Prime minister bribes priest to persuade king that ocean of milk he wishes sought for had curdled. J811.5
• Drunk philosopher wagers that he can drink the ocean dry. Agrees to do so if the other will hold back streams emptying into the ocean. Agreed to drink only the ocean. J1161.9
• Credulous king reads about ocean of milk and its properties. J2349.3
• Gram (parched grain) sticks in post; parrot goes to raja, etc., for help. Final formula: at last creeper took pity on birds, and elephant feared creeper, and ocean feared elephant, and fire feared ocean, and stick feared fire, and snake feared stick, and carpenter feared snake; and carpenter split post which gave up the grain to the birds, who went away. Z41.6.1