34 motifs match “outside”  ·  back to the chapters

• Why Russians wear their shirts outside their breeches. A1683.1
• Mosquitoes created by goddess to make sleeping outside impossible to men. A2034.1.1
• Magpie refuses to get into ark, sits around outside, jabbering over drowned world, is unlucky. (Cf. A2232.4.) A2542.1.1
• Tabu: marrying outside of group (or caste). C162.3
• Forbidden direction: not to step outside a certain line. C614.1.0.3
• Magic sheepskin, shaken inside and outside shed, showers gold and silver. (Cf. D1225.8.) D1469.11
• The ghost haunts outside at night in human shape. E279.1
• Ghost laid by burial outside village on far side of stream, with four iron nails driven into the corners of the grave. E442.2
• Changeling beaten and left outside; the mortal child is returned. F321.1.4.6
• Fairies kidnap boy when he breaks tabu by going outside mansion under earth before 12 years. F325.1
• When water-spirits are outside their homes the seas are heavy. (Cf. F420.1.5.3.) F420.2.4
• Task: standing neither inside nor outside of gate. (Forefeet of horse inside, hind feet outside.) H1052
• Quest for axe which sticks in beam outside a tower. H1338
• Bought behind the village. Lawyer declares unjustly that stolen horse has been bought and paid for. Angry farmer: "Yes, behind the village he bought and paid for it" (meaning that he stole it from the pasture). Lawyer pleads successfully that it is as well to buy a horse outside as inside the village. J1169.2
• Serfs congratulate their master. The delegate slips and falls, cursing: "The devil may take you!" The serfs outside think this was the congratulation, and all cry in chorus: "You and your family!" J1845
• The stolen bedcover. A man hears a noise outside the house at night. He wraps a bed cover about him and goes to investigate. The robbers take the bed cover and flee. The wife asks what the debate was about. "About the bed cover. When they got it, the quarrel was over." J2672
• Guess what I have in my hand and I will give it to you to make egg-cake with. What does it look like? What outside and yellow inside. It is a hollowed turnip filled with carrots. J2712.1
• Mowing contest won by trickery. The man takes the center of the field. The ogre is given a dull sickle and mows around the outside of the field. K42.2
• Deceptive nut and olive division: inside and outside. The clever man chooses the kernel of the nuts and the outside of the olive. K171.3
• Devil is to get soul of man whether he is buried "inside or outside of church, above or below ground." The man has himself buried in the wall of the church, partly in and partly out of the ground. (Cf. H1052.) K219.4
• Oversalting food of giant so that he must go outside for water. Meantime his goods are stolen. K337
• Person holds hat just outside shelter; enemies shoot at it, either giving away their position or putting themselves at a disadvantage in having to reload. K631.3
• Rafter supporting giant's house cut half through, so that it can be drawn down from the outside, and the giant killed. K959.3.1
• Lover leaves horse outside house as husband comes up: wife tells husband their cow has foaled a horse. K1549.4
• Whoever eats outside of fruit will become a king and whoever eats the seed will drop gems from his mouth every time he laughs. M312.3.2
• Careful builder outside when storm comes is killed; careless builder saved. N174
• Precious knife and belt as gift on unknown helper's spearshaft outside his tent. Q114.1
• Head cut off and hung on tree outside village. Q421.1.1
• Captive sends secret message outside (in orange or on handkerchief). R82
• Prisoner's sustenance from outside prison. (Cf. R81.) R84
• Exogamy. Marriage only outside the group. T131.5
• Child in mother's womb visible from outside. T575.4
• Oversight of the thievish tailor. Sews the stolen piece of cloth on the outside of his coat, thinking that it is on the inside. X221
• X751.Marriage forbidden outside the parish. An order is read in church forbidding the young people to marry girls from other parishes. X751