78 motifs match “person's”  ·  back to the chapters

• Man in moon a frog which has jumped into person's face and remains there. A751.3.1
• Origin of fire – found in person's own body. A1414.2
• Animals save person's life. (Cf. B540.) B520
• Animal saves person's life – miscellaneous. B529
• Bird rests on person's shoulders. B575.2
• 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
• Fish trained to answer person's call. B771.4
• Animal lives in person's stomach. B784
• Frog living in person's stomach rises into throat, croaks every spring. B784.0.1
• How animal gets into person's stomach (or body) (various methods). B784.1
• Swallowed blackbeetle reproduces inside person's body. B784.1.5
• Scaly lizard jumps into person's mouth. B784.1.7
• Tabu: mentioning land of person's birth. C442
• Magic change of person's size. D55
• Magic change in person's age. D56
• Change in person's color. (Cf. D31.) D57
• Grave equals five times length of any person's foot. D482.5.1
• Transformation by tying charm around person's neck. D585.1
• Snake disenchanted by being allowed to wrap itself three times around person's neck. D759.8
• Magic horns (grow on person's forehead). (Cf. D1011.1.) D992.1
• Magic ring permits owner to learn person's secret thoughts. (Cf. D1076.) D1316.4
• Magic well makes person's hair gray. (Cf. D926.) D1341.0.1
• Magic object changes person's disposition. D1350
• Magic object changes person's disposition – miscellaneous. D1359
• Magic object changes person's size. D1377
• Magic comb changes person's size at will. (Cf. D1072.1.) D1377.1
• Magic object controls person's will. D1379.1
• Magic runes control person's will. (Cf. D1266.1.) D1379.1.1
• Eaten object speaks from inside person's body. D1619.2
• Spider dropping on person's back as ill omen. D1812.5.1.12.3
• Witch delays person's death. D1855.1
• Saint delays person's death. (Cf. V220.) D1855.3
• Spell chanted over person's shadow brings death. D2061.2.2.2
• Elfshot. (F360.) Magic shooting of small objects into a person's (or animal's) body. D2066
• Tankard caused to stick to person's lips. D2171.1.2
• Resuscitation by returning dead person's soul (breath) to body. E38.1
• Ghostly fingers leave mark on person's body. E542.1
• Appearance of his wraith as announcement of person's death. (Cf. E723.2.) E723.6
• Life dependent on external object or event. Person's life is mystically connected with something else and comes to an end when that thing is destroyed. E765
• One person's life dependent on another's. E765.5
• Person's tongue as path to sky. F57.2
• Hero forces otherworld person's wife to tell him way to otherworld. F174.1
• Spirit blocks person's road. F402.1.2
• Spirits pull off person's bedclothes. F470.1
• Person's fingers not separated from one another. F515.1.1
• Person's urine melts rocks. F559.8.1
• Person's extraordinary body temperature. (Cf. F546.5). F593
• Rope made of person's hair. F843.1
• Person's thigh as hiding place. F1034.3
• Bottle concealed in person's thigh. F1034.3.2
• Person's armpit as hiding place. F1034.4
• Other parts of person's body as hiding place. F1034.5
• Witch eats person's entrails (heart). G262.2
• Witch causes person's arm to wither. G269.11.2
• Person's rank betrayed by habitual conversation. H38
• Test: guessing person's thoughts. H524
• Tasks imposed. A person's prowess is tested by assigning him certain tasks (usually impossible or extremely difficult) to be performed either to escape punishment or to receive a valuable reward. H900
• Land measured according to amount within person's view. H1584.1
• Clever person's defeat pleases inferior. J885
• "I don't understand." Foreigner asks who owns property, clothing, servants; whose wife an attractive woman is; whose funeral is in progress? Answer to each question is "I don't understand," which foreigner takes to be a person's name. (Cf. J1152, J1741, X111.7.) J1802.1
• "I don't know" thought to be a person's name. A man in a country that cannot speak his language hears "I don't know" so frequently that he thinks it must be the name of the owner of all the places he inquires about. J2496
• Surreptitious transfer of stolen object to innocent person's possession brings condemnation. K401.2.3
• Murder by putting clod into person's windpipe. K951.4
• Feigned ignorance about person's identity in order to tell one's frank opinion of him. K1792
• Feigned ignorance of person's identity in order not to reveal king. K1792.1
• Bloody knife left in innocent person's bed brings accusation of murder. K2155.1.1
• Murdered person's request and promise. M257.2
• Curse: corpse to be put in three different places after person's death. M453
• The cadaver arm. Medical students (or student nurses or hospital employees) play trick on one of their number by suspending a cadaver arm or leg from the light cord in the person's room (sometimes the object is placed in the person's bed). Some circumstance keeps them from being on hand to observe the person's reaction; the next day they remember the joke and go to the victim's room to investigate. They have to break down the door. They find the victim sitting on the bed – her hair is snow white – and she is gnawing on the cadaver arm. N384.0.1.1
• Death in the graveyard; person's clothing is caught; the person thinks something awful is holding him; he dies of fright. N384.2
• Secret of person's sleeplessness discovered by trickery. N465.1
• Charon's fee: putting coin in dead person's mouth to pay for ferry across Styx. P613
• Betel-nut grows upon a person's knee as a punishment. Q551.1.1
• Birth from unusual part of person's body. T541
• Birth from person's head. T541.4
• Intervention of Providence saves person's life. (Cf. R341.) V540
• Lie: remarkable person's physical powers and habits. X930
• Lie: remarkable person's skills. X960