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

• Indentions on rocks from marks of various persons. A972.5
• Indentions on rocks from weapons, knees, and elbows (of persons slain by hero). A972.5.4
• Rocks or hill-tops flat because persons (gods) slept or cooked on them. A972.5.5
• Preservation of life of certain persons in Ireland during Flood. (Cf. A1006.5.) A1005.1
• Ireland repopulated by persons who escape flood. A1006.5
• Persons excluded from Noah's ark build another ark and sail to Ireland. A1021.0.1
• (Four) persons who, in four quarters of the world, survived the flood and thus preserved ancient tradition. A1029.2
• Persons escape to sky and become thunder. A1142.3
• Means of persuading persons to intercourse. A1352.2
• Son of three dogs ("con," persons). B635.4.1
• Persons exchange forms. D45
• Transformation: reptiles and miscellaneous animals to persons. D390
• Transformation: sections of bamboo to persons. D431.10
• Transformation: miscellaneous objects to persons. D439
• Magic object produces miscellaneous physical changes in persons or things. D1349
• Magic object produces miscellaneous temporary changes in persons, animals, or objects. D1379
• Magic object causes persons to stick together. D1413.0.1
• Magic formula causes persons to stick together. (Cf. D1273.) D1413.0.1.1
• Stones prostrate themselves before certain persons. (Cf. D931.) D1648.3
• Meeting certain persons (animals) a bad omen. D1812.5.1.7
• Certain persons invisible. D1981
• Persons magically caused to dance selves to death. D2061.1.2
• Persons magically made to decay and die. D2061.1.4
• Persons magically stick together. (Cf. D1171.2, D1413.14.) D2171.5
• Magic dancing. Enchanted persons dance till released. D2174
• Resuscitation with misplaced head. (Cf. M221.) In restoration of several persons simultaneously through reassembling of members, the heads are placed on the wrong bodies. Sometimes the damage is repaired, sometimes not. E34
• Apparently dead persons revived when certain thing happens. Proper prince appears, or the like. E68
• Persons who die violent or accidental deaths cannot rest in grave. E411.10
• Fate of ghosts of persons eaten by tigers. E419.12
• Persons born at midnight can see ghosts. E421.1.1.1
• Ghost seen by two or more persons; they corroborate the appearance. E421.5
• Wild hunt powerless against certain persons. E501.17.1
• Wild hunt harmful to certain persons. E501.18.1
• Wild hunt throws human flesh on persons who see it. This cannot be removed. E501.18.2
• Wild hunt throws horses' feet on persons who see it. This cannot be removed. E501.18.3
• Dead persons play games. E577
• Dead persons play ball. (Cf. E494.) E577.1
• Dead persons play cards. E577.2
• Dead persons bowl. E577.3
• Dead persons build fires. E578
• Dead persons draw chariot. E583
• Reincarnation of drowned persons as birds. E613.0.4
• Speaking and bleeding trees. Reincarnated persons. E631.0.4
• Wraiths of persons separate from body. E723
• Wraiths of persons drowning appear in dripping clothes. E723.7.8
• Fairies take persons up in air in chariots for a fortnight or a month. The lost are finally found in fields bereft of sense and with one of the members missing. F329.3
• Water-spirit keeps souls of drowned persons in dishes in his home. F420.5.2.3
• Water-man sits on back of persons as heavy burden. F420.5.2.10
• Certain persons can see trolls. (Cf. F235.3.) F455.5.4
• Certain persons can ban trolls. F455.9.1
• Mountain-men abduct persons. F460.4.4.1
• Persons who at night become nightmares. Those who are born on a Thursday and christened on a Sunday must at certain times (on Thursdays) press somebody or something. F471.1.5
• Brownies live in house. Move when persons move. (Cf. F481.3.) F482.3.1
• Remarkable persons. Extraordinary size, form, appearance, or habits. F500
• Monstrous persons. F510
• Headless persons cannot smell or hear. F511.0.1.2
• Persons whose heads are stone-hammers. F511.0.3
• Persons (animals) with four (six) eyes. F512.2.1
• Persons with many hands. F515.0.2
• Persons with tails. F518
• Two persons with bodies joined. Siamese twins. F523
• Other monstrous persons. F529
• Persons with punctured bodies. May be carried on a pole put through the orifice; may be hung up on a peg. F529.1
• Persons identical in appearance. (Cf. F1072.) F577
• Persons with extraordinary powers. F600
• Flower from otherworld (Land of Promise) miraculously appears to persons (saints). F979.10
• Extraordinary physical reactions of persons. F1041
• Guilty persons being confronted with their crimes become "insensate like trees". F1041.1.3.10.1
• Ghouls. Persons eat corpses. G20
• Witch (female demon) has persons she has enchanted as servants. G263.0.1
• Devil as whirlwind. Persons met by him are killed or maimed. G303.3.4.4.1
• Devil appears to persons ready to abandon their integrity. G303.6.2.5
• Various holy persons save one from devil. G303.16.11
• Identity tests. Recognition. Elaborate means are employed in folk-literature for the recognition of persons even though they have been separated a very short time. The various means used are detailed in the following discussion. H0
• Recognition through story-telling. Telling of a story known to both persons concerned brings about recognition. H11
• Recognition by answer to conundrum (known only to two persons). H19.2
• Recognition of other transformed persons. H63
• Identification by indenture. Each of two persons keeps his half of a contract which has been torn in two. Fitting of the halves brings about recognition. H102
• Ordeal: names of suspected persons are placed in chalice on altar: the one to whom the lot falls is guilty. H233.1
• Quest for three persons as stupid as his wife. H1312.1
• Quest for lost persons. H1385
• Physician willing to believe in four persons. Angers a theologian by disputing doctrine of the Trinity. "Don't get angry," he says; "rather than have you condemn me to hell, I would believe in four persons." J817.2
• Clever persons. J1110
• Magician assigned three places at a table. He confesses to carrying two persons in his body. J1141.2
• The ring to be cut in two and divided between quarreling persons: real owner laments the waste of the gold. J1171.1.1
• Dividing four coins among three persons. Two coins apiece given to two; other is to wait till two more coins are found. J1241.2
• Repartee based on levity toward sacred persons and things. J1261
• Retorts from hungry persons. J1340
• The one to blow the whistle. Many persons request a man on the way to market to buy them a whistle. Finally one hands him a coin with the request. "You are the one who shall blow the whistle." J1382.1
• One wrong and five hundred good deeds. A man steals a large sum, keeps half and distributes the rest among five hundred persons. He says that he has committed one wrong but has done five hundred good deeds. J1605
• The wise man and the rain of fools. A wise man is persuaded to taste water which has turned many persons into fools. He also becomes a fool. J1714.2
• Countryman expects to find persons from his own village when he travels to another land. J1742.1
• Same wishes used wisely and foolishly. Given to two persons with opposite results. J2073
• Persons build a wheelbarrow too large to come out of shed. J2199.2
• Each of two persons wants to sleep in the middle. (Sometimes solved by placing an object on one side of the bed.) J2213.1
• Literal fool is told to cook a few peas for five persons. Cooks five peas. Next time he is told to cook an abundance. Cooks half-bushel. J2461.1.4.1
• Devil gets another soul instead of one bargained for. The devil bargains with a man for his soul, but the man fulfills his contract and escapes. In envy two persons commit suicide. The devil rejoices that though he lost one he has gained two. K217
• Many persons admit theft so that it is impossible to find real thief. K415.1
• Fee from two persons for the same monopoly. Man to furnish goods exclusively to animal. Bargains at same time with another to do the same thing. K441.3
• Husband and wife each receive money (from different persons) to bury the other, who is supposed to be dead. K482.1