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

• Primeval woman cut in pieces: houses, etc., made from her body. A642.1
• Stars as pieces of the moon. A764
• Falling stars as pieces of the moon. A788.1
• Creator creates earth piecemeal. A837
• Origin of hills and ridges: pieces of shattered god's head. A962.8
• Great fish killed by hero and cut into sixteen pieces: the great stones may still be seen. A972.7
• Origin of emeralds from marvelous vase broken into pieces. A978.3
• Man made from piece of clay thrown on ground. A1241.1
• Crab thrown to ground: breaks into small pieces. Hence crabs are small. A2214.4
• Mermaids tear their mortal lovers to pieces. B81.2.2
• Grateful snake gives gold piece daily. B103.0.4.1
• Jointed snake can join its segments when it is broken into pieces. B765.7
• Frog is enticed from patient's mouth by offering it a piece of cheese. B784.2.3
• Every piece of shattered cowrie-shell turns into an armed man. D432.2.1
• Transformation: piece of cotton to snake. D441.8
• Transformation: pieces of grass turned into stone steps. D451.5.5
• Transformation: pieces of chalk into tins of oil. D454.13
• Magic transportation on piece of rock. (Cf. D971.4.) D1520.30
• Magic needle makes everything fall to pieces. (Cf. D1181.) D1562.4
• Ruby shatters into half-dozen pieces when it is acquired by greedy lapidary. D1641.14.1
• Piece of wood revives memory. (Cf. D956.) D2006.1.8
• Saint cut into pieces or decapitated comes back to life. E1.1
• Resuscitation by piece of felt. (Cf. D1051.) E64.10
• Spells to recall dead lover. Boiling dead man's head, bones, or carcass in a pot, or burning a piece of lover's clothing or cat in a hot oven. E218
• Mother's ghost tries to tear daughter to pieces. E222.1
• "If I were not your next of kin." Ghost tells man that otherwise he would tear him into pieces. E229.1
• Dead tears living to pieces. E267
• Dead husband returns, helps wife knit socks, piece quilts. She shows his work as proof. E321.2.1
• Ghost laid by beating body to pieces. E446.3.1
• Fairies steal pieces as mortal plays draughts with fairy woman. F365.5
• Dwarfs turn peas into gold pieces. F451.3.3.1
• The purchased cobold discarded. On way home man believes himself cheated, and throws box with fly or piece of charcoal away. Later passing same place he finds a heap of corn or money. F481.0.1.2.1
• Child tears to pieces a live snake with his bare hands. (Cf. F611.3.2.) F628.1.3.2
• Wood of sixty trees nourishing three hundred men apiece. F812.2
• The danced-out shoes. Every morning girl's shoes are danced to pieces. F1015.1.1
• God discovers the devil in a piece of solid foam. G303.1.2.3
• 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
• Devil tries to wall in too large a piece of ground in a night and fails. G303.13.3
• Devil buys a woman's hair; the silver coin which he gives in payment is changed to a piece of wood and she dies. G303.25.13
• Ogre torn to pieces by birds. G512.9.2
• Identification by fitting together two pieces of parchment. H102.1
• Pieces taken from flags serve to identify. H103
• A piece of cloth on one's back as a guarantee against his being eaten on the way. H119.1
• Gold in the Bible. A man professes to be a great Bible reader. King leaves a piece of money in the Bible. On his next visit it is still there. H261
• How much am I (the king) worth? Twenty-nine pieces of silver, for Christ was sold for thirty. (Cf. H716.) H711.1
• Riddle: how much is a certain crucifix worth? Twenty-nine pieces of silver. (Cf. H711.1.) H716
• Task: weaving a shirt from a piece of thread; countertask: making a loom from a rod. H1022.2.2
• Task: making shirt from piece of linen three inches square. H1022.4
• Task: fixing the two pieces of a broken sword together. H1023.8
• Task: bringing the foam of the ocean in a large piece of cloth. H1049.1
• Task: breaking huge rock to pieces. H1116
• Fear test: staying in haunted house where corpse drops piecemeal down chimney. Dead man's members call out to hero, "Shall we fall, or shall we not?" H1411.1
• Bent tree test. Bent tree is released so as to tear hero to pieces. H1522.1
• Choice: a big piece of cake with my curse or a small piece with my blessing. J229.3
• King orders piece of cloth shown after his death. The measure of all that he has taken with him to the grave. J912.1
• Man who never does any piece of work so well that he cannot improve it. J1073.1
• Gold pieces in the honey-pot. Woman leaves honey-pot with neighbor to guard. It has gold below the honey. Neighbor steals the gold and substitutes honey. Theft proved by gold pieces sticking to sides of pot. (Cf. J1192.2.) J1176.3
• The short blanket must be patched. Weaver makes blanket shorter than ordered. Weaver ordered to add a piece to the blanket and then to receive full price. J1179.3
• Dividing four coins among three persons. Two coins apiece given to two; other is to wait till two more coins are found. J1241.2
• How he would act if he were a hawk. A hawk steals a piece of liver from a trickster and flies away with it. The trickster likewise steals some liver from another man and escapes to a high place with it. He says that he is seeing how he would act if he were a hawk. J1391.4
• The tailor's dream. A tailor dreams that at Judgment Day he sees a flag made up of all the pieces of cloth he has stolen Upon waking he asks his servants to warn him if they ever see him tempted to steal again. This happens. He replies, "The piece I am about to steal does not fit into the flag." J1401
• The 999 gold pieces. A man prays for a thousand gold pieces and says that he will not accept one less. A joker sends him 999. He says that he will trust God for the other coin. J1473.1
• The sound of the harp. An apprentice harpmaker is blamed that he has not made the harp sound. He throws the harp at his master's head and breaks it to pieces: "There you have your sound." J1626
• Watch mistaken for the devil's eye. Knocked to pieces. J1781.2
• Savory tea. The peasant entertains a priest at tea. Making it, puts in all the tea, six pounds of sugar, a piece of bacon, etc. J1813.7
• Money from the broken statue. Fool sells goods to a statue and when it will not pay him knocks it to pieces. He finds a treasure inside. (Cf. J1852.1.) J1853.1.1
• Coin weeps. Numskull thinks money piece covered with perspiration after he has held it for awhile is weeping. J1875.4
• Dog waits to be hit with meat. A butcher has threatened to hit him with a piece of meat. J2066.6
• Man lays piece of wood on his leg to saw it: saws leg off. J2131.3.3
• Thief of deer cuts it up and keeps counting pieces. Rescued by wife. J2136.5.3
• Every fruit tasted. Fool tastes every piece of fruit before giving it to his master. J2245
• Alleged healing stone sold. A sailor boy sells a seasick Jew "Babylon stones" as a cure. They are pieces of coal. K115.2
• Trick exchange: basket of stones for one of bread; a few pieces of money shown through slit in basket-cover to dupe. K149.1
• Penance of priest saves him from devil. The priest, who sold his soul to the devil, orders his servant to cut him (alive) up into pieces, to crucify him on a tree (and the like), thus saves his soul from the devils. K218.6
• Tailor throws piece of cloth out of the window. The stingy woman has the tailor come to her house to cut cloth. He throws a piece out of the window, "the devil's share". While the woman has gone after it he cuts off a piece for himself. K341.13
• Trail of stolen goods made to lead to dupe. The crane in revenge for the loss of her young ones strews pieces of fish from the dwelling of the mongoose to that of the snake. The mongoose follows the trail and kills the snake. K401.1.1
• Elephant cuts piece from own leg and puts it on shelf, lest he be accused of stealing meat. K407.3
• Trickster's confederate gives fabulous appraisal to worthless piece of glass. Priest is duped into buying it as a diamond. K451.4
• Girl serves her father with piece of her own flesh in place of chicken. K492
• Murder by feeding with honey-covered sharpened cross-pieces of wood. K951.6
• Gradual murder by piecemeal destruction of separable soul. K956.1
• Blind men duped into fighting: stolen meat. The trickster steals one piece of meat. The blind accuse each other and fight. K1081.2
• Lover's gift regained: piece of cloth as gift. The lover regains by a ruse and thievery the borrowed piece of cloth which he has presented to his mistress. K1581.5
• Lover's gift regained: jewelry as gift. The lover presents the wife with a valuable piece of jewelry, which he regains by pretending to the husband that he has left it as a pledge. K1581.6
• Penniless wooer: money in hand. An uncle gives the boy a coin and food to hold while he woos for him. He tells the girl's father that the boy has a piece of money in hand and plenty to eat. Wins the girl. K1917.2
• Oaths taken over severed pieces of horse. Pieces are then buried. M111
• Vow rather to be cut in pieces than permit oneself to be bound. M166.2
• Release from curse by putting a five cent piece in the churn. M429.6
• Release from curse by putting a piece of silver in the gun. M429.7
• Curse: head to split in seven pieces. M431.9
• Trained rat upsets pieces in gambling game: trained (or transformed) cat chases it away. N7
• The rich man's trial in heaven. A piece of bread given to a beggar is placed on the scales. Q172.2.1
• Virgin Mary appears to lady who neglected to hear mass. Woman awakens from trance to find piece of taper the Virgin took from her. Q223.7.1
• Tiger instead of girl in box tears lecherous teacher to pieces. Q243.6
• Punishment: dropping and dashing to pieces. (Cf. Q551.10.) Q417
• Cutting into pieces as punishment. Q429.3
• Piecemeal mutilation as punishment. Q451.11
• Deception punished by piecemeal mutilation. Q451.11.1
• Punishment: head split into many pieces. Q451.13
• Murderer's corpse cut into pieces. Q491.6.1