99 motifs match “places”  ·  back to the chapters

• Various other dwelling places of gods. A151.14
• Origin of particular places. A980
• Origin of particular places – miscellaneous. A989
• Origin of sacred places. A992
• Origin of settlements (places later to be settled). A996
• Man made of earth brought from four different places. A1241.5
• Origin of trade between two places. A1471.1
• Origin of insects: released from sack. God places them in a sack and gives it to hare to carry to stream. He must not look in the sack. When he does so the insects escape. The hare laughs and this is the cause of his split lip. A2003
• Why porcupine lives in high places in mountains. A2433.3.11
• Why butterflies haunt urine-impregnated places. A2433.5.6
• Magic birds lure hunters to certain places. B172.6
• Tabu: to enter sacred places closed to the female sex. (Cf. C51.1.2.) C51.1.10
• Felled trees (cut weeds) return to their places because of broken tabu. C939.3
• Four balls given to each of four impoverished men point out places where they should dig. (Cf. 1256.) D1314.14
• Magic healing oil from saints (sacred places). (Cf. D1500.1.10.) D1500.1.19.2
• Lucky places for grave. (Cf. D1073.) D1561.1.9
• Stones, being removed, return to their places. (Cf. D931, D1401.5.) D1602.1
• Chips from tree return to their places as cut. (Cf. D950.) D1602.2.2
• Strength wanes at particular places. D1836.2
• Rain or snow avoids certain places according to the desire of a saint or monk. D1841.4.4
• Person appears to be in several places at once. D2031.18
• Revenants banished to glaciers and uninhabited places. E437.1
• Ghost seen in two places simultaneously. E599.9
• Soul visits places of birth, death, baptism, and burial after leaving body. E722.3.3
• Life token: rings will exchange places on girls' fingers. E761.7.14
• Congregating places of fairies. F217
• Fairy lights seen in low places. F217.1
• Other dwelling places of fairies. F219
• Fairy replaces man's heart with heart of straw. Eyes with wood, etc. F281
• Burial places (barrows, howes) as homes of dwarfs. F451.4.1.9
• Spirit hides articles in strange places. F473.2.2
• Will-o'-the-Wisp. (Jack o' Lantern.) Light seen over marshy places. F491
• Pygmy. Remarkably small man. Also called "dwarf". To be distinguished from the dwarfs who live in the woods and inhabit underground places (F451). F535
• Skillful surgeon removes and replaces vital organs. (Cf. X1721.2.) F668.1
• Extraordinary places. F700
• Other extraordinary objects and places. F840
• Cultivated places suddenly become desert. F969.5
• Person places three notched elder twigs under bowl. Witch is forced to remove them, thus revealing herself. G257.6
• Places haunted by the devil. G303.15
• Bocca della Verità. Person swearing oath places hand in mouth of image. If oath is false the hand is bitten off. H251.1
• What is softest? The hand. (In order to lie soft one places his hand between the head and the pillow.) H652.1
• What does God do? He brings low the proud and exalts the lowly (said by shepherd masking as bishop to king, who has exchanged places with him). (Cf. H562.) H797.1
• Quest for unknown objects or places. H1382
• Man learns the fear of Death by meeting Life. Life (old woman) beheads him and replaces his head backwards. Simpleton left in fear for hours before head is readjusted. J27
• Don't drive away the flies. Wounded animal (man) refuses to have the flies driven away since they are now sated and their places will be taken by fierce and hungry flies. J215.1
• Do not pluck off the well-fed leeches. Wolf told not to do so lest hungrier ones take their places as he swims. J215.1.3
• Avoiding places which have been fatal to others. J644
• Magician assigned three places at a table. He confesses to carrying two persons in his body. J1141.2
• Youth will answer question only when king places him on throne: then youth calls executioners to punish cruel king. J1189.1
• Priest offers to exchange places with the bishop when he is told that he is unfit to care for his parish. J1265.2
• Fishes to stop at his house. Fool directs them as he places them in stream. J1881.2.3
• The cat to guard the cheese. A farmer troubled with mice eating his cheese places a cat in the tub with the cheese. She eats the mice and the cheese. J2103.1
• Same climate at home and abroad. Because his members look the same in the two places. J2274.3
• Imitation of miraculous horse-shoeing unsuccessful. Christ takes off a horse's foot to shoe it and then successfully replaces it. (Cf. J2401.) J2411.2
• "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
• The fool betrays his brothers. They escape but he is captured and stupidly betrays their hiding places. J2668
• Race won by deception: relative helpers. One of the contestants places his relatives (or others that resemble him) in the line of the race. The opponent always thinks the trickster is just ahead of him. (Told of animals or of men; often of the hare and the turtle.) K11.1
• Wrestling match of man with fever. Man places stone image at wrestling-place; fever enters image and shatters it. K12.4
• Contest in seeing sunrise first: sun on the trees. The fox places himself on a hill facing the east; the hog in a lower place facing the high trees to the west. The sun shines on the top of the trees, and the hog wins. (Sometimes told with human actors.) K52.1
• Thief places candles on crabs (bugs). When they are turned loose in the churchyard the parson and the sexton think that they are the souls of the dead. Meanwhile the thief steals from them. K335.0.5.1
• Shoes dropped to distract owner's attention. The thief drops two shoes in different places and steals a ram while the shepherd goes after the shoes. K341.6
• The polluted fish. Servant places his one fish with Brahmin's entire catch; receives all since Brahmin considers all polluted. K344.1.1
• Angry man kills his own horse by mistake. Trickster has shifted the places of his horse and that of the dupe. K942
• Peter receives the blows twice. Peter and Christ are sleeping in the same bed. The drunken host returns home and beats Peter, who thereupon changes places with Christ. The host then comes in to beat the other lodger and beats Peter again. K1132
• Wife (mistress) substitutes for mistress (wife). The woman has been asked for a rendezvous. She tells the suitor's wife and they exchange places. K1223.3
• Adulteress throws small coffer out of window. While the husband retrieves it the paramour changes hiding places. K1514.15
• Substituted caps cause ogre to kill his own children. The hero and heroine change places in bed with the ogre's children and put on them their caps so that the ogre is deceived. K1611
• Big shoes in front of the barn. Man makes giant shoes and places them so that ogre thinks a giant lives there. K1717
• She-bear as false bride. Compels true bride to exchange places. K1911.1.6
• Woman substitutes child for her own and sells it. Exchanges sleeping places. K1922
• Impostor forces hero (heroine) to change places with him (her). K1934
• Curses on places because of offensive answer to saint. M411.8.3
• Curse: corpse to be put in three different places after person's death. M453
• Lucky or unlucky places. N122
• Unlucky places. N122.1
• Saint changes places with charioteer; latter is killed. N338.1
• Mistress expecting lover accidentally exchanges places with her maidservant. N391.1
• Barmecide feast. Host places imaginary feast before guest, who accepts it in the same spirit. Guest's courtesy is rewarded by real feast. P327
• Deity descends and makes king and wronged subject change places. Q7
• Punishment for desecration of holy places (images, etc.) (Cf. Q411.11, Q415.7, Q431.13, Q491.1.2, Q499.3, Q551.6.5, Q551.8.2, Q552.17, Q556.6, Q557.7, Q558.5, Q558.14, Q558.17, Q558.18, Q559.9.) Q222
• Death as punishment for desecration of holy places (images, etc.). (Cf. Q222.) Q411.11
• Banishment for desecration of holy places. (Cf. Q222.) Q431.13
• Burial in deserted barn as punishment for desecration of holy places. (Cf. Q222.) Q491.1.2
• Magic sickness as punishment for desecration of holy places (images, etc.). (Cf. Q222.) Q551.6.5
• Deformity as punishment for desecration of holy places (images, etc.). (Cf. Q222.) Q551.8.2
• Mysterious death as punishment for desecration of holy places (images, etc.). (Cf. Q222.) Q558.14
• Animals stricken dead for desecration of holy places. (Cf. D2089.3.) Q558.14.1
• Places of captivity. R40
• Other places of captivity. R49
• The wicked queen reformed. While asleep she is made to exchange places with the cobbler's wife. She thinks she is in hell. The cobbler teaches her to obey and fear her husband. T251.2.4
• A gift of property silences criticism. A priest who has preached against lucrative places given the clergy is silent when he receives one. U21.2
• Peasant wishes to exchange places with monks. Thinks they lead a very easy life. One night's experience in the monastery makes him change his mind. U119.2
• Beasts and fishes exchange places: fatal to both. U136.2
• Saints in several places at once. V225
• The more bread (flour) the monks give to the poor the more God places in their bins. (Cf. D1652.1.1.) V412.2
• Bishop exchanges places with prisoner so as to have him return to his mother. W16
• "I can't hear you." Rector confesses his sacristan: "Have you drunk the wine designated for the mass?" – "I can't hear you." Exchange of places. Sacristan asks rector: "Have you kissed my wife?" – "Really, I can't hear you." X441.1
• Man cuts off own head, picks it up and replaces it. (Cf. E783.) X1726.2
• Four places that cleanse the soul. Z71.2.4