49 motifs match “pond”  ·  back to the chapters

• Each world corresponds to different color. A659.4
• Christian paradise (Terra Repromissionis) corresponding to pagan Celtic otherworld (Ireland). A694.1
• Zones of earth corresponding to Zodiac. A881
• Origin of fish ponds. A1457.6
• Why rat may eat rice. Brings original rice-plant from pond. A2435.3.10.1
• Does, tigresses, she-wolves milked into pond, which becomes a pond of milk. B531.2.1
• Despondent mother curses herself and children into trees. D525.1
• Magic lake (pond). D921
• Lake (pond) produced by magic. D921.1
• Magic pond causes disease. (Cf. D921.) D1500.4.3
• Jewel responds to owner's voice. (Cf. D1070.) D1651.13
• Magic control of pond (tank). D2151.5
• Pond magically dried up. D2151.5.2
• Ghost laid by burying bell from church in one pond, the clapper in another. If the two ever come together again, the ghost can walk. E459.6
• Wild hunt goes thrice around pond. E501.14.3
• Life Index. Object or animal has mystic connection with person. Changes in one correspond to changes in the other. E760
• Otherworld at bottom of pond. F133.4
• Giant with eyes like ponds. F531.1.1.2.2
• Extraordinary pond (lake). F713
• Pond of ambrosia. F713.1
• Pond of milk. (Cf. F711.2.1, F715.2.3.) F713.4
• Pond always clear because deity uses it for his bath. F713.5
• World at bottom of pond. F725.8
• Extraordinary occurrences connected with pond (pool, tank). F935
• Ogre persuaded to drink pond dry bursts. G522
• Enigmatic statement: the tank (pond) does not belong to you. (Else you would have given the beggar fish to eat.) H594.2
• Explanation of phenomenon: large pond emptying itself into several smaller pools (man may spend without getting any return). H614.2
• Reductio ad absurdum of task. When an impossible task is given, the hero responds with a countertask so absurd as to show the manifest absurdity of the original task. (Cf. H1023.3.1, H1024.1.1.1.) H952
• Task: bringing a well (pond, lake) to king. Hero asks for another lake to tie to it and overawes king. H1023.25
• Task: digging a pond quickly. H1105
• Task: bailing out a pond. H1113
• Bailing out pond with thimble. H1113.1
• Letting in the light. Backwoods preacher tells couple that they are living in darkness. The woman responds that she has been trying for years to get her husband to cut a window in the house. J1738.6
• Wool taken to pond for frogs and toads to weave. J1851.1.4
• Snakes in pond to be killed: eels also killed. J2114
• "Soak me in the pond so that I will be juicy." K553.5
• Fish tricked by crane into letting selves be carried from one pond to another. The crane eats them when they are in his power. (Cf. K713.1.2.) K815.14
• Victim persuaded to look into well or pond: pushed in. K832.1.1
• The weeping bitch. A procuress throws pepper into the eyes of a bitch so that she weeps. She pretends to the virtuous woman that the bitch is a woman transformed because of failure to respond to her lover. The woman is persuaded. K1351
• Old Hildebrand. Hidden cuckold reveals his presence by rhymes. He responds to the rhymes made by the wife and paramour concerning their entertainment. K1556
• Unresponsive corpse. Corpse is set up so that dupe addresses it and when it does not respond knocks it over. He is accused of murder. Most references to K2151 apply to this motif as well. K2152
• Man contracted to the devil responds to call by voice: "The hour has come but not the man." M219.2.3
• Four pots of rupees magically appear on horns of buffaloes stuck in pond, and poor owner becomes rich. N549.1
• Angel choir responds when saint receives orders. V234.1.3
• Sparrow dissatisfied with pond water wants to go to sea. W128.6
• Lies: animals trained to respond to certain sounds: absurd result. X1206
• Remarkable pond. X1546
• Lie: fish pond supplies both fresh fish and cooked. X1546.1
• Colors corresponding to the four world quarters. Z140.2