33 motifs match “precious”  ·  back to the chapters

• Precious properties of the gods. A156
• Music produced by precious stones in heaven. A661.0.2.2
• Self-illuminating precious stones in heaven. A661.0.7
• Serpents play with precious green stone. B11.6.2.2
• Animals with members of precious metal (jewels). B101
• Animal of precious metal (jewels). B102
• Animal bearing precious ornaments. B105
• Venomous snakes play with precious stones. B765.12
• Transformation: duck to precious stone. D423.3
• Magic statue of archer put into action my picking up precious object from ground. D1620.1.5.1
• (Luminous) precious stones in otherworld (dwelling). (Cf. A661.0.7.) F162.0.1.2
• Fairy chariot of precious metal. F242.1.3
• Water-spirits wear precious adornment. F420.1.6.3
• Water-spirits give money, gold, or precious stones. (Cf. F451.5.1.5.) F420.5.1.7.1
• Dwarfs make weapons and other precious objects for the gods. (Cf. F451.3.4.2.) F451.10.4
• City of precious metals and stones. F761
• City paved with precious seeds. F761.5
• Pillars of precious stones. F774.1
• Door of precious stones. F782.2
• Nimrod's multiple throne. Seven thrones on top of one another. Stone, cedar, iron, copper, silver, gold, precious stones. F785.2
• Artificial heavens. Placed on pillars of iron. Seven heavens. (1) glass, sun, moon, stars, (2) iron with lake in it, (3) tin with precious stones rolling about (thunder), (4) lead, (5) copper, (6) silver, (7) gold. F792
• Recognition through precious metal. H91
• Quest to fairyland for precious jewel. H1286.1
• "Rue not a thing that is past": counsel proved wise by experience. Man lets bird go and then, having listened to bird's false declaration that she had a precious gem in her body, he tries to climb a tree after her and falls. J21.12
• "Never believe what is beyond belief": counsel proved wise by experience. Man believes when bird tells him that she has a precious gem in her body. (Cf. J21.12, K604.) J21.13
• Health chosen as the most precious thing. J232
• Preciousness of untroubled sleep. J1081
• Sacrament too precious to be bought. If that were so, says the apprentice, no one would have given it to you or me. J1261.2.4
• Deduction: insect inside precious stone. The jewel is warm. J1661.1.6
• Arrogant farmer allows none to ride his precious horse without permission. He kills the man who does it, but is in revenge deprived of most of his goods. L434
• The fourteen lucky daughters. The husband leaves his wife, who has given birth to fourteen girls, thinking he is persecuted by bad luck because of failure to have a son. On the seashore, the girls find precious stones. The wife, now prosperous, finds her husband among beggars. N231
• Precious knife and belt as gift on unknown helper's spearshaft outside his tent. Q114.1
• Saint changes maggots in the sores of a nun into precious stones. V222.15