75 motifs match “putting”  ·  back to the chapters

• Animal scorches self while putting out fire in land of fire, woe and darkness. A2218.1.1
• Merman attacked by putting steel in the water. B82.5
• Tabu: putting house in order for one man. C743
• Tabu: putting spear-head between teeth. C835.2.3
• Tabu imposed by forthputting woman. C901.1.3.1
• "Shame and disgrace" threatened for refusing love of forthputting woman. C929.1
• Swan Maiden. A swan transforms herself at will into a maiden. She resumes her swan form by putting on her swan coat. (It is difficult to tell in most Swan Maiden tales whether the primary form is swan or maiden: the incident may belong at D161.) D361.1
• Transformation by putting on skin, clothing, etc. D530
• Transformation by putting on skin. By putting on the skin, feathers, etc. of an animal, a person is transformed to that animal. D531
• Transformation by putting on claw, feather, etc. of helpful animal. D532
• Transformation to horse (ass. etc.) by putting on bridle (halter). D535
• Transformation by putting on moustache. D537.3
• Disenchantment by putting on (removing) chain from neck. D723
• Disenchantment by putting chain around neck. D723.1
• Girl disenchants her tiger-husband by putting a garland around his neck, sprinkling sand and water over him. D789.9
• Putting head under saint's cloak reveals rewards of heaven. D1329.1
• Transportation by putting magic ointment on feet. (Cf. D1244.) D1520.26
• Magic sight by putting ointment into eye. (Cf. D1244.) D1821.4
• Wind raised by putting cat under bushel (barrel) (drowning cat). (Cf. G283.2.1.) D2142.1.5
• Cure by putting children on roof (in oven). D2161.4.11
• Cure by putting lock of patient's hair in hole of post or tree, then plugging hole with wood. D2161.4.18
• The dead daughter reproaches her mother for putting her dowery into coffin. E228
• Man can hear one sleeping by putting ear to ground. F641.3
• Person imitates witch by putting ointment in eye: eye blinded. (Cf. F361.3.) G242.8
• Witch prevents woman from putting one foot on floor. G269.20
• Witch keeps wind from blowing by putting cat under barrel. (Cf. D2142.1.5.) G283.2.1
• Ogress can make cold oven blaze by putting foot into it. G345.1
• Test of death by putting burning wood in the mouth of fallen warriors. H248.4
• Test of resourcefulness: putting thread through coils of snail shell. Thread tied to ant who pulls it through. H506.4
• Task: putting a large squash whole into a narrow-necked jar. H1023.11
• Task: putting peaches back on tree. H1023.18
• Undutiful son rebuked by father. Father tells son not to drag him past the threshold, because he had dragged his own father only up to that point when he had thought of putting him out of his house. J121.2
• Weaver prefers master with one hedgehog. Insists on his master putting hedgehog out of house. When master refuses, weaver leaves. Next master has two hedgehogs, and next has three. Weaver returns to first master. J229.8.1
• Putting out of countenance by telling evil stories. J1211
• Command would become permanent. A ruler receives gifts from his subjects and later demands them as he due. The fool sets the nobleman's bed on fire. When the nobleman commands him to put the fire out he refuses, since he would ever afterward have to be putting out fires. J1521.3
• Marking the place under the cloud. Numskulls leave a knife in the field, marking the place by putting it under a heavy cloud. Next day the cloud is gone and the knife lost. J1922.2
• Moving the fireplace. When it gives too much heat numskulls decide to move it instead of putting out the fire. J2104
• Putting the fish aside for Easter. They are put in one big pool, but an eel eats them up. J2124
• The polluted clothes. A Brahmin washes clothes to purify them. As they hang to dry, a dog walks under them and the Brahmin fears that they are polluted. By putting himself on all-fours like a dog and fastening a leaf like a dog's tail he experiments and decides that the dog must have touched the clothes. He therefore destroys them instead of rewashing them. J2184
• Putting fear into him. A plaintiff insists that the judge shall put some fear into the defendant debtor. The judge puts his fingers over the eyes of the defendant and cries, "Boo! Now give him his money." J2492
• Theft after putting owner to sleep by lousing her. K331.2.1.1
• Trickster dupes woman into putting him into basket. He thus learns where food is kept. K359.3
• Detection of theft of bull escaped by putting boots on bull. K412
• Escape by putting on old woman's skin. K521.1.4
• Escape by putting captor off guard. K611
• Person holds hat just outside shelter; enemies shoot at it, either giving away their position or putting themselves at a disadvantage in having to reload. K631.3
• Deception into putting on a collar. K713.2
• Capture by putting on the clothes of slain enemy. K761
• Lioness enticed into putting head into wall to pursue hare who escapes through hole. Gets stuck. K771.1
• Cormorant's tongue pulled out by putting louse on it. K825.1
• Fatal game: putting heads in notches. K865
• Snake killed by putting knives in animal he is swallowing. K897.1
• Murder by putting clod into person's windpipe. K951.4
• Murder by putting mouth of pot over victim's head. K959.1
• Dupe told he can get meat by putting hand up animal's anus: animal drags him. (Cf. K952.1, K1022.1.1.) K1036.1
• Flight by putting on bird feathers. Dupe falls. K1041.1
• Observer of intrigue insists on sharing in it (or enjoys the girl after putting the man to flight). K1271.1.4.3
• Putting the Devil in Hell. Obscene trick used to seduce woman. K1363.1
• Putting the Devil in hand. K1363.1.1
• Disguise by putting on clothes (carrying accoutrements) of certain person. K1810.1
• Disguise as hairy man by putting on lambskins. K1821.4.1
• Service in disguise in order to seduce king's daughter by putting love charm in her food. K1831.2.1
• Runaway cavalry-hero. When the sham hero goes to war his horse runs away with him. To save himself he grasps a cross from a graveyard and waves it from side to side, putting the enemy to flight. K1951.2
• Release from curse by putting pins around horse's heart and then boiling it. M429.2
• 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
• Doctor know-all accidentally saves raja. Roof caves in after he has dragged raja out with the intention of killing him and putting an end to all of his questions. N688.1
• Charon's fee: putting coin in dead person's mouth to pay for ferry across Styx. P613
• Mutilation: putting out eyes. S165
• Girl as wooer. Forthputting woman. T55
• Princess evades unwelcome lover by putting on foul-smelling skin-coat. T323.2
• Conception from putting on another's girdle. T532.5
• Conception from putting ball into bosom. T532.6
• Lazy wife throws bread out of window instead of putting it back into oven. W111.3.3
• Formulas signifying fruitlessness, e.g. like putting a withe about sand, like mocking a beggar. Z63