23 motifs match “quick”  ·  back to the chapters

• Stretching lily plant. Miraculously quick growing. D482.2
• Magic ash tree (quicken, rowan). D950.6
• Ash (quicken, rowan) used (by druids) for divinations. D1311.4.1.1
• Ash (quicken, rowan) protects against spells and enchantment. (Cf. D950.6, D1311.4.1.1.) D1385.2.5
• Magic quick growth of crops. D2157.2
• Magic quick growth of saint's crops. D2157.2.1
• Extraordinary quick growth of animal. (Cf. T585.) F983.0.1
• Rowan wood (quicken, etc.) protects against witches. G272.2.1
• Task: collecting firewood quickly, sufficient to last remainder of one's life. H1095.1
• Task: making garden quickly in unplanted forest. H1103.1
• Task: digging a pond quickly. H1105
• Task: bringing water from distant fountain more quickly than a witch. H1109.1
• Love detected by quickening pulse. A woman's adulterous love detected through her pulse quickening at mention of her lover. J1142.2
• Guilt detected by quickening heartbeat. J1142.2.1
• Rushing through the mass. Two priests apply for the position of chaplain and argue as to which one can say the mass more quickly. One clinches the argument saying: "You could not say it more quickly than I because I don't read half of it!" J1263.1.3.1
• One basket of wit better than twelve carloads of it. Female jackal saves herself and husband by quick thinking. (Cf. K622.1.) J1662.1
• Boy thinks terrapin hatches from bedbug eggs. Small boy examines bedbug eggs under pillow every morning. One morning he finds a terrapin there. "I don't see how we raised this so quick." J1772.1.1
• Sham physician: making the girl grow up. A king wants his daughter to grow up quickly. The physician says that he must send away for the medicine; meantime she must be shut up. After several years they show her to the king. She has grown. K1955.5
• Frog removed from queen's nose by telling such interesting story that she gives quick breath and dislodges him. N641.2
• King quick to anger. P12.13
• Polygamy so that head wife may be quickly replaced for wrongdoing. T145.8
• Lies about quick change from cold to warm. X1606.1
• Lies about quick change in weather from warm to cold. X1606.2