34 motifs match “rainbow”  ·  back to the chapters

• God descends on rainbow. A171.0.3.1
• Rainbow-goddess. A288
• Origin of the Rainbow. A791
• Rainbow as bow of deity. A791.1
• Rainbow as snake. A791.2
• Rainbow made as bridge by the gods. A791.3
• Rainbow has three colors. A791.4
• Rainbow is a transformed king; the lesser rainbow is the king's wife. A791.5
• Rainbow from gods' emptying their drinking cups. A791.6
• Rainbow is horse of rain-god. A791.7
• Rainbow comes out of an anthill. A791.8
• Rainbow lives in a hole. A791.8.1
• Origin of rainbow: transformed butterflies (souls of lovers). A791.9
• Rainbow as covenant between creator and men. A791.10
• No rainbow for fifteen years before the Day of Judgment. A1002.2.1
• Tabu: looking at rainbow. C315.2.3
• Tabu: pointing at rainbow. C843.1
• Magic control of rainbow. D2149.7
• Reincarnation as rainbow. E644
• Rainbow bridge to otherworld. F152.1.1
• Rainbow of honey appears regularly in otherworld. F162.7
• Rainbow spirit. F439.1
• Rainbow draws to itself fisherman and his boat. F439.1.1
• Rainbow spirit as helper on journey. F439.1.2
• Rainbow spirit as messenger. F439.1.3
• Boy runs so fast snow makes rainbow behind him. F681.13
• Rainbow as loincloth. F829.1
• Rainbow stretches from monastery to heaven at saint's death. F960.2.2
• Thin cloud in form of rainbow. F967.4
• Rainbow as ogre. G306
• Prophecy: rainbow will appear at saint's death. M364.6
• Treasure at end of rainbow. N516
• Conception from rainbow. T521.2
• Worship of rainbow. (Cf. A288.) V1.5.6.1