47 motifs match “raises”  ·  back to the chapters

• Raising the sky: striking with broom. Old woman's hump strikes clouds as she sweeps. She strikes at sky with broom and thus raises it. A625.2.3
• Whale raises back so that voyaging clerics can land to celebrate. B256.12
• Grateful hare raises animal army for hero. B524.6
• Magic poem (satire) raises blotches on face. (Cf. D1275.4.) D1403.1
• Magic object raises storm. D1541.1
• Shirt laid upon altar raises storm. (Cf. D1056.) D1541.1.4
• Tempest box raises storm. (Cf. D1174.) D1541.1.5
• Magic calabash holding bones raises storm. (Cf. D965.2) D1541.1.7
• Singing magic hymn raises storm. (Cf. D1275.3) D1541.1.8
• Felled tree raises itself again. (Cf. D950.) D1602.2
• Magic object raises alarm when stolen. D1612.5
• Saint orders the cicadas to sing the praises of God or be silent, because they disturb his preaching. D2156.7
• Man raises corpses and gets their shrouds, then "lays" them again. E456
• Dead man praises God. E576
• Witch raises winds. G283.1
• Reason why witch raises wind. G283.1.2
• Witch raises contrary wind to keep ship in port. G283.1.2.1
• Witch raises wind to aid becalmed boat. G283.1.2.2
• Witch raises wind to sink ships of people who have injured her. G283.1.2.3
• Witch raises wind to winnow grain. G283.1.2.4
• Witch raises wind to blow man's fleeces away. G283.1.2.5
• Witch raises wind to break up enemy's lumber pound. G283.1.2.6
• Recognition by overheard conversation with bridge. Bridge which will trip up bridal party if king is not marrying an equal. Disguised princess praises bridge for its recognition of her equality with the king. H13.2.1
• Elephant raises girl three times to be king's wife. H171.1.1
• Discussion between priest and Jew carried on by symbols. E.g., priest raises three fingers (Trinity); Jew raises arm (one God); etc. H607.1
• Liar rewarded by the apes. King of apes asks visitors how they like his children (courtiers). Truthful visitor tells that they are very ugly, and is punished. Liar praises their beauty and receives reward. J815.1
• Ass in lion's skin unmasked when he raises his voice. J951.1
• Bad writer who praises himself reprimanded. J953.2.1
• Cheater put out of countenance by raising alarm. Wine seller carries water into his cellar. Man raises alarm pretending that he thought the house must be afire. J1216
• Theological questions answered by propounding simple questions in science. Where was God before he made heaven and earth? and the like answered by "Why a louse bite raises a blister, a flee bite raises a swelling, and a gnat bite is unnoticeable?" If you cannot answer such simple questions how can you pry into God's secrets. J1291.2
• Cynic praises power of reason. Tells Alexander that the power of reason makes even a poor man as great as a king. J1442.1.1
• The falcon not so good as represented. A nobleman praises his falcon. His fool, supposing they were praising the falcon as food, kills the bird, but is disappointed in the taste. J1826
• The persuasive auctioneer. The auctioneer praises the man's worthless cow so much in his speech that the man takes her back himself. J2087
• Husband praises wife's fidelity. Rascal tests it and finds it lacking. J2342.4
• Numskull praises his daughter as being pregnant. He tries in vain to sell his cow and succeeds only when he says that she is with calf. When suitors come wooing his daughter, he tries the same plan disastrously. J2427
• Owner feigns madness and thus raises alarm: thieves captured. K439.9
• The cowardly duelers. In the war between the wild and the domestic animals, the cat raises her tail; the wild animals think that it is a gun and flee. K2323
• Wager on wife's complacency. Though the man has foolishly bargained everything away, she praises him and he wins the wager. N11
• Captive knight freed for having kept his word. Is allowed to leave to collect ransom (or marry fiancée). When he returns his captor frees him (or raises ransom). Q54.2
• Ungrateful king raises old woman's rent; miraculous punishment. (Cf. W154.2.) Q281.4
• Belfagor. The devil frightened by the shrewish wife. A man persuades his shrewish wife to let herself be lowered into a well. When he comes to pull her out he raises a genie (devil) who is glad to escape from the woman. Later he frightens the devil by telling him that his wife has escaped. T251.1.1
• Woman raises sores on her body to preserve chastity. T327.5
• The generous correction. Ruler asks treasurer to give man 200 crowns. Treasurer makes error and puts down 300. Ruler raises sum to 400. "I can't allow your pen to be more liberal than I." W11.12
• Stingy dead woman raises her head to correct account of laundress, who is overcharging her daughter. W152.3
• Barber alone praises usurer. Custom not to bury dead until someone has something good to say about him. No one will praise a dead usurer until a barber is willing to say that he had a good beard. X511
• Drunk man at the wedding. Goes to sleep and never reaches it, though at home he praises the wedding. X813
• Lie: man raises eggs from eggplant. X1495