52 motifs match “riding”  ·  back to the chapters

• Nine nights' riding from heaven (or earth) to hell. A658.1.1
• Horse born of egg. Mythical hero will come riding on such a horse. B19.3
• Bird reveals dead rider. Calls out in human voice at seeing living woman riding behind dead man. B131.4
• Person frightened by animals successively replying to his remarks. Example: Man riding horse and followed by dog tells horse to jump over a hole. Horse says, "I will not." Man turns to dog and says, "Isn't that strange – a horse talking!" The dog says, "Yes, isn't it." Often the man runs, meeting other animals which answer him, until he falls exhausted. B210.1
• Unusual animal as riding-horse. B557
• Tabu: women riding in canoe. C181.10
• Tabu: looking at nude woman riding through town. (Godiva.) C312.1.2
• Tabu: concerning riding horses. C884
• Tabu: riding dirty on black-heeled horse across certain plain. C891.1
• Magic air-riding basket. D1118.1
• Bundle of wood magically acts as riding horse. D1523.3
• Broken-down nag becomes magnificent riding horse. D1868.1
• Rejuvenation by riding surf. D1889.8
• Revenant as woman riding hog. E425.1.5
• Journey to sky-world by riding unseen in supernatural wife's chariot. F66.1.1
• Sea-riding horse carries mortals to fairyland. F213.3
• Thumbling has cat as riding-horse. F535.1.1.6
• Witch causes man to strip naked and imitate a jockey riding himself. G269.21.3
• Riding speckled horse as credential test. H242.1
• Suitor contest: difficult riding. H331.1
• Suitor contest: riding up glass mountain. H331.1.1
• Suitor contest: riding to fourth story of tower. H331.1.2
• Suitor contest: riding up mast (spear). H331.1.3
• Suitor contest: riding across pit. H331.1.4
• Suitor contest: riding through fire. H331.1.5
• Suitor test: riding strong princess's horse. H345.2
• Task: coming neither on horse nor on foot (riding nor walking). H1053
• Riding and taming a wild horse. H1155.1
• Task: riding buffaloes. H1155.5
• Raven riding on bull's horns thinks he has brought bull home. J953.10.1
• Bishop and prince. Peasant tells bishop, who rides by with forty horses, that he wonders if St. Kilian at Würzburg is also riding with forty horses. Bishop excuses extravagance by saying that he is also a prince and that it is the prince, not the bishop, who is using the horses. "If the prince should become a fool, what would the bishop do then?" J1289.2
• The blacksmith's and the horse-trader's dreams. They are forced to sleep together because of lack of room. The blacksmith tells the horsetrader that he often dreams that he is striking the bellows and that he may accidently strike him in the night. The horsetrader retaliates by dreaming that he is riding a horse and drives the spurs into the blacksmith. J1622
• As tired as if he had walked. So says the numskull after riding to town on his stick horse. J1946
• The bear riding the horse lets his paws fall on the horse's flanks. He is caught on a tree and leaves his claws in the horse's flesh. J2187
• Curiosity satisfied: riding the ox's horns. As his ox, who has enormous horns, is asleep, the fool gets on the horns. The ox wakes and throws him off. When he comes to his senses, the fool says, "I had a hard time, but my curiosity is satisfied." J2375
• Race won by deception: riding on the back. One contestant rides on the other's back. (Cf. K25.1.) K11.2
• Flying contest won by deception: riding on the other. Wren hides in eagle's wings. (Cf. K11.2.) K25.1
• Riding contest won by substitution. K27
• Deceptive contest in carrying a tree: riding. The trickster has the dupe carry the branches of a tree while he carries the trunk. He rides on the trunk. K71
• Devil's magic power turned on himself. The hero who is riding the devil as a horse receives supernatural strength from plucking a hair from the devil's mane. He then spurs the devil until he agrees to forego his bargain for the man's soul. K214
• Aristotle and Phyllis: philosopher as riding horse for woman. The philosopher warns the king against uxoriousness. In revenge the queen beguiles the philosopher into letting her ride him on all-fours. The king comes and sees. K1215
• Husband tricks wife into riding a mule which has been denied water. On fording a stream the mule plunges into the water. Wife drowns. (Sometimes also paramour.) K1567
• "All of these are mine," says wooer as he strokes his whiskers. The girl thinks he is indicating the fields and live stock past which they are riding. K1917.7
• Wolf poses as "grandmother" and kills child. (Red Riding Hood.) K2011
• Trouble-maker in night-lodging. Comes riding a wolf and asks for hospitality. Wolf kills sheep. Beehive in bed. Bees sting family and cause father to kill son. K2138
• Man falls dead when he realizes that he has been riding over frozen sea. N383.1
• Numskull's outcry overawes tiger who is carrying him on his back. Tiger thinks that words are the name of the "demon" riding him. N691.1
• Punishment: riding through street on bull. Q473.1
• Riding backwards on donkey as punishment. Q473.5.2
• Riding three times around hill to free captive confined within. R112.2
• Farmer's son and noble's reared in country. The former takes to toil on farm, the latter to riding and hunting. U121.3
• Lie: man rides unusual riding animal (lion, deer, etc.). (Cf. B557.) X1004.1