48 motifs match “rocks”  ·  back to the chapters

• Universe from pre-existing rocks. Originally rocks are assumed and everything is made from them. A644
• Origin of rocks and stones. A970
• Origin of rocks from breaking of God's sieve. A971
• Indentions on rocks from prints left by man (beast). (Cf. A901.) A972
• Indentions on rocks from imprint of gods and saints. A972.1
• Indentions on rocks from footprints of Christ. A972.1.1
• Indentions on rocks from footprints of fairies (angels, devils). A972.2
• Indentions on rocks from footprints of saint's cow. A972.3.1.2
• Imprint of horse in rocks. A972.4
• Indentions on rocks from marks of various persons. A972.5
• Indentions on rocks from head of infant hero (saint). A972.5.1
• Chasms between rocks mark "leaps" of giants, heroes, etc. A972.5.2
• Indentions on rocks from weapons, knees, and elbows (of persons slain by hero). A972.5.4
• Rocks or hill-tops flat because persons (gods) slept or cooked on them. A972.5.5
• Indentions on rocks caused by giants. A972.6
• Rocks from transformation of people to stone. A974
• Why rocks at river are covered with moss. A976
• Two rocks from split and transformed lapdog. A977.5.4
• Origin of fire – children strike rocks together, accidentally produce fire. A1414.3
• Squirrel borrows coney's tail. When coney's tail is not returned, he goes in shame to live among rocks. (Cf. A2378.1.5, A2433.3.5.) A2241.7
• Why coney lives among rocks. (Cf. A2241.7.) A2433.3.5
• Water becomes rocks. (Cf. D478). D471.10
• Transformation: water to rocks. D478.12
• Mountains or rocks open and close. (Cf. D931, D932.) D1552
• Symplegades. Rocks that clash together at intervals. (Cf. D931.) D1553
• Saint's spittle splits rocks. (Cf. D1001.) D1564.2
• Saint's curse splits rocks. D1792.1
• Rocks moved by magic. D2136.1
• Saint prevents rocks from falling. D2149.4.1
• Magic control of rocks. D2153
• Rocks piled up to sky. F55.2
• Visit to lower world through opening rocks. Rocks open with a charm. F92.3
• Path to otherworld over sharp rocks. F151.1.6
• Helpful spirit warriors dwell in rocks and hills. F450.1.1
• Giants throw tools back and forth. Explains rocks, etc. F531.3.2.3
• Person's urine melts rocks. F559.8.1
• Strong man grinds huge rocks into powder. F639.11
• Extraordinary rocks and stones. (Cf. D931, D1553 , D1641.2.) F800
• Weeping rocks. F801
• Growing rocks. F802
• Big rocks grow from little rocks. F802.1
• Mountain moves so that its rocks enter into caves of other mountain. (Cf. D932.) F1006.1
• Enigmatic statement: the flocks are only rocks and grass. (Else you would have given the beggar milk and curds.) H594.3
• Task: cutting firewood from rocks with brass axe (rock struck to splinters by lightning used). H1116.1
• Clashing rocks test: hero to pass between them. H1525
• Rocks falling together and thread entering needle's eye suggest sexual intercourse: hence its beginning. J86
• One-eyed king has rocks counted on pain of death. Clever man avoids saying "one" (which king considers a curse on his one eye) by saying that first is the rock that must not be called by name. J1675.4
• Chaste woman promises herself to her lover when the rocks leave the coast. (They are moved by magic.) M261