25 motifs match “rolling”  ·  back to the chapters

• Animal's occupation: rolling. A2457
• Tabu: stealing garment from a rock. The rock pursues. (The offended rolling stone.) C91.1
• Transformation by rolling. D561.1
• Destructive "rolling wheel" of druid. D1207.1
• Magic rolling cake indicates road. (Cf. D1031.2.) D1313.1.2
• Self-rolling head. D1641.7.1
• Revenant as a rolling cask. E426.2
• Man can stand on barrel rolling down hill. F679.4
• Artificial heavens. Placed on pillars of iron. Seven heavens. (1) glass, sun, moon, stars, (2) iron with lake in it, (3) tin with precious stones rolling about (thunder), (4) lead, (5) copper, (6) silver, (7) gold. F792
• Suitor task: controlling violent tide. H335.6.1
• Pursuit of rolling cake leads to quest. H1226
• Pursuit of rolling hoop leads to quest. H1226.1
• Pursuit of rolling golden apple leads to quest. H1226.3
• Pursuit of rolling ball of yarn leads to quest. H1226.4
• Ogre frightened into rolling self in mat: burned. K711.3
• Fatal game: rolling down hill on barrel. Dupe crushed. K866
• Bluff: thunder said to be the rolling of hero's brother's wagon. Ogre overawed. K1718.1
• Prophecy: wholesale slaughter to be inflicted by colossal wheel rolling over Europe. M341.2.20
• Spiked-cask punishment. Rolling down hill in a cask with spikes on inside. Q463
• Punishment of Sisyphus. Must keep rolling a great stone up hill. It continually falls down. Q501.1
• Skull of suicide must roll in dust until it has saved a life. Man uses the skull to kill an owl that was about to kill a rabbit; thus after 777 years of rolling it has saved a life and is freed. (Cf. Q211.5.) Q503.1
• Abduction by giving soporific and rolling up in a cloak. R22.1
• Pursuit by rolling object. R261
• Pursuit by rolling head. R261.1
• Lie: axes ground on boulders rolling down hill. X1012.1