73 motifs match “seeing”  ·  back to the chapters

• All-seeing god. A102.2
• Sun's all-seeing eye. A739.7
• Basilisk killed by seeing own image. B12.3
• Bird reveals dead rider. Calls out in human voice at seeing living woman riding behind dead man. B131.4
• Power of seeing whether the dead go to heaven or hell is gained from serpent. B161.4
• Tabu: wife seeing transformed husband. C32.1.1
• Tabu: son seeing mother perform sex act. C114.1
• Tabu: seeing the supernatural. C311
• Tabu: seeing supernatural creatures. C311.1
• Tabu: seeing witch in her true form. C311.1.6
• Tabu: woman seeing nude man. C313.1
• Tabu: goddess seeing mortal husband naked. C313.1.1
• Tabu: seeing herd red-headed and white-starred. C316.1
• Tabu: seeing dead man not killed by weapons. C319.2
• Tabu: wife of supernatural husband seeing old home. C713.2
• Weakness from seeing woman (fairy) naked. C942.3
• Bad omen: seeing unusual sight on road home. D1812.5.1.22
• Magic power of seeing Death at head or foot of bed and thus forecasting progress of sickness. D1825.3.1
• Magic power of seeing things underground. D1825.4.1
• Forgotten wife remembered by seeing her initials. D2006.1.9
• Insanity from seeing strange sight. D2065.2
• People touch corpse before burial to avoid seeing ghost of dead person after burial. E431.15
• Remedy for effects of seeing wild hunt. E501.19
• Effects of wild hunt remedied by seeing it a year later in same place. E501.19.1
• Seeing one's wraith a sign that person is to die shortly. (Cf. F405.4.) E723.2
• Seeing and observing of water-spirits has fatal consequences. F420.4.7
• Marvelous sensitiveness: suffering from merely seeing work done. F647.2
• Marvelous cure without seeing person. F950.7
• Princess cured by seeing her lost lover dance. F950.8
• Woman dies of shame at seeing naked man (husband). F1041.1.13.2
• Madness from seeing beautiful woman. (Cf. F1041.1.6.) F1041.8.1
• Madness from seeing ugly ogre. F1041.8.3
• Witch recognized by seeing wandering soul return. G251
• Witch recognized by seeing wasp (beetle) enter her mouth while asleep. Only when it enters can she be awakened. G251.1
• Recognition by seeing husband shed tears on sight of bird (main character in a former experience common to both husband and wife). H14.1
• "Do not marry a woman before seeing her and finding her to be your equal": counsel proved wise by experience. J21.31
• Ruler learns lesson from seeing city governed by king as uncharitable as he. J56.1
• Lazy pupil determines to be more diligent by watching man building home one wattle at a time, and seeing how water fills hole one drop at a time. J67.1
• More than one swallow to make a summer. Spendthrift youth seeing swallow concludes that summer has come and sells his clothes. There is frost the next day and he is cold. J731.1
• Fox is terrified on first seeing lion. The third time she meets him she has no fear. J1075.2
• Tide inquires whether moon is up. Minnow seeing absurdity of question (since tide could not be up without the moon) tells the tide to wait till he gets a drink and he will tell. J1292
• How he would act if he were a hawk. A hawk steals a piece of liver from a trickster and flies away with it. The trickster likewise steals some liver from another man and escapes to a high place with it. He says that he is seeing how he would act if he were a hawk. J1391.4
• Good bath. A cat seeing a mouse leave a bath says, "Good bath!" Mouse: "If I had not seen you!" J1422
• Poem for poem: all for all. A poet gives the emperor a poem, hoping for a reward The emperor later gives the poet a poem in return. The poet thereupon sends the emperor two pennies, saying that this is all the money he has. The emperor, seeing that he is defeated in the exchange, laughs and becomes the poet's friend. J1581.1
• Drunkard cured of seeing double. When he claims to see two roast chickens, his wife takes the one chicken away and he falls into the fire trying to find the other. J1623
• King's capriciousness censured: the ass in the stream. A nobleman seeing an ass letting water in a river remarks that it reminds him of his king. He explains to the king that just as the ass puts water where it is already plentiful, so the king awards wealth where it is not needed. The king says that it is all in the nature of the nobleman's fate. Subsequent events prove this. J1675.3
• Men, on first seeing wives with hair, think they are witches and run away. J1786.6
• Monkey seeing tiger attack his shadow is frightened so that he falls from tree. J1790.3
• Stupid giant, seeing how fat he has become, wants to eat himself up. J2119.5
• The four-footed bishop. A fool finding a nun in bed with a bishop and not seeing her face concludes that the bishop must have four feet and so announces it. J2283
• Contest in flying with load. One animal chooses cotton; the other, seeing that a rain is coming, chooses salt and wins. K25.2
• Contest in seeing sunrise first. K52
• Contest in seeing sunrise first: sun on the trees. The fox places himself on a hill facing the east; the hog in a lower place facing the high trees to the west. The sun shines on the top of the trees, and the hog wins. (Sometimes told with human actors.) K52.1
• Contest in seeing sunrise first: sleeper wins. One keeps awake, the other sleeps. The first thinks that he sees the sun and cries out prematurely, thus waking the other, who wins. K52.2
• Contest in seeing. K85
• The emperor's new clothes. An impostor feigns to make clothes for the emperor and says that they are visible only to those of legitimate birth. The emperor and courtiers are all afraid to admit that they cannot see the clothes. Finally a child seeing the naked emperor reveals the imposture. K445
• God to reveal self to those of legitimate birth. All afraid to admit not seeing God. K445.1
• Witch frightened by seeing victim cleave boulder with one blow of sword. K547.13
• Sham doctor prescribes medicine for king's army; they fall ill; invading army, seeing multitudes being carried away in litters, flee, thinking there is a plague. K2368.3
• Dog sent ahead so as to avoid seeing husband transformed. (Cf. S241.1.) K2371.4
• The luckless son and his envious father. Seeing a luck-bringing animal at his son's house, the wizard father orders it to be destroyed, but the grandchildren eat of its meat and become fortunate. N251.6
• King, seeing eldest son leaving room, decides that he is a rakshasa. N349.3
• Rescued person horrifies rescuers: e.g., they swoon on seeing him. R188
• Love through seeing bouquet. T11.4.3.1
• Love through seeing marks of lady's teeth in fruit which she has bitten. T11.4.4
• Man falls in love on seeing dead body of beautiful girl. (Cf. T466.) T16.2
• Fainting away from seeing an extraordinary beauty. T24.2.3
• Wife becomes obedient on seeing husband slay a recalcitrant horse. T251.2.3
• Husband consoled by seeing woman even more shrewish than his wife. (Cf. J882.) T251.9
• Nun so opposed to seeing men that she refuses to see St. Martin. T362.1
• Conversion to Christianity by miracle of seeing blood flow from Jesus' image. V331.1.1
• Lazy man misses seeing the sheriff's funeral; he is facing the wrong way as the procession passes. W111.5.11
• Seeing without eyes. X1724