46 motifs match “separate”  ·  back to the chapters

• Deity clothes his father the sky after he has separated him from earth. A625.2.4
• Heaven and earth from egg. They are the two halves of an egg shell. Eros escapes as they are separated. A641.1
• Creator separates sun and moon to prevent birth of more stars. A736.1.4.3
• Islands originally form continent, later separated. A955.11
• Man at first with two faces, separated at birth of first woman. A1316.0.1
• Animal "drinks apart" mixed liquids. Separates the parts while drinking. B781
• Magic mist separates person from his companions. D1361.1.1
• Line drawn by saint's bachall separates calves from their mothers. (Cf. D1272.1, D1277.) D1574
• Two automatic giants fight until separated. D1620.3.1
• Armies separated with illusion that each has won object of contention. D2031.8
• Poison magically separated from drink. D2168.1
• Head of beheaded man separated from body (by walking between them) to prevent return. (Cf. E721.1.2.2.) E431.7.2.1
• External soul. A person (often a giant or ogre) keeps his soul or life separate from the rest of his body. E710
• Soul in three separate eggs. E711.1.1
• Wraiths of persons separate from body. E723
• Angels separate souls going to heaven or hell. E755.0.2
• Person's fingers not separated from one another. F515.1.1
• Human fingers not separated. F552.1.4
• Land where women live separate from men. Cohabit with water monsters. F566.2
• Armies miraculously separated (kept from coming to battle, etc.). F1097
• Priest separates girl from devil's claws. G303.16.14.1.1
• Identity tests. Recognition. Elaborate means are employed in folk-literature for the recognition of persons even though they have been separated a very short time. The various means used are detailed in the following discussion. H0
• Chastity index. Objects indicate faithfulness or unfaithfulness of separated lovers (husband or wife). H430
• Riddle: what are the two fixed, the two moving, the two joined, the two separated by jealousy, the two eternal enemies? (Heaven and earth; sun and moon; night and day; soul and body; life and death.) H851
• Wisdom from philosopher: give separate greetings to infants, youths, and old people. J152.5
• The quarreling sons and the bundle of twigs. Peasant puts twigs together and cannot break them. Separately they are easily broken. His sons apply the lesson. J1021
• Sons united make living; separated fail. J1021.1
• Fight of lions and bulls. Lion succeeds only when bulls separate. J1022
• Separate examination of witnesses discredits testimony. J1153
• Susanna and the elders: separate examination of witnesses. Testimony as to exact circumstances of her deed does not agree. Witnesses discredited. J1153.1
• Serve the water and the wine separately. Server of diluted wine thus taunted. J1312.1
• Husband and wife separate and divide property. Man keeps the house, gives the wife the road. J1541.4
• Abbot gives king unique concert. Separates hogs into tenors, bassos, etc. So arranges them that when he pricks them they render a tune. J1675.5
• Companions separated by illusory city. K1886.5
• Two persons separately informed about each other's death. K2142
• Bird carries off ring which lover has taken from sleeping mistress's finger. He searches for the ring and becomes separated from her. N352
• Bird carries off jeweled veil with which girl had covered sleeping lover's face. Lover pursues bird and becomes separated from the girl. N352.1
• Husband and wife become separated in shipwreck. Wife unexpectedly meets husband on street. They are reunited. N741.2
• What the princes most desire: king asks each of three sons separately. Answers: to study, to make pilgrimages, to build a great kingdom. Last chosen. P17.13
• Lovers treacherously separated. T84
• Marriage to five women, each with separate duties. T145.1
• Bride and groom separated on wedding night. T165.4
• Husband and wife kill themselves so as not to be separated. T211.3
• Reconciliation of separated couple. T298
• Queen delivered of a piece of flesh; abandoned and saved, it gradually separates into forms of boy and girl. T569.1
• Calves kept separate from cows in commemoration of hero's death. V65.1