37 motifs match “several”  ·  back to the chapters

• New race from single pair (or several) after world calamity. (Cf. A1038, A1045.) A1006.1
• Patient fed salt: animal comes out for water. The patient is fed salt or heavily salted food and allowed no water for several days. He then stands with mouth open before a supply of fresh water, often a running brook. The thirsty animal emerges to get fresh water. B784.2.1
• Person appears to be in several places at once. D2031.18
• Resuscitation with misplaced head. (Cf. M221.) In restoration of several persons simultaneously through reassembling of members, the heads are placed on the wrong bodies. Sometimes the damage is repaired, sometimes not. E34
• Wild hunt goes several times around a hill. E501.14.4
• Soul hidden in a series of coverings. This motif is combined with several others. Usually the soul will be hidden in an egg, in a duck, in a well, in a church, or a similar series. E713
• Ash pole appears at doorway several times on day owner's daughter dies. (It is used for coffin rests. The pole has previously mysteriously escaped being used for other purposes.) E767.1
• Person with several bodies. F524
• Eye with several pupils. F541.3
• Sending to the older. Old person refers inquirer to his father, who refers to his father, and so on for several generations. F571.2
• Tree bearing several fruits. (Cf. F811.18.) F811.7.1.1
• Several suns or moons appearing in sky simultaneously. F961.0.1
• Several suns in sky. F961.1.3
• Devil drives several teams of oxen. G303.7.5
• Explanation of phenomenon: large pond emptying itself into several smaller pools (man may spend without getting any return). H614.2
• Hunter mistakes louse on his eyelash for game. He shoots several times before he notices the trouble. J1759.2
• The fool puts but one stick of wood in the stove. "Several others have burned up." J1963
• Contest in scratching skin off each other: covering self with several ox-hides. K83.2
• Merchant buys the same article several times from the same or different seller. K258.2
• Sham dumb man wins suit. The trickster meets a man in a narrow place in the road and calls out to him to make room. The man refuses and the trickster turns over the cart. In court the trickster plays dumb. The plaintiff says, "He is not dumb; he called out to me several times to get out of the way." Damages are assessed against the plaintiff for negligence. K1656
• Sham physician: making the girl grow up. A king wants his daughter to grow up quickly. The physician says that he must send away for the medicine; meantime she must be shut up. After several years they show her to the king. She has grown. K1955.5
• Choice among several gifts. The worst horse, armor, or the like proves best. L212
• Different kinds of luck attending persons born on the several days of the week. N127.0.1
• Several brothers. P251.6
• Peasants punished for working on feast day. They cannot leave the field for several days. (Cf. Q223.) Q559.4
• Man married to several sisters. T145.1.3
• Several men marry one woman. T146.1
• Man reprimanded by judge for marrying several times. The man replies that he was always looking for a good wife. T251.0.3
• Multiple birth as result of relations with several men. (Cf. T587.1.) T586.3
• Child with several mothers. (Heimdal.) T589.9
• Man rejects bride because she seems immature. Her father reassures him that she has had several children already. U117
• Saints in several places at once. V225
• Hog finds dynamite supply, eats it, walks behind mule; the mule kicks the hog. The explosion kills the mule, blows down the barn, breaks windows out of house. The hog is ill for several days. X1233.2.1
• Cow gives so much cream that several men do nothing but skim cream. X1235.2.1
• Lie: bullfrogs several years old cannot swim – have never had water to learn in. X1643.1
• Lie: shingling the fog. Man shingling building during thick fog shingles several feet of fog when he gets beyond the roof line. X1651.1
• Death allegorically personified as an animal made up of several different animals. Z111.3.1