41 motifs match “severed”  ·  back to the chapters

• Animals from severed fingers of woman. (Cf. A2102.) A1724.1.1
• [First Edition: A2102. Fish from Woman's severed fingers. (Cf. A1724.1.)] A2102[1st ed.]
• Vegetable lamb. Generated from ground. Umbilical cord is in the ground and the lambs will die if it is forcibly severed. They are frightened into severing it themselves and then live. Vertebrae of the neck planted to produce new ones. B95
• Snake grows back together after it has been severed. B765.7.2
• Magic healing salve restores severed feet. (Cf. D1240.) D1500.1.19.1
• Severed head moves from place to place. (Cf. D992.) D1641.7
• Severed head cannot be moved from helmet. (Cf. D992.) D1654.14
• Magic restoration of severed hand. D2161.3.2
• Severed limbs replaced by Virgin Mary. (Cf. D2161.3.) D2161.5.2.4
• Hand of vampire severed by cutting off hand of drawn figure. E251.1.2
• Severed heads of monster become birds. E613.0.5
• Severed leg(s) regrow(s). E782.4.2
• Severed head regrows. E783.2
• Severed head reddens and whitens. E783.3
• Severed head opens eyes. E783.4
• Severed pap regrows when woman bears child. E788
• Fairy physician can heal anyone whose spine is not severed. F344.2
• Severed head of impious man in well causes water to become bitter during part of each day. F933.4
• Severed head bites earth. F1096.3
• Rakshasa's mistress with her head severed lying in a pool of blood. G369.1.7
• Ogre revives after limbs are severed. G635
• Monster's returning head. Joins body after it has been severed. G635.1
• Severed finger as sign of crime. Robber bridegroom thus detected. H57.2.1
• Recognition of murdered person by severed fingernail. H57.2.2
• Identification by severed limbs. (Cf. also H105.) H106
• Identification by severed hand. H106.1
• Severed head as proof of killing. H106.2
• Suitor test: tribute of his severed hands. H333.2
• Magistrate detects thief's complicity by associating cut hand with companion's severed head. J1149.8
• Thief escapes by leaving animal's severed tail and claiming that the animal has escaped and left his tail. K404
• Tails in ground. Thief steals animals and sticks severed tails into the ground, claiming that animals have escaped underground. K404.1
• Stolen sheep's tails severed and put in tree. Owner made to believe that they have escaped through the air. K404.3
• Severed limb prevents detection. K407
• Companion's arm allowed to be cut off so as to prevent detection. Thief has had his arm cut off as he enters a hole in a wall. He lets his companion also enter and have his severed. K407.2
• Thief's confederate cuts off own arm to furnish alibi for family's grief. (Previously he had severed father's or brother's head to escape detection.) K407.2.1
• Oaths taken over severed pieces of horse. Pieces are then buried. M111
• Soldier who has had both hands severed fights with his teeth until he is killed. P461.1
• Birth from contact of severed male genitals with ground. T541.9
• Severed head of saint speaks so that searchers can find it. (Cf. D1610.5.) V229.22
• Virgin Mary restores severed hand to Saint John Damascene. He had cut it off to repress lust. V256.3
• Virgin Mary saves life of man who at devil's instigation has castrated himself. She will not, however, restore his severed members. V256.4