41 motifs match “shooting”  ·  back to the chapters

• God descends in form of shooting star. A171.0.3.2
• Shooting star one that has come down to graze. A788.2
• Shooting stars spirits coming down to earth to make woman pregnant. A788.3
• Shooting stars are star-dung. A788.4
• Shooting stars are unfaithful wives. A788.5
• Island created by shooting arrow. (Cf. D936, D1092.) A955.2
• Tabu: shooting at consecrated wafer. Man's ghost wanders. C55.2
• Looking at moon when shooting game. C315.2.1
• Disenchantment by shooting. D712.7
• Wishing by shooting star. D1761.1.1
• Shooting star as good omen. (Cf. D1761.1.1.) D1812.5.2.6
• Elfshot. (F360.) Magic shooting of small objects into a person's (or animal's) body. D2066
• Resuscitation by shooting arrow. (Usually combined with E25.) E61
• Revenant forced away by shooting. E439.1
• Shooting star signifies that someone is dying. One star for each person. At his death it falls. E741.1.1
• Shooting star signifies a birth. Stars are the dead. When they fall they are being reborn. At death they are replaced in the sky. E741.1.2
• Dwarf king prevents a father from shooting his son. F451.5.1.16
• Breaking spell by shooting bewitched object. G271.4.8
• Ogre polluting the wells driven away by shooting. G584
• Suitor contest: shooting. H331.4
• Suitors contest with bride's father in shooting. H331.4.1
• Shooting contest with bride-to-be. H332.1.5
• Test of paternity: shooting at father's corpse. Youngest of supposed sons refuses to shoot and is judged the only genuine son of dead emperor. H486.2
• Test of strength: shooting through seven iron plates with arrow. H1562.13
• Shooting contest. H1591
• Reductio ad absurdum: the decision about the colt. A man ties his mare to a second man's wagon. The mare bears a colt which the wagon-owner claims, saying that the wagon has borne a colt. Real owner of the colt shows the absurdity (1) by fishing in the street or (2) by telling that his wife is shooting fish in the garden. Neither of these things are so absurd as the decision. J1191.1
• Shooting at enemy's reflection in water. J1791.5.1
• Shooting contest won by deception. K31
• Contest: shooting an unheard-of bird. The man sends his wife on all fours in tar and feathers. The ogre has never heard of such a bird. K31.1
• Shooting test won by deception: proof of good sight. A man puts a dead hare under a tree and shows it to his dog. He tells people to look at the hare under the tree. At the distance no one can see it. He tells them that he will shoot it. He shoots and has his dog bring the hare. K31.2
• Shooting contest won by deception: bird substituted for arrows. K31.3
• Disarming by a shooting test. The captor is thus induced to fire all his shots. K631.2
• Shooting game: blind man's arrow aimed. It kills his friend. (Balder's death.) K863
• Girl as umpire in suitor test (shooting arrows) escapes. K1227.8
• Shooting contest on wager. N55
• Loser of shooting wager to go naked into thorns for bird. N55.1
• Bird hunter killed by adder just as he is shooting bird. N335.1
• Duel: shooting and catching arrows in turn. P677.1
• Shooting star as angel. V231.2
• Would not lie for a trifle. Liar tells of shooting large number of animals with one shot (an odd number, usually 99). When asked why he did not make it a round number (or an even hundred), he replies indignantly that he would not lie for one pigeon (rabbit). X906
• Shooting off the leader's tail. An old blind bear is being led by a young bear, whose tail the old bear has in his mouth. The hunter shoots off the young bear's tail and seizes it. Thus leads the old bear home. X1124.1