75 motifs match “sickness”  ·  back to the chapters

• Moon's waning caused by her sickness. A755.3
• Sacrifice made to free moon from sickness and allow waxing. A755.3.1
• Devil in God's absence puts sickness in Adam's body. A1293
• Origin of sickness and misfortune: monstrous births from brother-sister incestuous union. A1337.0.7
• Men are too happy: pain and sickness created. A1346.2.3
• Magic toad under king's bed causes sickness. B177.1.1
• Life of helpful animal demanded as cure for feigned sickness. B335.2
• Remedy learned from overhearing animal meeting. The hero learns how to cure his own blindness and the sickness of the king (princess). B513
• Sickness or weakness for breaking tabu. C940
• Princess's secret sickness from breaking tabu. (Cf. C55.) C940.1
• Daughters' sickness because of father's breaking tabu. C940.2
• Sickness or weakness for breaking tabu – miscellaneous. C949
• Magic object destroyed because of feigned sickness. D866.2
• Magic spear produces love-sickness. (Cf. D1084.) D1355.0.1
• Charm against sickness. (Cf. D1273.) D1500.2.2
• People who come on ship with sickness accused as magicians. D1711.12
• Magic power of seeing Death at head or foot of bed and thus forecasting progress of sickness. D1825.3.1
• Magic homesickness. D2036
• Magic sickness. (Cf. D1837.) D2064
• Magic love-sickness. (Cf. D1355.) D2064.0.1
• Magic heart-sickness. D2064.0.2
• Magic sickness because girl has thrown away her consecrated wafer. (Cf. C55, C940.1.) D2064.1
• Sickness of princess dependent on witch's fire. When fire is high, princess is very sick. Princess recovers when fire is put out. (Cf. D2065.4.) D2064.2
• Sickness transferred to animal. D2064.3
• Magic sickness because of Evil Eye. (Cf. D2071.) D2064.4
• Magic sickness from curse. D2064.5
• Magic sickness from wounding sick person. D2064.6
• Magic sickness from bit of weapon left in head. D2064.7
• Magic sickness by making fruit plant dry and shrivel. D2064.8
• Meeting ghost causes sickness. (Cf. D2064.) E265.1
• Wandering soul cause of sickness. E721.3
• Wood-spirits responsible for sickness and failure. F441.6.1
• Sickness cured by napkin of Veronica. F950.1
• Extreme anger as cure for sickness. (Cf. F955.) F950.2
• Sickness (madness) cured by coition. F950.4
• Extreme fear as cure for sickness. F950.5
• Witch causes sickness. (Cf. D2064.) G263.4
• Witch pretends sickness and kicks helper into pit. G269.1.1
• Task: causing sickness to come to certain tribe. H1199.2.1
• Quest for only person who can cure certain sickness. H1319.1
• Death's three messengers. Warns man by loss of appetite, loss of desire for drink, and sickness. Man does not recognize the messengers. J1051
• Eating cure becomes epidemic. A woman feigns periodic attacks of a sickness that can be cured only by eating a great number of delicacies. The husband feigns the same disease. J1511.3
• Sickness ascribed to quarreling wines. A man has drunk so much of various wines that he is sick. He says to the wines, "Have peace among yourselves and don't quarrel or I'll throw you out the window." J1891.1
• Good timber given for useless because wife says they will have only sickness and trouble. J2093.4
• Rebuke for going with a naked head in public. The woman rebuked has lost her hair in sickness. Forthwith she covers up her head with her dress and exposes her body. J2521.2
• Thief shams sickness and steals. K341.2.2
• Man feigns sickness in order to go back to steal hidden gold. (Cf. K325.) K341.2.2.1
• Theft by reporting relative's sickness. Woman falsely told that her father is wounded leaves her water pot with jackal. K343.1.2
• Trickster shams sickness so that partner does all the work. K495
• Trickster rides dupe horseback. Usually by feigning sickness he induces the dupe to carry him and then boasts that the dupe always acts as his horse. K1241
• Trickster rides dupe a-courting. Feigns sickness and persuades dupe to carry him. Thus wins the girl. K1241.1
• Friar's trousers on adulteress's bed: relic to cure sickness. The husband is duped into believing that the friar has come to visit the sick. K1526
• Imposition by sham sickness. K1945
• Person pretends sickness can be cured only with death (humiliation) of another. K1945.1
• Innocent woman accused of using witchcraft. Sham sickness. K2123
• Magic sickness as punishment. Q551.6
• Magic sickness as punishment for lying (perjury). (Cf. Q263, Q583.4.) Q551.6.1
• Magic sickness as punishment for opposition to holy person. (Cf. Q227, Q572.3.) Q551.6.2
• Magic sickness as punishment for tanning shoes with bark from saint's tree. Q551.6.2.1
• Magic sickness as punishment for ingratitude. (Cf. Q281.) Q551.6.3
• Magic sickness as punishment for theft. (Cf. Q212, Q557.4, Q572.1.) Q551.6.4
• Magic sickness as punishment for desecration of holy places (images, etc.). (Cf. Q222.) Q551.6.5
• Magic sickness (death) as punishment for inhospitality. (Cf. Q292.) Q551.6.7
• Magic sickness as punishment remitted. (Cf. Q551.6.) Q572
• Magic sickness as punishment for theft remitted. (Cf. Q212.) Q572.1
• Magic sickness as punishment for uncharitableness remitted. (Cf. Q286.) Q572.2
• Magic sickness as punishment for opposition to holy person remitted. (Cf. Q227.) Q572.3
• Magic sickness as punishment for immoderate request remitted. (Cf. Q338.) Q572.4
• Sacrifice of child demanded as cure for feigned sickness. S268.1
• Love-sickness. T24.1
• Princess feigns sickness to woo hero. Only marriage to him will cure her. T55.5
• Magic sickness (discomfort) prevents lover from raping woman. T321.5
• Possession of relic brings prosperity, its loss sickness. V141
• Prayer that overbearing knight's illness be increased. A little sickness has made him kind; more may make him kinder. W185.2
• Sickness personified. Z112