55 motifs match “single”  ·  back to the chapters

• God with single eye, through lid of which passes a polished handle with which lid is lifted. A128.2.2
• Single combat between gods. A162.7
• God of single-combats. A485.3
• New race from single pair (or several) after world calamity. (Cf. A1038, A1045.) A1006.1
• Single combat between animals. B264
• Tabu: single person entering one's house after sunset. C752.1.3
• Disenchantment by defeating enchanter in single combat. D763.2
• Magic axe cuts thousands of trees at a single blow. D1601.14.1
• Inexhaustible rice. Rice cooked from a single kernel. (Cf. D1033.1.) D1652.1.3.1
• Invulnerability for single day. D1845.1
• Rice grows in single day. D2157.2.0.1
• Dogs in single file in wild hunt. E501.4.1.8
• Man of bronze. (Talos). Has single vein from neck to ankle and bronze nail at end of vein. This is the only vulnerable spot. F521.3.1
• Single eye protrudes from forehead. F541.5.1
• Single-footed people lie on their backs and shade themselves from sun with their soles. F551.5
• Single combat with berserk. F610.3.4.2
• Strong man kills tiger single-handed. F628.1.1.1
• Skillful axe-man. Cuts down trees with single stroke, and the like. F666
• Extraordinary amount of liquor pressed from single grain. F815.2.1
• Decision of victory by single combat between army leaders. (Cf. H218.) H217.1
• Decision by single combat or holmgang of who is to marry girl. H217.2
• Suitor test: eating a pomegranate without letting a single seed fall. H326.2
• Chastity ordeal: drawing lover out of wall with single thread rope. H412.6
• Wise man answers questions of many with single speech. H501.2
• Suitors receive enigmatic answers. Girls answer in single words, which, when arranged in certain order, show that they accept. H593
• Task: making shirt derived from a single flax-seed. H1022.4.1
• Task: weaving mantle from wool of a single sheep. H1022.4.2
• Task: making ale derived from a single grain of corn. H1022.6.1
• Task: coming neither hungry nor satiated. (Eats a thin soup, a leaf, a single grain, or the like.) H1063
• Task: covering mango tree grove with fruit in a single night. (Cf. H1023.17.) H1103.3
• Task: annihilating (overcoming) army single-handed. H1135
• Task: mouse to fight single-handed with king's state elephant and destroy it. H1161.3.1
• Task: knocking off single fruit from king's tree. H1199.18
• Quest for creature with a single horn mounting to heaven with single red hair on its head. H1331.7
• Single combat to prove valor. H1561.2
• Holmgang. Single combat on an island. H1561.2.1
• "Never give a cup made of a single ruby as a present to the king": counsel proved wise by experience. J21.49
• The cock and the pearl: prefers a single corn to a peck of pearls. J1061.1
• The one word petition. A guardian of monks in need of food approaches the prince The prince is busy and says that he will permit the guardian but a single word. The guardian says, "Soup", and secures all the food he wants from the prince. J1618
• Banker able to recognize honest merchant by a single hair of his mustache. J1661.1.9
• Miser jumps into a ravine to retrieve single grain. Breaks both legs. J2146.1
• Servant refused payment because of single mistake. K231.9
• Theft from three old women who have but a single eye among them. The hero seizes their eye. K333.2
• Ordinary man assumes high sounding name and challenges enemy chief to single combat. Latter is frightened into believing him to be of exceptional prowess and desists from attacking the city. K1951.5
• The single cake. Restricted to a single cake during Lent, the peasants make one as large as a cart wheel. K2311
• Warrior proposes to fight in single combat. Fights with aid of sons and grandsons. They belong to him. K2319.2
• Vow not to be killed by a single opponent. M162
• Pledge to say but a single phrase. In carrying out this agreement the men innocently confess a crime. M175
• Curse: when brothers' swords bite the very best, they will all be killed by a single man. M441.1.1
• Customs concerning single combat. P557.4
• "Men's truth" (fir fer). Challenger to single combat must submit to same conditions as person challenged. P557.4.4
• Man admitted to heaven for single act of charity. Q172.2
• Milk of hornless, single-colored cow drunk by man to make wife fruitful. T591.1.2
• Smallness of offense no excuse when hunter prepares to kill lark. She has stolen but a single grain of wheat. U32
• Chains involving a single scene or event without interdependence among the individual actors. Z30