37 motifs match “sitting”  ·  back to the chapters

• Tabu: to rest sitting or lying until answer to certain question is learned. C735.2.9
• Tabu: sitting on certain sepulchral mounds in autumn. C755.5
• Disenchantment by maiden sitting at head of enchanted king's bed on morning of St. John's day. D759.7
• Wagon refuses to move because ghost is sitting in it. (Cf. D1113, D1654.5.) D1317.10
• Silver cock, sitting on a flower, crows. D1620.2.2.1
• Magic power by sitting in certain seat. D1733.4
• Future learned by sitting on hide. D1812.3.1
• People without anuses make them by sitting on pegs. F529.2.1
• Thumbling drives wagon by sitting in horse's ear. F535.1.1.1
• Sitting (hanging) on a sunbeam. F1011.2
• Witch killed as whale. She herself is sitting at home. G252.1
• God finds the devil sitting under a tree which was made by his throwing his staff into the water. G303.1.2.1
• Devil prevents moving of little stone by sitting on it. G303.9.9.1
• Suitor contest: eating one hundred carcasses at a sitting. (Cf. H1141.) H331.17
• Task: sitting on eggs without breaking them; hero perceives trick. H962.1
• Task: coming neither on horse nor on foot. (Comes sitting on animal but with feet reaching ground.) H1053.2
• Test: sitting up with corpse. Wake. H1461
• Test of championship: sitting on pillow covering egg without breaking egg. H1568.1
• "Move stool before sitting on it": counsel proved wise by experience. Man thus saves self from falling into well. J21.34
• Holy man asked by king for the heart of religion answers: "You are sitting on your throne and I'm sitting on the ground, so how can I tell." J1289.18
• Numskull sits on eggs to finish the hatching. Cautions people to be quiet and not frighten the eggs. (Sometimes puts on honey and feathers before sitting on the eggs.) J1902.1
• Numskull cannot find ass he is sitting on. J2022
• Fool thanks God that he was not sitting on the ass when it was stolen. *Wesselski Hodscha Nasreddin II 230 No. 495. J2561
• Stolen sheep dressed as person sitting at helm of boat. K406.1
• Man hides in hollow log, fires rifle while Indians are sitting on the log, scares them away. K547.3
• Man is lured into sitting in a mechanical chair and is killed. K984
• Dupe tricked into sitting on hot iron. K1074
• The general hatches out an egg. The page induces the general to take his place in sitting on the eggs. Then he calls the king to look. K1253
• Ogre made to believe hero has withstood fire. Hero escapes and after the room he has been in is burned he returns and is found sitting in the ashes. "It was a bit hot," he says. K1733
• Heaven entered by trick: sitting on Peter's chair. K2371.1.4
• The cadaver arm. Medical students (or student nurses or hospital employees) play trick on one of their number by suspending a cadaver arm or leg from the light cord in the person's room (sometimes the object is placed in the person's bed). Some circumstance keeps them from being on hand to observe the person's reaction; the next day they remember the joke and go to the victim's room to investigate. They have to break down the door. They find the victim sitting on the bed – her hair is snow white – and she is gnawing on the cadaver arm. N384.0.1.1
• Sitting in a circle of feasts. P338
• Sitting (standing) in uncomfortable position as penance. Q541
• Penance: sitting in water. Q541.1
• Custom: sitting upon head of slain enemy. S139.2.2.1.3
• Three lovers mourn for dead girl: one throws himself into her funeral pyre; another gathers together the ashes and vows to spend his life sitting upon them; third resolves to turn fakir. T92.14
• Repression of lust through sitting in water. T317.1