116 motifs match “skill” — showing the first 100; narrow the words for the rest  ·  back to the chapters

• Culture hero performs remarkable feats of strength and skill. A526.7
• Origin of games of skill (indoor). A1468
• Tabu: traveling beyond spot where feat of skill was performed before duplicating it. C833.6
• Magic object gives skill. D1343
• Magic oars give skill. (Cf. D1124.) D1343.1
• Loss of skill through magic. D2099.1
• Fairies skillful as smiths. F271.3
• Fairies skillful as weavers. F271.4.2
• Fairy shows remarkable skill. F273
• Fairy shows remarkable skill as marksman. F273.1
• Fairy shows remarkable skill as runner. F273.2
• Trolls skillful as smiths. F455.3.1
• Skillful companions. F601.0.1
• Remarkable skill. F660
• Brothers acquire extraordinary skill. Return home and are tested. F660.1
• Unskilled man made skillful by saint's blessing. F660.2
• Skillful marksman. F661
• Skillful marksman shoots meat from giant's hands. F661.1
• Skillful marksman shoots pipe from man's mouth. F661.2
• Skillful marksman shoots apple from man's head. Tell. F661.3
• Skillful marksman shoots spear through nose-ring. F661.3.1
• Skillful marksman shoots eggs scattered over table. F661.4
• Skillful marksman can hit egg from great distance. F661.4.3
• Skillful marksman shoots animal (man) through eye. F661.5
• Skillful marksman shoots serpent through left eye. F661.5.1
• Skillful marksman shoots bird through eye. F661.5.2
• Skillful marksman shoots left eye of fly at two miles. F661.5.3
• Skillful marksman shoots both eyes of an ogre. F661.5.4
• Skillful bowman shoots crater of Vesuvius open. F661.6
• Skillful marksman throws needles. One enters eye of the other so as to form a straight line. F661.7
• Skillful marksman throws rushes into a curtain. The first remains and each following one lodges in the one before and remains attached to it. F661.7.1
• Skillful marksman throws swords and scabbards so that swords are sheathed in air. F661.7.2
• Skillful marksman casts lance through ring. F661.8
• Skillful marksman casts lance through hole in leaf. F661.8.1
• Skillful marksman grazes ear of sleeping person and awakens him. F661.9
• Skillful archer uses arrow as boomerang. F661.11
• Skillful tailor. F662
• Woman skillful in sewing. F662.0.1
• Skillful tailor sews up broken eggs. F662.1
• Birds hatched from broken eggs repaired by skillful tailor have red line around necks. This indicates where eggs were broken. F662.1.1
• Skillful tailor sews together scattered planks in capsizing boat. F662.2
• Skillful tailor sews bean together after bean has split from laughing. F662.3
• Skillful smith. (Cf. F271.3.) F663
• Skillful smith calls self master of all masters. F663.0.1
• Skillful smith shoes running horse. F663.1
• Skillful flayer. F664
• Skillful flayer skins running rabbit. F664.1
• Skillful barber. F665
• Skillful barber shaves running hare. F665.1
• Skillful axe-man. Cuts down trees with single stroke, and the like. F666
• Skillful axe-man makes spear-shafts with three chippings. Also at the same time sets them into the spear-rings. F666.1
• Skillful fencer (swordsman). F667
• Skillful fencer keeps sword dry in rain. Swings it so fast. F667.1
• Skillful surgeon. F668
• Skillful physician. F668.0.1
• Skillful surgeon removes and replaces vital organs. (Cf. X1721.2.) F668.1
• Skillful surgeon removes speck from midge's eye. Does it with one stroke without injuring midge. F668.2
• Skillful surgeon can tell by whom wound was inflicted. F668.4
• Skillful shipbuilder. F671
• Skillful painter. Can paint from description of a dream. F674
• Skillful carpenter constructs large palace overnight. F675.4
• Skillful thief. (Cf. K301.) F676
• Skillful tracker. F677
• Skillful tracker infallible on land or sea. F677.1
• Skillful milker. F678
• Skillful milker milks cows incessantly. F678.1
• Remarkable skill – miscellaneous. F679
• Skillful hunter. F679.5
• Skillful hunter manages hounds. F679.5.1
• Skillful hunter can tell from baying the succession of hounds and what quarry they pursue. F679.5.2
• Skillful cast of stone: carries away roof tree of burning house and so puts out fire. F679.6
• Skillful gambler always wins. Whatever he earns in day he spends immediately. F679.7
• Skill at chess-playing. F679.8
• Skillful musician plays nine mouth harps at once. F679.9
• Creation of a person by cooperation of skillful men. F1023
• Rescue of children from giant (ogre) by hero (skillful companions). G551.3.1
• Suitor test: skill. H326
• Suitor test: skill in archery. H326.1.2
• Suitor test: skill in hunt. H326.3
• Suitor test: skill in fishing. H326.4
• Bride test: domestic skill. H383
• Bride test: skillful sweeping. H383.3
• Sons tested for skill. H500.1
• Test of skill in handiwork. H504
• Test: telling skillful lie. H509.5
• Skillful companions create woman: to whom does she belong? Woodcarver carves a doll, tailor clothes her, gardener gives her speech (or the like). (Answer sometimes given: her father, her mother, or her husband). H621
• Skillful companions resuscitate girl: to whom does she belong? H621.1
• Girl rescued by skillful companions: to whom does she belong? H621.2
• Test of skill. H1563
• Test of skill for a fakir: heating iron and passing it through hands without burning them. H1576.2
• Princess skillful in argument. J1111.1
• Princess skillful in pleading. J1111.1.1
• Pouring water into the inkwell. Soldier accused of stealing slavegirl from author. Girl told to pour water into an inkwell. She does it so skillfully that she must have learned it from the author. J1176.1
• Hog's head divided according to scripture. To be divided among three students according to their skill in quoting. First: "And they cut one ear off" (takes ear). Second: "And they gave him a box on the ear" (takes other ear). Third: "And they took him away secretly" (takes whole hog away). J1242.1
• The sound of shaving. An unskillful barber keeps cutting a man's face. A noise is heard. The man: "What is that?" Barber: "A smith shoeing horses." Man: "I thought it was someone being shaved." J1484
• Scholar given third egg. A scholar, showing his skill in logic, proves that two chickens (or eggs) on the table are really three. His father (or host) takes one chicken for himself, gives the other to the mother, tells son that he can have the third one. J1539.2
• Will work when beaten. A wife whose husband has beaten her sends a rumor to the sick king that her husband is a skilled physician but will practice only when he is well beaten. He is seized and whipped. J1545.1
• Climb down as you climb up. A peasant falls out of a tree. A neighbor advises him not to climb trees. Another suggests that he always climb down a tree with the same skill and rapidity that he climbed up. J2244
• Man feigns sick in order to enter room of princess skilled in healing, and woos her for his friend. (Cf. K1818, T51.1.1.) K1349.1.5
• Son surpasses father in skill. L142.3