79 motifs match “skillful”  ·  back to the chapters

• Fairies skillful as smiths. F271.3
• Fairies skillful as weavers. F271.4.2
• Trolls skillful as smiths. F455.3.1
• Skillful companions. F601.0.1
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Bride test: skillful sweeping. H383.3
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The one of two giant brothers who gets the most skillful princess elected as king. P11.2.3
• "Skillful" physician compelled to help carry away the bier of his dead patient. P424.3.1
• Untrained monk becomes skillful wright (smith) through power of saint. P426.3.1
• Jealous husband spends all his earnings as skillful smith bribing courtiers not to talk to his wife, and at last locks her up in hut in the forest. T257.9
• Lie: skillful flayer. Man skins buffalo alive, turns them loose to grow new skins. (Cf. F664.1.) X983
• Lie: skillful axe-man. (Cf. F666.) X986
• Twenty-two rooms and twenty-two doors built by skillful carpenter. Z71.16.14.1