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

• God rescues sleeping man from attack. A185.2.1
• Gull a transformed ravished maiden. While he is sleeping, the maiden the hero has stolen is ravished by another man. The hero thereupon turns her into a gull. (Cf. A1710.) A1945.2
• Mosquitoes created by goddess to make sleeping outside impossible to men. A2034.1.1
• Faithful dog kills would-be murderer of sleeping master. B524.7
• Goose brings master sleeping princess. B582.1.1.1
• Cat sucks sleeping child's breath. B766.2
• Tabu: sleeping in saint's bed. C93.1
• Tabu: touching soldiers of enchanted (sleeping) army and their horses. C549.2
• Tabu: sleeping. C735
• Tabu: sleeping during certain time. C735.1
• Tabu: sleeping in certain position during certain time. C735.1.0.1
• Tabu: bearded man sleeping at sunrise. C735.1.1
• Tabu: sleeping before task is finished. C735.1.2
• Tabu: sleeping in certain place. C735.2
• Tabu: sleeping in other world. C735.2.1
• Tabu: sleeping before lapse of seven days in cloudland. C735.2.1.1
• Tabu: sleeping in empty hut. C735.2.2
• Tabu: king (hero) sleeping after sunrise at capital. C735.2.3
• Tabu: sleeping in house lighted after sunset. C735.2.4
• Tabu: sleeping in cemetery. C735.2.5
• Tabu: sleeping on the path of ghosts. C735.2.6
• Tabu: sleeping on feather bed. C735.2.7
• Tabu: sleeping two nights in the same place until certain result is attained. C735.2.8
• Tabu: sleeping at one's own home. C735.2.10
• Tabu: sleeping with certain wife on Midsummer's Eve. C751.2
• Tabu: sleeping on bed made of totem-tree. C848
• Transformation to likeness of another by sleeping with arms about him under the same mantle. D592
• Failure to disenchant by not watching sleeping princess long enough. D759.9
• Sleeping potion: drink causes magic sleep. (Cf. D1040, D1242.2, D1364.12.) D1364.7
• Magic wand keeps outdoor sleeping place dry. (Cf. D1254.1.) D1542.4
• Fortune-telling dream induced by sleeping in extraordinary place (position). D1812.3.3.2
• Sleeping Beauty. Magic sleep for definite period (e.g., a hundred years). D1960.3
• Death thought sleep. Resuscitated person thinks he has been sleeping. He exclaims, "How long I have been asleep!" E175
• Ghost disturbs sleeping person. (Cf. E281.2.) E279.2
• The Sleeping Army. Soldiers killed in battle come forth on occasions from their resting place (hill, grave, grotto) and march about or send their leader to do so. E502
• Soul of sleeper prevented from returning to his body when soul as bee leaves body and enters hole in wall beside which he is sleeping. (Cf. E734.2.) E721.1.2.4
• Dwarf serves king sleeping in mountain (Kyffhäuser). F451.5.1.8
• Dwarf washes, combs, and braids hair for sleeping maids. F451.5.1.13
• Thumbling lies by sleeping man. Is blown to window by man's breath. F535.1.1.3
• Man can hear one sleeping by putting ear to ground. F641.3
• Skillful marksman grazes ear of sleeping person and awakens him. F661.9
• Moon warns sleeping man of approaching assassin. F961.3.3
• Ogre seduces sleeping girl in order to devour her. G17
• Girl sleeping naked awakened: is she a goddess? If mortal, she will cover herself; if a goddess, will not. H45.5
• Hero lies by sleeping girl and leaves identification token with her. H81.1
• Hero takes token from sleeping princess. H81.1.1
• Suitor test: to consort with princess without sleeping. Suitors are given sleeping potion. H347
• Husband tests false wife by sleeping on her hair. Had always done so with true bride. H476
• Task: stealing sheet from bed on which person is sleeping. H1151.3
• Test: sleeping by princess three nights without looking at her or disturbing her. H1472
• Dirk stuck into thigh in order to keep from sleeping. H1482
• Grains slowly munched in order to keep from sleeping. (Cf. H1471.) H1483
• Test: sleeping naked on floor in cold. (Suitor test.) H1504
• Old uncle tests nephew's fidelity by sleeping with his beloved. H1556.4.4
• "Do not act when angry": counsel proved wise by experience. Man returns home and sees someone sleeping with his wife. Though he thinks it is a paramour, he restrains himself and finds that it is a newborn son. J21.2
• Sleep before committing suicide. After sleeping you will feel differently about suicide. J21.2.2
• Lion leaves sleeping hare to follow the shepherd. Loses both victims. J321.3
• Sleeping on salt. Priest blamed for large amount of wine he drinks tells people to consider his great thirst. He has slept on a sack of salt and has enough thirst for a week. J1322.2
• The exiled wife's dearest possession. A wife driven from home is allowed by her husband to take her one dearest possession. She takes her sleeping husband and effects reconciliation. J1545.4
• Sleeping soldier thought to be recumbent statue in chapel. J1763.3
• Man sleeping in stable (abandoned cabin) thinks entering animals are ghosts: kills them. J1782.4
• Simpleton sleeping in cold room breaks window to let the cold out. (Cf. J2123.) J1819.2
• Fool wakes with sleeping mat over head and thinks it is still night. J1819.3
• Air-castle: to sell hide of sleeping deer. In his excitement he wakes the deer, who runs off. J2061.3
• Sleeping in shoes to avoid insect bites. J2102.1
• Sleeping trickster's feast stolen. Before eating his booty the numskull sleeps. J2173.1
• Hare and tortoise race: sleeping hare. In a race between the fast and the slow animal, the fast animal sleeps on the road and allows the slow animal to pass him. K11.3
• Sleeping with open eyes. The man claims to sleep thus and beguiles the ogre into sleeping, so as to rob him. K331.1
• Mouse's tail in mouth of sleeping owner causes him to cough up magic object. K331.4
• The foolishly concealed money: A man hangs a bag of money in the top of a high tree. Servant sleeping with him steals it. K331.6
• Dupe's food eaten and then blame fastened on him. Trickster eats the common food supply and then by smearing the mouth of the sleeping dupe with the food escapes the blame. K401.1
• Mouse's tail in mouth of sleeping thief causes him to cough up swallowed magic ring. K431
• Robber cheated by substitution. Spending the night in company with a suspicious-looking stranger, the man does not go to sleep, but leaves his clothes in bed and waits to see what will happen. When the stranger wakes up in the night, he stabs at his sleeping companion, who shoots him down. (Cf. K525.1.) K437.1
• Compassionate executioner: sleeping potion supplied instead of poison. K512.4
• Sleeping persons covered with oxhide and so saved. K515.3
• Bride substitutes wooden picture while she herself escapes sleeping groom. K525.1.2
• Princess cuts hair to escape captor who holds her hair in hand while sleeping with her. K538
• Sleeping enemies' hair tied to an object prevents pursuit. K635
• Hair of sleeping maiden tied to tree so that she is not able to rise. K635.1
• Sleeping potion given to man who is to pass the night with a girl. (Sometimes magic pillow or magic sleeping card.) K675
• Paramour unwittingly drinks sleeping potion. Is thought dead and placed in a chest. Chest is stolen. When he escapes he is accused of being a robber. He is saved by his mistress's maid who explains all, transferring the role played by her mistress to herself. K675.1
• Faithless wife ties sleeping husband's hair to bed, allowing lover to kill him. K713.1.7
• Dupe tricked into sleeping. Killed. K834.1
• Girl kills man sleeping with her. K872.1
• King given sleeping potion and then beheaded in his bed by his wife. K873.1
• Heroes dislike to kill sleeping people. K959.2.2
• Peter receives the blows twice. Peter and Christ are sleeping in the same bed. The drunken host returns home and beats Peter, who thereupon changes places with Christ. The host then comes in to beat the other lodger and beats Peter again. K1132
• King tricked into sleeping with hag. K1235
• Husband frightened into sleeping alone. Adulteress has servants impersonate demons. K1514.17.2
• Adulteress tells how she may save her husband's life. Discovering him under the bed, she tells lover that at temple she has learned that her husband is to die soon unless she prevents death by sleeping with a strange man. The husband is satisfied. K1532.2
• Sleeping potion substituted for poison. (Cf. K2111.1.) K1852
• Woman substitutes child for her own and sells it. Exchanges sleeping places. K1922
• Woman makes vain overtures to stepson and falsely accuses him of murder. She tries to poison him but her own son accidentally takes the beverage and apparently dies. Plot is revealed when doctor states that he had substituted sleeping potion for the poison. K2111.1
• Warrior falsely accused of having killed his sleeping adversary. Not supposed to have been able to do it if latter was awake. K2116.5
• Boy accidentally drinks "poison" intended for his stepbrother. Doctor had substituted sleeping potion for the requested poison. N332.4
• Bird carries off ring which lover has taken from sleeping mistress's finger. He searches for the ring and becomes separated from her. N352
• Bird carries off jeweled veil with which girl had covered sleeping lover's face. Lover pursues bird and becomes separated from the girl. N352.1
• The sleeping guard. Watchman falls asleep as enemy approaches. N396
• Sleeping king in mountain as guardian of treasure. N573
• Sleeping king abducted by fairies wakes when his foot touches water. They free him. N661