93 motifs match “smith”  ·  back to the chapters

• Smith of the gods. A142
• God as blacksmith. A142.0.1
• Cupbearer of the gods is god of smith-work. A165.3.1
• God of smith-work. A451.1
• Goddess of smith-work. A451.1.1
• Smith of hell. A677.1
• Sun, moon, and stars forged by smith. A700.5
• Heavenly smith is hammering on the moon. A744
• Hill from anvil (cast by supernatural smith). A963.6
• Forging of chain for fettered monster. Smiths hit once in three or four times on the bare anvil. All of these blows go to forging chains for the monster (devil). A1071.2
• Fettered monster's weakened chains renewed by stroke of a smith. (Cf. A1071.2.) A1074.8
• Origin of blacksmith work. A1447.2
• Origin of goldsmith work. A1447.3
• Creation of monkeys: old woman thrown into fire. In unsuccessful imitation of Christ, the smith throws an old woman into the fire. She becomes a monkey. (Cf. A1710.) A1861.2
• Garden warbler hears smith beat iron: learns his song. (Cf. A2426.2.2.) A2272.1.3
• Smith outwits devil, is admitted to neither heaven nor hell. The devil gives him a light to find his way back in the dark; he is known as the will-o'-the-wisp or jack-o'-lantern. A2817.1
• Beast with human head and shape of smith's bellows. B96
• Tabu: offending devil. A smith or priest continually insults the devil's statue or picture (cf. C13). The devil brings the offender into dangerous situation (suspicion of theft or murder), and saves him miraculously when he promises never again to abuse the devil's likeness. C45
• Transformation when one expresses astonishment at smith drawing water in an egg-shell. (Cf. C491.) D512.1
• Magic object forged by smith to order. D853
• Lake under which supernatural smith lives. D921.3
• Magic hymn protects against spells of smiths. D1385.16.2
• Smith forges iron man, who helps him. D1620.1.3
• Whatever goldsmith proposes to make comes into existence by itself in the forge. D2178.7
• Ghosts blow smithy into air. E279.7
• Living smith must repair wagon belonging to wild hunt. E501.15.5
• Youths tutored by Vulcan, smith of Hell. F107
• Fairies skillful as smiths. F271.3
• Fairy smith gives knight a magic sword. F343.3
• Fairies take revenge on smith who disturbs them in the smithy when he returns after dark to get medicine. F361.17.2
• Underground spirit instructs a smith. (Cf. F451.3.4.2.) F450.1.2
• Dwarfs as smiths. F451.3.4.2
• Trolls skillful as smiths. F455.3.1
• Giant as smith. F531.6.10.1
• Voice changed by work of silversmith (goldsmith). F556.2
• Strong hero struck by smith from iron. F611.1.12
• Skillful smith. (Cf. F271.3.) F663
• Skillful smith calls self master of all masters. F663.0.1
• Skillful smith shoes running horse. F663.1
• Clever smith makes needle that pierces anvil. F663.2
• Smith swallowed by water-monster and rescued by saint. F913.1
• Sick child from witchcraft is put on anvil; smith strikes violently but brings hammer down gently, three times. G271.9
• Ogre teaches smith how to transform sand in his smithy. G651
• Successful suitor must have whitest hands. Blacksmith qualifies because of frequent washing of hands. H312.4
• The burning forge (smithy): he who salvages anvil will be king. H1574.3.1
• Presumptuous smith chants the Divine Comedy. Dante throws his tools in the street. Blacksmith: "You ruin my work!" Dante: "You ruin mine!" J981
• Ruler forbids blacksmith to reveal solution of riddle unless he has seen him 100 times. Smith reveals the solution on receipt of 100 crowns bearing the ruler's likeness. J1161.7
• Not a locksmith. A judge asks a pseudo-prophet to prove his powers by opening a difficult lock. "I am a prophet, not a locksmith." J1289.1
• Asking costs nothing. So says beggar who asks goldsmith to plate his club with gold. J1338
• 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
• Goldsmith sells thinly plated gold; peasant retaliates: a pot of dirt with a little gyav on top. (Cf. J1556.1.) J1511.20
• The blacksmith's and the horse-trader's dreams. They are forced to sleep together because of lack of room. The blacksmith tells the horsetrader that he often dreams that he is striking the bellows and that he may accidently strike him in the night. The horsetrader retaliates by dreaming that he is riding a horse and drives the spurs into the blacksmith. J1622
• Fool tries to purify cotton by burning it (as the goldsmith does with gold). J1974
• Logically absurd defenses. Thief brought to judgment for breaking into house blames mason for building poor house. Mason blames maker of mortar, who blames potter, who blames pretty woman who diverted his attention. She blames goldsmith who caused her to go for her earrings. Goldsmith has no one to blame but he is too old to make a good execution. Hence a shopkeeper across the way is convicted. J2233
• The fool spits in the hot porridge. He has seen the smith spit on the hot iron. J2421
• The price of a lump of gold. A trickster asks a goldsmith what he would pay for a lump of gold of a certain size. Believing that the man has such a lump, the goldsmith pays him a large sum. K261
• Fox drops goldsmith's child to get him away from gold bench he is working on and thus steal gold. K341.25
• Goldsmith as thief in king's treasury. Makes golden human figure and says it is a corpse. Gets by guards. K419.7
• Hot tin under the horse's tail. The smith promises to make the horse wild. The numskull on the horse's back. K1181
• Disguise as smith. K1816.12
• Son of the king and of the smith exchanged. K1921.1
• Treacherous goldsmith. K2249.3
• Smith as hero. L113.6
• Goldsmith gives money to one who addressed him as friend (the goldsmith had no friends because he has cheated everybody). L363
• Smith as prophet. M301.19
• Goldsmith unlucky. N256.1
• Helpful smith. N855
• Smith as foster father. N855.1
• King is cursed by disguised dwarf-smiths whose work he criticised. P15.4
• Princes as smiths. P31.1
• Untrained monk becomes skillful wright (smith) through power of saint. P426.3.1
• Smith. P447
• Smith from Lochlann (Scandinavia, otherworld [?]). P447.0.1
• Smith as grandfather of king. P447.1
• Smith as rath-builder. P447.2
• Smith as lord of hall of hospitality. P447.3
• Smith punished in hell. P447.4
• Smith honored by king as indispensable. Invited to festival. P447.5
• Rivaling smiths. P447.6
• Goldsmith as lover. P447.7
• Covetous goldsmith. P447.8
• Smith rescues abandoned child. (Cf. N855.) R131.8.4
• Parents successively bury alive their sons who mention something about smith's, potter's, washerman's, and tom-tom beater's trade, but keep fifth child who says something about being future king. S311.1
• Two smiths as rivals for love of girl. T92.12
• The tailor and the smith as rivals. The tailor declares that the smith is blind and the smith declares that the tailor is a fool. At the wedding in church, the smith drops a hot piece of iron into the tailor's boot. T92.12.1
• 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
• Dishonest silversmith restless until silver ornament is mixed with alloy. U138.1
• Smith's wife made nails for the Cross because her husband believed Christ to be a true prophet. V211.2.3.0.2
• The dream: all parsons in hell. The smith tells the parson whom he has summoned that he has dreamed of going to heaven where St. Peter would not admit him before he saw a parson. There were no parsons in heaven, but all in hell. X438
• Lie: remarkable smith. (Cf. F663.) X982
• The mouse regains its tail. The cat bites off the mouse's tail and will return it in exchange for milk. The mouse goes to the cow for milk, the farmer for hay, the butcher for meat, the baker for bread. Other persons mentioned are the locksmith and the miner. Z41.4
• My dog picked up a string, but did not wish to give it to me unless I gave her bread. Cupboard did not wish to give bread unless I gave it a key; smith, charcoal; charcoal-burner, calf's legbone; butcher, milk; cow, grass; meadow, water; clouds, dove's feather. Dove gave me a feather which I gave to clouds, etc. Z41.4.2
• The house the old man was to build. The woman for whom he is to build the house has some beans for him. The goat eats these up. Cumulative search. Final formula: Smith give me my iron, iron which belongs to the man, man who ate up my fish, fish which belongs to the sea .... sea – shirt – washerwoman – soap – woman – wood – press – grease – herder – cheese – frame – fig – tree – horn – goat – beans. Z44.1