51 motifs match “smoke”  ·  back to the chapters

• Milky Way is smoke (ashes). A778.8
• Clouds as smoke rising to sky. A1133.3
• Insects from devil's post-hole. Devil is given enough land to dig a post-hole. From this come all kinds of insects. To stop them a burning log is put in the hole. Insects therefore hate smoke. A2004
• Raven caught in smoke-hole: hence is black. (Cf. A2411.2.1.5.) A2218.1
• Why ebony tree has black wood and smoke-colored leaves. A2772.4
• Origin of smoke. A2816
• Tabu: altar smoke from sacrifice touching young chief. C564.5
• Transformation: man to smoke. D285.1
• Transformation: smoke to bridge. D469.2
• Smoke from magic purse makes man sleep. (Cf. D1192.) D1364.28
• Magic sword causes fire and smoke. (Cf. D1081.) D1566.1.3
• Magic smoke carries power of saint. (Cf. D1271, V220.) D1572
• Rising smoke as omen. D1812.5.0.4
• Divination from rising smoke. D1812.5.0.4.1
• Magic transportation on smoke. D2121.7.3
• Dead man smokes pipe. E555
• Reincarnation as smoke. E643
• Smoke from funeral fires of two lovers mingles in sky. E643.1
• Soul as smoke. E743.1
• Souls climb pillars of smoke and light on way to heaven. (Cf. E722.2.1.) E754.6
• Columns of smoke as ladder to upper world. (Cf. F61.3.1.) F52.2
• Ascent to upper world in smoke. F61.3.1
• Fairies protect selves by means of smoke. F399.2
• Spirit vanishes in smoke. F407.1
• Dwarfs dislike tobacco smoke. F451.3.6.3
• Strong man carries off door-frame and frame of smoke-hole. F631.2.1
• Diagnosis based on smoke rising from house of sick. F956.3
• Shame causes smoke to rise from saint's head and sweat to stream from his brow. F1041.23
• Blood of brother and sister (and smoke from their funeral pyres) refuses to mingle. F1075
• Devil detected, goes up chimney in smoke. G303.17.2.1
• Genie in form of smoke, taking shape with three wings, one on back. G369.2
• Riddle: the father not yet born, the son already at the top of the house. (Flame and smoke.) H763
• Smoke test. Attempt to kill hero by smoke. H1511.3
• Smoking test. Attempt to kill hero by having him smoke fatal pipe. H1511.4
• Recognition of good health by smoke rising from chimney. H1582.2
• Tobacco, pipe, and match debate usefulness to smoker. J461.3
• Thief detected by building straw fire so that smoke escapes through thief's entrance. The secret hole into the building is thus discovered and the thief caught. J1143
• King to smoker: "Even donkeys will have nothing to do with tobacco." Smoker: "Donkeys don't know how to enjoy themselves." J1289.20
• Breath in the cold thought to be tobacco smoke. J1801
• Opium-smoker on journey asks his way about; ends up at his own house. J2027
• Clouds supposed to come from smoke. J2277.1
• House filled with smoke so that owner gives trickster lodging. K336
• Trickster fills house with smoke so that partner cannot see to eat. K336.2
• Substitute smoker. The hero is compelled to smoke a fatal pipe, but the helpful insect which he carries on his head smokes the pipe for him. K528.1
• Fairy wins kiss in game; embraces woman and flies off with her through skylight (smokehole). K786
• Wolf overeats in the cellar (smokehouse). Cannot escape through the entrance hole. K1022.1
• Gun as tobacco pipe. The trickster gives the ogre the gun to smoke. K1057
• Fairy mist mistaken for smoke of enemy's burning ships. K2369.9
• Punishment: choking with smoke. This given a lawyer who has "sold smoke", i.e., idle words. Q469.5
• Smokers in otherworld are locked in smoky rooms. Q569.5
• Rising smoke as sign of acceptance of sacrifice. V19.1