34 motifs match “source”  ·  back to the chapters

• Creative mother source of everything. A3
• River's source where sky and earth meet. A659.3
• Inexhaustible buckets as source of lakes. A920.1.1
• Man made of substances from eight different sources. A1260.1.2
• Animals sources of food because they were once unfaithful, disobedient wives of a visitor from god-country. A1422.0.1
• Tabu: disclosing source of magic power. C423.1
• Tabu: crossing river except at source. C833.1
• Dwarfs' gifts cease when mortal betrays the source. (Cf. C420, F348.5.) F451.5.1.6.1
• Giant's presents cease when source is disclosed. (Cf. F348.5.) F531.5.6.3
• Extraordinary source of river. F715.1
• Source of witch's magic. G224
• Witch's salve. Source of magic power. G224.2
• Other sources of witch's power. G224.13
• Test of resourcefulness. H506
• Test of resourcefulness: weighing elephant. Man puts him on boat; marks water-line; fills boat with stones until it sinks to same line; weighs stones. H506.1
• Test of resourcefulness: finding how many people are in dark closed room. Fills room with evil smell; men call each other by name and disclose number. H506.2
• Test of resourcefulness: carrying wolf, goat, and cabbage across stream. Man is to set across a stream, in a boat that will hold himself and only one other object, a wolf, a goat, and a cabbage. He must do this so that the wolf doesn't eat the goat, nor the goat the cabbage. Two solutions: (1) (a) take goat over, (b) take wolf over and goat back, (c) take cabbage over, (d) take goat over; (2) (a) take goat over, (b) take cabbage over and goat back, (c) take wolf over, (d) take goat over. H506.3
• Test of resourcefulness: putting thread through coils of snail shell. Thread tied to ant who pulls it through. H506.4
• Test of resourcefulness: to swing seventy girls until they are tired. H506.5
• Test of resourcefulness: not to sit at the foot of couch. Servant gives prince a lemon to place on it indicating which is head and which foot of couch. H506.6
• Test of resourcefulness: to eat food without untying cloth containing it; hole torn in cloth. H506.7
• Test of resourcefulness: to get melon out of jar without breaking it. Melon is planted in jar made of unbaked clay. Jar is wrapped in a wet cloth so that it collapses. H506.8
• Test of resourcefulness: to cook rice without fire (in hot sand). H506.9
• Test of resourcefulness: to find relationships among three sticks: they are put in vessel of water; degree of sinking shows what part of tree each comes from. H506.10
• Test of resourcefulness: to discover how old, respectively, three horses are. Youth drops water on each; one jumps fifteen paces only, another twenty, and the last bounds in air and gallops. H506.11
• Scorned suitor consoles himself by realization that a wife who did not love him would be constant source of trouble. J877
• Never use your entire resources. J1073
• White sheep-skin used as a source of light. J1961
• Monk goes into desert to avoid temptation of women, the prime source of sin. T334.1
• Sight or touch of woman as source of sin. T336
• Woman's girdle as source of sin. T336.1
• Woman's voice as source of sin. T336.2
• Lie: person displays remarkable ingenuity or resourcefulness. X1012
• Unique source of weakness. Z312.3