73 motifs match “speaks”  ·  back to the chapters

• God (angel) speaks to mortal. A182.3
• God speaks to Moses from bush. A182.3.0.1
• Angel speaks to Patrick from bush that merely seems to burn. A182.3.0.1.1
• God speaks to saint in prison. A182.3.0.2
• Saint speaks with God each Thursday. A182.3.0.3
• God speaks from mountain. A182.3.0.5
• Culture hero speaks before birth. A511.1.2
• Why hornbill speaks through his nose. A2423.1.5
• Speaking horse-head. The helpful magic horse (B181) is killed (B330). The head is preserved and placed on the wall. It speaks and reveals the treachery practiced against the heroine. B133.3
• Horse refuses to carry one who speaks falsehood. B133.4
• Tabu: people speaking before king speaks. C402.2
• Mentula loquens. A man's member speaks and can be silenced only by his mother-in-law. D1610.6.2
• Church bell speaks. (Cf. V115.) D1610.15.1
• Saint's bell speaks. D1610.15.2
• Blood speaks. (Cf. D1003, D1318.5.) D1610.16
• Earth speaks. (Cf. D935, D1318.16.) D1610.19
• Image of the Virgin Mary speaks. (Cf. V250.) D1610.21.1
• Magic drinking horn with a man's head speaks. (Cf. D1171.6.3.) D1610.25
• Diamond speaks from inside statue. (Cf. D1071.) D1610.27.3
• Hiding place speaks and betrays hider. D1612.3
• Eaten object speaks from inside person's body. D1619.2
• Dead man re-enters body and speaks of experience in heaven. E1.2
• Dead man speaks demanding proper funeral rites. E235.2.1
• Person who has spent two years in hell speaks of importance of religious experience. E367.1
• Dead person speaks from grave. E417
• Ghost laid when living man speaks to it. E451.4
• Part of ghost speaks. E545.20
• Strand of hair from drowned woman speaks. E545.20.1
• Reincarnation as musical instrument. The Singing Bone. A musical instrument made from the bones of a murdered person, or from a tree growing from the grave, speaks and tells of the crime. E632
• Ogre with life in parrot, speaks from inside parrot. E715.1.3.2
• Wraith speaks. E723.7.1
• Ghost possesses girl and she speaks in dialect unknown to her. E725.2
• Vital head speaks. E783.5
• Demon occupies (speaks from) lance (sword). F408.1
• Invisible spirit speaks. F412.1
• Invisible water-spirit claps hands and speaks. F420.1.5.1
• Person who speaks with pestilence dies. F493.2.1
• Victim speaks from swallower's body. F915
• Senses regained when person speaks his name. F959.1.1
• Human flesh being cooked speaks out. G64
• Witch powerless when person speaks before she does. G273.2
• Devil speaks with voice of a he-goat. G303.4.7
• Person magically disfigured when he speaks falsely. H244
• Stone cannot be moved by one who speaks falsehood. H251.2.1
• Chain around neck tests truth. Tightens when wearer speaks falsehood. H251.3.6
• Not the same purse as was lost. Finder of a purse containing 800 gulden returns it to owner for reward. Latter says that purse had 900 gulden in it. In court. Decision: The rich man speaks truth. The purse found is not the one he lost. The finder may keep it. J1172.1
• Shoemaker speaks ill of lord's rule. Lord takes his tools away from him. Shoemaker begs for them saying that he cannot carry on his business without them. Ruler: "I thought ruling was your business so I took your tools to learn shoemaking." J1289.7
• Boy pretends to speak only Latin. Father, chastising his lazy son, also speaks in "Latin". J1511.11
• Scholar speaks Latin on hunt so that the birds cannot understand him. J1894
• Actor forgets and speaks in his own person. J2041
• In Passion Play the Christ says, "I am thirsty"; the thief on the left speaks up, "I too." J2041.1
• The dead man speaks up. A numskull who has lain down thinking he is dead is carried off in a bier. The carriers lose their way. He speaks up, "I always went that way when I was alive." J2311.4
• The dead man in spite of himself. Neighbors who have heard of the numskull's death insist on the funeral although he is alive and well. He is persuaded and is carried on a bier. They meet a busy man whom they try to persuade to join them. He pleads business. The "dead" man speaks: "It's no use, friend, to try to dissuade them." J2311.5
• Tortoise speaks and loses his hold on the stick. He is being carried through the air by a bird. J2357
• "I don't believe you have a gold coin." Trickster handed money by each of four blind beggars, each thinking that member of group speaks. K1081.1.1
• Man behind statue (tree) speaks and pretends to be God (spirit). K1971
• Trickster in tree advises that tree and fruit belong to him. Others think God speaks and leave. K1971.11
• Prophet speaks six nights each year. M301.0.2
• Stolen wife makes trail of speaking spittle for husband. Spittle speaks and directs him. R135.0.1
• Child speaks before birth. (Cf. A511.1.2.) T575
• Child speaks in mother's womb. T575.1
• Child speaks from dead mother's womb. (Cf. T584.2.) T575.3
• Child speaks at birth. (Cf. T575.1.) T585.2
• Child two months old speaks. T585.2.1
• Child speaks prematurely on first birthday. T585.2.2
• Image of saint speaks. V126
• Flowers fall from saint's mouth while he speaks. (Cf. D1454.2.1.) V222.11
• Severed head of saint speaks so that searchers can find it. (Cf. D1610.5.) V229.22
• God speaks in vision to devotee. V510.1
• Man speaks no evil. W24
• Man is rebuked for loquaciousness when he speaks after thirty-seven days. W225.1
• Robbers mistake man for devil (the "sheep" speaks, "Gently, gently!"). X424.1
• Bird's pea gets stuck in socket of mill-handle. She goes to carpenter, king, queen, who refuse to help. She asks snake to bite queen, stick to beat snake, fire to burn stick, etc. Final formula: cat eats mouse, mouse cuts plant creeper, creeper snares elephant, elephant drinks up sea, sea quenches fire, fire burns stick, stick beats snake, snake bites queen, queen speaks to king, king chides carpenter, carpenter cuts mill handle, and pea is extracted. Questions in rhyme. Z41.6