55 motifs match “speech”  ·  back to the chapters

• Cold before theft of fire impedes speech: explanation of difficulty of certain languages. A1616.1
• Fly punished for failing to answer question: is speechless, buzzes and associates with foul things. (Cf. A2426.3.3, A2433.5.2.) A2239.2
• Owl reveals deity's secret: power of speech removed. A2239.3.1
• How animal lost voice (or power of speech). A2422
• Why dog lost his power of speech. A2422.1
• Speech of fireflies. A2426.3.6
• Formerly animals and man spoke the same language. God took the power of speech from the animals because men refused to kill speaking beasts. B210.3
• Animal uses human speech. B211
• Animal understands human speech. B212
• Fox understands human speech. B212.1
• Bee fetches balm from heaven to restore hero's speech. B514.2
• Marvelous ruby teaches bird's speech. (Cf. D1071.) D1301.3
• Magic object restores speech. D1507
• Magic ring restores speech. (Cf. D1076.) D1507.1
• Saint's gospel-book restores speech. (Cf. D1266.) D1507.2
• Saint's bell restores speech. (Cf. D1213.) D1507.3
• Saint's breath restores speech. (Cf. D1005.) D1507.4
• Magic cake restores speech. (Cf. D1031.2.) D1507.5
• Saint's blood restores speech. (Cf. D1003.) D1507.6
• Magic harp restores speech. (Cf. D1231.) D1507.7
• Magic gold taken from hill restores speech when it is laid under the tongue of dumb person. D1507.8
• Magic recovery of speech. D2025
• Magic (loss and) recovery of speech. D2025.0.1
• Speech magically recovered on execution stake. D2025.1
• Speech magically recovered when certain bird is caught. D2025.2
• Speech magically recovered when third person guesses secret transaction. D2025.3
• Speech magically recovered on Hallowe'en. (Cf. V70.5.) D2025.5
• Mouth of man emits flames when open for speech. F544.0.3
• Dumb princess is brought to speech by tale ending with a question to be solved. F954.2.1
• Fainting brings recovery of speech. F954.3
• Oaths (abusive speeches) drive ogres away. G571
• Disguised king (noble) recognized by habitual speech. H38.1
• Impostor of low origin recognized by habitual speech. H38.2
• Wise man answers questions of many with single speech. H501.2
• Literary contest won by deception: he who will be first silenced is the loser. When the false teacher answers in nonsense syllables, the true scholar is speechless and so loses contest. H507.6
• Skillful companions create woman: to whom does she belong? Woodcarver carves a doll, tailor clothes her, gardener gives her speech (or the like). (Answer sometimes given: her father, her mother, or her husband). H621
• What is sweeter than sugar? The princess's speech. H633.5
• Fear test: staying in enchanted castle at night where the devil gives a moral speech and prophesies. H1411.3
• Test: speechless vigil in church. H1451
• Choice: loss of beauty or speech. Latter chosen. J213
• Parson's apology for not answering challenge: I have never regretted silence but have often regretted speech. J1074.1
• Law student forgets his speech. Absurd results. J2046
• The persuasive auctioneer. The auctioneer praises the man's worthless cow so much in his speech that the man takes her back himself. J2087
• Deception into listening to speaker. He secures the audience's attention by beginning a tale. He then launches into his speech. K477.2
• Respite from death gained by long-drawn-out speech. K555.1
• Name of criminal accidentally spoken out (identical with ordinary word in speech). N611.1.1
• Evil speech punished. Q393
• Loss of speech as punishment. Q451.3
• Saint deprives enemy king of speech. King repents, speech restored. Q572.5
• Man stricken dumb for surly speech. (Cf. Q327, Q451.3.) Q583.2
• Lovers converse in figures of speech not understood by others. T42.2
• Silent wife brought to speech by dangers to her husband. (Cf. F954.) T272.1
• Precocious speech. (Cf. T585.) T615.1
• Dumb man recovers speech in order to confess. V23.2
• Saint restores dumb man's speech. (Cf. D1507.) V221.2