31 motifs match “stable”  ·  back to the chapters

• New creation shouted away. It is unstable and therefore unsatisfactory. A636
• Cows kneel in stable at midnight of Eve of Old Christmas. B251.1.2.3
• Forbidden stables. Person allowed to enter everywhere but into three stables. C611.2
• Unstable bridge to land of dead. E481.2.1.2
• Life token: hero's horse stands in stable in blood up to his knees. E761.1.9
• Dwarf home is underground, beneath cow stable. (Cf. F451.4.4.3.) F451.4.1.5
• Dwarfs request that cow stable be moved because it is above their home and the seepage strikes their dining table. (Cf. F381.7, F451.4.1.5.) F451.4.4.3
• Strong man uses stable-roof as flail. F614.7
• Devil in the stable wrapped in horse-hide. Devil chases youth as he hides himself. G303.8.12
• Troll has bear in stable. G304.3.2.3
• Troll has hares in stable. G304.3.2.4
• Task: cleaning Augean stable. Stable has not been cleaned in years. Must be done in one night. River turned through it. H1102
• Unstable security. Stag tries to borrow grain from the sheep, using the wolf as security. Sheep says that they are both so swift that he does not know where they will be on the day of payment. J1383
• Man sleeping in stable (abandoned cabin) thinks entering animals are ghosts: kills them. J1782.4
• Wolf almost locked up in the stable by the shepherd. The dog: "What good to lock us up from the wolf when he is with us?" J2172.2.1
• Man says: "That's the best horse in all England, but I have one in my stable worth ten of him. (Cf. J1743.1.) J2217.1
• Damages for supposedly lost horse. Horse concealed by owner in loft of stable at inn. K251.4
• Robbers coming to steal from stable frightened away by bear staying the night there with his keeper. K335.1.9
• Trickster entices wolves out of a stable by music: exacts money from their watcher for his carelessness. K443.5
• "Have we leave to go?" Two prisoners are made stable boys on their promise not to escape secretly. Before horse race starts they ask: "Do we have your leave to go?" They go home. K475.2
• Disguise as stable-boy. K1816.8
• Treacherous stable-groom. K2256
• Stable-boy as hero. L113.1.2
• Robber attempting to steal cow at night seizes thieving tiger. Great fight in stable. N392
• King banishes mother to stables. S21.4
• Abandonment in stable. S153
• Child born in stable. T581.4
• Farmer prefers stable smells to flowers. Latter make him ill. U133.1
• Lie: the great stable. X1036
• Lie: the great stable: distance to stall. Cow has calf and the calf grows up and has calf before it can reach its stall. X1036.1
• Bird avenges caged mate. Builds cart, yokes frogs to it, arms himself with piece of reed, and proclaims war with king. Collects cat, ants, rope, club, and river. He is put by king into fowl house; cat eats up fowls. In stable rope and club beat up horses. In elephant-house ants get into their brains and kill them all. Tied to king's bed, river floods king in his bed. King gives bird back his mate. Z52