141 motifs match “stream” — showing the first 100; narrow the words for the rest  ·  back to the chapters

• God with body of stream of blood. A123.1.6
• Stream is wife of deity. A425.1.1
• Sun bathes in stream of fire at night. A722.5.1
• Sun led through stream to cool off heat at night; otherwise might consume earth. A722.5.2
• Four streams from four corners of earth. A871.1
• Stream of paradise from roots of world-tree. A878.1
• Other streams from roots of earth-tree. A878.1.1
• Origin of streams. A930
• Stream unexpectedly bursts from side of mountain. A934.9
• Rivers and streams offspring of marriage of Ocean and his sister. A938
• Stream from under holy of holies in temple. A941.7.3
• Origin of insects: released from sack. God places them in a sack and gives it to hare to carry to stream. He must not look in the sack. When he does so the insects escape. The hare laughs and this is the cause of his split lip. A2003
• Pike helps Christ cross stream: made king of fishes. A2223.4
• Tortoise given hard shell when it ferries rice-goddess across stream. A2223.6
• Animal cursed for refusing to carry holy fugitive across stream. (Cf. A2371.2.1.) A2231.7.2
• Why tortoise lives in logs in stream. (Cf. A2282.) A2433.6.1.1
• Why iguana lives in stream. A2433.6.4
• Why hare never drinks from rivers or streams. A2435.3.12.1
• The Bird Gam. Throws sand in a stream and makes a lake. Appears at turn of century. Also carries men. Leaps into the sea and sleeps. B31.2
• Demi-coq. A cock is cut in two and is made magic. Carries robbers, foxes, and stream of water under wings. B171.1
• Fish come in great numbers to the bank of a stream in order to hear Anthony of Padua preach. B251.2.7.1
• Dragon makes bridge across stream for holy man. (Cf. B11.) B549.2
• Animals serve as bridge across stream. B555
• Tabu: bathing in clear stream. C721.2.1
• Tabu: bathing without straining stream afterwards. C721.3
• Transformation: hair to stream. D457.4.1
• Stream changed to egg. D476.1.8
• Streams of wisdom flow from magic well. (Cf. D915.) D1300.3.1
• Magic stream quenches fire. (Cf. D915.2.) D1382.8
• Stream flows from man's head. (Cf. D992.) D1472.1.34.2
• Magic pumpkin holds streams of oil. (Cf. D981.11.) D1482.2
• Magic object causes streams to dry up. D1542.3
• Magic medicine causes streams to dry up. (Cf. D1241.) D1542.3.1
• Saint's bachall leads stream through mountain (or up hill.) (Cf. D1277.) D1549.3.2
• Magic girdle produces stream of water to quench fire. (Cf. D1057.1.) D1566.2.7
• Stones go down to stream to drink. D1641.2.5
• The waters of seas, lakes, and streams turn aside and let the holy man walk through untouched by moisture. (Cf. D1551.) D1841.4.3.1
• Streams of blood magically drawn down on foe. D2091.3
• Stream magically appears. D2151.2.5
• Magic book conjured away by throwing it on stream. D2176.4
• Ghost of suicide drags people into stream. E266.1
• Ghost frightens people off bridge into stream. E272.3
• Ghost appears at road and stream. E332.1
• Ghosts cannot cross rapid stream. E434.3
• Ghost laid by burial outside village on far side of stream, with four iron nails driven into the corners of the grave. E442.2
• Flowing stream forms arc over otherworld isle. F162.2.9
• Jewels in streams of otherworld. F162.2.10
• Head in otherworld well emits stream of water from mouth. F162.5.2
• Fountains in otherworld – one or more streams flow into each, one or more out. F162.8.2
• Fairies ferried across stream. F213.2
• Fairies live in trees by stream. F216.1
• Fairy unable to cross running stream. F383.2
• Water-spirit demands food from those it takes across stream. F420.5.3.6
• Thor carries giant in basket across icy stream. F531.3.1.3
• Giants carry church across a stream. F531.3.6
• Giants sit on mountains and wash feet in stream below. F531.3.9
• Long tongue cut out and used to bridge a stream. F544.2.2.1
• Stream of fresh water flows through the sea. F711.4.1
• Marvelous stream containing little black fish bursts forth from mountain. (Cf. A934.9.) F715.3.2
• Stream runs through house. F715.4
• Well shoots up high as pillars, and discharges itself into navigable streams. (Cf. D926.) F718.11
• Building at bottom of which flows stream of rubies. F771.12
• Remarkable spear used to dam stream. F834.5
• Robe sent to saint on stream not wet. (Cf. D1052.) F930.1.0.2
• Stream becomes hot in which saint performs his ascetic devotions. F932.3
• In dead of night waters of stream cease flowing and stand perfectly still. F932.6.3
• Ashes thrown into stream dissolve animals. F981.5
• Bleeding lance. Stream of blood flows from it into silver cup. (Cf. D1086.) F991.1
• Fury in battle causes stream of blood to rise from warrior's head. F1041.16.6.1
• Shame causes smoke to rise from saint's head and sweat to stream from his brow. F1041.23
• Deep streams of blood flow during battle. F1084.1
• Witch powerless to cross stream. G273.4
• Devil as stream of water. G303.3.4.11
• Blessing reveals seemingly pure stream to be devil's trap which kills whoever drinks from it. G303.16.2.3.5
• Ogre powerless to cross stream. G638
• Ogre's ashes cast on stream cause rapids to stop. Also kill all creatures in the stream. G655
• Recognition by unique manner of carving chips. These sent down stream for recognition. (Cf. H135.) H35.4
• Leaf (chip) sent down stream as a warning to one below. (Cf. H35.4.) H135
• Milk poured into stream as signal. H135.2
• Suitor test: to plunge into a stream. H353
• 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
• Man helps traveler and makes riddling remarks. Gives him food, shares his coat in rain, and carries him over stream. Reproaches him with traveling without mother, house, or bridge (nourishment, shelter, or horse). H586.1
• One traveler to another (when asked how he crossed an unbridged stream): I cross on an ashen bridge. (Found a ford with an ashen staff.) H586.6
• Task: carrying hundreds of sheep across stream one at a time. H1111
• Task: "to turn low stream and fill the high stream." H1138.1
• Task: crossing weed-filled stream. Hero spreads cloth on weeds and floats across. H1197
• "Do not cross a swollen stream until it has run down": counsel proved wise by experience. J21.21
• Jackal covers up his inability to cross stream by saying he is looking for shallowest part. J873.1
• Drunk philosopher wagers that he can drink the ocean dry. Agrees to do so if the other will hold back streams emptying into the ocean. Agreed to drink only the ocean. J1161.9
• Turtle released by man to carry him across stream. Threatens him midway. Fox to be judge. Feigns deafness and makes turtle come so near shore man jumps and saves self. J1172.4
• Priest carries the Host across a dangerous stream. Spectators tell him to thank God for not drowning. "I helped Him across!" J1261.2.8
• Deer captured in bird-net: water flows upstream. One partner claims a deer he has captured in his bird-net. The other pretends to be watching water flow upstream. J1534
• Wife shows deep water. Husband declares that he will drown himself. The wife shows him a deep spot in the stream. J1545.9
• Sticking to the rules. Merchant at inn deprives monk of fowl. "It's against the rules of your order." Later the monk undertakes to help merchant across stream. In the middle of the stream he asks the merchant if he has any money. "Yes." The monk drops him in the water. "It's against the rules of our order to have any money on us." J1638
• King's capriciousness censured: the ass in the stream. A nobleman seeing an ass letting water in a river remarks that it reminds him of his king. He explains to the king that just as the ass puts water where it is already plentiful, so the king awards wealth where it is not needed. The king says that it is all in the nature of the nobleman's fate. Subsequent events prove this. J1675.3
• Eight-oared ferry-boat mistaken for an animal which must have long legs to wade the stream. J1772.14
• Dog drops his meat for the reflection. Crossing a stream with meat in his mouth he sees his reflection; thinking it another dog with meat he dives for it and loses his meat. J1791.4
• Fishes to stop at his house. Fool directs them as he places them in stream. J1881.2.3
• Fool carries wife across stream head downwards and drowns her. J1916
• Money tested by throwing it into a stream to see if it will swim. Good coins are supposed to swim, counterfeit to sink. J1931