21 motifs match “stretching”  ·  back to the chapters

• Animal characteristics from squeezing or stretching ancient animal. (Cf. A2231.9). A2213
• Animals' size increased by stretching. (Cf. A2312.1, A2301.) A2213.3
• Animal characteristics changed by stretching. A2213.4
• Stretching objects. D482
• Transformation: stretching tree. A tree magically shoots upward. D482.1
• Stretching lily plant. Miraculously quick growing. D482.2
• Magic stretching lance (Cf. D1086). D482.3
• Transformation: stretching cliff. A cliff magically shoots up into the air. D482.4
• Stretching sepulchre. Magically becomes longer. D482.5
• Transformation: stretching fingers to make ladder. D485
• Transportation by stretching and swaying tree. The tree stretches and bends over so as to land hero in a distant country. (Cf. D482.) D1520.1.1
• Saint protects followers against bullets by stretching sheet over their heads. D2163.9
• One-eyed barber sees thread of silk stretching to sea. F642.6
• Keeping the measure by stretching out the arms. Numskull goes to buy goods for his wife. J2036
• Abandonment on stretching tree. A man is induced to get into a tree which magically shoots upward. K1113
• Woman enticed to upper world on a stretching tree. K1339.2
• Punishment: stretching tongue to enormous length. Q451.4.10
• Stretching tree refuge for fugitive. (Cf. D482.1.) R311.4
• Jealous father sends son to upper world on stretching tree. S11.2
• Lies about stretching or shrinking. X1785
• Lie: the stretching and shrinking harness. Man driving team with wagon uphill in rain finds on arrival at the top of the hill that the tugs of rawhide or buckskin have stretched and that the loaded wagon is still at the bottom of the hill. He unhitches the horses and throws the harness across a stump. Sometime later, or the next morning, the sun comes out and shrinks the tugs, drawing the load to the top of the hill. X1785.1