35 motifs match “string”  ·  back to the chapters

• Heaven and earth originally connected by navel string. Navel string cut. A625.2.1
• Deer with string of pearls around its neck. B105.2
• Transformation by binding with string around neck. D585
• Transformation to ant in order to gnaw bow-strings of enemy. D651.4
• Disenchantment by removing string from neck. D723.2.1
• Magic string. D1184.2
• Magic string protects. (Cf. D1184.2.) D1380.10
• Magic ball of string to which one sticks. (Cf. D1184.2.) D1413.18
• Wild huntsmen with entrails stringing from open bodies. E501.7.5
• Life token: zither string breaks. E761.5.2
• Remarkable bowstring. F836.0.1
• Bowstring (arrow, oar) breaks at angry warrior's grasp. F1041.16.6.9
• Person removes string with thirteen knots from child's mouth. G271.10
• Prince born with bow of gold and string of silver. H71.7.2
• Task: gathering bed-tick full of harp strings. H1129.7
• Wolf tries to eat bowstring. Finds hunter, gazelle, and wild boar dead. Tries first to eat the bowstring, and is mortally wounded. J514.2
• Aesop with the unbent bow. Upbraided when found playing with children, he unstrings a bow and shows how good relaxation is. J553.1
• Rat imagines himself owner of camel. He is attached to camel by string. J953.17
• Literal numskull drags jar (bacon) on string. He has sent a pig home alone. Told that he should have led it by a string. J2461.1.1
• Man is robbed of gold chain while with prostitute. He swallows her string of pearls in revenge. (Cf. K302.1.) K306.3
• The heller thrown into others' money. A rascal sees robbers dividing their booty. He puts a red string through his only coin (a heller) and slips it into the others' money. He claims the money as his and says that he has marked it with a heller having a red string through it. The robbers divide. K446
• Musician in hell playing for the devils, purposely breaks fiddle strings. Must return to earth to repair strings. K606.1.3
• Mice gnaw enemies' bow strings and prevent pursuit. K632
• Blind men duped into fighting: strings leading to water removed. K1081.3
• Priest caught in lasso by rival lover. Mistress tells knight of priest's demands. Knight has her give assignation, and arranges around her a string lasso which he pulls, and catches priest. K1218.1.6
• Substituted string causes ogre to be killed. Intended victim of cannibal is marked by thread around ankle. Changed in night to host. K1611.1
• Treacherous queen lures her husband into chest and betrays him to hostile king. He is hung up between two fires, but his second wife cuts the strings so that he falls down and kills his enemy and takes his kingdom back. K2213.15
• Death by rebounding bow. Ants gnaw a bowstring, so that the bow rebounds and cuts off head of man who is leaning on it. N335.3
• Hamstringing as punishment. Q451.2.0.3
• Punishment: binding together sand and string. (Cf. H1021.1.) Q512.2
• Hamstringing. S162.2
• Unknown paramour discovered by string clue. T475.1
• Girl born with red string around neck. T552.1
• Child helps mother in severing his navel string. T584.8
• My dog picked up a string, but did not wish to give it to me unless I gave her bread. Cupboard did not wish to give bread unless I gave it a key; smith, charcoal; charcoal-burner, calf's legbone; butcher, milk; cow, grass; meadow, water; clouds, dove's feather. Dove gave me a feather which I gave to clouds, etc. Z41.4.2