29 motifs match “summer”  ·  back to the chapters

• Genealogy of summer and winter. A1154
• Too cold for hare (dog) to build house in winter, not necessary in summer: must go without house. A2233.2.1
• Why hare is grey in summer. A2411.1.4.4.1
• Origin of floating webs in summer. A2815
• Tabu: sleeping with certain wife on Midsummer's Eve. C751.2
• Summer and winter garden. Garden which blooms in winter. (Cf. D961.) D1664
• Local winter. Winter produced in one place while it is summer everywhere else. D2145.1.1
• Summer produced by magic. D2145.2
• Summer magically lengthened. (Cf. F162.1.1, F971.5.) D2145.2.1
• Saint causes a river to freeze over in summer. D2151.2.4
• Perpetual summer in otherworld. No storms. F161.1
• Summer in otherworld when it is winter in world of mortals. F161.1.1
• Castle warmed by love. No fire is required because love makes perpetual summer. F771.13
• Winter's day changes to summer's day at saint's funeral. F960.2.6
• King: Where shall I tie my horse? Maiden: Between summer and winter. (Between wagon and sleigh.) H583.7
• How much is king's beard worth? A May rain (three rains in summer). H712.2
• Task: standing between summer and winter. (Stands between wagon and sleigh.) H1058
• More than one swallow to make a summer. Spendthrift youth seeing swallow concludes that summer has come and sells his clothes. There is frost the next day and he is cold. J731.1
• Bear builds house of wood; fox of ice. Fox's house fails him in summer. J741.1
• Fools try to hedge the cuckoo so that they will have summer the year round (the coming of the first cuckoo being the sign of the coming summer). J1904.2.1
• The needle (or the like) falls into the sea: sought the next summer. J1921
• The order for six loads of snow. The order is given by the king in winter. The courtier waits until summer to present the order. Gets money as substitute. K1661
• King mourns so much at wife's death that he goes on piracy, (every summer afterward). P27.2
• The first day of summer. V70.1
• Midsummer. (Cf. A1535.3.) V70.3
• Man escapes from bear by running for a long time, from summer to winter. Bear chases man in July; he finally crosses a river on the ice. The bear falls in or stops following (in December). X1133.2
• Lie: year with two summers and no winter. X1602
• Lie: year with two winters and no summer. It is winter all summer and in fall it gets colder. X1603
• Lie: mixed weather: summer in one spot and winter in another nearby. X1605