26 motifs match “sunrise”  ·  back to the chapters

• Origin of colors at sunrise and sunset. A797
• Why cock crows to greet sunrise. A2489.1.1
• Bird announces time for sunrise and sunset. B122.4
• Tabu: going in direction either of sunset or sunrise. C614.1.5
• Tabu: bearded man sleeping at sunrise. C735.1.1
• Tabu: king (hero) sleeping after sunrise at capital. C735.2.3
• Tabu: doing thing at sunrise. C751.7
• Tabu: being in certain place at sunrise. C751.7.1
• Tabu: doing certain thing after sunrise. C752.2
• Tabu: supernatural creatures being abroad after sunrise. C752.2.1
• Conjurer must leave before sunrise. C752.2.2
• Dwarfs turn to stone at sunrise. F451.3.2.1
• Dwarf prevented from getting into his stone before sunrise till he promises to do what hero demands (especially forge weapons). (Cf. D451.3.4.2, D451.4.1.12, F451.5.2.13.) F451.3.2.1.1
• In dwarf land sunrise is at midnight. F451.4.6
• Trolls turn to stone at sunrise. (Cf. F531.6.12.2.) F455.8.1
• Sun returns to sunrise to help sick man. F961.1.2.1
• Fox thinks his elongated shadow at sunrise makes him as large as elephant. J953.13
• Contest in seeing sunrise first. K52
• Contest in seeing sunrise first: sun on the trees. The fox places himself on a hill facing the east; the hog in a lower place facing the high trees to the west. The sun shines on the top of the trees, and the hog wins. (Sometimes told with human actors.) K52.1
• Contest in seeing sunrise first: sleeper wins. One keeps awake, the other sleeps. The first thinks that he sees the sun and cries out prematurely, thus waking the other, who wins. K52.2
• Mock sunrise. Contract is to be fulfilled at dawn. Wolf makes fire as mock sunrise. Is caught. K1886.3
• Mock sunrise: person causes cock to crow (simulates cock crow). K1886.3.1
• Mock sunrise: dupe made to believe that flaunted bare buttocks are the rising sun. K1886.3.2
• Mock sunrise causes supernaturals (thieves) to drop burdens and flee. (Cf. F420.3.4.2.) K1886.3.3
• Three blasts on horn before sunrise to rescue prisoner from mound. R112.1
• Prayers at sunrise and sunset. V58.1