36 motifs match “swift”  ·  back to the chapters

• God rides through air on wind-swift horse. A171.1
• Swift, flaming winds in hell. A671.2.4.12
• A "flame of fire swifter than a blast of wind" as punishment for the sin of the Irish. A1031.1
• Why certain animals are swift. A2555
• Horse as swift as a bird. B184.1.1.2
• Swiftest horse on earth. B184.1.1.3
• Clever and swift horse of fanciful origin. B710.2
• Clever and swift horse fed with worms' milk on the gold mountain Tecklen in India. B710.2.1
• Clever and swift horse of dromedary-family. B710.2.2
• Ship as swift as a bird. D1521.2.1
• Sleigh as swift as thought. (Cf. D1115.) D1521.3
• Carriage as swift as thought. (Cf. D1111.) D1521.4
• Magic journey as swift as thought. (Cf. G242.) D2122.3
• Ghost travels swiftly. (Cf. D2122.) E599.5
• Marvelous runner swift as thought. F681.3
• Contest between runner swift as thought and one swift as sight. Former wins. F681.3.1
• Marvelous runner swift as sight. F681.4
• Marvelous swift plower. F681.10
• Marvelous swift mower. F681.11
• Runner runs so swiftly that he does not snap the ears of wheat (bend grass). F681.12
• Marvelously swift horse. F989.17
• Devil is swift of foot. G303.4.8.6
• Devil carries man through air as swift as wind (thought). G303.9.5.4
• Riddle: what is the swiftest? H632
• What is swiftest? Thought. H632.1
• What is swiftest? The eye. H632.2
• What is swiftest? The sun. H632.3
• Riddle: what is swifter than a bird, the wind or lightning? The eye. (Cf. H632.2.) H661
• Unstable security. Stag tries to borrow grain from the sheep, using the wolf as security. Sheep says that they are both so swift that he does not know where they will be on the day of payment. J1383
• King and jester flee: the king's swift horse. Jester: "You did have a swift horse. When I had to stop because my horse was tired out, you went two miles further." J1483.1
• Fools send money by rabbit. Since he is a swift runner they expect it to reach the landlord in time. J1881.2.2
• Swift when only a calf. A numskull who rides an ox to a tournament is ridiculed. He says, "He is swifter than a horse. You should have seen him run when he was only a calf." J2212.5
• Rabbit sold as letter-carrier. Alleged to be a swift deliverer of letters. K131.1
• The horse swifter than the rain. Caught in the rain, a trickster finds that his horse will not budge. He undresses, puts his clothes under the horse's belly and keeps them dry. When he reaches the king, he reports that his horse has run so fast that he has had no time to get wet. The king buys the horse. K134.2
• Trick: breaking legs for prowess in dancing (or for swiftness). K1013.6
• Lie: footless man outruns swift horse. X1796.1