70 motifs match “taking”  ·  back to the chapters

• Buffaloes fail to come at god's leavetaking: now are killed by tigers. A2231.12
• Trees fail to come at god's leavetaking, now bear bitter fruit. A2721.7
• Tabu: taking fruit and fish dedicated to goddess. (Cf. C221, C225, C241.) C51.2.2.1
• Tabu: taking the advice of a woman. C195
• Tabu: partaking of certain feast. C286
• Tabu: speaking while taking a bath. C401.6
• Tabu: taking down corpse of hanged man. C541.5
• Tabu: partaking of the one forbidden object. C620
• Compulsion: taking back talisman which opened treasure mountain. Hero takes treasure and forgets the talisman. C652
• Tabu: taking more than one fruit from certain tree. C762.4
• Tabu: taking census. C897.2
• Transformation to swans by taking chains off neck. (Cf. D161.) D536.1
• Disenchantment by taking off bridle. Man transformed to horse (ass) thus released. D722
• Disenchantment by taking key from serpent's mouth at midnight. The disenchanter is to take the key (three keys) from the mouth of the woman in serpent form with his own mouth. D759.1
• Taking tile from witch's house forces her to reveal herself. G257.4
• Taking snuff with the devil. G303.9.9.8
• Devil is blamed by monk for taking what does not belong to him. Devil denies accusation. G303.25.10
• Genie in form of smoke, taking shape with three wings, one on back. G369.2
• Ordeal: taking stone out of bucket. Color indicates guilt or innocence. H233
• Task: taking a stick from the body. (Fingernail.) H1021.7
• Fear test: taking boy to frightful enemy's tent. H1418
• Test of valor worthy for kingship: taking possession of royal insignia placed between two ferocious lions. H1561.5
• Before undertaking rescue, bat tests strength by lifting stone. H1562.2.2
• Intemperance in undertaking labor. J557
• Foolishness of king's taking a washerman for chief minister; washerman makes no preparation for war and kingdom is conquered. [Inadvertant duplication of U129.3.] J677
• Foolishness of taking on too strong a partner: crow crowds sparrow out of its nest. J684.2
• B warns A not to tie his horse near B's. Horses fight and A's is killed. In court B plays dumb. A says B could talk the day before, and repeats conversation. Judge blames A for not taking advice. J1141.1.12
• Dividing three fish among two men. Fools submit problem to trickster who solves problem by taking third fish himself. J1241.3
• The sacrament for sale. Sick woman calls the parson but recovers meanwhile He insists on her taking the sacrament and charges for it. "Set it here on the table; perhaps I can sell it again." J1261.2.1
• Where did he get the wine? Father shows drunkard son a drunk man being mocked on the street. Instead of taking it as a warning the son says "Where does one get such good wine?" J1321.1
• Taking cold in effigy. A traitor is hanged in effigy naked. Later the citizens sue for peace and arrange a meeting. They find him in a hot room swathed with many blankets. He says that he has taken cold when the night wind blew on him as he hung naked from the gallows. J1628
• Filling cracks with butter. Numskull sees cracks in the ground and feels so sorry for them that he greases them with the butter he is taking home. J1871
• Taking the short-cut. Farmer takes a few feet off his journey and lifts a wheelbarrow over 22 stiles in so doing. J2119.2.1
• Nine men try to lift bull over the fence. One gets the idea of taking it through the gate. (Cf. J2171.6.) J2199.3
• God's wastefulness. A man is robbed and later the same day is given much money. He complains to God, "What was the use of taking from me what you were going to give back to me after stealing from another?" J2215.1
• Taking the seed out at night. Numskull plants seed in daytime and takes it out at night. "Man must guard his treasures" (or "Growing in the daytime is enough"). J2224
• Taking the prescription. The fool eats the paper with the prescription on it. J2469.2
• "Taking a pattern (picture) of conduct" from other people. Fool steals a picture from the church. J2471
• "Thank Fortune I'm out of business." Philosopher loses all his wealth at sea. Thanks Fortune for taking him out of business. Can now devote his life to philosophy. J2569
• Partridge plays hide-and-seek with girls while fox eats the curds they are taking to market. K341.26
• The thieving kiss. Trickster kisses pile of money, taking some in his mouth with every kiss. K378
• Escape by laughing and crying at same time. Captured bird cries in thinking of her little ones and laughs under pretext that the hunter is wasting his time instead of taking the treasure which she pretends is in her house. The hunter leaves her. K608
• Capture by taking aboard ship to inspect wares. K775.1
• Murder by bleeding: taking more blood than victim realizes. K923
• Seduction by taking aboard ship to inspect wares. K1332
• Husband duped by paramour into taking his wife to him. She is veiled. K1583
• Taking king's place by changing dresses. K1810.1.3
• Man taking refuge in woman's house causes her false accusation. K2112.3
• Taking of vows and oaths. M110
• Taking oath on cowdung. M114.5
• Taking of vows and oaths – miscellaneous. M119
• Prophecy of king taking a cruel stepmother to her sons after her death enacted before eyes of dying queen by sparrow family living in tree by palace window. M369.2.1.1
• Curse: failure in all undertakings. M441
• Curse: undertaking dangerous quest. M446
• Curse: undertaking dangerous revenge of father. M446.1
• Fortune of the lucky wife. A luckless man becomes successful in all his undertakings when he marries a lucky woman and lives by her luck. N251.5
• Uxorious king is burned to death while taking an alcohol bath. N339.5
• Accidental death of father from fall into the fire when taking down weapons for his son. N339.8.1
• Taking refuge in a grave leads to adventure. N778
• Milk-brotherhood. Friends bound in brotherhood through partaking of milk from the same woman. P313
• Punishment for taking concubine. (Cf. Q499.2.2.) Q243.3
• Punishment for taking heathen wives. Q243.4
• Humiliating death as punishment for taking concubine. (Cf. Q243.3.) Q499.2.2
• Punishment: taking snakes as foster children. Q594
• Woman impregnated after accidentally partaking of crane's dung. T511.8.5
• Liar cannot be healed even when taking bath in the Ganges. U235.1
• Taking bath in a sacred river (Ganges). V96.1
• Jewish child thrown into oven by father for taking eucharist. Preserved by Virgin Mary. V363
• Taking clerical vows heals disease. V471
• Man is prevented from taking passage on ship which later sinks. V541