96 motifs match “teeth”  ·  back to the chapters

• God with gold teeth. A125.3
• Goddess with pig's teeth. A131.8
• Universe from parts of creator's body. Ymir makes the world from his members – mountains from bones, cliffs from teeth, heavens from skull, etc. A614
• Men created from sown dragon's teeth. A1265
• Vaginal teeth broken. Women originally had toothed vaginas. Culture hero breaks teeth so that women will be harmless to men. A1313.3.1
• Origin of teeth. A1316.6
• Men and animals readjust span of life. At first, thirty years are given to all animals and to man. For the animals it is too long, for man too short. Man is given a portion of animals' lives. Years 1–30 vigorous (man's own); 30–48 burdens and blows (ass's); 48–60 no teeth (dog's); 60–70 foolish (monkey's). A1321
• How caribou got antlers. Exchanged his teeth for walrus's horns. (Cf. A2247.) A2326.1.2
• How ox got horns. Exchanged for horse's teeth. (Cf. A2247.) A2326.1.4
• Origin and nature of animal's teeth. A2345
• Where horse got his upper teeth. Borrowed them from buffalo. (Cf. A2241.) A2345.1
• Where coyote got his long teeth. A2345.2
• Where reindeer got his small teeth. A2345.3
• Why animal lacks teeth. A2345.7
• Why cow has no upper teeth. A2345.7.1
• Why frog has no teeth. (Cf. A2239.8.) A2345.7.2
• Why caribou has no teeth. A2345.7.3
• Why hen has no teeth. A2345.8
• Why gorilla and chimpanzee have large teeth in mouth: punishment for neglecting possessions. A2345.9
• Why hog has "toes" on back of foreleg. Mark of devil's teeth. (Cf. A2287.1.1.) A2371.2.2
• Why crab has legs like teeth of a comb. A2376.5
• Monster (whale) with golden teeth. B101.5
• Tortoise has no liver or teeth. B723
• Lion's roar causes havoc at 300 miles. At 300 miles all women miscarry, at 200 teeth of all men drop out. B741
• Animal's strong teeth. B747
• Strong teeth of lion. B747.1
• Locusts with jaw teeth strong as lion's. B747.2
• Whale cast ashore – three golden teeth and five ounces in each of these teeth. B874.3.1
• Tabu: putting spear-head between teeth. C835.2.3
• Teeth blackened as punishment for breaking tabu. C985.2
• Sorcerer's power lost when his teeth are knocked out. D1741.8
• Return from dead to punish theft of teeth. E235.4.6
• Revenant with chip of resin between teeth. E422.1.7
• The dead man: "Sell my golden teeth and pay for a mass for my soul." E443.2.1.1
• Fairies lacking axes work with their teeth. F271.0.2
• Water-spirits with green teeth. F420.1.4.8
• Wood-spirits with teeth on stomach. F441.4.6
• Huldra-men with long teeth and nose. F460.1.6
• Mowing contest with household spirit. Farmer puts harrow teeth in plot spirit is to mow. Spirit mows through them, thinking they are dock weeds. F488.2
• Person unusual as to his teeth. (Cf. F544.3, F531.1.6.2.) F513.1
• Person with many teeth. F513.1.2
• Person with three rows of teeth. F513.1.2.1
• Person without teeth. F513.1.4
• Giant with teeth like those of saw. F531.1.6.2
• Giants (giantesses) with long teeth. F531.1.6.2.1
• Giant with very broad teeth. F531.1.6.2.2
• Man with eyes the size of brass pots, teeth like axeheads, ears like elephant's ears. F531.2.12
• Remarkable teeth. F544.3
• Golden teeth. F544.3.1
• Teeth of angered saint give off sparks. (Cf. F552.1.2.) F544.3.2
• Blue teeth. F544.3.3
• Blue, protruding teeth of one and a half elbow-length. F544.3.3.1
• Saints' teeth last for 300 years. F544.3.4
• Remarkably long teeth. F544.3.5
• Giant polishes teeth with uprooted tree. F621.2.2
• Warriors use teeth after they exhaust weapons. F1084.2
• Extraordinary plowing by teeth. F1099.6.1
• Ogress whets teeth to kill captive. G83.1
• Witch with extraordinary teeth. G214
• Witch with long teeth. G214.1
• Witch with iron teeth. G214.2
• Witch with nine rows of teeth. G214.3
• Devil's teeth. G303.4.1.5
• Devil has shining teeth. Girl wishes to marry man whose teeth shine. Such a man appears and they marry. When he removes his hat she finds he is the devil. G303.4.1.5.1
• One of devil's teeth grows down to the earth; another to sky. G303.4.1.5.2
• Witch wishes to have as pretty teeth as man: drinks boiling oil. G525.1
• Recognition of disenchanted person by thread in his teeth. As werwolf he has torn woman's apron and caught thread in teeth. H64.1
• Red teeth as sign of royalty. H71.9
• Identity established because one of man's teeth is blue. H79.8
• Teeth and fingernails of slain cyclops taken as proof. H105.5.2
• Successful suitor must have gold teeth. H312.2
• Riddle of the murdered lover. With what thinks, I drink; what sees, I carry; with what eats I walk. (Queen has cup made from skull of her murdered lover; ring with one of his eyes; she carries two of his teeth in her boots.) H805
• Task: sowing dragon's teeth. H1024.5
• Lion suitor allows his teeth to be pulled and his claws to be cut. He is then killed. J642.1
• Man tells servant that he may have anything he can take with his teeth (eat). Servant takes master's cape with his teeth. J1161.10
• The sheep's teeth. Two thieves caught with stolen sheep. One says that he told the other than sheep have lower teeth but no upper, and that they caught the sheep to see. J1391.3
• Lame excuse: one cannot drink because he has no teeth. J1391.6
• Wife carried up tree to sky in bag in husband's teeth. She asks question and he drops her when he answers. J2133.5.1
• Dentist duped to pull out two teeth for one because of the expensiveness. J2213.7
• Contest: pulling on steak with teeth. Two men take an end of a steak in their teeth; each attempts to pull it away from the other. After each has a good hold, the Irishman says (with clenched teeth) "Noo're ready?" The Dutchman says, "Yah!", loses the steak. (Cf. K22, K561.1.) K64
• Man takes off wig, takes out false teeth, takes off wooden leg, overawes Indians. K547.2
• Escape by pretended lousing. Captive pretends to louse the captor but deceives him by cracking berries in the teeth (or the like). K611.1
• Deception by having victim pick trickster's teeth. K773
• Tiger flatters cow into showing that she has few teeth. Kills her. K815.9
• Biting on stone given as remedy for toothache. Teeth injured. K1015.1
• Leopard wants teeth filed: large stone dropped from tree knocks all leopard's teeth out. K1015.2
• Soldier who has had both hands severed fights with his teeth until he is killed. P461.1
• Submission indicated by defeated lying with conqueror's sword between teeth. P555.1
• With her teeth woman files away chain tying up husband. R121.10
• Captive buried alive to his neck fastens his teeth on jackal that comes to eat him and companions. Rest flee when they hear him howl. In struggles to get free jackal loosens earth around captive, who manages to free himself. R212.1.2
• Mutilation: knocking out teeth. S164
• Love through seeing marks of lady's teeth in fruit which she has bitten. T11.4.4
• Faithless widow's heartlessness repels the new suitor. She obeys him when he tells her to knock out the teeth of her dead husband. Fearing like treatment, he leaves. T231.4
• Child born with all his teeth. T585.5
• The fathers have eaten sour grapes and the children's teeth are set on edge. U18
• The meal of beans. One of the old maid's three teeth breaks off. X754