31 motifs match “thirty”  ·  back to the chapters

• 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
• Tabu: letting sun shine on girl before she is thirty years old. C756.2
• Talking statue, when destroyed, cannot be replaced for thirty thousand years. (Cf. D1268, D1620.) D1661.1
• Thirty-Years War destroys home of dwarfs. F451.4.4.2
• Arrow shot thirty miles high. F638.1
• Body with marvelous heat. Melts snow thirty feet around and serves as fuel for man's companions. F686
• Solomon's golden throne. Thirty-three steps high. Golden animals on all sides and on steps. F785.1
• Suitor test: choosing sweetheart's sedan chair from thirty others like it. H324.1
• The full moon and the thirtieth of the month. Prince sends servant to clever girl with a round tart, thirty cakes, and a capon, and asks her if it is full moon and the thirtieth of the month and if the cock has crowed in the evening. She replies that it is not full moon, that it is the fifteenth of the month, and that the capon has gone to the mill; but that the prince should spare the pheasant for the partridge's sake. She thus shows him that the servant has stolen half the tart, half of the cakes, and the capon. H582.1.1
• How much am I (the king) worth? Twenty-nine pieces of silver, for Christ was sold for thirty. (Cf. H716.) H711.1
• Riddle: tree with twelve branches, each with thirty leaves, black and white. Year, month, days and nights. H721.1
• Riddle: twelve cypresses with thirty boughs each. Years and months. H721.3
• Riddle: palace consisting of 8760 stones; twelve trees, thirty branches, each with black and white cluster of grapes. Year, months, days, hours. H721.4
• Riddle: what did Christ do in his 30th year? Answer: entered into his thirty-first. (Cf. H865.) H826
• Thirty years old for twelve years. Man claims to be thirty; has been doing so for the last twelve years. J1218
• Two fifteen-year old slaves ordered: fool brings one thirty years old. J2212.1
• Priest to have maid at least fifty years old: gets one aged twenty and one aged thirty. J2212.1.1
• The judge wants to know how the theft was committed. The witness tells. The judge: "You are wonderful; I have tried it thirty times and succeeded only once." J2372
• Deceptive bargain: as much bread as he wants to eat. The baker fixes his price at the rate for twenty loaves. The trickster eats thirty. K173
• Charging thirty cakes for cooking twenty-five. K255.1
• Prophecy: man shall hang himself when he is thirty years old. M341.1.4.4
• God revenges murder after thirty years. Q211.0.1
• King who loved to give death sentence accepts penance of always postponing sentence until thirty days period of examination has passed. Q520.4
• Thirty young girls fall in love with a young man. T27.1
• Woman requires thirty men. T146.2
• Thirty days' respite from unwelcome marriage. T151.2
• Man is rebuked for loquaciousness when he speaks after thirty-seven days. W225.1
• Formulistic numbers: threefold (e.g. three times thirty). Z71.1.0.2
• Formulistic number: thirty-six. Z71.8.7
• Formulistic number: thirty. (Cf. Z71.1.0.1.) Z71.11
• Formulistic number: thirty-two. Z71.16.5