36 motifs match “thousand”  ·  back to the chapters

• God with thousand eyes. A123.3.1.4
• Goddess with thousand eyes. A123.3.1.4.1
• God's day is one thousand years. A199.5
• Goddess of love with thousand faces. A475.1.1
• Goddess of thousand eyes discovered by lousing. A475.1.1.1
• Why thousand-legged worm avoids sun. A2433.6.9
• Enmity between elephant and thousand-leg. A2494.11.1
• Thousand-headed serpent. B15.1.2.10.3
• Stags live one thousand years. B841.4
• Magic axe cuts thousands of trees at a single blow. D1601.14.1
• Talking statue, when destroyed, cannot be replaced for thirty thousand years. (Cf. D1268, D1620.) D1661.1
• Life prolonged a thousand years by traveling six months each year. D1855.5
• Sixty thousand Jewish souls in heaven. E755.1.4
• Man with a thousand arms. F516.2.3
• Giant eats a thousand cattle. F531.3.4.1
• Giants live to be eighteen thousand years old. F531.6.4.2
• Strong man bathing and diving in river catches thousands of fishes in his beard. (Cf. X1112.) F634.1
• Tree with coiling leaves three thousand miles high with golden cock on top. F811.2.3.1
• Bow can be strung only by one thousand men. F836.3.1
• Image takes thousand men to carry it. F855.4
• Electric storm kills a thousand. F968.1
• Creeper which blossoms once only in a thousand years. F971.9
• Devil says his name is "Millearces" (thousand ways to lead men to sin). G303.2.3
• Thousand year old ogre. G631.1
• Recognition of own cow in herd of twenty thousand. Hornet helper. H163
• Man asked to kill thousands, press hundreds beneath his arm, etc. (To shave his head, put some hairs under his arm, etc.) H599.4
• Three thousand parables of Solomon. J80.1
• How does goddess with thousand faces blow her noses? J1261.10
• A three thousand year old debt. Guests in inn discuss reincarnation. "Since we shall come back in three thousand years, the host might trust us till then." Host: "You still owe me what you didn't pay three thousand years ago." J1384
• The 999 gold pieces. A man prays for a thousand gold pieces and says that he will not accept one less. A joker sends him 999. He says that he will trust God for the other coin. J1473.1
• A thousand at one shot. Told to shoot one or two wild boars, hero asks, "Why not a thousand at one shot?" The ogre is frightened. K1741.2
• Penance: hanging for a thousand years head downward over a fire of chaff. Q522.6
• People given charm to dispel flies grumble: flies return a thousandfold. (Cf. Q312.) Q557.8
• The deaf man and the proud nobleman. A nobleman amuses himself at the expense of the deaf man. Finally Nobleman: I wish you a thousand gallows and ropes around your neck. – Peasant: My lord, I wish you twice as many. X111.6
• Humor concerning sex. [Note: Thousands of obscene motifs in which there is no point except the obscenity itself might logically come at this point, but they are entirely beyond the scope of the present work. They form a literature to themselves, with its own periodicals and collections. In view of the possibility that it might become desirable to classify these motifs and place them within the present index, space has been left from X700 to X749 for such motifs.] X700
• Formulistic number: eighty thousand. Z71.16.8