56 motifs match “thread”  ·  back to the chapters

• Goddesses come down to earth by a silken thread, are offended by raja and produce drought. A189.10
• Cotton at first already spun into threads. A1346.2.1
• Spider steals thread from Christ: has thread in back of body. (Cf. A2356.2.8.) A2231.6
• Why spider has thread in back of body. (Cf. A2231.6.) A2356.2.8
• Transformation: thread to other object. D454.4.1
• Magic needle and thread fall from heaven as result of prayer. (Cf. D1766.1.) D811.2.1
• Magic thread. D1184
• Magic ball of thread. D1184.1
• Magic ball of thread indicates road. Rolls ahead. (Cf. D1184.1) D1313.1.1
• Magic thread protects against demons. (Cf. D1184.) D1385.18
• Thread from jogi's garment when pulled makes fort fall to ground. (Cf. D1052.) D1400.1.18
• Self-tying thread. (Cf. D1184.) D1601.13
• Self-weaving threads. (Cf. D1184.) D1601.13.1
• Speaking ball of thread. (Cf. D1256.) D1610.28
• Thread made to appear as a large log carried by a cock. D2031.2
• Red thread on neck of person who has been decapitated and resuscitated. E12.1
• Escape from lower world by spider's thread. F101.7
• Bridge of thread on way to world of dead. F152.1.7
• Dwarfs suspend large millstone on thin thread over head of mortal, to show what anguish dwarfs felt when mortal endangered their lives. F451.5.4.2
• Giant threads an elephant on a fish-hook. F531.3.12.1
• One-eyed barber sees thread of silk stretching to sea. F642.6
• Hero shoots arrow and cuts thread. F661.12
• Sword of Damocles. Sword hung on thin thread immediately above person. F833.2
• Extraordinary threads. F877
• Gold (silver, copper) thread. F877.1
• Thread under dumb man's tongue cut. This permits him to speak. F954.1
• The devil as tailor to a dandy. The dandy demands clothes sewed without thread. The devil disguised as a tailor makes them. In church the dandy's clothes fall to pieces, leaving him naked. G303.9.9.11
• Tailor married to princess betrays trade by calling for needle and thread. H38.2.1
• Recognition of disenchanted person by thread in his teeth. As werwolf he has torn woman's apron and caught thread in teeth. H64.1
• Chastity ordeal: drawing lover out of wall with single thread rope. H412.6
• Chastity ordeal: jumping over magic thread. H412.7.1
• Test of resourcefulness: putting thread through coils of snail shell. Thread tied to ant who pulls it through. H506.4
• Test: threading needle. Guest of convent is given choice of nuns. On the morrow he is given three opportunities to thread a needle. Success means reward, failure confiscation of his belongings. H509.1
• Task: weaving cloth from two threads. H1022.1
• Task: weaving a shirt from a piece of thread; countertask: making a loom from a rod. H1022.2.2
• Task: traveling till two skeins of thread are unwound. H1125.1
• Task: drinking the sea dry (illusion produced by magic thread which makes hero think he is drinking from spring). H1142.2.1
• Quest for thread from lotus stalks growing on Vishnu's navel. H1289.4.1
• Rocks falling together and thread entering needle's eye suggest sexual intercourse: hence its beginning. J86
• Thread awarded to disputant who knows what it was wound on. J1179.6
• Fool sells balls of thread to great lizard. Next day he finds a treasure there. J1852.1.1
• Man believes he will die when he gets a scarlet thread on his coat. J2311.1.4
• Sewing contest won by deception: the long thread. The ogre sews with the whole length of the thread. When he returns from the first stitch, the tailor has his task finished. K47.1
• Master thief pretends to throw needle and thread in anger at his son. But it contains stolen cloth. K341.13.1
• Substituted string causes ogre to be killed. Intended victim of cannibal is marked by thread around ankle. Changed in night to host. K1611.1
• Deception: climbing silk thread tossed upward in air. K1871.1
• Oath by touching sacred thread. M114.6
• Daw fleeing from captivity caught in trees by thread around foot. Starves. N255.5
• Tailoring only trade devil cannot learn. He fails to knot thread because it would make sign of the cross. P441.2
• Women carrying cheeses concealed pretend that they are carrying webs or balls of thread. Saint changes cheeses to stones. (Cf. A977.5.1.) Q552.16.1.2
• Ants carry silk threads to prisoner, who makes rope and escapes. They have thread tied to their feet. R121.4
• Ariadne-thread. Prisoner given a thread as a clue to find his way out of the labyrinth in which he is being confined. R121.5
• Trail of thread. R135.0.5
• Thieving tailor can hide stolen cloth even in needle-and-thread tube. X221.2
• Lie: Rome hanging by thread. X1561
• Symbolism: needle and thread – sexual intercourse. Z186