127 motifs match “together” — showing the first 100; narrow the words for the rest  ·  back to the chapters

• Early period when gods and men lived together, gods ruling men, ordaining how they should live and originating various customs. A189.9
• Each of sun brothers works for a month and plays for the other eleven; were they to work all together, the world would be burned up by the heat. A739.3
• Moon made from shining fragments. A cap is opened and shining things fall out. Children pick them up and put them into a box. At the end of the month the box is full. The full moon shines when all the fragments are gathered together. A742
• Stars sing together. A767
• God and Devil fly together over primeval water. A810.1
• Creator's giant servant puts trees to hold earth together where it slipped. A857.3
• Mountains pressed together by God. A962.4
• Mountains fall together at end of world. A1062
• Origin of fire – children strike rocks together, accidentally produce fire. A1414.3
• Why Bhuiya yoke the cow and the bullock together to the plough. A1689.1
• Two animals learn songs together – one successfully, the other unsuccessfully. (Cf. A2425.) A2283
• Why mountain-sheep's horns are close together. A2326.3.5
• Why animals crowd together seasonally. A2484
• Dragon develops from small worm placed on gold. It grows together with the gold. B11.1.3.1.1
• Faithful horse dies together with its master. B301.4.7
• Faithful horse fights together with its master. B301.4.8
• Man falls in hole with horse; buzzards gather; he lassoes a number of buzzards, ties them together, frightens them; all fly at once, carry him from hole. (Tall tale.) B547.2.1
• Animals fight together with their master. B571.3
• Snake grows back together after it has been severed. B765.7.2
• Tabu: plowing with ass and ox together. C886
• Magic object causes persons to stick together. D1413.0.1
• Magic formula causes persons to stick together. (Cf. D1273.) D1413.0.1.1
• Magic object calls animals together. D1441
• Magic musical instrument calls animals together. (Cf. D1210.) D1441.1
• Magic flute calls animals together. (Cf. D1223.1.) D1441.1.1
• Magic pipe calls animals together. (Cf. D1224.) D1441.1.2
• Magic fiddle calls animals together. (Cf. D1233.) D1441.1.3
• Magic lute calls animals together. (Cf. D1232.) D1441.1.3.1
• Magic harp calls animals together. (Cf. D1231.) D1441.1.3.2
• Magic song calls animals together. (Cf. D1275) D1441.1.4
• Symplegades. Rocks that clash together at intervals. (Cf. D931.) D1553
• Reptile-men cure snake bites, and can summon together snakes (or mice) and lead them away anywhere. D1711.13
• Magic results from clapping the hands together. D1799.2
• Objects magically stick together. (Cf. D1413.) D2171.4
• Persons magically stick together. (Cf. D1171.2, D1413.14.) D2171.5
• Resuscitation by arrangement of members. Parts of a dismembered corpse are brought together and resuscitation follows. (Sometimes combined with other methods.) E30
• Resuscitation by sewing parts of body together. E35.1
• Ghost laid by burying bell from church in one pond, the clapper in another. If the two ever come together again, the ghost can walk. E459.6
• Dead lovers are now two stones lying together. E642.1
• Dead and living go together to gate of heaven. E754.2.3
• Life token: beads cling together. E761.4.8
• Fairies tied together by hair. F239.1
• Divine damsel converts mortal's first wife into a lovely woman; they all live together. F302.5.2.1
• Two pestilence spirits speak together. F493.2.2
• Person with three bodies. Body of three men grown together in one at waist but parted in three from flanks and thighs. F524.1
• Extraordinary companions. A group of men with extraordinary powers travel together. F601
• Skillful tailor sews together scattered planks in capsizing boat. F662.2
• Skillful tailor sews bean together after bean has split from laughing. F662.3
• Man can keep together feathers in great wind. F673
• Objects go journeying together. F1025
• Man throws cereal and spoon on the floor because he is supposed to eat together with his brother. F1041.16.10
• Old woman calls beasts together to join her in feast on human flesh. G11.6.3
• Devils are created from sparks produced by Satan's striking two stones together. G303.1.4.2
• Devil and the wind travel together. G303.6.3.3
• Ogre's daughter killed together with her father. G512.0.2
• Recognition by matching a couplet together. H12.2.1
• Identification through broken ring. (Cf. H100.) The two parts of the ring fit together. H94.5
• Identification by fitting together two pieces of parchment. H102.1
• Princess brought to laughter by people sticking together. H341.1
• Who will find the most marvelous thing? Each finds some marvelous thing. It turns out, that to save the girl's life all the things must be used together. H355.0.1
• Task: sewing together a broken mill-stone. H1023.7
• Task: sewing together a broken egg. H1023.7.1
• Task: sewing together a broken ship. H1023.7.2
• Task: fixing the two pieces of a broken sword together. H1023.8
• Suitor test: scattering mountain of mustard seed in one watch gathering it together in another, pressing its oil out in another. H1091.3
• Task: to collect together all the drops of water. H1144.1
• Task: yoking together lion and wild boar. H1149.1
• Vigil for dead father: youngest son alone endures frightful experiences. Ceiling, floors, and walls knock together. H1462.1
• Test: sewing clothes into boy's hands and tearing them off together with the skin. H1505
• Mighty-of-His-Mouth and Mighty-of-His-Hands decide to live together to test strength. Strength of mind is winner. H1562.14
• Woman throws apple to man in woman's dress. He puts his legs together to catch it. (Cf. H1578.1.4.) H1578.1.4.1
• Fools learn to be peaceable. Two fools in the habit of striking people are brought together when they strike each other until they appreciate the value of peace. J24
• Rocks falling together and thread entering needle's eye suggest sexual intercourse: hence its beginning. J86
• Earthen and brazen pots in river. Brazen pot thinks that they should stay together for company. Earthen pot, however, fears approach of brazen pot. J425.1
• Mouse, bird, and sausage keep house together. When they exchange duties all goes wrong. J512.7
• Elephant, giraffe, snake, and ant try keeping house together: requirements different. J512.7.1
• Rat and frog tie paws together to cross marsh. Carried off by falcon. J681.1
• Jackal and leopard tie tails together for mutual protection. Frightened, they run apart and injure each other. J681.1.1
• The quarreling sons and the bundle of twigs. Peasant puts twigs together and cannot break them. Separately they are easily broken. His sons apply the lesson. J1021
• Preacher teaches beaten Genoese the strength of unity. They are like donkeys – when one is beaten the rest scatter. The enemy are like pigs – stick together in trouble. J1021.2
• The same company of fools. An abbot calls the monks together and asks, "Whom from all you fools can I appoint as steward?" A monk answers, "That should not be difficult since an abbot was found from the same company of fools." J1265.3
• Thief followed home. A thief ransacks a man's house and departs. The man gathers together the rest of his belongings and tracks the thief. Comes to the thief's door. Thief: "What do you want with me?" "What, isn't this the house we set out for?" J1392.1
• The blacksmith's and the horse-trader's dreams. They are forced to sleep together because of lack of room. The blacksmith tells the horsetrader that he often dreams that he is striking the bellows and that he may accidently strike him in the night. The horsetrader retaliates by dreaming that he is riding a horse and drives the spurs into the blacksmith. J1622
• The minstrel repays the cobbler. The cobbler learns the minstrel's songs and sings them so that the minstrel loses his trade. He in turn sews the cobbler's leather into crazy shapes. He has done no worse than the cobbler, who marred his songs. When they sing together the people realize the contrast and patronize the minstrel. J1632
• Animals helpless in sea-voyage together. Sheep, duck, and cock in peril The duck swims; the cock flies to the mast. J1711.1
• Numskull (female devil) thinks her pubic hair has been telling her lies and pulls it out together with the skin. J1842.1
• The overfed hen. A woman wants her hen to lay many eggs. Overfeeds her and she stops laying altogether. J1901.1
• Three girls distressed by seemingly impossible task of going and returning together – one in half month, other in fifteen days, other in seven plus eight days. J2033
• Fool dangling from tree by hands tries to clap them together: falls. J2133.13
• Camel and ass together captured because of ass's singing. J2137.6
• Pulling on the shirt. The shirt is sewed together at the neck. The man's head is cut off so that the shirt can be put on him. J2161.2
• Jackal cheats other animals of elephant they have killed together. K171.0.2
• Deceptive bargain: fasting together. The servant girl eats secretly; the miser starves. K177
• Milk bought on credit poured into one container. The trickster buys it from various women. After it is all poured together he says that each may have her own back. K231.6.1
• Quartered thief's body sewed together to escape detection. K414
• Child's curiosity exposes thief. Thief steals pig. Slaughters it together with one of his own and takes both to market. Puts little pig inside large one to avoid paying tax on two. Boy notices three hind legs. Thief is caught. K433
• Two wicked men put to a fiery test ask for a third (pious) man to be tested together with them. K528.3
• Woman marries king feigning that she can heal him, and murders him in sleep. Afterward she takes the kingdom together with his counsellor. K959.2.4
• Rat leaves serpent behind, through spared to rescue him. The two are imprisoned together in a sevenfold cloth covering. The serpent refrains from eating the rat so that the latter can gnaw the cloth for them. The rat gnaws his own way out and leaves the serpent. K1182
• Suitors one by one enticed into graveyard and left together. They later get revenge. K1218.3