21 motifs match “touched”  ·  back to the chapters

• Tabu: drinking wine touched by hand of heathen. C272.1
• Music-box continues playing when it is touched contrary to tabu. C915.1.1
• Midas' golden touch. Everything touched turns to gold. D565.1
• Magic object gives alarm when touched. D1612.6
• Singing tree when touched wakes master. (Cf. D950, D1615.1.) D1612.6.1
• The waters of seas, lakes, and streams turn aside and let the holy man walk through untouched by moisture. (Cf. D1551.) D1841.4.3.1
• Any work touched automatically done. D1935
• Flower blooms when touched. D2195.1
• Test of friendship: substitute as murderer. A man in misery gives himself up as a murderer rather than endure further misery. His friend tries to take on himself the guilt and be substituted. The real murderer, touched by the generosity, confesses. H1558.2
• Test of friendship: mourner says dead husband can be touched only by sinless person; volunteers for cremating body immediately disperse. H1558.12
• Inviting to a feast only those whose households have never been touched by death. None comes. J1577.1
• The polluted clothes. A Brahmin washes clothes to purify them. As they hang to dry, a dog walks under them and the Brahmin fears that they are polluted. By putting himself on all-fours like a dog and fastening a leaf like a dog's tail he experiments and decides that the dog must have touched the clothes. He therefore destroys them instead of rewashing them. J2184
• Race won by deception: bow and arrow. Certain goal to be touched. Man shoots arrow and wins. K11.8
• To keep first thing touched. Wealth (or woman) is on platform. First thing touched is ladder leading up. K285
• Thief leaves food untouched when owner pretends to be poisoned by it. (Playing poison.) K439.4
• Compassionate executioners. Slaves charged with killing (drowning) the infant heroine are touched by her "laughing smile" and put her in a calfshed (hollow tree), where she is found by cowherds, who rear her. K512.0.1
• The wife's equivocal oath. A husband insists that his wife take oath that she has been intimate with no one but himself. The paramour masks as ass-driver. She hires an ass from him, falls down, and lets him pick her up. She then swears that no one has touched her except her husband and the ass-driver. K1513
• Nobility of character a mark of kings. Kings overcomes passion for beautiful captives and sends them back untouched to their people. P12.9
• Message of chastity: uncooked meat left behind. Man conducting a woman leaves uncooked meat behind each night of the journey as a sign to the husband following that she has not been touched. T386
• Cow touched by arrow becomes pregnant. T532.4
• The parson sings like a goat. The parson sees an old woman weeping and believes that she is touched by his singing. When spoken to she says that she has been reminded of her old goat which she has lost. X436