47 motifs match “tower”  ·  back to the chapters

• Hill as unfinished tower built in the likeness of Nimrod's tower. A963.8
• Innumerable birds (black birds) fly into and out of tower (steeple) of fire. B172.10.1
• Tabu: building too high a tower. (Tower of Babel.) C771.1
• Wicked man constructs tower neither too large nor too high. (Santa Barbara.) C771.1.1
• Magic tower. D1149.2
• Tower causes magic forgetfulness. (Cf. D1149.) D1365.9
• Forgetfulness caused by Tower of Babel. (Cf. F772.1.) D2004.9.1
• Tower (column) to upper world. F58
• Tower in otherworld. F163.7
• Tower hanging in the air in the otherworld. (Cf. H1036.) F163.7.1
• Dwarfs build tower. F451.3.4.1.1
• Extraordinary tower. F772
• Tower of Babel: remarkably tall tower designed to reach sky. F772.1
• Year taken to mount high tower. F772.1.1
• Tower reaches moon. F772.1.2
• Metal tower. F772.2
• Brazen tower. F772.2.1
• Towers of steel, silver and gold. F772.2.2
• Golden tower under sea. F772.2.3
• Tower of glass; melts in sun. F772.2.4
• Tower of glass in midst of sea. F772.2.4.1
• Dolorous Tower. F772.2.5
• Flying tower. F772.2.6
• Girl's long hair as ladder into tower. Rapunzel. F848.1
• Tower sinks into earth. F941.3
• Unfinished Tower of Babel sinks into earth. (Cf. F772.1.) F941.3.1
• Suitor contest: riding to fourth story of tower. H331.1.2
• Task: securing three eggs from top of glass tower. H1114.1
• Quest for axe which sticks in beam outside a tower. H1338
• How far his voice will reach. A numskull cries from a tower and then runs away to see how far his voice will reach. J1941
• Measuring the tower by piling up hampers. They place hampers on top of one another. The fool has them take out the two on the bottom. J2133.6.1
• The moving church tower. To see whether the church is moving someone lays down his coat in front of it. It is stolen. They think that the church has passed over it. J2328
• How the tower was built. Fool gives three explanations: (1) It was formerly a deep well; dug up and set out; (2) it was built by a very tall man; (3) it was built flat on the ground and then set up. J2711
• Contest in jumping from the church tower. The devil is not to look behind him. The man runs downstairs (or otherwise cheats). K17.2
• Lover left standing in snow while his mistress is with another. He later tricks her into standing a whole day in July in a tower naked exposed to the sun and flies. K1212
• Hero flies to maiden's room. Enters her tower by means of artificial wings (or on flying horse). K1346
• Blinded slave's revenge. Threatens to jump from tower with lord's children unless lord blinds himself. Lord does so but slave jumps with children nevertheless. K1465
• Confinement in tower to avoid fulfillment of prophecy. M372
• Mice devour hard-hearted man. (Hatto and the Mouse Tower.) (Cf. Q291.) Q415.2
• Captivity in tower (castle, prison). R41
• Captivity in tower. R41.2
• Slandered wife is locked in tower for forty days. If no champion appears, she is to be burned. Former suitor rescues her. R41.2.1
• Giant breaks from tower prison. R211.1
• Princess builds tower of skulls of unsuccessful suitors. S110.3
• Imprisoned virgin to prevent knowledge of men (marriage, impregnation). Usually kept in a tower. (Danaë.) T381
• Wife imprisoned in tower (house) to preserve chastity. T381.0.2
• Nine materials used in building Tower of Babel. Z71.6.4