58 motifs match “trance”  ·  back to the chapters

• Entrance to cave as gate to hell. A671.0.3
• Mermaid asks captain to move boat which blocks entrance to her dwelling. B81.13.1
• Lions placed in city to prevent entrance. B847
• Magic spell causes fortress to revolve, preventing entrance. (Cf. D1273.) D1381.23
• Axe driven into house entrance keeps werwolf out. (Cf. D1206.) D1385.5.2
• Magic wheel prevents entrance to fortress. (Cf. D1207.) D1389.4
• When enchanted deer touches rock with her muzzle it flies asunder and reveals entrance to cave. (Cf. D1011.5.) D1552.9
• Wizard detects thief by trance. D1817.0.1.6
• Fairy gains entrance to locked city. D2088.1
• Body in trance while soul is absent. E721.2
• Journey to heaven in trance. F11.1
• Door (gate) entrance to lower world. F91
• Pit entrance to lower world. Entrance through pit, hole, spring, or cavern. F92
• Entrance to lower world through mountain. F92.4
• Entrance to lower world by making hole in ground. F92.5
• Entrance to lower world through cave. F92.6
• Water entrance to lower world. F93
• Under-water entrance to lower world. F93.0.2
• Well entrance to lower world. F93.0.2.1
• River entrance to lower world. F93.1
• Lake entrance to lower world. F93.2
• Entrance to other world guarded by monsters (or animals). F150.2
• Entrance to otherworld guarded by giant (champion). F150.2.1
• Entrance to otherworld guarded by spirits. F150.2.2
• Entrance to otherworld guarded by north and south winds. F150.2.3
• Challenge at entrance of otherworld. The adventurer challenges or is challenged. F150.3
• Standing stone surrounded by withe as challenge at entrance of otherworld. (Cf. F149.1.) F150.3.2
• Perilous revolving wheel at entrance to otherworld. F156.3
• Pit entrance to otherworld. (Cf. F92.) F158
• Entrance to fairyland through door in knoll. F211.1
• Fairyland entrance under stone. F211.2
• Entrance to dwarf home leads through some filthy place under the swill hole or swill tub. F451.4.1.7
• Castle revolving at night so that entrance cannot be found. F771.2.6.2
• Thief detected by building straw fire so that smoke escapes through thief's entrance. The secret hole into the building is thus discovered and the thief caught. J1143
• Goat eats in garden and is caught. Fox says, "If your sense were as long as your beard, you would look for exits as well as entrances." J2136.3
• Trickster feigns being pursued by drunken husband to obtain entrance. K314
• Underground passage gives entrance to closed chamber. K315.0.1
• Entrance into wine cellar by removing lock during absence of mother. K317.2
• Deceived lion stuck in cave entrance; becomes food for hare. K714.9
• Leopard traps lion by having two doors to cave, one large, one small. Lion enters large entrance and leopard leaves by small and attacks back of lion. K730.3
• Capture by closing entrance to victim's home. K737
• Dupe lured into hole and entrance closed. K737.1
• Wolf overeats in the cellar (smokehouse). Cannot escape through the entrance hole. K1022.1
• Man wishes to learn and gains entrance to learned girl's presence in woman's disguise. K1321.1.3
• Entrance into girl's (man's) room (bed) by trick. K1340
• Entrance to woman's room in hollow artificial animal. K1341
• Entrance to woman's room in golden ram. Princess's curiosity aroused and the golden ram carried into the room. The youth is concealed inside. K1341.1
• Entrance into woman's (man's) room by hiding in chest. K1342
• Entrance into woman's room in lamp stand. K1342.0.2
• Tunnel entrance to guarded maiden's chamber. K1344
• Entrance into woman's room through concealed door. K1349.8
• Woman has paramour steal her husband's clothes. Paramour gains entrance disguised as the husband. The husband without his clothes is driven away from his home. K1549.1
• Giantess frightened of leaving cave because of hero's statue in entrance. K1726
• Prophecy: death on entrance to the marriage chamber. M341.1.1.4
• Virgin Mary appears to lady who neglected to hear mass. Woman awakens from trance to find piece of taper the Virgin took from her. Q223.7.1
• Bear keeps human wife captive in cave with stone at entrance. R45.3.1
• Abandoned sister rescued by brothers. When she is refused entrance to house, she makes complaint in a song and brothers bring her clothes. S357
• Earthquake accompanies entrance of holy man into palace of heathen emperor. V222.9