21 motifs match “trunk”  ·  back to the chapters

• God as a tree trunk. A139.8.1
• Deluge: escape in hollow tree trunk. A1021.0.5
• Origin of animal characteristics: trunk. A2350
• Why tinsa tree has no bark at bottom of trunk. A2751.2.3
• Centaur: man-horse. Trunk and head of man, body of horse. B21
• Self-opening tree-trunk. (Cf. D950.) D1556
• Tree opens its trunk to give shelter to abandoned girls. (Cf. D950.) D1556.2
• Horse made to appear as tree-trunk. D2031.7
• Resuscitation by felling the tree into which one is incarnated and splitting trunk into two parts. E29.4.1
• Tree with silver trunk, gold branches, emerald leaves, pearls for fruits. F811.1.7
• Boat made of a tree trunk. F841.1.11
• Ogre monstrous as to trunk. G366
• Father's counsel: dress up the trunks of trees, cover the road. (Plant the road with fruit trees and betel between the trees.) H588.6
• Tree-trunks laid crosswise of the sledge. J1964
• Keeping rain from the trunks. Numskulls take out the clothing and cover the trunks to keep rain off. J2129.6
• Deceptive contest in carrying a tree: riding. The trickster has the dupe carry the branches of a tree while he carries the trunk. He rides on the trunk. K71
• Elephant killed by cutting off trunk which is poked into cave after victims. K825.2
• Dupes lured onto tree-trunk bridge; fall to death. K983.2
• Elephant killed by mouse who runs up open end of trunk to head and there smears poison over his brain. L315.5.1
• Money cannot be kept from where it is destined to go. Miser told that his hoard is to go to poor man. He hides it in a trunk and throws it into the sea but it drifts to the house of the poor man who tries in vain to restore it to its owner. N212
• Princess concealed in trunk and sent to beggar, who marries her. N712.1