83 motifs match “turning”  ·  back to the chapters

• Animal characteristics: borrowing and not returning. Animal borrows a member (or quality) from another and refuses to return it. (Cf. A2242, A2313.3, A2345.1, A2351.3, A2375.2.1, A2421.4, A2435.4.1.) A2241
• Animal characteristics: obtaining for feast and not returning. (Cf. A2378.1.5, A2378.2.6.) A2242
• Self-returning dragon's head. (Cf. B11.2.3, B11.11.2.) B11.5.5
• Tabu: turning left side of chariot toward certain place. C643
• The one forbidden thing: returning to home country after marrying fairy. C644
• Tabu: turning aside for anyone. C833.2
• Tabu: turning back after beginning a journey. C833.3
• Tabu: turning away from (refusing requests of) poets. C872
• Transformation by turning magic hood. D568
• Magic sod indicates falsehood by turning grassy surface downward, truth by turning it upward. (Cf. D934.1.) D1316.7
• Turning right-handwise insures safe journey. (Cf. D1272.) D1384.3.1
• Magic sphere burns up country. By turning that part of the globe to the sun, one can make any place on earth burn up. (Cf. D1264.) D1408.1
• Self-returning magic object. (Cf. D868.1.) D1602
• Self-returning robe. (Cf. D1052.) D1602.3
• Self-returning moccasins. (Cf. D1005.4.) D1602.4
• Self-returning bangle. (Cf. D1075.) D1602.5
• Self-returning spear. (Cf. D1084.) D1602.6
• Self-returning spear-head. (Cf. D1084.1.) D1602.6.1
• Self-returning wheel. (Cf. D1207.) D1602.7
• Self-returning bell. (Cf. D1213.) D1602.8.0.1
• Self-returning magic book. (Cf. D1266.) D1602.10
• Self-returning magic coin. Keeps coming back. (Cf. D1288.) D1602.11
• Self-returning head. When head is cut off it returns to proper place without harm to owner. (Cf. D992.) D1602.12
• Self-returning body. D1602.12.1
• Self-returning cruet. (Cf. D1171.8.1.) D1602.13
• Self-returning magic apple. (Cf. D981.1.) D1602.14
• Self-returning hammer. (Cf. D1209.4.) D1602.15
• Magic sight by turning clothes inside out. D1821.9
• Countermagic against Evil Eye: returning glance of Evil Eye blights the original glancer. D2071.1.5
• Resuscitation by returning dead person's soul (breath) to body. E38.1
• Coffin with iron band made to keep corpse from returning as tiger. E431.20
• Woman drying hair scares soul returning from the dead. E432.3
• Food placed out for returning souls of dead. E541.1
• Ghost touches man's hat, scorching it and turning lock of his hair white. E542.4
• Soul of sleeper prevented from returning to his body. E721.1.2
• Soul of sleeper prevented from returning when it is captured in animal form. E721.1.2.1
• Soul of sleeper prevented from returning by moving the sleeper's body. (Cf E431.7.2.1.) E721.1.2.2
• Soul of sleeper prevented from returning by burning the body. E721.1.2.3
• Soul of sleeper prevented from returning to his body when soul as bee leaves body and enters hole in wall beside which he is sleeping. (Cf. E734.2.) E721.1.2.4
• Dead place net across river to prevent living man from returning to earth. (Cf. F105.) F93.1.1
• Man returning from hell brings heat with him. F101.8
• Fairy grateful for returning lost fairy child. F339.3
• Destructive fairy drink. Upon returning to earth mortal pours out drink which had been offered by fairies. It burns up whatever it touches. F367
• Tokens brought back by mortal returning from fairyland. F379.2.2
• Fairy spell averted by turning coat. This is supposed to reverse the spell. F385.1
• Giant's self-returning head. F531.1.2.3
• Lake monster turning over causes lake to overflow surrounding mountains. F713.3
• Fee-fi-fo-fum. Cannibal returning home smells human flesh and makes exclamation. (Cf. G11.8.1.) G84
• Turning table, cutting notches in it causes witch to reveal herself. G257.3
• Monster's returning head. Joins body after it has been severed. G635.1
• Demon recognized by corpse it occupies turning to worm when stake is driven through it. H47
• Task: mending a broken jug; countertask: turning it wrong side out as one does a shoe. (Cf. H951.) H1023.9.1
• Task: turning fruit into gold. H1023.15
• Hero returning from successful quest sent upon another. H1241.1
• Hero returning with berries sent back to bring tree. (Cf. H561.1.2.) H1241.1.1
• "Never attack anyone before unsheathing and returning sword three times": counsel proved wise by experience. J21.2.1
• Advice not to rob women while they are alone, for fear of returning husbands' revenge. J647.2
• Robbers' false plea admitted: counteraccusation. Robbers claim a man's knife. In court: "The knife may indeed be theirs. I and my father were attacked yesterday by robbers. I fled. On returning I found my father killed and this knife in his body." Robbers condemned. J1162.2
• Even God can overdo it! Returning sailor finds his hovel transformed into a fine house. "Where does all this come from?" Wife: "God's bounty." Illegitimate child greets mother. Same question, same answer. Sailor: "I don't want God to help me so much!" J1279.2
• Turning king into Brahmin like turning donkey into horse. J1293.3
• Turning the plate around. A cuts the meat and puts all the good things on his side. B turns the plate around: "See how all things turn about in this world." A turns it back: "However the world may turn, with good friends like us the plate will always remain the same." J1562.1
• 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
• Wife leaves home, offers self to lover. Returning persuades husband that she has not been away. J2315.1
• Trickster gets strong drink by trickery in returning goods. K231.6.2
• Self-returning cow. A cow allows itself to be sold; then returns to its master. K366.1.3
• Audience secured with the pope by rudeness. A woman bribes a man to get her an audience with the pope. By turning his back to the sacrament and saying that the woman had instructed him to do so, he brings it about that she is summoned into the presence. K477.1
• Man dupes animals into turning their tongues upside down. K1064
• Returning husband beaten by servants. Mistaken for lover whom he has told them to beat. K1514.4
• Paramour escapes by pretending to be returning borrowed basket. K1517.11
• The Lord above; the lord below. A husband returning home surprises a woman and her paramour and a numskull who has blundered in. The woman hides the numskull in the bed and the paramour under it. The husband, who is leaving on a journey, lifts his hands to heaven and says, "I commend you to the Lord above." – The numskull: "Commend her rather to the lord below!" K1525
• Lover's gift regained: borrowing from the husband and returning to the wife. The lover borrows money from the husband with which to corrupt the wife, later telling the husband that the money was returned to the wife during the husband's absence. K1581.3
• Live man thought to be returning corpse pleads with trickster to save him. K2151.1
• Military strategy: city won by turning river from its course through city. Enemy soldiers march through empty bed into city. K2369.6
• Vow to find Holy Grail before returning to Round Table. M183.3
• Time and place of landing of returning heroes prophesied. M369.6
• Turning right-handwise in certain place brings luck. N131.2
• Son returning home after long absence unwittingly killed by parents. (Cf. N338.3.) N321
• Two returning brothers unwittingly purchase bird, which is transformed youngest brother, as present intended for him. N733.4
• Adventure from returning for forgotten comb. N773.2
• Challenge by turning left side of shield toward enemy. P556.1
• Husband kills returning adulteress. (Cf. Q241.) Q411.0.1
• Mysterious animal punishes penitent. Returning from the pope he is met by a mysterious animal who jumps on his back. Then in the man's room, whither he has carried the animal, a three hours' noise is heard as of a fight. Neither man nor beast is found in the room. (Cf. Q557.) Q554.5
• Mutilation: crushing feet and turning them backward. S162.5