72 motifs match “underground”  ·  back to the chapters

• Gods forced by mortals to take refuge underground. A189.13
• Fettering of underground monster. A1071
• Underground monster fettered by trick. Is persuaded to try on fetters. (Sometimes told of fettering Satan, who plays same role.) A1071.1
• Why mole lives underground. A2433.3.20
• Why common crab lives underground. A2433.6.3.3
• Why mole burrows underground. A2491.3
• Horned armadillo lives underground. B15.3.4.2
• Magic horse goes underground. B184.1.2
• Magic swine disappear underground. B184.3.0.2
• Rat digs underground passage to girl's chamber for hero. B582.2.2
• Magic object found in underground room. D845
• Magic yew rod used by druid to discover whereabouts of woman carried off by fairies to underground retreat. D1311.15.1
• Divining rod (twig) locates underground water supply. D1314.2.2
• Magic elevator. Stone on which one steps carries one underground. (Cf. D931.) D1539.1
• Diamond in snake king's forehead in hero's pocket opens lake waters to reveal a pathway to underground palace. (Cf. D1071.) D1551.7.1
• Underground passage magically opens. D1555
• Magic wand opens underground passage. (Cf. D1254.1.) D1555.1
• Magic power of seeing things underground. D1825.4.1
• Magic underground journey. D2131
• Journey to animal kingdom. Usually underground. F127
• Underground channel to otherworld. F153.1
• Otherworld overseas confused with otherworld underground. F160.0.1
• Fairies' underground palace. F222.1
• Fairies' underground palace cannot be burned by fire nor destroyed by water. F222.1.1
• Old man as godfather to underground folk. F372.2.1
• Spirit of earthquake lives underground (below earth). F438.1
• Underground spirits. (Cf. F200–F399, Fairies and Elves.) F450
• Voetter (generalized underground spirit). F450.0.1
• Helpful underground spirit. F450.1
• Underground spirit instructs a smith. (Cf. F451.3.4.2.) F450.1.2
• Dwarf. (Underground spirit.) The dwarf, especially in Northern Europe, is considered an underground spirit. He is to be distinguished from the other conception of dwarf, viz., a very small person, pigmy, or thumbling (F535). [Note: For help in the preparation of this item I am indebted to Mr. Alfred Thomas of Chicago. For full titles of references see F420.] F451
• Dwarfs live in underground castle. F451.4.1.2
• Dwarfs live in luxurious underground palace. F451.4.1.3
• Dwarfs live in underground passage. F451.4.1.4
• Dwarf home is underground, beneath cow stable. (Cf. F451.4.4.3.) F451.4.1.5
• Dwarfs warm heath by underground fire. F451.5.1.15
• Expelled dwarfs plan to dig underground bed for Rhine. F451.5.22
• Trolls. Sometimes underground spirits, sometimes also thought of as mountain-spirits. In many tales trolls are ogres. (Cf. G100, G400–G599.) F455
• Giant lies underground with trees growing all over his body. When his mouth is opened man falls into it and is swallowed. F531.2.6
• Pygmy. Remarkably small man. Also called "dwarf". To be distinguished from the dwarfs who live in the woods and inhabit underground places (F451). F535
• Underground pygmy kingdom. F535.6.1
• Rivers with marvelous underground connections. Euphrates, Tigris, Tiber, and River Boant really the same which flow through oceans and underground. F715.3
• Underground passages. Journey made through natural subways. F721.1
• Underground kingdom. F721.3
• King of underground kingdom. F721.3.1
• Underground kingdom reached in a box which was swallowed by a dragon and later released. F721.3.2
• Underground treasure chambers. F721.4
• Underground palace full of jewels. F721.5.1
• Underground city. F764
• Underground house. F771.3.5
• Extraordinary underground (underwater) disappearance. F940
• Church sinks underground. F941.2
• Church sinks: song heard from underground. F941.2.1
• Extraordinary underground (underwater) disappearance – miscellaneous. F949
• Man falls underground through hole. F949.2
• Troll as ogre. (For troll as underground spirit or mountain spirit see F455. For troll-woman see G200–G299, Witches.) G304
• Wisdom learned in underground kingdom: the passions of a human being could not be satisfied on earth. J179.2
• King attempts to visit the spirit world underground and dies in a tunnel. J2137.7
• Underground passage gives entrance to closed chamber. K315.0.1
• Tails in ground. Thief steals animals and sticks severed tails into the ground, claiming that animals have escaped underground. K404.1
• Underground passage to paramour's house. (Inclusa.) Woman goes from one to the other. Her husband is made to believe that the woman next door is her sister. K1523
• Saint hides fugitive from king underground. When king demand fugitive, saint (who never lies) replies, "Verily, I know not where he is, if he is not under thee even where thou art." The king is satisfied and departs. Later suspects trick and arrests fugitive. K2319.3
• Natural underground treasure. N511.2
• Treasure in underground chamber (cavern). N512
• Discovery of underground oil pools. N597
• Pools of underground oil discovered through dreams. (Cf. N531.) N597.1
• Abduction through underground passage. R25
• Princess abducted through underground passage. (Cf. R10.1.) R25.1
• Woman hidden in underground chamber or mud cabin. (Cf. R45.) R53.1
• Escape through underground passage. R211.3
• Escape from execution pyre through underground passage. R215.1.2
• Lies about remarkable underground channels. X1545