59 motifs match “vessel”  ·  back to the chapters

• Why earth becomes warm and wet: two huge copper vessels steaming over fire are underneath earth. A857.1
• Creation in covered vessel. Men (or animals) created in a basket or from a bundle, or from under a blanket. A1295
• Mice gnaw through metal vessels. B747.3
• Tabu: profaning hallowed clothes and vessels. C93.2
• Transformation: cloak to vessel. D454.3.4.2
• Transformation: statue to drinking vessels. D454.15
• Disenchantment by drinking from golden vessel. D771.5
• Magic twigs grow from buried magic vessel. D953.1.1
• Magic vessel. D1171
• Vessels reveal guilt. (Cf. D1171.) D1318.12
• Vessels burst and reveal disobedience. D1318.12.1
• Poet's spell causes ale vessels to burst when request for ale is refused. (Cf. D1275.4.) D1318.12.1.1
• Magic vessel (box) furnishes money. (Cf. D1171.) D1452
• Magic food-basket (vessel) supplies food. (Cf. D1171.11.) D1472.1.19
• Saint's breath restores shattered vessel. (Cf. D1005.) D1565.4
• Magic spell causes vessel to burst. (Cf. D1273.) D1591
• Self-cooking vessel. (Cf. D1171.) D1601.10
• Inexhaustible vessel. (Cf. D1171.) D1652.5
• Fountains poison and cure. One, with bronze vessel, tastes sweet and poisons; other, with iron vessel, tastes bitter and cures. D1663.4
• Witch transfers milk from another's cows to a vessel. D2083.3.3
• Wind raised by troubling vessel of water. D2142.1.4
• Body cut up and buried in vessels, buried in bag. E431.18
• Magic cauldron (vessel) in otherworld. F166.4.2
• Fairy grateful for loan of meal causes the vessel to remain full thereafter. (Cf. D1652.1.) F335.1
• Theft of vessel from water-deity. F352.2
• Extraordinary vessel. F881
• Extraordinarily large vessel. F881.1
• Vessel of human bones. F881.2
• Earth swallows up Temple vessels. F948.1.1
• Vessel of poisoned ale inverted; only poison flows out. F1092
• Giant issues out of tiny vessel. G161
• Devil piles sand in ocean so that vessels may run aground. G303.9.9.5
• Truth-testing vessel. H251.3.12
• Test of resourcefulness: to find relationships among three sticks: they are put in vessel of water; degree of sinking shows what part of tree each comes from. H506.10
• Task: carrying water in leaky vessel. H1023.2.1
• Task: carrying water in leaky vessel; vessel repaired with clay or gum. H1023.2.1.1
• Task: carrying water in leaky vessel; frog sits in hole. H1023.2.1.2
• Task: gathering vessel full of nail-scrapings. H1129.8
• King has earthen vessels placed on table among the golden ones. He had formerly been a potter and prefers the vessels which he had made to the ones now molding him. J913
• Marking the place in the sand. Vessel left under mound in sand while owner is swimming. Others make similar mounds so that it is lost. J1922.3
• The reef is old, the ship new. They think the vessel will endure the shocks better than the reef. J2212.4
• Oil is cheap (or spilling oil is good luck). Man hearing this breaks oil vessels. J2214.7
• Boy asked to do something to cool women's ears breaks vessels they carry so milk in them can cool their ears off. J2469.4
• Alleged inexhaustible vessel sold. K117
• Order to put a small vessel of milk into huge container. Shrewd group each by himself pours water thinking this will not be detected if the others pour milk. K231.6.1.1
• Cannibal sent for water with vessel full of holes: victim escapes. K605
• Deception into bottle (vessel). Insects (or a spirit) having escaped from a bottle are told that they cannot return. They accept the challenge and go back into the bottle. K717
• Ingeniously worded boon asked of God combines riches, issue, and restoration of eyesight: "Oh God! I want to see from above the seventh story of my mansion my great-grandsons playing in the streets and eating their cakes from golden vessels." K2371.3
• Former poverty chosen over new riches. Weaver laments loss of water vessel. Offered many new, but prefers old and modest life. L217.1
• Spitting of all parties into vessel to seal bargain. M201.3
• Broken vessel (calabash, etc.) to be mended leads to adventure. N783
• Embarkation in leaky vessel as punishment. Q466
• Husband substitutes leaky vessel so that his wife and paramour are drowned. (Cf. Q241.) Q466.1
• Punishment: filling leaky vessels with water from a bottomless jar. (Cf. H1023.2.) Q512.1
• Man leaps from vessel into jaws of sea-beast, so as to save remaining passengers. S263.5.3
• Prayer restores shattered vessel. V52.5
• Hindu drinks water by mistake from Mohammedan's vessel: his fortune turns to evil. V383.2
• Man leaps from vessel into jaws of sea-beast so as to save remaining passengers. W28.3
• Vessel from which nothing can be drunk save through certain tube. Z323