106 motifs match “vision” — showing the first 100; narrow the words for the rest  ·  back to the chapters

• Division of control of universe among gods. A161.1
• God has magic vision only from his throne. A199.2
• Saint sees vision of three cities in heaven: a city of gold, a city of silver, a city of glass. A661.1.2
• Determination of night and day. After much discussion, the relative length of these divisions is determined. A1172
• Beginning of division of labor. A1472
• Division of labor: religious and lay activities. A1472.1
• Origin of customs: game-division. A1525
• Origin of laws: division of property in a family. A1585
• Origin of tribal subdivisions. A1640
• Characteristics of tribal subdivisions. A1641
• Dragon's miraculous vision. Can see a fly miles away. B11.5.3
• Owls and crows dispute over merits of night or day vision. B299.2.1
• Giant whale cast ashore on the night of Christ's Nativity: "fifty men were on the upper parts of its head, and (there was) the limit of vision between each two of them. Such was the amount of ground which the animal occupied. B874.3.2
• Tabu: trying to save provision for another day. C785
• Lamp gives him who looks into its flame a vision of the Most High. (Cf. D1162.1.) D1323.19
• Provisions received from magic object. D1470.2
• Provisions received from magic tree. (Cf. D950.) D1470.2.1
• Magic mallet produces provisions. (Cf. D1209.4.) D1472.2.9
• All nature composed of food in vision. (Cf. V514, X1503.) D1731.2.2
• Truth given in vision. D1810.8.1
• Eve in vision sees Cain drink Abel's blood. D1812.3.3.7
• Vision as evil omen. D1812.5.1.2.1
• Vision of food arises to tempt fasting women. D2031.16
• Provisions magically furnished. (Cf. D1470.) D2105
• Provisions provided in answer to prayer. D2105.1
• Provisions provided by messenger from heaven. D2105.2
• Resuscitated man relates visions of beyond. (Cf. E480, V511.) E177
• Journey to otherworld as dream or vision. F1
• Fairy-wife furnishes provisions. F343.7
• Man perspires in winter while relating fearful vision. F1041.12
• Devil by trick conjures vision to make idolators of believers. G303.9.4.5.1
• The devil and his son fight over division of the earth. G303.11.2.1
• Wise division of the goat (similar). H601.1
• Kites and crows quarrel over division of wounded fox. Meantime fox escapes. J581.5
• Forethought in provision for life (general). J700
• Provision for the future. J701
• Safe provision for life not to be lightly surrendered. J705
• Forethought in provision for food. J710
• King for a year provides for future. Knowing that the custom is that he is to be deposed in a year, he sends provisions to a safe place out of the kingdom. J711.3
• City without provisions but with much money starves. J712.1
• Forethought in provision for clothing. J730
• Forethought in provision for shelter. J740
• Imprisoned musician defends himself. Has been imprisoned because the king did not like the way the musician looked at him. After a year the king returns as a conqueror and sees musician. The latter says that he saw the king's conquests in a vision and was blessing him when he looked at him. The musician is honored. J814.1
• Division of the fat and lean fowls. Two fat fowls and one lean one at meal. Hero is lean, his two hosts fat. He is to divide. One lean fowl for the two fat people; two fat fowls for the one lean man. J1241.4
• Crop division between parrot and cat: they try to cheat each other by inviting to a dinner in turns every day. J1565.3
• The man who wanted to be dead one day. A husband tells his wife that he has provisions for every day in the year but one. He proposes to play dead for that one day, thinking that the servants will be overcome with grief and cannot eat. After brief mourning, however, they eat more than usual. The man then thinks to frighten them by rising from the dead. One servant thinking the dead man suffering from devils kills him. J2188
• Deceptive division of profits. K171
• Giant cheated in division of spoils of the chase. K171.0.1
• Deceptive crop division: above the ground, below the ground. Of root crops the ogre (stupid animal) chooses the tops; of other crops the roots. (Cf. J242.8.) K171.1
• Deceptive grain division: the corn and the chaff. The bear chooses the chaff because of its greater bulk. At the mill the fox's grain makes a different sound from the bear's. K171.2
• Deceptive nut and olive division: inside and outside. The clever man chooses the kernel of the nuts and the outside of the olive. K171.3
• Deceptive division of pigs: curly and straight tails. All with curly tails belong to the trickster, others to the dupe. K171.4
• Deceptive division of animals for shearing. The trickster shears the sheep; the dupe the pig. K171.5
• Deceptive division of shared wife. Evil takes lower half of wife, Good takes upper half. Child begotten by Evil not permitted to nurse the top half which belongs to Good. K171.7
• Deceptive division of sheep. Evil chooses lambs, leaving milk to Good. Lambs drink up all milk. K171.7.2
• Deceptive land purchase: saint's enemy promised as much land as he can see from certain point. Saint causes cloud to obstruct vision. K185.12
• Playing godfather. By pretending that he has been invited to be godfather, the trickster makes an opportunity to steal the provisions stored by him and the dupe for the winter. When he returns on successive occasions he reports the name of the child as "Just Begun," "Half Done," etc. K372
• Army of mice save kingdom from enemy invading force by gnawing their provisions, ammunition, etc., to shreds. K632.1
• Seduction by alleged vision promising woman to man. K1375
• Seduction of wife by alleging that husband's vision compels him to leave home. K1375.1
• Bluff: provisions for the swimming match. In a swimming match from a ship the hero takes a knapsack of provisions on his back. His rival is afraid and gives up. K1761
• Trickster poses as helper and eats women's stored provisions. K1983
• Division of warriors hidden in pit on battlefield. Emerge during battle. K2369.2
• Mother's symbolic dream (vision) about the greatness of her unborn child. M312.0.4
• Threefold division of king's day: one third dedicated to watching boys at play; one third to playing fidehell (chess?); one third to drinking. P14.16
• Father in vision reproves son about to succumb to temptation. P233.10
• Hospitality repaid by magic procuring of provisions. Q45.6
• Saint appears to captor in vision and demands prisoner's release. (Cf. R165.) R121.6.1
• Sacrament effective even from unworthy priest. Man who has refused such a sacrament shown a vision of a leper giving men good water without harm. V39.3
• Vision of sacrament in form of young child. V39.4
• Birth of saint predicted by visions of miracles. V222.0.1
• Mortals visited by angel in vision. (Cf. V510.) V235.0.1
• Pagan sybil draws picture of Madonna and Child in sand. Result of vision. V341
• Children envious of money given by deceased father to bishop. In vision they take their father's body up and find a quittance saying that he has received more than a hundredfold reward. V415
• Religious visions. V510
• God speaks in vision to devotee. V510.1
• Visions of the other world. V511
• Visions of heaven. V511.1
• Saints have visions of heaven. V511.1.1
• Vision of angels defending road to heaven against devils. V511.1.2
• Visions of hell. V511.2
• Vision of fires of hell. V511.2.1
• Vision of gate of hell. V511.2.2
• Girl sees vision of her mother in hell. She chooses to live the poor life of her father which leads to heaven. V511.2.3
• Visions of purgatory. V511.3
• Visions of Land of the Saints. V511.4
• Vision of judgment. Man sees his own soul being judged. V512
• Saints have miraculous visions. V513
• Saint incited (instructed) through vision. V513.1
• Vision of the earth in the devil's snares. Saint sees earth in snares. V513.2
• Non-religious visions. V514
• Allegorical visions. V515
• Allegorical visions – religious. V515.1
• Vision of chairs (thrones) in heaven. Chairs of gold, silver, crystal (glass) assigned to saints according to merit. (Cf. A661.0.3.) V515.1.1
• Saint sees vision of flames covering Ireland quenched except for sparks; then great light appears, dispelling darkness. Flames are those of the faith brought by St. Patrick; they become less until restored by St. Columkill. V515.1.3
• When shower falls, small stone becomes larger, large stone wastes away. Vision of present and future state of Irish church. V515.1.3.1
• Vision in which swineherd sees yew tree upon a rock, with an oratory in front of it and angels ascending from it. Vision interpreted by druid as symbolizing founding of Cashel and the royal line of Munster. V515.1.3.2
• Constantine's vision of the Cross. V515.1.4
• Vision of dry bones. V515.1.5
• Allegorical visions – political. V515.2