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

• God in form of fakir visits king and gives him advice. A182.3.4.1
• God visits sick mortal. A185.17
• Departed deity grants requests to visitors. A575
• Sun visits earth in form of black bull, caught by man, thus causing night. A728.3
• Sun sister and moon brother. Brother visits sister at night. She marks him to identify him. He flees and she follows with flaming brand. She is sun and he the moon. A736.1.1
• Fettered monster questions visitor. He asks "Are lambs still being produced?" or the like; i.e. is nature still normal? He must remain fettered till he hears that nature's laws no longer hold. A1074.3
• Animals sources of food because they were once unfaithful, disobedient wives of a visitor from god-country. A1422.0.1
• The various children of Eve. Eve has so many children that she is ashamed when God pays her a visit. She hides some of them and they fail to receive the blessing that God gives those in sight. Thus arises the differences in classes and peoples. A1650.1
• Monkeys from children hidden by Eve when God visited her. (Cf. A1650.1, A1710.) A1861.1
• Dragon's visit to sky. B11.3.3
• Owl advises old man of projected visit by gods (in disguise). B569.1
• Tabu: not to touch too soon supernatural husband on visit. C32.3
• Visits of goddess cease when her sacred spring is disturbed. C51.1.11
• Tabu: betraying privacy of god. Emperor visited by God conceals his wife so that she may hear. God ceases his visits. C51.4.1
• Tabu: eating while on visit home. C234
• Tabu: feasting visitor at certain place. C616
• Injunction: to visit saint daily. C687.1
• Tabu: wife of merman staying too long at home (on visit). (Cf. C712.1.) C713.3
• Girl exchanges form with sorceress in order to visit her brother and get a son by him. D45.4
• Lover as bird visits mistress. D641.1
• Girl as bird visits lover. D641.1.1
• Witch will never visit a house where pipal is strewn. D1385.2.4
• Spear rushes out of joking raja's hand and pierces his visitor's chest; it is hungry for blood and has had no food for twelve years. D1601.4.2.1
• Chief reads visitor's thoughts. D1819.1.1
• Guardian magically made to sleep while lover visits maiden. D1965.1
• Forgotten fiancée. Young husband visiting his home breaks tabu and forgets his wife. Later she succeeds in reawakening his memory. (For details of the ways in which the memory is lost and regained see D2004 and D2006. D2003
• Longing of human child of sky-mother to visit father on earth. D2006.2.1
• Dead man visits his wife every night. E321.2.2
• Ghost often visits his widow and her new husband. E321.4
• Ghost family visits grave of father. E324.2
• Hanged man warns youth against visiting sweetheart. Takes youth's place and receives shot meant for him. E366.2
• Dead man visiting wife deceived by wife's absurd actions – "no more absurd than ghost visiting wife". (Cf. E321.2, E474.) E432.2
• Dead in lower world complain about odor of human visitor. E499.4
• Dead person visits earth periodically. (Cf. E332.3.3.1, E535.3.) E585
• Dead person visits earth every seven years. E585.1
• Revenant revisits earth every day. E585.3
• Revenant revisits earth nightly. E585.3.1
• Revenant revisits earth yearly. E585.4
• Soul leaves body to visit hell (heaven). (Cf. V511.1, V511.2.) E721.7
• Soul visits places of birth, death, baptism, and burial after leaving body. E722.3.3
• Visit to star-world. F15
• Visit to land of moon. F16
• Visit to land of the sun. F17
• Inhabitant of upper world visits earth. F30
• Child of deity visits earth. F31
• God visits earth. F32
• Cloud-folk visit earth. F33
• Divine animal visits earth. F35
• Journey to land of dead to visit deceased. F81.1.2
• Visit to lower world through hole made by lifting clumps of grass. F92.1
• Visit to lower world through opening rocks. Rocks open with a charm. F92.3
• Visit to lower world – miscellaneous motifs. F100
• Visit to lower world – additional motifs. F109
• Visit to lower world made head first. F109.1
• Voyage to Isle of Shape. Visitors become beautiful. F129.4.3
• Voyage to Isle of the Dead. Visitors who sleep there die. F129.4.4
• Mortals supplied with fairy mistresses during visit to fairyland. F302.1.1
• Fairy visits mortal and becomes his mistress. F302.3.0.1
• Fairies cause man to lose his senses after he steals flower while visiting them. F361.2.2
• Fairy kills man who refuses his hospitality. Man refuses to visit fairy after being invited. (Cf. F361.15.) F361.17.7
• Visit to fairyland. F370
• Longing in fairyland to visit home. F374
• Mortal visiting in fairyland must keep his thought on the fairies. F378.3
• Fairy visits – miscellaneous. F379
• Saint visits king of fairies on invitation of fairy king. Saint sprinkles holy water on fairy king, finds himself alone on hill. F379.4
• Fairy visits among mortals. F393
• Water-spirits visited by mortal. F420.3.5
• Visit to water-goddess's underwater home. F420.7.1
• Dwarfs visit mortal's home. F451.5.7
• Trolls visit men. F455.6.5
• Trolls visit people Christmas Eve. F455.6.5.1
• Visit to mountain-men. F460.4.8
• Visit to people of village under lake. F725.5.1
• Witch eats up visitor's bow. G269.6
• Devil visits woman and founds a family. (Cf. G303.11.) G303.12.4
• Devil haunts premises about to be visited by calamity. G303.15.1
• Youth promised to ogre visits ogre's home. G461
• Clandestine visit of princess to hero betrayed by token. H81.2
• Clandestine visit of lover to queen betrayed by token. H81.3
• Monster's beard as proof of visit. H105.4.1
• Gold in the Bible. A man professes to be a great Bible reader. King leaves a piece of money in the Bible. On his next visit it is still there. H261
• Prospective father-in-law requires that suitor for his daughter's hand visit foreign country (otherworld?) to learn feats of arms. H336.1
• Devil held off from person by answering his riddles. St. Andrew the Bishop, and the Devil. The Devil, in form of beautiful maiden visits a holy bishop. St. Andrew appears as a pilgrim, answers the questions through which the devil seeks to keep him at a distance and discomfits the devil. (Cf. B302.22.3.) H543.1
• What three not born of male and female ate and drank on earth? (Angels who visited Abraham.) H828
• Hero visits all islands to see if he can find woman to rival wife's beauty. H1301.1.3
• Chief of dead assumes frightful guises to frighten visitors. H1401.1
• Saint tested by visit of deity in disguise. H1573.2.2
• "Do not visit your friends often": counsel proved wise by experience. At last the man is treated shamefully. J21.9
• "Do not prolong a friendly visit." Guest stays so long that host gives him black bread instead of white. J21.9.1
• "Do not send your wife for a long visit to her parents": counsel proved wise by experience. J21.47.1
• Encounter with clever children (woman) dissuades man from visit. On way to a city meets children and they are so clever that he turns back home, fearing how clever their parents must be. J31
• Liar rewarded by the apes. King of apes asks visitors how they like his children (courtiers). Truthful visitor tells that they are very ugly, and is punished. Liar praises their beauty and receives reward. J815.1
• Eunuch visits augurer to see whether he is to be a father. "When I look at the livers, you are to be a father. When I look at you, I see that you are not even a man." J1271
• Imagined intercourse, imagined payment. A woman demands money for a visit which she dreams of having had from a merchant. She is shown the money in a mirror. J1551.1
• Countryman visiting rich relative in the city refuses to eat dessert: "No, I am not hungry." J1742.3.1
• Swimming (fishing) in the flax-field. Peasants go to visit the sea. They see a waving flax-field, and, thinking it is the sea, jump in to swim. J1821
• King attempts to visit the spirit world underground and dies in a tunnel. J2137.7
• The bungling host. A trickster (animal) visits various animals who display their peculiar powers in obtaining food (often magic). He returns the invitation and tries to provide food in similar ways. He fails and usually has a narrow escape from death. (Cf. J2411.3.) J2425
• Literal fool feeds dogflesh to visitor to follow father's advice: "Feed him on food you have never eaten in your life." J2469.5.1
• The fool and the visitor's large nose. The fool asks where he got the large nose. Is removed from the room. He comes back to mend matters. He says, "What a small nose you have!" He is again taken from the room. The third time: "What difference does it make whether you have a nose or not?" J2512