43 motifs match “visits”  ·  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
• 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
• 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
• Lover as bird visits mistress. D641.1
• Girl as bird visits lover. D641.1.1
• Guardian magically made to sleep while lover visits maiden. D1965.1
• 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
• 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 visits places of birth, death, baptism, and burial after leaving body. E722.3.3
• Inhabitant of upper world visits earth. F30
• Child of deity visits earth. F31
• God visits earth. F32
• Divine animal visits earth. F35
• Fairy visits mortal and becomes his mistress. F302.3.0.1
• 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
• Devil visits woman and founds a family. (Cf. G303.11.) G303.12.4
• Youth promised to ogre visits ogre's home. G461
• 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
• Hero visits all islands to see if he can find woman to rival wife's beauty. H1301.1.3
• 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
• 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
• Lover visits guarded maiden while harper puts mother to sleep. K1349.4
• Wife drugs husband and visits paramour. K1514.17.1
• Goddess in disguise visits earth and is waylaid by thieves. They set her free after she promises to tell them the fate of the new-born prince. K1811.0.2
• Deity disguised as old man (woman) visits mortals. K1811.2
• Disguised queen visits her husband and begets child with him as assigned. (Cf. H1187.) K1812.8.3
• Disguised husband visits his wife. K1813
• Fairy visits queen in her husband's shape and begets son with her. K1844.4
• Groom's mother visits bride-to-be and puts the betrothal ring on her finger. T133.6
• Husband (wife) of supernatural being longs for old home and visits relatives. T294
• Deaf man visits the sick. He plans the conversation with the expected answers. The answers turn out otherwise. A. How are you? – B. I am dead. – A. Thank God! What have you eaten? – B. Poison, I think. – A. I hope it agrees with you. X111.9
• Blind son-in-law visits his wife's family: gets into difficulties. X124.2