34 motifs match “walking”  ·  back to the chapters

• Sun a fat woman walking across sky. A738.1.2
• Origin of art of walking on stilts. A1491
• Disenchantment by maidens walking with lighted candles in procession. D759.6
• Speaking and walking divan brings supernatural information. D1310.8
• Magic from maiden walking naked in public. D1796
• Walking upon water without wetting the soles or garments. D1841.4.3
• Resuscitation from touch of a child at his first walking. E149.3
• Walking around a grave twelve times backward will raise the ghost. E386.4
• Burial service read into hat to prevent dead walking. E431.1
• Head of beheaded man separated from body (by walking between them) to prevent return. (Cf. E721.1.2.2.) E431.7.2.1
• Dog buried alive to prevent ghosts from walking. E431.8
• Burial of suicide to prevent walking. (Cf. E334.7, E411.1.1, E441.) E431.16
• Criminals buried at crossroads to prevent walking. (Cf. E434.4.) E431.17
• Burial of corpse at midnight to prevent walking. E431.19
• Walking ghost "laid". E440
• Water-spirits leave trace of water when standing or walking. F420.1.7.3
• Giant wins walking contest against man. F531.5.11.1
• Long ears. People must hold them up so as not to impede walking. F542.1
• Lands with extraordinary names. Land of the boot, the towel, the walking-stick, and the like. F703
• Walking on grass-blades without bending them. F973.2
• Woman has worn out carriage-load of shoes with walking. F1015.1.2
• Person gets witch power by walking twelve times around a church backward at midnight. G224.8
• Ordeal by rope-walking. H225
• Ordeal: walking on ladder of knives. H225.1
• Ordeal: walking on eggs. H225.2
• Boy says that travelers should catch the mares (walking sticks that are in the jungle). H586.8
• Man puts on shoes only when he wades river. (He cannot see what he is walking on.) H591.1
• Riddle: what was the walking tomb with the living tenant? (Jonah and the whale.) H821
• Task: coming neither on horse nor on foot (riding nor walking). H1053
• Mother crab blames her children for not walking straight. J1063.1
• Tale of the cradle. Two youths pass the night with a family where all sleep in a common room, with a cradle at the foot of one of the beds. The moving of the cradle in the night confuses those walking about so that the strangers sleep with the wife and the daughter. K1345
• Saint, when forced to return to his monastery after swearing not to "come with his face before him," comes walking backwards. K2312.2
• Baker and devil walking together. P442.1
• Penance: walking on all-fours like beast. Q523.2