57 motifs match “wander”  ·  back to the chapters

• Sun hidden at night because afraid to wander. A722.6
• First man created from nothing wanders until he finds mate. A1275.7
• Wandering of tribes. A1630
• Tabu: shooting at consecrated wafer. Man's ghost wanders. C55.2
• Wandering ghost makes attack. Unprovoked and usually unmotivated. E261
• Wandering skull pursues man. E261.1
• Sinner wanders between earth and heaven. E411.0.4
• Soul wanders and demands that a temple be built for him. E419.1
• The living corpse. Revenant is not a specter but has the attributes of a living person. He wanders about till his "second death", complete disintegration in the grave. (Cf. E261.1.3, E268, E461.) E422
• Wild huntsmen wander because of sin. E501.3
• Wild huntsman wanders because of cruelty. E501.3.1
• Wild huntsman wanders because of suicide. E501.3.2
• Wild huntsman wanders because of parricide. E501.3.3
• Wild huntsman wanders because of unshriven death. E501.3.4
• Wild huntsman wanders for failure to keep fast day. E501.3.5
• Wild huntsman wanders for hunting on Sunday. E501.3.6
• Wild huntsman wanders because he wished to continue hunt after death. E501.3.7
• Wild huntsman wanders for disturbing church service. E501.3.8
• Wild huntswoman wanders because of murder of daughter. E501.3.10
• Wild huntsman released from wandering. E501.17.7
• Wild huntsman released from wandering by mould from Christ's grave. E501.17.7.1
• Phantom cart driver wanders because of blasphemy. "Peter Rugg the Missing Man." Boasts that he will reach home despite storm or never see his home again. He always travels in hard shower of rain or just ahead of one. E512
• Dead man wanders with torch. (Cf. E599.7.) E594
• Mark inflicted on wandering soul seen on body after soul's return. E721.0.1
• Soul wanders from body in sleep. Dreams explained as experiences of the soul on these wanderings. E721.1
• Wandering soul cause of sickness. E721.3
• Wandering soul detained by ghosts. E721.4
• Wandering soul assumes various shapes. E721.5
• Wandering soul assumes shape of wolf. (Cf. D113.1.1, E731.) E721.5.1
• Soul of embryo wanders. E721.9
• Soul wanders till corpse decays. E722.3.2
• Souls wander after death. E750.1
• Virgins condemned to wander at death. E750.1.1
• Baby tied to a mill-stone by strap so he would not wander about; drags stone after him. F611.3.2.2
• Wandering island. Moves about at will and sometimes appears and disappears from sea. F737
• Person wanders unceasingly for hundred and fifty years. F1032.1
• Witch recognized by seeing wandering soul return. G251
• Children wander into ogre's house. G401
• Prostitutes wander. A woman having given her cook leave of absence for the next day asks her what day it is. "Saturday." "No, it is the day on which the prostitutes wander." The cook: "Yes, from one prostitute to another. Today I am with you, tomorrow with your sister." J1351.1
• They gave it away themselves. A wandering actor rewarded by a city with a coat of their color gambles it away. When upbraided about giving away their present he replies that they hadn't wanted to keep it themselves. J1444
• Child's stomach split open to cure him of wandering. J1842.4
• Attempted capture by ringing cowbell to sound as if cow has wandered far away. (Cf. K341.7.) K756.2.2
• Making the beard golden: "such a one". A man named "Such a one" persuades an ogre to have his beard gilded. He covers it with tar and leaves the ogre caught to the tar-kettle. The ogre with his tar-kettle wanders about and asks everyone, "Have you seen such a one?" K1013.1
• Watching the goats: "Hit them if they wander." Trickster kills them. K1451
• Disguise as wanderer. K1817
• Wandering skull fulfills prophecy. M391.2
• Curse: couple to wander until new seat of race is pointed out. M455.4
• Buried treasure wanders from place to place. Indicated by a light. (Cf. N532.) N511.1.4
• Wandering as a punishment. Q502
• The Wandering Jew. Ceaseless wandering with inability to die as punishment for blasphemy. (Cf. Q221.3.) Q502.1
• Punishment: wandering till iron shoes are worn out. Q502.2
• Tribe's long wandering in wilderness as punishment. Q502.3
• Wandering after death as punishment. Q503
• Uncharitable pope wanders after death. V425
• Ungrateful wanderer pulls nut tree to pieces to get the nuts. W154.6
• Wanderers in shade of plane tree blame it for not bearing fruit. W154.7
• Man under the ice. Falls through ice with his horse, wanders around on the river bottom, pushes his spear through ice from below and rises to the surface. X1737.1.1