24 motifs match “wanders”  ·  back to the chapters

• First man created from nothing wanders until he finds mate. A1275.7
• Tabu: shooting at consecrated wafer. Man's ghost wanders. C55.2
• 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 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
• 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
• Soul wanders from body in sleep. Dreams explained as experiences of the soul on these wanderings. E721.1
• Soul of embryo wanders. E721.9
• Soul wanders till corpse decays. E722.3.2
• Person wanders unceasingly for hundred and fifty years. F1032.1
• 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
• Buried treasure wanders from place to place. Indicated by a light. (Cf. N532.) N511.1.4
• Uncharitable pope wanders after death. V425
• 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