31 motifs match “washing”  ·  back to the chapters

• Why women keep washing themselves. St. Andrew, sent to get salt to keep people clean, gets drunk and forgets. There is only enough for men. A1372.10
• Why the face must be wiped dry after washing. A1599.4
• Tabu: washing hair on sabbath. C631.3
• Washing in magic bowl produces immunity from old age. (Cf. D1172.2.) D1349.2.2
• Water from saint's washing as remedy. D1500.1.18.1.2
• Washers at the ford. Appearance of female figure washing bloody armor, chariot cushions, or human limb (at ford) as sign of coming disaster in battle. (Cf. A485.1, E761.1, M301.6.1, Z129.2.2.) D1812.5.1.1.6
• Man enabled to read baptismal service by washing in holy water. D1819.4.1
• Cure by washing in dew. D2161.4.14.3
• Flowers drop on washing hands. D2193
• Dung drops on washing hands. D2194
• Task for devil: washing a Jew (Jewess), to rid him (her) of the evil smell. (Cf. A1662.1.) G303.16.19.3.3
• Successful suitor must have whitest hands. Blacksmith qualifies because of frequent washing of hands. H312.4
• Task: washing black wool (cloth, cattle) white. H1023.6
• Task: washing large heavy quilt covered with ghi and oil without aid of soap or anything. H1023.6.1
• Task: washing enormous number of clothes (and other articles) in short time. H1096
• Large fire and water for washing eyes as device of expectant lover. H1484.1
• Flea and fever exchange night-lodgings. Flea had attacked abbess and been chased all night; fever, a washerwoman who nearly froze it to death by going to the river and washing clothes. They exchange and succeed. J612.1
• Washing test: defendants given basin of water. Guilty one wastes it uselessly. J1149.11
• The polluted clothes. A Brahmin washes clothes to purify them. As they hang to dry, a dog walks under them and the Brahmin fears that they are polluted. By putting himself on all-fours like a dog and fastening a leaf like a dog's tail he experiments and decides that the dog must have touched the clothes. He therefore destroys them instead of rewashing them. J2184
• Washing the child. Fool uses boiling water and kills it. J2465.4
• Washing the room. Fool floods it. J2465.6
• Dupe denied food until hands are clean. Grass burned around food makes continued washings unavailing. K278
• Fox to crocodile who has caught him by the tongue: "Those are the dirty clothes I've been washing!" She lets go. K543.1
• Slave washing mistress's back in stream pushes her into crocodile hole. K831.1
• Cleaning the horse. Washing him in boiling water or currying him with a razor. K1443
• Washing the grandmother – in boiling water. K1462
• Footwashing as sign of reconciliation. P673
• Saints miraculously cause child to fall over cliff as punishment for mother's washing clothes in holy well. (Cf. Q222, Q411.3.) Q559.9
• Washerman as minister thinks of washing and fails the king. [Inadvertant duplication of J677.] U129.3
• Handwashing before prayer. V58.4
• Woman becomes clean only after three washings and the use of three pounds of soap. W115.2