40 motifs match “wearing”  ·  back to the chapters

• Origin of custom of wearing a beard. A1597
• Origin of custom of wearing mantles. A1683.3
• Tabu: wearing shoes at shrine. C51.1.15
• Tabu: wearing unauthorized sacred robe (jewel). C51.2.1
• Tabu: false and profane swearing of oath. C94.2
• Tabu: wearing satin. C878.1
• Tabu: wearing silk. C878.2
• Magic cloth betrays thief. Calls out, telling who is wearing it. D1318.8.1
• Magic strength obtained by wearing blue ribbon. D1835.4
• Ghost cannot harm person wearing a cross. E434.8.1
• Wearing flowers on one's ears protects from fairies. F384.4
• Garments grow with man wearing them. F821.9
• Wearing shoes only when crossing river. F1015.2
• Bocca della Verità. Person swearing oath places hand in mouth of image. If oath is false the hand is bitten off. H251.1
• Suitor test: correct wearing of clothes. H312.6
• Bride test: wearing deceased wife's clothes. H363.1
• Bride test: wearing deceased wife's ring. H363.2
• "Always wear new shoes." (Walk the fields bare-footed, wearing your shoes only when nearing the town.) H588.13
• Rich Brahmin wearing poor clothing is treated as a beggar. J1072.2
• Witness claims the borrowed coat: discredited. Trickster summoned to court on Jew's complaint refuses to go unless he has a new coat: Jew lends him his. In court the trickster says that the Jew is a liar: "He will even claim that I am wearing his coat." The Jew does so and no one believes him. J1151.2
• Money in the stick. Before swearing, the cheater hands a stick containing the stolen money to the man he has stolen it from. He then swears that he has repaid it. J1161.4
• Wearing all his clothes. Shivering king (rich man) to tattered peasant: "Aren't you cold?" Peasant: "No, if you wore all your clothes as I do, you wouldn't be cold either!" J1289.5
• Why the black clothes. A man goes forth in black clothes. People are curious as to the reason. "I am wearing mourning for the father of my son." J1304
• Seduction by wearing coat of invisibility. (Cf. D1361.12.) K1314
• Saint, when forced to return to his monastery after swearing not to "come with his face before him," comes walking backwards. K2312.2
• Swearing while one knows that his oath is rendered valueless. M110.1
• Swearing on sacred relics. M114.4
• Swearing on hand of king. M116.0.1
• Swearing by saint's bachall. M116.1
• Swearing by saint's bell. M116.2
• Swearing on a skull. M118
• Swearing by the elements: sun, moon, stars, wind. M119.1
• Swearing by (clan) gods. M119.2
• Swearing on a stone. (Cf. M114.2.) M119.5
• Swearing by "the Seven Things which they serve." M119.6
• Swearing by one's father and mother. M119.8.1
• Swearing by life of father. M119.8.2
• Penance: wearing friar's cord about bare skin. Q522.7
• Child born wearing helmet. T552.5.1
• Child born wearing jewel. T552.7