42 motifs match “weeping”  ·  back to the chapters

• God summoned by weeping. A189.2
• Weeping man turned into owl; still bewails sorrows. A2261.5
• Willow shelters Holy Family: becomes weeping willow. (Cf. A2681.1.) A2632.1
• Origin of weeping willow. (Cf. A2632.1.) A2681.1
• Poplars from weeping maidens transformed by god. A2681.3
• Why weeping-willow is cursed. A2776.2
• Weeping animal. B214.4
• Weeping toad. B214.4.1
• Tabu: weeping. C482
• Tabu: people weeping in land of gods. C482.1
• Tabu: too much weeping for dead. C762.2
• Disenchantment of another by weeping jug of tears. D753.2
• Magic weeping object. D1618
• Magic weeping waters. (Cf. D910.) D1618.1
• Magic weeping stone. (Cf. D931.) D1618.2
• Magic weeping altar. (Cf. D1166.) D1618.3
• Resuscitation by weeping (tears). E58
• Resuscitation by universal weeping. Return of deity from dead granted if all men will weep. One person refuses. E58.1
• Dead child's friendly return to parents. Frequently to stop weeping. (Cf. P230.) E324
• Dead father returns to daughter to stop her weeping. (Cf. E324.) E327.1
• Return from the dead to stop weeping. E361
• Ghost summoned by weeping. E381
• Weeping rocks. F801
• Weeping hills. F801.1
• Person goes blind from overweeping. F1041.3
• Prodigious weeping. Usually by saint. F1051
• Task for devil: sweeping and winnowing peas on ice. G303.16.19.3.1
• Bride test: skillful sweeping. H383.3
• Mother's weeping for thief made to seem natural. J1142.4.1
• Woman breaks milk jars so that weeping for thief will seem natural. J1142.4.1.2
• Husband and wife burn their mouths. A wife served overhot soup, forgets and burns herself so that tears come to her eyes She says that her departed father liked soup so much that she weeps when she eats it. The husband is also burned and weeps: "I am weeping because your accursed mother didn't take you with her when she died." J1478
• Sweeping with a stick instead of a broom. J1822
• Coin weeps. Numskull thinks money piece covered with perspiration after he has held it for awhile is weeping. J1875.4
• Distress over imagined troubles of unborn child. (Clever Else.) Girl sent to cellar to get wine to serve the suitor begins weeping over the troubles of the child which she might have if she married the suitor. Her parents join her. Meanwhile the suitor leaves. J2063
• Thief sent into well by trickster. A weeping boy tells a passing thief that he has lost a silver cup in a well. The thief takes off his clothes and goes after the cup, intending to keep it. He finds nothing. When he comes up, his clothes have been stolen. K345.2
• The weeping bitch. A procuress throws pepper into the eyes of a bitch so that she weeps. She pretends to the virtuous woman that the bitch is a woman transformed because of failure to respond to her lover. The woman is persuaded. K1351
• Illiterate man pretends to be weeping because he cannot make others understand the book he is reading. K1795
• Disguise as a weeping woman to attract attention. K1836.4
• Fool laughs at the absurdities he sees about him. (1) Sees a man who is to die that day buy shoes. (2) Sees sheriff leading a man to the gallows: a big thief leading a little one. (3) Sees farmer weeping at funeral of his child, while priest (the real father) sings. U15
• Ascetic weeping. V462.3
• Queen mother shames cowardly son and companions. "In truth, gentlemen, you do well in weeping; for since you didn't fight like men to defend your land, it is suitable that now you weep like women on leaving it." W121.4
• The parson sings like a goat. The parson sees an old woman weeping and believes that she is touched by his singing. When spoken to she says that she has been reminded of her old goat which she has lost. X436