65 motifs match “wheel”  ·  back to the chapters

• God with wheel. A137.3
• Wheel symbol. A137.3.1
• God's throne on wheels. A152.3
• Fiery wheels in hell. A671.2.4.6
• Celestial bodies attached to a wheel in heaven around which they move. A702.3.1
• Earth wheel-shaped (flat and round). A875
• Origin of water wheel and rice growing. A1441.3
• Snake takes tail in mouth and rolls like wheel. B765.1
• Spinning wheel continues spinning because woman has worked at forbidden time. C916.4
• Transformation: man to wheel. D256
• Magic wheel. D1207
• Destructive "rolling wheel" of druid. D1207.1
• Magic wheel indicates road. (Cf. D1207.) D1313.15
• Sight of magic wheel causes blindness. (Cf. D1207.) D1331.2.5
• Sound of magic wheel causes deafness. (Cf. D1207.) D1332.1.2
• Wheel buried in doorstep to prevent deviltry. (Cf. D1207.) D1385.10
• Magic wheel prevents entrance to fortress. (Cf. D1207.) D1389.4
• Magic wheel kills all upon whom it falls. (Cf. D1207.) D1402.20
• Mountain opens and lets ship on wheels out, permitting magician's escape. D1552.4
• Self-returning wheel. (Cf. D1207.) D1602.7
• Divination from sound of chariot wheels. D1812.5.0.12
• Son made to appear to pursuers as spinning wheel, buck, and hog. D2031.6.2
• Ghost as glowing wheel. E421.3.1
• Phantom spinning-wheel makes noise. E534
• Perilous revolving wheel at entrance to otherworld. F156.3
• Wheel (apple) to be followed to otherworld. F159.3
• Magic revolving wheel at door of otherworld dun (stronghold). F165.1.0.2
• Spirit makes wheels come off wagon. F473.6.6
• Giant with mill-wheel as shield. F531.4.1
• Giant with club as large as wheelshaft of mill. F531.4.4
• Giant rolls like wheel. F531.6.17.6
• Ship on wheels. (Cf. D1553.1.1.) F841.3.2
• Cart of lapis lazuli and gold with golden wheels. F861.3.1
• Golden spinning-wheel. F876
• Devil in form of wheel on wagon. G303.3.4.1
• Devil helps man place cart wheel when it becomes unfastened. G303.22.4
• Bride test: key in flax reveals laziness. Suitor hides key in flax on spinning wheel. Finds it there next day. H382.1
• Bride test: spinning – girl cannot use spinning-wheel. H383.2.1
• Task: carrying a wagon axle which has broken a wheel. H1183
• Test of sex of girl masking as man: spinning wheel brought. Men take no notice; women interested. H1578.1.2
• King given three wheels to control his anger. J571.2
• Gods help those who help themselves. Ox driver must put his shoulder to the wheel before Hercules will help him. J1034
• The parson's share and the sexton's. During the sermon the parson bids the sexton see if anyone is coming. The sexton: "A man is coming with a wheel on his shoulder" J1269.1
• Glowing wheel supposed to be the devil. J1781.3
• Spinning wheel is sent home by itself. The man asks his wife if it has arrived before him, finds that it has not. "I thought not. I came a shorter way." J1881.1.5
• The mad wheelbarrow. Fools chain a wheelbarrow, bitten by a mad dog, lest it bite others. J1887
• Dupe waits for rear wheels of wagon to overtake front wheels. Is told that money is thus made. J2066.7
• Snake rids himself of wasps: he lets himself be run over by a cart wheel along with them. J2102.2
• Taking the short-cut. Farmer takes a few feet off his journey and lifts a wheelbarrow over 22 stiles in so doing. J2119.2.1
• Persons build a wheelbarrow too large to come out of shed. J2199.2
• Foolish physician cauterizes "sick" cartwheel to stop it from creaking; burns it up instead. J2412.7
• Company to sing like leader. When his foot is caught in a wheel, they keep repeating his call for help as a song. J2417.1
• Fright at the creaking of a wheelbarrow. J2615
• Escape on ship on wheels after having deceived the captor into laying away sword and helm to receive pretended gift. K611.3
• The single cake. Restricted to a single cake during Lent, the peasants make one as large as a cart wheel. K2311
• Prophecy: wholesale slaughter to be inflicted by colossal wheel rolling over Europe. M341.2.20
• Fortune's wheel. N111.3
• Fortune's wheel turned by dead king in mountain. N111.3.1
• Punishment: breaking upon a wheel. Q423
• Punishment of Ixion. Lashed to a wheel which revolves continually. Q501.5
• Enemy host imprisoned by earthen walls thrown up by hero's chariot wheels. R5.1
• Victim bound to a bladed wheel. (Cf. Q423.) S181.1
• Lame man taken on hunt in wheel chair beats the dogs home when they tree a spook or when a bear gets after them. (Cf. K1861.) X143.1
• Lie: plow without horse or wheels. X1855
• Lie: child throws down mill-wheels from one town to another. X1856.2