50 motifs match “window”  ·  back to the chapters

• Windows in heaven: sixty-six (seventy-two) windows in the firmament. A661.0.6
• Sun at night closes doors. In evening goes home and shuts doors and windows. A722.4
• Moon is hare covered with silver, which lives in crystal house with fifteen windows. It rests on a chariot and travels around Mount Meru. A759.4
• Windows in firmament shed light. A1171.2
• Magic windows. D1145
• Magic clairvoyant windows. Twelve, each more powerful than the next. (Cf. D1145.) D1323.3
• Magic window holds person fast. (Cf. D1145.) D1413.15
• Ghost breaks windows. E299.4
• Wild hunt avoided by keeping in house with windows closed. (Cf. E501.14.6.) E501.17.5.3
• Sky-window. An opening into the sky gives access to upper world. F56
• Sky-window from digging or uprooting plant (tree) in upper world. F56.1
• Sky-window at horizon. F56.3
• Windows in otherworld. (Cf. A661.0.6.) F165.3.5
• Crystal bower with "bright windows" as otherworld dwelling. F165.3.5.1
• Thumbling lies by sleeping man. Is blown to window by man's breath. F535.1.1.3
• Extraordinary doors and windows. F782
• Windows and doors for every day in year. 365 windows and doors in castle or church. F782.1
• Witches open doors and windows. (Cf. E338.1.1.4.) G249.8
• Maiden (to king): The house has neither eyes nor ears. (No child at window nor dog in yard to announce king's approach: he therefore finds her not dressed to receive him.) H583.8
• To decide which is master and which servant they are to put heads through window and servant's head is to be cut off. Servant draws back. J1141.1.6
• Girls must pay for young man's virginity. Girls repulsed by man climb in his window at night. Become pregnant and demand marriage. Branded as prostitutes and must pay the man. J1174.4
• Artist paints too few birds. Is engaged to decorate room. Owner: "You did not paint as many birds as I told you to." Artist: "The windows were left open and most of them flew out." J1491
• The priest administers to a man sick with infectious disease. Shows him the Host through window, and says: "Have hope and imagine you receive it." The man shows the priest a coin through the window, and repeats the same phrase. J1551.10
• The bigger fool. When told by servants their master is not at home, man says it is a fool that goes out in such midday heat. Whereupon master sticks his head out of the window, saying "Thou who art moving about at this time art the big fool: I have been seated all day in my house." J1552.1.1.1
• An expensive joke. A shoemaker's apprentice greases boots as he would grease a fowl. The owner in anger returns and breaks a window. J1631
• Letting in the light. Backwoods preacher tells couple that they are living in darkness. The woman responds that she has been trying for years to get her husband to cut a window in the house. J1738.6
• Simpleton sleeping in cold room breaks window to let the cold out. (Cf. J2123.) J1819.2
• Numskull throws the dishes out. A landlord in anger throws a dish out the window. The numskull throws the rest out, thinking that the landlord wanted to eat outdoors. J1831
• Sickness ascribed to quarreling wines. A man has drunk so much of various wines that he is sick. He says to the wines, "Have peace among yourselves and don't quarrel or I'll throw you out the window." J1891.1
• Sunlight carried into windowless house in baskets. When this plan does not succeed, they gradually pull down the house to get light. J2123
• Deceptive wager: whose horse will jump highest. The trickster has his worthless horse jump out the window. The duke will not let his run the risk. K264.1
• Tailor throws piece of cloth out of the window. The stingy woman has the tailor come to her house to cut cloth. He throws a piece out of the window, "the devil's share". While the woman has gone after it he cuts off a piece for himself. K341.13
• Ring to put on corpse's finger. A thief holds a corpse up to a lord's window. The lord shoots the corpse and leaves to bury it. The thief goes to the lady and gets a sheet to bury the corpse in and a ring to put on his finger. K362.2
• The thieving guests. Rent a room at an inn and empty the mattresses of feathers, take fire wood, etc. Throw goods out of the window where confederate picks it up. K365.2
• Girl makes toilet and calls help. When she sees robber under her bed she pretends not to see him and combs her hair at the window. She says, "When I am married my husband will come home from the tavern and seize me by the hair and I shall cry: "Help!" Rescue comes. K551.5
• Wolf brings cake from the window-sill. He imitates the fox in so doing, but rings a bell, so that he is beaten. K1022.4
• Vergil in the basket. A lover who is to be pulled up to his mistress's window is left hanging in the basket in the public gaze. K1211
• Priest trapped in window and humiliated. K1243
• Adulteress throws small coffer out of window. While the husband retrieves it the paramour changes hiding places. K1514.15
• Blades (broken glass) to wound and detect wife's lover. (Often on window.) K1565
• Second lover burns paramour at window with hot iron. K1577
• Future heroine found in hollow tree (calfshed, house "without door but only window and skylight"). L111.2.1.1
• Prophecy of king taking a cruel stepmother to her sons after her death enacted before eyes of dying queen by sparrow family living in tree by palace window. M369.2.1.1
• Man whose death has been prophesied takes refuge in church, but is accidentally slain through window by arrow directed at stag. M381
• Princess pulled through prison window by hand and freed. R121.1
• Devil chases ghost of wicked man until he puts his head into chapel window. (Cf. E754.) R325.1
• Lazy wife throws bread out of window instead of putting it back into oven. W111.3.3
• Fat man so unwieldly he fishes from his window in the street. X151.2
• Hog finds dynamite supply, eats it, walks behind mule; the mule kicks the hog. The explosion kills the mule, blows down the barn, breaks windows out of house. The hog is ill for several days. X1233.2.1
• The bird indifferent to pain. A man catches a mango-bird eating mangoes and strikes it against the roots of a mango-tree. The bird cannot be made to say it suffers from the blow. In turn, he puts it in water, strikes it on the ground, a stile, a door-frame, singes its feathers, cuts it up, cooks it, and eats it. The bird always expresses indifference in a cumulative rhyme. At last the bird asks him to look out of the window, whereupon it flies out of his nose and the man dies. Z49.3