67 motifs match “wings”  ·  back to the chapters

• Wings of sun. A726.2
• Why there is no mist on a certain river: fanned away with a pair of eagle's wings. A937
• Winds caused by flapping wings. A giant bird causes the wind with his wings. The wings are cut by the culture hero so that the bird cannot flap so hard. A1125
• Angels' wings protect earth from winds. A1128.1
• Origin of thunder clouds: from wings of mountains. A1142.4
• Wings cut from flying mountains. In beginning mountains have wings. They are cut off by thunderbolt. A1185
• Raven singes feet on hot stones: why its wings clap when it flies. (Cf. A2442.2.1.) A2218.6
• Ants ask God to give them wings: wind blows them away. A2232.9
• Owl's wings borrowed from rat (or other animal). A2241.2
• Animal characteristics: wings. A2377
• Why emu has no wings. (Cf. A2284.1.) A2377.1
• Why raven claps wings in flying. (Cf. A2218.6.) A2442.2.1
• Why cuckoo flies with difficulty, and sings with wings spread. A2442.2.2
• Wings of dragon. B11.2.6
• Bird with head of gold and wings of silver. B15.7.3
• Eagle with twelve wings and three heads. B15.7.16
• Destructive locusts (with wings of iron) eat wheat crop. B16.6.3
• Devastating birds with poisonous spells on their wings. B33.1.4
• Flying horse. Sometimes represented as having wings, sometimes as going through the air by magic. B41.2
• Sphinx. Has face of woman, body and tail of lion, wings of bird. B51
• Bird with wings of silver. B101.1.1
• Wing-cornucopia. Turkey supplies treasure from its wings. B115.2
• Demi-coq. A cock is cut in two and is made magic. Carries robbers, foxes, and stream of water under wings. B171.1
• Magic birds cause hosts to sleep by shaking wings. B172.9
• Birds beat waters with wings as welcome to saint. B251.2.5
• Bird's wings drip blood when birds hear of Day of Judgment. B259.5
• Owl saves man from plunging over cliff. Flaps wings and arrests man's attention. B521.5
• Owl saves man from drowning: flaps wings to call attention to direction of land. B527.3
• Bird gives shelter with wings. (Cf. B450.) B538.1
• Swan Maiden finds her hidden wings and resumes her form. D361.1.1
• River contained under cock's wings. D915.2
• Magic wings. D1022
• Wings grown by magic. D1022.0.1
• Magic object causes wings to grow on person. D1375.3
• Magic ointment causes wings to grow on person. (Cf. D1244.) D1375.3.1
• House in otherworld thatched with wings of birds. F165.5
• People in otherworld thatch house with birds' wings. Thatch blows away while they go for more. F171.6.6
• Fairy comes into man's power when he steals her wings (clothes). She leaves when she finds them. F302.4.2
• Forest-spirits with wings and with backward-pointing fingers and toes. (Cf. F401.9, F451.2.2.1.) F441.4.4
• Person with wings. F522
• Person with wings on feet (head). F522.1
• Gorgon. Head turned about, scales of dragon, tusks of swine brazen hands, golden wings. F526.3
• Man swings wild steer by horns round and round till it is stunned, casts it to ground. F628.1.2.2
• Skillful fencer keeps sword dry in rain. Swings it so fast. F667.1
• Extraordinary swallowings. F910
• Extraordinary swallowings – miscellaneous. F929
• Flight on artificial wings. F1021.1
• Flight so high that sun melts glue of artificial wings. F1021.2.1
• Witches ride on tubs using goose wings for oars. G241.4.1
• The devil's wings. G303.4.2
• The devil has six wings. G303.4.2.1
• The devil has twelve wings. G303.4.2.2
• Genie in form of smoke, taking shape with three wings, one on back. G369.2
• Wise carving of the fowl. Clever person divides it symbolically: head to head of house, neck to wife, wings to daughters, legs to sons; keeps rest for himself. H601
• Pigeons cover the sun's rays with their outstretched wings and lengthen night to six months so that hero's task can be completed in one night. H982.1
• Question (on quest): How can ants secure longer life? (Answer: by doing without wings.) H1292.11
• "Thank God that camels have no wings." They might fly about and kill people. J2564
• Flying contest won by deception: riding on the other. Wren hides in eagle's wings. (Cf. K11.2.) K25.1
• Deceptive land purchase: boundary fixed by flight of a goose. Subject given as much land as a goose can fly over without lighting. The man carries the goose with its wings extended over an enormous territory. K185.3
• Trickster receives huge sum on trifling credit by chain of borrowings. Pays small sum in advance for first sum borrowed. Pays this borrowed sum in advance for larger, etc. K455.10
• Trickster to give wings to tiger. Wounds him fatally. K1013.4
• Hero flies to maiden's room. Enters her tower by means of artificial wings (or on flying horse). K1346
• Fox's plan detected by crickets: cricket wings in his excrement. K2061.10
• Earth swallowings as punishment. (Cf. F940, Q221.4.3.) Q552.2.3
• Escape from execution pyre by means of wings. R215.1
• Angel with four wings. V231.3
• Lie: wingspread of large mosquito. X1286.1.1