48 motifs match “winter”  ·  back to the chapters

• Continuous winter destroys the race. Spoken of as "Fimbulwinter". It ushers in the end of the world. A1040
• One pair escapes continuous winter and renews race. (Cf. A1006.1, A1038.) A1045
• Origin of cold in winter. A1135.1
• Genealogy of summer and winter. A1154
• Too cold for hare (dog) to build house in winter, not necessary in summer: must go without house. A2233.2.1
• Grasshopper builds no house for winter; ant strikes him blind: therefore born blind. (Cf. A2332.6.3.) A2233.4
• Why sorrel grows on certain rock every winter. A2771.7
• Storks become men in Egypt in the winter. (Cf. D155.1.) D624.1
• Summer and winter garden. Garden which blooms in winter. (Cf. D961.) D1664
• Cold water in winter made warm by a saint. D2144.3.1
• Winter magically produced. D2145.1
• Local winter. Winter produced in one place while it is summer everywhere else. D2145.1.1
• Fruit magically grows in winter. D2145.2.2
• Vineyard in full fruit and blooming palm found in winter on the night of Christ's Nativity. (Cf. V211.1.) D2145.2.2.1
• Saint causes cuckoo to call in winter. D2156.9
• Wild hunt appears in winter. E501.11.2.1
• Summer in otherworld when it is winter in world of mortals. F161.1.1
• Winter's day changes to summer's day at saint's funeral. F960.2.6
• Flowers bloom in winter. F971.5
• Man perspires in winter while relating fearful vision. F1041.12
• Suitor test: standing naked in river through a winter night. H328.4
• Suitor test: to make garden bloom in winter. (Cf. M261.1.) H352
• King: Where shall I tie my horse? Maiden: Between summer and winter. (Between wagon and sleigh.) H583.7
• Task: bringing berries (fruit, roses) in winter. H1023.3
• Task: bringing berries in winter. Reductio ad absurdum: father is sick from snake-bite (impossible in winter). (Cf. H952.) H1023.3.1
• Task: procuring cuckoo to sing in winter. H1023.3.1.1
• Task: standing between summer and winter. (Stands between wagon and sleigh.) H1058
• Ant and lazy cricket (grasshopper). Lazy bird is put to shame by thrift of industrious bird. In winter he is in distress. J711.1
• Which is coldest season? Rainy season or winter (debate between animals). Solution by man as umpire: neither as cold as windy season. J1664.1
• Family do not realize that Lent has arrived until it is Palm Sunday. Then they explain that Lent will be short because it has been a short winter. J1743.2
• Fool makes shoes for animals as well as men, since he expects a cold winter. J1873.1
• King orders houses built to keep howling jackals warm in winter. Rascal misappropriates funds. J1873.4
• The daw waits in vain for the figs to ripen in winter. J2066.2
• Numskull talks about his secret instructions and thus allows himself to be cheated. Told not to serve a man with a red beard or to keep sausage for the long winter, etc. J2355
• A beggar tells the bishop how to stay warm. For a gulden he tells him that he should wear all his clothes when he goes horseback in winter. K151
• For the long winter. The numskull has been told to keep the sausage "for the long winter". When the trickster hears this, he claims to be Long Winter and receives the sausage. K362.1
• Playing godfather. By pretending that he has been invited to be godfather, the trickster makes an opportunity to steal the provisions stored by him and the dupe for the winter. When he returns on successive occasions he reports the name of the child as "Just Begun," "Half Done," etc. K372
• Seduction: trickster shows girl how to store up warmth for winter. K1399.3
• The order for six loads of snow. The order is given by the king in winter. The courtier waits until summer to present the order. Gets money as substitute. K1661
• Chaste woman promises herself to her lover when he can make a garden bloom in winter. (Cf. H352.) M261.1
• Hospitality for a whole winter. P320.1
• King demands work, sport or entertainment from winter guests. P337
• Christian king makes baptism a condition for hospitality during the winter. P337.1
• Reward to ant for industry. Ant has food all winter because she keeps it safe and dry by airing it in the sun. Q86.1
• Man escapes from bear by running for a long time, from summer to winter. Bear chases man in July; he finally crosses a river on the ice. The bear falls in or stops following (in December). X1133.2
• Lie: year with two summers and no winter. X1602
• Lie: year with two winters and no summer. It is winter all summer and in fall it gets colder. X1603
• Lie: mixed weather: summer in one spot and winter in another nearby. X1605