221 motifs match “women” — showing the first 100; narrow the words for the rest  ·  back to the chapters

• God does not directly address women; uses interpreter. A182.3.0.4
• In other world one room contains the dead, another contains souls of the unborn waiting to enter the wombs of women, and a third contains all the evil spirits. A678
• Men from long nuts, women from short ones. A1253.2.2
• Man chosen as best gift by primeval women. In beginning only women on earth. Deity kills one by accident and promises anything as reparation. They choose man. A1276
• Why women have marks on the belly. A1310.4
• Vaginal teeth broken. Women originally had toothed vaginas. Culture hero breaks teeth so that women will be harmless to men. A1313.3.1
• Origin of women's breasts. A1313.4
• Women at first with breasts on their foreheads. A1313.4.1
• Why there are one-eyed women. A1316.3.2
• Culture hero teaches women how to rear their children. A1357
• Origin of sterility among women. A1358
• Why women are bad. A1371
• Bad women because of head exchanged with devil. Devil (serpent) and woman fight. St. Peter cuts off their heads and exchanges them. A1371.1
• Bad women combination of nine different animals. A1371.2
• Bad women from transformed hog and goose. Peter, having only one daughter, foolishly promises her to three men. He asks the Lord to create two others. This request is granted. The first creature he meets on two successive mornings he is to greet, and they will be transformed. He meets a hog and a goose. His two new daughters have these characteristics. A1371.3
• Origin of other special characteristics of women. A1372
• Why women are prattlers. A1372.1
• Why women laugh much. When Eve sees her first child she laughs over its smallness. A1372.2
• Why women are roving. A1372.3
• Why women have a treble voice. A1372.4
• Why women are deceitful. A1372.5
• Why some women are good-looking. A1372.6
• Origin of pleasant and unpleasant women. Contest arranged by Virgin Mary – laughter forbidden for some time. A1372.7
• Why women never have leisure. Because they refused to show God the way, saying they had no time. A1372.8
• Why women are subservient to men. A1372.9
• Why women keep washing themselves. St. Andrew, sent to get salt to keep people clean, gets drunk and forgets. There is only enough for men. A1372.10
• Why women attract men. A1373
• Why good-looking but soft, useless women attract men. A1373.1
• Why women do not woo. A1551
• Origin of charms for pregnant women. A1562.1
• Why women are disqualified as witness in court. A1589.1
• Why women wear veils in India. A1599.3
• Origin of women in Ireland. A1611.5.4.1
• Why Chenchu women are ugly. A1689.9
• Creation of flea: to give women work. (Cf. A2051.1.) A2032.2
• Louse created to give women work. (Cf. A2032.2.) A2051.1
• Animals punished for assaulting women. A2239.5
• Catfish transformed from woman still carries women's tatoo marks. A2261.3
• Why tigers do not kill women who run away after quarreling with their husbands. A2499.1
• Women transformed into flowers. A2611.0.4.1
• Transformed women enchanted by music. B297.2
• Women transformed to bitches enchanted by music. B297.2.1
• Lion's roar causes havoc at 300 miles. At 300 miles all women miscarry, at 200 teeth of all men drop out. B741
• Tabu: eating from hands of menstruating women. C143
• Women must wear certain things during menstruation. C146
• Menstruating women must wear amulet of leaves when approaching certain valley. C146.1
• Tabu confined to women. C181
• Tabu: women not to participate in hunting activities. C181.2
• Tabu: women not to touch man's weapons. (Cf. C835.2.) C181.3
• Tabu: women not to climb on roof. C181.4
• Tabu: Baiga women not to tie cloth between legs. C181.5
• Tabu: Bondo women not to wear clothes. C181.6
• Grave (of man) upon which no women can look without foolish laugh or "sine crepitu ventris eius." C181.7
• Tabu: women not to eat pork. C181.8
• Tabu: Saora women not to wear gold earrings. C181.9
• Tabu: women riding in canoe. C181.10
• Tabu: women not to eat genitals (heart, liver, etc.) of animals. (Cf. C221.3.1.) C229.2
• Tabu: looking at women performing Bacchic rites. C312.2.4
• Tabu: women leaving hero's land without his knowing it. C566.3
• Tabu: women marrying until hero has chosen their husbands. C566.4
• Tabu: women to be on certain island. C619.4
• Tabu: going to assembly of women at certain place. C853.2
• Tabu: abusing women or children. C867.1
• Tabu: bearded men abusing women and children. C867.1.0.1
• Tabu: listening to groans of women being violated. C885.2
• Death by smothering for breaking tabu. Man given secret box conveying the power of making women love him. He disobeys warning and opens it. The women smother him to death. (Cf. C321.) C922
• Ten serving-women carried in bottle. They change size at will. D55.2.4
• Men and women transformed to dogs by druidic spell. D141.0.2
• Transformation: bitches to women. D341.1
• Green stone causes women to love the possessor. (Cf. D1070.) D1355.20
• Reindeer hose from corpse protect women. (Cf. D1062, D1278.) D1380.26
• Magic hymn protects against spells of women. D1385.16.3
• Love-compelling man sickens of bargain. A man given the power of making all women love him is smothered to death by them. D1904
• Magic door invisible to women. D1982.1
• Vision of food arises to tempt fasting women. D2031.16
• Hell of women in south of otherworld. F83
• Journey to Land of Women. Island of women, land of maidens, country of the Amazons, etc. F112
• Fairyland (Ireland) inhabited (settled) by women only. F112.0.1
• Man on Island of Fair Women overcome by loving women. F112.1
• City of women. (Cf. F566.2.) F112.2
• Mountain of Venus. Hollow mountain otherworld where men live a life of ease and lustful pleasure in company with beautiful women. F131.1
• Mountain of fair-haired women. F131.1.1
• Portion of otherworld for women. F167.14.1
• Fairy women identical in form and feature. (Cf. F234.2.4.) F239.2
• Fairies are Welsh women cursed by St. Patrick for rebuking him because he left Wales for Ireland. F251.13
• Fairy women take body of dead hero to fairyland. F323
• Fairy woman exhibits her figure to warriors. Is most beautiful of women. F397
• Ship held back by otherworld women. F402.1.13
• Water-women come to market and store. F420.3.2.2
• Water-women wash and hang up laundry on beach. F420.3.2.3
• Water-women are powerless when their garments are taken. F420.4.6.1
• Dwarf women bear children. F451.3.5.5
• Huldra-women have cow's tails. (Cf. F232.8, F518, F531.1.6.14.) F460.1.5
• Three women have but one eye among them. Pass it around. (Cf. F513.1.1.) F512.1.2
• Three women have but one tooth among them. Pass it around. (Cf. F512.1.2.) F513.1.1
• Sons of God and Daughters of men. Before the flood angels have relations with human women: origin of giants. F531.6.1.1
• Giants pursue giant women. F531.6.8.2
• Sexes of pygmies distinguished. A slight beard on men; long tresses on women. F535.4.1
• Women warriors or hunters. F565
• Amazons. Women warriors. F565.1