43 motifs match “wooden”  ·  back to the chapters

• Wooden circles that were the sun and moon animated after human sacrifice of blood. A714.8
• Moon has wooden weapons, therefore vulnerable. A759.1
• Escape from deluge in wooden cask (drum). A1021.0.2
• Hole of winds: stopper destroyed. The hole is stopped with a wooden stopper, which is destroyed. The country dries up. A1122.1
• Mankind from vivified wooden image. (Cf. A1241.3, A1245.2) A1252.1
• Transformation to wooden image for breaking tabu. C961.3.1
• Transformation: silver dish becomes wooden. D475.3.5
• Magic horse (wooden) made by carpenter. D853.1
• Magic wooden fish attracts live fish to fisherman's net. (Cf. D1268.) D1444.1.2
• Magic boat is rowed by two wooden figures as soon as it is put on water. (Cf. D1524, D1620.) D1523.2.8
• City populated by wooden automata. D1628
• Contest between carpenter and son to race wooden horses they had both made. D1719.1.4
• Fire turns aside and refuses to catch hold of holy garments, wooden altars and similar sacred things. D2158.1.3.2
• Fairies pinch plowboy who breaks their wooden oven as he plows. F361.17.3
• Father given carved wooden image in lieu of son stolen by dwarfs. F451.5.2.3.1
• Dwarf rides through air on wooden horse. F451.6.2.2
• Marvelous sensitiveness: fainting from noise of wooden pestle and mortar. F647.8
• King makes a wooden peacock machine for his son. F675.1
• Wooden coat. F821.1.4
• Wooden lizard used to kill evil spirits. F839.7
• Devil takes an unbaptized child out of the cradle and lays a wooden log in its place. G303.9.9.4
• From wooden spring iron bucket makes stones from which water flows. (Metal stick picks stone from eye. If you rub lids with it, tears come.) H765
• Task: breaking iron with wooden axe. H1116.2
• Ungrateful son reproved by naïve action of his own son: preparing for old age (wooden drinking cup or bowl). J121.1
• Milk from the hornless cow. A king demands a hundred men's drink from the milk of a hornless dun cow from every house in the land. Wooden cows are made and bog-stuff substituted for milk; the king must drink it. J1512.1
• Borrower of butter receives pot of cowdung with little butter on top: repays by lending wooden sword covered with thin iron. (Cf. J1511.20.) J1556.1
• Ship built with a wooden saw. The ship has no bottom and is so narrow that nothing can get into it. J2171.1.1
• Wooden anchor would hold if it were only large, thinks the fool. J2212.3
• Money exacted from watcher who permits theft of wooden cow supposed to be real. K443.4
• Bride substitutes wooden picture while she herself escapes sleeping groom. K525.1.2
• Man takes off wig, takes out false teeth, takes off wooden leg, overawes Indians. K547.2
• Trojan wooden horse. Permits capture of the city by concealing soldiers. K754.1
• Hostile visitors lured into iron house concealed by wooden walls. Hosts set fire to house. K811.4
• King who demands milk from all hornless cows forced to accept bogstuff milked from wooden cows: he dies. K839.4
• Disguise in wooden covering. K1821.9
• Wooden image frightens away invaders. K2346
• Penance: killing oneself with wooden knife. Q522.2
• Escape from execution on flying wooden horse. (Cf. D1626.1.) R215.3
• Substituted sword. Husband leaves wooden sword in scabbard of wife's paramour upon discovering their infidelity. T247.1
• Worship of wooden idol. V1.11.3
• Gold as sacrifice to false wooden god. V12.5
• Christian buried in wooden coffin. V61.7
• Lie: crippled cat uses wooden leg to kill mice. X1211.2