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

• Demon (opposed to God) allowed to earth four times a year (but must let people know who he is and not deceive them). A106.2.1.2
• God's day is one thousand years. A199.5
• Five hundred years travel across universe. A658.2
• Years are days in Tusita world. A697.2.1
• Sun does not set for a year through power of saint. A725.1
• Cattle and sheep of the sun. 350 of each (= days and nights of the lunar year). A732.1
• No rainbow for fifteen years before the Day of Judgment. A1002.2.1
• Nature transformed by God once in seven years. A1103
• First parents originate from gold which is from body of first man. Born fifteen years old. A1271.4
• Men and animals readjust span of life. At first, thirty years are given to all animals and to man. For the animals it is too long, for man too short. Man is given a portion of animals' lives. Years 1–30 vigorous (man's own); 30–48 burdens and blows (ass's); 48–60 no teeth (dog's); 60–70 foolish (monkey's). A1321
• All customs for the year established. A1502
• Tree protects Jesus from rain: is green all year. (Cf. A2765.1.) A2711.4
• Why wheat must be planted in one year and harvested in the next. A2793.2.1
• Why buckwheat produces twice a year. A2793.9
• Basilisk hatched from cock's egg. Usually, a seven-year-old cock. Egg must lie in manure. (Cf. B11.1.1.) B12.1
• Phoenix renews youth when 1,000 years old. B32.1.1
• Mermaid appears once each year, sings in choir, entices young man to follow her. B81.3.2
• Mermaid appears once each year. B81.12.2
• Mermaid lives for three hundred years under lake. B81.13.12
• Magic bird's song. Brings joy and oblivion for many years. Wakes the dead. B172.2
• Wedding of fox and hyena. Fox refuses to marry hyena, since, according to belief, hyena yearly changes sex. B281.1
• Crow refuses to marry titmouse, since she is 100 years old. B282.22.1
• Owl advises old man where to plant his crops after listening in to council of gods concerning rainfall distribution for the year. B569.2
• Wolf boy (girl) running around with wolf and cubs recovered by parents after six years: recognized by scar. B635.2
• Hyena changes sex yearly. B754.1.1
• Female snake seven years pregnant. B765.25
• Stags live one thousand years. B841.4
• Tabu: eating bird's eggs at certain time of year. C221.3.3
• Tabu: eating before three years have passed. C231.6
• Tabu: on looking at daughter for twelve years. C312.3
• Tabu: looking at sun before prince becomes fourteen years old. C315.2.2.1
• Prince not to be given eighth key until after he has ruled for five years. C611.1.1
• Tabu: hunting on shortest day in the year. C636
• Compulsion to go to certain place at certain time (or once each year). C666
• Compulsion to perform certain task yearly. C684
• Compulsion to catch blackbird alive yearly. C684.1
• Compulsion to kill one of certain hogs yearly. C684.2
• Compulsion to leap yearly over stone one's size held in palm of hand. C684.3
• Telling tales except at certain time of year (or day). De Vries Het Sprookje 49. C755.2
• Tabu: letting sun shine on girl before she is thirty years old. C756.2
• Kings exchange forms and kingdoms for a year. D45.1
• Yearly transformation. D624
• Fairies become birds every other year. D624.2
• Yearly transformation to person of different sex. D624.3
• Disenchantment by maintaining silence for a year or more. D758.2
• Disenchantment if twelve men will not leave castle for a year. D759.4
• Three soldiers in the enchanted manor. Curiosity overcoming them they forfeit the power of disenchanting the princesses. Seven seven-year-old boys break the spell and save the princess. D759.10
• Disenchantment at end of seven years. D791.1.1
• Disenchantment when superhuman task is finished. Enchanted person appears every seven years in human form and puts one stitch in a smock. When it is finished, she will be delivered. D791.1.2
• Disenchantment at end of two hundred years. D791.1.4
• Disenchantment at end of nine hundred years. D791.1.5
• Disenchantment possible at the end of seven hundred years. D791.1.6
• Year added to life by eating fruit of magic tree. (Cf. D950.) D1338.3.3.1
• Magic pumpkin yields year's supply of rice. (Cf. D981.11.) D1472.2.6
• Spear rushes out of joking raja's hand and pierces his visitor's chest; it is hungry for blood and has had no food for twelve years. D1601.4.2.1
• Magic cauldron boils a year. (Cf. D1171.2.) D1601.10.2
• Magic pill on which one feeds self for years. (Cf. D1243.) D1652.1.8
• Talking statue, when destroyed, cannot be replaced for thirty thousand years. (Cf. D1268, D1620.) D1661.1
• Garden that has not bloomed for twelve years does so when girl steps into it. (Cf. D961.) D1667.4
• Magic fire burns for seven years. (Cf. D1271.) D1672.0.1
• Prophetic dream loses force after a year. D1812.3.3.4
• Prognostications from day of week on which first day of year falls. (Cf. D1812.5.0.16.) D1812.5.0.7.3
• Prognostications for year from winds blowing on January 1. (Cf. D1812.5.0.7.3.) D1812.5.0.16
• Magic power to "see" who will die during coming year. D1825.6
• Listening at church door on Halloween to hear the names of those to die in the coming year. (Cf. D1825.6.) D1827.1.1
• Magic weakness for five days each year. (Cf. D1837.3.) D1837.1.1
• Life prolonged a thousand years by traveling six months each year. D1855.5
• Two hundred years of unfailing life and happiness offered to warrior by fairy woman in exchange for one day's delay of battle. D1857.2
• Seven sleepers. (Rip Van Winkle.) Magic sleep extending over many years. D1960.1
• King asleep in mountain will awake when his horse's shoes are worn down. Every seven years the horse goes around the castle. He must wear his half-inch silver shoes to thinness of cat's ear before the king awakes. D1960.2.1
• Sleeping Beauty. Magic sleep for definite period (e.g., a hundred years). D1960.3
• Years thought days. (Cf. F379.5.) Years spent in the other world or asleep seem as days because of magic forgetfulness. D2011
• Years seem moments while man listens to song of bird. D2011.1
• Years are as moments to creator. D2011.3
• Moments thought years. In a moment a person seems to experience events of many years. D2012
• King in the bath; years of experience in a moment. This illusion takes place when the king puts his head under water. D2012.1
• Wizard gives man the illusion that he has been away twenty (forty) years. D2012.2
• Earth dried up in three years while hero is under earth. D2081.1
• Cow and cowherd disappear every New Year's night. D2087.3.1
• Saint banishes night for a year. D2146.2.5
• Man advised how to resuscitate his mother: break waternuts on her head: she would revive and live one year for each nut broken. E181.1.1
• Ghost claims a life every seven years by drowning person in river. E266.1.1
• Person who has spent two years in hell speaks of importance of religious experience. E367.1
• Wild hunt appears every seven years. E501.11.3.1
• Wild hunt appears yearly at same moment. E501.11.3.2
• Effects of wild hunt remedied by seeing it a year later in same place. E501.19.1
• Wild hunt as omen of plentiful year. E501.20.2
• Dead person visits earth every seven years. E585.1
• Spectre rides to castle every seven years. E585.2
• Revenant revisits earth yearly. E585.4
• Soul hidden in apple (ball) in a salmon which appears every seven years in certain fountain. (Cf. D1651.10.) E713.1
• Wraith of sweetheart stays in room where lover has died. It disappears only after her death at far distant point twenty years after death of lover. E723.5
• Souls of sinners to spend seven years under waters of the sea before Doomsday. E751.5
• Lost soul to serve as porter in hell for seven years. E755.2.3
• Person will die year he marries. E765.4.4
• Headless man lives four (seven) years. (Cf. Q551.8.5.) E783.7
• Five hundred years to journey from earth to heaven. F76.1
• Door to fairyland opens once a year. F211.1.1
• Fairies' mare foals every year on first of May. F241.1.2.2
• Fairy music – person listening is without food or sleep for a year. F262.5