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

• Gods of youth and age. A474
• God of youth. A474.1
• Goddess of youth. A474.1.1
• Sun from head of youth offered in sacrifice. A718.1
• Chest of sacrificed youth becomes the moon. A741.2
• Phoenix renews youth. B32.1
• Phoenix renews youth when 1,000 years old. B32.1.1
• Youth takes service with merman. B82.3
• Animals bequeath characteristics to man. Horse gives him the characteristics of youth (fiery), cow of middle age (avaricious), and the dog of old age (fractious). B592
• Eagle renews youth. Feathers fall off and regrow. B758
• Tabu: eating from ground. Youth will eat only when on ox. C219.1
• All questions to be answered, "I don't know". A youth is so advised by his horse. C495.1
• All questions to be answered "Thanks". Youth is so advised by old woman helper. C495.3
• Protean sale: man sells youth in successive transformations. D612
• "Spirit of poetry" as hideous youth becomes beautiful. D682.4.2
• Fountain of youth. (Cf. D925, D926, D927, D1341.1.) Water from certain fountain rejuvenates. D1338.1.1
• Water of youth. (Cf. D1242.1.) D1338.1.2
• Root of eternal youth. D1338.2.2
• Rejuvenation by apple. Golden apples of youth. (Cf. D981.1.) D1338.3.1
• Land of youth. Land which keeps off old age. D1338.7
• Immortality useless without eternal youth. D1850.1
• Eternal youth. (Cf. F167.9, F172.) D1883
• Deer foster parent of hero comes alive from its burial hill when youth returns to spot and carries him off to jungle again. E138.1
• Hanged man warns youth against visiting sweetheart. Takes youth's place and receives shot meant for him. E366.2
• Glowing beds of dead. Youth in land of dead puts staff into one of the beds. The iron glows and the wood burns. E487
• Youth reincarnated as root in punishment for incest. E692.6
• Youths grind in mill of underworldlings. F106
• Youths tutored by Vulcan, smith of Hell. F107
• Voyage to the Land of Youth. F116.1
• Fairies dance with youth till he dies (or goes insane). F302.3.4.2
• Youth abducted by fairy. F324.3
• Fairies carry off youth; he has gift of prophecy when he returns to earth (Thomas the Rhymer). F329.1
• Old woman beautiful as in youth. F575.1.2
• Youth crushes coins to powder with fingers. F614.12
• Huge boil appears on forehead of youth keeping a secret. F1041.9.2.1
• Devil appears among youths who jest while they say their evening prayers. G303.6.2.3
• Devil in the stable wrapped in horse-hide. Devil chases youth as he hides himself. G303.8.12
• Youth meets devil in woods. G303.8.13.1
• Devil tempts youth to deny Virgin. Promises youth riches. G303.9.4.8
• Devil exhorts youth to enjoy himself and not to think of God. When the youth has grown old the devil says, "It is now too late to think of God." G303.9.7.2
• Devil promises help to mistreated apprentice if youth will meet him by night in lonely spot. G303.22.12
• Youth takes service with ogre. G452
• Youth promised to ogre visits ogre's home. G461
• Youth shoots raven and takes feather to raven's sister as token. H78.1
• Token sent with youth to relatives, that they may take care of him. H82.6
• Test of cleverness: uttering three wise words. Youths called on to do so display by their answers extraordinary powers of deduction. H505
• Test of resourcefulness: to discover how old, respectively, three horses are. Youth drops water on each; one jumps fifteen paces only, another twenty, and the last bounds in air and gallops. H506.11
• "What am I thinking?" "That I am the priest." So answers youth masking as priest. H524.1
• Solomon and Marcolf. Witty questions and answers between youth and servant. H561.3
• King and clever youth. King asks questions; youth returns riddling answers. H561.4
• Riddle propounded from chance experience. On way to riddle trial youth sees things that give him a clue for his riddles. H565
• Clever youth (maiden) answers king's inquiry in riddles. (Cf. H561.4.) H583
• King: What do you see? Youth: One and a half men and a horse's head. (Himself, the legs of the king on horseback in the door, and the horse's head.) H583.1
• King: Are you alone at home? Youth: Not now; I see the half of two quadrupeds. (Two legs of the king and the forefeet of his horse.) H583.1.1
• King: What is your father doing? Youth: He is in the vineyard and is doing good and bad. (He prunes vines and sometimes cuts good and sometimes lets bad ones stay.) H583.2
• King: What is your father doing? Youth: Makes an evil greater. (Closes up a path; this causes another to be opened.) H583.2.1
• King: What is your father doing? Youth: Makes many out of few. (Sows grain.) H583.2.2
• King: What is your father doing? Youth: Makes better from good. (Hedges his field.) H583.2.3
• King: What is your father doing? Youth: Cuts wood which was burnt last year. (To pay old debts.) H583.2.4
• King: What is your father doing? Youth: He fences thorns with thorns. (Eggplant garden fenced with thorns.) H583.2.5
• King: What is your brother doing? Youth: He hunts; he throws away what he catches and what he does not catch he carries with him. (Hunts for lice on his body.) H583.3
• King: What is your brother doing? Youth: He runs back and forth. (Plows.) H583.3.1
• King: What is your brother doing? Youth: He sits between heaven and earth. (In a tree.) H583.3.2
• King: What is your mother doing? Youth: She does for another what the latter cannot do for her. (Lays out a corpse.) H583.4
• King: What is your mother doing? Youth: She shows the light of the world to one who has not yet seen it. (Assists at a birth.) H583.4.1
• King: What is your mother doing? Youth: She is baking the bread we ate last week. (To pay back borrowed bread.) (Cf. H583.2.4.) H583.4.2
• King: What is your mother doing? Youth: She cuts off the heads of the well to cure the sick. (Kills chickens to feed her sick mother.) H583.4.3
• King: What is your mother doing? Youth: She drives away the hungry and compels the filled to eat. (Drives away the hungry hens and stuffs the geese.) H583.4.4
• King: What is your sister doing? Youth: She is mourning last year's laughter. (Nurses child, the fruit of last year's love affair.) H583.5
• King: What are you doing? Youth: I boil those which come and go. (Beans which keep rising and falling in water.) H583.6
• Youth asks for branch of tree; promised root. (Branch = youngest daughter; root = eldest.) H611
• Riddle: what is that thou passest over with haste? (The field of youth; the mountains of youth, etc.) H767.1
• Heads placed on stakes for failure in performance of task. Unsuccessful youths are beheaded and heads exposed. Hero sees them when he sets out to accomplish his task. H901.1
• Quest for the water of youth. H1321.3
• Fear test: serpent put in flour so that fearless youth kneads it into the dough. H1407
• Fight with father's old friend, though only to mention who he is would assure the youth a friendly reception. H1561.2.2
• Old racehorse in mill laments vanity of youth. J14
• "Stay at church till mass is finished": counsel proved wise by experience. Delay saves youth from death. J21.17
• Youth educated by seven sages. J141
• Man blames master for not correcting him in youth. J142.2
• Philosopher instructs youth regarding conduct. J152.3
• Wisdom from philosopher: give separate greetings to infants, youths, and old people. J152.5
• Choice: suffering in youth or old age. J214
• Saint chooses to die "after pride of youth" and before "misery of old age." J216.6
• Youth made lame: had kicked his mother. J225.1
• Foolish youth in love with ugly old mistress. J445.1
• Youth trusts self to horse over which he has no control. Thrown off. J657.1
• Youthful fencer yields to infuriated opponent who has picked up a pestle. "Two against me. I surrender." J676
• More than one swallow to make a summer. Spendthrift youth seeing swallow concludes that summer has come and sells his clothes. There is frost the next day and he is cold. J731.1
• Fourth horse must carry all. Miller has four horses to carry grain. He uses only one, so that it soon dies. Four horses are childhood, youth, manhood, and old age. Don't heap all burden of securing salvation on the fourth horse, old age. J761.2
• King David dances with common youths before the Ark of the Covenant. He humbles self to please God. J914.1
• Clever pleading: youth in court for calling king a fool, proves truth of statement because king allowed self to be duped by alchemist. J1162.4
• Youth in court for kissing prince's daughter pleads his love for her. Prince allows plea: "If we kill those who love us, what shall we do to those who hate us?" J1174.1
• The girl screams when she is robbed. Accuses young man of raping her. When he tries to rob her of money she summons help. Decision: if she had shouted as loud before, the man could not have raped her. Youth acquitted. J1174.3
• Youth will answer question only when king places him on throne: then youth calls executioners to punish cruel king. J1189.1
• Youth says he is associating with a pious person. He has nun as mistress. (Cf. J1161.5.) J1264.5
• Youth announces fire in imitation of priest's metaphorical language. The fire set by cat's tail gains headway. J1269.12
• The prodigy's retort. An old man says of a youthful prodigy: "He will be an idiot in old age because perfection before maturity brings on deterioration of the mind." Youth: "You must have been very wise in your youth!" J1369.2
• Listening to the debate. A lazy youth explains his late rising by saying that he lay abed to hear the argument between industry and laziness. J1486
• Deduction: prince plays with children because he has been denied a normal youth. J1661.1.7