“tailor” — Mythoi

Motifs — first 20 of 37

Tailor works in fairyland. F376.1
Skillful tailor. F662
Skillful tailor sews up broken eggs. F662.1
Birds hatched from broken eggs repaired by skillful tailor have red line around necks. This indicates where eggs were broken. F662.1.1
Skillful tailor sews together scattered planks in capsizing boat. F662.2
Skillful tailor sews bean together after bean has split from laughing. F662.3
The devil as tailor to a dandy. The dandy demands clothes sewed without thread. The devil disguised as a tailor makes them. In church the dandy's clothes fall to pieces, leaving him naked. G303.9.9.11
Tailor married to princess betrays trade by calling for needle and thread. H38.2.1
Skillful companions create woman: to whom does she belong? Woodcarver carves a doll, tailor clothes her, gardener gives her speech (or the like). (Answer sometimes given: her father, her mother, or her husband). H621
Clever tailor. J1115.4
Receiver of stolen goods. A tailor makes a Jew a coat of stolen goods. Accused of theft, he says that the Jew has the cloth. J1169.6
The gift of the fool. Of three brothers the shoemaker makes shoes for the queen and princess; the tailor, clothes; the fool – children. J1272
Tailor caught resting his head on royal robe while he rests tells king there is no better resting place for king's robe, for "the head is the king of the body." J1289.19
Two eggs. Widow serves tailor one egg. He sings, "One egg, one egg." She decides one egg is not enough and serves him two next time. He then sings "Two eggs are two eggs." He is next given two eggs and a sausage, etc. J1341.4
The tailor's dream. A tailor dreams that at Judgment Day he sees a flag made up of all the pieces of cloth he has stolen Upon waking he asks his servants to warn him if they ever see him tempted to steal again. This happens. He replies, "The piece I am about to steal does not fit into the flag." J1401
Goose mistaken for a tailor. In a ghost house he is thought to be a tailor who snips the devil with his scissors. J1762.1
Crab mistaken for tailor. J1762.1.2
Tailor puts on thimble as protection from slug. J2623
Sewing contest won by deception: the long thread. The ogre sews with the whole length of the thread. When he returns from the first stitch, the tailor has his task finished. K47.1
Tailor throws piece of cloth out of the window. The stingy woman has the tailor come to her house to cut cloth. He throws a piece out of the window, "the devil's share". While the woman has gone after it he cuts off a piece for himself. K341.13

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