34 motifs match “attacked”  ·  back to the chapters

• Moon's eclipse caused by moon's interfering between attacker and person attacked. A737.5
• Animal's habits when attacked. A2462
• Why squirrel barks when attacked. A2462.1
• Why beaver splashes his tail in water and dives when attacked. A2462.2
• Merman attacked by putting steel in the water. B82.5
• Hero attacked by revenant with half a head, carrying man with half a body. (Cf. E461, E422.1.1, F511.0.5.) E261.1.3
• Man attacked on Christmas night by dancing ghosts. E261.3
• Transformed fairy warriors disenchanted when attacked. F383.5
• Strong hero attacked with millstone puts it on as collar. Sent to dig a well. Master throws the millstone on him. F615.3.1
• Woman will not follow donkey on safe path: attacked by robbers. J133.4
• Flea and fever exchange night-lodgings. Flea had attacked abbess and been chased all night; fever, a washerwoman who nearly froze it to death by going to the river and washing clothes. They exchange and succeed. J612.1
• Man decides to make himself strong in peaceful times rather than wait until attacked. J674.2
• Robbers' false plea admitted: counteraccusation. Robbers claim a man's knife. In court: "The knife may indeed be theirs. I and my father were attacked yesterday by robbers. I fled. On returning I found my father killed and this knife in his body." Robbers condemned. J1162.2
• When royal mace-bearer is attacked he throws away mace: attackers accuse him of insult to king. J1166.2
• Cat mistaken for devil. Fool in the dark mistakes cat's eyes for embers. Is attacked by the cat and he thinks it is the devil. J1785.5
• Preliminary drawing of swords. Travelers say they will not have time to do so when attacked. J2255
• Sham murder: trickster attacked by angry mother causes her to spear ox guts and believe she has murdered him. K522.7
• Escape by use of substituted object. The object is attacked rather than the intended victim. K525
• Female confederate disrobes before hero, who is attacked when he looks away. K832.3
• Trickster being attacked by ferocious animal persuades dupe to take his place. K846
• The tail fisher. The bear is persuaded to fish with his tail through a hole in the ice. When he is attacked and tries to escape, he loses his tail. K1021
• Tail buried (hair tied). Dupe bound fast and then attacked. K1021.1
• Men disrobe and report they have been attacked: bring about war. K1087.0.1
• Phantom army attacked. K1883.1
• Objects (animals) attacked under the illusion that they are men. K1883.2
• Enemy invited for marriage with relative attacked. K2013
• Enemy invited to meeting and attacked. K2013.1
• City is falsely promised to enemy. When they enter they are attacked and defeated. K2366
• Trickster admits defeat: enemy and friends invited to fort for ceremony and then attacked. K2366.1
• Shipwrecked man lands on deadly enemy's territory and is attacked. N399.1
• Old king attacked. P16.3.1
• Girl comes to brother's aid when he is attacked. She slays the assailant and is eventually acquitted. P253.4
• Man warns his wife that he has dreamed that she is attacked by a wolf. She pays no heed to him and the dream comes true. T255.7
• Virgin Mary rescues man attacked by the devil. V264