21 motifs match “belongs”  ·  back to the chapters

• Plant characteristic because plant belongs to the devil. A2743
• Fuschia belongs to devil: hence ball and red petals. A2743.1
• Tabu: striking tree which belongs to deity. C51.1.12
• Tabu: picking up comb from ground. It belongs to fairy (witch) who will avenge insult. C543
• Devil blows skin off man who belongs to him and goes in the skin. G303.18.3
• The last belongs to the devil. G303.19.1
• One traveler to another: That field (uncut) is already harvested. (Belongs to spendthrift who has already spent the money.) H586.4
• Nurse's false plea admitted: child demanded. A nurse falsely demands pay for caring for a child which she says is the hero's. In court: "The child is indeed mine; give him to me." The child belongs to a peasant. Nurse confesses and is punished. J1162.1
• The hog belongs to whichever place he goes of his own accord. J1179.2
• Wife surrendered to king. Vizier advises doctor to give up his wife to love-sick prince since everything belongs to a sovereign. Doctor then tells him prince is in love not with his (the doctor's) wife but with the vizier's. J1511.19
• Deceptive division of shared wife. Evil takes lower half of wife, Good takes upper half. Child begotten by Evil not permitted to nurse the top half which belongs to Good. K171.7
• Thief pretends to return grass that has stuck to his clothes to ground where it belongs. K323
• Crow makes friends with pigeon so as to be able to steal food in household to which he belongs. K359.4
• Grain-thief's wagon falls into ditch: duped owner helps him. The thief makes the owner believe that the grain belongs to the thief. K405.1
• Dissension aroused in army by casting suspicion on general. A general destroys everything except what belongs to the general of the enemy. Thus he brings about suspicion that the two leaders are in league. K1088
• Fifth of the land's production belongs to king. P13.9.2
• "To every cow belongs its calf," a legal principle applied to question of ownership of copy of manuscript. P526.1
• "To every son belongs his mother": in case of suspected illegitimacy, child is not guilty. P526.2
• Child unwittingly promised: what is born on your farm. Two women agree that what is born on the farm of each belongs exclusively to the owner. The child of one is born on the farm of the other. S245
• Humor of disability. Besides the motifs which follow, the entire series of motifs concerning fools (J1700–J2799) properly belongs here as well as where it is given. X100
• The house the old man was to build. The woman for whom he is to build the house has some beans for him. The goat eats these up. Cumulative search. Final formula: Smith give me my iron, iron which belongs to the man, man who ate up my fish, fish which belongs to the sea .... sea – shirt – washerwoman – soap – woman – wood – press – grease – herder – cheese – frame – fig – tree – horn – goat – beans. Z44.1