54 motifs match “betrays”  ·  back to the chapters

• Ass betrays deity's secret: hence his ugly bray. A2239.3
• Bird betrays woman's infidelity. (Cf. B134.1.) B131.3
• Bird betrays hiding-place of the Virgin. B131.6
• Dog betrays woman's infidelity. (Cf. B1313.) B134.1
• Dog betrays murder. B134.2
• Magic speaking reed (tree) betrays secret. King has whispered secret to hole in the ground. Reed growing from this hole tells the secret. D1316.5
• Food sticks in thief's throat and betrays him. (Cf. D1030.) D1318.7.1.2
• Magic cloth betrays thief. Calls out, telling who is wearing it. D1318.8.1
• Clever woman and devil as paramour. Devil betrays means by which he can be driven out. D1386.2.1
• Fetish betrays fugitive. (Cf. D1241.) D1612.1.3
• Hiding place speaks and betrays hider. D1612.3
• Changeling betrays his age when his wonder is excited. Usually pottage is boiled in an eggshell. The changeling: "I shall soon be a hundred years old but I never saw this done before!" F321.1.1.1
• Changeling plays on pipe and thus betrays his maturity. F321.1.1.2
• Changeling dances wild dance to music, betrays maturity. F321.1.1.2.1
• Changeling addresses woman in verse and thus betrays maturity. F321.1.1.3
• Changeling shows supernatural power to work and thus betrays maturity. F321.1.1.4
• Dwarfs' gifts cease when mortal betrays the source. (Cf. C420, F348.5.) F451.5.1.6.1
• Tailor married to princess betrays trade by calling for needle and thread. H38.2.1
• Peasant boy masking as prince betrays self by his answers. H38.2.2
• Weaver married to princess betrays trade by talking in his sleep. H38.2.4
• Weaver married to princess betrays his identity when he unconsciously waves his hands as though he were weaving and asks for his shuttle. H38.2.4.1
• Fox (in man's form) betrays identity when he procures fox-food for human wife. H48.2
• Unique scent of their rice betrays abandoned children. H49.1
• Stick with money in it breaks and betrays thief who swears his innocence. H251.3.4
• Test: which of twins is elder. Younger unthinkingly hands chopsticks to elder and thus betrays his junior rank. H255
• Riddling answer betrays theft. H582.1
• Enigmatic statement betrays incest. (Cf. T411.) Woman, recognizing cleric as her son by her father (Fiachna), gives him a drink of milk and says, "I give drink to my brother; he is Fiachna's son, he is Fiachna's grandson; his mother is Fiachna's daughter." The son's reply shows that he understands the situation. H582.2.1
• Poison in nectar: wife who betrays husband to his enemies. H592.2
• Child unwittingly betrays his mother's adultery. Tells father not to step across chalk line drawn around secretary; if he does secretary may do to him what he did to Mother the other day. J125.2.1
• Frog-woman betrays self by croaking. J1908.3
• Animal betrays himself to his enemies by talking. J2351
• Talkative man betrays his companion. When his faults are pointed out he maintains that he is better than his companion, who is immediately investigated. J2352
• The fool betrays his brothers. They escape but he is captured and stupidly betrays their hiding places. J2668
• Clever animal betrays thief. K427
• Clever animal betrays thief. Horse catches arm of thief and holds on until help comes. K427.1
• Magic statue betrays a thief by indirection. He has threatened to smash the head of the magic statue if it betrays him. The statue says, "Whoever would tell the truth now is likely to have his head smashed." K428
• Crocodile masking as a log obeys suggestion that he move upstream. He thus betrays himself. K607.2
• Crocodile in ambush betrays self by talking. K607.2.1
• Sham-dead man deceived into making gesture. Obeys suggestion as to how dead man should act and betrays himself. K607.3
• Leopard concealed in bundle betrays self when threat is made to run spear through bundle. K607.3.3
• Tail sticking from ground betrays killing of calf. So arranged by servant in revenge on his master. K1686
• Blind fiancée betrays self. Mistakes one object for another. K1984.5
• False guardian betrays refuge of fleeing lovers. K2093
• Faithless wife betrays husband to her father. K2213.7
• Treacherous queen lures her husband into chest and betrays him to hostile king. He is hung up between two fires, but his second wife cuts the strings so that he falls down and kills his enemy and takes his kingdom back. K2213.15
• Wife betrays husband in revenge for his once having taken a second wife. K2213.16
• Treacherous lover betrays woman's love and deserts her. K2232.1
• Peasant betrays fox by pointing. The peasant has hidden the fox in a basket and promised not to tell. When the hunters come, he says, "The fox just went over the hill," but points to the basket. K2315
• Man who betrays secrets cursed. M414.11
• Earl's son seduces foster brother's sister and betrays himself. P273.2.2
• Girl betrays pregnancy by dropping milk on brother. T579.8.3
• Child betrays his own illegitimacy. T644
• Nun hidden by abbess from pursuing knight betrays her own hiding place to him. Is afterwards abandoned. V465.1.2.1
• Jealous fox betrays wolf to peasant and then appropriates wolf's cave and food. Peasant kills him in a few days. W181.4