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

• Deity rides boar. A136.1.1
• Earth made by mud shaken from back of primeval boar. A822
• Earth supported on great boar's tusk. A844.9
• Why the sea is salt: magic salt mill. Stolen by sea-captain, who takes it aboard and orders it to grind. It will stop only for its master; ship sinks and mill keeps grinding salt. A1115.2
• Why the wild boar is hunted by man for food: once a faithless wife killed by her husband. A1422.3
• Origin of wild boar. A1871.1
• Why tiger does not attack wild boar until latter is old: result of duel. A2257.1
• Enmity between tiger and boar. A2494.10.2
• Boar with nine tusks in each jaw. B15.7.8
• Giant devastating boar. B16.1.4.1
• Boar with golden bristles. B101.2.1
• Magic boar. B184.3.1
• Magic boar drowns houndpack. B184.3.1.1
• Boar sings song. B211.1.4.1
• Singing boar. B214.1.2
• King of the boars. B241.2.12
• Boar serves saint. (Cf. B183.) B256.6
• Boar guards holy man's swine. B256.6.1
• Boar makes music for holy man. B256.6.2
• Boar acts as physician for holy man: licks his wounded feet. B256.6.3
• Army of boars. B268.12
• Helpful boar. B414.1
• Helpful wild hog (boar). B443.5
• Boar as confederate of adulterous wife. B598.1
• Venomous boar. B776.4.2
• Giant boar. B871.1.2
• Giant boar with hinder part as large as can be carried by nine men. B871.1.2.0.1
• Tabu: going into wild boar's haunt. C619.2
• Transformation: man to boar. D114.3.2
• Transformation: god to boar. (Cf. D101.) D114.3.2.1
• Transformation: boar-pigs into he-goats. D412.3.3
• Transformation: ogress's tongue to surfboard. D457.14.1
• Magic game board (chessboard). D1209.7
• Divination with chessboard. (Cf. D1209.7.) D1311.23
• Ship refuses to move with guilty man aboard. D1318.10.1
• Boards for coffin making mysteriously moved announces death. D1322.1.2
• Magic game board helps win. D1407.3
• Self-playing game-board. (Cf. D1209.7. D1601.29
• Self-luminous artificial boar. (Cf. D1620.2.) D1645.7
• Inexhaustible boar's flesh. D1652.1.9.1.1
• Wild boar reprimanded about its maraudings by saint. The command is obeyed. D2156.4
• Boar (sow) in wild hunt. E501.4.3
• Blind wild boar in wild hunt. E501.4.3.2
• Man reincarnated as wild boar. E611.3.1
• Fighting animals seen in otherworld. Rams and she-goats or wild boars. F171.4
• Fairy in form of wild boar. F234.1.3.1
• Spirit takes food from table or cupboard. F473.6.3
• Cobold hatched out from a seven-year-old cock's egg or a boar's testicle. F481.0.1.1
• Boards of wood from certain forest endure forever. F812.7
• Extraordinary game-board. F899.2
• Golden game-board. F899.2.1
• Giant magic boar slain by tearing out entrails from behind. F981.8
• Man rides on back of fleeing wild boar. (Cf. B557.) F989.4
• Boar hung in spider's web. F989.18
• Ship with devil aboard sinks. G303.25.9
• Wild boar as ogre. G352.2
• Suitor task: to slay thieving boar. H335.3.3
• Cuckold's knife cannot carve boar's head. H425.1
• Task: yoking together lion and wild boar. H1149.1
• Task: capturing and binding ferocious boar. H1154.3.3
• Task: measuring (killing) wild boar. H1154.3.3.1
• Task: obtaining marrow of wild pig, lard of wild boar, water bird (coot?). H1154.11
• Quest for marvelous boar (pig). H1331.2
• Quest for purely white boar. H1331.2.1
• Quest for marvelous game-board. H1359.5
• Lion and wild boar make peace rather than slay each other for benefit of vulture. J218.1
• Boar refuses to fight with lowly ass. J411.1
• Wolf tries to eat bowstring. Finds hunter, gazelle, and wild boar dead. Tries first to eat the bowstring, and is mortally wounded. J514.2
• Wild-boar sharpens tusks when no enemy is in sight. Tells fox that when enemy comes there are other things to do. J674.1
• Oisin's poor diet in Patrick's house – pancake size of ivy leaf, measure of butter only size of rowan berry. Later Oisin gives Patrick quarter of a wild boar, servant ivy leaf and rowan berry. J1511.13
• A drunkard cannot drown. A drunken man falls overboard but the skipper refuses to pick him up. "A man who is soaked in wine cannot drown. No part of his body will absorb water." J2282
• Boar in duel with tiger cakes mud on body: defeats tiger. K97.1
• Delivery boy is frightened into giving up his chickens. Trickster upturns his eyelids and puts on boar's tusks. K335.0.9
• Two rival parties of fifteen each on ship. When food is exhausted, it is agreed that half the company be thrown overboard, "every ninth man as they stood to be selected." Clever sister of leader of one party arranges men so that enemies are chosen and so drowned. K527.4
• Wild boar given permission to squeal before wolf eats him. Rescue arrives. K551.3.4
• Wildboar captured in church. K731
• Tiger enticed into pit by being tempted to leap after boar-leader. K735.6
• Capture by taking aboard ship to inspect wares. K775.1
• Ferocious boar fed and put to sleep by rubbing. Killed. (Aper.) K836
• Dupe tricked into measuring boar whose bristles are poisoned. K898
• Seduction by taking aboard ship to inspect wares. K1332
• A thousand at one shot. Told to shoot one or two wild boars, hero asks, "Why not a thousand at one shot?" The ogre is frightened. K1741.2
• Impostors throw hero overboard into sea. K1931.1
• Faithless wife and paramour throw hero overboard. K2213.2
• Vow to kill wild boar alone at night. M155.1
• Prophecy: hunters will encounter certain wild boar. M397
• Passenger brings bad luck to ship. Cast overboard. Jonah. (Cf. S264.1.) N134.1.5
• Ship will sink if murderer is aboard. N271.10
• Hero, while measuring wild boar, accidentally wounded mortally by bristle. N337.2
• Adventures from pursuing enchanted animal (hind, boar, bird). (Guiding Beast.) N774
• Mermaid rescues heroine who has been thrown overboard. (Cf. B81.) R137
• Chess board and men made from bones of slain enemies. S139.2.2.4.3
• Man thrown overboard to placate storm. (Cf. S263.5.3.) S264.1
• Minstrel throws wife into sea: her tongue the heaviest thing on board. Ordered to throw all heavy articles overboard. T251.1.5
• Money tied on corpse thrown overboard from ship in order to secure burial. V64
• King Richard leads host to victory by leaping his horse overboard. W32.1
• Accidental cannibalism. A man eats up the dried meat of a Jew on shipboard. It happens that the Jew is carrying his dead father back home for burial in this form. (Cf. G60.) X21
• Lie: large boar has bristles as long as pitchfork tines. X1233.1.1
• The great wild-boar. Tusks go through tree and come out on other side. X1233.1.2
• Falcon and heron eaten by wild boar recovered alive from his body. X1723.2