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

• Brothers as creators. A15.2
• God carries brothers and sisters on his back in basket. A137.4.1
• Brother-sister marriage of the gods. A164.1
• Demigod son of king's unmarried sister by her brother. A511.1.3.2
• Culture heroes brothers. A515.1
• Sworn brothers as culture heroes. A515.1.2
• Culture hero has blood brother. A515.3
• Culture hero fights with his elder brother. A525.1
• Sun and moon as eyes of Rama which he tore out after his brother's death. A714.7
• Sun sister and moon brother. Brother visits sister at night. She marks him to identify him. He flees and she follows with flaming brand. She is sun and he the moon. A736.1.1
• Sun-brother and moon-sister. A736.1.2
• Moon, sun are sister and brother, wife and husband. A736.1.4.2
• Sun and moon as brothers. A736.3
• Sun and moon as twin brothers. A736.3.1
• Sun and moon brothers: sun clever, moon stupid. A736.3.2
• Sun and his brother rise and set alternately. A736.3.3
• Each of sun brothers works for a month and plays for the other eleven; were they to work all together, the world would be burned up by the heat. A739.3
• Moon younger brother of the sun. A745.3
• Moon is wife to all twelve brothers of the sun and they have her a month at a time because she ate up her sisters. A753.1.4.2
• Earth by murder of first brother and sister. A831.4
• Why days shorten in autumn: the real sun sets very early because the red cockscomb plant, used to kill his brother sun with, grows to its full height during this time. A1156
• First human being killed by jealous brothers (reptiles and insects). A1297
• Paradise lost because of brother-sister incest. A1331.2
• Origin of sickness and misfortune: monstrous births from brother-sister incestuous union. A1337.0.7
• Why brothers and sisters do not marry. A1552.1
• Brother-sister marriage of children of first parents. A1552.3
• Origin of insects: monstrous births from brother-sister incest. A2006
• Helpful animal foster brother. Hero reared by animal's parents. B311.1
• Helpful animal brothers-in-law. B314
• Magic object received from animal brother-in-law. B505.1
• Sister-in-law tabu: older brother must avoid younger brother's wife. C172
• "We three" – "For gold" – "That is right" devil's bargain. Three brothers have agreed to say only these things. They incriminate themselves. C495.2.1
• Girl exchanges form with sorceress in order to visit her brother and get a son by him. D45.4
• Faithful brother transforms self to deer to seek sister. D647.1
• Demons assume human form to revenge brother's death. D651.1.2
• Disenchantment by sewing shirts for enchanted brothers. D753.1
• Magic object stolen by brothers. D861.3
• Magic object exchanged for worthless. Foolish brother (wife) exchanges old object for new. D871.1
• Magic fish talk so that ogre thinks hero has many brothers with him. (Cf. B175.) D1613.1
• Magic tree gives money to good brother, poisonous animals to bad. (Cf. D950.) D1663.6
• Dream reveals death of brother. (Cf. D1812.3.3, D1812.5.1.2.) D1813.1.4
• Saint blesses brothers' eyes so that they see heaven. D1820.3
• Girl becomes more beautiful as she is burned but her brother, who loves her incestuously, turns to charcoal. D1865.2.1
• Resuscitation when strangling corset-lace breaks. Girl laced so tightly in corset that she faints. Brothers carry her to her grave. They stumble. Corset-lace breaks and girl revives. E21.2
• Resuscitation by brother. E125.3
• Dead brother's return. E226
• Dead brother reproves sister's pride. E226.1
• Ghost appears to remind his brother of the terms of his will. E236.4.2
• Dead brother's friendly return. E326
• Tear from upper world of mortals falls on departed in lower world. Dead brother sends message of comfort to living. E361.1
• Troll's life in his brother's forehead. E714.3.1
• Test of troll child. Snake placed in dough she is to knead. She calls it "brother". F455.10.1
• Brothers identical in appearance. F577.2
• Extraordinary companions are brothers (twins, triplets). F601.5
• Two berserk-brothers. F610.3.3.1
• Brothers acquire extraordinary skill. Return home and are tested. F660.1
• Madness (rage) from hearing about brother's death. F1041.8.10
• Man throws cereal and spoon on the floor because he is supposed to eat together with his brother. F1041.16.10
• Blood of brother and sister (and smoke from their funeral pyres) refuses to mingle. F1075
• Girl seduced by brother becomes cannibal ogre. G37
• Brothers eat their sister. G73.1
• Brother eats brother. G73.2
• Witch estranges brothers. G269.7
• Man marries a she-devil He catches her as succubus and marries. Some years later his wife's brothers invite them to a feast (wedding) and he gets gifts or wife's dowry. G303.12.6.1
• Brother-Dead. Trapper of game; silent; pursues trickster. G323
• Mistake of elder leads two brothers to the home of ogre. G401.1
• Rescue of sister from ogre by brother. G551.1
• Rescue of children from ogre by brother. G551.3
• One brother rescues another from ogre. G551.4
• One foster brother rescues another from ogre. G551.4.1
• Recognition by brother king of lost brother brought about by model of their father's palace which lost brother builds of clay. H16.1
• Recognition of brothers brought about by bouquet of flowers tied as father's gardener used to do. H16.3
• Combat of unknown brothers brings about recognition. H151.10
• Brother unwittingly qualifies as bridegroom of sister in test. H310.2
• Suitor contest with brother-in-law. H332.2
• Three brothers contest in wishing. Third wishes for all that the other brothers have wished for. H507.3.1
• 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
• King: What is your brother doing? Youth: He hunts; he throws away what he catches and what he does not catch he carries with him. (Hunts for lice on his body.) H583.3
• King: What is your brother doing? Youth: He runs back and forth. (Plows.) H583.3.1
• King: What is your brother doing? Youth: He sits between heaven and earth. (In a tree.) H583.3.2
• Enigmatic counsels of a brother. H596.1
• Enigmatic counsels of older brother. Gray younger brother asks well-preserved older brother for the secret of his good health. Answer: A measured mouth, a close purse, and a knot on the trouser's fly. H596.1.1
• Riddle: white brother, black sister: every morning brother kills sister; every evening sister kills brother; they never die. (Day and night.) H722.1
• Tasks assigned at suggestion of jealous brothers (sisters). H912
• Task imposed by elder brothers. H934.4
• Tasks performed with help of brother. H981
• Quest accomplished with aid of brother in disguise. H1233.2.2
• Youngest brother alone succeeds on quest. H1242
• Quest for king's joy and woe. (King tells of adventures in which his brothers are all killed. They were a joy to him but their death a woe.) H1378.2
• Quest for lost brother(s). H1385.8
• Wisdom from brother-in-law. J177
• In dividing property clever younger brother takes hind part of buffalo, upper part of tree, and use of curtain during night. J242.8
• Widow refuses second marriage so her brother cannot kill a second husband. J482.1.2
• Brothers compose quarrel and save umpire's fee. J552.5
• Enemy brothers unite to fight a common enemy. J624.3
• Brother who conforms to naked people's customs honored. Two brothers go to the land of Naked People. One of the brothers wears clothes and is punished. J815.2
• Literal penance: boy outwits pope. For three years not to drink wine, not to lie in bed, nor sleep with a prostitute. He goes to a convent, sleeps on eider down, and sleeps with the nuns. (God's daughters). When the pope condemns him he says he will go to his brother-in-law (Christ: he has wedded God's daughters). (Cf. J1764.5.) J1161.5
• One dueller fights with God's help; the other with his brother's. First claims that the odds are unfair; second agrees that he will fight without his brother if the first will fight without God. J1217.1
• The gift of the fool. Of three brothers the shoemaker makes shoes for the queen and princess; the tailor, clothes; the fool – children. J1272
• His father has been in Rome. A young man comes to Rome who looks like the emperor. Latter asks him if he mother has ever been in Rome. No, but my father has been here often. (Not son but brother.) J1274