128 motifs match “brothers” — 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
• Culture heroes brothers. A515.1
• Sworn brothers as culture heroes. A515.1.2
• 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
• 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 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
• First human being killed by jealous brothers (reptiles and insects). A1297
• Why brothers and sisters do not marry. A1552.1
• Helpful animal brothers-in-law. B314
• "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
• Disenchantment by sewing shirts for enchanted brothers. D753.1
• Magic object stolen by brothers. D861.3
• Magic fish talk so that ogre thinks hero has many brothers with him. (Cf. B175.) D1613.1
• Saint blesses brothers' eyes so that they see heaven. D1820.3
• 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
• 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
• Brothers eat their sister. G73.1
• 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
• Mistake of elder leads two brothers to the home of ogre. G401.1
• 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
• Three brothers contest in wishing. Third wishes for all that the other brothers have wished for. H507.3.1
• Tasks assigned at suggestion of jealous brothers (sisters). H912
• Task imposed by elder brothers. H934.4
• 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
• 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
• The gift of the fool. Of three brothers the shoemaker makes shoes for the queen and princess; the tailor, clothes; the fool – children. J1272
• Gifts from the brothers. A king gives a man a coin. "Is that all you give your brother?" "Are you my brother?" "Surely, we both pray, Our father, etc." "If all your brothers give you as much as I you will be rich." J1283
• The overloaded mule. Priest complains that miller's mule is overloaded. "No, he isn't; he can still carry all your and your brothers' patience." J1302
• Beggar claims to be emperor's brother. (All men are descended from Adam.) Emperor gives him small coin. Beggar protests. Emperor: "If all your brothers gave you that much you would be richer than I." J1337
• The fairest thing in the garden. Three brothers asked by princess what is the most beautiful thing in the garden. The youngest replies, "Yourself." He wins the princess. J1472
• Three brothers take turns using mule. None of them feeds him, supposing that the others have. The mule dies. J1914.2
• Three brothers buy cow for common use; each brother pays the farmer full price. J2037.2
• Foolish boasts get man into trouble. Man boasts to boss that his brother can do twice the work he does. The boss hires him. The two brothers tell him their father can do as much work in a day as the boys can do in a week. The boss fires them, tells them to send their father to work for him. (Cf. H915, H916, N455.4.) J2353.1
• The fool betrays his brothers. They escape but he is captured and stupidly betrays their hiding places. J2668
• Cow enticed away by calf. Brothers are given the choice of a cow or a calf. One chooses the cow and thinks that he has the best of the bargain. The cow longs for the calf and returns to it. K366.1.2
• Fool's brothers substitute a goat for the body of the man he has killed: thus save him. K661.1
• Woman's father and brothers kill her husband in sleep for having married against their wishes. K959.2.1
• Brothers duped into killing each other by slander that one of them is father to the other's child. K1092
• Guest to be killed suspects plot and forces host to sleep in his bed. Brothers come home and kill their father. K1611.2
• King persuades men to follow him, pretending that he is going to make peace with his brothers, instead battle. K1774
• Brothers pose as princes, deeming their parentage not worthy of their merit. K1952.3
• The three hunchback brothers drowned. A drunken man is employed, by the woman who has accidently slain three hunchback brothers, to throw one into the river. He does so. Then she puts another out and finally the third. The man thinks they keep coming to life. Finally he sees the woman's hunchback husband and drowns him. K2322
• "Thirteen" as name of victorious youngest son. (Youngest of thirteen brothers.) L10.1.1
• Orphan brothers as heroes. L111.4.3
• Cruel brothers brought to beg charity from abused sister. L432.1
• Dying father condemns weak son to be servant of his brothers. M438.5
• Curse: when brothers' swords bite the very best, they will all be killed by a single man. M441.1.1
• The choice of roads. At parting of three roads are equivocal inscriptions telling what will happen if each is chosen. Brothers each choose a different road. N122.0.1
• Boast of poor boy made good by fate: he boasts to elder brothers he will build a palace on a certain spot; accidentally comes on treasure trove and makes good his boast. N234
• Train of troubles for seven brothers for having destroyed bird's nest. N261.1
• Brothers fall dead at sight of long lost brother whom they sold into captivity. (Cf. N733.) N384.13
• Undesired combat between sworn (blood) brothers (foster brothers). N731.2.2
• Accidental meeting of brothers. N733
• Brothers unwittingly fight each other. (Cf. N731.2.2.) N733.1
• Joseph and his brethren. Elder brothers unwittingly come to maltreated youngest in great need. Eventual recognition. N733.3
• Two returning brothers unwittingly purchase bird, which is transformed youngest brother, as present intended for him. N733.4
• Brothers accidentally reunited when wedding of one to a king's daughter is celebrated and neighboring rulers are invited. N733.5
• The one of two giant brothers who performs the greatest feat and procures the wildest dog elected as king. P11.2.2.1
• The one of two giant brothers who gets the most skillful princess elected as king. P11.2.3
• Kingship rotates among brothers. P17.4
• Brothers rule jointly. P17.5
• Mother kills sons who lack courage to help her revenge her father and brothers, and are likely to betray the plot. P231.4
• Brothers and sisters. P250
• Brothers. P251
• Brothers follow each other in exile. P251.3
• Brothers strive to avenge each other. P251.3.1
• Brothers scorn brother's wise counsel. P251.4
• Brothers kill brother because they fail to understand his wise answer. P251.4.1
• Two brothers. P251.5
• Two brothers follow and help each other on piracy, etc. P251.5.1
• Two brothers are confusingly like each other. P251.5.2
• Hostile brothers. P251.5.3
• Two brothers as contrasts. P251.5.4
• Several brothers. P251.6
• Three brothers. P251.6.1
• Four brothers. P251.6.2
• Six or seven brothers. P251.6.3
• Eight brothers. P251.6.4
• Nine brothers. P251.6.5
• Eleven brothers. P251.6.6
• Twelve brothers. P251.6.7
• One sister and two brothers. P253.0.2
• One sister and three (four) brothers. P253.0.3
• One sister and ten brothers. P253.0.4
• One sister and six (seven, eleven, twelve) brothers. P253.0.5
• Sister warns brothers. P253.6
• Brothers persecute sister's lover and are in return killed by him. P253.7
• Foster brothers avenge each other. P273.1.1
• Magic writing makes foster brothers enemies. P273.2.4
• Stepbrothers kill devastating monsters. P283.1