26 motifs match “challenge”  ·  back to the chapters

• Tabu: warriors being in hero's land without receiving challenge from him. C566.5
• Revenant challenged to combat. E461.1
• Challenge at entrance of otherworld. The adventurer challenges or is challenged. F150.3
• Standing stone surrounded by withe as challenge at entrance of otherworld. (Cf. F149.1.) F150.3.2
• Small child beats giant challenger. F611.3.2.5
• Devil challenges boys to play a disc-game. Can be defeated only with rowan-sticks. (Cf. D950.9.) G303.9.9.9
• Parson's apology for not answering challenge: I have never regretted silence but have often regretted speech. J1074.1
• Man challenges devil to race. Cheats him. K11.0.1
• Race won by deception: rabbit as "little son" substitute. A man challenged by an ogre to a running race persuades the ogre to race with his little son instead. By this he means a rabbit. (Cf. K12.2, K15.1.) K11.6
• Wrestling match won by deception: bear as "grandfather." A man challenged by an ogre persuades the latter to wrestle with his old grandfather instead. By this he means a bear. (Cf. K11.6, K15.1.) K12.2
• Boxing match: fatal boxer defeated. All comers are challenged and all are killed until the hero defeats the challenger. (Argonauts and Amycus.) K13
• Deceptive tug-of-war. Small animal challenges two large animals to a tug-of-war. Arranges it so that they unwittingly pull against each other (or one end of rope is tied to a tree). K22
• Deceptive contest in chopping: iron in bamboo. Hero challenged to cut down bundles of bamboo suspended in air but a strip of iron is treacherously inserted in each. K44.1
• Hare and bride travel in pot to escape tiger, answer "Ruined pot" when challenged. K521.11
• Threatening tiger challenged to strength contest. Beguiled into holding wood for plow and is injured. K547.9
• Deception into bottle (vessel). Insects (or a spirit) having escaped from a bottle are told that they cannot return. They accept the challenge and go back into the bottle. K717
• Magician challenged to make good his false claim. Says he can take black and white dogs and make them gray and then reverse process. Trickster furnishes gray dog and challenges magician to show his power. K1677
• Bluff: climbing the mast. In a contest in climbing the mast the hero falls into the rigging. "You do the same thing," he challenges. The sailors are persuaded of his expertness. K1762
• Sham threat: the faked duel. Two who had challenged each other agree to hold a sham duel. K1771.4
• Ordinary man assumes high sounding name and challenges enemy chief to single combat. Latter is frightened into believing him to be of exceptional prowess and desists from attacking the city. K1951.5
• Student challenges his fencing master. Is overcome by the latter's tricks. P342.1
• Challenge to battle. P556
• Challenge by turning left side of shield toward enemy. P556.1
• Challenge to battle by hurling javelin skyward. P556.2
• "Men's truth" (fir fer). Challenger to single combat must submit to same conditions as person challenged. P557.4.4
• Liar reduces the size of his yarn when challenged. X904.2