90 motifs match “companion”  ·  back to the chapters

• Creator's companions. A30
• Animal as creator's companion. A33
• Beast as creator's companion. A33.1
• Bird as creator's companion. A33.2
• Insect as creator's companion. A33.3
• Other animal companions of creator. A33.4
• Armadillo as creator's companion. A33.4.1
• Creator's companions: unicorn, phoenix, tortoise, and dragon. A36
• Heavenly bodies as creator's companions. A38
• Creator's companions: sun and moon. A38.1
• Divinity's companions. A195
• Wisdom as God's companion. A195.2
• Culture hero creates a companion from a toenail. A511.1.4.4
• Cat leaves house when report is made of death of one of his companions. His master has been told to say "Robert is dead". As soon as this is said, the cat leaves. B342
• Hero saved from ravaging snake by crab companion. [Inadvertant duplication of B549.5.] B524.1.12
• Hero saved from ravaging snake by crab companion. [Inadvertant duplication of B524.1.12.] B549.5
• Magic mist separates person from his companions. D1361.1.1
• Magic wisdom possessed by extraordinary companion. D1719.4
• Giant comes to bake too soon; spills dough. Giant who has common oven with another thinks he hears companion in next valley scraping the kneading trough. He bakes his dough but finds he is too early and that he has only heard himself scratching. He spills the dough: hence fruitful soil. (Cf. F451.7.2, F455.3.5.) F531.3.7
• Extraordinary companions. A group of men with extraordinary powers travel together. F601
• Skillful companions. F601.0.1
• Extraordinary companions perform hero's tasks. F601.1
• Extraordinary companions help hero in suitor tests. F601.2
• Extraordinary companions betray hero. F601.3
• Extraordinary companions rescue hero. F601.4
• Extraordinary companion hides behind hero to trick enemy. F601.4.1
• Extraordinary companion saves hero from death. F601.4.2
• Extraordinary companions are brothers (twins, triplets). F601.5
• Extraordinary companions are transformed animals. F601.6
• Animals as extraordinary companions. F601.7
• Labor contract: as much money as my companion (strong man) can carry. F613.2.1
• Strong man swims carrying fifty (many) companions. F631.3
• Body with marvelous heat. Melts snow thirty feet around and serves as fuel for man's companions. F686
• Turtle's war-party. Turtle recruits war-party of strange objects (knife, brush, awl, etc.) and animals. Because of their nature the companions get into trouble. F1025.2
• Horse as witch's companion. G225.2
• Origin of demons and their companions. G302.1
• The origin of the devil and his companions. G303.1
• Rescue of children from giant (ogre) by hero (skillful companions). G551.3.1
• Recognition of transformed person among identical companions. Prearranged signals. H161
• Recognition of person among identical companions. H161.0.1
• Riddling remarks of traveling companion interpreted by girl (man) at end of journey. H586
• Skillful companions create woman: to whom does she belong? Woodcarver carves a doll, tailor clothes her, gardener gives her speech (or the like). (Answer sometimes given: her father, her mother, or her husband). H621
• Skillful companions resuscitate girl: to whom does she belong? H621.1
• Girl rescued by skillful companions: to whom does she belong? H621.2
• Task: coming neither with nor without a companion. (Comes with an animal.) H1061
• Ass buyer returns ass which has associated with lazy companions. J451.1
• Presumptuous wolf among lions. Large wolf, called by his companions "Lion". Presumes to mix with lions but is only a wolf. J952.1
• Magistrate detects thief's complicity by associating cut hand with companion's severed head. J1149.8
• The laughing ass. King has trickster's horse's tail cut off. Trickster retaliates by cutting off part of upper lip of king's ass. At trial the animals are brought forth. Everyone laughs at the ass. Trickster: "If everyone laughs at the ass, how could the ass help laughing at her companion without a tail?" Freed. J1169.5
• The cat in the warehouse. One of four companions is left in a warehouse to care for a cat which has a broken leg. Cat scratches self near flame and sets warehouse afire. The three must pay the one left behind. Broken leg could not walk and it was the three legs belonging to the three traders which caused the fire. J1175.1
• Though old woman is made to believe she is in hell she calls for drinking companions. J1321.2
• A fool objects to fools as companions. Leaves when placed between two fools at table. J1715
• The servant of God beaten. A man who says that he is the servant of so and so is treated with great consideration. His companion, who says that he is a servant of God is put to work. He cannot understand why God's servant should not be more important than the other. J2215.2
• 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
• Boy talks about his secret instructions and brings his father's theft to light. He is to avoid his companions lest they smell what he has been eating. J2355.2
• Fool's talking causes himself and companions to be robbed. Thieves stumble over him as he lies on the ground. "What is this, a log?" The fool: "Does a log have five annas in its pocket?" When they have robbed him he says, "Ask the merchant in the tree if my money is good." They rob the merchant. J2356
• Question: did the man ever have a head? A man's head is snatched off by accident and his companions do not see what has happened. Debate: did he ever have a head? J2381
• The two presents to the king: the beet and the horse. A farmer takes an extraordinary beet as present to the king and receives a large reward. His companion is eager for a reward and leads a handsome steed to the palace. The king rewards him with the beet. J2415.1
• The gift of the donkey. Ruler rewards the gift of a clever donkey. Greedy nobleman seeking a like reward sends ruler two donkeys in rich trappings. Ruler advises the donor that he is sorry that his gift will deprive him of worthy companionship. J2415.1.1
• The stolen and restolen ham. Two thieves steal a ham from a former companion who has married, have it stolen back, and resteal it. (Cf. K341.7.1, K362.4.) K306.1
• Companion sent away so that rascal may steal common food supply. K343.3
• Trickster cuts up partridges with his knife. He is given all of them when he tells his companions that he is an executioner. K344.1.3
• Thief accuses his companion of having stolen the gold they have both stolen. K401.0.1
• Thief has his companion cut off his head so that he may escape detection. K407.1
• Companion's arm allowed to be cut off so as to prevent detection. Thief has had his arm cut off as he enters a hole in a wall. He lets his companion also enter and have his severed. K407.2
• Robber cheated by substitution. Spending the night in company with a suspicious-looking stranger, the man does not go to sleep, but leaves his clothes in bed and waits to see what will happen. When the stranger wakes up in the night, he stabs at his sleeping companion, who shoots him down. (Cf. K525.1.) K437.1
• Rascal extorts money for silence about companion's poverty. K443.10
• A plea for a larger audience. Fox asks cock to come down from a tree and sing for him. Cock asks fox to awake his companion, a dog, first. Dog kills fox. K579.8
• Hero tests the rope on which he is to be pulled to upper world. By placing stones on the rope he discovers his companions' treacherous plan to cut the rope. K677
• Hero hides in treasure box and thus circumvents plot to leave him below when companions pull up box. K677.1
• Weak animal (man) makes large one (ogre) believe that he has eaten many of the large one's companions. The latter is frightened. K1715
• Incognito king rewards strangers who treat him as companion. K1812.13
• Companions separated by illusory city. K1886.5
• Impostors abandon (or kill) their companion and usurp his place. K1931
• Sham blind man throws suspicion on real blind. He admits his deception so that his companion, who is really blind, is punished. K2165
• Companions arrive as hero is about to be killed. N699.3
• All children born in realm on same day as chief's son are brought to palace to be the boy's companions. P32.1
• Human sons of animal companions go together on adventures. P311.3
• Brave soldier and timid cabinet-maker as companions. P444.1
• Woodsman and the gold axe. A woodsman lets his axe fall into the water. Hermes comes to his rescue. Takes out a gold axe but the woodsman says that it is not his. The same with a silver axe. Finally he is given his own axe and rewarded for his modest choice. His companion tries this plan and loses his axe. Q3.1
• Captive buried alive to his neck fastens his teeth on jackal that comes to eat him and companions. Rest flee when they hear him howl. In struggles to get free jackal loosens earth around captive, who manages to free himself. R212.1.2
• Man springs ashore and pushes companion in boat out to sea. S141.1
• Sex hospitality. Host gives his wife (daughter) to his guest as bed companion. T281
• Maidservant given to lover's companion as bed-partner. (Cf. T281.) T484
• Philosopher laughs at the vanities and sins of the world. His companion weeps. U15.1
• Hero renounces heaven because dead companions (heathen) are not there. V326
• Queen mother shames cowardly son and companions. "In truth, gentlemen, you do well in weeping; for since you didn't fight like men to defend your land, it is suitable that now you weep like women on leaving it." W121.4
• The devil in the cemetery. A sexton hears thieves in the cemetery cracking nuts and thinks it is the devil cracking bones. With the gouty parson on his back he comes upon the thieves who, thinking it is their companion with the sheep, call out, "Is he fat?" The sexton: "Fat or lean, here he is!" X424
• If the wolf's tail breaks. Trickster and companion are wolf hunting. The companion goes into the wolf hole. The wolf comes. The other catches the wolf by the tail and the wolf scratches dust into the companion's eyes. "What a dust." – "If the wolf's tail breaks, you will see another kind of dust!" X1133.3.2
• Hero with extraordinary animal companions (cock, goat, cow, horse). Z235