50 motifs match “companions”  ·  back to the chapters

• Creator's companions. A30
• Other animal companions of creator. A33.4
• 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
• 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
• Magic mist separates person from his companions. D1361.1.1
• 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 companions are brothers (twins, triplets). F601.5
• Extraordinary companions are transformed animals. F601.6
• Animals as extraordinary companions. F601.7
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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 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
• 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
• 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
• Companions separated by illusory city. K1886.5
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Hero with extraordinary animal companions (cock, goat, cow, horse). Z235