85 motifs match “cruel”  ·  back to the chapters

• Cuckoo delivers other birds from their cruel king: they agree to hatch out cuckoo's young. A2229.5
• Animals ring bell and demand justice. A king has a bell which petitioners for justice may ring and thus summon him. The bell is rung by a serpent which is being menaced by a turtle (or by an old horse who wishes to complain against a cruel master). B271.3
• Tabu: unusual cruelty. C867
• Magic object makes person cruel. D1357
• Eating ferocious animal's heart makes person cruel. (Cf. D1015.1, D1335.1.2.) D1357.1
• Wild huntsman wanders because of cruelty. E501.3.1
• Flying Dutchman sails because of cruelty. E511.1.1
• Cruel woman reborn as firefly. E692.5
• Extraordinary nature phenomena at cruel treatment of innocent person. F960.7
• Tasks set by cruel sisters-in-law to get tigress. H939.3
• Enemies can be won more by kindness than cruelty. Romans learn this by experience. J26
• Wisdom from robbers (thugs) who disguise selves and show cruel princess how she should treat her husband. J178
• Old woman prays for safety of cruel tyrant for fear a worse one will succeed him. J215.2.1
• Kind foster-parents chosen rather than cruel parents. (Cf. J325.) J391
• Youth will answer question only when king places him on throne: then youth calls executioners to punish cruel king. J1189.1
• Sea foolishly accused of cruelty. Sea says that it is calm itself, but the wind blew it up and broke the ship. J1891.3
• Cruel king lured to enemy's power by invitation to false execution. He comes to see a girl die and is killed himself. K811.3
• A man in place of a cuckoo. A cruel master commands his serf to climb a tree and imitate the cry of the cuckoo; he shoots the "cuckoo." K1691.1
• Treacherous relatives. Distinction between treacherous relatives and cruel relatives (S0–S99) is frequently impossible to make. Relatives whose treachery seems to be uppermost have been listed here; those usually possessing power over their charges and exercising their power in a cruel fashion have been listed under cruel relatives. K2210
• Poor suitor makes good husband; rich suitor cruel. L143.2
• Cruel brothers brought to beg charity from abused sister. L432.1
• Prophecy of king taking a cruel stepmother to her sons after her death enacted before eyes of dying queen by sparrow family living in tree by palace window. M369.2.1.1
• Girl cruel to her mother is slain by God. Q281.1.2
• Cruelty punished. (Cf. E501.3.1, Q415.3.1.) Q285
• Cruelty to animals punished. Q285.1
• Cruelty to sick persons punished. Q285.2
• Cruel mutilation punished. (Cf. Q411.5.) Q285.3
• Cobras placed in boxes and given to cruel parents, so that they are bitten. (Cf. Q285.) Q415.3.1
• Cruel punishments. Q450
• Other cruel punishments. Q469
• Lover abducts maiden from cruel father and brother. R10.1.2
• Cruel relative. S0
• Cruel parents. S10
• Cruel father. S11
• Cruel father, learning that he is to be killed by his son, puts to death all children born to him. (Cf. M375.) S11.3.4
• Cruel king slays brother and brother's son. S11.3.5
• Cruel fathers threaten to kill their children if they are of undesirable sex. S11.4.3
• Cruel father seeks to kill infant son. S11.4.4
• Cruel mother. S12
• Cruel mother kills child. S12.2
• Cruel mother blinds son. S12.4
• Cruel mother expels (drives away) child. S12.5
• Cruel mother refuses children food. S12.6
• Cruel children and grandchildren. S20
• Cruel son. S21
• Cruel son tries to sterilize father. S21.5
• Prince plans to kill wicked father for cruelty. S222
• Cruel grandson. S25
• Cruel step- and foster relatives. S30
• Cruel stepmother. S31
• Cruel bird stepmother feeds young ones with thorns. S31.3
• Cruel stepmother feeds children with fish spines (thorns) to kill them. S31.4
• Cruel stepfather. S32
• Cruel stepbrother. (Cf. K2211.3.) S33
• Cruel stepsister(s). S34
• Cruel foster father. S36
• Cruel foster son. (Cf. S22.1.1.) S37
• Cruel grandparents. S40
• Cruel grandmother. S41
• Cruel grandfather. Kills his grandchildren. S42
• Cruel relatives-in-law. S50
• Cruel mother-in-law. See references to K2110.1. and K2215, many of which have the present motif. S51
• Cruel mother-in-law plans death of daughter-in-law. S51.1
• Cruel father-in-law. S52
• Cruel daughter-in-law. S54
• Cruel sister-in-law. S55
• Cruel son-in-law. S56
• Cruel spouse. S60
• Cruel husband. S62
• Other cruel relatives. S70
• Cruel uncle. S71
• Cruel uncle poisons nephew (king). S71.1
• Cruel aunt. S72
• Cruel nephew. S74
• Miscellaneous cruel murders. S139
• Cruel abandonments and exposures. S140
• Cruelty to pregnant woman. S185
• Cruel sacrifices. S200
• [First Edition: S290. Cruel sacrifices – miscellaneous motifs.] S290[1st ed.]
• Cruel persecutions. S400
• Other cruel persecutions. S460
• Cruelty to animals. S481
• Cruel stepmother enchants stepdaughter on eve of wedding. (Cf. D5, S31.) T154
• Monk finds that only abuse and cruel treatment from his fellow monks can conquer his lust. T317.6
• Butcher's son becomes cruel and atrocious ruler. U121.6