22 motifs match “devours”  ·  back to the chapters

• Origin of Polish noblemen: from wheat dough that a bitch devours. A1656.1
• Dragon devours children. B11.10.3
• Cat devours flesh of man's legs. B16.1.1.3
• Demon of gluttony devours man's food in his throat. F402.1.7
• Giant devours any person who fails to do his bidding. G11.2.1
• Woman devours her husband. G11.6.4
• Animal-wife devours her husband. G79.1
• Ogress takes travelers out of cave and devours them one by one. G94.1
• Lamia devours her lover. G262.0.1.1
• Witch disguised becomes queen, devours king's horses nightly. G264.3.1
• Spirit-woman in rock devours men and cattle. G312.2
• Ogress devours horses. G312.7
• Cannibal nature of woman recognized when she devours dead buffalo raw. H46.1
• Riddle: what is the mother who devours her children when they grow up? (Ocean and rivers.) H734
• Man resuscitates a lion which devours him. J563
• Numskull sends meat home through kite (bird); kite devours it. J2124.1
• Dog as wolf's shoemaker eats up the materials. Devours the cow, hog, etc. furnished him. K254.1
• Fox persuades bird to show him how she acts in a storm: he devours her. (Bird has advised other bird how to avoid the fox; he is revenged.) K827.1
• Familiar devours whoever does not keep pact with devil. M219.4
• Beautiful girl seated on large lotus flower holding big elephant in each hand which she devours and throws off alternately. X943.1
• Girl left in tree by sisters: asks monkey, ape, bear, and tiger to put her down or else bite her. All refuse. Panther comes and devours her. Z39.7
• Brahmin worships idol and sets sacrifices before it daily. Rat devours offerings and he sets it up as his idol as a being more powerful than his idol. When cat devours rat, he worships it instead. His wife accidentally kills the cat, so he sets her up to worship. He happens to slap her and she loses consciousness. Thereafter he worships himself as most powerful after all. Z42.3