67 motifs match “enemy's”  ·  back to the chapters

• Birds warn of enemy's approach. B521.6
• Transformation to gain access to enemy's camp (fortress). D641.2
• Transformation to spy out enemy's camp. D641.2.1
• Transformation to destroy enemy's property. D651.3
• Transformation to spy enemy's camp. D651.5
• Magic drum enters enemy's body and kills him. (Cf. D1211.) D1402.29
• Magic wand breaks enemy's sword. (Cf. D1254.1.) D1414.1
• Magic song dulls enemy's sword. (Cf. D1275.) D1414.4
• Magic dew destroys enemy's books. (Cf. D902.2.) D1599.6
• Magic axe cuts off enemy's head. (Cf. D1080, D1402.) D1601.14.3
• Enemy's last arrow made to appear crooked so that he does not use it, and adversary gets time to kill him. D2031.9
• Man makes all of iron in enemy's storehouse disappear so weapons cannot be made. D2089.1
• Druids dry up water in enemy's camp. (Cf. D1711.4.) D2091.8.1
• Enemy's army deceived by illusion produced by saint. D2163.7
• Witch raises wind to break up enemy's lumber pound. G283.1.2.6
• Suitor task: to bring enemy's head. H335.4.1
• Quest for enemy's children. H1397.2
• Fear test: taking boy to frightful enemy's tent. H1418
• Destruction of enemy's weapons. J621
• Avoiding enemy's revenge. J647
• Shooting at enemy's reflection in water. J1791.5.1
• Entry into enemy's presence by pretending to be a messenger from a relative. K477.3
• Women escape from enemy's camp disguised as ascetics. K521.9
• Son mentioned as daughter in order to save him from enemy's pursuit. K649.4
• Capture by lying in wait in enemy's haunt. K782
• 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
• Drug introduced into half of fruit from enemy's fingernail where it has been hidden. K873.4
• Treacherous murder of enemy's children or charges. K930
• Sham nurse kills enemy's children. K931
• Tiger made to believe porcupine bristle is his enemy's hair: overawed. K1711.1
• Lover disguised in slain enemy's clothes. K1810.1.2
• Warrior deceived into attacking substituted pillar-stone. Stone bears enemy's dress (crown). K1845.1
• Fire tied to foxes' tails: destroys enemy's cities and fields. K2351.1.1
• Horses frightened by instruments of war are backed into enemy's ranks. K2351.5
• Birds frighten enemy's horses so that they throw their riders down. K2351.5.1
• Wild horses with bags containing stones tied to their tails, driven into enemy's camp to cause stampede. K2351.6
• Women spread shawls on enemy's path and entangle them. They are easily defeated. K2352
• Disguise to enter enemy's camp (castle). K2357
• Disguise as musician to enter enemy's camp. K2357.1
• Disguise as pilgrim to enter enemy's camp (castle). K2357.2
• Woman disguises as man to enter enemy's camp. Slays enemy king. K2357.6
• Disguise in killed enemy's clothes to enter enemy's castle. K2357.7
• Disguise as woman to enter enemy's camp (castle). K2357.8
• Disguise as beggar (pauper) to enter enemy's camp (castle) or to spy. K2357.9
• Disguise as merchant to enter enemy's castle. (Cf. K1817.4.) K2357.10
• Disguise as leper to enter enemy's camp. (Cf. K1818.1.) K2357.11
• Disguise as carpenter (tradesman) to enter enemy's camp. (Cf. K1816.11.) K2357.12
• Disguise as juggler to enter enemy's camp. K2357.13
• Disguise as churl (bachlach) to enter enemy's hall. K2357.14
• Capture by hiding warriors in baskets on back of oxen driven into enemy's camp on pretence that food is being brought. K2357.15
• Enemy's ships fired by use of fireship. K2364
• Cauldron containing lighted torch brought into enemy's camp ostensibly to be used for serving food: torch uncovered as signal for attack. K2369.8
• Fairy mist mistaken for smoke of enemy's burning ships. K2369.9
• King commanded to wear enemy's shoes on his shoulders as sign of submission. L416
• Rather die than go in the enemy's service. M161.5
• King mortally wounded on killed enemy's tooth. N339.16
• Shipwrecked man lands on deadly enemy's territory and is attacked. N399.1
• Enemy's servant as helper. N857
• Killed enemy's son as slave. P173.2
• Soldier dies happy on learning of enemy's rout. P461.2
• Soldier is ordered to set fire to enemy's armada. Is caught and sawed in two. P461.3
• Slave freed as reward for killing enemy's two slaves, and given as much land as he can cultivate in three days. Q42.4.1
• Right hands cut off enemy's messengers. Q451.1.6
• Defeated enemy's son turns conqueror's man. R74.2
• Prisoners taken in war (enemy's messengers) hanged. S113.1.2
• Skin of murdered person found in enemy's house. S114.1
• Ass indifferent to enemy's approach: he could be no more miserable than now. U151