24 motifs match “exposure”  ·  back to the chapters

• Tabu: exposure to sunlight. C842
• Evil eye from exposure to magic concoction. D2071.0.2
• Ordeal by exposure. (Cf. S141, S331.) H236
• Exposure in boat as test of sin. H263.1
• Supernaturals tricked into (fatal) exposure to daylight. K839.6
• Lover's gift regained: refusal to leave bed. Woman fearing exposure returns money. K1581.8
• Death caused by elements (exposure, drowning, etc.) as punishment for broken oath. M101.3.1
• Exposure of infant to avoid fulfillment of prophecy. M371
• Exposure (murder) of child to avoid fulfillment of prophecy of future greatness. Parent fears that the child will overcome him. M371.1
• Exposure of child to prevent fulfillment of parricide prophecy. M371.2
• Exposure of pregnant woman to avoid fulfillment of prophecy concerning future child. M376.1
• Punishment: unseemly exposure of body. Q495
• Body of murdered man cannot be moved nor can water be drawn from a well to wash it. Leads to exposure of murderer. Q559.3
• Cruel abandonments and exposures. S140
• Exposure in boat. A person (usually woman or child) set adrift in a boat (chest, basket, cask). S141
• Exposure astride a log of wood floated down river. S141.3
• Exposure in jungle for refusing to marry according to father's wishes. S322.1.2.1
• Circumstances of murder or exposure of children. S330
• Exposure of child in boat (floating chest). See references for S141, nearly all of which refer to this motif. S331
• Exposure prevented. S341
• Exposure given up on account of newborn son's protesting stanza. S341.1
• Test of legitimacy of children: exposure to asps. Asps will bite only foreigners. (Cf. H222.1.) T642
• Monks shrive selves clean under threat of complete exposure of their sins by brother possessed of fiend. V29.2
• Ridiculous nakedness or exposure. X52