76 motifs match “fatal”  ·  back to the chapters

• Why bee's sting is no longer fatal to man. A2346.2
• Why quail has no tail. Tricks crab into pulling out tail instead of killing her. Says that gripping her neck would not hurt but that pulling tail will be fatal. A2378.2.1
• Basilisk's fatal glance. Renders powerless or kills. B12.2
• Animal warns of fatal danger. B521
• Direct communication with god fatal to all except special devotees. C52.1
• Man (woman) persuaded to reveal fatal secret. C420.1
• Cutting elder tree fatal to man. (Cf. C920.) C518.1
• Cutting white thorn tree fatal to man who cuts it. (Cf. C920.) C518.2
• Arrows rubbed with black chicken fatal. D1402.7.5.1
• The Dead Rider (Lenore). Dead lover returns and takes sweetheart with him on horseback. She is sometimes saved at the grave by the crowing of the cock, though the experience is usually fatal. E215
• Fatal kiss from dead. E217
• Fairy's kiss fatal. F302.3.4.1.1
• Sight of fairies fatal. F363.3
• Sunlight fatal to fairies. F383.4.3
• Evil spirit's kiss fatal. F402.1.11.4
• Seeing and observing of water-spirits has fatal consequences. F420.4.7
• Sexual relations with wood-spirit fatal. F441.6.3
• Poison damsel. Woman nourished on poison is fatal to her husbands. Sometimes the poisoning is from fatal look or breath, sometimes from intercourse. F582
• Fatal enticements of phantom women. F585.1
• Wounds inflicted by certain man always fatal. F693
• Animal swallows man (not fatally). F911.3
• Smoking test. Attempt to kill hero by having him smoke fatal pipe. H1511.4
• Associating with a bad friend is fatal: swan and crow. Swan is blamed when crow drops filth. J429.2
• Stork killed along with cranes. Ill-advised associations end fatally. J451.2
• Avoiding places which have been fatal to others. J644
• Palamides, having injured Ulysses, seeks advice from him. Following the advice proves fatal. J646.1
• The fatal bed. A sailor says that all his ancestors have drowned. Citizen: "Aren't you afraid of drowning?" Sailor: "How did your ancestors die?" Citizen: "All of them in bed." Sailor: "Aren't you afraid to go to bed?" J1474
• Fatal bread. Numskull refuses communion because his sister died shortly after eating the bread. J1824
• Fatal disregard of anatomy. J1910
• Fatal disregard of anatomy – miscellaneous. J1919
• Fools take fatal overdose of medicine. J2115
• Foolish interference in quarrel of the strong fatal to the weak. J2143
• Fatal imitation. (Cf. J2411.1, J2411.2, J2413.4.2, J2422.) J2401
• Boxing match: fatal boxer defeated. All comers are challenged and all are killed until the hero defeats the challenger. (Argonauts and Amycus.) K13
• Substitute smoker. The hero is compelled to smoke a fatal pipe, but the helpful insect which he carries on his head smokes the pipe for him. K528.1
• Punishment which proves fatal to captor. K582
• Trickster persuades pursuers to play fatal deceptive game. K619.3
• Fatal deception into trickster's power. K810
• Fatal deception into trickster's power – miscellaneous. K839
• Supernaturals tricked into (fatal) exposure to daylight. K839.6
• Deception into fatal substitution. K840
• Fatal deceptive game. K850
• Fatal game: drowning. K853
• Fatal game: throwing from cliff. Spider throws its young; other animal imitates. K854
• Fatal swinging game. Old woman causes swing to break when her rival is swinging. K855
• Fatal game: dying and reviving. Hero has power of resuscitation but fails to revive his enemy. K856
• Deceptive game: throwing away knives. (Not fatal.) K857
• Fatal game: shaving necks. Dupe's head cut off. K858
• Fatal game: sewing each other up. Hare is partly sewed up, but he sews antelope entirely up so that he dies. K861
• Fatal apple-throwing game. K864
• Fatal game: putting heads in notches. K865
• Fatal game: rolling down hill on barrel. Dupe crushed. K866
• Fatal duel: brother kills brother in pretended game. K867
• Fatal deceptive game – miscellaneous. K869
• Fatal swimming race. To trick spirits hero proposes a swimming race. As each spirit arrives, hero drowns it. K869.4
• Fatal deception by narcotic (intoxication). K870
• Fatal intoxication. K871
• Fatal deception by giving narcotic. K873
• Fatal deception by pretended combing of victim's hair. K875
• King lured to send his sons on fatal quests and to kill nephews. K948
• Other fatal deceits. K960
• Fatal deception: changed message from oracle. K981
• Trickster to give wings to tiger. Wounds him fatally. K1013.4
• Message of death fatal to sender. (Gang nach dem Eisenhammer.) A man is sent by the king to burners of a kiln who have been instructed to throw the first arrival into the fire. The intended victim goes elsewhere and the king's son (or the man's accuser), who next arrives, is burned instead. K1612
• Curse on everybody on earth who listens to the fatal mentioning of trolls' names, is evaded by person in cave, because he is in the earth. M427
• Broken leg saves man from fatal fight. King has ordered that he be killed in a fight. He breaks his leg and cannot take part. Meantime the king learns of his innocence. N178.1
• Aiming at fly has fatal results. N333
• Accidental fatal ending of game or joke. N334
• Hanging in game or jest accidentally proves fatal. N334.2
• Sham execution proves fatal. Jester condemned to die on block. Pail of water used instead of axe. He dies. N384.7
• Physician killed for fatal diagnosis. P424.3
• Punishment for murder by fatal enema. (Cf. Q211.4.2.) Q426.1
• Dead mother appears and makes disobedient child eat fatal serpent. (Cf. Q325.) Q593
• Despairing lover at lady's tomb takes poison. She revives to learn of his fatal error and shares his fate. (Romeo and Juliet.) T37.1
• Bride wounded accidentally on way home. Fatal wound from bridegroom's sword. T152
• Beasts and fishes exchange places: fatal to both. U136.2