87 motifs match “father's”  ·  back to the chapters

• Daughters' sickness because of father's breaking tabu. C940.2
• Magic object found on father's grave. D842.2
• Dead father's friendly return. E327
• Twelve year old hero captures town of father's enemy. F611.3.2.6
• Man senseless from grief at hearing of father's death; one doesn't feel that he cuts himself with his knife, the other presses dice so that he bleeds. F1041.21.5
• Man forced to eat dead father's heart goes mad. G91.1
• Man forced to eat dead father's heart struck dumb. G91.1.1
• The devil's son is with his mother at night in his father's place. G303.11.1.1
• Recognition by brother king of lost brother brought about by model of their father's palace which lost brother builds of clay. H16.1
• Recognition of brothers brought about by bouquet of flowers tied as father's gardener used to do. H16.3
• Suitor task: avenging bride's father's death before marriage. H335.1
• Test of paternity: adhesion of blood. Blood of real son will adhere to dead father's bones. H486.1
• Test of paternity: shooting at father's corpse. Youngest of supposed sons refuses to shoot and is judged the only genuine son of dead emperor. H486.2
• Test of mother's and father's love for children. H491
• Father's counsel: walk not in sunshine from your house to your shop. (Attend to business, rising early and retiring late.) H588.1
• Father's counsel: let pilav be your daily food. (Eat frugally.) H588.2
• Father's counsel: marry a new wife every week. (Do not see your wife too much.) H588.3
• Father's counsel: on wishing to drink wine go to the vat and drink it. (Stench in vat so great that desire for wine is turned to loathing.) H588.4
• Father's counsel: if you want to gamble, then gamble with experienced gamblers. (If you see how wretched professional gamblers are you will not want to gamble.) H588.5
• Father's counsel: dress up the trunks of trees, cover the road. (Plant the road with fruit trees and betel between the trees.) H588.6
• Father's counsel: find treasure within a foot of the ground. (Sons dig everywhere and thus loosen soil of vineyard, which becomes fruitful.) H588.7
• Father's counsel: the four wells. Three empty and one full (3 sons and father). Full one can fill the three empty but the three when full cannot fill the one when empty (sons when scattered will not support the father). H588.8
• Father's counsel: dam up the outlets. (Keep expenditures down – not outlets of rice-field as son-in-law thinks). H588.9
• Father's counsel: don't stay too late with a concubine, nor tell her any secret. H588.10
• Son goes out to avenge father's death. H1228.2
• Quest to Paradise to get oil to anoint dying father's body. H1265
• Test of friendship: the half-friend. A man kills a hog and tells his friends that he has killed a man and asks where he can hide the body. All of them drive him away and only his father's half-friend remains true to him in his feigned trouble. H1558.1
• Fight with father's old friend, though only to mention who he is would assure the youth a friendly reception. H1561.2.2
• "Do not keep bad company": counsel proved wise by experience. Breaking of father's first counsel causes the breaking of all the others. J21.25
• Prince chooses exile and honor to foul life at his father's court. J347.3
• Cum grano salis. Instructions of mother followed literally by one daughter when she marries. All goes wrong. Second daughter follows them in conformity with her father's explanations and all is well. J555.1
• Child finds gray hair in wicked father's head. Father sees that it is time for him to reform. J761.1
• Illegitimate daughter of trickster inherits father's ability to dupe others. J1111.2
• Hungry son gets cherries. He slaps another son, and explains that the other boy was saying that he would not get any of the father's cherries. The father shares the cherries. J1341.9
• Customary suits. Man who wears a red cap after his father's death says, "I can grieve just as much in red as in black." J1462
• Numskull prepares brother's wedding (father's funeral). On the way home from town he destroys his purchases. (Cf. J1851, J1856, J1871.) J1846
• Wolf punished for his father's misdeeds. J1863.2
• The inconvenience of having a father: The numskull to his father: "If you had never been born I would get my grandfather's estate." J2222
• Dream explained as a dead father's demand for horses. Dupe gives them to trickster. J2326.2
• Boy talks about his secret instructions and brings his father's theft to light. He is to avoid his companions lest they smell what he has been eating. J2355.2
• Young heir too frank in celebrating his father's death. He says to the mourners, "When your fathers die, I too will come and lament their departure." They brand him as a fool. J2358
• Literal fool feeds dogflesh to visitor to follow father's advice: "Feed him on food you have never eaten in your life." J2469.5.1
• Three stupid sons sent out into the world to learn trades: hunter kills his father; musician plays and dances at his father's death, etc. J2499.7
• Thief dressed half white, half black. His father's corpse is guarded by twenty knights in black and twenty in white. By disguising he steals back the corpse. K311.0.1
• Thief frightens away guards of his father's corpse by impersonating demons. K335.0.7
• Thief's confederate cuts off own arm to furnish alibi for family's grief. (Previously he had severed father's or brother's head to escape detection.) K407.2.1
• Thumbling in animal's belly persuades latter to go to his father's house for plunder: rescued. K565
• Daughter pulls out father's magic life-containing hair. As soon as it is taken out he dies. K976
• Treacherous counselor persuades king's son to woo his father's young bride whom he is sent to get, and as he tells the king that he is her lover both are killed. K1094
• Pious pilgrim dies unknown in his father's house. (Miraculous manifestations.) K1815.1.1
• Vow not to take food or drink until manner of father's death is learned. M151.3
• Vow not to sit on father's high-seat until he is revenged. M152.2
• Sons break promise to have masses for father's soul. "If he is in Hell it will do him no good; if he is in Heaven he won't need it; and if he is in Purgatory he can purge himself." M256.1
• Sons agree to meet at father's grave after they have been out in world for one year to learn trade. M271
• Father causes death of innocent son, believing him guilty of adultery with father's wife. N344.2
• King's son comes home just at his father's funeral, when the heritage has to be divided. N699.2
• Unknown son returns to father's court. N731.1
• Queen persuades husband to claim her father's kingdom after his death. P23.2
• Prince forfeits father's and God's blessing if he fails to claim throne. P38
• Wife chooses father's side in feud. Must choose between husband and father. P211
• Hero's son by giantess scorns his father's feebleness: still it is the son who is slain. P233.3.1
• Folly of father's giving all property to children before his death. They abandon him. P236.1
• Living king's or nobleman's son as foster son of father's friend: considered an honor for the foster father. P271.4
• Foster children return foster father's love: avenge him, etc. P271.6
• King's son named after his father's foster father. P271.7
• Foster son commits adultery with foster father's wife. P275.1
• Hero killed in fighting with father's brother. P293.3
• Young prince sent to his father's mother's brother. P293.4
• Father's brother avenged. P293.5
• Dying man asks friends to let his son inherit his friendship together with his father's weapons. P310.4.1
• Son insists on following father's trade. This has been kept secret at request of dying father who was unsuccessful. Son learns from mother. P401
• Son stricken dumb as punishment for father's opposition to holy person. (Cf. Q411.3.) Q451.3.3.1
• Son on gallows bites his mother's (father's) nose off: punishment for neglect in youth. Q586
• Son recovers father's bones. R154.2.2
• Youth saved from death sentence by father's friend. R169.6
• Exposure in jungle for refusing to marry according to father's wishes. S322.1.2.1
• Lovers' meeting: hero in heroine's father's prison from which she helps him to escape. T32.1
• Lover goes to see his beloved in her husband's (or her father's) house, defiant of the danger. T35.5
• Princess falls in love with father's enemy. T95.0.1
• Father's consent to son's (daughter's) marriage necessary. T131.1.2
• Girl must marry father's choice. T131.1.2.1
• Son refuses to marry father's choice. T131.1.2.4
• Sword left for posthumous son to kill father's murderer. T645.1
• Son's acts of charity save his father's soul. V413
• Children envious of money given by deceased father to bishop. In vision they take their father's body up and find a quittance saying that he has received more than a hundredfold reward. V415
• Saint repeatedly bestows father's goods upon the poor. V437
• Hardhearted person refuses reprieve for father's murderers. W155.4