47 motifs match “fighting”  ·  back to the chapters

• Magic fighting cock. B171.2
• Magic fighting goat. B184.5.1
• Hero contests with demons, using fighting animals: cock, goat, bull, horse, wild bull, peacock. B524.1.11
• Tabus concerning fighting. C835
• Tabu: fighting certain person. C835.4
• Tabu: fighting with a hag. C835.4.1
• Magic objects acquired by acting as umpire for fighting heirs. When hero gets hold of objects he refuses to return it. D832
• Fighting animals eaten produce magic strength. (Cf. D1032.) D1335.1.3
• Spirit host fighting in air as evil omen. D1812.5.1.17.1
• Illusion: mountains seem to be fighting. D2031.14
• Slain warriors revive nightly. Continue fighting the next day. E155.1
• Fighting warriors show the way of their past life and of their death. E497
• Fighting animals seen in otherworld. Rams and she-goats or wild boars. F171.4
• Tabu: fighting battle in fairyland. F210.1
• Fighting with berserks. F610.3.4
• Fighting with twelve berserks. (Cf. F610.3.3.) F610.3.4.1
• Fighting stars melt iron chariots. F961.2.6
• Fury enables wounded soldiers to continue fighting. Die at end of battle. F1041.16.6.7
• Continuous fighting. No rest or food. F1084.0.3
• Giant herdsman. Hideous beastlike giant guards a herd of wild fighting animals. Herdsman can seize one of them in such a way as to make rest beg mercy. G152
• Fighting and wrestling with witch. G275.9
• Devil strikes man dead with iron bar. Two men are fighting and devil thus kills one of them. G303.20.3
• Fear test: fighting with spirits. H1423
• "Do not stand and watch two people fighting": counsel proved wise by experience. Man does so and is called by both parties to depose in favor of both or he will be beheaded. J21.51
• Less inconvenience in fighting though tired than in losing all for a little rest. J356
• Frogs fear defeated bull. See two bulls fighting; know that the loser will take refuge in their marsh. J613.2
• Cranes fighting as allies defeat all enemies. If they quarrel they are doomed. J1025.1
• Clever pleading: fighting for King of Kings. Knight hailed before king for fighting blasphemer, tells king that he would fight to protect the honor of the king's name so why not for the name of the King of Kings? J1164
• It's better to fight in the shade. Soldier tells captain that the enemy are so numerous that their arrows darken the sun. Captain: "Good, it will be more comfortable fighting in the shade." J1453
• King's attention attracted by fighting when it cannot be otherwise gained. J1675.1.1
• Hero attacks and kills at night hero who wanted to go to sleep before their fighting. K959.2.5
• Blind men duped into fighting. K1081
• Blind men duped into fighting: money to be divided. Trickster says that he is giving one of them money to be divided with the others. Gives it to none. They quarrel and fight. (Cf. K1883.6.) K1081.1
• Blind men duped into fighting: stolen meat. The trickster steals one piece of meat. The blind accuse each other and fight. K1081.2
• Blind men duped into fighting: strings leading to water removed. K1081.3
• Ogres (large animals, sharp-elbowed women) duped into fighting each other. Trickster strikes one so that he thinks the other has done it. K1082
• Enemies duped into fighting each other. K1082.0.1
• Goddess arouses heroes' jealousy and eternal fighting. K1093
• King in disguise as one of his own men rescued in fighting alone against four. K1812.19
• Scorning stops when it turns out that the scorned has saved the king by fighting alone against four. L154
• Other vows about fighting. M166
• Hero killed in fighting with father's brother. P293.3
• Punishment: fighting all who pass through forest. Q598
• Fighting on stumps of legs after they have been cut off at knee. S162.1
• Badly wounded warrior continues fighting. W33.1
• Snake and weasel stop fighting in order to catch mouse. W151.4
• Magic help sent to enemy. Hero sends fairy healing charms to his enemy so that when they resume fighting it cannot be said he wins because of superior care. W215.1