36 motifs match “foreign”  ·  back to the chapters

• Culture hero (saint) defends Ireland against foreign invasions. A536.1
• Foreigners heads exchanged with those of devils in fight. A1610.1.1
• Tabu: horses' eating foreign provender. C224.4
• "We three" – "For gold" – "That is right": phrases of foreign language. Three travelers know each one phrase of a foreign language. They incriminate themselves. C495.2.2
• Ghost laid when bones are brought to home country from foreign soil. E459.2
• Miraculous ability to learn to read and to write foreign language in short time. F695.3.1
• Bird brings flower from foreign land. F982.4
• Prospective father-in-law requires that suitor for his daughter's hand visit foreign country (otherworld?) to learn feats of arms. H336.1
• Task: letting king hear something that neither he nor his subjects have ever heard. (Reads a letter from a foreign king demanding a loan.) H1182
• Task: recovering money owed by a foreign king. H1182.1
• Heathcock prefers home with hardships to travel in foreign lands. J215.3
• Bear mistaken for a foreigner. The strong man meets a bear in the forest, takes it for a German and struggles with it. Having strangled the bear, fears he has killed a man. J1762.8
• Words in a foreign language thought to be insults. J1802
• "I don't understand." Foreigner asks who owns property, clothing, servants; whose wife an attractive woman is; whose funeral is in progress? Answer to each question is "I don't understand," which foreigner takes to be a person's name. (Cf. J1152, J1741, X111.7.) J1802.1
• Two jars full of live black wasps sold as interpreters of foreign language. K137.1
• Parrot knowing only two words sold as speaking foreign language. K137.2
• Signal for theft given in foreign language. K358
• Victim persuaded to hold out his tongue: cut off. Robbers induced by various excuses (to learn to sing, to learn foreign language, to have a hair taken off the tongue). K825
• Disguise as foreign ambassador. K1839.7
• Fortune from informing foreign king of use of saddle, bridle, and stirrups. N411.3
• Secret reason why hero does not want to eat the food of the foreign king overheard by eavesdropper. N475.2
• Noble woman given to foreigners on condition that thereafter their land be held by female right. P61
• Social status of foreigners. P191
• Mother commits suicide when son wants to marry foreigner according to foreign rites. P231.7
• Foreigner may not bring suit. (Cf. P191.) P523.1
• Foreigner may not act as security. (Cf. P191.) P524.2
• Tribute required of conquered foreigners. P531.1.1
• National unity preserved by expulsion of all foreign elements. P711.6
• Aversion to burial in foreign soil. P711.8
• Death at hands of foreign invaders as punishment. Q429.2
• Abandonment alone on foreign coast. S144.1
• Tribute of youths regularly sent to foreign king. S262.2
• Foreign king wages war to enforce demand for princess in marriage. T104
• Test of legitimacy of children: exposure to asps. Asps will bite only foreigners. (Cf. H222.1.) T642
• Hero buried as unknown merchant in foreign country. V69.2
• Foreigner wonders why city with so many judges has not been destroyed. X332