90 motifs match “forest”  ·  back to the chapters

• Deity lives in forest. A151.7
• Deity of particular forest. A419.1
• Goddess of fertility of wild forest plants. A431.1.2
• God of trees and forests. A435
• Why salt disappeared from forests. A1196
• Why gorilla and chimpanzee live in forests: punishment for neglecting their possessions. A2433.2.1.2
• She-wolf cares for baby exposed in the forest. B535.0.11
• Lion leads lost king from forest. (Cf. B431.2.) B563.1
• Swine maddened by smell of oak forest. B783
• Forbidden forest. (Cf. C614.1.0.2.) C612
• Tabu: hunting in certain part of forest. (Cf. C612.) C614.1.0.2
• Transformation: hair to forest. D457.4.2
• Magic forests. D940
• Magic forest. D941
• Forest produced by magic. D941.1
• Magic forest seems to stretch farther as mortals travel within. (Cf. D941.) D1368.5
• Magic forest opens and closes for hero to pass. (Cf. D941.) D1554
• Fetish clears forest. (Cf. D1274.) D1601.22
• Forest cleared by magic. (Cf. D950.) D1641.4
• Tree (forest) bows down to holy person (saint). D1648.1.2
• Magician opens his eyes and forest burns for twenty-four miles in front of him. D2158.1.4
• Saint causes great forest to spring up between opposing forces. D2163.6.1
• Forester as wild huntsman. E501.1.4
• Perilous forest on way to otherworld. F151.1.3
• Fairies live in forest. F216
• Changeling calculates his age by the age of the forest. "I have seen the forest grow up three times." F321.1.1.5
• Forest spirits brighter than moon. F441.4.3
• Forest-spirits with wings and with backward-pointing fingers and toes. (Cf. F401.9, F451.2.2.1.) F441.4.4
• Dwarfs live in a forest. F451.4.2.3
• Dwarfs protect the forest. F451.5.1.17
• Giant's net can hem in whole forest. F531.4.12
• Giants in wild forests. F531.6.2.7
• Strong man son of woman and forest spirit. F611.1.2.1
• Extraordinary forest. F812
• Forest of straight and tall trees. Each tree straight as an arrow and higher than earthly man ever saw. F812.1
• Forest of Dangers (Wonders). F812.3
• Speaking forest. (Cf. D1610.2.) F812.4
• Forest where unseen sword cuts off heads of those trying to escape. F812.5
• Special flavor of wood from certain forest. F812.6
• Boards of wood from certain forest endure forever. F812.7
• Ground opens and swallows forest. F947
• Forest springs up from twig (twigs). F979.8
• Witch lives in forest. G236
• Forest devil the one which fell in the forest when driven from heaven. G303.8.13.2
• Demon in the shape of serpent guards forest where treasure tree grows. G354.1.1
• Abandoned queen invites all to forest, gives appropriate food to her persecutors, and is recognized. H155
• Tasks performed by helpful forest spirits. H973
• Task: felling a forest in one night. (Cf. H1115.) H1095
• Task: stacking wood from felled forest in one day. H1095.2
• Task: making garden quickly in unplanted forest. H1103.1
• Test of fidelity by feigning sleep in same bed as calumniated hero or alone in the forest with him. H1556.5
• Knowledge from mysterious women met in the forest. J155.7
• Forestman who longs to do evil is sent to hell: writer, who repents, is sent to heaven. God justifies this to his sage. J225.7
• A long beard and sanctity. Told that a forest dwarf with a long beard is a saint, a man replies: "If a long beard indicates sanctity, the goat is a saint." J1463
• 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
• Helping the cuckoo. A numskull climbs a tree to help a cuckoo so that he may call louder than the one in the neighboring forest. Meanwhile his horse is eaten by a wolf. J1872.1
• The thief in the beehive. Other thieves come to steal the bees, take the heaviest hive to the forest and make a fire under it. They flee when they hear a man screaming in the beehive. K335.1.6.3
• Woman (Amazon) in disguise invites enemies singly into forest and overcomes them. K778.1
• Woman lured into the forest and captured. K788
• Princess lured into the forest by harp-playing boy or thief. K788.1
• Felling the whole forest. Told to bring in a tree, the hero asks, "Why not the whole forest?" The ogre is frightened. K1741.1
• Army appears like forest. Surprises enemy. Each soldier carries branches. (Birnam wood comes to Dunsinane.) K1872.1
• Enemies defeated by setting forest afire. K2364.1
• Vow to ride the forest all night and slay all comers. M157
• Abandonment in forest to avoid fulfillment of prophecy. M371.0.1
• Curse on lake: fire from lake will burn the forest around it. M477.1
• Death forestalls evil fates. Mother shown what would have been the evil fates of her children if they had not died. N121.2
• Separation in jungle (forest). N316
• Incidents when wife takes food to husband in field or forest. N788
• Helpful forester. N856
• Forester as foster father. N856.1
• Earl hunting in the king's forest imprisoned. Q433.10
• Punishment: abandonment in forest. (Cf. S143.) Q438
• Punishment: fighting all who pass through forest. Q598
• Forester rescues abandoned child. R131.8.5
• Forest as refuge. R312
• Forest as refuge of eloping lovers. (Cf. R225.) R312.1
• Abandonment in forest. S143
• Mutilated man on horseback chased into the forest. S143.3
• Woman abandons baby boy (of which she was artificially impregnated) in forest. S312.4
• Father abandons his daughter in forest and leaves axes tied so that they move in wind. Daughter thinks he is cutting wood. S338
• Parents trick children into going on hunt, and then abandon them in forest. (Cf. S143.) S345
• Cast-off wife and child abandoned in forest. (Cf. S143.) S441
• Jealous husband spends all his earnings as skillful smith bribing courtiers not to talk to his wife, and at last locks her up in hut in the forest. T257.9
• Birth of child in forest. T581.1
• Each likes his own children best. Snipe asks sportsman to spare its small ones, easily recognized as being the prettiest in the forest. To be on the safe side he shoots only the ugliest he can find. They are the young snipes. (Often told of the ape.) T681
• "I am not alone!" Man travelling alone through the forest at night, is afraid of robbers. He hangs his cap on a stick and keeps repeating: "I am not travelling alone, there are two of us." W211.3
• Law of gravity is petrified in petrified forest. X1741.3
• The cock's whiskers. A mouse throws a nut down and hits the cock on the head. He also steals the cock's whiskers. The cock goes to get an old woman to cure him. The final formula is: Fountain give up water for forest, forest give up wood for baker, baker give up bread for dog, dog give up hairs to cure the cock. (Variant: mouse loses tail.) Z43
• Biting a grain in half. Final formula: Forester attacks bear, the bear the wolf, the wolf the dog, the dog the cat, the cat the mouse, the mouse the grain – the grain is bitten in two. Z49.8