190 motifs match “frighten” — showing the first 100; narrow the words for the rest  ·  back to the chapters

• Frightened rabbit puts head in charred tree: hence black ears. (Cf. A2325.2.) A2212.1
• Frightened animals scatter: cause of present habitat of each. (Cf. A2433.1.) A2212.2
• Dragon guards hermit's food, frightens off robbers. B11.6.5
• Vegetable lamb. Generated from ground. Umbilical cord is in the ground and the lambs will die if it is forcibly severed. They are frightened into severing it themselves and then live. Vertebrae of the neck planted to produce new ones. B95
• Person frightened by animals successively replying to his remarks. Example: Man riding horse and followed by dog tells horse to jump over a hole. Horse says, "I will not." Man turns to dog and says, "Isn't that strange – a horse talking!" The dog says, "Yes, isn't it." Often the man runs, meeting other animals which answer him, until he falls exhausted. B210.1
• The cat as vixen's husband. Frightens the other wild animals invited by the vixen. (Cf. K2324.) B281.9.1
• Man falls in hole with horse; buzzards gather; he lassoes a number of buzzards, ties them together, frightens them; all fly at once, carry him from hole. (Tall tale.) B547.2.1
• Robbers frightened by grateful dog. B576.1.2
• Transformation to frighten enemy. (Cf. D641.3.) D651.2
• Magic object left by frightened demons. D859.7
• Magic power lost by being frightened. D1741.5
• Plants and animals magically caused to shriek, frightening enemy. D2091.12
• Resuscitation my frightening dead. Frequently combined with E61. E25
• Ghost frightens people off bridge into stream. E272.3
• Ghosts frighten people (deliberately). E293
• Frightening thing at bridge to land of dead. E481.2.1.1
• Wild hunt frightened away by scolding. E501.17.8.1
• Frightened soul cannot return to body. E721.1.2.5
• Theft of money from fairies by frightening them away from it. F351.2
• Dwarfs frighten mortals. F451.5.2.10
• Birth of daughter so beautiful mother is frightened and abandons her. F575.1.1
• Strong man sent to kill lions: does so and frightens king. F615.2.2
• Cannibal ogress gives finger of one girl to her frightened sister. G86.1
• Devil disappears because he is frightened. G303.16.19.17
• Devil frightened by a woman. G303.16.19.17.1
• Husband has friend woo his wife: seduction narrowly averted by frightened husband's intervention. H492.2.2
• Man whose laughter brings rain will not laugh: brought to laughter when people who, unknown to each other, have gone to sleep in same dark room frighten each other. H1194.1
• Deity assumes frightful guises to frighten child. H1401
• Chief of dead assumes frightful guises to frighten visitors. H1401.1
• Ogress assumes frightful guises to frighten messengers. H1401.2
• Fearless hero frightened by being awakened with cold water. H1441
• Fearless hero frightened by being awakened by eels put down his back. H1441.1
• Jackal and leopard tie tails together for mutual protection. Frightened, they run apart and injure each other. J681.1.1
• Old simpleton resolves to become a senator. He is made to believe that he is wanted as an archer and is so frightened that he dies. J955.4
• Judge frightened into awarding decision. J1195
• Poor girl outwits prince in fright-contest. He frightens her and later mocks her with her words of fright. She plays the same trick on him. J1525
• Guests frightened away by housewife. J1563.5
• A sham fight to frighten away the guests. J1563.7
• Priest frightens away parasitic guests. Tells them he has that morning confessed man with plague. J1563.8
• Old sausage (roll) taken for frightening animal. J1771.2
• Lion thinks man astride him is monster: frightened. J1786.7
• Monkey seeing tiger attack his shadow is frightened so that he falls from tree. J1790.3
• Elephant frightened at agitated reflection of moon in water. J1791.12
• Numskull throws money to frogs to repay them. They have frightened his fleeing ass from the water. J1851.1.3
• Numskull sits on eggs to finish the hatching. Cautions people to be quiet and not frighten the eggs. (Sometimes puts on honey and feathers before sitting on the eggs.) J1902.1
• Bullock struck on hindquarters instead of head in attempt to kill it. (Only frightens it.) J1906.1
• The man who wanted to be dead one day. A husband tells his wife that he has provisions for every day in the year but one. He proposes to play dead for that one day, thinking that the servants will be overcome with grief and cannot eat. After brief mourning, however, they eat more than usual. The man then thinks to frighten them by rising from the dead. One servant thinking the dead man suffering from devils kills him. J2188
• Wolf (bear) boasts of having eaten horses. When the horse strikes sparks with his hoofs the lion is frightened and picks up the boastful wolf to show him the horse. He squeezes the wolf to death. J2351.4
• Person frightened into falling down a cliff. J2611
• Fools frightened by stirring of an animal. J2614
• Fools are frightened at the humming of bees. Think it is a drum. J2614.1
• Fools frightened at the flight of a quail. When they hear "whirr!" the army flees. J2614.2
• The hawk frightened at the snipe's bill. The snipe: "It is a bill, but it is good for nothing (weak)." The hawk is no longer afraid. J2616
• The dead girl frightens father and lover. The girl dies. The lover, thinking that she is asleep, talks to her. When he hears the father speak of her as dead he is frightened that he has talked to the dead. The father hears the lover talk and thinks that it is the girl's spirit. Both flee. J2621
• Fool frightened by stirring of the wind. Falls on a knife and kills himself. J2622
• Coward is frightened when clothing catches on thistle. (Cf. N384.2.) J2625
• Frightened by fireworks. J2627
• Boastful coward frightened when he sees strong adversaries. Hides in trousers of plowman who fights the men. J2631
• Fools try to frighten one another, but get scared themselves and both flee. J2632
• Tiger frightened of leak in house. J2633
• Thief masked as devil bought off by frightened owner. K152
• Devil cheated by being frightened. K212
• Husband promises a cow to tiger; wife frightens the tiger away. K235.1.1
• Thief frightens owner from goods. K335
• Owner frightened from goods by report of approaching enemy. K335.0.1
• Owners frightened away from goods by report of deadly epidemic. Poor parson thus rids himself of unwelcome guests; they leave food they have brought. K335.0.2
• Trickster quarrels with owner of goods, feigns death, and frightens owner away. K335.0.3
• Owner frightened away from goods by a bluff. K335.0.4
• Owner frightened from goods by apparitions of the dead. (Cf. K335.1.2.) K335.0.5
• Thief frightens priest as the latter crosses cemetery. Meanwhile a confederate steals his chickens. K335.0.5.2
• Owner frightened from goods by trickster's ferocious animal. Pretended dog is really a lion. K335.0.6
• Thief frightens away guards of his father's corpse by impersonating demons. K335.0.7
• Town crier is frightened by the voice of a cleric robbing a grave. K335.0.8
• Delivery boy is frightened into giving up his chickens. Trickster upturns his eyelids and puts on boar's tusks. K335.0.9
• Servants frightened by ferocious actions of robbers; give up masters' food. K335.0.11
• Owner frightened away by thief disguised as devil. K335.0.12
• Owner frightened from goods by trickster's summons of wild buffalo herd. K335.0.13
• Robbers frightened from goods. Trickster steals the goods. K335.1
• Frightened robber leaves his coat behind. K335.1.0.1
• Robbers frightened from goods by the dead. (Cf. K335.0.5.) K335.1.2
• Corpse thrown among robbers frightens them from treasure. K335.1.2.1
• Robbers frightened from goods by sham-dead man. K335.1.2.2
• Robbers frightened from goods by man's outcry. Trickster hits a slain ox and cries out, "Those others did it!" The thieves flee and leave their treasure. K335.1.3
• Animals climb on one another's backs and cry out; frighten robbers. K335.1.4
• Animals cry out; frighten robbers. K335.1.4.1
• Robber frightened from his goods by playing of bagpipe. K335.1.5
• Robbers frightened from goods by hidden man. K335.1.6
• Thieves steal chest containing hidden paramour. Are frightened away by his outcry. K335.1.6.1
• Robbers frightened from goods by Thumbling. They can hear him but cannot see him. K335.1.6.2
• Robbers frightened from goods by man in tar and feathers. K335.1.8
• Robbers coming to steal from stable frightened away by bear staying the night there with his keeper. K335.1.9
• Robbers frightened by pretended cannibalism. Tricksters threaten to cook a robber. All the robbers flee in terror, leaving them their booty. K335.1.10
• Sons of thief frightened by threatening to bring the three strongest men to punish them. K335.1.11
• Thieves frightened by ghosts who tie fruits to their hair, which they think are missiles thrown at them. K335.1.12
• The goose without a leg. Accused of eating the goose's leg, the thief maintains that it had no leg, and cleverly enforces his point by showing geese standing on one leg. (Usually the master confounds the rascal by frightening the geese so that they use both legs) K402.1
• Sham blood and brains. Fox covers his head with milk and says that his brains have been knocked out. Frightens bear. K473
• Escape by frightening would-be captors. (Cf. K1710.) K547
• Ogre frightened away by beating tom-tom. K547.6
• Goat trembles so hard from fear of tiger that shaking of his beard frightens tiger away. K547.7
• Queen hiding king disguised as child tells ogress she has borne child with moustache: ogress frightened. K547.10