112 motifs match “frightened” — 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
• 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
• Robbers frightened by grateful dog. B576.1.2
• Magic object left by frightened demons. D859.7
• Magic power lost by being frightened. D1741.5
• Wild hunt frightened away by scolding. E501.17.8.1
• Frightened soul cannot return to body. E721.1.2.5
• Birth of daughter so beautiful mother is frightened and abandons her. F575.1.1
• 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
• 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
• Guests frightened away by housewife. J1563.5
• 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
• 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
• Tiger frightened of leak in house. J2633
• Thief masked as devil bought off by frightened owner. K152
• Devil cheated by being frightened. K212
• 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
• 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
• Owner frightened from goods by trickster's ferocious animal. Pretended dog is really a lion. K335.0.6
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Ogre frightened away by beating tom-tom. K547.6
• Queen hiding king disguised as child tells ogress she has borne child with moustache: ogress frightened. K547.10
• Witch frightened by seeing victim cleave boulder with one blow of sword. K547.13
• Ogre frightened into rolling self in mat: burned. K711.3
• Deceptive game: fox wants to be frightened; titmouse whistles for dogs and the fox is nearly caught. K869.1
• Man abed with his wife is frightened away by an intruder who steals his clothes. K1272
• Husband frightened into sleeping alone. Adulteress has servants impersonate demons. K1514.17.2
• Husband frightened by wife's paramour in hog pen. The husband sees the paramour who has hidden in the pen and says, "Who are you?" "I am a miserable hog." The husband thinks that his hogs are possessed. (Cf. K1515, K1555, K1566, K1574.) K1542
• Husband persuades wife to light wicks and carry knife in hand before committing adultery: lovers frightened away. K1569.6
• Trickster sends his master running after the paramour. Though the master does not know of the adultery, the lover is thoroughly frightened. K1573
• Weak animal (man) makes large one (ogre) believe that he has eaten many of the large one's companions. The latter is frightened. K1715
• Enemies frightened away by making them think they will be eaten. K1715.4
• Spirits frightened away by making them think they will be eaten. K1715.4.1
• Leopard frightened away by report of lizard's presence. Lizard has bitten leopard before. K1715.5
• Trickster pretends to hunt certain tree with which his ancestors have killed tigers. Tiger frightened away. K1715.6
• Lion frightened away by stabbing at it from inside iron cage. K1715.11
• Large animal frightened by smaller showing him well rope (for his tail), curds (for spit), winnowing fans (for ears). K1715.12
• Giantess frightened of leaving cave because of hero's statue in entrance. K1726
• Tiger frightened at hearing unknown wind. K1727
• Felling the whole forest. Told to bring in a tree, the hero asks, "Why not the whole forest?" The ogre is frightened. K1741.1
• A thousand at one shot. Told to shoot one or two wild boars, hero asks, "Why not a thousand at one shot?" The ogre is frightened. K1741.2
• Bringing the whole well. Told to get water, hero demands bucket large enough to bring in the whole well. The ogre is frightened. K1741.3
• Bear frightened away by man threatening to cleave its skull with his penis. He meets a woman who, upon being told what man had threatened, shows him a vestige of the cleaving she once got. Only partly healed. K1755.1
• Boastful coward frightened by conspirators. K1951.4
• Ordinary man assumes high sounding name and challenges enemy chief to single combat. Latter is frightened into believing him to be of exceptional prowess and desists from attacking the city. K1951.5
• Coward boasts that he has frightened bear away. His wife has killed it and he has fled. K1953.1
• Patients frightened from hospital by harsh treatment. K1955.1.2
• Sham magician promises to induce love by magic. Dupe is frightened (to death, robbed, or otherwise discomfited) by magician or confederate. K1963.2
• Girl who is frightened by love becomes insatiable. K2052.2
• Girl reported possessed of demon: suitors frightened away. K2125.1
• Cat brings suspicion between eagle and sow. Eagle lives in the top of the branches, cat in the middle, and sow at bottom; all are happy. Cat tells eagle that sow is trying to root down the tree: eagle is frightened and dares not leave tree. Cat tells sow that eagle plans to carry off pigs: sow dares not leave. They starve and fall victims to the cat. K2131.1
• Hiding from the strange animal. A cat shrieks and the frightened bear falls out of the tree and hurts himself. K2324
• Ferocious animal frightened by ass braying. K2324.1
• Devil frightened by threatening to bring mother-in-law. K2325
• Tiger frightened away from man's tree refuge by man's stick and rope. K2336
• Ogre frightened at rustling. Man sets juniper afire. K2345
• Tiger frightened at sound of clashing knives: thinks it is leak in house of which he is afraid. K2345.1
• Bear frightened by wife's sneezing. K2345.2