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

• Game between gods. (Cf. A164.3.1.) A163.1
• Moon-god, overcome in contest with mortal, threatens to withold rain and game. A182.3.6
• Man from blood of game animal. A1263.1.2
• Hoarded game released. Animals are kept imprisoned by malevolent creature. Released by culture hero. A1421
• Origin of games of skill (indoor). A1468
• Invention of chess game. A1468.1
• Origin of outdoor games. A1495
• Origin of ball game. A1495.1
• Origin of customs: game-division. A1525
• Origin of games and fairs. A1535.2
• Origin of games (fair) at Telltown (Tailtiu). A1535.3
• Origin of religious games. A1549.3
• Why game is easy to hunt. A2551
• Why game animals are elusive. A2552
• Dog sight of which renders game helpless. B182.1.3
• Animal plays game. B298
• Boy who plays marriage-game finds he has actually been married to a spirit (invisible during ceremony). C167.1
• Tabu: looking at slain game before it dies. C311.1.7
• Looking at moon when shooting game. C315.2.1
• Tabu: watching a game without helping the losing player. C746
• Tabu: watching game without aiding loser. C882
• Magic object stolen in card game. D861.6
• Magic game board (chessboard). D1209.7
• Magic object locates fish (game). D1327
• Magic game board helps win. D1407.3
• Charm gives victory in game of dice. (Cf. D1273.) D1407.4
• Magic hunting collar insures death of game. (Cf. D1068.1.) D1449.2
• Magic wishing-pipe supplies game. (Cf. D1224.) D1472.2.3
• Self-playing game-board. (Cf. D1209.7. D1601.29
• Game animals magically made overwary. D2085
• Killed game revives and flies away. E161
• Culture hero gambles with ruler of the afterworld: result, death or increase in game. E489.6
• Ball game in lower world. (Cf. E577.1.) E494
• Wild hunt throws down man's dead child when asked for part of game. E501.18.1.3.1
• Dead persons play games. E577
• Soul won from devil in card game. E756.2
• Soul of gambler won by saint in dice game. Dice miraculously split to make higher score for saint. E756.4.1
• Pursuit of game leads to upper world. F59.2
• Fairies attend games. F267
• Theft of money from fairies by joining unperceived in their game of money-throwing. F351.1
• Human beings as game in fairy hunt. F368
• Mountain-men play games. F460.3.2
• Marvelous runner catches wild game on the run. F681.6
• Extraordinary game-board. F899.2
• Golden game-board. F899.2.1
• Buffalo sucks hero with water it is drinking and throws him up again in game of hide-and-seek. (Cf. F911.3.1.) F914.2
• Dice game that lasts for nine years. F1014
• Devil challenges boys to play a disc-game. Can be defeated only with rowan-sticks. (Cf. D950.9.) G303.9.9.9
• Brother-Dead. Trapper of game; silent; pursues trickster. G323
• Abandoned child joins parents in game: recognition follows. H151.9
• Abandoned child recognized in game. H151.9.1
• Suitor test: to defeat bride in game. H332.1.2
• Bride contest: game. H375
• Game of hide and seek with seven princesses to determine which is to be hero's wife. H375.1
• Chess game as test. H509.3
• Task: coming neither with nor without a present (game). (Lets bird fly as the reaches it toward king.) H1056
• Quest for marvelous game-board. H1359.5
• Fear test: playing game with reassembled dead man. (Cf. H1411.1, H1421.) H1433
• Test: playing game with ferocious beast. H1537
• Wisdom of child decides lawsuit. King in disguise sees child's game which represents the case. J123
• Claim that dog-head captured game. Two hunters, one with dog and other with dog-head, dispute. The claim that the dog-head captured the game is allowed and then the alarm is raised that the owner of the, game is coming to punish the theft. J1214.1
• He has a family to support. Ruler to servant stealing his game: "If you wish any I'll send you some." J1636
• Hunter mistakes louse on his eyelash for game. He shoots several times before he notices the trouble. J1759.2
• Game won with loaded dice. K92.2
• Blind Dupe. A blind man's arrow is aimed for him by his mother (or wife) who deceives him into thinking that he has missed his aim. She eats the slain game herself. K333.1
• Owner enticed to chase game while goods are stolen. K341.5
• Antelope sends leopard for fire, eats game while leopard is gone. K345.4
• "Let me catch you better game." Captured animal pretends to help captor bring more desirable victim. Escapes. K553.1
• Trickster persuades pursuers to play fatal deceptive game. K619.3
• Fairy wins kiss in game; embraces woman and flies off with her through skylight (smokehole). K786
• Fatal deceptive game. K850
• Deceptive game: burning each other. Dupe burned (boiled) to death. K851
• Deceptive game: hanging each other. Dupe really hanged. K852
• Fatal game: drowning. K853
• Fatal game: throwing from cliff. Spider throws its young; other animal imitates. K854
• Fatal swinging game. Old woman causes swing to break when her rival is swinging. K855
• Deceptive game: bear cubs sway in tree. K855.1
• Fatal game: dying and reviving. Hero has power of resuscitation but fails to revive his enemy. K856
• Deceptive game: throwing away knives. (Not fatal.) K857
• Fatal game: shaving necks. Dupe's head cut off. K858
• Fatal game: sewing each other up. Hare is partly sewed up, but he sews antelope entirely up so that he dies. K861
• Shooting game: blind man's arrow aimed. It kills his friend. (Balder's death.) K863
• Fatal apple-throwing game. K864
• Fatal game: putting heads in notches. K865
• Fatal game: rolling down hill on barrel. Dupe crushed. K866
• Fatal duel: brother kills brother in pretended game. K867
• Deceptive sword-game: brother killed. K867.1
• Deceptive game: butting one another like rams. Robbers kill selves. K868
• Fatal deceptive game – miscellaneous. K869
• Deceptive game: fox wants to be frightened; titmouse whistles for dogs and the fox is nearly caught. K869.1
• Deceptive hide and seek game. Hide and seek game proposed by seven demons so as to kill hero. K869.2
• Deceptive game: "Eat me up!" Camel is killed by lion. K869.3
• Seduction under pretence of teaching a game. K1315.7.2
• Deceiver in swinging contest killed. Old woman planning to kill hero in swinging game by cutting rope is killed when hero cuts the rope first. K1618
• Treacherous counselor killed in treacherous ballgame he himself has arranged. K1626.2
• Bought game (fish) used to prove prowess in hunting (fishing). K1968.1
• Person allowed to win first game so that he will play for higher stakes. K2378.1
• Hero stupid at games but fleet of foot. L141.3
• Despised boy wins gambling game. L177
• Poor game proves rich. L216