24 motifs match “grandmother”  ·  back to the chapters

• Creator's grandmother. Casually mentioned in the course of the creation myth. A31
• Culture hero's grandmother. A512.1
• Pre-existing world of gods above. Such a world is assumed before the real creation of the universe. Though this belief is not explicitly set forth in many mythologies, it seems to be implied in most of the North American Indian systems. See, for example, motif A31, Creator's grandmother. A631
• Hawk (vulture) loses grandmother: still hovers and seeks her. (Cf. A2471.3.) A2275.5.2
• Why hawk (vulture) hovers over camp-fire: seeks grandmother. (Cf. A2275.5.2.) A2471.3
• The devil's grandmother. G303.11.4
• Devil's grandmother keeps house for devil. Is an old wrinkled woman with red eyes who locks up hell. G303.11.4.1
• Devil's grandmother is bleaching when it snows. G303.11.4.2
• Help from ogre's grandmother. G530.4
• Theft by disguise as owner's grandmother. K311.8.5
• Man betrayed into killing his wife or grandmother. K940.2
• Washing the grandmother – in boiling water. K1462
• Woman killed. Disliking early rising, the servant kills devil's mother or grandmother, who crows in place of the cock. K1691.2
• Wolf poses as "grandmother" and kills child. (Red Riding Hood.) K2011
• Grandmother causes grandchildren to be whipped: puts dirt and hairs into cooking pot by stealth and sand in the water they draw. K2175
• Orphan hero lives with grandmother. Avenges slaughtered kin. L111.4.1
• Help from grandmother. N825.3.3
• Grandmother. P292
• Grandmother as foster mother. P292.1
• Cruel grandmother. S41
• Abandoned child cared for by grandmother (aunt, foster mother). S351.1
• Youth attempts to seduce his grandmother. T423
• I killed my grandmother because she refused to cook a hare. I killed a priest because he said my crime was bad. A friar absolved me to avoid being killed. Z49.1
• Pulling up the turnip. Final formula: The mouse holds onto the cat, the cat holds onto Mary, Mary holds onto Annie, Annie holds onto grandmother, grandmother holds onto grandfather, grandfather holds onto the turnip – they all pull and pull it out. Z49.9