96 motifs match “hero's”  ·  back to the chapters

• Culture hero's grandmother. A512.1
• Culture hero's extraordinary animals. A524.1
• Culture hero's (demigod's) departure. A560
• Culture hero's (divinity's) expected return. Divinity or hero is expected to return at the proper time and rescue his people from their misfortunes. Often joined with A571. A580
• Sun and moon as divine hero's wedding presents. A759.2
• Spring breaks forth at primitive hero's need. A941.4.2
• Mountain from part of deity's (hero's) body. A962.1
• Hills from hero's striking (earth) with sword. A962.7
• Hills represent loads from culture-hero's shoulders. A962.10
• Man made from dirt rubbed from creator's (hero's) body. (Cf. A833). A1211.5
• Man created from culture hero's genitals. A1263.6
• Chameleon saves hero's life: may change color. Fang: Einstein 96. A2223.8
• Hero's dogs (horse) prevent dragon's heads from rejoining body. (Cf. B11.2.3.) B11.11.2
• King of fishes prophesies hero's birth. B144.1
• Vulture's chicks will not eat dead hero's leg, since they know he has been treacherously murdered. B159.4
• Magic tunny (grateful); carries out hero's wish. Later he saves him from drowning and restores his sanity. B175.2
• Magic horse avenges hero's death. B184.1.7
• Faithful horse joins in keen at hero's death. B301.4.3
• Helpful animal killed by hero's enemy. B335
• Cows grateful for hero's housekeeping for them. B396
• Bee fetches balm from heaven to restore hero's speech. B514.2
• Great clam fights hero's pursuer. B523.3
• Helpful buffaloes tramp hero's enemies to death. B524.1.5
• Grateful hawk attacks hero's enemies. B524.1.9
• Tabu: birds feeding on hero's land without leaving him something. C566.2
• Tabu: women leaving hero's land without his knowing it. C566.3
• Tabu: warriors being in hero's land without receiving challenge from him. C566.5
• Eyes of hero's buffalo friend turn into two powerful dogs that protect his wife. D699.1
• Magic object stolen by hero's wife. D861.5
• Magic antimony, rubbed on hero's eyes, will make whatever he looks at become far or near, as he desires it. (Cf. D1246.) D1331.3.3
• Bull's tail becomes a stick that lashes hero's enemies and exterminates an army. (Cf. D1029.2.) D1400.1.21
• Hero's breath restores sight. D1505.10.1
• Hero's breath returns head to headless horseman. (Cf. D1005.) D1518.3
• Diamond in snake king's forehead in hero's pocket opens lake waters to reveal a pathway to underground palace. (Cf. D1071.) D1551.7.1
• Magic use of hero's name brings water. D1766.7.2
• Magic sleep brought on by combing hero's hair lasts six months. D1962.3.1
• Magic reinforcements. Hero's followers magically multiplied or whole new army conjured up. D2163.2
• Life token: hero's horse stands in stable in blood up to his knees. E761.1.9
• Life token: bird sent each day to tell of hero's condition; when owl comes it will be to announce death. E761.7.6
• Life token: bird feathers sink in river at hero's death. E761.7.7
• Extraordinary companions perform hero's tasks. F601.1
• Strong hero's suckling. F611.2
• Hero's unusual strength from drinking his own mother's milk. F611.2.0.1
• Strong hero's long nursing. F611.2.3
• Hero's precocious strength. Has full strength when very young. F611.3.2
• Rock bursts into flames at hero's death. (Cf. F964.3.4.) F960.2.3
• Sun shines but two hours the day of hero's funeral. F960.2.6.1
• Hero's light: appears around head of hero aroused to extraordinary feats of valor. F969.3.2
• Horse sewed in buffalo-hides. As protection against a greater horse, hero's horse is sewed in nine buffalo-hides. F984.1
• Chariots, stones, weapons join in keen at hero's death. F994.2
• Hero's marvelous sword falls and cuts off hand of enemy. (Cf. F833, N331.) F1087
• Roads miraculously appear on day of hero's birth. F1099.2.1
• Witch cuts steaks from hero's body. G269.9
• Vanquished ogre grants hero's three wishes. G665
• Hero's power to transform girl to carnation brings about recognition. H151.7
• Disguised hero's golden hair discovered by spying princess. H151.13
• Hero's confederate slows down princess with his breath. Extraordinary blower blows against her so that she is retarded and loses race. H331.5.1.1.1
• Task: hero's servant must kill giant pig. H335.3.5
• Game of hide and seek with seven princesses to determine which is to be hero's wife. H375.1
• Prince envious of hero's wife assigns hero tasks. H931.1
• Pigeons cover the sun's rays with their outstretched wings and lengthen night to six months so that hero's task can be completed in one night. H982.1
• Quest assigned because of hero's knowledge of animal languages. H1214
• Quest assigned because of hero's boast. H1215
• Nurse's false plea admitted: child demanded. A nurse falsely demands pay for caring for a child which she says is the hero's. In court: "The child is indeed mine; give him to me." The child belongs to a peasant. Nurse confesses and is punished. J1162.1
• Culture hero's pubic hair thought to be bear hair. J1772.4
• The ogre tars the hero's boat, thinking to injure him. J2171.1.2
• Race won by deception: chariot disabled. A rival in a chariot race inserts linchpins of wax instead of those of bronze in the hero's chariot. The latter is dragged to death. K11.4
• Guardian beast overcome by hero's mirrors. K335.1.7
• Escape of girl foiled by hero's refusal to take narcotic. K625.1
• Magic helper brings girl to hero's bed. K1336
• Ogre's own moccasins burned. The ogre plans to burn the hero's moccasins while they are camping together, but the hero exchanges the moccasins. K1615
• Ogre overawed by hero's boasts about marvelous relatives. K1718
• Bluff: thunder said to be the rolling of hero's brother's wagon. Ogre overawed. K1718.1
• Bluff: millstones said to be pearls of hero's mother. Ogre overawed. K1718.2
• Bluff: huge cauldron of tar said to be kitchen-pot of hero's mother. K1718.3
• Bluff: harrow said to be comb of hero's mother. K1718.4
• Bluff: plow said to be hoe of hero's mother. K1718.5
• Giantess frightened of leaving cave because of hero's statue in entrance. K1726
• The bear trainer and his bear. (Schrätel und Wasserbär.) Ogre is driven out by hero's bear. The next year the ogre asks, "Is the big cat still living?" Hero says that it now has many kittens. Ogre is overawed. K1728
• Feigned ignorance about the whereabouts of hero's weapons and horse in order to keep him as monk. K1792.2
• Secret of vulnerability disclosed by hero's wife. K2213.4.1
• Beheading bargain. Giant allows hero to cut off his head; he will cut off hero's later. M221
• Dying hero's request and promise to disciples. M257.1
• Gods prophesy both good and evil about hero's fate. M301.16
• Prophecy: strength to be gained when milk is drunk from hero's skull. M316
• Hero's coming prophesied. M394
• Hero's (heroine's) identity established as he (she) is on the point of being executed. N686
• Hero's divine father as helper. N810.3
• Hero's son by giantess scorns his father's feebleness: still it is the son who is slain. P233.3.1
• Hero's charioteer faithful to master till death. P361.1.3
• Enemy host imprisoned by earthen walls thrown up by hero's chariot wheels. R5.1
• Hero's wife rescued by his faithful friend. R169.5.1
• Lovers' meeting: heroine heals hero's wounds. (Cf. T67.2.) T32
• Incognito mistress. King's mistress secretly becomes hero's without revealing identity. T476
• Calves kept separate from cows in commemoration of hero's death. V65.1
• Only one person refuses to weep at hero's death. Z351