42 motifs match “hostile”  ·  back to the chapters

• Unworthy origin ascribed to hostile tribes. A1610.1
• Hostile tiger killed. B16.2.2.1
• Hostile animals. B17
• Hostile beasts. B17.1
• Hostile dog (hound). B17.1.2
• Hostile hound killed by reaching through hollow log in its jaws – and tearing heart out. B17.1.2.2
• Hero kills hostile hound (monster) by tearing (forcing) out its entrails (heart). B17.1.2.2.1
• Transformed man as hostile dog. B17.1.2.3
• Hostile cattle. B17.1.3
• Hostile horse. B17.1.4
• Hostile cat. B17.1.5
• Other hostile animals. B17.2
• Hostile sea-beasts. B17.2.1
• Hostile sea-rat. B17.2.1.1
• Hostile eel attacks hero. B17.2.1.2
• Hostile sea-cat. B17.2.1.3
• Hostile griffin. B17.2.2
• Hostile raven. B17.2.3
• Hostile scorpion. B17.2.4
• Magic hostile bitches issue from elf-mound. B182.1.2
• Saint causes fiery sword to come between hostile king and queen. D2196
• Malevolent or hostile beings in otherworld. F360.0.1
• Giants hostile to Christianity. F531.5.8.1
• River rises to prevent meeting of hostile armies. F932.8.2.1
• Hostile dogs made friendly by having them fight common enemy, the wolf. J145
• Keeping on good terms with hostile gods. J821
• King promises valuable dog to each of two powerful and mutually hostile tribes. At feast prepared by king the two tribes get into fight and king escapes. K234.1
• Hostile visitors lured into iron house concealed by wooden walls. Hosts set fire to house. K811.4
• Hostile brother-in-law made king's inferior by being tricked to hold his sword, while the king arranges his breeches belt. (Old custom). K1292
• Man disguised as woman beguiles hostile chief. Infatuates him and then kills him in drunken sleep. K1321.3.1
• Treacherous queen lures her husband into chest and betrays him to hostile king. He is hung up between two fires, but his second wife cuts the strings so that he falls down and kills his enemy and takes his kingdom back. K2213.15
• Horse with basket of powdered peppers sent into hostile camp: enemy overcome. K2351.6.1
• Wild fawn sent by saint into hostile army, so that all follow it and leader (enemy of saint) is slain. K2351.7
• Lucky cast of ball: boy throws ball into mouth of hostile hound. Ball carries out entrails. N623.2
• Lucky cast from sling slays hostile queen. N623.4
• Hostile brothers. P251.5.3
• Woman who disrobes to attract attention of hostile fighter killed. Q411.4.2
• Children abandoned (driven forth, exposed) by hostile relative. S322
• Hostile amazon's daughter loves hero. T91.6.4.1.2
• Hostile brides kill husbands in the bridal bed. T173.2
• Parents urge girl to trade her favors for truce with hostile warrior. T455.4
• Hostile twins. T685.2