60 motifs match “hound”  ·  back to the chapters

• Culture hero acts as watch-dog; named "Hound". A522.1.1.1
• Hound of hell. Cerberus (monstrous dog) guards the bridge to the lower world. A673
• God battles hound of hell at end of world. A1082.2.2
• Animal with body of horse, legs of hound. B14.2
• Cerberus. The hell hound with three heads, a serpent's tail, and a writhing tangle of snakes from his body. B15.7.1
• Devastating dog (hound). B16.1.2
• Giant devastating hound. B16.1.2.1
• Hostile dog (hound). B17.1.2
• Bloodhounds decapitate victim. B17.1.2.1
• 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
• Hound flame of fire by night. B19.4.4
• Magic whelp kills hound by springing down its throat. B182.1.3.1
• Dog that is hound by night and sheep by day. B182.1.4
• Dog that is hound by day and flame of fire by night. B182.1.5
• Magic boar drowns houndpack. B184.3.1.1
• Fight between animal and houndpack. B264.1
• Hound of every color. B731.6
• Hound half white, half green. B731.6.1
• Venomous hound. B776.3
• Giant dog (hound). B871.1.7
• Tabu: chief to be in large company without wolf-hounds. C564.3
• Compulsion to regard hunting cry and follow hounds. C681.1
• Transformation: hound to lap-dog. D412.5.2
• Animal that is hound by day, sheep by night. D412.5.4
• Offer to make pups born of woman in shape of hound human. D601
• Drop of hound's blood from magic spear (lance) pierces owner's foot (head). (Cf. D1081.) D1404.2
• Saint's song silences hound. (Cf. D1275.) D1442.5
• Saint's cowl protects fox from hounds. (Cf. D1067.3.1.) D1447.2.1
• Automatic figures on harp – birds, serpents, hounds. D1620.2.5
• Forgetting leashes of hounds as bad omen. D1812.5.1.21
• Magic animal proof against hound. D1841.7
• Wild hunt heralded by baying of hounds. E501.13.4
• Hell-hounds accompany soul to lower world. E752.5
• Fairy in form of greyhound. F234.1.9.2
• Fairies' horses the size of greyhounds. F241.1.8.1
• Fairy kills mortal's hound (horses). F369.3
• Giant's skull holds three hounds. F531.2.3.2
• Skillful hunter manages hounds. F679.5.1
• Skillful hunter can tell from baying the succession of hounds and what quarry they pursue. F679.5.2
• Whelp leaps through body of hound. F916.2
• Great flock of birds lift grayhound and garments into air. F982.1.1
• Devil has a hound. G303.10.15
• Faithful hound kills ogre's wife. G519.1.1
• Task: stealing hound from a king. H1151.13.4
• Quest for sheep that is a hound by night and a sheep by day. H1331.9
• Quest for unknown puppy-hound. H1383.1
• Fear test: passing through door guarded by savage hound and armed soldier. H1423.1
• Test of valor: attack by warrior and hound. H1561.7
• Hound strikes unique vulnerable spot. N335.5
• Lucky cast of ball: boy throws ball into mouth of hostile hound. Ball carries out entrails. N623.2
• Jackal demands to be praised as god: runs with pack of hounds. Q331.2.2
• Punishment: tying man to horses and setting vicious hounds after him. (Cf. Q416, S117.) Q415.1.2
• Man dies from drop of blood of pet hound he has killed. (Cf. Q211.6.) Q582.4
• Jealous wife (mistress) transforms rival to hound. (Cf. B182.1.0.2.) T257.2.2
• Hind, like his mother, flees before the hounds. Useless for her to urge him to stand up against them. U121.2
• The hare's last will. Surrounded by hunters and hounds, the hare considers to whom each of his members will be allotted. Succeeds in escaping. U242.1
• Vision in which king sees his four sons changed into lion, greyhound, beagle, cur, which fight with alternating success, until lion subdues the other three. V515.2.3
• Lie: greyhounds drag mill out of water. X1215.12
• The Twelve kinds of Food: 1 partridge, 2 turtledoves, 3 woodpigeons, 4 ducks, 5 rabbits, 6 hares, 7 hounds, 8 sheep, 9 oxen, 10 turkeys, 11 hams, 12 cheeses. Z22.2