77 motifs match “hunter”  ·  back to the chapters

• Goddess protects animals from hunters. A189.12
• Culture hero as mighty hunter. A526.2
• Pleiades from hunters marooned in sky after felling world-tree. A773.5
• Magic birds lure hunters to certain places. B172.6
• Wild beast seeks protection of saint against hunters. B251.4.1.1
• Release of animal by hunter (fisher). B375
• Chimpanzee leads lost hunter home. B563.1.2
• Tabu: wishing good luck. One must not wish a hunter good luck or a sailor good voyage. C493.1
• Transformation to lure hunters to certain place. Usually fairyland. D659.10
• King of birds transforms his quails into sticks and pebbles so king and his hunters and hawks cannot kill them. D666.1
• Equipment of slain hunter returns alone. (Cf. D1170.) D1602.19
• Hunter reduced to ashes by power of heroine's chastity. (Cf. D2061.1.1.) D2061.2.5
• Hunter's prey stolen during night by magic. D2087.2
• The Wild Hunt. (Cf. F282.) (Die Wilde Jagd, Das Wütende Heer, Odinsjæger, Chasse Fantastique.) A ghostly hunter and his rout continue the chase. E501
• Wild hunter pursues a woman. E501.5.1
• Fairies give hunter a dog. F343.2
• Ghost of hunter as nightmare. F471.1.4
• Women warriors or hunters. F565
• Women hunters. F565.4
• Skillful hunter. F679.5
• 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
• Devil as a hunter in green. G303.5.2.2
• Devil is killed by hunter. A slake of tar remains. G303.16.19.20
• Ogress with knife tail defeated by hunter. G510.5
• Wolf tries to eat bowstring. Finds hunter, gazelle, and wild boar dead. Tries first to eat the bowstring, and is mortally wounded. J514.2
• Hidden stag discovered when he begins to eat grapevine too soon after hunters have passed. J582.2
• One bird escapes as hunter bends his bow; other remains and is shot. (Told also of fish.) J641.1
• Tortoise joins peacock in dance. Cannot escape hunter; peacock flies off. J684.3
• 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
• Was going to give it to him any way. Thus a hunter answers a thief who steals his hare. J1395
• Strenuous cure for madness. Doctor throws patients into a pit of water. Servant warns queer-looking hunter to flee before master throws him into the pit. (Cf. K2137.) J1434
• Hunter mistakes louse on his eyelash for game. He shoots several times before he notices the trouble. J1759.2
• The stag with iron shoes. Hunters shoot a stag and hide it. Another who sees puts a dead ass in the bag instead. When the bag is opened, one cries, "Oh Jesus, we have shot a stag with iron shoes!" J2335
• The hunter's mass. A count instructs his chaplain to read a hunter's mass (i.e., a short one). The chaplain searches the prayerbook in vain for a hunter's mass. J2474
• Three stupid sons sent out into the world to learn trades: hunter kills his father; musician plays and dances at his father's death, etc. J2499.7
• Dog alleged to chase hare and bring it to hunter's home. Dupe deceived. K135.1.2
• Escape by laughing and crying at same time. Captured bird cries in thinking of her little ones and laughs under pretext that the hunter is wasting his time instead of taking the treasure which she pretends is in her house. The hunter leaves her. K608
• Man gets bear off guard by telling her to listen for hunters: kills her. K832.4
• Sheep makes fox believe that the hunter is a priest, the dog his servant, etc. K1178
• Peasant betrays fox by pointing. The peasant has hidden the fox in a basket and promised not to tell. When the hunters come, he says, "The fox just went over the hill," but points to the basket. K2315
• Dwarf-deer pastes other animal's eyes shut and pretends that hunters are coming. K2382.2
• Prophecy: future success as hunter. M326
• Prophecy: boy to be great hunter. M369.10
• Prophecy: hunters will encounter certain wild boar. M397
• New-born child with a weapon and a game animal: fated to be hunter. N121.1.2
• Stag escapes from hunters to be eaten by lion. N255.1
• Bird hunter killed by adder just as he is shooting bird. N335.1
• Drop of honey causes chain of accidents. Hunter drops honey in a grocery; weasel eats honey; cat chases weasel; dog chases cat; grocer kills dog: all the cause of a bloody feud between villages. N381
• Hunter accidentally discovers beautiful girl being secretly reared in a cave. N724
• Hunter. P414
• Hunter rescues abandoned child. R131.1
• Girl marries hunter when he promises to return to monkey brothers their human form. (Cf. D118.) T68.5
• Female deer offers herself instead of her mate, who has been captured. Hunter, struck by her sacrifice, lets both go. T211.1.4
• Smallness of offense no excuse when hunter prepares to kill lark. She has stolen but a single grain of wheat. U32
• Fisher and hunter exchange catches for variety: soon return to original food. U136
• 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
• Hunter wants to be shown lion tracks, not lion himself. W121.1
• Hunter beats dog which has grown old in his service. W154.4
• Jokes about hunters. X584
• Lie: the remarkable hunter. X1100
• Hunter shoots ram-rod full of ducks. X1111
• Hunter catches fish in boots while wading. X1112
• Large bag of frozen raccoons taken by hunter. (Cf. X1130.3.) X1115
• The breathing tree. Hunter cuts down tree packed full of animals. The tree is so full of animals that a crack in tree opens as animals inhale, closes when they exhale. X1116
• Lie: hunter with remarkable marksmanship. X1122
• Lie: hunter shoots projectile great distance. X1122.1
• Lie: the hunter catches or kills game by ingenious or unorthodox method. (Cf. X1132.) X1124
• Shooting off the leader's tail. An old blind bear is being led by a young bear, whose tail the old bear has in his mouth. The hunter shoots off the young bear's tail and seizes it. Thus leads the old bear home. X1124.1
• Hunter turns animal inside out. He reaches down animal's throat, grasps his tail, and turns him inside out. X1124.2
• Lie: hunter's unusual experiences. X1130
• Lie: the hunter in danger. X1133
• Trained horse as harvester and hunter. He rolls in the field. Oats in his flanks; club in his tail kills birds. (Cf. X1252.1.) X1241.2.2
• The goat who would not leave the hazel bush. Final formula: The devil goes to strangle the Jew, the Jew to kill the ox, the ox to drink the water, the water to quench the fire, the fire to burn the stone, the stone to blunt the axe, the axe to cut the rope, the rope to tie the hunter, the hunter to shoot the goat – the goat leaves the hazel bush, the wee goat leaves the hazel bush. Z39.1.1
• The wormwood does not want to rock the sparrow. Final formula: the worms begin to gnaw the rods, the rods to beat the oxen, the oxen to drink the water, the water to quench the fire, the fire to burn the hunters, the hunters to shoot the wolves, the wolves to kill the goats, the goats to gnaw the wormwood, the wormwood to rock me – it rocked and rocked me to sleep. Z41.7
• The lazy servant and the grain. "Lentils, lentils, get into my sack!" Final formula: the hungry hawk attacks the hens, the hens the worms, the worms the stick, the stick the ox, the ox runs to the water, the water attacks the fire, the fire the hunters, the hunters the wolf, the wolf the goat, the goat the willow, the willow the cat, the cat the mice, the mice the lentils, the lentils go whoosh whoosh into the sack. Z41.9
• Cumulative tale: bird who seeks carpenter to release young caught in closed tree. Beetle bites calf, calf bites cow, cow hoofs carpenter, carpenter beats wife, hunters save carpenter's cow, carpenter releases birds. Z49.7