21 motifs match “hunters”  ·  back to the chapters

• Goddess protects animals from hunters. A189.12
• 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
• 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
• Women warriors or hunters. F565
• Women hunters. F565.4
• Hidden stag discovered when he begins to eat grapevine too soon after hunters have passed. J582.2
• 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
• 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
• Man gets bear off guard by telling her to listen for hunters: kills her. K832.4
• 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: hunters will encounter certain wild boar. M397
• Stag escapes from hunters to be eaten by lion. N255.1
• 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
• Jokes about hunters. X584
• 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