53 motifs match “hunting”  ·  back to the chapters

• God of hunting. A452
• Goddess of hunting. A452.1
• Milky Way a hunting party. A778.1
• Origin of hunting. A1458
• Origin of hunting and fishing customs. A1520
• Animal's occupation: hunting. A2452
• Infallible hunting-dog. B121.1.1
• Tabu: intercourse at hunting season. C119.1.3
• Tabu: women not to participate in hunting activities. C181.2
• Tabu: hunting in certain part of forest. (Cf. C612.) C614.1.0.2
• Tabu: hunting on shortest day in the year. C636
• Compulsion to regard hunting cry and follow hounds. C681.1
• Tabu: hunting in certain season. C755.6
• Tabu: hunting in hottest season. C755.6.1
• Tabu: hunting birds. Supernatural lover (king of birds) tells woman that son must not do so. C841.2
• Tabu: hunting a pig. C841.4
• Luck in hunting (fishing) lost for breaking tabu. C933
• Luck in hunting lost for breaking tabu. (Cf. C229.2.) C933.1
• Magic hunting collar. D1068.1
• Magic doll consulted for hunting. (Cf. D1268.) D1327.2
• Magic hunting collar insures death of game. (Cf. D1068.1.) D1449.2
• Enemies magically caused to lose sight of each other while hunting. D2062.2.4
• Hunting woman beaten with sticks of rowan-tree and ankles of corpse tied with branches of same tree. E442.1
• Wild huntsman wanders for hunting on Sunday. E501.3.6
• Otherworld reached by hunting animal. F159.1
• Giant's hunting (fishing). F531.3.12
• Giant carries prodigious hunting-prey (whales, bear). F531.3.13.1
• Crossbow goes bird hunting, shows mercy to first bird, which pleads for its life. F836.5
• Devil dressed in hunting clothes. G303.5.5
• Devil rides horse at night hunting lost souls over the heath. G303.7.1.3
• Devil gives luck with fishing and hunting. G303.10.7
• Devil destroys hunting party with terrible wind. G303.20.2
• Prince a-hunting enters on quest. H1222
• Litter of puppies tested by throwing them one by one at hanging hide of wild beast, and keeping the one that grips hide. Puppy grows up to be great hunting dog. H1588.1
• Hunting contest. H1592
• Fox with lion protector goes hunting alone and is killed. J684.1
• Aesop with the lantern. Aesop goes for fire to a neighbor's in the daytime and lights a lantern so as to bring the fire back. Fool asks him what he is hunting for with the lantern in the daytime. "I seek a man" (not a busybody). J1303
• The burden of two asses. A king and his son hunting on a hot day put their fur coats on the fool's back. King: "You have an ass's load on you." Fool: "Rather the burdens of two asses." J1352.1
• Trickster's greed while hunting causes him to be deserted. J2751
• Hunting contest won by deception. K30
• Enemies magically caused to lose sight of each other while hunting. K1886.2.1
• Sham prowess in hunting (fishing). K1968
• Bought game (fish) used to prove prowess in hunting (fishing). K1968.1
• Proud king displaced by angel. (King in the bath.) While the king is in the bath (or hunting) an angel in his form takes his place. The king is repulsed on all sides until he repents of his haughtiness. L411
• Accidental success in hunting or fishing. N620
• Man hunting honey encounters lost maiden, returns her to her parents. N785.1
• Hunting a madness of kings. P12.1
• Earl hunting in the king's forest imprisoned. Q433.10
• Farmer's son and noble's reared in country. The former takes to toil on farm, the latter to riding and hunting. U121.3
• Knight doesn't want to go to heaven if there are no hunting dogs there. U134
• Angel holds mass in church on the day that the king absents himself for sake of hunting trip. V49.2
• Hunting wolves with rod and line. X1124.4
• If the wolf's tail breaks. Trickster and companion are wolf hunting. The companion goes into the wolf hole. The wolf comes. The other catches the wolf by the tail and the wolf scratches dust into the companion's eyes. "What a dust." – "If the wolf's tail breaks, you will see another kind of dust!" X1133.3.2