53 motifs match “injure”  ·  back to the chapters

• Origin of physical defects. Wicked people entering heaven on rope fall to earth and are injured. St. Peter misunderstands what God says and lets them fall. A1338
• Snake revives snakes which have been injured (the doctor snake). B765.21
• Dragon fly acts as doctor to injured snakes. B765.24.1
• When a wer-tiger is injured, similar marks appear on the human body of man who has possessed it. D112.2.1.1
• Saint placed in boiling oil but uninjured. D1841.2.2.1
• Fire does not injure a saint. D1841.3.2
• Ghost returns to slay man who has injured it while living. E232.2
• Substituted arm. Injured arm replaced by another. (Cf. A128.4.1.) E782.3.1
• Substituted leg. Injured leg replaced by another. E782.4.1
• Slamming door on exit from mountain otherworld. It (almost) injures the hero because he has failed to bring back the talisman which opened the mountain. F91.1
• Slamming drawbridge to otherworld. Slams as hero leaves and (almost) injures him. He has failed to do the one compulsory thing. (Percival.) F152.2
• Witch injures, enchants or transforms. G263
• Breaking spell by beating the person or object bewitched. This injures the witch. G271.4.5
• Witch in the form of an animal is injured or killed as a result of the injury to the animal. (Cf. G252, G275.14.) G275.12
• Witch out of body while traveling at night is injured; witch's body is injured at home. (Cf. G275.12.) G275.14
• Witch raises wind to sink ships of people who have injured her. G283.1.2.3
• Demons injure and strangle little children. G302.9.4
• Devil inflames saint's injured eye. G303.9.6.2.1
• Satan injures man. G303.20.8
• Serpent (bird) having injured man refuses reconciliation. He knows that neither can forget their injuries. J15
• One wild goat steps over another. They thus pass each other uninjured on a cliff. This shows advantage of peaceableness. J133.1
• Don't injure yourself to insure your family's future. J322
• Palamides, having injured Ulysses, seeks advice from him. Following the advice proves fatal. J646.1
• Jackal and leopard tie tails together for mutual protection. Frightened, they run apart and injure each other. J681.1.1
• Cowboy shoots his wife when she breaks her leg (or is injured in another way). J1919.9
• Fool believes plea of not guilty even though he has seen man injure him. J2045
• Numskull injured. J2131
• Numskulls try to kill mosquitoes with bows and arrows: only injure themselves. J2131.0.1
• Numskull injures his limbs. J2131.3
• Jackal ties captive crow to his tail. Crow pecks self loose and injures jackal's tail. J2132.3.1
• Numskull rides on tiger's back. (Cf. J1758.1.1.) Dragged to his death (or injured). J2132.4
• Fool re-enacts the accident. Falls and injures self and others. (Cf. J2062.) J2133.14
• Coyote wears fox's rattle; caught in brush and injured. J2136.1
• The ogre tars the hero's boat, thinking to injure him. J2171.1.2
• Servant injures master while shampooing him. Gives him a slap and breaks his skin. J2665.2
• Threatening tiger challenged to strength contest. Beguiled into holding wood for plow and is injured. K547.9
• Fairy child injured by man who says that his name is "Self". Child tells mother, "Self did it." K602.1
• Making the dupe strong. The false doctor injures him. K1012
• False beauty-doctor. The trickster pretends to make the dupe beautiful. Injures him. K1013
• False hair-restorer injures patient. K1013.5
• Pepper rubbed on injured skin. K1014.2
• Biting on stone given as remedy for toothache. Teeth injured. K1015.1
• Trickster pretends to give dupe magic power to produce food. Injures him. K1036
• Dupe injures self on fence of thorns surrounding food-plants. K1038
• Teaching Latin. Cuts off tip of pupil's tongue or orders him to lick cold iron – pupil injures himself. K1068.2
• One animal injures another by deception. K2382
• Man goes to well at midnight on Old Christmas to see water turned into wine. Just as it turns into wine the devil takes him, or injures him. M211.1.1
• Child falls from cliff; uninjured. N653
• Injured husband will not kill a naked man. P641
• Saint drinks poison without being injured. V228.1.1
• Deaf persons: search for the lost animal. A inquires for his lost animal. B talks about his work and makes a gesture. – A follows the direction of the gesture and happens to find the animals. He returns and offers an injured animal to B in thanks. – B thinks that he is blamed for injuring the animals. Dispute. Taken to deaf judge. (Cf. X111.14.) X111.1
• Cumulative pursuit. Boys get help. One of them injures the helper. Pursued. Hidden by kind hen. One injures the hen. Hen pursues, etc. Z49.2
• Man can be injured only in armpits. Z311.4