112 motifs match “jackal” — showing the first 100; narrow the words for the rest  ·  back to the chapters

• Creation of jackal. A1834.2
• Jackal carries sun in bag on back; burns his back black. (Cf. A721.1, A2356.3.2.) A2218.2
• Jackal persuades hyena to jump and break foot. Latter has short left hind foot. (Cf. A2375.2.5.) A2284.6
• Why jackal has bare tail. A2317.12.2
• Why jackal has black back. (Cf. A2218.2.) A2356.3.2
• Why hyena has short left hind foot. Deceived into jumping by jackal. (Cf. A2284.6.) A2375.2.5
• Why jackal's tail is short. A2378.4.5
• Why jackal cries in the night. A2427.1
• Why jackal may go everywhere. A2434.1.5
• Why jackals make noise at night when seeking food. A2479.3
• Why jackals do not go in herds. A2492.1
• Friendship between jackal and crocodile. A2493.11
• Friendship between jackal and alligator. A2493.11.1
• Friendship between jackal and elephant. A2493.11.2
• Friendship between jackal and tiger. A2493.11.3
• Jackal and tiger as business partners. A2493.11.3.1
• Friendship between jackal and partridge. A2493.11.4
• Friendship between lion and jackal. A2493.30.1
• Enmity between hyena and jackal. A2494.3.2
• The jackal's enemies. A2494.5
• Enmity between jackal and wild hen. A2494.5.1
• Enmity between jackal and kite. A2494.5.2
• Enmity between jackal and crab. A2494.5.3
• Enmity between jackal and alligator. A2494.5.4
• Prophetic jackal. B142.2
• Jackal gives warning. B142.2.1
• Jackal as beast of ill-omen. B147.1.2.4
• King of jackals. B241.2.9
• Jackal released: grateful. B375.10
• Helpful jackal. B435.2
• Jackal rides on fox. B557.13
• Jackal leads lost men out of wilderness. B563.4.1.2
• Marriage to jackal. B601.11
• Fanciful origin of the jackal. B710.1
• Transformation: man to jackal. D113.4
• Transformation: deity to jackal. D113.4.1
• Jackal-tooth as cure for madness. (Cf. D1011.) D1508.3
• Reincarnation as jackal. E612.10
• Hungry ghost reborn as jackal. E694.1
• Elephant allows jackal to quench his thirst by entering through his mouth to his stomach. F929.1
• Riddle: deaths from sleepiness, anger, and greed. Elephant sleeps before snake's hole. Snake bites elephant and kills it. Jackal eats hole in elephant and is caught inside. Snake can't get out of its hole. H803
• Task: making jackal laugh (weep). H1194.2
• Tiger, jackal, and bear each learn to fear man. They report him as head-thumper (he has beaten the tiger), turn-twister (he has swung jackal by tail), and top-tumbler (he has fallen out of tree on bear). J17.1
• Unsuccessful marriage of jackals and turtles (different abits). J414.3
• Jackal realizes that the partridge was too clever for him and leaves. J423.1
• Camel and jackal exchange food: camel is led by his good friend to thorny fruit and thorn sticks in his throat. J512.11
• Jackal accidentally made king but joins other jackals in howling at night. Killed. J512.13
• Jackal and leopard tie tails together for mutual protection. Frightened, they run apart and injure each other. J681.1.1
• Tailless jackal persuades other jackals to cut off tails. J758.1.2
• "High-born alone recognizes one of equal rank with himself." Jackal sees man with instrument he is unfamiliar with, comes up to him and salutes him "Lord of Delhi." Man calls him Lord of Jungle and tells above. J814.3
• Jackal covers up his inability to cross stream by saying he is looking for shallowest part. J873.1
• Clever jackal covers up his clumsiness in catching cows by saying he was running to and fro because he was looking for the fattest calf. J873.2
• Painted jackal admitted neither to the peacocks nor to the jackals. J951.4.1
• King of jackals captured because of his large banner. J951.5
• Jackal falls into dye vat, tries to pose as peacock: detected. J953.14
• Jackal as trickster. J1117.1
• Unjust claimant of woman duped into entering jar. Jackal as judge declares that real husband shall enter jar woman carries on her head. J1172.3.1
• Mill has given birth to horse. Jackal as judge comes late. "Tank of water caught fire." J1531.1.1
• One basket of wit better than twelve carloads of it. Female jackal saves herself and husband by quick thinking. (Cf. K622.1.) J1662.1
• Jackals jump into well after drums and are killed. J1791.3.4
• King orders houses built to keep howling jackals warm in winter. Rascal misappropriates funds. J1873.4
• Short-sighted wish: camel wishes a long neck. Killed by jackals. J2072.5
• Jackal's head caught in pot of blue dye. Animals make him king, but detect him from his cry and turn him out. J2131.5.6
• Jackal ties captive crow to his tail. Crow pecks self loose and injures jackal's tail. J2132.3.1
• Greedy jackal caught in carcass of dead bullock. J2136.6.1
• Jackal tries to roar like lion at elephant. Is killed. J2413.8
• Jackal cheats other animals of elephant they have killed together. K171.0.2
• Barber's and jackal's common garden: jackal pretends that garden has not yielded any fruit at all. K171.8
• Jackal refuses payment for being carried. K233.5
• Camel has offered one pound of flesh to jackal for help. Camel's tongue demanded. K255.4
• Partridge pretending to be wounded entices woman from food while jackal eats it. K341.5.2
• Theft by reporting relative's sickness. Woman falsely told that her father is wounded leaves her water pot with jackal. K343.1.2
• Jackal ordered to take meat to lion's family takes it to his own. K361.1
• One animal escapes by shamming as another (jackal as goat). K521.7
• Goat escapes from jackal by being covered with flowers. K521.8
• Jackal escapes by telling farmer he is jackal king and will call upon his subjects. K547.4
• Iguana persuades jackal to let him go so he can finish his drink. K551.2.1
• Jackal persuades woman to untie his legs so that he may get a drink. K551.17.2
• Escape by false plea: jackal asks to be able to clasp tree before crocodile kills it. K551.23
• Tiger persuaded by jackals to settle argument. Tricked. K555.3
• Jackal in tiger's house has permission to sit with tail hanging down between bamboo stems. Enlarges gap thus made and escapes. K563.1
• Jackal entrapped in elephant's carcass tells passing God to show his magic power by making it rain. Elephant's hide swells; jackal escapes. K565.2
• Burning the jackal. He expresses horror of that punishment. Sets fire to village from his burning tail. Why he has burnt tip on tail. K581.5
• Escape by pretended debate as to which must be judged. Jackals thus induce leopard to permit them to enter their cave, while he waits in vain. K622.1
• Jackals persuaded to enter pit to escape coming storm. Killed. K811.2
• Jackal feigns holiness but seizes worshipping rats. K815.16
• Monkey tricked into jumping in water and drowning self. Jackal hides in reeds which screen water. K891.3
• Jackal, swallowed by elephant so it can drink water in his belly, eats elephant's liver and kills him. K952.1.1
• Jackal eating into elephant's dead body becomes a prisoner when it dries up; is released when storm moistens hide. K1022.1.1
• Jackal persuaded to come to fireplace for food. Burns self. (Cf. K955.) K1032.1
• Jackal puts head in anus of sham-dead camel: caught and punished. K1036.1.1
• Jackal tells tales so as to get buffalo and tiger to kill each other; feeds on the meat. K1084.1.1
• "Dogs are chasing you," says ox to jackal. Really water gurgling in the ox's stomach. K1725.1
• Jackal as sham saint. K1961.1.5.1
• Jackal inside carcass of bullock makes people think his voice is God's. Demands gifts. K1973
• Hare (jackal) makes horns of wax and poses as horned animal. Horns melt by the fire. K1991
• Jackal persuades deer to steal from farmer, then informs farmer who catches deer. K2037
• Jackal as nurse for leopard cubs eats their food. Chased by leopard. K2061.11
• Envious jackal makes lion suspicious of his friend, the bull. The lion kills the bull. K2131.2
• Jealous courtiers shake king lion's confidence in his councillor, the virtuous jackal, by accusing the jackal of stealing the lion's food. K2141