82 motifs match “jealous”  ·  back to the chapters

• Satan seduces Adam to sin because he is jealous of him. A63.5.1
• Jealous wife of god. A164.7
• God jealous of a mortal. A189.4
• God's jealousy. A194.3
• Sun's affection for human girl rouses moon's jealousy. A736.7
• First human being killed by jealous brothers (reptiles and insects). A1297
• Origin of jealousy and selfishness. A1375
• Flounder complains in race: crooked mouth. In race between fish he cries out in jealousy because herring is winning. He is punished with crooked mouth. (Cf. A2341.1.) A2252.4
• Jealous co-wife transforms the other. D665.3
• Jealous woman reborn as chilly. E692.4
• Water-spirits are jealous. F420.4.5
• Death from jealousy. F1041.1.9
• Ogre's wife jealous of him. G674
• Riddle: what are the two fixed, the two moving, the two joined, the two separated by jealousy, the two eternal enemies? (Heaven and earth; sun and moon; night and day; soul and body; life and death.) H851
• Tasks assigned at suggestion of jealous rivals. H911
• Task (quest) assigned at suggestion of jealous co-wife. H911.1
• Tasks assigned at suggestion of jealous brothers (sisters). H912
• Tasks assigned by jealous parent. H913
• Tasks assigned by jealous mother. H913.1
• Task assigned at suggestion of jealous mother (of prospective bride). H913.1.1
• Task suggested by jealous co-wife of mother. H913.1.2
• Tasks assigned at suggestion of jealous father. H913.2
• Task assigned at suggestion of jealous father (of prospective bride). H913.2.1
• Friendship kept up even during sons' jealousy and enmity. H1558.10
• Man with unfaithful wife comforted when he sees jealous husband who carefully guards wife cuckolded. J882.2
• The silence wager. A man and his wife make a wager as to who shall speak first (close the door). The man (woman) becomes jealous and scolds; loses the wager. J2511
• Jealous wife tells sister to look below: pushes her over cliff. K832.1
• Jealous husband tricks blind poet into slaying wife's lover with infallible spear. K863.1
• Goddess arouses heroes' jealousy and eternal fighting. K1093
• Seduction by making woman jealous of co-wife. K1368
• Jealous queens tell child-bearing queen to put her head in the hole at the bottom of grain-bin, so that she fails to see what she delivers. K2115.0.1
• Jealous monk falsely accuses novice of laziness. K2129.1
• Jealous courtiers shake king lion's confidence in his councillor, the virtuous jackal, by accusing the jackal of stealing the lion's food. K2141
• Jealous rivals prevail on person to break tabu (prohibition). K2220.0.1
• Youngest daughter agrees to marry a monster; later the sisters are jealous. L54.1
• Ass is jealous of the horse until he learns better. L452
• Ass jealous of horse, but sees horse later working in a mill. L452.1
• Ass jealous of war-horse until he sees him wounded. L452.2
• Vow never to be jealous of one's wife. M137
• Woman requires husband free from jealousy. M137.1
• Jealous sisters curse the child one of them may have by the god Thor, so that it never will grow nor thrive. M437.2
• Jealous and overhasty man kills his rescuing twin brother. N342.3
• Jealous husband kills innocent wife. Suspicions aroused when villain leaves his handkerchief in her room. (Othello.) N348
• Husband forgiven for having killed jealous wife: builds monastery and becomes monk in it. Q171.1.1
• Jealousy punished. (Cf. W181.) Q301
• Jealous husband kills bird which wife falsely says she has been listening to. She has really been conversing with her lover. (Laüstic.) Q587
• Jealous father sends son to upper world on stretching tree. S11.2
• Jealous father vows to kill daughter's suitors. S11.4.1
• Fratricide motivated by love-jealousy. (Cf. T257.) S73.1.4
• Jealous women mutilate her who is most attractive to men. S160.2
• King, jealous of son, banishes him and his wife. S322.1.5.1
• Jealous mother casts daughter forth. (Cf. S12.) S322.2
• Mother exposes child (for fear of jealous co-wife). S322.2.1
• Jealous co-wife kills woman's children. (Cf. K2222.) S322.3
• Jealous co-wife demands murder of woman's children. S322.3.1
• Jealous concubine plots against real wife's daughter. S322.3.2
• Jealous mother-in-law and sisters cast woman's children forth. S322.6
• Jealous wife has merchant turn out queen and son, whom he had befriended and taken into his home. S463
• Falling furniture threatens bridal couple. Furniture etc. arranged by jealous rival so that it will fall. T175.1
• Thief overhears and oversees quarrel of two jealous wives. Arraigned before judge, he asks any punishment be given him rather than that of having two wives. T251.1.6
• Jealous wife or husband. T257
• Heavenly maidens are not jealous. T257.0.1
• Woman jealous of a fair maid in her house. Fears her attraction for her husband. T257.1
• King's wives jealous of his attention to pet animal. T257.1.1
• Jealousy of rival wives. T257.2
• Jealous wife (mistress) transforms rival to hound. (Cf. B182.1.0.2.) T257.2.2
• Decision not to punish a jealous husband: he already suffers enough. T257.3
• Husband jealous of wife who goes to confession is punished by the priest. When the husband sees the priest take her behind the altar to punish her he volunteers to take the punishment. The wife says, "Pound him well. I am a terrible sinner." T257.4
• Jealous husband kills nightingale which his wife gets up to hear. T257.5
• Woman's scented hair attracts deer: husband jealous. T257.5.1
• Jealous king causes massacre of handsome young captives. T257.6
• Husband's unjust jealousy forces wife to commit adultery. T257.7
• Jealous husband objects to wife's enjoyment of intercourse: thinks she has had previous experience. T257.8
• Jealous husband spends all his earnings as skillful smith bribing courtiers not to talk to his wife, and at last locks her up in hut in the forest. T257.9
• Trickster sends jealous wife after husband: steals food. (Cf. K343.) T257.10
• Jealous wife ties husband to her so that he cannot get away to meet another woman. T257.11
• Jealousy. W181
• Sheep jealous of dog because he does nothing. Do not consider that he guards the flock. W181.1
• Jealous fox betrays wolf to peasant and then appropriates wolf's cave and food. Peasant kills him in a few days. W181.4
• Raven jealous of partridge's way of flying. W181.5
• Jealousy of Venus in the love of Psyche and Cupid. W181.6
• Ruler who is jealous of his subjects' happiness prohibits their games. W181.7