73 motifs match “knight”  ·  back to the chapters

• Mermaid sits on knight's bedpost. B81.5
• Man transformed to green knight. D57.1
• Knights in wild hunt. E501.2.1
• Elf-knight produces love-longing by blowing on horn. F301.2.1
• Tasks set maid by elfin knight before she can marry him. F301.4
• Elf-knight entices maiden away and kills her. F301.5
• Fairy smith gives knight a magic sword. F343.3
• Red knight. F527.1.1
• Green knight. F527.2
• Knights drink from a huge nine-gallon cup. F531.4.3
• Madness from regret that knight has forsaken his wife. F1041.8.9
• The devil as a distinguished-looking knight. G303.3.1.3
• Devil in fold of knight's cloak. (Cf. G303.6.2.12.) Knight permits him to lodge there and accompany him to a tournament on condition that he leave him without harm upon request. G303.8.9.1
• Devil in dragon's head on a shield. Is expelled by a knight (Percival). G303.8.10
• Devils appear to knight to try to call him from doing penance. G303.9.4.5
• Devil steals knight's cloak. G303.9.9.3
• Knight dismisses devil in name of cross. G303.16.3.5
• Knight saved from devil by friends. G303.16.19.8
• Devil serves knight faithfully. Devil saves his life and that of his wife. G303.22.10
• Knight disregards insult by servant. J411.9
• Servant asks master for arms of knighthood. Is given a stalk of garlic. J955.3
• Peasant asks to be knighted. Is told that he can be made rich but not noble. J955.3.1
• Clever pleading: fighting for King of Kings. Knight hailed before king for fighting blasphemer, tells king that he would fight to protect the honor of the king's name so why not for the name of the King of Kings? J1164
• Their assistance not asked. Knight attacks enemy contrary to orders. Part of army helps him and is killed. He disclaims responsibility since he had not asked their aid. J1169.3
• Four men's mistress. A husband disguises as a priest to hear his wife's confession. She says that she has been mistress of a servant, a knight, a fool, and a priest; i.e., her husband when he was her servant, and later her knight. He had then been a fool for demanding her confession, and was a priest because he had heard it. J1545.2
• Young knight substitutes for old man in tournament. K3.2
• Thief dressed half white, half black. His father's corpse is guarded by twenty knights in black and twenty in white. By disguising he steals back the corpse. K311.0.1
• Murder feigned to effect escape. Knight is refused permission to leave city. He rushes to city gates and pretends that he has just killed a public enemy. Is aided in his escape. K579.6
• Knight captured in pitfall while his horse escapes. K735.3
• Priest caught in lasso by rival lover. Mistress tells knight of priest's demands. Knight has her give assignation, and arranges around her a string lasso which he pulls, and catches priest. K1218.1.6
• Innocent girl sells her "love" and later receives it back. When she tells her mother what has happened, she is beaten. Thinking to right matters, she demands that the knight return what he has taken. (Sequel: K1275.) K1362
• Lover masks as king, knight. K1371.4.1
• Lover disguised as other knight in order to reach sweetheart. K1810.3
• Queen flees husband's persecution disguised as knight. K1812.8.1
• Virgin substitutes in tournament. A knight hears masses so long that he absents himself from a tournament. The Virgin takes his place. K1841.2
• Knight falsely accused of sedition. K2126
• Matron of Ephesus. (Vidua.) A woman mourns night and day by her husband's grave. A knight guarding a hanged man is about to lose his life because of the corpse he has stolen from the gallows. The matron offers him her love and substitutes her husband's corpse on the gallows so that the knight can escape. K2213.1
• Treacherous red knight. K2265
• Irrevocable sentence carried out even when innocence is proved. A knight condemned for murdering his comrade is met by the latter on the way to the gallows. A centurion leads them to the emperor, who condemns all three to death: first because he has been sentenced; second for causing by his absence the conviction of his comrade; third for delay in the execution. M12
• Prophecy: end of Round Table for Arthur's knights. M356.5
• Noblemen (knights). P50
• Knight jousts with all comers. (Cf. P561.) P52
• Knight's duty to perform as lady bids. P52.1
• Spendthrift knight. Divides his last penny. He is later helped by the grateful person. Q42.1
• Knight covers foal with his coat to protect it from storm. Q51.1
• Captive knight freed for having kept his word. Is allowed to leave to collect ransom (or marry fiancée). When he returns his captor frees him (or raises ransom). Q54.2
• Spurned ruler has the maiden marry highest ranking knight. Q87.1.1
• Knighthood as reward. Q113
• Renegade priest punished by death for allowing heathen to defile the host. A knight slays the priest. Q222.1.1
• Knight who ravished nun captured when she miraculously appears before him on his horse and holds reins until he is taken. Q244.2
• Hero in disguise of foolish knight, then of black knight, rescues lady. (Cf. R222.) R169.1
• Unknown knight. (Three days' tournament.) For three days in succession an unknown knight in different armor wins a tournament and escapes without recognition. Finally identified by tokens. R222
• Earl's daughter as reward to knight who helped to kill fierce buffalo. T68.2
• Maid vexes suitor by pretense. Noble maid who is to marry knight pretends to be beggar's daughter. T77
• Sultan's daughter in love with captured knight. T91.6.4.1
• Princess falls in love with knight. Marries him after her husband's death. T91.6.4.1.1
• Knight weds peasant girl. T121.1
• Woman enamored of an unknown knight in a tournament loses interest when she finds that it is her husband. (Cf. R222.) T236
• Girl named Mary has virginity spared by knight who has bought her. The Virgin appears to her. T321.2
• Girl's virginity spared by knight when he sees her surrounded by the Virgin and her train. In her straits the girl has prayed for help. T321.3
• Knight unsuccessfully tempted by host's wife. T331.2
• Knight doesn't want to go to heaven if there are no hunting dogs there. U134
• No great knights now because no great kings. U211
• Clothes of knight who kneels in mud before host as it passes miraculously kept clean. V34.4
• Hearing masses causes triumph in tournament. Angel takes absent knight's place. He is delayed by going to mass. V41.2
• Saladin asks to be made a Christian knight. V331.7
• Uncharitable knight drives bargain even in giving alms: devoured by serpents. His alms of corn turn to serpents. V422
• Nun hidden by abbess from pursuing knight betrays her own hiding place to him. Is afterwards abandoned. V465.1.2.1
• Wronged knight conquers enemy and then pardons him. W11.5.3
• King rewards knight with large sum of money. Chancellor: "If you saw such a sum it would seem large to you." King answers that it looks small and doubles it. W11.12.1
• Knight is ungrateful for rescue in battle. W154.12.1
• Prayer that overbearing knight's illness be increased. A little sickness has made him kind; more may make him kinder. W185.2
• Nearsighted knight mistakes own servant for one of the enemy. Runs lance into his posterior. X124