52 motifs match “meeting”  ·  back to the chapters

• Person frightened by animals successively replying to his remarks. Example: Man riding horse and followed by dog tells horse to jump over a hole. Horse says, "I will not." Man turns to dog and says, "Isn't that strange – a horse talking!" The dog says, "Yes, isn't it." Often the man runs, meeting other animals which answer him, until he falls exhausted. B210.1
• Secrets discussed in animal meeting. B235
• Remedy learned from overhearing animal meeting. The hero learns how to cure his own blindness and the sickness of the king (princess). B513
• Tabu: holding meeting at certain place. C853.1
• Meeting certain persons (animals) a bad omen. D1812.5.1.7
• Meeting certain person (animal) a good omen. D1812.5.2.2
• Good omen: meeting old woman with pot of newly drawn water. D1812.5.2.2.1
• Meeting ghost causes misfortune. E265
• Meeting ghost causes sickness. (Cf. D2064.) E265.1
• Meeting ghost causes person to go mad. (Cf. D2065.) E265.2
• Meeting ghost causes death. (Cf. E574.) E265.3
• Meetings of the dead. E490
• Meetings of the dead – miscellaneous. E499
• Evil effects of meeting wild hunt. E501.18
• River rises to prevent meeting of hostile armies. F932.8.2.1
• Witch's sabbath. A meeting of witches in which church services are burlesqued. G243
• Devil appears at meetings of witches. G303.6.2.2
• Deceased wife marriage test. Man will marry woman meeting certain specifications prescribed by his deceased wife. H363
• Man learns the fear of Death by meeting Life. Life (old woman) beheads him and replaces his head backwards. Simpleton left in fear for hours before head is readjusted. J27
• Ruler interrupts meeting of Senate to amuse his small son. When rebuked for making him a whistle he says: "I would have blown it for him had he asked me to do so." J553.2
• An oath to break oaths. Village called on to join in war deliberates in meeting. A man says, "We have taken oaths not to go to war. We must now take an oath to break all the oaths we have taken." J1458
• The priest makes the omen come true. A woman crosses herself when she meets a priest, as if he were the devil. She says that meeting a priest always brings her bad luck. The priest knocks her down and steps on her. "As ye believe, so shall it be." J1624
• Taking cold in effigy. A traitor is hanged in effigy naked. Later the citizens sue for peace and arrange a meeting. They find him in a hot room swathed with many blankets. He says that he has taken cold when the night wind blew on him as he hung naked from the gallows. J1628
• Remove turban as last duty. Sleepy servant removes master's turban while still in council meeting. J2516.7
• Illness feigned to escape unwelcome meeting. K523.0.2
• Death feigned to meet paramour. Meetings in the grave (grave box). K1538
• Adulteress uses the public baths as a meeting-place with her lover. A naive remark by her child exposes the deception to the husband. K1587
• Enemy invited to meeting and attacked. K2013.1
• Irrevocable judgment causes judge to suffer first. Has decreed that no one enter a meeting armed. He forgets to remove his sword. Kills himself. M11
• Prophecy: meeting will take place only after death. M396
• Accidental meeting of hero and heroine. N710
• Accidental meeting with the son of the only person who can overcome curse on hero. N718
• Unexpected meeting of father and son. N731
• Accidental meeting of father and daughter. N732
• Accidental meeting of brothers. N733
• Accidental meeting of brother and sister. N734
• Accidental meeting of mother and son. N735
• Accidental meeting of mother and daughter. N736
• Accidental meeting of nephew and uncle. Hero takes refuge unwittingly at his uncle's court. N738
• Unexpected meeting of husband and wife. N741
• Accidental meeting of sisters. N743
• Accidental meeting of seeker of exiled prince with prince at meal. Messenger in pilgrim garb invites unknown prince to eat with him. Recognition. N745
• Accidental meeting of cousins. N746
• Unexpected meeting with wild man. (Cf. F567.) N764
• Meeting with robber band. N765
• Punishment: meeting frightful apparition. (Ghost, mysterious animal, devil.) Q552.11
• Heroine's three-fold flight from ball. Cinderella (Cap o' Rushes) after meeting the prince at a ball (church) flees before identification is possible. Repeated three times. R221
• Lovers' meeting. T30
• Lovers' meeting: hero in service of heroine. As page, or the like. T31
• Lovers' meeting: hero in service of lady's father. T31.1
• Lovers' meeting: heroine heals hero's wounds. (Cf. T67.2.) T32
• Lovers' meeting: hero in heroine's father's prison from which she helps him to escape. T32.1