39 motifs match “misfortune”  ·  back to the chapters

• Culture hero's (divinity's) expected return. Divinity or hero is expected to return at the proper time and rescue his people from their misfortunes. Often joined with A571. A580
• Origin of sickness and misfortune: monstrous births from brother-sister incestuous union. A1337.0.7
• The one compulsory thing. Unless one does this one thing, misfortune comes. (Sometimes one is under magic compulsion.) C650
• Injunction: sleep where night overtakes you. Otherwise misfortune will come. C683
• Injunction: to give sample of food to dog before eating. Misfortune follows failure to do so. C685
• Killing albatross causes misfortune to follow killer. C841.10.1
• Meeting ghost causes misfortune. E265
• Ghost haunts place of great accident or misfortune. E275
• Non-malevolent ghost haunts scene of former misfortune, crime, or tragedy. (C.f. E336, E337, E338, E339.) E334
• Fairy-like witch marries man and causes him misfortune. G264.4
• Riddle: how far is it from happiness to misfortune? H685
• How far is it from happiness to misfortune? One day; yesterday I was herdsman and now I am abbot. (Cf. H561.2.) H685.1
• Quest for the anger of God. Man is so fortunate that people say that he has everything but the anger of God. He seeks it and finds it with much misfortune. H1376.3.1
• Consolation for misfortune found in food. J861
• Poor man consoles self by thinking of misfortunes of rich. J883
• Consolation in misfortune – miscellaneous. J890
• Consolation: spiritual recompense for temporal misfortune. J893
• Banshees as portents of misfortune. M301.6.1
• Prophecy of general misfortune to newborn child. M340.3
• Prophecy of great misfortune. M340.6
• Prophecy of misfortune for prince avoided successfully in one respect. M391.1.1
• Wager: it is an auspicious day. In spite of all misfortunes wagerer insists that he is right. (Cf. N127.) N53
• Person pursued by misfortune. (Placidas, Eustacius.) His goods are destroyed, his wife carried off by a ship captain and his children by animals. N251
• Travelers pursued by misfortune. N251.4
• Misfortune pursues farmer. N251.7
• Messengers announce successive misfortunes. N252
• Messengers announce successive misfortunes to warrior as he sets out for war. Tells of death of father, mother, brother, and sister, but he refuses to turn back. N252.1
• Safety in shadow of wall. After many misfortunes the man is apparently safe. The wall falls on him. N253
• Escape from one misfortune into worse. N255
• Person has successive misfortunes while making plans because he forgets to say, "If God wills." (Cf. G224.1, J1217.1.) N385.1
• Mistake in interpreting prophecy (oracle) brings misfortune. N398
• Faithfulness of married couple in misfortune. T215
• Misfortune with oneself to blame the hardest. U160
• Misfortune ascribed to breaking Sabbath. V71.2
• Fasting on "Golden Fridays" as charm against certain misfortunes. V73.5
• Image blamed by suppliant for misfortunes. V123
• Heathen beats his god because of misfortune. (Cf. V123.) V381
• Equanimity of the enslaved unfortunate. Does not complain when beset by a series of misfortunes. (Cf. N251.1.) W25.1
• Cloud (mist) as symbol of misfortune. Z156