75 motifs match “mother's”  ·  back to the chapters

• God born from mother's ear. A112.7.1
• God born from mother's armpit. A112.7.2
• Goddess born from mother's eyes. A112.7.3
• Culture hero snatched from mother's side. A511.1.1
• Culture hero in mother's womb indicates direction to be taken by her. A511.1.2.2
• Hero formed by god out of mother's apron. A511.1.4.2
• Cause of eclipses: mother's curse laid upon her third son. A737.2
• Mark of her mother's hand to be seen on moon's shoulder. A751.5.3
• The four world-columns fastened immovably by two gods with their mother's hairs. A841.0.1
• Plant from mother's milk. A2615.2
• Tabu: listening to mother's counsel. C815
• Unborn child affected by mother's broken tabu. C993
• Magic object found on mother's grave. (Cf. D815.1.) D842.1
• Dead mother's malevolent return. E222
• Mother's ghost tries to tear daughter to pieces. E222.1
• Dead mother haunts daughter who marries against mother's will. E222.2
• Dead mother's friendly return. E323
• Soul of unborn son comes out of mother's mouth (in form of stone), is kept by her, and later is given to son. (Cf. E711.7.) E726.2
• Hero's unusual strength from drinking his own mother's milk. F611.2.0.1
• Man dies from grieving over mother's death. F1041.1.3.8
• Girl avoids eating her mother's flesh by spilling the meat and the soup in the pen. G61.1.1
• Recognition of son by gushing up of milk in mother's breasts. H175.1
• Suitor test: obtaining for bride a necklace like her mother's. H355.5
• Test of mother's and father's love for children. H491
• Man wins wife by instructing her how to answer her mother's riddles. H551.1
• What is sweetest? Mother's breast. H633.3
• What is brightest? Mother's eyes. (Cf. H662.) H651.2
• What is softest? Mother's bosom. H652.2
• Riddle of the unborn. I am unborn; my horse is unborn; I carry my mother on my hands. (A boy who has been taken from his dead mother's body digs up the body of his mother and makes gloves of her skin. He rides on a colt which has been taken from a dead mare's body.) H792
• Tasks assigned because of mother's foolish boasting. The mother foolishly boasts to the king that the daughter can perform an impossible task (often spinning). H914
• Directions on quest given by child(ren) still in mother's womb. H1232.5
• Child unwittingly betrays his mother's adultery. Tells father not to step across chalk line drawn around secretary; if he does secretary may do to him what he did to Mother the other day. J125.2.1
• Man disregards mother's warning and is punished. J1054
• Mother's weeping for thief made to seem natural. J1142.4.1
• Clever son falls from tree, so mother's tears over dead body of father being carried through street will seem natural. J1142.4.1.1
• Priest may use his own mother's mass money. At his mother's funeral a boy takes the money laid on the altar for masses. When the priest objects, the boy says, "When your mother dies you may take the money too." J1261.6
• Substitute for the corpse. Fool loses his mother's corpse on way to funeral. Mistakes old woman for mother and substitutes her. J1959.2
• Fool sows his mother's seed rice on other people's fields. J2129.8
• Foolish bride gives away dowry. While her parents are away from home, a matchmaker and a suitor come to the foolish girl. By following her mother's advice literally, she gives away her dower to the tricksters. J2463.1
• Trickster sells mother's wine to merchant without asking her permission. Mother saves part of wine because purchaser is dilatory in removing casks. K499.1
• Wives killed when large price for his mother's (wife's) corpse is reported by trickster. K941.1.1
• Friar undertakes to awaken girl. He follows her mother's order according to his own interpretation. K1354.3.1
• Trickster masking as bridegroom tells bride that he comes at her mother's request. K1354.3.2
• False bride makes child cry and demand mother's clothes and ornaments. K1911.1.8.1
• Ape tries to flee with favorite child; neglected child saves himself. The favorite child is killed through the mother's overanxiety. L146.1
• Mother's symbolic dream (vision) about the greatness of her unborn child. M312.0.4
• Secret about prince's father learned by eavesdropper from his mother's talking to him. N455.7
• Mother's parting gift to adventuring son: the two loaves of bread. One for hunger, one for overeating. N782
• Boy sickens from grief at mother's death. P231.1
• Mother's brother as foster father. P293.1
• Mother's brother as helper. P293.2
• Children take after their mother's brothers. P293.2.1
• Young prince sent to his father's mother's brother. P293.4
• Saints miraculously cause child to fall over cliff as punishment for mother's washing clothes in holy well. (Cf. Q222, Q411.3.) Q559.9
• Son on gallows bites his mother's (father's) nose off: punishment for neglect in youth. Q586
• Man marries his aunt (mother's sister). T421
• Conception through mother's side. (Cf. T584.1.) T517.2
• Child speaks in mother's womb. T575.1
• Child in mother's womb reveals crime. T575.1.1
• Child in mother's womb reveals murder. T575.1.1.1
• Child in mother's womb reveals adultery. T575.1.1.2
• Child in mother's womb reveals unjust judgment. T575.1.1.3
• Future suicide weeps in mother's womb. T575.1.2
• Twins quarrel before birth in mother's womb. T575.1.3
• Future poet chants spell in mother's womb. T575.1.4
• Child in mother's belly guides her. T575.1.6
• Child speaks from dead mother's womb. (Cf. T584.2.) T575.3
• Child in mother's womb visible from outside. T575.4
• Birth through the mother's side. T584.1
• Twins freed from dead mother's body as body rots. T584.2.1.1
• Hero is born by splitting mother's womb. T584.7
• Infant saint rebukes mother's impiety. T585.4
• Dead mother's breasts furnish sufficient nourishment for her baby during two years. T611.9
• Christ as infant in mother's arms causes bare hillside to become field of wheat as protection. V211.1.8.3
• Saint as baby refuses to take mother's breast on Wednesdays and Fridays. V229.2.3.1