44 motifs match “nurse”  ·  back to the chapters

• Animal nurse. Animal nourishes abandoned child. B535
• Cow as nurse cares for children. B535.0.1
• Bison as nurse for child. B535.0.1.1
• Bandicoot (large rat) as nurse. Cares for children. B535.0.2
• Goat as nurse for child. B535.0.3
• Dog as nurse for child. B535.0.4
• Frog as nurse for child. B535.0.6
• Bird as nurse for child. B535.0.7
• Stork as nurse for child. B535.0.7.1
• Crane as nurse for child. B535.0.7.2
• Tiger as nurse for child. B535.0.8
• She-wolf as nurse for child. B535.0.9
• Crab as nurse for child. B535.0.13
• Serpent as nurse for child. B535.0.14
• Animal nurses fight with real parent for children. B535.2
• Stolen child rescued by animal nurse. (Cf. B535.) B543.3
• Female bears have no breasts to nurse their young – suck paws. B725
• Fairies take human nurse to attend fairy child. F372
• Identification by nurse. Long-missing person identified by his childhood nurse. H183
• King: What is your sister doing? Youth: She is mourning last year's laughter. (Nurses child, the fruit of last year's love affair.) H583.5
• Formerly I was daughter, now I am mother; I have a son who was the husband of my mother. (Girl has nursed her imprisoned father through a crack in the prison wall.) H807
• Nurse's false plea admitted: child demanded. A nurse falsely demands pay for caring for a child which she says is the hero's. In court: "The child is indeed mine; give him to me." The child belongs to a peasant. Nurse confesses and is punished. J1162.1
• Wolf waits in vain for the nurse to throw away the child. She has threatened to throw the child to the wolf. J2066.5
• Absent-minded nurse lets child down into well instead of bucket. J2175.3
• Deceptive division of shared wife. Evil takes lower half of wife, Good takes upper half. Child begotten by Evil not permitted to nurse the top half which belongs to Good. K171.7
• Thieves ask nurse maid to dance while they steal prince. K341.17.1
• Sham nurse kills enemy's children. K931
• Girl covers nurse's one good eye so that she cannot see her lover. K1516.2
• Repentant nurse disguises as hermit. K1837.3
• Nurse exchanges children so that the preferred child will be assured of wealth. K1923.1
• Jackal as nurse for leopard cubs eats their food. Chased by leopard. K2061.11
• Animal nurse wounds self so as to throw blame for eaten young on other animal. K2153.1
• The cadaver arm. Medical students (or student nurses or hospital employees) play trick on one of their number by suspending a cadaver arm or leg from the light cord in the person's room (sometimes the object is placed in the person's bed). Some circumstance keeps them from being on hand to observe the person's reaction; the next day they remember the joke and go to the victim's room to investigate. They have to break down the door. They find the victim sitting on the bed – her hair is snow white – and she is gnawing on the cadaver arm. N384.0.1.1
• Fairy nurse as helper. N815.1
• Faithful nurse tries to save tyrant's daughter by exposing her own in her place. P361.4
• Abandoned maiden helped by her faithful nurse. P361.5
• Nurse begs alms from door to door so as to keep child and nurture him. R131.0.1
• Child rescued by nurse. R169.13
• Abandoned child made over to its own mother (sister) acting as wet nurse. S351.0.1
• Girl intoxicates nurse to keep rendezvous with lover. T35.3
• Boy is denied sight of all women except his mother and his nurse until he is eighteen. He falls in love with the first woman who is more attractive than his mother. T371.1
• Divine nurse. T605
• Diabolical child kills his wet-nurses. (Gowther, Robert the Devil.) T614
• Christ in form of an infant nursed by saint. V211.1.8.1