145 motifs match “other's” — showing the first 100; narrow the words for the rest  ·  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
• Sun and moon as eyes of Rama which he tore out after his brother's death. A714.7
• 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
• Animal characteristics: obtaining another's qualities. A2240
• Plant from mother's milk. A2615.2
• Animals taught one another's language. B215.0.1
• Sister-in-law tabu: older brother must avoid younger brother's wife. C172
• Tabu: listening to mother's counsel. C815
• Unborn child affected by mother's broken tabu. C993
• Demons assume human form to revenge brother's death. D651.1.2
• Magic object found on mother's grave. (Cf. D815.1.) D842.1
• Magic knowledge of another's thoughts. D1819.1
• Magic sight by treading on another's foot. D1821.1
• Magic sleep by hairdressing. Head laid on another's lap. D1962.3
• Milk transferred from another's cow by magic. (Cf. D1605.2, C2087.) D2083.3
• Milk transferred from another's cow by squeezing an axehandle (or the like). D2083.3.1
• Witch transfers milk from another's cows by use of hair rope. D2083.3.2
• Witch transfers milk from another's cows to a vessel. D2083.3.3
• 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 brother's return. E226
• Dead mother's friendly return. E323
• Dead brother's friendly return. E326
• Troll's life in his brother's forehead. E714.3.1
• 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
• One person's life dependent on another's. E765.5
• Fairies made visible by standing on another's foot. F235.5.1
• Spirit made visible by standing on another's foot. F412.2
• Trolls seen through another's arm (or the like). (Cf. D1821.3.1, F235.6.) F455.5.4.3
• Hero's unusual strength from drinking his own mother's milk. F611.2.0.1
• Person concealed in another's body. F1034
• Man dies from grieving over mother's death. F1041.1.3.8
• Madness (rage) from hearing about brother's death. F1041.8.10
• 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
• Drinking-tube as chastity index: retains taste of another's lips. H439.2
• Wife's faithfulness tested by proposal in another's name. H467.2
• 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
• Question (on quest): When will a ferryman be released from his duty? Answer: When he is able to get out of the boat and leave the oar in another's hand. H1292.8
• 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
• The bookman and the boatman: each ignorant of other's work. Bookman's swimming saves their lives. J251.1
• One cock takes glory of another's valor. Victor in cock fight crows over his victory. He is taken off by eagle. A second cock then comes out from hiding and struts about among the hens. J972
• 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
• One dueller fights with God's help; the other with his brother's. First claims that the odds are unfair; second agrees that he will fight without his brother if the first will fight without God. J1217.1
• 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
• Boy strikes at a fly on his sister's breast: it turns into nipple and girl thinks it due to brother's caress. J1833.1.1
• Numskull prepares brother's wedding (father's funeral). On the way home from town he destroys his purchases. (Cf. J1851, J1856, J1871.) J1846
• Man avenges brother's death by wholesale slaughter of wild pigs. J1866.1
• Substitute for the corpse. Fool loses his mother's corpse on way to funeral. Mistakes old woman for mother and substitutes her. J1959.2
• Pumpkin tied to another's leg. A numskull ties a pumpkin to his leg at night so that he shall know himself in the morning. Someone ties the pumpkin to another's leg and the numskull is not sure of his identity next morning. J2013.3
• Fool sows his mother's seed rice on other people's fields. J2129.8
• Animal allows himself to be tied to another's tail and is dragged to death. J2132.5
• Men exchange duties: each wants to get better of the other, but is cheated, finding the other's work more difficult. J2431.1
• 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
• Race won by deception: riding on the back. One contestant rides on the other's back. (Cf. K25.1.) K11.2
• Deceptive bargain: first to say "Good morning." The first to give the greeting shall have the disputed property. The trickster is early on the scene and witnesses the other's adultery. He may keep the property without saying good morning. K176
• Mutual agreement to divide food. Trickster eats other's food and then refuses to divide his own. K231.1.2
• Animals climb on one another's backs and cry out; frighten robbers. K335.1.4
• Ox's tail in another's mouth. The thief kills one ox and puts the tail in another ox's mouth: the owner thinks one ox has eaten the other. K404.2
• Thief's confederate cuts off own arm to furnish alibi for family's grief. (Previously he had severed father's or brother's head to escape detection.) K407.2.1
• 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
• Treacherous friend drinks out of other's flask to save the water in his own. K499.9
• Wives killed when large price for his mother's (wife's) corpse is reported by trickster. K941.1.1
• Brother causes brother's death by sending him to robbers and giving false advice. K991.1
• Brothers duped into killing each other by slander that one of them is father to the other's child. K1092
• 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
• The treasure-finders who murder one another. Two (three) men find a treasure. One of them secretly puts poison in the other's wine, but the other kills him, drinks the wine and dies. K1685
• The easier job. Men exchange jobs because each is made to believe that the other's is easier. It is not. K1687
• Bluff: thunder said to be the rolling of hero's brother's wagon. Ogre overawed. K1718.1
• False tidings of another's death in order to secure his bride. K1864.1
• False bride makes child cry and demand mother's clothes and ornaments. K1911.1.8.1
• Impostor: one sister borrows another's clothes and gets religious blessing in her place. K1988.1
• Trickster makes two friends each suspicious of the other's intentions. K2131
• Two persons separately informed about each other's death. K2142
• Ape tries to flee with favorite child; neglected child saves himself. The favorite child is killed through the mother's overanxiety. L146.1
• Vow never to pass over demarcation line into other's property. M186
• Two men in love agree to have nothing to do with the girl without the other's consent. M296
• Mother's symbolic dream (vision) about the greatness of her unborn child. M312.0.4
• Man who derided another's faith in the stars becomes respected astrologer. (Cf. P481.) N186
• Secret about prince's father learned by eavesdropper from his mother's talking to him. N455.7
• Person accidentally met unexpectedly knows the other's name. N762