75 motifs match “overcome”  ·  back to the chapters

• Moon-god, overcome in contest with mortal, threatens to withold rain and game. A182.3.6
• Culture hero (demigod) overcomes monsters. A531
• World catastrophe. The world is destroyed. The incidents are usually the same whether a final destruction is thought of or a destruction which may be overcome by a renewal of the earth. A1000
• Birds fill sea with dirt and overcome flood. A1028.2
• Giant lion overcome by hero. B16.2.3
• Giant devastating wolf overcome by hero. B16.2.4
• Animal overcomes man's adversary. B524
• Animals overcome man's adversary by force. B524.1
• Animals overcome man's adversary by strategy. B524.2
• Animals help man overcome monster with external soul. Discover where he keeps his soul. B571.1
• Man magically stretches self to overcome cliff. D55.1.1
• Man magically stretches self to overcome opponent in battle. D55.1.1.1
• Spell overcomes all danger. (Cf. D1273.) D1380.24
• Magic object overcomes person. D1400
• Saint's bachall overcomes beast in hell. D1400.1.12.1
• Magic object overcomes person – miscellaneous. D1409
• Magic sight overcome by incantation. (Cf. D1273.) D1822.1
• Magic earth-slip overcomes enemies. D2091.15
• Contest of heat and cold. Magicians contest with each other in producing heat or cold that will overcome the other. D2144.2
• Vampire's power overcome. E251.1
• Vampire's power overcome by endurance and prayer. Hero continues to pray without looking or speaking while vampire punishes him. E251.1.1
• Enormous pack of dogs in wild hunt. Overcome people by their mass. E501.4.1.1
• Man on Island of Fair Women overcome by loving women. F112.1
• Hero fights in otherworld and overcomes king (queen), or fairy. F176
• Tuatha Dé Danann, conquerors of Ireland, are overcome by invaders. (Maic Milid, "Milesians," Gaels) and betake themselves into hills. F211.0.2.1
• Fairy's curse partially overcome by another fairy's amendment. F316.1
• Fairy's curse partially overcome by her own amendment after being appeased. F316.2
• Spirit overcome by driving stake through body it inhabits. F405.9
• Strong hero kills (overcomes) playmates: sent from home. F612.2
• Strong man overcomes giant. (Cf. F628.2.3.) F639.4
• Witch overcome or escaped. G270
• Witch overcome by helpful dogs of hero. G275.2
• Witch overcome by help of fairy. (Cf. N815.) G275.8.2
• Witch overcome by threats. G275.15
• Witch overcome by threatening with sword. G275.15.1
• Witch overcome or escaped – miscellaneous. G279
• Devil is overcome by man in fight. Man pulls out one of his horns and beats him with it. G303.9.6.1.1
• Hero overcomes devastating animal. G510.4
• Ogre made drunk and overcome. G521
• Giant overcome and slain when his wife binds his hair to posts. G530.1.1
• Suitor task: to overcome robbers. H335.4.2
• Contest in enduring cold: wind overcomes frost. H1541.2
• The flute makes more noise. A man overcomes his quarrelsome wife by playing the flute as long as she is scolding. J1541.2
• The man who wanted to be dead one day. A husband tells his wife that he has provisions for every day in the year but one. He proposes to play dead for that one day, thinking that the servants will be overcome with grief and cannot eat. After brief mourning, however, they eat more than usual. The man then thinks to frighten them by rising from the dead. One servant thinking the dead man suffering from devils kills him. J2188
• Guardian beast overcome by hero's mirrors. K335.1.7
• Robber overcome. K437
• Girl to dance for robbers asks to bring her party (strong men in disguise) who overcome robbers. K551.3.6.1
• Woman (Amazon) in disguise invites enemies singly into forest and overcomes them. K778.1
• Army intoxicated and overcome. K871.1
• Supernatural personages seen in dreams advise opposing kings how each can overcome the other. K2035
• Horse with basket of powdered peppers sent into hostile camp: enemy overcome. K2351.6.1
• Youngest animal in group overcomes adversary. L72
• Lowly hero overcomes proud rivals. L156.1
• Weak overcomes strong in conflict. L310
• Weak (small) hero overcomes large fighter. L311
• Sick hero overcomes antagonist. L311.1
• Poorly-armed hero overcomes well-armed by strategy. L311.2
• Poor prince overcomes king. L311.3
• Small boy overcomes enraged gorilla. L311.5
• Small animal overcomes large. L315
• Mouse runs into buffalo's ear and overcomes him. L315.1.1
• Mice overcome camel. L315.10
• Ants overcome serpent. L315.14
• Gnats having overcome lion are in turn killed by spider. L478
• Prophecy: girl will be perfect in love but will die in a desert overcome by separation from her love. M365.3
• Exposure (murder) of child to avoid fulfillment of prophecy of future greatness. Parent fears that the child will overcome him. M371.1
• All male children killed for fear that they will overcome parent. M375.1
• Children swallowed one after the other as they are born for fear one of them will overcome father. M376.3
• Miscellaneous ways to overcome curses. (Cf. D2071.1.) M429
• Accidental meeting with the son of the only person who can overcome curse on hero. N718
• Nobility of character a mark of kings. Kings overcomes passion for beautiful captives and sends them back untouched to their people. P12.9
• Student challenges his fencing master. Is overcome by the latter's tricks. P342.1
• Man who has received sacrament overcomes enemy, a blasphemer. V34.3
• Christ in the desert overcomes devil by fasting. V73.0.1
• Saint overcomes (destroys) monsters (dragons). V229.4