26 motifs match “pursues”  ·  back to the chapters

• Breath of magic horse blows off or sucks in those he pursues. B184.1.5
• Tabu: stealing garment from a rock. The rock pursues. (The offended rolling stone.) C91.1
• Magic object pursues or captures. D1430
• Magic object pursues. D1431
• Rock (stone) pursues person. (Cf. D931.) D1431.1
• Magic weapon pursues victim. (Cf. D1080.) D1438
• Magic arrow pursues victim. (Cf. D1092.) D1438.2
• Wandering skull pursues man. E261.1
• Dead arises when shroud bursts and pursues attendant. E261.2
• Coffin bursts; dead arises and pursues attendant. E261.2.1
• Ghost pursues man. E261.4
• Wild hunter pursues a woman. E501.5.1
• Husband pursues fairy wife to heaven. F300.2
• Spirit pursues person. F402.1.10
• River pursues fugitive. F932.1
• Devil pursues man from carriage drawn by four white horses. G303.7.3.4
• Brother-Dead. Trapper of game; silent; pursues trickster. G323
• Great head as ogre. Head detached from body pursues or flies about doing damage. G361.2
• Hero pursues and kills fugitive in spite of bleeding wounds. H1507
• Ass follows after lion and is punished. Ass and cock are surprised by lion. Cock crows and scares lion, who runs. Ass thinks that he has scared lion and pursues. J952.2
• Wife prepares the pestle. Tells guests husband uses it against guests. They flee. Tells husband they left because she refused to give them pestle. Husband pursues to give them the pestle, but they run the faster. (Cf. K2137.) J1563.5.1
• Misfortune pursues farmer. N251.7
• Bird carries off jeweled veil with which girl had covered sleeping lover's face. Lover pursues bird and becomes separated from the girl. N352.1
• Vengeance for destruction of fairy-mound pursues king's descendants. P17.0.3
• Magic eel pursues man over land. R262
• Cumulative pursuit. Boys get help. One of them injures the helper. Pursued. Hidden by kind hen. One injures the hen. Hen pursues, etc. Z49.2