30 motifs match “quests”  ·  back to the chapters

• Departed deity grants requests to visitors. A575
• Tabus concerning requests made in otherworld. C714
• Tabu: making unreasonable requests. Given power of fulfilling all wishes, person oversteps moderation and is punished. C773.1
• Tabu: turning away from (refusing requests of) poets. C872
• Suitors assigned quests. H336
• Quests assigned in order to get rid of hero. H1211
• Assignment of quests – miscellaneous. H1219
• Quests voluntarily undertaken. H1220
• Quests voluntarily undertaken – miscellaneous. H1229
• Accomplishment of quests. H1230
• Other circumstances of quests. H1240
• Series of quests. One quest can be accomplished when a second is finished, etc. (Cf. H1235.) H1241
• Riches the reward of questions solved on quests. H1243
• Quests to the other world. H1250
• Quests to other realms. H1280
• Quests to fairyland. H1286
• Quests to the other world – miscellaneous motifs. H1290
• Quests for the unique. H1300
• Quests for the unique – miscellaneous. H1319
• Miscellaneous quests. H1370
• Impossible quests. H1371
• Allegorical quests. H1376
• Enigmatical quests. H1377
• Paradoxical quests. (Cf. H1050.) H1378
• Imprisoned musician defends himself. Has been imprisoned because the king did not like the way the musician looked at him. After a year the king returns as a conqueror and sees musician. The latter says that he saw the king's conquests in a vision and was blessing him when he looked at him. The musician is honored. J814.1
• King lured to send his sons on fatal quests and to kill nephews. K948
• Kind and unkind. Churlish person disregards requests of old person (animal) and is punished. Courteous person (often youngest brother or sister) complies and is rewarded. Q2
• Saint's requests for releasing souls from hell. (Cf. Q20.) Q174.1.1
• Saint requests that on Doomsday he may bring out of hell, for every hair of his chasuble, seven condemned souls. Q174.1.1.1
• Saint requests that any person appealing to him at death shall escape hell. Q174.1.1.4