46 motifs match “refuge”  ·  back to the chapters

• Gods forced by mortals to take refuge underground. A189.13
• Flood: refuge in huge gourds with seven rooms in each. A1029.4
• Dogs rescue fleeing master from tree refuge. B524.1.2
• Tabu: violating refuge with saint. C51.2.5
• Tabu: killing animal which takes refuge with one. C841.0.3
• Frogs fear defeated bull. See two bulls fighting; know that the loser will take refuge in their marsh. J613.2
• Sham revenant. A man takes refuge from robbers in an open grave. Robbers see him and ask what he is doing. "It is my grave. I went out to get a breath of air." J2311.3
• The lovers as pursuer and fugitive. The wife is visited by two gallants. When the husband approaches, one goes out with drawn sword; the other hides in the house. She convinces her husband that she has given refuge to a fugitive. K1517.1
• False guardian betrays refuge of fleeing lovers. K2093
• Man taking refuge in woman's house causes her false accusation. K2112.3
• Tiger frightened away from man's tree refuge by man's stick and rope. K2336
• Man whose death has been prophesied takes refuge in church, but is accidentally slain through window by arrow directed at stag. M381
• Fugitive slave takes refuge in mill house, where he must work harder than ever. N255.4
• Grinding stones carried by men seeking refuge in tree-top fall, killing their enemies below. N696.2
• Accidental meeting of nephew and uncle. Hero takes refuge unwittingly at his uncle's court. N738
• Taking refuge in a grave leads to adventure. N778
• Guest given refuge. Murderer of a man's father takes refuge in his house and is saved by him. P322
• Refugee entertained in holy place (church, monastery, etc.). P322.3
• Cities of refuge. P518
• Captivity as refuge for the captive. R53
• Refuges and recapture. R300
• Refuges. R310
• Tree refuge. R311
• Thorn-brake as refuge. R311.1.1
• Stretching tree refuge for fugitive. (Cf. D482.1.) R311.4
• Forest as refuge. R312
• Forest as refuge of eloping lovers. (Cf. R225.) R312.1
• Negro takes refuge under princess's throne. R314
• Cave as refuge. R315
• Cave as eloping lovers' refuge. (Cf. R225, T35.) R315.1
• Christians crushed in cave where they take refuge from heathen. R315.2
• Refuge on rock in sea. R316
• Refuge on island. R316.1
• Well (spring) as refuge. R317
• Eagle's nest as refuge. R322
• Refuge in upper world. R323
• Refuge in air. Fugitive supernaturally rises in air to escape. (Cf. R321.) R324
• Church (altar) as refuge. R325
• Idol cracks open to grant refuge to fugitive in answer to prayer; then closes again. R325.2
• Saint offers murderer refuge. R325.3
• Hero takes refuge at king's court. R331
• Roof as refuge for pursued animals. R335
• Refuge under kettle. R336
• Cities of refuge. R345
• Fish swallows a gourd fruit where people have taken refuge during rain; hawk swallows fish. X1723.1.1
• Man sharpening his dao is bitten by a prawn. He cuts down a big bamboo; a fruit falls from bamboo and strikes a bird on the nape of the neck; the bird scratches up an ant's nest with his feet; the ant bites a wild boar in the eye; and the boar bears down upon a plantain tree where a bat dwells under a leaf; the bat seeks refuge in the ear of an elephant, and the elephant kicks down the house on an old woman. She rushes out and falls into a well. Z49.6.3