90 motifs match “relative”  ·  back to the chapters

• Determination of night and day. After much discussion, the relative length of these divisions is determined. A1172
• Marriage between close relatives. A1552
• Origin of royal marriages with close relatives. A1552.2
• Animal grateful for release of relative. B365.3
• Girl's animal lover slain by spying relatives. B610.1
• Relatives kill animal-husband but wife throws herself into pyre. B691
• Tabu: offending supernatural relative. C30
• Tabu: offending other animal relatives. C37
• Tabu connected with husband's or wife's relatives. C170
• Tabu: eating heart of animal (to commemorate relative whose heart was removed by king.) C221.3.5
• Tabu: uttering relative's name. C435
• Forsaken merman. Tabu: association of fairy's (merman's, etc.) human wife (husband) with human relatives. C713
• Magic object received from relative. D815
• Magic object stolen by relatives. D861.8
• Resuscitation by relative. E125
• Dead relative's malevolent return. E220
• Dead relative's malevolent return – miscellaneous. E229
• Ghost drives away his relatives who are trying to get estate from his wife. E236.6
• Dead relative's friendly return. E320
• Debate of body and soul. Soul having left body enters into debate with the body concerning relative merits of body and soul. (Cf. H500.) E727.1
• Life token: milk becomes agitated in pan at death of relative. (Cf. E761.6.2.) E761.6.6
• Fairy relative makes gifts to half-mortal child. (Cf. F340.) F305.1
• Fairy takes revenge for slaying of his relatives. F361.8
• Death from grief for death of lover or relative. F1041.1.2
• Relative's flesh eaten unwittingly. G61
• Child recognizes relative's flesh when it is served to be eaten. G61.1
• The relatives of the devil. G303.11
• Ogre's relative aids hero. G530
• Rescue from ogre by relative. G551
• Cannibal is killed by his wife's relatives. G551.5
• Token sent with youth to relatives, that they may take care of him. H82.6
• Enigmatic counsels of relatives (other than father). H596
• Relationship riddles arising from unusual marriages of relatives. H795
• Tasks imposed on pain of death of relative (friend, hostage, etc.). H901.0.1
• Relative assigns tasks. (Cf. H912–H914.) H934
• Quest to other world for relative. H1252
• Quest to other world to take letters to dead relatives. H1252.2
• Quest for relatives sold to the otherworld. H1252.3
• Relative pleasures of sexes in love taught by parable. J99.1
• Difficult choice between relatives. J226
• Choices: kind strangers, unkind relatives. J390
• Grain will be cut when farmer attends to it himself. Lark leaves her young in the cornfield. They hear farmer tell sons to go to neighbors for help in harvesting. Lark tells young not to worry. Same when he sends for relatives. Farmer decides to harvest it himself. Larks move, for they now know that it will be done. J1031
• Age is relative. Young rival derides old one for his age. Oldster: "An ass of twenty is older than a man of seventy." J1352.2
• A box connection. Man refused hospitality tells rich man he is a relative. Asked for the "connection," he tells him there is a box connection. Rich man not understanding, man explains his cart is made of box wood and is tied to a rich man's box tree. Rich man, ashamed, entertains him with all due respect. J1561.6
• Settling the dispute. Two men cannot agree to bride's dowry. Third party tells each parent that the other has agreed. Marriage. "Now that you are relatives you can settle it between yourselves." J1678
• Countryman visiting rich relative in the city refuses to eat dessert: "No, I am not hungry." J1742.3.1
• Given things for self and relatives, fool forgets to take his own. J2048
• Alleged messenger from relatives in distress given goods to deliver. J2326.4
• Relative substitutes in contest. K3.1
• Race won by deception: relative helpers. One of the contestants places his relatives (or others that resemble him) in the line of the race. The opponent always thinks the trickster is just ahead of him. (Told of animals or of men; often of the hare and the turtle.) K11.1
• Deceptive eating contest: relative helpers. Trickster wins with the aid of substitutes. (Cf. K82.2.) K81.2
• Deceptive drinking contest: relative helpers. (Cf. K81.2.) K82.2
• Theft by reporting relative's sickness. Woman falsely told that her father is wounded leaves her water pot with jackal. K343.1.2
• Entry into enemy's presence by pretending to be a messenger from a relative. K477.3
• Seduction by posing as a relative. K1315.4
• Ogre overawed by hero's boasts about marvelous relatives. K1718
• Sham physician gives relative a medical degree. K1955.8
• Enemy invited for marriage with relative attacked. K2013
• Man pretends to kiss relative: bites him instead. K2021.2
• Treacherous relatives. Distinction between treacherous relatives and cruel relatives (S0–S99) is frequently impossible to make. Relatives whose treachery seems to be uppermost have been listed here; those usually possessing power over their charges and exercising their power in a cruel fashion have been listed under cruel relatives. K2210
• Treacherous relatives-in-law. K2218
• Oath not to fight relatives of king. M166.5
• Prophecy of grief fulfilled by death of relative (friend, etc.). M340.1
• Person reproached for having no relatives. P202
• Game with ancestors' bones. A boy interrupts a game played with the bones of his father or other murdered relative. P203
• Refusal to fight relatives. P205
• Foster relatives. P270
• Steprelatives. P280
• Other relatives. P290
• [First Edition: P299. Additional relatives.] P299[1st ed.]
• Letter sent to the relatives from man punished in hell. Q564
• Woman suckles imprisoned relative through prison wall. R81
• Cruel relative. S0
• Cruel step- and foster relatives. S30
• Cruel relatives-in-law. S50
• Other cruel relatives. S70
• Prince resolves to drive relatives from his domain. Kills many. S110.4
• Person forced to eat hearts (flesh) of relatives (draw blood). S183.1
• Children abandoned (driven forth, exposed) by hostile relative. S322
• Orphaned boy deprived of his inheritance by relatives. S322.0.1
• Outcast wife commits suicide when confronted with heads of relatives killed in revenge for her wrong-doing. S452
• The relative pleasures of love. Do men or women have the greater pleasure in sexual intercourse? Man who has been transformed to woman answers that women have the greater pleasure. The goddess blinds him as punishment. T2
• Lover opposed to sweetheart's relatives. T95
• Lover kills his lady's relatives in fight. T95.1
• Relative's consent to marriage necessary. T131.1
• Husband (wife) of supernatural being longs for old home and visits relatives. T294
• Girl's virginity saved by the kindness of an emissary. Makes the lord believe she is a relative. T324
• Master discovers that slave girl he wants to marry is a near relative. T410.1
• Wealth is relative: beggar with horse, wife, or dog considered rich by poorer beggar. U65
• Person swallows pin or needle; it later emerges through skin of relative. X1739.1