45 motifs match “relatives”  ·  back to the chapters

• Marriage between close relatives. A1552
• Origin of royal marriages with close relatives. A1552.2
• Girl's animal lover slain by spying relatives. B610.1
• Relatives kill animal-husband but wife throws herself into pyre. B691
• Tabu: offending other animal relatives. C37
• Tabu connected with husband's or wife's relatives. C170
• Forsaken merman. Tabu: association of fairy's (merman's, etc.) human wife (husband) with human relatives. C713
• Magic object stolen by relatives. D861.8
• Ghost drives away his relatives who are trying to get estate from his wife. E236.6
• Fairy takes revenge for slaying of his relatives. F361.8
• The relatives of the devil. G303.11
• 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
• Quest to other world to take letters to dead relatives. H1252.2
• Quest for relatives sold to the otherworld. H1252.3
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Ogre overawed by hero's boasts about marvelous relatives. K1718
• 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
• Person reproached for having no relatives. P202
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Lover opposed to sweetheart's relatives. T95
• Lover kills his lady's relatives in fight. T95.1
• Husband (wife) of supernatural being longs for old home and visits relatives. T294