47 motifs match “rescuer”  ·  back to the chapters

• Grateful snake spits out lump of gold for his rescuer. B103.4.2.1
• Animal rescuer or retriever. Rescue person or retrieve lost object. B540
• Animal rescuer – miscellaneous. B549
• Animal corrects examination paper for his rescuer. B579.3
• Enchanted person attracts attention of rescuer. D794
• Task: freeing king from clutches of magic doll. Will marry rescuer if a girl. H1196
• Ungrateful animal returned to captivity. A man rescues a serpent (bear) who in return seeks to kill his rescuer. Fox as judge advises the man to put the serpent back into captivity. J1172.3
• Actual rescuer gets woman. Watchers could never have got her merely by watching. J1179.12
• The rescuers' Sabbath. A Jew, fallen into a pit, refuses to be rescued on Saturday, his Sabbath. The next day he calls for help but the Christians refuse to rescue him on Sunday, their Sabbath. J1613
• The polite rescuers. Pupils are taught to clap their hands and say "God bless you" when one sneezes. As they are rescuing a drowning man by a rope he sneezes. They all clap their hands and he falls back into the water. J2516.3.2
• Bungling rescuer caught by crab. He tries to rescue woman caught by crab. Is caught himself and found in embarrassing position. J2675
• Trickster cheats rescuers into digging his well. The well that he has dug falls in. He throws his clothes into the hole and hides. People going to church think that man is drowned and dig the well out. K474
• Escape by falsely reporting approach of rescuers. K545
• Respite from death until victim has blown on a horn (three times). Rescuers come. K551.3
• Rescuer disguised as officer gains custody of prisoner. K649.2
• Disguised king rewards rescuer from robbers. (Cf. K1812.) Q53.1
• All man's property offered to rescuer of stolen daughter. R111.0.1
• Joint rescuers quarrel over rescued princess. R111.7
• Rescued person stolen from rescuer. R111.8
• Rescued woman stolen from rescuer by demon. R111.8.1
• Rescued woman stolen from rescuer by other men. R111.8.2
• Rescuer impersonates captive and deceives blind guardian while captive escapes. R121.2
• Stream carries communication between prisoner and rescuer. R121.9
• Rescuers. R150
• Angels as rescuers. R168
• Other rescuers. R169
• Predestined rescuer. R169.8
• Unpromising hero as rescuer. (Cf. L100.) R169.10
• Death as rescuer. (Cf. R185.) R169.16
• True rescuer hidden by girl when he arrives to claim her. R182
• Rescued person horrifies rescuers: e.g., they swoon on seeing him. R188
• Daughter unwittingly promised to dog rescuer. (Cf. B620.1.) Without knowing that a dog has rescued her, the father offers her in marriage to her rescuer. S247
• Princess offered as prize to rescuer. T68.1
• Girl leaves rescuer for younger lover. T92.3
• Girl leaves rescuer and elopes with his friend. T92.3.1
• Friar so miserly that he stays in ditch three days before "lending" a hand to his rescuers. W153.5
• Rescued animal threatens rescuer. W154.2.1
• Man who has been rescued from pit tries to kill his monkey rescuer for food. W154.5.1.2
• Grateful animals; ungrateful man. A traveler saves a monkey, a snake, a tiger, and a jeweler from a pit. The monkey gives him fruit; the tiger a necklace of a princess he has killed. The jeweler accuses the rescuer before the king. The serpent saves him by biting the prince and then showing the man the proper remedy. W154.8
• Man rescued from drowning kills rescuer. W154.9
• Man kills his rescuer in order to collect reward. W154.12
• Ungrateful Brahmin brings his wild goose rescuer to king as remedy against leprosy. W154.12.2
• Ungrateful brothers plot against rescuer. W154.12.3
• Man beheads rescuer for leaving him so long in pain. W154.17
• Man ungrateful for life saved because rescuer helped others also. W154.18
• Man fails to feed his animal rescuer. W154.24
• Lawyer thrown back into mud when rescuers learn that he is a lawyer. X317