155 motifs match “robber” — showing the first 100; narrow the words for the rest  ·  back to the chapters

• Indentions on rock from weapons (limbs) of robbers through power of saint. A972.3.1.1
• Why Russians like thefts and robberies. A1674.2
• Dragon guards hermit's food, frightens off robbers. B11.6.5
• Demi-coq. A cock is cut in two and is made magic. Carries robbers, foxes, and stream of water under wings. B171.1
• Flea's bite alarms king. Robber tells flea of plan to rob king. During the robbery the flea bites and awakens the king. B521.3.3
• Robbers frightened by grateful dog. B576.1.2
• Lonesome wife scares robbers by making it appear that her husband is at home. D2031.6.3
• Robber-proof house: thieves are petrified when they enter house for unlawful purposes; are fed and welcomed, otherwise. D2072.5
• Thumbling as accomplice to robbers. F535.1.1.11
• Wild man son of woman and robber. F611.1.4
• Strong man kills robber with a snap of his finger. F628.2.8
• Giant robber with club. G316
• Severed finger as sign of crime. Robber bridegroom thus detected. H57.2.1
• Suitor task: to overcome robbers. H335.4.2
• Riddle: one killed none and yet killed twelve. (Horse is poisoned; raven eats of him and dies; twelve robbers eat raven and die.) H802
• Task: overcoming robbers. H1162.1
• Which was the most generous – husband, robber, or lover? Woman has promised her lover to go to him on her wedding night. Husband lets her go. On way she meets robbers and tells her story. Robbers take her to her lover. She tells what has happened. Lover returns her immediately to her husband. H1552.1
• "Do not leave the highway": counsel proved wise by experience. Robbers encountered. J21.5
• "Do not prefer a new road to an old one." Those who take the new one are killed by robbers. J21.5.1
• Woman will not follow donkey on safe path: attacked by robbers. J133.4
• Big fish eat little: robber will plunder weak neighbors. J133.6
• Wisdom from robbers (thugs) who disguise selves and show cruel princess how she should treat her husband. J178
• Monk's enemies quarrel and thus save him. Robber who wants to steal monk's cow and devil who wants to steal his soul quarrel as to which shall begin first; they thus awaken him and the neighbors. J581.3
• Robbers persuaded to give hero sword with which they are afterwards killed. J642.2
• Robbers' false plea admitted: counteraccusation. Robbers claim a man's knife. In court: "The knife may indeed be theirs. I and my father were attacked yesterday by robbers. I fled. On returning I found my father killed and this knife in his body." Robbers condemned. J1162.2
• Story told to discover thief. Judge tells story of the lady, her husband, her lover, and the robbers (H1552.1). Which was the most generous? Witness says that robber was. This shows that he has robber's point of view. J1177
• Robber innocent because he is merely following traditions of his ancestors. J1179.4
• Servants would not have left the coats. Merchants complain to nobleman that his servants have robbed them of money. Nobleman asks whether merchants had on those good coats when the robbery took place. When told yes, he said that the robbers were not his servants, for they would never have left good coats. J1179.5
• Plaintiff in court beats thief since he had not warned him ahead of time to have witnesses to robbery. Judge has refused to inquire for lack of witnesses. J1191.6
• Robber's defense for stealing from rich. God will not permit them to enter heaven unless we take their ill-gotten goods from them. J1269.8
• Ancient and modern ancestors. To a prince who boasted that he was descended from the Trojans a doctor replies: "My people are of Nurenberg. Everyone knows who they are; but of the Trojans no one knows anything except that Aeneas was a traitor and Romulus a robber." J1357
• Robbers commiserated. A buffoon says to robbers in his house, "You can't find anything here in the dark, for I can find nothing in broad daylight." J1392.2
• Cynic helps robber steal his money so he and robber can get sleep. J1392.3
• Man who rises too early. The king in order to correct the habit has him robbed. He says that robbers get up even earlier than he. J1394.2
• Robber gives priest double his penance and then takes his horse. J1635
• Robber or dog in church thought to be a ghost. J1782.1
• 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
• What will the robber do? A man curious as to what a robber is going to do waits to intervene and goes back to sleep. J2378
• The stolen bedcover. A man hears a noise outside the house at night. He wraps a bed cover about him and goes to investigate. The robbers take the bed cover and flee. The wife asks what the debate was about. "About the bed cover. When they got it, the quarrel was over." J2672
• Youth learns robbery as a trade: boasts of it. K301.1
• Thief disguised as corpse. In the shroud of the supposed dead man is hidden another robber. K311.1
• Robber disguised as bear is killed. K311.6.1
• Thieves hidden in oil casks. In one cask is oil; in the others the robbers are hidden. The girl kills them. K312
• Servants frightened by ferocious actions of robbers; give up masters' food. K335.0.11
• Robbers frightened from goods. Trickster steals the goods. K335.1
• Frightened robber leaves his coat behind. K335.1.0.1
• Object falls on robbers from tree. They flee and leave money. K335.1.1
• Door falls on robbers from tree. They flee and leave money. K335.1.1.1
• Cow-hide falls on robbers from tree. They flee and leave money. K335.1.1.2
• Person falls from tree on robbers. They flee and leave money. K335.1.1.3
• Robbers frightened from goods by the dead. (Cf. K335.0.5.) K335.1.2
• Corpse thrown among robbers frightens them from treasure. K335.1.2.1
• Robbers frightened from goods by sham-dead man. K335.1.2.2
• Robbers frightened from goods by man's outcry. Trickster hits a slain ox and cries out, "Those others did it!" The thieves flee and leave their treasure. K335.1.3
• Animals climb on one another's backs and cry out; frighten robbers. K335.1.4
• Animals cry out; frighten robbers. K335.1.4.1
• Robber frightened from his goods by playing of bagpipe. K335.1.5
• Robbers frightened from goods by hidden man. K335.1.6
• Robbers frightened from goods by Thumbling. They can hear him but cannot see him. K335.1.6.2
• Robbers frightened from goods by man in tar and feathers. K335.1.8
• Robbers coming to steal from stable frightened away by bear staying the night there with his keeper. K335.1.9
• Robbers frightened by pretended cannibalism. Tricksters threaten to cook a robber. All the robbers flee in terror, leaving them their booty. K335.1.10
• Fire set to village so that robbers can steal goods. K336.1
• Robber mistakenly carries off worthless goods and leaves valuable. K421
• Person being robbed deceives robbers and calls help. (Cf. K551.5.) K432
• Clever girl discovers robber and cheats him. K434
• The girl seizes the robber concealed under the bed by the beard and says: "What a coarse bundle of flax. I need a finer one." K434.1
• Disguised robber in night-lodging tries to pull up confederate on rope: princess discovers him and catches him. K434.2
• Robber overcome. K437
• Robber cheated by substitution. Spending the night in company with a suspicious-looking stranger, the man does not go to sleep, but leaves his clothes in bed and waits to see what will happen. When the stranger wakes up in the night, he stabs at his sleeping companion, who shoots him down. (Cf. K525.1.) K437.1
• Robber with hand of glory killed. A robber disguised as a beggar gets night's lodging at a farm house. Using a candle made of human fat or hand of a corpse, he tries to charm the household into a deep sleep (D1162.2.1). One man who is suspicious and has not gone to sleep sees this and kills the robber. K437.2
• Sausage as revolver. Man scares robber with sausage; later boasts of event at inn. Robber hears this. Innkeeper secretly lends man a real revolver; robber is shot down when boldly attempting a second attack. K437.3
• Conqueror of robber discovers his money-stick. Thinking that he has killed the robber, the man takes his stick or knife with big handle. The robber recovers and, disguised as a beggar, inquisitively looks at the stick. The man is suspicious and by examining finds much money inside it. K437.4
• Robbers enslaved. Youth told by two robbers to go to town and sell bracelet for each. He goes and offers to sell two slaves. Goes back with buyer and cries out "Did you say both?" "Yes." Youth is paid; robbers are enslaved. K437.5
• Robbers fed poisoned food. K439.6
• Robber induced to give respite and come to man's office to get promised larger sum. Cheated. K439.7
• Hidden person sees robbers concealing treasure and takes it. K439.10
• The heller thrown into others' money. A rascal sees robbers dividing their booty. He puts a red string through his only coin (a heller) and slips it into the others' money. He claims the money as his and says that he has marked it with a heller having a red string through it. The robbers divide. K446
• False alarm of robbery causes cheated man to be imprisoned. K484.3
• Man convinces robbers that house is fully occupied by beating drums all over the house; they flee. K548.2
• Sham calling to helpers frightens robbers away. K548.3
• Girl to dance for robbers asks to bring her party (strong men in disguise) who overcome robbers. K551.3.6.1
• Making modesty pay. Robber insists on disrobing woman before throwing her from precipice. She pleads to have him turn his face while she disrobes. She pushes him off. (Cf. K1645.) K551.4.3
• Girl makes toilet and calls help. When she sees robber under her bed she pretends not to see him and combs her hair at the window. She says, "When I am married my husband will come home from the tavern and seize me by the hair and I shall cry: "Help!" Rescue comes. K551.5
• Man persuades robbers to postpone killing him until he can show them his treasure. Leads them into marsh and escapes. K567.2
• Escape from robbers by pretending to be going the same way but separating at the first opportunity. K579.3
• Paramour unwittingly drinks sleeping potion. Is thought dead and placed in a chest. Chest is stolen. When he escapes he is accused of being a robber. He is saved by his mistress's maid who explains all, transferring the role played by her mistress to herself. K675.1
• Victim persuaded to hold out his tongue: cut off. Robbers induced by various excuses (to learn to sing, to learn foreign language, to have a hair taken off the tongue). K825
• Deceptive game: butting one another like rams. Robbers kill selves. K868
• Robbers make stairs slippery so that bathing prince falls. K897.3
• Robbers' (giants') heads cut off one by one as they enter house. K912
• Robbers' (giants') noses cut off as they enter house. K912.0.1
• Robbers' (giants') hands cut off as they enter house. K912.0.2
• Brother causes brother's death by sending him to robbers and giving false advice. K991.1
• Robber persuaded to climb down moonbeam. A man hearing a robber enter tells his wife aloud that he always makes a prayer and then enters the house by climbing down a moonbeam. The thief tries it and falls. K1054
• Altered letter of execution gives princess to hero. On his way robbers steal the letter and change it so that instead of being killed he is married to the princess. K1355
• Paramour poses as robber. K1517.8
• Woman frightens robber away by telling him parrot's cry is husband's voice. K1796
• Incognito king joins robbers. K1812.2
• Incognito king joins robbers: to take only six shillings. The robber tells him that he must take no more, since the king has so many robbers. K1812.2.1