89 motifs match “robbers”  ·  back to the chapters

• Indentions on rock from weapons (limbs) of robbers through power of saint. A972.3.1.1
• 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
• 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
• Thumbling as accomplice to robbers. F535.1.1.11
• 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
• Wisdom from robbers (thugs) who disguise selves and show cruel princess how she should treat her husband. J178
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Person being robbed deceives robbers and calls help. (Cf. K551.5.) K432
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Sham wise man declares who committed the theft: robbers. K1956.3
• Man hidden behind idol in temple tells robbers they will have good booty but should leave half of it in the temple. K1971.14
• Simpleton's naive answer to robbers makes them think he knows their secret. They share their loot with him. L141.2
• Curse: descendants of nine robbers never to exceed nine. M461
• King's counselor expelled from a court thereby escapes accompanying the king, who is killed by robbers. N178.3
• Only crippled cow not driven away by robbers. N178.4
• Snake turns to gold in answer to dream. Woman tells dream of pot of gold. Robbers overhear but finding only snake in pot turn it loose on woman's bed. It turns to gold. N182
• Robbers' plans overheard: owner warned. N455.2
• Robbers' secret overheard and later used in court against them. N455.2.1
• Secret formula for opening treasure mountain overheard from robbers (Open Sesame). N455.3
• Numskull talks to himself and frightens robbers away. N612
• Twelve robbers. P475.1
• Robbers defeated and killed. P475.2
• Disguised king rewards rescuer from robbers. (Cf. K1812.) Q53.1
• Magic shirt and information about sought robbers as reward for rescue of poor fisherman. Q53.2
• Riches as reward for help against robbers. Q111.3
• Magic swine cause robbers to be drowned. (Cf. B183, Q212.) Q428.2
• Warrior retires to a cloister which he later defends against robbers. Q520.6
• Grave sinks so that grave-robbers cannot get out. (Cf. Q212.2.) Q552.2.2
• Maiden abducted by pirates (robbers). (Cf. R10.1.) R12.1
• Child abducted by robbers and brought up in their ways. Later becomes wealthy and law-abiding. R12.2.1
• Princess rescued from robbers. R111.1.2
• Rescue from robbers' den. (Cf. R111.1.2.) R116
• Robbers promise to make offerings to the shrine of a hermit if successful. V113.2
• Robbers who enter saint's garden to steal are caused to spade it up for him. This proves him to be saint. V222.16
• Clerical virtue of absolute faith. Man captured by robbers is so confident that God will protect him that he is saved. V461.7
• "I am not alone!" Man travelling alone through the forest at night, is afraid of robbers. He hangs his cap on a stick and keeps repeating: "I am not travelling alone, there are two of us." W211.3
• Robbers mistake man for devil (the "sheep" speaks, "Gently, gently!"). X424.1