99 motifs match “slave”  ·  back to the chapters

• Slave shoots arrow into leg of sun's horse. A732.2.1
• River from the slaver of the Fenris-wolf. A933.1
• Origin of slavery. A1473
• Origin of slaves. A1657
• Origin of the Fir Bolg ("Men of the Sacks"); so-called because as slaves they were forced to carry earth in sacks (builg). A1657.2
• Snake from devil's slaver. A2145.4
• Animals with human child as slave. B292.0.1
• Tabus of slaves. C561
• Tabu: slave going near fetish. C561.1
• Magic object furnishes slaves (subjects). (Cf. D1025.8.) D1476
• Magic calabash furnishes slaves. (Cf. D965.2.) D1476.1
• Magic egg furnishes slaves (subjects for chief or king, etc.). (Cf. D1470.1.8.) D1476.2
• Magic basket (box) furnishes slaves. (Cf. D1171.11.) D1476.3
• Tools sharpened through power of saint. Slaves forced to hew down yew tree with dull tools: hands bleed. (Cf. H1110, P170.) D2199.2
• Slave recognized by his conversation, habits, and character. H38.3
• Recognition by calabash. Slave recognizes calabash and knows that girl lives. H133
• Choice: free poverty or enslaved wealth. J211
• Flattery of the wicked to escape death at his hands: "This is an offering to my lord Esau from his slave Jacob". J814.4
• Clever slave girl. J1111.6.1
• Clever slave. (Cf. J1111.6.1.) J1114.0.1
• Pouring water into the inkwell. Soldier accused of stealing slavegirl from author. Girl told to pour water into an inkwell. She does it so skillfully that she must have learned it from the author. J1176.1
• Has never died yet. Slave (workman) recommended to master whose recent slaves have died: "He has never died while I owned him." J1455
• A man without a stomach. The man complains that he is a mere slave of his stomach. His wish is granted and the stomach taken away from him. He discovers soon that life has become very uninteresting to him, and recovers his stomach again. J2072.4
• Two fifteen-year old slaves ordered: fool brings one thirty years old. J2212.1
• Man gives up half property. Slave cut in two. J2469.3.1
• Deceptive sale of another as slave. K252.1
• Confederate allows self to be sold as slave. K365.1
• 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
• Compassionate executioners. Slaves charged with killing (drowning) the infant heroine are touched by her "laughing smile" and put her in a calfshed (hollow tree), where she is found by cowherds, who rear her. K512.0.1
• Slave washing mistress's back in stream pushes her into crocodile hole. K831.1
• Sham dead king jumps up and kills the nearest slave. K911.4
• Lucretia seduced through threat. Sextus says he will kill her and leave a naked slave in her bed to bring dishonor on her house. She yields. K1397
• Blinded slave's revenge. Threatens to jump from tower with lord's children unless lord blinds himself. Lord does so but slave jumps with children nevertheless. K1465
• Incognito prince (king) sold into slavery. Disguised as sailor. K1812.11
• Disguise as slave. K1816.13
• False bride finishes true bride's task and supplants her. The true bride must perform a certain task to win her husband and, being exhausted, commits the task to a slave. K1911.1.4
• Slave poses as treasurer's son and carries letter purporting to ask for hand of merchant's daughter in marriage. K1917.8
• Queen changes her own ugly twins for slave's pretty son. Later recognizes the better character of the twins, and changes back again. K1921.3
• Treacherous slave. K2251
• Treacherous slave-girl. K2251.1
• Slave as hero. L113.1.7
• Ruler enslaved. L410.6
• King sells self and family into slavery to keep promise. M203.3
• Own body as stake: to be taken as slave. N2.1
• Fugitive slave takes refuge in mill house, where he must work harder than ever. N255.4
• Fugitive slave takes wrong road and is caught. N382
• Father unwittingly buys daughter who has been sold into slavery. N732.1
• Slaves ordered married discover they are brother and sister. N734.1
• Helper grateful for being bought from slavery. N801
• Slave (swineherd) as helper of princess. N863
• King never touches earth: carried always by slaves. P14.5
• Slaves. P170
• Female slaves. (Cf. P173.1.) P170.0.1
• Female slaves as medium of exchange (unit of value). P170.0.1.1
• Branding person makes him one's slave for life. P171
• Slave's ear bored. P171.1
• Requirement that slaves given as tribute should not know Irish. P172
• Captive king's sons made slaves. P173
• Captive king's daughter as slave. P173.1
• Killed enemy's son as slave. P173.2
• Captives from battle sold as slaves. P173.3
• Futile attempt to get rid of man by selling him to merchants as slave. P173.4
• Children of slave and free person become slaves. P174
• Slave killed. P175
• Slave hanged. P175.1
• Murder by slaves. P176
• Slaves freed. P178
• Knocking out a slave's tooth entitles him to freedom. P178.1
• Slaves released after definite term. P178.2
• The sacred partnership. Man is abducted by pirates and kept in slavery forty years. Upon his return his friend divides his earnings with him. P319.4
• Slave may not bring suit. (Cf. P170.) P523.3
• Man frees slave (incognito prince): rewarded when slave becomes king. Q42.4
• Slave freed as reward for killing enemy's two slaves, and given as much land as he can cultivate in three days. Q42.4.1
• Slaves freed as reward. Q121.1
• Slave killed who killed enemy at owner's order. Q211.13
• Slave-driving punished. (Cf. P270, Q291.2, Q558.7.) Q285.4
• Sale into slavery as punishment. Q437
• Criminal's wife and children sold into slavery. Q437.1
• Second wife (slave) must serve as menial. Q482.1.1
• Princess married to lowly hero must live in slave quarters. Q485.1
• Slave-driver mysteriously stricken dead. (Cf. Q285.4.) Q558.7
• Person sold into slavery. R61
• Princess ransomed from slavery. (Cf. R61.) R111.1.6
• Queen rescued from slavery. R111.1.6.1
• Husband frees wife who has sold herself into slavery in order to ransom him. R151.1.1
• Woman disguised as man sells herself into slavery in order to ransom (free) her husband (lover). (Cf. K1837.) R152.2
• Rescue of poor girl by St. Nicholas. Saint keeps her from being sold into slavery. R165.1
• Escape from slavery (pirates). (Cf. R61.) R211.4
• Lovers fleeing from slavery are recaptured. (Cf. R211.4.) R352
• Slaves killed by hanging. S113.1.1
• Child sold into slavery. S210.1
• Daughter of merchant develops intimacy with slave. T91.5.1.1
• Princess falls in love with a king who becomes a slave. T91.6.4.2
• Woman escaping from slavery kills man who would ravish her. T320.2.1
• Master discovers that slave girl he wants to marry is a near relative. T410.1
• Former slave sickens for accustomed food. U135.3
• Buddhists become slaves of Taoists because they cannot produce rain. V355
• Man lets himself be sold as slave so as to practice generosity. W11.4
• Equanimity of the enslaved unfortunate. Does not complain when beset by a series of misfortunes. (Cf. N251.1.) W25.1