52 motifs match “suicide”  ·  back to the chapters

• God of suicide. A310.4
• Earth from body of divine suicide. A831.7
• Origin of custom of committing suicide by strangling. A1599.9
• Faithful animal plans suicide when it thinks master dead. B301.3
• Noose used by suicide as protection from accident. (Cf. D1278.) D1384.2
• Ghost of suicide drags people into stream. E266.1
• Ghost leads people to commit suicide. E266.2
• Ghost of suicide seen at death spot or near by. (Cf. E411.1.1, E431.16.) E334.4
• Suicide cannot rest in grave. (Cf. E334.7, E431.16.) E411.1.1
• Suicides must walk the earth until time for their natural death. E411.1.1.1
• Burial of suicide to prevent walking. (Cf. E334.7, E411.1.1, E441.) E431.16
• Suicide buried head (or face) downward. (If corpse moves it. only goes deeper into ground.) E431.16.1
• Suicide buried with stake through heart (body). (Cf. E442.) E431.16.2
• Suicide buried at crossroads. (Cf. E434.4.) E431.16.3
• Wild huntsman wanders because of suicide. E501.3.2
• Ghostly rope of suicide appears. E538.2
• Suicide from fear of starving. F1041.1.11.1
• Suicide from fright of evil prophecy. F1041.1.11.3
• Overpowered witch-maid commits suicide. G279.1
• Devil persuades man to commit suicide. G303.9.4.2
• Sleep before committing suicide. After sleeping you will feel differently about suicide. J21.2.2
• Dissuasion from suicide. Man dissuades simpleton from hanging himself by telling him that hell is a place of pain and torments. J628
• Devil gets another soul instead of one bargained for. The devil bargains with a man for his soul, but the man fulfills his contract and escapes. In envy two persons commit suicide. The devil rejoices that though he lost one he has gained two. K217
• Wife accused of plan to escape weeps and threatens suicide so as to allay suspicion and escape. K579.1
• Lover deceived by false suicide agreement. The woman persuades her lover to jump from a cliff; she will follow. She does not jump. K1232
• Lover's anger softened by sham suicide attempt. Is later scorned. K1232.1
• Death by suicide. M451.1
• Suicide in remorse over hasty condemnation. N340.1
• Lover commits suicide on finding beloved dead. N343.4
• Man falsely accused commits suicide. N347.6
• King commits suicide. P16.3.0.1
• Captured queen commits suicide. (Cf. P16.3.0.1.) P26
• Queen commits suicide, as her husband vanquishes and kills her father and her brother. P26.1
• Wife commits suicide (dies) on death of husband. (Cf. P16.4.1.) P214.1
• Mother commits suicide when son wants to marry foreigner according to foreign rites. P231.7
• Poor peasant closes the eyes in order not to see guest eat: later suicide. P336.3
• Old person commits suicide when strength fails. P674
• Suicide punished. (Cf. Q503.1.) Q211.5
• Skull of suicide must roll in dust until it has saved a life. Man uses the skull to kill an owl that was about to kill a rabbit; thus after 777 years of rolling it has saved a life and is freed. (Cf. Q211.5.) Q503.1
• Sacrificial suicide. (Cf. S264.1.2.) S263.5
• Outcast wife commits suicide when confronted with heads of relatives killed in revenge for her wrong-doing. S452
• Wife's suicide at husband's death. (Cf. T81.7.) T211.2
• Adulterous wife convicted commits suicide. T249.1
• Wife threatens suicide if she does not have her own way. T252.6
• Nagging wife drives husband to prepare for suicide. T253.1
• Girl commits suicide rather than marry man she does not love. T311.2.1
• Suicide to save virginity. T326
• Suicide to prevent brother-sister marriage. T415.6
• Future suicide weeps in mother's womb. T575.1.2
• Goddess prevents suicide of man despairing of ability to make sacrifice. V10.1
• Miser decides not to commit suicide. Does not want the expense of a rope. W153.7
• Architect commits suicide when he discovers that his pupil has surpassed him in skill. W181.2.2