58 motifs match “swine”  ·  back to the chapters

• Swine-god. A132.7
• Contours of land caused by rooting of swine. A951.2
• Why swine's belly is bare. A2317.1
• Devastating swine. B16.1.4
• Glowing animals. Horses, swine, etc. which glow. (Cf. B15.4.2.) B19.4
• Burrowing swine heat ground. B19.4.1
• Magic swine. B184.3
• Magic swine issue from elf-mound. B184.3.0.1
• Magic swine disappear underground. B184.3.0.2
• Magic red swine. B184.3.0.3
• Magic swine transformed person. B184.3.0.4
• Herd of magic swine that cannot be counted twice with the same result. B184.3.0.5
• Boar guards holy man's swine. B256.6.1
• Swine march like soldiers. B290.1
• Marriage to swine. B601.8
• Red (green) swine. B731.8
• Venomous swine. B776.4
• Swine maddened by smell of oak forest. B783
• Transformation into a swineherd. D24.3
• Transformation: man to swine (wild). D114.3
• Transformation: man to swine. D136
• Transformation: swine to person. D336
• Transformation: swine becomes another animal. D412.3
• Swine bridegroom. Bride disenchants him by her love. He returns to original form. D733.2
• Swine summoned out of magic harp. (Cf. D1231.) D1449.3
• Magician appears as swineherd, dwarf, and giant in order to seduce queen and scorns her later in the same shapes. D2031.4.2
• Swine magically kept from fattening. D2089.3.1
• Revenant as swine. E423.1.5
• Man reincarnated as swine. E611.3
• Swineherd finds terrestrial paradise while looking for lost sow. F111.0.2
• Fairy in form of swine. F234.1.3
• Gorgon. Head turned about, scales of dragon, tusks of swine brazen hands, golden wings. F526.3
• Person of remarkable sight finds tracks of swine stolen seven years before his birth. F642.2
• Swine kick trees to cause fruit to fall. F989.7
• Devil in form of swine. G303.3.3.1.5
• Devil's abode is between hoofs of swine. G303.8.7
• Chieftain recognized by faithful swineherd. H173.1
• Task: obtaining fat (bacon) from swine that never was farrowed. H1025
• Task: swine to shake bole of certain tree. H1199.6
• Task: swine to eat fish of certain waters. H1199.7
• His proper title. A peasant goes to a judge and thinking to gain his favor addresses him with high titles. The judge calls him a fool. "I was mistaken, you swine!" J1286
• The favored swine. Dog reproaches sow that Venus will not allow those who have eaten swine to enter her temple. Sow says that it is because the goddess abhors those who kill swine. J1447
• Lions flee because of the crowing of white cock, elephants because of swine's grunting. J2614.3
• Disguise as herdsman (shepherd, swineherd, etc.) K1816.6
• Treacherous swineherd. K2255.1
• Swineherd as hero. (Cf. P412.2.) L113.1.1
• Vows taken on holy swine. M114.3
• Man transformed into swine will regain his human form after third marriage. M313
• Slave (swineherd) as helper of princess. N863
• King (prince) retires from the world (becomes hermit, swineherd). P16.1
• Swineherd. (Cf. L113.1.1.) P412.2
• Mutinous clerics expelled in shapes of swine. (Cf. Q551.3.2.) Q226.2
• Magic swine cause robbers to be drowned. (Cf. B183, Q212.) Q428.2
• Swineherd rescues abandoned child. R131.3.4
• Adulteress poisons husband in order to be with swineherd. T232.3
• Swine worship. V1.8.4
• Vision in which swineherd sees yew tree upon a rock, with an oratory in front of it and angels ascending from it. Vision interpreted by druid as symbolizing founding of Cashel and the royal line of Munster. V515.1.3.2
• Learning the Bavarian language. A caretaker of an estate recently sold to a Bavarian sits among the swine so as to learn Bavarian. X652