30 motifs match “tigers”  ·  back to the chapters

• Culture hero exterminates race of tigers. A531.3
• Tigers in hell. A671.2.14
• Buffaloes fail to come at god's leavetaking: now are killed by tigers. A2231.12
• Why tigers eat dogs. A2435.3.9.1
• Why tigers eat uncooked food. A2435.3.9.2
• Why tigers eat human flesh. A2435.3.9.3
• Why tigers do not kill women who run away after quarreling with their husbands. A2499.1
• Land of tigers. B221.6
• Village of wer-tigers. B221.6.1
• King of tigers. B241.2.8
• Newly-born divine twins cared for by mother-of-tigers. B241.2.8.1
• Army of tigers. B268.9
• Dance of tigers. B293.3
• Tigers build bridge. B299.8.1
• Tiger hides woman from all other tigers. B525.1
• Tiger guides lost man home; hence men do not eat tigers. B563.4.1.1
• Why slayers of tigers must not eat certain plants. C226.0.1
• Family dares not discuss tigers, fearing that son in form of tiger will return. C441.1
• Seeds cast on lions and tigers render them helpless. (Cf. D971.) D1410.1
• Fate of ghosts of persons eaten by tigers. E419.12
• Bonga house filled with snakes, tigers, and lions. F221.2
• Man kills many tigers with one arrow-shot. F679.5.3
• Extraordinary plow (made of snakes and drawn by tigers). F887.1
• Female ogre changes men into tigers and eats women. G11.6.1
• Task: bringing tigers. H1154.3.7
• Task: procuring four full-grown tigers to guard four gates of king's palace. H1154.3.7.1
• Trickster pretends to hunt certain tree with which his ancestors have killed tigers. Tiger frightened away. K1715.6
• Tigers abduct princess to be wife of their human ward. R13.1.4.2.1
• Rescue of girl from tigers. R111.1.13
• Tigers stand on each other's heads trying to reach man in tree. His tears form a stream. X1133.5