45 motifs match “traveler”  ·  back to the chapters

• God of travelers. A491
• Travelers to other world must not look back. (Cf. all references to F81.1., Orpheus.) C331.2
• "We three" – "For gold" – "That is right": phrases of foreign language. Three travelers know each one phrase of a foreign language. They incriminate themselves. C495.2.2
• Copper horseman indicates road. By striking his hand one makes him turn and indicate the proper road for travelers. (Cf. D1268, D1626.) D1313.3
• Hawthorn protects travelers. (Cf. D950.13.) D1385.2.3
• River appears at prayer of desert travelers. D2151.2.5.1
• Ghost misleads traveler on road. See similar actions of fairies, witches, Will-o-the-wisp. (Cf. F402.1.1.) E272.5
• Ghost on road asks traveler for ride. (Cf. E581, E582.) E332.3
• Phantom sailors and travelers. E510
• Brownie (Redcap, Redcomb, Bloody Cap) murders travelers, catches their blood in his cap. F363.2
• Fairies lead travelers astray. (Cf. E272.10, F401.3, F491.1.) F369.7
• Water-spirits lead travelers astray. F420.5.2.9
• Ogress takes travelers out of cave and devours them one by one. G94.1
• Devil as a ribald traveler. G303.3.1.3.1
• Devil (gentleman) invites traveler into his wagon. Explains that his horses are Earl X, etc. (Cf. G303.25.17.1.) G303.7.1.2.2
• Devil as crow misleads travelers, puts out their lights. G303.9.9.17
• Devil as gentleman invites a traveler to the feast (wedding). (Cf. G303.7.1.2.2.) G303.25.17.1
• Woman entertains every traveler in the hope of finding her husband. H152.1.1
• Man helps traveler and makes riddling remarks. Gives him food, shares his coat in rain, and carries him over stream. Reproaches him with traveling without mother, house, or bridge (nourishment, shelter, or horse). H586.1
• Traveler says he is going to the city to see what has become of the seed he sowed in the street. (What has become of the girl he left in the city to await his return.) H586.2
• Traveler says he is going to seek a hind that he saw in the woods ten years before. (A maiden.) H586.2.1
• Traveler says he must look after his net to see if it has taken fish. (He has left his lady seven years before with a pledge of faithfulness. Net has taken fish – lady has had lovers.) H586.2.2
• One traveler to another: Let us carry each other and shorten the way. (Let us tell tales and amuse ourselves on the way.) H586.3
• One traveler to another: That field (uncut) is already harvested. (Belongs to spendthrift who has already spent the money.) H586.4
• One traveler to another (as they see corpse borne by): He is not entirely dead. (Has left good property.) H586.5
• One traveler to another (when asked how he crossed an unbridged stream): I cross on an ashen bridge. (Found a ford with an ashen staff.) H586.6
• One traveler to another: Is this cup valuable or not? (Is your daughter married or not?) H586.7
• Boy says that travelers should catch the mares (walking sticks that are in the jungle). H586.8
• "Ruler should follow advice of majority" (not his own fancy): counsel proved wise by experience. Thus finds money on body of dead traveler. J21.35
• Suit about the ass's shadow. Man hires ass and driver for trip across plain. In the heat the traveler sits down in the ass's shadow. The driver pushes him away. Plea: he didn't hire the ass's shadow. J1169.7
• What the bear whispered in his ear. Paid guide climbs tree and leaves traveler to mercy of a bear. Traveler feigns death and the bear sniffs at him and leaves. The guide: "What did the bear say to you?" "He said, never trust a coward like you." J1488
• Who shall go first? Train leaves overpolite travelers. J2183.2
• Preliminary drawing of swords. Travelers say they will not have time to do so when attacked. J2255
• Falling beam in cave kills travelers lured within. K1172
• Travelers mistake brushwood at a distance for a ship. K1886.4
• Sham traveler. Boasts falsely of voyage and receives canoes which he appropriates. K1969.1
• Contest of wind and sun. Sun by warmth causes traveler to remove coat, while wind by violent blowing causes him to pull it closer around him. L351
• Travelers pursued by misfortune. N251.4
• Lion divides slain bullock. The thief who demands half of the bullock driven off; the traveler who modestly withdraws invited to take half. Q3.2
• Travelers find exposed baby girl and take her to emperor's court. S354.2
• Grateful animals; ungrateful man. A traveler saves a monkey, a snake, a tiger, and a jeweler from a pit. The monkey gives him fruit; the tiger a necklace of a princess he has killed. The jeweler accuses the rescuer before the king. The serpent saves him by biting the prince and then showing the man the proper remedy. W154.8
• Deaf peasant: travelers ask the way. Travelers ask their direction. Peasant thinks they want to buy oxen. Peasant's wife arrives; thinks they say her food is too salty. – Daughter-in-law and father-in-law misunderstand each other. X111.2
• "Good day." – "A woodchopper." The workman answers the traveler's courtesies with remarks about his work. (Cf. X111.8.) X111.10
• Travelers pass through Wesley. One asks name of town; another replies, "This is Wesley." Another says, "I thought it was Thursday." Third says, "So am I; let's have a drink." X111.15
• Jokes about travelers. X583