55 motifs match “tribe”  ·  back to the chapters

• Whole tribe descended from lone woman-survivor of doomed city. A1006.7
• Tribes emerge from melon. A1236.2
• Tribe born from fire. A1268.1
• Culture originated by ancestor of tribes. A1405
• Origin of various tribes. A1610
• Unworthy origin ascribed to hostile tribes. A1610.1
• Couples placed to establish tribes. A1610.2
• Tribes from fruits of various trees. A1610.4
• Different tribes result from choice of things Sun offers people. A1610.5
• Tribes from clay models made by creator. A1610.6
• Origin of particular tribes. A1611
• Origin of American Indian tribes. A1611.1
• Origin of various African tribes. A1611.3
• Origin of various tribes of India. A1611.4
• Origin of the Tuatha Dé Danann regarded as an early tribe. A1611.5.4.3
• Origin of tribes from choices made. A1614.4
• Origin of tribes from kinds of meat they choose. A1614.4.1
• Black tribe because woman is put on fire. A1614.8
• Distribution of tribes. A1620
• Wandering of tribes. A1630
• Emergence of tribe from lower world. A1631
• Emergence of tribe from lower world stopped by fat woman or pregnant woman who becomes lodged in the hole of egress. A1631.1
• Tribe climbs down from sky to earth. A1631.2
• Origin of subject tribes (aithech-thuatha). A1657.1
• Why a certain tribe wear clothes like dogs (supposed descendants of a bitch mother). A1683.2
• Creation of sharks: from a savage tribe. A2137
• Dog chooses between opposing tribes. B134.4
• Tabu: making war against certain tribe. C641
• Tabu: making war against certain tribe on Tuesday. C641.1
• Tabu: making peace with certain tribe. C642
• Divining rod sinks at place where tribe shall settle. D1314.2.1
• Saint's bell carried around tribe averts all danger. (Cf. D1213.) D1389.6
• Dead returns to supply tribe with money demanded by landlord. E373.4
• Tribe of left-handed people. F515.5
• Tribe of one-eyed, one-footed, one-handed men. F525.3
• Double-skinned tribe. F558.1
• Iron-eating tribe. F561.8
• Naked tribe. Sun, cold, wind, rain do not harm them. F568
• Paths open up in sea for each tribe (one for each of Israel's tribes). F931.9.3
• Cannibal tribe. G11.18
• Cannibal ogres eat daily ten men, ten women, ten children from the same tribe. G94.2
• Task: causing sickness to come to certain tribe. H1199.2.1
• Men hang old bedridden weaver instead of young, valuable member of colony after the young man has accidentally killed an Indian. The Indian tribe demands punishment. J2233.1.1
• King promises valuable dog to each of two powerful and mutually hostile tribes. At feast prepared by king the two tribes get into fight and king escapes. K234.1
• Escape by posing as member of murderer's family or tribe. K601
• Tree becomes light (after all honey has been collected from nests), springs back and kills tribe's enemies. K1112.1
• Treacherous peoples (tribes). K2299.2
• Promise to dying father not to wed woman of certain tribe. M258.2
• Curse on tribe (district). M463
• Tribe failing to attend yearly feast to send gift as sign of submission. P531.1
• Punishment for wholesale massacre of tribe. Q211.11
• Tribe's long wandering in wilderness as punishment. Q502.3
• Marriage within clans sanctioned because of incest-origin of tribe. T131.5.1
• Triplets killed by tribe at birth. T586.3.2
• Chieftain who takes king unawares, spares him on condition that chieftain be called "lover" by women of king's tribe. W11.5.11.1