27 motifs match “uncle”  ·  back to the chapters

• Sun, moon and wind dine with their uncle and aunt, thunder and lightning. A153.3.2
• Sun and moon as uncle and nephew who ascended to the sky. A711.1
• Tabu: uncleanliness. C891
• Sending to the older uncle. F571.2.1
• Recognition by manner of throwing cakes of different weights into faces of old uncles. H35.5
• Quest for lost uncles. H1385.11
• Old uncle tests nephew's fidelity by sleeping with his beloved. H1556.4.4
• Take money instead of revenge. Fool advises uncle, in letter which he did not send, to take money from wife's paramour instead of revenge. J229.11
• Too much for his income. Child born two months after marriage. Husband returns wife to her father (uncle) saying: "I can't afford a child every two months." J1276.2
• The cynic at the bath. Leaving an unclean bath house: "Where can I go now to wash?" J1442.2
• Servants touch cooking pot. Food being considered unclean then, guests depart empty but unwitting of true reason. J1563.5.2
• Man honored above God: the dead hen. A fool finds a dead hen and cooks it and serves it for dinner. When reproached he says "How should it be unclean when God has killed it instead of men?" J2215.3
• Letter believed against clear evidence. Fool believes letter apparently reporting his uncle's death, though he has just seen uncle. J2528
• Uncle entrusted with niece's patrimony slanders her so marriage will be broken off and he will not have to part with her money. K361.5
• Penniless wooer: money in hand. An uncle gives the boy a coin and food to hold while he woos for him. He tells the girl's father that the boy has a piece of money in hand and plenty to eat. Wins the girl. K1917.2
• Treacherous uncle. K2217
• Treacherous nephew kills good uncle for his money. K2217.1
• Accidental meeting of nephew and uncle. Hero takes refuge unwittingly at his uncle's court. N738
• Uncle and nephew unwittingly about to kill one another. N738.1
• Uncle. P293
• Ogre appeased by being called uncle (aunt, etc.). Q41.1
• Cruel uncle. S71
• Cruel uncle poisons nephew (king). S71.1
• Nephew (niece) kills uncle. S74.1
• Saintly babe disgorges unclean food. V229.2.2
• Angels appear and help boy prince slay treacherous uncle. V232.1.1
• Boy to deceive his uncle: induces uncle to climb tree before deception begins: this is the deception. X905.4.1