105 motifs match “warrior” — showing the first 100; narrow the words for the rest  ·  back to the chapters

• Warrior chieftain of underworld. A308
• Valhalla. The hall of warriors who go to Odin. They die and are resurrected daily. A661.1
• Spring breaks forth at need of demigod's warriors. A941.4.2.1
• Holes in stone caused by saint (warrior). A972.3.1
• Hole in stone caused by weapon of warrior. A972.5.6
• Origin of professional warriors. A1658
• Origin of fiana (bands of professional warriors). A1658.1
• Snipe messenger for warriors because he was a messenger when a man. A2261.6
• Tabu: warriors being in hero's land without receiving challenge from him. C566.5
• Tabu: sex activity for warriors. (Cf. C110.) C566.6
• Magic sign assures that warriors will not flee from battle. (Cf. D1299.1, D1358.2.) D1359.5
• Magic wind causes arms to fall from warrior's hands. (Cf. D906.) D1414.3
• Two hundred years of unfailing life and happiness offered to warrior by fairy woman in exchange for one day's delay of battle. D1857.2
• Warrior's equipment magically furnished. D2107
• Slain warriors revive nightly. Continue fighting the next day. E155.1
• Fighting warriors show the way of their past life and of their death. E497
• Souls of warriors go to Valhalla. E754.2.0.1
• Fairy gives warrior equipment for soldiers. F343.10
• Fairy warriors sit upon mortals and thus kill them. F364.1
• Transformed fairy warriors disenchanted when attacked. F383.5
• Fairy woman exhibits her figure to warriors. Is most beautiful of women. F397
• Fairies bear dead warrior to fairyland. F399.1
• Helpful spirit warriors dwell in rocks and hills. F450.1.1
• Giants as warriors (in army). F531.6.9
• Women warriors or hunters. F565
• Amazons. Women warriors. F565.1
• Warrior of special strength (Berserk). (Cf. F1041.8.6.) F610.3
• Person (warrior) uses only one leg, one hand, one eye. F682.0.1
• Fire drops from fingers of warrior whenever he wills it. F683.1.1
• Warrior seeks combat when his spear consents. F834.7
• Mad warriors fly up into clouds. (Cf. F1041.16.6.) F1041.8.7
• Extraordinary bodily contortion as result of warrior's anger. (Cuchulain's battle-rage.) F1041.16.5
• Extraordinary physical reactions of angry warriors in battle. (Cf. F1041.8.7.) F1041.16.6
• Fury in battle causes stream of blood to rise from warrior's head. F1041.16.6.1
• Fury in battle causes warrior to increase in size. F1041.16.6.2
• Fiery columns rise in front of angry warrior. F1041.16.6.3
• Face of angry warrior lights up with flame. F1041.16.6.4
• Angry warrior becomes red and purple. F1041.16.6.5
• Water boils when angry warrior is immersed in it. F1041.16.6.6
• Angry warrior's breath makes adversary's armour so hot that he must surrender. F1041.16.6.8
• Bowstring (arrow, oar) breaks at angry warrior's grasp. F1041.16.6.9
• Warriors use teeth after they exhaust weapons. F1084.2
• Test of death by putting burning wood in the mouth of fallen warriors. H248.4
• Warriors go towards strong enemy as consequence of own boast. H945.1
• Task: wrestling etc. with giant warrior. H1166.1
• Old warrior longs for more adventure. Refuses to rest in old age. H1221.1
• Test of valor: attack by warrior and hound. H1561.7
• Warriors battle against leader as test of valor. H1561.8
• Test for admission to warrior band. H1566
• Warrior having lost a city claims that he did not wish to sell it for a higher price. J875
• Person describes approaching bands of warriors without recognizing them. Another (interlocutor) identifies them. J1661.3
• Warrior reveals camping place. Wishes his enemies to know that he is not afraid. Enemies go there before him. J2366
• Supernatural substitute in tournament for pious warrior. K3.2.1
• Conquered warrior kills victor instead of paying. K235.4
• Disguise as king with mask in order to hide from enemy who has ruined warrior's face and torn his beard off. K521.2.3
• Women bind warrior's hair to wall of hostel while he sleeps. K713.1.8
• Women draw warrior aside so that confederate may kill him. K822
• Warriors whitewash weapons thus disguising identity of one of their number who bears white-handled battle-axe. K1839.6
• Warrior deceived into attacking substituted pillar-stone. Stone bears enemy's dress (crown). K1845.1
• Sham warrior. K1951
• Boastful fly-killer: "seven at a blow". A tailor who has killed seven flies writes on a placard: "Seven at a blow." He is received as a great warrior. K1951.1
• Sham-warrior intimidates soldiers with his boasting. K1951.3
• Sham-warrior boasts and is employed at palace. K1951.3.1
• Tiger intimidated by boasting of the sham-warrior. K1951.3.2
• Warrior buries oversized armor so as to convince posterity of soldiers' gigantic size. K1969.2
• Women pretend to weep over warrior's wounds while attempting to inflame them. K2014
• Warrior falsely accused of having killed his sleeping adversary. Not supposed to have been able to do it if latter was awake. K2116.5
• Warrior proposes to fight in single combat. Fights with aid of sons and grandsons. They belong to him. K2319.2
• Capture by hiding warriors in baskets on back of oxen driven into enemy's camp on pretence that food is being brought. K2357.15
• Division of warriors hidden in pit on battlefield. Emerge during battle. K2369.2
• Warrior consents to flee for the sake of future victory. K2378.2
• Retreat in return for cessation of attack. Host agrees to march back a day's journey if warrior will cease his feats of arms upon them until a certain battle in the future. M263
• Messengers announce successive misfortunes to warrior as he sets out for war. Tells of death of father, mother, brother, and sister, but he refuses to turn back. N252.1
• Warriors erroneously slay allies in night battle. N349.1
• Warriors discover in the last moment that it is their own chief they are about to murder by burning. N657
• Great warrior destroyed by king when he asks for princess in marriage. P41.1
• Warrior will not fight where his brother was slain. Place considered defiled. P251.2
• Promise of marriage to king's daughter induces warrior to fight foster brother. P273.2.1
• Band of professional warriors. P551.0.1
• Hero drives retreating warriors back into battle. P551.4
• Battle-pen. Warriors fight in circle around leader. P552.1
• Warrior not entitled to ransom if captured without arms. P557.1
• Warrior who begins combat has right to desist. P557.4.2
• Warrior engaged in combat with one-armed opponent allows one hand to be bound to his side. P557.4.4.1
• Warrior disgraced by slaying of those under his protection. P557.5
• Warrior dies with face toward foe. P557.6
• Warrior retires to a cloister which he later defends against robbers. Q520.6
• Defeated warriors go into the conqueror's service. R74
• Warriors surrender after chief's death. R75.2
• Warriors flee after chief's death. R75.2.1
• Dord fían. A call used by members of a fían (warrior band) for summoning aid. R187.1
• Ash (hazel) stakes thrust through bodies of slain warriors. S139.2.2.7
• Woman falls in love with dying warrior. T89.1
• Older warrior preferred as suitor. T92.13
• Marriage for a night to insure heir of warrior destined to be slain (next day) in battle. T156.1
• Parents urge girl to trade her favors for truce with hostile warrior. T455.4
• Warrior gives steed to his enemy. W11.5.9
• Badly wounded warrior continues fighting. W33.1
• Warrior refuses to delay battle in return for promise of long, happy life. W33.2
• Eager warriors go through tent wall. Warriors so eager for battle they do not take time to go out of tent door but go through the tent wall. W212.1