29 motifs match “welcome”  ·  back to the chapters

• Why umbrellas are used to welcome bride to new home. A1555.3
• Fish perform races as welcome to saint. B251.2.2
• Birds beat waters with wings as welcome to saint. B251.2.5
• Unwelcome bird (insect) proves to be messenger. B291.0.2
• Magic object protects from unwelcome lover. D1386
• Robber-proof house: thieves are petrified when they enter house for unlawful purposes; are fed and welcomed, otherwise. D2072.5
• Suitor task: to kill (defeat) unwelcome suitor. H335.4.4
• Enigmatic welcome of host. Sounds very inhospitable but properly interpreted makes guests welcome. H595
• Unwelcome guest tells about the hidden food. Having seen his hostess hide it, he tells about it in the form of a tale. J1344
• Welcome to the clothes. A man at a banquet is neglected because of his poor clothes. He changes clothes, returns, and is honored. "Feed my clothes," he says, "for it is they that are welcomed." J1561.3
• When hints do not get rid of unwelcome guests, force must be used. Thus man treats his sons-in-law. J1563.6
• God blamed for heavy rain. Since he is an old man he should have known that more rain was unwelcome. J2215.5
• Owners frightened away from goods by report of deadly epidemic. Poor parson thus rids himself of unwelcome guests; they leave food they have brought. K335.0.2
• Death feigned to escape unwelcome marriage. (Cf. K523.0.1.) K522.0.1
• Illness (madness, dumbness, etc.) feigned to escape unwelcome marriage. (Cf. K522.0.1, K523.1.) K523.0.1
• Illness feigned to escape unwelcome meeting. K523.0.2
• Lover steals bride from wedding with unwelcome suitor. K1371.1
• Lover's foster brother (friend) steals bride from wedding with unwelcome suitor. K1371.1.2
• Husband returns secretly and kills unwelcome suitor. K1551.1
• Hidden man behind image gives unwelcome answer to suppliant: image blamed. K1971.8
• Vow to die rather than marry unwelcome suitor. M149.2
• Year's respite from unwelcome marriage. T151
• Six months' respite from unwelcome marriage. T151.1
• Thirty days' respite from unwelcome marriage. T151.2
• Other respites from unwelcome marriage (three months, two years, etc.). T151.3
• Marriage for a night to evade law. In order to have girl escape unwelcome marriage, the hero agrees to marry her and give her up the next day. He puts up a large bond as pledge to give her up. But he gets hold of the money by trickery and keeps her. T156
• Princess evades unwelcome lover by putting on foul-smelling skin-coat. T323.2
• Princess takes on loathsome disguise to avoid unwelcome demon-lover. T327.6
• Angels sing to welcome saint. V234.1.1