37 motifs match “wolves”  ·  back to the chapters

• Wolves as god's dogs. A165.2.1.1.1
• Wolves lick saint's shoes. B251.2.3
• Wolves have annual (church) feast. B253.2
• Domesticated wolves. B256.4
• Wolves guard saint's cattle like watchdogs when he is absent. B256.4.1
• Wolves and wild pigs condemned to death in lion's court for killing and eating sheep. B275.1.3.2
• Saint makes covenant with wolves. B279.1
• Does, tigresses, she-wolves milked into pond, which becomes a pond of milk. B531.2.1
• Wolf-tail blankets. Wolves shelter man with their tails. B538.2
• Man and bear in the rick of hay. The bear, persecuted by wolves, runs onto the hay-rick where the man was hidden, and defends himself from the wolves with bunches of hay. B855
• Transformation: herd of cattle to wolves. D412.2.1
• Strong man sent for wolves: brings them back home. F615.2.5
• Strong man kills wolves in sea. F628.1.1.5
• Sheep kill wolves. F989.5.1
• Dog leader fears defeat because his forces are of different breeds. Wolves are all of one kind. J1023
• Wolves climb on top of one another to tree: lowest runs away and all fall. J2133.6
• Dogs of wolf color join the wolves. As soon as they have killed the other dogs the wolves then turn on the wolf-colored dogs which they have persuaded to join them. J2137.2
• Cold hands and feet for the dead man. His wife has told him that one tells a dead person by his cold hands and feet. He freezes his feet and hands and lies down for dead. Wolves eat his ass. "Lucky for you that his master is dead!" J2311.7
• Contest: harvesting the hay. The man calls out, "The wolves are coming!" The ogre is intimidated. K42.0.1
• Peace between sheep and wolves. As hostages the dogs are handed over to the wolves; the young wolves to the sheep. The wolves then attack and kill the sheep. K191
• Trickster entices wolves out of a stable by music: exacts money from their watcher for his carelessness. K443.5
• Dogs listen to wolves' hypocritical words. Are killed. K815.3
• "St. George's Dogs" (wolves). The man says, "St. George's dogs are coming!" The ogre flees. K1725
• Wolves sign false truce with sheep. After the dogs have been dismissed the wolves devour the sheep. K2010.3
• Wolves of his own country dearer than dogs of another. P711.1
• Wolves kill person for quenching holy fire. (Cf. Q222.) Q415.7
• Wolves and birds eat bodies of slayers of poet. Q415.7.1
• Thievish abbot to be eaten by wolves: curse by saint. Q556.12.1
• Old beggar transforms wedding party into wolves. (Cf. D113.1.) T155
• Werwolves hold mass. (Cf. D113.1.1, E492, G243.) V49.1
• Saint never wears woolen clothing, but skins of wolves and other beasts. V462.5.1.1
• Wolves devour an ox without leaving a share for the rightful owner. W151.3
• "I surely saw a hundred wolves (snakes)." – "There weren't so many as that." – "Well, what made the noise in the bushes?" W211.2
• Hunting wolves with rod and line. X1124.4
• Two wolves eat each other up so that only tails are left. X1204.1
• Lies about wolves. X1216
• The wormwood does not want to rock the sparrow. Final formula: the worms begin to gnaw the rods, the rods to beat the oxen, the oxen to drink the water, the water to quench the fire, the fire to burn the hunters, the hunters to shoot the wolves, the wolves to kill the goats, the goats to gnaw the wormwood, the wormwood to rock me – it rocked and rocked me to sleep. Z41.7