Search
Motifs — first 20 of 28
- Male rabbit bears young. Female rabbit escaped Noah on ark and drowned. B754.4
- Ash pole appears at doorway several times on day owner's daughter dies. (It is used for coffin rests. The pole has previously mysteriously escaped being used for other purposes.) E767.1
- Fairy escaped by learning and using his secrets. F381.4
- Witch overcome or escaped. G270
- Witch overcome or escaped – miscellaneous. G279
- How the devil's power may be escaped or avoided. G303.16
- By the help of the Virgin Mary the devil may be escaped. G303.16.1
- Devil may be escaped by going to church every day. G303.16.13
- Miscellaneous ways in which the devil may be escaped or his power destroyed. G303.16.19
- Devil escaped by injuring him with silver bullet. (Cf. D1384.5.) G303.16.19.14
- Death sentence escaped by propounding riddle king (judge) cannot solve H542
- Escaped lamb delivers himself to shepherd rather than to slaughter. J217.1
- Execution escaped by use of special permissions granted the condemned. J1181
- Punishment escaped by discomfiting condemner. J1182
- Execution escaped by invoking laws of hospitality. J1183
- Execution escaped by story-telling. Cf. Browning's "Balaustion's Adventure." J1185
- Execution escaped by threatening with malediction. J1189.2
- Cynic is asked if widower should remarry. "One who has just escaped from drowning should not return to sea." J1442.12
- Thief punishes the escaped ox. An ox strays on the rascal's land but escapes from him. The next week he sees the ox yoked up and gives him a beating. The master is astonished. The rascal: "Let me alone; he knows well enough what he has done." J1861
- Thief escapes by leaving animal's severed tail and claiming that the animal has escaped and left his tail. K404