Category:Recurring elements in folklore

• Recurrent elements in fairy tales (41 C, 20 P)

B

• Back-footed beings (1 C, 29 P)
• Black dogs (folklore) (15 P)

D

• Deal with the Devil (4 C, 62 P)
• Death of deities (3 C, 10 P)
• Dragons (8 C, 38 P)

E

• Entering heaven alive (9 C, 37 P)

F

• Flight folklore (4 C, 10 P)

G

• Ghosts (8 C, 65 P)
• Giants (16 C, 53 P)
• Good and evil (7 C, 25 P)
• Grateful dead (folklore) (6 P)

H

• Haunted vehicles (1 C, 12 P)

K

• Katabasis (6 C, 21 P)
• Kidnapping in folklore (3 C, 4 P)

L

• Lost mines (2 C, 30 P)

M

• Magic (supernatural) (24 C, 59 P)
• Magic powders (4 P)
• Metamorphosis in folklore (3 C, 8 P)
• Miniature people (3 C, 2 P)
• Mythological archetypes (21 C, 75 P)

R

• Ritual animal disguise (46 P)

S

• Sleep in mythology and folklore (7 C, 32 P)
• Stock characters (23 C, 130 P)

T

• Legendary treasures (1 C, 13 P)

V

• Vampires (3 C, 90 P)

W

• Wild Hunt (31 P)
• Witchcraft in folklore and mythology (5 C, 51 P)

B

• Back-footed being

C

• Calumniated Wife

D

• Death or departure of the gods

F

• Fairy cup legend
• Feral child
• Fountain of Youth

G

• Good and evil
• Grateful dead (folklore)

H

• Human guise

I

• Incantation

L

• Looking taboo

M

• Magic (supernatural)
• Moirang Shayon
• Motif-Index of Folk-Literature

P

• Petrifaction in mythology and fiction
• Poison dress

R

• Rash promise

S

• Shoe throwing

T

• Treasure guardians in folklore

V

• Vampire
• Vengeful ghost

W

• White Lady
• Wild Hunt