69 motifs match “advice”  ·  back to the chapters

• God in form of fakir visits king and gives him advice. A182.3.4.1
• Grateful dragon king gives hero advice. B560.1
• Animals' advice leads man to wealth. B562
• Parrot gives advice to queen playing chess, and she always wins. B565
• Mosquito gives hero advice as to which choice to make. B569.3
• Tabu: taking the advice of a woman. C195
• Magic object gives advice. D1312
• Magic bone gives advice. (Cf. D1013.) D1312.2
• Speaking grass gives advice. (Cf. D965.12.) D1312.3
• Magic book gives advice. (Cf. D1266.) D1312.4
• Speaking privates. Man given advice by his private parts. (Cf. D998.) D1610.6
• Grateful objects give advice. (Cf. D1312.) D1658.3.1
• Magic advice. D1814
• Advice from magician (fortune-teller, etc.). (Cf. D1711, D1810.0.2, D1817.) D1814.1
• Advice from dream. (Cf. D1810.8.) D1814.2
• Advice from God (or gods). D1814.3
• Advice from dead mother. E323.4
• Bonga made village headman and advice asked. F347.1
• Water-spirits give advice. F420.5.1.8
• Found mortar taken to king reveals peasant girl's wisdom. Peasant finds mortar in his field and against his daughter's advice takes it to the king, who demands the pestle as well. Peasant laments that he has not followed daughter's advice. King summons her. H561.1.2
• Enigmatic advice: take only salt and water as food. H588.21
• Helpers on quest demand pay for advice. H1235.1
• Quest to distant sage for advice. H1393
• "Ruler should follow advice of majority" (not his own fancy): counsel proved wise by experience. Thus finds money on body of dead traveler. J21.35
• "Do not take a woman's advice": counsel proved wise by experience. (Cf. J21.22.) J21.37
• Advice from dervish. J152.2
• Caesar's scorn of his wife's advice leads to disaster. J155.3
• Deity appears in dream and gives instructions or advice. J157.0.1
• Fool is told to get a pottle of brains. He tries to buy them. He finally learns that advice was to marry a clever girl. J163.2.1
• Counsel: if you take it you will be sorry; if you don't you will also be sorry. This advice given hero by helpful horse. J171.1
• In spite of master's advice disciple stays in country where everything has cheap price. Gets into trouble. J342.1.1
• Prince of democratic tastes chosen. King asks three sons what kind of bird they would prefer to be. First: an eagle, because it is ruler of birds; second: a falcon; because it is beloved by the nobles; third: a bird which flies with many others, so as to receive advice. King chooses third. J412.1
• Disregard advice of your enemy. J646
• Palamides, having injured Ulysses, seeks advice from him. Following the advice proves fatal. J646.1
• Advice not to rob women while they are alone, for fear of returning husbands' revenge. J647.2
• Frog persists in living in puddle on road. Disregards advice of another frog and is run over. J652.1
• Be diligent and spend little: how to become wealthy. Advice of a self-made man. J706.1
• Advice after the event valueless. J756
• Doctor gives advice after patient dies. Scorned for lack of foresight. J756.1
• Clever prostitute. Gives advice on many questions. J1115.8
• B warns A not to tie his horse near B's. Horses fight and A's is killed. In court B plays dumb. A says B could talk the day before, and repeats conversation. Judge blames A for not taking advice. J1141.1.12
• Too late for the same advice. Impoverished spendthrift sarcastically to thrifty person: "Stop spending so freely!" "It's too late to give you the same advice." J1363
• Father causes inhospitable daughter to spoil her feast by deceptive advice about cooking. J1561.5
• Throw at a rich man. Philosopher gives a penny to a man who throws stones at him but advises him that it will be wiser to throw at one who can afford to give more. The advice is followed and the rascal is arrested and hanged. J1602
• To follow the king. In order to test a favorite, a king says that he is going to retire from the world and offers the regency to the favorite. On advice from his philosopher, the favorite says that he is going to accompany the king into retirement. J1634
• Using the lamb to get an audience. Peasant calls on lawyer for advice. Lawyer says that he is busy. Peasant returns with lamb. The lawyer hears its bleat and grants the audience. J1653
• Wise man short-sightedly scorned for his advice. J2051
• Punishing the dog by feeding him. A man is bitten by a dog. On the advice of an old woman he rubs bread on the wound and gives it to the dog. All dogs will bite him if they thus get double reward. J2108
• Foolish bride gives away dowry. While her parents are away from home, a matchmaker and a suitor come to the foolish girl. By following her mother's advice literally, she gives away her dower to the tricksters. J2463.1
• Literal fool feeds dogflesh to visitor to follow father's advice: "Feed him on food you have never eaten in your life." J2469.5.1
• The father of Noah's sons. The fool seeks advice as to how to answer this question: Who is the father of Stoffer's three sons? Stoffer, of course. Then who was the father of Noah's three sons? Stoffer. J2713
• Brother causes brother's death by sending him to robbers and giving false advice. K991.1
• Cock's advice proves disastrous to himself. He causes the ox and the ass to rebel but the master learns the cause of the trouble and kills him. K1633
• The lawyer's mad client. (Pathelin.) On the advice of a lawyer, the client feigns insanity when arraigned in court. When the fee is demanded, he still feigns insanity. K1655
• Sage's advice followed: he is killed so that sacrifice can be mixed with his blood. K1673
• Girl behind the tree advises the unwilling suitor. Believing it to be the advice of angels, he marries her. K1971.6
• Wise man sent by king to rival to give him interested advice. K1994
• If you hasten you will not get there. In spite of the saint's advice the teamster hastens and breaks his wagon. L148.1
• Hero stays overnight in peasant's house, to which he accidentally comes, and where he gets advice and direction. (Cf. H1232.4.) P411.4
• Advice (instruction) from druid. P427.3
• Giant gives gold, silver and weapon as reward for good advice. (Cf. Q113.1, Q114.) Q111.5
• Appointment to earldom as reward for good advice. (Cf. Q43, Q111.5.) Q113.1
• Sacrifice of sister on advice of yogi. S260.1.2
• Advice to a parting bride. T137.1
• Father by trickery secures priest's advice to marry his own daughter. If a man raise a lamb, shall he eat it himself or let another eat it? T411.1.1
• Getting advice from a woman in bed. T453
• Prostitute gets advice from customer. T453.2
• Saint gives advice. V223.1
• Red pepper for the slow ass: man tries it on himself. When, on the advice of a friend, he gives the ass red pepper, the ass runs away. Then he tries it on himself. He runs so fast that he passes the ass. Arriving at home, he says to his wife, "Unload the ass when he comes. I must run through the village a couple of times more." X11