53 motifs match “advises”  ·  back to the chapters

• God advises mortal. A182.3.5
• Cock helper advises of coming enemy. B122.7
• Baalam's ass. Advises master that angel is barring the way. B151.1.1.2.2
• Horse advises hero not to wash in water (as his false wife told him to) or his eyes will pop out. B521.1.1
• Animal advises about investment. B562.2
• Owl advises old man of projected visit by gods (in disguise). B569.1
• Owl advises old man where to plant his crops after listening in to council of gods concerning rainfall distribution for the year. B569.2
• Transformed cow advises daughter. D688.1
• Laughing skull advises hero. (Cf. E545.) E366.1
• Heads of slain people in magician's house advises hero. E545.21
• Hospitable host entertains (guides, advises) adventurer on way to otherworld. F151.0.1
• Mortal advises fairy. F394.1
• The devil advises human beings. G303.9.7
• Devil advises young girl not to go to a castle. Later, when she returns pregnant she says that the devil advised her to serve at the castle. He slaps her and tells her she is lying. G303.9.7.1
• The devil advises a suspicious husband. The Ring of Hans Garvel. Appears in a dream and hands the husband a ring. "When you wear this ring you will be sure of your wife." He awakens to understand the obscene implication. G303.9.7.3
• Dream advises against the popularizing of science. J157.3
• Take money instead of revenge. Fool advises uncle, in letter which he did not send, to take money from wife's paramour instead of revenge. J229.11
• Father with handsome son and hideous daughter. Advises both to look in mirror daily lest son exchange handsome face for bad character; daughter to triumph over face by good manners. J244.1
• Count only the waves before you. Fox sees man trying to count the waves. Advises him to count only those immediately before him and to pay no attention to those which have already passed. J311.1
• Swallow advises hen against hatching out serpent's eggs. She is hatching her own destruction. J622.1.1
• Crane advises fool to empty reservoir so he can reap all grain. Crane eats fish left at bottom. J758.2
• Yogi advises yogi blood for making king's leaky tank hold water: king cuts off yogi's head. J818.1
• Clever wife advises husband how to succeed on adventures. J1112.3
• Young crow's alertness. Crow advises young ones to fly away if they see man stooping for a stone to throw. Young crows: "What if he already has stone in hand?" J1122.1
• Ungrateful animal returned to captivity. A man rescues a serpent (bear) who in return seeks to kill his rescuer. Fox as judge advises the man to put the serpent back into captivity. J1172.3
• Owner advises thieves to return later. He is not yet in bed. J1392.2.1
• Wife surrendered to king. Vizier advises doctor to give up his wife to love-sick prince since everything belongs to a sovereign. Doctor then tells him prince is in love not with his (the doctor's) wife but with the vizier's. J1511.19
• Dream answered by dream. Priests misinterpret raja's dream and get his horses. Trickster advises raja to announce dream demanding cauterization of the priests. They return horses. J1527
• 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
• The fish in the sleeve. A particularly obnoxious man delays others while he haggles over prices with a butcher. Meanwhile a parson takes the three fish the man has laid down and puts them into his large sleeves. The man is angry and searches in vain for them. The parson then shows them and advises him not to let people cheat him. J1604
• The fool advises the buyer that the horse is worth little or his father would not sell it. J2088.1
• Seller advises buyer that cow is a thief. J2088.2
• Climb down as you climb up. A peasant falls out of a tree. A neighbor advises him not to climb trees. Another suggests that he always climb down a tree with the same skill and rapidity that he climbed up. J2244
• The gift of the donkey. Ruler rewards the gift of a clever donkey. Greedy nobleman seeking a like reward sends ruler two donkeys in rich trappings. Ruler advises the donor that he is sorry that his gift will deprive him of worthy companionship. J2415.1.1
• The literal host: bread and salt. Guest finds that his host spoke literally when he invited him to share his bread and salt. Later, when the host threatens an importunate beggar, the guest advises the beggar to flee since the host means what he says. J2476
• Thief advises owner to go away; meantime steals the goods. K343
• Thief advises that slaughtered meat be hung up over night. Meantime he steals it. K343.2
• The stingy parson and the slaughtered pig. The stingy parson does not want to give any one a part of his pig, which he has just slaughtered. The sexton advises him to hang the pig up in the garden over night so as to make everyone think that it has been stolen. The sexton steals it himself. K343.2.1
• Thief advises that new cloth be hung in the open overnight. Steals it while owner sleeps. K343.2.2
• Theft by posing as doctor. Trickster advises wife to slaughter pig and have the trickster eat it all. K352
• Trickster masking as girl's father advises intercourse with trickster. She obeys. K1354.1.1
• Maid behind statue of Virgin advises the mistress to give the servants better food. K1971.3.1
• Husband behind saint's statue advises wife to spin. K1971.4
• Wife behind tree advises husband against having his wife work. K1971.4.1
• Girl behind the tree advises the unwilling suitor. Believing it to be the advice of angels, he marries her. K1971.6
• Wife behind tree advises the husband about his marital duties. K1971.6.1
• Trickster concealed in sacred tree advises that he is to marry the princess. K1971.10
• Trickster in tree advises that tree and fruit belong to him. Others think God speaks and leave. K1971.11
• The complaint about bad breath: trouble for the king's favorite. A steward advises the courtier to hold his head away when serving the king, since the king objects to his bad breath. He then tells the king that the courtier holds his head back to avoid the king's bad breath. K2135
• Mildness triumphs over violence: queen advises husband to use kindness to enemies. This wins them over where war failed. L350.1
• Grateful king advises merchant in dream to take treasure from his grave mound. N531.4
• Woman advises husband to kill guest else, she will make him chase husband and marry her instead. T481.7
• Bird advises man to treat his lazy children as she does her young: "In March I make my nest .... in August I have nothing more to do with my young." Z24.1.2