42 motifs match “arrange”  ·  back to the chapters

• Size and arrangements of hell. A671.0.5
• Angels arrange course of heavenly bodies. A703
• Topographical features of the earth arranged by creator. (Cf. A0.) A902
• Arrangement of man's bodily attributes. A1310
• Misplaced genitalia. Originally genitals are misplaced. They are properly arranged by the culture hero. A1313.3
• Origin of pleasant and unpleasant women. Contest arranged by Virgin Mary – laughter forbidden for some time. A1372.7
• Origin of seating arrangements in royal hall. A1539.1
• Resuscitation by arrangement of members. Parts of a dismembered corpse are brought together and resuscitation follows. (Sometimes combined with other methods.) E30
• Devils arrange a wedding feast for a woman who hanged herself. G303.25.17.3
• Recognition of transformed person among identical companions. Prearranged signals. H161
• Suitors receive enigmatic answers. Girls answer in single words, which, when arranged in certain order, show that they accept. H593
• Monotony of restriction to one's favorite food. Counselor refuses to arrange extramarital pleasures for his lord. Ruler feeds him only his favorite food until the counselor protests the monotony. Ruler drives home his point. J81.0.1
• Thieves deceived by prearranged conversation which they overhear. (Cf. K420.) J1517
• Taking cold in effigy. A traitor is hanged in effigy naked. Later the citizens sue for peace and arrange a meeting. They find him in a hot room swathed with many blankets. He says that he has taken cold when the night wind blew on him as he hung naked from the gallows. J1628
• Tidings brought to the king: You said it, not I. The messenger arranges it so that the king says the words in the form of a question. J1675.2.1
• Abbot gives king unique concert. Separates hogs into tenors, bassos, etc. So arranges them that when he pricks them they render a tune. J1675.5
• Prearranged answers in Latin not always successful. (Essentially same as X111.9.) J1741.3
• Deceptive tug-of-war. Small animal challenges two large animals to a tug-of-war. Arranges it so that they unwittingly pull against each other (or one end of rope is tied to a tree). K22
• Compassionate executioner. A servant charged with killing the hero (heroine) arranges the escape of the latter. K512
• Two rival parties of fifteen each on ship. When food is exhausted, it is agreed that half the company be thrown overboard, "every ninth man as they stood to be selected." Clever sister of leader of one party arranges men so that enemies are chosen and so drowned. K527.4
• Men ordered to dance before being killed. Dance figure arranged so as to defeat captors. K551.3.6.3
• Whimbrel sends his adulterous mate to meet him in cave. He has arranged with lion to be there to eat her. K813.1
• Priest caught in lasso by rival lover. Mistress tells knight of priest's demands. Knight has her give assignation, and arranges around her a string lasso which he pulls, and catches priest. K1218.1.6
• Hostile brother-in-law made king's inferior by being tricked to hold his sword, while the king arranges his breeches belt. (Old custom). K1292
• Incestuous marriage arranged by trick. K1377
• Husband catches paramour by using wife's pre-arranged signal. K1569.5
• Deceiver falls into his own trap (literally). Arranges a trap or pitfall but is himself caught. K1601
• Pitfall arranged but victim escapes it. K1601.1
• Treacherous counselor killed in treacherous ballgame he himself has arranged. K1626.2
• Tail sticking from ground betrays killing of calf. So arranged by servant in revenge on his master. K1686
• Brother and sister arrange marriage of their unborn children to each other. M146.4
• Father kills self believing that son is dead. The son forgets to spread white sails, the prearranged signal of his safety. (Told also of lovers.) N344
• Match arranged by means of pictures of both parties. T51.3
• Matchmakers arrange weddings. T53.0.1
• Lady in love with ruler enlists friend's aid. Rendezvous arranged. T55.3
• Letter falsified and elopement with false lover arranged. T92.4.2
• Falling furniture threatens bridal couple. Furniture etc. arranged by jealous rival so that it will fall. T175.1
• Woman swims nightly to husband's prison and arranges his escape. Spurns the attentions of treacherous suitor. (Cf. R152.) T215.6
• Look! look! she cries from the barrel. A nobleman has arranged for a peasant girl to become his mistress. When he comes to take her away he cannot find her. Disappointed, he is about to depart when the girl, who has hidden in a barrel, calls out "Look!" She really wants to be found. W136.1
• Sexton arranges wasp-nest so that parson sits on it. Wasps chase him. X411.3
• Endless tales. Hundreds of sheep to be carried over stream one at a time, etc. The wording of the tale so arranged as to continue indefinitely. Z11
• Cumulative tales. Tales arranged in chains. (Kettenmärchen.) Z20