22 motifs match “arranged”  ·  back to the chapters

• Topographical features of the earth arranged by creator. (Cf. A0.) A902
• 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
• 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
• Thieves deceived by prearranged conversation which they overhear. (Cf. K420.) J1517
• Prearranged answers in Latin not always successful. (Essentially same as X111.9.) J1741.3
• 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
• Incestuous marriage arranged by trick. K1377
• Husband catches paramour by using wife's pre-arranged signal. K1569.5
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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