72 motifs match “assigned”  ·  back to the chapters

• Tasks assigned suitors. Bride as prize for accomplishment. (For nature of tasks see H1000ff.) H335
• Devil as suitor assigned tasks. H335.0.3
• Suitors assigned quests. H336
• Riddle assigned defendant in action. If he solves it he wins suit. H542.1
• Task assigned the Gods. H902
• Tasks assigned at suggestion of jealous rivals. H911
• Task (quest) assigned at suggestion of jealous co-wife. H911.1
• Tasks assigned at suggestion of jealous brothers (sisters). H912
• Tasks assigned by jealous parent. H913
• Tasks assigned by jealous mother. H913.1
• Task assigned at suggestion of jealous mother (of prospective bride). H913.1.1
• Tasks assigned at suggestion of jealous father. H913.2
• Task assigned at suggestion of jealous father (of prospective bride). H913.2.1
• Tasks assigned because of mother's foolish boasting. The mother foolishly boasts to the king that the daughter can perform an impossible task (often spinning). H914
• Tasks assigned because of girl's (boy's) own foolish boast. H915
• Tasks assigned because of man's boast. H915.1
• Tasks assigned at suggestion of wife and paramour. H916.3
• Tasks assigned at own unwitting suggestion. Jason thus sent for the Golden Fleece. H917
• Tasks assigned at suggestion contained in letter borne by the victim. H918
• Tasks assigned at suggestion of treacherous servants. H919.1
• Tasks assigned at suggestion of religious person. H919.2
• Task assigned at suggestion of parrot. H919.3
• Impossible task assigned by plaintiff as proof. H919.4
• Task assigned at suggestion of treacherous soldier. H919.5
• Tasks assigned at instigation of queen (disguised ogress). H919.6
• Tasks assigned before man may rescue wife from spirit world. H923
• Task assigned before wife may rescue husband from supernatural power. H923.1
• Tasks assigned prisoner so that he may escape punishment. H924
• Tasks assigned as ransom. H924.1
• Task assigned by angel on God's order. H927.2
• Tasks assigned in order to get rid of hero. H931
• Tasks assigned to devil (ogre). H932
• Quest assigned by scorned princess. H933.4
• Tasks assigned by stepmother. H934.3
• Tasks assigned because of longings of pregnant woman. H936
• Task assigned by dying child. H937
• Tasks assigned by druid. H939.1
• Cumulative tasks: second assigned so that first can be done. H941
• Tasks assigned as payment of gambling loss. (Cf. H1219.1.) H942
• Task assigned from misunderstanding. H946
• Task assigned from misunderstanding: search for prince named Sabr ("wait"). H946.1
• Countertasks. When a task is assigned, the hero agrees to perform it as soon as the assigner performs a certain other task. (Cf. H691.2.1, H1021.1.1, H1021.3, H1021.6.1, H1021.6.2, H1022.2.1, H1022.3, H1022.9, H1023.1.1, H1023.1.2, H1023.2.2.1, H1023.9.1, H1023.10.1, H1142.3, H1146.) H951
• Devil as suitor assigned task to build bridge or dam. H1131.2
• Quest assigned. H1210
• Quest assigned by father. H1210.1
• Quest assigned by king. H1210.2
• Quests assigned in order to get rid of hero. H1211
• Quest assigned because of feigned illness. Lion's milk (or the like) said to be necessary as cure; hero therefore sent on dangerous quest. H1212
• Quest assigned because of feigned dream. H1212.1
• Quest assigned by wife through appeal to husband's love for her. He is sent for liver of dangerous animal. H1212.2
• Quest assigned because of longings of pregnant woman. H1212.4
• Quest assigned because of hero's knowledge of animal languages. H1214
• Quest assigned because of hero's boast. H1215
• Quest assigned because of dream. H1217
• Quest assigned as payment for gambling loss. (Cf. H942.) H1219.1
• Quest assigned as payment for magic object. H1219.1.1
• Quest assigned as punishment for murder. H1219.2
• Quest assigned as punishment by father of abducted girl. H1219.3
• Quest assigned by fairy. (Cf. H938.) H1219.4
• Quest assigned prisoner. H1219.5
• Quest assigned as result of slander. H1219.6
• Quest assigned as payment for hospitality. H1219.7
• Quest assigned as punishment for curiosity. H1219.8
• Wisdom of hidden old man saves kingdom. In famine all old men are ordered killed. One man hides his father. When all goes wrong in the hands of the young rulers, the old man comes forth, performs assigned tasks, and aids with his wisdom. J151.1
• Magician assigned three places at a table. He confesses to carrying two persons in his body. J1141.2
• Bluff: hero professes to be able to perform much larger task than that assigned. K1741
• Disguised queen visits her husband and begets child with him as assigned. (Cf. H1187.) K1812.8.3
• Tasks assigned so as to learn future. M302.5
• "The champion's portion." The choicest portion assigned to the bravest at feasts. P632.2.1
• Predestined lovers. Future wife or husband assigned by destiny. (Cf. T54.) T22
• Vision of chairs (thrones) in heaven. Chairs of gold, silver, crystal (glass) assigned to saints according to merit. (Cf. A661.0.3.) V515.1.1
• Hog tired of his daily food. Goes to the judge and gets better food assigned to him, but the fox cheats him out of it. W128.1