95 motifs match “bargain”  ·  back to the chapters

• "We three" – "For gold" – "That is right" devil's bargain. Three brothers have agreed to say only these things. They incriminate themselves. C495.2.1
• Magic object acquired through foolish bargain. D837
• Immortality gained from bargain with Death. D1851.2
• Love-compelling man sickens of bargain. A man given the power of making all women love him is smothered to death by them. D1904
• Dead return to fulfill bargain. E342
• Family carried away to fairyland as part of bargain. F327
• Strong man's labor contract: anger bargain. First to become angry shall receive blow. F613.3
• Priest dies from having been duped into deceptive bargain. F1041.1.3.4
• Test of curiosity: the paternoster. Plowman is promised a horse if he can say a paternoster without thinking of anything else. In the midst of the recitation, he asks if he will get the saddle and bridle too. He loses bargain. H1554.3
• Stone as witness. Farmer will not pay servant wages due. Closing his bargain with the servant he had said: "May this stone be witness." Judge orders stone brought to court. The farmer: "Oh, but the stone is too big (or very far away)". J1141.1.3.1
• Bargain: to render service for "something". Claimant has called dead cricket "something" and must be content. J1521.5.1
• Foolish bargains. J2080
• Foolish bargain: progressive type. J2081
• Foolish bargain: horse for cow, cow for hog, etc. Finally nothing left. J2081.1
• Foolish bargain: good fish for worthless shell; shell with pearl in it for small fish. J2081.2
• Foolish bargain: miscellaneous. J2099
• Numskull told not to forget to get the handsel (a little token extra in the bargain); brings it but leaves what he has been sent to buy. J2461.5
• Deceptive bargains. K100
• Deception through pseudo-simple bargain. K170
• Anger bargain. The trickster makes a bargain with his master that the first to become angry must submit to punishment. He thereupon heaps abuses on his master till the latter breaks out in anger and must take his punishment. K172
• Anger bargain: may God give you a penny. A servant and his mistress agree that when they are angry with each other they shall say, "May God give you a penny!" When the master says this, the servant says, "May he give you two!" They keep increasing the amount till those who hear wonder at the performance. The mistress tells them, "You don't know the coin." K172.1
• Deceptive bargain: as much bread as he wants to eat. The baker fixes his price at the rate for twenty loaves. The trickster eats thirty. K173
• Deceptive bargain: a sack of corn as reward. Trickster has an enormous sack made. K174
• Deceptive bargain: as much grain as will go in a rope. Trickster encloses whole crop. K174.1
• Deceptive bargain: three wishes. The ogre is to fulfill three wishes of the peasant. The latter wishes for all the tobacco and brandy in the world and then some more brandy in addition. The devil must admit failure. K175
• Deceptive bargain: first to say "Good morning." The first to give the greeting shall have the disputed property. The trickster is early on the scene and witnesses the other's adultery. He may keep the property without saying good morning. K176
• Deceptive bargain: fasting together. The servant girl eats secretly; the miser starves. K177
• Deceptive bargain: felling the tree. The ogre and the trickster agree to fell a large tree. The trickster purposely dulls his axe on a stone and then asks the ogre to exchange. Rather than work with a dull axe, the ogre does all the work. K178
• Deceptive bargain: a peck of grain for each stack. The man who is to receive this share of the crop makes very small stacks. K181
• Deceptive bargain: an ox for five pennies. A woman who has been left the ox on condition that she give the proceeds to the poor offers it for five pennies, but it must be bought along with a cock at twelve florins. She gives the five pennies to the poor and keeps the twelve florins. K182
• Deceptive bargain: the ogre and the copper coins. Every time the copper coin is paid out, the ogre must make a new one. The man buys an extensive property and pays with a large number of copper coins. He threatens to buy another and the ogre goes back on his contract. K183
• Land bargain: land surrounded by a horse (cow) in one day. K185.7.1
• Land bargain: land ridden around during a sermon. K185.7.2
• Deceptive land bargain: saints agree that the one who casts his staff far enough to reach distant island shall be owner of land. Staff of one contestant transformed to spear (or dart) and so alone reaches island. When saint touches weapon, it becomes staff again. K185.13
• Deceptive bargain with ogre: buying trees. Trees to be neither straight nor crooked. K186
• Deceptive bargain based on an unusual name. K193
• Bargain: if the sun reverses its course. Because of an eclipse the sun is held to have done so, and Atreus becomes king. K194
• Selling by trickery: literal bargain. (Cf. K134.1.) K196
• Buying foxes "as they run". Man sells three hundred foxes to buyer who agrees to "take them as they run": reds, silvers, crosses. He gets a large payment to bind the bargain, waves his hand at the woods: "I sold them as they run; and they're running." K196.1
• Other deceptive bargains. K199
• Deceptive bargain: as much gold in reward as sticks to poet's hair when poured over him: he smears it with tar. K199.1
• Devil's magic power turned on himself. The hero who is riding the devil as a horse receives supernatural strength from plucking a hair from the devil's mane. He then spurs the devil until he agrees to forego his bargain for the man's soul. K214
• Devil gets another soul instead of one bargained for. The devil bargains with a man for his soul, but the man fulfills his contract and escapes. In envy two persons commit suicide. The devil rejoices that though he lost one he has gained two. K217
• Payment precluded by terms of the bargain. K220
• To owe sixteen florins. Horse bought on condition that the buyer pay ten florins and owe sixteen. In court the buyer insists on the bargain and shows that if he pays the sixteen florins which he owes he will break the bargain, for then he would no longer owe. K224
• Mutual agreement to sacrifice family members in famine. Trickster refuses to carry out his part of the bargain. K231.1.1
• Trickster cheats by pretending deafness. Palm rat, when asked to throw down nuts according to bargain, replies that he is deaf when eating. K231.15
• Drinking only after a bargain. A woman having thus sworn keeps buying and selling the same mule many times a day. K236.2
• The castration bargain: wife sent. The trickster castrates the dupe and is to come the next day and be castrated himself. He sends his wife as substitute. K241
• Other deceptive bargains. K250
• The priest made sick of his bargain: three words at the grave. A poor man in return for a steer gets permission from the priest to speak three words at the burial of his enemy, the rich man. Priest: "From earth are you come." Man: "Now the steer is dead." Priest: "In earth shall you remain." Man: "Father, do you want the meat?" Priest: "I wish you were in hell!" etc. K262
• Devil is made sick of his bargain. Devil helps shepherd boy become a minister on condition that he mention Satan by name each time he enters pulpit. Boy consents but does so in such a way that devil begs to abolish the agreement. K262.1
• Cow enticed away by calf. Brothers are given the choice of a cow or a calf. One chooses the cow and thinks that he has the best of the bargain. The cow longs for the calf and returns to it. K366.1.2
• Fee from two persons for the same monopoly. Man to furnish goods exclusively to animal. Bargains at same time with another to do the same thing. K441.3
• Escape by singing an endless song. The soldier's bargain with Death. K555.2.2
• Capture by luring merchant to look at supposed bargain. K775
• Lover's gift regained: payment with worthless money. Lover bargains with the husband. Pays him with worthless money. K1581.10
• The woman as cuckoo on the tree shot down. The anger bargain is to cease when the cuckoo crows. The ogre's wife climbs the tree and imitates the cuckoo. She is shot down. K1691
• Alleged idol promises teacher certain payment for his book when finished. Dupe overhears and pays him bargain price for what he is later to receive. K1971.13
• Peter acts as God for a day: tires of bargain. A girl takes her goat to pasture and leaves him: "My God care for you!" Peter must run everywhere after the goat. L423
• Bargains and promises. M200
• Making of bargains and promises. M201
• Bargain with God (by holy man). M201.0.1
• Blood of contractors mixed to seal bargain. M201.1.1
• Spitting of all parties into vessel to seal bargain. M201.3
• Fulfilling of bargain or promise. M202
• Bargain or promise to be fulfilled at all hazards. M202.0.1
• Breaking of bargains or promises. M205
• Land grants (bargains). M207
• Bargain with devil. M210
• Devil at gallows repudiates his bargain with robber. Ring turns to rope. The judge cannot find a rope and is about to release the thief because of the miracle. But the ring in the box presented by the devil as a bribe turns out to be a rope. The man is hanged. M212.2
• Devil bargains to help man become priest. He must not later exorcise him from people. M216
• Devil bargains to help man win woman. M217
• Bargain with the devil for an heir. M219.1
• Other bargains. M220
• Beheading bargain. Giant allows hero to cut off his head; he will cut off hero's later. M221
• Bargain: woman rides naked through streets to obtain freedom for citizens. Godiva. M235
• Bargain to save face. M237
• Bargain: to divide all winnings. M241
• Dividing the winnings: half of the bride demanded. When the hero shows that he is willing to carry out the bargain, his helper relents. M241.1
• Bargains and promises between mortals and supernatural beings. (Cf. M221, M222, M223.) M242
• Bargains between men and animals. M244
• Bargain with king of mice. M244.1
• Bargains and promises – miscellaneous. M290
• Trickster undertakes impossible bargains and collects his part. Trusts that in the year he is given either he or the other will die. M291
• Wife undertakes man's penances for him: also to go to heaven for him? He has a dream and when he sees that she also goes to heaven for him he decides against the bargain. M292
• Bargain to keep secret. M295
• Wager on wife's complacency. Though the man has foolishly bargained everything away, she praises him and he wins the wager. N11
• Lucky bargain. N421
• Progressive lucky bargains. (Opposite of J2081.) N421.1
• Touching head as sign of acceptance of bargain. P675
• Unwitting bargain with devil evaded by driving dog over bridge first. The child has been unwittingly promised (the first thing that goes over the bridge). S241.1
• Man in hell declares that life there is much better than on earth with his wife. Bargain with the devil: should the latter not be able to endure life with his wife for three years, the man would be released from hell. The devil is the loser. T251.1.2.2
• Uncharitable knight drives bargain even in giving alms: devoured by serpents. His alms of corn turn to serpents. V422
• Lending and repaying: progressively worse (or better) bargain. Z41.5