61 motifs match “beaten”  ·  back to the chapters

• Clouds as tapa beaten out by woman in moon. A705.1.2
• Why dog looks back at person who has beaten him. A2471.6.1
• Talking animal or object refuses to talk on demand. Discoverer is unable to prove his claims: is beaten. B210.2
• Animals produced when forbidden drum is beaten. C916.2
• Person beaten by whips for breaking tabu. C982
• Rock beaten by sword provides water. (Cf. D930.) D1549.5.1
• Hunting woman beaten with sticks of rowan-tree and ankles of corpse tied with branches of same tree. E442.1
• Wild huntsman has his horse beaten. E501.15.2
• Changeling beaten and left outside; the mortal child is returned. F321.1.4.6
• Hunchback cured by having hump severely beaten. F953.1
• Witch bound and beaten. G275.7
• Recognition by shoes with which the father had once beaten his son. H36.1.1
• Princess wins wrestling match with suitor by revealing her breast. He looks and is beaten. H331.6.1.1
• Bride test: to allow oneself to be beaten with shoe. H386.1
• Question (propounded on quest): Why is the cow so severely beaten every day by her calf? Answer: in her last birth she had been the young of her present calf and had treated it the same way. H1292.16
• Tiger, jackal, and bear each learn to fear man. They report him as head-thumper (he has beaten the tiger), turn-twister (he has swung jackal by tail), and top-tumbler (he has fallen out of tree on bear). J17.1
• Wisdom acquired from beating. Incognito prince, beaten for his courtesy, realizes his folly and returns home. J18
• "Go to Goosebridge": counsel proved wise by experience. Man with disobedient wife finds mules beaten there and made to cross bridge. J21.16
• Preacher teaches beaten Genoese the strength of unity. They are like donkeys – when one is beaten the rest scatter. The enemy are like pigs – stick together in trouble. J1021.2
• To be beaten by deceiver of husband. Lady has her women ready to give a trickster a beating. He is allowed to make one request. The one who has most often deceived her husband shall strike first. J1182.1
• Will work when beaten. A wife whose husband has beaten her sends a rumor to the sick king that her husband is a skilled physician but will practice only when he is well beaten. He is seized and whipped. J1545.1
• Priest exorcising demon mistaken for demon and beaten to death. J1786.4
• Shadow mistaken for thief: is beaten. J1790.2
• Numskull beaten. J2131.1
• Numskull tries to preach while the priest is preaching: beaten. J2131.1.1
• The servant of God beaten. A man who says that he is the servant of so and so is treated with great consideration. His companion, who says that he is a servant of God is put to work. He cannot understand why God's servant should not be more important than the other. J2215.2
• Sham-dead man punished. A numskull lies in an old grave to see the Day of Judgment. He hears bells and thinks that the Last Day has come. He is beaten by mule-drivers when he tells them that he is a dead man. He returns home and tells his wife that he returns from the dead. "How goes it in heaven?" "For one thing, avoid mule-drivers." J2311.6
• Ass imitating dog brays so as to wake master when thieves are robbing him. Beaten for his pains. J2413.1.1
• Pig sees goat return decked with ornaments and plenty of food; goes out and imitates trick played by goat but is beaten instead. J2415.6
• Did not want to be Christ. An actor representing Christ in a Passion Play is beaten by Jews. He throws the cross down: "The devil may be God; I won't." J2495.3
• "Thank God it's over!" Man who has been promised a beating lives in constant dread. Is eventually beaten. He thanks God. J2568
• Pseudo-magic money-dropping ass beaten to death by buyer; cheat says: "Return my ass, I shall return your money." K249.3
• Wolf is requested by tailor to be measured for suit of clothes; wolf beaten. K551.20
• Bear throws hens to the fox, falls from the roof-beam, and is beaten. K1022.3
• Wolf brings cake from the window-sill. He imitates the fox in so doing, but rings a bell, so that he is beaten. K1022.4
• Otter persuaded to rob: beaten. K1022.5.1
• Importunate suitor enticed into sack and beaten by husband. K1218.1.5
• Importunate lover beaten and sent on street bearing humiliating placard. K1218.6
• Importunate lover beaten with canes filled with straw. He thinks he is severely wounded. K1218.8
• Innocent girl sells her "love" and later receives it back. When she tells her mother what has happened, she is beaten. Thinking to right matters, she demands that the knight return what he has taken. (Sequel: K1275.) K1362
• Returning husband beaten by servants. Mistaken for lover whom he has told them to beat. K1514.4
• Husband beaten by paramour. Husband, dressed in wife's clothing, is beaten by forewarned paramour. The latter says that he is testing the wife's fidelity to her husband. K1514.4.1
• Woman, who pretends to faint, comes to life when beaten by magician in order to drive out alleged evil spirit. K1676.1
• Disguised trickster beaten by man he is trying to frighten. Disguise as ghost. K1682
• Tables turned on procuress by chaste wife. The old woman is enticed into the wife's room, beaten, and driven forth naked. K1683
• King disguised beaten by his own men. K1812.0.1
• Incognito prince joins gamblers. He is beaten for showing courtesy. Realizes his folly and returns home. K1812.2.2
• Disguise as saint. Man beats wife for spending too much time at church. Wife has maids dress as her patron saints and when the husband repeats the beating she calls on them for help. The husband is beaten. K1827.1
• Trickster hides in bag in order to be carried. His father imitates and is beaten. K1892.1
• The devil makes the herdsman's son a priest in return for a whistle. After quarreling with the devil, who asked to repair the whistle during Mass, the priest forgets all he learned and does not know how to hold Mass. Is beaten. M216.2
• Secret physical blemish revealed by beaten handmaid. N465.0.1
• Disguised king punished by peasant. Beaten because he does not get up early enough. (King Alfred and the cakes.) P15.1
• The browbeaten husband from under the table: "The man always has a man's heart." T251.6
• Cock shows browbeaten husband how to rule his wife. (Cf. J21.16, J130.) T252.2
• Wife refuses to bring husband warm water: is beaten. T254.6.1
• Obstinate wife refuses to take cover off boiling kettle. Is beaten by husband. T255.6
• Cat beaten for not working. Lazy wife must hold cat and is scratched. W111.3.2
• Why he beats her. Lazy wife beaten by husband maintains that she has done nothing. That is why he is beating her. W111.3.4
• Miserly husband spies on wife to see that she does not eat too much. Gets burned in the chimney and beaten in the bed where he hides. W153.2
• Monks get revenge on millers. Drunken millers force monks to dance. Millers are enticed to monastery and beaten. X214
• Lie: clouds beaten by man until they promise to water his crops thrice daily. X1642