26 motifs match “bold”  ·  back to the chapters

• Why animal is pugnacious (brave, bold). A2524
• Why dog is bold. A2524.6
• The four characteristics of wine. Devil helps Noah plant vineyard and kills various animals over it. These illustrate the four qualities of wine. peacock: brilliant colors; ape: jokes; lion: boldness; hog: drunkenness. A2851
• House to make household-spirit (cobold) surrender his booty. F480.3.1
• Cobold. A house-spirit. F481
• Acquiring a cobold. F481.0.1
• Cobold hatched out from a seven-year-old cock's egg or a boar's testicle. F481.0.1.1
• Cobold purchased. F481.0.1.2
• The purchased cobold discarded. On way home man believes himself cheated, and throws box with fly or piece of charcoal away. Later passing same place he finds a heap of corn or money. F481.0.1.2.1
• Cobold acquired by placing food for him in a certain place. He likes scrambled eggs. F481.0.1.3
• Cobold accidently acquired. A rope or chicken is found and taken home. Found to be a cobold. F481.0.1.4
• Cobold avenges uncivil answer (or treatment). F481.1
• Cobolds furnish supplies to their masters. F481.2
• Cobold furnishes inexhaustible grain to grinder of handmill. Latter kills him in disgust. F481.2.1
• Impossible to rid oneself of cobold. (Cf. F482.3.1.) F481.3
• Brewing in eggshell to drive away cobold. (Cf. F321.1.1.1, F451.5.17.1.) F481.4
• The devil unpeels a bold woman's skin. G303.20.5
• Cease being a king. A widow asks justice of a king. The latter says that he is too busy to hear her. "Then cease being a king," replies the widow. Her bold reply wins an audience with the king. J1284.2
• Stolen bacon offered to the owner. Making off with bacon, thief accidentally enters farmer's living-room. Boldly says: "Master, the devil from hell sends you bacon." The farmer: "Take yourself off to hell with the bacon." K419.4
• Sausage as revolver. Man scares robber with sausage; later boasts of event at inn. Robber hears this. Innkeeper secretly lends man a real revolver; robber is shot down when boldly attempting a second attack. K437.3
• Giant unwittingly reveals span of life to dwarf, who is thus emboldened to attack him. N484
• Mother (eagle) casts out dull, stupid changeling; rears bold, energetic son. P231.6
• Bold woman who danced naked in church is stricken with leprosy. Q222.5.3
• Boldness punished. Q333
• "God has no use for me, and the devil will not take me." On the way home the bold woman is strangled by the devil. (Cf. Q582.5.) Q333.1
• The audacious water and the continent husband. A woman with a continent husband (lover) splashes water on her thighs as she crosses a stream and then reproves it for being bolder than her husband. She thus calls attention to her situation. T315.2.1