32 motifs match “borrowed”  ·  back to the chapters

• Stag's horns borrowed from dog. (Cf. A2326.1.1.) A2241.1
• Owl's wings borrowed from rat (or other animal). A2241.2
• Partridge's voice borrowed from tortoise. A2241.3
• Where horse got his upper teeth. Borrowed them from buffalo. (Cf. A2241.) A2345.1
• Where Jahrvogel (rhytidoceros) got its necklace. Borrowed form dove. (Cf. A2241.) A2351.3
• How partridge got voice. Borrowed from tortoise. (Cf. A2241). A2421.4
• Eyes borrowed by animal. Later returned. E781.3
• Stomach borrowed by animal. Later returned. E787
• Kettle borrowed from fairies and not returned. (Cf. F343.17.) F353
• Money borrowed from the fairies and not returned on time. F358
• Animals borrowed by fairies. F391.1
• King: What is your mother doing? Youth: She is baking the bread we ate last week. (To pay back borrowed bread.) (Cf. H583.2.4.) H583.4.2
• Thief's money scales borrowed. A man buries gold and a thief steals it. The owner detects the criminal. He takes some money to the thief and borrows money scales "to weigh so as to bury with the other". The thief decides that he is detected and hastens to return the stolen money. J1141.6
• Witness claims the borrowed coat: discredited. Trickster summoned to court on Jew's complaint refuses to go unless he has a new coat: Jew lends him his. In court the trickster says that the Jew is a liar: "He will even claim that I am wearing his coat." The Jew does so and no one believes him. J1151.2
• Series of clever unjust decisions: plaintiff voluntarily withdraws. (1) Man pulls off borrowed horse's tail: he shall keep horse till tail grows on. (2) Man falls out of bed and kills a baby (or causes a miscarriage): he shall beget a new baby for the mother. (3) Man falls from a bridge and kills boatsman's son: shall allow boatsman to fall from bridge and kill him. J1173
• Tournament won by deception on borrowed horse. K28
• Refusal to return borrowed goods. K232
• By using verse with double meaning man appropriates borrowed goods. K232.1
• One day and one night: object borrowed for a day and a night retained. K232.2
• Crab demands seven patas as payment for four patas of paddy frog has borrowed. K255.2
• Old beggar disguised as gentleman: much money borrowed on his credit. K455.3
• Trickster receives huge sum on trifling credit by chain of borrowings. Pays small sum in advance for first sum borrowed. Pays this borrowed sum in advance for larger, etc. K455.10
• Nugget of supposed gold (lead) given to help build church: money then borrowed. K476.2.1
• Borrowed feathers. Dupe lets himself be carried aloft by bird and dropped. K1041
• Paramour escapes by pretending to be returning borrowed basket. K1517.11
• Lover's gift regained: piece of cloth as gift. The lover regains by a ruse and thievery the borrowed piece of cloth which he has presented to his mistress. K1581.5
• King menaced into giving his daughter by means of borrowed fleet. K1771.9
• One day and one night: object borrowed for a day and a night retained. K2314.1
• Secret wealth betrayed by money left in borrowed money-scales. N478
• Virgin Mary returns borrowed money and reveals cheat. A man borrows money from a Jew with the Virgin as security. Unable to return the money in time, he commits the money to the sea with a prayer to the Virgin. The Jew receives it but claims that the money is not paid. The Virgin reveals the cheat. V252.1
• Stones turn to gold for charitable money-lender. Hence money borrowed for wedding is never refused by lenders. V411.4
• Man works his horses to death, then complains that borrowed horse overeats. W154.27