37 motifs match “bought”  ·  back to the chapters

• Beggar's ghost laid when pig bought with money taken from him is brought to his grave. Sinks in grave. E451.6
• Eyes bought back and replaced. E781.2
• Good counsels bought. J163.4
• Wisdom from books bought at great price. (Sibylline). Nine books first offered at certain price. Finally after this is refused and the owner throws six of them into the fire, the king pays the same price for three of them. Finds them filled with wisdom. J166.1
• Bought behind the village. Lawyer declares unjustly that stolen horse has been bought and paid for. Angry farmer: "Yes, behind the village he bought and paid for it" (meaning that he stole it from the pasture). Lawyer pleads successfully that it is as well to buy a horse outside as inside the village. J1169.2
• Sacrament too precious to be bought. If that were so, says the apprentice, no one would have given it to you or me. J1261.2.4
• Not in his line of business. At market a man enquires of another: "How is the moon, three-quarters or full?" "I don't know. I have neither bought nor sold one." J1354
• Ox bought; buyer also claims load of wood attached. Later deceived man disguises and sells sharper another ox for "handful of coppers." He is allowed by court to claim the hand as well. J1511.17
• Three reasons for refusing credit. A man asks for credit, although he has always paid cash before. He is refused on these grounds: either (1) he has never found anyone to trust him, (2) he has never bought anything, or (3) he is rich and does not need an extension of time. J1552.2
• Getting rid of the cat. In a land in which cats are not known, one is bought at a great price. It eats many mice. By misunderstanding, they think the cat is a monster. In order to get rid of it they set the house on fire. J2101
• Dearly bought disgrace. A foolish priest is pushed into the water. "I wish I had drowned; then you would all have been disgraced." J2185
• Sickle bought at great cost given back. In a land where the sickle is not known the new sickle cuts off the head of a man and is thereupon given back to the original owner. J2514
• Thief masked as devil bought off by frightened owner. K152
• 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 land purchase: ox-hide measure. As much land bought as can be surrounded by an ox-hide. The hide is cut into very small strips. K185.1
• Deceptive land purchase: as much land as can be shadowed by a tree. Bought just before sunset. K185.10
• Devil cheated of his promised soul when the victim sells his to a comrade. The latter says, "The devil can take only one soul from each person. I bought the soul so that when he comes I can give him one and still save my own." K219.2
• 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
• Milk bought on credit poured into one container. The trickster buys it from various women. After it is all poured together he says that each may have her own back. K231.6.1
• False set of rings to offset genuine. Jewels bought with counterfeit money. K476.4
• Heroine in hiding-box which is bought by prince. K1342.1
• Man in magic hiding box bought by girl's father. K1342.1.1
• Wife has husband look for hole in pot she has bought, allowing lover to escape unseen. K1516.8
• Goat singing a threatening song bought off with food and jewels. K1767
• Herdsman threatens invasion with enormous herds: bought off. He hires himself as herdsman of all his master's flocks for ten years. He then sends notice to surrounding peoples that he is coming with his master's flocks to graze. They bribe him to stay away. K1784
• Husband twits wife regarding "bought kiss"; she makes him buy one from her by disguising herself. K1814.4
• Bought game (fish) used to prove prowess in hunting (fishing). K1968.1
• Life bought for gold. M234.3
• Life bought with promise of reparations and healing of enemy. M234.4
• Peace bought for husband. M236
• Dream of treasure bought. Treasure has been seen by man's soul absent in sleep in form of a fly. The purchaser of the dream finds the treasure. N531.3
• Jewel found accidentally on a bought donkey's neck. N534.8
• Helper grateful for being bought from slavery. N801
• Bridle goes with horse when horse is bought. P621
• Child bought to serve as sacrifice to demon. S273
• Girl named Mary has virginity spared by knight who has bought her. The Virgin appears to her. T321.2
• Rabbi returns jewel found with bought ass. He had not paid for it. W37.3