27 motifs match “brahmin”  ·  back to the chapters

• Humble Brahmin teaches king the difference between "mine" and "thine." J179.1
• Minister's clever daughter-in-law uses wisdom to defeat Brahmin's wealth. J185.1
• Rich Brahmin wearing poor clothing is treated as a beggar. J1072.2
• Execution: man induced to kill self. King may not execute Brahmin, but gets him drunk and brings about his death. J1181.0.1
• Turning king into Brahmin like turning donkey into horse. J1293.3
• Stupid (ignorant) Brahmin. J1705.2
• The polluted clothes. A Brahmin washes clothes to purify them. As they hang to dry, a dog walks under them and the Brahmin fears that they are polluted. By putting himself on all-fours like a dog and fastening a leaf like a dog's tail he experiments and decides that the dog must have touched the clothes. He therefore destroys them instead of rewashing them. J2184
• Ascetic imitates Brahmin's practices. Brahmin goes to heaven, ascetic to hell. J2415.5
• The polluted fish. Servant places his one fish with Brahmin's entire catch; receives all since Brahmin considers all polluted. K344.1.1
• Embarrassing gift. Trickster unwilling to pay for burial fee of aged cow, gives cow to unwitting Brahmin as gift. Cow dies soon and Brahmin must pay. K499.5
• Fate takes form of Brahmin's pupil in order to lure him to his prophesied death. K1811.4.1
• Barber passes for a brahmin. K1827.0.2
• Brahmin takes shape of a prince. K1952.0.1
• Treacherous brahmin. K2284.2
• Accustomed rags preferred to new garments. A Brahmin returns home to find a palace instead of a cottage; he recognizes his wife only after she throws off her jewels and ornaments to stand before him in her old rags. L217
• Brahmin's curse. M411.14.3
• Wager about tree names: learned and common names. Brahmin gives learned names but servant's common names are confirmed by illiterate peasants. N51.1
• Brahmin unwittingly kills calf. N361.1
• A wise man (saint, brahmin) recognizes that a man unwittingly carries a venomous serpent in his proviant sack and warns him. N848.2
• Brahmin punished for killing animal. Q231
• Penance: inviting one Brahmin for dinner every Wednesday. Q527
• Brahmin in love with washerwoman. T91.7.1
• Brahmin may marry from all four castes. T131.9
• Brahmin wins a discussion on religion. V351.1.1
• Brahmin steals to feed guests (deities). W11.4.1
• Ungrateful Brahmin brings his wild goose rescuer to king as remedy against leprosy. W154.12.2
• Brahmin worships idol and sets sacrifices before it daily. Rat devours offerings and he sets it up as his idol as a being more powerful than his idol. When cat devours rat, he worships it instead. His wife accidentally kills the cat, so he sets her up to worship. He happens to slap her and she loses consciousness. Thereafter he worships himself as most powerful after all. Z42.3