30 motifs match “charge”  ·  back to the chapters

• Angel in charge of vegetation. A430.0.1
• Man hangs wolf who has eaten sheep left in his charge. B275.1.3.1
• Man commends wife to devil. Devil takes the charge seriously and guards woman's chastity during husband's absence. C12.4
• Transformation: faggots to chargers. D441.3.1
• Person charged with keeping birds from the crops confines them in barn (usually roofless) by magic while he goes to town. D2072.0.2.2.1
• Well shoots up high as pillars, and discharges itself into navigable streams. (Cf. D926.) F718.11
• Pregnant wife left in charge of friend. H1558.9
• Priest must give up his charge or his mistress. Gives up his parish and immediately loses his fickle mistress. J705.1
• Adulteress prepares for old age. Charges a pair of shoes to consort with men. When old she pays with shoes the men who will consort with her. J761.3
• The king and the cheap slippers. Steward buys the king a pair of slippers. King thinks not enough has been paid for them and refuses them. Steward buys another like the first and charges a good price. Learns that this is the way to deal with kings. J829.1
• Guilty man freed of murder charge is tricked into making a false accusation for which he is sentenced. J1141.12
• The sacrament for sale. Sick woman calls the parson but recovers meanwhile He insists on her taking the sacrament and charges for it. "Set it here on the table; perhaps I can sell it again." J1261.2.1
• Inhospitable host punished for hospitality. An abbot has his innkeeper treat his guests with the most shameful neglect. A guest retaliates by telling the abbot that he has been very sumptuously entertained. The innkeeper is discharged. J1561.2
• Usurer blackmailed. Shrewd suitor persuades usurer to charge him 100 per cent interest, then has him arrested. Thus gets daughter for wife. K443.11
• Compassionate executioner. A servant charged with killing the hero (heroine) arranges the escape of the latter. K512
• Compassionate executioners. Slaves charged with killing (drowning) the infant heroine are touched by her "laughing smile" and put her in a calfshed (hollow tree), where she is found by cowherds, who rear her. K512.0.1
• Compassionate executioner: bloody coat. A servant charged with killing the hero smears the latter's coat with the blood of an animal as proof of the execution and lets the hero escape. K512.1
• Compassionate executioner: substituted heart. A servant charged with killing the hero (heroine) substitutes an animal, whose heart he takes to his master as proof of the execution. K512.2
• Compassionate executioner: substituted child. The servant charged with sending the hero to executioners sends his own child instead. K512.2.2
• Captor's powder is removed, ashes substituted: gun does not discharge. K633
• Treacherous murder of enemy's children or charges. K930
• Hercules spins for his beloved. Is forced to dress as woman and discharge womanly duties including spinning. K1214
• Teacher seduces pupil left in his charge. K1399.5
• Treacherous relatives. Distinction between treacherous relatives and cruel relatives (S0–S99) is frequently impossible to make. Relatives whose treachery seems to be uppermost have been listed here; those usually possessing power over their charges and exercising their power in a cruel fashion have been listed under cruel relatives. K2210
• Man leaves his sweetheart in charge of friend. He tries to force his attentions upon her and then claims it was a test of fidelity. K2297.1
• Competition in friendship: prisoner and jailor. Officer in charge of prison offers to let his friend escape, though his own life will be forfeited. The friend refuses; tells officer to let king think he has escaped and if the king demands his life the officer can produce the prisoner. King hears of the generosity and forgives the prisoner. P315.1
• Charge of theft avenged by assault. Q411.13.1
• Usurer's ingratitude toward servant. Dismisses him and charges him for a rope which he had cut while saving the usurer from hanging. W154.1.1
• Music teacher charges double for those who have taken music before. One fee for teaching and one for making them forget the old teaching. X351
• Accidental discharge of gun kills much game. Gun kills a bird which falls on loose limb of tree, which falls on bear, etc., etc. X1124.3