106 motifs match “choice” — showing the first 100; narrow the words for the rest  ·  back to the chapters

• Origin of death from unwise choice. Choice between two bundles, one containing tempting articles, the other everlasting life. People choose the large bundle and lose everlasting life. A1335.3
• Different tribes result from choice of things Sun offers people. A1610.5
• Origin of tribes from choices made. A1614.4
• Origin of different peoples according to choice of chairs. A1614.4.2
• Origin of different peoples according to choice of bows and arrows or else guns, horses and cattle. Indians choose the former, whites the latter. A1614.4.3
• Mosquito gives hero advice as to which choice to make. B569.3
• Magic object to be chosen from among identical worthless objects. Insect helps in choice. D859.5
• Grateful objects help in choice of caskets. D1658.3.2
• Divination by choice of roads: which son to be born first. D1812.5.0.17
• Fairy offers mortal choice of magic objects. (Cf. D813.) F343.0.1
• Suitor test: apple thrown indicates princess's choice. (Often golden apple.) H316
• Orange (lemon) thrown to indicate princess's choice. H316.1
• Flowers thrown to indicate princess's choice. H316.2
• Ball (goblet) thrown indicates princess's choice. H316.3
• Suitor test: garland thrown indicates girl's choice. H316.4
• Test: threading needle. Guest of convent is given choice of nuns. On the morrow he is given three opportunities to thread a needle. Success means reward, failure confiscation of his belongings. H509.1
• Choice of two sword sheaths (from one a gold shaft protrudes; from the other, a silver). H511.1.1
• Educated men as choice company. J146
• Choices. J200
• Hobson's choice: choose what is put before you or nothing. J201
• Choice between eggs: one egg or none. J201.1
• Choice between evils. J210
• Four choices, all of which are evil; man to make one choice only. J210.1
• Choice: free poverty or enslaved wealth. J211
• Choice: plainness with safety or grandeur with danger. J212
• Choice: loss of beauty or speech. Latter chosen. J213
• Choice: suffering in youth or old age. J214
• Choice of deaths. J216
• Choice: small injustice permitted rather than to cause troubles of state. J221
• Choice between evils: pay tribute or lose both money and life. J223
• Choice: apparent injustice over greater wrong. J225
• Difficult choice between relatives. J226
• Choice of freeing one son: adopted son or long-missing son. J226.1
• Choice: blind son with long life or healthy son with short. Latter chosen. J226.2
• Choice: foolish son always with him or four wise daughters who will leave him. Latter chosen. J226.3
• Choice between evils – miscellaneous. J229
• Choice: staying at home with loving wife or going to tavern and having unfaithful wife. Man chooses latter. J229.1
• Choice: a big piece of cake with my curse or a small piece with my blessing. J229.3
• Choice between bad master, bad official, or bad neighbor. Bad master can do evil if he desires to do so; bad official can harm a poor person and complain against him to his master; bad neighbor can betray secret things about his neighbors. Bad neighbor worst. J229.5
• Bad choice between poor and miserly man. Neither makes good leader. J229.6
• Prisoners given choice between emasculation and blinding. J229.12
• Choice: real and apparent values. J230
• Choice between love and wisdom. J231.2
• Choice between desire and duty. J233
• Choice between useful and ornamental. J240
• Choice of a learned crow: a dead cat better than a golden crown. J242.7
• Choice between worth and appearance. J260
• Choice between short and dangerous or long and sure way. (Cf. J21.5.3.) J266
• Choice between flattering lies and unflattering truths. J267
• Choices: little gain, big loss. J340
• Choices: small inconvenience, large gain. J350
• Choices: important and unimportant work. J370
• Choices: kind strangers, unkind relatives. J390
• Choice of associates. J400
• Unnecessary choices. J460
• Unnecessary choices of belief. J462
• Unnecessary choice of gods. King's sons each choose a god: Jupiter for power, Saturn for wisdom, etc. Father says that a god of all combined would be better. J462.1
• Unnecessary choice of philosophies. Aristotle drinks both red and white wine to show that all philosophies are good. J462.2
• Unnecessary choice of religion. J462.3
• Unnecessary choice: to go uphill or downhill. Camel prefers the level. J463
• Unnecessary choice: praying or reading. Both are good. J465
• Other choices. J480
• Choice: to do that which one knows or to learn something. J483
• Three sins of the hermit. Choice of three sins given him: adultery, murder (theft), drunkenness. He chooses drunkenness; the others follow. (Cf. J21.25.) J485
• Choice: death and revenge preferred to life. J494
• Choice of friend over mistress. Given the choice of his friend or his mistress, man chooses his friend. J496
• Old wine. Man given his choice of old or new wine says, "We must honor old age." J1313
• Before, during, and after. A priest, asked when he would have certain choice wine served, before or after the meal, replies, "The holy Mary was Virgin before, during, and after the birth." J1343.2
• To eat a hundred onions. Choice of eating 100 onions, receiving 100 blows, or paying 100 coins. Fool tries onions in vain, then the blows, and finally must give the coins. J2095
• Cow enticed away by calf. Brothers are given the choice of a cow or a calf. One chooses the cow and thinks that he has the best of the bargain. The cow longs for the calf and returns to it. K366.1.2
• Entrails substituted for meat. Prometheus divides slain ox so that bones and entrails seem to be choicest part. (Zeus is not deceived.) K476.1
• Importunate lover imprisoned and starved: later given choice of lady or food. Chooses food. K1218.1.3.1
• Sham wise man (girl's confederate) interprets pretended dream for girl. Insists she be allowed to marry man of her own choice. K1956.6
• Modest choice best. L210
• Modest choice: three caskets type. Objects from which choice is to be made are hidden in caskets (or the like). The worst looking casket proves to be the best choice. L211
• Choice among several gifts. The worst horse, armor, or the like proves best. L212
• Modest choice proves good (simple unique privilege). Girl offered reward of five villages chooses rather to be only one on certain night to be allowed to have light in her house and to keep all animals who enter as hers. All kinds of livestock come. L212.4
• Modest choice best: wife chosen from crowd of women – only one poorly dressed. L213.1
• Choice of ugliest girl as bride. L213.2
• Old chosen rather than new. Fortunate choice. L214
• Modest choice: parting gift. Small gift with blessing preferred to large gift with parent's curse. L222
• Modest choice for parting gift – money or counsels. Counsels chosen. L222.1
• Modest choice for parting gift: when offered money man takes magic stick. L222.3
• Modest choice of parting gift: magic iron measure chosen. L222.4
• Demanding of promised boon postponed until an auspicious moment. Granted anything he may ask, the recipient waits to announce his choice. M204.1
• Curse given to negate good wish. Odin gives man life three times the normal; Thor ordains that in each he is to commit crime. Odin gives him the choicest weapons; Thor denies him landed property, etc. M416
• The choice of roads. At parting of three roads are equivocal inscriptions telling what will happen if each is chosen. Brothers each choose a different road. N122.0.1
• Choices by chance. N125
• Gods discuss means of settling dispute among girl's suitors. Venus has girl make her own choice. N817.1
• Choice of kings. P11
• Choice of king of trees. P11.0.2
• Choice of kings by divine will. P11.1
• King has first choice in booty. P13.9.1
• Chooses to die of old age. Criminal given choice of deaths. (Cf. J1181.) P511.1
• First to reach field of combat has choice of weapons. P557.4.1
• Choice of weapons alternates each succeeding day. P557.4.3
• "The champion's portion." The choicest portion assigned to the bravest at feasts. P632.2.1
• Woodsman and the gold axe. A woodsman lets his axe fall into the water. Hermes comes to his rescue. Takes out a gold axe but the woodsman says that it is not his. The same with a silver axe. Finally he is given his own axe and rewarded for his modest choice. His companion tries this plan and loses his axe. Q3.1
• Princess has unrestricted choice of husband. (Cf. T55.7.) T131.0.1
• Father promises that girl may wed only man of her choice. T131.0.1.1