79 motifs match “claims”  ·  back to the chapters

• Talking animal or object refuses to talk on demand. Discoverer is unable to prove his claims: is beaten. B210.2
• Death thought sleep. Resuscitated person thinks he has been sleeping. He exclaims, "How long I have been asleep!" E175
• Ghost claims a life every seven years by drowning person in river. E266.1.1
• Corpse exclaims over miracle. E545.10
• Fairy lured away from house by treasure which he claims. F381.5
• Water-spirit claims a life every seven years. F420.5.2.1.6
• Devil claims to be 7,777 years old. G303.4.8.3
• Girl married to a devil. Despairing of ever finding herself a husband, the old maid exclaims: "I would marry even the devil, were he to marry me." The devil takes her at her word. G303.12.5.1
• King defeated in repartee by boy, who thus wins girl. Boy: "Who would give a man a bath, feed him his rice, and then bring him the tamal-pan to chew?" King: "No one but a wife." Boy claims minister's daughter. H507.1.0.2
• Judge not that you be not judged: thus judge upbraided when he is later accused in court and claims mercy. J571.6
• Fox in swollen river claims to be swimming to distant town. J873
• Dog driven out of dining room claims to be drunk. Says that he has drunk so much that he does not know how he got out of the house. J874
• Warrior having lost a city claims that he did not wish to sell it for a higher price. J875
• Fox claims that certain statues are of his ancestors. Ape shows that he is a liar. J954.2
• 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
• Witness claims not to have seen crime. J1158
• Their assistance not asked. Knight attacks enemy contrary to orders. Part of army helps him and is killed. He disclaims responsibility since he had not asked their aid. J1169.3
• A two-headed man is only one man. Two-headed man claims double inheritance. Hot water poured over one head. Other head cries out with pain. He is declared to be one man and to merit only one share. J1176.4
• Reductio ad absurdum: the decision about the colt. A man ties his mare to a second man's wagon. The mare bears a colt which the wagon-owner claims, saying that the wagon has borne a colt. Real owner of the colt shows the absurdity (1) by fishing in the street or (2) by telling that his wife is shooting fish in the garden. Neither of these things are so absurd as the decision. J1191.1
• One dueller fights with God's help; the other with his brother's. First claims that the odds are unfair; second agrees that he will fight without his brother if the first will fight without God. J1217.1
• Thirty years old for twelve years. Man claims to be thirty; has been doing so for the last twelve years. J1218
• Monk's cordon cannot stand the strain. Franciscan claims that his cordon will save him from Hell. Benedictine answers that he once had a dream in which he saw St. Francis throw his cordon to save members of his order in Purgatory and so many clung to it that it snapped. (Cf. Q291.1.) J1261.8
• Nun claims her child is by the Holy Ghost. Defense accepted. J1264.6
• Beggar claims to be emperor's brother. (All men are descended from Adam.) Emperor gives him small coin. Beggar protests. Emperor: "If all your brothers gave you that much you would be richer than I." J1337
• Counterfeit money burned up. A priest who has lent money to a Jew, but will not lend to a farmer, on being reproached by the latter, says that the money he lent the Jew was "false". When the Jew gets to know of this, he claims that as soon as he heard the money was false he burnt it up. J1511.10
• 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
• Unjust oath countered by another. A woman entrusts three coins to a headsman. He denies her claim which she fails to substantiate in ordeal. She now claims more and happens to succeed with ordeal. J1521.4
• The transformed golden pumpkin. Borrower of golden pumpkin returns a brass pumpkin and claims that the gold has turned to brass. The lender takes the borrower's son and returns with an ape. He claims that the boy has turned into an ape. J1531.1
• The iron-eating mice. Trustee claims that mice have eaten the iron scales confided to him. The host abducts the trustee's son and says that a falcon has carried him off. J1531.2
• Deer captured in bird-net: water flows upstream. One partner claims a deer he has captured in his bird-net. The other pretends to be watching water flow upstream. J1534
• Imagined ownership: derived from a dream. Man claims ownership of bulls because he has dreamed of them. He is given their shadows. J1551.7
• Drunkard cured of seeing double. When he claims to see two roast chickens, his wife takes the one chicken away and he falls into the fire trying to find the other. J1623
• Gullible husb and made to believe he has cut off his wife's nose. She, in another house, has had her nose cut off by mistake. She makes him believe he has done it by making him angry enough to throw a razor at her. When he throws the razor she claims it has cut off her nose. J2315.2
• Pity for the poor Jews. On Good Friday an old woman who has heard the Passion Story exclaims, "How hard it was for the Jews who had to watch all night with Christ!" J2383
• Fool claims to cure goitre by striking. Has seen melon thus dislodged from camel's throat. (Cf. F952.3.1, F953.1.) J2412.8
• "Come tomorrow". The devil keeps calling daily until the gate with the inscription rots. He then claims his debtor. K231.12.1
• Deceptive damage claims. K251
• Payment to lame man who claims that man's father lamed him. K251.6
• Sleeping with open eyes. The man claims to sleep thus and beguiles the ogre into sleeping, so as to rob him. K331.1
• Prostitute claims to be intended victim's daughter. Robs him. K347.1
• Theft by posing as magician. Trickster claims to be working magic spell over food and eats it. K353
• For the long winter. The numskull has been told to keep the sausage "for the long winter". When the trickster hears this, he claims to be Long Winter and receives the sausage. K362.1
• Thief claims to have been transformed into an ass. While the owner sleeps the thief steals his horse, hitches himself to the wagon, and claims that he is the horse transformed into a man. K403
• Thief successfully claims that stolen goods are his own. K405
• Thief successfully claims that stolen image has been given him by the saint himself. K405.3
• Thief cannot remember whom he delivered the goods to. Though he has eaten the food trusted to him, he claims to have delivered it, but cannot remember the person who opened the door. K419.1
• Thief claims that stolen goods are his own: detected by master. K439.2
• The heller thrown into others' money. A rascal sees robbers dividing their booty. He puts a red string through his only coin (a heller) and slips it into the others' money. He claims the money as his and says that he has marked it with a heller having a red string through it. The robbers divide. K446
• Cheater marks coveted object with his name and later claims it. [Inadvertant duplication of J1162.3.] K448
• Reward for the bag of lead. A man sews up lead in a bag and feigns to have found it. A merchant claims it and thinking it filled with gold pays him a large reward. K476.2.2
• Trickster claims to be holding up sky. Leopard, afraid to let sky fall, leaves him. K547.14
• Lover claims payment for cloth in the presence of the husband. The woman returns the cloth but puts a live coal in it. Destroys his whole supply. K1581.5.1
• Trickster makes believe he has found a purse (which he had filled with lead). Merchant claims it and pays ten crowns for it. Trickster wins ensuing suit. K1696
• Ass claims to have killed cow: frightens tiger. K1715.10
• Wrestler claims to be able even to carry away a mountain. K1741.4
• Man falsely claims to have killed elephant with his flat hand. Rewarded. K1787
• Barren wife makes child by magic and claims it as her own. K1924
• Impostor claims to be father of princess's child. K1936
• Impostor claims to be earl's son in exile. K1952.4
• Sham wise man claims to find stolen goods by incantation. He has really forced thieves to show them to him. K1956.1.1
• Alchemist steals money from corpse and claims he has made the silver. K1966.1
• Sham miracle: wallet (bee-hive) changes to wasps. Tricksters put a wasp nest in the wallet (bee-hive). When the master claims it they give it to him with the curse, "May it turn to wasps!" It does. K1975.1
• Girl claims to have overeaten on a nightingale's thigh. K1984.2.1
• Doctor prescribes sexual intimacy for widow's ills. She claims to prefer death. Change of heart on daughters' plea. Daughters adopt treatment as a preventive. K2052.4.1
• Wanted: a husband to manage estate. Widow who claims to abhor intimacy rejects a eunuch with business qualifications. K2052.4.2
• Pretended honesty to mulct victim. Trickster claims to have found a bag of gold. Confederate claims and receives it upon correct identification. Spectator is thus deceived into trusting the trickster with a large sum of money. K2054
• 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
• In return for magic shirt from girl hero is to stay in Ireland for three years. In return he claims her as wife. M226
• Elephant on rampage accidentally poisoned instead of man. Man claims having killed elephant. N332.2.1
• By hiding, stupid son overhears conversation and claims magic power for bamboo cup. N455.10
• "Poisoned" woman revives. Husband tries to poison wife. Student substitutes sleeping potion for poison, takes her from the tomb. When she revives he claims her as his own. T37.0.1
• Jus primae noctis. Overlord claims right of sleeping the first night with subject's wife. T161
• Man claims prize (boots) as ruler of his house, but is afraid to carry the boots lest he soil his clean shirt and anger his wife. T252.4.1
• The obstinate wife: the third egg. The husband and the wife dispute as to who shall eat the third egg. She pretends to die. At the grave she asks him, "Do I eat two of the three eggs?" and he gives his consent. She jumps up and cries out "I eat two!" and everyone flees except a lame man who exclaims, "Poor me and the other one!" T255.4
• Adoption by suckling. Ogress who suckles hero claims him as her son. T671
• Miraculous manifestation acclaims saint. V222
• 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
• Man chased by bear to camp claims that he brought it in thus since he did not want to carry it. (Cf. K1741.) X584.1
• Bird avenges caged mate. Builds cart, yokes frogs to it, arms himself with piece of reed, and proclaims war with king. Collects cat, ants, rope, club, and river. He is put by king into fowl house; cat eats up fowls. In stable rope and club beat up horses. In elephant-house ants get into their brains and kill them all. Tied to king's bed, river floods king in his bed. King gives bird back his mate. Z52