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

• Twin culture heroes – one foolish, one clever. (Cf. A525.) A515.1.1.2
• Sun and moon brothers: sun clever, moon stupid. A736.3.2
• Clever and swift horse of fanciful origin. B710.2
• Clever and swift horse fed with worms' milk on the gold mountain Tecklen in India. B710.2.1
• Clever and swift horse of dromedary-family. B710.2.2
• Clever woman and devil as paramour. Devil betrays means by which he can be driven out. D1386.2.1
• Clever smith makes needle that pierces anvil. F663.2
• Suitor test: cleverness and learning. H327
• Bride test: wisdom (cleverness). H388
• The clever wife in disguise wins a second wife for her husband. H461.1
• Test of cleverness or ability. H500
• Test of cleverness: uttering three wise words. Youths called on to do so display by their answers extraordinary powers of deduction. H505
• Test of cleverness: uttering three truths. H505.1
• Tests of cleverness or ability: miscellaneous. H509
• Clever peasant girl asked riddles by king. H561.1
• Clever peasant wife asks king riddles. H561.1.0.1
• Clever daughter construes enigmatic sayings. H561.1.1.1
• King and clever youth. King asks questions; youth returns riddling answers. H561.4
• King and clever minister. King propounds riddles and questions to his clever minister. H561.5
• Clever prince interprets enigmatic statements. H561.9
• The full moon and the thirtieth of the month. Prince sends servant to clever girl with a round tart, thirty cakes, and a capon, and asks her if it is full moon and the thirtieth of the month and if the cock has crowed in the evening. She replies that it is not full moon, that it is the fifteenth of the month, and that the capon has gone to the mill; but that the prince should spare the pheasant for the partridge's sake. She thus shows him that the servant has stolen half the tart, half of the cakes, and the capon. H582.1.1
• Clever youth (maiden) answers king's inquiry in riddles. (Cf. H561.4.) H583
• Clever flatterer: Sir, you are a full moon, and my sovereign is a new moon (the full moon will decline, but the new moon has but started on its growth). H599.3
• Wise carving of the fowl. Clever person divides it symbolically: head to head of house, neck to wife, wings to daughters, legs to sons; keeps rest for himself. H601
• Tasks performed through cleverness or intelligence. H960
• Tasks performed by cleverness. H961
• Quest for clever woman. H1381.3.3
• Encounter with clever children (woman) dissuades man from visit. On way to a city meets children and they are so clever that he turns back home, fearing how clever their parents must be. J31
• Cleverness of men disguised as peasants dissuades rivals from dispute. Wise men of two rival cities engage in dispute. One delegation disguises as peasants and debates with their adversaries. Latter withdraw fearing how clever the educated must be if their peasants are so learned. J31.1
• Clever prince overrules seemingly just decisions of king. J123.1
• Fool is told to get a pottle of brains. He tries to buy them. He finally learns that advice was to marry a clever girl. J163.2.1
• Minister's clever daughter-in-law uses wisdom to defeat Brahmin's wealth. J185.1
• In dividing property clever younger brother takes hind part of buffalo, upper part of tree, and use of curtain during night. J242.8
• Strength preferred to cleverness. J246
• Man criticizes the devil because his deeds are not fair. Devil says that they are strong nevertheless. Hence strong speakers rather than clever are to be preferred. J246.1
• Stupid fear company of clever. J423
• Jackal realizes that the partridge was too clever for him and leaves. J423.1
• Clever girl refrains from eating figs which would bring on magic sleep. J585.1
• Clever jackal covers up his clumsiness in catching cows by saying he was running to and fro because he was looking for the fattest calf. J873.2
• Clever person's defeat pleases inferior. J885
• Cleverness. J1100
• Clever persons. J1110
• Clever girl. J1111
• Clever daughter-in-law. J1111.3
• Clever peasant daughter. J1111.4
• Clever minister's daughter. J1111.5
• Clever maidservant. J1111.6
• Clever slave girl. J1111.6.1
• Clever wife. J1112
• Clever wife advises husband how to succeed on adventures. J1112.3
• Clever wife obtains secrets from husband by questioning him. J1112.5
• Clever boy. J1113
• Clever servant. (Cf. J1111.6, J1341, J1561.4, N25, P360, W111.2.) J1114
• Clever slave. (Cf. J1111.6.1.) J1114.0.1
• Clever professions. J1115
• Clever gambler. J1115.1
• Clever physician. J1115.2
• Clever barber. J1115.3
• Clever tailor. J1115.4
• Clever minstrel. J1115.5
• Clever minstrel gets a new robe. Has tattered robe mended with scarlet. Ridiculed "I wish the rest of the robe were of the same material". Is given one. J1115.5.1
• Clever peasant. J1115.6
• Clever merchant. J1115.7
• Clever merchant profits by being robbed. Monkeys steal his caps. Traps monkeys and sells them. J1115.7.1
• Clever prostitute. Gives advice on many questions. J1115.8
• Clever shepherd. J1115.9
• Clever official. J1115.10
• Clever governor. J1115.10.1
• Clever minister. J1115.10.2
• Foolish person becomes clever. J1116
• Clever madman. J1116.1
• Clever bird. J1118
• Clever parrot. J1118.1
• Clever younger generation. J1122
• Clever court jester. J1124
• Cleverness in law court – general. J1130
• Cleverness in detection of truth. J1140
• Clever son falls from tree, so mother's tears over dead body of father being carried through street will seem natural. J1142.4.1.1
• Detection by disrobing in a dance. A man masking as a maiden has committed adultery with the queen. A clever girl by challenging him to disrobe in a dance exposes the imposture. J1149.3
• Cleverness connected with the giving of evidence. J1150
• Testimony of witness cleverly discredited. J1151
• Clever pleading. J1160
• Clever pleading: youth in court for calling king a fool, proves truth of statement because king allowed self to be duped by alchemist. J1162.4
• Clever pleading: fighting for King of Kings. Knight hailed before king for fighting blasphemer, tells king that he would fight to protect the honor of the king's name so why not for the name of the King of Kings? J1164
• Clever pleading – miscellaneous. J1169
• Clever judicial decisions. J1170
• The Irish Solomon (Cormac mac Airt). Famed for his clever decisions. J1170.2
• Clever judgment: man must belong to the third wife because the first had buried him and the second did not protect him. J1171.3.1
• Series of clever unjust decisions: plaintiff voluntarily withdraws. (1) Man pulls off borrowed horse's tail: he shall keep horse till tail grows on. (2) Man falls out of bed and kills a baby (or causes a miscarriage): he shall beget a new baby for the mother. (3) Man falls from a bridge and kills boatsman's son: shall allow boatsman to fall from bridge and kill him. J1173
• Clever decisions concerning kissing and rape. J1174
• Clever judicial decisions – miscellaneous. J1179
• Cardinal's clever decision: that the monks who arise earliest may sound matins. There had been a great argument over this privilege. J1179.13
• Clever means of avoiding legal punishment. J1180
• Condemned man wins pardon by clever remark. Fool is allowed to jump off cliff (balcony) as punishment. Master expresses surprise that in three trials he has failed to hurl himself from the height. The jester offers the prince four trials. Amused prince pardons the jester. J1181.3
• Clever means of avoiding legal punishment – miscellaneous. J1189
• Cleverness in the lawcourt – miscellaneous. J1190
• The bribed judge's ancestors. Clever animal says in court that she drops dung on ancestors of judges who take bribes (unless they confess). Judges confess. J1192.3
• Clever interpretation of judge's statement. J1193
• King promises thieves pardon for confession: pleased with their cleverness. J1198.1
• Clever man puts another out of countenance. J1210