41 motifs match “collect”  ·  back to the chapters

• Markings on animals as recollections of Christ's life and sufferings. (Cf. A2412.) A2221.3
• Ant collects incense and myrrh for Christ: grows thin in middle. (Cf. A2451.1, A2453.1.) A2221.4
• Animal's occupation: collecting. A2453
• Why ant collects resin. (Cf. A2221.4.) A2453.1
• Camrosh. Giant bird which collects seeds and sees that they are properly placed. Carries off the people's enemies. B35
• Magic bird collects seeds. Sees that they are properly placed. Also carries off people's enemies. B172.3
• Serpent acts as a rope to collect wood for man. B579.5
• Disenchantment by laying collected bones in a seven-fold cloth and spreading another above it. D717.1
• Chariot collects flowers by itself. (Cf. D1114.) D1601.33
• Bones of dead collected and buried. Return in another form directly from grave. E607.1
• Bones of dead collected and thrown into river. E607.1.1
• Dwarf conducts shepherd to hell to collect debt from nobleman. F451.5.1.14
• Task: collecting firewood quickly, sufficient to last remainder of one's life. H1095.1
• Task: to collect together all the drops of water. H1144.1
• Task: collecting enormous amount of material (number of rare objects, etc.) H1149.4
• Frogs want to collect honey like bees. J512.15
• Sulphur in the censer. Parishioners put base money into the collection. The priest burns sulphur instead of incense He tells them that their money will buy nothing better. J1582.2
• "Collect goats under tree." Fool piles up their carcasses. J2465.10
• Man collects toll fraudulently, stamps "Brass Gate" on receipts he gives. People think this is some Government phrase. K157.1
• Man contracts for load of hay on the road (without making any payment), orders the seller to deliver it at a certain inn. He then goes to the inn, sells the hay to the innkeeper, and pockets the money. The owner of the hay delivers it at the inn, tries to collect at the inn; the trickster absconds. K282.1
• Trickster lights torches and bluffs old woman into giving him money. Torches alleged to belong to man coming to collect damages from her. K335.0.10
• Bread dropped in mud; messenger returns for more. A youth poses as a rich man's servant and gets a sack of bread from a baker. The baker boy is to go along and collect. The rascal drops two loaves in the mud and sends the boy back for fresh ones. Meantime he runs off with the rest of the bread. K343.1.1
• Tricksters feign death of their father. Collect rent and flee. K356
• Sheep thief pretends to buy wethers from the ram, names the price himself. Owner overhears, takes the ram to the thief to collect. K439.5
• Dishonest notary invents debt and collects from both parties. K441.2.1
• Trickster collects from both husband and wife. Estranged couple both pay him to effect reconciliation. K441.4
• Trickster buys chickens telling owner that priest will pay. When owner comes to collect, the trickster tells the priest that a heretic has come for confession. Then he flees. (Cf. K242.1.) K455.4.1
• Demi-coq by means of his magic animals and magic water collects money. K481
• Wolf announces dawn prematurely to collect debt. The contract is to be fulfilled at daybreak. The wolf imitates the cock and crows, but is caught. K494
• Tree becomes light (after all honey has been collected from nests), springs back and kills tribe's enemies. K1112.1
• Husband collects fee from paramour. Surprised paramour pays. K1569.1
• Trickster's eggs become an omelet. Tries to avoid paying tax by hiding eggs in his breeches. The collectors make him sit down. K1693
• The sham physician and the devil in partnership. The devil is to enter the girl and the physician will collect reward for driving the devil out. K1955.6
• Sham miracle: rupees turn to ashes. Cheat tells man rupees carried by horse in sack will turn to ashes if man's tired wife rides on its back. Man promises to pay him back if that should happen. Ashes fall from under saddle when woman does and cheat collects. K1975.2
• Trickster undertakes impossible bargains and collects his part. Trusts that in the year he is given either he or the other will die. M291
• Captive knight freed for having kept his word. Is allowed to leave to collect ransom (or marry fiancée). When he returns his captor frees him (or raises ransom). Q54.2
• Banishment for assault on king's tax collectors. Q431.10
• Fugitive returns to his family so that they may collect reward from his capture. T215.5
• Man kills his rescuer in order to collect reward. W154.12
• Humor concerning sex. [Note: Thousands of obscene motifs in which there is no point except the obscenity itself might logically come at this point, but they are entirely beyond the scope of the present work. They form a literature to themselves, with its own periodicals and collections. In view of the possibility that it might become desirable to classify these motifs and place them within the present index, space has been left from X700 to X749 for such motifs.] X700
• 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