52 motifs match “command”  ·  back to the chapters

• Fiat creation. Universe is created at command of creator. A611
• Creation of man by creator from ants. He commands them to become men. A1224.7
• Cat commanded to pray so as not to slay man: why cat purrs. A2236.8
• Why raven is thief. Because he has none of ten commandments and carries a black stamp on his breast. A2455.3
• Obedience of the feathered creatures to the commands of saint. B256.5
• Magic porridge-pot keeps cooking. Against command, mother of owner bids pot to cook. It fills house with porridge and will not stop until ordered by mistress. C916.3
• Magic appearance of human limbs. A boy has no hands and legs; his abandoned sister successfully commands them to appear or disappear. D61
• Disenchantment by water and command. D766.1.1
• Disenchantment by feeding transformed creature. This is done contrary to commands. D775
• Household articles act at command. (Cf. D1170.) D1601.9
• Magic bag sucks milk from cows. It is commanded by a witch. (Cf. D1193, D2083.3.) D1605.2
• Carved image jumps at maker's command. D1639.6
• Inexhaustible pitcher stops pouring only at owner's command. (Cf. D1171.4, D1652.) D1651.4
• Magic clock flies only at owner's command. D1651.14
• Magic object departs and returns at formulistic command. D1686
• Dying man commands cloud to bear message to man's wife. D1715.3
• Magic results produced by command. D1765
• Power over monster (wizard, king) obtained by reversing orders. Hero does exact opposite of the command. D1783.4
• Valley fills with gold at command. D2102.2
• Wild boar reprimanded about its maraudings by saint. The command is obeyed. D2156.4
• Withered and dead trees suddenly blossom at saint's command. D2157.3
• Epidemic stops at river (sea) at saint's command. (Cf. D1735.1.) D2162.2
• Garment appears and disappears in reply to command. D2188.1.1
• Resuscitation by command to arise. (Cf. E67.) E26.1
• Animals which devour each other are restored to their original forms by command of a saint. E32.2
• Carpenter constructs house of sandalwood which will go wherever owner commands. F675.3
• Sea rises at saint's command. F931.1.1
• Magic spring flows from roots of tree at command of Jesus. F933.1.2
• Earth opens at man's command. F942.3
• Five devils created by Adam create other devils in the same manner. Adam has created five devils by wetting five fingers with dew and shaking them behind him; God had commanded him to wet one finger. (Cf. G303.1.4.1.) G303.1.5
• Frogs croak at prince's command. H71.10.3
• Test of wife's obedience: the one command. Upon his wife's insistence that he test her by giving one command the husband tells her not to go into the oven while he is away. She does so and oven falls on her. H473.2
• Girl given enigmatic commands must do the opposite. H580.1
• Symbolic interpretation of playing cards. Soldier reproved for playing cards during church says that playing cards are his prayerbook and calendar. Ace: one God, one Faith, one Baptism; 2: old and new Testaments; 3: Trinity; 4: evangelists; 5: wise virgins; 6: days of creation; 7: sabbath; 8. Noah's family; 9: ungrateful lepers; 10: commandments; knave (jack): Judas; queen (of Sheba); king: God; 12 face cards: 12 months; etc. H603
• Malicious wife reports that her husband is a famous doctor: he is commanded to cure the princess. H916.1.1
• Man commanded by saint to leap into fiery furnace: unharmed. H1573.1.4
• Why he did not eat the bread. When host inquires, he replies, "If thou be the son of God, command that these stones be made bread." J1345
• You lead and I will follow: hard command thus evaded. J1515
• Command would become permanent. A ruler receives gifts from his subjects and later demands them as he due. The fool sets the nobleman's bed on fire. When the nobleman commands him to put the fire out he refuses, since he would ever afterward have to be putting out fires. J1521.3
• "Agnus dei" as a prayer for money. An ignorant schoolmaster interprets many of the texts of scripture as commands for the priests to live lives of luxury. J1741.2
• The obedient log. A fool sees a boat (with rowers) obedient to commands, "Right! Left!" etc. He asks what kind of wood the boat is made of. Later he gets a log of that wood and tries to make it obey commands. J1828
• Ass loaded and commanded to go home. J1881.2.1
• More than twenty commandments. Numskull asked the number of commandments replies that there are twenty. He explains to another that he knows there must be more than twenty because the minister would not accept his answer. J2213.5.1
• "Do nothing but attend to the horse." The youth obeys the command to such extent that he almost lets his master drown. J2516.3
• Command to use only one phrase. King let drown in bath. J2516.3.3
• "Do not leave my side." The youth obeys the command to such an absurd extent that he is a nuisance to his master. J2516.4
• "Owner has refused to accept it." A rascal steals a priest's watch. He tells the priest that he has stolen a watch and offers it to him as a payment for a past favor. The priest refuses to accept stolen goods. Commands the thief to return the watch to the owner. "But the owner has refused to accept it." "Then you may keep it." K373
• A man in place of a cuckoo. A cruel master commands his serf to climb a tree and imitate the cry of the cuckoo; he shoots the "cuckoo." K1691.1
• King commanded to wear enemy's shoes on his shoulders as sign of submission. L416
• Persecuted queen meanly clothed and set where all are commanded to spit on her. Q471.1
• Wolf as commander orders all booty divided, but keeps his own. U37
• Saint commands return from dead with supernatural information. V229.1