23 motifs match “commits”  ·  back to the chapters

• Sun-god commits adultery. A220.0.1
• Overpowered witch-maid commits suicide. G279.1
• Thief presents alibi. Plays all night for dance while confederate commits actual theft. K411
• False bride finishes true bride's task and supplants her. The true bride must perform a certain task to win her husband and, being exhausted, commits the task to a slave. K1911.1.4
• Lover commits suicide on finding beloved dead. N343.4
• Man falsely accused commits suicide. N347.6
• Man unwittingly commits crime. N360
• Boy unwittingly commits incest with his mother. N365.1
• King commits suicide. P16.3.0.1
• Captured queen commits suicide. (Cf. P16.3.0.1.) P26
• Queen commits suicide, as her husband vanquishes and kills her father and her brother. P26.1
• Queen commits adultery with husband's foster son. P29.2
• Wife commits suicide (dies) on death of husband. (Cf. P16.4.1.) P214.1
• Mother commits suicide when son wants to marry foreigner according to foreign rites. P231.7
• Foster son commits adultery with foster father's wife. P275.1
• Old person commits suicide when strength fails. P674
• Outcast wife commits suicide when confronted with heads of relatives killed in revenge for her wrong-doing. S452
• Adulterous wife convicted commits suicide. T249.1
• Girl commits suicide rather than marry man she does not love. T311.2.1
• Woman commits adultery to obtain aid for husband in battle. T455.2.1
• Queen commits adultery with low-born man. T481.2.1
• 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
• Architect commits suicide when he discovers that his pupil has surpassed him in skill. W181.2.2