35 motifs match “consider”  ·  back to the chapters

• Topography – general considerations. A900
• Dragon as power of evil. So considered everywhere except in the East, where are also found beneficent dragons. B11.9
• Toad considered venomous. (Cf. B776.5.1.) B776.2
• Mud puppy considered poisonous. B776.3.2
• Blood of animal considered venomous. B776.5
• Untouchables. Certain castes whose touch is considered a pollution. C551
• Monster born because of hasty (inconsiderate) wish of parents. C758.1
• Dwarf. (Underground spirit.) The dwarf, especially in Northern Europe, is considered an underground spirit. He is to be distinguished from the other conception of dwarf, viz., a very small person, pigmy, or thumbling (F535). [Note: For help in the preparation of this item I am indebted to Mr. Alfred Thomas of Chicago. For full titles of references see F420.] F451
• Saint's voice heard from considerable distance. F556.4
• "Consider the end": counsel proved wise by experience. Barber hired to cut king's throat sees on the bottom of the basin the words "Whatever you do, do wisely and think of the consequences." He drops the razor and confesses. J21.1
• Wise man before entering a quarrel considers how it will end. J611
• Wise man considers whom he is attacking. J612
• Consider difficulties of course you are about to undertake. J751
• Frogs decide not to jump into the well. Their spring having dried up, they consider jumping into a well. They decide that the well may also dry up. J752.1
• Page dreams of being king. Master asks: "What would you do for me if you were king?" Answer: "Give you 100 ducats." Master beats him for insufficient consideration. J955.2.1
• Sleeping on salt. Priest blamed for large amount of wine he drinks tells people to consider his great thirst. He has slept on a sack of salt and has enough thirst for a week. J1322.2
• Man bathing rich man uses sand instead of sandalwood: "Consider the sand of the Ganges to be sandalwood." When man asks for his fee, other takes a frog and gives it to him: "Know that the frog of the Ganges is a cow." J1511.2.1
• Servants touch cooking pot. Food being considered unclean then, guests depart empty but unwitting of true reason. J1563.5.2
• One-eyed king has rocks counted on pain of death. Clever man avoids saying "one" (which king considers a curse on his one eye) by saying that first is the rock that must not be called by name. J1675.4
• Fish will climb trees like buffaloes. Numskull considers what will happen if river burns up. J1904.4.1
• The considerate seller. A numskull having an over-short turban for sale at auction warns the prospective buyer that it is too short. J2088
• The servant of God beaten. A man who says that he is the servant of so and so is treated with great consideration. His companion, who says that he is a servant of God is put to work. He cannot understand why God's servant should not be more important than the other. J2215.2
• Testing the evidence by experiment: biting the ear off. The accused pleads that the plaintiff bit his own ear off. The judge takes time for consideration, tries to bite his own ear, but falls down and breaks his head. J2376
• The polluted fish. Servant places his one fish with Brahmin's entire catch; receives all since Brahmin considers all polluted. K344.1.1
• Forged letter used to obtain credit, consideration, and entertainment. K455.8.1
• Escape by asking girl about to murder him if she will have to assume all the guilt. She reconsiders. K573.1
• Warrior will not fight where his brother was slain. Place considered defiled. P251.2
• Living king's or nobleman's son as foster son of father's friend: considered an honor for the foster father. P271.4
• Touching of privates considered a marriage pact. T135.2
• Wealth is relative: beggar with horse, wife, or dog considered rich by poorer beggar. U65
• The hare's last will. Surrounded by hunters and hounds, the hare considers to whom each of his members will be allotted. Succeeds in escaping. U242.1
• Man considering self unworthy to receive host given it by God himself. V39.1
• Monk refuses chance of having temptation removed since he considers it strengthening to have it ever present to test him. V462.12
• Former monk refuses to take pay for his work, considering it as a religious act. V473
• Sheep jealous of dog because he does nothing. Do not consider that he guards the flock. W181.1