27 motifs match “correct”  ·  back to the chapters

• Animal corrects examination paper for his rescuer. B579.3
• Charm incorrectly uttered will not work. D1681
• Dream interpreter corrects dream. D1812.3.3.0.3
• Saint causes dyes to work incorrectly. D2084.3
• [First Edition (Additions and Corrections): F971.5.3. Flowers blooming at Christmas.] F971.5.3[1st ed.]
• Ogre guesses correctly and gets princess. G463
• Act of truth: cursed church clock never runs correctly. H252.6
• Suitor test: correct wearing of clothes. H312.6
• Princess to marry man who can give her correct account of what happened in her bedchamber. H344.1
• Princess offered to correct guesser. H511
• Three caskets. Princess offered to man who chooses correctly from three caskets. H511.1
• Test of memory: Solomon asks Marchus question, receives answer; fourteen months later he asks second question based on first, again receives correct answer; four months later asks third question based on first two, again receives correct answer. H1595.1
• Man blames master for not correcting him in youth. J142.2
• [First Edition (Additions and Corrections): J492. Better be consul in Rome than king elsewhere.] J492[1st ed.]
• [First Edition (Additions and Corrections): J1085.1[b]. Priest with crucifix and club. Orders church thieves to replace stolen goods. When crucifix does not bring obedience he forces them with club.] J1085.1[b][1st ed.]
• Will not try to correct them. Pope calls persistent courtier a fool. Latter says that there are people who call the pope the same thing and that he for one will not try to correct them. J1289.3
• Man who rises too early. The king in order to correct the habit has him robbed. He says that robbers get up even earlier than he. J1394.2
• Literal following of instructions about greetings. Numskull gives wrong greeting and is told how to give the correct one. When he tries it, however, the conditions are wrong. J2461.2
• Horse which will not go over trees. Salesman tells buyer that he is selling the horse because it eats too much and will not climb trees. On the way home the horse bites everyone and refuses to cross a bridge. Seller is literally correct. K134.1
• Owner trades a blind horse. He gives a description that is literally correct. K134.5
• [First Edition (Additions and Corrections): K216.3. Devil's riddles answered: man is freed.] K216.3[1st ed.]
• [First Edition (Additions and Corrections): K374. Grave robbing to secure obols in mouth of death.] K374[1st ed.]
• Sham wise man accidentally predicts weather correctly. K1956.9
• Pretended honesty to mulct victim. Trickster claims to have found a bag of gold. Confederate claims and receives it upon correct identification. Spectator is thus deceived into trusting the trickster with a large sum of money. K2054
• [First Edition (Additions and Corrections): K2363. Women sent into enemies' camp corrupt and weaken the army.] K2363[1st ed.]
• The generous correction. Ruler asks treasurer to give man 200 crowns. Treasurer makes error and puts down 300. Ruler raises sum to 400. "I can't allow your pen to be more liberal than I." W11.12
• Stingy dead woman raises her head to correct account of laundress, who is overcharging her daughter. W152.3