114 motifs match “counsel” — showing the first 100; narrow the words for the rest  ·  back to the chapters

• Tabu: listening to mother's counsel. C815
• Tabu: listening to princess's counsel. C815.1
• Return from dead to give counsel. (Cf. V229.1.) E366
• Spirit gives counsel. F403.2.3.6
• Enigmatic counsels of a father. Taken literally bring trouble, but when properly interpreted are valuable. H588
• Father's counsel: walk not in sunshine from your house to your shop. (Attend to business, rising early and retiring late.) H588.1
• Father's counsel: let pilav be your daily food. (Eat frugally.) H588.2
• Father's counsel: marry a new wife every week. (Do not see your wife too much.) H588.3
• Father's counsel: on wishing to drink wine go to the vat and drink it. (Stench in vat so great that desire for wine is turned to loathing.) H588.4
• Father's counsel: if you want to gamble, then gamble with experienced gamblers. (If you see how wretched professional gamblers are you will not want to gamble.) H588.5
• Father's counsel: dress up the trunks of trees, cover the road. (Plant the road with fruit trees and betel between the trees.) H588.6
• Father's counsel: find treasure within a foot of the ground. (Sons dig everywhere and thus loosen soil of vineyard, which becomes fruitful.) H588.7
• Father's counsel: the four wells. Three empty and one full (3 sons and father). Full one can fill the three empty but the three when full cannot fill the one when empty (sons when scattered will not support the father). H588.8
• Father's counsel: dam up the outlets. (Keep expenditures down – not outlets of rice-field as son-in-law thinks). H588.9
• Father's counsel: don't stay too late with a concubine, nor tell her any secret. H588.10
• Enigmatic counsels of relatives (other than father). H596
• Enigmatic counsels of a brother. H596.1
• Enigmatic counsels of older brother. Gray younger brother asks well-preserved older brother for the secret of his good health. Answer: A measured mouth, a close purse, and a knot on the trouser's fly. H596.1.1
• Enigmatic counsel: uproot old trees and plant new ones (dismiss old governors and appoint new). H599.5
• Counsels proved wise by experience. J21
• "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
• "Do not act when angry": counsel proved wise by experience. Man returns home and sees someone sleeping with his wife. Though he thinks it is a paramour, he restrains himself and finds that it is a newborn son. J21.2
• "Never attack anyone before unsheathing and returning sword three times": counsel proved wise by experience. J21.2.1
• "Do not draw your sword against the innocent": counsel proved wise by experience. J21.2.3
• "Do not uncover weapon in an assembly": counsel proved wise by experience. J21.2.4
• "Do not shed the blood of women": counsel proved wise by experience. J21.2.5
• "Control your anger at the beginning": counsel proved wise by experience. J21.2.6
• "Do not go where an old man has a young wife": counsel proved wise by experience. Discovers a murder in an inn. J21.3
• "Do not marry a girl from abroad": counsel proved wise by experience. J21.4
• "Do not leave the highway": counsel proved wise by experience. Robbers encountered. J21.5
• "Take side road rather than main one where three roads meet": counsel proved wise by experience. J21.5.2
• "A way short yet long": counsel proved wise by experience. (Cf. J266.) J21.5.3
• "Do not ask questions about extraordinary things": counsel proved wise by experience. Those who ask question killed. J21.6
• "Do not cross a bridge without dismounting from your horse"; counsel proved wise by experience. Man breaks leg. J21.7
• "Never wager more than a groat": counsel proved wise by experience. Man loses wife on wager. J21.8
• "Do not bet": counsel proved wise by experience. J21.8.1
• "Do not visit your friends often": counsel proved wise by experience. At last the man is treated shamefully. J21.9
• "Do not lend out your horse": counsel proved wise by experience. J21.10
• "Do not walk half a mile with a man without asking his name": counsel proved wise by experience. Man runs race unwittingly with his wife's paramour and loses his wife on the wager. (Cf. J21.8.) J21.11
• "Rue not a thing that is past": counsel proved wise by experience. Man lets bird go and then, having listened to bird's false declaration that she had a precious gem in her body, he tries to climb a tree after her and falls. J21.12
• "Never believe what is beyond belief": counsel proved wise by experience. Man believes when bird tells him that she has a precious gem in her body. (Cf. J21.12, K604.) J21.13
• "Never try to reach the unattainable": counsel proved wise by experience. (Cf. K604.) J21.14
• "If you wish to hang yourself, do so by the stone which I point out": counsel proved wise by experience. Father has left money which will fall out when the spendthrift son goes to hang himself in despair. "The Heir of Linne." J21.15
• "Go to Goosebridge": counsel proved wise by experience. Man with disobedient wife finds mules beaten there and made to cross bridge. J21.16
• "Stay at church till mass is finished": counsel proved wise by experience. Delay saves youth from death. J21.17
• "Do not trust the over-holy": counsel proved wise by experience. Wife so modest she will not travel with husband (adulteress); priest so pious he will not tread on worm (thief). J21.18
• "Start your journey early in the day": counsel proved wise by experience. J21.19
• "Prepare for night camp while it is still day": counsel proved wise by experience. J21.20
• "Do not cross a swollen stream until it has run down": counsel proved wise by experience. J21.21
• "Do not tell a secret to a woman": counsel proved wise by experience. J21.22
• "Rise earlier": counsel proved wise by experience. Man seeking explanation for being in debt arises earlier and catches his servants stealing. (Cf. H588.1.) J21.23
• "Do not make a horse run down hill": counsel proved wise by experience. Horse breaks its neck. J21.24
• "Do not keep bad company": counsel proved wise by experience. Breaking of father's first counsel causes the breaking of all the others. J21.25
• "Don't be too greedy in making a trade": counsel proved wise by experience. Man refuses fifty ducats for horse. Horse suddenly dies. J21.26
• "Do not adopt a child": counsel proved wise by experience. J21.27
• "Do not trust a ruler who rules by reason alone": counsel proved wise by experience. J21.28
• "Keep head dry, feet warm, and eat meat": counsel proved wise by experience. King recovers from illness. J21.29
• "Never have to do with a woman unless wed to her": counsel proved wise by experience. J21.30
• "Do not marry a woman before seeing her and finding her to be your equal": counsel proved wise by experience. J21.31
• "Bathe by yourself and not in the common bathing place": counsel proved wise by experience. Man forgets purse in bath house. J21.33
• "Move stool before sitting on it": counsel proved wise by experience. Man thus saves self from falling into well. J21.34
• "When in a strange place look about you": counsel proved wise by experience. J21.34.1
• "Do not sit on a bed without touching it first": counsel proved wise by experience. J21.34.2
• "Ruler should follow advice of majority" (not his own fancy): counsel proved wise by experience. Thus finds money on body of dead traveler. J21.35
• "Neglect not what four or five people say": counsel proved wise by experience. J21.35.1
• "Do not go alone on journey": counsel proved wise by experience. Helpful crab saves from attack by crocodile. J21.36
• "Do not take a woman's advice": counsel proved wise by experience. (Cf. J21.22.) J21.37
• "Do not travel without money": counsel proved wise by experience. J21.39
• Don't require honor from a strange country": counsel proved wise by experience. J21.40
• "Be cautious before allowing yourself to fall asleep in a strange place": counsel proved wise by experience. J21.41
• "Sleep not in an inn": counsel proved wise by experience. J21.41.1
• "A stranger does not close his eyes in sleep lest he close them in death": counsel proved wise by experience. J21.41.2
• "He who lies awake gains; he who sleeps loses": counsel proved wise by experience. J21.41.3
• "Before eating food at a strange place throw some at an animal and watch": counsel proved wise by experience. J21.42
• "A country not examined in disguise will always be ruined": counsel proved wise by experience. J21.43
• "Lean upon no relation in the hour of distress": counsel proved wise by experience. J21.44
• "Do not undertake to be an arbitrator without being asked": counsel proved wise by experience. J21.45
• "Do not make friends with a policeman (soldier)": counsel proved wise by experience. J21.46
• "You can only call your wife your own so long as she is with you": counsel proved wise by experience. J21.47
• "Do not send your wife for a long visit to her parents": counsel proved wise by experience. J21.47.1
• "Don't do anything without investigation": counsel proved wise by experience. A purse full of money was found in dead man's pocket by gravedigger. J21.48
• "Never give a cup made of a single ruby as a present to the king": counsel proved wise by experience. J21.49
• "Idleness begets woe; work brings happiness": counsel proved wise by experience. J21.50
• "Do not stand and watch two people fighting": counsel proved wise by experience. Man does so and is called by both parties to depose in favor of both or he will be beheaded. J21.51
• Counsels proved wise by experience – miscellaneous. J21.52
• "Never be rude to a self-made man of low birth": counsel proved wise by experience. J21.52.2
• "Hardened clay is hard to mold": counsel proved wise by experience. J21.52.3
• "Never publish a man's sin if you can help it": counsel proved wise by experience. J21.52.4
• "Never dismiss and old servant for his first fault": counsel proved wise by experience. J21.52.5
• "When a man attacks you, kill him whether he be king or prince": counsel proved wise by experience. J21.52.6
• "Nothing happens that does not work for one's good": counsel proved wise is experience. J21.52.8
• Monotony of restriction to one's favorite food. Counselor refuses to arrange extramarital pleasures for his lord. Ruler feeds him only his favorite food until the counselor protests the monotony. Ruler drives home his point. J81.0.1
• Departing animal gives man counsels. J135
• Wise words of dying father. Counsel proved wise by experience. J154
• Good counsels bought. J163.4
• Proverbial wisdom: counsels. (Cf. B82.6.) J171
• Counsel: if you take it you will be sorry; if you don't you will also be sorry. This advice given hero by helpful horse. J171.1
• The porter's revenge for the three wise counsels. A man offers a porter three wise counsels for carrying his goods. "When anyone tells you that hunger and satisfaction are the same, don't believe him." The second and third are similar and equally valueless. The porter throws down the load: "When anyone tells you that any part of this load is not broken, don't believe him." J1511.6
• To give the accounting afterward. A nobleman embezzles money from the public treasury. When counsellors urge an accounting, he replies that he is ready as soon as they have themselves made an accounting of all their transactions. They are ready to let well enough alone. J1627
• Counselor accuses conspirators in order to confiscate their estates. K487