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

• God of world of the dead demands that men die so he will have subjects. (Cf. A487) A1335.11
• Beetle demands return of gold from God: must hum. In his overweening pride he hits fence and ever afterward has hummed. (Cf. A2426.3.1.) A2231.11
• Dragon doubles his demand after men's rebellion. B11.11.8
• Merman demands princess. B82.1.1
• Merman demands cattle as offering. B82.2
• Talking animal or object refuses to talk on demand. Discoverer is unable to prove his claims: is beaten. B210.2
• Animals ring bell and demand justice. A king has a bell which petitioners for justice may ring and thus summon him. The bell is rung by a serpent which is being menaced by a turtle (or by an old horse who wishes to complain against a cruel master). B271.3
• Helpful animal demands food. B322
• Hero feeds own flesh to helpful animal. The hero is carried on the back of an eagle who demands food. The hero finally feeds parts of his own flesh. B322.1
• Helpful birds demand food. B322.2
• Life of helpful animal demanded as cure for feigned sickness. B335.2
• Wife demands magic parrot who has accused her. B335.4
• Tabu: refusing unreasonable demand of pregnant woman. C152.2
• Tabu: refusing to eat food demanded and supplied. C288
• Ghost returns to demand vengeance. (Cf. E232.2.) E234.0.1
• Ghost returns to demand proper burial. E235.2
• Dead man speaks demanding proper funeral rites. E235.2.1
• Return from dead to demand stolen property. E236
• Return from dead to demand clothing stolen from grave. E236.1
• Return from dead to demand ring stolen from corpse. E236.1.1
• Return from dead to demand stolen children. E236.2
• Return from dead to demand money stolen from corpse. E236.5
• Dead returns to supply tribe with money demanded by landlord. E373.4
• Soul wanders and demands that a temple be built for him. E419.1
• Hanged man thirsty; demands water to drink. E422.0.1
• Ghost demands a body and soul before it will agree to be laid. Monk provides cock and sole of shoe. E459.1
• Fairies must trade whenever it is demanded of them. It does not matter how uneven the trade may be. F255.1
• Fairy mistress demands that man send his mortal wife away. F302.5.4
• Fairy mistress demands mortal lover deny Christian teachings. F302.8
• Changeling is always hungry, demands food all the time. F321.1.2.2
• Water-spirit demands food from those it takes across stream. F420.5.3.6
• Dwarf prevented from getting into his stone before sunrise till he promises to do what hero demands (especially forge weapons). (Cf. D451.3.4.2, D451.4.1.12, F451.5.2.13.) F451.3.2.1.1
• Dwarf otherwise caught and thus forced to procure what hero demands. F451.3.2.1.2
• Dwarfs demand gifts. F451.5.2.14
• Giant demands girl, but is killed in duel about her. (Cf. F610.3.4.2.1.) F531.5.7.0.2
• Precocious strong hero demands bows and arrows. (Cf. F611.3.3.) F611.3.3.0.1
• The devil as tailor to a dandy. The dandy demands clothes sewed without thread. The devil disguised as a tailor makes them. In church the dandy's clothes fall to pieces, leaving him naked. G303.9.9.11
• Identity tested by demanding that person say again what he said on former occasion. (Impostor fails.) H15.1
• Princess appears before crane (who had demanded her in marriage) and is recognized by him despite loathly disguise. H188
• Excessive demands to prevent marriage. H301
• Girl demands suitor's life (or mutilation). H333
• Test of wife's patience. Griselda. Children stolen and attendance at wedding to another demanded. H461
• Found mortar taken to king reveals peasant girl's wisdom. Peasant finds mortar in his field and against his daughter's advice takes it to the king, who demands the pestle as well. Peasant laments that he has not followed daughter's advice. King summons her. H561.1.2
• Task: letting king hear something that neither he nor his subjects have ever heard. (Reads a letter from a foreign king demanding a loan.) H1182
• Helpers on quest demand pay for advice. H1235.1
• Bear demands that heroine play Blindman's Buff. H1537.1
• Greedy man keeps demanding one more thing from complacent man; at last is magically blinded. J514.3
• Prudence in demands. J530
• Prevention of hostilities by agreeing to demands while in danger. Barber makes heavy demands of customer while the razor is at his throat. Customer agrees but after the shave throws the barber out. J625
• Frogs demand a live king. King Log. Zeus has given them a log as king, but they find him too quiet. He then gives them a stork who eats them. J643.1
• Hare demands equal rights for all animals. Reprimanded for presumption. J975
• The three joint depositors may have their money back when all demand it. Money is left by three joint depositors subject to their joint order. It is stolen by one. When the banker is sued he agrees to give up the money when he receives joint order from all three. J1161.1
• Nurse's false plea admitted: child demanded. A nurse falsely demands pay for caring for a child which she says is the hero's. In court: "The child is indeed mine; give him to me." The child belongs to a peasant. Nurse confesses and is punished. J1162.1
• The prophet's first disciple. Judge demands that a pseudo-prophet show a miracle. Latter offers to cut off judge's head and resuscitate him. Judge agrees to be the first disciple. J1169.8
• Girls must pay for young man's virginity. Girls repulsed by man climb in his window at night. Become pregnant and demand marriage. Branded as prostitutes and must pay the man. J1174.4
• Eye of king's foster-son damaged by sting of bee. Boy's friends demand eye of king's son in forfeit; king decrees instead destruction of swarm of bees so that guilty one may perish. J1179.14
• To return the dead elephant alive. Hired elephant dies. Owner demands the live elephant. The god causes the elephant's owner to break pots of the other. Is unable to make specific restitution. J1191.4
• Complaint about the stolen ox. A thief steals a calf and keeps the hide. The owner makes a hue and cry about a stolen ox. The thief produces the calfhide: "You thief, to demand an ox for a calf!" J1213.1
• All appurtenances included. Butcher buyer demands saddle and ornaments along with camel (or the like). Seller later buys all heads in butcher shop: demands heads of butcher's family. J1293.5
• Were merely measuring cup. King demands that each subject bring small amount of milk to put in his new cup. They plan to cheat him by bringing him water. Accused, they say that they were merely measuring the cup to see how much it would take to fill it. J1391.7
• The greedy dreamer. He dreams that he receives nine coins. He demands ten. He wakes and finds that he has dreamed. He is willing to accept the nine. J1473
• Impossible demand rebuked. J1512
• Milk from the hornless cow. A king demands a hundred men's drink from the milk of a hornless dun cow from every house in the land. Wooden cows are made and bog-stuff substituted for milk; the king must drink it. J1512.1
• 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
• Officer disarmed by sentry. Army major approaches sentry, takes away his rifle, and reproaches him for allowing himself to be disarmed. Sentry draws pistol from inside shirt, demands return of unloaded rifle. J1526.1
• Dream answered by dream. Priests misinterpret raja's dream and get his horses. Trickster advises raja to announce dream demanding cauterization of the priests. They return horses. J1527
• Four men's mistress. A husband disguises as a priest to hear his wife's confession. She says that she has been mistress of a servant, a knight, a fool, and a priest; i.e., her husband when he was her servant, and later her knight. He had then been a fool for demanding her confession, and was a priest because he had heard it. J1545.2
• Imagined intercourse, imagined payment. A woman demands money for a visit which she dreams of having had from a merchant. She is shown the money in a mirror. J1551.1
• Guests make impossible demands of host: host's representative forces guests to leave by sending them on difficult quest. J1563.2
• Clever use of human weakness. Penny demanded of every bad man, two pennies of every good man. Thus two pennies received from every man. J1672
• Son of God to see king. When steadily unable to be admitted to presence of a king, a clever man demands an interview saying he is the son of God come down to earth and will condescend to see the king. When asked to show the king Heaven and the path to it, the pretender retorts that when he was sent down by the Father, he was told to look to matters relating to this earth. J1675.8
• Three silly pundits sent to a raja as the two-footed cattle he had demanded. J1717
• Demand that murderer restore life to victim. J1955
• Old woman demands something that she would remember all her life: her nose cut off. J2072.6
• Foolish demands before death. J2174
• Men hang old bedridden weaver instead of young, valuable member of colony after the young man has accidentally killed an Indian. The Indian tribe demands punishment. J2233.1.1
• Dream explained as a dead father's demand for horses. Dupe gives them to trickster. J2326.2
• Boy who worked for "nothing at all" goes to town and demands "nothing at all." (Cf. J2489.10.) J2496.1
• Virtue of oracular pill proved. The dupe takes it. "It is dog's dung," he says and spits it out. The trickster says that he is telling the truth and demands pay. K114.3.1
• Refusal to tell about the Rhine treasure, though condition demanded is fulfilled when the only one who knows where it is is killed. K239
• Creditor falsely reported insane when he demands money. K242
• Payment of the egg-white. A man dreams of an egg hanging under his bed. An interpreter demands half of what he finds as his fee for interpreting the dream. The man finds that the egg is a silver cup filled with gold crowns. He gives the interpreter part of the cup but none of the gold. The interpreter says, "He gave me some of the egg-white but none of the yolk." K249.2
• The eaten grain and the cock as damages. A trickster has only a grain of corn; this is eaten by a cock, which he demands and receives as damages. Likewise when a hog eats the cock and the ox eats the hog. K251.1
• Trickster demands return of food guest has just eaten: gets damages. K251.2
• Exorbitant price demanded and received. K255
• Crab demands seven patas as payment for four patas of paddy frog has borrowed. K255.2
• Crow demands young swan in payment for helping swan find feed for its young. K255.3
• Camel has offered one pound of flesh to jackal for help. Camel's tongue demanded. K255.4
• Give him what he wants. (Cf. K437.5, K1354.1.) Thief sent to man's house for water, demands money. Man's wife refuses and thief shouts to the husband who replies, "Give him what he wants." K362.10
• Fox eats his fellow-lodger: accuses another and demands damages. He spends the night with a cock in a house. He eats the cock but in the morning accuses the sheep of having eaten it. In the next inn likewise he says that the ox has eaten the sheep, etc. In compensation he demands a larger animal each time. K443.7
• Half a grain. Trickster drops half a grain into grain cellar then demands half of the grain supply. K446.1
• Why go all the way to fair? Man robbed of his plate of cakes half way to fair asks another vendor, "Why go to the fair, when half way up people come demanding your plate?" Vendor goes on and meets with same fate. K475.3
• Trickster gets money from a bank by raising an alarm and demanding "what is owing to him." K484.1
• Eyes, ears, fingers of corpse substituted for those demanded of victim. K512.2.0.3
• King who demands milk from all hornless cows forced to accept bogstuff milked from wooden cows: he dies. K839.4
• Murder by slipping gold coins into meat customarily demanded by enemy. K929.5
• Ogress wife demands eyes of six wives of raja or she will die. K961.2.2
• Priest caught in lasso by rival lover. Mistress tells knight of priest's demands. Knight has her give assignation, and arranges around her a string lasso which he pulls, and catches priest. K1218.1.6
• Innocent girl sells her "love" and later receives it back. When she tells her mother what has happened, she is beaten. Thinking to right matters, she demands that the knight return what he has taken. (Sequel: K1275.) K1362
• Lover demands return of cloth on threat to await the husband's return. K1581.5.2