90 motifs match “demands”  ·  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
• Merman demands princess. B82.1.1
• Merman demands cattle as offering. B82.2
• 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
• Wife demands magic parrot who has accused her. B335.4
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Excessive demands to prevent marriage. H301
• Girl demands suitor's life (or mutilation). H333
• 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
• Bear demands that heroine play Blindman's Buff. H1537.1
• 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
• Hare demands equal rights for all animals. Reprimanded for presumption. J975
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• King who demands milk from all hornless cows forced to accept bogstuff milked from wooden cows: he dies. K839.4
• 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
• After seducing priest's wife, peasant demands earrings as price of silence. He thus avenges himself on priest who has cheated peasant's wife of her earrings. K1582.1
• Bringing the whole well. Told to get water, hero demands bucket large enough to bring in the whole well. The ogre is frightened. K1741.3
• Impostor demands box in name of king. K1944
• Jackal inside carcass of bullock makes people think his voice is God's. Demands gifts. K1973
• Devil tries to pass for Jesus. Forbids man to cut wood on Sunday. Disappears when man demands to see the wounds on his hands and feet. K1992
• Paramour demands that wife bring him her husband's head. K2213.3.2.1
• Heaven entered by trick: demanding back the charity gift. The trickster demands of Peter an article which he has given in charity. He then sits on it as his own property within the gates. K2371.1.2
• Haughty mistress makes extravagant demands of lover: repaid. (Glove and the Lion.) L431.1
• Blood bath causes woman to be carried off by bird. A pregnant woman demands a bath of blood: husband substitutes a bath of red dye. A Garuda bird attracted by the dye carries her off. N335.2
• The triple tax. A poet is given by the king the right to demand a coin of the first hunchback he meets, from the first man of a certain name, and from the first man of a certain city. He sees a hunchback and demands the coin. A quarrel arises in which it appears that the hunchback also has the required name and residence. With each revelation the poet demands a new coin. N635
• King demands subject's wife for himself. P15.2
• King demands open gate to vassals' castle (city). P50.0.1.1
• Competition in friendship: prisoner and jailor. Officer in charge of prison offers to let his friend escape, though his own life will be forfeited. The friend refuses; tells officer to let king think he has escaped and if the king demands his life the officer can produce the prisoner. King hears of the generosity and forgives the prisoner. P315.1
• King demands work, sport or entertainment from winter guests. P337
• Master demands that servant tell him of his faults as well as of his good qualities. P366
• Excessive demands of poets. P427.7.9.1
• Lion divides slain bullock. The thief who demands half of the bullock driven off; the traveler who modestly withdraws invited to take half. Q3.2
• Jackal demands to be praised as god: runs with pack of hounds. Q331.2.2
• The devil's likeness. A squire demands somebody to paint a living picture of the devil; when he sees it, he dies. Q338.2
• Saint appears to captor in vision and demands prisoner's release. (Cf. R165.) R121.6.1
• King demands intercourse with woman in childbed. S185.2
• Serpent in stream demands pair of human eyes for drink of water. (Cf. M225.) S263.3.2
• Jealous co-wife demands murder of woman's children. S322.3.1
• Victor demands defeated king's daughter (widow) in marriage. T104.2
• Father demands that son break all relations with his beloved. T131.1.2.3
• Unreasonable demands of pregnant women. T571
• King demands that his pregnant queen be chained to him. T579.7
• Precocious young child demands weapons. (Cf. T617.1.) T615.5
• Extortionate confessor demands golden statue. V29.9
• Man demands ever larger gifts. W154.26
• Man trades an egg for a needle, demands treat of a gill of rum, the traditional reward for traders. The storekeeper gives him the rum; he asks for an egg in it. The storekeeper breaks an egg (the one he has just traded the needle for) into the rum. It has two yolks; the trader asks for two needles. W154.26.1
• Man demonstrates his violence of temper. He overhears a man tell of his temper. In anger he enters and demands to know when he has ever lost his temper. W185.1
• Toad asks magpie in tree to throw down a chestnut. Magpie refuses, saying it might break its beak. Toad promises, if that happens, to get a horsehair to tie it up again. Magpie throws chestnut and breaks beak. Toad asks ass for hair, but ass first demands grass; mower demands sheep; shepherd, pup; mother dog, bread; baker, stumps. Toad cuts the stumps and gets the hair. Z43.1