88 motifs match “drunk”  ·  back to the chapters

• Creator drunk from beverage he invents. A87
• God of intoxication (or of wine). A481
• Fettered monster kept just out of reach of water. The water is always drunk by vulture as he is ready to take it. A1074.5
• Why women keep washing themselves. St. Andrew, sent to get salt to keep people clean, gets drunk and forgets. There is only enough for men. A1372.10
• Origin of drunkenness. A1386
• Liquor discovered when birds get drunk. A1427.0.1
• The four characteristics of wine. Devil helps Noah plant vineyard and kills various animals over it. These illustrate the four qualities of wine. peacock: brilliant colors; ape: jokes; lion: boldness; hog: drunkenness. A2851
• Tabu: marriage with person whose blood one has drunk. C165
• Magic food causes intoxication and sobriety. (Cf. D1030.) D1359.4
• Saint's breath makes men drunk. D1500.4.2.1
• Magic object cures drunkenness. D1511
• Magic carpet cures drunkenness. (Cf. D1155.) D1511.1
• Lake is drunk dry. D1641.12.1
• Ghost violently brands drunkard with "D". E279.5
• Ogre made drunk and overcome. G521
• Suitor test: resisting intoxication after much drinking. H328.1
• Riddle: what is that which has drunk water for its sustenance and eaten after its death? (Moses's staff, which became a serpent.) H824
• Drunkard refuses cure of fever if it is to take away his thirst. J343.1
• Three sins of the hermit. Choice of three sins given him: adultery, murder (theft), drunkenness. He chooses drunkenness; the others follow. (Cf. J21.25.) J485
• Wolf as dog's guest sings. He has drunk too much and sings in spite of the dog's warning. He is killed. J581.1
• King brought to sense of duty by woman's words. Drunken king sentences unjustly. Woman asks to appear before the king before he has dined. Her case is retried. J816.3
• Dog driven out of dining room claims to be drunk. Says that he has drunk so much that he does not know how he got out of the house. J874
• Drunk man makes sport of another man for being drunk. J1063.2
• Drunk philosopher wagers that he can drink the ocean dry. Agrees to do so if the other will hold back streams emptying into the ocean. Agreed to drink only the ocean. J1161.9
• Execution: man induced to kill self. King may not execute Brahmin, but gets him drunk and brings about his death. J1181.0.1
• Prisoner has drunk water furnished by the king and thus becomes king's guest. Spared. J1183.1
• The drunken officer's stolen mantle. Thief confronted by the officer tells all the circumstances of the drunkenness (with many shameful additions). The officer denies the ownership. J1211.2.1
• Man is arrested for drunkenness; he is so drunk that trial must be postponed. When he is tried later, he is told how at the earlier trial he had kept repeating that the judge was a very wise judge. When he hears this he admits that he must have been very drunk. J1289.12
• Repartee concerning drunkenness. J1320
• The unrepentant drunkard. J1321
• Where did he get the wine? Father shows drunkard son a drunk man being mocked on the street. Instead of taking it as a warning the son says "Where does one get such good wine?" J1321.1
• Will take care of the thirst. Doctors consult how to rid fever-stricken drunkard of his great thirst. "You take care of the fever; I shall take care of the thirst." J1322.1
• Should have brought him drink. Drunkard's wife takes him when he is drunk to a tomb and, masking as a ghost brings him food. "If you had known me better you would have brought me drink." J1323
• Stung by the goblet. Doctor tells drunkard, "The goblet has stung you." "If I had known that I would have drunk out of a glass." J1324
• Drunkard cured of seeing double. When he claims to see two roast chickens, his wife takes the one chicken away and he falls into the fire trying to find the other. J1623
• Lion thought to be donkey: drunkard rides it. J1758.5
• Sickness ascribed to quarreling wines. A man has drunk so much of various wines that he is sick. He says to the wines, "Have peace among yourselves and don't quarrel or I'll throw you out the window." J1891.1
• Burning up the seal. Numskulls buy a charter from their lord. In celebration they get drunk and use the seal as a candle and forfeit their charter. J2181
• A drunkard cannot drown. A drunken man falls overboard but the skipper refuses to pick him up. "A man who is soaked in wine cannot drown. No part of his body will absorb water." J2282
• Drunken man insists that he be beheaded. Is struck with the flat of his sword. He thinks he is dead. J2311.10
• Drunken man made to believe that he has been to heaven and hell. He is dressed up as a rich lord and given rich food and drink. When put back into his own clothes he thinks that he has been to heaven. J2322
• Attempted intoxication avoided by boring a hole in the bottom of cup. K82.1.2
• Devil cheated of his promised soul by making the intended victim drunk. The devil may punish the drunk man's body but has no power over his soul. K219.1
• Man orders a bottle of beer, then returns it and takes a loaf of bread instead. He refuses to pay for the bread because he has returned the beer undrunk. He refuses to pay for the beer because he has not drunk it. K233.4
• Trickster feigns being pursued by drunken husband to obtain entrance. K314
• Theft by making owner drunk. K332
• Escape by making the watchmen drunk. K625.2
• Capture by intoxication (or narcotic). K776
• Man is made drunk and left in temple at mercy of demons. K776.2
• Fatal deception by narcotic (intoxication). K870
• Fatal intoxication. K871
• Slaughter of drunken enemies in banquet hall. (Cf. K811.1.) K871.2
• Peter receives the blows twice. Peter and Christ are sleeping in the same bed. The drunken host returns home and beats Peter, who thereupon changes places with Christ. The host then comes in to beat the other lodger and beats Peter again. K1132
• Man disguised as woman beguiles hostile chief. Infatuates him and then kills him in drunken sleep. K1321.3.1
• Man gets bridegroom drunk and enjoys the bride. K1371.5
• Woman has husband made monk while he is drunk, so as to get rid of him. K1536
• Husband discovers paramour's love letter in his wife's purse after having made her drunk. K1557.1
• Disguise as drunkard. K1839.9
• Deception by substitution: wife substitutes calf for beggar whom drunken husband wants to catch and abuse. K1846
• Drunken man by pretending to want to buy an elephant makes king think him rich. K1954.2
• The man behind the crucifix says "Good Evening" to the drunk man, who thinks Christ is speaking to him. K1971.7
• The three hunchback brothers drowned. A drunken man is employed, by the woman who has accidently slain three hunchback brothers, to throw one into the river. He does so. Then she puts another out and finally the third. The man thinks they keep coming to life. Finally he sees the woman's hunchback husband and drowns him. K2322
• Wife, to drive away parasite priest, tells him husband has gone to get drunk and will kill him with rice mortar on his return. He leaves in haste. K2338
• Elephant drunk with toddy sent to attack enemy. K2351.4
• Prophecy: strength to be gained when milk is drunk from hero's skull. M316
• Wager on truthfulness of servant. The servant is sent to a neighbor's where he is made drunk and is seduced by the neighbor's wife. He tells the master all. N25
• Woman wrongly condemned for drunkenness when seen to take one drink. N340.3
• Undutiful children ridicule father while he is drunk and naked. P236.5
• Drunken dancers punished. Q386.2
• Daughters seduce drunken father. T411.2.1
• Milk of hornless, single-colored cow drunk by man to make wife fruitful. T591.1.2
• Man unable to persuade wife to confess misdeed to priest succeeds when he makes her drunk. (Cf. J1141.) U181
• Punishment for profane use of the cross. Drunkard kisses cross, thinking it is a bottle of wine. V86.3
• The man who only tasted wine. Will not drink but gets drunk nevertheless by frequent tasting. W123.1
• The deaf bishop. The drunken priest says, "In the morning I take a drink of rum and afterwards four or five little drinks." X111.13
• Monks get revenge on millers. Drunken millers force monks to dance. Millers are enticed to monastery and beaten. X214
• "I can't hear you." Rector confesses his sacristan: "Have you drunk the wine designated for the mass?" – "I can't hear you." Exchange of places. Sacristan asks rector: "Have you kissed my wife?" – "Really, I can't hear you." X441.1
• Humor based on drunkenness. X800
• Drunk man lying under his bed thinks he is lying in his shroud. Is cured of drunkenness. X811
• Drunk man goes to the king and wants to buy an island. X812
• Drunk man at the wedding. Goes to sleep and never reaches it, though at home he praises the wedding. X813
• Drunk men try to see one another home. Absurd results. X814
• Drunk man sees everything revolving and waits for his house to come to him. X815
• Drunk woman thinks she is in heaven. Hears someone play the lyre. X816
• Drunk recruits make war on a haystack. X818
• Drunken volunteer firemen bungle their work. X821
• Woman meets a pig. "Good morning." "Why are you up so early?" "I am not up so early. I have drunk seven vats of milk and eaten seven plates of porridge and I shall eat you." She ate the pig. Z33.3
• Vessel from which nothing can be drunk save through certain tube. Z323