37 motifs match “emperor”  ·  back to the chapters

• Tabu: betraying privacy of god. Emperor visited by God conceals his wife so that she may hear. God ceases his visits. C51.4.1
• Tabu: calling profanely on God. Daughter of Emperor says to Rabbi: "Your God is a builder; so let him build a tent here." She becomes leprous and must be placed in a tent. (Cf. C51.3.1.) C94.4
• Dream warns emperor of wife's unfaithfulness. D1813.1.1
• Letter read by holy man stops emperor from devastating country. D2163.5.2.1
• Horse indicates election of emperor. H171.3
• Test of paternity: shooting at father's corpse. Youngest of supposed sons refuses to shoot and is judged the only genuine son of dead emperor. H486.2
• Good shepherd shears his sheep; does not skin them. Emperor thus replies to suggestion of a new tax to be laid on the people. J531
• Intemperance in service. Emperor rebukes overzealous servant as being a nuisance. J554
• Servant plays at being emperor. Master sees him and says, "Now that you are emperor remember your humble master." J955.2
• Poor man returns to the emperor all save enough for comfort: wealth would take happiness from his simple life. J1085.4
• Execution evaded by having three wishes granted: to be emperor, judge and the emperor's son-in-law during the last week of his life. As judge he frees himself and is in reality freed. J1181.2
• Earthen cups replaced by golden. Emperor: "God is a thief; he threw Adam into a sleep and then stole a rib from him." Emperor's daughter: "Would you call a man a thief who stole two earthen cups from you and replaced them by golden ones?" J1262.1
• His father has been in Rome. A young man comes to Rome who looks like the emperor. Latter asks him if he mother has ever been in Rome. No, but my father has been here often. (Not son but brother.) J1274
• "If I were a tyrant you would not say so." Answer made by emperor to one who calls him a tyrant. J1281
• Emperor: "What people have the biggest bellies?" Jester answers: "The landlords." J1289.17
• Beggar claims to be emperor's brother. (All men are descended from Adam.) Emperor gives him small coin. Beggar protests. Emperor: "If all your brothers gave you that much you would be richer than I." J1337
• Why he was thin. Philosopher explains that with his own blood he was nourishing as large a population as that of the Roman Emperor (lice). J1452
• Poem for poem: all for all. A poet gives the emperor a poem, hoping for a reward The emperor later gives the poet a poem in return. The poet thereupon sends the emperor two pennies, saying that this is all the money he has. The emperor, seeing that he is defeated in the exchange, laughs and becomes the poet's friend. J1581.1
• Man cannot recognize his own house which has been turned into a mansion by emperor. J2316.1
• Emperor wants to travel to paradise. Blindfolded and put on an ass. J2326.3
• The cup with two and three handles. When the servant girl presents the cup to the emperor she holds the handle herself. When there are two handles she holds one in each hand, and when there are three she holds the third one toward her. J2665.1
• The emperor's new clothes. An impostor feigns to make clothes for the emperor and says that they are visible only to those of legitimate birth. The emperor and courtiers are all afraid to admit that they cannot see the clothes. Finally a child seeing the naked emperor reveals the imposture. K445
• Irrevocable sentence carried out even when innocence is proved. A knight condemned for murdering his comrade is met by the latter on the way to the gallows. A centurion leads them to the emperor, who condemns all three to death: first because he has been sentenced; second for causing by his absence the conviction of his comrade; third for delay in the execution. M12
• Poor man presented rich robe by emperor is locked up as a thief. N347.5
• Calumniated wife is forced to flee. (Cf. K2210.) Reunited by chance after many years at Emperor's court. N741.3.1
• Second-born son declared as successor because message about the birth of first son was slower traveling. Emperor will not change proclamation. P17.3.1
• Emperor punished for his many murders. He is carried to hell. Q211.0.3
• Punishment for deceiving (divine) emperor. Q236
• Death as punishment for dropping on emperor's coat. Q411.15
• Devil carries off emperor because of his many murders. R11.2.1.1
• Travelers find exposed baby girl and take her to emperor's court. S354.2
• Wife hides husband's unfaithfulness from emperor and even shelters his mistress. T222
• Girl gives up wealth and flees to escape lecherous emperor. T320.5
• Earthquake accompanies entrance of holy man into palace of heathen emperor. V222.9
• Emperor thinks day lost when he gives no gifts. W11.2.1
• Emperor friendly to everyone. Would act as he should like an emperor to act toward him if he were a common man. W21
• Wizard makes pupil think himself Emperor and exposes pupil's ingratitude. W154.28