33 motifs match “everyone”  ·  back to the chapters

• Magic horse mysteriously recognized by everyone. B184.1.9
• Compulsion to give food to everyone met on journey. C675
• Magic spittle controls rain. Makes rain on everyone but possessor of spittle himself. (Cf. D1001.) D1542.1.2
• Land where everyone is wise, from the raja on his throne to the beggar in the bazaar. F129.6
• Castle in which everyone is asleep. F771.4.4
• Wisdom from fool: heaven refused. Fool says he does not want to go to heaven for he wants to stay with his master, who everyone says is going to hell. Master repents. J156.4
• Dervish who stops work. Sees bird feed its young and decides that God takes care of everyone without work. He is shown his mistake. J702.1
• Impossibility of pleasing everyone. One must act therefore without awaiting everyone's approval. J1041
• Weather to please one only. Attempt to please everyone with weather unavailing. Weather given therefore without regard to men's desires. J1041.1
• Miller, his son, and the ass: trying to please everyone. Miller blamed when he follows his son on foot; when he takes the son's place on the ass; when he takes the son behind him; and when he puts the son in front of him. J1041.2
• The guilty protests his innocence. Animals put to graze in man's garden. Owner greets everyone with: "I know about you!" No one pays any attention to him except the guilty one who says: "I did not do it." Confesses. (Cf. N275.) J1141.9
• The laughing ass. King has trickster's horse's tail cut off. Trickster retaliates by cutting off part of upper lip of king's ass. At trial the animals are brought forth. Everyone laughs at the ass. Trickster: "If everyone laughs at the ass, how could the ass help laughing at her companion without a tail?" Freed. J1169.5
• Points of view. Man to friend who drinks very little: "If everyone drank as you do, wine would be cheap." Answer: "On the contrary, it would be expensive because I drink all I want." J1315
• Ancient and modern ancestors. To a prince who boasted that he was descended from the Trojans a doctor replies: "My people are of Nurenberg. Everyone knows who they are; but of the Trojans no one knows anything except that Aeneas was a traitor and Romulus a robber." J1357
• The peasant's share is the chicken. He serves small birds and a roast chicken to his guests. Guests each take a small bird, leaving only the chicken when the plate reaches the host. He takes the whole chicken saying: "Since everyone has a bird, I must have one too." J1562.2
• How much the ass cost. As the fool brings the new ass home everyone wants to know how much it cost. He has all publicly assemble and announces just what it cost. J1601
• Why everyone doesn't live in the same place. The earth would become unbalanced. J2274.1
• "Keep locks of everyone in your hand" (keep control of them). Fool interprets literally. J2489.2
• Horse which will not go over trees. Salesman tells buyer that he is selling the horse because it eats too much and will not climb trees. On the way home the horse bites everyone and refuses to cross a bridge. Seller is literally correct. K134.1
• The stingy parson and the slaughtered pig. The stingy parson does not want to give any one a part of his pig, which he has just slaughtered. The sexton advises him to hang the pig up in the garden over night so as to make everyone think that it has been stolen. The sexton steals it himself. K343.2.1
• Marked culprit marks everyone else and escapes detection. K415
• Making the beard golden: "such a one". A man named "Such a one" persuades an ogre to have his beard gilded. He covers it with tar and leaves the ogre caught to the tar-kettle. The ogre with his tar-kettle wanders about and asks everyone, "Have you seen such a one?" K1013.1
• Hermes distributes wit. Gives everyone the same measure of wit, so that the smaller are more clever than the large. L301
• Everyone buried in saint's soil shall go to heaven. M364.11
• Wager: more doctors than men of other professions. The trickster feigns toothache. Everyone suggests remedies. He takes down their names as doctors and wins the wager. N63
• Spirit of new-born child in uniform. God has determined fates of everyone. N121.1.1
• Girl brings ill luck and death to everyone she comes in contact with. N265.1
• King requires everyone who comes before him to tell a story. P14.14
• Princess so lovely that everyone falls in love with her. T15.1
• The obstinate wife: the third egg. The husband and the wife dispute as to who shall eat the third egg. She pretends to die. At the grave she asks him, "Do I eat two of the three eggs?" and he gives his consent. She jumps up and cries out "I eat two!" and everyone flees except a lame man who exclaims, "Poor me and the other one!" T255.4
• Jester takes cow and tells king people have plenty of milk, for "he who is warm thinks everyone else is." U67
• Emperor friendly to everyone. Would act as he should like an emperor to act toward him if he were a common man. W21
• What will happen when there are so many lawyers. Woman sees the crowds of students in the law school. She knows that the one lawyer in her village has ruined nearly everyone. X311