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

• Bad women because of head exchanged with devil. Devil (serpent) and woman fight. St. Peter cuts off their heads and exchanges them. A1371.1
• Theft of fire – trick exchange. Child of fire-owner is stolen and then given back in exchange for fire. A1415.3
• Why husband and wife shall not exchange hats. A1571.1
• Foreigners heads exchanged with those of devils in fight. A1610.1.1
• Animal characteristics: exchange of qualities. (Cf. A2313.2, A2326.1.2, A2326.1.4, A2326.2.1, A2332.6.5, A2345.4, A2378.1.3, A2378.1.4, A2421.2, A2421.3, A2431.3.3, A2431.3.4, A2435.3.1, A2435.3.2.) A2247
• Buffalo and cow exchange hides: hence bad fitting hides. (Cf. A2311.6.) A2247.1
• Snake and turtle exchange head for fangs. Explains snake's fangs and snake-like head of turtle. (Cf. A2320.2, A2345.5.) A2247.2
• Rhinoceros exchanges his red hide for hippopotamus's black. (Cf. A2411.1.6.2., A2411.1.6.7.) A2247.3
• Dove and magpie exchange eggs – dove's seven for magpie's two: why dove has two eggs. (Cf. A2486.3.) A2247.4
• Beaver and muskrat exchange tails. A2247.6
• Origin of magpie's feathers. Exchanges with dove. (Cf. A2247.) A2313.2
• How caribou got antlers. Exchanged his teeth for walrus's horns. (Cf. A2247.) A2326.1.2
• How ox got horns. Exchanged for horse's teeth. (Cf. A2247.) A2326.1.4
• Why partridge has pretty feet. Exchanged with peacock. (Also told of jay and flamingo.) (Cf. A2241.) A2375.2.1
• Woodcock's ugly voice. Exchanged with thrush. (Cf. A2245.1.) A2423.1.1
• Thrush's beautiful voice. Exchanged with woodcock. (Cf. A2423.1.1, A2245.1.) A2423.2.1
• Ring-dove's nest. Exchanged with gull. (Cf. A2247.) A2431.3.3
• Gull's nest. Exchanged with ringdove. (Cf. A2247.) A2431.3.4
• Food of dog. (Cf. A2247, exchanged with cat.) A2435.3.1
• Food of cat. (Cf. A2247, exchanged with dog.) A2435.3.2
• Plant characteristics from exchange of qualities. A2742
• Helpful animals obtained by exchange. B312.2
• Ogre has unique powers of exchange of sex with human being. D10.1
• Persons exchange forms. D45
• Kings exchange forms and kingdoms for a year. D45.1
• Gods exchange forms. D45.2
• Two friends exchange forms. D45.3
• Girl exchanges form with sorceress in order to visit her brother and get a son by him. D45.4
• Change of sex by exchange with a yaksa (ogre). (Cf. D10.) D593
• Magic object acquired by trick exchange. By means of second magic object hero recovers first. (Often mixed with D832). D831
• Magic object acquired by exchange. (No trick). D851
• Magic object exchanged for worthless. Foolish brother (wife) exchanges old object for new. D871.1
• Exchange of common cow for gold-dropping cow made by daughter when her father stops at her home for the night. D871.1.1
• Immortality exchanged. Wounded Centaur immortal but cannot be cured. He gives away his immortality to Prometheus and is thus allowed to die. D1853
• Immortality exchanged for death on alternate days. D1853.1
• Two hundred years of unfailing life and happiness offered to warrior by fairy woman in exchange for one day's delay of battle. D1857.2
• Ghost of murdered girl appears and lends jewels needed for a ball in exchange for flowers. E363.5.1
• Life token: rings will exchange places on girls' fingers. E761.7.14
• Substituted hand. Man exchanges his hand for that of another. E782.1.1
• Organs exchanged with those of animal. E789.1
• Changeling is sickly (often the fairy exchanged for a baby is an elderly, infirm member of the fairy clan whom the fairies are tired of caring for). F321.1.2.3
• Dwarfs exchange children in cradle. F451.5.2.3
• Person sells soul to devil in exchange for witch powers. (Cf. G281, M211, K210ff.) G224.4
• Devil's pipe, gun or music. Man is blinded and gets such as gift or exchange from devil. G303.25.16.1
• King and rabbi exchange riddles. H548.1
• What does God do? He brings low the proud and exalts the lowly (said by shepherd masking as bishop to king, who has exchanged places with him). (Cf. H562.) H797.1
• One eye exchanged for wisdom. (Odin.) J163.3
• Father with handsome son and hideous daughter. Advises both to look in mirror daily lest son exchange handsome face for bad character; daughter to triumph over face by good manners. J244.1
• Mouse, bird, and sausage keep house together. When they exchange duties all goes wrong. J512.7
• Camel and jackal exchange food: camel is led by his good friend to thorny fruit and thorn sticks in his throat. J512.11
• Flea and fever exchange night-lodgings. Flea had attacked abbess and been chased all night; fever, a washerwoman who nearly froze it to death by going to the river and washing clothes. They exchange and succeed. J612.1
• Priest offers to exchange places with the bishop when he is told that he is unfit to care for his parish. J1265.2
• Rogues exchange objects and cheat each other. J1516
• 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
• Fool exchanges his wife with ox; thinks something to be wrong with her head (she has been marked with red at the parting of her hair). J2081.3
• Woman exchanges a horse for a sack of bones. She has been falsely told that the sack is filled with gold. J2099.1
• Numskull puts money into the exchange so as to participate in the business. He hears that great lords take a part in the business of the exchange where he sees great heaps of money. He throws down a penny and says, "You may like it or not, but I want money in the exchange, too." J2428
• Men exchange duties: each wants to get better of the other, but is cheated, finding the other's work more difficult. J2431.1
• Plowing contest won by deception: hare exchanged for horse. God and the devil contest in plowing. The devil plows with a horse, God with a hare. While the devil is asleep, God takes the devil's horse and plows the field. When he wakes, the devil thinks the hare has plowed so much and gladly trades his horse for the hare. K41.1
• Trickster, as watchman, exchanges worthless bag for bag of gold at night. K126
• Animals made by magic exchanged for real ones. The magic animals disappear. K139.1
• Deceptive exchange: useless for magic object. K140.1
• Exchange of alleged ghee (liquid butter) for goat (cow). K144
• Trick exchange: basket of stones for one of bread; a few pieces of money shown through slit in basket-cover to dupe. K149.1
• Deceptive bargain: felling the tree. The ogre and the trickster agree to fell a large tree. The trickster purposely dulls his axe on a stone and then asks the ogre to exchange. Rather than work with a dull axe, the ogre does all the work. K178
• Cheater is forced to eat excrements. Gentleman agrees to exchange his good horse for the peasant's jade, provided the peasant will eat its excrements. The peasant finds no difficulty in the task, whereas the gentleman, put to the same condition when he wants to get back his horse, finds it impossible. K198
• New bags for old! Recovery of the old bag (containing money or having magic power) which the stupid wife has given away. The husband exchanges a new bag for it. K266
• Blind beggar overheard telling that his money is kept in a stick. Thief exchanges sticks. K333.4
• Two cheats exchange articles as genuine and both find themselves cheated. (Cf. K306.) K421.3
• Betrayal through exchange of stolen goods. K439.1
• While swimming with the lizard, toad exchanges own ugly daughter for lizard's pretty one. K476.5
• Exchange of clothes between master and his servant. K527.3
• Pretended exchange of confidences as to the one thing that can kill. K975.1
• Wife (mistress) substitutes for mistress (wife). The woman has been asked for a rendezvous. She tells the suitor's wife and they exchange places. K1223.3
• Trickster exchanges master's tame horse for vicious bullock. K1456
• Ogre's own moccasins burned. The ogre plans to burn the hero's moccasins while they are camping together, but the hero exchanges the moccasins. K1615
• The easier job. Men exchange jobs because each is made to believe that the other's is easier. It is not. K1687
• Hero proves himself a cannibal by trick vomit-exchange. K1721
• Ant-eater deceives jaguar by excrement-exchange. K1721.2
• She-bear as false bride. Compels true bride to exchange places. K1911.1.6
• Parents exchange children. K1921
• Son of the king and of the smith exchanged. K1921.1
• Two mothers exchange their children, a boy and a girl. K1921.2
• Woman substitutes child for her own and sells it. Exchanges sleeping places. K1922
• Nurse exchanges children so that the preferred child will be assured of wealth. K1923.1
• King shown he is less powerful than God. In spite of all his plans, his servant recovers the lost (exchanged) treasure. L418
• Devil to help gambler in exchange for one task yearly. M214
• Man umpires dispute in exchange for guarantee of safety. Disputants, bear and tiger, agree not to eat him. M222
• Eyes exchanged for food. A starving man lets himself be blinded in return for food. M225
• Horse, clothes, and members of rider's body exchanged for food. M225.1
• Free keep in inn exchanged for good story. M231
• Prince to give up life in exchange for learning a secret. M232
• Three deformed witches invited to wedding in exchange for help. M233
• Captured bird promises to deliver fifteen birds in exchange for freedom. M244.2
• The judge's bad-luck bringing boots. The wealthy merchant becomes a beggar, due to the judge's boots he acquired through exchange (theft). N136
• Money (treasure) unwittingly given away. Unlucky man given a loaf which is filled with gold exchanges it for another loaf. N351
• Mistress expecting lover accidentally exchanges places with her maidservant. N391.1
• Female slaves as medium of exchange (unit of value). P170.0.1.1
• Friends exchange names. P311.0.1
• Saints exchange bachalls as mark of affection. P311.7