40 motifs match “finding”  ·  back to the chapters

• Tabu: finding certain secret. C820
• Tabu: finding age of monster. C821
• Tabu: finding name of ghost. C824
• Disenchantment by finding key to enchanted castle. D791.4
• Girl married to a devil. Despairing of ever finding herself a husband, the old maid exclaims: "I would marry even the devil, were he to marry me." The devil takes her at her word. G303.12.5.1
• Woman entertains every traveler in the hope of finding her husband. H152.1.1
• Suitor test: finding princess. H322
• Suitor test: finding object hidden by princess. H322.1
• Suitor test: finding an extraordinary object. H355
• Suitor test: finding a cow with silver horns. H355.1
• Suitor test: finding a hog with silver bristles. H355.2
• Test of resourcefulness: finding how many people are in dark closed room. Fills room with evil smell; men call each other by name and disclose number. H506.2
• Test: finding answer to certain question. H508
• "Do not marry a woman before seeing her and finding her to be your equal": counsel proved wise by experience. J21.31
• Detection of theft by finding bag-repairer. Two men are in a lawsuit and before witnesses seal the documents in a bag to await arrival of the king. One of the men cuts the bag open, changes the documents, and has a repairer sew it up again. On the king's arrival the change is discovered. By having a fine carpet repaired the expert repairer is discovered. Confession follows. J1141.5
• Fault-finding husband nonplussed. The wife has cooked so many dishes that when he complains, she can always supply another. Finally he says, "I had rather eat dung." She produces some. J1545.3
• Where are the shoes? Fault-finding husband threatens to hit wife with shoes. She: "You will have to have some shoes first." J1545.3.2
• The four-footed bishop. A fool finding a nun in bed with a bishop and not seeing her face concludes that the bishop must have four feet and so announces it. J2283
• Men exchange duties: each wants to get better of the other, but is cheated, finding the other's work more difficult. J2431.1
• Sham wise man hides something and is rewarded for finding it. K1956.2
• Sham wise man sees jewel hidden and is rewarded for finding it. K1956.2.1
• Man announces finding lost jewel, but so softly that no one hears. He thus has clear conscience. K2095.1
• Snake turns to gold in answer to dream. Woman tells dream of pot of gold. Robbers overhear but finding only snake in pot turn it loose on woman's bed. It turns to gold. N182
• Lover commits suicide on finding beloved dead. N343.4
• Dream of treasure on the bridge. A man dreams that if he goes to a distant city he will find treasure on a certain bridge. Finding no treasure, he tells his dream to a man who says that he too has dreamed of treasure at a certain place. He describes the place, which is the first man's home. When the latter returns home he finds the treasure. N531.1
• Special conditions for finding treasure. N542
• King chosen by contest: princes finding greatest fault with their father. Youngest can find no fault and is chosen. P11.2.1
• Kingdom as reward for finding abducted princess. Q112.0.1.3
• Two thirds of kingdom as reward for finding abducted princesses. Q112.0.3
• Fault-finding punished. (Cf. Q431.12, Q451.4.6, Q557.8, W128.) Q312
• Punishment for finding fault with God's works in heaven. Q312.1
• Devil carries off fault-finding people. (Cf. R11.2.1.) Q312.2
• Punishment for finding fault with God's forgiveness of sin. Q312.3
• Fault-finding with God's handling of weather. Q312.4
• Banishment as punishment for fault-finding. (Cf. Q312.) Q431.12
• Tongue cut out as punishment for fault-finding (satire). (Cf. Q312.) Q451.4.6
• Love through finding lady's wreath. T11.4.3
• Love through finding lady's handkerchief. T11.4.5
• Love through finding lady's ornament (ring, comb, etc.). T11.4.6
• Finding of the Cross. V211.3