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

• Culture hero has knowledge-giving member (thumb, tooth). A527.2
• Earth-tree furnishes health-giving and hunger-satisfying sap. A878.4
• Treasure-giving goat. B103.0.5
• Animal giving treasure as milk. B103.3
• Goat giving coins instead of milk. B103.3.1
• Wisdom-giving animals. B160
• Tabu: giving garment back to supernatural (divine) wife. C31.10
• Tabu: giving away idol. C51.8
• Tabu: giving security for one excommunicated. C95
• Tabu: giving younger daughter in marriage before elder. C169.2
• Tabu: eating without giving thanks. C283
• Tabu: giving child a name lest it die early. C437
• Tabu: giving ring at certain time. C635
• Tabu: giving away. C783
• Tabu: giving certain money away. C783.1
• Tabu: giving away rings. C783.2
• Tabu: giving arms in pledge. C835.2.6
• Tabu: giving away gifts received from animal. C847
• Tabu: giving away gifts received from fish. C847.1
• Magic strength-giving food. (Cf. D1030.) D1335.1
• Magic strength-giving rice-grain. (Cf. D973.1.) D1335.1.1
• Magic strength-giving drink. (Cf. D1040.) D1335.2
• Magic strength-giving apple. (Cf. D981.) D1335.15
• Treasure-giving magic flower (gold and silver). (Cf. D975.) D1463.5
• Death-giving glance. (Cf. F555.7.) D2061.2.1
• Resuscitation of wife by husband giving up half his remaining life. (Sometimes vice versa). E165
• The Vanishing Hitchhiker. Ghost of young woman asks for ride in automobile, disappears from closed car without the driver's knowledge, after giving him address to which she wishes to be taken. Driver asks person at address about the rider, finds she has been dead for some time. (Often driver finds that ghost has made similar attempts to return, usually on anniversary of death in automobile accident. Often ghost leaves some item such as a scarf or a traveling bag in car.) E332.3.3.1
• Ghost is laid by giving it a never-ending or impossible task. (Cf. H900, H1010.) E454
• Rising and falling sky. Sky rises and falls at horizon, giving periodic access to the other world. F791
• Extraordinary natural phenomena at giving of Tora at Mount Sinai. F960.10
• Hollow in tree grows over, giving sanctuary to relics within. F979.7
• Arm grows longer from giving alms. F1095
• Suitor contest: bride offered to suitor giving the token of the greater love. H315.2
• Test of wife's obedience: the one command. Upon his wife's insistence that he test her by giving one command the husband tells her not to go into the oven while he is away. She does so and oven falls on her. H473.2
• Question (propounded on quest): How can snake be cured from blindness? Answer: By giving away his gem. H1292.4.2
• Quest for light-giving child. H1396
• Poisoned drink test. Attempt to kill saint by giving him poisoned drink. H1515.2
• Throstle giving all attention to sweet fruits is caught by bird catcher. J651.1
• Eaters of stolen food detected by the giving of an emetic. J1144.1
• Cleverness connected with the giving of evidence. J1150
• The value of a blow. A judge awards damages of a penny against a friend of his for giving a blow. The defendant goes to get the money and is gone long. Meanwhile the plaintiff gives the judge a blow and tells him to use the penny as damages. J1193.2
• Hairless palms from giving and receiving gold. Jester flatters prince for bounty. J1289.16
• They gave it away themselves. A wandering actor rewarded by a city with a coat of their color gambles it away. When upbraided about giving away their present he replies that they hadn't wanted to keep it themselves. J1444
• Things on highway belong to the public. Man reproves another for picking his cherries that overhang the highway. He is told that things on the public highway belong to no one in particular. He invites the man to climb the tree for better cherries, drives off with his horse and buggy, giving the same answer about things in the public highway. J1511.14
• God as surety; the abbot pays. A young man is ransomed by giving God as surety for the ransom money. He fails to return as agreed. The creditor sees a wealthy abbot, who says that he is a servant of God. He robs the abbot and when the young man finally appears he tells the latter than the debt is already paid by God's servant. J1559.2
• Practical retorts connected with almsgiving. J1580
• Stingy almsgiving repaid. J1581
• The old maid answers the owl's hoot, saying "Anybody, Lord!" or giving the name of the young man she wants. (Cf. X750.3.) J1811.1.1
• Three reasons for not giving alms. (1) Student has only one eye: Aristotle says to beware of those whom nature has marked. (2) Student comes from Bremen: no one of consequence comes from there. (3) His name is Nicholas: no one with that name can succeed. J2225
• Every fruit tasted. Fool tastes every piece of fruit before giving it to his master. J2245
• Imitation of the prescription. A peasant envying a doctor's fee for giving him a plaster and predicting a son, poses as a doctor. He predicts a son for a eunuch and gives a plaster for heart disease. J2412.3
• Giving half of savings away: "Whoever gives charity gets double in return." J2489.6
• Waking contest won by giving opponent soporific. K51.1
• Devil is cheated by giving him task: counting the letters in the church Bible. He is unable to read the holy words. K211.1
• Man cheats devil by giving him sole instead of soul. (Cf. E459.1.) K219.5
• Man gulled into giving up his clothes. K330.1
• Theft by giving narcotic to guardian of goods. K332.1
• Delivery boy is frightened into giving up his chickens. Trickster upturns his eyelids and puts on boar's tusks. K335.0.9
• Trickster lights torches and bluffs old woman into giving him money. Torches alleged to belong to man coming to collect damages from her. K335.0.10
• Fox drinks the milk of a tiger's mate by giving her a misleading message. K362.5.1
• Deception into giving false credit. K455
• Eavesdropping sexton duped into giving suppliant money. The trickster prays to the Virgin for a certain sum of money and promises repayment of double at the end of the month. The sexton throws the money to him, but never receives it back. K464
• God cheats birds by giving false description of tamarind fruit. K499.6
• Escape by giving narcotic to guards. K625
• Person holds hat just outside shelter; enemies shoot at it, either giving away their position or putting themselves at a disadvantage in having to reload. K631.3
• Trickster persuades policeman to take his place in the stocks. Then tricks policeman's wife into giving him jewels. K714.1.1
• Abduction by fraudulently giving signal of husband's return. (Cf. K1354.3.2.) K755.1
• Fatal deception by giving narcotic. K873
• Woman tricked into giving poison to her husband: thinks it a love-philtre. K945
• Brother causes brother's death by sending him to robbers and giving false advice. K991.1
• Burning children on promise of giving them fawn's beautiful spots. K1013.2.2
• Blind men duped into fighting: money to be divided. Trickster says that he is giving one of them money to be divided with the others. Gives it to none. They quarrel and fight. (Cf. K1883.6.) K1081.1
• Casual words uttered by dupe used to cheat him of his property. A miser is persuaded by his servant to fast nine days. He calls out on the fifth day "the half" and on the ninth "the whole". She makes people believe that he is making his will and giving everything to her. It is so ordered. K1155
• Wife surprises husband in adultery and shames him into giving her all she desires. K1271.3.1
• Fox sleeps with tiger's wife by giving her deceptive message from her mate. K1354.2.3
• Woman abducted by giving her medicine which appears to have killed her. K1364
• Father tricked into giving away disguised daughter in marriage. K1371.2
• Seduction by giving aphrodisiac. Woman tricked into standing naked in stream; medicine put into water. K1395
• Hero frightens dog into giving up eating men by pretending to eat own entrails. K1721.1
• King menaced into giving his daughter by means of borrowed fleet. K1771.9
• Giving madman food causes woman to be falsely accused. K2112.5.2
• Parson is tricked into giving up his room. Is told there is a snake in it. K2335
• Jews must repay devil's help by giving tribute of persons each year. M211.4
• Time of giving curse. M412
• Place of giving curse. M413
• Folly of father's giving all property to children before his death. They abandon him. P236.1
• Reward for giving last loaf. Q42.1.1.1
• Reward for giving counsel. Q43
• Reward for almsgiving. Q44
• Reward to almsgiving monk given in form of restored honor and position. Q44.1
• Punishment (fine) for not giving benediction on finished work. Q223.13.2
• Penance: giving all earnings to poor. Q542
• Abduction by giving soporific. R22
• Abduction by giving soporific and rolling up in a cloak. R22.1
• Abduction by means of sleep-giving music. R22.2
• Father punishes daughter by giving her to poor man in marriage. T69.5
• Father giving away daughter makes condition: son-in-law not to see daughter as his wife during one year. T151.0.2
• While saint's mother was giving birth to the child, she grasps a stout rod which roots and becomes a sturdy tree. T584.0.5
• Confession without giving up sin punished. V25.2
• Sacrament effective even from unworthy priest. Man who has refused such a sacrament shown a vision of a leper giving men good water without harm. V39.3