72 motifs match “grant”  ·  back to the chapters

• Departed deity grants requests to visitors. A575
• Semi-divine hero granted free access to men's wives. A591
• Ireland, waste for centuries after flood, is repopulated by immigrants. A1006.6
• Bad women from transformed hog and goose. Peter, having only one daughter, foolishly promises her to three men. He asks the Lord to create two others. This request is granted. The first creature he meets on two successive mornings he is to greet, and they will be transformed. He meets a hog and a goose. His two new daughters have these characteristics. A1371.3
• Animal characteristics: punishment for immoderate request. Dissatisfied animal finds that when his request is granted he is worse off than before. A2232
• Dog granted proper food. A2545.4
• Animal granted patent of nobility. A2546
• Dog granted patent of nobility. A2546.1
• Wolf granted patent of nobility. A2546.2
• Dragon fight: respite granted and dragon returns with renewed strength. B11.11.1
• Magic dog fragrant. B182.1.6
• Cow grants all desires. B184.2.1.3
• Lion is freed from net by mouse. Mouse asks that his son marry lion's daughter. Request granted. The mouse is trampled to death by his bride. B363.1
• Grateful fish grants mad hero his wish: to impregnate a princess. Later the fish saves the hero and his family from death at sea. B375.1.1
• Transformation to likeness of ruler. Man so uses the last of three wishes granted to him. D41.1
• Image of love grants man wife. (Cf. D1268.) D1595.1
• Air made fragrant with odors of flowers by spell. (Cf. D1273.) D1599.2
• Wishes granted without limit. D1761.0.1
• Limited number of wishes granted. D1761.0.2
• One wish granted. D1761.0.2.2
• Mouse's prayer to gods about her children granted. D1766.1.6
• Three Nephites are granted quasi-immortal state by Jesus Christ at time of resurrection. (Cf. V294.) D1856.2
• Resuscitation by universal weeping. Return of deity from dead granted if all men will weep. One person refuses. E58.1
• Return from dead granted for definite time. E166
• Return of the dead to grant forgiveness. E365.1
• Mortal beats drum as fairies dance before Indra; is granted fairy wife permanently. F302.6.2.1
• Vanquished ogre grants hero's three wishes. G665
• Solomon, permitted by God to make any request, asks wisdom. Granted wisdom and wealth. J231.1
• Execution escaped by use of special permissions granted the condemned. J1181
• Execution evaded by using three wishes. King ordains that guest who turns his plate shall be executed, but orders that anyone so condemned shall have three wishes granted. One of the wishes: to have all blinded who saw him turn the plate. He is freed. J1181.1
• 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
• Using the lamb to get an audience. Peasant calls on lawyer for advice. Lawyer says that he is busy. Peasant returns with lamb. The lawyer hears its bleat and grants the audience. J1653
• Poet goes to king to complain of destruction of his dwelling. King requires story. Poet recites list, ending with account of the destruction of his dun. Reparation granted. J1675.6
• Three foolish wishes. Three wishes will be granted: used up foolishly. J2071
• A man without a stomach. The man complains that he is a mere slave of his stomach. His wish is granted and the stomach taken away from him. He discovers soon that life has become very uninteresting to him, and recovers his stomach again. J2072.4
• Wife granted wish for beauty, elopes with prince. Husband wishes her into a pig; son must use third wish to restore her. J2075.4
• Absurdly modest wish. Granted any wish, the fool chooses a trifle. J2076
• Land grant: as much land as can be covered by saint's mantle. K185.4.2
• Land grant: as much land as can be seen on a clear day. K185.12.1
• Land grant: as much land as can be seen from certain eminence. K185.12.2
• Land grant: as far as ox can be heard. K185.14
• "Old Saddle" granted by the king. This is the name of an estate, which the king unwittingly gives away. K193.1
• Devil loses his grain and gets thistles. God grants the devil one grain crop, which he can create by calling its name. The devil is tricked into forgetting the name and calling "Thistles". Hence his crop is of thistles. K249.1
• Respite from death granted until particular act is performed. K551
• Respite from death granted until prayer is finished. It lasts till rescue comes. K551.1
• Respite from death granted until confession is made. K551.1.1
• Respite from death granted until wolf reads horse's passport. Wolf kicked to death. (Cf. J1608.) K551.18
• Respite from death granted while wolf counts hairs in horse's tail. Wolf kicked to death. K551.19
• Definite respite from death granted. K551.22
• A year's time granted to settle affairs before death. K551.22.1
• God grants man twenty years more of life provided he plays no tricks. K551.22.2
• Crocodile grants boy five days respite from death. K551.22.3
• The bag of lies: threat to tell of queen's adultery. The boy, who is to tell the bag of lies, is stopped and his wishes granted. K1271.1.1
• Sexton's own wife brings her offering. The priest grants to the sexton the offerings brought by all women whom the priest has loved. The priest always calls out "Take" when these women offer. The sexton's own wife comes. The priest calls out "Take!" (Cf. Q384.) K1541
• Solomon, offered any gift from God, chooses wisdom. Granted wisdom and wealth. L212.2
• Deity grants woman two sons, one to be wise and ugly and the other a fool and handsome. M93
• Demanding of promised boon postponed until an auspicious moment. Granted anything he may ask, the recipient waits to announce his choice. M204.1
• Land grants (bargains). M207
• Person sells soul to devil in return for the granting of wishes. M211.9
• Blind promise (rash boon). Person grants wish before hearing it. M223
• Man granted power of winning at cards. N221
• "Friendship without refusal." Friends bind themselves each to grant every desire of the other. P319.7
• God grants to saint the boon that no one buried in any of his churches shall go to hell. Q174.1.1.2
• God grants to saint the boon that two persons are to be rescued from hell by him "to the end of the world." Q174.1.1.3
• Refusal to grant request punished. (Cf. Q499.4.) Q287
• Satirizing as punishment for refusal to grant request. (Cf. Q287.) Q499.4
• Defiant prisoners refuse to accept grace even from their father unless it is granted them all. (Cf. M165.) R72
• Boon granted after prayer and widow's son is released from prison. R123
• Idol cracks open to grant refuge to fugitive in answer to prayer; then closes again. R325.2
• Skill in theft granted as answer to prayer. V59.1
• Air fragrant at Nativity. (Cf. V222.4.) V211.1.1
• Champion grants requested boon of safe convoy to his enemies. W11.5.10