25 motifs match “greater”  ·  back to the chapters

• Horse sewed in buffalo-hides. As protection against a greater horse, hero's horse is sewed in nine buffalo-hides. F984.1
• Suitor contest: bride offered to suitor giving the token of the greater love. H315.2
• King: What is your father doing? Youth: Makes an evil greater. (Closes up a path; this causes another to be opened.) H583.2.1
• Who is greater than God? Man's purpose. H674
• Liar escapes from devil: quest for greater liar. (Cf. G303.16.19.3, K210, X905.) H1318
• Wisdom from fool: the present returned. Nobleman gives fool a present; he is to give it to no one who is not a greater fool. Master is dying; doctor tells fool that master is going to take long journey. Since master is making no preparation, fool gives him the present. Master thus brought to repentance. J156.3
• Choice: apparent injustice over greater wrong. J225
• A bird in the hand foolishly given away in hope of greater gain. J321.1
• Little fish in the net kept rather than wait for uncertainty of greater catch. J321.2
• Man refuses cure which brings greater inconvenience. J343
• Wealth and wisdom dispute as to who is greater. J461.7
• Senseless debate: which is the greater, St. John the Baptist or St. John the Evangelist? J466.2
• Planning for the greater office. J703
• Lowly tries in vain to be greater than he is. J955
• Judge awards decision to the greater bribe. J1192.1
• Buffalo has eaten up turban. Judge decides for greater bribe. J1192.1.1
• Deceptive eating contest: hole in bag. The hero slips his food into a bag and makes the ogre believe that he is the greater eater. (In many versions the hero cuts open the bag; the ogre imitates and kills himself.) (Cf. K82.1.) K81.1
• Deceptive grain division: the corn and the chaff. The bear chooses the chaff because of its greater bulk. At the mill the fox's grain makes a different sound from the bear's. K171.2
• Lover delays the gift of the goose hoping to obtain greater favors. Finally has to flee. K1581.7.1
• Man who aspires to greater wealth loses all. When he is about to be rewarded by king the latter dies. N251.2
• Reward for austerities of hermit. (Cf. Q144.1.) The further he must carry water, the greater his heavenly reward. Q34
• Saint gives a man all his credit for good deeds so that the man may go to heaven. Saint is then rewarded with even greater credit. (Cf. Q172.) Q42.8
• Murderer's penance complete when he kills a greater murderer and prevents a crime. (Cf. Q211.) Q545
• The relative pleasures of love. Do men or women have the greater pleasure in sexual intercourse? Man who has been transformed to woman answers that women have the greater pleasure. The goddess blinds him as punishment. T2
• Saint exposes self to temptation but preserves chastity. Thus insures self greater reward in Heaven. T335