65 motifs match “honor”  ·  back to the chapters

• Mountains fight each other for honor of being the spot for the revelation. A964.2.1
• Origin of feasts in honor of certain god (goddess). A1541.2
• Animals blessed for honoring infant Jesus. (Cf. A2231.4, A2356.2.7, A2381.1.) A2221.1
• Frog fails to honor infant Jesus: loses tail. (Cf. A2221.1, A2378.2.3. A2231.4
• Animals honor saint (cleric). B251.2
• Animals sing in honor of a saint. B251.2.1
• Sea-monster honors saint above all others. B251.2.8
• Dishonor to children because of breaking tabu. C930.1
• Magic hymn protects against poverty, death and dishonor. (Cf. D1275.3, D1380.14.1.) D1389.9
• Druid performs circumambulation right-handwise to confer honor or bring good luck. D1791.1.1
• Fairies take revenge for being dishonored. F361.9
• Mountain fights for honor. F755.7
• Husband refuses to murder his wife for high honors; wife agrees to murder husband. H492.1
• Quest to recover one's honor through feats. H1223.1
• Don't require honor from a strange country": counsel proved wise by experience. J21.40
• Precept of the lion to his sons: honor the woods. J22.2
• Wisdom from philosopher: worldly honor like shadow. If one goes toward it, it flees; if one turns his back on it, it follows and at times catches up with one. J152.6
• Soldier asks to be stabbed in chest. Prostrate soldier asks enemy to stab him in chest instead of back in order to save his honor. Captor frees him and the two become friends. J216.4
• Death preferred to dishonor. J227.2
• Prince chooses exile and honor to foul life at his father's court. J347.3
• King honors poet and critic: the first so that he will honor the king; the second, so that he will not dishonor him. J811.3
• Imprisoned musician defends himself. Has been imprisoned because the king did not like the way the musician looked at him. After a year the king returns as a conqueror and sees musician. The latter says that he saw the king's conquests in a vision and was blessing him when he looked at him. The musician is honored. J814.1
• Brother who conforms to naked people's customs honored. Two brothers go to the land of Naked People. One of the brothers wears clothes and is punished. J815.2
• Wit interprets unfavorable decision of court as doing him great honor. J835
• Clever pleading: fighting for King of Kings. Knight hailed before king for fighting blasphemer, tells king that he would fight to protect the honor of the king's name so why not for the name of the King of Kings? J1164
• Like Christ on Palm Sunday. Bishop has parson to dinner in the seat of honor. The parson fears that the dinner precedes punishment. Parson: "Don't let me be like Christ on Palm Sunday in Jerusalem" J1265.1
• Old wine. Man given his choice of old or new wine says, "We must honor old age." J1313
• Stingy man rebuked when his children are feasted in his absence. They think he has been responsible and honor him. He reforms. J1522.2
• Welcome to the clothes. A man at a banquet is neglected because of his poor clothes. He changes clothes, returns, and is honored. "Feed my clothes," he says, "for it is they that are welcomed." J1561.3
• Fool thinks that "aforesaid" is a title of honor. J1749.1
• Man honored above God: the dead hen. A fool finds a dead hen and cooks it and serves it for dinner. When reproached he says "How should it be unclean when God has killed it instead of men?" J2215.3
• Uriah letter changed. Falsified order of execution. A messenger is sent with a letter ordering the recipient to kill the bearer. On the way the letter is changed so that the bearer is honored. K511
• Ogam inscription on shield orders that bearer (who does not know meaning) shall be killed. Poet (who recognizes the meaning) reports to king that inscription means a request for honorable treatment. K511.2
• Woman deceived into sacrificing honor. Ruler promises to release her brother (husband) but afterward refuses to do so. K1353
• Lucretia seduced through threat. Sextus says he will kill her and leave a naked slave in her bed to bring dishonor on her house. She yields. K1397
• The feigned wedding-feast. The husband returns unexpectedly to find his wife entertaining the paramour with a sumptuous feast. He is made to believe the feast is in honor of some newly-weds. K1527
• Daughter has aged father cremated with dead husband to honor the latter. K2214.1.1
• "Fame (honor) is more enduring than life." L212.3.1
• Prosperity forever or for a day? King asks prince whether he has secret of prosperity forever or a day. Prince says "forever" and is captured. Later his wife, asked same question, says "for a day" and is honored. L291
• Host offers to send his guest a cask of the wine he has praised. Later refuses to send it as it was merely a "verba honoris". M206.1
• Living king's or nobleman's son as foster son of father's friend: considered an honor for the foster father. P271.4
• Smith honored by king as indispensable. Invited to festival. P447.5
• Common citizen saves the honor of his country. Gives his own funds. P711.3
• Reward to almsgiving monk given in form of restored honor and position. Q44.1
• Married woman spurns king's offer of marriage. King honors her husband. Q87.1.2
• High honors as reward. Q113.0.1
• Punishment: shaving head and covering with tar and driving forth on back of donkey to sound of drum. Stranger thinks he is being honored. Q473.5.1
• Child sacrificed to deity returned to mother alive and whole after the ablution and ceremonial rites in honor of her. S255.2
• Man is killed defending sweetheart's honor. She kills herself. T326.2
• Mother guilty of incest with son whose honor she is testing. T412.3
• Woman sacrifices her honor to free her husband (brother) from prison. T455.2
• Wolf punished for theft; kings honored. U11.2.1
• Beetles treated with as much honor as oxen will not learn to act as oxen. U122.1
• Dead holy man stretches hand from tomb to honor saint. V222.7
• Angels sing in honor of saint. V234.1
• Angels honor mortal. (Cf. V234.1.) V241
• Author of book against heretic honored by Virgin Mary and angels. V327
• Ruler reproaches son for bringing him the head of his fallen enemy. Latter given honorable burial. W11.5.6
• Impoverished nobleman offers wife to ruler. Latter spares her honor and aids the couple. W11.7.1
• Woman sacrifices life for son's honor. W28.2
• Honor. W45
• Prostrate soldier asks his enemy to stab him in the chest instead of the back in order to save his honor. The captor frees him and the two become friends. W45.1
• Three envoys debate as to which of them should be received with the greatest honor. W161.1
• Sister gives due honor and regard to brother only in times of his prosperity. W175.1
• Refusal to fight wounded enemy. Hero feels it dishonorable to fight with sorely wounded enemy, because it would be said he died of previous wounds rather than the ones hero might inflict. W215.2