32 motifs match “ignorance”  ·  back to the chapters

• Ogre deceived by feigned ignorance of hero. Hero must be shown how to get into oven (or the like). Ogre shows him and permits himself to be burnt. G526
• Child confined to keep him in ignorance of life. Useless. J147
• Wise man acknowledges his ignorance. J911
• Men not chosen for their ignorance; else he should have reached heaven. Upbraided for not knowing answer to question, man answers that he was chosen for his position because of what he knew, not of what he did not know. J911.1
• Repartee based on clerical ignorance. J1263.1
• Consecration of the ignorant priest. A bishop disgusted with priest's ignorance says, "Who consecrated you as priest?" – "You did, the time I gave you ten florins." J1263.1.2
• Priest who never reads mass. Peasants complain of his ignorance. He says that they stand so close to him that he is afraid they might memorize and then pay no attention to his reading of it. J1263.1.3
• Absurd ignorance. J1730
• Ignorance of certain foods. J1732
• Layman's ignorance of medicine. J1734
• Ignorance of religious matters. J1738
• Ignorance of dates. J1743
• Ignorance of marriage relations. J1744
• Absurd ignorance of sex. J1745
• Ignorance of reading. J1746
• Absurd ignorance of the use of spectacles. J1748
• Absurd ignorance – miscellaneous. J1749
• Absurd disregard or ignorance of animal's nature or habits. J1900
• Absurd ignorance concerning the laying of eggs. J1901
• Absurd ignorance concerning the hatching of eggs. J1902
• Absurd ignorance concerning animal's eating and drinking. J1903
• Absurd ignorance concerning place for animal to be kept. J1904
• Absurd ignorance about milking animals. (Cf. J1903.2.) J1905
• Absurd ignorance about slaughtering animals. J1906
• Genitals cut off through ignorance. J1919.5
• Simpleton's ignorance of anatomy leads him to share his wife with a priest. J1919.6
• Old man cheats crocodile by playing on its ignorance of agriculture. K499.3
• Feigned ignorance about person's identity in order to tell one's frank opinion of him. K1792
• Feigned ignorance of person's identity in order not to reveal king. K1792.1
• Feigned ignorance about the whereabouts of hero's weapons and horse in order to keep him as monk. K1792.2
• Boy reared in ignorance of the world. T617
• Ingratitude from ignorance. W154.23