33 motifs match “ignorant”  ·  back to the chapters

• Tabu: poets to be ignorant of national literature. C568.1
• Sheep and ignorant shearer. Had rather die than suffer longer from him. J229.2
• The bookman and the boatman: each ignorant of other's work. Bookman's swimming saves their lives. J251.1
• Why ignorant priests are favored. They can always find patrons as ignorant as they are. J1263.1.1
• 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
• Christ's disciples did not pass the examination. Ignorant student unable to pass his examination thus consoles himself. J1263.1.4
• Stupid (ignorant) Brahmin. J1705.2
• The city person ignorant of the farm. J1731
• Foolish lover ignorant of mistress's flaws. J1737
• Ignorant priest forces rolls of cloth instead of bread down a dying man's throat. J1738.1
• Ignorant people told religious holiday is coming the next day: camel appears and is feasted. J1738.7
• Priests (schoolmasters) ignorant of Latin. J1741
• "Agnus dei" as a prayer for money. An ignorant schoolmaster interprets many of the texts of scripture as commands for the priests to live lives of luxury. J1741.2
• Foolish girl ignorant of what is happening at her first menses. J1745.2
• Ignorant notary cannot draw up document. The names of the participants are not the same as those in his sample form. J1749.2
• Ignorant bride castrates groom when jokingly told to do so. J1919.5.1
• Fool ignorant of value of jewel throws it away. J2093.3
• King ignorant of famine says the people can live on pulse (sugar) and rice. J2227.1
• Only husband remains ignorant about his wife's infidelity. J2342.5
• Fool's errand. An apprentice, or newcomer or ignorant person, etc., is sent for absurd or misleading or nonexistent object or on a ridiculous quest. J2346
• Seduction of person ignorant of sexual intercourse. K1363
• Lover's gift regained: accidental discovery of identity. The lover, ignorant of the identity of the husband, tells him of his experience with the wife. The husband persuades the lover to lead him to the scene, where the wife is compelled to restore all but a small part of the money. K1581.4
• Ignorant youth buys a medical degree. K1955.8.1
• Ignorant doctor draws his prescriptions by lot. K1955.9
• Queen falsely accused of having poisoned husband. Ignorant doctors cannot diagnose king's illness. Queen burned at stake. K2116.1.2
• Ignorant surpasses learned man. L144
• Ignorant steward straightens his master's accounts. The educated stewards have always cheated. The ignorant puts his belongings in one box, his master's in another. Both master and steward gain. L144.1
• Wager: raja's daughter will bring servant dinner in field. Merchant ignorant that she is his wife. N12.1
• Delay in bringing pardon allows deserved execution. Messenger, ignorant of contents of message, stops to view culprit's execution. N394
• Numskull bribed to keep silent in elephant sale when he manifests interest, though utterly ignorant. N613
• Largest burdens laid on smallest asses: best offices to most ignorant men. U12
• Ruler forces bishop to ordain ignorant priest. U41
• Virgin restores office to an ignorant man because of his faith. V261.1