38 motifs match “immediate”  ·  back to the chapters

• Donkeys ask immediate reward from God: eat their own excrements. A2232.11
• Dragon dips wounded part in holy well, is healed immediately. B11.12.1.2
• Tabu: speaking while gathering fernseed to make wishes come true, at midnight on Christmas Eve when fernseed ripens and falls immediately. C401.5
• Immediate death for breaking tabu. (Cf. C52, C51.3, C453, C533.) C921
• Immediate return to other world because of broken tabu. (Cf. C31, C31.4, C327.) C952
• Rod from magic hazel-tree kills snake immediately. (Cf. D956.) (Cf. D950.1, A2711.4.1.) D1402.10.2
• Magic cauldron boils only enough of its contents to satisfy immediate need. (Cf. D1171.2.) D1601.10.2.1
• The unquiet grave. (Cf. D2151.1.2.3.) Dead unable to rest in peace. Aside from the references given in the numbers immediately following, see E200–E399 passim. E410
• Revenant with hat of birch. Note: in the motifs immediately following, it is frequently impossible to tell whether the spectral ghost (E421) or the living corpse (E422) is thought of. E422.4.1
• Man who forgets to count himself dies immediately after. E791
• Skillful gambler always wins. Whatever he earns in day he spends immediately. F679.7
• Sword of Damocles. Sword hung on thin thread immediately above person. F833.2
• Recognition by "force of nature". Unknown member of family immediately and magically recognized. H175
• Women swear falsely by their husbands and children, who immediately fall dead. H252.4.2
• Test of wife's obedience: not to eat leeks. Although she does not like them, she immediately begins to want them. H473.3
• Task: hatching eggs immediately; countertask: sowing seeds and bringing in crop next morning. (Cf. H951, H952.) H1023.1.2
• Which was the most generous – husband, robber, or lover? Woman has promised her lover to go to him on her wedding night. Husband lets her go. On way she meets robbers and tells her story. Robbers take her to her lover. She tells what has happened. Lover returns her immediately to her husband. H1552.1
• Adam's (Eve's) disobedience blamed: blamer immediately disobeys orders. (Cf. H1554.1.) H1557.2
• Old man contented till forbidden to leave city. Immediately disobeys. H1557.3
• Test of friendship: mourner says dead husband can be touched only by sinless person; volunteers for cremating body immediately disperse. H1558.12
• Count only the waves before you. Fox sees man trying to count the waves. Advises him to count only those immediately before him and to pay no attention to those which have already passed. J311.1
• Priest must give up his charge or his mistress. Gives up his parish and immediately loses his fickle mistress. J705.1
• "Thief has the feathers sticking on his head": guilty woman immediately passes her hand over her head. J1141.1.5
• No physician at all. A bad physician having predicted the immediate death of a patient meets him recovered. "How go things down below?" "They put you at the head of the list of bad physicians, but I maintained that you were no physician at all." J1432
• Getting all the eggs at once. A peasant kills his hen so that he can immediately get all the eggs she will lay during the next year. J2129.3
• Wife persuades husband that she has returned immediately. She goes to a neighbor's to cook a fish. She is gone a week. She gets a new fish and cooks it and returns home with the hot fish. She convinces her husband of her short absence. J2315
• Talkative man betrays his companion. When his faults are pointed out he maintains that he is better than his companion, who is immediately investigated. J2352
• The stolen cow successively pawned. In one night a thief pawns a cow four times, always stealing it immediately and finally delivering it back to its owner. K408
• Fox confesses sins but is immediately ready to steal again. K2055
• The faithless resuscitated wife. Husband at great sacrifice has brought his wife back to life. She immediately deserts him and plots with a paramour against his life. (Cf. K2213.2.) K2213.5
• Punishment: man says salt he carries is stones; it immediately becomes so. Q591.2
• Ring of Fastrada. (Tove's magic ring.) Lover keeps body of dead mistress (wife) intact by means of magic ring. When ring is removed from her finger, the body immediately decays and he is cured of his love. T85.4.1
• Husband forbids wife to ride on the dog: she immediately does so and is bitten. T254.2
• Infant born blind immediately drowns self. T585.3
• Immediately after birth of twins one puts the other in his mouth: this twin's body becomes made of iron. T587.2.1
• The boy eats breakfast, dinner, and supper one immediately after the other; then lies down to sleep. W111.2.6
• Doctor called to attend sick man immediately gives orders for the funeral. X372.5
• Three persons who spoke immediately after birth. Z71.1.13