58 motifs match “invite”  ·  back to the chapters

• Discourteous answer: tortoise's shell. Zeus celebrates a wedding and invites the animals. Tortoise is late. Why? "I like my house." "May you bear your house always." (Cf. A2312.1.) A2231.1.4
• The cat as vixen's husband. Frightens the other wild animals invited by the vixen. (Cf. K2324.) B281.9.1
• Wedding of turkey and peacock. All birds invited except eagle. This omission starts great conflict. B282.1
• The offended skull (statue) (Festin de Pierre). A skull (statue) is invited to dinner. Attends the dinner and takes his host off to the other world. C13
• Prince invites angel to wedding. Taken to other world. C13.1
• Compulsion to invite singer to feast. Until that is done, the beer will not stop foaming. (Cf. C671.) C682
• Dinner with the dead. Dead man is invited to dinner. Takes his host to other world. E238
• Dance with the dead. Girl invites dead to come from grave and dance with her. Difficult escape. E238.1
• Dead children invited to eat at God's table. E754.2.4
• Fairy takes revenge for not being invited to feast. F361.1.1
• Fairy kills man who refuses his hospitality. Man refuses to visit fairy after being invited. (Cf. F361.15.) F361.17.7
• One giant invites another to a feast (wedding). Latter must be satisfied that food is plentiful. F531.6.8.4.1
• Devil (gentleman) invites traveler into his wagon. Explains that his horses are Earl X, etc. (Cf. G303.25.17.1.) G303.7.1.2.2
• Devil (gentleman) invites girls into his sleigh. G303.7.1.2.3
• Devil rides away on an ass. Angered because God has not invited him to his wedding. G303.7.2
• Man marries a she-devil He catches her as succubus and marries. Some years later his wife's brothers invite them to a feast (wedding) and he gets gifts or wife's dowry. G303.12.6.1
• Devil as gentleman invites a traveler to the feast (wedding). (Cf. G303.7.1.2.2.) G303.25.17.1
• Clam shell invites man down into sea so he can be eaten. G308.7
• Ogress invites boys to live in her house. G414
• Outcast wife (children) builds castle identical with king's, invites him, and is recognized. H153
• Abandoned queen invites all to forest, gives appropriate food to her persecutors, and is recognized. H155
• Cannot leave court of God: reply of saint when king invites him to court. J1269.13
• Persistent beggar invited upstairs. A beggar will not come in but insists on the man coming down to the door. When he asks alms the man bids him come upstairs. Then he says he has nothing for him. "You made me come down for nothing; I make you come up for nothing." J1331
• Not in good form. A duke invites a notorious eater. The latter consumes eight fowls, forty eggs, and other things in proportion. In leaving he apologizes for eating so little as he had not felt well the night before. He will do better next time. J1468
• Things on highway belong to the public. Man reproves another for picking his cherries that overhang the highway. He is told that things on the public highway belong to no one in particular. He invites the man to climb the tree for better cherries, drives off with his horse and buggy, giving the same answer about things in the public highway. J1511.14
• Revenge by interrupting feast. A rabbi who has been inhospitably treated is afterwards invited to dinner. He keeps the guests so amused by his jokes that they fail to eat and the feast is spoiled. J1564.2
• Fox and crane invite each other. Fox serves the food on a flat dish so that the crane cannot eat. Crane serves his food in a bottle. J1565.1
• Ass's charter in his hoof. The ass absents himself from the parliament of beasts. The lion sends the fox and the wolf to summon him. He pleads his charter of exemption and invites the fox to read it in his hoof. (Cf. K551.18.) J1608
• The louse invites the flea. The flea bites the man and jumps away. The bed is searched and the louse killed. J2137.1
• The literal host: bread and salt. Guest finds that his host spoke literally when he invited him to share his bread and salt. Later, when the host threatens an importunate beggar, the guest advises the beggar to flee since the host means what he says. J2476
• The sleeper answers for the dead man. A man falls asleep by a gallows. A company of wags come and invite the dead man on the gallows to accompany them. The sleeper awakes with a start and says, "I'll come at once." The wags flee in terror. J2618
• Playing godfather. By pretending that he has been invited to be godfather, the trickster makes an opportunity to steal the provisions stored by him and the dupe for the winter. When he returns on successive occasions he reports the name of the child as "Just Begun," "Half Done," etc. K372
• Supper won by disguising as an invited guest. K455.2
• The devil gets into the ark. The devil wants to know what Noah is doing when he is building the ark. He forbids Noah's wife to enter the ark until Noah has also invited him. K485
• Woman (Amazon) in disguise invites enemies singly into forest and overcomes them. K778.1
• Attack made on groom after he has been invited to female apartments to have meal with bride. K778.4
• Enemies invited to banquet and killed. (Cf. K871.2.) K811.1
• Enemies invited to feast and poisoned. K811.1.2
• Spider invites wasp (fly) to rest on her "white curtain". Eats her. K815.2
• Cat invites hens to a feast and kills them. K815.4
• Owl invites cricket to share his nectar. Kills him. K815.5
• Post-hole murder: people invite boy to enter post-hole and then try to crush him with log. K959.6
• Troll bluffed away from christening. He is invited but told that guests will include the Virgin Mary, Thor the Thunderer, etc. He stays away but sends the finest present. K1736
• Enemy invited for marriage with relative attacked. K2013
• Enemy invited to meeting and attacked. K2013.1
• Trickster admits defeat: enemy and friends invited to fort for ceremony and then attacked. K2366.1
• Enemy leaders invited to banquet and poisoned. (Cf. K871.1.) K2369.12.1
• Lowly successful hero invites king and humbles him. L175
• Lowly successful soldier invites general and humbles him. L175.1
• Three deformed witches invited to wedding in exchange for help. M233
• Naked soldier becomes general. Stripped for bathing he takes his place as guard when the king unexpectedly arrives. King invites him to come naked to the castle, where he is chosen as husband by a general's daughter. N684
• Brothers accidentally reunited when wedding of one to a king's daughter is celebrated and neighboring rulers are invited. N733.5
• Accidental meeting of seeker of exiled prince with prince at meal. Messenger in pilgrim garb invites unknown prince to eat with him. Recognition. N745
• Smith honored by king as indispensable. Invited to festival. P447.5
• Lion divides slain bullock. The thief who demands half of the bullock driven off; the traveler who modestly withdraws invited to take half. Q3.2
• King refuses to invite Patrick to feast. Poor man kills only cow and uses his only measure of meal to entertain Patrick. Patrick blesses his wife and son. Q45.1.2
• Groom invited after marriage ceremony into female apartments to eat wedding breakfast with the bride. T137.3
• Man invites animals to come and work in his field. Rooster kills beetle; cat kills rooster; dog kills cat; leopard kills dog; hyena kills leopard; buffalo kills hyena; elephant kills buffalo, and lion chases elephant so that both fall into trap. Man calls wives to see meat he has killed. Z43.6