109 motifs match “judge” — showing the first 100; narrow the words for the rest  ·  back to the chapters

• Judge and tribunal of the gods. A169.1
• Gods and men judge each other. A187
• God as judge of men. A187.1
• Judges in the upper world. A669.1
• Judges in the lower world. A675
• Lizard loses lawsuit: must bob his head. Lizard and ant accused of theft of king's crow. Ant pours boiling water down lizard's throat. When case is tried, lizard cannot talk but only bobs head up and down. Adjudged guilty and condemned to bob his head eternally. (Cf. A2474.1.) A2255.2
• Bird council assigns place and work to all. Eagle as judge. (Cf. B232). B238.1
• Animal as judge. B274
• Disenchantment as proof of truth. The prodigy convinces judge that witness is speaking truth. D797
• Laughing fish reveals unjust judgment. A severe judgment is rendered for a small offence. As the convicted man is being led away, a dead (dried) fish is heard to laugh. The fish reveals that he has laughed at the foolishness of the judge who, while he punishes minor offences severely, is unable to see the capital crimes in his own household. (Cf. D1281.) D1318.2.1
• Souls of Irish to be judged by St. Patrick on Judgment Day. (Cf. Q173.) E751.3
• Devil as advocate of falsely condemned men. Carries off the judge. G303.22.11
• False judgment by judge causes fruit to fall. Just judgment by judge causes fruit to be perfect. H251.3.10
• Test of paternity: shooting at father's corpse. Youngest of supposed sons refuses to shoot and is judged the only genuine son of dead emperor. H486.2
• Death sentence escaped by propounding riddle king (judge) cannot solve H542
• Trial rehearsed before stick in the ground as judge. J161
• Wisdom from continual reminder of foolishness in the past. Unjust judge skinned and his skin stretched over a footstool kept in the presence of judges, so as to remind them to be just. J167
• Judge not that you be not judged: thus judge upbraided when he is later accused in court and claims mercy. J571.6
• Fox refuses to mediate between lion and lioness. Lion decides to abandon lioness because of her bad odor. Ass, hog, and fox as judges. Ass says she has bad odor: lioness slaps him. Hog says she has not: lion slaps him. Fox says that he has a bad cold and cannot smell. J811.2
• Judge should possess humility and modesty. J904
• Abbot to avoid vainglory receives judge in rags. J916
• Man to be judged by his own qualities, not his clothes. J1072
• Stone as witness. Farmer will not pay servant wages due. Closing his bargain with the servant he had said: "May this stone be witness." Judge orders stone brought to court. The farmer: "Oh, but the stone is too big (or very far away)". J1141.1.3.1
• B warns A not to tie his horse near B's. Horses fight and A's is killed. In court B plays dumb. A says B could talk the day before, and repeats conversation. Judge blames A for not taking advice. J1141.1.12
• Confession induced by bringing an unjust action against accused. False message to thief's wife to send the stolen jewel case as bribe to the judge. She does. J1141.4
• Bribed witnesses nonplussed when judge asks wrong question. J1157
• Thieves tell judge walls of houses were so weak they could not resist temptation of breaking in. J1165.1
• The prophet's first disciple. Judge demands that a pseudo-prophet show a miracle. Latter offers to cut off judge's head and resuscitate him. Judge agrees to be the first disciple. J1169.8
• Solomon's judgment: the divided child. Two women claim a child. Judge offers to cut it in two. Real mother refuses. J1171.1
• Ungrateful animal returned to captivity. A man rescues a serpent (bear) who in return seeks to kill his rescuer. Fox as judge advises the man to put the serpent back into captivity. J1172.3
• Unjust claimant of woman duped into entering jar. Jackal as judge declares that real husband shall enter jar woman carries on her head. J1172.3.1
• Turtle released by man to carry him across stream. Threatens him midway. Fox to be judge. Feigns deafness and makes turtle come so near shore man jumps and saves self. J1172.4
• Novel settlement of dispute. Judge orders woman's second husband to return her to the first in the same condition as he received her (with child). J1173.1
• Story told to discover thief. Judge tells story of the lady, her husband, her lover, and the robbers (H1552.1). Which was the most generous? Witness says that robber was. This shows that he has robber's point of view. J1177
• The judge pays fine himself. Tires of the bickering of two men over a trifling sum. J1179.9
• Execution evaded by having three wishes granted: to be emperor, judge and the emperor's son-in-law during the last week of his life. As judge he frees himself and is in reality freed. J1181.2
• Plaintiff in court beats thief since he had not warned him ahead of time to have witnesses to robbery. Judge has refused to inquire for lack of witnesses. J1191.6
• The bribed judge. J1192
• Judge awards decision to the greater bribe. J1192.1
• Buffalo has eaten up turban. Judge decides for greater bribe. J1192.1.1
• Judge favors poor defendant so he may obtain money from rich without begging. J1192.1.2
• Error was in the honey. Trickster takes jar filled with earth but with honey on top as bribe to the judge. He takes the decision in writing. Cheat is discovered and judge sends message that an error has been made. Reply: the decision was right; the error is in the honey. (Cf. J1176.3.) J1192.2
• The bribed judge's ancestors. Clever animal says in court that she drops dung on ancestors of judges who take bribes (unless they confess). Judges confess. J1192.3
• Clever interpretation of judge's statement. J1193
• Killing the fly on the judge's nose. The judge has told the boy that he should kill a fly wherever he sees one. J1193.1
• The value of a blow. A judge awards damages of a penny against a friend of his for giving a blow. The defendant goes to get the money and is gone long. Meanwhile the plaintiff gives the judge a blow and tells him to use the penny as damages. J1193.2
• The Court keeps the change. Man is fined half-ducat. Judge has no change. Defendant strikes judge for the change. J1193.2.1
• Judge frightened into awarding decision. J1195
• Judge finds offense is not great when it is his own son who is guilty. [Inadvertant duplication of U21.5.] J1197
• Judge put out of countenance. J1212
• The doubly-bribed judge. One of the disputants keeps the hens he is to give the judge in his hand and when the decision begins to go against him makes the hens cry out. J1212.1
• Repartee with ruler (judge, etc.). J1280
• His proper title. A peasant goes to a judge and thinking to gain his favor addresses him with high titles. The judge calls him a fool. "I was mistaken, you swine!" J1286
• Repartee with ruler (judge, etc.) – miscellaneous. J1289
• Not a locksmith. A judge asks a pseudo-prophet to prove his powers by opening a difficult lock. "I am a prophet, not a locksmith." J1289.1
• One ear saved for other litigant. Judge stops up one ear while first litigant presents his case. He is saving one ear for the second litigant. J1289.8
• Man, fined for sabbath-breaking, asks for receipt, explains that if God asks for it, he will not have to journey to hell to get it from the judge. J1289.11
• Man is arrested for drunkenness; he is so drunk that trial must be postponed. When he is tried later, he is told how at the earlier trial he had kept repeating that the judge was a very wise judge. When he hears this he admits that he must have been very drunk. J1289.12
• If his head is taken off other punishments do not matter. Judge shows criminal mercy: he will not punish him as he deserves, only take off his head. J1293.2
• The cynic as judge of wine. Asked which wine tastes best, he says, "That belonging to other people." J1442.5
• Mill has given birth to horse. Jackal as judge comes late. "Tank of water caught fire." J1531.1.1
• Unjust action brought to inform king of judge's malfeasance. Husband is imprisoned and wife detained by judge. She accuses her husband of having stolen her. J1675.1.2
• The judge wants to know how the theft was committed. The witness tells. The judge: "You are wonderful; I have tried it thirty times and succeeded only once." J2372
• Testing the evidence by experiment: biting the ear off. The accused pleads that the plaintiff bit his own ear off. The judge takes time for consideration, tries to bite his own ear, but falls down and breaks his head. J2376
• "Greasing the judge's palms." The woman puts butter on his hands. J2475
• Putting fear into him. A plaintiff insists that the judge shall put some fear into the defendant debtor. The judge puts his fingers over the eyes of the defendant and cries, "Boo! Now give him his money." J2492
• Sent back for the rest of the money. A fool finds a treasure and takes some of it to a judge so as to purchase influence. The judge sends him back for the rest. J2662
• Wolf acts as judge before eating the rams. They are to go to the end of the field and run to him. They run at him and kill him. K579.5.1
• Escape by pretended debate as to which must be judged. Jackals thus induce leopard to permit them to enter their cave, while he waits in vain. K622.1
• Cat acts as judge between sparrow and hare; eats them both. K815.7
• Rascals pull off judge's breeches and leave him exposed. K1285
• Seller of pardons robbed by man whom he has pardoned beforehand. The defence declared good by the judge. K1684
• Bluff in court: the stone in the purse. A poor man has a stone in his purse to throw at the judge if he is sentenced. The judge thinks that he has money to use as a bribe and acquits him. K1765
• Wife substitutes for princess, who has been jailed with husband. Before judge says: "What harm is there in a man being with his own wife?" K1814.2
• Woman masks as lawyer (judge) and frees her husband. K1825.2
• Irrevocable judgment causes judge to suffer first. Has decreed that no one enter a meeting armed. He forgets to remove his sword. Kills himself. M11
• Devil at gallows repudiates his bargain with robber. Ring turns to rope. The judge cannot find a rope and is about to release the thief because of the miracle. But the ring in the box presented by the devil as a bribe turns out to be a rope. The man is hanged. M212.2
• With his whole heart: devil carries off judge. The devil refuses to take anything not offered him with the whole heart. He hears the judge (advocate) cursed for fraud with such sincerity that he carries him off. M215
• Prophecy: criminal going to death predicts that his judge (king, prince) shall soon meet him. M341.4
• The judge's bad-luck bringing boots. The wealthy merchant becomes a beggar, due to the judge's boots he acquired through exchange (theft). N136
• King hastily has 7,000 people put to death for stoning his judges to death. N340.2
• King cannot judge without crown. P13.1
• King may judge against all save one of highest rank in religion or learning. P19.4.1
• Fool as clever judge. P192.2
• Judge. P421
• Jackals as judges. P421.1
• Druid as judge. P427.6
• Poet as judge. P427.7.7
• Youngest of judges first to give decision. P516
• Complacent judge disregards the confession. He has put the criminal to torture without success. When he releases him, the criminal says, "In a moment I should have confessed all." The judge lets him go nevertheless. P521
• Ruler tries in vain to intimidate judge. Rewards him with high post. Q54.1
• Saint made judge of doom for men of Ireland (as reward). Q173
• Bribed false judge punished. (Cf. J1192.) Q265.1
• Unjust judges punished in hell. Q265.1.1
• Blotches on face of satirist (judge) as punishment for wrongful satire (judgment). Q265.2.1
• Judge must yield bench to son because he had made a false judgment. Q265.3
• Bride afraid of intercourse refuses consummation until judge orders it in court. T166
• Man reprimanded by judge for marrying several times. The man replies that he was always looking for a good wife. T251.0.3
• Thief overhears and oversees quarrel of two jealous wives. Arraigned before judge, he asks any punishment be given him rather than that of having two wives. T251.1.6
• Judge reduces penalty when accused is his own son. [Inadvertant duplication of J1197.] U21.5