65 motifs match “judgment”  ·  back to the chapters

• Doomsday. Catastrophes precede the Day of Judgment. A1002
• Signs before the Day of Judgment. A1002.2
• No rainbow for fifteen years before the Day of Judgment. A1002.2.1
• First judgment in Ireland. A1580.1.1
• Ox as soothsayer. All judgments referred to it. (Cf. B182.2.) B154.1
• Bird's wings drip blood when birds hear of Day of Judgment. B259.5
• The cursed dancers. Dancers rude to holy man (Jesus) cursed and must keep dancing till Judgment Day. C94.1.1
• Stone bursts as sign of unjust judgment. D1318.1.1
• 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
• Magic object renders judgment. D1326
• Image renders judgments. D1621
• Dream warns king of error in judgment. D1813.1.2
• Resurrection at Judgment Day. E178
• Souls at Judgment Day. E751
• Souls weighed at Judgment Day. (Cf. Q155.1.) E751.1
• Souls await Judgment Day in shapes of birds. E751.2
• Souls of Irish to be judged by St. Patrick on Judgment Day. (Cf. Q173.) E751.3
• Four (five) groups on Judgment Day. (Cf. A661.0.5.1.) E751.4
• Judgment day on Monday. E751.7
• Ordeal by crocodiles (snakes). Judgment depends on whether person is devoured or rejected by crocodiles. H224
• Nature fruitless if false judgment is passed. H243
• False judgment by judge causes fruit to fall. Just judgment by judge causes fruit to be perfect. H251.3.10
• Heroes seek judgment as to which is greatest. (Cf. H1311.1.) H1395
• Golden apple as prize in beauty contest. Judgment of Paris. H1596.1
• Avoid hasty judgment. J571
• When in anger say the alphabet. Man thus restrained from hasty judgment. J571.1
• King restrained from hasty judgment by being told story. J571.5
• Series of wise judgments settles quarrels of village. J1170.1
• Judgment by testing love. J1171
• Solomon's judgment: the divided child. Two women claim a child. Judge offers to cut it in two. Real mother refuses. J1171.1
• Solomon's judgment: the divided bride. Three suitors dispute over a woman. When it is proposed to divide her, true lover is discovered. J1171.2
• Clever judgment: man must belong to the third wife because the first had buried him and the second did not protect him. J1171.3.1
• Judgment as rebuke to unjust plaintiff. J1172
• Judgments concerning arson. J1175
• Reductio ad absurdum of judgment. J1191
• Judgment Day a long way off. Thief told by monk that he must return stolen cloth on Judgment Day "If I have so long a period of grace, I should like to take the whole monastery." J1261.7
• The tailor's dream. A tailor dreams that at Judgment Day he sees a flag made up of all the pieces of cloth he has stolen Upon waking he asks his servants to warn him if they ever see him tempted to steal again. This happens. He replies, "The piece I am about to steal does not fit into the flag." J1401
• No clothes needed for Day of Judgment. Friends tell a man that the next day is the Day of Judgment and urge him to kill a lamb and give a feast. He apparently consents. He then burns up their clothes. They will not need clothes on the Day of Judgment. J1511.7
• A wise man follows a fool against his better judgment. Both are put to death for their foolishness. J1714.1
• Stupid husband mistakes tiger-cubs for jungle cats despite wife's judgment. J1758.6
• False judgment of distance in clear atmosphere of mountain area. J2214.12
• Logically absurd defenses. Thief brought to judgment for breaking into house blames mason for building poor house. Mason blames maker of mortar, who blames potter, who blames pretty woman who diverted his attention. She blames goldsmith who caused her to go for her earrings. Goldsmith has no one to blame but he is too old to make a good execution. Hence a shopkeeper across the way is convicted. J2233
• Sham-dead man punished. A numskull lies in an old grave to see the Day of Judgment. He hears bells and thinks that the Last Day has come. He is beaten by mule-drivers when he tells them that he is a dead man. He returns home and tells his wife that he returns from the dead. "How goes it in heaven?" "For one thing, avoid mule-drivers." J2311.6
• Self-righteous woman punished. She has passed judgment on a girl who has a bastard. L435.2
• Judgments and decrees. M0
• Irrevocable judgments. M10
• 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
• Irrevocable judgment of king upheld. King leaves laws that must be kept until his death. Years later he has his bones sent back to that land to let people know that he is dead and they are free. M14
• Short-sighted judgments. M20
• King Lear judgment. A king flattered by his elder daughters and angered by the seeming indifference, though real love, of the youngest, banishes the youngest and favors the elder daughters. M21
• Other judgments and decrees. M50
• Judgment: pardon given if hero produces the lady about whom he has boasted. M55
• Judgment: thief to be pardoned if he can steal king's treasure without being caught. M56
• Judgments and decrees – miscellaneous motifs. M90
• Virgin Mary reverses judgments of church. M91
• The higher the office held in this world, the heavier the judgment of God: Cuchulinn's reason for abjuring kingship. P16.1.3
• 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
• Death from elements as punishment for unjust judgment (by poets). Q552.0.1
• Half of house in which false judgment is given slips down hill. (Cf. Q265.) Q559.8
• Child in mother's womb reveals unjust judgment. T575.1.1.3
• Last judgment. V313
• Vision of judgment. Man sees his own soul being judged. V512
• Man whose only good deed was unintentional sees this deed outweigh all his evil in the scales of judgment. V512.2
• Four categories of souls at Judgment. Z71.2.5