56 motifs match “merchant”  ·  back to the chapters

• Devil as merchant. G303.3.1.19
• Arrested man tells who he is: the hospitable fire of his father is sought (bean merchant). H581.2
• Merchants try honesty for a year and find that it pays. So advised by priest when they said that they could not do business without dishonesty. J23
• Ruler learns lesson from the example of an exiled king. Rewards the exile rather than a successful merchant. J55
• Rich merchant is poorer in happiness than poor man. J347.4
• Clever merchant. J1115.7
• Clever merchant profits by being robbed. Monkeys steal his caps. Traps monkeys and sells them. J1115.7.1
• Servants would not have left the coats. Merchants complain to nobleman that his servants have robbed them of money. Nobleman asks whether merchants had on those good coats when the robbery took place. When told yes, he said that the robbers were not his servants, for they would never have left good coats. J1179.5
• Needles and anchors. Fox leaving merchant's warehouse: "I had wanted a needle as big as an anchor and an anchor as small as a needle." J1391.8
• Imagined intercourse, imagined payment. A woman demands money for a visit which she dreams of having had from a merchant. She is shown the money in a mirror. J1551.1
• Sticking to the rules. Merchant at inn deprives monk of fowl. "It's against the rules of your order." Later the monk undertakes to help merchant across stream. In the middle of the stream he asks the merchant if he has any money. "Yes." The monk drops him in the water. "It's against the rules of our order to have any money on us." J1638
• Banker able to recognize honest merchant by a single hair of his mustache. J1661.1.9
• The interrupted calculation. While the merchant is making calculations, he asks the age of his youngest daughter, the elder daughter, and the mother, and always adds this to the number he has reached. J2035
• Fool's talking causes himself and companions to be robbed. Thieves stumble over him as he lies on the ground. "What is this, a log?" The fool: "Does a log have five annas in its pocket?" When they have robbed him he says, "Ask the merchant in the tree if my money is good." They rob the merchant. J2356
• The numskull buys water at market. He looks at bread. The merchant: "It is as good as butter." He decides on butter. The merchant: "It is as sweet as oil." He decides on oil. The merchant: "It is as clear as water." He decides on water. J2478
• Merchant buys the same article several times from the same or different seller. K258.2
• Theft by disguise as merchant (or peddler). K311.14
• Reward for the bag of lead. A man sews up lead in a bag and feigns to have found it. A merchant claims it and thinking it filled with gold pays him a large reward. K476.2.2
• Trickster sells mother's wine to merchant without asking her permission. Mother saves part of wine because purchaser is dilatory in removing casks. K499.1
• Capture by luring merchant to look at supposed bargain. K775
• Seduction by posing as merchant. K1315.12
• Adulteress persuades husband to milk cow with his eyes blindfolded: meets lover. (Cf. Chaucer's Merchant's Tale.) K1516.5
• Paramour disguised as cloth merchant is surprised by the husband. He asks the woman to be paid for a pretended sale. K1517.9
• Trickster makes believe he has found a purse (which he had filled with lead). Merchant claims it and pays ten crowns for it. Trickster wins ensuing suit. K1696
• Lecherous prince disguises as merchant in order to kill his grand-children. K1812.14
• King in disguise of merchant is given hospitality by enemy. K1812.14.1
• Prince disguised as merchant seduces a queen. (Cf. K1349.3.1.) K1814.1
• Disguise as merchant. K1817.4
• Slave poses as treasurer's son and carries letter purporting to ask for hand of merchant's daughter in marriage. K1917.8
• Treacherous merchant. K2249.4
• Disguise as merchant to enter enemy's castle. (Cf. K1817.4.) K2357.10
• Wager: raja's daughter will bring servant dinner in field. Merchant ignorant that she is his wife. N12.1
• 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
• Destiny better than work, show, or speculation. A peasant makes a little by his work; a nobleman more by his outward show; a merchant still more by speculation; but a prince most of all by his destiny. N142
• Fortunes of the rich man and of the poor man. The Fortune of the rich brother tells the poor brother to seek his luck under a bush. The poor man goes there and Fortune tells him to become a merchant. He becomes rich. N181
• Prince's arrow accidentally grazes breast of merchant's wife. N331.1.2
• Boy's servant takes pearl to his wife instead of to merchant; she throws it away. N351.1
• Sandalwood merchant sells his product at high price in land lacking sandalwood. N411.5
• Fortune from trifling sum sent abroad with merchant. N412
• King's example makes merchant wealthy. The king buys shoes for a high price and then has all his dinner guests buy them. N415
• Grateful king advises merchant in dream to take treasure from his grave mound. N531.4
• Merchant as helper. N851
• Futile attempt to get rid of man by selling him to merchants as slave. P173.4
• Financiers and merchants. P430
• Merchant. P431
• Merchants as spreaders of news. P431.1
• Devil suffocates swindling merchant. (Cf. Q425.) Q274.2
• Eagle (ape) carries off ill-gotten gain. Makes away with the receipts of a merchant who had watered his wine. (Cf. Q274.) Q557.3
• Merchant rescues abandoned child. (Cf. N851.) R131.7
• Evil stepmother works stepdaughter to death in absence of merchant husband. S322.7
• Jealous wife has merchant turn out queen and son, whom he had befriended and taken into his home. S463
• Daughter of merchant develops intimacy with slave. T91.5.1.1
• Prince falls in love with merchant's daughter exposed in jungle. T91.6.3.1
• Hero buried as unknown merchant in foreign country. V69.2
• Miser is given rope to hang himself. Miser annoys merchant so much over the price of a rope that the latter gives it to him provided he will hang himself as he plans to do. W153.7.1
• Thrifty merchant tells son that even a snake laid by will be useful. W216.1