52 motifs match “message”  ·  back to the chapters

• Origin of death from falsified message. A1335.1
• Mealtimes from confused message from God. A1511.1
• Cat garbles message from man to tiger: enmity between man and tiger. A2281.1.1
• Ravens carry message to enemies. B291.1.1.1
• Tabu: failing to heed message of god. C64
• Dying peasant summons greedy bishop for heavenly funeral; the bishop dies hearing the message. D1715.2
• Dying man commands cloud to bear message to man's wife. D1715.3
• Tear from upper world of mortals falls on departed in lower world. Dead brother sends message of comfort to living. E361.1
• Return from dead to give consoling message. E361.2
• Origin of reincarnation: miscarried message of immortality. E600.1
• Spirit delivers false message. F402.1.9
• Sign message sent by girl to enamored prince; interpreted by prince's friend. H611.2
• Queen writes message on stone which hero finds: he goes in search of her. H1229.2
• King sends hero to otherworld to carry message to king's dead father. H1252.4
• Arrow as man's message shows lion how terrible man himself must be. J32
• Dying saint leaves wise message to followers. Message is cryptic, but is finally made clear. J154.1
• 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
• 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
• Fool forgets master's message. As result of his absent-mindedness he is given a heavy mortar to take to his master. The latter makes him return it as punishment. J2044
• The messenger without the message. A fool is told that he is to go to a neighboring castle the next morning. He is to take letters, but the next morning without reporting for instructions the fool goes on the journey. He is given a bag of stones to carry back. J2192
• Message after a week. A fool is sent to tell his master's wife that he will not return that day for dinner. He delays the message for a week. J2192.1
• Carrying his own message. A man who is away from home writes a letter to his wife but can find no messenger. He delivers the letter himself and then goes on back to where he has been. J2242
• Foolish messenger muddles message. J2671.4
• Fox drinks the milk of a tiger's mate by giving her a misleading message. K362.5.1
• False message from other world causes man to go on funeral pyre. K929.12
• Message of death. Man carries unwittingly an oral order for his own execution. K978.1
• Message of death lost. K978.2
• Fatal deception: changed message from oracle. K981
• Falsified message brings about a war. K1087
• Message falsified to bring about death of lovers. K1087.1
• Fox sleeps with tiger's wife by giving her deceptive message from her mate. K1354.2.3
• Message of death fatal to sender. (Gang nach dem Eisenhammer.) A man is sent by the king to burners of a kiln who have been instructed to throw the first arrival into the fire. The intended victim goes elsewhere and the king's son (or the man's accuser), who next arrives, is burned instead. K1612
• Wife takes mistress's place in husband's bed: husband sends message of death. K1843.2.1
• Substituted letter. A letter is changed on the way to its destination so as to falsify the message. K1851
• Mohammed puts seed in his ears and when doves trained to feed there come, he tells people that they bring messages from God. K1962.1
• Calumniated wife: substituted letter (falsified message). The letter announcing the birth of her children changed on the way to the king, so that the queen is falsely accused. (Cf. K2115, K2116.) K2117
• False message of love carried to hero and maiden by troublemaker. K2132
• Death message softened by equivocations. Various false explanations are given to prepare the hearer. K2313
• Murder revealed by unusual names of boys. The dying man leaves message to name his sons "O God" and "O king" (or the like). This arouses the king's curiosity and brings the murder to light. N271.2
• Misunderstood message causes messenger to be killed (accused). N341
• Delay in bringing pardon allows deserved execution. Messenger, ignorant of contents of message, stops to view culprit's execution. N394
• Man sent away from battlefield to deliver message the only survivor of battle. N693
• Second-born son declared as successor because message about the birth of first son was slower traveling. Emperor will not change proclamation. P17.3.1
• Answer rewarded with gold ring; message rewarded with purse with silver. Q91.4
• Captive sends secret message outside (in orange or on handkerchief). R82
• Message of chastity: uncooked meat left behind. Man conducting a woman leaves uncooked meat behind each night of the journey as a sign to the husband following that she has not been touched. T386
• Letter (message) of Christ. V211.10
• Christ sends message to voyaging clerics. V211.10.1
• Color of flag (sails) on ship as message of good or bad news. Z140.1
• Message or orders given symbolic action. Z174
• Sign language. Message delivered by means of the fingers, etc. Z175
• Lovers' assignation by symbolic messages. Z175.2