47 motifs match “neglect”  ·  back to the chapters

• Bird neglects to build nest: goes without. (Cf. A2431.2.) A2233.4.1
• Why gorilla and chimpanzee have large teeth in mouth: punishment for neglecting possessions. A2345.9
• Why gorilla and chimpanzee live in forests: punishment for neglecting their possessions. A2433.2.1.2
• Abused and pampered horses. Hero is ordered by ogre to feed and care for certain horse and to neglect other horse. Hero disobeys and feeds neglected horse. Latter is enchanted prince and helps hero. (Cf. B181.) B316
• Animal helps saint by setting fire to neglected church. B596
• Animal neglects its young. B751.5
• Tabu: neglect of service to deity. C57
• Tabu: neglect of sacrifice to deity. C57.1
• Tabu: neglect of sacred fires. C67
• Tabu: neglecting to fulfill vow made to god. C68
• Tabu: neglecting sexual relations in marriage. C163
• Dead wife torments husband who has let her die of neglect. E221.5
• Dead mother returns to care for neglected baby. E323.1.2
• Test of wisdom: wise man sends ruler magic gems. Ruler admires their beauty but neglects to inquire of their virtues. H501.1
• "Neglect not what four or five people say": counsel proved wise by experience. J21.35.1
• Untrained colt result of master's neglect. J143
• Apparent beauty may be of the least importance. Ruler admires jewels's beauty but neglects to inquire about their marvelous virtues. J264
• What one has is neglected in search for other things. J344
• The valuable neglected for the interesting. J345
• Herdsman neglects his she-goats in favor of wild-goats. She-goats die; wild-goats run off. J345.1
• Inhospitable host punished for hospitality. An abbot has his innkeeper treat his guests with the most shameful neglect. A guest retaliates by telling the abbot that he has been very sumptuously entertained. The innkeeper is discharged. J1561.2
• Welcome to the clothes. A man at a banquet is neglected because of his poor clothes. He changes clothes, returns, and is honored. "Feed my clothes," he says, "for it is they that are welcomed." J1561.3
• Grace said in name of the host. Neglected guest thus gets his portion of food. J1561.7
• Hero of story neglected grandson of raja. L111.9
• Neglected surpasses favorite child. L146
• Ape tries to flee with favorite child; neglected child saves himself. The favorite child is killed through the mother's overanxiety. L146.1
• Uxorious king neglects duties. P12.11
• Punishment for neglect of services to gods (God). (Cf. Q523.7, Q554.2, Q557.7, Q559.4.) Q223
• Neglect to pray punished. Q223.1
• Neglect to thank gods punished. Q223.2
• Neglect to sacrifice punished. Q223.3
• Neglect to hear confessional punished. Q223.4
• Neglect to attend church punished. Q223.5
• Punishment for neglect of mass. Q223.7
• Virgin Mary appears to lady who neglected to hear mass. Woman awakens from trance to find piece of taper the Virgin took from her. Q223.7.1
• Neglect to fast punished. Q223.9
• Neglect to fast punished by sight of dragon ready to carry man off to hell. Q223.9.1
• Neglect to study scriptures punished. Q223.10
• Neglect to study Tora punished. Q223.10.1
• Neglect of clerical duties punished. Q223.13
• Monk neglecting to prostrate self at canonical hours expelled from monastery by saint and dies on seventh day. Q223.13.1
• Penance: seven years' service for seven days' neglect of religious duty. (Cf. Q223.) Q523.7
• Son on gallows bites his mother's (father's) nose off: punishment for neglect in youth. Q586
• Fakir thankful for shrewish wife: she is a thorn in his flesh and warns him from neglecting the ways of righteousness. T251.11
• The neglected wife. T271
• King in exile neglected, but courted when he regains throne. U83
• Neglected wife given trifle boasts of it. W117.1