35 motifs match “nobleman”  ·  back to the chapters

• Nobleman as wild huntsman. E501.1.2
• Dwarf conducts shepherd to hell to collect debt from nobleman. F451.5.1.14
• Conflict between peasant and nobleman decided so that each must answer riddles: peasant's daughter solves them. H561.1.1
• Test of valor: rousing servant's anger. Nobleman, when examining servants for hire, bids each stand before him and comb his long beard. Occasionally he snaps at them as if to bite them. Those who dodge he lets go; those who offer fight he employs. H1561.4
• Wisdom from fool: the present returned. Nobleman gives fool a present; he is to give it to no one who is not a greater fool. Master is dying; doctor tells fool that master is going to take long journey. Since master is making no preparation, fool gives him the present. Master thus brought to repentance. J156.3
• Helmet left for woman to quarrel with. Woman insists upon quarreling with a nobleman. He says, "If you wish to quarrel, I shall leave my helmet here. You can talk to it." J552.4
• Man called a rogue by a nobleman makes a joke of the insult. He thus avoids trouble. J817.1
• 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
• Command would become permanent. A ruler receives gifts from his subjects and later demands them as he due. The fool sets the nobleman's bed on fire. When the nobleman commands him to put the fire out he refuses, since he would ever afterward have to be putting out fires. J1521.3
• To give the accounting afterward. A nobleman embezzles money from the public treasury. When counsellors urge an accounting, he replies that he is ready as soon as they have themselves made an accounting of all their transactions. They are ready to let well enough alone. J1627
• King's capriciousness censured: the ass in the stream. A nobleman seeing an ass letting water in a river remarks that it reminds him of his king. He explains to the king that just as the ass puts water where it is already plentiful, so the king awards wealth where it is not needed. The king says that it is all in the nature of the nobleman's fate. Subsequent events prove this. J1675.3
• Dressed up monkey thought to be a nobleman. J1762.6
• The falcon not so good as represented. A nobleman praises his falcon. His fool, supposing they were praising the falcon as food, kills the bird, but is disappointed in the taste. J1826
• Pursuing the rabbit who harmed the garden. Peasant asks a nobleman's help against a rabbit. The nobleman chases the rabbit on horseback for five days and ruins the peasant's crop. J2103.2
• The gift of the donkey. Ruler rewards the gift of a clever donkey. Greedy nobleman seeking a like reward sends ruler two donkeys in rich trappings. Ruler advises the donor that he is sorry that his gift will deprive him of worthy companionship. J2415.1.1
• Seduction by posing as nobleman. K1315.5
• Nobleman disguises as cobbler to woo woodcutter's daughter. K1816.10.1
• Sham prince (nobleman). K1952
• The stupid monk recovers the stolen flocks. A nobleman steals the abbot's flocks, saying that the monks have no use for them since they eat no meat. The most learned of the monks tries to recover them, but without success. The most stupid is then sent. Asked to dinner, he eats till he can hold no more. He tells the nobleman that he ate as much as possible since he could take back with him only what he had in his stomach. The nobleman pleased with the reply returns the flocks. L141.1
• Servant makes pact with devil denying Christ to secure nobleman's daughter. M217.1
• 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
• King banishes nobleman whose castle he wants. P12.8
• Impossible to refuse the request of a troubled nobleman. P95
• Living king's or nobleman's son as foster son of father's friend: considered an honor for the foster father. P271.4
• Nobleman forces escaping prisoner to accept his hospitality. Intercedes for his pardon. P322.1
• Nobleman's perseverance wins him coveted place on reserved bench. Elected upon the death of one of its occupants. Q81.1
• Nobleman after death must serve as menial. Q482.3
• Nobleman rescues lady from treacherous servant. R111.5
• Nobleman marries poor girl and then abandons her. T72.2
• Nobleman murders one of the people. Goes unpunished. U34
• Nobleman who kills one of the people is brought to justice only after long delay. U34.1
• Nobleman's generosity enables impoverished lover to entertain his lady. W11.7
• Impoverished nobleman offers wife to ruler. Latter spares her honor and aids the couple. W11.7.1
• Look! look! she cries from the barrel. A nobleman has arranged for a peasant girl to become his mistress. When he comes to take her away he cannot find her. Disappointed, he is about to depart when the girl, who has hidden in a barrel, calls out "Look!" She really wants to be found. W136.1
• The deaf man and the proud nobleman. A nobleman amuses himself at the expense of the deaf man. Finally Nobleman: I wish you a thousand gallows and ropes around your neck. – Peasant: My lord, I wish you twice as many. X111.6