153 motifs match “offer” — showing the first 100; narrow the words for the rest  ·  back to the chapters

• Sun from head of youth offered in sacrifice. A718.1
• Man creates a woman from melted butter, sour milk, sour cream and curds offered on the waters. A1275.5
• Different tribes result from choice of things Sun offers people. A1610.5
• Why the Kamar offer liquor to gods and spirits. A1689.5
• Merman demands cattle as offering. B82.2
• Indra sends down buffalo whose milk is offered to the saints. B184.2.3.3
• Faithful dog is offered as security for a debt. B579.6
• Frog is enticed from patient's mouth by offering it a piece of cheese. B784.2.3
• Felled tree restored for failure to make proper offerings to tree-spirit. C43.3
• Tabu: eating from offerings made to gods. C57.1.3
• Tabu: eating before offering woman food. C231.3
• Offer to make pups born of woman in shape of hound human. D601
• Money from offertory as cure. (Cf. D1288.) D1500.1.10.3
• Two hundred years of unfailing life and happiness offered to warrior by fairy woman in exchange for one day's delay of battle. D1857.2
• Horse and weapons needed by hero are provided after incense is offered to Nandia, the Bull. D2107.1
• Dead come forth and eat grave-offerings. E541.3
• Fairy offers gifts to man to be her paramour. F302.3.2
• Fairy offers aid to man if he will marry her. F302.3.2.1
• Fairy offers to disenchant mortal wife if man will marry her. (Cf. F302.5.2.) F302.3.2.2
• Fairies appear in house and offer to dance with child. F321.5
• Fairy offers mortal choice of magic objects. (Cf. D813.) F343.0.1
• Fairy offers man change of form and feature for aid in battle. F343.11
• Theft of cup (drinking horn) from fairies when they offer mortal drink. F352.1
• Fairy takes revenge for not being offered food (drink). F361.1.2
• Destructive fairy drink. Upon returning to earth mortal pours out drink which had been offered by fairies. It burns up whatever it touches. F367
• Water-spirits work as servants for mortal but disappear when compensation is offered or origin suspected. F420.5.1.5
• Water-spirits lure children into water, offering objects. F420.5.2.1.2
• Water-spirit offers gift to mortal to win love. F420.6.1.2
• Ungrateful cannibal. Eats offered food and then threatens hosts. G85
• La Belle Dame Sans Merci. Witch entices men with offers of love and then deserts or destroys them. G264
• Witch asks for snuff so that she may seize man. He offers it to her on point of spear and escapes. G269.2
• Devil appears to claim soul offered to devil in jest. G303.6.1.3
• Devil disappears when offered host. G303.16.5.2
• Cannibal offers wealth to save his life. G683
• Test of innocence: apple and gold offered. Innocent person takes apple. H256
• Test of child's innocence: onyx stone and coal of fire offered. (Cf. H501.) H256.1
• Suitor contest: bride offered to suitor giving the token of the greater love. H315.2
• Suitor contests: bride offered as prize. H331
• Suitor contest: bride offered to the one distinguishing himself most in battle. Girl loves both suitors equally. H331.2.1.1
• Princess offered to man who can defeat her in repartee. H507.1
• Princess offered to man who can defeat her in argument. H507.1.1
• Bride offered to man who can find answer to question. H508.2
• Princess offered to correct guesser. H511
• Three caskets. Princess offered to man who chooses correctly from three caskets. H511.1
• Princess offered to man who can out-riddle her. H551
• Test of fidelity through offering suspected assassin opportunity to commit the murder. H1556.3
• Obedience of sons tested by offering them apple. They are each offered a slice of apple. The king says, "Open your mouth and receive what I give you". Eldest son insulted; youngest obeys and receives kingdom as reward. (Cf. H1558.0.1.1.) H1557.1
• Apple test of worthiness for friendship. Father gives son three apples to offer to those he meets. If the man eats all, avoid him; if he divides, make friends with him. (Cf. H1557.1.) H1558.0.1.1
• 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
• Test of sex of girl masking as man: nuts and apples offered. Men put them in their shirts, girls into their handkerchiefs. H1578.1.5
• Wisdom from books bought at great price. (Sibylline). Nine books first offered at certain price. Finally after this is refused and the owner throws six of them into the fire, the king pays the same price for three of them. Finds them filled with wisdom. J166.1
• Flattery of the wicked to escape death at his hands: "This is an offering to my lord Esau from his slave Jacob". J814.4
• The prophet's first disciple. Judge demands that a pseudo-prophet show a miracle. Latter offers to cut off judge's head and resuscitate him. Judge agrees to be the first disciple. J1169.8
• Solomon's judgment: the divided child. Two women claim a child. Judge offers to cut it in two. Real mother refuses. J1171.1
• Condemned man wins pardon by clever remark. Fool is allowed to jump off cliff (balcony) as punishment. Master expresses surprise that in three trials he has failed to hurl himself from the height. The jester offers the prince four trials. Amused prince pardons the jester. J1181.3
• Distrusts God when he can be brought by a man. Priest offers to help peasant with "the body of the Lord". – "If God can be brought by a man, he is too weak to help me." J1261.2.2
• Priest offers to exchange places with the bishop when he is told that he is unfit to care for his parish. J1265.2
• Gem offered by monarch to one who can first go around the kingdom. Trickster goes around king and says king is kingdom. J1289.14
• The porter's revenge for the three wise counsels. A man offers a porter three wise counsels for carrying his goods. "When anyone tells you that hunger and satisfaction are the same, don't believe him." The second and third are similar and equally valueless. The porter throws down the load: "When anyone tells you that any part of this load is not broken, don't believe him." J1511.6
• Proper food for ox and ass. Guests call each other ox and ass. Host offers green grass for the first and fodder for the second. J1563.4
• Base money in the offering. J1582
• The penny baked in the wafer. A peasant always puts a bad penny into the offering. The priest has a penny baked in a wafer and gives it to the peasant at communion. The peasant, unable to swallow it, thinks that he is possessed of the devil. The priest asks whether he has ever done wrong with a penny, secures confession and a pledge of reform. J1582.1
• Interested only in his capital. Preacher tells parishioners (regarding the day's offering): "You will get back 100 for 1." Donor of a penny: "I'll be glad to get back my capital!" J1583
• To follow the king. In order to test a favorite, a king says that he is going to retire from the world and offers the regency to the favorite. On advice from his philosopher, the favorite says that he is going to accompany the king into retirement. J1634
• Fox in coffer thought to be devil. J1785.6
• Foolish reward offered. J2085
• Lost ass, saddle, and bridle offered as reward to the finder. J2085.1
• Wife leaves home, offers self to lover. Returning persuades husband that she has not been away. J2315.1
• Payment with "something or other." Offered money, fools insist on "something or other." J2489.10
• Silence wager: man and wife taken for dead. Stand up when king offers reward for information about their death. J2511.1.2
• The father of Noah's sons. The fool seeks advice as to how to answer this question: Who is the father of Stoffer's three sons? Stoffer, of course. Then who was the father of Noah's three sons? Stoffer. J2713
• Throwing contest: trickster addresses Angel Gabriel. Offers him the ogre's cane. The ogre is intimidated. K18.1.1
• Deceptive bargain: an ox for five pennies. A woman who has been left the ox on condition that she give the proceeds to the poor offers it for five pennies, but it must be bought along with a cock at twelve florins. She gives the five pennies to the poor and keeps the twelve florins. K182
• Sailor offers saint a candle as large as a mast. But he knows that after the storm he will not try to find such a candle. K231.3.1
• Sick man offers deity 100 bulls for recovery. When reminded that he does not own so many bulls he explains that he doesn't expect the deity to come to enforce payment. K231.3.5
• A man bonds his loyalty. When the debt is due he offers the creditor his loyalty. K231.5.1
• False offer to return goods in place of payment. K231.6
• Trickster eats sacrifice offerings. K254.2
• Camel has offered one pound of flesh to jackal for help. Camel's tongue demanded. K255.4
• Covetous husband desiring wife's jewels tells her he has vowed to offer them to deity. K361.6
• "Owner has refused to accept it." A rascal steals a priest's watch. He tells the priest that he has stolen a watch and offers it to him as a payment for a past favor. The priest refuses to accept stolen goods. Commands the thief to return the watch to the owner. "But the owner has refused to accept it." "Then you may keep it." K373
• Stolen bacon offered to the owner. Making off with bacon, thief accidentally enters farmer's living-room. Boldly says: "Master, the devil from hell sends you bacon." The farmer: "Take yourself off to hell with the bacon." K419.4
• Robbers enslaved. Youth told by two robbers to go to town and sell bracelet for each. He goes and offers to sell two slaves. Goes back with buyer and cries out "Did you say both?" "Yes." Youth is paid; robbers are enslaved. K437.5
• Reward offered for stolen object (princess). Thief (abductor) returns and enforces reward. K442.1
• Contraband gold discovered when king offers large price for gold. K447
• Worthless chests offered to obtain credit. K455.9
• Camel induced to offer himself as sacrifice. Other animals feign to offer themselves to the lion as food. The lion eats the camel. K962
• Elephant offers to let chameleon hold on to his tail: it is oiled and chameleon falls off. K1042.1
• Seduction by offering protection against non-existing danger. K1315.9
• Trickster offers food for woman's favors which will completely satisfy him. He refuses payment on grounds that he is not satisfied. K1353.1
• Adulteress throws small coffer out of window. While the husband retrieves it the paramour changes hiding places. K1514.15
• Sexton's own wife brings her offering. The priest grants to the sexton the offerings brought by all women whom the priest has loved. The priest always calls out "Take" when these women offer. The sexton's own wife comes. The priest calls out "Take!" (Cf. Q384.) K1541
• Wages: as much as he can carry. To get rid of the boy the troll offers him as large wages as he is able to carry. Boy says that this will be too much, that he will be contented merely with what the troll can carry. K1732
• Shoemaker offers to trim the peasant's feet to fit the shoes. The peasant prefers to accept the ill-fitting shoes. K1783
• Trickster shams death and eats grave offerings. K1867.2
• Wolf offers to act as shepherd: plan detected. K2061.1
• Wolf offers to act as midwife for sow: plan detected. K2061.6
• Cat offers to act as doctor for cock and hen: plan detected. K2061.7
• Matron of Ephesus. (Vidua.) A woman mourns night and day by her husband's grave. A knight guarding a hanged man is about to lose his life because of the corpse he has stolen from the gallows. The matron offers him her love and substitutes her husband's corpse on the gallows so that the knight can escape. K2213.1
• Saint, offered any gift from God, chooses (virginity and) wisdom. L212.1