50 motifs match “offered”  ·  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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Ungrateful cannibal. Eats offered food and then threatens hosts. G85
• Devil appears to claim soul offered to devil in jest. G303.6.1.3
• Devil disappears when offered host. G303.16.5.2
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Gem offered by monarch to one who can first go around the kingdom. Trickster goes around king and says king is kingdom. J1289.14
• Foolish reward offered. J2085
• Lost ass, saddle, and bridle offered as reward to the finder. J2085.1
• Payment with "something or other." Offered money, fools insist on "something or other." J2489.10
• Camel has offered one pound of flesh to jackal for help. Camel's tongue demanded. K255.4
• 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
• Reward offered for stolen object (princess). Thief (abductor) returns and enforces reward. K442.1
• Worthless chests offered to obtain credit. K455.9
• Saint, offered any gift from God, chooses (virginity and) wisdom. L212.1
• Solomon, offered any gift from God, chooses wisdom. Granted wisdom and wealth. L212.2
• Modest choice proves good (simple unique privilege). Girl offered reward of five villages chooses rather to be only one on certain night to be allowed to have light in her house and to keep all animals who enter as hers. All kinds of livestock come. L212.4
• Former poverty chosen over new riches. Weaver laments loss of water vessel. Offered many new, but prefers old and modest life. L217.1
• Modest choice for parting gift: when offered money man takes magic stick. L222.3
• With his whole heart: devil carries off judge. The devil refuses to take anything not offered him with the whole heart. He hears the judge (advocate) cursed for fraud with such sincerity that he carries him off. M215
• Stupid man grabs tiger in the dark, ties it up, and saddles it, believing it to be a horse. It happens to be the tiger for whose capture a reward has been offered. N691.1.2
• Spurned suitor is offered girl by her mother. He rewards her refusal by a gift of money. Q87.1.3
• Penance: eating food offered to dogs. Q523.3
• All man's property offered to rescuer of stolen daughter. R111.0.1
• Prince offered as prize. T67
• Princess offered as prize. T68
• Princess offered as prize to rescuer. T68.1
• An apple is offered to a statue of the Virgin and her child. The infant reaches out and takes the fruit. V128.1
• Prince donates all including a tooth. When he has nothing left he is asked for a gift. He allows man to extract a tooth from his mouth. (Father had offered reward to anyone persuading his son to have it extracted.) W11.9
• Three explanations. When explanation of phenomenon is asked, three explanations are offered of which the last is always the true one. (Cf. Z71.1.) Z64