24 motifs match “offering”  ·  back to the chapters

• Merman demands cattle as offering. B82.2
• 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
• Dead come forth and eat grave-offerings. E541.3
• Water-spirits lure children into water, offering objects. F420.5.2.1.2
• 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
• Flattery of the wicked to escape death at his hands: "This is an offering to my lord Esau from his slave Jacob". J814.4
• 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
• Trickster eats sacrifice offerings. K254.2
• Seduction by offering protection against non-existing danger. K1315.9
• 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
• Trickster shams death and eats grave offerings. K1867.2
• Reward for offering food to crucifix (Madonna). Q32
• Punishment for failure to give customary offering to gods. Q223.14
• Penance: planting garden and offering free hospitality to all. (Cf. Q481.) Q523.5
• God dislikes offerings beyond one's ability. V10.2
• Robbers promise to make offerings to the shrine of a hermit if successful. V113.2
• Offerings to holy wells. V134.2
• Brahmin worships idol and sets sacrifices before it daily. Rat devours offerings and he sets it up as his idol as a being more powerful than his idol. When cat devours rat, he worships it instead. His wife accidentally kills the cat, so he sets her up to worship. He happens to slap her and she loses consciousness. Thereafter he worships himself as most powerful after all. Z42.3