59 motifs match “offers”  ·  back to the chapters

• Different tribes result from choice of things Sun offers people. A1610.5
• 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
• 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
• Water-spirit offers gift to mortal to win love. F420.6.1.2
• 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
• Cannibal offers wealth to save his life. G683
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Wife leaves home, offers self to lover. Returning persuades husband that she has not been away. J2315.1
• Silence wager: man and wife taken for dead. Stand up when king offers reward for information about their death. J2511.1.2
• 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
• "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
• 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
• Contraband gold discovered when king offers large price for gold. K447
• Elephant offers to let chameleon hold on to his tail: it is oiled and chameleon falls off. K1042.1
• Trickster offers food for woman's favors which will completely satisfy him. He refuses payment on grounds that he is not satisfied. K1353.1
• 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
• 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
• Man offers to sacrifice bangles if he is given a son; when he takes bangles back, son dies. M101.3.2
• Host offers to send his guest a cask of the wine he has praised. Later refuses to send it as it was merely a "verba honoris". M206.1
• Man unwittingly sells soul to devil. He jestingly offers to sell his soul. Devil in disguise buys it. M211.1
• Hag offers to run race with men on condition that the one left behind shall be beheaded. Marvelous runner beheads hag. M221.1
• Thief hears owner of house singing "Bore and throw out the earth" and thinks himself detected. Offers owner money to purchase his silence. N611.4
• Queen offers son to be killed in order to spur to fight and avenge her first husband. (Cf. S12.3.) P23.4
• Competition in friendship: prisoner and jailor. Officer in charge of prison offers to let his friend escape, though his own life will be forfeited. The friend refuses; tells officer to let king think he has escaped and if the king demands his life the officer can produce the prisoner. King hears of the generosity and forgives the prisoner. P315.1
• Maiden queen offers her hand as reward for rescuing her town. Q53.3
• Child taken to heaven: offers food to crucifix. Q172.1
• Scoffers turned to stone by saint. (Cf. Q225.) Q551.3.4.1
• Dead cock rises, crows, and spatters scoffers so that they become leprous. (Cf. Q225.) Q552.8
• Saint offers murderer refuge. R325.3
• Daughter unwittingly promised to dog rescuer. (Cf. B620.1.) Without knowing that a dog has rescued her, the father offers her in marriage to her rescuer. S247
• Girl offers to sacrifice herself to dragon in place of her parents. S262.4
• Princess offers reward for securing prince as husband for her. T55.10
• Wife offers to sacrifice her right arm for husband's safe return. T211.1.3
• Female deer offers herself instead of her mate, who has been captured. Hunter, struck by her sacrifice, lets both go. T211.1.4
• Wife offers starving husband (father) milk from her breasts. T215.2
• Faithless widow offers city to killer of her husband if he will marry her. T231.3.1
• Miraculous manifestations to scoffers of the cross. V86.4
• Impoverished nobleman offers wife to ruler. Latter spares her honor and aids the couple. W11.7.1
• Lazy man is being taken to poorhouse or out of town or to cemetery to be buried alive. The group take pity on him, offer him various articles to help him get started again. One offers a bushel of corn. The lazy one rises up from the bottom of the wagon or coffin where he has been lying: "Is the corn shelled?" W111.5.10.1
• Deaf persons: search for the lost animal. A inquires for his lost animal. B talks about his work and makes a gesture. – A follows the direction of the gesture and happens to find the animals. He returns and offers an injured animal to B in thanks. – B thinks that he is blamed for injuring the animals. Dispute. Taken to deaf judge. (Cf. X111.14.) X111.1