67 motifs match “payment”  ·  back to the chapters

• Wethers leap from well; payment for saint's baptism. B184.6.1
• Ass insists upon payment of tithes. When stolen by thieves, the ass refuses to eat for three days because the thieves' provender has not been tithed. B259.1
• Magic object returned in payment for removal of magic horns. (Cf. D881.1). D895
• Man magically made to believe himself bishop, archbishop, and pope. When he continues to refuse payment to the magician, the latter shows him the reality. D2031.5
• Ghost seeks repayment of stolen money. E236.8
• Dead grateful for having corpse ransomed. Corpse is being held unburied because of nonpayment of debts. Hero pays debt and secures burial of corpse. E341.1
• Devil buys a woman's hair; the silver coin which he gives in payment is changed to a piece of wood and she dies. G303.25.13
• Tasks assigned as payment of gambling loss. (Cf. H1219.1.) H942
• Quest assigned as payment for gambling loss. (Cf. H942.) H1219.1
• Quest assigned as payment for magic object. H1219.1.1
• Quest assigned as payment for hospitality. H1219.7
• Payment with the clink of the money. Man sued for payment for enjoyment of the flavor of meat when roasting. J1172.2
• Unstable security. Stag tries to borrow grain from the sheep, using the wolf as security. Sheep says that they are both so swift that he does not know where they will be on the day of payment. J1383
• Imaginary debt and payment. J1551
• Imagined intercourse, imagined payment. A woman demands money for a visit which she dreams of having had from a merchant. She is shown the money in a mirror. J1551.1
• Imagined color. Clerk tells person to imagine that blue cloth is green. The customer walks out without paying. The clerk asks for payment; the customer tells clerk to imagine he has been paid. J1551.8
• Too large a payment. A student leaving the university sends back a small coin to pay for the knowledge he is carrying away, although he says that he is really paying too much. J1559.3
• Payment with "something or other." Offered money, fools insist on "something or other." J2489.10
• Trickster persuades dupe to sacrifice animal and give it to him as payment for supposed services. K158
• Buying foxes "as they run". Man sells three hundred foxes to buyer who agrees to "take them as they run": reds, silvers, crosses. He gets a large payment to bind the bargain, waves his hand at the woods: "I sold them as they run; and they're running." K196.1
• Deception in payment of debt. K200
• Payment precluded by terms of the bargain. K220
• Payment to be made at harvest of first crop. The man plants acorns. K221
• Payment to be made when last leaf falls. The last leaf never falls from the oak tree. K222
• Other deceptions in the payment of debt. K230
• 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
• Payment of money to the devil impossible, since debtor learns that the devil is dead. K231.4
• False offer to return goods in place of payment. K231.6
• Debtor tells creditor that he has had his reward in the hope of payment. K231.7
• Servant refused payment because of single mistake. K231.9
• To pay beggar for standing in tank all night. Beggar sees lights in temple. Payment refused since beggar has thus warmed himself. K231.14
• Jackal refuses payment for being carried. K233.5
• Healer to take payment in satisfaction at patient's recovery. K233.6
• Goods received on partial payment. Buyer refuses to pay more. K233.7
• Trickster summons all creditors at once, precipitates fight, and escapes payment. K234
• Literal payment of debt (not real). K236
• Tribute paid in enchanted snow. After payment, snow takes proper form. K236.3
• Deceptive respite in payment obtained. K238
• Man who owes 1000 ducats has his creditor arrested for owing him ten. Thus he hopes to postpone payment of his own debt. K238.2
• Payment evaded by setting countertasks. K248
• Deceptions in payment of debt – miscellaneous. K249
• Payment of the egg-white. A man dreams of an egg hanging under his bed. An interpreter demands half of what he finds as his fee for interpreting the dream. The man finds that the egg is a silver cup filled with gold crowns. He gives the interpreter part of the cup but none of the gold. The interpreter says, "He gave me some of the egg-white but none of the yolk." K249.2
• Payment in worthless goods which are alleged to be valuable goods transformed. K249.4
• Payment to lame man who claims that man's father lamed him. K251.6
• Crab demands seven patas as payment for four patas of paddy frog has borrowed. K255.2
• Crow demands young swan in payment for helping swan find feed for its young. K255.3
• Man contracts for load of hay on the road (without making any payment), orders the seller to deliver it at a certain inn. He then goes to the inn, sells the hay to the innkeeper, and pockets the money. The owner of the hay delivers it at the inn, tries to collect at the inn; the trickster absconds. K282.1
• "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
• Clever wife gets money from those who attempt to seduce her. Payment for keeping silence. K443.2
• Eavesdropping sexton duped into giving suppliant money. The trickster prays to the Virgin for a certain sum of money and promises repayment of double at the end of the month. The sexton throws the money to him, but never receives it back. K464
• Trickster offers food for woman's favors which will completely satisfy him. He refuses payment on grounds that he is not satisfied. K1353.1
• Lover's gift regained. The husband appears before payment can be made to wife. K1357
• Lover claims payment for cloth in the presence of the husband. The woman returns the cloth but puts a live coal in it. Destroys his whole supply. K1581.5.1
• Lover's gift regained: payment with worthless money. Lover bargains with the husband. Pays him with worthless money. K1581.10
• "No argument good without a witness." Lawyer's client therefore refuses payment of fee. K1655.1
• Alchemist secures payment for his "secret". K1966.2
• Alleged idol promises teacher certain payment for his book when finished. Dupe overhears and pays him bargain price for what he is later to receive. K1971.13
• The bitten cheek. In payment of a debt, a woman permits a man to kiss her; he bites her cheek so that she has a permanent mark. K2021.1
• Postponing of payment asked in order to get time to gather reinforcements. K2369.4
• Taxation and payment of fines or tribute. P531
• Payment of tax (tribute). P532
• Payment of stipend. P537
• Payment for ransom disappears when prisoner is not released. Q552.18.3
• Absent man's wife demanded in law court in payment of debt by creditor. T52.8
• Bed-partner to receive payment from first man she meets in the morning. It so happens: she marries the man and he makes her wealthy. T456
• Girl dares not receive gift from a man as it may be supposed to be payment for her favors. T456.1
• Crane pulls bone from wolf's throat: wolf refuses payment. "That you were allowed to take your beak from my throat is payment enough." (Cf. B382.) W154.3