37 motifs match “praise”  ·  back to the chapters

• Animals praise or worship. B251
• Animals sing songs of praise. B251.3
• Fallen trees upraised at saint's request. D1602.2.1
• River grateful for being praised even when ugly. (Cf. D915.) D1658.1.1
• Figs grateful for being praised even when ill-tasting. (Cf. D981.5.) D1658.1.2
• Bitter water grateful for being praised. (Cf. D1242.1.) D1658.1.3
• Saint orders the cicadas to sing the praises of God or be silent, because they disturb his preaching. D2156.7
• Dead man praises God. E576
• Seas sing hymns of praise. (Cf. F930.6.) F931.12
• God's praise chanted by the heavenly bodies. (Cf. A659.1, A767.) F961.0.4
• Satan chants songs of praise to God. G303.9.8.9
• Recognition by overheard conversation with bridge. Bridge which will trip up bridal party if king is not marrying an equal. Disguised princess praises bridge for its recognition of her equality with the king. H13.2.1
• King ridiculed for inventing trifle of musical instrument but praised for constructing a great mosque. J372
• Liar rewarded by the apes. King of apes asks visitors how they like his children (courtiers). Truthful visitor tells that they are very ugly, and is punished. Liar praises their beauty and receives reward. J815.1
• Bad writer who praises himself reprimanded. J953.2.1
• Owl thinks echoes of his hoots are sounds of praise. J953.16
• Cynic praises power of reason. Tells Alexander that the power of reason makes even a poor man as great as a king. J1442.1.1
• The falcon not so good as represented. A nobleman praises his falcon. His fool, supposing they were praising the falcon as food, kills the bird, but is disappointed in the taste. J1826
• The persuasive auctioneer. The auctioneer praises the man's worthless cow so much in his speech that the man takes her back himself. J2087
• Husband praises wife's fidelity. Rascal tests it and finds it lacking. J2342.4
• Numskull praises his daughter as being pregnant. He tries in vain to sell his cow and succeeds only when he says that she is with calf. When suitors come wooing his daughter, he tries the same plan disastrously. J2427
• Friar adds missing nose (fingers) to unborn child: foetus is imperfect and he will substitute for absent husband. Is praised by the latter on his return. K1363.2
• Officers praised in reverse from their real merit: trouble for them and their master. K2136
• 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
• Wager on wife's complacency. Though the man has foolishly bargained everything away, she praises him and he wins the wager. N11
• Jackal demands to be praised as god: runs with pack of hounds. Q331.2.2
• Woman falls in love as result of husband's praise of her suitor. T13
• Children in mothers' wombs praise God at birth of Christ. T575.1.5
• Praise what your master likes and scorn what he dislikes. U42
• Witty funeral sermon. Priest having nothing good to say about man damns him with faint praise or gives anecdotes with unfavorable implications. (Cf. K1961.1.2.1.) V66.1
• Jackal forces all animals who come to drink to praise him like a king. W116.8
• The deaf parson. The youth answers unintelligibly but is praised nevertheless. X111.12
• One-eyed man as appraiser of horse. Has appraised it at half a mark. "He saw only half a horse; otherwise he would have valued it at a mark." X122
• Barber alone praises usurer. Custom not to bury dead until someone has something good to say about him. No one will praise a dead usurer until a barber is willing to say that he had a good beard. X511
• Drunk man at the wedding. Goes to sleep and never reaches it, though at home he praises the wedding. X813
• Land in which highest praise parents can earn is that they marry their children when they are babies. X1503.1
• Cold depreciated and praised. Depreciated, takes revenge by becoming colder; praised, makes reward, gives clothing. Z139.4.1