40 motifs match “preferred”  ·  back to the chapters

• Suitor preferred who will pay enormous sum for bride. H318
• Old men preferred as councillors. J151.2
• Present evil preferred to change for worse. J215
• Early death with fame preferred. J216.5
• Captivity preferred to death. J217
• Unsatisfactory life preferred to death. J217.0.1
• Death preferred to other evils. J227
• Death preferred to captivity. J227.1
• Death preferred to dishonor. J227.2
• Physical pain preferred to poverty. J229.14
• Goodness preferred to beauty. J244
• Useful and ugly preferred to expensive and beautiful. J245
• Millstone preferred to jewels. Man shown jewels that cost much money; he replies that he has better stones (millstones) that earn that much. J245.1
• Strength preferred to cleverness. J246
• Man criticizes the devil because his deeds are not fair. Devil says that they are strong nevertheless. Hence strong speakers rather than clever are to be preferred. J246.1
• Goodness preferred to wealth. J247
• Quality preferred to quantity. J280
• Quality of offspring preferred to quantity. J281
• The present preferred to the past. J310
• Present values preferred to future. J320
• Present possessions preferred to future possibilities. J321
• Present possessions preferred to future. J321.4
• One's own kind preferred to strangers. J416
• Enjoyment preferred to wealth. J484
• Death preferred above God and Justice. J486
• Little men preferred to big men. Preacher prefers small men because the intellect has difficulty in reaching to one's heels. J493
• Choice: death and revenge preferred to life. J494
• "Better a live confessor than a dead martyr." So answers a preacher when asked whether he preferred to stay at home and confess his flock or go to war against the infidels. J1261.9
• Small jug preferred. Man asks that large jug be filled with wine. Is told to go to the river. Is accommodated when he presents small jug. (Cf. L251.) J1317
• Younger and preferred brother substituted by mother for elder to deceive father. K1855
• Nurse exchanges children so that the preferred child will be assured of wealth. K1923.1
• Ugly preferred to pretty sister. L145
• Accustomed rags preferred to new garments. A Brahmin returns home to find a palace instead of a cottage; he recognizes his wife only after she throws off her jewels and ornaments to stand before him in her old rags. L217
• Modest choice: parting gift. Small gift with blessing preferred to large gift with parent's curse. L222
• Earl's name preferred to king's. P50.1.1
• Natural son preferred to legitimate. P233.4
• Refusal to receive preferred help until series of stories has been told. P331
• Girl mistakenly elopes with the wrong lover. The preferred suitor overtakes them, finds them asleep and waits for them to awaken. He himself falls asleep and when he wakes they have gone. T92.4
• Older warrior preferred as suitor. T92.13
• Real mother preferred to foster mothers. Kid abandoned by his mother suckles the whole flock but is not satisfied. T675