47 motifs match “prepare”  ·  back to the chapters

• God prepares food for mortal. A185.7
• Creator prepared earth's nucleus as one would a rice cake. A836
• Gods teach how to seek and prepare food. A1420.2
• A small animal (hare, bitch) gives timely warnings to the hero about the trap prepared by his enemy. Animal warning about trap killed. B335.6
• Charm prepares feast. (Cf. D1273.) D1472.2.4
• Maiden who has been falsely accused apparently dies of sorrow. She revives on being prepared for burial. F1041.1.3.1
• Recognition by unique cookery. Only one person could have prepared the food in this way. H35.2
• Widow prepared for suttee can lift by little finger heavy stone by temple. H479.1
• Give coals orange color, let glimmer of gold appear like expanse of heaven, prepare two heads of darkness. (Request for chickens for breakfast.) H599.6
• Task: making a bull bear a calf. Reductio ad absurdum: have a man prepare for childbirth. (Cf. H952.) H1024.1.1.1
• "Prepare for night camp while it is still day": counsel proved wise by experience. J21.20
• Account of punishments prepared in hell brings about repentance. J172
• Buffalo refuses tiger's invitation to dinner. He sees fire prepared to cook him. J425.2
• King (queen) teaches children to work at all tasks to prepare them for life's possible hazards. J702.2
• Adulteress prepares for old age. Charges a pair of shoes to consort with men. When old she pays with shoes the men who will consort with her. J761.3
• Muddy bath prepared for blemished king. J815.3
• Poor suitor served good supper prepared for rich one. Recites a satirical rhymed grace. J1561.3.1
• Wife prepares the pestle. Tells guests husband uses it against guests. They flee. Tells husband they left because she refused to give them pestle. Husband pursues to give them the pestle, but they run the faster. (Cf. K2137.) J1563.5.1
• Numskull prepares brother's wedding (father's funeral). On the way home from town he destroys his purchases. (Cf. J1851, J1856, J1871.) J1846
• Fool believing in omens refuses to prepare for death. Bird has chirped five times, which he thinks guarantees him five more years to live. J2285.1
• Contest in pushing hole in tree: hole prepared beforehand. Hero and ogre to vie in pushing a hole in a tree with their heads. K61
• Deceptive land purchase: as much land as a shawl will cover. An immense shawl prepared. K185.4
• King promises valuable dog to each of two powerful and mutually hostile tribes. At feast prepared by king the two tribes get into fight and king escapes. K234.1
• Prince to giant: "Don't eat me up, and I'll prepare you a good dinner." K567.1
• Girl tells physician-seducer she cannot meet his wishes until after he bathes. Prepares the bath herself and pours acid into it. K1227.4.1
• Adulteress detected by food she prepares for paramour. K1550.1.2
• Adulteress detected by food she prepares for paramour. K1550.3
• The husband prepares to castrate the crucifix. The artist's wife's paramour poses as a crucifix when caught. When he sees the husband's preparations, he flees naked. K1558
• Trickster discovers adultery: gets food prepared for paramour. K1571.0.1
• Man falls into sacrificial grave prepared for others. Rich man orders poor people to dig a grave in order to bury all in it as sacrifice to avert famine. But a Christian frees them and promises those who become Christian a living. The rich man himself falls in the grave and dies. K1603
• Boiling water meant for cooking hero used for man who has prepared it. K1626.3
• Bluff: told to bring home a tree, hero prepares to bring home six. K1741.1.1
• Bluff: told to bring home an ox, hero prepares to bring home ten. K1741.2.1
• Bluff: told to bring water in an ox skin, hero prepares to dig a canal. K1741.3.1
• Death message softened by equivocations. Various false explanations are given to prepare the hearer. K2313
• Poisoned bath prepared for another accidentally used by hero. N332.1.1
• Destructive elephant eats poison man has prepared for himself. Man rewarded. N627
• Apparently dead woman revives as she is being prepared for burial. Cf. Type 990. N694
• Rooms in heaven are prepared for good man in heaven. The dead miser asks the living man to give him at least one of them. Q172.4.1
• Punishments being prepared in hell. Q561
• Person drinks poison he prepared for another. Q582.8
• Wife prefers to be burned together with husband even though she was forced to marry him and she has helped to prepare the revenge. T211.2.1.1
• Nagging wife drives husband to prepare for suicide. T253.1
• Smallness of offense no excuse when hunter prepares to kill lark. She has stolen but a single grain of wheat. U32
• Virgin Mary supplies mead for unprepared hostess of the king. V262
• Deaf husband orders deaf wife to prepare a certain dish: misunderstanding. X112
• Shoemaker drinks more than his portion of "drink of lies", which has been prepared for all to partake of equally. X242