54 motifs match “price”  ·  back to the chapters

• Fairy leaves goats as purchase price for girl he has carried off. F343.8
• Town where everything is sold at one price. F769.1
• Large price exacted for curing ogre after wounding him. G682
• Disciple who stays in a city where everything is sold at one price finds justice is not even there. (Cf. F769.1.) J21.52.1
• Wisdom from books bought at great price. (Sibylline). Nine books first offered at certain price. Finally after this is refused and the owner throws six of them into the fire, the king pays the same price for three of them. Finds them filled with wisdom. J166.1
• In spite of master's advice disciple stays in country where everything has cheap price. Gets into trouble. J342.1.1
• The king and the cheap slippers. Steward buys the king a pair of slippers. King thinks not enough has been paid for them and refuses them. Steward buys another like the first and charges a good price. Learns that this is the way to deal with kings. J829.1
• Warrior having lost a city claims that he did not wish to sell it for a higher price. J875
• The short blanket must be patched. Weaver makes blanket shorter than ordered. Weaver ordered to add a piece to the blanket and then to receive full price. J1179.3
• Clever thief may keep booty. He has seen his victim in a disgraceful position and is allowed the booty as a price for his silence. J1211.2
• Price of consecration. Bishop is paid 100 ova (eggs) instead of 100 oves (sheep) for consecrating man as priest. To bishop's protests the man answers, "You should have refused to consecrate me. If I had been worthy I should not have had to promise oves or ova." J1263.2.1
• The cost price recovered. A man takes a shirt to market for a friend who has stolen it. At market it is stolen from the seller. He tells his friend that the market was bad and that he was able to get back only the cost price (nothing). J1397
• Overheard conversation: "Mustard has advanced in price." Thieves steal mustard and leave all else. J1517.1
• Half price for half a shave. A man asks to be shaved at half price. The barber shaves one side. He must pay the other half for the rest of the shave. J1522.1
• The fish in the sleeve. A particularly obnoxious man delays others while he haggles over prices with a butcher. Meanwhile a parson takes the three fish the man has laid down and puts them into his large sleeves. The man is angry and searches in vain for them. The parson then shows them and advises him not to let people cheat him. J1604
• Numskulls buy things in common: each pays full price. J2037
• Numskulls buy church in common: each pays full price. J2037.1
• Three brothers buy cow for common use; each brother pays the farmer full price. J2037.2
• One-third for the price of one-fourth. In the grain sale the fool sells a third of a cask for the price of a fourth, thinking that he is cheating the buyer. J2083.1
• Two for the price of one. The fool sells two fox-skins pulled into each other. J2083.2
• Ten for the price of nine. A fool buys nine eggs and sells ten for the same price. He says that business is improving. J2083.4
• The foolish pawn. The woman sells cows and gets one of them back as a pledge for the unpaid purchase price. J2086
• Getting rid of the cat. In a land in which cats are not known, one is bought at a great price. It eats many mice. By misunderstanding, they think the cat is a monster. In order to get rid of it they set the house on fire. J2101
• One fewer to pay for. A man carries blind men over a stream at a certain price per head. One falls down and drowns. He comforts the others that there is one fewer to pay for. J2566
• Deceptive bargain: as much bread as he wants to eat. The baker fixes his price at the rate for twenty loaves. The trickster eats thirty. K173
• Small niche in house brings large price. House sold reserving niche. This becomes such a nuisance that buyer pays heavily for it. K182.1
• Exorbitant price demanded and received. K255
• The price of a lump of gold. A trickster asks a goldsmith what he would pay for a lump of gold of a certain size. Believing that the man has such a lump, the goldsmith pays him a large sum. K261
• The price of mink skins. Man asks peddler what he pays for mink skins. Peddler says he will pay ten dollars. The man tosses a skin into the cart, receives ten dollars. The next day the peddler protests that the man has sold him a cat skin. The man says that he had not said that the skin was a mink skin and that, anyway, the cat's name had been "Mink." K261.1
• Reduced prices but false weights. K286
• Sheep thief pretends to buy wethers from the ram, names the price himself. Owner overhears, takes the ram to the thief to collect. K439.5
• Trickster exacts promise of marriage as price of silence after having seen a princess naked. K443.6
• Trickster exacts money as price of silence after lying with princess (queen). K443.6.2
• Contraband gold discovered when king offers large price for gold. K447
• Owner bids on his own goods at auction. Rival buyer pays extravagant price. K465
• To get out of thieves' clutch, man reports high prices in another town. K576
• Trickster's false report of high prices causes dupe to destroy his property. K941
• Cows killed for their hides when large price is reported by trickster. K941.1
• Wives killed when large price for his mother's (wife's) corpse is reported by trickster. K941.1.1
• Dupe burns house because trickster reports high price paid for ashes. K941.2
• After seducing priest's wife, peasant demands earrings as price of silence. He thus avenges himself on priest who has cheated peasant's wife of her earrings. K1582.1
• 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
• God finds that his statue sells at low price. He prices it in a statue shop and finds that his price is lower than other gods. L417
• Price set on one's head. M208
• Sandalwood merchant sells his product at high price in land lacking sandalwood. N411.5
• King's example makes merchant wealthy. The king buys shoes for a high price and then has all his dinner guests buy them. N415
• Sultan's daughter demanded by giant ogre as price for letting his subjects alone. S222.4
• Rich girl gives poor suitor necklace with which to pay her bride-price. T52.6
• Every man has his price. U66
• Every woman has her price. U66.1
• Price of object depends on where it is on sale. U84
• Miser is given rope to hang himself. Miser annoys merchant so much over the price of a rope that the latter gives it to him provided he will hang himself as he plans to do. W153.7.1
• Man extorts large price for betel leaf from addict. W193.1
• Lie: land where all things are sold for the same price. X1503.3