68 motifs match “property”  ·  back to the chapters

• Original fire property of one person (animal). A1415.0.2
• Origin of the potlatch. A feast of the Indians of the Northwest Coast of America in which large amounts of property are given away to the guests. These feasts must be returned. A1535.1
• Origin of laws: division of property in a family. A1585
• Origin of combustible property of wood. A2782
• Parrot and sparrow argue right to inherit property left by man. Sparrow says his interests are the same as man's; parrot says that he caused all man's wealth, since man sold his feathers. People's decision for parrot. B271.1
• Transformation to destroy enemy's property. D651.3
• Wizard tells location of stolen property. D1817.0.1.2
• Wizard compels thief to return stolen property. D1817.0.1.3
• Wizard compels thief to deliver stolen property in person to the owner. D1817.0.1.3.1
• Magic used against property. D2080
• Magic used against property – miscellaneous. D2089
• Ghost slaps face of son who cheated him out of property. A cancer grows on son's face. E234.1
• Return from dead to demand stolen property. E236
• Mortal confiscates property of dwarfs. F451.5.10.7
• Dwarf promises money and property to mortal father for hand of daughter. F451.5.18.1
• Brownie restores stolen property, gives thief a twitch in eyelid. F482.5.4.2
• Clerics and property cast safely on shore when enemies attempt their drowning. F1088.3.1
• Witch abuses property. G265
• Satan causes storm to destroy property of man he tempts. G303.9.4.0.1
• An all-red, all-black, or all-white calf the property of the devil. G303.10.9
• Recognition by ability to identify property. H19.1
• Riddle propounded on pain of loss of property. H541.2
• One traveler to another (as they see corpse borne by): He is not entirely dead. (Has left good property.) H586.5
• In dividing property clever younger brother takes hind part of buffalo, upper part of tree, and use of curtain during night. J242.8
• Own name inscribed on a stolen object as sign of property. [Inadvertant duplication of K448.] J1162.3
• The one exception. "You are a good man; there is not your equal on the earth. You have everything for yourself alone; only your wife is public property." J1355
• The man in place of a watch-dog. The master orders his serf to watch the manor at night in place of the dog. When the thieves come, the serf barks: "Dress, dress .... They take, take .... They lead, lead .... " The master does not understand the barking and pays no heed to it – is robbed of his property. J1511.12
• Husband and wife separate and divide property. Man keeps the house, gives the wife the road. J1541.4
• "I don't understand." Foreigner asks who owns property, clothing, servants; whose wife an attractive woman is; whose funeral is in progress? Answer to each question is "I don't understand," which foreigner takes to be a person's name. (Cf. J1152, J1741, X111.7.) J1802.1
• Quarreling heirs destroy the entire property involved. J2129.2
• Literal numskull destroys inherited property since his sister has instructions not to object to his actions. J2461.1.8
• Man gives up half property. Slave cut in two. J2469.3.1
• Husband to spite wife plays dead. When she tells neighbors that they may come and take dead man's property he gets up. J2511.1.1
• Deceptive bargain: first to say "Good morning." The first to give the greeting shall have the disputed property. The trickster is early on the scene and witnesses the other's adultery. He may keep the property without saying good morning. K176
• Deceptive bargain: the ogre and the copper coins. Every time the copper coin is paid out, the ogre must make a new one. The man buys an extensive property and pays with a large number of copper coins. He threatens to buy another and the ogre goes back on his contract. K183
• Stolen property sold to its owner. K258
• The supposed magic spell. The thief orders the farmer to crawl into a tub and to sit there quietly and not look about, while he makes a magic spell (cure him of childlessness). Meanwhile, he steals all the farmer's property. K341.22
• Thief successfully accuses owner of having stolen property he covets. K401.5
• Trickster's false report of high prices causes dupe to destroy his property. K941
• Casual words uttered by dupe used to cheat him of his property. A miser is persuaded by his servant to fast nine days. He calls out on the fifth day "the half" and on the ninth "the whole". She makes people believe that he is making his will and giving everything to her. It is so ordered. K1155
• Dupe's property destroyed. K1400
• [First Edition: K1490. Dupe's property destroyed – miscellaneous.] K1490[1st ed.]
• Heaven entered by trick: demanding back the charity gift. The trickster demands of Peter an article which he has given in charity. He then sits on it as his own property within the gates. K2371.1.2
• Mild brother triumphs over warlike. Survives him and inherits property. L353
• Rich man made poor to punish pride. He boasts that God has no power to make him poor. While he is at church, his property burns and he returns home poor. L412
• Vow never to pass over demarcation line into other's property. M186
• Prophecy: punishment for misappropriation of property. M368
• Curse given to negate good wish. Odin gives man life three times the normal; Thor ordains that in each he is to commit crime. Odin gives him the choicest weapons; Thor denies him landed property, etc. M416
• Whole kingdom (all property) as wager. N2.5
• Train of troubles from sparrow's vengeance. A man runs over the dog, friend of the sparrow. Through the sparrow's vengeance the man loses his horse, his property, and finally his life. N261
• Accidental loss of property. N350
• Folly of father's giving all property to children before his death. They abandon him. P236.1
• Half of property as reward. Q112.0.2
• Misdeeds concerning property punished. Q270
• Criminal's property destroyed as punishment. Q486
• Destruction of property by thunderbolt as punishment. (Cf. Q595.) Q552.1.0.1
• Destruction of property by fire from heaven as punishment. (Cf. Q595.) Q552.13.2
• Fitting destruction (disappearance) of property as punishment. (Cf. Q552.18, Q595.) Q585
• Man refuses to give to charity: his property disappears. (Cf. Q286, Q595.3.) Q585.1
• Destruction (disappearance) of property got through immoderate request. (Cf. Q338.) Q585.2
• Loss or destruction of property as punishment. (Cf. Q552.1.0.1, Q552.13.2, Q552.14.1, Q585, Q552.18.) Q595
• All man's property offered to rescuer of stolen daughter. R111.0.1
• Why widow does not remarry. (1) Only her property is wanted; (2) her husband is still in her heart; (3) if new husband is bad it will not be well, if he is good there will be the fear that he will die. T291
• Father kills daughter lest she become the property of a tyrant. T314.1
• Woman sells favors for large sum of money (property). T455.6
• A gift of property silences criticism. A priest who has preached against lucrative places given the clergy is silent when he receives one. U21.2
• The clever brothers work, the foolish brother only prays; finally he acquires all the property. V52.12
• Claim of property based on unusual lie. X905.3