37 motifs match “proves”  ·  back to the chapters

• Unwelcome bird (insect) proves to be messenger. B291.0.2
• Dead brother reproves sister's pride. E226.1
• Devil marries old maid who proves to be a termagant and a miser. G303.12.3
• Magic manifestation at execution proves innocence. H215
• Of three friends the least loved proves true in emergency. H1558.1.1
• Solomon proves to his mother the inferiority of woman's wisdom. J80.1.1
• Pomegranate and apple tree dispute as to which is worth most. Blackberry reproves them for useless jangling. J466.1
• Palamides, having injured Ulysses, seeks advice from him. Following the advice proves fatal. J646.1
• King improves kingdom before leaving it to his sons. He leaves it smaller but much stronger and richer. J701.2
• Clever pleading: youth in court for calling king a fool, proves truth of statement because king allowed self to be duped by alchemist. J1162.4
• "Do as I say and not as I do." Doctor forbids patient to drink wine. When patient reproves doctor for drinking wine the latter says: "Just now it is bad for you and good for me." J1433
• Things on highway belong to the public. Man reproves another for picking his cherries that overhang the highway. He is told that things on the public highway belong to no one in particular. He invites the man to climb the tree for better cherries, drives off with his horse and buggy, giving the same answer about things in the public highway. J1511.14
• Scholar given third egg. A scholar, showing his skill in logic, proves that two chickens (or eggs) on the table are really three. His father (or host) takes one chicken for himself, gives the other to the mother, tells son that he can have the third one. J1539.2
• Punishment which proves fatal to captor. K582
• Cut-off finger proves wife's chastity. A chaste wife substitutes a maidservant for seducer. A finger and ring are cut off as proof of wife's unfaithfulness (chastity wager with husband). Refuted by husband, who knows they are not his wife's. K1512.1
• Husband proves intrigue by secretly blacking paramour's mouth. When he returns, his wife's face is black. K1564
• Cock's advice proves disastrous to himself. He causes the ox and the ass to rebel but the master learns the cause of the trouble and kills him. K1633
• Swindlers allowed to hide money: proves to be basket of stones. K1675
• Hero proves himself a cannibal by trick vomit-exchange. K1721
• Penniless hero. Loved by a courtesan, he proves later to be a great man. L123.1
• Modest choice: three caskets type. Objects from which choice is to be made are hidden in caskets (or the like). The worst looking casket proves to be the best choice. L211
• Choice among several gifts. The worst horse, armor, or the like proves best. L212
• Modest choice proves good (simple unique privilege). Girl offered reward of five villages chooses rather to be only one on certain night to be allowed to have light in her house and to keep all animals who enter as hers. All kinds of livestock come. L212.4
• Poor game proves rich. L216
• Hanging in game or jest accidentally proves fatal. N334.2
• Sham execution proves fatal. Jester condemned to die on block. Pail of water used instead of axe. He dies. N384.7
• Supernatural godfather. A king chooses as the godfather of his son the first man he meets. The godfather proves to be supernatural. N811
• Father in vision reproves son about to succumb to temptation. P233.10
• Faithful old dog threatened with death proves his worth and is spared. Q151.4
• Woman's naiveté proves her fidelity. Man is rebuked for having bad breath. He reproves his wife for never having told him. "I thought that men liked it as I did." He realizes that his wife has not known any other man. T221
• The audacious water and the continent husband. A woman with a continent husband (lover) splashes water on her thighs as she crosses a stream and then reproves it for being bolder than her husband. She thus calls attention to her situation. T315.2.1
• Wife reproves continent husband by showing conduct of cock and hens. T315.2.2
• Wife proves her faithfulness. Had substituted for husband's mistress. Proves legitimacy of her child by producing tokens and by child's missing toe (like her husband's four-toed foot). T318
• Virgin Mary reproves a monk who sleeps at altar. V5.1
• Fast improves health. V73.2
• Robbers who enter saint's garden to steal are caused to spade it up for him. This proves him to be saint. V222.16
• Miser is rebuked by friend. "You get no benefit from your wealth." Proves his folly. W153.10