54 motifs match “provide”  ·  back to the chapters

• Deity provides man with soul. A185.12
• Gods provide drinkable water. (Cf. A941.) A1429.3.2
• Creation of bee to provide wax for candles in church. (Cf. B259.4.) A2012.1
• Animals nourish men. Provide food, shelter, or other necessities. B530
• Animals provide food for men. B531
• Animals provide shelter. B538
• Animal husband provides characteristic animal food. B600.2
• Magic mantle provides treasure. (Cf. D1053.) D1455.1
• Magic ornament provides treasure. D1456
• Magic ring provides money. (Cf. D1076.) D1456.2
• Magic jewel provides wealth. (Cf. D1071.) D1456.3
• Magic building provides treasure. D1457
• Magic castle (palace) provides treasure. (Cf. D1131, F771.) D1457.1
• Worshipped sex organ of horse provides money, etc. (Cf. D1029.4.) D1469.5
• Magic object as provider. D1470
• Magic wishing ivory tusk. When struck on ground (only once) provides treasure. D1470.1.37
• Moon provides by magic. D1470.1.49
• Stone provides food. (Cf. D931.) D1472.1.2
• Magic pebble provides food. (Cf. D930.) D1472.1.2.3
• Body of tortoise provides food. (Cf. D1010.) D1472.1.24.4
• Magic fiddle provides food. (Cf. D1233.) D1472.1.32
• Magic finger provides food. (Cf. D996.1.) D1472.1.34.1
• Magic rod provides water. (Cf. D1254.2.) D1472.2.10
• Rubbing charm provides garments. (Cf. D1273.) D1473.2
• Magic object provides light. (Cf. D1162.) D1478
• Magic object provides fire. D1481.2
• Magic object provides wood. D1488
• Rock beaten by sword provides water. (Cf. D930.) D1549.5.1
• Magic diamond provides ingress to subterranean palace. (Cf. D1071.) D1557.3
• Magic object provides beautiful bride for hero. D1595
• Provisions provided in answer to prayer. D2105.1
• Provisions provided by messenger from heaven. D2105.2
• Horse and weapons needed by hero are provided after incense is offered to Nandia, the Bull. D2107.1
• Ghosts punish failure to provide for their wants. Haunt man because he does not leave food and drink for them. E245
• Dead provide material aid to living. E363.5
• Ghost demands a body and soul before it will agree to be laid. Monk provides cock and sole of shoe. E459.1
• Angel in form of young man shows skeptical hermit that ways of providence are inscrutable. J225.0.3
• In time of plenty provide for want. J711
• Improvident mouse eats grain stored for famine. Loss is discovered and grain placed elsewhere. Mouse, who has saved nothing, starves. J711.2
• King for a year provides for future. Knowing that the custom is that he is to be deposed in a year, he sends provisions to a safe place out of the kingdom. J711.3
• Fool waits for God to provide. Nearly starves. J2215.4
• The bungling host. A trickster (animal) visits various animals who display their peculiar powers in obtaining food (often magic). He returns the invitation and tries to provide food in similar ways. He fails and usually has a narrow escape from death. (Cf. J2411.3.) J2425
• Equal share in the bed. Wishing to prove their equality twelve fools sleep on the ground and put their feet on the one bed provided for the chief. J2526
• Cheater is forced to eat excrements. Gentleman agrees to exchange his good horse for the peasant's jade, provided the peasant will eat its excrements. The peasant finds no difficulty in the task, whereas the gentleman, put to the same condition when he wants to get back his horse, finds it impossible. K198
• God grants man twenty years more of life provided he plays no tricks. K551.22.2
• The Lord above will provide. A youth and maid come under tree. "Who shall provide for our child?" "He above (God) will take care of it." The man in the tree: "I will do nothing of the kind!" K1271.5
• Prophecy of preeminence to descendants of man provided they do the will of saint to be born. M310.1.1.1
• Couches provided for men of high rank. P632.1
• Man promises more to church than he can possibly provide: punished. Q266.1
• Escape by intervention of Providence. (Cf. F942.1.) R341
• Child sacrificed to provide blood for cure of friend. (Cf. S260.1.4.) S268
• Intervention of Providence saves person's life. (Cf. R341.) V540
• 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
• Owner provides cow with green goggles, feeds her sawdust or snow. X1235.3