45 motifs match “purchase”  ·  back to the chapters

• Sun and moon purchased. A700.6
• Purchase of night. Originally no night. Culture hero goes to distant land and buys it. He introduces sleep, etc. Cock to crow for day. (Cf. B755, J2272.1.) A1174.3
• Helpful animals obtained by purchase or gift. B312
• Helpful animal purchased. B312.4
• Helpful dogs obtained by purchase. B312.4.1
• Magic object purchased. D851.1
• Hero wakened from magic sleep by wife who has purchased place in his bed from false bride. (Cf. D1971.) D1978.4
• Fairy leaves goats as purchase price for girl he has carried off. F343.8
• Cobold purchased. F481.0.1.2
• The purchased cobold discarded. On way home man believes himself cheated, and throws box with fly or piece of charcoal away. Later passing same place he finds a heap of corn or money. F481.0.1.2.1
• Wisdom purchased. J163
• The weighted order-cards. To a man going on a voyage, various people give commissions for purchases, which he writes down on cards. Some give him money; some promise it on his return. On ship he looks the cards over, placing the proper gold on the proper card. A wind blows into the sea those not weighted with gold. J1382.2
• Numskull prepares brother's wedding (father's funeral). On the way home from town he destroys his purchases. (Cf. J1851, J1856, J1871.) J1846
• The foolish pawn. The woman sells cows and gets one of them back as a pledge for the unpaid purchase price. J2086
• Sent back for the rest of the money. A fool finds a treasure and takes some of it to a judge so as to purchase influence. The judge sends him back for the rest. J2662
• Deceptive land purchase. (Dido.) K185
• Deceptive land purchase: ox-hide measure. As much land bought as can be surrounded by an ox-hide. The hide is cut into very small strips. K185.1
• Deceptive land purchase: as much land as Vishnu can lie upon (or can step over in three steps). His worshippers claim for him the whole earth. K185.2
• Deceptive land purchase: boundary fixed by flight of a goose. Subject given as much land as a goose can fly over without lighting. The man carries the goose with its wings extended over an enormous territory. K185.3
• Deceptive land purchase: as much land as a shawl will cover. An immense shawl prepared. K185.4
• Deceptive land purchase: as much land as can be covered by saint's hood. Only by snatching up hood does seller prevent it from covering whole territory. K185.4.1
• Deceptive land purchase: bounds fixed by a race. One man has supernatural speed. K185.5
• Deceptive land purchase: bounds fixed by throwing object (axe, spear). Thrower has extraordinary strength. K185.6
• Deceptive land purchase: as much land as can be surrounded in a certain time. K185.7
• Deceptive land purchase: king, as reward for help in winning battle, promises wounded chieftain as much land as his chariot can travel around; bribes charioteer to turn back whenever chieftain faints from loss of blood. K185.7.3
• Land purchase: as much as can be plowed (fenced) in a certain time. K185.8
• Deceptive land purchase: fields that crackle when burnt are to be his. He puts bamboo on the fields before they are burnt so that they crackle. K185.9
• Deceptive land purchase: as much land as can be shadowed by a tree. Bought just before sunset. K185.10
• Deceptive land purchase: enough to raise certain plant. This is a rapidly spreading weed which overruns the country. K185.11
• Deceptive land purchase: saint's enemy promised as much land as he can see from certain point. Saint causes cloud to obstruct vision. K185.12
• Trickster returns a bottle of water instead of the bottle of rum he has just purchased. K231.6.2.1
• Thief steals pastries while confederate makes a purchase. K341.15.1
• Trickster sells mother's wine to merchant without asking her permission. Mother saves part of wine because purchaser is dilatory in removing casks. K499.1
• Progressive purchase of favors: the anatomical progression. K1361.2
• Lover's gift regained: spending money to purchase lover's worthless goods. K1581.9
• Trickster eats his own dog. Trickster sells dog for mutton or for opossum. He later eats the dog which has been given to a friend of his by the purchaser. K1664
• Purchase of box without knowledge of its contents. N91
• Man having purchased stolen ornament unwittingly presents it to owner as gift; is thrown into jail as thief. N347.4
• Dream of treasure bought. Treasure has been seen by man's soul absent in sleep in form of a fly. The purchaser of the dream finds the treasure. N531.3
• Thief hears owner of house singing "Bore and throw out the earth" and thinks himself detected. Offers owner money to purchase his silence. N611.4
• Two returning brothers unwittingly purchase bird, which is transformed youngest brother, as present intended for him. N733.4
• Bride purchased. T52
• Purchase money instead of bride given to suitor to settle dispute. T52.2
• Bride purchased for her weight in gold. T52.3
• Attempt to purchase wife. T52.5