83 motifs match “quarrel”  ·  back to the chapters

• Gods and the demons quarrel over supremacy. A106.0.1
• Mortal as umpire of quarrel between gods. A187.2
• Twin culture heroes quarrel before birth. (Cf. A515.1.1.) A511.1.2.1
• Sun and moon quarrel when sun eats up all their children but two. A736.1.4.1
• Eclipses from quarrels between moon and sun. A737.7
• Quarrel between earth and waters. A917
• Origin of thefts and quarrels. A1341.3
• Origin of quarrelling. A1342
• Why some married people quarrel and accuse each other of infidelity. A1375.1
• Origin of quarrels. A1599.11
• Animals created while god Mahadeo quarrels with his wife. A1758
• Animal characteristics: as a result of quarrel. A2258
• Enmity between animals from original quarrel. (Cf. A2494.1.1, A2494.1.3, A2494.2.3.) A2281
• Quarrel of dog and cat about which was higher caste. A2281.1.2
• Present habitat of animals result of ancient quarrel. (Cf. A2433.3.3, A2433.3.4, A2433.3.21, A2433.6.1.) A2282
• Why tigers do not kill women who run away after quarreling with their husbands. A2499.1
• Quarrels introduced among animals. A2575
• Tabu: king settling quarrel among thralls. C563.4
• Men sent on mission prohibited from fishing and quarreling. C833.9
• Quarrel of dead and living causes removal of dead to own land. E481.0.2
• People who leave lower jaws at home when they go to market to prevent quarrels. F513.3
• Princess brought to laughter by indecent show made in quarrel with old woman at well. H341.3.1
• The gray and the black hairs: enemies reconciled. Duke summons two inveterate enemies. Has them tear out one of his hairs, one a gray, the other a black. Both pain him equally. He shows how their quarrels hurt him. They are reconciled. J83
• King refuses to quarrel with bird. J411.9.1
• Association of tiger and crane. They soon quarrel. J428
• Tail and head of serpent quarrel as to usefulness. J461.1.1
• Noblemen who quarreled over a device. Wiser of the two shows foolishness of such a fight. J552.1
• Helmet left for woman to quarrel with. Woman insists upon quarreling with a nobleman. He says, "If you wish to quarrel, I shall leave my helmet here. You can talk to it." J552.4
• Brothers compose quarrel and save umpire's fee. J552.5
• Paramour who insists on quarreling with mistress about escape caught by her husband. He finds the escape different from that which had been described to him. J581.2
• Monk's enemies quarrel and thus save him. Robber who wants to steal monk's cow and devil who wants to steal his soul quarrel as to which shall begin first; they thus awaken him and the neighbors. J581.3
• Kites and crows quarrel over division of wounded fox. Meantime fox escapes. J581.5
• Wise man before entering a quarrel considers how it will end. J611
• Sheep-dogs stop quarreling to hunt wolf who has raided the flock. J624.2
• The quarreling sons and the bundle of twigs. Peasant puts twigs together and cannot break them. Separately they are easily broken. His sons apply the lesson. J1021
• Quails caught in net rise up in a body with net and escape. As soon as they quarrel they are caught. J1024
• United cocks defeat partridge. When they quarrel they are defeated. J1025
• Cranes fighting as allies defeat all enemies. If they quarrel they are doomed. J1025.1
• Guests strike man who tries to interfere in their quarrel. It is their host in old clothes. Guests are humiliated but forgiven. J1072.1
• Silence points to guilt. Important man quarrels with commoner. Asks bystanders: "Who is right?" Silence. Newcomer states that the important man is wrong. "Had he been right the others would have said so." J1141.8
• Series of wise judgments settles quarrels of village. J1170.1
• The ring to be cut in two and divided between quarreling persons: real owner laments the waste of the gold. J1171.1.1
• The flute makes more noise. A man overcomes his quarrelsome wife by playing the flute as long as she is scolding. J1541.2
• Numskulls quarrel over a greeting. Three men greeted by a stranger. Quarrel as to whom he greeted. "I greeted the biggest fool among you." A contest is held in which tales are told to decide which is the biggest fool. J1712
• Sickness ascribed to quarreling wines. A man has drunk so much of various wines that he is sick. He says to the wines, "Have peace among yourselves and don't quarrel or I'll throw you out the window." J1891.1
• Quarrel and fight over details of air-castles. J2060.1
• Which way the sheep shall return. One man plans to buy sheep; another says that he shall not drive them across the bridge. They quarrel over the sheep, which have not yet been acquired. A third numskull to convince them of their foolishness pours all his meal out in the water so as to show them the empty sack. "How much meal is in the sack?" he asks. "None." "There is just that much wit in your heads." J2062.1
• Man kills self to make quarrelsome wife a widow. J2106
• Quarreling heirs destroy the entire property involved. J2129.2
• Foolish interference in quarrel of the strong fatal to the weak. J2143
• Sparrow intervenes in quarrel between elephants: crushed to death. J2143.1
• Why the sow was muddy. A magpie is punished by his master, who throws him into a mud puddle. The magpie sees a muddy sow. He says, "You also must have had a quarrel with your master." J2211.2
• The stolen bedcover. A man hears a noise outside the house at night. He wraps a bed cover about him and goes to investigate. The robbers take the bed cover and flee. The wife asks what the debate was about. "About the bed cover. When they got it, the quarrel was over." J2672
• Profitable league made with both parties to a quarrel. K253
• Trickster quarrels with owner of goods, feigns death, and frightens owner away. K335.0.3
• Thief as umpire in contest. Three men are quarreling over the possession of a rescued girl. The umpire will give her to the one who soonest returns with the arrow he shoots. While they run, he takes the girl. K342
• Murder by feigned quarrel. Peacemaker killed. K929.6
• Blind men duped into fighting: money to be divided. Trickster says that he is giving one of them money to be divided with the others. Gives it to none. They quarrel and fight. (Cf. K1883.6.) K1081.1
• Undesignated present starts quarrel for its possession. K1083
• Unjust official outwitted by peasant who quarrels with him and thus turns the attention of the ruler to the abuses. K1657
• Invisible man eats bread and boy and girl quarrel. Each thinks other had eaten bread. K1883.6
• Desiring woman they quarrel over, man accuses group of men of having abducted his wife. K2127.1
• Quarreling prince and princess vow that if they are married he will desert her on the wedding day and she will make him eat boiled rice and thin broth for six months. It so happens. M149.4
• The devil makes the herdsman's son a priest in return for a whistle. After quarreling with the devil, who asked to repair the whistle during Mass, the priest forgets all he learned and does not know how to hold Mass. Is beaten. M216.2
• Murder will out: murderers quarrel under influence of drink and reveal crime. N271.11
• Quarrel over dog starts the Guelph-Ghibelline feud. N387.1
• The triple tax. A poet is given by the king the right to demand a coin of the first hunchback he meets, from the first man of a certain name, and from the first man of a certain city. He sees a hunchback and demands the coin. A quarrel arises in which it appears that the hunchback also has the required name and residence. With each revelation the poet demands a new coin. N635
• Quarrelsomeness punished. (Cf. Q551.7.3.) Q306
• Magic paralysis as punishment for quarrelsomeness. (Cf. Q306.) Q551.7.3
• Joint rescuers quarrel over rescued princess. R111.7
• Escape from ship while captors quarrel. R216
• Thief overhears and oversees quarrel of two jealous wives. Arraigned before judge, he asks any punishment be given him rather than that of having two wives. T251.1.6
• The quarrelsome wife or husband. T256
• Quarrel between husband and wife explained by their having been previously a tiger and a dog. T256.0.1
• Quarrelsome wife conquered by silent husband. T256.1
• Medicine against quarrelling: the wife must take one dose and keep it in her mouth for ten minutes as soon as her husband is angry. T256.2
• Quarrelsome wife reproved by a good whipping. T256.3
• Girl prays to Virgin to spare her virginity. Two soldiers quarrel over possessing her. Captain slays her, thus "saving" her. T321.4
• Twins quarrel before birth in mother's womb. T575.1.3
• Ruler generously settles quarrel between loser and finder of money. W11.6
• Ruler is too lazy to stop quarrels. They lead to his death. W111.5.7
• Thieves quarrel over booty: owner comes. (Cf. J2136.5.2.) W151.8
• Misunderstanding and quarrels in family of deaf. X113