25 motifs match “rascal”  ·  back to the chapters

• Cheater discovered by fishing in the street. Man arouses the curiosity of the rascal who has swindled his wife. J1149.2
• Throw at a rich man. Philosopher gives a penny to a man who throws stones at him but advises him that it will be wiser to throw at one who can afford to give more. The advice is followed and the rascal is arrested and hanged. J1602
• Diving for reflected fruit. Meantime rascal steals the fruit itself. J1791.11
• Thief punishes the escaped ox. An ox strays on the rascal's land but escapes from him. The next week he sees the ox yoked up and gives him a beating. The master is astonished. The rascal: "Let me alone; he knows well enough what he has done." J1861
• King orders houses built to keep howling jackals warm in winter. Rascal misappropriates funds. J1873.4
• Man thinks that he has diabetes. Rascals have sewed his trouser leg till it is too tight. J2317.1
• Husband praises wife's fidelity. Rascal tests it and finds it lacking. J2342.4
• How did the cow get on the pole? A fool hides his purse on a pole on a cliff. A rascal substitutes cow-dung for the money. The fool is interested only in how the cow could have reached the purse. J2382
• Father tells son that he has been scratched by "hairy rascals" (monkeys). Son attacks hairy ascetics. J2484
• A ribbon long enough to reach from ear to ear. The rascal has had an ear cut off and this is in a distant city. K195
• Animal's cry imitated to distract owner's attention from his goods. Meantime rascal steals an animal. K341.7
• Bread dropped in mud; messenger returns for more. A youth poses as a rich man's servant and gets a sack of bread from a baker. The baker boy is to go along and collect. The rascal drops two loaves in the mud and sends the boy back for fresh ones. Meantime he runs off with the rest of the bread. K343.1.1
• Companion sent away so that rascal may steal common food supply. K343.3
• "Owner has refused to accept it." A rascal steals a priest's watch. He tells the priest that he has stolen a watch and offers it to him as a payment for a past favor. The priest refuses to accept stolen goods. Commands the thief to return the watch to the owner. "But the owner has refused to accept it." "Then you may keep it." K373
• The goose without a leg. Accused of eating the goose's leg, the thief maintains that it had no leg, and cleverly enforces his point by showing geese standing on one leg. (Usually the master confounds the rascal by frightening the geese so that they use both legs) K402.1
• Rascal extorts money for silence about companion's poverty. K443.10
• Rascal extorts money for silence about breach of food tabu. K443.13
• The heller thrown into others' money. A rascal sees robbers dividing their booty. He puts a red string through his only coin (a heller) and slips it into the others' money. He claims the money as his and says that he has marked it with a heller having a red string through it. The robbers divide. K446
• Concealed confederate as unjust witness. A rascal who has hidden with a simple man a treasure found by them carries it away secretly, trying to have his associate condemned on the witness of a tree in which his father is concealed. K451.3
• Rascals pull off judge's breeches and leave him exposed. K1285
• Tearing up the orchard (vineyard). Rascal has been told to cut wood. K1416
• Husband duped into doing penance while rascal enjoys the wife. K1514.2
• Rascal in dead man's place in bed makes dead man's will. K1854.1
• Rascal pretends to be dead man's heir and receives money. K1938
• Parson smears his hand with butter. Rascals have spread butter on the altarbread. The parson preaches, "What is the life of man?" and therewith brings his hand down on the altar-bread: "Pure butter!" X417