42 motifs match “rebuke”  ·  back to the chapters

• God rebukes mortal. A182.3.2
• Speaking beans rebuke wife for misdeed. (Cf. D983.1.) D1619.1
• Magician rebukes secret usury. D1810.0.2.1
• Ghost of father returns to rebuke child. E327.4
• Dead rich man returns to rebuke his children who have kept the money he promised to the church. E415.2
• Undutiful son rebuked by father. Father tells son not to drag him past the threshold, because he had dragged his own father only up to that point when he had thought of putting him out of his house. J121.2
• Man rebukes servants for telling him of his wife's unfaithfulness. J221.1.2
• Ruler interrupts meeting of Senate to amuse his small son. When rebuked for making him a whistle he says: "I would have blown it for him had he asked me to do so." J553.2
• Intemperance in service. Emperor rebukes overzealous servant as being a nuisance. J554
• Eagle warns shepherds that wolf is eating sheep. Crow rebukes eagle for thus imperiling his own food supply. J715.1
• Judgment as rebuke to unjust plaintiff. J1172
• Rebuke for telling a poor and long-winded story. J1223
• The abbot's luxury and the cardinal's. Cardinal rebukes abbot for living in luxury beyond that of the founder of his order. Abbot asks cardinal if the cardinals of St. Peter traveled in the luxury he does. J1263.4.1
• Multiplying his talents. Priest is entrusted with reforming five dissolute nuns. Gets all five with child. The priest is rebuked for not using his "talents" when tempted. He answers: "God gave me five talents and I have added five more!" (Pun on word talent.) J1264.7
• Show me how it is done. Wronged woman thus addresses ruler, who is indifferent to insults directed at him. She wishes to be shown how to bear insults. This rebukes him. J1284.1
• Officiousness or foolish questions rebuked. J1300
• Officiousness or foolish questions rebuked – miscellaneous. J1309
• Maid rebukes pilgrim for eating too much. "If both of us had been present at the miracle of the loaves and fishes you would have eaten me too!" Pilgrim: "I wouldn't have eaten you but I would have chewed on you a bit!" J1346
• The wine-spilling host rebuked. A host spills his customer's wine so that he must buy more. He consoles the guest with "It is a sign of the great abundance you shall have this year." With the same remark the guest draws the spigot from the host's wine cask. J1511.5
• Impossible demand rebuked. J1512
• Rebuke to the stingy. J1522
• Stingy man rebuked when his children are feasted in his absence. They think he has been responsible and honor him. He reforms. J1522.2
• One absurdity rebukes another. J1530
• Adulteress's absurdity rebuked. J1532
• Ruler's absurdity rebuked. J1536
• Absurdity of entrusting military mission to bishop. Courtier rebukes king by asking that he be given an ecclesiastical post. J1536.1
• One absurdity rebukes another – miscellaneous. J1539
• Luxury of host rebuked. J1566
• Host rebukes negligent servant. J1573
• Guest brings along cakes to eat. Stingy host rebuked. J1575
• Singing snails rebuked. A boy roasts snails and they make noise in cooking. "Wretches, your house burns and yet you sing!" J1885
• Rebuke for going with a naked head in public. The woman rebuked has lost her hair in sickness. Forthwith she covers up her head with her dress and exposes her body. J2521.2
• Husband surprises wife and paramour. Rebukes them for not shutting the door. K1569.2
• Self-righteous monk rebuked by abbot. Abbot tells him to search his own heart to see if he is free of sin before attacking others. L435.1.1
• Young hero rebuked by his father. P233.2
• Sodomist rebuked by youth. Q253.0.2
• 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
• Infant saint rebukes mother's impiety. T585.4
• Hermit having rebuked youth falls himself when exposed to the same sin. U231
• Monk rebukes brethren who succumb to temptation. When he is exposed to it he understands what temptation is. U231.1
• Miser is rebuked by friend. "You get no benefit from your wealth." Proves his folly. W153.10
• Man is rebuked for loquaciousness when he speaks after thirty-seven days. W225.1