63 motifs match “request”  ·  back to the chapters

• Departed deity grants requests to visitors. A575
• Bad women from transformed hog and goose. Peter, having only one daughter, foolishly promises her to three men. He asks the Lord to create two others. This request is granted. The first creature he meets on two successive mornings he is to greet, and they will be transformed. He meets a hog and a goose. His two new daughters have these characteristics. A1371.3
• Animal characteristics: punishment for immoderate request. Dissatisfied animal finds that when his request is granted he is worse off than before. A2232
• Beetle makes immoderate request; ant moderate: inverse awards. Creator hears wishes of animals. Beetle wants strong, noble appearance. Ant is modest. Beetle punished by being made to creep on ground. Ant is given own castle. (Cf. A2441.3.1.) A2232.3
• Lion is freed from net by mouse. Mouse asks that his son marry lion's daughter. Request granted. The mouse is trampled to death by his bride. B363.1
• Tabu: killing king, even at his own request. C563.6
• Tabus concerning requests made in otherworld. C714
• Tabu: making unreasonable requests. Given power of fulfilling all wishes, person oversteps moderation and is punished. C773.1
• Tabu: refusing a request. C871
• Tabu: bearded man refusing request. C871.0.1
• Tabu: turning away from (refusing requests of) poets. C872
• Poet's spell causes ale vessels to burst when request for ale is refused. (Cf. D1275.4.) D1318.12.1.1
• Fallen trees upraised at saint's request. D1602.2.1
• Power of prophecy lost by spitting. When possessor of power on request spits into mouth of man who has taught him, he loses the power. D1812.6.1
• Dwarfs request that cow stable be moved because it is above their home and the seepage strikes their dining table. (Cf. F381.7, F451.4.1.5.) F451.4.4.3
• Fruitless tree bears fruit. Done at saint's request. F971.4
• Fruit produced out of season at saint's request. F971.5.1
• Devil in fold of knight's cloak. (Cf. G303.6.2.12.) Knight permits him to lodge there and accompany him to a tournament on condition that he leave him without harm upon request. G303.8.9.1
• Give coals orange color, let glimmer of gold appear like expanse of heaven, prepare two heads of darkness. (Request for chickens for breakfast.) H599.6
• Solomon, permitted by God to make any request, asks wisdom. Granted wisdom and wealth. J231.1
• To be beaten by deceiver of husband. Lady has her women ready to give a trickster a beating. He is allowed to make one request. The one who has most often deceived her husband shall strike first. J1182.1
• The one to blow the whistle. Many persons request a man on the way to market to buy them a whistle. Finally one hands him a coin with the request. "You are the one who shall blow the whistle." J1382.1
• Priests say dying woman's unfulfilled request for mangoes must be paid in golden mangoes to them. Priests burned with iron since she had asked to be cauterized. J1511.18
• Reinforcement of the request for alms. A clown asks for alms and receives nothing. He then throws pellets made of herbs at the steward, saying that there is great power in words, herbs, and stones: he has tried two of them and plans to try the third. He is given alms. J1581.2
• His last request: a red cap. A man about to be hanged keeps asking for his red cap which he has left in prison. He has no thought of his real peril. J2174.1
• Ogam inscription on shield orders that bearer (who does not know meaning) shall be killed. Poet (who recognizes the meaning) reports to king that inscription means a request for honorable treatment. K511.2
• Escape by false plea. A captive makes a request or proposes an action that permits him eventually to escape. K550
• Wolf is requested by tailor to be measured for suit of clothes; wolf beaten. K551.20
• Wolf is requested by horse to start eating from the rear; kicked to death. K553.4
• Trickster masking as bridegroom tells bride that he comes at her mother's request. K1354.3.2
• Modest request best. L220
• Modest request: present from the journey. Asked what her father shall bring her as a present, the heroine chooses a modest gift. It is usually a flower but sometimes does not turn out to be such a simple gift after all (golden cloak, golden apple). L221
• Bard vows that none of his profession will make a request of any man. M164
• Person who never refuses a request. M223.1
• Dying monster's request and promise. Hero is to drink his blood, suck his eyes and brains, and give his heart to his loved one to eat. He will become marvelously strong and his wife will have three sons and four daughters with great powers. M257
• Dying hero's request and promise to disciples. M257.1
• Murdered person's request and promise. M257.2
• Beggar's curse. Beggar is refused request. "May your bread turn to stones!" M411.2
• Boy accidentally drinks "poison" intended for his stepbrother. Doctor had substituted sleeping potion for the requested poison. N332.4
• The falcon of Sir Federigo. An impoverished suitor has only a falcon to catch birds with. His lady's sick son wants the falcon and she goes to ask for it. The suitor serves dinner for her – his falcon. When she makes her request it is too late. N345
• Impossible to refuse the request of a troubled nobleman. P95
• Son insists on following father's trade. This has been kept secret at request of dying father who was unsuccessful. Son learns from mother. P401
• Release from execution at a woman's request (by marriage to her). P512.1
• Crime less serious if committed at request of a lady. P517
• Kind and unkind. Churlish person disregards requests of old person (animal) and is punished. Courteous person (often youngest brother or sister) complies and is rewarded. Q2
• Moderate request rewarded; immoderate punished. Q3
• Reward for carrying out dead man's request. Q37
• Saint's requests for releasing souls from hell. (Cf. Q20.) Q174.1.1
• Saint requests that on Doomsday he may bring out of hell, for every hair of his chasuble, seven condemned souls. Q174.1.1.1
• Saint requests that any person appealing to him at death shall escape hell. Q174.1.1.4
• Refusal to grant request punished. (Cf. Q499.4.) Q287
• Immoderate request punished. (Cf. Q501.8, Q559.6, Q572.4, Q582.6, Q585.2.) Q338
• Request for immortality punished by transformation into tree. Q338.1
• Satirizing as punishment for refusal to grant request. (Cf. Q287.) Q499.4
• Ceaseless humming (singing) as punishment for immoderate request. (Cf. Q338.) Q501.8
• Poets lose ability to compose verse as punishment for immoderate request. (Cf. Q338.) Q559.6
• Magic sickness as punishment for immoderate request remitted. (Cf. Q338.) Q572.4
• Woman killed by horse got through immoderate request. (Cf. Q338, Q557.) Q582.6
• Destruction (disappearance) of property got through immoderate request. (Cf. Q338.) Q585.2
• Father banishes son at request of fairy wife. (Cf. F302, S322.4.3.) S11.5
• Maidens (women) request hero to exhibit figure. T55.6.1
• Crow exercises rights of strong over dove who cannot defend self. Dove at crow's request sings to save her brood which crow kills after song. U31.2
• Champion grants requested boon of safe convoy to his enemies. W11.5.10