47 motifs match “sale”  ·  back to the chapters

• Protean sale: man sells youth in successive transformations. D612
• Supernatural beauty of Jerusalem's inhabitants. F575.2.2
• Bill of sale written on man's sandal. F1015.3
• Jerusalem suspended in air. F1083.0.1.3
• The sacrament for sale. Sick woman calls the parson but recovers meanwhile He insists on her taking the sacrament and charges for it. "Set it here on the table; perhaps I can sell it again." J1261.2.1
• Like Christ on Palm Sunday. Bishop has parson to dinner in the seat of honor. The parson fears that the dinner precedes punishment. Parson: "Don't let me be like Christ on Palm Sunday in Jerusalem" J1265.1
• Gift or sale to animal (or object). J1850
• Man avenges self on animals by wholesale slaughter. J1866
• Man avenges brother's death by wholesale slaughter of wild pigs. J1866.1
• Air-castles: pail of milk to be sold. Old woman thinks about the horse she is finally to get from the sale. In her imagination she spurs it and spills the milk. J2061.2.1
• One-third for the price of one-fourth. In the grain sale the fool sells a third of a cask for the price of a fourth, thinking that he is cheating the buyer. J2083.1
• The considerate seller. A numskull having an over-short turban for sale at auction warns the prospective buyer that it is too short. J2088
• Sale of pseudo-magic objects. K110
• Sale of pseudo-magic cake tree. K112.3
• Sale of alleged oracular bamboo cup. K114.4
• Sale of tree with alleged magic fruit. K118
• Sale of tree alleged to produce clothes. K118.1
• Sale of other pseudo-magic objects. K119
• Sale of reputed self-operating sickle. K119.1.2
• Sale of false treasure. K120
• Sale of gilded mudcakes. K122
• Sale of gilded (plated) ware as gold or silver. K123
• Sale of worthless animals. K130
• Deceptive horse-sale. K134
• Horse which will not go over trees. Salesman tells buyer that he is selling the horse because it eats too much and will not climb trees. On the way home the horse bites everyone and refuses to cross a bridge. Seller is literally correct. K134.1
• Sale of dog supposed to excrete sweet dung: dupe deceived. K135.1.3
• Sale of dead buffalo by making him seem alive. K136
• Sale of other worthless objects. K140
• Sale of a sausage filled with blood. K141
• Sale of worthless glass as diamond. K142
• Sale of dung. K143
• Sale of worthless objects – miscellaneous. K149
• Sale of worthless services. K150
• Deceptive sale of another as slave. K252.1
• Egg as reward of appropriate saying. First brother (knocking egg against wall): "Casca cascorum." Second (breaking shell and sprinkling dirt over it): "Sar, sale, sapiensa". Third (eating egg): "Consumatus es." K444.1
• Paramour disguised as cloth merchant is surprised by the husband. He asks the woman to be paid for a pretended sale. K1517.9
• Prophecy: wholesale slaughter to be inflicted by colossal wheel rolling over Europe. M341.2.20
• Prophecy: death in Jerusalem. Man dies in Jerusalem Chamber. M341.3.1
• Signs before destruction of Jerusalem. M369.5.1
• Numskull bribed to keep silent in elephant sale when he manifests interest, though utterly ignorant. N613
• Punishment for wholesale massacre of tribe. Q211.11
• Sale into slavery as punishment. Q437
• Reasons for promise (sale) of child. S220
• Price of object depends on where it is on sale. U84
• Pilgrimage to Jerusalem. V535
• Parson rides ox into church. He wants to show how Christ rode into Jerusalem. Sexton sticks ox with needle. X414
• Lie: salesman guarantees sow to bear male, then female, then kid. X1233.4.1