36 motifs match “secure”  ·  back to the chapters

• Wedding of eagle and kite. Kite promises to secure ostrich as attendant. Fails and is put to shame. B282.2.1
• Magic object received through particular intermediaries. Only one person can help secure it. D827
• Dead grateful for having corpse ransomed. Corpse is being held unburied because of nonpayment of debts. Hero pays debt and secures burial of corpse. E341.1
• Journey to otherworld to secure bride. F87
• Man secure from devil on horse. G303.16.19.1
• Question (on quest): How can ants secure longer life? (Answer: by doing without wings.) H1292.11
• Confession of debt secured by having defendant dispute as to whether cat was present when debt was made. J1141.1.11
• The penny baked in the wafer. A peasant always puts a bad penny into the offering. The priest has a penny baked in a wafer and gives it to the peasant at communion. The peasant, unable to swallow it, thinks that he is possessed of the devil. The priest asks whether he has ever done wrong with a penny, secures confession and a pledge of reform. J1582.1
• The one word petition. A guardian of monks in need of food approaches the prince The prince is busy and says that he will permit the guardian but a single word. The guardian says, "Soup", and secures all the food he wants from the prince. J1618
• Helpful animal amuses princess with tricks and secures key to treasury. K341.18
• Deposit money secured by false order to banker's wife. When banker refuses to redeliver deposit the owner presents false tokens to wife. K362.6
• [First Edition (Additions and Corrections): K374. Grave robbing to secure obols in mouth of death.] K374[1st ed.]
• Attention secured by trickery. K477
• Audience secured with the pope by rudeness. A woman bribes a man to get her an audience with the pope. By turning his back to the sacrament and saying that the woman had instructed him to do so, he brings it about that she is summoned into the presence. K477.1
• Deception into listening to speaker. He secures the audience's attention by beginning a tale. He then launches into his speech. K477.2
• Woman secures man's spear (arrow), lures him with it into her hut. K1399.4
• Disguise as deformed men to secure entertainment. K1818.4
• False tidings of another's death in order to secure his bride. K1864.1
• True bride takes house near husband. Thus eventually secures his attention. K1911.3.2
• Alchemist secures payment for his "secret". K1966.2
• Brother (sister) secures blessing due to another. K1988
• Man tricked to be one's sworn brother in order to secure his help against his mother. K2384
• Servant makes pact with devil denying Christ to secure nobleman's daughter. M217.1
• Covenant of friendship: to secure brides for each other. M246.3
• Gold found, concealed in bricks and successfully secured. N518
• Giant's help secured by feeding him. N812.0.1
• Daughter promised to monster as bride to secure flower (bird) she has asked for. S228
• Person sacrificed to water spirit to secure water supply. S263.3
• Human sacrifice to water serpent to secure tribal prosperity. S263.3.1
• Parents become servants to secure funds for wedding. T132.2
• Consummation of marriage postponed until revelation by dream of future of family has been secured. T165.1
• Father by trickery secures priest's advice to marry his own daughter. If a man raise a lamb, shall he eat it himself or let another eat it? T411.1.1
• Man worships devil's image in order to secure advancement. V55
• Money tied on corpse thrown overboard from ship in order to secure burial. V64
• Fasting to secure a prosperous journey. V73.4
• Self-torture to secure holiness. V464