26 motifs match “serving”  ·  back to the chapters

• Tree cursed for serving as cross. (Cf. A2751.3.1, A2751.3.2, A2755.2, A2762.1, A2775.) A2721.2.1
• Aspen cursed for serving as cross. (Cf. A2762.1.) A2721.2.1.1
• Poplar cursed for serving as cross. (Cf. A2762.2.) A2721.2.1.2
• Cottonwood cursed for serving as cross. A2721.2.1.3
• Elder cursed for serving as cross. (Cf. A2766.1.) A2721.2.1.4
• Tabu: observing supernatural helper. C311.1.5
• Ten serving-women carried in bottle. They change size at will. D55.2.4
• Disenchantment by serving transformed person. D754
• Self-serving spoon. (Cf. D1177.) D1601.34
• Forgotten fiancée reawakens husband's memory by serving as milkmaid and talking to calf. D2006.1.2
• Seeing and observing of water-spirits has fatal consequences. F420.4.7
• Devil appears to minister's serving man to warn of impending disaster to the house. G303.6.2.6
• Recognition by observing emotional reactions of another to object of common experience. H14
• King descends to bottom of sea in glass barrel to learn wisdom from observing fish. J52.2
• Snake is willing to suffer the indignity of serving frog king as mount because frog king gives him frogs to eat. J352.2
• Very small to be so old. Guest criticizes host's small serving of wine which he said was six years old. J1316
• Stingy innkeeper cured of serving weak beer. She always gives the servants a pitcher of weak beer before meals so as to fill them up. One of them: "I wash out my insides so as to have more room for food." She changes her practice. J1341.7
• Preserving the cock's freedom. A boy recently home from school sees his mother trying to catch the cock. "Don't mother, don't break his freedom or we will suffer for it." J1892
• Small niche in house brings large price. House sold reserving niche. This becomes such a nuisance that buyer pays heavily for it. K182.1
• Serving-man in his master's place. K1317.1
• Master in serving-man's place in woman's bed. (Cf. K1569.7.) K1317.1.1
• Illness feigned to go to mistress. Husband leaves bed to go to serving maid. K1569.3
• The complaint about bad breath: trouble for the king's favorite. A steward advises the courtier to hold his head away when serving the king, since the king objects to his bad breath. He then tells the king that the courtier holds his head back to avoid the king's bad breath. K2135
• Cauldron containing lighted torch brought into enemy's camp ostensibly to be used for serving food: torch uncovered as signal for attack. K2369.8
• Fortune comes to deserving and undeserving. N102
• The dish which the husband detests and the wife keeps serving him. He affects to like it and thus gets rid of it. T255.5