182 motifs match “sham” — showing the first 100; narrow the words for the rest  ·  back to the chapters

• Sun hides face in shame: eclipse. A737.8.1
• Origin of shame for nakedness. A1383
• Shame for nakedness appears to first woman. (Leaves for clothes). A1383.1
• Origin of medicine: shaman sent down by the Creator equipped with it. A1438.1
• The various children of Eve. Eve has so many children that she is ashamed when God pays her a visit. She hides some of them and they fail to receive the blessing that God gives those in sight. Thus arises the differences in classes and peoples. A1650.1
• Origin of priesthood (shamanism, etc.) A1654
• Squirrel borrows coney's tail. When coney's tail is not returned, he goes in shame to live among rocks. (Cf. A2378.1.5, A2433.3.5.) A2241.7
• Why the hedgehog draws himself up: shame at sight of a good man. A2479.4
• Wedding of eagle and kite. Kite promises to secure ostrich as attendant. Fails and is put to shame. B282.2.1
• "Shame and disgrace" threatened for refusing love of forthputting woman. C929.1
• Shaman's wife controls weather. D2140.2
• Death from shame. F1041.1.13
• Girl dies of shame at being seen naked. F1041.1.13.1
• Woman dies of shame at seeing naked man (husband). F1041.1.13.2
• Illness from shame of enemies' scorn. F1041.9.3
• Shame causes smoke to rise from saint's head and sweat to stream from his brow. F1041.23
• Sham-dead person tested by hot lead poured on hand. H248.1
• Sham dead tested by stinging insects down back. H248.2
• Sham dead tested by pricking. H248.3
• Sham dead detected by batting eyes. H248.5
• Enigmatic statements of a sham mad man (Hamlet). H599.2
• What is the greatest? A sense of shame. H659.7.2
• Riddle: what is most shameful? H659.12
• What is most shameful? Cowardice. H659.12.1
• "Do not visit your friends often": counsel proved wise by experience. At last the man is treated shamefully. J21.9
• Men shamed for their cowardice by woman standing naked before them. (Usually connected with Jus Primae Noctis [T161]). J87
• Monk shames accuser by telling parable. Wind, Water, and Modesty (Sense of Shame). The first two give their addresses but the third says she has no address as no one wants her. J91
• Peasant ashamed of being thrown off by ass. Shameful to be thrown by such a creature. J411.4
• Leopard ashamed of having been bitten by lizard. J411.10
• Ant and lazy cricket (grasshopper). Lazy bird is put to shame by thrift of industrious bird. In winter he is in distress. J711.1
• Wife reforms wayward husband. Makes gift to husband's mistress so that she may receive him fittingly. Husband is shamed into reforming. J1112.1
• The drunken officer's stolen mantle. Thief confronted by the officer tells all the circumstances of the drunkenness (with many shameful additions). The officer denies the ownership. J1211.2.1
• The church his wife. Priest accused of being too intimate with parishioners' wives says that the church is his wife and that the men treat her far more shamefully than he treats any woman. J1264.1
• The eunuch's defense. Reproached with his mutilation, the eunuch says that his ill fortune is no shame. The only shame is to merit what you suffer. J1471
• Inhospitable host punished for hospitality. An abbot has his innkeeper treat his guests with the most shameful neglect. A guest retaliates by telling the abbot that he has been very sumptuously entertained. The innkeeper is discharged. J1561.2
• A box connection. Man refused hospitality tells rich man he is a relative. Asked for the "connection," he tells him there is a box connection. Rich man not understanding, man explains his cart is made of box wood and is tied to a rich man's box tree. Rich man, ashamed, entertains him with all due respect. J1561.6
• A sham fight to frighten away the guests. J1563.7
• Sham revenant. A man takes refuge from robbers in an open grave. Robbers see him and ask what he is doing. "It is my grave. I went out to get a breath of air." J2311.3
• Sham-dead man punished. A numskull lies in an old grave to see the Day of Judgment. He hears bells and thinks that the Last Day has come. He is beaten by mule-drivers when he tells them that he is a dead man. He returns home and tells his wife that he returns from the dead. "How goes it in heaven?" "For one thing, avoid mule-drivers." J2311.6
• Foolish imitation of sham death and return (= resuscitation). J2411.1.1
• Girl marries man so she will not be ashamed undressed in his presence. J2521.3
• Servant injures master while shampooing him. Gives him a slap and breaks his skin. J2665.2
• Race won by deception: sham-sick trickster. The trickster feigns lameness and receives a handicap in the race. He then returns and eats up the food which is the prize. K11.5
• Sham dead man brought in sack by confederate. Is killed by his intended victim. K311.1.1
• Robbers frightened from goods by sham-dead man. K335.1.2.2
• Thief shams death and steals. K341.2
• Thief shams sickness and steals. K341.2.2
• Animal shams death and is sold. Returns to master. K366.1.3.1
• Thief shams illness as alibi. K411.1
• Sham blood and brains. Fox covers his head with milk and says that his brains have been knocked out. Frightens bear. K473
• Money received to bury sham-dead person. K482
• Trickster shams sickness so that partner does all the work. K495
• Death escaped through disguise, shamming, or substitution. K520
• One animal escapes by shamming as another (jackal as goat). K521.7
• Escape by shamming death. K522
• Escape by shamming death: blood and brains. The trickster covers himself with paint (or the like) so that he will be thought to have bled to death (or with milk so that it will be thought that his brains have been knocked out). K522.1
• Ogre carries sham-dead man. "He smells already." K522.2
• Escape by shammed burial. K522.5
• Escape by shammed drowning; wrecked boat or coffin lands. K522.6
• Sham murder: trickster attacked by angry mother causes her to spear ox guts and believe she has murdered him. K522.7
• Escape by shammed hanging. K522.8
• Escape by shamming illness. K523
• Escape by shamming madness. (Cf. K523.0.1.) K523.1
• Escape by shamming leprosy. K523.2
• Sham calling to helpers frightens robbers away. K548.3
• Sham-dead man deceived into making gesture. Obeys suggestion as to how dead man should act and betrays himself. K607.3
• Sham-dead tiger betrayed by his live penis. K607.3.1
• Sham-dead deceived into moving by absurd action. K607.3.2
• Confederate saves fugitive by shammed pursuit. K649.8
• Sham doctor kills his patients. K824
• Sham doctor kills ogre (giant). K824.1
• Fox shams death and catches crows that come to feed on him. K827.4
• Sham death to wound enemies. Trickster lets himself be buried alive and stabs his enemies from the grave when they come to defile his body. K911.1
• Sham dead king jumps up and kills the nearest slave. K911.4
• Sham nurse kills enemy's children. K931
• Deceptive agreement to kill wives (children). Trickster shams the murder; dupe kills his. K944
• Jackal puts head in anus of sham-dead camel: caught and punished. K1036.1.1
• Wolf (lion) as sham doctor looks at horse's foot: kicked in face. K1121.1
• Wife takes lover beneath tree where she has told husband to hide. When he begins to kiss her, husband shouts "Keep a little for me." Lover, shamefaced, runs away. K1218.10
• Lover's anger softened by sham suicide attempt. Is later scorned. K1232.1
• Wife surprises husband in adultery and shames him into giving her all she desires. K1271.3.1
• Girl persuaded to sit on certain plant: seduced. Man as sham doctor tells her how to heal her burnt groins. K1315.2.1
• Seduction by sham process of retrieving lost gem. K1315.2.2
• Seduction by sham process of repairing vagina. K1315.2.3
• Seduction by posing as magician. (Sham incantation, etc.) K1315.3
• Seduction by asking for sham cure for sham illness. K1326.1
• Seduction by sham beauty test. Trickster dupes two girls into submitting to test. Both seduced. K1339.4
• Adulteress gives paramour tryst in house of ill-fame. Meets husband who leaves in shame. K1514.13
• Trickster as sham magician makes adulteress produce hidden food for her husband. K1571.1
• Trickster as sham magician buys chest containing hidden paramour. (Cf. K1515, K1542, K1555, K1556.) K1574
• Sham magician has paramour fall in a trap. Has trained bird to cling to him. K1574.1
• Sham dumb man wins suit. The trickster meets a man in a narrow place in the road and calls out to him to make room. The man refuses and the trickster turns over the cart. In court the trickster plays dumb. The plaintiff says, "He is not dumb; he called out to me several times to get out of the way." Damages are assessed against the plaintiff for negligence. K1656
• Sham threat: "In earnest or in jest?" A man asks another who has brushed against him: "Did you do that in earnest or in jest?" – "In earnest." – "I am glad, for I don't like that kind of jesting." K1771.1
• Sham threat: either ... or. "Either you give me the road or I (will give it to you, or the like)." K1771.2
• Sham threat: something he has never done before. Beggar says, "If you do not give me alms I shall have to do something I have never done before." The alms are given and he is asked what he would have had to do. "Work." K1771.3
• Sham threat: the faked duel. Two who had challenged each other agree to hold a sham duel. K1771.4
• Sham threat: if I were not a philosopher I should break your head for you. K1771.5
• Girl's sham threat in order to evade husband till lover returns. K1771.6
• Sham threat of war holds ships back so that there suddenly are enough men to man defending ship. K1771.7
• Sham dream prophesying shipwreck makes people leave ship so that there is room enough for man who wants to go. K1771.8