37 motifs match “shame”  ·  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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Girl marries man so she will not be ashamed undressed in his presence. J2521.3
• 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
• Wife surprises husband in adultery and shames him into giving her all she desires. K1271.3.1
• Adulteress gives paramour tryst in house of ill-fame. Meets husband who leaves in shame. K1514.13
• The nun who saw the world (Sister Beatrice). The Virgin takes the place of the nun in the nunnery while the latter is living a life of shame. K1841.1
• Adulteress pretends shame before male statue (mirror, male fish). K2051.1
• Wife puts out one of her eyes to show sympathy with her husband. He has lost an eye in a tournament and is ashamed to return to her. She shows that it makes no difference in her love. T215.4
• Queen mother shames cowardly son and companions. "In truth, gentlemen, you do well in weeping; for since you didn't fight like men to defend your land, it is suitable that now you weep like women on leaving it." W121.4
• False pride. Son ashamed of his peasant father who brings him money. Father disinherits him. (Cf. Q331.) W165