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

• Creator rests on tree or stake. A813.3
• Fettered monster vainly loosens his stake. Each time he loosens it, it is driven in the ground. A1074.6
• Cat from transformed eagle. Eagle mistakes stick of wood for fish and gets feet caught. Wind blows off feathers and makes hair. (Cf. A1710.) A1811.1
• Faithful dog killed by overhasty master: thinks mistakenly he has returned home against orders. (Cf. Llewellyn and his dog.) B331.2.2
• Faithful parrot killed by mistake. B331.3
• Helpful animals quench execution fire. Master is to be burned at stake. B526.1
• Disenchantment by driving stake through body. D712.10
• Miraculous rain extinguishes fire used at stake. (Cf. D902.) D1391.1
• Speech magically recovered on execution stake. D2025.1
• Suicide buried with stake through heart (body). (Cf. E442.) E431.16.2
• Ghost laid by piercing grave (corpse) with stake. (Cf. D712.10, E431.16.2.) E442
• Clerics mistaken for fairies. F234.2.4.1
• Spirit overcome by driving stake through body it inhabits. F405.9
• Man mistakes giant's glove for house. F531.5.2
• Stake miraculously bent during night. F1093
• Person flying with witches makes mistake and falls. G242.7
• Mistake of elder leads two brothers to the home of ogre. G401.1
• Demon recognized by corpse it occupies turning to worm when stake is driven through it. H47
• Heads placed on stakes for failure in performance of task. Unsuccessful youths are beheaded and heads exposed. Hero sees them when he sets out to accomplish his task. H901.1
• Dervish who stops work. Sees bird feed its young and decides that God takes care of everyone without work. He is shown his mistake. J702.1
• His proper title. A peasant goes to a judge and thinking to gain his favor addresses him with high titles. The judge calls him a fool. "I was mistaken, you swine!" J1286
• The account-book of mistakes. A king, hearing that a man keeps an account-book of people's mistakes asks to see about his own record. He reads that the king has made a mistake in trusting a certain sum of money to a servant. King: "How if he comes back with it?" "I shall cross off your name and put him down for making a mistake." J1371
• Mistaken identity. A bride slips up behind her husband and kisses him. He is annoyed. She: "Pardon me, I did not know it was you" J1485
• Husband mistaken for lover in bed. Farmer has whiskers shaved off, hair cut short. He gets home late, slips into bed with his wife. She runs her hand over his face, says: "Young man, if you're goin' to do anything, you'd better be agittin' at it, 'cause Old Whiskers'll be here pretty soon." J1485.1
• One animal mistaken for another. J1750
• Tiger (lion, etc.) mistaken for domestic animal. J1758
• Tiger mistaken for goat. Fool trying to steal goat in dark catches thieving tiger. J1758.1
• Tiger mistaken for ass. J1758.3
• Thief mistakes leopard for calf (ass). J1758.4
• Stupid husband mistakes tiger-cubs for jungle cats despite wife's judgment. J1758.6
• Other mistaken animals. J1759
• Hunter mistakes louse on his eyelash for game. He shoots several times before he notices the trouble. J1759.2
• Bull mistaken for horse. J1759.4
• Calf mistaken for colt. J1759.4.1
• Cat's tail mistaken for worm. J1759.5
• Animal or person mistaken for something else. J1760
• Snake mistaken for a whip by a blind man. J1761.6.1
• Man mistakes dragon for log, sits on it. (Cf. B11.) J1761.8
• Bear mistaken for a floating log (blanket). J1761.9
• Fool mistakes dung-beetles for fruit: eats them. J1761.11
• Animals mistaken for messengers. J1762.0.1
• Goose mistaken for a tailor. In a ghost house he is thought to be a tailor who snips the devil with his scissors. J1762.1
• Crab mistaken for tailor. J1762.1.2
• The bear mistaken for a saint. The godless man is cheated and attacks a bear thinking it is a saint, and barely escapes with his life. J1762.2.1
• Bees (wasps) mistaken for Jutlanders, etc. J1762.5
• Lobsters mistaken for Norwegians. J1762.7
• Bear mistaken for a foreigner. The strong man meets a bear in the forest, takes it for a German and struggles with it. Having strangled the bear, fears he has killed a man. J1762.8
• Girl mistaken for stone. J1763.2
• One person mistaken for another. J1766
• Other creatures with mistaken identity. J1769
• Dead mistaken for the living. Man with abhorrence for corpse sleeps with one thinking it alive. (Cf. H1410.) J1769.2.1
• Objects with mistaken identity. J1770
• Potatoes mistaken for "irregular eggs", or "eggs of the earth." J1772.1.2
• Dog mistakes mussel for an egg. Cuts his mouth. J1772.2
• Boot mistaken for an axe-sheath. J1772.11
• Eight-oared ferry-boat mistaken for an animal which must have long legs to wade the stream. J1772.14
• Watch mistaken for the devil's eye. Knocked to pieces. J1781.2
• Cat mistaken for devil. Fool in the dark mistakes cat's eyes for embers. Is attacked by the cat and he thinks it is the devil. J1785.5
• Man mistaken for Famine and Cholera in person. J1786.3
• Priest exorcising demon mistaken for demon and beaten to death. J1786.4
• Shadow mistaken for substance. J1790
• Shadow mistaken for thief: is beaten. J1790.2
• Picture mistaken for original. J1792
• Mask mistaken for face. J1793
• Statue mistaken for living original. (Cf. K1840.) J1794
• Image in mirror mistaken for picture. J1795
• One thing mistaken for another – miscellaneous. J1800
• Similar sounding words mistaken for each other. J1805.1
• Setting sun mistaken for fire. J1806
• Other things with mistaken identities. J1809
• Old woman's sneeze mistaken for gunfire. J1809.1
• Numskull stays till he has finished. As he is making water he hears a brook flowing and mistakes what it is. He waits for a day and a half. J1814
• Trying to swim in the mist. Mistaken for sea. J1821.1
• Substitute for the corpse. Fool loses his mother's corpse on way to funeral. Mistakes old woman for mother and substitutes her. J1959.2
• Gullible husb and made to believe he has cut off his wife's nose. She, in another house, has had her nose cut off by mistake. She makes him believe he has done it by making him angry enough to throw a razor at her. When he throws the razor she claims it has cut off her nose. J2315.2
• Parson made to believe that he will bear a calf. In having his urine examined by a doctor, a cow's is substituted by mistake. (Or he dreams that he has borne a calf.) When a calf comes into the house he thinks that he has borne it. (Cf. J1734.1, K1955.2.) J2321.1
• Fool admits crime but pleads mistakes in the details of the accusation. J2499.3
• To draw out fence stakes and throw them down. Boy throws them into river. J2516.8
• Servant refused payment because of single mistake. K231.9
• Man allows himself to be carried off by monkeys, who mistake him for cow: steals their magic cups. K311.6.2
• Robber mistakenly carries off worthless goods and leaves valuable. K421
• Unjust umpire keeps the stakes when contest cannot be decided. K452.2
• Ape tricked into jumping on to stakes and killing himself. K891.2
• Angry man kills his own horse by mistake. Trickster has shifted the places of his horse and that of the dupe. K942
• King causes his own men to be burned and killed, by mistake or illusion. K947
• Husband's twin brother mistaken by woman for her husband. K1311.1
• Woman mistakes passer-by for lover. Substitution in the dark. K1317.7
• Returning husband beaten by servants. Mistaken for lover whom he has told them to beat. K1514.4
• Son who intends to poison father drinks the poison by mistake. K1613.4
• Travelers mistake brushwood at a distance for a ship. K1886.4
• Blind fiancée betrays self. Mistakes one object for another. K1984.5
• Queen falsely accused of having poisoned husband. Ignorant doctors cannot diagnose king's illness. Queen burned at stake. K2116.1.2
• Fairy mist mistaken for smoke of enemy's burning ships. K2369.9
• Person allowed to win first game so that he will play for higher stakes. K2378.1
• Extraordinary stakes at gambling. N2
• Play for unnamed stakes. N2.0.1
• Stakes not claimed by winner, who insists on another game. N2.0.2
• Own body as stake: to be taken as slave. N2.1
• Criminal in church mistakes words of service as accusation. (Cf. Type 1833.) N275.5
• Woman unwittingly poisons her son. Mistakes poison for medicine. N332.5