30 motifs match “stakes”  ·  back to the chapters

• 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
• Man mistakes giant's glove for house. F531.5.2
• 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
• 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
• Thief mistakes leopard for calf (ass). J1758.4
• Stupid husband mistakes tiger-cubs for jungle cats despite wife's judgment. J1758.6
• Hunter mistakes louse on his eyelash for game. He shoots several times before he notices the trouble. J1759.2
• Man mistakes dragon for log, sits on it. (Cf. B11.) J1761.8
• Fool mistakes dung-beetles for fruit: eats them. J1761.11
• Dog mistakes mussel for an egg. Cuts his mouth. J1772.2
• 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
• 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
• Substitute for the corpse. Fool loses his mother's corpse on way to funeral. Mistakes old woman for mother and substitutes her. J1959.2
• 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
• Unjust umpire keeps the stakes when contest cannot be decided. K452.2
• Ape tricked into jumping on to stakes and killing himself. K891.2
• Woman mistakes passer-by for lover. Substitution in the dark. K1317.7
• Blind fiancée betrays self. Mistakes one object for another. K1984.5
• 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
• 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
• Heads on stakes. Punishment by beheading and placing the heads on stakes. Q421.1
• Bodies from which limbs have been cut hung on stakes as punishment. Q461.2
• Heads of slain enemies impaled upon stakes. (Cf. Q421.1.) S139.2.2.1
• Ash (hazel) stakes thrust through bodies of slain warriors. S139.2.2.7
• Nearsighted knight mistakes own servant for one of the enemy. Runs lance into his posterior. X124