39 motifs match “subject”  ·  back to the chapters

• Imperfect god, subject to death and rebirth. A102.18
• Culture hero, when angry, subject to contortions. A526.6
• God of world of the dead demands that men die so he will have subjects. (Cf. A487) A1335.11
• Origin of subject tribes (aithech-thuatha). A1657.1
• Magic object furnishes slaves (subjects). (Cf. D1025.8.) D1476
• Magic egg furnishes slaves (subjects for chief or king, etc.). (Cf. D1470.1.8.) D1476.2
• Dwarfs are subject to laws of nature. F451.3.5
• Amount of blood in spittle as test of complete subjection. Incomplete till all is blood. H252.2
• Task: letting king hear something that neither he nor his subjects have ever heard. (Reads a letter from a foreign king demanding a loan.) H1182
• Obedience of king's subjects tested by willingness to allow spear to be carried crosswise into houses. Way must be hewn. H1557.5
• The three joint depositors may have their money back when all demand it. Money is left by three joint depositors subject to their joint order. It is stolen by one. When the banker is sued he agrees to give up the money when he receives joint order from all three. J1161.1
• Were merely measuring cup. King demands that each subject bring small amount of milk to put in his new cup. They plan to cheat him by bringing him water. Accused, they say that they were merely measuring the cup to see how much it would take to fill it. J1391.7
• Command would become permanent. A ruler receives gifts from his subjects and later demands them as he due. The fool sets the nobleman's bed on fire. When the nobleman commands him to put the fire out he refuses, since he would ever afterward have to be putting out fires. J1521.3
• Ruler refuses hospitality from subject who spends more than he earns. J1566.2
• Breaking the glassware to prevent others from doing so. A king thus removes temptation from his subjects. J2522
• Deceptive land purchase: boundary fixed by flight of a goose. Subject given as much land as a goose can fly over without lighting. The man carries the goose with its wings extended over an enormous territory. K185.3
• Money exacted from watchers who permit chest to be stolen. The chest is said falsely to be full of money and the watchers subject to severe punishment. K443.3.1
• Jackal escapes by telling farmer he is jackal king and will call upon his subjects. K547.4
• King of fishes eats his subjects as they pay him their respects day and night. K815.17
• God punishes David for his pride in the number of his subjects. An angel is sent to kill his people. Desists only when David repents. L415
• Man captured by pirates is maimed, crippled, blinded. He is patient through it all. Finally he is elected ruler by his dead master's subjects. N251.1
• King in disguise to learn secrets of his subjects. N467
• Four duties of king to subjects: devotion, protection of subjects, justice, and increase of his kingdom. P12.6.1
• King goes in disguise at night to observe his subjects. P14.19
• King demands subject's wife for himself. P15.2
• King carries off subject's wife and makes her his own. P15.2.1
• King himself works at brick building so that subjects cannot complain of enforced labor. P15.7
• Subjects drive their ruler away after he has made them do forced labor. P15.8
• Only 700 subjects of under-king required to serve under overlord on any one hosting. P551.8.1
• Deity descends and makes king and wronged subject change places. Q7
• Princes banished as punishment for lewd conduct with female subjects. (Cf. Q243.) Q431.5.3
• Imprisoned king's son released when he promises to be a faithful subject and pay tax. R74.3.1
• Sultan's daughter demanded by giant ogre as price for letting his subjects alone. S222.4
• King covets subject's wife. T91.6.2.0.1
• Jus primae noctis. Overlord claims right of sleeping the first night with subject's wife. T161
• King takes subject's wife while her husband is sent away. T481.5
• Ruler exiles subject for trivial remark. U38
• Bad ruler, bad subject. U210
• Ruler who is jealous of his subjects' happiness prohibits their games. W181.7