49 motifs match “substitutes”  ·  back to the chapters

• Creation of white horse. Man takes skin of horse and substitutes a white bedspread. A1881.1
• Substitutes for tabu expressions. C490.1
• Transformation: wife to mistress. Transformed wife substitutes for husband's mistress. D659.7
• Ghost substitutes for bride on her wedding journey. E363.1.1
• Gold pieces in the honey-pot. Woman leaves honey-pot with neighbor to guard. It has gold below the honey. Neighbor steals the gold and substitutes honey. Theft proved by gold pieces sticking to sides of pot. (Cf. J1192.2.) J1176.3
• King substitutes for condemned man when he is told that whoever is executed that day is destined to become king in his next birth. J1189.3
• Substitute for the corpse. Fool loses his mother's corpse on way to funeral. Mistakes old woman for mother and substitutes her. J1959.2
• How did the cow get on the pole? A fool hides his purse on a pole on a cliff. A rascal substitutes cow-dung for the money. The fool is interested only in how the cow could have reached the purse. J2382
• The eye-juggler. A trickster sees a man throwing his eyes into the air and replacing them. He also receives this power but he must not use the power beyond a specified number of times. When he does so, he loses his eyes. He usually gets animal eyes as substitutes. J2423
• Relative substitutes in contest. K3.1
• Young knight substitutes for old man in tournament. K3.2
• Woman substitutes for husband in combat. K3.3
• Hero to eat iron grains. Substitutes soft food. K63.1
• Deceptive eating contest: relative helpers. Trickster wins with the aid of substitutes. (Cf. K82.2.) K81.2
• Compassionate executioner: substituted heart. A servant charged with killing the hero (heroine) substitutes an animal, whose heart he takes to his master as proof of the execution. K512.2
• Bride substitutes wooden picture while she herself escapes sleeping groom. K525.1.2
• In order to save child from death, maid substitutes block dressed to resemble it. Enemy strikes block. K525.1.3
• Escape by substituting self for another condemned to die. Holy man substitutes self for deacon held by heathen. K528.2
• Dupe persuaded to take prisoner's place in a sack: killed. The bag is to be thrown into the sea. The trickster keeps shouting that he does not want to go to heaven (or marry the princess); the dupe gladly substitutes for him. (Cf. K714.2.1.) K842
• Raja substitutes himself for condemned man. Made to believe that this will take him to heaven. K842.4
• Wife (mistress) substitutes for mistress (wife). The woman has been asked for a rendezvous. She tells the suitor's wife and they exchange places. K1223.3
• Chaste woman substitutes corpse for herself in the bed of an insistent suitor. K1223.4
• Letter delivered to wrong man. He substitutes for the lover. K1317.2.2
• Man caught running by guards has to tell his destination. One of the guards substitutes for him with his sweetheart. K1317.4
• Woman substitutes for her daughter in the dark. K1317.5
• Woman drugs sister and substitutes for her with lover. K1317.6.1
• Cut-off finger proves wife's chastity. A chaste wife substitutes a maidservant for seducer. A finger and ring are cut off as proof of wife's unfaithfulness (chastity wager with husband). Refuted by husband, who knows they are not his wife's. K1512.1
• The animal in the chest. The husband has locked the surprised paramour in a chest while he fetches his family as witness of his wife's unfaithfulness. She frees the lover, substitutes an animal, and discountenances the husband. (Cf. K1542, K1555, K1566, K1574.) K1515
• Wife takes servant's place and discovers husband's adultery. The husband says that he is going into a state of meditation with a cloth over his face. He substitutes a servant and goes to his mistress. The wife finds the deceit and takes the servant's place. On his return the husband tells the supposed servant of his adultery. K1585
• Wife substitutes for princess, who has been jailed with husband. Before judge says: "What harm is there in a man being with his own wife?" K1814.2
• The Virgin Mary substitutes for a mortal. K1841
• Virgin substitutes in tournament. A knight hears masses so long that he absents himself from a tournament. The Virgin takes his place. K1841.2
• Virgin Mary substitutes for woman whom husband has pledged to the devil. Devil flees. K1841.3
• Wife substitutes for her sodomist husband. K1843.2.4
• Wife substitutes an old woman for herself in her husband's bed. K1843.3
• Deception by substitution: wife substitutes calf for beggar whom drunken husband wants to catch and abuse. K1846
• Person substitutes for human sacrifice. K1853.2
• Hero substitutes for princess as gift to monster. Kills him. K1853.2.1
• Prince substitutes peasant girl for the king's daughter he has got for his father but with whom he himself has fallen in love. K1911.1.9
• Woman substitutes child for her own and sells it. Exchanges sleeping places. K1922
• Barren woman pretends to bear child. Substitutes another woman's child. K1923.3
• Midwife takes child and substitutes it for king's stillborn child. K1923.5
• Matron of Ephesus. (Vidua.) A woman mourns night and day by her husband's grave. A knight guarding a hanged man is about to lose his life because of the corpse he has stolen from the gallows. The matron offers him her love and substitutes her husband's corpse on the gallows so that the knight can escape. K2213.1
• Blood bath causes woman to be carried off by bird. A pregnant woman demands a bath of blood: husband substitutes a bath of red dye. A Garuda bird attracted by the dye carries her off. N335.2
• Husband substitutes leaky vessel so that his wife and paramour are drowned. (Cf. Q241.) Q466.1
• Baker, disguised as old woman, substitutes for princess in cell when he brings bread to her. R83
• "Poisoned" woman revives. Husband tries to poison wife. Student substitutes sleeping potion for poison, takes her from the tomb. When she revives he claims her as his own. T37.0.1
• Disappointed lover buys poison for girl. Druggist substitutes sleeping potion. Girl revives and is reconciled. T93.4
• Devil substitutes himself for new-born child. T684