92 motifs match “tests”  ·  back to the chapters

• Contests among the gods. A163
• Bird characteristics from flying contests. A2254
• [First Edition: A2259. Animal characteristics from miscellaneous contests.] A2259[1st ed.]
• Hero contests with demons, using fighting animals: cock, goat, bull, horse, wild bull, peacock. B524.1.11
• Eagle tests eaglets by having them gaze at sun. B751.3
• Disenchantment produced by hero winning series of contests with seven demons. D785.1
• Extraordinary companions help hero in suitor tests. F601.2
• Strong hero tests weapons. Breaks first swords. F611.3.3
• Hero tests sword by cutting steer in two. F611.3.3.1
• Strong hero tests scythes: they break all. F611.3.3.2
• Witch makes man engage in dangerous contests. G292
• Identity tests. Recognition. Elaborate means are employed in folk-literature for the recognition of persons even though they have been separated a very short time. The various means used are detailed in the following discussion. H0
• Other tests of truth. H240
• Credential tests: proof that messenger comes from certain person. H242
• Other magic object tests truth. H251.3
• Tree tests perjury. H251.3.1
• Chain around neck tests truth. Tightens when wearer speaks falsehood. H251.3.6
• Tests connected with marriage. H300
• Suitor tests. A suitor is put to severe tests by his prospective bride or father-in-law. H310
• Tests for hero, husband of supernatural (divine) wife. H310.1
• Suitor contests: bride offered as prize. H331
• Bride's parents (supernatural) help suitor win in suitor contests. H335.0.1.2
• Other suitor tests. H359
• Fountains as chastity tests. One fountain of clear water, other muddy. H411.11.2
• Tests for true lover. H421
• Tests for true husbands. H422
• Tests for cuckolds. H425
• Chastity tests of holy men and monks. H426
• Wife tests. H460
• Other tests of wife's love or faithfulness. H467
• Husband tests false wife by sleeping on her hair. Had always done so with true bride. H476
• Wife tests – miscellaneous motifs. H479
• Father tests. Test as to who is unknown father of child. H480
• Other marriage tests. H490
• Tests of cleverness or ability: miscellaneous. H509
• Tests of poetic ability. (Cf. H503.) H509.4
• Riddles proposed as tests of poetic ability. H509.4.2
• Tests in guessing. H510
• Riddle contests. H548
• Tests imposed on woman by prospective paramour. H939.2
• Fear test. A person is put to various tests in the attempt to make him show fear. H1400
• Other vigilance tests. H1470
• Tests of endurance. H1500
• Tests of power to survive. Vain attempts to kill hero. H1510
• Contests in endurance. H1540
• Tests of character. H1550
• Tests of generosity. H1552
• Tests of patience. H1553
• Tests of honesty. H1555
• Tests of fidelity. H1556
• Wife tests her husband's fidelity by tempting him in the guise of another woman. H1556.4.2.1
• Old uncle tests nephew's fidelity by sleeping with his beloved. H1556.4.4
• Tests of obedience. H1557
• Pope tests women's disobedience: not to look into box. (Cf. H1554.1.) They do so and are not allowed to hear confession. H1557.4
• King tests gardener's obedience by playing thief. H1557.6
• Tests of friendship. H1558
• Tests of valor. H1561
• Tests of valor: tournament. H1561.1
• Master tests disciple by asking him if he will be willing to plunge with him into the Indus. H1561.10
• Before undertaking rescue, bat tests strength by lifting stone. H1562.2.2
• Tests of gratitude. H1565
• Tests of character – miscellaneous. H1569
• Man tests industry of prospective servant girl. H1569.1.1
• Religious tests. H1573
• Tests of social position. H1574
• Tests for noble blood. H1574.1
• Tests of sight. H1575
• Tests of possession of magic powers. H1576
• Tests of time. H1583
• Tests of space. H1584
• Monotony of restriction to one's favorite food. Counselor refuses to arrange extramarital pleasures for his lord. Ruler feeds him only his favorite food until the counselor protests the monotony. Ruler drives home his point. J81.0.1
• Woman tests enduring power of gossip by having a servant ride through streets on a flayed ass. By the third day he has ceased to attract attention. She concludes that it will be the same way in connection with her intended marriage. J1075.1
• The guilty protests his innocence. Animals put to graze in man's garden. Owner greets everyone with: "I know about you!" No one pays any attention to him except the guilty one who says: "I did not do it." Confesses. (Cf. N275.) J1141.9
• Decisions based on experimental tests. J1176
• Price of consecration. Bishop is paid 100 ova (eggs) instead of 100 oves (sheep) for consecrating man as priest. To bishop's protests the man answers, "You should have refused to consecrate me. If I had been worthy I should not have had to promise oves or ova." J1263.2.1
• Suitor hesitates to marry girl as immature (or too delicate). Girl's father protests, saying that she has had three children. J1279.3
• Beggar claims to be emperor's brother. (All men are descended from Adam.) Emperor gives him small coin. Beggar protests. Emperor: "If all your brothers gave you that much you would be richer than I." J1337
• The ass is not at home. A man wants to borrow an ass. The owner says that the ass is not at home. The ass brays and the borrower protests. "Will you believe an ass and not a graybeard like me?" J1552.1.1
• Husband praises wife's fidelity. Rascal tests it and finds it lacking. J2342.4
• Dream contests. K66
• Contests in other physical accomplishments won by deception. K80
• Deceptive vocal contests. K84
• Other contests won by deception. K90
• The price of mink skins. Man asks peddler what he pays for mink skins. Peddler says he will pay ten dollars. The man tosses a skin into the cart, receives ten dollars. The next day the peddler protests that the man has sold him a cat skin. The man says that he had not said that the skin was a mink skin and that, anyway, the cat's name had been "Mink." K261.1
• Cow makes a hundred-fold return. The trickster has a cow that leads the parson's cows to him. He thus tests the parson's text, "He who gives in God's name shall have it back a hundred-fold." K366.1.1
• Hero tests the rope on which he is to be pulled to upper world. By placing stones on the rope he discovers his companions' treacherous plan to cut the rope. K677
• False bride fails when husband tests her. Uses slipper test, jumping test, or the like. K1911.3.3
• False bride fails when magician tests her. K1911.3.3.2
• King tests saint by having man feign death; saint perceives trick and causes man to be dead. Q591.1.1
• The dish which the husband detests and the wife keeps serving him. He affects to like it and thus gets rid of it. T255.5
• Miracle attests fact that man does not need to confess. He hangs his sack on a sunbeam. V29.3
• Lying contests. X905