38 motifs match “therefore”  ·  back to the chapters

• Lonely creator. The creator is tired of solitude and therefore inaugurates the creation. A73
• New creation shouted away. It is unstable and therefore unsatisfactory. A636
• Moon has wooden weapons, therefore vulnerable. A759.1
• Insects from devil's post-hole. Devil is given enough land to dig a post-hole. From this come all kinds of insects. To stop them a burning log is put in the hole. Insects therefore hate smoke. A2004
• Tortoise hurled on rock: half falls on land, half in water. Therefore amphibious. A2214.5
• Owl will not betray curate: therefore may live in steeple. (Cf. A2433.4.1.) A2229.3
• Grasshopper builds no house for winter; ant strikes him blind: therefore born blind. (Cf. A2332.6.3.) A2233.4
• Woodpecker transformed from stingy woman: therefore stingy. A2261.4
• Animal persuaded to amputate limb: therefore lacks it. (Cf. A2371.2.10, A2377.1.) A2284.1
• Coyote persuaded to break leg: therefore has thin right leg. (Cf. A2371.2.6.) A2284.5
• Ash-tree late at distribution of qualities at creation: therefore buds last. (Cf. A2771.1.) A2725.1
• Ghost steals collar of priest. Evil therefore befalls priest. E593.1
• Giantess daughter of giant and abducted maiden (therefore helps hero). F531.5.7.1.2
• Wolf eats the devil; therefore, devil no longer lives in the world. G303.17.3.3
• Maiden (to king): The house has neither eyes nor ears. (No child at window nor dog in yard to announce king's approach: he therefore finds her not dressed to receive him.) H583.8
• Quest assigned because of feigned illness. Lion's milk (or the like) said to be necessary as cure; hero therefore sent on dangerous quest. H1212
• Don't set a hungry guard over food. Parrot set to guard figs eats his fill. When replaced he calls attention to the fact that he is now full and therefore safer than another hungry parrot. J215.1.1
• The smaller the evil the better. Therefore choose the smallest woman possible for a bride. J229.10
• Impossibility of pleasing everyone. One must act therefore without awaiting everyone's approval. J1041
• Weather to please one only. Attempt to please everyone with weather unavailing. Weather given therefore without regard to men's desires. J1041.1
• Man does not court ugly woman: she might say yes. Therefore he keeps silent. J1074.2
• Pound of flesh. (Fleischpfand.) Literal pleading frees man from pound of flesh contract. Contract does not give the right to shed blood. Impossible, therefore, to carry out. J1161.2
• Abbess has twenty-four nuns for twelve monks: twelve nuns therefore for the guests. J1264.9
• Daydreamer has lost his chance for profit. He has broken his master's pots while dreaming of future profits. He has therefore lost more than the master and excuses himself of blame. J1493
• Deduction: the king is a bastard. After dinner the king begins to dance. He is therefore called illegitimate. His mother acknowledges an intrigue with a dancer. J1661.1.2
• Deduction: bread made by a sick woman. It falls apart; therefore it was kneaded by a weak person. J1661.1.3
• Fish thought to be chewed sugar-cane. Numskulls therefore throw away their fish. J1761.4
• Living toad or beetles thought to be lost food and therefore eaten by numskulls. J1761.7
• Excrements thought to be meat and therefore eaten. J1772.9
• Nobody can move it. Foolish soldier at guard by cannon therefore quits. J1849.4
• Carrying load up hill to roll it down. Fools carry log (millstone) down hill. They realize that they might have rolled it down. They therefore carry it back up hill to roll it down. J2165
• The polluted clothes. A Brahmin washes clothes to purify them. As they hang to dry, a dog walks under them and the Brahmin fears that they are polluted. By putting himself on all-fours like a dog and fastening a leaf like a dog's tail he experiments and decides that the dog must have touched the clothes. He therefore destroys them instead of rewashing them. J2184
• Human milk as best diet (for baby). Fool therefore will take nothing but milk from his wife and starves the baby. J2214.4
• His wife has become a widow. Numskull buys cloth used only by widows and is therefore convinced. J2301.2
• "God is everywhere." Fool therefore trusts that he is in angry elephant. J2499.5
• Old wife provokes sparrow to speak and therefore drop new wife whom he is carrying in his beak. K929.10
• "No argument good without a witness." Lawyer's client therefore refuses payment of fee. K1655.1
• Hermit leaving his cell to become robber falls and breaks his neck. He has seen a penitent robber's soul borne to heaven and resolves therefore to be a robber. Q226.1