58 motifs match “trouble”  ·  back to the chapters

• Beginnings of trouble for man. A1330
• Mankind's escape from trouble. A1348
• Merry horn and angry horn for summoning buffalo. When all is well hero is to blow on merry-horn; when in trouble on angry-horn. B501.1.1
• Troubles escape when forbidden casket is opened. See references to C321 (Tabu: looking into box). C915.1
• Barley plant droops if prince is in trouble. (Cf. D965.15.) D1310.4.3
• Magic water cures stomach trouble. (Cf. D1242.1.) D1502.11
• Magic trouble-making. (Cf. K2130.) D2097
• Ghost writes on wall the answers to problems of person in trouble. E557.1
• Life token: troubled liquid. (Cf. D1242.) E761.6
• Life token: troubled water. E761.6.1
• Troublesome bonga (fairy) pegged to ground and placed under stone. F386.3
• Playful or troublesome fairies. F399.4
• Dwarfs seek human help in their fights and troubles. F451.5.23
• Malicious or troublesome actions of brownies. F482.5.5
• Household spirit herds sheep, has great trouble coralling the lambs (rabbits). (Cf. J1757.) F488.1
• Turtle's war-party. Turtle recruits war-party of strange objects (knife, brush, awl, etc.) and animals. Because of their nature the companions get into trouble. F1025.2
• Hero kills trouble-making evil strong men. G512.0.1
• Enigmatic counsels of a father. Taken literally bring trouble, but when properly interpreted are valuable. H588
• Task: having a shirt made by a woman free from trouble and worry. H1195
• Quest for trouble. H1376.5
• Test of friendship: the half-friend. A man kills a hog and tells his friends that he has killed a man and asks where he can hide the body. All of them drive him away and only his father's half-friend remains true to him in his feigned trouble. H1558.1
• Choice: small injustice permitted rather than to cause troubles of state. J221
• King overlooks wife's unfaithfulness rather than to cause troubles of state. J221.1
• King chooses small inconvenience of personal troubles to great troubles for his kingdom. He suffers to help realm. J221.2
• In spite of master's advice disciple stays in country where everything has cheap price. Gets into trouble. J342.1.1
• Man called a rogue by a nobleman makes a joke of the insult. He thus avoids trouble. J817.1
• Scorned suitor consoles himself by realization that a wife who did not love him would be constant source of trouble. J877
• Preacher teaches beaten Genoese the strength of unity. They are like donkeys – when one is beaten the rest scatter. The enemy are like pigs – stick together in trouble. J1021.2
• Preciousness of untroubled sleep. J1081
• As you surely will. After her husband's death a woman cannot find a hammer and anvil. She goes to a dying neighbor and says, "If you die, as you surely will, and go to Heaven, as you surely will not, ask my husband where he left the hammer and anvil." The dying man's wife replies, "If you go to Heaven, as you surely will, if you die as you surely will not, do not run around and get into trouble, but sit down by the Eternal Father and observe and keep still." J1481
• Hunter mistakes louse on his eyelash for game. He shoots several times before he notices the trouble. J1759.2
• Distress over imagined troubles of unborn child. (Clever Else.) Girl sent to cellar to get wine to serve the suitor begins weeping over the troubles of the child which she might have if she married the suitor. Her parents join her. Meanwhile the suitor leaves. J2063
• The trusted porters. A man finds a treasure, but is robbed by porters whom he has employed to rid him of the trouble of carrying it. J2092
• Good timber given for useless because wife says they will have only sickness and trouble. J2093.4
• The cat to guard the cheese. A farmer troubled with mice eating his cheese places a cat in the tub with the cheese. She eats the mice and the cheese. J2103.1
• Man saves trouble by milking cow directly into his mouth. J2173.8
• "If you had hanged me you would have really been in trouble." (Similar to J2185.) J2185.1
• Carpe diem. An abbot is planning to build a palace. The fool: "Why go to all that trouble? Just enjoy yourself with wine, women, and song." J2197
• Foolish boasts get man into trouble. Man boasts to boss that his brother can do twice the work he does. The boss hires him. The two brothers tell him their father can do as much work in a day as the boys can do in a week. The boss fires them, tells them to send their father to work for him. (Cf. H915, H916, N455.4.) J2353.1
• "Don't eat too greedily." Fool starves himself at table. Later hunts food in house and gets into trouble. J2541
• Alleged healing letter sold. Woman sold a letter to wear around her neck which will prevent eye trouble. It helps only so long as she believes in it. K115.1
• Woman makes trouble between man and wife: the hair from his beard. She tells the wife to increase her husband's love by cutting a hair from his beard. Also tells the husband that his wife will try to cut his throat. He kills his wife. K1085
• Woman makes trouble between man and wife (to lick husband's body). K1085.1
• Woman makes trouble between man and wife: to keep certain rendezvous. K1085.2
• Cock's advice proves disastrous to himself. He causes the ox and the ass to rebel but the master learns the cause of the trouble and kills him. K1633
• Peasant as priest preaches on the troubles of laymen. K1961.1.1
• Trouble-makers. K2130
• False message of love carried to hero and maiden by troublemaker. K2132
• Servant lays skin of dead dog in the bed of his mistress and master. Makes trouble between them. K2134
• The complaint about bad breath: trouble for the king's favorite. A steward advises the courtier to hold his head away when serving the king, since the king objects to his bad breath. He then tells the king that the courtier holds his head back to avoid the king's bad breath. K2135
• Officers praised in reverse from their real merit: trouble for them and their master. K2136
• Trouble-maker in night-lodging. Comes riding a wolf and asks for hospitality. Wolf kills sheep. Beehive in bed. Bees sting family and cause father to kill son. K2138
• Prophecy: eternal peace in an early death or long troublesome life. (Cf. M369.7.) M365
• Train of troubles from lost horseshoe nail. Master tries to go on in spite of the loss. N258
• Train of troubles from sparrow's vengeance. A man runs over the dog, friend of the sparrow. Through the sparrow's vengeance the man loses his horse, his property, and finally his life. N261
• Train of troubles for seven brothers for having destroyed bird's nest. N261.1
• Impossible to refuse the request of a troubled nobleman. P95
• Prayer at saint's flagstone averts trouble. V52.7