26 motifs match “understood”  ·  back to the chapters

• Dog language understood by fox. B215.2.1
• Woman's question to her husband disguised as woman, how many men she had in one night. This is properly understood as, how many helpers he had, and answered by lifting ten fingers. H582.3
• Princess declares her love through sign language: not understood. H607.3
• Testimony gradually weakened. Witness agrees to the following facts in succession: that the person relating the facts may have been in anger, that he may have misunderstood, that he may not have heard it at all. J1151.3
• Learned words misunderstood by uneducated. J1803
• Doctor's expressions misunderstood. J1803.2
• Conversation by sign language mutually misunderstood. J1804
• Unusual word misunderstood. Strange results. J1805.2
• Physical phenomena misunderstood. J1810
• Animal cries misunderstood. J1811
• Owl's hoot misunderstood by lost simpleton. J1811.1
• Frog's cries misunderstood. J1811.2
• Turkey's gobble misunderstood by man lost in woods. J1811.3
• Other sounds misunderstood. J1812
• Noises fire is making misunderstood. Hunchback springs into it to burn to his death. J1812.4.1
• Snoring sounds misunderstood. (Cf. J1833.) J1812.5
• Cooking processes misunderstood. J1813
• Animal's action misunderstood. J1818
• Physical phenomena misunderstood – miscellaneous. J1819
• Nature of a baby misunderstood. J1911
• Disastrous following of misunderstood instructions. (To burn land, then sow seed. Opposite done.) J2460.1
• Criminal confesses because of misunderstood animal cries. N275.1
• Misunderstood message causes messenger to be killed (accused). N341
• Misunderstood wife banished by husband. She has decorated the house for his homecoming, but he thinks that she is expecting a paramour. S411.1
• Lovers converse in figures of speech not understood by others. T42.2
• Misunderstood words lead to comic results. In some the people are not really deaf but fail to catch a word; in some they are deaf. X111.7