26 motifs match “undertake”  ·  back to the chapters

• Mountebank undertakes to bring the city's incurables back to health. Effects marvelous cures. F958
• Tasks voluntarily undertaken. H945
• Quests voluntarily undertaken. H1220
• Quest to undertake feats of valor. H1223
• Quest undertaken before hero will marry. H1227
• Quest undertaken by hero for vengeance. H1228
• Quest undertaken by hero to avenge his king. H1228.1
• Quests voluntarily undertaken – miscellaneous. H1229
• Quest undertaken by hero to fulfill promises. H1229.1
• "Do not undertake to be an arbitrator without being asked": counsel proved wise by experience. J21.45
• Monk discouraged by large amount of work to be done persuaded to undertake but a small amount each day. The small task will be done; the large one will merely discourage. J557.1
• Consider difficulties of course you are about to undertake. J751
• Sticking to the rules. Merchant at inn deprives monk of fowl. "It's against the rules of your order." Later the monk undertakes to help merchant across stream. In the middle of the stream he asks the merchant if he has any money. "Yes." The monk drops him in the water. "It's against the rules of our order to have any money on us." J1638
• A man undertakes to do his wife's work. All goes wrong. J2431
• "Stick fast to everything you undertake." Foolish son seizes an ass by tail and gets kicked. J2489.9
• "Foresee the possible event." Asked to call a doctor when his master falls ill, fool also calls the undertaker. J2516.9
• Master thief. Man undertakes to steal various closely guarded things. Succeeds by cleverness. K301
• Ten (five) year respite given captive while he undertakes to teach elephant (ass) to speak. Captive explains to friends that in that time the captor, the elephant (ass), or himself is likely to die. K551.11
• Educated chickens tell of woman's adultery. A trickster undertakes to teach a woman's chickens to talk. When he reports that they are saying that she has slept with the priest, she pays him off. K1271.1.3
• Friar undertakes to awaken girl. He follows her mother's order according to his own interpretation. K1354.3.1
• Earl killed in combat with man he has undertaken to kill. K1626.1
• Man undertakes to cure fat abbot of stomach ailment. Starves him until he admits he can eat anything. K1955.1.1
• Trickster undertakes impossible bargains and collects his part. Trusts that in the year he is given either he or the other will die. M291
• Wife undertakes man's penances for him: also to go to heaven for him? He has a dream and when he sees that she also goes to heaven for him he decides against the bargain. M292
• Lots cast to determine who shall undertake adventure. N126.1
• Roman undertakes to kill Hannibal. Kills another by mistake. Burns off his hand for having failed. P711.5