“bargain” — Mythoi

Motifs — first 20 of 95

"We three" – "For gold" – "That is right" devil's bargain. Three brothers have agreed to say only these things. They incriminate themselves. C495.2.1
Magic object acquired through foolish bargain. D837
Immortality gained from bargain with Death. D1851.2
Love-compelling man sickens of bargain. A man given the power of making all women love him is smothered to death by them. D1904
Dead return to fulfill bargain. E342
Family carried away to fairyland as part of bargain. F327
Strong man's labor contract: anger bargain. First to become angry shall receive blow. F613.3
Priest dies from having been duped into deceptive bargain. F1041.1.3.4
Test of curiosity: the paternoster. Plowman is promised a horse if he can say a paternoster without thinking of anything else. In the midst of the recitation, he asks if he will get the saddle and bridle too. He loses bargain. H1554.3
Stone as witness. Farmer will not pay servant wages due. Closing his bargain with the servant he had said: "May this stone be witness." Judge orders stone brought to court. The farmer: "Oh, but the stone is too big (or very far away)". J1141.1.3.1
Bargain: to render service for "something". Claimant has called dead cricket "something" and must be content. J1521.5.1
Foolish bargains. J2080
Foolish bargain: progressive type. J2081
Foolish bargain: horse for cow, cow for hog, etc. Finally nothing left. J2081.1
Foolish bargain: good fish for worthless shell; shell with pearl in it for small fish. J2081.2
Foolish bargain: miscellaneous. J2099
Numskull told not to forget to get the handsel (a little token extra in the bargain); brings it but leaves what he has been sent to buy. J2461.5
Deceptive bargains. K100
Deception through pseudo-simple bargain. K170
Anger bargain. The trickster makes a bargain with his master that the first to become angry must submit to punishment. He thereupon heaps abuses on his master till the latter breaks out in anger and must take his punishment. K172

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