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Motifs — first 20 of 30
- Angel in charge of vegetation. A430.0.1
- Man hangs wolf who has eaten sheep left in his charge. B275.1.3.1
- Man commends wife to devil. Devil takes the charge seriously and guards woman's chastity during husband's absence. C12.4
- Transformation: faggots to chargers. D441.3.1
- Person charged with keeping birds from the crops confines them in barn (usually roofless) by magic while he goes to town. D2072.0.2.2.1
- Well shoots up high as pillars, and discharges itself into navigable streams. (Cf. D926.) F718.11
- Pregnant wife left in charge of friend. H1558.9
- Priest must give up his charge or his mistress. Gives up his parish and immediately loses his fickle mistress. J705.1
- Adulteress prepares for old age. Charges a pair of shoes to consort with men. When old she pays with shoes the men who will consort with her. J761.3
- The king and the cheap slippers. Steward buys the king a pair of slippers. King thinks not enough has been paid for them and refuses them. Steward buys another like the first and charges a good price. Learns that this is the way to deal with kings. J829.1
- Guilty man freed of murder charge is tricked into making a false accusation for which he is sentenced. J1141.12
- The sacrament for sale. Sick woman calls the parson but recovers meanwhile He insists on her taking the sacrament and charges for it. "Set it here on the table; perhaps I can sell it again." J1261.2.1
- Inhospitable host punished for hospitality. An abbot has his innkeeper treat his guests with the most shameful neglect. A guest retaliates by telling the abbot that he has been very sumptuously entertained. The innkeeper is discharged. J1561.2
- Usurer blackmailed. Shrewd suitor persuades usurer to charge him 100 per cent interest, then has him arrested. Thus gets daughter for wife. K443.11
- Compassionate executioner. A servant charged with killing the hero (heroine) arranges the escape of the latter. K512
- Compassionate executioners. Slaves charged with killing (drowning) the infant heroine are touched by her "laughing smile" and put her in a calfshed (hollow tree), where she is found by cowherds, who rear her. K512.0.1
- Compassionate executioner: bloody coat. A servant charged with killing the hero smears the latter's coat with the blood of an animal as proof of the execution and lets the hero escape. K512.1
- Compassionate executioner: substituted heart. A servant charged with killing the hero (heroine) substitutes an animal, whose heart he takes to his master as proof of the execution. K512.2
- Compassionate executioner: substituted child. The servant charged with sending the hero to executioners sends his own child instead. K512.2.2
- Captor's powder is removed, ashes substituted: gun does not discharge. K633