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Motifs — first 20 of 25
- Life of helpful animal demanded as cure for feigned sickness. B335.2
- Tabu: refusing to eat food demanded and supplied. C288
- Dead returns to supply tribe with money demanded by landlord. E373.4
- Fairies must trade whenever it is demanded of them. It does not matter how uneven the trade may be. F255.1
- Princess appears before crane (who had demanded her in marriage) and is recognized by him despite loathly disguise. H188
- Test of wife's patience. Griselda. Children stolen and attendance at wedding to another demanded. H461
- Nurse's false plea admitted: child demanded. A nurse falsely demands pay for caring for a child which she says is the hero's. In court: "The child is indeed mine; give him to me." The child belongs to a peasant. Nurse confesses and is punished. J1162.1
- Clever use of human weakness. Penny demanded of every bad man, two pennies of every good man. Thus two pennies received from every man. J1672
- Three silly pundits sent to a raja as the two-footed cattle he had demanded. J1717
- Refusal to tell about the Rhine treasure, though condition demanded is fulfilled when the only one who knows where it is is killed. K239
- Exorbitant price demanded and received. K255
- Camel has offered one pound of flesh to jackal for help. Camel's tongue demanded. K255.4
- Eyes, ears, fingers of corpse substituted for those demanded of victim. K512.2.0.3
- Murder by slipping gold coins into meat customarily demanded by enemy. K929.5
- The lawyer's mad client. (Pathelin.) On the advice of a lawyer, the client feigns insanity when arraigned in court. When the fee is demanded, he still feigns insanity. K1655
- Dividing the winnings: half of the bride demanded. When the hero shows that he is willing to carry out the bargain, his helper relents. M241.1
- Prophecy: king to be slain by certain spear unless it is given when demanded. M341.2.17
- Reward for tearing out eye when demanded. Q42.6
- Reward: any boon that may be asked – king's wife demanded. Q115.1
- Gold and silver demanded of saint disappear. (Cf. Q227.) Q552.18.1