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Motifs
- Dead man speaks demanding proper funeral rites. E235.2.1
- Identity tested by demanding that person say again what he said on former occasion. (Impostor fails.) H15.1
- Task: letting king hear something that neither he nor his subjects have ever heard. (Reads a letter from a foreign king demanding a loan.) H1182
- Greedy man keeps demanding one more thing from complacent man; at last is magically blinded. J514.3
- Dream answered by dream. Priests misinterpret raja's dream and get his horses. Trickster advises raja to announce dream demanding cauterization of the priests. They return horses. J1527
- Four men's mistress. A husband disguises as a priest to hear his wife's confession. She says that she has been mistress of a servant, a knight, a fool, and a priest; i.e., her husband when he was her servant, and later her knight. He had then been a fool for demanding her confession, and was a priest because he had heard it. J1545.2
- Why go all the way to fair? Man robbed of his plate of cakes half way to fair asks another vendor, "Why go to the fair, when half way up people come demanding your plate?" Vendor goes on and meets with same fate. K475.3
- Trickster gets money from a bank by raising an alarm and demanding "what is owing to him." K484.1
- Heaven entered by trick: demanding back the charity gift. The trickster demands of Peter an article which he has given in charity. He then sits on it as his own property within the gates. K2371.1.2
- Demanding of promised boon postponed. M204
- Demanding of promised boon postponed until an auspicious moment. Granted anything he may ask, the recipient waits to announce his choice. M204.1