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Motifs — first 20 of 25
- Horse sewed in buffalo-hides. As protection against a greater horse, hero's horse is sewed in nine buffalo-hides. F984.1
- Suitor contest: bride offered to suitor giving the token of the greater love. H315.2
- King: What is your father doing? Youth: Makes an evil greater. (Closes up a path; this causes another to be opened.) H583.2.1
- Who is greater than God? Man's purpose. H674
- Liar escapes from devil: quest for greater liar. (Cf. G303.16.19.3, K210, X905.) H1318
- Wisdom from fool: the present returned. Nobleman gives fool a present; he is to give it to no one who is not a greater fool. Master is dying; doctor tells fool that master is going to take long journey. Since master is making no preparation, fool gives him the present. Master thus brought to repentance. J156.3
- Choice: apparent injustice over greater wrong. J225
- A bird in the hand foolishly given away in hope of greater gain. J321.1
- Little fish in the net kept rather than wait for uncertainty of greater catch. J321.2
- Man refuses cure which brings greater inconvenience. J343
- Wealth and wisdom dispute as to who is greater. J461.7
- Senseless debate: which is the greater, St. John the Baptist or St. John the Evangelist? J466.2
- Planning for the greater office. J703
- Lowly tries in vain to be greater than he is. J955
- Judge awards decision to the greater bribe. J1192.1
- Buffalo has eaten up turban. Judge decides for greater bribe. J1192.1.1
- Deceptive eating contest: hole in bag. The hero slips his food into a bag and makes the ogre believe that he is the greater eater. (In many versions the hero cuts open the bag; the ogre imitates and kills himself.) (Cf. K82.1.) K81.1
- Deceptive grain division: the corn and the chaff. The bear chooses the chaff because of its greater bulk. At the mill the fox's grain makes a different sound from the bear's. K171.2
- Lover delays the gift of the goose hoping to obtain greater favors. Finally has to flee. K1581.7.1
- Man who aspires to greater wealth loses all. When he is about to be rewarded by king the latter dies. N251.2