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Motifs — first 20 of 59
- Different tribes result from choice of things Sun offers people. A1610.5
- Fairy offers gifts to man to be her paramour. F302.3.2
- Fairy offers aid to man if he will marry her. F302.3.2.1
- Fairy offers to disenchant mortal wife if man will marry her. (Cf. F302.5.2.) F302.3.2.2
- Fairy offers mortal choice of magic objects. (Cf. D813.) F343.0.1
- Fairy offers man change of form and feature for aid in battle. F343.11
- Water-spirit offers gift to mortal to win love. F420.6.1.2
- La Belle Dame Sans Merci. Witch entices men with offers of love and then deserts or destroys them. G264
- Witch asks for snuff so that she may seize man. He offers it to her on point of spear and escapes. G269.2
- Cannibal offers wealth to save his life. G683
- The prophet's first disciple. Judge demands that a pseudo-prophet show a miracle. Latter offers to cut off judge's head and resuscitate him. Judge agrees to be the first disciple. J1169.8
- Solomon's judgment: the divided child. Two women claim a child. Judge offers to cut it in two. Real mother refuses. J1171.1
- Condemned man wins pardon by clever remark. Fool is allowed to jump off cliff (balcony) as punishment. Master expresses surprise that in three trials he has failed to hurl himself from the height. The jester offers the prince four trials. Amused prince pardons the jester. J1181.3
- Distrusts God when he can be brought by a man. Priest offers to help peasant with "the body of the Lord". – "If God can be brought by a man, he is too weak to help me." J1261.2.2
- Priest offers to exchange places with the bishop when he is told that he is unfit to care for his parish. J1265.2
- The porter's revenge for the three wise counsels. A man offers a porter three wise counsels for carrying his goods. "When anyone tells you that hunger and satisfaction are the same, don't believe him." The second and third are similar and equally valueless. The porter throws down the load: "When anyone tells you that any part of this load is not broken, don't believe him." J1511.6
- Proper food for ox and ass. Guests call each other ox and ass. Host offers green grass for the first and fodder for the second. J1563.4
- To follow the king. In order to test a favorite, a king says that he is going to retire from the world and offers the regency to the favorite. On advice from his philosopher, the favorite says that he is going to accompany the king into retirement. J1634
- Wife leaves home, offers self to lover. Returning persuades husband that she has not been away. J2315.1
- Silence wager: man and wife taken for dead. Stand up when king offers reward for information about their death. J2511.1.2