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Motifs — first 20 of 42
- God rebukes mortal. A182.3.2
- Speaking beans rebuke wife for misdeed. (Cf. D983.1.) D1619.1
- Magician rebukes secret usury. D1810.0.2.1
- Ghost of father returns to rebuke child. E327.4
- Dead rich man returns to rebuke his children who have kept the money he promised to the church. E415.2
- Undutiful son rebuked by father. Father tells son not to drag him past the threshold, because he had dragged his own father only up to that point when he had thought of putting him out of his house. J121.2
- Man rebukes servants for telling him of his wife's unfaithfulness. J221.1.2
- Ruler interrupts meeting of Senate to amuse his small son. When rebuked for making him a whistle he says: "I would have blown it for him had he asked me to do so." J553.2
- Intemperance in service. Emperor rebukes overzealous servant as being a nuisance. J554
- Eagle warns shepherds that wolf is eating sheep. Crow rebukes eagle for thus imperiling his own food supply. J715.1
- Judgment as rebuke to unjust plaintiff. J1172
- Rebuke for telling a poor and long-winded story. J1223
- The abbot's luxury and the cardinal's. Cardinal rebukes abbot for living in luxury beyond that of the founder of his order. Abbot asks cardinal if the cardinals of St. Peter traveled in the luxury he does. J1263.4.1
- Multiplying his talents. Priest is entrusted with reforming five dissolute nuns. Gets all five with child. The priest is rebuked for not using his "talents" when tempted. He answers: "God gave me five talents and I have added five more!" (Pun on word talent.) J1264.7
- Show me how it is done. Wronged woman thus addresses ruler, who is indifferent to insults directed at him. She wishes to be shown how to bear insults. This rebukes him. J1284.1
- Officiousness or foolish questions rebuked. J1300
- Officiousness or foolish questions rebuked – miscellaneous. J1309
- Maid rebukes pilgrim for eating too much. "If both of us had been present at the miracle of the loaves and fishes you would have eaten me too!" Pilgrim: "I wouldn't have eaten you but I would have chewed on you a bit!" J1346
- The wine-spilling host rebuked. A host spills his customer's wine so that he must buy more. He consoles the guest with "It is a sign of the great abundance you shall have this year." With the same remark the guest draws the spigot from the host's wine cask. J1511.5
- Impossible demand rebuked. J1512
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