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910: Precepts bought or given correct

ATU > 850-999: REALISTIC TALES > 910-919: Good Precepts > 910: Precepts bought or given correct

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Drie mannen, een molenaar met een kwaad wijf, een koopman die het ondanks goede zaken slecht gaat, en een arme dokter, vragen een waarzegster om raad. Zij geeft hen elk een briefje met resp. deze voorschriften: 1. luister naar je molen; 2. koop een…

Variants

910A. Wise through experience

The precepts. Do not visit your friends often; do not marry a girl from a distance, do not lend your horse, etc. Experience teaches the wisdom of these precepts.

910B. The servant's good counsels

Do not leave the highway, etc. The traveler leaves it and falls into the hands of robbers. When you are angry repeat the Lord's Prayer. He is about to kill the man sleeping with his wife: it is his son. Iron is more precious than gold, etc. Cf. Type…

910C. "Think carefully before you begin a task"

The king's throat is to be cut. The barber hired to cut the king's throat sees on the bottom of the basin the words »Whatever you do, do wisely and think of the consequences.» He drops the razor and confesses. [J21.1].

910D. The treasure of the hanging man

The dying rich man tells his son to hang himself if he ever loses his property [J21.15]. The son runs through with everything. At last when on the advice of his father he is about to hang himself the roof falls down with money which his father has…

910E. Father's counsel: where treasure is

Find treasure within a foot of the ground. (Sons dig everywhere and thus loosen soil of the vineyard, which becomes fruitful.) [H588.7].

910F. The quarreling sons and the bundle of twigs

Peasant puts twigs together and cannot break them. Separately they are easily broken. His sons apply the lesson. [J1021].

910H. Never travel without a companion or stay alert

I. Never Travel Without a Companion. The man can find no other companion, so takes along a crab. (a) He is chosen to become a king or marry a princess. The crab kills the snakes which issue from the nostrils of the queen (princess). See Type 507C.…

910J. Never plant a thorn tree

A man is advised (by his father): »Never befriend a policeman (soldier) [J21.46]; never plant a thorn tree [H588.30].» Because of a false accusation (made by his wife), the policeman (soldier) whom he has befriended drags him away to court. His…

910K. The precepts and the Uriah letter

Cf. Type 930. An exiled king, or the like, becomes an official in another court. He happens to observe an intrigue between the queen and a servant or some other treasonable action, but does not tell the king because he has been advised not to tell…

Examples

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Text titleATULanguageAuthorOriginPublication Date
He Wins Who Waits910BEnglishAndrew LangArmenia1907
The Five Wise Words Of the Guru910BEnglishAndrew LangIndia1907

External Examples

StoryATUOriginAuthorYearSource
A LAC OF RUPEES FOR A PIECE OF ADVICE 910G Indian Internet Archive
Achtste vertelling 910B Netherlands 1804 Nederlandse VolksverhalenBank
Advice that Cost a Thousand Ryo 910G Japanesse Internet Archive
Cheater-cheated 910B Russian Internet Archive
Drie goede levenslessen 910B Netherlands 1896 Nederlandse VolksverhalenBank
Een goede raad in drieën. 910B Netherlands 1970 Nederlandse VolksverhalenBank
Father's Advice 910A Arab Internet Archive
Five Counsels 910B Mexican Internet Archive
Gobborn Seer 910B British Internet Archive
Heir of Linne 910D British Internet Archive
Long Wait 910B US West Virginia Internet Archive
Master Vavasour and Turpin his Man 910A British Internet Archive
Patient Suitor 910B Armenian Internet Archive
Pottle o' Brains 910G English Internet Archive
Pottle of Brains 910B British Internet Archive
Pottle of Brains 910G British Internet Archive
Souillon 910G French Internet Archive
Spendthrift Son 910D Israeli Internet Archive
Spendthrift Son 910D US West Virginia Internet Archive
Tale of Ivan 910B British Internet Archive
Tale Within a Tale 910B Arab Internet Archive
The Tale of Ivan 910B Celtic Internet Archive
Three good Advices 910B British Internet Archive
Three Words of Advice 910A Greek Internet Archive
Three Words of Advice 910B Greek Internet Archive
Tinner of Chyannor 910B British Internet Archive
Vinegrower, the Priest, the Frankish Priest, and the Chotzas 910F Greek Internet Archive
We Two Against Fortune 910A Arab Internet Archive
Wisely Spent 910B Armenian Internet Archive
Wisely Spent 910G Armenian Internet Archive
Yalla-Britches 910B British Internet Archive

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