25 motifs match “barrel”  ·  back to the chapters

• Forbidden barrel. C624
• Magic barrel (cask). D1171.9
• Magic barrel supplies drink. (Cf. D1171.9.) D1472.1.18
• Inexhaustible barrel. (Cf. D1171.9.) D1652.5.2
• Wind raised by putting cat under bushel (barrel) (drowning cat). (Cf. G283.2.1.) D2142.1.5
• Gift barrel of ale which never runs dry goes dry when maid looks into bunghole. F348.9
• Man can stand on barrel rolling down hill. F679.4
• Barrel filled miraculously with penitent's tears. F1051.1
• Witch keeps wind from blowing by putting cat under barrel. (Cf. D2142.1.5.) G283.2.1
• Devil as a barrel. Rolls and is impossible to catch. G303.3.4.5
• King descends to bottom of sea in glass barrel to learn wisdom from observing fish. J52.2
• Looking through the gun barrel. The numskull (stupid ogre) is shot. J2131.4.1
• The boy's disasters. Foolishly kills his horse and throws his axe into the lake to kill a duck. Undresses to recover axe. Clothes stolen. Goes into barrel of tar to hide. In tar and feathers. J2661.4
• Fatal game: rolling down hill on barrel. Dupe crushed. K866
• Trickster sets fire to barrel of tow in which paramour is hidden. The paramour, naked, runs out carrying wisps of burning tow. The trickster tells the husband that he has raised the devil. K1554.1
• The devil in the barrel. The naked lover hides himself in a sooty barrel. The husband receives from a curious gentleman a good sum of money for showing him the "devil". K1555.2
• Treasure buried in chest, cask, kettle, or cannon barrel. (Cf. N525.) N511.1.8
• King descends to bottom of sea in glass barrel to study ways of fishes. P15.6
• Casting into water in sack (barrel) as punishment. (Cf. Q474, S142.) Q467.1
• Look! look! she cries from the barrel. A nobleman has arranged for a peasant girl to become his mistress. When he comes to take her away he cannot find her. Disappointed, he is about to depart when the girl, who has hidden in a barrel, calls out "Look!" She really wants to be found. W136.1
• Man finds a bunghole lying around loose, has cooper build a barrel around it. W152.14.1
• Church member who has been called to task about his lying habits tells another lie in expressing his concern for his weakness. He says he has shed barrels of tears because of his weakness. X909.1.1
• Lie: ingenious person bends gun barrel to make spectacular shot. X1122.3
• Man in barrel grabs wolf by the tail and is drawn out of danger. X1133.3
• Lie: people eat the bungholes from barrels. X1761.2