120 motifs match “bread” — showing the first 100; narrow the words for the rest  ·  back to the chapters

• Man to earn bread by sweat of his brow. (Cf. A1331.1.) A1346
• Origin of breadfruit tree. A2681.11
• Mouse makes boat of bread-crust. Takes animals and birds into boat. It capsizes. B295.1
• Snake eats milk and bread with child. B765.6
• Tabu: stepping on sacred bread. C55.1
• Tabu: eating breadfruit. C224.3
• Tabu: stepping on bread (or otherwise misusing it). C535
• Tabu: wiping children with bread. C851.1.1
• Transformation: pig to bread. D422.3.1
• Transformation: bread to serpents. (Cf. D444.1, D444.2, D469.11, D471.1.) D444.4
• Transformation: bread to another object. (Cf. D471). D454.2
• Transformation: bread to flower. D454.2.1
• Bread tree springs from crumb of bread. D454.2.2
• Transformation: bread to stone. As punishment. (Cf. D441.1, D444.2, D444.4, D476.) D471.1
• Bread made from mud. D476.1.1
• Loaf of bread made from the leaf of a tree. D476.1.2
• Bread becomes cake. D476.4
• Transformation by eating bread. D551.4
• Magic pastry (bread, cake, etc.). D1031
• Magic bread. D1031.1
• Consecrated bread as magic object. D1031.1.1
• Loaf of bread locates drowned man. Floated on water comes to rest directly over corpse. (Cf. D1031.1.) D1314.6
• Consecrated bread produces love. (Cf. D1031.1.1.) D1355.10
• Consecrated bread kept in mouth and fed to toad produces love. D1355.10.1
• Two loaves of bread – one to excite, the other to appease hunger. (Cf. D1031.1.) D1373.2
• Magic bread furnishes treasure. (Cf. D1031.1.) D1465.1
• Consecrated bread brings wealth. (Cf. D1031.1.1.) D1465.1.1
• Consecrated bread makes vegetables grow. (Cf. D1031.1.) D1487.2
• Consecrated bread as cure. (Cf. D1031.1.1.) D1500.1.10.1
• Speaking bread. (Cf. 1031.1.) D1610.31.2
• Inexhaustible bread. (Cf. D1031.1.) D1652.1.1
• Resuscitation of dead by making image of deceased of breadfruit wood. When spirit enters this, image disappears and person is found alive. E53.2
• Wild huntsman's dogs eat dough, bread, meal, etc. E501.15.6.6
• Wild hunt avoided by holding bread. (Cf. D1031.1.) E501.17.5.6
• Fairies' bread. F243.1
• Fairies bake bread. F271.10
• Fairies give mortals fairy bread. F343.19
• Fairy bread must be eaten same day it is given or it turns to toadstools. F343.19.1
• Dwarf bakes bread. F451.3.4.5
• Dwarfs dislike bread baked without salt. F451.3.7.2
• Dwarfs emigrate because mortals put caraway seeds into bread. F451.9.1.1
• Gingerbread house. House made of cake. F771.1.10
• Frogs cast themselves into oven-flames and devour bread. F989.24
• Bleeding loaf of bread. F991.3.1
• Witches lack bread and salt. G229.3
• Witches bake bread. G246
• Devil appears to person who cuts both ends off loaf of bread. G303.6.2.13
• The devil takes service with a farmer in return for the bread he stole. Punishes the evil landowner and makes his master prosperous. G303.9.3.1.1
• Devils disappear when priest blesses bread. G303.16.2.3.3
• Ogre's gingerbread house lures child. G412.1
• Identification by ring baked in bread. H94.2
• Ordeal by bread and cheese. Declaration: if I am not innocent may I choke on bread and cheese. H232
• Bride test: thrifty scraping of bread tray. H381.2.2
• Bride test: bread-making. H383.1
• Bride test: bread-making – dough under fingernails. After three weeks the girl still has dough under her fingernails. H383.1.1
• King: What is your mother doing? Youth: She is baking the bread we ate last week. (To pay back borrowed bread.) (Cf. H583.2.4.) H583.4.2
• Always eat bread with "honey". (Working diligently, your bread will be as sweet as honey.) H588.11
• Task: eat bread but bring it back whole. (Center of loaf eaten.) H1071
• Task: eating mountain of bread. H1141.1
• Quest for the best of bread. H1305
• Test of strength: breaking heavy glass bottle over loaf of rye bread. H1562.3
• "Do not prolong a friendly visit." Guest stays so long that host gives him black bread instead of white. J21.9.1
• King called baker's son: he has given the poet only loaves of bread. King sees jest and rewards poet. J816.2
• Transmutation of the quail. Bishop brought quail on Friday orders them cooked. Blamed. If he can turn bread into the body of the Lord why can he not turn quail into fish? J1269.5
• Beggar wants bread. A numskull tells his mother that a beggar is below asking for bread. Mother: "Tell him I am not at home." Numskull: "He doesn't want you, he wants bread." J1332
• Beggar tells stingy to go beg. They say they have no meat, no bread, no wine, etc. "Then go beg; you have more need than I." J1334
• Softening bread-crusts. An avaricious master feeds bread-crusts to his servants. "The crusts are already getting soft." J1341.1
• Why he did not eat the bread. When host inquires, he replies, "If thou be the son of God, command that these stones be made bread." J1345
• The boy "loses his sight." No butter on the bread. J1561.4.2
• Bread baked with onions for an undesirable guest. J1563.3
• Eyes treated for the stomach ache. A man who has stomach ache from eating bad bread is treated for his eyes so that he will thereafter be able to tell good bread from bad. [Inadvertant duplication of X372.3.] J1603
• Valuable rubies baked in bread. J1655.2
• Deduction: bread made by a sick woman. It falls apart; therefore it was kneaded by a weak person. J1661.1.3
• Ignorant priest forces rolls of cloth instead of bread down a dying man's throat. J1738.1
• Fatal bread. Numskull refuses communion because his sister died shortly after eating the bread. J1824
• The rejected bread resought. Numskull looks for bread that he threw away a year before. J1923
• Punishing the dog by feeding him. A man is bitten by a dog. On the advice of an old woman he rubs bread on the wound and gives it to the dog. All dogs will bite him if they thus get double reward. J2108
• Wholesome food for the day of hanging. A man about to be hanged is very particular about his bread lest it impair his health. J2174.2
• Let them eat cake. The queen has been told that the peasants have no bread. J2227
• The literal host: bread and salt. Guest finds that his host spoke literally when he invited him to share his bread and salt. Later, when the host threatens an importunate beggar, the guest advises the beggar to flee since the host means what he says. J2476
• The numskull buys water at market. He looks at bread. The merchant: "It is as good as butter." He decides on butter. The merchant: "It is as sweet as oil." He decides on oil. The merchant: "It is as clear as water." He decides on water. J2478
• Trick exchange: basket of stones for one of bread; a few pieces of money shown through slit in basket-cover to dupe. K149.1
• Deceptive bargain: as much bread as he wants to eat. The baker fixes his price at the rate for twenty loaves. The trickster eats thirty. K173
• Man orders a bottle of beer, then returns it and takes a loaf of bread instead. He refuses to pay for the bread because he has returned the beer undrunk. He refuses to pay for the beer because he has not drunk it. K233.4
• Bread dropped in mud; messenger returns for more. A youth poses as a rich man's servant and gets a sack of bread from a baker. The baker boy is to go along and collect. The rascal drops two loaves in the mud and sends the boy back for fresh ones. Meantime he runs off with the rest of the bread. K343.1.1
• Trickster gives a woman a knife to cut him a slice of white bread. He gets the whole loaf when he says that he has just cut a dog with the same knife. K344.1
• Dream bread: the most wonderful dream. Three pilgrims agree that the one who has the most wonderful dream shall eat the last loaf. One eats it and declares that he dreamed that the others were dead and would not need it. K444
• Butter weighed with the bread. The peasant weighs the butter which he is selling to the baker along with the bread which he is buying. K478
• Respite from death gained by tale of the preparation of bread. K555.1.2
• Murder by feeding with bread full of pins. K951.2
• Murder by throwing poisoned bread into mouth. K951.3
• Invisible man eats bread and boy and girl quarrel. Each thinks other had eaten bread. K1883.6
• Beggar's curse. Beggar is refused request. "May your bread turn to stones!" M411.2
• Bread accidentally dropped from tree on bear's nose kills bear. N331.2
• Man accidentally fed bread which his father has poisoned. The wicked man puts poison in the bread he gives a beggar. The beggar gives his loaf to the son. N332.1
• Man falls dead when he realizes that he has eaten bread from flour used for abscess plaster. N383.2
• Mother's parting gift to adventuring son: the two loaves of bread. One for hunger, one for overeating. N782
• Monks' who always shared with the poor receive supplies of flour or bread. Q141.1
• The rich man's trial in heaven. A piece of bread given to a beggar is placed on the scales. Q172.2.1
• Baker, disguised as old woman, substitutes for princess in cell when he brings bread to her. R83