84 motifs match “buffalo”  ·  back to the chapters

• Creator of buffaloes. A84.1
• Deity rides a buffalo. A136.1.6
• God has his dairies and buffaloes. A155.7
• Wind drives buffaloes for god. A199.4
• Goddess of buffaloes. A441.1.1
• Sun sits on back of a male buffalo. A722.8
• Origin of custom of eating flesh of buffalo. A1515.1
• Buffaloes emerge from earth, the first man holding the tail of last one. A1714.3.1
• Creation of bison (buffalo). A1878
• Origin of wild and domestic buffalo. A1878.1
• Buffalo helps tiger quench fire: white mark left on buffalo's neck where tiger held on while being ducked in water. A2211.12
• Buffaloes fail to come at god's leavetaking: now are killed by tigers. A2231.12
• Buffalo and cow exchange hides: hence bad fitting hides. (Cf. A2311.6.) A2247.1
• Origin of cow's and buffalo's hides. (Cf. A2247.1.) A2311.6
• How buffalo got hair under chin. A2322.1
• Why buffalo's horns are bent. A2326.3.4
• Where horse got his upper teeth. Borrowed them from buffalo. (Cf. A2241.) A2345.1
• Why tiger eats buffalo. A2435.3.9.4
• Friendship of tiger and buffalo. A2493.3
• Devastating bison (buffalo). B16.2.9
• Flying buffalo. B43.1
• Indra sends down buffalo whose milk is offered to the saints. B184.2.3.3
• Speaking buffalo. B211.1.5.2
• Buffalo as king of animals. B240.7
• Duel of buffalo and tiger. Buffalo arms self. B264.3
• Buffaloes grateful for care of their calves. B395
• Buffaloes grateful for being cleaned and combed. B395.1
• Helpful buffalo. B411.4
• Buffalo give hero horns for summoning them. B501.1
• Merry horn and angry horn for summoning buffalo. When all is well hero is to blow on merry-horn; when in trouble on angry-horn. B501.1.1
• Helpful buffaloes tramp hero's enemies to death. B524.1.5
• Helpful buffaloes save hero from tiger. B524.1.5.1
• Marriage to buffalo in human form. B651.2
• Sacred buffalo. B811.3.1
• Giant buffalo. B871.1.1.3
• Tabu: slaughtering buffalo in temple. C93.5
• Tabu: tiger and lion after having killed a man not to touch certain animals: cow, buffalo, pig, deer, wild goat. C549.1
• Transformation: man to buffalo. D112.5
• Transformation: man to buffalo. D114.1.4
• Transformation to buffalo so as to eat grass. D655.1
• Transformation in order to drive buffaloes to milking. D659.13
• Eyes of hero's buffalo friend turn into two powerful dogs that protect his wife. D699.1
• Bathing hair in buffalo milk makes it unusually long. D1337.1.3.1
• Blood of twelve buffaloes vitalizes tiger. (Cf. D1016.) D1594.4
• Buffalo magically called. D2074.1.1.1
• Ghosts killed by sacrifice of buffaloes. E433.4.1
• Reincarnation as a buffalo. E611.2.4
• Palace gate so big it can only be opened by twelve buffaloes. F776.1.1
• Buffalo sucks hero with water it is drinking and throws him up again in game of hide-and-seek. (Cf. F911.3.1.) F914.2
• Horse sewed in buffalo-hides. As protection against a greater horse, hero's horse is sewed in nine buffalo-hides. F984.1
• Cannibal nature of woman recognized when she devours dead buffalo raw. H46.1
• Riddle: what are the two combatants without hands or feet or words? (The bull and the buffalo.) H861
• Task: bringing twelve cartloads of mud without the use of buffaloes. H1129.1.1
• Task: riding buffaloes. H1155.5
• Task: overcoming savage buffalo. H1161.2
• Task: bullfight (buffaloes). H1165
• Quest for cheese made from milk of wild white buffaloes. (Cf. H1362.1.) H1361.6
• Quest for devastating buffaloes. H1362.1
• In dividing property clever younger brother takes hind part of buffalo, upper part of tree, and use of curtain during night. J242.8
• Buffalo refuses tiger's invitation to dinner. He sees fire prepared to cook him. J425.2
• Buffalo has eaten up turban. Judge decides for greater bribe. J1192.1.1
• Thief serves king buffaloes he has killed in hunt and lost; thus reproaches king's wastefulness. J1289.15
• Man who continually threatens to leave wife mortified when she tells him to go; pretends his buffalo is dragging him home (after he does leave). J1545.3.3
• Deduction: mare has she-buffalo as mother. Told by shape of hoofs. J1661.1.4
• Fish will climb trees like buffaloes. Numskull considers what will happen if river burns up. J1904.4.1
• Fools try to use buffalo tongue as a knife. J1971
• Trickster puts on buffalo skull: gets head caught. J2131.5.1
• Man catches buffalo by rope and is dragged to death. J2132.1
• Deceptive drinking contest: rising and falling tide. Buffalo and heron wager as to which can drink the sea until the water falls. The buffalo drinks as the tide is coming in; the heron drinks in the falling tide and wins. K82.1.1
• Sale of dead buffalo by making him seem alive. K136
• Owner frightened from goods by trickster's summons of wild buffalo herd. K335.0.13
• Escape by asking to ride on sacred buffalo. K551.6.1
• Ungrateful river passenger kills carrier from within. Crawls inside during the passage. (Porcupine and buffalo.) K952.1
• Jackal tells tales so as to get buffalo and tiger to kill each other; feeds on the meat. K1084.1.1
• Mouse runs into buffalo's ear and overcomes him. L315.1.1
• Buffalo's fate in bamboo growing from head. N119.2
• Four pots of rupees magically appear on horns of buffaloes stuck in pond, and poor owner becomes rich. N549.1
• Boy as mysterious housekeeper for buffalo herd. (Cf. H831.1.) N832.1
• Punishments in other world: people reincarnated as buffaloes and killed. Q560.1.1
• Earl's daughter as reward to knight who helped to kill fierce buffalo. T68.2
• Blind man strikes woman thinking she is buffalo. X124.1
• Lie: skillful flayer. Man skins buffalo alive, turns them loose to grow new skins. (Cf. F664.1.) X983
• Louse and crow make covenant of friendship: louse eats crow despite crow saying, "If I strike you once with my beak you will disappear; how then can you talk of eating me?" Likewise louse eats loaf of bread, she-goat, cow, buffalo, five sepoys, wedding procession with one lakh of people, elephant, tank of water. A sepoy cuts louse in two with his sword and rescues all. Z33.4.1
• Man invites animals to come and work in his field. Rooster kills beetle; cat kills rooster; dog kills cat; leopard kills dog; hyena kills leopard; buffalo kills hyena; elephant kills buffalo, and lion chases elephant so that both fall into trap. Man calls wives to see meat he has killed. Z43.6