51 motifs match “butter”  ·  back to the chapters

• Origin of rainbow: transformed butterflies (souls of lovers). A791.9
• Creator makes man out of butter first; it would not stand up and melted. A1226.1
• Man creates a woman from melted butter, sour milk, sour cream and curds offered on the waters. A1275.5
• Creation of butterfly. A2041
• Origin of butterflies' marks. A2412.3.2
• Why butterflies haunt urine-impregnated places. A2433.5.6
• Friendship between mouse and butterfly. A2493.28
• Wedding of butterfly. B285.6
• Transformation: man to butterfly. D186.1
• Transformation: butterfly to bamboo. D424.1
• Transformation: dress to butterfly. D444.10.1
• Transformation: butter (milk) to blood. D474.5
• Butter made from nettles. D476.1.5
• Transformation: water to butter and cream. D478.11
• Charms to make butter come. (Cf. D1273, D2084.2.5.) D1573
• Much butter made from little milk by power of saint. D1573.1
• Butter transferred from another by magic. (Cf. D2087.) D2083.4
• Butter magically kept from coming. (Cf. D1573, D2083.) D2084.2
• Reincarnation as butterfly. E616.2
• Soul in form of butterfly. E734.1
• Soul as ghi (clarified butter). E745.6
• Fairy prevents butter coming. (Cf. D2084.2.) F369.6
• Mountain-man has stack of butter before his door. F460.2.4
• Giants like butter more than anything else. Get trough of butter in return for help. F531.5.13
• Marvelous sensitiveness: clarified butter was someone's leavings. F647.11
• Wasp twits butterfly with coming from ugly chrysalis: unimportant where you come from. J312.1
• Why is it that black cow eats green grass, gives white milk and yellow butter? Answer: The same reason blackberries are red when they are green. J1291.1.1
• Oisin's poor diet in Patrick's house – pancake size of ivy leaf, measure of butter only size of rowan berry. Later Oisin gives Patrick quarter of a wild boar, servant ivy leaf and rowan berry. J1511.13
• Borrower of butter receives pot of cowdung with little butter on top: repays by lending wooden sword covered with thin iron. (Cf. J1511.20.) J1556.1
• The boy "loses his sight." No butter on the bread. J1561.4.2
• Woman is unacquainted with tea, serves the boiled leaves with butter. J1732.3
• Butter cask thought to be a dead man. Fools knock it in two. J1783.1
• Simpleton thinks his reflection in jar of melted butter is thief; strikes at the jar and breaks it. J1791.7.1
• Filling cracks with butter. Numskull sees cracks in the ground and feels so sorry for them that he greases them with the butter he is taking home. J1871
• The two extra pounds. A dog has eaten 14 pounds of butter; the fool squeezes 16 pounds from him. J1919.3
• Monkey jumps into water after a butterfly. J2133.10
• "Greasing the judge's palms." The woman puts butter on his hands. J2475
• 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
• Exchange of alleged ghee (liquid butter) for goat (cow). K144
• Earthen pot with rice water on top of which clarified butter had been poured sold as a pot of clarified butter. K144.2
• Mud sold as fresh butter. K144.3
• Thieving butterflies. K366.7
• 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
• Persons deceived into eating meat in Lent, the meat being disguised as butter. (Cf. K499.2.1, K499.2.2.) K498
• Saint who desires broth containing no butter receives broth into which butter has been poured surreptitiously through hollow mixing-stick. (Cf. K498.) K499.2.1
• Curse: milk will not turn to butter. M471.1.1
• Stingy man does not eat butter; only looks at it and enjoys the thought. W152.15
• Parson smears his hand with butter. Rascals have spread butter on the altarbread. The parson preaches, "What is the life of man?" and therewith brings his hand down on the altar-bread: "Pure butter!" X417
• Boy with hat of butter, clothes of paper, etc. X1853
• The singing wolf. By his singing the wolf compels the old man to surrender his cattle, his children and grandchildren, and finally his wife. The old woman goes in the wolf's service. She returns home bringing butter, etc. Z33.4.2
• Butterby Church – no church at all. If person says he has gone to Butterby Church, he has not gone to church. Z61.3