29 motifs match “cakes”  ·  back to the chapters

• Tabu: eating griddle cakes (in Garden of Eden). C229.3
• Pancakes made of snow. D476.1.6
• Magic cakes answer for fugitive. (Cf. D1031.2.) D1611.8
• Tree with all sorts of cakes hanging from its branches springs from one cake. D2106.3
• Saint causes wall of cakes to spring up between opposing armies. D2163.6.2
• Tree of cakes. F811.1.10
• Cake, planted in the field, grows and after a time bears cakes. F1005.1
• Recognition by manner of throwing cakes of different weights into faces of old uncles. H35.5
• Bride test: cooking griddle cakes. H383.1.2
• The full moon and the thirtieth of the month. Prince sends servant to clever girl with a round tart, thirty cakes, and a capon, and asks her if it is full moon and the thirtieth of the month and if the cock has crowed in the evening. She replies that it is not full moon, that it is the fifteenth of the month, and that the capon has gone to the mill; but that the prince should spare the pheasant for the partridge's sake. She thus shows him that the servant has stolen half the tart, half of the cakes, and the capon. H582.1.1
• Guest brings along cakes to eat. Stingy host rebuked. J1575
• Jewels concealed in cowdung cakes. J1655.1
• How he knew she was baking cakes. Husband actually knows from observation but wife thinks he has supernatural knowledge and spreads his fame. J1713.1
• Coins thought to be uncooked cakes. J1772.3.1
• Thief warned what not to steal. The numskull tells the thief where his door-key, his cakes, and his roasts are and warns him not to steal them. J2091
• Literal numskull cuts peas into four parts. Told that he should have cut up the pancakes which he has eaten whole. J2461.1.4
• Boar in duel with tiger cakes mud on body: defeats tiger. K97.1
• Sale of gilded mudcakes. K122
• Charging thirty cakes for cooking twenty-five. K255.1
• Husband makes rhymes about cakes wife has stolen. K435.1
• Bag of cakes said to be full of cobras. Boy eats cakes. K444.2
• Why go all the way to fair? Man robbed of his plate of cakes half way to fair asks another vendor, "Why go to the fair, when half way up people come demanding your plate?" Vendor goes on and meets with same fate. K475.3
• Ingeniously worded boon asked of God combines riches, issue, and restoration of eyesight: "Oh God! I want to see from above the seventh story of my mansion my great-grandsons playing in the streets and eating their cakes from golden vessels." K2371.3
• Poisoned cakes intended for man by his wife eaten by thieves: booty left to man. N659.1
• Disguised king punished by peasant. Beaten because he does not get up early enough. (King Alfred and the cakes.) P15.1
• Pupil eats cakes given as alms for his master. W125.4
• Master insists that maid whistle when she brings in the dessert. He is afraid she will eat the raisins out of the cakes. W152.12.3
• Lie: pancakes growing on lime-tree. X1472.1
• Series of things acquired by mouse – "You cannot have this but you may have that instead," – etc. Clod – fish – cakes – kid – goat – drum – girl. Girl kills mouse accidentally. Z39.9