48 motifs match “camel”  ·  back to the chapters

• Creation of camel. A1873
• Camel asks for horns: punishment, short ears. (Cf. A2325.4.) A2232.1
• Why camel has short ears. (Cf. A2232.1.) A2325.4
• Why camel has no ears. (Cf. A2232.1.) A2325.7
• How stag got antlers. From camel. A2326.1.1
• Why camel's neck bends upwards. A2351.1
• Why camel has humped back. A2356.2.13
• Winged camel. B47
• Camel determines road to be taken. B151.1.5
• Speaking camel. B211.1.6
• Camel as king of animals. B240.11
• Helpful camel. B405
• Tabu: touching camel after he has retired from work. C537.1
• Camels having fallen from sky into girl's eyes; she tells her mother that some grains of sand have fallen down from sky. F615.3.1.2
• Cain slays Abel with bone of a camel. (Cf. A1336.) F839.3
• Man and his camels rise into air. F1083.2
• Giant roasts camels, elephants for food on crater of volcano. G171
• Task: loading ferocious camels. H1154.3.5
• Unnecessary choice: to go uphill or downhill. Camel prefers the level. J463
• Camel tries in vain to dance. J512.3
• Camel and jackal exchange food: camel is led by his good friend to thorny fruit and thorn sticks in his throat. J512.11
• Mutual and undeserved compliments: donkey to camel, "What a beauty you are"; latter answers, "What a sweet voice you have." J867
• Rat imagines himself owner of camel. He is attached to camel by string. J953.17
• All appurtenances included. Butcher buyer demands saddle and ornaments along with camel (or the like). Seller later buys all heads in butcher shop: demands heads of butcher's family. J1293.5
• Deduction: the one-eyed camel. A she-camel has passed, blind in one eye; on the one side she carries wine and on the other vinegar; two men lead her, one a heathen and the other a Jew. Solution: She is recognized as a she-camel by the footprints; she is blind because she feeds on only one side of the road; the wine dropping down has soaked into the earth; the vinegar makes bubbles; the heathen is not so careful in his manners as is the Jew. J1661.1.1
• Deduction: the camel ridden by a pregnant woman. J1661.1.1.1
• Ignorant people told religious holiday is coming the next day: camel appears and is feasted. J1738.7
• Short-sighted wish: camel wishes a long neck. Killed by jackals. J2072.5
• Wolf trying to catch tongue of camel puts head in camel's mouth: killed. J2131.5.5
• Camel with ass on his back dances. Falls and is killed. J2133.1
• Camel and ass together captured because of ass's singing. J2137.6
• Man on camel has doorway broken down so he can ride in. It does not occur to him to dismount. (Cf. J2199.3.) J2171.6
• Fool claims to cure goitre by striking. Has seen melon thus dislodged from camel's throat. (Cf. F952.3.1, F953.1.) J2412.8
• "Thank God that camels have no wings." They might fly about and kill people. J2564
• Camel has offered one pound of flesh to jackal for help. Camel's tongue demanded. K255.4
• Goat induces the camel to talk and meanwhile eats all the food. K334.2
• Crow asks hospitality of sparrow and gradually takes possession of nest and kills young. (Often told of camel and tent.) K354.1
• Camel lures wolf into looking at the writing on his breast. Crushes wolf. K839.5
• Deceptive game: "Eat me up!" Camel is killed by lion. K869.3
• Camel induced to offer himself as sacrifice. Other animals feign to offer themselves to the lion as food. The lion eats the camel. K962
• Jackal puts head in anus of sham-dead camel: caught and punished. K1036.1.1
• Treacherous camel. K2295.5
• Mice overcome camel. L315.10
• Fugitive cuts tail of camel caught by pursuer and it turns into grass. R231.2
• Men at first frightened at camel take him into their service. U131.2
• Man overloads and starves camel. W155.1.2
• Elephant (camel) put in pocket as a curiosity to show friends. X941.3
• Lie: man ties up 700 camels in a corner of his sheet. X942.1