32 motifs match “cheese”  ·  back to the chapters

• Certain stones are cheeses transformed by saint. (Cf. A974.) A977.5.1
• Frog is enticed from patient's mouth by offering it a piece of cheese. B784.2.3
• Transformation: cheese to stone. D471.4
• Bone-powder changed into cheese. D476.1.10
• Magic cheese. D1036.1
• Ever-renewing cheese. (Cf. D1036.1.) D1652.1.4
• Ordeal by bread and cheese. Declaration: if I am not innocent may I choke on bread and cheese. H232
• Bride test: thrifty cutting of cheese. Three girls tested. First eats rind and all, second cuts away good cheese, third cuts away just enough. H381.2
• Quest for cheese made from milk of wild white buffaloes. (Cf. H1362.1.) H1361.6
• Diving for cheese. Man (animal) sees moon reflected in water and, thinking it a cheese, dives for it. J1791.3
• Wolf tries to drink well dry to get cheese. J1791.3.1
• Cheeses thrown down to find their way home. J1881.1.1
• One cheese sent after another. Numskull lets one roll down hill; sends the other to bring it back. J1881.1.2
• Numskull tries to hatch out a calf from a cheese. J1902.2
• Sowing cheese to bring forth a cow. J1932.2
• The cat to guard the cheese. A farmer troubled with mice eating his cheese places a cat in the tub with the cheese. She eats the mice and the cheese. J2103.1
• Getting a sword to lift the cheese. A numskull sees a cheese by the side of the road and tries to lift it up with his sword, but the sword is too short. He leaves the cheese and goes away to borrow a longer sword. Meantime someone else takes the cheese. J2173.2
• Waiting at the well for the thief. A thief has stolen a salted cheese. Since one always goes to the well after eating salted cheese, the thief will also come. J2214.3
• Numskull convinced that he is a thief. An article is stolen. Declared that whoever does not eat all his cheese is the thief. A stone is put in the numskull's cheese so that he cannot eat it all. He admits the theft. J2318
• Buyer draws picture of grindstone on his order list. The grocer sends him a cheese. The buyer has forgotten to draw the hole. J2685
• Contest in squeezing water from a stone. The ogre squeezes a stone; the trickster a cheese or egg. K62
• Pot of cow dung covered with cheese sold as cheese. K143.1
• The raven with cheese in his mouth. The fox flatters him into singing, so that he drops the cheese. K334.1
• Woman alone in house rolls cheeses down the stairs after calling names of men in the house. Attackers think the men of the house are rushing down the stairs. K548.1
• Cheese smeared on crab lures giant to smell him. Crab pinches giant's neck and kills him. K827.5
• Queen disguised as peddler sells children poisoned cheese. K1817.4.1.1.1
• Women carrying cheeses concealed pretend that they are carrying webs or balls of thread. Saint changes cheeses to stones. (Cf. A977.5.1.) Q552.16.1.2
• [First Edition: T511.7.1. Conception from eating cheese.] T511.7.1[1st ed.]
• Lie: mountain of cheese. X1528.1
• Why gypsies have no churches. They ate up their churches made of cheese and bacon. (Cf. X650.) X1863
• The Twelve kinds of Food: 1 partridge, 2 turtledoves, 3 woodpigeons, 4 ducks, 5 rabbits, 6 hares, 7 hounds, 8 sheep, 9 oxen, 10 turkeys, 11 hams, 12 cheeses. Z22.2
• The house the old man was to build. The woman for whom he is to build the house has some beans for him. The goat eats these up. Cumulative search. Final formula: Smith give me my iron, iron which belongs to the man, man who ate up my fish, fish which belongs to the sea .... sea – shirt – washerwoman – soap – woman – wood – press – grease – herder – cheese – frame – fig – tree – horn – goat – beans. Z44.1