48 motifs match “chicken”  ·  back to the chapters

• Creation of chicken. A1988
• Why wildcats come and eat chickens. A2435.3.15
• Enmity between civet cat and chicken. A2494.1.8
• Enmity between fox and chicken. A2494.9.2
• Enmity between birds of prey and chickens. A2494.13.10.6
• Magic chicken (hen, cock). B171
• Speaking chicken. B211.3.2.1
• Chicken as laborer. B292.9.2
• Helpful chicken. B469.5.1
• Chicken picks out one of attacker's eyes. B524.8
• Transformation: man to chicken (cock, hen). D166.1
• Stolen chickens turned to stones in cooking. D471.8.1
• Magic chicken-thigh. D1013.1
• Arrows rubbed with black chicken fatal. D1402.7.5.1
• Magic chicken wing keeps one warm in cold weather. (Cf. D1022.) D1481.1
• Automatic hen and chickens of gold. D1620.2.2
• Revenant with chicken feet. E422.1.6
• Revenant as hen. Sometimes with chickens. E423.3.6
• Spirits with goose (chicken) feet. F401.3.5
• Cobold accidently acquired. A rope or chicken is found and taken home. Found to be a cobold. F481.0.1.4
• Strong hero asks that chickens stop scratching. When his master throws millstone on him he complains that chickens are scratching dirt on him. F615.3.1.1
• Blindness cured by application of chicken dung. F952.5
• Old woman gives chickens to devils. They do not accept them. She gives them to priests and they eat them. G303.25.6
• King: What is your mother doing? Youth: She cuts off the heads of the well to cure the sick. (Kills chickens to feed her sick mother.) H583.4.3
• Give coals orange color, let glimmer of gold appear like expanse of heaven, prepare two heads of darkness. (Request for chickens for breakfast.) H599.6
• Kite as king of chickens. J643.2
• Fox stumbles over violin. Chased from chicken coop by dogs. When he stumbles he says, "What a fine opportunity to dance if I had time!" J864.1
• Suit for chickens produced from boiled eggs. Countertask: harvesting crop produced from cooked seeds. J1191.2
• Forbidden to think. A husband forbids a wife to think. During his absence she roasts a chicken, eats it, and leaves two drumsticks on the table. The husband asks for the chicken. "Since you have forbidden me to think, I did not think of you." The ban is lifted. J1511.8
• Scholar given third egg. A scholar, showing his skill in logic, proves that two chickens (or eggs) on the table are really three. His father (or host) takes one chicken for himself, gives the other to the mother, tells son that he can have the third one. J1539.2
• The peasant's share is the chicken. He serves small birds and a roast chicken to his guests. Guests each take a small bird, leaving only the chicken when the plate reaches the host. He takes the whole chicken saying: "Since everyone has a bird, I must have one too." J1562.2
• Drunkard cured of seeing double. When he claims to see two roast chickens, his wife takes the one chicken away and he falls into the fire trying to find the other. J1623
• Teaching chickens to talk. Fool believes they can be taught. J1882.1
• Guarding chickens from the fox. Numskull ties their beaks and weights them down in the river with stones. J2125
• Fool kills chickens by throwing them off a balcony against a stone. Kites carry them off. J2173.5
• A fleeing fox loses an eye in the briars. Returns the next day and eats it, thinking that it tastes like chicken. J2182
• Imitation of diagnosis by observation: ass's flesh. A doctor tells his patient that he has eaten too much chicken, and this the patient confesses. The doctor's son wants to know how the diagnosis was made. The doctor says that as he rode up he observed chicken feathers and made his conclusions. The son imitates. He sees an ass's saddle. Diagnosis: you have eaten too much ass's flesh. J2412.4
• Fox is promised chickens: is driven off by dogs. K235.1
• Thief frightens priest as the latter crosses cemetery. Meanwhile a confederate steals his chickens. K335.0.5.2
• Delivery boy is frightened into giving up his chickens. Trickster upturns his eyelids and puts on boar's tusks. K335.0.9
• Thieves steal chickens and have mock funeral to cover theft. K375
• Trickster buys chickens telling owner that priest will pay. When owner comes to collect, the trickster tells the priest that a heretic has come for confession. Then he flees. (Cf. K242.1.) K455.4.1
• Girl serves her father with piece of her own flesh in place of chicken. K492
• Educated chickens tell of woman's adultery. A trickster undertakes to teach a woman's chickens to talk. When he reports that they are saying that she has slept with the priest, she pays him off. K1271.1.3
• The husband in the chicken house. The husband returns unexpectedly and surprises his wife with her lover. She makes the husband believe he is pursued and hides him in the chicken house. (Cf. K1514.9.) K1514.1
• Hypocrite will not share in stolen chicken – only takes some gravy. K2095.2
• The priest's guest and the eaten chickens. The servant who has eaten the chickens tells the guest to flee because the priest is going to cut off his ears, and he tells the priest that the guest has stolen two chickens The priest runs after him. K2137
• Enmity between priests and monks: chickens and eggs. Monks eat eggs and make chickens expensive; priests eat hens and make eggs high. X428