24 motifs match “chickens”  ·  back to the chapters

• Why wildcats come and eat chickens. A2435.3.15
• Enmity between birds of prey and chickens. A2494.13.10.6
• Stolen chickens turned to stones in cooking. D471.8.1
• Automatic hen and chickens of gold. D1620.2.2
• Revenant as hen. Sometimes with chickens. E423.3.6
• 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
• 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
• Suit for chickens produced from boiled eggs. Countertask: harvesting crop produced from cooked seeds. J1191.2
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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 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