41 motifs match “cooking”  ·  back to the chapters

• Origin of cooking. A1455
• Tabu: eating from cooking hearth. C219.4
• Tabu: killing and cooking sacred cow. C221.1.1.1.3
• Tabu: using leaven for cooking. C888
• Magic porridge-pot keeps cooking. Against command, mother of owner bids pot to cook. It fills house with porridge and will not stop until ordered by mistress. C916.3
• Christ asks woman what she is cooking; she replies that she is boiling stones to make her children think they are peas and that they will have food. Christ changes the stones to peas. D452.1.6.1
• Stolen chickens turned to stones in cooking. D471.8.1
• Self-cooking vessel. (Cf. D1171.) D1601.10
• Self-cooking pot. (Cf. D1171.1.) D1601.10.1
• Self-cooking food. D1601.25
• Self-cooking fowls. (Cf. D1032.) D1601.25.1
• Self-cooking fish. (Cf. D1032.1.) D1601.25.2
• Magic crystals automatically heat for cooking. (Cf. D1601.6.) D1649.5
• Magic cooking-pot obeys only master. (Cf. D1601.10.1, D1171.1.) D1651.3
• Cooking and baking done without fire. D2158.1.5.2
• Fairies lame miller who throws sod into his kiln where fairies are cooking oatmeal; the oatmeal scalds them. F361.17.1
• Fairies steal cooking. F365.7
• Tiger lives on self-cooking food. F989.22.2
• Bride test: cooking griddle cakes. H383.1.2
• Bride test: cooking. H383.4
• Task: recovering cooking-spit from sea. H1132.1.6
• Clothes thrown into the cooking food. A trickster when told that food cooking is clothes being boiled retaliates by throwing his dirty hose into the pot. J1561.1
• Father causes inhospitable daughter to spoil her feast by deceptive advice about cooking. J1561.5
• Servants touch cooking pot. Food being considered unclean then, guests depart empty but unwitting of true reason. J1563.5.2
• Hissing of fire thought to be noise of cooking muffins. J1812.4
• Cooking processes misunderstood. J1813
• Boiling pot on the floor thought to be self-cooking. J1813.4
• Fish dancing about in cooking pot appears to be many. Cook eats one; none left. J1813.5
• Handful of black pepper taken into mouth instead of cooking it in food. J1813.6
• Singing snails rebuked. A boy roasts snails and they make noise in cooking. "Wretches, your house burns and yet you sing!" J1885
• One woman to catch squirrel; the other to get the cooking pot. One falls from the tree and kills herself; the other breaks the pot. J2661.3
• Alleged self-cooking kettle sold. K112.1
• Charging thirty cakes for cooking twenty-five. K255.1
• The substituted porridge. In cooking dinner fox's porridge is light, bear's black. At dinner fox steals spoonful of bear's porridge and lets bear taste it. Bear believes that fox's porridge is as bad as his own. K471
• Escape by pretended cooking. Girl pretends to be cooking meal for animal husband: escapes. K611.2
• Escape from madman by sending him for cooking water. (Cf. K605.) K611.2.1
• Boiling water meant for cooking hero used for man who has prepared it. K1626.3
• Grandmother causes grandchildren to be whipped: puts dirt and hairs into cooking pot by stealth and sand in the water they draw. K2175
• Corpses burned as fuel for cooking. S139.2.2.5
• Gluttonous wife eats all the meal while cooking it. W125.2
• Lie: remarkable cooking in big kitchen. X1031.3