72 motifs match “crab”  ·  back to the chapters

• Primeval crab pulls first five living creatures out of his side. A1211.8
• Creation of crab. A2171.2
• Crab thrown to ground: breaks into small pieces. Hence crabs are small. A2214.4
• Discourteous answer: why crab has eyes behind. (Cf. A2332.4.1.) A2231.1.3
• Crab beats deity's forbidden drum: eyes lift out of body. (Cf. A2332.4.2.) A2231.10
• Origin of dents in crab's shell. A2312.3
• Why crab has no head. A2320.4
• Why crab lifts eye out of body or has eye behind. (Cf. A2231.10, A2231.1.3.) A2332.4.2
• How crab got its claws. A2376.4
• Why crab has legs like teeth of a comb. A2376.5
• Why quail has no tail. Tricks crab into pulling out tail instead of killing her. Says that gripping her neck would not hurt but that pulling tail will be fatal. A2378.2.1
• Cross on crab's back. A2412.4.4
• Haunts of crab. A2433.6.3
• Why crabs live in water. A2433.6.3.1
• Why crabs burrow in sand. A2433.6.3.2
• Why common crab lives underground. A2433.6.3.3
• Cause of crab's walk. A2441.4.2
• Friendship between crab and cobra. A2493.19
• Friendship between bird and crab. A2493.27
• Enmity between jackal and crab. A2494.5.3
• Enmity between crab and spider. A2494.16.5
• Why crab is cunning. A2525.2
• Why crab is afraid in dark. A2534.1
• Mythical crab. B94.1
• Golden crab. B102.8
• Magic crab. B178.1
• Singing crab. B214.1.8
• Crab sings about his captivity. B214.1.8.1
• Wedding of crab. B283.1
• Helpful crab. B495.1
• Hero saved from ravaging snake by crab companion. [Inadvertant duplication of B549.5.] B524.1.12
• Crab as nurse for child. B535.0.13
• Hero saved from ravaging snake by crab companion. [Inadvertant duplication of B524.1.12.] B549.5
• Marriage to person in crab form. B647.1.1
• Crab's offspring born through its chest. B754.7.1
• Giant crab. B876.2.1
• Tabu: eating crabs. C221.1.3.3
• Transformation: man to crab. D175
• Transformation: god to crab. D175.1
• Transformation: crab to man. D375
• Girl destroys crab shape of husband and disenchants him permanently. D719.2
• Reincarnation as crab. E629.2
• Tricky potter reborn as crab. E692.3
• Hailstones, each as large as a crabapple. F962.5.1.1
• Crab carries in his ear cat, tiger, bamboos, river. F982.8
• "Do not go alone on journey": counsel proved wise by experience. Helpful crab saves from attack by crocodile. J21.36
• Bear learns how to catch crabs with his hairy claws. J102
• Crab would rather be killed outright than imprisoned and starved. J216.3
• Dolphin and whale scorn crab as peacemaker. J411.6
• Crab comes ashore: killed by fox. J512.1
• Crab takes hold of heron's neck and fearing attack cuts neck and kills him. J631
• Snake disregards warnings to improve his manners: eaten by crab. J1053
• Mother crab blames her children for not walking straight. J1063.1
• Crab mistaken for tailor. J1762.1.2
• Crab caught on tiger's tail thought to be pursuing man. J1762.3
• Crab thought to be the devil. Becomes red. J1785.2
• Hedgehog and crab jump from boat after turtle. They fall on floating leather. J2133.11
• Trickster pinched by shellfish (crab). J2136.4
• Crab tries to imitate bird who lays egg in pot of boiling water. Falls in instead of being rewarded. J2415.3
• Bungling rescuer caught by crab. He tries to rescue woman caught by crab. Is caught himself and found in embarrassing position. J2675
• Crab demands seven patas as payment for four patas of paddy frog has borrowed. K255.2
• Thief places candles on crabs (bugs). When they are turned loose in the churchyard the parson and the sexton think that they are the souls of the dead. Meanwhile the thief steals from them. K335.0.5.1
• Drowning punishment for turtle (eel, crab). By expressing horror of drowning, he induces his captor to throw him into the water – his home. K581.1
• Crabs induced to take moonlight walks: eaten. K772.1
• Cheese smeared on crab lures giant to smell him. Crab pinches giant's neck and kills him. K827.5
• Crab carried by crane, clings round his neck and cuts off his head with pincers. K953.3
• Tiger made to believe that his captor has eaten many crabs. Tiger fears crabs and releases him. K1715.13
• What is in the dish: "Poor Crab". A sham wise man named Crab is put to a test of his powers of divination. He is to tell what is in a covered dish (crabs). In despair he says, "Poor Crab!" and is given credit for knowing. N688
• Crab walks backward: learned from his parents. U121.1
• Lies about crabs. X1344
• Lie: crab hunts hare. X1344.1
• Trial among the animals. Deer steps on kitten: cat investigates. Deer has been frightened by bird, this bird by another bird .... by crab's pointed claw, crab by mouse in his hole. Cat eats mouse. (Frog croaks because turtle carries his house on his head; turtle carries house because firefly is bringing fire; firefly brings fire because mosquito tries to bite him, etc.) Z49.6