38 motifs match “crows”  ·  back to the chapters

• Why cock crows on roof with neck stretched out. A2426.2.18.1
• Food of crow. Why crows peck at flesh of men. A2435.4.7
• Why cock crows to greet sunrise. A2489.1.1
• Why elephant flees when cock crows. A2531.3.1
• Crows reveal the killing of mare. B131.1.1
• Crows announce coming of hero to otherworld. B143.0.8.1
• Village founded on spot when cock crows, dog barks, and mithian bellows. B155.2.1
• Demi-coq crows in king's body, when the king eats him. B171.1.1
• King of crows. B242.2.1
• Cock crows, "Christus natus est." B251.1.2.1
• War between crows and owls. B263.3
• Owls and crows dispute over merits of night or day vision. B299.2.1
• Silver cock, sitting on a flower, crows. D1620.2.2.1
• Roasted cock comes to life and crows. E168.1
• Cooked cock crows. E524.2.1
• Flower with "ave" on leaves. Crows from tomb as reward for faithful sayings of "Ave Maria". E631.0.2.1
• Devil disappears when cock crows. (Cf. G303.16.19.4.) G303.17.1.1
• Ordeal: cock under pot crows when guilty person touches pot. H235
• Riddle: what do crows do when they are five years old? (They start their sixth year.) (Cf. H826.) H865
• Contest in beauty between swallows and crows (ants and flies): worth lies not in beauty. J242.6
• Boast at home. In Castile a Spaniard maintains to a Portuguese that the Spanish king is best of all. In Portugal, that the Portuguese king is best. "Each cock crows in his own barnyard." J552.6
• Kites and crows quarrel over division of wounded fox. Meantime fox escapes. J581.5
• Ass follows after lion and is punished. Ass and cock are surprised by lion. Cock crows and scares lion, who runs. Ass thinks that he has scared lion and pursues. J952.2
• One cock takes glory of another's valor. Victor in cock fight crows over his victory. He is taken off by eagle. A second cock then comes out from hiding and struts about among the hens. J972
• Young crow's alertness. Crow advises young ones to fly away if they see man stooping for a stone to throw. Young crows: "What if he already has stone in hand?" J1122.1
• The wife multiplies the secret. To prove that a woman cannot keep a secret the man tells his wife that a crow has flown out of his belly (or that he has laid an egg). She tells her neighbor that two crows have flown. Soon he hears from his neighbors that there were fifty crows. J2353
• Wolf announces dawn prematurely to collect debt. The contract is to be fulfilled at daybreak. The wolf imitates the cock and crows, but is caught. K494
• Fox shams death and catches crows that come to feed on him. K827.4
• Girl refuses to dance with a devil until she is well dressed. The devil brings things till the cock crows. Another girl asks for all the things at once and must dance until she dies. K1227.3.1
• The woman as cuckoo on the tree shot down. The anger bargain is to cease when the cuckoo crows. The ogre's wife climbs the tree and imitates the cuckoo. She is shot down. K1691
• Woman killed. Disliking early rising, the servant kills devil's mother or grandmother, who crows in place of the cock. K1691.2
• Crow gets to owls pretending crows have cast him out. Having learned secret retreats of owls, he returns to crows and leads them to victory over owls. K2042
• Crow lets itself be caught so as to save king of crows. P361.9
• Queen made to scare crows away in fields. Q482.5
• Dead cock rises, crows, and spatters scoffers so that they become leprous. (Cf. Q225.) Q552.8
• Cock crows at church and the sexton awakes and begins to sing. X451
• Lies about crows. X1252
• Lie: crows mow meadow. X1252.1