122 motifs match “drinking” — showing the first 100; narrow the words for the rest  ·  back to the chapters

• Rainbow from gods' emptying their drinking cups. A791.6
• Theft of light by being swallowed and reborn. The hero transforms himself to a particle. The daughter of the guardian of light swallows him as she is drinking water. He is reborn. As a child in the house he steals light. A1411.2
• Origin of compulsory drinking at feast. A1514
• Origin of drinking ceremonies. A1514.1
• Falcon saves master from drinking poisoned water. B143.1.4
• Drinking-bout assembly of animals. B237
• Faithful falcon killed through misunderstanding. Tries to warn the king against drinking water poisoned by snake. B331.1
• Faithful horse killed through misunderstanding. Tries to warn king against drinking water poisoned by snake. B331.1.1
• Animal warns man against drinking. B521.1.2
• Animal "drinks apart" mixed liquids. Separates the parts while drinking. B781
• Person drinking from brook swallows animal eggs (frog or newt). B784.1.1
• Tabu: drinking. C250
• Tabu: drinking at certain place. C260
• Tabu: drinking from certain fountain. C261
• Tabu: drinking in other world. C262
• Tabu: drinking from certain river between two darknesses. C263
• Tabu: drinking certain things. C270
• Tabu: drinking milk. C271
• Tabu: drinking wine. (Cf. C251.) C272
• Tabu: drinking wine touched by hand of heathen. C272.1
• Tabu: drinking wine at certain time. (Cf. C755.) C272.2
• Tabu: drinking palm-drink: only prince allowed to break it. C272.3
• Tabu: drinking water. C273
• Tabu: drinking water during certain time. C273.1
• Tabu: drinking water from certain bottle. C273.2
• Miscellaneous eating and drinking tabus. C280
• Tabu: drinking without presence of dead heads. C281
• Forbidden drinking horn. One may drink from anything else. C622
• Transformation: drinking horn to dragon. D444.6
• Transformation: statue to drinking vessels. D454.15
• Transformation by eating or drinking. D550
• Transformation by drinking. D555
• Transformation by drinking from animal's track. (Cf. D578.) D555.1
• Transformation by drinking wine. D555.2
• Disenchantment by drinking blood. D712.4.1
• Disenchantment by eating or drinking. D764
• Disenchantment by drinking milk of queen who has borne two boys. (Cf. D759.2.) D764.1
• Disenchantment by drinking from golden vessel. D771.5
• Magic drinking horn. D1171.6.3
• Drinking blood teaches animal languages. (Cf. D1041.) D1301.2
• Magic drinking horn gives warning. (Cf. D1171.6.3.) D1317.18
• Magic writings on drinking horn cause forgetfulness. (Cf. D1365.2.) D1365.10
• Magic drinking-tube holds person fast. (Cf. D1255.) D1413.23
• Magic drinking horn supplies drink. (Cf. D1171.6.3.) D1472.1.24.1
• Magic drinking horn with a man's head speaks. (Cf. D1171.6.3.) D1610.25
• Cure for leprosy by drinking from opposite lip of horn from that which caused it. (Cf. D1500.4.1, D1502.4.1.) D1783.2
• Magic results from eating or drinking. D1793
• Magic wisdom from eating or drinking. D1811.1
• Magic wisdom from drinking of well. (Cf. D1242.1, D1300.3, V134.) D1811.1.2
• Power of prophecy from accidental drinking of water from magic fountain. D1812.2.3
• Rejuvenation by drinking from magic horn. D1889.9
• Barrenness removed by eating or drinking. D1925.1
• Forgetfulness by drinking. D2004.3.1
• Witch prevents person from drinking. D2072.0.5.1
• Theft of cup (drinking horn) from fairies. F352
• Theft of cup (drinking horn) from fairies when they offer mortal drink. F352.1
• Tabu: drinking from certain well in fairyland. Person does, finds himself alone on hillside. (Cf. C260.) F378.4
• Huldra have drinking-horn. F460.2.10
• Hero's unusual strength from drinking his own mother's milk. F611.2.0.1
• Gigantic drinking horn. F866.2.1
• Golden drinking horn. F866.3.1
• Extraordinarily costly drinking horn. F866.6
• Hood holds wine as drinking horn. F866.7.1
• Buffalo sucks hero with water it is drinking and throws him up again in game of hide-and-seek. (Cf. F911.3.1.) F914.2
• Cow lowers ocean by drinking. F989.11.1
• Devil engages in drinking contest with man for purse of gold. Gold causes man to become miser. G303.9.8.5
• Suitor test: resisting intoxication after much drinking. H328.1
• Magic drinking horn (cup) as chastity test. (Cf. D1171.6.) Unchaste woman cannot drink from cup. H411.4
• Drinking bitter water as chastity test. Water will poison the unchaste. H411.4.1
• Drinking-tube as chastity index: retains taste of another's lips. H439.2
• Riddle: what six things are not worth doing? (Sowing salt, mowing pebbles, drinking from an empty jug, making signs to a blind man, wooing at mealtime, playing a harp in a mill.) H871
• Task: drinking beer without touching pot. H1046.3
• Task: drinking enormous amount. H1142
• Task: drinking wine – cellar empty. H1142.1
• Task: drinking the sea dry. H1142.2
• Task: drinking the sea dry (illusion produced by magic thread which makes hero think he is drinking from spring). H1142.2.1
• Task: drinking the sea dry: countertask: stop all the rivers. (Cf. H951.) H1142.3
• Fear test: eating and drinking from skulls. H1434
• Ungrateful son reproved by naïve action of his own son: preparing for old age (wooden drinking cup or bowl). J121.1
• The road to Heaven. To doctor: "If this is the way to get to Heaven (drinking) I don't want to know any other!" J1314
• Though old woman is made to believe she is in hell she calls for drinking companions. J1321.2
• "Do as I say and not as I do." Doctor forbids patient to drink wine. When patient reproves doctor for drinking wine the latter says: "Just now it is bad for you and good for me." J1433
• Clever deductions by eating, smelling, drinking, etc. J1661.2
• Drinking the moon. The numskull sees a cow drink from a pool where the moon is reflected. The moon goes under a cloud. He thinks the cow has eaten the moon and slaughters her to recover it. J1791.1
• Dogs by river try to get food in river by drinking the river dry. J1791.3.2
• Demon tries to recover object from river by drinking it dry. J1791.3.2.1
• Absurd ignorance concerning animal's eating and drinking. J1903
• Drinking gruel by making hole in pot. Gruel runs out. J2176.2
• The fool testifies: "I had been drinking and was lying on the bench asleep. I saw him hit him over the head with an axe but don't know whether he hit him or not." J2667
• Deceptive drinking contest. K82
• Deceptive drinking contest: hole for water. The trickster lets the water run out through a hole; the dupe drinks himself to death. (Cf. K81.1.) K82.1
• Deceptive drinking contest: rising and falling tide. Buffalo and heron wager as to which can drink the sea until the water falls. The buffalo drinks as the tide is coming in; the heron drinks in the falling tide and wins. K82.1.1
• Deceptive drinking contest: relative helpers. (Cf. K81.2.) K82.2
• Deceptive contest in drinking whisky. The man drinks water, the devil is given vinegar. K82.3
• Deceptive drinking contest: pretended swallowing. One bullock keeps mouth in water. Other drinks self to death. K82.4
• Drinking only after a bargain. A woman having thus sworn keeps buying and selling the same mule many times a day. K236.2
• Respite from death until prisoner has finished drinking his glass. It is left half finished. K551.2
• Victim enticed into drinking by over-salting his food: killed when off guard. K839.3
• Hero, who has eloped with affianced wife of king, induced to return to court and treacherously slain during enforced absence of his sureties at drinking bouts. K929.8
• Death by drowning: man strangles to death on drinking water. M341.2.3.1