58 motifs match “drinks”  ·  back to the chapters

• Giant god drinks lakes dry. (Indra). A133.1
• Giant drinks up ocean. A928
• Why hare never drinks from rivers or streams. A2435.3.12.1
• Why owl drinks no water. A2435.4.9.2
• Snake drinks milk. B765.6.1
• Animal "drinks apart" mixed liquids. Separates the parts while drinking. B781
• Image eats or drinks. D1633
• Idol drinks up milk. (Cf. D1268.) D1633.1
• Miraculous increasing of small quantity of victuals or drinks to feed a great number of people. D1652.1.0.1
• Ghost drinks. E556
• Ghost drinks liquor. E556.1
• Person will die when he drinks from horn. (Cf. D1793.) E765.4.5
• Giant eats (drinks) prodigious amount. F531.3.4
• Giant drinks up a river (lake, sea). F531.3.4.2
• Penis that eats and drinks. F547.3.2
• Boy drinks perspiration. F561.7
• Mighty drinker. Drinks up whole pools of water, or the like. (Cf. X932.) F633
• Hero throws up a stone: before it falls, he drinks a full jar empty. F636.4.1
• Devil causes salamander to appear in glass of rum, drinks it. G303.9.8.4
• Devil drinks church well dry at one draught. G303.9.9.14
• Blessing reveals seemingly pure stream to be devil's trap which kills whoever drinks from it. G303.16.2.3.5
• Piśāca. Drinks blood and eats human flesh. Eats corpses and makes living waste away. G312.1
• Ogre sucks victim's finger and drinks all his blood. G332.1
• Evil spirit drinks water supply dry. G346.4
• Ogre drinks till he bursts – turns into fog. G522.1
• Witch wishes to have as pretty teeth as man: drinks boiling oil. G525.1
• Saint drinks poison without injury as proof of power of Christianity. H1573.3.1
• Trained deer drinks wine till he breaks his leg but thereafter abstains. Thus teaches lesson to master. J133.3
• Unnecessary choice of philosophies. Aristotle drinks both red and white wine to show that all philosophies are good. J462.2
• Physician decides that there is no need of purging one who drinks so many liquids. J1115.2.1
• Points of view. Man to friend who drinks very little: "If everyone drank as you do, wine would be cheap." Answer: "On the contrary, it would be expensive because I drink all I want." J1315
• Sleeping on salt. Priest blamed for large amount of wine he drinks tells people to consider his great thirst. He has slept on a sack of salt and has enough thirst for a week. J1322.2
• Must drink from the common cup. A man always drinks out of his own cup. In storm at sea a sailor says, "Today we all drink out of the same cup (the sea). J1467
• No room left for the feast. A peasant on the way to a feast drinks so much ditch-water that he has no room left for the feast. J2178
• 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 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
• Fox drinks the milk of a tiger's mate by giving her a misleading message. K362.5.1
• Complaint about the empty bottle. While the servant in the inn is bringing a glass, the trickster drinks the wine and then complains that he has been given an empty bottle. The servant must bring another. K455.6
• Treacherous friend drinks out of other's flask to save the water in his own. K499.9
• Respite from death until hero bathes and drinks. K551.4.4
• Paramour unwittingly drinks sleeping potion. Is thought dead and placed in a chest. Chest is stolen. When he escapes he is accused of being a robber. He is saved by his mistress's maid who explains all, transferring the role played by her mistress to herself. K675.1
• Person gives his wife a poisoned drink; she pours the two drinks together. They both die. K1613.2.1
• Son who intends to poison father drinks the poison by mistake. K1613.4
• The treasure-finders who murder one another. Two (three) men find a treasure. One of them secretly puts poison in the other's wine, but the other kills him, drinks the wine and dies. K1685
• Boy accidentally drinks "poison" intended for his stepbrother. Doctor had substituted sleeping potion for the requested poison. N332.4
• Wife drinks blood of slain husband. P214
• Refusal to believe that a friend will harm one. Alexander drinks cup said to have been poisoned by his friend. P317.1
• Man sends his daughter the heart of her lover. She pours poison over it and drinks the potion. Q478.1.1
• Person drinks poison he prepared for another. Q582.8
• Saint drinks poison without being injured. V228.1.1
• Hindu drinks water by mistake from Mohammedan's vessel: his fortune turns to evil. V383.2
• Woman drinks poison that son may be king. W28.1
• Man is so miserly that he never drinks wine until it becomes strong. Gets full benefit from it. W153.4
• The deaf bishop. The drunken priest says, "In the morning I take a drink of rum and afterwards four or five little drinks." X111.13
• Shoemaker drinks more than his portion of "drink of lies", which has been prepared for all to partake of equally. X242
• Bird's pea gets stuck in socket of mill-handle. She goes to carpenter, king, queen, who refuse to help. She asks snake to bite queen, stick to beat snake, fire to burn stick, etc. Final formula: cat eats mouse, mouse cuts plant creeper, creeper snares elephant, elephant drinks up sea, sea quenches fire, fire burns stick, stick beats snake, snake bites queen, queen speaks to king, king chides carpenter, carpenter cuts mill handle, and pea is extracted. Questions in rhyme. Z41.6