99 motifs match “feast”  ·  back to the chapters

• Widespread calamity when feast of John the Baptist shall fall on certain day. A1002.1
• Intoxicating drink first used at the wedding feast of the first couple. A1427.0.3
• Origin of compulsory drinking at feast. A1514
• Origin of secular feasts. A1535
• Origin of the potlatch. A feast of the Indians of the Northwest Coast of America in which large amounts of property are given away to the guests. These feasts must be returned. A1535.1
• Origin of feast of Tara. A1535.4
• Origin of religious feasts and fasts. A1541
• Origin of feast for the dead. (Cf. A1543.1.) A1541.1
• Communion feast to placate dead. A1541.1.2
• Origin of feasts in honor of certain god (goddess). A1541.2
• Origin of feast for Zise. A1541.2.1
• Origin of Sabbath from a feast to Venus. A1541.4.1
• Animal characteristics: obtaining for feast and not returning. (Cf. A2378.1.5, A2378.2.6.) A2242
• Wolves have annual (church) feast. B253.2
• Tabu: feasting for a week. C230.1
• Tabu: feasting by night at beginning of harvest. C237
• Tabu: refusing a feast. C282
• Tabu: leaving a feast before it is ended. C282.1
• Tabu: partaking of certain feast. C286
• Tabu: consuming feast without discovering a new wonder. C287
• Tabu: feasting visitor at certain place. C616
• Compulsion to invite singer to feast. Until that is done, the beer will not stop foaming. (Cf. C671.) C682
• Tabu: allowing person to come to feast after sunset. C752.1.4
• Meat miraculously turned into fish on a feast day, and vice versa. D476.3.4
• Charm prepares feast. (Cf. D1273.) D1472.2.4
• First to partake of certain feast will be first to disobey the king (etc.). D1812.5.0.7.1
• Wild hunt appears on feast-days. E501.11.2.3
• Perpetual feasts in otherworld. F173.3
• Fairies feast. F263
• Fairy's share of feast a nut. F263.1
• Fairy takes revenge for not being invited to feast. F361.1.1
• Dwarfs invisibly attend wedding or christening feasts of mortals. (Cf. F451.3.3.8.) F451.5.17
• Invisible dwarfs at christening feast made to speak by brewing beer in egg-shell. (Cf. F321.1.1.1, F481.4.) F451.5.17.1
• Dwarfs feast mortals in their home. F451.6.3.1
• One giant invites another to a feast (wedding). Latter must be satisfied that food is plentiful. F531.6.8.4.1
• Old woman calls beasts together to join her in feast on human flesh. G11.6.3
• Unwitting cannibalism: scavenger in wedding feast finds basket of noses put there by hero and thinks it full of meat. G63
• Witches feast on rich food and drink. G248
• Man joins feast of witches. (Cf. G242.7.) G248.1
• Man marries a she-devil He catches her as succubus and marries. Some years later his wife's brothers invite them to a feast (wedding) and he gets gifts or wife's dowry. G303.12.6.1
• Satan appears at a feast where the poor are absent. G303.15.6
• Hideous food and drink at the night-spirits' (devils') feast. G303.25.14.1
• The devils' dances and feasts. G303.25.17
• Devil as gentleman invites a traveler to the feast (wedding). (Cf. G303.7.1.2.2.) G303.25.17.1
• Devils arrange a wedding feast for a woman who hanged herself. G303.25.17.3
• Cup taken as proof that one has been present at feast. H84.2
• Bride chosen from girls assembled at feast. (Cf. H311.) H362
• Bridegroom propounds riddles at wedding feast. H540.5
• Happenings before feast give Samson clue for riddles. H565.1
• Riddle: how many dead mice go to a feast? (None.) H881.1
• Day after Feast Day disputes importance with Feast Day. Former reprimanded. J976
• No clothes needed for Day of Judgment. Friends tell a man that the next day is the Day of Judgment and urge him to kill a lamb and give a feast. He apparently consents. He then burns up their clothes. They will not need clothes on the Day of Judgment. J1511.7
• Stingy man rebuked when his children are feasted in his absence. They think he has been responsible and honor him. He reforms. J1522.2
• Father causes inhospitable daughter to spoil her feast by deceptive advice about cooking. J1561.5
• Trickster's interrupted feast revenged. He is asked a question by his master each time he tries to eat a date, so that he always has to spit out the date. He revenges himself that night when the master tries to carry on an intrigue with his wife's maid. He comes with his answers at embarrassing moments. J1564.1
• Revenge by interrupting feast. A rabbi who has been inhospitably treated is afterwards invited to dinner. He keeps the guests so amused by his jokes that they fail to eat and the feast is spoiled. J1564.2
• Deceptive invitation to feast. J1577
• Inviting to a feast only those whose households have never been touched by death. None comes. J1577.1
• Ignorant people told religious holiday is coming the next day: camel appears and is feasted. J1738.7
• Fool does not milk cow for a month so that she will give plenty for a feast. J1905.1
• Sleeping trickster's feast stolen. Before eating his booty the numskull sleeps. J2173.1
• 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
• King promises valuable dog to each of two powerful and mutually hostile tribes. At feast prepared by king the two tribes get into fight and king escapes. K234.1
• The other man to pay the bill. Three feast at an inn and each makes the host believe that one of the others will pay. None has money and the host is cheated. K455.4
• The priest as surety. Feasters are imprisoned because of failure to pay for the food. They name the priest as surety and are released. The priest has been told that the host is possessed and agrees to come to heal him in two weeks. The host loses the money. K455.5
• Wolf kept at door until children have been christened. He loses his feast. K551.8
• Birds led into trap by promise of a feast. K730.5
• Enemies invited to feast and poisoned. K811.1.2
• Cat invites hens to a feast and kills them. K815.4
• Disguised hero attacks enemy at feast. K913
• Disguised shipwrecked men admitted to the king's house kill him at Yule feast in revenge for murder. K913.1
• The feigned wedding-feast. The husband returns unexpectedly to find his wife entertaining the paramour with a sumptuous feast. He is made to believe the feast is in honor of some newly-weds. K1527
• Feast for those who have not known sorrow. Dying Alexander's letter to his mother orders such a feast. No one comes. N135.3.1
• Criminal accidentally detected: "that is the first" – sham wise man. The sham wise man employed to detect theft is feasted. As the servants enter with food he remarks to his wife, "That is the first" (course). (Or allowed to feast for three days remarks at end of first day "That is the first.") The servants, thinking they are detected, confess. N611.1
• Feast as occasion for the beginning of adventures or the arrival of questers. N770.0.1
• Barmecide feast. Host places imaginary feast before guest, who accepts it in the same spirit. Guest's courtesy is rewarded by real feast. P327
• Sitting in a circle of feasts. P338
• Tribe failing to attend yearly feast to send gift as sign of submission. P531.1
• Laws made at yearly feast. P541.2
• Laws made at feast every seven years. P541.2.1
• "The champion's portion." The choicest portion assigned to the bravest at feasts. P632.2.1
• Feasts. P634
• Feast (hospitality) endures for three days and three nights. P634.1
• Feast (hospitality) endures for seven days and seven nights. P634.2
• King refuses to invite Patrick to feast. Poor man kills only cow and uses his only measure of meal to entertain Patrick. Patrick blesses his wife and son. Q45.1.2
• Peasants punished for working on feast day. They cannot leave the field for several days. (Cf. Q223.) Q559.4
• Murder by luring to feast and suffocating. All holes are stopped and house set afire. S113.2.3
• Princess declares love by presenting cup of drink at feast. T55.8
• Wedding feast. T136.1
• Marriage odes sung at wedding feast. T136.3.2
• Affianced wife of chieftain falls in love with another man at betrothal feast, drugs the company with sleeping potion, and forces man of her choice to elope with her. T157
• Feast of "bedding and handspreading" before consummation of marriage. T162
• At feast cat chooses rat meat; other animals cannot eat it. U135.1
• Religious feasts and fasts. V70
• Feast of Saint John the Baptist. V70.3.1
• Feast of the new moon. V70.7
• Host requires deed of bravery before feast is eaten. W213.1
• Louse and flea wish to marry. Mosquito, toad, ant, etc. volunteer to supply the wedding feast. Z31.2
• Seven (three) years between feasts. Z72.3