82 motifs match “garden”  ·  back to the chapters

• Garden of the gods. A151.2
• Moon steals from a garden. A753.3.2
• Garden warbler hears smith beat iron: learns his song. (Cf. A2426.2.2.) A2272.1.3
• Garden warbler's song. (Cf. A2272.1.3.) A2426.2.2
• Tabu: eating griddle cakes (in Garden of Eden). C229.3
• Transformation: furnace of fire to garden. D469.5
• Transformation by plucking flowers in enchanted garden. D515
• Magic object found in garden. D849.4.1
• Magic gardens and plants. D960
• Magic garden. D961
• Garden produced by magic. (Cf. D2178.) D961.1
• Magic apple from Garden of the Hesperides. D981.1.1
• Summer and winter garden. Garden which blooms in winter. (Cf. D961.) D1664
• Magic garden grows at once. (Cf. D961.) D1667
• Garden that has not bloomed for twelve years does so when girl steps into it. (Cf. D961.) D1667.4
• Garden wall that cannot be overleapt. D1675
• Poor soil transformed into lovely garden overnight. D2157.5
• Blighted garden magically restored to beauty. D2195
• Souls on way to heaven pass through Garden of Eden. E755.1.3
• Garden in otherworld. F162.1
• Everblooming garden in otherworld. F162.1.1
• Contrasting qualities found in otherworld garden. F162.1.2
• Sweet and bitter fountain in otherworld garden. F162.1.2.1
• Cool and boiling fountain in otherworld garden. (Cf. F162.8.) F162.1.2.2
• Objects on one side of palisade in otherworld garden black, on other white. F162.1.2.3
• Tree half green and half in flame in otherworld garden. F162.1.2.4
• Island in otherworld garden inhabited half by dead and half by living. F162.1.2.5
• Trees bloom, others bear concurrently in otherworld garden. F162.1.3
• Garden in fairyland. F219.2
• Water-spirits have garden. F420.2.3
• Negro so black that he makes whole garden somber. F573
• Strong man as gardener: destroys plants. F614.3
• Lovely garden under water, with marvelous tree. F725.7
• City with hundred palaces and gardens; in one everything is of gold, in another, silver, etc. F761.1.1
• Extraordinary garden. F818
• Marvelous garden with gold and silver flowers, bees. F818.1
• Five demons keepers of marvelous garden and palace. F818.2
• Garden becomes wilderness. F975
• Garden becomes wilderness because of owner's wickedness. F975.1
• Recognition of brothers brought about by bouquet of flowers tied as father's gardener used to do. H16.3
• Garden filled with flowers on innocent girl's approach. H216.1
• Gardener's son to marry princess if he remains in prison twelve years. H317.3
• Suitor test: to make garden bloom in winter. (Cf. M261.1.) H352
• King: What is your father doing? Youth: He fences thorns with thorns. (Eggplant garden fenced with thorns.) H583.2.5
• Skillful companions create woman: to whom does she belong? Woodcarver carves a doll, tailor clothes her, gardener gives her speech (or the like). (Answer sometimes given: her father, her mother, or her husband). H621
• Task: bringing a plantain leaf from the garden without tearing it. H1041
• Task: making garden quickly in unplanted forest. H1103.1
• Task: making garden in three days. H1103.1.1
• Task: stealing pears from ingeniously guarded garden. H1151.10.1
• Task: catching devastating witch who haunts king's best garden. H1191.2
• Task: planting beautiful garden. H1199.1
• Watch for thieves in the king's garden. H1471.1
• King tests gardener's obedience by playing thief. H1557.6
• Gardener who plants vegetable tends it best. J1033
• The guilty protests his innocence. Animals put to graze in man's garden. Owner greets everyone with: "I know about you!" No one pays any attention to him except the guilty one who says: "I did not do it." Confesses. (Cf. N275.) J1141.9
• Reductio ad absurdum: the decision about the colt. A man ties his mare to a second man's wagon. The mare bears a colt which the wagon-owner claims, saying that the wagon has borne a colt. Real owner of the colt shows the absurdity (1) by fishing in the street or (2) by telling that his wife is shooting fish in the garden. Neither of these things are so absurd as the decision. J1191.1
• The funeral for the ineligible husband. A king awards a young woman to a gardener, who is already married. The young woman performs a funeral ceremony for him. The king is pleased with the jest and takes her into the harem. J1191.3
• Thief's excuse: the big wind. Vegetable thief is caught in a garden. Owner: How did you get into the garden? A wind blew me in. How were the vegetables uprooted? If the wind is strong enough to blow me in, it can uproot them. How did they get into your bag? That is what I was just wondering. J1391.1
• The ladder market. A thief climbs over a wall by means of his ladder. When caught in the garden he says that he is a seller of ladders. Owner: "Is this a ladder market?" "Can't one sell ladders everywhere?" J1391.2
• The fairest thing in the garden. Three brothers asked by princess what is the most beautiful thing in the garden. The youngest replies, "Yourself." He wins the princess. J1472
• "Eat spiritual food, not material," say monks to lazy brother who criticizes them for working in the garden. J1511.16
• Pursuing the rabbit who harmed the garden. Peasant asks a nobleman's help against a rabbit. The nobleman chases the rabbit on horseback for five days and ruins the peasant's crop. J2103.2
• King ruins his garden to get rid of viper. J2103.2.1
• Goat eats in garden and is caught. Fox says, "If your sense were as long as your beard, you would look for exits as well as entrances." J2136.3
• Imitation of magic production of garden and lake unsuccessful. J2411.7
• Barber's and jackal's common garden: jackal pretends that garden has not yielded any fruit at all. K171.8
• The stingy parson and the slaughtered pig. The stingy parson does not want to give any one a part of his pig, which he has just slaughtered. The sexton advises him to hang the pig up in the garden over night so as to make everyone think that it has been stolen. The sexton steals it himself. K343.2.1
• Turtle induced to rob in a man's garden. K1022.5
• Man disguised as gardener enters convent and seduces nuns. (Cf. K1321.4.) K1323
• Gardener disguise. K1816.1
• Treacherous gardener. K2257
• Entering a garden by swimming down a stream that flows into it. K2377
• Gardener made king by minister decides against him in law case and returns lands to plaintiff. M13.3
• Chaste woman promises herself to her lover when he can make a garden bloom in winter. (Cf. H352.) M261.1
• Hero finds maiden in (magic) garden. N711.3
• Maiden found in magic garden; prince's wife in former life. N741.5
• Penance: planting garden and offering free hospitality to all. (Cf. Q481.) Q523.5
• Gardener rescues abandoned child. R131.8.2
• Girl sleeps in garden to meet lover. Discovered next morning and married. T36
• Holy man restores a garden to bloom. V222.12
• Robbers who enter saint's garden to steal are caused to spade it up for him. This proves him to be saint. V222.16
• Man weeds garden from cushioned rocking chair, using fire tongs to reach weeds. W111.5.13