91 motifs match “grass”  ·  back to the chapters

• God (angel) of grass. A433.5
• Pale sun made right again by using egg, yellow grass, etc. A721.4
• Formerly men ate grass: cattle ate rice and pulse. A1101.2.2
• Man made from grass. A1256.1
• Adam's body made of eight (four) things. Body, earth; bones, stones; veins, roots; blood, water; hair, grass; thoughts, wind; spirit, clouds, or warmth, fire; cold, air; dryness, earth; instability, water. A1260.1.3
• Origin of grass huts to replace caves as dwellings. A1435.3
• Creation of grasshopper. A2064
• Grasshopper builds no house for winter; ant strikes him blind: therefore born blind. (Cf. A2332.6.3.) A2233.4
• Why elephant hurts himself when running through the grass: mouse's curse. A2239.10
• Why grasshopper is born blind. (Cf. A2233.4.) A2332.6.3
• Why grasshoppers and locusts hide in day. A2491.5
• Friendship between grasshopper and dungbeetle. A2493.21
• Enmity between grasshopper and starling. A2494.13.11.1
• Grass from hair of slain person. A2611.6.1
• St. Peter's grass. Created by the saint as medicine for snakebite. A2623
• Origin of grass. A2683
• Devastating birds destroy grass. B33.1.2
• War of monkeys and grasshoppers. B263.6
• Wedding of grasshopper. (Cf. B285.1.) B285.3
• Snake sucks poisonous dew from grass. B765.3
• Transformation: man to grass. D223
• Transformation: sheep to grasshoppers. D412.7
• Transformation: grass to person. D431.5
• Transformation: grass to soldiers. D431.5.1
• Transformation: grass to other object. D451.5
• Transformation: blade of grass to horse. D451.5.1
• Transformation: blade of grass to knife. D451.5.2
• Transformation: blade of grass to gun. D451.5.3
• Transformation: grass to beard. D451.5.4
• Transformation: pieces of grass turned into stone steps. D451.5.5
• Transformation: roll of grass into gold. D451.5.6
• Transformation: moustache into grass. (Cf. D562.2.) D457.10
• Transformation to buffalo so as to eat grass. D655.1
• Magic grass. D965.12
• Speaking grass gives advice. (Cf. D965.12.) D1312.3
• Magic sod indicates falsehood by turning grassy surface downward, truth by turning it upward. (Cf. D934.1.) D1316.7
• Magic grass produces love when girl sleeps on it. (Cf. D965.12) Icelandic: Boberg. D1355.21
• Magic grass holds person fast. (Cf. D965.12.) D1411.3
• Magic grass holds person fast. (Cf. D965.12.) D1413.21
• Magic grass furnishes treasure. (Cf. D965.) D1463.6
• Magic healing grass. D1500.1.4.1
• Grass and flowers which grew upon a saint's grave are good for cures. (Cf. D975.) D1503.10.1
• Dead find no rest since grass is pulled on grave. E419.3
• In land of dead the dead walk on grass without bending it and on mud without sinking. (Cf. F973.2.) E489.9
• Grass does not grow on murderer's grave. (Cf. H271.) E631.2
• Reincarnation as a grass straw. E631.2.1
• Reincarnation: body becomes marble wall; robe, grass; eyes, pools, etc. E671.1
• Soul in form of grasshopper. E734.8
• Visit to lower world through hole made by lifting clumps of grass. F92.1
• Path to underworld marked by knots tied in grass by spirits. F95.4
• Fairies do not bend grass as they walk. (Cf. F261.2, F973.2.) F255.5
• Fairy rings on grass. Seen after fairy dance. F261.1
• Man with grass growing from his joints. F529.3
• Man can hear grass (wool) grow. F641.1
• Runner runs so swiftly that he does not snap the ears of wheat (bend grass). F681.12
• Extraordinary grass. F817
• Growing and ungrowing grass. Produces one pod daily till the fifteenth of the month; thereafter one pod shrinks each day. (Cf. F811.12.) F817.1
• Grass grows anew every night. F817.2
• Grass covered with gold dust. F817.4
• Walking on grass-blades without bending them. F973.2
• Grass refuses to grow in certain spot. Extraordinary event has happened there. F974
• Grass will not grow where blood of murdered person has been shed. F974.1
• Grass grows anew every night. (Cf. F971.1.3.) F979.18
• Grass from new grave protects against witches. G272.18
• Grass as fuel for burning ogre. G512.3.3
• Grass refuses to grow: indication of innocence of man hanged there. (Cf. E631.2, F974.) H215.3
• Enigmatic statement: the flocks are only rocks and grass. (Else you would have given the beggar milk and curds.) H594.3
• Ant and lazy cricket (grasshopper). Lazy bird is put to shame by thrift of industrious bird. In winter he is in distress. J711.1
• Why is it that black cow eats green grass, gives white milk and yellow butter? Answer: The same reason blackberries are red when they are green. J1291.1.1
• Who gets the beehive. Badger: "I was a hundred years old when grama grass first grew." Crane: "My daughter was a hundred years old when grama grass first grew." Wolf: "I am only eight years old, but we shall see who gets the beehive." J1451
• Proper food for ox and ass. Guests call each other ox and ass. Host offers green grass for the first and fodder for the second. J1563.4
• Grasshopper thought to be the devil. J1785.1
• Numskull shoots grasshopper which lighted on the shoulder of his friend and kills friend. J1833.1
• Dupe denied food until hands are clean. Grass burned around food makes continued washings unavailing. K278
• Thief pretends to return grass that has stuck to his clothes to ground where it belongs. K323
• Capture by hiding under screen (grass, leaves, etc.) K752
• Boy teaches giants how to lay a carpet of dried grass and naphtha over the hard ground floor of their cave, sets fire to it and thus suffocates them. K812.1.1
• Dupe persuaded to get into grass in order to learn new dance. Grass set on fire. K1055
• Fresh hides spread on grass; girl slips up and is deflowered. K1339.1
• Mowing grass: the meadow torn up. K1423
• Youths wear false beards (of grass, wool). K1821.4
• Sham miracle: may the grass grow up! Tricksters who have done no mowing say to their master when he angers them, "May the grass grow up again!" He finds it is full height. K1975
• Penance: lioness foregoes meat. Her two cubs are killed. The jackal tells her that he has had the same experience. She gives up eating meat and lives on grass. Q535.2
• Fugitive cuts tail of camel caught by pursuer and it turns into grass. R231.2
• Birth from grass (grain). T543.6
• Ass punished for stealing mouthful of grass; lion and wolf forgiven for eating sheep. U11.1
• Grass serves as pleasant couch for poor. U65.1
• Holy man eats pork and beef in Lent because pig is raised on milk, ox on grass; but refuses to eat cake because it contains weevils (live meat). V73.6.3
• Lies about grasshoppers. X1288
• My dog picked up a string, but did not wish to give it to me unless I gave her bread. Cupboard did not wish to give bread unless I gave it a key; smith, charcoal; charcoal-burner, calf's legbone; butcher, milk; cow, grass; meadow, water; clouds, dove's feather. Dove gave me a feather which I gave to clouds, etc. Z41.4.2
• Toad asks magpie in tree to throw down a chestnut. Magpie refuses, saying it might break its beak. Toad promises, if that happens, to get a horsehair to tie it up again. Magpie throws chestnut and breaks beak. Toad asks ass for hair, but ass first demands grass; mower demands sheep; shepherd, pup; mother dog, bread; baker, stumps. Toad cuts the stumps and gets the hair. Z43.1