65 motifs match “green”  ·  back to the chapters

• Culture hero with different colored eyes, one brown, one green. A526.5.1
• Green pigeon cheated out of its chick: is always mourning. A2275.4.1
• Why wooddove has green eyes. A2332.5.6
• Why swallow does not like green trees for her nest. A2431.3.5.1
• Tree protects Jesus from rain: is green all year. (Cf. A2765.1.) A2711.4
• Why leaves are evergreen. (Cf. A2711.4.) A2765
• [First Edition: A2765.1. Why fig-tree is evergreen. (See A2711.4.)] A2765.1[1st ed.]
• Serpents play with precious green stone. B11.6.2.2
• Green she-goat. B731.1
• Green horse. B731.2
• Horse with crimson mane and green legs. B731.2.1
• Hound half white, half green. B731.6.1
• Red (green) swine. B731.8
• Ram with green feet and horns. B731.9.1
• Man transformed to green knight. D57.1
• Magic object received from green-clad huntsman. D823.1
• Green as magic color. D1293.2
• Green stone causes women to love the possessor. (Cf. D1070.) D1355.20
• Stone changes from red to green as auspicious sign. (Cf. D1293.1, D1293.2, D1317.12.) D1812.5.0.14
• Revenant green. E422.2.2
• Tree half green and half in flame in otherworld garden. F162.1.2.4
• Green as otherworld color. F178.2
• Green fairy. F233.1
• Fairy has one side green. F233.1.1
• Fairy in green clothes. F236.1.6
• Fairies dance on the green. F261.3.6
• Water-spirit as small gray man. Has green eyes and gray hair. F420.1.1.3
• Water-spirits with green hair and beard. F420.1.4.7
• Water-spirits with green teeth. F420.1.4.8
• Water-spirits are dressed in green. (Cf. F451.2.7.2.) F420.1.6.6.3
• Green vegetation spirit. F440.1
• Dwarf clad in green. (Cf. F420.1.6.6.3.) F451.2.7.2
• Brownie dressed in green. F482.2.1
• Person with green face. F511.1.4
• Green knight. F527.2
• Giantess with green eyes. F531.1.1.6
• Green giant. F531.1.7.1
• Green beard. F545.1.1.1
• Yellow, green, blue, purple spot on cheek. F545.3.2
• Islands of extraordinary color. Green, white, etc. F741
• Green city. F762.1
• Green chapel. Cave in green mound. F773.1
• Trees with green birds hanging by claws. F811.9
• Bird controls sex and appearance of offspring. Hatches seven eggs – three under each wing and one under breast. The right wing hatches three red males, the left three green females. The egg under the breast shares the characteristics of both sex and color – but dies. F987.1
• Devil is dressed in green. G303.5.2
• Devil in green clothing with hat. G303.5.2.1
• Devil as a hunter in green. G303.5.2.2
• Devil wears a bright green coat. G303.5.2.3
• Blood of five ogres colored yellow, red, white, green, black. G367.1
• Riddle: what is greenest? H646
• What is greenest? The Month of May. H646.1
• Task: making withered flowers green. H1023.3.2
• Quest to lions', elephants', and serpents' land for green stone. H1289.1.1
• 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
• Imagined color. Clerk tells person to imagine that blue cloth is green. The customer walks out without paying. The clerk asks for payment; the customer tells clerk to imagine he has been paid. J1551.8
• 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
• "Thank God they weren't peaches!" A man plans to take peaches as a present to the king. He is persuaded rather to take figs. They are green and the king has them thrown in his face. He is thankful that they weren't peaches. J2563
• Green plantains sold as matured plants. K147.1
• Secret remedies learned from green-clad woman. N455.5
• Doing penance till green leaves grow on a dry branch. Q521.1
• Place of saint's martyrdom perpetually green. V229.2.5
• Unusual fuel used by saints: burning stone, snow and icicles, marble pillar, and green timber. V229.9
• Owner provides cow with green goggles, feeds her sawdust or snow. X1235.3
• Symbolic color: green. Z145
• Green as symbolic of martyrdom. Z145.1