26 motifs match “harvest”  ·  back to the chapters

• Custom of sacrifice begun at harvest and sowing times. A1545.4
• Why monkey has first fruits of harvest in every field. A2433.3.19.1
• Why wheat must be planted in one year and harvested in the next. A2793.2.1
• Tabu: feasting by night at beginning of harvest. C237
• Magic branch when used as a threshing pole produces marvelous harvest of rice. (Cf. D954.) D1563.1.6
• Trolls help with grain harvest. F455.6.8.1
• Giant's present: magic loaf producing inexhaustible harvest. F531.5.6.2
• One traveler to another: That field (uncut) is already harvested. (Belongs to spendthrift who has already spent the money.) H586.4
• Task: hatching boiled eggs; countertask: sowing cooked seeds and harvesting the crop. (Cf. H951, H952.) H1023.1.1
• Industrious ant works always at his harvest to keep it dry. Ant brings stored grain out into sun to keep it safe. J711.5
• Crow thinks harvesters are stealing his grain. J953.7
• Grain will be cut when farmer attends to it himself. Lark leaves her young in the cornfield. They hear farmer tell sons to go to neighbors for help in harvesting. Lark tells young not to worry. Same when he sends for relatives. Farmer decides to harvest it himself. Larks move, for they now know that it will be done. J1031
• Suit for chickens produced from boiled eggs. Countertask: harvesting crop produced from cooked seeds. J1191.2
• Woman thinks calf's bleating has accused her of stealing from harvest. Begs that people not believe what calf said. (Cf. N611.) J1895
• Harvesting early for half a crop. J1932.6
• Harvesting contest. K42
• Contest: harvesting the hay. The man calls out, "The wolves are coming!" The ogre is intimidated. K42.0.1
• Payment to be made at harvest of first crop. The man plants acorns. K221
• Monkey attracts attention of mowers until young birds can fly away from the harvest field. K644
• Men are too rich: weeds created to spoil their harvests. L482.2
• During rainy spring, farmer wishes that Lord would sleep till harvest time. Farmer himself sleeps until all neighbors have finished harvesting. When he wakes, he finds his crops ruined. (Cf. Q235.) Q585.3
• Prayer for good harvest. V57.1
• Harvest-festival. V70.4
• Trained horse as harvester and hunter. He rolls in the field. Oats in his flanks; club in his tail kills birds. (Cf. X1252.1.) X1241.2.2
• Lie: harvesting great vegetable. X1401.2
• Wages: successive harvests from one grain of rice. Master has no fields left. Z21.1.1