66 motifs match “honey”  ·  back to the chapters

• Origin of river: transformed flowing honey. A934.11.4
• Creation of honey-bees: transformed man. A2012.0.1
• Bees work on Sabbath: may not get honey from red clover. (Cf. A2435.5.1.) A2231.3.2
• Honey as excrement of bees. A2385.3
• Why bees may not get honey from red clover. (Cf. A2231.3.2.) A2435.5.1
• Origin of honey. A2813
• Bees (ants) leave honey on lips of infant to show future greatness. B147.3.1.2
• Wasp released from vase full of honey: grateful. B376
• Wine becomes honey. D477.0.1.2
• Transformation: water to honey. D478.5
• Honeysuckle "king of trees." D965.0.1
• Magic honey. D1037
• Rejuvenation by magic honey. (Cf. D1037.) D1338.9
• Magic honey gives immortality. (Cf. D1037.) D1346.3.1
• Magic honey protects against demons. (Cf. D1037.) D1385.28
• Magic healing honey. (Cf. D1037.) D1500.1.29
• Magic honey restores sight. (Cf. D1037.) D1505.4
• Cow whose milk "tastes of honey and intoxicating wine and the satisfaction of good food." (Cf. B19.2, B182, F241.2.) D1665.2
• Ghost will not come near person who anoints self with new honey. E439.10
• Multiple separable souls: ogre's separable spirits live in a tree (plant), fish, honey bee. E718
• Rivers of honey in otherworld. F162.2.3
• Rivers of oil, milk, wine, and honey in otherworld. F162.2.6
• Rainbow of honey appears regularly in otherworld. F162.7
• Woman fed by bees' dropping honey into her mouth (lie). F561.6
• Milk and honey flow in land. F701.1
• Sea of honey. (Cf. F715.2.4.) F711.2.5
• River of honey. (Cf. F711.2.5.) F715.2.4
• Well water tastes like oil, wine, and honey. F718.4
• Palace surrounded by rivers of wine, rose-water and honey. F771.2.4.1
• Palace surrounded by rivers of wine, rosewater, and honey. F771.7
• Shower of honey. F962.6.3
• Milk has taste of wine and honey. F1094
• Always eat bread with "honey". (Working diligently, your bread will be as sweet as honey.) H588.11
• Riddle: what is sweeter than honey? (Cf. H633.) H671
• Riddle: from the eater came forth meat and from the strong sweetness. (Swarm of bees and honey in lion's carcass.) H804
• Quest for honey from the royal bee-hive. H1332.7
• Peasant leaves honey tree standing. Sparrows and crickets ask peasant to leave tree standing. He refuses, but when he finds honey in the tree he consents. J241.2
• Frogs want to collect honey like bees. J512.15
• Drones dispute possession of honey. Ordered to make honey. Dispossessed. J581.4
• Consoled by a drop of honey. Man in pit surrounded by perils thus comforts himself. J861.1
• Gold pieces in the honey-pot. Woman leaves honey-pot with neighbor to guard. It has gold below the honey. Neighbor steals the gold and substitutes honey. Theft proved by gold pieces sticking to sides of pot. (Cf. J1192.2.) J1176.3
• Error was in the honey. Trickster takes jar filled with earth but with honey on top as bribe to the judge. He takes the decision in writing. Cheat is discovered and judge sends message that an error has been made. Reply: the decision was right; the error is in the honey. (Cf. J1176.3.) J1192.2
• Bugs unable to eat honey at banquet of bees, and bees unable to eat dung at bug's dinner. J1565.2
• Man wants roasted honeycomb. Unwilling to admit that he does not know what a honeycomb is, a stupid man asks the innkeeper's wife to roast a slice of honeycomb. J1731.2
• Numskull sits on eggs to finish the hatching. Cautions people to be quiet and not frighten the eggs. (Sometimes puts on honey and feathers before sitting on the eggs.) J1902.1
• Air-castle: the jar of honey to be sold. In his excitement he breaks the jar. J2061.1
• "Honey is sweet." A wayward son, asked by his mother to give her a sweet word, thus answers. J2497
• Woman gives friend dried comb while she herself eats the honey. K476.7
• Prisoner escapes by means of wolf which he lures near by smearing honey on the feet. K649.10
• Hare carries disguised lion covered with honey, thus luring animals into trap. K767
• Serpent asks his victim to feed him with honey, then seizes and swallows him. K815.18
• Murder by feeding with honey-covered sharpened cross-pieces of wood. K951.6
• Getting honey from the wasp-nest. The dupe is stung. K1023
• Tree becomes light (after all honey has been collected from nests), springs back and kills tribe's enemies. K1112.1
• Man falls into jar of honey and is drowned. Chases a mouse. N339.1
• Flies caught in honey. Death from greed. N339.2
• Drop of honey causes chain of accidents. Hunter drops honey in a grocery; weasel eats honey; cat chases weasel; dog chases cat; grocer kills dog: all the cause of a bloody feud between villages. N381
• Man hunting honey encounters lost maiden, returns her to her parents. N785.1
• Wine as reward. Twelve jars of honey-sweet wine as reward for protection. (Cf. Q46.1.) Q135
• Covering with honey and exposing to flies. Q464
• Bees sting honey-thieves. (Cf. Q212.) Q597.3
• Conception after eating honey given by lover. T511.7.1
• Saint has two paps – a pap with milk and a pap with honey: with these he suckles two infants. T611.5.1
• Stupid man tries to take honey from jug at night while visiting. Series of accidents. X431.1
• Lie: river of honey. X1547.2
• Lie: honey flows up high mountain. X1547.2.1