28 motifs match “kettle”  ·  back to the chapters

• First money received from kettle which two dead men try in vain to carry from hell to heaven. A1433.0.1
• Tabu: relieving souls in hell. Boy who tends kettles in hell not allowed to raise covers to relieve poor souls. C741
• Magic kettle. D1171.3
• Magic kettle furnishes money. (Cf. D1171.3.) D1452.1
• Magic kettle (cauldron) turns stones to excellent food. D1472.1.11.1
• Magic kettle supplies food. (Cf. D1171.3.) D1472.1.12
• Self-boiling kettle. (Cf. D1171.3.) D1601.10.3
• Speaking kettle. (Cf. D1171.3.) D1610.13.1
• Dancing kettle. (Cf. D1171.3.) D1646.3
• Souls of drowned in heated kettles in hell. E755.2.1
• Purification in kettle of boiling oil as preparation for marriage to fairy. F303.1
• Kettle borrowed from fairies and not returned. (Cf. F343.17.) F353
• As dwarfs emigrate each deposits coin into kettle for mortals. F451.9.4
• Giant's huge kettle. F531.4.9
• Devil cooks folk in kettle. G303.25.4
• Man-eating ogre fries his victims in kettle of oil. G312.4
• Troll's daughter after being cooked in kettle recognized by golden fingernail. H79.1
• Pot calls kettle black. J1063
• Alleged self-cooking kettle sold. K112.1
• Escape by hiding in kettle. K515.4
• Making the beard golden: "such a one". A man named "Such a one" persuades an ogre to have his beard gilded. He covers it with tar and leaves the ogre caught to the tar-kettle. The ogre with his tar-kettle wanders about and asks everyone, "Have you seen such a one?" K1013.1
• Treasure buried in chest, cask, kettle, or cannon barrel. (Cf. N525.) N511.1.8
• Treasure found in chest (kettle, cask). (Cf. N511.1.8.) N525
• Kettle heating in hell for certain person. Q561.2
• Refuge under kettle. R336
• Obstinate wife refuses to take cover off boiling kettle. Is beaten by husband. T255.6
• Lie: The great kettle. X1031.1.1
• Large mosquitoes fly off with kettle. They have drilled through kettle. Their bills are clinched inside like nails. X1286.1.4