24 motifs match “miller”  ·  back to the chapters

• Miller of hell. A677.2
• Cat's paw cut off: woman's hand missing. A man spends a night in a haunted mill, where he cuts off a cat's paw. In the morning the miller's wife has lost her hand. (Cf. D142, D621.1.1.) D702.1.1
• Fairies lame miller who throws sod into his kiln where fairies are cooking oatmeal; the oatmeal scalds them. F361.17.1
• Learned professor from one university examines by signs a professor at another university (actually shoemaker or miller or the like). H607.2.1
• Fourth horse must carry all. Miller has four horses to carry grain. He uses only one, so that it soon dies. Four horses are childhood, youth, manhood, and old age. Don't heap all burden of securing salvation on the fourth horse, old age. J761.2
• Miller, his son, and the ass: trying to please everyone. Miller blamed when he follows his son on foot; when he takes the son's place on the ass; when he takes the son behind him; and when he puts the son in front of him. J1041.2
• The ass beheaded. King vows to sacrifice first thing he meets. It is a miller driving an ass. Miller pleads that the ass preceded him. They behead the ass. J1169.4
• The overloaded mule. Priest complains that miller's mule is overloaded. "No, he isn't; he can still carry all your and your brothers' patience." J1302
• The double fool. A numskull caught changing meal from others' sacks into his own. Miller asks him what he is doing. "I am a fool." "Why then don't you put your meal into their sacks?" "I am only a simple fool. If I did that I should be a double fool." J1393
• The double-cheating miller. He confesses that he has an oversized measure and agrees to get a smaller one. He measures back the grain in the smaller measure. K486
• Lover given rump to kiss. Sometimes the trick is played by a rival lover. (Chaucer's Miller's Tale). K1225
• Peasant refuses to sell possessions to king. (Miller of Sanssouci.) P411.1
• Miller. P443
• Water-miller. P443.0.1
• Why millers are thieves. P443.1
• Miller rescues abandoned child. R131.2
• Miller rescues drowning princess. R131.2.1
• Jokes about millers. (Cf. P443.) X210
• Millers as thieves. X211
• The honest miller. Baker cannot understand how a man who has been a miller can be a beggar. It is a wonder that the farmers are not beggars instead. X212
• Priest commends the poor miller. If he had been like the rest of the congregation he would have become rich. X212.1
• Why no millers in hell. A mad dog in place of a miller in a sack. X213
• Monks get revenge on millers. Drunken millers force monks to dance. Millers are enticed to monastery and beaten. X214
• The death of the cock. (Der Tod des Hühnchens.) The cock chokes and the hen seeks aid of objects and persons (stream, tree, pig, miller, baker, etc.). Z32.1.1