47 motifs match “palm”  ·  back to the chapters

• Rows of palm trees (black spots) on the moon. A751.9.1
• Lake originally filled with palm wine. A920.1.16
• After Fall first parents fed and clothed from one palm-tree. A1420.5
• Why Palmyrenes have narrow eyes. A1666.2
• Lizard dips head in palm-oil: cause of red head. (Cf. 2320.3.) A2211.8
• Why palm-rat has swollen head. A2320.7
• Enmity between palm rat and dog. A2494.4.13
• Origin of palms. A2681.5
• Origin of palm-wine tree. A2681.12
• Why palm is tall. A2778.2
• Why sap comes from top of palm. A2791.8
• Why fruit of sago palm looks like an eye. A2791.9
• Why sago palm gives abundant sap. A2791.10
• Why fruit of date palm looks like breasts of old woman. A2791.11
• Why palm oil is red. A2877
• Monster with 100 hands, 100 palms on each hand, and 100 nails on each palm. B15.7.15
• Palm tree grows on serpent's body. B765.26
• Tabu: drinking palm-drink: only prince allowed to break it. C272.3
• Compulsion to leap yearly over stone one's size held in palm of hand. C684.3
• Transformation: scurf from body to palm tree. D457.6
• Magic objects as decoy for pursuer. Date palms are dropped which are transformed into animals which the pursuer stops to pick up. D672.1
• Magic palm tree. D950.19
• Palmetto leaves give power of flying. (Cf. D955.) D1531.10
• People of Palmyra as magicians. D1711.10.4
• Vineyard in full fruit and blooming palm found in winter on the night of Christ's Nativity. (Cf. V211.1.) D2145.2.2.1
• Giant's soul in a mole in the hollow of his palm. E714.9
• Dwarf expert at making palm wine. F451.3.4.9
• Mighty fisherman. Palm tree as rod, elephant as bait. F634
• Coat so light it can be concealed in closed palms of hand. F821.2.1
• Saint's palm over wound causes spearhead to come forth. F959.3.4.1
• Moon on forehead and stars in palm of hand as sign of royalty. H71.1.1
• Task: counting palm trees within view of king's palace. H1118.3
• Like Christ on Palm Sunday. Bishop has parson to dinner in the seat of honor. The parson fears that the dinner precedes punishment. Parson: "Don't let me be like Christ on Palm Sunday in Jerusalem" J1265.1
• Hairless palms from giving and receiving gold. Jester flatters prince for bounty. J1289.16
• Family do not realize that Lent has arrived until it is Palm Sunday. Then they explain that Lent will be short because it has been a short winter. J1743.2
• The Lord has departed. Maidservant on way to church on Palm Sunday meets priests leading ass on which Jesus rode. The maid runs home and tells her mistress that the Lord has mounted and has just gone away. J1823.1.3
• Numskull knocks the figure of Jesus from the ass. Sees the waving of palms on Palm Sunday and thinks the people are trying to knock the figure from the ass. J1823.1.4
• Hare waits in vain for leaves to fall from palm tree. J2066.8
• How the first man killed himself. The second fool imitates the first who leaps from a palm tree by means of a looped rope. The first kills himself. The second wants to see just how it happened and kills himself too. J2374
• "Greasing the judge's palms." The woman puts butter on his hands. J2475
• Trickster cheats by pretending deafness. Palm rat, when asked to throw down nuts according to bargain, replies that he is deaf when eating. K231.15
• Disguise as palmer (pilgrim). K1817.2
• Man palms off elder daughter as younger on wedding night. K1911.1.5.1
• Prophecy by reading palm. M303
• Palmer as helper. N846.1
• Crowns and palms as reward. Q193
• Palmer rescues abandoned child. (Cf. N846.1.) R131.13