57 motifs match “parrot”  ·  back to the chapters

• World is transformed mud parrot in golden cage. A822.1
• Creation of parrot. A1994
• Why parrot's beak is black. A2343.2.1
• Why tail of West African grey parrot is red. A2378.8.2
• Color of parrot. (Cf. A2219.1.) A2411.2.6.11
• What parrot says. A2426.2.11
• Why parrot lives in tree. A2433.4.4
• Why parrots fly high. A2442.1.2
• Friendship between hare and parrot. A2493.13
• Friendship between parrot and maina. A2493.26
• Why we know that the parrot comforts and helps man. A2493.35
• Enmity between parrot and starling. A2494.13.11.3
• Prophesying parrot. B122.0.4
• Parrot scout sent to enemy camp to ascertain strength. B122.8
• Warning parrot. B143.1.3
• Speaking parrot. B211.3.4
• Land of parrots. B222.4
• King of parrots. B242.2.8
• Parrot and sparrow argue right to inherit property left by man. Sparrow says his interests are the same as man's; parrot says that he caused all man's wealth, since man sold his feathers. People's decision for parrot. B271.1
• Parrot as messenger. B291.1.6
• Parrot transacts business of trader. B294.5
• Faithful parrot killed by mistake. B331.3
• Wife demands magic parrot who has accused her. B335.4
• Helpful parrot. B469.9
• Jewel recovered from sea by helpful parrot. B548.6
• Parrots carry couple across the sea. B551.2.1
• Parrot gives advice to queen playing chess, and she always wins. B565
• Marriage to parrot. B602.7
• Transformation: man to parrot. D157
• Transformation: parrot to person. D357
• Images of parrots vivified. D445.2
• Seven girls in guise of seven parrots come to boy who has spurned them. D658.3.3
• Reincarnation as parrot. E613.12
• Separable soul in parrot. E715.1.3
• Ogre's life in parrot's feather in man's pocket. E715.1.3.1
• Ogre with life in parrot, speaks from inside parrot. E715.1.3.2
• Extraordinary still (with the beads of crocodiles, owls, and parrots as pots). F891
• Separable soul of witch in parrot. (Cf. E732.) G251.1.1
• Task assigned at suggestion of parrot. H919.3
• Quest for beautiful girl about whom parrots are heard speaking. H1214.1
• Test of sex of girl masking as man: warned by a parrot, she picks only one flower. H1578.1.6
• Don't set a hungry guard over food. Parrot set to guard figs eats his fill. When replaced he calls attention to the fact that he is now full and therefore safer than another hungry parrot. J215.1.1
• Snake wants to act as pet like parrot: killed. J512.14
• Clever parrot. J1118.1
• Witness cannot speak language of accusation: discredited. Two parrots taught accusation of mistress in a particular dialect. They know nothing more of the language. (Cf. G1154.1.) J1152
• Parrot unable to tell husband details as to wife's infidelity. Wife has parrot describe a storm very realistically. Husband observes contrast in the two tales. (Cf. J1152.) J1154.1
• Crop division between parrot and cat: they try to cheat each other by inviting to a dinner in turns every day. J1565.3
• Parrot knowing only two words sold as speaking foreign language. K137.2
• Thief disguised as parrot. K311.6.3
• Captive parrots in net play dead and are thrown out: escape. K522.4
• Minister dupes raja into entering body of dead parrot, then enters rajah's body. K1175
• Seventy tales of a parrot prevent a wife's adultery. The parrot keeps her interested until her husband's return. K1591
• Faithless wife kills magic parrot which has betrayed her. K1591.0.1
• Woman frightens robber away by telling him parrot's cry is husband's voice. K1796
• Parrot prefers cold wet nest in freedom to luxury in royal palace. L451.4
• King transformed to parrot frees captured parrots. (Cf. D641.) R115
• Gram (parched grain) sticks in post; parrot goes to raja, etc., for help. Final formula: at last creeper took pity on birds, and elephant feared creeper, and ocean feared elephant, and fire feared ocean, and stick feared fire, and snake feared stick, and carpenter feared snake; and carpenter split post which gave up the grain to the birds, who went away. Z41.6.1