25 motifs match “pearls”  ·  back to the chapters

• Origin of pearls. A2827
• Magic tortoise fed with salt gives pearls. B103.1.6
• Deer with string of pearls around its neck. B105.2
• Magic spider catches pearls. B109.1
• Swans live on pearls. B768.3
• Transformation: peas to pearls. D475.4.4
• Magic tortoise shell produces pearls. (Cf. D1029.6.) D1469.14
• Magic pearls cure disease. D1500.1.9.2
• Fairy's tears pearls. F239.6
• Blind man able to recognize real pearls by their smell, diamonds by touch, a good horse by screwing its ears, and raja of noble birth by his generosity. F655.1
• Man shoots pearls from wife's nose-ring. F661.10
• Island of pearls. F731.6
• Tree with silver trunk, gold branches, emerald leaves, pearls for fruits. F811.1.7
• Animals live on pearls. F989.22.4
• Recognition by ability to shed pearls for tears. H31.7.1
• Pearls from hair as sign of royalty. H71.3
• Task: stealing three pearls from king's heavily guarded treasury. H1151.13.5
• Quest for unpierced pearls. H1348.2
• The cock and the pearl: prefers a single corn to a peck of pearls. J1061.1
• Impossible to eat pearls: also impossible for woman to bear animals (objects). J1191.5.1
• Boy refuses pearls for worthless stones; jeweler recognizes them for what they are. J2093.3.1
• Man is robbed of gold chain while with prostitute. He swallows her string of pearls in revenge. (Cf. K302.1.) K306.3
• Respite from death until minister shows king how to reap pearls. K551.21
• Bluff: millstones said to be pearls of hero's mother. Ogre overawed. K1718.2
• Saint refuses pearls as alms and asks for food. V462.2.2.1