121 motifs match “peasant” — showing the first 100; narrow the words for the rest  ·  back to the chapters

• Origin of peasantry. A1655
• Why peasant is always busy: he is eager to produce food for all living beings. A1655.1
• Dog-headed people. Peasants persecuted by one-eyed and dog-headed savages. B25.1.2
• Transformation: king and queen to peasant and wife. D24.2
• Dying peasant summons greedy bishop for heavenly funeral; the bishop dies hearing the message. D1715.2
• Fairies' horses water at peasant's well. F241.1.2.1
• Fairies occupy peasant's house. F365.3
• Spirits tangle up peasant's cows. F402.1.3
• Dwarfs emigrate because they dislike peasants' dancing and loud music. F451.9.1.9
• Mountain-men chain captive peasant. F460.4.4.2
• Mountain-folk steal from peasant. F460.4.4.5
• Mountain-men borrow from peasant. F460.4.5
• Devil as a peasant. G303.3.1.10
• Peasant boy masking as prince betrays self by his answers. H38.2.2
• Prophecy for newborn princesses: the one who takes gold in the mouth will be married to a prince; the one who takes hawkweed, to a peasant. H41.6
• Clever peasant girl asked riddles by king. H561.1
• Clever peasant wife asks king riddles. H561.1.0.1
• Conflict between peasant and nobleman decided so that each must answer riddles: peasant's daughter solves them. H561.1.1
• Found mortar taken to king reveals peasant girl's wisdom. Peasant finds mortar in his field and against his daughter's advice takes it to the king, who demands the pestle as well. Peasant laments that he has not followed daughter's advice. King summons her. H561.1.2
• King and peasant vie in riddling questions and answers. H561.6
• King and peasant: the plucked fowl. The king gives riddling questions to a peasant, who always interprets them right. The king says that he will send the peasant a fowl which he shall pluck. The king gives the same questions to his courtiers, who cannot interpret them. They pay the peasant good money for the answers. Peasant tells king that he has plucked the fowl. H561.6.1
• Enigmatic conversation of king and peasant. H585
• The four coins. (Focus.) King: What do you do with the four coins you earn? Peasant: First I eat (feed self); second I put out at interest (give my children); third I give back (pay debts); fourth I throw away (give my wife.) H585.1
• King: Why did you not do it (marry so that sons could help you)? Peasant: I did, but it was not God's will (I married three times but it was not God's will to give me sons). H585.2
• Directions on quest given by herdsmen (peasants). H1232.1
• Directions on quest given by peasant and his wife. H1232.4
• Cleverness of men disguised as peasants dissuades rivals from dispute. Wise men of two rival cities engage in dispute. One delegation disguises as peasants and debates with their adversaries. Latter withdraw fearing how clever the educated must be if their peasants are so learned. J31.1
• Peasant leaves honey tree standing. Sparrows and crickets ask peasant to leave tree standing. He refuses, but when he finds honey in the tree he consents. J241.2
• Peasant ashamed of being thrown off by ass. Shameful to be thrown by such a creature. J411.4
• Peasant asks to be knighted. Is told that he can be made rich but not noble. J955.3.1
• The quarreling sons and the bundle of twigs. Peasant puts twigs together and cannot break them. Separately they are easily broken. His sons apply the lesson. J1021
• Clever peasant daughter. J1111.4
• Clever peasant. J1115.6
• Nurse's false plea admitted: child demanded. A nurse falsely demands pay for caring for a child which she says is the hero's. In court: "The child is indeed mine; give him to me." The child belongs to a peasant. Nurse confesses and is punished. J1162.1
• Peasant preaches about bishop's amour. Bishop has instructed him to tell the truth and spare no one when he preaches. J1211.1
• Distrusts God when he can be brought by a man. Priest offers to help peasant with "the body of the Lord". – "If God can be brought by a man, he is too weak to help me." J1261.2.2
• Priest who never reads mass. Peasants complain of his ignorance. He says that they stand so close to him that he is afraid they might memorize and then pay no attention to his reading of it. J1263.1.3
• Confession made easy. Peasant sees priest at work in the fields. Tells him he wishes to confess. He is told to put money in the box and take the same penance as the year before. J1263.7
• His proper title. A peasant goes to a judge and thinking to gain his favor addresses him with high titles. The judge calls him a fool. "I was mistaken, you swine!" J1286
• Bishop and prince. Peasant tells bishop, who rides by with forty horses, that he wonders if St. Kilian at Würzburg is also riding with forty horses. Bishop excuses extravagance by saying that he is also a prince and that it is the prince, not the bishop, who is using the horses. "If the prince should become a fool, what would the bishop do then?" J1289.2
• Wearing all his clothes. Shivering king (rich man) to tattered peasant: "Aren't you cold?" Peasant: "No, if you wore all your clothes as I do, you wouldn't be cold either!" J1289.5
• How the tail pointed. One who believes in auguries asks peasant woman if she has seen a bird. "Yes, a crow." And in what direction was his tail pointing?" Answer: "Toward the rear!" J1305
• Make-believe eating, make-believe work. At table the peasant says, "We will only act as if we were eating." At work the servant replies, "We will only act as if we were working." J1511.1
• Turnips called bacon: cat called rabbit. A peasant compels his servant to call turnips bacon. Under favorable circumstances the servant compels the master to call a cat a rabbit. J1511.2
• Goldsmith sells thinly plated gold; peasant retaliates: a pot of dirt with a little gyav on top. (Cf. J1556.1.) J1511.20
• The peasant's share is the chicken. He serves small birds and a roast chicken to his guests. Guests each take a small bird, leaving only the chicken when the plate reaches the host. He takes the whole chicken saying: "Since everyone has a bird, I must have one too." J1562.2
• The penny baked in the wafer. A peasant always puts a bad penny into the offering. The priest has a penny baked in a wafer and gives it to the peasant at communion. The peasant, unable to swallow it, thinks that he is possessed of the devil. The priest asks whether he has ever done wrong with a penny, secures confession and a pledge of reform. J1582.1
• Using the lamb to get an audience. Peasant calls on lawyer for advice. Lawyer says that he is busy. Peasant returns with lamb. The lawyer hears its bleat and grants the audience. J1653
• Stupid peasant. J1705.1
• Living crucifix chosen. Peasants take their old crucifix to an artist for a new one. The artist asks them whether they want a living or dead crucifix. Argument: living God takes less for upkeep and he can be killed later. J1738.2
• Peasants in city inn order whole portion of mustard. J1742.3
• Peasant surprised that king is not larger than other men. J1742.4
• Pubic hair of ardent husband's wife thought to be calf's tail by peasant in tree. J1772.4.1
• Savory tea. The peasant entertains a priest at tea. Making it, puts in all the tea, six pounds of sugar, a piece of bacon, etc. J1813.7
• Did the calf eat the man? A fool, liking the shoes on the feet of a man hanged on a gallows, cuts off the swollen feet in order to carry off the shoes. In the room in which he sleeps that night is a newborn calf. The next morning the man takes the shoes but leaves the feet. Peasants agree that the calf has eaten the man all but the feet. They burn the house to destroy the calf. J1815
• Swimming (fishing) in the flax-field. Peasants go to visit the sea. They see a waving flax-field, and, thinking it is the sea, jump in to swim. J1821
• The water on the calf's back. When the calf will not drink, the peasant woman throws the water on its back. J1903.1
• Boots sent by telegraph. A peasant hangs boots and an accompanying letter on a telegraph wire, expecting them to reach the city. J1935.1
• Pursuing the rabbit who harmed the garden. Peasant asks a nobleman's help against a rabbit. The nobleman chases the rabbit on horseback for five days and ruins the peasant's crop. J2103.2
• Getting all the eggs at once. A peasant kills his hen so that he can immediately get all the eggs she will lay during the next year. J2129.3
• No room left for the feast. A peasant on the way to a feast drinks so much ditch-water that he has no room left for the feast. J2178
• Peasant no longer wants a horse since the new born foal is so heavy to carry. J2212.8
• A profitable fight: three for one! A priest boasts of his profitable fight with the peasants, where he has received three blows for every one given. J2213.2
• Let them eat cake. The queen has been told that the peasants have no bread. J2227
• Climb down as you climb up. A peasant falls out of a tree. A neighbor advises him not to climb trees. Another suggests that he always climb down a tree with the same skill and rapidity that he climbed up. J2244
• What killed the wolf. Peasants find a dead wolf and debate what killed it. A learned man shows that it froze internally from eating cold flesh. J2284
• Foolish peasants carry couple to burial; when "corpses" speak they flee in terror. J2311.9
• Imitation of the prescription. A peasant envying a doctor's fee for giving him a plaster and predicting a son, poses as a doctor. He predicts a son for a eunuch and gives a plaster for heart disease. J2412.3
• Peasant opens his mouth. He tells his wife about the good things he gets to eat at the rich man's house. The wife says, "Open your mouth for me once so that I may get some too." The peasant gets up after the next large meal and opens his mouth to the astonishment of all present. J2473
• Making money. "Rupees make more rupees." Stupid peasant sticks his sole rupee in hole and loses it. J2489.12
• Peasants want a living God. An artist, ordered to make a crucifix, asks peasants if they want a living God. They say yes. "If we don't like him we can kill him ourselves." J2495.4
• Deceptive bargain: three wishes. The ogre is to fulfill three wishes of the peasant. The latter wishes for all the tobacco and brandy in the world and then some more brandy in addition. The devil must admit failure. K175
• Cheater is forced to eat excrements. Gentleman agrees to exchange his good horse for the peasant's jade, provided the peasant will eat its excrements. The peasant finds no difficulty in the task, whereas the gentleman, put to the same condition when he wants to get back his horse, finds it impossible. K198
• Butter weighed with the bread. The peasant weighs the butter which he is selling to the baker along with the bread which he is buying. K478
• After seducing priest's wife, peasant demands earrings as price of silence. He thus avenges himself on priest who has cheated peasant's wife of her earrings. K1582.1
• Woman excites peasant (secretary), who draws line on floor and dares her to cross it. When she does, adultery is committed. K1588
• Unjust official outwitted by peasant who quarrels with him and thus turns the attention of the ruler to the abuses. K1657
• Shoemaker offers to trim the peasant's feet to fit the shoes. The peasant prefers to accept the ill-fitting shoes. K1783
• King disguised as peasant flees battle. K1812.10
• Disguise as peasant. K1816.9
• Wise men disguise as peasants. K1816.9.1
• Prince substitutes peasant girl for the king's daughter he has got for his father but with whom he himself has fallen in love. K1911.1.9
• Peasant as priest preaches on the troubles of laymen. K1961.1.1
• Peasant has kind words for daws, but drives them from his seeds. K2090.1
• Treacherous peasant. K2258
• The single cake. Restricted to a single cake during Lent, the peasants make one as large as a cart wheel. K2311
• Peasant betrays fox by pointing. The peasant has hidden the fox in a basket and promised not to tell. When the hunters come, he says, "The fox just went over the hill," but points to the basket. K2315
• Peasant as hero. L113.4
• Peasant girl outwits prince. L151
• Wager about tree names: learned and common names. Brahmin gives learned names but servant's common names are confirmed by illiterate peasants. N51.1
• Destiny better than work, show, or speculation. A peasant makes a little by his work; a nobleman more by his outward show; a merchant still more by speculation; but a prince most of all by his destiny. N142
• Peasant as helper. N854
• Peasant as foster father. N854.1
• Disguised king punished by peasant. Beaten because he does not get up early enough. (King Alfred and the cakes.) P15.1
• Disguised king taught courtesy by peasant. P15.1.1
• Peasant and his wife as foster parents of exposed king's son. P270.2
• Poor peasant closes the eyes in order not to see guest eat: later suicide. P336.3
• Peasant. P411
• Peasant refuses to sell possessions to king. (Miller of Sanssouci.) P411.1
• Peasant and his wife in hut near castle as contrasts to king and queen. P411.1.1