22 motifs match “pepper”  ·  back to the chapters

• How rattlesnake became harmful: earthworm feeds him chili pepper. A2211.11
• Pepper plant from body of slain person. (Cf. A2686.3.) A2611.4
• Origin of pepper plant. (Cf. A2611.4.) A2686.3
• Transformation: dirt to pepper. D452.4.1
• Witch who is out of skin is prevented from reentering it when person salts or peppers skin. (Cf. G275.8.1.) G229.1.1
• Witch killed by placing salt or pepper inside skin while it is laid aside. (Cf. G229.1.1.) G275.8.1
• Society is like a dish: must be properly mixed. Plates having salt, pepper, fish, etc. not edible without mixing. J81.1
• Armies like seeds and peppercorns. One king sends large sack of seed to the other to represent the number of his soldiers. The second replies with a small bag of peppercorns: "My army is small compared to yours but has all the power of the peppercorn compared to your lifeless seed." J1625
• Handful of black pepper taken into mouth instead of cooking it in food. J1813.6
• Race won by deception: blinding opponent by spitting pepper into face. K11.7
• Theft by blinding with pepper. K333.5
• Escape by blinding the guard. Pepper or tobacco thrown into his eyes. K621
• Pepper given as ointment for burns. (Cf. K1045.) K1014
• Pepper up noses as remedy. K1014.1
• Pepper rubbed on injured skin. K1014.2
• Dupe persuaded to oversalt (overpepper) food. K1045
• The weeping bitch. A procuress throws pepper into the eyes of a bitch so that she weeps. She pretends to the virtuous woman that the bitch is a woman transformed because of failure to respond to her lover. The woman is persuaded. K1351
• Pepper as universal remedy of sham doctor: accidentally works. K1955.2.1
• Horse with basket of powdered peppers sent into hostile camp: enemy overcome. K2351.6.1
• Hot pepper mixed with flour supplying enemy camp. Thinking they have been poisoned, they beat a retreat. K2351.6.1.1
• Conception from eating peppercorn. T511.3.1
• Red pepper for the slow ass: man tries it on himself. When, on the advice of a friend, he gives the ass red pepper, the ass runs away. Then he tries it on himself. He runs so fast that he passes the ass. Arriving at home, he says to his wife, "Unload the ass when he comes. I must run through the village a couple of times more." X11