60 motifs match “rabbit”  ·  back to the chapters

• Rabbit as culture hero. A522.1.2
• Man in the moon a rabbit (hare, other animal). A751.2
• Creation of hare (rabbit). A1856
• Rabbit laughs: cause of hare-lip. (Cf. A2216.3, A2234.4, A2342.1.) A2211.2
• Frightened rabbit puts head in charred tree: hence black ears. (Cf. A2325.2.) A2212.1
• Rabbit burns self under chin when he steals an ember. A2218.7
• Rabbit (frog) eats seed-grain from fields: nose closed during sowing season. (Cf. A2335.2.4.) A2238.1
• Why rabbit has long ears. A2325.1
• Why dog has hairy paws. Stole from rabbit. (Cf. A2245.) A2375.2.3
• Why rabbits have soft pads on feet. A2375.2.4
• Why rabbit continually moves mouth. A2476.1
• Friendship between monkey and rabbit. A2493.14.4
• Enmity between dog and rabbit. A2494.4.4
• The rabbit's enemies. A2494.6
• Enmity between lynx and rabbit. A2494.6.1
• Enmity between rabbit and coyote. A2494.6.2
• Enmity between fisher and rabbit. A2494.6.3
• Animals with human traits. See in general the literature dealing with fables, with the Romance of Reynard, with the bear-fox cycle of Europe, with the rabbit fox cycle of America, etc. B200
• Speaking hare (rabbit). B211.2.6
• Rabbit as king of animals. B240.2
• Hare (rabbit) as messenger. B291.3.2
• Rabbit and elephant partners on trading expedition. B294.6
• Helpful rabbit (hare). B437.4
• Male rabbit bears young. Female rabbit escaped Noah on ark and drowned. B754.4
• Transformation: man to hare (rabbit). D117.2
• Transformation: hare (rabbit) to person. D315.5
• Transformation: hare (rabbit) to another animal. D411.3
• Transformation: pill to white rabbit. D444.3
• Magic production of rabbits. D2178.4.1
• Dead sweetheart in the form of a white rabbit follows seducer. E211.1
• Revenant as rabbit (hare). E423.2.2
• Household spirit herds sheep, has great trouble coralling the lambs (rabbits). (Cf. J1757.) F488.1
• Little soldiers with officer on rabbit (long needles and knives for weapons). F535.2.8
• Skillful flayer skins running rabbit. F664.1
• Task: herding rabbits. H1112
• 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
• Rabbit thought to be a cow. Servant sent to bring in cows is found chasing rabbits. J1757
• Pumpkin thought to be an ass's egg. Numskull thinks he has hatched out an ass's egg. He thinks that the rabbit which runs out is the colt. J1772.1
• Rabbits think sound of waves is great danger to them. J1812.2
• Fools send money by rabbit. Since he is a swift runner they expect it to reach the landlord in time. J1881.2.2
• 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
• The bird boasts about capturing the rabbit. Meantime other birds eat the rabbit. J2173.3
• Monkey sneezes in king's presence like rabbit. Killed. J2413.6
• Race won by deception: rabbit as "little son" substitute. A man challenged by an ogre to a running race persuades the ogre to race with his little son instead. By this he means a rabbit. (Cf. K12.2, K15.1.) K11.6
• Rabbit sold as letter-carrier. Alleged to be a swift deliverer of letters. K131.1
• Watchdog enticed away. Trickster brings rabbit under his coat. When the king's watchdog gives chase the trickster enters and robs. K318
• Porcupine, made to believe that rabbit's ears are horns, flees and leaves food behind. K335.0.4.2
• Theft of horses (cattle) by letting loose a rabbit so that drivers join in the chase. K341.5.1
• Innkeeper serves sweetened water for wine, cat for rabbit, mule for beef. K476.3.1
• Briar-patch punishment for rabbit. By expressing horror of being thrown into the briar patch he induces his captor into doing so. He runs off. K581.2
• Dupe digs till he dies of exhaustion. Rabbit entertains the wolf with his antics until the rabbit's wife can change to another hole. The wolf continues to dig. K1061
• Rabbit slays rhinoceros. L315.12
• Selfish guest expels host. Porcupine asks rabbit for hospitality. When rabbit complains of being pricked, porcupine tells him to leave if he does not like it. P332
• Hero as rabbit-herd. P412.3
• Skull of suicide must roll in dust until it has saved a life. Man uses the skull to kill an owl that was about to kill a rabbit; thus after 777 years of rolling it has saved a life and is freed. (Cf. Q211.5.) Q503.1
• Abduction by rabbit. R13.1.8
• Would not lie for a trifle. Liar tells of shooting large number of animals with one shot (an odd number, usually 99). When asked why he did not make it a round number (or an even hundred), he replies indignantly that he would not lie for one pigeon (rabbit). X906
• The rabbit-catch: rabbits freeze feet fast to ice at night. X1115.1
• The Twelve kinds of Food: 1 partridge, 2 turtledoves, 3 woodpigeons, 4 ducks, 5 rabbits, 6 hares, 7 hounds, 8 sheep, 9 oxen, 10 turkeys, 11 hams, 12 cheeses. Z22.2
• Cumulative: master to kill hen. She begs off; he goes to kill rooster .... goose, rabbit, toad, tiger. Z32.4