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

• God of rice-fields. A433.1.1
• Creator prepared earth's nucleus as one would a rice cake. A836
• Formerly men ate grass: cattle ate rice and pulse. A1101.2.2
• Hoarded rice made available once more to men by culture hero. A1421.0.1
• Acquisition of rice. (Cf. A2685.) A1423.2
• Origin of rice-beer. A1426.2.2
• Origin of water wheel and rice growing. A1441.3
• Mouse gathers rice for man: may eat a little of his rice daily. A2223.3
• Tortoise given hard shell when it ferries rice-goddess across stream. A2223.6
• Tortoise cursed for going under water while ferrying rice-goddess: people will be able to kill it with iron-made spears. A2231.7.3
• Why rat may eat rice. Brings original rice-plant from pond. A2435.3.10.1
• Why wild pigs ravage rice-fields. A2545.5
• Why rice has ears only at top. A2771.4.1
• Why rice is so abundant. A2793.7
• Transformation: man to rice-grain. D214.1
• Transformation: sand to rice. [Inadvertant duplication of D476.1.11.] D452.3.1
• Transformation: rice to gold. D475.1.6
• Transformation: sand to rice. [Inadvertant duplication of D452.3.1.] D476.1.11
• Transformation by eating rice mixed with perspiration. D551.6.2
• Transformation by eating sticky rice. D551.6.2.1
• Transformation by encircling object thrice. D563
• Transformation by throwing rice on person. D571.1
• Disenchantment by sprinkling consecrated rice. D771.9
• Magic rice (plant). D965.8.1
• Magic rice-grains. D973.1
• Rice-grains magically produced by gourd. D973.1.1
• Magic rice. D1033.1
• Magic strength-giving rice-grain. (Cf. D973.1.) D1335.1.1
• Rejuvenation by magic rice. (Cf. D973.1.) D1338.13
• Magic stone turned thrice compels person to return to it. (Cf. D931.) D1429.1
• Water gradually envelops girl filling pitcher and drowns her. Work of malevolent rice-spirit. D1432.1
• Magic pumpkin yields year's supply of rice. (Cf. D981.11.) D1472.2.6
• Magic branch when used as a threshing pole produces marvelous harvest of rice. (Cf. D954.) D1563.1.6
• Singing rice-pot. (Cf. D1171.1.) D1615.6
• Inexhaustible rice. Rice cooked from a single kernel. (Cf. D1033.1.) D1652.1.3.1
• Inexhaustible rice-stores. (Cf. D1033.1.) D1652.5.10
• Million-fold rice which ripens in one night. (Cf. D965.8.1.) D1667.3
• Rice paddies flooded or dried by toad's tears or laughter. D2149.5
• Rice grows in single day. D2157.2.0.1
• Wild hunt goes thrice around pond. E501.14.3
• Fairy leaves goats as purchase price for girl he has carried off. F343.8
• Giant occupies space of thrice nine men. F531.2.9
• Giant and his wife build Roman road in a trice. Giant paves; wife brings stones. F531.6.6.5
• Town where everything is sold at one price. F769.1
• Extraordinary rice producing million-fold and ripening overnight. (Cf. F815.1.) F815.4
• Rice, the scent of which is smelled for miles around. F815.4.1
• Large price exacted for curing ogre after wounding him. G682
• Test of royalty: ability to sow, reap, and winnow rice in one day. H41.8
• Unique scent of their rice betrays abandoned children. H49.1
• Test of resourcefulness: to cook rice without fire (in hot sand). H506.9
• King defeated in repartee by boy, who thus wins girl. Boy: "Who would give a man a bath, feed him his rice, and then bring him the tamal-pan to chew?" King: "No one but a wife." Boy claims minister's daughter. H507.1.0.2
• Test: identifying what type of rice is in sack. H522.3
• Father's counsel: dam up the outlets. (Keep expenditures down – not outlets of rice-field as son-in-law thinks). H588.9
• Quest for magic rice. H1333.2.4
• Disciple who stays in a city where everything is sold at one price finds justice is not even there. (Cf. F769.1.) J21.52.1
• Father bequeathes four pots to sons: eldest finds earth in his; second, bones; third, rice husks; youngest, rupees (eldest to get land; second, cattle; third, grain; youngest to keep money). J99.2
• Wisdom from books bought at great price. (Sibylline). Nine books first offered at certain price. Finally after this is refused and the owner throws six of them into the fire, the king pays the same price for three of them. Finds them filled with wisdom. J166.1
• In spite of master's advice disciple stays in country where everything has cheap price. Gets into trouble. J342.1.1
• Rice, wheat, and dal dispute as to which is the best. J461.5
• The king and the cheap slippers. Steward buys the king a pair of slippers. King thinks not enough has been paid for them and refuses them. Steward buys another like the first and charges a good price. Learns that this is the way to deal with kings. J829.1
• Warrior having lost a city claims that he did not wish to sell it for a higher price. J875
• The short blanket must be patched. Weaver makes blanket shorter than ordered. Weaver ordered to add a piece to the blanket and then to receive full price. J1179.3
• Rice pot on pole, fire far away. As easy to cook rice thus as to warm a man at a distance from a lamp on a balcony. J1191.7
• Clever thief may keep booty. He has seen his victim in a disgraceful position and is allowed the booty as a price for his silence. J1211.2
• Price of consecration. Bishop is paid 100 ova (eggs) instead of 100 oves (sheep) for consecrating man as priest. To bishop's protests the man answers, "You should have refused to consecrate me. If I had been worthy I should not have had to promise oves or ova." J1263.2.1
• A dog to scent the rice. Given very thin rice soup, wit inquires about the master's dogs. "He should have one to scent the rice in this soup." J1341.3
• The cost price recovered. A man takes a shirt to market for a friend who has stolen it. At market it is stolen from the seller. He tells his friend that the market was bad and that he was able to get back only the cost price (nothing). J1397
• Overheard conversation: "Mustard has advanced in price." Thieves steal mustard and leave all else. J1517.1
• Half price for half a shave. A man asks to be shaved at half price. The barber shaves one side. He must pay the other half for the rest of the shave. J1522.1
• The fish in the sleeve. A particularly obnoxious man delays others while he haggles over prices with a butcher. Meanwhile a parson takes the three fish the man has laid down and puts them into his large sleeves. The man is angry and searches in vain for them. The parson then shows them and advises him not to let people cheat him. J1604
• Stupid servant cooks all the rice for one meal. J1813.9.1
• Numskulls buy things in common: each pays full price. J2037
• Numskulls buy church in common: each pays full price. J2037.1
• Three brothers buy cow for common use; each brother pays the farmer full price. J2037.2
• One-third for the price of one-fourth. In the grain sale the fool sells a third of a cask for the price of a fourth, thinking that he is cheating the buyer. J2083.1
• Two for the price of one. The fool sells two fox-skins pulled into each other. J2083.2
• Ten for the price of nine. A fool buys nine eggs and sells ten for the same price. He says that business is improving. J2083.4
• The foolish pawn. The woman sells cows and gets one of them back as a pledge for the unpaid purchase price. J2086
• Sacks of gold and silver traded for sacks of rice. J2093.5
• Getting rid of the cat. In a land in which cats are not known, one is bought at a great price. It eats many mice. By misunderstanding, they think the cat is a monster. In order to get rid of it they set the house on fire. J2101
• How to save the rice. Boy has rice in joined hands and arms around a pillar. Afraid to move lest rice be lost. Roof is removed and boy lifted over pillar. J2119.6
• Fool sows his mother's seed rice on other people's fields. J2129.8
• Numskulls eat medicine that physics them. Biscayans pour medicine into rice for broth with which to cook rice. J2134.2.1
• King ignorant of famine says the people can live on pulse (sugar) and rice. J2227.1
• Literal fool puts three empty measures in pot. Told to put in three measures of rice to boil. J2461.1.4.2
• Think thrice before you speak. The youth obeys literally the precept even when he sees the master's coat on fire. J2516.1
• One fewer to pay for. A man carries blind men over a stream at a certain price per head. One falls down and drowns. He comforts the others that there is one fewer to pay for. J2566
• Earthen pot with rice water on top of which clarified butter had been poured sold as a pot of clarified butter. K144.2
• Deceptive bargain: as much bread as he wants to eat. The baker fixes his price at the rate for twenty loaves. The trickster eats thirty. K173
• Small niche in house brings large price. House sold reserving niche. This becomes such a nuisance that buyer pays heavily for it. K182.1
• Exorbitant price demanded and received. K255
• Deceptive wages: as much rice as will go on a leaf. Lotus leaf used. K256.1
• The price of a lump of gold. A trickster asks a goldsmith what he would pay for a lump of gold of a certain size. Believing that the man has such a lump, the goldsmith pays him a large sum. K261
• The price of mink skins. Man asks peddler what he pays for mink skins. Peddler says he will pay ten dollars. The man tosses a skin into the cart, receives ten dollars. The next day the peddler protests that the man has sold him a cat skin. The man says that he had not said that the skin was a mink skin and that, anyway, the cat's name had been "Mink." K261.1
• Reduced prices but false weights. K286
• Spoiling the rice-field with dung. Dupe persuaded that the dung has spoiled the field. He gives the field to the trickster. K344.2
• Cows turned into rice field. Later made to disgorge rice. K366.1.4
• Sheep thief pretends to buy wethers from the ram, names the price himself. Owner overhears, takes the ram to the thief to collect. K439.5
• Trickster exacts promise of marriage as price of silence after having seen a princess naked. K443.6
• Trickster exacts money as price of silence after lying with princess (queen). K443.6.2