83 motifs match “salt”  ·  back to the chapters

• Origin of salt springs. A942.2
• Why the sea is salt. A1115
• Why the sea is salt: because of wrecked salt ship. A1115.1
• Why the sea is salt: magic salt mill. Stolen by sea-captain, who takes it aboard and orders it to grind. It will stop only for its master; ship sinks and mill keeps grinding salt. A1115.2
• Why the sea is salt: heavy rain showers on ashes of wood burnt by primeval fire. A1115.3
• Why salt disappeared from forests. A1196
• Mankind from salty stone (ice block) licked by cow. (Audhumla). A1245.4
• Why women keep washing themselves. St. Andrew, sent to get salt to keep people clean, gets drunk and forgets. There is only enough for men. A1372.10
• Acquisition of salt. A1429.4
• Why oyster lives in salt water. A2433.6.2
• Why animals eat everything without salt. A2435.2.1
• Magic tortoise fed with salt gives pearls. B103.1.6
• Patient fed salt: animal comes out for water. The patient is fed salt or heavily salted food and allowed no water for several days. He then stands with mouth open before a supply of fresh water, often a running brook. The thirsty animal emerges to get fresh water. B784.2.1
• Tabu: eating salt. C229.6
• Transformation to pillar of salt for breaking tabu. (Cf. C331.) – C961.1
• Transformation: man to salt. D241
• Transformation: stone to salt. D452.1.3
• Transformation: salt to stone. D471.5
• Salty water turned into fresh liquid. D478.10
• Magic salt. D1039.2
• Person burns salt and says charm to bring lover to spot. D1355.3.7
• Witch shot dead with bullet of salt. (Cf. D1096.3.) D1385.4.1
• Magic salt kills. (Cf. D1039.2.) D1402.31
• Magic salt causes waters to divide. (Cf. D1039.2.) D1551.1
• Self-grinding salt-mill. (Cf. D1263.) D1601.21.1
• Effects of wild hunt remedied by asking the huntsmen for salt. E501.19.2
• Ghost of drowned man leaves puddle of salt water where he stands. E544.1.3
• Reincarnation as salt. E642.0.1
• Salt powerful against fairies. F384.1
• Salt renders fairy mortal. F384.1.1
• Salt sprinkled on fairy food renders it harmless. F384.1.2
• Dwarfs dislike bread baked without salt. F451.3.7.2
• Giant maidens grind gold, peace, soldiers, salt, etc., on large stone mill. F531.5.10.2
• Slain giant turns to salt stone. F531.6.12.3
• Sampo. One side flour mill; one, salt mill; one, mill for coining money. F871
• Head of beheaded witch mends if rubbed with salt. G223
• Witch who is out of skin is prevented from reentering it when person salts or peppers skin. (Cf. G275.8.1.) G229.1.1
• Witches lack bread and salt. G229.3
• Witch known by inability to rise from chair with salt under cushion. (Cf. G271.3.) G254.2
• Use of salt in exorcism of witch. (Cf. G254.2, G272.16.) G271.3
• Salt protects against witches. (Cf. G271.3, G254.2.) G272.16
• Salt put into churn before churning to protect cream from witch. (Cf. D2084.2.) G272.16.1
• Witch killed by placing salt or pepper inside skin while it is laid aside. (Cf. G229.1.1.) G275.8.1
• Thief detected by psalter and key. Closed Bible with key inside at magic text loosely held by diviner and client. Name of suspected thief on end of key. As verse is spoken, if name is that of thief, book and key will turn around. H251.3.2
• Enigmatic advice: take only salt and water as food. H588.21
• "Love like Salt." Girl compares her love for her father to salt. Experience teaches him the value of salt. H592.1
• Riddle: what six things are not worth doing? (Sowing salt, mowing pebbles, drinking from an empty jug, making signs to a blind man, wooing at mealtime, playing a harp in a mill.) H871
• Task: eating room-full of salt. (Trickster eats only a pinch. "He who has eaten with a friend as much salt as I have eaten and does not recognize the friendship will not do so though he eat ten rooms full of salt.") H1141.3
• Thumb cut and salt put on it in order to remain awake. H1481
• Society is like a dish: must be properly mixed. Plates having salt, pepper, fish, etc. not edible without mixing. J81.1
• Man on sinking ship eats salt. Otherwise he will not enjoy the large amount of water that he must drink. J861.2
• Sleeping on salt. Priest blamed for large amount of wine he drinks tells people to consider his great thirst. He has slept on a sack of salt and has enough thirst for a week. J1322.2
• A step-ladder for setting the table. Servant who leaves off the salt is instructed to bring in the step-ladder so as to see what is missing. J1573.1
• The lazy ass repaid in kind. Loaded with salt, he falls down in the river and lightens his burden. His master then loads him with sponges so that the next time the ass tries the trick he increases his load. J1612
• Clever deduction of wise man: the theft of a cauldron detected. Cauldron has been buried in river. Thief has no taste of salt on his body: he must have been immersed in fresh water recently. J1661.1.10
• Sowing salt to produce salt. J1932.3
• Drying snow to make salt. J1947
• Wolf scorns salt meat (etc.) in false expectation of other booty. J2066.4
• Bird nest of salt melts away. J2171.5
• How to remove hairs from salt. Washed with water, salt melts away. J2173.9
• Waiting at the well for the thief. A thief has stolen a salted cheese. Since one always goes to the well after eating salted cheese, the thief will also come. J2214.3
• Scientific query: why does the sea stink when it is full of salt? J2371.2
• The literal host: bread and salt. Guest finds that his host spoke literally when he invited him to share his bread and salt. Later, when the host threatens an importunate beggar, the guest advises the beggar to flee since the host means what he says. J2476
• Fool liking salt decides to eat nothing else. J2524
• Contest in flying with load. One animal chooses cotton; the other, seeing that a rain is coming, chooses salt and wins. K25.2
• Oversalting food of giant so that he must go outside for water. Meantime his goods are stolen. K337
• Monkeys lure tortoise into a tree and carry away his load of salt. K343.4
• Victim enticed into drinking by over-salting his food: killed when off guard. K839.3
• Killing by throwing hot salt into eyes. K957.1
• Dupe persuaded to oversalt (overpepper) food. K1045
• Dupe fed oversalted food. K1045.1
• Dupe persuaded to rub salt on wounds. K1045.2
• Flattering foreman tricked by his master. He always answers his master's remarks, "I have thought of the same thing too." He falls into the trap when his master says, "I am going to sow salt." K1637
• Spilling salt brings bad luck. N131.3
• Judas Iscariot spills salt at the Last Supper. N131.3.1
• Salt in saltless land sold for fortune. N411.4
• Salt of hospitality. Eating a man's salt creates mutual obligation. P321
• Salt food without drink as punishment for man who accepts Christianity. (Cf. Q232.) Q501.7.1
• Punishment: man says salt he carries is stones; it immediately becomes so. Q591.2
• Blood-eagle cut on man's back by flaying and salting. S166.6
• Deaf peasant: travelers ask the way. Travelers ask their direction. Peasant thinks they want to buy oxen. Peasant's wife arrives; thinks they say her food is too salty. – Daughter-in-law and father-in-law misunderstand each other. X111.2
• The man who sold dried snow for salt. X1653.3
• Salt in food given Death's messengers renders them harmless. Z111.6.2