52 motifs match “smell”  ·  back to the chapters

• Peculiar smell of body. A1662
• Why Jews smell bad. They rubbed Christ's body with garlic. A1662.1
• Animal characteristics: color and smell. A2410
• Origin and nature of animal's smell. A2416
• Bad smell of goat. (Cf. A2232.5.) A2416.1
• Burnt smell of mink. A2416.2
• Bad smell of skunk. A2416.3
• Burnt smell of wolverine. A2416.4
• Why ram smells bad. A2416.5
• Why bugs smell bad. A2416.6
• Why ass smells his own excrements. A2495.2
• Fanciful color, smell, etc. of animals. B730
• Panther's sweet smell protects him from other beasts. B732
• Fanciful color, smell etc. of animals – miscellaneous. B739
• Swine maddened by smell of oak forest. B783
• Evil smells transformed into sweet fragrances, and vice versa. D479.7
• Transformation by smelling. D564
• Self-transformation by smelling stick. D564.1
• Transformation by smelling flower. D564.2
• Transformation by smelling powders. D564.3
• Transformation by smelling wine. (Cf. D562.2.) D564.4
• Rejuvenation by smelling apple. (Cf. D981.1, D1338.3.1.) D1889.4
• Resuscitation by smelling of moss. E72
• Headless persons cannot smell or hear. F511.0.1.2
• Marvelous sensitiveness: woman smells like a goat. F647.5
• Marvelous sense of smell. (Cf. F647.5.) F652
• Man smells pots boiling 400 miles off. F652.2
• Blind man able to recognize real pearls by their smell, diamonds by touch, a good horse by screwing its ears, and raja of noble birth by his generosity. F655.1
• Rice, the scent of which is smelled for miles around. F815.4.1
• Dry bone smells as sign of forgiveness. F991.2.1
• Fee-fi-fo-fum. Cannibal returning home smells human flesh and makes exclamation. (Cf. G11.8.1.) G84
• Task for devil: washing a Jew (Jewess), to rid him (her) of the evil smell. (Cf. A1662.1.) G303.16.19.3.3
• Hero hidden and ogre deceived by his wife (daughter) when he says that he smells human blood. G532
• Recognition by smell of jewels worn about neck. H93.0.1
• Test of resourcefulness: finding how many people are in dark closed room. Fills room with evil smell; men call each other by name and disclose number. H506.2
• Fox refuses to mediate between lion and lioness. Lion decides to abandon lioness because of her bad odor. Ass, hog, and fox as judges. Ass says she has bad odor: lioness slaps him. Hog says she has not: lion slaps him. Fox says that he has a bad cold and cannot smell. J811.2
• Mole pretends that he sees, smells, and hears. His mother tells him to claim no more senses than he has. J958
• Clever deductions by eating, smelling, drinking, etc. J1661.2
• Boy talks about his secret instructions and brings his father's theft to light. He is to avoid his companions lest they smell what he has been eating. J2355.2
• Why he couldn't see. One fool to another: "What would happen if you cut off your nose?" "I couldn't smell." "What would happen if you cut off your ears?" "I couldn't see." "Why couldn't you see?" "My hat would fall down over my eyes." J2721
• The "spoiled" anchovies. Servant eats all of master's anchovies. When master asks for some, the servant brings in a covered dish, and tells him that the fish smell very bad. The master tells the servant to throw them away. K344.1.2
• Ogre carries sham-dead man. "He smells already." K522.2
• Too dirty to eat. Trickster, cornered by leopard, leaps into swamp, then says he is too dirty to eat. Leopard smells of him and agrees. K553.6
• Cheese smeared on crab lures giant to smell him. Crab pinches giant's neck and kills him. K827.5
• Princess evades unwelcome lover by putting on foul-smelling skin-coat. T323.2
• Conception from smelling flower. T532.1.1.1
• Conception by smell of cooked dragon heart. T532.1.4
• Conception after smelling ground bonedust. T532.1.4.1
• Dungbeetle prefers his dunghill to all other smells. U122
• Man soon learns to stand the smells of the tannery. U133
• Farmer prefers stable smells to flowers. Latter make him ill. U133.1
• Aromatic smell of a saint's body. V222.4.1