36 motifs match “sparrow”  ·  back to the chapters

• Totemistic gods. Gods which have animal associations; e.g., Athena with the owl, Venus with the sparrow. A113
• Goddess has team of sparrows. A136.2.1
• Creation of sparrow. A1927
• Sparrow taught to sing by lark but not sufficiently: where sparrow got voice. A2271.2
• Color of sparrow. (Cf. A2218) A2411.2.1.11
• Why crow cannot enter sparrow's nest. A2431.3.6.1
• Sparrow's nest. A2431.3.7
• Why sparrow may build nest near people's houses; reward for hospitality. A2431.3.7.1
• Friendship between hen and sparrow. A2493.34.1
• Why sparrow is disliked. A2522.1
• Speaking sparrow. B211.3.7
• King of sparrows. B242.2.7
• Parrot and sparrow argue right to inherit property left by man. Sparrow says his interests are the same as man's; parrot says that he caused all man's wealth, since man sold his feathers. People's decision for parrot. B271.1
• Wedding of lark and sparrow. B282.3.3
• Wedding of sparrow and another bird. B282.10
• Helpful sparrow. B451.7
• Transformation: man to sparrow. D151.8
• Separable soul in crop of sparrow. E715.1.2
• Fairy in form of sparrow. F234.1.15.3
• Young sparrows have learned to avoid men. Sparrow quizzes his four young as to how to avoid danger from men. Their year of experience has taught them enough. J13
• Peasant leaves honey tree standing. Sparrows and crickets ask peasant to leave tree standing. He refuses, but when he finds honey in the tree he consents. J241.2
• Foolishness of taking on too strong a partner: crow crowds sparrow out of its nest. J684.2
• Hare upbraided by sparrow for letting self be carried off by eagle rejoices when sparrow is carried off by hawk. J885.1
• Sparrow intervenes in quarrel between elephants: crushed to death. J2143.1
• Literal fool carries the harrow in his hand. He has killed a sparrow by his stupidity and has been told that he should have carried it in his hand. J2461.1.6
• Fool kills himself in despair because a sparrow has taken one grain from his field. J2518.1
• Crow asks hospitality of sparrow and gradually takes possession of nest and kills young. (Often told of camel and tent.) K354.1
• Cat acts as judge between sparrow and hare; eats them both. K815.7
• Old wife provokes sparrow to speak and therefore drop new wife whom he is carrying in his beak. K929.10
• Sparrows of Cirencester. Fire is attached to birds who fly in and set fire to a besieged city. K2351.1
• Prophecy of king taking a cruel stepmother to her sons after her death enacted before eyes of dying queen by sparrow family living in tree by palace window. M369.2.1.1
• Train of troubles from sparrow's vengeance. A man runs over the dog, friend of the sparrow. Through the sparrow's vengeance the man loses his horse, his property, and finally his life. N261
• Desecrated church burned by burning straw carried by sparrow. (This is done through power of saint.) Q222.5.5
• Sparrow dissatisfied with pond water wants to go to sea. W128.6
• Sparrow, where are you going? – To eat seed. – The owner will scold you. – I'll sit on a pine tree. – etc. Z39.4.2
• The wormwood does not want to rock the sparrow. Final formula: the worms begin to gnaw the rods, the rods to beat the oxen, the oxen to drink the water, the water to quench the fire, the fire to burn the hunters, the hunters to shoot the wolves, the wolves to kill the goats, the goats to gnaw the wormwood, the wormwood to rock me – it rocked and rocked me to sleep. Z41.7