25 motifs match “stork”  ·  back to the chapters

• Creation of stork. (Cf. A1715.) A1966
• Origin of stork's long neck. A2351.4.1
• Color of stork. A2411.2.5.3
• Why stork has black back. A2411.2.5.3.1
• Why stork must hunt for living. A2452.2
• Friendship between monkey and stork. A2493.14.3
• Why stork is holy. (Cf. A2221.5.) A2541.2
• War between serpents and storks. B263.7
• The courtship of the stork and the crane. Go a-courting one another across the marshes but never come to an understanding, as each time either one or the other changes his mind. (Cf. T91.) B282.23
• Helpful stork. B463.4
• Stork as nurse for child. B535.0.7.1
• Stork is man while hibernating in Egypt. B775
• Tabu: killing stork. C92.1.4
• Tabu: killing stork. Bird was once maiden. (Cf. A1715, A1966.) C841.1
• Transformation: man to stork. D155.1
• Storks become men in Egypt in the winter. (Cf. D155.1.) D624.1
• Water-spirit as stork. F420.1.3.5
• Riddle: drink this wine which a bird took to nest. (Stork took bunch of grapes to nest; boy makes wine from them.) H806
• Stork killed along with cranes. Ill-advised associations end fatally. J451.2
• Frogs demand a live king. King Log. Zeus has given them a log as king, but they find him too quiet. He then gives them a stork who eats them. J643.1
• The remodelled stork. A trickster cuts off the bill and legs of a stork to make him look more like a real bird. J1919.1
• Protecting as the stork does. Man has had stork protect him from rain by covering him with his wing. Man tries to protect his wife from rain with his arm. J2442
• Bad luck follows man who shoots stork. N250.1
• King sees how male stork kills his unfaithful wife. Follows its example. T252.2.1
• Children brought by the stork. T589.6.1