35 motifs match “straw”  ·  back to the chapters

• Origin of "Mary's bed straw" (thymus serpyllum). A2654
• Origin of straw. Formerly whole blade became grain. Straw left for dog. A2685.2
• Transformation: straw to snake. D441.9
• Transformation: straw to gold. D475.1.20
• Magic straw. D1276
• Straw on horse's back restrains him. (Cf. D1276.) D1442.2
• Magic powers from swallowing a straw. D1735.1
• Ghost sails over sound on bundle of straw. E581.7
• Reincarnation as a grass straw. E631.2.1
• Soul as straw. E745.3
• Fairy replaces man's heart with heart of straw. Eyes with wood, etc. F281
• Bridge of straw. F842.1.5
• Bean, straw, and coal go journeying. Coal burns straw in two and falls into the water. Bean laughs until it splits. F1025.1
• Witch in form of blade of straw. G212.1
• Witch rides on horses transformed from straw. G241.3.1
• Straws as protection against witch. G272.12
• Straw driven into witch's track immobilizes her. G273.7.1
• Thief detected by building straw fire so that smoke escapes through thief's entrance. The secret hole into the building is thus discovered and the thief caught. J1143
• God's omniscience. A woman tells her brother of God's omniscience. When he is ill and the priest has been called, he creeps under some straw and hides. The priest leaves. The man: "If God were so omniscient he might have found me for the priest." J1617
• To cover house with straw. Word for wife is similar, so wife is covered. J1805.1.1
• Fool at baths believes he is someone else. Sees everybody naked. Puts straw on his shoulder to identify himself. Straw floats to another bather. "You are me and I am you!" J2012.6
• Talkative animals incense master. He gives them twice-threshed straw to eat as punishment. J2362
• Scientific query: why don't rats stick their eyes out in the straw? J2371.3
• "Cover with straw." Fool covers his mistress with straw and suffocates her. Should have thatched roof. J2489.8
• Devil cheated by pretended hanging. The man has promised himself to the devil in return for money. He stuffs his clothes with straw and hangs them up. The devil thinks the man has hanged himself and is satisfied. K215
• Crocodile hides in strawstack and is burned to death. K1055.1
• Importunate lover beaten with canes filled with straw. He thinks he is severely wounded. K1218.8
• To cover house with straw: suffocates mother under straw. K1462.2
• Release from curse by burning animal in straw pile. M429.3
• Desecrated church burned by burning straw carried by sparrow. (This is done through power of saint.) Q222.5.5
• Lazy wife taken naked in bundle of straw to a wedding. (Cf. Q321.) Q495.1
• Princess hides in straw. R313
• Abandoned child wrapped in straw. S336
• Master insists that servants whistle as they pick strawberries so that they cannot eat any. W152.12.4
• The old maid in bed. On one side is a bundle of straw (her husband) and on the other a dog (her child). She gives the straw bundle a push and thereupon falls on the floor herself. X752