31 motifs match “taste”  ·  back to the chapters

• Why deer's tail tastes like liver. A2378.9.4
• Meat takes on taste of any dainty desired. D476.3.1
• Fountains poison and cure. One, with bronze vessel, tastes sweet and poisons; other, with iron vessel, tastes bitter and cures. D1663.4
• Food has taste of any dainty desired. (Cf. D1030, D1359.4.) D1665
• Drink has taste of any liquor desired. (Cf. D1040.) D1665.1
• Cow whose milk "tastes of honey and intoxicating wine and the satisfaction of good food." (Cf. B19.2, B182, F241.2.) D1665.2
• Fruit has any taste desired. (Cf. D980.) D1665.3
• Manna tastes bitter to gentiles. (Cf. D1031.0.1.) D1665.4
• Marvelous sensitiveness: meat (wine) tastes of corpse. Has been near grave. F647.1
• Fountain has taste of wine. (Cf. F718.3.) F716.1.1
• Well water tastes like oil, wine, and honey. F718.4
• Snow has taste of wine. F962.11.1
• Milk has taste of wine and honey. F1094
• Taste of human flesh leads to habitual cannibalism. G36
• Human blood (flesh) accidentally tasted: brings desire for human flesh. G36.2
• Unknown prince reared by fisher spends money on princely tastes. H41.5.1
• Drinking-tube as chastity index: retains taste of another's lips. H439.2
• Prince of democratic tastes chosen. King asks three sons what kind of bird they would prefer to be. First: an eagle, because it is ruler of birds; second: a falcon; because it is beloved by the nobles; third: a bird which flies with many others, so as to receive advice. King chooses third. J412.1
• The cynic as judge of wine. Asked which wine tastes best, he says, "That belonging to other people." J1442.5
• 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
• The wise man and the rain of fools. A wise man is persuaded to taste water which has turned many persons into fools. He also becomes a fool. J1714.2
• The falcon not so good as represented. A nobleman praises his falcon. His fool, supposing they were praising the falcon as food, kills the bird, but is disappointed in the taste. J1826
• Porridge in the ice hole. They put meal in the boiling current of the ice hole and then, one after another, they jump in to taste the porridge. J1938
• A fleeing fox loses an eye in the briars. Returns the next day and eats it, thinking that it tastes like chicken. J2182
• Every fruit tasted. Fool tastes every piece of fruit before giving it to his master. J2245
• The substituted porridge. In cooking dinner fox's porridge is light, bear's black. At dinner fox steals spoonful of bear's porridge and lets bear taste it. Bear believes that fox's porridge is as bad as his own. K471
• Trickster breaks cat of taste for milk by overheating its milk. K499.4
• Cannibals advised to be absent while hero is being cooked; else he will not taste right. Hero escapes. K619.1
• Injurious food (drink) has delusive sweet taste. K1889.4
• Curse: not to taste food from own table. Food always seized by harpies. M435
• The man who only tasted wine. Will not drink but gets drunk nevertheless by frequent tasting. W123.1