81 motifs match “toad”  ·  back to the chapters

• Toads in hell. A671.2.8
• Toad causes eclipses of the sun. A737.3
• Why man does not change his skin: ancient contest lost by toad, representing man, won by lizard. A1319.12.1
• Origin of toad. A2161
• Toad refuses to weep over its dead children: dries up when dead. Cursed by Virgin Mary. (Cf. A2234.4, A2468.2.) A2231.8
• Toad trades his tail for mole's eyes. A2247.5
• Lizard wins contest with toad: why snakes and lizards change their skins. A2250.2
• Why toad has red eyes. A2332.5.4
• Why toad has no thumbs. A2375.2.9
• How toad lost tail. A2378.2.7
• Why toads have warts on their backs. (Cf. A2356.2.) A2412.5.2
• Toad's croak. A2426.4.2
• Why toad lives in cold place. A2433.6.7
• Cause of toad's hop. A2441.4.3
• Toad remains still when he hears footsteps (defense). A2461.2
• Why toad dries up when dead. (Cf. A2231.8.) A2468.2
• Dragon as modified toad. B11.2.1.5
• Magic toad. B177.1
• Magic toad under king's bed causes sickness. B177.1.1
• Speaking toad. B211.7.2
• Whistling toad. B214.2.1
• Laughing toad. B214.3.1
• Weeping toad. B214.4.1
• Community of toads. B226.1
• War between toads and frogs. B263.1
• Wedding of toad. B284.2
• Toad and chameleon play drum and xylophone. B297.1.2
• Child shares food with toad. B391.2
• Helpful toad. B493.2
• Man carried by toad. B559.1
• Marriage of person to transformed toad. B645.1
• Marriage to person in toad form. B645.1.1
• Toads suck blood. B766.3
• Toad considered venomous. (Cf. B776.5.1.) B776.2
• Blood of toad venomous. B776.5.1
• Transformation: man to toad. D196
• Transformation: toad to man. D396
• Transformation: cat to toad. D412.1.2
• Transformation: meat to toad. Punishment for ungrateful son. D444.2
• Transformation: blood drops to toads. D447.3.1
• Magic conjuring bag. Filled with nail parings, human hair, feet of toads, and the like. D1274.1
• Consecrated bread kept in mouth and fed to toad produces love. D1355.10.1
• Rice paddies flooded or dried by toad's tears or laughter. D2149.5
• Revenant as horrible female figure. Covered with snakes and toads. E425.1.6
• Separable soul in toad. E715.5.1
• Soul in form of toad. E736.2
• Forked glen full of toads, lions on way to otherworld. F144.1
• Fairy in form of toad. F234.1.5
• Fairy bread must be eaten same day it is given or it turns to toadstools. F343.19.1
• Water-spirit as toad. F420.1.3.1
• During the day dwarfs appear in form of toads or other vermin. F451.2.0.5
• Man kills serpents, toads, dragons with own hands. F628.1.3.1
• Ornaments of snakes, hornets, scorpions, dirt, and a toad. F827.3
• Toad (as man) swallows all women's earthenware. F911.6.1
• Toad carries seven stone mortars on his head. F982.6
• Toad carries tree on back. F982.7
• Witch in form of toad. (Cf. D196.) G211.6.1
• Witch bone from toad. G224.11.1
• Toad as witch's familiar. (Cf. G303.10.2.) G225.4
• Witch gives birth to toads and snakes after union with devil. G243.3.1
• Devil in form of toad. G303.3.3.7.1
• Toad as follower of the devil. G303.10.2
• Devil roasts a toad. G303.25.14.2
• "But by a fine fellow!" Dying toad thus comforts his paramour, the frog, whom he is leaving neither married nor widow nor maiden and pregnant. J865.1
• Living toad or beetles thought to be lost food and therefore eaten by numskulls. J1761.7
• Wool taken to pond for frogs and toads to weave. J1851.1.4
• Toad having found money daydreams and is run over. J2061.4
• Toad receives water from frog; refuses earth in return. K231.8
• While swimming with the lizard, toad exchanges own ugly daughter for lizard's pretty one. K476.5
• Girl falsely accused of murdering her lover. Investigation reveals poisonous breath of toad as cause of death. K2116.1.3
• Curse: toads from mouth. M431.2
• Toads and snakes devour corpse of rich man in his grave. Q491.4
• Undutiful son punished by toad clinging to face. (Cf. Q281.1.) Q551.1
• Poisonous toad sits on food of undutiful children. (Cf. Q281.1.) Q557.1
• Woman gives birth to toad. T554.8.1
• Princess sick because toad has swallowed her consecrated wafer. V34.2
• Man weeps with gratitude to God because He did not make him hideous as toad. W27.1
• The over-hasty toad (beetle). Is years ascending steps. On last step falls and curses haste. X1862
• Louse and flea wish to marry. Mosquito, toad, ant, etc. volunteer to supply the wedding feast. Z31.2
• Cumulative: master to kill hen. She begs off; he goes to kill rooster .... goose, rabbit, toad, tiger. Z32.4
• Toad asks magpie in tree to throw down a chestnut. Magpie refuses, saying it might break its beak. Toad promises, if that happens, to get a horsehair to tie it up again. Magpie throws chestnut and breaks beak. Toad asks ass for hair, but ass first demands grass; mower demands sheep; shepherd, pup; mother dog, bread; baker, stumps. Toad cuts the stumps and gets the hair. Z43.1