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- Man to earn bread by sweat of his brow. (Cf. A1331.1.) A1346
- Origin of breadfruit tree. A2681.11
- Mouse makes boat of bread-crust. Takes animals and birds into boat. It capsizes. B295.1
- Snake eats milk and bread with child. B765.6
- Tabu: stepping on sacred bread. C55.1
- Tabu: eating breadfruit. C224.3
- Tabu: stepping on bread (or otherwise misusing it). C535
- Tabu: wiping children with bread. C851.1.1
- Transformation: pig to bread. D422.3.1
- Transformation: bread to serpents. (Cf. D444.1, D444.2, D469.11, D471.1.) D444.4
- Transformation: bread to another object. (Cf. D471). D454.2
- Transformation: bread to flower. D454.2.1
- Bread tree springs from crumb of bread. D454.2.2
- Transformation: bread to stone. As punishment. (Cf. D441.1, D444.2, D444.4, D476.) D471.1
- Bread made from mud. D476.1.1
- Loaf of bread made from the leaf of a tree. D476.1.2
- Bread becomes cake. D476.4
- Transformation by eating bread. D551.4
- Magic pastry (bread, cake, etc.). D1031
- Magic bread. D1031.1
Tale types
- ATU 1199A Preparation of Bread
- ATU 135* The Mouse Makes a Boat of a Bread-crust
- ATU 1374* Woman who Doesn't Know how to Bake Bread
- ATU 1446 'Let them Eat Cake!' When the queen was told that the poor people had no bread, she answered, 'Let them eat cake!' [J2227]
- ATU 1448* Burned and Underbaked Bread
- ATU 1555A Paying for Bread with Beer
- ATU 1562B* Dog's Bread Stolen
- ATU 1626 Dream Bread
- ATU 1785B The Needle in the Pulpit (previously The Sexton Puts a Needle in the Sacramental Bread)
- ATU 1890B* Fatal Bread