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Motifs
- Creation of cricket. A2063
- Cricket hears water hiss on hot iron: learns his song. (Cf. A2426.3.4.) A2272.1.2
- Cricket's chirp. (Cf. A2272.1.2.) A2426.3.4
- Friendship between frog and cricket. A2493.20
- Crickets as good omens. B147.3.1.1
- Crickets as bad omens. B147.3.2.1
- Wedding of cricket. (Cf. B285.1.) B285.2
- Helpful cricket. B486.2
- Transformation: man to cricket. D183.2
- Soul in form of cricket. E734.5
- King selected by having a cricket light on his head. H162.2
- Peasant leaves honey tree standing. Sparrows and crickets ask peasant to leave tree standing. He refuses, but when he finds honey in the tree he consents. J241.2
- Ass tries to get a cricket's voice. Asks crickets what they eat to get such a voice. They answer, "dew." He tries it and starves. J512.8
- Ant and lazy cricket (grasshopper). Lazy bird is put to shame by thrift of industrious bird. In winter he is in distress. J711.1
- Bargain: to render service for "something". Claimant has called dead cricket "something" and must be content. J1521.5.1
- Owl invites cricket to share his nectar. Kills him. K815.5
- Fox's plan detected by crickets: cricket wings in his excrement. K2061.10
- Big voice: little creature. (Frogs, crickets.) U113
- Lizard eats cricket, frog eats lizard, snake eats frog, eagle eats snake, man shoots eagle; animals escape except lizard. Man takes eagle home. Z49.10