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Motifs — first 20 of 121
- Origin of peasantry. A1655
- Why peasant is always busy: he is eager to produce food for all living beings. A1655.1
- Dog-headed people. Peasants persecuted by one-eyed and dog-headed savages. B25.1.2
- Transformation: king and queen to peasant and wife. D24.2
- Dying peasant summons greedy bishop for heavenly funeral; the bishop dies hearing the message. D1715.2
- Fairies' horses water at peasant's well. F241.1.2.1
- Fairies occupy peasant's house. F365.3
- Spirits tangle up peasant's cows. F402.1.3
- Dwarfs emigrate because they dislike peasants' dancing and loud music. F451.9.1.9
- Mountain-men chain captive peasant. F460.4.4.2
- Mountain-folk steal from peasant. F460.4.4.5
- Mountain-men borrow from peasant. F460.4.5
- Devil as a peasant. G303.3.1.10
- Peasant boy masking as prince betrays self by his answers. H38.2.2
- Prophecy for newborn princesses: the one who takes gold in the mouth will be married to a prince; the one who takes hawkweed, to a peasant. H41.6
- Clever peasant girl asked riddles by king. H561.1
- Clever peasant wife asks king riddles. H561.1.0.1
- Conflict between peasant and nobleman decided so that each must answer riddles: peasant's daughter solves them. H561.1.1
- Found mortar taken to king reveals peasant girl's wisdom. Peasant finds mortar in his field and against his daughter's advice takes it to the king, who demands the pestle as well. Peasant laments that he has not followed daughter's advice. King summons her. H561.1.2
- King and peasant vie in riddling questions and answers. H561.6
Episodes
- Egyptian Tales, Translated from the Papyri · THE PEASANT AND THE WORKMAN THE PEASANT AND THE WORKMAN
- Grimm's Household Tales: With the Author's Notes · Tale 61 61.— THE LITTLE PEASANT.
- Grimm's Household Tales: With the Author's Notes · Tale 94 94._THE PEASANT'S WISE DAUGHTEE.
- Grimm's Household Tales: With the Author's Notes · Tale 167 167.— THE PEASANT IN HEAVEN.
- Grimm's Household Tales: With the Author's Notes · Tale 189 189.— THE PEASANT AND THE DEVIL.
Tale types
- ATU 1059* Riding on a Harrow (previously The Peasant Makes the Devil Sit on the Reversed Harrow)
- ATU 1211 The Cow Chewing its Cud (previously The Peasant Woman Thinks the Cow Chewing her Cud is Mimicking Her)
- ATU 1339D Farmers are Unacquainted with Mustard (previously Peasants in a City Order a Whole Portion of Mustard)
- ATU 1560** 'Is it Still Raining' (previously The Peasant and his Servant Driven by Rain into the Hay Barn)
- ATU 1683* Counting Birds (previously A Peasant Counts Pebbles)
- ATU 920A The Case of the Boiled Eggs (previously The Daughter of the King and the Son of the Peasant)