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Motifs
- Magic porridge-pot keeps cooking. Against command, mother of owner bids pot to cook. It fills house with porridge and will not stop until ordered by mistress. C916.3
- Speaking porridge. (Cf. D1033.) Chinese: Graham. D1610.31.1
- Complaint of the porridge pot. The woman thinks the boiling pot is complaining. J1875.2
- 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
- Porridge eaten in different rooms. The porridge in one, the milk in another. J2167
- The fool spits in the hot porridge. He has seen the smith spit on the hot iron. J2421
- 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
- Hot porridge in the ogre's throat. He is tricked into burning his throat. K1033
- Dwarf king falls into porridge-pot at court of human king. X142.1
- The hungry parson and the porridge-pot. Overnight at the peasant's house. The hungry parson hunts the porridge in the dark, guided by a rope the sexton has given him. Series of accidents. X431
- The fat cat. While the mistress is away, the cat eats the porridge, the bowl, and the ladle. When the mistress returns she says, "How fat you are!" The cat: "I ate the porridge, the bowl, and the ladle, and I will eat you." The cat meets other animals and eats them after the same conversation. Finally eats too many. Z33.2
- Woman meets a pig. "Good morning." "Why are you up so early?" "I am not up so early. I have drunk seven vats of milk and eaten seven plates of porridge and I shall eat you." She ate the pig. Z33.3
Tale types
- ATU 1131 Hot Porridge in the Ogre's Throat
- ATU 1260 Porridge in the Ice Hole
- ATU 1262* Spitting into the Porridge (previously The Fool Spits into the Hot Porridge)
- ATU 1263 Porridge Eaten in Different Rooms
- ATU 1264* The Boiling of the Porridge Pot
- ATU 1458* The Careless Cook (previously The Bride Cooks Porridge full of Lumps)