Search
Motifs
- Fool unacquainted with sausage. He squeezes the inside out and takes the covering for a sack. J1732.1
- The two extra pounds. A dog has eaten 14 pounds of butter; the fool squeezes 16 pounds from him. J1919.3
- Wolf (bear) boasts of having eaten horses. When the horse strikes sparks with his hoofs the lion is frightened and picks up the boastful wolf to show him the horse. He squeezes the wolf to death. J2351.4
- Wrestling match won by deception: where to throw the ogre. The ogre squeezes the man so that his eyes bulge out. The ogre: "Why do you glare so?" – "I am looking to see where to throw you." The ogre flees (Cf. K18.1.) K12.1
- Contest in squeezing water from a stone. The ogre squeezes a stone; the trickster a cheese or egg. K62