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Stith Thompson Motif Index
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Stith Thompson's Motif-Index of Folk-Literature classifies recurring narrative elements in folktales, myths, legends, ballads and related traditional narratives. Each entry below gives Thompson's motif reference and the description recorded in the index.
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Mythological Motifs
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Animal Motifs
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Motifs of Tabu
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Magic
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The Dead
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Marvels
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Ogres
H
Tests
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The Wise and the Foolish
K
Deceptions
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Reversals of Fortune
M
Ordaining the Future
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Chance and Fate
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Society
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Rewards and Punishments
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Captives and Fugitives
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Unnatural Cruelty
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Sex
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The Nature of Life
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Religion
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Traits of Character
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Humor
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Miscellaneous Groups of Motifs
| Thompson reference | Description ▲ |
|---|---|
| B211.1.4.1 | Boar sings song. Irish myth: Cross. |
| B101.2.1 | Boar with golden bristles. Icel.: MacCulloch Eddic 109, 266. |
| B15.7.8 | Boar with nine tusks in each jaw. Irish myth: Cross. |
| B558.1 | Boat drawn by swans (geese). **Boekenoogen Ridder metter Swane 166ff.—Krappe Balor 44; *Fb "svane" III 664—Icel.: MacCulloch Eddic 262.—N. A. Indian: Thompson Tales 358 n. 287 n. |
| B541.4.1 | Boat towed by dog. Eskimo (Bering Strait): Nelson RBAE XVIII 505, (Greenland): Rink 196. |
| B21.2 | Body and hands human, head and ears those of a horse. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B22.1 | Body of man, head of ass. Jewish: Neuman. |
| B543.1 | Bottlefly finds stolen woman in sky. Calif. Indian: Gayton and Newman 79. |
| B631.0.2 | Boy kills his animal father for reward. Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 1169. |
| B19.1 | Brazen-footed, fire-breathing bulls. (Cf. B15.6, B15.5)—Frazer Apollodorus I 109 n. 4, 110 n. i. |
| B777 | Breath of bird withers. Irish myth: Cross. |
| B11.2.11.2 | Breath of dragon kills man. Scotland, England: *Baughman Chinese: Werner 236.—N. A. Indian (Iroquois): BBAE XXX pt. 2, 720 s.v. "Teharonhiawagon". |
| B184.1.5 | Breath of magic horse blows off or sucks in those he pursues. Welsh: MacCulloch Celtic 190; Irish myth: Cross. |
| B251.2.10.1 | Brilliantly white cow comes to be milked for infant saint. Irish myth: Cross. |
| B524.5 | Broom, transformed into porcupine, drives away would-be ravisher. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B240.7 | Buffalo as king of animals. Africa (Luba): De Clerq Zs. f. Kolonialspr. IV 198ff. No. 10. |
| B501.1 | Buffalo give hero horns for summoning them. |
| B395.1 | Buffaloes grateful for being cleaned and combed. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B395 | Buffaloes grateful for care of their calves. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B155.1 | Building site determined by halting of animal. Where the animal stops the building is erected.—Fb "kvie" II 338a, "kirke" IV 258a; Sébillot France IV 114, 127; Günter Christliche Legende des Abendlandes 81; Dickson Valentine and Orson 54 n. 66; *Pease Classical Philology XII (1917) 8ff.; Norden on Vergil Aeneid VI, lines 136ff.; Stemplinger Neue Jahrb. XLVII (1920) 41.—Finnish-Swedish: Wessman 70 no. 598; Finnish: Holmberg Finno-Ugric 125, 145, Aarne FFC XXXIII 46 No. 82; Estonian: Aarne FFC XXV 133 No. 82; Danish: Kristensen Danske Sagn III (1895) 167ff., (1931) 117ff.; Irish myth: Cross; Eng., Wales: Baughman. |
| B155.1.0.1 | Building site determined by other action of animal. Irish myth: Cross. |
| B151.1.2 | Bull determines road to be taken. Irish myth: Cross. |
| B297.0.1 | Bull lows musically. Irish myth: Cross (B214). |
| B611.4 | Bull paramour. Greek: Frazer Apollodorus I 305 n. (Pasiphoe), I 299 n. 2. (Europa); Am. Negro (Georgia): Harris Friends 81 No. 11. |
| B15.6.4 | Bull with human hands and feet. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B23.2 | Bull with man's head. Persian: Carnoy 333. |
| B765.17 | Bullets have no effect on giant serpent; only stroke of lightning effective. Ladino: Conzemius BBAE CVI 169. |
| B19.4.1 | Burrowing swine heat ground. Irish myth: Cross. |
| B521.3.2 | Cackling geese spread alarm. *Frazer Fasti II 175 n. 5. |
| B736.6 | Calf sheds tears. Jewish: Neuman. |
| B240.11 | Camel as king of animals. Wienert FFC LVI 47. |
| B151.1.5 | Camel determines road to be taken. Jewish: Neuman. |
| B35 | Camrosh. Giant bird which collects seeds and sees that they are properly placed. Carries off the people's enemies.—Persian: Carnoy 289; Penzer I 103. |
| B278 | Captured animal ransoms self. *Type 159; Chauvin VI 147 No. 304, VIII 148 No. 146 note 1.—India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| B143.1.6 | Captured goose warns tortoise: released in gratitude. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B147.1.2.2 | Cat as beast of ill-omen. Fb "kat".—Irish myth: Cross. |
| B16.1.1.3 | Cat devours flesh of man's legs. Irish myth: Cross. |
| B524.1.3 | Cat kills attacking rat. Japanese: Ikeda, Mitford 253ff. |
| B16.1.1.2 | Cat leaps through man like arrow of fire and burns him to ashes. Irish myth: Cross. |
| B342 | Cat leaves house when report is made of death of one of his companions. His master has been told to say "Robert is dead". As soon as this is said, the cat leaves. —*Boberg Sagnet om den store Pans Dod, København 1934.—Irish: Beal III 66.—U.S.: Baughman; Taylor Washington University Studies X (Hum. Ser.) 60ff. |
| B766.1.1 | Cat must be kept from dying person because it will catch the person's soul issuing (from mouth) in form of mouse. (Cf. E731.3.)—England, U.S.: Baughman. |
| B766.1 | Cat mutilates corpses. *Kittredge Witchcraft 178 n. 41; U.S.: Baughman; North Carolina: Brown Collection I 638. |
| B766.2 | Cat sucks sleeping child's breath. *Kittredge Witchcraft 178 n. 40; England: Baughman; North Carolina: Brown Collection I 638. |
| B121.3 | Cat with magic wisdom. Jewish: Neuman. |
| B181.1.1 | Cat with remarkable powers of sight. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B721 | Cat's luminous eye.—Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "oeil".; Icel.: Boberg. |
| B268.2 | Cavalry of dogs. Chauvin VII 40 No. 153. |
| B547.3 | Centaur rescues man from beast-infested jungle. Greek: Grote I 109. |
| B21 | Centaur: man-horse. Trunk and head of man, body of horse.—**P. V. C. Baur Centaurs in Ancient Art (Berlin, 1912); *Frazer Apollodorus I 191 n. 3, 261 n. 1; Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 413; Howey Horse in Magic and Myth 225ff.; **Dumézil (G.) Le Probleme des Centaures (Paris, 1929); Irish myth: Cross; Jewish: Neuman; Hindu: Penzer I 202. |
| B109.2 | Centipede plays at night with pearl. Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 232f. |
| B15.7.1 | Cerberus. The hell hound with three heads, a serpent's tail, and a writhing tangle of snakes from his body. Irish myth: Cross; Greek: Fox 88, 142. |
| B292.9.2 | Chicken as laborer. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B524.8 | Chicken picks out one of attacker's eyes. Jewish: Neuman. |
| B391.1 | Child feeds snake from its milk-bottle. *Type 285; BP II 459, cf. II 463.—India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B635.3 | Child of mortal and deer has deer's hair on temple. Irish myth: Cross. |
| B391.2 | Child shares food with toad. German: Grimm No. 105. |
| B14.1 | Chimera. Combination of lion, dragon, and goat. Breathes fire.—*Frazer Apollodorus I 151 n. 2, 153 n. 1; Fox 39.—Egyptian: Müller 169. |
| B563.1.2 | Chimpanzee leads lost hunter home. Africa (Duala): Lederbogen 146. |
| B522.4.1 | Circling cranes carry away girl. Eskimo (Bering Strait): Nelson RBAE XVIII 480. |
| B155.2 | City founded on spot where cow lies down. Greek: Frazer Apollodorus I 315 n. 1, II 38 n. 1; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B159.3 | Cleric goes with saint whom his cow follows. Irish myth: Cross. |
| B710.2.1 | Clever and swift horse fed with worms' milk on the gold mountain Tecklen in India. Icel.: *Boberg. |
| B710.2.2 | Clever and swift horse of dromedary-family. Göngu-Hrуlfs saga 239. |
| B710.2 | Clever and swift horse of fanciful origin. |
| B388 | Cobra grateful for cure of ulcer. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B391.1.1 | Cobra grateful to prince for milk. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B165.1.3 | Cobra writes letters on prince's tongue: "Having heard all kinds of creatures talk, you will understand them."—India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B599.1 | Cock and hen build pyre for benefactor. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B623.5 | Cock as suitor. Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 77. |
| B251.1.2.1 | Cock crows, "Christus natus est." English: Child I 240ff., 505f., II 501, IV 451f. |
| B733.2.1 | Cock hears inaudible voice of dying man. Jewish: Neuman. |
| B122.7 | Cock helper advises of coming enemy. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B754.5 | Cocks kept from intercourse with hens have tenderest meat. Nouvelles Récréations No. 86. |
| B11.2.2 | Color of dragon. Smith Dragon 108 (blue), 137 (red).—Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "dragons" (regiment of green dragons).—Icel.: Bуsa saga 62 (golden). |
| B226.2 | Community of frogs. Jewish: Neuman. |
| B226.1 | Community of toads. German: Grimm Nos. 63, 127. |
| B311 | Congenital helpful animal. Born at same time as master and (usually) by same magic means.—*Hartland Perseus III 191ff.; *Types 300, 303; *BP I 534ff.; Köhler-Bolte I 179.—Irish myth: Cross, MacCulloch Celtic 83, Welsh ibid. 95; India: *Thompson-Balys; Africa (Zulu): Callaway 221. |
| B765.13 | Copperhead guides rattlesnake to its prey. U.S.: Baughman. |
| B233.1 | Council of fishes decide to get rid of men (who eat fish). India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B279 | Covenant with animals. Irish myth: Cross. |
| B535.0.1 | Cow as nurse cares for children. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B631.5 | Cow bears man child. Africa (Lamba): Doke MAFLS XX 14 No. 11. |
| B151.1.2.1 | Cow determines road to be taken. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B103.1.2 | Cow drops gold dung. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| B597 | Cow gives marvelous supply of milk through virtue of saint. Irish myth: Cross. |
| B251.2.10 | Cow gives twelve measures of milk for the twelve apostles of Ireland. Irish myth: Cross. |
| B184.2.1.3 | Cow grants all desires. Penzer II 45 n. 2; India: Thompson-Balys (B109.4). |
| B394 | Cow grateful for being milked. (Cf. B411.)—Type 510A; Cox passim. |
| B251.2.6.2 | Cow licks saint's feet. Irish myth: Cross. |
| B741.3 | Cow whose bellowing defeats army. *Liebrecht Zur Volkskunde 71; Norse: *Boberg. |
| B731.4 | Cow with changing colors. Changes every four hours: white, red, black.—Greek: Frazer Apollodorus I 310 n. 3. |
| B731.4.2 | Cow with red ears. Irish myth: Cross. |
| B15.3.2.3.1 | Cow with silver horns. Cheremis: Sebeok-Nyerges. |
| B101.8 | Cow with silver horns. Irish myth: Cross. |
| B15.7.9 | Cow with tallow liver. Irish myth: Cross. |
| B15.7.9.1 | Cow with two bags: one containing a one-legged bird; the other, a twelve-legged bird. Irish myth: Cross. |
| B731.4.1 | Cow with white ears. Irish myth: Cross. |
| B396 | Cows grateful for hero's housekeeping for them. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B251.1.2.3 | Cows kneel in stable at midnight of Eve of Old Christmas. England, U.S.: *Baughman. |
| B19.6.1 | Cows of the sun. (Cf. Odyssey.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B251.1.2.2 | Cows speak to one another on Christmas. (Cf. B215.)—Fb "ko" II 240b. |
| B535.0.13 | Crab as nurse for child. S. A. Indian (Cashinawa): Métraux BBAE 143 III 684. |
| B214.1.8.1 | Crab sings about his captivity. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B754.7.1 | Crab's offspring born through its chest. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B535.0.7.2 | Crane as nurse for child. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B623.1 | Crane as wooer. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B147.3.2.1 | Crickets as bad omens. Hdwb. d. Abergl. III 1166. |
| B147.3.1.1 | Crickets as good omens. Hdwb. d. Abergl. III 1167. |
| B240.15 | Crocodile as king of animals. Africa (Fang): Trilles 158. |
| B557.4 | Crocodile as means of transportation for a saint. *Loomis White Magic 64. |
| B622.2 | Crocodile as wooer. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B551.3 | Crocodile carries man across river (ocean). India: *Thompson-Balys; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 365. |
| B613.2 | Crocodile paramour. Africa (Fang): Trilles 162, (Ekoi): Talbot 333. |
| B147.2.2.1 | Crow as bird of ill-omen. *Fb "krage".—Icel.: Boberg; Hindu: Tawney I 284, 465 n.; Irish myth: Cross; Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| B291.1.2 | Crow as messenger. India: *Thompson-Balys; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 567. |
| B143.0.8 | Crow as prophetic bird. |
| B623.4 | Crow as suitor. Cheremis: Sebeok-Nyerges. |
| B841.2.1 | Crow lives nine generations of men, deer 36, raven 108, phoenix 972, nymphs 9720.—Frazer Pausanias IV 217. |
| B282.22.1 | Crow refuses to marry titmouse, since she is 100 years old. Type 244**. |
| B143.0.8.1 | Crows announce coming of hero to otherworld. Irish myth: Cross. |
| B131.1.1 | Crows reveal the killing of mare. Corpus Poeticum Boreale I 359. |
| B741.1 | Cry of giant ox impregnates all fish. Persian: Carnoy 289. |
| B635.3.1 | Culture hero licked by deer mother. Irish myth: Cross. |
| B81.13.8 | Curse by mermaid. Ireland, England: *Baughman. |
| B293.1 | Dance of cats. Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "dance". |
| B293.2 | Dance of frog(s). Tobler Epiphanie der Seele 76.—Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "dance". |
| B293.4 | Dance of lions. French Canadian: Sister Marie Ursule. |
| B293.5 | Dance of nagas (snake men). Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 1354. |
| B293.3 | Dance of tigers. French Canadian: Sister Marie Ursule.—Korean: Zong in-Sob 149 No. 65. |
| B620.1 | Daughter promised to animal suitor. *Types 425, 552; *BP II 232 III 424ff.—India: Thompson-Balys; Japanese: Ikeda.—Africa (Angola): Chatelain 65 No. 3. |
| B339 | Death of helpful animal—miscellaneous. |
| B330 | Death of helpful animal. |
| B11.6 | Deeds of dragons. |
| B598.2 | Deer as confederate of adulterous wife. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B256.3.1 | Deer furnish bier and bear saint's corpse to church. Irish myth: Cross. |
| B558.4 | Deer hitched to wagon. Irish myth: Cross. |
| B545.1 | Deer in net freed by friendly animals, a crow, a mouse and a tortoise. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| B251.2.6 | Deer lick saint's tomb daily at noon. Irish myth: Cross. |
| B256.3 | Deer makes its horns available as a bookholder to a saint. *Loomis White Magic 61. |
| B611.5 | Deer paramour. Irish myth: Cross. |
| B15.3.2.1 | Deer with a gold and a silver horn. *Fb "hjort" I 625 a. |
| B253.6 | Deer with candles on the tops of their antlers. *Loomis White Magic 61. |
| B15.3.3 | Deer with giant antler. Irish myth: Cross. |
| B105.2 | Deer with string of pearls around its neck. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B171.1.1 | Demi-coq crows in king's body, when the king eats him.—Type 715. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| B171.1 | Demi-coq. A cock is cut in two and is made magic. Carries robbers, foxes, and stream of water under wings.—*Type 715; *BP I 258.—Missouri French: Carrière. |
| B16.1.5.2 | Destructive cow possessed by demons. Irish myth: Cross. (Cf. B17.1.3.) |
| B16.2.7 | Destructive deer. Irish myth: Cross. |
| B16.6.3 | Destructive locusts (with wings of iron) eat wheat crop. Irish myth: Cross. |
| B16.1.6 | Destructive sheep. Irish myth: Cross. |
| B765.19 | Detached snake fang kills person or animal. U.S.: *Baughman. |
| B16.5.1.2 | Devastating (man-eating) sea-monster (serpent). Irish myth: Cross. |
| B16 | Devastating animals. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| B16.2.5 | Devastating bear killed. Icel.: Boberg. |
| B33.1.2 | Devastating birds destroy grass. Irish myth: Cross. |
| B33.1.4 | Devastating birds with poisonous spells on their wings. Irish myth: Cross. |
| B33.1.1 | Devastating birds wither everything with their breath. Irish myth: Cross. |
| B16.3 | Devastating birds. (Cf. B33.) |
| B16.2.9 | Devastating bison (buffalo). German: Grimm No. 197; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B16.1.5.3 | Devastating bull. Greek: Grote I 189. |
| B16.6.5 | Devastating centipede. Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 232f. |
| B16.5.2 | Devastating crocodile. India: Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX II No. 188. |
| B16.1.2 | Devastating dog (hound). Irish myth: Cross; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B16.1 | Devastating domestic animals. |
| B16.2.6 | Devastating elephant. Icel.: *Boberg; India: Thompson-Balys; Chinese-Persian: Coyajee JPASB XXIV 188. |
| B16.4 | Devastating fish carries off daily victim. India: Thompson-Balys; Greek: Grote I 189. |
| B16.2.1 | Devastating fox. Monthly human sacrifice.—*Frazer Apollodorus I 171 n. 2. |
| B16.1.3 | Devastating horse. |
| B16.6 | Devastating insects. |
| B16.5 | Devastating reptiles. |
| B16.5.1.1 | Devastating serpent with fiery breath. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B16.5.3 | Devastating shell-fish. Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 119f. |
| B16.6.4 | Devastating spider. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B16.1.6.1 | Devastating supernatural lamb. Irish myth: Cross. |
| B16.1.4 | Devastating swine. Irish myth: Cross. |
| B16.2.2 | Devastating tiger. India: *Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Graham. |
| B16.2 | Devastating wild animals. |
| B11.1.4 | Devil in form of dragon. German: Grimm No. 125. |
| B147.3.0.1 | Divination by fall of house-lizard. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B877.3 | Djun, gigantic and ferocious river animal. Africa (Fang): Trilles 186. |
| B292.3 | Doe furnishes man milk. Saints' legend (Irish): Plummer cxliv; Irish myth: Cross. |
| B531.2.1 | Does, tigresses, she-wolves milked into pond, which becomes a pond of milk. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B141.4.1 | Dog (transformed man) prophesies coming of enemy. Irish myth: Cross. |
| B119.1 | Dog (whose skin) turns water to wine (mead). Irish myth: Cross. |
| B134.3 | Dog as animal of warning. *Fb "hund" I 678.—Icel.: Boberg, India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B292.8 | Dog as guardian of treasure. *Fb "hund" I 675b (cf. B576.2). |
| B240.9 | Dog as king of animals. Wienert FFC LVI 47. |
| B291.2.2 | Dog as messenger. Icel.: ASB XVII 91; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B535.0.4 | Dog as nurse for child. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B292.1.2 | Dog as shepherd for man. Greek Myth: Grote I 228. |
| B2.1 | Dog as totem animal. Irish myth: Cross. |
| B134.2 | Dog betrays murder. *Fb "hund" I 678b.—Africa (Angola): Chatelain 127 No. 12. |
| B134.1 | Dog betrays woman's infidelity. (Cf. B1313.) India. Thompson-Balys. —Zuсi: Handy JAFL XXXI 464 No. 17. |
| B134.4 | Dog chooses between opposing tribes. Irish myth: Cross. |
| B524.1.4.1 | Dog defends master's child against animal assailant. Irish myth: Cross. |
| B153 | Dog indicates hidden treasure. *Norlind Skattsägner 47 n. 1.—India: Thompson-Balys; Japanese: Mitford 180. |
| B153.1 | Dog indicates other hidden objects. Icel.: Boberg. |
| B152.1 | Dog indicates pregnant woman, adulteress, etc. (Cf. B121.1, B134, B153.)—English: Child I 270 n. |
| B151.1.6 | Dog indicates road to be taken. Icel.: Boberg; Wesselski Theorie 30. |
| B215.2.1 | Dog language understood by fox. Nouvelles Récréations No. 29. |
| B215.2 | Dog language. *Type 671.—Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "chien". |
| B292.10 | Dog made king. Icel.: Herrmann Saxo II 579, *Boberg. |
| B611.2 | Dog paramour. (Cf. B601.2, B642.)—India: Thompson-Balys; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 456; Siberian and North Pacific Coast Natives: Jochelson JE VI 374. |
| B292.4.3 | Dog plows for man. Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 44f. |
| B541.4 | Dog rescues drowning man. Type 540*. |
| B134.5 | Dog returns from dead to clear master of murder. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B294.3 | Dog sells rotten peas on market: punished by other animals. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B736.3 | Dog sheds tears. Irish myth: Cross. |
| B182.1.3 | Dog sight of which renders game helpless. Irish myth: Cross. |
| B211.1.7.1 | Dog sings song. Africa (Zulu): Callaway 363. |
| B841.3 | Dog so old his head is skinless. Eskimo (Greenland): Holm 80. |
| B182.1.5 | Dog that is hound by day and flame of fire by night. Irish myth: Cross. |
| B182.1.4 | Dog that is hound by night and sheep by day. Irish myth: Cross. |
| B103.4.3 | Dog vomits gold and silver. Irish myth: Cross (B109.1.1). |
| B134.3.1 | Dog warns of coming. Chinese: Graham 123, p. 3. |
| B521.3.4 | Dog warns of pursuit. Irish myth: Cross; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 536. |
| B15.4.2.1 | Dog with fire in eyes. (Cf. B19.4.)—Fb "ild".—Gaster Thespis 214. |
| B25.2 | Dog with human head. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B141.4 | Dog with magic sight. Fb. "hund" IV 227a. |
| B121.1 | Dog with magic wisdom.—Krappe "The dog king" Scandinavian Studies XVII (1942) 148ff., Icel.: *Boberg; Jewish: Neuman; Irish: Beal. XXI 310. |
| B25.1.1 | Dog-headed man has mane of horse (cattle). Irish myth: Cross. |
| B25.1.2 | Dog-headed people. Peasants persecuted by one-eyed and dog-headed savages.—Estonian: M. J. Eisen Estnische Mythologie (Leipzig 1925) pp. 202—206; Livonian: Loorits FFC LXVI 73 No. 232; Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 3911. |
| B524.1.2.1 | Dogs break bonds and kill master's attacker. Type 327; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B733.2 | Dogs howling indicates death. Argentina: Jijena Sanchez Perro Negro 115; Fb "hund" I 676 b; Hdwb. d. Abergl. IV 473. |
| B524.1.1 | Dogs kill attacking cannibal (dragon). *Type 300; *BP I 547.—Irish myth: Cross; French Canadian: Barbeau JAFL XXIX 20.—Africa (Basuto): Jacottet 56 No. 9, (Zulu): Callaway 51, (Kaffir): Kidd 226 No. 1. |
| B524.1.2 | Dogs rescue fleeing master from tree refuge. *Parsons Zs. f. Ethnologie LIV 1—29, MAFLS XVII 271 No. 82.—See also most of African references in B421. |
| B578 | Dogs track down law-breakers. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| B521.3.1 | Dogs warn against witch. Jamaica: *Beckwith MAFLS XVII 270 No. 82; Eskimo (Greenland): Rink 452. |
| B15.4.3 | Dogs with eyes like plates, tea-cups, etc. Fb. "øje" 1165b. |
| B612.2 | Dolphin as paramour. Jewish: Neuman. |
| B291.2 | Domestic beast as messenger. |
| B256.4 | Domesticated wolves. *Loomis White Magic 60. |
| B726 | Double snake—male and female. Africa (Baluba): Einstein 182. |
| B291.1.3 | Dove as messenger. Calif. Indian: Gayton and Newman 76. |
| B143.0.6 | Dove as prophetic bird. Jewish: Neuman. |
| B582.2.5 | Dove helps deity draw his wife into a net. Marquesas: Handy 115. |
| B11.2.1 | Dragon as compound animal. (cf. B14.)—Smith Dragon 81 (serpent or crocodile, with scales of a fish for covering, and feet and wings and sometimes also the head, of an eagle, falcon, or hawk, and the forelimbs and sometimes the head of a lion).—Chinese: Werner 208 (ears of an ox, feet of a tiger, claws of an eagle, horns of a deer, head of a camel, eyes of a devil, neck of a snake, abdomen of a cock, scales of a carp); Egyptian: Smith op. cit. 79 (lioness, falcon, human being). |
| B11.4.2 | Dragon as giver of omens. Smith Dragon 97. |
| B11.2.1.10 | Dragon as modified deer. Smith Dragon 131. |
| B11.2.1.11 | Dragon as modified eagle. Smith Dragon 92f., 108. |
| B11.2.1.6 | Dragon as modified elephant. Smith Dragon 109. |
| B11.2.1.3 | Dragon as modified fish. Smith Dragon 108f.; Irish myth: Cross; Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 65. |
| B11.2.1.7 | Dragon as modified horse. Smith Dragon 97f. Japanese: Ikeda. |
| B11.2.1.2 | Dragon as modified lizard. Smith Dragon 109. |
| B11.2.1.9 | Dragon as modified ram. Smith Dragon 134 (Egyptian, Soudanese, West African, Hindu, Chinese, Japanese, American Indian). The evidence of this identification is merely the spiral horn. |
| B11.2.1.1 | Dragon as modified serpent. Smith Dragon 92, 101f., 107ff. (American Indian, Japanese, East Indian).—Icel.: *Boberg; Japanese: Ikeda; Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 65. |
| B11.2.1.4 | Dragon as modified shell-fish. Smith Dragon 165ff. |
| B11.2.1.5 | Dragon as modified toad. Smith Dragon 109. |
| B11.2.1.12 | Dragon as other modified animal. Smith Dragon 108 (falcon), 165ff. (octopus, whale). |
| B11.9 | Dragon as power of evil. So considered everywhere except in the East, where are also found beneficent dragons.—Smith Dragon 82.—Irish myth; Chinese: Werner 208 (introduced by the Buddhists). |
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