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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
C
Motifs of Tabu
D
Magic
E
The Dead
F
Marvels
G
Ogres
H
Tests
J
The Wise and the Foolish
K
Deceptions
L
Reversals of Fortune
M
Ordaining the Future
N
Chance and Fate
P
Society
Q
Rewards and Punishments
R
Captives and Fugitives
S
Unnatural Cruelty
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Sex
U
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 ▲ |
|---|---|
| F460.4.4 | Malevolent mountain-men. |
| F360 | Malevolent or destructive fairies (= pixies). Saintyves Perrault 83ff.; Irish: *Cross, O'Suilleabhain 62, Beal XXI 324; Icelandic: Boberg, Papua: Ker 73. |
| F360.0.1 | Malevolent or hostile beings in otherworld. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F420.5.2 | Malevolent water-spirits. Icelandic: Grettis Saga ch. 65—66 in RSB VI (1897), Boberg. |
| F456.1.2.1 | Malicious actions of knockers. |
| F482.5.5 | Malicious or troublesome actions of brownies. England, Scotland, Wales: *Baughman. |
| F667.2 | Man able to strike every arrow with his sword and reduce it to splinters. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F13 | Man admitted into heaven but must not find fault. *Type 801; BP III 297. |
| F1083.2 | Man and his camels rise into air. Jewish: Neuman. |
| F531.6.16.3 | Man as servant of giant. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| F1038.1 | Man attends devil's school to learn witchcraft, has no shadow afterward. Scotland: Baughman. |
| F302.4.4 | Man binds fairy and forces her to marry him. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F342.2 | Man borrows money from fairy (dwarf, devil). When the man brings the money back, he learns that the fairy was killed by thunder. He keeps the money. German, Swedish, Finnish-Swedish, Estonian, Livonian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Ukrainian, Kashubish, and Wendish: Balys Tautosakos Darbai VI 163—195. |
| F911.5.1 | Man builds boat and sails about in giant's belly. Finnish: Kalevala rune 17. |
| F691 | Man can breathe nine days under water. *Ullrich Archiv für Literaturgeschichte XIV 69ff.; Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F641.2 | Man can hear ant leave nest fifty miles away. Welsh: MacCulloch Celtic 190. |
| F641.1 | Man can hear grass (wool) grow. *Type 513; Hdwb. d. Märchens I 432a n. 55; *BP II 95ff.; *Fb "høre" I 755b, IV 238b;—Icelandic: Boberg; Irish: Hyde Beside the Fire (London 1890) 23; Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "avoine". |
| F641.3 | Man can hear one sleeping by putting ear to ground. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| F673 | Man can keep together feathers in great wind. *Type 654; *Wesselski Märchen 213 No. 20. |
| F679.2 | Man can lengthen swords by twirling them between his fingers. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F681.6.1 | Man can outstrip wild mare, hold her, and bridle her. Jewish: Neuman. |
| F642.5 | Man can see celestial nymphs dancing in divine world. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F682 | Man can stand all day on one foot. Irish myth: Cross; Welsh: MacCulloch Celtic 190. |
| F679.4 | Man can stand on barrel rolling down hill. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F668.3 | Man can transplant feather from one bird to another. Buriat: Holmberg Siberian 428. |
| F679.3 | Man can walk (stand) on weapon edge (point) without injury. Can catch sharp edges without being cut. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F405.13 | Man captures spirit by hiding his stick and leg-wrappers of copper. When spirit gets them back by trickery he disappears. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F631.6.2 | Man carries a beam eighteen feet in length and cuts path through jungle at same time. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F1016 | Man carries extraordinary luggage. |
| F511.0.4 | Man carries his head under his arm. Loomis White Magic 54, 93, 125; Irish myth: *Cross; Italian Novella: Rotunda (F1041.14); Africa (Kaffir): Theal 51. |
| F1071.2.1 | Man clears river of enormous width in one leap. Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 102. |
| F521.1 | Man covered with hair like animal. *Williams 17ff.; Gaster Oldest Stories 43; Irish myth: *Cross; Welsh: MacCulloch Celtic 189; India: Thompson-Balys; Persian: Carnoy 298. |
| F558 | Man covered with horn. Irish myth: *Cross; Norse: Panzer Sigfrid 66. |
| F1041.21.4 | Man cries at hearing of friend's death. Þiðriks saga II 358. |
| F511.0.4.1 | Man cuts off own head and throws it against enemy. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F302.5.0.1 | Man deserts wife for fairy. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F1041.1.11.4 | Man dies from frog's bite, thinking it snakebite. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F1041.1.3.8 | Man dies from grieving over mother's death. Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles No. 77; Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| F1041.1.3.5 | Man dies on learning of wife's adultery. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| F1041.1.7 | Man dies when he learns storm is magic. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F949.2 | Man falls underground through hole. Chinese: Graham. |
| F1041.16.3 | Man fells wood with sword (dies) when he hears of Crucifixion. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F1065 | Man fishes up two blind women from a well. Malone PMLA XLIII 405, 416. |
| F302.1 | Man goes to fairyland and marries fairy. Irish myth: *Cross; English: Wells 130ff. (Sir Launfal, Emare); Spanish Exempla: Keller; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| F321.3 | Man goes to fairyland and rescues stolen child. (Cf. F322.2.) Hartland Science 127. |
| F11.3 | Man goes to heaven for limited time. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| F11.2 | Man goes to heaven without dying. (Cf. D1856, F2.) Jewish: *Neuman. |
| F555.6 | Man has drop of blood on end of each hair. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F1038.2 | Man has witch aid him in reaping contest, the devil to get the hindmost. The devil tries to take the man but gets shadow instead. (Cf. G303.19, K210.) Scotland: Baughman. |
| F1034.3.1 | Man hides sister in wound in his thigh to protect her. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F652.1 | Man identifies picker of berries by their scent. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F171.6.5 | Man in otherworld kindles fire. It burns out repeatedly while he is gathering more wood. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F171.6.1 | Man in otherworld loaded down with wood. Then more and more put on him. *Type 801; *BP III 302; Irish: O'Suilleabhain 55, Beal XXI 321. |
| F302.3.1.3 | Man is carried to fairyland by fairy and marries her. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F1068.2.1 | Man is maltreated in dream so that he feels it next day. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| F638.3 | Man is waiting for bird to fall that he had shot eight days before. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F1041.9.1.1 | Man keeps to his bed, mourning over drowned son. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| F1021.4 | Man kicked so hard that he flies through the air and is never seen again. German: Grimm No. 90. |
| F311.2.1 | Man killed on night when fairy guardian relaxes vigilance. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F628.1.2.1 | Man kills cow with flat of hand. Africa (Duala): Lederbogen Märchen 144. |
| F531.5.14 | Man kills giant's baby. Eskimo (Mackenzie Area): Jenness 83, (West Hudson Bay): Boas BAM XV 539. |
| F679.5.3 | Man kills many tigers with one arrow-shot. S. A. Indian (Yurakare): Métraux RMLP XXXIII 144. |
| F628.1.2 | Man kills ox with flat of hand. Pauli (ed. Bolte) No 250. |
| F628.1.3.1 | Man kills serpents, toads, dragons with own hands. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F645.2 | Man knows exactly how many grains are in a measure. Jewish: Neuman. |
| F1021.3 | Man learns to fly. Chinese: Graham. |
| F571.8 | Man lives for nine generations. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F725.4 | Man lives under river. Irish myth: *Cross; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F379.3 | Man lives with fairies seven years. Wales: Baughman. |
| F302.5.3 | Man loses luck when he leaves fairy wife for mortal. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F302.2 | Man marries fairy and takes her to his home. **Köhler Der Ursprung der Melusinensage (1895); *Fränkel Zs. f. Vksk. IV 387; *Fb "menneske" II 577b; see also all references for C31.1.2; Hartland Science 168; Malone PMLA XLIII 417; Irish myth: *Cross; England, Wales: Baughman; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| F441.2.3.1.1 | Man marries spirit of willow tree. She must part from him when tree is cut down. Japanese: Anesaki 333. |
| F441.2.3.1 | Man marries tree maiden. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F1099.8 | Man meets his future descendants and is instructed by them. Jewish: Neuman. |
| F531.5.2 | Man mistakes giant's glove for house. *Von Sydow Danske Studier (1910) 154; Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| F302.4 | Man obtains power over fairy mistress. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F521.3.1 | Man of bronze. (Talos). Has single vein from neck to ankle and bronze nail at end of vein. This is the only vulnerable spot. Frazer Apollodorus I 118 n. 1. |
| F521.3.2 | Man of iron. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F112.1 | Man on Island of Fair Women overcome by loving women. Irish myth: *Cross; Oceanic: Dixon 66, 140, 141 n. 22; N. A. Indian (Assiniboin): Lowie PaAM IV 106 No. 6, (Cree): Skinner PaAM IX 87. |
| F1041.12 | Man perspires in winter while relating fearful vision. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F639.7 | Man presses out twelve measures of oil without the help of bullocks. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F1016.1 | Man puts his horse in his sleeve when he does not need it. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F322.2 | Man rescues his wife from fairyland. (Cf. F321.3.) Hartland Science 133, 142; Irish myth: *Cross; English: Wells 128 (Sir Orfeo); Scotland, U.S.: *Baughman. |
| F101.8 | Man returning from hell brings heat with him. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| F989.4 | Man rides on back of fleeing wild boar. (Cf. B557.) Irish myth: Cross; Icelandic: Boberg. |
| F15.1 | Man seeks his mother (star-maiden) in upper world. Chinese: Graham. |
| F1041.21.5 | Man senseless from grief at hearing of father's death; one doesn't feel that he cuts himself with his knife, the other presses dice so that he bleeds. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| F302.4.1 | Man shoots into wreath of mist and brings down fairy. She becomes his wife. Hartland Science 144. |
| F661.10 | Man shoots pearls from wife's nose-ring. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F942 | Man sinks into earth. U.S.: Baughman; Jewish: *Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys; Eskimo (Greenland): Rink 372, Rasmussen III 185, (Smith Sound): Kroeber JAFL XII 182; West Indies: Flowers 438. |
| F943.1 | Man sinks into stone. Irish myth: Cross; Eskimo (Greenland): Rasmussen III 98. |
| F564.4 | Man sleeps with one eye and one ear open. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F652.2 | Man smells pots boiling 400 miles off. Jewish: Neuman. |
| F571.4 | Man so old he sleeps in cradle. Scotch: Campbell-McKay Nos. 1, 2. |
| F535.2.2 | Man so small he can go through eye of needle. BP I 397. |
| F535.2.4 | Man so small he can put his head through a mote in a sunbeam. BP I 397. |
| F535.2.3 | Man so small he dances in spider web. BP I 397. |
| F535.2.5 | Man so small that he rides on an ant. Ant treads him underfoot. BP I 397. |
| F610.6 | Man so strong that he breaks most of what he gets in touch with. (Cf. F614.3—F614.6.) Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| F610.6.1 | Man so strong that he must be chained except when in battle. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| F582.2 | Man spews venom. Icelandic: FSS 119, *Boberg. |
| F1041.16.1 | Man spits fire when enraged. Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: Boberg. |
| F525.2 | Man splits into two parts. Chauvin VII 40 No. 153 n. 1; Tonga: Gifford 32. |
| F59.1 | Man stretches self till he reaches other world. Greek: Fox 36 (Dionysus); Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 476. |
| F1044 | Man suddenly acquires long gray beard on scaffold at execution. Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 656. |
| F929.2 | Man swallows reptiles. Jewish: Neuman. |
| F1041.10 | Man sweats blood and absorbs hair into head on exertion of strength. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F1041.21.2 | Man swells from excessive grief. Icelandic: Egils saga in ASB 3 (1894) ch. LXXVIII 14ff., Völsunga saga ch. 31 (29), Boberg. |
| F628.1.2.2 | Man swings wild steer by horns round and round till it is stunned, casts it to ground. Jewish: Neuman. |
| F10.2 | Man taken to upper world sees all that happens on earth. Jewish: Neuman. |
| F1041.16.10 | Man throws cereal and spoon on the floor because he is supposed to eat together with his brother. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| F302.10 | Man to have fairy wife for only seven years. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F1041.11.2 | Man turns pale, red, blue, etc. from emotion or strain. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| F1017 | Man washes clothes blindfolded. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F681.9 | Man who is too heavy for any horse walks faster than horseback riders. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| F594 | Man whose entrails are visible when he laughs. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F516.2.3 | Man with a thousand arms. Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 39. |
| F551.1.3 | Man with dog's feet. Icelandic: Hrуlfs saga Kr. 54ff., Boberg. |
| F516.4 | Man with elastic reach. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 263. |
| F531.2.12 | Man with eyes the size of brass pots, teeth like axeheads, ears like elephant's ears. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F545.2.4 | Man with forehead of iron. S. A. Indian (Toba): Métraux MAFLS XL 75f. |
| F610.4.1 | Man with four men's strength. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| F529.3 | Man with grass growing from his joints. Eskimo (Bering Strait): Nelson RBAE XVIII 488. |
| F511.0.5 | Man with half a head. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F545.2.3 | Man with inscription on forehead. Jewish: Neuman. |
| F517.0.2.1 | Man with legs so long he can steady boat as he stands in ocean. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 354. |
| F574.2 | Man with luminous arms. Jewish: Gaster Exempla 227 No. 223, Neuman. |
| F688 | Man with marvelous voice. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| F525.1.1 | Man with one side of stone (iron). Fb "jærn" IV 249b; Hawaii: Dixon 89 (stone); Africa (Kaffir): Theal 129 (iron). |
| F610.4.3 | Man with seventy men's strength. Jewish: Neuman. |
| F551.1.1 | Man with snake-like feet. Greek: Fox 68 (Erichtheus). |
| F610.5 | Man with strength of animals. |
| F610.5.1 | Man with strength of lion. Jewish: Neuman. |
| F610.4 | Man with strength of many men. Jewish: Neuman. |
| F610.5.2 | Man with strength of ten elephants. Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 31, 580. |
| F610.4.2 | Man with twelve men's strength. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| F511.0.7 | Man with venomous worm in his head. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F811.24 | Man-eating tree. (Cf. G10.) Jewish: Neuman. |
| F574.1.4 | Man's beauty eclipses splendor of sun. Jewish: Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F595 | Man's body exudes sweet scent. Jewish: Neuman. |
| F592 | Man's ferocious glance kills (causes swooning). Irish myth: Cross. |
| F547.3.5 | Man's genitals hidden in his body. Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 31. |
| F544.0.2 | Man's mouth, from fear of sea-monster under lake, "distended to both his ears." Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F688.2 | Man's shout remains in air three days. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F688.1 | Man's voice shakes heavens. Chinese: Werner 305. |
| F992.1 | Mandrake shrieks when uprooted. Stark Der Alraun; Taylor JAFL XXXI 561. |
| F961.3.2 | Many moons at the same time. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| F531.1.2.2.7 | Many-headed giant—miscellaneous. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| F531.1.2.2 | Many-headed giant. Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: De la Saussaye 329, MacCulloch Eddic 87, 173, Boberg. |
| F1073 | Marathon marriage. Woman who has been widowed twenty-two times marries a man who has been a widower twenty times. Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| F133.1 | Marine counterpart to land. All that exists on earth has its parallel in the sea. *Chauvin VII 54 No. 241 B n. 1.—Irish myth: *Cross; North Carolina: Brown Collection I 636. |
| F1084.0.4 | Marks of furious battle left in rock. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F420.6 | Marriage of water-spirits. |
| F420.6.1 | Marriage or liaison of mortals and water-spirits. India: *Thompson-Balys, Penzer VII 240. |
| F300 | Marriage or liaison with fairy. Irish myth: *Cross, Beal XXI 335, Tupper and Ogle Walter Map 96. |
| F422 | Marsh-spirit. Meyer 104; *Fb "ellefolk"; Danish: Kristensen Danske Sagn II (1893) 3ff., 120ff., (1928) 5ff., 90ff., MacCulloch Eddic 224—25; Livonian: Loorits FFC LXVI 40 No. 21. |
| F697 | Marvelous ball player. Irish myth: Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| F684.1 | Marvelous climber. Irish myth: Cross; Icelandic: Boberg. |
| F959.6 | Marvelous cure for poison. |
| F950.7 | Marvelous cure without seeing person. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| F959 | Marvelous cures—miscellaneous. |
| F950 | Marvelous cures. Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| F699.1 | Marvelous dancer. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F818.1 | Marvelous garden with gold and silver flowers, bees. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F552.4 | Marvelous hand without wrist. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F698 | Marvelous juggler. Irish myth: *Cross; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F684 | Marvelous jumper. Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| F969.3.1 | Marvelous light reveals man hiding from saint. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F969.3 | Marvelous light. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F661.5.5 | Marvelous marksman can shoot eye off needle at quarter-mile distance. Korean: Zong in-Sob. |
| F811.7.2.2 | Marvelous oranges grow upon tree limbs which are sharp knives. Philippine (Tinguian): Cole 102. |
| F841.2.7 | Marvelous paddle sends canoe enormous distance with each stroke. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 447. |
| F962.12.3 | Marvelous picture falls from sky in storm. Pauli (ed. Bolte) 319 No. 558. |
| F681.5 | Marvelous runner can run round earth in five minutes. *Fb "løbe" II 506. |
| F681.8 | Marvelous runner captures two of every wild animal. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F681.6 | Marvelous runner catches wild game on the run. Italian Novella: Rotunda; Jewish: *Neuman. |
| F681.1 | Marvelous runner keeps leg tied up. To prevent him from running away. *Type 513; *BP II 79ff.; *Fb "ben" IV 32b; Buriat: Holmberg Siberian 428; N. A. Indian: Thompson CColl II 345ff. |
| F681.2 | Marvelous runner outstrips March wind. Irish: MacCulloch Celtic 162. |
| F681.7 | Marvelous runner runs backwards. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F681.4 | Marvelous runner swift as sight. N. A. Indian (Ojibwa): Michelson JAFL XXIV 249. |
| F681.3 | Marvelous runner swift as thought. Irish myth: Cross; Welsh: MacCulloch Celtic 190; Icelandic: MacCulloch Eddic 81, 93, Boberg; N. A. Indian (Ojibwa): Michelson JAFL XXIV 249. |
| F681 | Marvelous runner. Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg; Italian: Basile Pentamerone III No. 8; Jewish: *Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys; Hawaii: *Beckwith Myth 151, 337f.; Tuamotu: Stimson MS (T-G. 3/928). |
| F652 | Marvelous sense of smell. (Cf. F647.5.) Irish myth: Cross; Icelandic: Boberg. |
| F647.9 | Marvelous sensitiveness: blister on back from lying in rose leaves. (Cf. F647.3.) *BP III 238. |
| F647.11 | Marvelous sensitiveness: clarified butter was someone's leavings. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F647.8 | Marvelous sensitiveness: fainting from noise of wooden pestle and mortar. *BP III 238. |
| F647.5.2 | Marvelous sensitiveness: food has been raised in particular kind of manure. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F647.8.1 | Marvelous sensitiveness: fracture from hearing man chopping wood. *BP III 238. |
| F647.3 | Marvelous sensitiveness: injury from rose leaves falling. (Cf. F647.9.) *Penzer VII 204ff.; BP III 238. |
| F647.9.2 | Marvelous sensitiveness: man feels little point of simple thorn in middle of his clothes. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F647.5.3 | Marvelous sensitiveness: man recognizes milk of his stolen cows. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F647.10 | Marvelous sensitiveness: man refuses to eat fifth descendent of stolen cow. Alphabet No. 301. |
| F647.1 | Marvelous sensitiveness: meat (wine) tastes of corpse. Has been near grave. Italian novella: Rotunda (J1661.1.8.); India: *Thompson-Balys, Penzer VI 288; Jewish: Neuman; Korean: Zong in-Sob 102 No. 55. |
| F647.5.1 | Marvelous sensitiveness: meat is dog's flesh. Animal has been suckled by a dog. *Type 655; *Gaster Exempla 195 No. 51; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F647.8.1.1 | Marvelous sensitiveness: stitch in side from being told about hearing a man chopping wood. *BP III 238. |
| F647.2 | Marvelous sensitiveness: suffering from merely seeing work done. *Penzer VII 204ff. |
| F647.7 | Marvelous sensitiveness: ulcer from moon's rays. *BP III 238; Penzer VII 11. |
| F647.6 | Marvelous sensitiveness: wine shows through woman's white throat. *Köhler-Bolte II 348ff.; *BP III 238. |
| F647.4.1 | Marvelous sensitiveness: woman refuses to look at male fish. *BP III 238. |
| F647.5 | Marvelous sensitiveness: woman smells like a goat. She has been brought up on goat's milk. Jewish: *Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys, Penzer VI 219. |
| F647.4 | Marvelous sensitiveness: women blush in presence of male statue. *Penzer VII 204ff.; BP III 238. |
| F647 | Marvelous sensitiveness. *Penzer VI 219, 288, VII 204ff.; Icelandic: Herrmann Saxo II 265ff., *Boberg. |
| F715.3.2 | Marvelous stream containing little black fish bursts forth from mountain. (Cf. A934.9.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| F681.11 | Marvelous swift mower. Chinese: Graham. |
| F681.10 | Marvelous swift plower. Chinese: Graham. |
| F696 | Marvelous swimmer. Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| F811.21 | Marvelous tree (trees) of extraordinary age. Irish myth: *Cross; Jewish: *Neuman; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 870. |
| F162.3.0.1 | Marvelous tree grown from otherworld fruit. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F685 | Marvelous withstander of cold. Type 513. |
| F989.17 | Marvelously swift horse. Jewish: *Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F645 | Marvelously wise man. |
| F152.1 | Materials of bridge to otherworld. |
| F385 | Means of averting fairy spells. |
| F405 | Means of combating spirits. |
| F404 | Means of summoning spirits. |
| F950.3 | Measuring sick as means of cure. Zachariae Zs. f. Vksk. XXI 151; England, Ireland, Wales, U.S.: Baughman. |
| F809.4.1 | Men disappear at revolving bleeding rock. Eskimo (Greenland): Rink 467. |
| F1041.8.6 | Men go mad in battle. Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| F824.1 | Men in air-tight armor. Penzer II 299. |
| F574.1.3 | Men killed by look of beautiful princess. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F569.2 | Men menstruate. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F531.6.3.0.1 | Men not to disclose giant's home. (Cf. C420.) Eskimo (Greenland): Rasmussen III 231. |
| F521.3 | Men of metal. |
| F911.1 | Men swallow men. |
| F12.3 | Men taken by Brahma to Siva so they can petition him personally. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F517.1.5.1 | Men whose feet turn backward so that they will not stub toes. Africa: Weeks Jungle 126ff. |
| F514.2 | Men with birds' beaks. DeCock Volkssage 105; Icelandic: Herrmann Saxo II 599, Boberg. |
| F517.1.3 | Men with sponge-feet. *Chauvin VII 24 No. 373E n. 1. |
| F515.3 | Men with tails on their hands. Eskimo (Greenland): Rasmussen III 79. |
| F526.5 | Men with two faces, three legs, and seven arms (or other such combinations). Hindu: Keith 41f. |
| F772.2 | Metal tower. |
| F638 | Mighty archer. Buriat: Holmberg Siberian 428; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| F622.2 | Mighty blower blows firebrand so that sparks fly far, blows seawaves back and forth. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F622.1 | Mighty blower slows down princess with his breath. Causes her to lose race. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| F622 | Mighty blower. Man turns mill with his blowing. (Cf. X935.) *Type 513; Hdwb. d. Märchens I 432a n. 55.—Italian: Basile Pentamerone III No. 8, Rotunda; Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "souffle", "moulin." |
| F639.1.1 | Mighty digger of tunnels. Africa (Hausa): Equilbecq II 171ff. |
| F639.1 | Mighty digger. |
| F639.2 | Mighty diver. Can stay extraordinary time under water. Africa (Ziba): Rehse Zs. f. Kolonialspr. III 366f. No. 30, (Madagascar): Renel I 102ff. No. 15, (Malinke): Frobenius Atlantis VIII 145ff. No. 81. |
| F633 | Mighty drinker. Drinks up whole pools of water, or the like. (Cf. X932.) *Type 513; BP II 79ff.; Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: Boberg; India: Thompson-Balys; Tonga: Gifford 159; Eskimo (West Hudson Bay): Boas BAM XV 259; N. A. Indian: Thompson CColl II 345ff.; Africa (Ba Ronga): Einstein 246. |
| F632 | Mighty eater. Eats whole ox at time, or the like. (Cf. X931.) *Cosquin Contes indiens 427ff.; Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 250.—Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: MacCulloch Eddic 88, 93, Boberg; Jewish: *Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys; Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 419; Tonga: ibid. 271, Gifford 172f.; Marquesas: Handy 42; Tuamotu: Stimson MS (T-G. 3/620); S. A. Indian (Chiriguano): Métraux RMLP XXXIII 142; Africa (Fang): Tessman 117, (Wute): Sieber 117. |
| F634 | Mighty fisherman. Palm tree as rod, elephant as bait. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F624 | Mighty lifter. Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: Flateyjarbok I 523—24, MacCulloch Eddic 82, 93, Snorra Edda Prol. III, *Boberg; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F616 | Mighty pugilist. Greek: Grote I 156. |
| F617 | Mighty wrestler. Africa (Bulu): Krug 106. |
| F701.1 | Milk and honey flow in land. Usener Kleinere Schriften IV 398; Jewish: *Neuman; Gaster Thespis 201. |
| F552.1.5 | Milk from finger. Jewish: Neuman. |
| F989.9 | Milk from saint's cows forms lake. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F1094 | Milk has taste of wine and honey. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F546.6 | Milk in man's breast. Jewish: Neuman. |
| F456 | Mine spirits. Gnomes. (Cf. E336.) Eskimo (Greenland): Rink 279, 460. |
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