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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
T
Sex
U
The Nature of Life
V
Religion
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Traits of Character
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Humor
Z
Miscellaneous Groups of Motifs
| Thompson reference | Description ▲ |
|---|---|
| F559.7.1 | Person with three hearts. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F513.1.2.1 | Person with three rows of teeth. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F529.5 | Person with transparent body. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F512.2.1.3 | Person with twelve eyes. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F521 | Person with unusual covering. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F515.2 | Person with unusual fingernails. |
| F515.1 | Person with unusual fingers. |
| F515.2.2 | Person with very long fingernails. Eskimo (West Hudson Bay): Boas BAM XV 170. |
| F548.1.1 | Person with white knee. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F522.1 | Person with wings on feet (head). Greek: Frazer Apollodorus II 106 n. 1. |
| F522 | Person with wings. Greek: Grote I 216; India: Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Werner 390; Persian: Carnoy 298. |
| F525.6 | Person without back. Eskimo (Mackenzie Area): Jenness 49 (West Hudson Bay): Boas BAM XV 179, 181. |
| F511.2.4 | Person without ears. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F512.5 | Person without eyes. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F511.1.0.1 | Person without features (with flat face). Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F517.1.1 | Person without feet. (Cf. F167.7.) Siuts 218. |
| F515.0.1 | Person without hands. Siuts 218. |
| F529.7.1 | Person without joints. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F1038 | Person without shadow. *Type 755; H. C. Andersen "Skyggen"; Fb "skygge" III 347; *Hdwb. d. Abergl. IX Nachträge 133ff.; Spanish: Boggs FFC XC 47 No. 325A*. |
| F513.1.4 | Person without teeth. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F513.2 | Person without tongue. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F1034.4 | Person's armpit as hiding place. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 169f. |
| F593 | Person's extraordinary body temperature. (Cf. F546.5). |
| F515.1.1 | Person's fingers not separated from one another. Jewish: Neuman. |
| F1034.3 | Person's thigh as hiding place. |
| F57.2 | Person's tongue as path to sky. India: Thompson-Balys; Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 499. |
| F559.8.1 | Person's urine melts rocks. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F512.2.1 | Persons (animals) with four (six) eyes. *Chauvin VII 82 No. 373bis; Krappe Balor 19 n. 69. |
| F577 | Persons identical in appearance. (Cf. F1072.) Jewish: *Neuman. |
| F471.1.5 | Persons who at night become nightmares. Those who are born on a Thursday and christened on a Sunday must at certain times (on Thursdays) press somebody or something. Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 3687; Livonian: Loorits FFC LXVI 67 No. 183. |
| F511.0.3 | Persons whose heads are stone-hammers. Koryak and American Indian: *Jochelson JE VI 375. |
| F600 | Persons with extraordinary powers. |
| F515.0.2 | Persons with many hands. |
| F529.1 | Persons with punctured bodies. May be carried on a pole put through the orifice; may be hung up on a peg. Chinese: Werner 390. |
| F518 | Persons with tails. Chauvin V 7 No. 3.—Persian: Carnoy 298. |
| F493.0.1 | Pestilence in animal form. Finnish-Swedish: Wessman 28 Nos. 244—245. |
| F493.0.3.1 | Pestilence in form of a head. Finnish-Swedish: Wessman 29 No. 253. |
| F493.0.3 | Pestilence in form of object. Finnish-Swedish: Wessman 29 No. 254. |
| F493.0.2 | Pestilence in human form. Finnish-Swedish: Wessman 28f. Nos. 246—252; Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 3494. |
| F493.0.4 | Pestilence in visible form. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F493.3.2 | Pestilence-spirit "bound" by magic. Finnish-Swedish: Wessman 29 No. 258. |
| F771.6 | Phantom house: disappears at dawn. Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: Boberg. |
| F585.3 | Phantom women cause weakness. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F585 | Phantoms. Irish myth: *Cross; Spanish: Boggs FFC XC 61 No. 445B. |
| F80.1 | Physical features of underworld. Note: physical features of underworld of dead (F81) are listed under A671—A679. Some features of the underworld also appear in F130ff. |
| F956.4 | Physician, by examining wound can tell whether it was inflicted by a man or a woman and describe him or her in detail. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F989.22.3 | Pig swallows necklace. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F964.0.1 | Pillar of fire (in sky). Irish myth: *Cross; Jewish: *Neuman. |
| F962.2.2 | Pillar of fire reaches from heaven to earth. (Cf. F774.2.1.) Jewish: *Neuman. |
| F774.2.1 | Pillar of fire. (Cf. F962.2.2, F964.0.1.) Jewish: Neuman. |
| F169.1.1 | Pillars of bronze in otherworld. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F169.1.2 | Pillars of gold in otherworld. Icelandic: Corpus Poeticum Boreale I 71. |
| F774.1 | Pillars of precious stones. Patch PMLA XXXIII 626 n. 87. |
| F169.1 | Pillars of silver and glass in otherworld. Patch PMLA XXXIII 610 n. 30, Other World 382 s.v. "pillar", Irish myth: *Cross; Jewish: *Neuman. |
| F1099.7 | Pious die on their birthday. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| F92 | Pit entrance to lower world. Entrance through pit, hole, spring, or cavern. *Type 301; *BP II 300ff.; Penzer VI 108f.; *Siuts Jenseitsmotive 50; *Roberts 140.—Irish myth: Cross (F158), Beal XXI 311, 324, 329, O'Suilleabhain 33, 91; Icelandic: Herrmann Saxo II 103, MacCulloch Eddic 320; Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "puits"; French Canadian: Barbeau JAFL XXIX 25; Greek: Fox 88, 143; Gaster Thespis 183f.; Jewish: *Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys; Korean: Zong in-Sob 167; Marquesas: Handy 110; Maori: Clark 100; Eskimo (Labrador): Hawkes GSCan XV 153; S. A. Indian (Tereno): Métraux BBAE CXLIII (1) 367; Africa: Werner African 175, 184, 195. |
| F158 | Pit entrance to otherworld. (Cf. F92.) Irish myth: *Cross; Jewish: *Neuman. |
| F200.1 | Pixies (little people unseen but often audible and occasionally caught). India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F302.3.4.2.1 | Pixies win dancing contest with man. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F151.1.5 | Place in underworld beyond which hero cannot pass without being tatooed. Maori: Clark 136. |
| F493.0.1.1 | Plague as monster. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F144 | Plain (field) at borders of otherworld. *Siuts 36ff. |
| F756.3 | Plain of wonders. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F756.2 | Plain that is earthly paradise. Malone PMLA XLIII 403; Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F54.2 | Plant grows to sky. (Jack and the Beanstalk). *Types 328A, 555, 852; BP I 147, *II 511; *MacCulloch Childhood 432ff.; Köhler-Bolte I 102; *Fb "træ" III 867b; Fischer Zs. f. Ethnographie LXIV 236.—Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "fève"; Lithuanian: Balys Index No. *1416A; England, U.S., Australia: Baughman (Type 328A); Chinese: Graham; Philippine: Fansler MAFLS XII 286; Jamaica: *Beckwith MAFLS XVII 283 No. 114. |
| F992 | Plant shrieks when uprooted. |
| F973 | Plants and trees miraculously unbent. |
| F979.17 | Plants grow without being sown. Jewish: Neuman. |
| F399.4 | Playful or troublesome fairies. England: *Baughman. |
| F169.9 | Pleasant fragrance in otherworld. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| F548.0.1 | Pointed leg. S. A. Indian (Toba): Métraux MAFLS XL 75f. |
| F582 | Poison damsel. Woman nourished on poison is fatal to her husbands. Sometimes the poisoning is from fatal look or breath, sometimes from intercourse. *Penzer X 265 s.v. "Poison Damsel"; **Penzer Poison Damsels 3ff.; Herbert III 211; *Oesterley No. 11; **Hertz Abhandlungen 156ff.; Krappe Mitt. d. schles. Gesell. f. Volkskunde XXVIII (1927) 131ff.; *bin Gorion Born Judas I 360f. |
| F1041.5 | Poison of hydra corrodes the skin. Greek: Frazer Apollodorus I 269 n. 2. |
| F717.2 | Poison pool. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| F831.3 | Poisoned arrows. (Cf. F833.6.) Icelandic: *Boberg; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F555.7 | Poisonous white hair in eyebrow that causes death to the first person who sees it each day. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F473.2 | Poltergeist causes objects to behave contrary to their nature. |
| F473.5 | Poltergeist makes noises. England, Scotland, U.S., Wales: *Baughman. |
| F473.4 | Poltergeist mistreats animals. U.S.: *Baughman. |
| F473.3 | Poltergeist mistreats people. England, U.S., Wales: *Baughman. |
| F473.1 | Poltergeist throws objects. England, Scotland, U.S., Wales: *Baughman. |
| F473 | Poltergeist. Invisible spirit (sometimes identified as ghost or witch) responsible for all sorts of mischief in or around a household. |
| F713.5 | Pond always clear because deity uses it for his bath. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F713.1 | Pond of ambrosia. Japanese: Anesaki 242. |
| F713.4 | Pond of milk. (Cf. F711.2.1, F715.2.3.) India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| F717.1 | Pool paved with gold. Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "or". |
| F167.14.1 | Portion of otherworld for women. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| F482.4 | Possessions of brownies. |
| F451.7 | Possessions of dwarfs. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F240 | Possessions of fairies. |
| F455.4 | Possessions of trolls. |
| F451.3.1 | Power of dwarf in his belt. *Fb "bælte" IV 84a. |
| F491.3.2 | Power of Will-o'-the-Wisp over person neutralized if person sticks his knife into the ground. England: *Baughman. |
| F611.3.2.3 | Precocious hero crushes iron wall with fists. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F611.3.2.4 | Precocious hero jumps across river. (Cf. F614.11.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F611.4 | Precocious son saves kingdom. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F628.0.1 | Precocious strong hero as mighty slayer. (Cf. F611.3.2.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F611.3.3.0.1 | Precocious strong hero demands bows and arrows. (Cf. F611.3.3.) Type 650. |
| F211.0.1 | Prehistoric burial mounds as dwellings of fairies. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F965.1.1 | Premature darkness at time of execution of innocent people. U.S.: Baughman. |
| F965 | Premature darkness. (Cf. F961.1.) |
| F405.1 | Priest bans spirit with sword. (Cf. D1081.) Swiss: Jegerlehner Oberwallis 309 No. 17. |
| F1041.1.3.4 | Priest dies from having been duped into deceptive bargain. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| F302.11 | Prince married to a she-monkey (really queen of the fairies). India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F647.9.1 | Prince thinks he has slept on a beam; a hair is found on lower bedding. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| F591.1 | Prince who never laughs. Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "rire". |
| F950.8 | Princess cured by seeing her lost lover dance. Tuamotu: Stimson MS (z-G. 13/10). |
| F914.1 | Princess stands in middle of dried-up tank so serpent will release the water, which he had swallowed up completely. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F584.1 | Princess' weight that of five flowers. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F1071 | Prodigious jump. To fourth story (or the like). Type 530; Cosquin Contes indiens 333ff.; Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg; India: *Thompson-Balys; Philippine (Tinguian): Cole 103; Marquesas: Handy 114; Tuamotu: Stimson MS (z-G. 13/499). |
| F1051 | Prodigious weeping. Usually by saint. Toldo II 96; India: Thompson-Balys; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 633; Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 87, 260f.; Africa (Upoto): Einstein 127. |
| F815.6 | Prolific grain. Produces enormously. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| F451.8.2 | Proper names for dwarfs. Icelandic: Snorra Edda Gylf. XIV, *Boberg, MacCulloch Eddic 264, 269—70; German: Eckart 20, 22, Pröhle Harz. No. 137 II, III, Pröhle Unterharz. 145 No. 368, Haas Greifswald. 38 No. 41, 40 No. 44. |
| F420.4.1.1 | Protean transformation of water-spirit. Greek: Fox 87, 122 (Nereus, Thetis), Frazer Apollodorus II 67 n. 6; Slavic: Máchal 270. |
| F493.3 | Protection against pestilence spirit. |
| F471.1.2 | Protection against the nightmare (alp). *Fb "mare" II 551. |
| F303.1 | Purification in kettle of boiling oil as preparation for marriage to fairy. Tuti-Nameh 10th Night. |
| F811.3.1 | Purple tree. Patch PMLA XXXIII 624 n. 82; Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F59.2 | Pursuit of game leads to upper world. N. A. Indian (Iroquois): Alexander N. Am. 26. |
| F1041.18 | Putrescence flows from head when man presses forehead. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F535.0.1 | Pygmies descendants of Cain. (Cf. F531.6.1.9.) Jewish: Neuman. |
| F535.3.1 | Pygmies dressed in copper. Finnish: Kalevala rune 2. |
| F535.3.2 | Pygmies dressed in red. Chinese: Werner 386. |
| F535.2.1 | Pygmies nine inches tall. Chinese: Werner 386. |
| F535.2 | Pygmies of various sizes. |
| F535.4.2 | Pygmies with upturned feet. S. A. Indian: Métraux BBAE CXLIII (3) 712. |
| F535.2.6 | Pygmy stands on man's hand. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F535 | Pygmy. Remarkably small man. Also called "dwarf". To be distinguished from the dwarfs who live in the woods and inhabit underground places (F451). *Schoepperle Tristan and Isolt I 242 n. 6; *Frazer Pausanias II 107; *Chauvin VII 15 No. 373C n. 1; Irish myth: *Cross; English: Hartland Science 179; Icelandic: *Boberg; Greek: Fox 256; Arabian: Burton Nights V 252 n; Jewish: Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Werner 386; N. A. Indian (Cherokee): Alexander N. Am. 68; African: *Werner African 258ff. |
| F402.2.2 | Queen of demons. Jewish: Neuman, bin Gorion Born Judas II 177, 351. |
| F565.1.3 | Queen takes husband's place in battle. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F962.5.2 | Rain of fiery hailstones. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| F962.8.2 | Rain of jewels. Jewish: Neuman. |
| F829.1 | Rainbow as loincloth. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 508. |
| F152.1.1 | Rainbow bridge to otherworld. Fb "regnbue" III 32a; RTP VI 361, X 596; Mélusine II 16; Icelandic: MacCulloch Eddic 329; Celebes: Dixon 156; Hawaii, Indonesia: ibid. 67, Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 38, 321; N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 333 n. 204a. |
| F439.1.1 | Rainbow draws to itself fisherman and his boat. Livonian: Loorits FFC LXVI 37 No. 5. |
| F162.7 | Rainbow of honey appears regularly in otherworld. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F439.1.2 | Rainbow spirit as helper on journey. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 515f. |
| F439.1.3 | Rainbow spirit as messenger. Greek: Fox 241 (Iris); Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 521. |
| F439.1 | Rainbow spirit. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 135, 152. |
| F960.2.2 | Rainbow stretches from monastery to heaven at saint's death. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F962.13 | Raindrops as large as man's hand. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F302.3.0.2 | Raja refuses to marry a Peri. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F671.1 | Rapid boat-builder can build boat in twinkling of an eye. Africa (Hausa): Equilbecq II 171ff. |
| F555.3.4 | Rapid growth of hair as protection against being seen nude. *Loomis White Magic 95f. |
| F911.2.1 | Raven dwells inside a whale. Eskimo (Bering Strait): Nelson RBAE XVIII 465. |
| F1041.21 | Reactions to excessive grief. (Cf. F1041.1.1.) |
| F695.1 | Reading without learning the alphabet. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F1068 | Realistic dream. Irish: O'Suilleabhain 107, Beal XXI 334; Icelandic: Boberg; Jewish: *Neuman. |
| F455.10 | Recognizing trolls. |
| F302.6.2 | Recovery of fairy mistress. |
| F178.1 | Red as otherworld color. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F233.3 | Red fairy. Irish myth: *Cross; England, Wales: Baughman. |
| F527.1.1 | Red knight. Types 300, 303; *Ranke FFC CXIV 236; Fb "Ridder Rod"; Hartland Perseus III 207ff.—Irish myth: *Cross; English: Wells 73 (Sir Percyvelle of Galles); Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| F527.1 | Red person. Africa (Fang): Einstein 179. |
| F715.9 | Red river. India: Thompson-Balys; Mono-Alu: Wheeler 8, 48. |
| F711.3.2 | Red sea. Tonga: Gifford 141, Beckwith Myth 287. |
| F1041.21.3 | Refusal to eat from excessive grief. Icelandic: *Boberg; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| F1041.21.3.1 | Refusal to speak because of grief. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| F460.4 | Relation of mountain-men and human beings. |
| F545.1 | Remarkable beard. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| F575 | Remarkable beauty. (Cf. F574.1.) Jewish: *Neuman. |
| F788 | Remarkable bier. |
| F836.0.1 | Remarkable bowstring. Tuamotu: Stimson MS (z-G 13/127). |
| F546 | Remarkable breast. (Cf. F232.2, F441.2.1.2, F460.1.2, F531.1.5.1.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F789.2 | Remarkable candlestick. |
| F545.3 | Remarkable cheek. |
| F773 | Remarkable church (chapel, temple). Irish: O'Suilleabhain 27, Beal XXI 308; Jewish: Neuman. |
| F789.3 | Remarkable curtain. |
| F542 | Remarkable ears. (Cf. F511.2.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F541 | Remarkable eyes. (Cf. F512.) Irish myth: *Cross; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F551 | Remarkable feet. (Cf. F517.1.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| F545.2 | Remarkable forehead. Jewish: Neuman. |
| F687 | Remarkable fragrance (odor) of person. Jewish: Neuman. |
| F555 | Remarkable hair. (Cf. F521, F531.1.6.3.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F552 | Remarkable hands. (Cf. F515, F531.1.6.7, F551.4.) Japanese: Ikeda. |
| F559.7 | Remarkable heart. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F679.1 | Remarkable herdsman. Sits on mountain top. Cows come from great distance at his call. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F788.1 | Remarkable jeweled bier. Jewish: Neuman. |
| F548 | Remarkable legs. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F544.1 | Remarkable lips. |
| F544 | Remarkable mouth. (Cf. F513, F531.1.4, F531.1.6.2.) |
| F559.5 | Remarkable neck. |
| F543 | Remarkable nose. (Cf. F514.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F543.4 | Remarkable nostrils. Jewish: Neuman. |
| F500 | Remarkable persons. Extraordinary size, form, appearance, or habits. **DeCock Volkssage 99ff.; Chinese: Werner 386. |
| F559 | Remarkable physical organs—miscellaneous. |
| F540 | Remarkable physical organs. |
| F636.3 | Remarkable pourer of water. Makes a river. Italian: Basile Pentamerone I No. 5. |
| F654 | Remarkable power of recognition. Man remembers all people he has met. (Cf. F692.) India: *Thompson-Balys; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 908. |
| F651 | Remarkable power to walk directly to nearest water. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F547.6 | Remarkable pubic hairs. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F547 | Remarkable sexual organs. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F642.3.2 | Remarkable sight of sage lets him see worm in loaf. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| F679 | Remarkable skill—miscellaneous. |
| F660 | Remarkable skill. *Types 653, 653*; BP III 45ff.; Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F559.4 | Remarkable skull. |
| F834.6 | Remarkable spear used as a windbreak. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 418. |
| F834.5 | Remarkable spear used to dam stream. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 418. |
| F635 | Remarkable spitter. Spits lake of soap. (Cf. F934). Italian: Basile Pentamerone I No. 5. |
| F642.1 | Remarkable star-gazer. Sees birds in nest in distant tree. *Type 653; BP III 45, *57; Köhler-Bolte I 298f; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F636.4 | Remarkable stone-thrower. Italian: Basile Pentamerone I No. 5; Jewish: *Neuman. |
| F544.3 | Remarkable teeth. Irish myth: Cross; Jewish: Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F636.2 | Remarkable thrower of chips. Makes forest. Italian: Basile Pentamerone I No. 5. |
| F636.1 | Remarkable thrower of iron. Makes field full of scissors. Italian: Basile Pentamerone I No. 5. |
| F636 | Remarkable thrower. (Cf. F531.3.2., F624.0.1, F624.3.1, F624.8, F628.2.2, F628.4, X943.) Irish myth: *Cross; Missouri French: Carrière; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 1172; Hawaii: Beckwith 421; Samoa: ibid. 254. |
| F544.2 | Remarkable tongue. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F556 | Remarkable voice. (Cf. X937). |
| F575.3 | Remarkably beautiful child. Jewish: Neuman. |
| F575.1 | Remarkably beautiful woman. Greek: Grote I 279 f.; India: *Thompson-Balys; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 349, 762. |
| F532 | Remarkably broad man. Köhler-Bolte I 403; Jewish: Neuman. |
| F834.1 | Remarkably hot spear must be kept in bath of blood (poison). Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F835.2 | Remarkably large club. |
| F544.0.1 | Remarkably large mouth. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F543.2 | Remarkably large nose. Tobler 63. |
| F543.1 | Remarkably long nose. *Fb "næse" II 716b, "kjælling" II 146b. |
| F547.6.1 | Remarkably long pubic hair. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F544.3.5 | Remarkably long teeth. Jewish: Neuman. |
| F543.1.3 | Remarkably long, hooked nose. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F551.3 | Remarkably pretty white feet. Icelandic: MacCulloch Eddic 103, *Boberg. |
| F552.3 | Remarkably pretty white hands. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| F552.2 | Remarkably strong hands. (Cf. F610.) Tonga: Beckwith Myth 486. |
| F610 | Remarkably strong man. (Strong John). (Cf. X940, X959.1.) *Panzer Beowulf; *Types 301, 650*, 650**, 650, 1003—1013; *BP II 285ff., 300ff.; *Fb "styrke", "stærk", "Svend Felding".—Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: MacCulloch Eddic 86, 153 (Heimdall), *Boberg; French: Cosquin Lorraine Nos. 14, 46, 52, 69 and notes; Italian: Basile Pentamerone III No. 8; Greek: Fox 75 (Herakles), Frazer Apollodorus I 259 n. 3; Jewish: Frazer Old Testament II 480ff. (Samson), *Neuman; Armenian: Ananikian 86; Hindu: Keith 172; India: Thompson-Balys; Indonesian: *De Vries Nederlandsch Tijdschrift v. Volkskunde XXX 97ff.; Chinese: Graham; Buriat: Holmberg Siberian 428; N. A. Indian: *Thompson CColl II 334ff. incident A 2; West Indies: Flowers 435. |
| F610.0.1 | Remarkably strong woman. Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 551, 902; Africa (Upoto): Einstein 128. |
| F610.0.1.1 | Remarkably strong women defeats man in arrow and spear contest. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F565.2 | Remarkably strong women. Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| F533 | Remarkably tall man. (Cf. F531.2.1.) Köhler-Bolte I 403; Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: Þiðriks saga I 345, Boberg; Jewish: *Neuman; Marquesas: Handy 126; Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 392; Fiji: ibid. 472; Tuamotu: ibid. 471. |
| F551.4 | Remarkably ugly feet (and hands). Icelandic: Boberg. |
| F557.1 | Removable brain. Saint's brain kept in a missile ball. Irish: Plummer xxxiv. |
| F541.11 | Removable eyes. Jewish: Neuman; Africa: Weeks Jungle 126ff. |
| F557 | Removable organs. India: Thompson-Balys; Ibo (Nigeria): Basden 140 (nose, feet, hands, face). |
| F547.5.1 | Removable vagina. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 113, 186. |
| F901 | Repeated death. (Cf. M341.2.4.2.) |
| F322.5 | Rescue from fairyland. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F102.3 | Rescued princess leaves her necklace behind in flight; hero returns for it and is left in underworld. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F562.3 | Residence in (under) water. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F562.2 | Residence in a tree. Type 710, Grimm No. 3; Missouri French: Carrière; Hindu: Tawney I 121, 381, 531, 552, II 79, 162. |
| F574.1 | Resplendent beauty. Woman's face lights up the dark. *Fb "prins og prinsesse"; Irish myth: *Cross; Jewish: *Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys, *Penzer VI 1 n. 1, II 43 n. 2, VII 189 n. 2; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 1339; Koryak: *Jochelson JE VI 363; Philippine (Tinguian): Cole 35 n. 1, 62, 68, 106, 154. |
| F379.1 | Return from fairyland. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F101.2 | Return from lower world by being slung by bent tree. New Zealand: Dixon 78. |
| F101.3 | Return from lower world on eagle. *Type 301; *BP II 300; Penzer VI 122 n. 2. See references under B322.1, nearly all of which refer to escape from lower world. Indonesia: De Vries Volksverhalen I 161ff. No. 35. |
| F101.3.1 | Return from lower world on vulture. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F101.1 | Return from lower world up steep slope. New Zealand: Dixon 73. |
| F101 | Return from lower world. Indonesia: De Vries's list Nos 162, 164. |
| F10.1 | Return from upper world. Indonesia: De Vries' list No. 165. |
| F163.1.1 | Revolving castle in otherworld. Patch PMLA XXXIII 617 n. 54.—Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F771.2.6 | Revolving castle. *Brown Iwain 76 n. 2; *Fb "slot" III 377a; Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F782.6 | Revolving door of tent. Jewish: Neuman. |
| F815.4.1 | Rice, the scent of which is smelled for miles around. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F305.2.1 | Right half of son resembles mortal father; left half, fairy father. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F791 | Rising and falling sky. Sky rises and falls at horizon, giving periodic access to the other world. Buriat: Holmberg Siberian 308; N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 275 n. 15a, Hatt Asiatic Influences 78ff. |
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