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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
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Tests
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The Wise and the Foolish
K
Deceptions
L
Reversals of Fortune
M
Ordaining the Future
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Chance and Fate
P
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 ▲ |
|---|---|
| F932.5 | River acts as messenger. |
| F932.2 | River arches over saint's body like a vault. (Cf. F931.9.1, V220.) *Ward Catalogue II 640 No. 17; Crane Miraculis 104 No. 40. |
| F141.1 | River as barrier to otherworld. (Cf. F162.2.) Icelandic: *Boberg; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| F141.1.3 | River between the realms of giants and gods never freezes. Icelandic: MacCulloch Eddic 276. |
| F932.7.1 | River boils when ashes of hearts are cast into it. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F932.7 | River boils. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F932.5.1 | River carries object to saint. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F932.6 | River ceases to flow. Irish myth: *Cross; Jewish: Neuman. |
| F932.10 | River divides into two parts after rape in its bed. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F932.6.1 | River dries up for a day. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F932.6.2 | River dries up its waters out of sympathy. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F93.1 | River entrance to lower world. Wimberly 108ff.; Kruyt Het Animisme 357ff., Hdwb. d. Abergl. II 1157, IV 196; Frobenius Erdteile III 69, 73, 76.—Icelandic: Herrmann Saxo II 103, MacCulloch Eddic 320, Boberg; Finnish: Kalevala rune 16; Greek: Roscher Lexikon s.v. "Acheron" I 9; Egyptian: Müller 176; Aztec: Krickeberg Märchen der Azteken 146, 215. |
| F715.1.4 | River flows from man's head. Jewish: Neuman. |
| F715.1.5 | River flows from man's mouth. Jewish: Neuman. |
| F715.1.3 | River from man's finger. Jewish: Neuman. |
| F162.2.8 | River in paradise with terrible roar. Robs people of hearing. *Hertz Abhandlungen 86 n. 1. |
| F162.2.12 | River in underworld from tears of living. Eskimo (Bering Strait): Nelson RBAE XVIII 488. |
| F715.1.1 | River issues from magic nut. (Cf. D985, F718.12.) Fb "nød" II 719a. |
| F715.1.2 | River issues from pillar. Dickson 222 n. 18. |
| F715.2.1 | River of blood. Irish myth: Cross; N. A. Indian (Creek): Alexander N. Am. 71; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F715.2 | River of extraordinary fluid. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F142 | River of fire as barrier to otherworld. (Cf. A671.2.2.3.) Patch PMLA XXXIII 638f.; Krappe Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen (1937) 172ff.; Irish myth: *Cross; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F715.2.4 | River of honey. (Cf. F711.2.5.) Africa (Hausa): Tremearne Hausa Superstitions and Customs (London, 1913) 424ff. No. 93. |
| F715.2.2 | River of mercury. Chauvin V 41 No. 388. |
| F715.2.3 | River of milk. (Cf. F711.2.1, F713.4, F814.6.) Finnish: Holmberg Finno-Ugric 80; Jewish: *Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F715.2.5 | River of tears. Rose Classical Review XLII 28, 171. |
| F932.8.6 | River piles up to a height of three hundred miles. Jewish: Neuman. |
| F932.1 | River pursues fugitive. Fb "е" III 1187a; Greek: Frazer Apollodorus II 209 n. 8; Africa (Kaffir): Theal 63. |
| F932.8 | River rises and overflows. |
| F932.8.2 | River rises to prevent advance of army. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F932.8.1 | River rises to prevent body's being carried over it against dying man's wish. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F932.8.3 | River rises to prevent escape of thieves. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F932.8.2.1 | River rises to prevent meeting of hostile armies. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F715.6 | River that burns like fire. Irish myth: Cross; Jewish: *Neuman. |
| F141.1.2 | River that cannot be crossed by mortals. Hindu: Penzer II 15. |
| F715.5 | River which never freezes. Icelandic: MacCulloch Eddic 276. |
| F715.7 | River which petrifies anyone passing through it. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F715.10 | River whose specific gravity is so slight nothing can float on it. (Cf. F716.2.) Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 1156. |
| F424 | River-spirit. Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 416; S. A. Indian (Warrau): Kirchoff BBAE CXLIII (3) 880. |
| F162.2 | Rivers in otherworld. (Cf. A671.2.2.6, F141.1.) Patch PMLA XXXIII 621ff., Other World 382f. s.v. "river"; Gaster Oldest Stories 50, Thespis 171; Irish: *Cross, Beal XXI 321. |
| F162.2.5 | Rivers of balsam and attar in otherworld. *Patch PMLA XXXIII 621 n. 70; Irish: Beal XXI 319, O'Suilleabhain 52; Jewish: *Neuman. |
| F162.2.3 | Rivers of honey in otherworld. Wimberly 159; Gaster Thespis 200f., Oldest Stories 233; Africa (Hausa): Werner African 141 (milk and honey). |
| F162.2.4 | Rivers of mead in otherworld. Wimberly 159. |
| F162.2.6 | Rivers of oil, milk, wine, and honey in otherworld. *Patch PMLA XXXIII 623 n. 78; Irish myth: *Cross; Jewish: *Neuman. |
| F162.2.2 | Rivers of wine in otherworld. Wimberly 159; Irish myth: *Cross; Jewish: *Neuman. |
| F715.3 | Rivers with marvelous underground connections. Euphrates, Tigris, Tiber, and River Boant really the same which flow through oceans and underground. Irish: Todd Lecture Series X 29 (Metrical Dindshenchas), *Cross. |
| F771.9 | Road runs through house (banqueting-hall). Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F57 | Road to heaven. India: Thompson-Balys; Africa: Werner African 233. |
| F151 | Road to otherworld. Siuts 29f.—Irish myth: Cross. |
| F1099.2.1 | Roads miraculously appear on day of hero's birth. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F1099.2 | Roads miraculously appear on Hallowe'en. (Cf. F900.1.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| F930.1.0.2 | Robe sent to saint on stream not wet. (Cf. D1052.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| F960.2.3 | Rock bursts into flames at hero's death. (Cf. F964.3.4.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| F807 | Rock of extraordinary color. |
| F55.2 | Rocks piled up to sky. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F759.7 | Rocky mountain. French Canadian: Sister Marie Ursule. |
| F686.2 | Room heated by crowded corpses kept on hand by ghoulish ogres. Scottish: Campbell-McKay No. 25. |
| F165.3 | Rooms in otherworld dwellings. Siuts 74ff. |
| F152.1.5 | Rope bridge to otherworld. Patch PMLA XXXIII 636 n. 118.—Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F843.1 | Rope made of person's hair. Köhler-Bolte I 542f.; English: Child V 482 s.v. "hair". |
| F51.1.5 | Rope of god's own hair. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F96 | Rope to lower world. *Type 301; *BP II 300ff.—India: *Thompson-Balys; Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 147. |
| F971.2 | Rose grows from table (stone). Type 755; Fb "sten" III 554a, "rose" III 80a; P. Saintyves Le Thème du bâton qui reverdit (Revue d'Histoire et de Littérature religieuses, III [1912] 330—49, 421—54). |
| F465 | Rübezahl. A mountain and storm spirit. *Wehrhan 68; **Jungbauer Die Rübezahlsage (Reichenberg, 1923); Koch **Rübezahl (Breslau, n.d.); Bolte Zs. f. Vksk. XXXV—XXXVI 68; *Loewe Zs. f. Vksk. XVIII 1, 151, XXI 31, 126. |
| F969.4.1 | Rumble in earth attends slaying of giant serpent. Eskimo (Greenland): Holm 65. |
| F681.12 | Runner runs so swiftly that he does not snap the ears of wheat (bend grass). Latin: Virgil Aeneid VII 807 ff.; Jewish: Neuman. |
| F933.5 | Rushes uprooted reveal spring. Irish myth: *Cross; French Canadian: Sister Marie Ursule. |
| F343.20 | Sack of coals as fairy gift. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F531.2.15 | Sack of earth in giant's hand looks no bigger than a pea in hand of a man. Scotland: Baughman. |
| F962.2.1 | Sacrifice consumed by heavenly fire. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| F591.2 | Sad-faced princess cannot laugh. *BP IV 189 n. 2; Italian: Basile Pentamerone Introduction. |
| F866.7.2 | Saint able to carry fluid (water, wine, or oil) in broken container, bottomless jar, etc. *Loomis White Magic 48. |
| F697.2 | Saint as marvelous ball player. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F624.0.1 | Saint as mighty lifter. (Cf. V220.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F694 | Saint passes through closed doors. Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: Boberg. |
| F496.1 | Saint possessed by demon of gluttony. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F1086 | Saint preaches for three days and three nights. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F379.4 | Saint visits king of fairies on invitation of fairy king. Saint sprinkles holy water on fairy king, finds himself alone on hill. Wales: Baughman. |
| F959.3.4.1 | Saint's palm over wound causes spearhead to come forth. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F556.4 | Saint's voice heard from considerable distance. *Loomis White Magic 53; Irish myth: Cross. |
| F544.3.4 | Saints' teeth last for 300 years. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F986.2 | Salmon caught out of season for saint. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F986.3 | Salmon comes every seventh year to certain place. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F384.1 | Salt powerful against fairies. |
| F384.1.1 | Salt renders fairy mortal. Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "sel". |
| F384.1.2 | Salt sprinkled on fairy food renders it harmless. Hartland Science 128; Lithuanian: Balys Legends Nos. 523f. |
| F871 | Sampo. One side flour mill; one, salt mill; one, mill for coining money. Finnish: Kalevala rune 10. |
| F969.6 | Sandhill grows around lover keeping watch till it covers all but his head. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F826.4 | Sapphire so large two tables of law hewn out of it. Jewish: Neuman. |
| F547.5.8 | Saw in vagina. (Cf. F547.1.1.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F441.1 | Schrätel. An elf-like, male, malevolent wood-spirit. *Type 1161 (Schrätel instead of ogre in many versions); *Taylor MPh XVII 305ff.; *Bolte Zs. f. Vksk. XXXIII—XXXIV 33ff. |
| F526.2 | Scylla. Breast and face of woman. From flanks has six heads and twelve feet of dogs. Greek: Frazer Apollodorus II 293 n. 4. |
| F861.2.2 | Scythed chariot. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F989.12 | Sea animal found inland. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F931.9.2.2 | Sea bears fruits. Jewish: Neuman. |
| F931.3.1 | Sea behaves like solid earth when man is buried in it. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F931.7 | Sea changes color. German: Grimm No. 19; Jewish: *Neuman. |
| F931.3 | Sea does not encroach on burial place of saint. (Cf. F930.1.0.1.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| F931.8 | Sea fettered. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| F931.9.2.1 | Sea flows sweet water. Jewish: Neuman. |
| F711.1 | Sea issues from marvelous cask. Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "tonneau". |
| F711.2.2 | Sea of cream. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F162.4 | Sea of glass in otherworld. Patch PMLA XXXIII 610 n. 30.—Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F711.2.5 | Sea of honey. (Cf. F715.2.4.) Africa (Ba Ronga): Einstein 246. |
| F162.4.1 | Sea of ice in otherworld. Jewish: Neuman. |
| F711.2.1 | Sea of milk. (Cf. F713.4, F715.2.3.) India: *Thompson-Balys, Penzer II 151. |
| F711.2.3 | Sea of pumice. Tonga: Gifford 149, Beckwith Myth 287. |
| F711.2.4 | Sea of slime. Tonga: Gifford 149. |
| F711.3 | Sea of unusual color. |
| F711.2 | Sea of unusual substance. |
| F931.10 | Sea piles up to height of sixteen hundred miles. Jewish: Neuman. |
| F931.1 | Sea rises and changes place. Estonian: Aarne FFC XXV 135 No. 89. |
| F931.1.1 | Sea rises at saint's command. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F423 | Sea spirits. Norwegian: Solheim Register 17; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 675, 1160; Japanese: Anesaki 266ff.; Papua: Ker 25; Eskimo (Greenland): Holm 37, (Central Eskimo): Boas RBAE VI 621; S. A. Indian (Warrau): Kirchoff BBAE CXLIII (3) 880. |
| F711.6 | Sea with fishes with bodies like men and sharp razor-like snouts. Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 723. |
| F931.9.2 | Sea yields people whatever they desire. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| F213.3 | Sea-riding horse carries mortals to fairyland. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F931.12 | Seas sing hymns of praise. (Cf. F930.6.) Jewish: Neuman. |
| F420.4.7 | Seeing and observing of water-spirits has fatal consequences. German: Knoop 150 No. 114, Pröhle Deutsche Sagen 150 No. 114; French: Sébillot France II 198, 345. |
| F420.5.1.7.2 | Seemingly worthless gifts of water-spirits turn to gold. (Cf. F451.5.1.4. and cross references there given.) German: Henne-Am Rhyn 119, Meier I 71, 79. |
| F564.2 | Semi-supernatural person sleeps little. Irish myth: *Cross; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F571.2.1 | Sending to the older uncle. French Canadian: Sister Marie Ursule. |
| F571.2 | Sending to the older. Old person refers inquirer to his father, who refers to his father, and so on for several generations. *Type 726; *Baum JAFL XXX 379 n. 2; *Wesselski Archiv Orientální IV 1ff.; Irish myth: *Cross, O'Suilleabhain 74, Beal XXI 326. |
| F959.1.1 | Senses regained when person speaks his name. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F112.0.2 | Separation of sexes in otherworld. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F852.4 | Series of enclosed coffins. Coffins of gold, silver, copper, iron, lead, and wood, each inside the other. (Cf. F852.1.1.) German: Zaunert Westfälische Sagen (Jena, 1927) 12, 15, 141, Lachmann überlinger Sagen (Konstanz, 1909) 48 No. 16. |
| F852.1.1 | Series of glass coffins. (Cf. F852.4.) Italian: Basile Pentamerone II No. 8. |
| F134.0.1 | Series of otherworld islands. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F480.2 | Serpent as house-spirit. Armenian: Ananikian 73ff. |
| F981.1 | Serpent bursts asunder. Dickson 54, 195 n. 78. |
| F582.1 | Serpent damsel. Woman has serpent inside which comes out and kills her bridegrooms. *Type 507C; BP III 490ff., 494; *Liljeblad Tobiasgeschichte 259 s.v. "Schlangenmädchen"; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| F911.4.1.2 | Serpent swallows canoe and occupant. Am. Indian (Ladino, Honduras and Nicaragua): Conzemius BBAE CVI 169. |
| F911.7 | Serpent swallows man. S. A. Indian (Cashinawa): Métraux BBAE CXLIII (3) 686. |
| F541.1.4 | Serpent-eye. Eyes so keen that man is supposed to have serpents in them. De Vries Zs. f. deutsche Philologie XIII (1928) 289; Icelandic: Sörlaюáttr (FAS I) 406, Völundarkvida, stanza 16, Ragnars saga Loрbrуkar 136, *Boberg. |
| F771.5.3 | Serpent-hall. Icelandic: Snorra Edda Gylf. LII. |
| F167.11.1 | Serpents (monsters) in otherworld. Irish myth: *Cross |
| F1041.1.3.2 | Servant grieves over master's death. Kills wife and himself. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| F789.1 | Seven forts—river, iron, mud, cow-dung, brick, stone, wood. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F771.11 | Seven rooms in ascetic's house: in one, human heads; in another, horses; in third, dogs; in fourth, pots; in fifth, pile of men's arms; in sixth, a kitchen; in seventh, ascetic lives. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F679.5.3.1 | Seven stags killed at one shot. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F782.3 | Seven-fold doors to room. Italian: Basile Pentamerone III No. 1. |
| F961.1.3 | Several suns in sky. |
| F961.0.1 | Several suns or moons appearing in sky simultaneously. Hatt Asiatic Influences 73—78. |
| F1096.3 | Severed head bites earth. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| F933.4 | Severed head of impious man in well causes water to become bitter during part of each day. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F535.4.1 | Sexes of pygmies distinguished. A slight beard on men; long tresses on women. Chinese: Werner 386. |
| F304 | Sexual relations with fairy. |
| F441.6.3 | Sexual relations with wood-spirit fatal. S. A. Indian (Warrau): Kirchoff BBAE CXLIII (3) 880. |
| F932.8.5 | Shallow river rushes up to drown man. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F1041.23 | Shame causes smoke to rise from saint's head and sweat to stream from his brow. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F989.5.1 | Sheep kill wolves. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| F989.5 | Sheep never harmed by wild beasts. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| F839.2.1.1 | Shield concealing one hundred men. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F150.3.1 | Shield hung on pole in front of otherworld palace as signal that adventurer must fight with owner. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F995 | Shield shrieks in battle. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F224 | Shining bower on a pillar for fée in otherworld. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F841.1.6 | Ship brass within, steel without. English: Child III 340, 344, 349, IV 504. |
| F402.1.13 | Ship held back by otherworld women. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F841.1.5 | Ship Naglfar. Made of parings of fingernails of the dead. *Gaster Germania XXVI (1881) 204; Icelandic: De la Saussaye 351, Olrik Ragnarök (tr. Ranisch) 72f., 74 n. 1, Boberg. |
| F841.1 | Ship of extraordinary material. |
| F169.3 | Ship of glass in otherworld. Patch PMLA XXXIII 610 n. 30. |
| F841.3.2 | Ship on wheels. (Cf. D1553.1.1.) Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| F841.1.7 | Ship with gold nails. English: Child IV 379ff., V 276. |
| F1031 | Ship wrapped with feather-beds and canvass and pitched (so as to save it). English: Child V 496 s.v. "ship". |
| F485 | Ship-spirit. (Klabautermann, Kabonterken.) Similar to house-spirit. Meyer Altgermanische 110; Zs. f. Vksk. II 409, 416, IV 299f., VIII 14 n. 4, 277, XXI 178, XXIX 68; Anglia Beiblatt VI 144, XVII 73; Frischbier Am Urquell I 134; Mitteilungen d. Schles. Ges. f. Vksk. Heft XII 76; Basset Legends and Superstitions of the Sea (New York, 1885).—Finnish-Swedish: Wessman 32 No. 273, 35 Nos. 295—296, 37, 41; Danish: Kristensen Danske Sagn II (1893) 44ff., (1928) 32ff. |
| F1015.1 | Shoes miraculously worn out. |
| F823.3 | Shoes of rat-skin. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F986.5 | Shores flooded with sea-fish. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F962.4.1 | Shower of blood for three days and three nights. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F962.4 | Shower of blood. Irish myth: Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg; Italian Novella: *Rotunda; Marquesas: Handy 65. |
| F962.6 | Shower of food. Jewish: Neuman. |
| F960.1.1.2 | Shower of gold and silver rains upon king's ship at birth of his children. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F962.6.3 | Shower of honey. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F960.1.2.1.1 | Shower of lotuses at birth of hero. Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 131. |
| F962.6.2 | Shower of manna. *Loomis White Magic 87; Jewish: Neuman. |
| F962.6.4 | Shower of oil. *Loomis White Magic 87. |
| F962.8.1 | Shower of silver (money). Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F962.6.1 | Shower of wheat. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F991.4 | Shrine bleeds. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F950.4 | Sickness (madness) cured by coition. Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles No. 55, 90; Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| F950.1 | Sickness cured by napkin of Veronica. English: Wells 156 (Temporale). |
| F952.0.1 | Sight miraculously restored while poet writes hymn (poem). Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F363.3 | Sight of fairies fatal. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F493.5 | Sign of great plague: sky seems afire. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F569.3 | Silent person. |
| F569.3.1 | Silent princess. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F813.3.4 | Silk handkerchief concealed in a nut. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F813.1.2 | Silver apple. Fb "træ" III 867a, "frugttræ" I 376b, "æble" III 1135b; Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| F841.1.9 | Silver boat. *Loomis White Magic 91; Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F771.1.2 | Silver castle. Köhler-Bolte I 412; *Fb "slot" III 377a; Persian: Carnoy 335. |
| F852.3 | Silver coffin. Type 709; *Böklen Sneewittchenstudien 115. |
| F169.4 | Silver fishnet in otherworld. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F555.2 | Silver hair. *Type 533; BP II 275. |
| F521.3.4.1 | Silver king with silver attendants. Is on a silver horse accompanied by silver cock, bird, and dog. Czech: Tille FFC XXXIV 96. |
| F752.2.1 | Silver not to be taken from mountain of silver on Sabbath. Jewish: Neuman. |
| F841.2.3 | Silver oar. Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "avirons". |
| F813.4 | Silver pear. Hdwb. d. Märch. I 256a n. 9. |
| F823.4 | Silver shoes. Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 230f. |
| F811.1.2 | Silver tree. Köhler-Bolte I 412; Patch PMLA XXXIII 624 n. 82; Irish myth: *Cross; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| F830.1 | Silver weapon. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| F233.2 | Silver-colored fairy. Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "argentine". |
| F755.2 | Singing mountain. N. A. Indian (Creek): Alexander N. Am. 71. |
| F610.3.4.2 | Single combat with berserk. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| F541.5.1 | Single eye protrudes from forehead. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F551.5 | Single-footed people lie on their backs and shade themselves from sun with their soles. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F943 | Sinking into mud in duel. Icelandic: Boberg; Czech: Tille FFC XXXIV 96; Lithuanian: Leskien-Brugmann 385 No. 10, 557 No. 14; Greek: Hahn Griechische und albanesische Märchen II 273; Egyptian: Maspero Contes populaire de l'Egypte ancienne (Paris, 1882) 191; Africa: Meinhof Afrikanische 78, Frobenius Atlantis X 212. |
| F1011.2 | Sitting (hanging) on a sunbeam. *Köhler-Bolte II 98ff. |
| F451.5.21 | Six dwarfs listen to singing by confirmed children. German: Kapff 45. |
| F516.2.1 | Six-armed earthborn men. Greek: Fox 110. |
| F531.1.2.2.4 | Six-headed giant. English: Child V 184. |
| F511.0.2.4 | Six-headed man. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| F239.4 | Size of fairies. |
| F241.1.8 | Size of fairies' horses. |
| F531.2 | Size of giant. *Broderius § 37.—Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: Arnason Legends of Iceland (London, 1864) I 120 ff.; MacCulloch Eddic 277, *Boberg; Norwegian: Norske Folkminnelag XIII 26; Finnish-Swedish: Landtmann Finlands Svenska Folkdiktning VII 537; Swiss: Henne-Am Rhyn No. 454. |
| F441.5 | Size of wood-spirit. |
| F969.1 | Skies open, revealing heavenly company. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F679.8 | Skill at chess-playing. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F661.11 | Skillful archer uses arrow as boomerang. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F666.1 | Skillful axe-man makes spear-shafts with three chippings. Also at the same time sets them into the spear-rings. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F666 | Skillful axe-man. Cuts down trees with single stroke, and the like. *Kittredge Gawain 199 n. 2; Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F665.1 | Skillful barber shaves running hare. *Type 654; *BP III 10ff. |
| F665 | Skillful barber. |
| F661.6 | Skillful bowman shoots crater of Vesuvius open. *Fb "bue" IV 76b. |
| F675.4 | Skillful carpenter constructs large palace overnight. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F679.6 | Skillful cast of stone: carries away roof tree of burning house and so puts out fire. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F601.0.1 | Skillful companions. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F667 | Skillful fencer (swordsman). |
| F667.1 | Skillful fencer keeps sword dry in rain. Swings it so fast. *Type 654; *BP III 10ff. |
| F664.1 | Skillful flayer skins running rabbit. *Type 654; *Wesselski Märchen 213 No. 20. |
| F664 | Skillful flayer. |
| F679.7 | Skillful gambler always wins. Whatever he earns in day he spends immediately. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F679.5.2 | Skillful hunter can tell from baying the succession of hounds and what quarry they pursue. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F679.5.1 | Skillful hunter manages hounds. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F679.5 | Skillful hunter. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F661.4.3 | Skillful marksman can hit egg from great distance. Africa: Weeks Jungle 43. |
| F661.8.1 | Skillful marksman casts lance through hole in leaf. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F661.8 | Skillful marksman casts lance through ring. French Canadian: Barbeau JAFL XXIX 18, Carrière. |
| F661.9 | Skillful marksman grazes ear of sleeping person and awakens him. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| F661.5 | Skillful marksman shoots animal (man) through eye. |
| F661.3 | Skillful marksman shoots apple from man's head. Tell. *Hdwb. d. Abergl. s.v. "Meisterschuss Tell"; Fb "æble" III 1136a; English: Child III 17f., 28; Icelandic: Boberg. |
| F661.5.2 | Skillful marksman shoots bird through eye. *Fb "skytte" III 350a.—Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 1123. |
| F661.5.4 | Skillful marksman shoots both eyes of an ogre. Italian: Basile Pentamerone V No. 7. |
| F661.4 | Skillful marksman shoots eggs scattered over table. *Type 653. |
| F661.5.3 | Skillful marksman shoots left eye of fly at two miles. *Type 513. |
| F661.1 | Skillful marksman shoots meat from giant's hands. *Type 304; *BP II 505. |
| F661.2 | Skillful marksman shoots pipe from man's mouth. Type 1708*. |
| F661.5.1 | Skillful marksman shoots serpent through left eye. Chinese: Werner 182. |
| F661.3.1 | Skillful marksman shoots spear through nose-ring. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F661.7 | Skillful marksman throws needles. One enters eye of the other so as to form a straight line. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F661.7.1 | Skillful marksman throws rushes into a curtain. The first remains and each following one lodges in the one before and remains attached to it. Schoepperle Tristan and Isolt II 294. |
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