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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
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Deceptions
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Reversals of Fortune
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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 ▲ |
|---|---|
| F628 | Strong man as mighty slayer. (Cf. F615.2.2.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F614.4 | Strong man as rower; breaks boat. Finnish: Kalevala rune 35. |
| F614.4.1 | Strong man as rower: rows one side of boat against many at other. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F634.1 | Strong man bathing and diving in river catches thousands of fishes in his beard. (Cf. X1112.) Jewish: Neuman. |
| F614.2.3 | Strong man buries axe in tree stump and removes it with his little finger. Cheremis: Sebeok-Nyerges. |
| F624.10 | Strong man carries bellows. Chinese: Graham. |
| F624.7 | Strong man carries boat (ship). Tonga: Gifford 127; Tuamotu: Stimson MS (T-G. 3/403). |
| F631 | Strong man carries giant load. (Cf. F531.3.10, F624.) Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F631.5 | Strong man carries heavy oxhide on the hand. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| F631.6 | Strong man carries huge beam. |
| F631.2 | Strong man carries off city gates. Jewish: Judges 16: 3, *Neuman. |
| F631.2.1 | Strong man carries off door-frame and frame of smoke-hole. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F631.4 | Strong man carries ox on the back. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| F636.4.2 | Strong man catches stones hurled from catapults by enemy and throws them back upon the besiegers. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| F614.9 | Strong man clears plain. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F628.2.10 | Strong man cleaves horse and rider in two with sword. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F639.9 | Strong man crushes ribs of person he embraces. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F631.1 | Strong man drags mill. Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "moulin". |
| F614.1 | Strong man drives anvil into ground. *Type 650; BP II 293; Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| F615 | Strong man evades death. Vain attempts to kill him. *Type 590, 650.—Irish: MacCulloch Celtic 143, *Cross; Hindu: Keith 173 (Krishna); Philippine: Fansler MAFLS XII 24; N. A. Indian: Thompson CColl II 391. |
| F614.8 | Strong man fells tree with one blow of axe. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F626.1 | Strong man flattens hill (lops off hilltop). Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F639.11 | Strong man grinds huge rocks into powder. Jewish: Neuman. |
| F637 | Strong man holds back ship. Alphabet No. 493.—Jewish: Neuman. |
| F623 | Strong man holds up mountain. Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "montagne", "appuiemontagne"; Jewish: Neuman. |
| F610.7 | Strong man is so heavy that no horse can carry him all day. (Cf. F681.8.) Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| F614.11 | Strong man jumps across rivers. (Cf. F611.3.2.4.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F626.2 | Strong man kicks mountain down. Marquesas: Handy 105. |
| F639.5 | Strong man kicks through heavy door. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F628.1 | Strong man kills animals with own hands. Irish myth: *Cross; Jewish: *Neuman. |
| F628.1.1.4 | Strong man kills bear. Jewish: Neuman. |
| F628.1.5 | Strong man kills giant dog. Tonga: Gifford 137. |
| F628.2.3 | Strong man kills giant. Type 650* (Cf. F639.4.) Irish myth: *Cross; Jewish: *Neuman; Eskimo (Greenland): Holm 38; S. A. Indian (Cashinawa): Métraux BBAE CXLIII (3) 686. |
| F628.1.3 | Strong man kills great serpent. Eskimo (Greenland): Rink 116. |
| F628.1.1.3 | Strong man kills jaguar. S. A. Indian (Cashinawa): Métraux BBAE CXLIII (3) 687. |
| F628.1.1.2 | Strong man kills leopard. Africa (Upoto): Einstein 125f. |
| F628.1.1 | Strong man kills lion with own hands. English: Child V 487 s.v. "lion", Wells 151 (Richard Coer de Lyon); Hebrew: Judges 14: 6 (Samson); India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F628.2.1 | Strong man kills many men at once. *Boje 103; Irish myth: *Cross; Spanish Exempla: Keller; Jewish: Judges 14: 19 (Samson), *Neuman; Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 417, Rarotonga: ibid. 253; Africa (Upoto): Einstein 126. |
| F628.2.6 | Strong man kills many with hammer. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| F628.2.5 | Strong man kills men with own hands. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F628.2 | Strong man kills men. Dickson 180; Irish myth: Cross; Icelandic: Boberg. |
| F628.2.8 | Strong man kills robber with a snap of his finger. Cheremis: Sebeok-Nyerges. |
| F628.1.1.1 | Strong man kills tiger single-handed. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F628.1.1.5 | Strong man kills wolves in sea. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F624.1 | Strong man lifts horse (ox, ass). Fb "stærk"; Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 250; Gaster Exempla 203 No. 92; Greek: Fox 100 (Theseus); Jewish: Neuman. |
| F624.2.2 | Strong man lifts large stone with one hand. Cheremis: Sebeok-Nyerges. |
| F624.2 | Strong man lifts large stone. Irish myth: Cross (F624.7); Icelandic: Boberg; Jewish: Neuman. |
| F624.2.1 | Strong man lifts millstone. Irish myth: Cross; Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "arracheur." |
| F624.4 | Strong man lifts plow. Fb "stærk"; German: Grimm No. 90. |
| F624.5 | Strong man lifts ton of rye. Fb "stærk." |
| F613 | Strong man makes labor contract. *Type 650; Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F624.2.0.2 | Strong man moves enormous rock. Marquesas: Handy 105. |
| F639.4 | Strong man overcomes giant. (Cf. F628.2.3.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F628.4.1 | Strong man plunges sword into stone. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F627 | Strong man pulls down building. Irish myth: Cross; Jewish: Judges 16: 30 (Samson), *Neuman. |
| F626 | Strong man pulls down mountains. French Canadian: Barbeau JAFL XXIX 21. |
| F615.2.4 | Strong man sent for bears: bring them back home. Cheremis: Sebeok-Nyerges. |
| F615.2.3 | Strong man sent for wild horses: brings them back. *Type 650. |
| F615.2.5 | Strong man sent for wolves: brings them back home. Cheremis: Sebeok-Nyerges. |
| F615.1 | Strong man sent to devil's mill: drives devils to master's house. *Type 650. |
| F615.2.2 | Strong man sent to kill lions: does so and frightens king. Greek: Fox 80 (Herakles). |
| F615.2.1 | Strong man sent to milk lions: brings lions back with him. *Type 590. |
| F613.4 | Strong man serves ogre as punishment for stealing food. *Type 650. |
| F638.4 | Strong man shoots arrow as far as otherworld. Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 1004. |
| F628.1.0.1 | Strong man slays monster. Tears heart out. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F628.3 | Strong man slays spectre. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F610.8 | Strong man so heavy that only his own horse can carry him. Icelandic: Þiðriks saga II 380, Boberg. |
| F611.1.1 | Strong man son of bear who has stolen his mother. *Types 301, 650; *Panzer Beowulf 16ff.; *Dickson 117 n. 48; *BP II 293, 300; Hdwb. d. Märch. s.v. "Bärensohn"; N. A. Indian: Thompson CColl II 334ff. |
| F611.1.6 | Strong man son of man and mare. Type 301; BP II 300; Dickson 117 n. 48. |
| F611.1.5 | Strong man son of man and she-bear. Type 301; BP II 300; Dickson 117 n. 48. |
| F611.1.7 | Strong man son of person and giant. Fb. "styrke". |
| F611.1.2 | Strong man son of woman and dwarf. Type 301; BP II 300; Dickson 117 n. 48. |
| F611.1.2.1 | Strong man son of woman and forest spirit. Africa (Fang): Einstein 70ff., Trilles 190ff. No. 11. |
| F631.3 | Strong man swims carrying fifty (many) companions. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F618 | Strong man tames animals. |
| F639.6 | Strong man tears boat apart with hands. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F628.2.2 | Strong man throws another from walls. Greek: *Frazer Apollodorus I 238 n. 3. |
| F624.3.1 | Strong man throws carriage with horses and driver on top of haystack and breaks the driver's ribs. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| F624.1.1 | Strong man throws elephant across sea. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F624.2.0.1 | Strong man throws enormous stone. Greek: Odyssey XIII 184, IX 482, X 120, Iliad XII 381. |
| F624.1.3 | Strong man throws leopard. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| F614.6.1 | Strong man throws man back and breaks his bones (legs). Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| F624.2.0.1.1 | Strong man throws mountain. (Cf. F623, F626.) Jewish: *Neuman. |
| F624.8 | Strong man throws opponent into the air. Icelandic: *Boberg; Tonga: Gifford 122. |
| F614.6 | Strong man throws trees on roof and breaks it. *Type 650; Chinese: Graham. |
| F624.1.2 | Strong man throws walrus. Eskimo (Greenland): Rink 178. |
| F614.2 | Strong man uproots tree and uses it as weapon. *Type 650; Dickson 179 n. 47; Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| F628.2.7 | Strong man uses man as weapon. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| F614.2.1 | Strong man uses pillar-stone as weapon. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F614.2.2 | Strong man uses rafter as weapon. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| F614.7 | Strong man uses stable-roof as flail. Type 1031; French Canadian: Barbeau JAFL XXIX 21. |
| F612.3.2 | Strong man with giant hammer and shield. India: Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Graham. |
| F625 | Strong man: breaker of iron. (Cf. X946.) *Fb "stærk" (bends horseshoe); Icelandic: Flateyjarbуk I 524, Boberg; Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "Brise-Fer"; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F621 | Strong man: tree-puller. Can uproot and carry off trees. (Cf. F611.3.1, F614.2.) *Type 513; BP II 79ff.; *Fb "træ" III 867b.—Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: Boberg; Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "arbres"; French Canadian: Barbeau JAFL XXIX 21; Swiss: Jegerlehner Oberwallis 295 No. 13; Jewish: *Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys; Hawaii: Dixon 90, Beckwith Myth 421; Samoa: Ibid. 254; Tonga: Gifford 127; Tuamotu: Stimson MS (z-G 3/1323). |
| F639.10 | Strong man's anger: bites brass rods in anger and spits them out as powder. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| F611 | Strong man's birth and rearing. |
| F611.1 | Strong man's birth. Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 703*. |
| F639.1.2 | Strong man's finger digs into ground with such force that water gushes out. Jewish: Neuman. |
| F613.2 | Strong man's labor contract: all grain he can carry. *Type 650; Lithuanian: Balys Legends Nos. 505—511, 520f., 523f. |
| F613.3 | Strong man's labor contract: anger bargain. First to become angry shall receive blow. *Type 650, 1000; BP II 293. |
| F613.1 | Strong man's labor contract: blow at end of year. Blow sends his master to sky. *Type 650; Lithuanian: Balys Index No. *762. |
| F614 | Strong man's labors. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F628.4 | Strong man's mighty spear-cast (sword blow). Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F639.3 | Strong man's shield-cast annihilates fleeing enemy and chariot. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F636.4.3 | Strong man's stone-throw carries away roof-timber. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F631.6.1 | Strong men knock on door with beam of twenty elbow-lengths. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| F163.6 | Stronghold in otherworld. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F720 | Submarine and subterranean world. |
| F725.3 | Submarine castle (palace). (Cf. F771.) *Fb "slot" III 376b; Penzer VI 280; Welsh: MacCulloch Celtic 197; Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "château", Comault. RTP III 103, Clouston Tales I 192ff.; Greek: Iliad XIII 22; India: *Thompson-Balys; Japanese: Anesaki 314. |
| F725.3.1 | Submarine castle on a mountain. Patch PMLA XXXIII 611 n. 32. |
| F725.2 | Submarine cities. Chauvin V 7 No. 3; Penzer VI 212ff., VII 19f.; Irish myth: *Cross; India: Thompson-Balys; Cape Verde Islands: Parsons MAFLS XV (1) 215 No. 73. |
| F133.3 | Submarine monastery. (Cf. F725.6.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F133 | Submarine otherworld. Patch PMLA XXXIII 627 n. 92, Other World *380 s.v. "Land-beneath-the-waves"; Wimberly 134; Ward II 525; Chauvin V 151 No. 73; Penzer VI 280; Smith Dragon 109.—Irish myth: *Cross; Scotch: Campbell Tales III 420; Welsh: MacCulloch Celtic 112f.; North Carolina: Brown Collection I 636; Breton: *Le Braz Légende de la Mort II 37ff.; Spanish Exempla: Keller; Slavic: Máchal 270; India: *Thompson-Balys; Japanese: Ikeda; Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 69; Maori: Clark III; N. A. Indian (Klikitat): Jacobs U Wash II 7; Africa: Werner African 188, 206, (Gold Coast): Barker and Sinclair 39 No. 4, (Basuto): Jacottet 122 No. 17, 204 No. 30, 224 No. 33. |
| F725 | Submarine world. See all references under F133, Submarine otherworld. Ignacius Donnelly Atlantis: the Antediluvian World (New York, 1882); W. Scott-Elliot The Story of Atlantis, a Geographical, Historical and Ethnological Sketch (London, 1896); Spence The Problem of Atlantis (New York, 1925); E. M. Whishaw Atlantis in Andalucia (London, 1929); *Krappe Bulletin Hispanique XXXV (1933) 107ff.; Penzer VII 19f.—India: Thompson-Balys; Korean: Zong in-Sob 26; Tuamotu: Stimson MS (z-G 13/249, 441.); Maori: Clark 111; N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 343 n. 236a. |
| F1002 | Substituted silver hand used as if it were of flesh and blood. *Loomis White Magic 125. |
| F721.5 | Subterranean castle. *Fb "slot" III 376b; Spanish Exempla: Keller; Italian: Basile Pentamerone II No. 9, V No. 4; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| F127.1.1 | Subterranean palace at bottom of lake belonging to king of serpents. India: Thompson-Balys; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 390. |
| F721 | Subterranean world. See entire section F80—F109, Journey to lower world. Irish myth: Cross; German: Grimm No. 163; Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "monde". |
| F471.2.1 | Succubus: female incubus. *Loomis White Magic 77; Lithuanian: Balys Index Nos. *369, *423f., 3681; Armenian: Ananikian 87; West Indies: Flowers 433. |
| F950.6 | Sucking through tubes heals wounds. (Cf. F959.3.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| F1041.1.11.1 | Suicide from fear of starving. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| F1041.1.11.3 | Suicide from fright of evil prophecy. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| F161.1.1 | Summer in otherworld when it is winter in world of mortals. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F301.1 | Summoning fairy lover. |
| F961.1.8 | Sun appears color of blood. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F965.2 | Sun darkened at death of holy person. Usener Kleine Schriften IV 307; Jewish: Neuman; Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| F965.2.1 | Sun does not rise at death of hero. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F961.1.5.3 | Sun does not set. Jewish: Neuman. |
| F961.1.6 | Sun does not shine on island of druidry. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F961.1.5.2 | Sun reappears after being set. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| F961.1.1 | Sun refuses to shine when murder is done. *BP II 531 n. 1.—Icelandic: Boberg. |
| F961.1.2.1 | Sun returns to sunrise to help sick man. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F961.1.10 | Sun sets early to hide fugitive. (Cf. R310.) Jewish: Neuman. |
| F960.2.6.1 | Sun shines but two hours the day of hero's funeral. Jewish: Neuman. |
| F961.1.5 | Sun shines during night. Irish myth: Cross; Jewish: *Neuman. |
| F961.1.5.1 | Sun shines for twelve days and nights after death of holy person. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F961.1.2 | Sun travels from west to east. Greek: Frazer Apollodorus II 164 n. 1; Jewish: Gaster Exempla 185 No. 2b, 201 No. 78, *Neuman. |
| F961.1.7 | Sun turned from one hour to another through the prayer of saint (Moses). Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F961.1.4 | Sun warns man of approaching assassin. Africa (Fang): Trilles 94. |
| F961.0.3.1 | Sun, moon, and stars do not shine seven days, mourning Adam's death. Jewish: Neuman. |
| F1011 | Sunbeam as support. |
| F499 | Sundry other spirits. |
| F993.1 | Sunken bell sounds at certain times. England, Wales: *Baughman. |
| F993 | Sunken bell sounds. *Sartori Zs. f. Vksk. VII 113, 270, VIII 29; England: Baughman; Finnish-Swedish: Wessman 72 No. 610; Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 3610. |
| F383.4.3 | Sunlight fatal to fairies. Maori: Clark 98. |
| F531.6.12.2 | Sunlight turns giant or troll to stone. Broderius § 7; Icelandic: MacCulloch Eddic 277, 282, 285, Corpus Poeticum Boreale I 154, Arnason Legends of Iceland (London, 1864) I 124, Boberg. |
| F961.1.5.3.1 | Sunset delayed many hours. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| F575.2.2 | Supernatural beauty of Jerusalem's inhabitants. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| F575.2.1 | Supernatural beauty of men in Messianic era. (Cf. A1095.) Jewish: *Neuman. |
| F2.1 | Supernatural husband takes mortal wife with him to heaven. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F377 | Supernatural lapse of time in fairyland. Years seem days. *Hartland Science 161—195; Jacobs's list s.v. "Time flies"; *Child I 321 n.; *Burnham PMLA XXIII 394 n. 2; Fb "glemme" IV 181a.—Irish myth: *Cross; England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales: Baughman; Lithuanian: Balys Legends No. 585; India: *Thompson-Balys; Japanese: Anesaki 265, Ikeda; Koryak: Jochelson JE VI 280; Eskimo (Greenland): Rink 157, (Cumberland Sound): Boas BAM XV 185, (Smith Sound): Kroeber JAFL XII 177. |
| F377.1 | Supernatural lapse of time in paradise. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| F345.2 | Supernatural person (poet) reveals marital infidelity. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F921 | Swallowed person becomes bald. Irish myth: *Cross; Jewish: Neuman; Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 132, 437; Tuamotu: ibid. 503; N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 322 n. 159b. |
| F921.1 | Swallowed person becomes boneless. S. A. Indian (Cashinawa): Métraux BBAE CXLIII (3) 686. |
| F922 | Swallowed person bereft of clothing. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F912.3 | Swallowed person eats on swallower's liver (heart) until disgorged. (Cf. F914, F915.1.) India: Thompson-Balys; Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 140. |
| F912.3.1 | Swallowed person tickles serpent's throat and is disgorged. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F494.1.1 | Swamp spirit guards buried treasure. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F989.16.2 | Swarms of birds darken sun and moon. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| F989.16.1 | Swarms of quails serve as food for Israelites. Jewish: Neuman. |
| F162.1.2.1 | Sweet and bitter fountain in otherworld garden. Patch PMLA XXXIII 620 n. 65, Other World 266; Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F962.7.1 | Sweet dew. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| F989.7 | Swine kick trees to cause fruit to fall. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F111.0.2 | Swineherd finds terrestrial paradise while looking for lost sow. England, U.S.: *Baughman. |
| F1041.21.7 | Swooning from grief. Icelandic: *Boberg; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F833.3.1 | Sword as mirror. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| F152.1.6 | Sword bridge to otherworld. Hibbard Romanic Review IX (1913) 166; Patch PMLA XXXIII 635ff., Other World 374 s.v. "bridge"; Irish myth: *Cross; Welsh: MacCulloch Celtic 197. |
| F833.5.1 | Sword cuts cloth etc. as well as steel and stone. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| F833.5 | Sword cuts everything. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| F833.3 | Sword extraordinarily bright, sharp. Herrmann Saxo 306 n. 2; Irish myth: Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| F997.1 | Sword is spoken to as to human being. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| F833.2 | Sword of Damocles. Sword hung on thin thread immediately above person. *BP I 366; *Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 735a; Olrik Sakses Oldhistorie II (1894) 256; Icelandic: Boberg. |
| F997 | Sword pierces rock when possessor will break it. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| F833.4.1 | Sword shines as fire or as the sun. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| F833.1 | Sword so heavy that hero must take drink of strength before swinging it. Fb "sværd" III 690b. |
| F833.1.1 | Sword so heavy that only its owner can lift it. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| F833.10 | Sword with God's name engraved upon it. (Cf. D1766.7.2.) Jewish: Neuman. |
| F833.7 | Sword with image of wolf or serpent. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| F833.6 | Sword with poisoned edge. (Cf. F831.3.) Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| F165.4 | Table always set in otherworld dwellings. Siuts 79. |
| F166.10 | Tables in otherworld. Jewish: Neuman. |
| F378.2 | Tabu: bathing or touching water in lake in fairyland. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F378.4 | Tabu: drinking from certain well in fairyland. Person does, finds himself alone on hillside. (Cf. C260.) Wales: *Baughman. |
| F210.1 | Tabu: fighting battle in fairyland. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F348.8 | Tabu: mortal for whom fairy works must not watch him at work. England, Scotland, Wales: *Baughman. |
| F378.5 | Tabu: plucking flowers from bed tended by fairies. England: *Baughman. |
| F348.7 | Tabu: telling of fairy gifts; the gifts cease. England, Wales: *Baughman. |
| F378.1 | Tabu: touching ground on return from fairyland. Hartland Science 164f.; Irish myth: *Cross; England: Baughman. |
| F378.6 | Tabu: using fairy bath water, soap, or ointment on oneself while bathing fairy child. (Cf. F235.4.) England: Baughman. |
| F348 | Tabus connected with fairy gifts. |
| F378 | Tabus connected with trip to fairyland. (Cf. F348.5, F361.3.) |
| F376.1 | Tailor works in fairyland. Lithuanian: Balys Legends No. 439, Balys Historical. |
| F814.2 | Talking flowers. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| F815.6.1 | Taro planted in sacred spot inexhaustible prolific. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 288. |
| F301.4 | Tasks set maid by elfin knight before she can marry him. English: Child I 15ff. |
| F1041.21.6 | Tearing hair and clothes from excessive grief. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| F1041.21.1.1 | Tears of blood from excessive grief. Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| F544.3.2 | Teeth of angered saint give off sparks. (Cf. F552.1.2.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| F811.7.2.1 | Temple cedars bear fruit. Jewish: Neuman. |
| F163.2.1 | Temple in otherworld. Jewish: Neuman. |
| F163.2.1.1 | Temple of jewels in otherworld. Jewish: Neuman. |
| F773.3 | Temple of jewels. Jewish: Neuman. |
| F941.2.3 | Temple swallowed by earth. Jewish: Neuman. |
| F34 | Temptress sent from upper world by deity (Pandora). Greek: Grote I 72. |
| F531.1.2.2.6 | Ten-headed giant. Philippine (Tinguian): Cole 125. |
| F147.1 | Tenantless houses at border of otherworld. *Siuts 44f. |
| F923 | Tent-house folded and swallowed as means of carrying it. Africa (Benga): Nassau 208ff. No. 33. |
| F455.10.1 | Test of troll child. Snake placed in dough she is to knead. She calls it "brother". Hartmann 81. |
| F451.2.3 | The beards of dwarfs. |
| F1015.1.1 | The danced-out shoes. Every morning girl's shoes are danced to pieces. *Type 306; BP III 78; *Fb "sko" III 288b; Finnish: Aarne FFC XXXIII 39 No. 8**. |
| F451.9.2 | The destination of emigrating dwarfs. |
| F162.2.1 | The four rivers of Paradise. *Patch PMLA XXXIII 622, Other World 383 s.v. "rivers, four"; Albright Am. Jour. Semitic Languages XXXIX 40ff.; Gaster Thespis 171.—Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: Boberg; Jewish: Neuman; Siberian: Holmberg Siberian 359. |
| F531.5.9 | The giant on the ark. Noah saves a giant on the ark. Cannot enter but stays in the rigging. Noah sends him food through a hole. Dh I 283; Jewish: *Neuman. |
| F451.2.4 | The hair of dwarfs. |
| F481.0.1.2.1 | The purchased cobold discarded. On way home man believes himself cheated, and throws box with fly or piece of charcoal away. Later passing same place he finds a heap of corn or money. Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 3463; Estonian: Aarne FFC XXV 125 No. 55. |
| F420.1.5.3 | The seas become heavy without natural cause. (Cf. F420.2.4.) German: Meier 73 (No. 78). |
| F488 | The stupid house spirit. |
| F451.9.1.3 | The three sevens in 1777 drive dwarfs out of the land. German: Pröhle Harz. No. 60. |
| F359 | Theft from fairies—miscellaneous. |
| F350 | Theft from fairies. |
| F455.6.4 | Theft from troll. |
| F352.1 | Theft of cup (drinking horn) from fairies when they offer mortal drink. Hartland Science 141—159 passim; Boberg Festskrift til Hammerich, 1952, 53—61. —England: *Baughman. |
| F352 | Theft of cup (drinking horn) from fairies. Fb "guldhorn" I 513; Kristensen Danske Sagn I (1892) 206ff., (1928) 144ff.; Icelandic: Herrmann Saxo II 590, *Boberg; Finnish-Swedish: Wessman 65 No. 559. |
| F359.2 | Theft of golden bird from fairies. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F351.2 | Theft of money from fairies by frightening them away from it. Hartland Science 140. |
| F351.1 | Theft of money from fairies by joining unperceived in their game of money-throwing. Hartland Science 139; England: *Baughman. |
| F351 | Theft of money from fairies. Irish myth: Cross; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F352.2 | Theft of vessel from water-deity. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F676.2 | Thief can cut soles off man's boots without detection as he walks along road. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F676.1 | Thief can eat from man's plate during dinner without detection. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F480.3 | Thieving household-spirit. Steals things for its master. Finnish: Holmberg Finno-Ugric 172; Lithuanian: Balys Index Nos. 3468, 3472. |
| F419.2 | Thieving spirit. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F967.4 | Thin cloud in form of rainbow. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F162.2.7 | Thirteen rivers of balm in otherworld. Gaster Exempla 219 No. 154 (153). |
| F451.4.4.2 | Thirty-Years War destroys home of dwarfs. German: Eckart 22, Pröhle Harz. No. 137 III. |
| F531.3.1.3 | Thor carries giant in basket across icy stream. Icelandic: Snorra Edda Skaldsk XVII, Boberg. |
| F971.3 | Thorn growing in wound becomes tree. Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "épine". |
| F546.4 | Thorns around nipples. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F954.1 | Thread under dumb man's tongue cut. This permits him to speak. Dickson 217. |
| F321.1.1.6 | Threat to throw on fire causes changeling to cry out and betray his nature. *BP I 369. |
| F312.3 | Three fairies sent to queen about to give birth to child. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F961.1.3.2 | Three suns shine in sky. Alphabet No. 552. |
| F512.1.2 | Three women have but one eye among them. Pass it around. (Cf. F513.1.1.) *Fb "öje" III 1166a; Greek: Fox 33, *Frazer Apollodorus I 155 n. 4. |
| F513.1.1 | Three women have but one tooth among them. Pass it around. (Cf. F512.1.2.) *Fb "øje" III 1166a; Greek: Frazer Apollodorus I 155 n. 4, Fox 33. |
| F531.1.6.7.1 | Three-armed giant. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F512.2.1.1 | Three-eyed person. *Type 511; Cosquin Contes Indiens 520; Jacob's list s.v. "Three-eyed stepsister"; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F511.1.2 | Three-faced person. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F531.1.2.2.2 | Three-headed giant. Icelandic: MacCulloch Eddic 111 *Boberg. |
| F511.0.2.2 | Three-headed person. Irish myth: *Cross; India: Thompson-Balys. |
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