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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.
The index is large, so this browser displays 250 entries per page. You can search by motif reference or by words in the description, restrict the results to one of Thompson's main letter categories, and click motif references mentioned inside descriptions to follow cross-references. Individual motif pages also show any ATU tale types whose concordance explicitly cites that Thompson reference.
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A
Mythological Motifs
B
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
W
Traits of Character
X
Humor
Z
Miscellaneous Groups of Motifs
| Thompson reference | Description ▲ |
|---|---|
| F245.1 | Fairy harp. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F386.1.1 | Fairy harper enclosed in yew-tree. Irish: MacCulloch Celtic 73. |
| F262.3.1.3 | Fairy harper in tiny bronze boat. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F262.3.1.2 | Fairy harper in yew tree. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F262.3.1.1 | Fairy harper plays two harps at once. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F232.1.2 | Fairy has back rough like pine cone. U.S.: Baughman. |
| F232.8 | Fairy has long tail. (Cf. F460.1.5, F518.) England: Baughman. |
| F233.1.1 | Fairy has one side green. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F395 | Fairy has power to prevent mortal's approach. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F233.3.1 | Fairy has red eyes. U.S.: Baughman. |
| F346 | Fairy helps mortal with labor. England, Scotland, Wales: *Baughman; Scotch: Macdougall and Calder 187; Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 3695; Cheremis: Sebeok-Nyerges; Italian: Basile Pentamerone IV No. 4; Africa (Gold Coast): Barker and Sinclair 181 No. 36. |
| F262.8 | Fairy horns heard by mortals. Scotland: Baughman. |
| F241.1.3.1 | Fairy horse one-legged. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F241.1.6 | Fairy horse pulls chariot by pole which passes through his body. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F221.1 | Fairy house disappears at dawn. Irish myth: *Cross. Cf. Boberg. |
| F221.5 | Fairy house without doors. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F386.5 | Fairy imprisoned as punishment. (Cf. F386.1.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F386.1 | Fairy imprisoned in tree. (Cf. F386.5.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F234.3.3 | Fairy in form of a bundle of rags. England: Baughman. |
| F234.1 | Fairy in form of an animal. Irish myth: *Cross; Finnish-Swedish: Wessman 32 No. 268, 48 No. 396. |
| F234.1.16.3 | Fairy in form of ant. England: Baughman. |
| F234.2.5 | Fairy in form of beautiful young woman. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F234.1.15 | Fairy in form of bird. Irish myth: *Cross; Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 56. |
| F234.1.1 | Fairy in form of cow (bull). Scotch: Macdougall and Calder 281ff., 291ff.; Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F234.1.4.1 | Fairy in form of doe. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F234.1.9 | Fairy in form of dog. |
| F234.1.15.2 | Fairy in form of dove. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F234.1.15.4 | Fairy in form of drake. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F234.1.10 | Fairy in form of eel. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F234.1.16.1 | Fairy in form of fly. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F234.1.6 | Fairy in form of frog. Scotch: Macdougall and Calder 271. |
| F234.1.0.1 | Fairy in form of giant animal. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F234.1.2 | Fairy in form of goat. Scotch: Macdougall and Calder 289. |
| F234.1.9.2 | Fairy in form of greyhound. Wales: Baughman. |
| F234.2.1 | Fairy in form of hag. Irish myth: *Cross; Scotch: Macdougall and Calder 227. |
| F234.1.12 | Fairy in form of hare. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F234.1.8 | Fairy in form of horse. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F234.1.16 | Fairy in form of insect. |
| F234.1.9.1 | Fairy in form of lapdog. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F234.1.16.2 | Fairy in form of moth. England: Baughman. |
| F234.3 | Fairy in form of object. |
| F234.2 | Fairy in form of person. *Type 480: *Roberts 117.—Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F234.1.11 | Fairy in form of sheep. Irish myth: Cross; Wales: Baughman. |
| F234.1.15.3 | Fairy in form of sparrow. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F234.1.4 | Fairy in form of stag. Irish myth: *Cross; Scotch: Macdougall and Calder 203. |
| F234.1.3 | Fairy in form of swine. Wales: Baughman. |
| F234.1.5 | Fairy in form of toad. *Fb "tudse" III 888b; Hartland Science 52ff. |
| F234.1.14 | Fairy in form of weasel. England: Baughman. |
| F234.1.3.1 | Fairy in form of wild boar. Irish: MacCulloch Celtic 126, *Cross. |
| F234.1.13 | Fairy in form of wolf. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F234.1.7 | Fairy in form of worm (snake, serpent). Irish myth: *Cross; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F236.1.6 | Fairy in green clothes. Irish myth: Cross; England, Scotland, Wales: Baughman; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F234.2.2 | Fairy in hideous form. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F234.2.4 | Fairy in likeness of another. (Cf. F239.2.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F369.4.1 | Fairy incites mortals to war. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F239.4.3 | Fairy is tiny. Irish myth: *Cross; England, Scotland: Baughman. |
| F389.4 | Fairy killed by mortal. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F361.17.6 | Fairy kills dog that refuses to let fairy sleep in stack. Scotland: Baughman. |
| F361.17.7 | Fairy kills man who refuses his hospitality. Man refuses to visit fairy after being invited. (Cf. F361.15.) England: Baughman. |
| F369.3 | Fairy kills mortal's hound (horses). Irish myth: Cross. |
| F304.1 | Fairy king punishes ravisher of his daughter. Malone PMLA XLIII 406; Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| F233.5.1 | Fairy king with yellow hair. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F252.1 | Fairy king. Keightley 50ff.; Malone PMLA XLIII 422; Irish myth: *Cross; English: Wells 128 (Sir Orfeo), England, Wales: Baughman; Icelandic: MacCulloch Eddic 225; India: Thompson-Balys; Papua: Ker 73. Cf. Oberon in Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream, and in Huon of Bordeaux. |
| F302.3.4.1 | Fairy kisses man. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| F316 | Fairy lays curse on child. (Cf. F312.1.1.) *Type 410; Icelandic: Nornagests юáttr (Bugge ed. 1864) 76, Boberg. |
| F343.8 | Fairy leaves goats as purchase price for girl he has carried off. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F381.6 | Fairy leaves when druid utters spell that drowns her voice. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F381.11 | Fairy leaves when given impossible tasks to do. Scotland: Baughman. |
| F381.3 | Fairy leaves when he is given clothes. BP I 364; England, Scotland, U.S.: Baughman. |
| F381.1 | Fairy leaves when he is named. BP I 366; cf. Type 500. |
| F217.1 | Fairy lights seen in low places. Fb "lys" II 481a. |
| F225 | Fairy lives in a shell. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F301.6 | Fairy lover abducts fairy wife of mortal. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F301.2 | Fairy lover entices mortal girl. |
| F301 | Fairy lover. Fb "underjordiske" III 975a; Dickson 121 n. 65; Hartland Science 64; Irish myth: *Cross; Scotch: Macdougall and Calder 133ff.; Icelandic: Boberg, *Feilberg DF V 43ff.; India: Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Werner 343. |
| F381.5 | Fairy lured away from house by treasure which he claims. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F393.1 | Fairy minstrel lives among mortals to learn of their heroic deeds. (Cf. F262.3.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| F262.3 | Fairy minstrel. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F262.3.2 | Fairy minstrel's birds sing accompaniment. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F262.3.3 | Fairy minstrel's music heard far and wide. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F302.5 | Fairy mistress and mortal wife. |
| F302.8 | Fairy mistress demands mortal lover deny Christian teachings. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F302.5.4 | Fairy mistress demands that man send his mortal wife away. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F302.6 | Fairy mistress leaves man when he breaks tabu. See all references to C31, C31.1.2, C31.2, C31.4.1, C31.4.2. Irish myth: *Cross; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F302.7 | Fairy mistress prophesies mortal lover's fate in battle. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F302.9 | Fairy mistress rescues hero from battle. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F361.17.9 | Fairy mistress strikes her disobedient human lover on the face and predicts death. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F302.5.1 | Fairy mistress surrenders man to his mortal wife (Wildfrau). *Heltzel Philological Quarterly VIII (1930) 348; Irish myth: *Cross Icelandic: Hálfdanar saga Brönufуstra (whole saga). |
| F302.5.2 | Fairy mistress transforms man's human wife. (Cf. F302.3.2.2.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F302.5.5 | Fairy mistress tries to destroy mortal's wife (mother) by sending her a magic belt. Krappe Revue des études Grecques LII (1939) 569ff. |
| F302 | Fairy mistress. Mortal man marries or lives with fairy woman. *Hoffman-Krayer Zs f. Vksk. XXV 120 n. 4; *Puckett MPh XVI 297; Clouston Tales I 212ff.; Malone PMLA XLIII 406; *Grimes The Lays of Desiré, Graelent and Melion (New York, 1928); *Krappe Bulletin Hispanique XXXIII 97ff.—Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: Hjálmthèrs saga ok ölvis 477, Boberg; Finnish-Swedish: Wessman 56 No. 483; Lappish: Qvigstad FFC LX 44 Nos 42, 43; India: *Thompson-Balys; Indonesia: De Vries's list No. 151; Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 500. |
| F305.1.1 | Fairy mother bestows magic powers upon half-mortal son. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F262.3.6 | Fairy music causes joy (laughter). Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F262.3.5 | Fairy music causes mourning. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F262.3.4 | Fairy music causes sleep. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F262.3.7 | Fairy music causes weakness. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F262.4 | Fairy music compared to music of Heaven. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F262.10.2 | Fairy music issues from fairy ring. England: Baughman. |
| F262.10.1 | Fairy music issues from stone. England: Baughman. |
| F262.9 | Fairy music makes seven years seem like one day to mortal hearer. (Cf. D2011.1.) England: Baughman. |
| F262.6 | Fairy music so potent it would cause wounded men to sleep. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F262.10 | Fairy music—-miscellaneous. |
| F262.5 | Fairy music—person listening is without food or sleep for a year. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F383.4 | Fairy must leave at cockcrow. Type 503; Hartland Science 145; Scotch: Macdougall and Calder 229. |
| F302.3.2.1 | Fairy offers aid to man if he will marry her. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F302.3.2 | Fairy offers gifts to man to be her paramour. Irish myth: *Cross; English: Child I 314, 375f., 384, III 504a, V 214; Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| F343.11 | Fairy offers man change of form and feature for aid in battle. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F343.0.1 | Fairy offers mortal choice of magic objects. (Cf. D813.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| F302.3.2.2 | Fairy offers to disenchant mortal wife if man will marry her. (Cf. F302.5.2.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| F160.0.2 | Fairy otherworld confused with land of the dead. (Cf. A671.0.4.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F344.2 | Fairy physician can heal anyone whose spine is not severed. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F274 | Fairy physician. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F315 | Fairy predicts birth of child. Irish myth: *Cross; Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "naissance". |
| F317 | Fairy predicts future greatness of newborn child. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F312 | Fairy presides at child's birth. Sometimes the Norns, the Fates, etc. *Type 410; BP I 439; *W. B. McDaniel Conception, Birth and Infancy in Ancient Rome and Modern Italy (Coconut Grove, Florida, 1948).—Icelandic: Nornagests юáttr (Bugge ed. 1864) 76, Corpus Poeticum Boreale I 131, *Boberg; Japanese: Ikeda. |
| F369.6 | Fairy prevents butter coming. (Cf. D2084.2.) U.S.: Baughman. |
| F383.4.1 | Fairy prince becomes mortal when surprised by daylight. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F232.4.2 | Fairy princess with golden hair. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F251.8 | Fairy professes faith in Christianity. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F349.4 | Fairy promises abundant crops, etc., to mortal. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F386.2 | Fairy punished for marrying a mortal. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F386 | Fairy punished. |
| F361.14 | Fairy punishes servant girl who fails to leave food for him. England, Wales: *Baughman. |
| F252.2 | Fairy queen. T. Keightley The Fairy Mythology (London, 1873) 53ff.; Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: MacCulloch Eddic 225, Boberg; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| F304.2 | Fairy queen's beauty temporarily destroyed by intercourse with mortal. English: Child I 327. |
| F341.2 | Fairy ransoms self with wish. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F304.4.1 | Fairy ravished by mortal strikes flesh from his ear. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F361.2.1 | Fairy recovers stolen cup by posing as a beggar. Hartland Science 141. |
| F305.1 | Fairy relative makes gifts to half-mortal child. (Cf. F340.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F383 | Fairy rendered powerless. |
| F281 | Fairy replaces man's heart with heart of straw. Eyes with wood, etc. English: Child I 343—356 passim. |
| F259.3 | Fairy reveals her true identity when despite heavy rain she remains dry. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F366.2.2 | Fairy rides behind man on horse. Ireland: Baughman. |
| F261.1 | Fairy rings on grass. Seen after fairy dance. Irish myth: Cross; English: Brueyre RTP II 74ff.; Slavic: Máchal 259. |
| F301.8 | Fairy runs away from wedding with mortal girl. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F346.0.1 | Fairy serves mortal. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F244.2 | Fairy shows hiding place of treasure in return for freedom. (Cf. N538.) Ireland: Baughman. |
| F273.1 | Fairy shows remarkable skill as marksman. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F273.2 | Fairy shows remarkable skill as runner. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F273 | Fairy shows remarkable skill. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F343.3 | Fairy smith gives knight a magic sword. English: Wells 32 (Layamon's Brut); Scotch: Campbell Tales III 122. |
| F385.1 | Fairy spell averted by turning coat. This is supposed to reverse the spell. *Kittredge Witchcraft 215, 523 n. 21. |
| F321 | Fairy steals child from cradle. Hartland Science 98—106 passim; Irish myth: *Cross; Lappish: Qvigstad FFC LX 43 No. 35; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F365.0.1 | Fairy steals on Hallowe'en. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F222.2 | Fairy stronghold. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F302.3.4.4 | Fairy takes lover back to fairyland in magic sleep. *Krappe Romania LX (1934) 79ff. |
| F361.1 | Fairy takes revenge for being slighted. |
| F361.1.2.1 | Fairy takes revenge for mortal's failure to bring food and drink to fairy son's wedding. Cheremis: Sebeok-Nyerges. |
| F361.1.1 | Fairy takes revenge for not being invited to feast. *Type 410; BP I 434ff.; Missouri French: Carrière. |
| F361.1.2 | Fairy takes revenge for not being offered food (drink). Irish myth: Cross. |
| F361.8 | Fairy takes revenge for slaying of his relatives. Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: Boberg. |
| F361.2 | Fairy takes revenge for theft. Hartland Science 141, 143; Jacobs's list s.v. "Red Cap"; Scotch: Campbell Tales II 52. |
| F246 | Fairy tobacco pipes. England: Baughman. |
| F386.4 | Fairy transformed as punishment. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| F392 | Fairy transforms self to fly, allows self to be swallowed by woman and reborn as fairy. Malone PMLA XLIII 417. |
| F234.0.1 | Fairy transforms self. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F369.4 | Fairy tricks mortal. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F383.3 | Fairy unable to cross plowed ground. *Fb "ellefolk" I 241b. |
| F383.2 | Fairy unable to cross running stream. Hartland Science 144; England, U.S.: Baughman. |
| F383.1 | Fairy unable to pass cross-roads. Hartland Science 142. |
| F393 | Fairy visits among mortals. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F302.3.0.1 | Fairy visits mortal and becomes his mistress. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F379 | Fairy visits: miscellaneous. |
| F364.1 | Fairy warriors sit upon mortals and thus kill them. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F236.5 | Fairy wears boorish clothes. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F236.1.7 | Fairy wears multi-colored dress. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F236.3.3 | Fairy wears sugar-loaf hat. U.S.: Baughman. |
| F264 | Fairy wedding. *Fb "ellefolk" I 241b. |
| F302.2.1 | Fairy wife deserts mortal husband for repulsive lover. Malone PMLA XLIII 416ff.; Irish myth: *Cross; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F397 | Fairy woman exhibits her figure to warriors. Is most beautiful of women. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F239.2 | Fairy women identical in form and feature. (Cf. F234.2.4.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F323 | Fairy women take body of dead hero to fairyland. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F302.3.4.3 | Fairy wooes and deserts man. Clouston Tales I 215ff.; Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F302.3 | Fairy wooes mortal man. Irish myth: *Cross; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F389.3 | Fairy wounded by mortal. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F343.7 | Fairy-wife furnishes provisions. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F231.1 | Fairy's arms. |
| F316.1 | Fairy's curse partially overcome by another fairy's amendment. *Type 410; Saintyves Perrault 61. |
| F316.2 | Fairy's curse partially overcome by her own amendment after being appeased. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| F231.2 | Fairy's feet. |
| F241.1.5 | Fairy's horse becomes invisible. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F231.1.1 | Fairy's iron arms. Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "bras". |
| F302.3.4.1.1 | Fairy's kiss fatal. Fb "kys" II 349. |
| F231 | Fairy's limbs. |
| F363.4 | Fairy's look burns mortal to ashes. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F354 | Fairy's ornament snatched. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F361 | Fairy's revenge. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F263.1 | Fairy's share of feast a nut. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F233.4 | Fairy's son is pale, dark, and ugly. Icelandic: Þiðriks saga I 322, 343—44, 351, Boberg. |
| F239.6 | Fairy's tears pearls. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F112.0.1 | Fairyland (Ireland) inhabited (settled) by women only. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F212.1 | Fairyland entered through well. Hartland Science 128.—Irish myth: *Cross; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F211.2 | Fairyland entrance under stone. Hartland Science 184; Fb "sten" III 552b. |
| F215.1 | Fairyland in sky. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F213 | Fairyland on island. Hartland Science 136.—Irish myth: *Cross; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F211 | Fairyland under hollow knoll. Usually entered under roots of trees. Fb "træ" III 866b; Hartland Science 67, 108, 144ff., 155; Patch PMLA XXXIII 612f.—Irish myth: *Cross; Scotch: Campbell Tales II 49, Macdougall and Calder 133, 159, 163, 169, 181, 193, 207, 273, 283; Icelandic: *Boberg; Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 3600; German: Grimm Nr. 39; Germanic: De la Saussaye 322; Italian: Basile Pentamerone III No. 10. |
| F212 | Fairyland under water. Krappe Le lac enchanté (Bulletin Hispanique XXXV 107—125); *Cross MPh XIII 731; Irish myth: *Cross, Baughman; Icelandic: Boberg; Japanese: Ikeda. |
| F210 | Fairyland. *Hartland Science 135ff.—Irish myth: Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F403.2.1.1 | Familiar spirit acquired by carrying egg under left arm-pit. *Polívka Zs. f. Vksk. XXVIII 41ff. |
| F403.2.3.4 | Familiar spirit brings news with magic speed. Kittredge Witchcraft 216f., 524 n. 36. |
| F403.2.2.3 | Familiar spirit equivalent to man's soul. Finnish: Holmberg Finno-Ugric 10f. |
| F403.2.2.1 | Familiar spirit in animal form. *Kittredge Witchcraft 613 s.v. "familiars"; Tobler 37; Eskimo (Mackenzie Area): Jenness 61. |
| F403.2.3.5 | Familiar spirit reveals infidelity of man's wife. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F327 | Family carried away to fairyland as part of bargain. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F402.7 | Family of demons. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F969.7 | Famine. Icelandic: *Boberg; Hindu: Bradley-Birt 121. |
| F482.3.1.1 | Farmer is so bothered by brownie that he decides he must move to get rid of the annoyance. He piles all furniture on wagon and starts for new home, meets acquaintance who remarks: "I see you're flitting." Brownie sticks his head out of the churn on top of the load, answers: "Yes, we're flitting." Farmer goes back to former home. England, Ireland, Wales: *Baughman. |
| F171.1 | Fat and lean kine in otherworld. *Types 470, 471; Irish: O'Suilleabhain 52, Beal XXI 319. |
| F959.3.5 | Fat of crow as remedy for king's wounds. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F585.1 | Fatal enticements of phantom women. Chauvin V 34 No. 16. |
| F451.5.2.3.1 | Father given carved wooden image in lieu of son stolen by dwarfs. Eskimo (Greenland): Rasmussen I 110. |
| F841.2.2 | Feather used as mast. *Fb "høne" I 750b. |
| F521.2 | Feathered people. Irish myth: *Cross; Chinese: Werner 390; Tuamotu: Stimson MS (z-G 3/1353, z-G 13/380); Eskimo (Greenland): Rasmussen III 109. |
| F304.6 | Fée carried off by mortal. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F271.8 | Fées engage in needlework. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F531.1.3 | Feet (legs) of giant. |
| F451.2.2 | Feet of dwarf. |
| F551.2 | Feet with unusual number of toes. Irish: MacCulloch Celtic 143 (seven), *Cross; Icelandic: Boberg. |
| F169.5 | Fence of metal or crystal in otherworld. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F93.0.1.1 | Ferryman to lower world. Feilberg Sjæletro 65ff.; Frobenius Erlebte Erdteile VI 278f.—Icelandic: Boberg; Greek: Fox 142. |
| F756.2.2 | Fertile valleys created by deity's stamping down mountains. Tonga: Gifford 18. |
| F864.1 | Fetter for Fenris wolf. Made of sound caused by the footfall of cats, beards of women, roots of mountains, sinews of bears, breath of fish, and spittle of birds. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| F864.2 | Fetter for Loki. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| F445 | Field-spirits. Meyer Altgermanische 108, Meyer Germanen 209ff.; Finnish: Holmberg Finno-Ugric 246; Slavic: Máchal 267ff.; Africa (Cameroon): Gantenbein 68. |
| F981.4 | Fiery bolt from heaven kills devastating animal. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F1041.16.6.3 | Fiery columns rise in front of angry warrior. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F148.1 | Fiery rampart revolves around otherworld isle. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F833.4 | Fiery sword. Irish myth: *Cross; Jewish: Neuman. |
| F163.2.2 | Fiery temple in otherworld: Jewish: Neuman. |
| F813.7.2 | Fig from paradise. Jewish: Neuman. |
| F813.7.1 | Fig magically preserved. Jewish: Neuman. |
| F1068.2.2 | Fight in dream with real result. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| F969.4.2 | Fight with monster child causes earth to rock like waves of the sea. Eskimo (Mackenzie Area): Jenness 66. |
| F171.4 | Fighting animals seen in otherworld. Rams and she-goats or wild boars. *Type 471; *Brown Iwain 71ff.; Irish myth: *Cross; Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "boucs". |
| F961.2.6 | Fighting stars melt iron chariots. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| F610.3.4 | Fighting with berserks. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| F610.3.4.1 | Fighting with twelve berserks. (Cf. F610.3.3.) Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| F515.2.1 | Fingernail that can conceal basin-load of food. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F552.1.2 | Fingers of saint (angel) give light or fire. (Cf. F544.3.2.) *Loomis White Magic 34; Irish myth: *Cross; Jewish: Neuman. |
| F964.1 | Fire bends bough to shape of crozier. (Cf. F979.5.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| F683.1.1 | Fire drops from fingers of warrior whenever he wills it. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F964.3 | Fire from extraordinary fuel. |
| F962.2.4 | Fire from heaven burns and freezes. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| F962.2.3 | Fire from heaven cannot be quenched by water. Jewish: Neuman. |
| F797 | Fire from heaven kills people. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F962.2 | Fire from heaven. *Saintyves Essais de folklore biblique 1ff.; Irish: Plummer cxxxvii, cxxxviii, *Cross; Spanish Exempla: Keller; Jewish: Moreno Esdras, *Neuman. |
| F531.1.10 | Fire giants. Icelandic: Herrmann Saxo II 592. |
| F165.7 | Fire in otherworld dwelling. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F169.7.1 | Fire in otherworld makes one feel colder. S. A. Indian (Toba): Métraux MAFLS XL 42, 45. |
| F964.2 | Fire spares saint's tunic, though wearer is burned. Irish myth: Cross. |
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