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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
E
The Dead
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Marvels
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Ogres
H
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
Q
Rewards and Punishments
R
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 ▲ |
|---|---|
| K1926 | False daughter: accepted as one's resurrected child. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K2012 | False friend causes man to eject his wife. He then seduces her. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K2093 | False guardian betrays refuge of fleeing lovers. Irish myth: Cross. |
| K1013.5 | False hair-restorer injures patient. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| K1963.1 | False magician exposed by clever girl. *BP III 202; Lappish: Qvigstad FFC LX 51 No. 99; Estonian: Aarne FFC XXV 137 No. 103. |
| K929.12 | False message from other world causes man to go on funeral pyre. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| K2132 | False message of love carried to hero and maiden by troublemaker. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| K1976 | False miraculous relic. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K231.6 | False offer to return goods in place of payment. |
| K1889.3 | False Paradise. (The Old Man of the Mountain.) Potion is given to dupes who are led into what they believe is Paradise. They are then forced to rob and kill to regain admittance through death. Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| K1894 | False proof: cloak dipped into water used as evidence of stormy weather. Irish myth: Cross. |
| K1962 | False prophet. *Chauvin V 233 No. 132; Jewish: *Gaster Exempla 191 No. 28, *Neuman; Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| K2127.2 | False queen puts horseflesh in bed of one with child so as to identify her as horse-eating thief. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1015 | False remedy for toothache. |
| K476.4 | False set of rings to offset genuine. Jewels bought with counterfeit money. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K1864.1 | False tidings of another's death in order to secure his bride. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| K1864 | False tidings of one's own death in order to be able to leave without notice. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| K2112.1 | False tokens of woman's unfaithfulness. Tokens are stolen from the woman, or her secret markings are seen by treachery. *Types 882, 892; *Köhler-Bolte I 211f.; bin Gorion Born Judas I 257; *Grünbaum Jüdischdeutsch Chrestomathie 421ff.; *Paris Romania XXXII 481ff.; *Hilka Neuphilologische Mitteilungen (1913) 16ff.; Dunlop-Wilson II 73f.; Chauvin VII 159.—Italian Novella: *Rotunda; India: *Thompson-Balys; Indonesia: DeVries's list No. 311. |
| K2102 | Falsely accused hero sent on dangerous mission. Dickson 178 n. 45. |
| K2101 | Falsely accused minister reinstates himself by his cleverness. *Marc "Die Achikarsage" Studien zur vgl. Literaturgeschichte II 393ff.; *DeVries FFC LXXIII 365ff.; 374ff.; Jewish: *Neuman. |
| K1087 | Falsified message brings about a war. Irish myth: Cross; Welsh: MacCulloch Celtic 191; Icelandic: Herrmann Saxo II 361ff., Boberg. |
| K2129.4 | Family is accused of stinginess by recipients of their hospitality. Tuamotu: Stimson MS (T—G. 3/515). |
| K301.2 | Family of thieves. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| K2061.5 | Famished wolf asks sheep to bring him water: plan detected. Wienert FFC LVI 53 (ET 136), 96 (ST 91); Halm Aesop No. 284; Spanish: Espinosa III No. 216. |
| K864 | Fatal apple-throwing game. Scottish: Campbell-McKay No. 17. |
| K873 | Fatal deception by giving narcotic. Italian: Basile Pentamerone IV 5; India: *Thompson-Balys; Africa (Fang): Einstein 66, (Basuto): Jacottet 16 No. 2. |
| K870 | Fatal deception by narcotic (intoxication). |
| K875 | Fatal deception by pretended combing of victim's hair. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K839 | Fatal deception into trickster's power—miscellaneous. |
| K810 | Fatal deception into trickster's power. |
| K981 | Fatal deception: changed message from oracle. Greek: Fox 108 (Phrixos). |
| K869 | Fatal deceptive game—miscellaneous. |
| K850 | Fatal deceptive game. |
| K867 | Fatal duel: brother kills brother in pretended game. |
| K853 | Fatal game: drowning. American Negro (Virginia): Parsons JAFL XXXV 261. |
| K856 | Fatal game: dying and reviving. Hero has power of resuscitation but fails to revive his enemy. Japanese: Ikeda; Tuamotu: Stimson MS (z-G. 13/116); S. A. Indian (Quiche): Alexander Lat. Am. 175. |
| K865 | Fatal game: putting heads in notches. Scottish: Campbell-McKay No. 17 and note. |
| K866 | Fatal game: rolling down hill on barrel. Dupe crushed. Irish myth: Cross. |
| K861 | Fatal game: sewing each other up. Hare is partly sewed up, but he sews antelope entirely up so that he dies. Africa (Thonga): Junod 212. |
| K858 | Fatal game: shaving necks. Dupe's head cut off. Africa (Benga): Nassau 144 No. 16; West Indies: Flowers 531. |
| K854 | Fatal game: throwing from cliff. Spider throws its young; other animal imitates. N. A. Indian (Pueblo): Parsons JAFL XXXI 227f. |
| K871 | Fatal intoxication. Korean: Zong in-Sob 168 No. 72; Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 441; Africa (Ekoi): Talbot 397; West Indies: Flowers 531. |
| K869.4 | Fatal swimming race. To trick spirits hero proposes a swimming race. As each spirit arrives, hero drowns it. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 441. |
| K855 | Fatal swinging game. Old woman causes swing to break when her rival is swinging. N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 350 n. 262. Cf. Indonesia: DeVries Volksverhalen I 374 No. 44. |
| K1811.4.1 | Fate takes form of Brahmin's pupil in order to lure him to his prophesied death. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1614 | Father delivering daughter to be eaten by cannibal is himself eaten. Africa (Basuto): Jacottet 114 No. 27. |
| K1371.2 | Father tricked into giving away disguised daughter in marriage. Scottish: Campbell-McKay No. 14. |
| K441.3 | Fee from two persons for the same monopoly. Man to furnish goods exclusively to animal. Bargains at same time with another to do the same thing. Africa (Fjort): Dennett 98 No. 26. |
| K1017 | Feeling pulse: doctor severs arteries instead. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1792 | Feigned ignorance about person's identity in order to tell one's frank opinion of him. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| K1792.2 | Feigned ignorance about the whereabouts of hero's weapons and horse in order to keep him as monk. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| K1792.1 | Feigned ignorance of person's identity in order not to reveal king. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| K911.5 | Feigning deafness to lure enemy close and to kill him. Cheremis: Sebeok-Nyerges. |
| K911 | Feigning death to kill enemy. *Type 56B; Wienert FFC LVI *59 (ET 207), 98 (ST 125); Halm Aesop No. 225; Chauvin III 76 No. 50; Herbert III 36ff.; Hervieux IV 220 No. 49.—Icelandic: Boberg; India: *Thompson-Balys; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 1131; N. A. Indian (Klikitat): Jacobs U Wash II 35; Africa (Mpongwe): Nassau 17 No. 1. |
| K1741.1 | Felling the whole forest. Told to bring in a tree, the hero asks, "Why not the whole forest?" The ogre is frightened. *Type 1049; *BP III 333; Spanish: Espinosa III Nos. 163—167; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K832.3 | Female confederate disrobes before hero, who is attacked when he looks away. Irish myth: Cross. |
| K302 | Female master thief. *BP III 36; Chauvin V 245 No. 147; Japanese: Ikeda. |
| K1384 | Female overpowered when caught in tree cleft (hole in hedge). *Type 36; Krohn Bär (Wolf) und Fuchs (JSFO VI) 89ff.; Indonesia: DeVries's list No. 45. |
| K832.2 | Fencer calls opponent's attention to something behind him: when opponent looks around he cuts off his head. Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 311; Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| K547.5 | Ferocious animal (ogre) misunderstands victim's remark: flees in fright. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| K2324.1 | Ferocious animal frightened by ass braying. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| K836 | Ferocious boar fed and put to sleep by rubbing. Killed. (Aper.) *Campbell Sages lxxxii. |
| K236.1 | Fifty ships promised. Forty-nine are moulded out of earth. Greek: Frazer Apollodorus II 179 n. 3. |
| K1427 | Filling the pen. Told to fill locked pen trickster chops up wagon and mules and throws them in. Spanish: Espinosa JAFL XXVII 119f. |
| K95 | Finger-drying contest won by deception. Three daughters are to wet hands; the first to have hands dry is to be the first to marry. The youngest waves her hands, exclaiming, "I don't want a man!" She wins. *Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 14; U.S.: Baughman; North Carolina: Brown Collection I 701; Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K2112.1.1 | Fingers as false token of wife's unfaithfulness. She has substituted a maid and the gallant has cut off the maid's finger. English: Child V 22—7 passim. |
| K341.23 | Fire set in order to distract attention. India: Thompson-Balys; Africa (Duala): Lederbogen JAS IV 65. |
| K336.1 | Fire set to village so that robbers can steal goods. Korean: Zong in-Sob 213 No. 98. |
| K382 | Fire stolen by swallowing it and then escaping. Africa (Upoto): Einstein 145. |
| K2351.1.1 | Fire tied to foxes' tails: destroys enemy's cities and fields. Jewish: Neuman. |
| K176.1 | First to greet the other in morning will lose beauty contest. Dispute is to be settled thus. (Cf. H1529.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K714.8 | Fish enticed into trap (promised new skins). Tuamotu: Stimson MS (z-G. 3/1951). |
| K231.11 | Fish promised in return for bacon. Later: "Drink up the river, you shall then have fish. All the fishes there are mine." Lithuanian: Balys Index No. *1634; Russian: Andrejev No. *2104. |
| K815.14 | Fish tricked by crane into letting selves be carried from one pond to another. The crane eats them when they are in his power. (Cf. K713.1.2.) Bødker Exempler 281 No. 26; Spanish Exempla: Keller; India: *Thompson-Balys; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 260. |
| K815.14.1 | Fish, lured by kind words, are killed by old man. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K119.1.1 | Fishing-rod alleged to take fish to fisherman's home. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| K1432 | Fixing fences: trickster cuts fence down. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1637 | Flattering foreman tricked by his master. He always answers his master's remarks, "I have thought of the same thing too." He falls into the trap when his master says, "I am going to sow salt." Type 1574*. |
| K961.2 | Flesh (vital organs) of certain person alleged to be only cure for disease. India: *Thompson-Balys; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 882; Africa (Temne): Schlenker Collection of Temne Traditions (London, 1861) 87ff. No. 7, (Hausa): Tremearne FL XXII 464ff. No. 50. |
| K961 | Flesh of certain animal alleged to be only cure for disease: animal to be killed. (The sick lion.) *Type 50; *Krohn Bär (Wolf) und Fuchs (JSFO VI) 21ff.; **Graf FFC XXXVIII 20; *Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 494; Wienert FFC LVI 47 (ET 55), 50 (ET 102), 99 (ST 129), 100 (ST *133); Halm Aesop No. 255; Herbert IV 431f.; Chauvin III 78; India: *Thompson-Balys; Africa (Hottentot): Bleek 19 No. 10. |
| K1041.1 | Flight by putting on bird feathers. Dupe falls. Spanish Exempla: Keller; India: Thompson-Balys; N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 295 n. 80. |
| K417.1 | Flower thief eats flowers to escape detection. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K25.1 | Flying contest won by deception: riding on the other. Wren hides in eagle's wings. (Cf. K11.2.) *Type 221. |
| K25 | Flying contest won by deception. |
| K1886.1.1 | Following luminous tree in the desert. *Chauvin V 234 No. 134 n. 2. |
| K1011.1 | Fool deceived into curing headache by removing his eyes. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| K1372.2 | Fool passed off as very eligible young man by matchmaker. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1810.1.1 | Fool wears king's crown. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| K661.1 | Fool's brothers substitute a goat for the body of the man he has killed: thus save him. *Type 1600; *Chauvin VI 126 No. 280; Wesselski Hodscha Nasreddin II 183 No. 347; India: *Thompson-Balys; cf. Indonesia: DeVries's list No. 308, Coster-Wijsman 53 No. 78. |
| K362.1 | For the long winter. The numskull has been told to keep the sausage "for the long winter". When the trickster hears this, he claims to be Long Winter and receives the sausage. *Type 1541; *Fb "tosse" III 832a, "pølse" II 907b; BP I 521, 526; Christensen DF L 46; *Parsons MAFLS XV (1) 194 n. 3; Icelandic: Sveinsson FFC LXXXIII No. 1541. |
| K1917.6 | Forged credentials used to win girl. Theft of gems. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K455.8.1 | Forged letter used to obtain credit, consideration, and entertainment. Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| K1851.1 | Forged letter: god of death replaced by another. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K455.8.2 | Forged testament used to dupe host. Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| K555.2.1 | Formula-tale (Ehod) saves girl from devil. Unsuccessful imitation. (Cf. Z20.) Lithuanian: Balys Legends No. 364. |
| K776.1.1 | Fortress captured as harper puts garrison to sleep with music while besiegers place fingers in ears. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| K2.1 | Fortune to go to direction cat jumps. King will give wealth to person toward whom the cat jumps. Clever woman has brought mouse along and thus entices the cat. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1218.1.4.1 | Four importunate lovers are forced to hide in four-compartmented chest which is sold. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| K934 | Fox as shepherd. A woman in search of a shepherd tries the voices of applicants. The wolf and the bear are rejected, the fox accepted. Type 37*. |
| K652 | Fox climbs from pit on wolf's back. *Type 31; Wienert FFC LVI 52 (ET 119), 97 (ST 117); Halm Aesop No. 45; Jacobs Aesop 220 No. 82; India: *Thompson-Balys; Indonesia, Indo-China: *Dixon 189 n. 9, cf. DeVries's list No. 4. |
| K2055 | Fox confesses sins but is immediately ready to steal again. *Crane Vitry 264 No. 297; *Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 29. |
| K2027 | Fox confesses to cock, then eats him. Herbert III 44, 34. |
| K714.9.1 | Fox deceives lion into entering pit. Jewish: Neuman. |
| K1822.2 | Fox disguised as scholar. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K362.5.1 | Fox drinks the milk of a tiger's mate by giving her a misleading message. S. A. Indian (Chiriguano): Métraux RMLP XXXIII 180. |
| K341.25 | Fox drops goldsmith's child to get him away from gold bench he is working on and thus steal gold. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1022.6 | Fox eats cake: gets brass pot caught on neck. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K443.7 | Fox eats his fellow-lodger: accuses another and demands damages. He spends the night with a cock in a house. He eats the cock but in the morning accuses the sheep of having eaten it. In the next inn likewise he says that the ox has eaten the sheep, etc. In compensation he demands a larger animal each time. Type 170. |
| K828.2 | Fox feigning illness admitted to hen-roost and kills the hens. Herbert III 36; Hervieux IV 221 No. 50; Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| K2061.2 | Fox feigns to be playing with sheep: dog drives him off. Wienert FFC LVI 53 (ET 125), 96 (ST 96); Halm Aesop No. 38. |
| K828.1 | Fox in sheepskin gains admission to fold and kills sheep. *Herbert III 36ff.; Hervieux IV 222 No. 51; Jacobs Aesop 209 No. 39; Wienert FFC LVI 45 (ET 35), 68 (ET 325), 96 (ST 100); Halm Aesop No. 376; Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| K235.1 | Fox is promised chickens: is driven off by dogs. Type 154; *Krohn Mann und Fuchs 11. |
| K1632 | Fox leads ass to lion's den but is himself eaten. When he gets there the ass kicks him so that he falls on the lion's bed. Spanish: Boggs FFC XC 29 No. 50, Espinosa III Nos. 210f.; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| K1715.14 | Fox overawes lion cubs by his boasting and eats their food. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1075 | Fox persuades bear to lie in the haycock and wait for sheep. He sets fire to the hay. (Cf. K1013.2.) Cheremis: Sebeok-Nyerges. |
| K827.1 | Fox persuades bird to show him how she acts in a storm: he devours her. (Bird has advised other bird how to avoid the fox; he is revenged.) *Type 56A; Dh IV 279; Chauvin II 112 No. 81; Bødker Exempler 306 No. 82; Spanish: Espinosa III No. 258f.; Africa (Basuto): Jacottet 36 No. 5, (Hottentot): Bleek 21 No. 11; West Indies: Flowers 529. |
| K815.1 | Fox persuades cock to come down and talk to him. Kills him. Chauvin II 94 No. 44; Bødker Exempler 291 No. 48; Spanish Exempla: Keller; Italian Novella: Rotunda; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| K1251.1.1 | Fox pretends to be guarding the sky and watching the earth. Japanese: Ikeda. |
| K499.10 | Fox pretends to go to work, but goes out to sleep. S. A. Indian (Chiriguano): Métraux RMLP XXXIII 175. |
| K921 | Fox rids himself of fleas. He lets himself sink in water somewhat with a bundle of hay. The fleas gather on the hay-bundle and he dives into the water. Type 63*; *Fb "ræv" III 114a; Russian: Andrejev No. 63; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| K1114 | Fox rings the bell. The bear eats a horse which has a bell tied around its neck. The fox rings the bell and gets blamed. Type 40*; Russian: Andrejev No. 40. |
| K827.4 | Fox shams death and catches crows that come to feed on him. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| K1354.2.3 | Fox sleeps with tiger's wife by giving her deceptive message from her mate. S. A. Indian (Chiriguano): Métraux RMLP XXXIII 180. |
| K1788 | Fox threatens to catch bird, who feeds him her young as appeasement. He threatens to push down tree or to fly. Type 56A; Cheremis: Sebeok-Nyerges. |
| K543.1 | Fox to crocodile who has caught him by the tongue: "Those are the dirty clothes I've been washing!" She lets go. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K815.1.1 | Fox tries to persuade cock to come down and talk to him. Cock calls dog and fox flees. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K2061.10 | Fox's plan detected by crickets: cricket wings in his excrement. Wienert FFC LVI 53 (ET 126), 96 (ST 94, 222); Halm Aesop No. 400. |
| K2323.1 | Fox's tail drops and frightens animals. In war between birds and quadrupeds the fox's lifted tail is to be the signal for the attack. Gnats sting the fox under the tail. He drops it and the quadrupeds flee. *Type 222; BP II 435ff.; Japanese: Ikeda. |
| K728 | Foxes crawl into whale's house and are killed. Koryak: Jochelson JE VI 319; Eskimo (West Hudson Bay): Boas BAM XV 216; N. A. Indian: Boas RBAE XXXI 324. |
| K496 | Foxes persuade man to plant cooked plants. They eat them at night. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| K157 | Fraudulent permission sold. |
| K642 | Free animal saves its captured friend. |
| K1339.1 | Fresh hides spread on grass; girl slips up and is deflowered. Greek: Frazer Apollodorus I 309. |
| K2352.1 | Fresh hides spread so that enemy slips and falls. Herrmann Saxo II 327, 596; Icelandic: Boberg. |
| K1363.2 | Friar adds missing nose (fingers) to unborn child: foetus is imperfect and he will substitute for absent husband. Is praised by the latter on his return. Nouvelles Récréations No. 9; Italian Novella: *Rotunda; West Indies: Flowers 538. |
| K1839.5 | Friar disguises as soldier and steals from concubine. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K2111.3 | Friar refuses to keep promise after enjoying woman and is accused of rape. Castrated. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K1354.3.1 | Friar undertakes to awaken girl. He follows her mother's order according to his own interpretation. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K1526 | Friar's trousers on adulteress's bed: relic to cure sickness. The husband is duped into believing that the friar has come to visit the sick. *Bolte Frey 248; Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| K305.2 | Friends enter into stealing contest. Steal from each other. (Cf. K306.) Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K2010.2 | Friendship feigned to avenge murder. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K335.1.0.1 | Frightened robber leaves his coat behind. Chauvin II 83 No. 5; Bødker Exempler 273 No. 6. |
| K730.2 | Frog causes deer to dance into snare. Indonesia: DeVries's list No. 122. |
| K561.1.2 | Frog escapes after telling crow to sharpen his bill before eating him. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K533.1 | Fugitive disguises successively in different forms and deceives pursuer into self-injury. Chinese: Graham. |
| K646 | Fugitive's confederate misdirects pursuer. Scottish: Campbell-McKay No. 15; Korean: Zong in-Sob 22, 212; N. A. Indian (Klikitat): Jacobs U Wash II 31. |
| K92 | Gambling contest won by deception. N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 354 n. 276. |
| K92.1 | Gambling contest: coin which attracts fly first to win. Winning coin had been rubbed on a pear. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K92.2 | Game won with loaded dice. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K1816.1 | Gardener disguise. *Types 314, 502, 900; *BP I 446. |
| K1023 | Getting honey from the wasp-nest. The dupe is stung. Type 49; Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 1637*; Mexican: Espinosa JAFL XXIV 419ff.; Chinese: Graham; Indonesia: Coster-Wijsman 38 No. 26; N. A. Indian (Menomini): Skinner JAFL XXVI 75; Africa (Basuto): Jacottet 44ff.; American Negro (Georgia): Harris Nights 51 No. 10, 83 No. 16, Remus 135 No. 28, (Virginia): Parsons JAFL XXXV 274. |
| K1911.1.7 | Ghost-ogress pushes bride into hole in tree and takes her place. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K171.0.1 | Giant cheated in division of spoils of the chase. Indonesia: DeVries's list No. 28. |
| K897.2.1 | Giant impales self on javelin fugitive holds behind himself. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1733.1 | Giant persuaded that hero has pushed hole in wall with bare hand. Hole bored before. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K722 | Giant tricked into becoming mouse. Cat eats him up. *Types 545AB; BP I 325ff., III 487; Missouri French: Carrière, India: *Thompson-Balys; Japanese: Ikeda. |
| K912.1 | Giant's (giantess's) head cut off as he (she) looks out. Icelandic: Snorra Edda Skaldsk. II, *Boberg. |
| K1726 | Giantess frightened of leaving cave because of hero's statue in entrance. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| K818.2 | Giantess killed with the spear she herself has given hero. Icelandic: Sturlaugs saga Stárfsama 622, Boberg. |
| K1227.8 | Girl as umpire in suitor test (shooting arrows) escapes. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1218.5 | Girl asks importunate lover for weapon to use against her father. Instead, she uses it to defend herself against the suitor. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K1227.6 | Girl asks undesired lover to follow her but not to step on her shadow. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1227.4 | Girl asks undesired lover to take off his boots. She pulls off one partway and escapes. Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles No. 24; Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K1971.6 | Girl behind the tree advises the unwilling suitor. Believing it to be the advice of angels, he marries her. Type 1461*. |
| K1984.2.1 | Girl claims to have overeaten on a nightingale's thigh. Nouvelles Récréations No. 57. |
| K1516.2 | Girl covers nurse's one good eye so that she cannot see her lover. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K1825.1.1.1 | Girl disguised as doctor exposes queen's paramour who is masquerading as woman. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K1315.6.3 | Girl disguised as friar gets into priest's bed. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K2113.1 | Girl disguised as man accused of infidelity. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| K92.3 | Girl distracts opponent's attention so that gambling lover wins. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K515.2 | Girl escapes by hiding in huge harp. Icelandic: Völsunga saga ch. 45 (43), *Boberg. |
| K536.1 | Girl escapes by making man captor think preparation is being made for wedding. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K525.7 | Girl escapes from ogress by substituting pig. Chinese: Graham. |
| K521.4.1.1 | Girl escapes in male disguise. *Chauvin V 96 No. 31 n. 1; Boccaccio Decameron II No. 9 (Lee 54); Icelandic: Boberg; Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| K2116.1.3 | Girl falsely accused of murdering her lover. Investigation reveals poisonous breath of toad as cause of death. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K2111.6 | Girl falsely accuses bishop. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| K1892.2 | Girl hides lover under clothing upon which she sits. Irish myth: Cross. |
| K1837.4 | Girl in man's clothes avenges her father. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| K1816.0.2 | Girl in menial disguise at lover's court. *Types 511, 870; *Cox passim; *BP III 60, 443; Spanish: Espinosa Jr. Nos. 120—124, Italian: Basile Pentamerone III No. 3, *Rotunda. |
| K872.1 | Girl kills man sleeping with her. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K321.1 | Girl made to carry shell from which ashes fall: she is thus followed. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K551.5 | Girl makes toilet and calls help. When she sees robber under her bed she pretends not to see him and combs her hair at the window. She says, "When I am married my husband will come home from the tavern and seize me by the hair and I shall cry: "Help!" Rescue comes. Type 959*; Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 959B*; Russian: Andrejev No. 959*; Chinese: Graham. |
| K1839.2 | Girl marries lover who thought her dead. On reviving she changes her name and disguises her appearance. Eventually marries her former lover. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K1322 | Girl masked as man wins princess's love. Type 514; BP II 87, III 84; Spanish: Espinosa III No. 155; Italian: Basile Pentamerone IV No. 6; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| K1825.1.4 | Girl masks as doctor to find departed lover. *Type 434; *Köhler-Bolte I 335. |
| K1315.2.1 | Girl persuaded to sit on certain plant: seduced. Man as sham doctor tells her how to heal her burnt groins. N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 305 n. 109q. |
| K1237 | Girl plays at dice with her suitors: locks them up when they are defeated. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1227.5.1 | Girl puts off consummation of marriage to undesirable suitor by saying her "stomach is sick". India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1227.3.1 | Girl refuses to dance with a devil until she is well dressed. The devil brings things till the cock crows. Another girl asks for all the things at once and must dance until she dies. Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 3251, Legends No. 353f., 356—362. |
| K1275.1 | Girl refusing her lover final kiss provokes rival to admit selling kisses. Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles No. 8; Italian: Basile Pentamerone V 4. |
| K2125.1 | Girl reported possessed of demon: suitors frightened away. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1227.7 | Girl says she has made vow not to marry until pilgrimage is made. Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles No. 26. |
| K1344.1 | Girl seduced from beneath ground. S. A. Indian (Uru-Chipaya): Métraux RMLP XXXIII 109. |
| K492 | Girl serves her father with piece of her own flesh in place of chicken. Spanish: Boggs FFC XC 125 No. 1374B; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1358 | Girl shows herself naked in return for youth's dancing hogs. *Type 850; *BP II 528; Köhler-Bolte I 428f., 464; Spanish: Espinosa II Nos 5—8, Espinosa Jr. No. 131. |
| K514.1 | Girl substituted for boy to avoid slaughter by father. Hindu: Keith 171. |
| K1611.3 | Girl takes place of impostor in marriage bed; impostor's mother beats her, thinking she is heroine. Chinese: Graham. |
| K1227.4.1 | Girl tells physician-seducer she cannot meet his wishes until after he bathes. Prepares the bath herself and pours acid into it. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K434.3 | Girl tells the thief money is in chest. When he looks in chest, girl drops lid on him. Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 959C*. |
| K551.3.6.1 | Girl to dance for robbers asks to bring her party (strong men in disguise) who overcome robbers. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| K1339.5 | Girl tricked by use of drugs. Subsequent pregnancy used to force her into marrying seducer. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K1330 | Girl tricked into man's room (or power). |
| K1339 | Girl tricked into man's room (power)— miscellaneous. |
| K1275 | Girl who cannot keep silent thereby provokes her rival to admit unchastity. *Type 886; *von der Hagen II v, vi, 3, 19 Nos. 21, 22; *Bolte Montanus's Wegkürzer 558 No. 1; Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| K2052.2 | Girl who is frightened by love becomes insatiable. Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| K1771.6 | Girl's sham threat in order to evade husband till lover returns. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| K1984 | Girls keep up appearances to deceive suitors as to their desirability. Type 1459**; North Carolina: Brown Collection I 702; Japanese: Ikeda. |
| K362.10 | Give him what he wants. (Cf. K437.5, K1354.1.) Thief sent to man's house for water, demands money. Man's wife refuses and thief shouts to the husband who replies, "Give him what he wants." India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| K2112.5.2 | Giving madman food causes woman to be falsely accused. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| K521.8 | Goat escapes from jackal by being covered with flowers. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K334.2 | Goat induces the camel to talk and meanwhile eats all the food. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1723 | Goat pretends to be chewing rock. Frightens wolf. American Negro (Georgia): Harris Friends 112 No. 14. |
| K1767 | Goat singing a threatening song bought off with food and jewels. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K547.7 | Goat trembles so hard from fear of tiger that shaking of his beard frightens tiger away. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K499.6 | God cheats birds by giving false description of tamarind fruit. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K42.2.1 | God cheats devil at mowing. God mows with a chisel, the devil with a scythe. God deceives devil into changing scythe for chisel. Lithuanian: Balys Legends No. 138. |
| K219.3 | God cheats the devil of his promised soul. The devil is to fill a cask full of money. God knocks the bottom out of the cask. Spanish: Boggs FFC XC 91 No. 773B. |
| K1811.3 | God disguised as doctor cures mortal. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1816.0.1 | God disguised as menial. Icelandic: MacCulloch Eddic 85; Greek: *Frazer Apollodorus I 390 n. 1. |
| K551.22.2 | God grants man twenty years more of life provided he plays no tricks. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1094.1 | God persuades hero to substitute a false bride for his father; this results in a fight where the son kills the father. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| K445.1 | God to reveal self to those of legitimate birth. All afraid to admit not seeing God. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1578 | God Vishnu in shape of nephew scares and torments his aunt's lover. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1093 | Goddess arouses heroes' jealousy and eternal fighting. Icelandic: MacCulloch Eddic 123, Herrmann Saxo II 361ff., Boberg. |
| K1811.0.2 | Goddess in disguise visits earth and is waylaid by thieves. They set her free after she promises to tell them the fate of the new-born prince. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1811 | Gods (saints) in disguise visit mortals. *Types 330A, 750A, 751, 752A, 753, 768, 785, 791; *BP II 210, III 198, 451; *Dh II 129; *Rohde Der Griechische Roman 451 n.; Fb "Sankt Peder" III 164a; United States (Mormon): **Lee, Hector, "The Three Nephites: the Substance and Significance of the Legend in Folklore" (Albuquerque, 1949), "The Three Nephites: a Disappearing Legend" Am. Notes and Queries II 35—38, Hand, "The Three Nephites" Am. Notes and Queries II 56—57, Fife, "The Legend of the Three Nephites among the Mormons" JAFL LIII 1—49; Irish: O'Suilleabhain 22, Beal XXI 307, *Cross; Icelandic: MacCulloch Eddic 80, *Boberg; Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "Pierre"; Spanish Exempla: Keller; Italian Novella: Rotunda; Greek: Fox 200, Grote I 36, 63, 88, 103, 160; Jewish: *Neuman, *bin Gorion Born Judas I 176f., 374; India: *Thompson-Balys; Hindu: Tawney I 370; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 19, 318, 473, 477, 648, 840, II 471, 504, 519, 572, 602, 1079, 1182, 1258, 1353, 1366; Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 1f., 169; Japanese: Ikeda; Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 69; S. A. Indian (Inca): Rowe BBAE CXLIII (2) 316, (Chamacoso): Métraux MAFLS XL 28, (Huaroichiri): ibid. 158; Africa (Ekoi): Talbot 177; West Indies: Flowers 545. |
| K1811.1 | Gods (spirits) disguised as beggars. Test hospitality. Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 770*, 930A*; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| K2371.2 | Gods tricked into help in escaping one's fate. *Penzer VI 92 n. 2, IX 25 n. 1; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| K341.7.3 | Golden deer sent to entice girl's guardians away, so she can be abducted. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K231.3.2 | Golden lamb promised to goddess. Common lamb sacrificed. Greek: Fox 120 (Atreus). |
| K419.7 | Goldsmith as thief in king's treasury. Makes golden human figure and says it is a corpse. Gets by guards. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K254 | Goods misappropriated. |
| K233.7 | Goods received on partial payment. Buyer refuses to pay more. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K331 | Goods stolen while owner sleeps. Missouri French: Carrière; India: Thompson-Balys; Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 350; Cook Islands: Beckwith Myth 270; West Indies: Flowers 503. |
| K956.1 | Gradual murder by piecemeal destruction of separable soul. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K405.1 | Grain-thief's wagon falls into ditch: duped owner helps him. The thief makes the owner believe that the grain belongs to the thief. Type 1564*. |
| K2175 | Grandmother causes grandchildren to be whipped: puts dirt and hairs into cooking pot by stealth and sand in the water they draw. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K455.7 | Greatest liar to get his supper free. Wager. Each lie is corroborated by a confederate, who poses as a newly arrived stranger. *BP II 509; Japanese: Ikeda. |
| K147.1 | Green plantains sold as matured plants. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1844.3 | Groom deceives bride with substituted bedmate and hides self in order to learn the secret she has promised to tell. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| K873.2 | Groom murdered, while watchmen and bride are brought to sleep by music. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| K341.11.1 | Guard (owner) sent to see a cat which fishes for her master. Goods stolen in his absence. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K335.1.7 | Guardian beast overcome by hero's mirrors. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K629.2 | Guardian enticed away. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1413 | Guarding the door. It is lifted off and carried away. *Types 1009, 1653A; Penzer V 117 n.; Clouston Noodles 97; Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 1014A*. |
| K331.2.2 | Guards fatigued by trickster so that they sleep while goods are stolen. Africa (Kaffir): Theal 179. |
| K216.2.1 | Guessing name of devil's secret plant. The man's wife in tar and feathers overhears the devil tell the secret name of the crop he has discovered (tobacco). The devil says to the supposed animal, "Get out of my tobacco!" Dh I 194; *BP I 411, III 358. |
| K1396 | Guest at inn is told that there is but one available bed: that of the mistress. Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles No. 7; Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K1611.2 | Guest to be killed suspects plot and forces host to sleep in his bed. Brothers come home and kill their father. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| K1533 | Gullible husband behind the tree. (Tristan and Isolt.) Husband goes to wife's love tryst and hides behind a tree. The wife, having learned of his presence, tells lover that he should not allow their innocent relations to lead to gossip. Husband is appeased. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
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