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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 |
|---|---|
| K1325.1 | Seduction by feigned sleep. The guest in the conjugal bed feigns sleep as he effects seduction. Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| K1326 | Seduction by feigned illness. S. A. Indian (Toba): Métraux MAFLS XL 147; West Indies: Flowers 536f. |
| K1326.1 | Seduction by asking for sham cure for sham illness. Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles No. 95; Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| K1327 | Seduction by feigned stupidity. Cautious farmer seeks laborer who knows nothing about sex. Trickster makes silly explanation of copulation of animals. When admitted into service, seduces both farmer's wife and daughter. Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 2907*; Estonian: Aarne FFC XXV No. 1544*; Russian: Andrejev No. 1544A*. |
| K1328 | Disguise as animal to seduce woman. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1330 | Girl tricked into man's room (or power). |
| K1331 | "No!" The princess must answer all questions by "No". By clever framing of his question the hero wins her to his desires. *Types 851, 853; BP I 192; **Kristoffer Nyrop Nej: et motivs historie (København, 1891); Dania V 1ff., 164ff., 166; *Toldo Zs. f. Vksk. XV 69 n. 2. |
| K1332 | Seduction by taking aboard ship to inspect wares. *Type 516; **Rosch FFC LXXVII 103; Köhler-Bolte I 464; *Hdwb. d. Märchens I 551a nn. 221—295; Panzer Hilde-Gudrun 268ff.; *Schoepperle I 193 n. 1; Italian: Basile Pentamerone IV No. 9; India: Thompson-Balys. Cf. bin Gorion Born Judas I 187. |
| K1332.1 | Seduction by scattering jewels. Girl seized when she tries to take jewels. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1332.2 | Seduction by enticing woman to inspect wares in tent. Jewish: Neuman. |
| K1332.3 | Seduction by promise of jewels. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| K1333 | Seduction by having maiden placed in floating chest. *Hertel Zs. f. Vksk. XIX 83ff.; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1334 | Seduction (or wooing) on an aerial journey. Jones PMLA XXIII 563. |
| K1335 | Seduction (or wooing) by stealing clothes of bathing girl (swan maiden). *Types 313, 400; Penzer VIII 58 n. 2, 213ff., IX 20 n. 1; Hdwb. d. Märchens I 433b. nn. 92—105; Irish myth: *Cross; India: *Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Graham; Japanese: Ikeda; Korean: Zong in-Sob 22 No. 11; Philippine (Tinguian): Cole 109. See all notes to D361.1. |
| K1336 | Magic helper brings girl to hero's bed. *Chauvin V 62 No. 19 n. 1. |
| K1339 | Girl tricked into man's room (power)— miscellaneous. |
| K1339.1 | Fresh hides spread on grass; girl slips up and is deflowered. Greek: Frazer Apollodorus I 309. |
| K1339.2 | Woman enticed to upper world on a stretching tree. N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 332 n. 200. |
| K1339.2.1 | Seduction by luring woman to platform to look for distant ship. Tonga: Gifford 29, 46. |
| K1339.3 | Woman enticed into man's room by feigned illness. Heptameron No. 10; Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K1339.4 | Seduction by sham beauty test. Trickster dupes two girls into submitting to test. Both seduced. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K1339.5 | Girl tricked by use of drugs. Subsequent pregnancy used to force her into marrying seducer. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K1339.6 | Seduction by priest who insists on woman having confession in his own house. Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 2917*. |
| K1339.7 | Trickster agrees to carry old woman and girl across stream: carries girl across and rides off with her leaving old woman on other side. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| K1339.8 | Leak in roof over woman's bed: in rain must go to bed with trickster. N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 305 n. 109s; S. A. Indian (Tenibé): Métraux RMLP XXXIII 140. |
| K1340 | Entrance into girl's (man's) room (bed) by trick. |
| K1341 | Entrance to woman's room in hollow artificial animal. |
| K1341.1 | Entrance to woman's room in golden ram. Princess's curiosity aroused and the golden ram carried into the room. The youth is concealed inside. *Types 854, 900; *BP I 443ff., 446 n. 2; *Krappe Balor 12 n. 41; Köhler-Bolte Zs. f. Vksk. VI 166 (to Gonzenbach No. 68, cf. No. 23); Rösch FFC LXXVII 109; Philippson FFC L 30. -Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 860*; Italian Novella: *Rotunda; N. A. Indian: Thompson CColl II 428. |
| K1342 | Entrance into woman's (man's) room by hiding in chest. *Type 882; Köhler-Bolte I 211f.; Fb "kiste" II 134; Boccaccio Decameron II No. 9 (Lee 57); Italian Novella: *Rotunda; India: Thompson-Balys. Cf. Shakespeare's Cymbeline. |
| K1342.0.1 | Man carried into woman's room hidden in basket. (Cf. K1343.1.) *Spargo Virgil the Necromancer 139, 370 n. 7; English: Wells 140 (Floris and Blauncheflur); Icelandic: Boberg. |
| K1342.0.2 | Entrance into woman's room in lamp stand. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1342.1 | Heroine in hiding-box which is bought by prince. *Cox 489. |
| K1342.1.1 | Man in magic hiding box bought by girl's father. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1343 | Man drawn up into female apartments on rope. *Spargo Virgil the Necromancer 139, 369 n. 6; Penzer V 24. |
| K1343.1 | Man drawn up into female apartments in basket. (Cf. K1342.0.1.) *Spargo Virgil the Necromancer 136ff., 368ff.; Penzer V 147 n. 1; Spanish Exempla: Keller; Italian Novella: Rotunda; India: Thompson-Balys; all references to K1211. |
| K1343.2 | Man disguised as woman carried into princess's room: marries her. (Cf. K1321.1.) Korean: Zong in-Sob 126 No. 60. |
| K1344 | Tunnel entrance to guarded maiden's chamber. Icelandic: Boberg; Italian: Basile Pentamerone II No. 2; Italian Novella: Rotunda; India: *Thompson-Balys; S. A. Indian (Chiriguano): Métraux RMLP XXXIII 142, MAFLS XL 159. |
| K1344.1 | Girl seduced from beneath ground. S. A. Indian (Uru-Chipaya): Métraux RMLP XXXIII 109. |
| K1345 | Tale of the cradle. Two youths pass the night with a family where all sleep in a common room, with a cradle at the foot of one of the beds. The moving of the cradle in the night confuses those walking about so that the strangers sleep with the wife and the daughter. Type 1363; *Robinson Complete Works of Chaucer 790a (Reeves Tale); *Varnhagen "Die Erzählung von der Wiege" Englische Studien IX 240; Bédier Fabliaux 463; von der Hagen III *xix, 37ff.; Boccaccio Decameron IX No. 6 (Lee 281); Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| K1346 | Hero flies to maiden's room. Enters her tower by means of artificial wings (or on flying horse). *Type 575; BP II 134 n. 1; *Krappe Balor 11 n. 40; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| K1346.1 | Hero flies on magic carpet to maiden's room. Africa (Kordofan): Frobenius Atlantis IV 101ff. No. 11. |
| K1347 | Man is ushered into maiden's room by maidservant. He then takes the latter's place in the mistress's bed. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K1348 | Lover gets into maiden's room by means of a ladder. Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| K1349 | Other means of entering into girl's (man's) room (bed). |
| K1349.1 | Disguise to enter girl's (man's) room. (Cf. K1310—1329, passim.) |
| K1349.1.1 | Lover disguised as porter gains access to princess's room. (Cf. K1816.7.) Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K1349.1.2 | Disguise as madman to enter girl's room. (Cf. K1818.3.) Italian Novella: *Rotunda; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1349.1.3 | Trickster gains access to woman's room disguised as peddler. (Cf. K1817.4.) Italian Novella: Rotunda; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| K1349.1.4 | Man disguised as groom enters mistress's room. Heptameron No. 26. |
| K1349.1.5 | Man feigns sick in order to enter room of princess skilled in healing, and woos her for his friend. (Cf. K1818, T51.1.1.) Icelandic: Boberg. |
| K1349.2 | Trickster gains access to woman's room by pretending he has news of her absent lover. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K1349.3 | Access gained by the aid of rival's mule. Man tries in vain to learn the identity of his friend's mistress. Mounts his friend's mule, which takes him to the secret rendezvous. Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles No. 31; Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| K1349.4 | Lover visits guarded maiden while harper puts mother to sleep. Irish myth: *Cross; Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K1349.5 | Access for seduction gained by removing locks. Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| K1349.6 | Lover gets self carried into beloved's house to wait for clean clothes after a purposeful fall in mud. Heptameron No. 42. |
| K1349.7 | Man burns down own neighboring house to gain access to bedroom of beloved. Heptameron No. 26. |
| K1349.8 | Entrance into woman's room through concealed door. Heptameron No. 2, 4. |
| K1349.9 | Trickster pretends to seek lost ball by woman's bed: seduces her. N. A. Indian (California): Gayton and Newman 81. |
| K1349.10 | Admission to woman's room by means of cap of invisibility. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1350 | Woman persuaded (or wooed) by trick. |
| K1351 | The weeping bitch. A procuress throws pepper into the eyes of a bitch so that she weeps. She pretends to the virtuous woman that the bitch is a woman transformed because of failure to respond to her lover. The woman is persuaded. *Type 1515; *Chauvin VIII 45 No. 13; *Oesterley No. 28; *Crane Vitry 239 No. 251; Elsner Untersuchungen zu den mittelenglischen Fabliau "Dame Siriz"; Fb "hund" IV 227b; *von der Hagen I cxii; Scala Celi 87a No. 510; *Penzer I 169; *Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 873; Alphabet No. 537; Hdwb. d. Märchens I 95a; *Krappe Bulletin Hispanique XXXIX 38; Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| K1353 | Woman deceived into sacrificing honor. Ruler promises to release her brother (husband) but afterward refuses to do so. *Bolte Zs. f. Vksk. XII 65; Spanish Exempla: Keller; Italian Novella: *Rotunda; Jewish: bin Gorion Born Judas I 107, 366, Neuman. |
| K1353.1 | Trickster offers food for woman's favors which will completely satisfy him. He refuses payment on grounds that he is not satisfied. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1354 | Seduction by bearing false order from husband or father. |
| K1354.1 | "Both?" The youth is sent to the house to get two articles. He meets the two daughters and calls back to the master. "Both?" "Yes, I said both!" replies the master. The youth has his will of both daughters. *Type 1563; Chauvin VI 180 No. 342; Bolte Montanus Gartengesellschaft 611 No. 73; Köhler-Bolte I 150, 291; N. A. Indian: Thompson CColl II 420ff.; Cape Verde Islands: Parsons MAFLS XV (1) 115. |
| K1354.1.1 | Trickster masking as girl's father advises intercourse with trickster. She obeys. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1354.2 | Seduction by bringing false order from husband. Jewish: Gaster Exempla 220 No. 159, *Neuman. |
| K1354.2.1 | Trickster asks husband for one thing and the wife for another. The husband's order: "Let him have what he wants." Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K1354.2.2 | Trickster friar seduces woman under pretence of administering forgotten sacrament. When the woman objects, the husband who thinks the friar is engaging in a legitimate process, orders: "Bear the ordeal in peace." Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| 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. |
| K1354.3 | Seduction by bearing false order from mother. |
| K1354.3.1 | Friar undertakes to awaken girl. He follows her mother's order according to his own interpretation. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K1354.3.2 | Trickster masking as bridegroom tells bride that he comes at her mother's request. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K1354.4 | Seduction by bearing false order from lover. Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles No. 31. |
| K1355 | Altered letter of execution gives princess to hero. On his way robbers steal the letter and change it so that instead of being killed he is married to the princess. *Type 930; **Aarne FFC XXIII; *BP I 276ff.; *Chauvin VIII 145 No. 145ABC; Alphabet No. 593; Herrmann Saxo II 287; Spanish: Espinosa Jr. No. 116. |
| K1357 | Lover's gift regained. The husband appears before payment can be made to wife. *Type 1731; **Spargo FFC XCI 50ff.; Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 2913*. |
| 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. |
| K1361 | Beggar buys right to sleep before the girl's door, at foot of bed, in the bed. Usually with jewel. *Type 900; *Fb "sove" III 472b, "seng" III 187a; West Indies: Flowers 537f. |
| K1361.1 | Transformed person sleeps before girl's door, at foot of bed, in the bed. Is disenchanted upon admission to the bed. *Type 440; *BP I 1ff. |
| K1361.2 | Progressive purchase of favors: the anatomical progression. Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 2916*; Cheremis: Sebeok-Nyerges; Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K1361.3 | Seduction by begging into woman's room to get warm. (Cf. K1393.) Korean: Zong in-Sob 13 No. 6. |
| K1362 | Innocent girl sells her "love" and later receives it back. When she tells her mother what has happened, she is beaten. Thinking to right matters, she demands that the knight return what he has taken. (Sequel: K1275.) Type 886; *von der Hagen II v, vi, 3, 19 Nos. 21, 22; Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K1363 | Seduction of person ignorant of sexual intercourse. |
| K1363.1 | Putting the Devil in Hell. Obscene trick used to seduce woman. Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| K1363.1.1 | Putting the Devil in hand. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| 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. |
| K1364 | Woman abducted by giving her medicine which appears to have killed her. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1366 | Second daughter won by representing first as dead. Irish myth: Cross. |
| K1367 | Monk persuades a father to set daughter afloat in box: monk seduces her. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1368 | Seduction by making woman jealous of co-wife. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1371 | Bride-stealing. *Hdwb. d. Märchens I 549a nn. 175-204; Icelandic: *Boberg; Missouri French: Carrière; Jewish: *Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| K1371.1 | Lover steals bride from wedding with unwelcome suitor. *Type 885; Child IV 218, 230, V 260f.; Hdwb. d. Märchens I 549b nn. 205-215; *Boje 110ff.; literary treatment: Scott "Lochinvar", Ibsen "Peer Gynt"; Icelandic: *Boberg; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1371.1.1 | Parson deceived into marrying his intended bride to her real lover. The parson thinks it is a mock-wedding, but it turns out to be real. Danish: Grundtvig MS No. 162 in Dansk Folkemindesamling. |
| K1371.1.2 | Lover's foster brother (friend) steals bride from wedding with unwelcome suitor. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| K1371.2 | Father tricked into giving away disguised daughter in marriage. Scottish: Campbell-McKay No. 14. |
| K1371.3 | Rat changes name and wins wife intended for leopard. Africa (Mpongwe): Nassau 41ff. N. 6. |
| K1371.4 | Lover in disguise abducts beloved. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| K1371.4.1 | Lover masks as king, knight. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| K1371.4.2 | Lover masks as minstrel. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1371.5 | Man gets bridegroom drunk and enjoys the bride. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 424. |
| K1371.6 | While chief is performing suitor task, rival steals the bride. Easter Island: Métraux Ethnology 57. |
| K1372 | Woman engaged to marry by trick. (Cf. K1371.2, K1377, K1771.9.) Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| K1372.1 | Princess tricked into engaging herself to suitor rejected by her father. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| K1372.2 | Fool passed off as very eligible young man by matchmaker. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1375 | Seduction by alleged vision promising woman to man. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| K1375.1 | Seduction of wife by alleging that husband's vision compels him to leave home. Jewish: Neuman. |
| K1377 | Incestuous marriage arranged by trick. India: Thompson-Balys; N. A. Indian: **Schmerler JAFL XLIV 196-207. |
| K1380 | Seductions—miscellaneous. |
| K1382 | Trickster pretends lameness and is taken on woman's back: violates her. Indonesia: Coster-Wijsman 47 No. 58; N. A. Indian: **Schmerler JAFL XLIV 200; Africa (Yoruba): Ellis 270 No. 5. |
| K1383 | Trickster throws corpse into river and accuses princess of murder: marriage to avoid scandal. *Type 1655; *BP II 201; Norwegian: Christiansen Norske Eventyr 141 No. 1655. |
| 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. |
| K1386 | Man won over by woman's obscene trick. Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| K1387 | Lecherous trickster seduces women from tree and loses them. N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 331 n. 195. |
| K1388 | Trickster sends letter ordering bearer detained and meanwhile steals bearer's wife. Spanish: Boggs FFC XC 150 No. 1850, Keller. |
| K1388.1 | Husband persuaded to dig up a treasure buried in an ant hill. He is poisoned by a snake and his wife taken. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1391 | Long distance sexual intercourse. Trickster by magic has intercourse with woman across stream. N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 305 n. 109u. |
| K1392 | Trickster and girls play obscene tricks on one another. N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 306 n. 109w. |
| K1393 | Woman seduces boy by feigning illness (chill, etc.) Italian Novella: Rotunda; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 887. |
| K1394 | Man coveting his friend's wife causes her to leave her husband. Friend mutually agree to beat wives. Trickster only pretends to do so while other beats his and angers her. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1395 | Seduction by giving aphrodisiac. Woman tricked into standing naked in stream; medicine put into water. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| 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. |
| K1397 | Lucretia seduced through threat. Sextus says he will kill her and leave a naked slave in her bed to bring dishonor on her house. She yields. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| K1398 | The trickster with painted member. The father wants his daughter's child to be a bishop. Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 2914*; Livonian: Loorits FFC LXVI No. 1547*. |
| K1399 | Additional seductions. |
| K1399.1 | The taming of the wild prince. Lost in the woods the little prince grows up among wild animals; lets no one come near him. Only a servant girl succeeds in taming him. Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 877*. |
| K1399.2 | The unusual names. Assuming unusual names, the servant deceives the girl, her mother, and her father. *Type 1732*; Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 2908; Spanish: Boggs FFC XC No. 1940B*. |
| K1399.3 | Seduction: trickster shows girl how to store up warmth for winter. Cheremis: Sebeok-Nyerges. |
| K1399.4 | Woman secures man's spear (arrow), lures him with it into her hut. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 47f.; Maori: Clark 4. |
| K1399.5 | Teacher seduces pupil left in his charge. Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 1038. |
| K1400 | Dupe's property destroyed. Type 1002. |
| K1410 | Dupe's goods destroyed. West Indies: Flowers 539. |
| K1411 | Plowing the field: horse and harness destroyed. The youth is told to come home from plowing when the dog does. He beats the dog so that it runs home; then he destroys the horse and harness and goes home. *Types 650, 1003; BP II 285ff.; Spanish: Espinosa III Nos. 163—7; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| K1412 | Lighting the road (or painting the house red). The house set on fire. Type 1008; Japanese: Ikeda. |
| 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*. |
| K1414 | Take care of the stopper! The son puts the stopper into his pocket, and all the tar (beer) runs out. Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 1706*. |
| K1415 | Repairing the house. House or furniture destroyed. *Type 1010. |
| K1416 | Tearing up the orchard (vineyard). Rascal has been told to cut wood. *Type 1011; Köhler-Bolte I 327; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| K1417 | Closing the door tight: with iron nails. Type 1014. |
| K1418 | Whetting the knife: the whole blade whetted away. *Type 1015. |
| K1421 | Clearing land: axe broken. *Types 650, 1050; BP II 285ff. |
| K1422 | Threshing grain: granary roof used as threshing flail. *Types 650, 1031; BP II 285ff., *293; Fb "tærske" III 927b; N. A. Indian: Thompson CColl II 436. |
| K1423 | Mowing grass: the meadow torn up. Type 1203*. |
| K1424 | Clearing out manure: digs hole. Type 1035*; Russian: Andrejev No. 1035. |
| K1424.1 | Cleaning out manure: piles it high. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1425 | Covering the whole wagon with tar. Type 1017. |
| K1427 | Filling the pen. Told to fill locked pen trickster chops up wagon and mules and throws them in. Spanish: Espinosa JAFL XXVII 119f. |
| K1428 | Sowing grain: does so in unplowed field. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1431 | Trickster saws legs of table so that it collapses. *Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 658. |
| K1432 | Fixing fences: trickster cuts fence down. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1433 | Twisting twine: trickster cuts it. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1440 | Dupe's animals destroyed or maimed. Type 1007; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1441 | Building a bridge of cattle. Ordered to build a bridge not of wood, stone, iron, or earth, the trickster uses the carcasses of cattle. *Type 1005. |
| K1442 | Casting eyes: animal's eyes. Ordered to cast eyes on this or that, the trickster kills animals and casts their eyes at the object. *Type 1006; Irish myth: Cross; Spanish: Espinosa III Nos. 181-8; India: Thompson-Balys. Cf. Type 1685. |
| K1443 | Cleaning the horse. Washing him in boiling water or currying him with a razor. Type 1016; Fb "hest" IV 211b. |
| K1444 | Horse's intestine fastened to stone. Horse twists intestines out of himself. *Fb "tarm" III 776a. |
| K1445 | Making sheep laugh and dance. Told to bring in sheep laughing and dancing, trickster cuts off their upper lips and breaks their legs. Meson JAFL XXXV 45. |
| K1446 | To drive cattle to jungle: trickster kills a bull every day. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1447 | Tying the cattle: trickster ties them so tightly they are strangled. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1451 | Watching the goats: "Hit them if they wander." Trickster kills them. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1456 | Trickster exchanges master's tame horse for vicious bullock. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1460 | Members of dupe's family killed. |
| K1461 | Caring for the child: child killed. Finnish: Kalevala rune 31; S. A. Indian (Mataco): Métraux MAFLS XL 133. |
| K1461.1 | Cleaning the child. Intestines taken out and cleaned. Type 1012; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1461.2 | Child taken to defecate over ant hole. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1461.3 | Cleaning the children. Impales them. Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 1013A*; Russian: Andrejev No. 1012 I. |
| K1462 | Washing the grandmother—in boiling water. *Type 1013; Spanish: Espinosa III Nos. 181—8; India: *Thompson-Balys; New Britain: Dixon 122. |
| K1462.1 | To heat water for master's bath. Servant pours boiling water on him. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1462.2 | To cover house with straw: suffocates mother under straw. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1464 | Trickster deceives dupe into killing his own children. Chinese: Graham. |
| K1465 | Blinded slave's revenge. Threatens to jump from tower with lord's children unless lord blinds himself. Lord does so but slave jumps with children nevertheless. Wesselski Theorie 16; *Krappe Archiv f. d. Studium d. neueren Sprachen CLX 162ff. |
| K1466 | Master's mother killed: wood heaved on her head. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1500 | Deception connected with adultery. |
| K1501 | Cuckold. Husband deceived by adulterous wife. Irish myth: Cross. |
| K1501.1 | Solomon as cuckold. *Wesselski Märchen 197. |
| K1501.2 | Cuckold feigns to be asleep when paramour calls. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K1510 | Adulteress outwits husband. *Penzer V 106 n. 1; *Bolte Frey 223f. No. 21; *Hollander MLN XXVII 71; Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: Boberg; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1510.1 | Adulteress kills home-coming husband. Greek: Fox 134 (Clytemnestra). |
| K1510.2 | Wife of philanderer gets revenge by having an affair herself. Heptameron No. 15. |
| K1511 | The husband locked out. An adulteress returns home late at night and her husband refuses to admit her. She threatens to throw herself into the well. The husband goes after her. She enters the house and bars him out. *Type 1377; *Basset 1001 Contes II 128; *Wesselski Hodscha Nasreddin II 185 No. 350; *Campbell Sages xc (Puteus); Chauvin VIII 184 No. 224, IX 23; Alphabet No. 538; Hdwb. d. Märchens I 95b; Dunlop-Wilson II 111f.; Boccaccio Decameron VII No. 4; Spanish Exempla: Keller; Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| K1511.1 | Adulteress refuses to admit husband under pretence that he is a stranger. *Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 678; Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles No. 1. |
| K1512 | The cut-off nose. (Lai of the Tresses.) A woman leaves her husband's bed and has another woman take her place. The husband addresses her, gets no answer and cuts off her nose (hair). In the morning the wife still has her nose (hair). The husband is made to believe that it has grown back by a miracle (or that he was dreaming). *Type 1417; Bédier Fabliaux 228ff.; Chauvin VI 100 No. 267; *Penzer V 47 n. 3, 223ff., VI 271; Mensa Philosophica No. 40; Boccaccio Decameron VIII No. 8 (Lee 222); Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles No. 38; Bødker Exempler 280 No. 24; Spanish Exempla: Keller; Italian Novella: *Rotunda; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| K1512.1 | Cut-off finger proves wife's chastity. A chaste wife substitutes a maidservant for seducer. A finger and ring are cut off as proof of wife's unfaithfulness (chastity wager with husband). Refuted by husband, who knows they are not his wife's. Cf. Type 882; Köhler-Bolte I 375; Child V 497 s.v. "Substitution"; Wesselski Märchen 213 No. 19; Irish myth: Cross; Welsh: MacCulloch Celtic 110. |
| K1513 | The wife's equivocal oath. A husband insists that his wife take oath that she has been intimate with no one but himself. The paramour masks as ass-driver. She hires an ass from him, falls down, and lets him pick her up. She then swears that no one has touched her except her husband and the ass-driver. *Type 1418; *Basset 1001 Contes II 4; **J. J. Meyer Isoldes Gottesurteil in seiner erotischen Beziehung (Berlin, 1914); *Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 206; Rohde Der griechische Roman 484; BP IV 154, 387f.; Hdwb. d. Abergl. II 669; *Schoepperle I 225f.; Hertel Zs. f. Vksk. XVIII 385. —Icelandic: Boberg; Italian Novella: *Rotunda; India: *Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Chavannes 500 Contes I 387 No. 116. |
| K1514 | Adulteress gets rid of husband while she entertains lover. Icelandic: Boberg; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1514.1 | The husband in the chicken house. The husband returns unexpectedly and surprises his wife with her lover. She makes the husband believe he is pursued and hides him in the chicken house. (Cf. K1514.9.) *Type 1419A; **Schofield Sources and History of the 7th Novel of the 7th Day in the Decameron (Harvard Studies and Notes II); Bédier Fabliaux 450; Boccaccio Decameron III No. 4 (Lee 213); Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles No. 88; Italian Novella: *Rotunda; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1514.2 | Husband duped into doing penance while rascal enjoys the wife. Boccaccio Decameron III No. 4 (Lee 75); Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| K1514.3 | Husband duped into believing he is in purgatory. Boccaccio Decameron III No. 4 (Lee 91); Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| K1514.4 | Returning husband beaten by servants. Mistaken for lover whom he has told them to beat. Von der Hagen II xiii No. 27. |
| K1514.4.1 | Husband beaten by paramour. Husband, dressed in wife's clothing, is beaten by forewarned paramour. The latter says that he is testing the wife's fidelity to her husband. Spanish: Childers; Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| K1514.4.2 | Husband hides in curtain to catch paramour. On entering, paramour threatens to kill husband if he should appear. Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles No. 4. |
| K1514.4.2.1 | Cuckold husband hides under bed. Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles No. 4. |
| K1514.5 | Husband hides in chest to catch paramour. (Cf. K1566.) Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles No. 27; Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| K1514.6 | Adulteress locks up hidden husband and meets lovers. Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| K1514.7 | Wife has hiding husband carried off in basket by thieves. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1514.8 | Wife throws husband down precipice so she can be with lover. Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 886. |
| K1514.9 | Adulteress has lover unload wood on doorstep. This keeps husband out. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K1514.10 | Adulteress sets husband to watch for intruder while she entertains the paramour. Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| K1514.11 | Illness feigned to call physician paramour. Italian Novella: Rotunda; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1514.12 | Adulteress pretends to go to say her prayers. Keeps tryst with paramour. Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| K1514.13 | Adulteress gives paramour tryst in house of ill-fame. Meets husband who leaves in shame. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K1514.14 | Paramour unties mare. Husband chases mare while the wife entertains the paramour. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K1514.15 | Adulteress throws small coffer out of window. While the husband retrieves it the paramour changes hiding places. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K1514.16 | Lover masks as pregnant woman: adulteress sent by husband to act as midwife, meets lover. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1514.17 | Adulteress together with lover while husband sleeps. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1514.17.1 | Wife drugs husband and visits paramour. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1514.17.2 | Husband frightened into sleeping alone. Adulteress has servants impersonate demons. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K1514.18 | Adulteress makes excuse to go and attend to bodily needs: meets lover. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1515 | The animal in the chest. The husband has locked the surprised paramour in a chest while he fetches his family as witness of his wife's unfaithfulness. She frees the lover, substitutes an animal, and discountenances the husband. (Cf. K1542, K1555, K1566, K1574.) *Type 1419B; *Wesselski Hodscha Nasreddin II 187 No. 363; Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles No. 61; Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| K1516 | The husband's good eye covered. The wife holds a cloth in front of his one good eye, so that he cannot see the paramour. *Type 1419C; *Bédier Fabliaux 119, 466; *Chauvin IX 20 Nos. 7, 8; *Wesselski Märchen 187 No. 2; *Jellinek Euphorion IX 162f.; Alphabet No. 536; Hdwb. d. Märchens I 94b; Scala Celi 86b No. 505; Oesterley No. 123; von der Hagen II xxixff.; Dunlop-Wilson II 13; Heptameron No. 6; Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles No. 16; *Krappe Bulletin Hispanique XXXIX 27; Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| K1556.1 | Adulteress binds husband's eyes and causes him to sing incantations concerning the adultery. |
| K1516.1 | The husband's good eye treated. The wife pretends to treat his one good eye, so that he cannot see the paramour. *Chauvin IX 20 Nos. 7, 8; Alphabet No. 535; Scala Celi 86b No. 504; Oesterley No. 122; Hitopadesa (ed. Morley) 66; Mensa Philosophica No. 49; *Krappe Bulletin Hispanique XXXIX 27; Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| K1516.1.1 | Physician treating man's eye covers his one good eye. Entertains his patient's mistress. Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles No. 87; Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| K1516.2 | Girl covers nurse's one good eye so that she cannot see her lover. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K1516.3 | Adulteress extinguishes light to hide her paramour. Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| K1516.4 | Adulteress covers husband's eyes during incantation. Meanwhile paramour escapes. Italian Novella: Rotunda; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1516.5 | Adulteress persuades husband to milk cow with his eyes blindfolded: meets lover. (Cf. Chaucer's Merchant's Tale.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1516.6 | The faithless wife asks her gullible husband how he would act if he were blind. The husband closes his eyes; meanwhile the lover escapes. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1516.7 | Wife washes husband's hair hiding his eyes while lover escapes unseen. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| K1516.8 | Wife has husband look for hole in pot she has bought, allowing lover to escape unseen. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| K1516.9 | Wife shows husband her milk-filled breasts and squirts milk in his eyes allowing lover to escape unseen. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| K1517 | Paramour escapes by disguise. |
| K1517.1 | The lovers as pursuer and fugitive. The wife is visited by two gallants. When the husband approaches, one goes out with drawn sword; the other hides in the house. She convinces her husband that she has given refuge to a fugitive. *Type 1419D; *Bédier Fabliaux 229ff.; *Basset 1001 Contes II 143; *Wesselski Hodscha Nasreddin II 186 No. 351; *Chauvin VIII 39 No. 7, IX 21 No. 8; Boccaccio Decameron VII No. 6 (Lee 203); von der Hagen II xxxii ff; Dunlop-Wilson II 114ff.; Hdwb. d. Märchens I 99b. — Spanish Exempla: Keller; Italian Novella: *Rotunda; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1517.1.1 | One lover disguised and carried out of house by other. The wife has the lover put on a robe and stand in the corner; she tells the husband that a tradesman has left the robe and will return for it. The other lover comes and she gives him the "robe". Africa (Vai): Ellis 229 No. 38. |
| K1517.2 | Paramour poses as doctor. Boccaccio Decameron VII No. 3 (Lee 189); Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K1517.3 | Paramour in vat: disguise as vat-buyer. Husband thinks he is testing the vat. Boccaccio Decameron VII No. 2 (Lee 186); Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| K1517.4 | Lover hidden in chest with feathers. Husband believes he is a devil. (Cf. K1218.1.) J. Prinz "A Tale of a Prioress and her Three Wooers" Literar.-Hist. Forschungen XLVII (Berlin, 1912) 65ff., 113ff.; Hilka Compilatio Singularis Exemplorum No. 14. |
| K1517.4.1 | Paramour falls in cesspool. Husband thinks he is a demon. Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles No. 72; Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| K1517.5 | Paramour poses as unsuccessful suitor. When surprised with the wife he tells the husband that he has been trying to force the woman, with no success. The wife supports the statement. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K1517.6 | Paramour escapes disguised as monk. Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| K1517.7 | Paramour disguised as pregnant woman. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K1517.8 | Paramour poses as robber. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K1517.9 | Paramour disguised as cloth merchant is surprised by the husband. He asks the woman to be paid for a pretended sale. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K1517.10 | Paramour leaving love-tryst is met by husband. Pretends he had come to see him on business. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K1517.11 | Paramour escapes by pretending to be returning borrowed basket. Heptameron No. 29. |
| K1517.12 | Escaping paramour said to be a deity. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1518 | The enchanted pear tree. The wife makes the husband, who has seen the adultery from the tree, believe that the tree is magic or that he has seen double. *Type 1423; *F. N. Robinson Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer (Boston, 1933) 817 (Merchant's Tale); *Basset 1001 Contes II 150ff.; Chauvin VIII 98 No. 69, IX 39 No. 34; *Bédier Fabliaux 468; *Stiefel Zs. f. Vksk. VIII 79; *Wesselski Märchen 214f. No. 23; Crane Vitry 240 No. 251; Herbert III 21; *Wesselski Mönchslatein 121 No. 103; Hdwb. d. Märchens I 95b; Boccaccio Decameron VII No. 9 (Lee 231); Dunlop-Wilson II 120f.; Mensa Philosophica No. 76.—Irish myth: Cross; Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K1518.1 | Husband who has surprised wife and paramour is made to believe that he has had an illusion. Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| K1521 | Paramour successfully hidden from husband. *Type 1364; *Wesselski Märchen 187 No. 2; Italian Novella: *Rotunda; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1521.1 | Paramour successfully hidden in chimney (fireplace). Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K1521.2 | Paramour successfully hidden in chest. Italian Novella: *Rotunda; Icelandic: Boberg. |
| K1521.2.1 | Paramour placed in chest and covered with clothing. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K1521.3 | Paramour hidden under the wash. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K1521.4 | Paramour hidden in the bed. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K1521.4.1 | Wife hides lover under bed. When husband comes in she drops candle and sends him out for another, allowing lover to escape unseen. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| K1521.5 | Paramour hidden behind a screen. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K1521.5.1 | Lover escapes behind the sheet which wife holds up to show her husband. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| K1521.6 | Husband busied with performing task while paramour escapes. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1521.7 | Paramour rolled into a carpet. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1522 | Husband in hanging tub to escape coming flood. The priest who has thus duped the husband enjoys the wife. *Type 1361; *F. N. Robinson Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer (Boston 1933) 786b (Miller's Tale); *Hammond Chaucer: a Bibliographical Manual 275; *Barnouw "The Miller's Tale van Chaucer" Handlingen van het 6. nederlandsche Philologencongres (1910), Mod. Lang. Rev. VII 145; *Thompson in Bryan and Dempster 106ff. |
| K1523 | Underground passage to paramour's house. (Inclusa.) Woman goes from one to the other. Her husband is made to believe that the woman next door is her sister. *Fischer-Bolte 219; Wesselski Märchen 188 No. 2; *Chauvin V 213 No. 121, VIII 96 No. 67; *Köhler-Bolte I 393; Campbell Sages cx; *Krappe Archivum Romanicum XIX (1935) 213—226; Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles No. 1; Icelandic: *Boberg; Italian Novella: *Rotunda; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
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