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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
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 ▲ |
|---|---|
| M376.1 | Exposure of pregnant woman to avoid fulfillment of prophecy concerning future child. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| M373 | Expulsion to avoid fulfillment of prophecy. *Types 517, 671, 725; Köhler-Bolte I 145; *BP I 322ff.; Cox 500; MacCulloch Childhood 354; India: *Thompson-Balys; Indonesia: De Vries's list No. 204. |
| M225 | Eyes exchanged for food. A starving man lets himself be blinded in return for food. *Type 613; *BP II 468ff.; **Christiansen FFC XXIV 46, 54; *Fb "øje" III 1166b; Missouri French: Carrière; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| M301.6 | Fairies as prophets. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| M411.16 | Fairy lays curse on village. Cheremis: Sebeok-Nyerges. |
| M101.1 | False swearer not allowed to approach altar. Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 485. |
| M219.4 | Familiar devours whoever does not keep pact with devil. Argentina: Jijena Sanchez 82. |
| M219.3 | Familiars guard and protect those who have pact with the devil. Argentina: Jijena Sanchez 80. |
| M302.2.1 | Fate written on the head. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| M361 | Fated hero. Only certain hero will succeed in exploit. Dickson 132 n. 108; Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: Sturlaugs saga Starfsama; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| M371.0.2 | Father throws boy of boy-girl twin birth into river to avoid evil effects of twin birth. Africa (Fang): Tessman 91. |
| M344.1 | Father-daughter incest prophecy. Greek: Fox 120 (Thyestes); India: Thompson-Balys. |
| M393 | Favorable prophecies: blessings, beatitudes. |
| M310 | Favorable prophecies. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| M205.1.1.1 | Fish (whale) carrying man through water shakes him off when man strikes him with coconut. Tahiti: Beckwith Myth 252; Tuamotu: Stimson MS (T-G. 3/600). |
| M301.9.1 | Fool (entertainer) as prophet. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| M340.2 | Forced prophecies are unfavorable. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| M211.5 | Formulas for selling one's soul to devil. England: Baughman. |
| M414.4 | Four year old girl cursed. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| M231 | Free keep in inn exchanged for good story. *Fb "kro" II 303a. |
| M253 | Friends in life and death. In pursuance of the pledge, the living follows the other to the world of the dead. *Type 470; Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 561; **MacKay The Double Invitation; Jewish Neuman. |
| M202 | Fulfilling of bargain or promise. |
| M391.1 | Fulfillment of prophecy successfully avoided. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| M391 | Fulfillment of prophecy. |
| M382 | Futile moving to avoid death. Man told by Death he will die where he stands sells everything and moves to another town. He goes for a ride on a mare which runs away with him and throws him on the spot he so dreads, killing him. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| M398 | Futility of weather prophecies. Irish: O'Suilleabhain 72, 110. |
| M369.2.1 | Future husband (wife) foretold. Irish myth: Cross; Jewish: Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| M13.3 | Gardener made king by minister decides against him in law case and returns lands to plaintiff. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| M445 | Giant cursed: may neither heaven nor earth receive him. Irish myth: Cross. |
| M411.9 | Giantess lays a curse on the one on earth who eventually hears her. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| M438.3 | Girl bewitched so that no man will remain faithful to her. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| M414.1 | God cursed. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| M376 | God swallows his pregnant wife to prevent birth of son whom he fears. Greek: *Frazer Apollodorus I 24 n. 1. |
| M414.2 | Goddess cursed. Irish myth: Cross. |
| M301.16 | Gods prophesy both good and evil about hero's fate. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| M221.1 | Hag offers to run race with men on condition that the one left behind shall be beheaded. Marvelous runner beheads hag. Irish myth: Cross. |
| M301.9 | Half-wit as prophet. Irish myth: *Cross; Jewish: Neuman. |
| M311.0.4 | Heavenly voices proclaim birth of future child hero. Jewish: Neuman. |
| M411.8.2 | Hermit curses men who kill his pet bear and all the men die. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| M455.1 | Hero cursed to restlessness (except on boat or in tent), till he sees girl. (Cf. D1900.) Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| M341.2.18.1 | Hero kept from going to battle lest he be slain. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| M364.9 | Hero prophesies that one-half of the churches in Ireland shall be named for Ciaran. Irish myth: Cross. |
| M394 | Hero's coming prophesied. Irish myth: Cross. |
| M311.0.1 | Heroic career prophesied for (new-born) child. Irish myth: *Cross; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| M151.7 | Heroine will not laugh till arrival of destined hero. (Cf. H341.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| M302.4 | Horoscope taken by means of stars. *Prato RTP IV 178; *Wesselofsky Romania VI (1877) 161ff.; *Patch Fortuna 76—78 and notes; Dickson 33 n. 15; Fb "lykkestjærne" II 477, "stjærne" III 577b; *Hdwb. d. Abergl. VIII 461ff., IX N. 596—762; *Loomis White Magic 52. — Irish: Cross, Beal XXI 313; Icelandic: *Boberg; Italian Novella: *Rotunda; Jewish: *Neuman; Chinese: Graham. |
| M225.1 | Horse, clothes, and members of rider's body exchanged for food. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| M206.1 | Host offers to send his guest a cask of the wine he has praised. Later refuses to send it as it was merely a "verba honoris". Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 308. |
| M414.7 | Hostages cursed. Irish myth: Cross. |
| M301.13 | Icelandic guardian spirits, "spádísar", prophesy victory. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| M367.1 | Immunity from wet or dry, steel or wood, sword or javelin, by day or by night. Man killed at edge of sea, at twilight, with force of sea and thunderbolt. India: Thompson-Balys; Hindu: Keith 133. |
| M226 | In return for magic shirt from girl hero is to stay in Ireland for three years. In return he claims her as wife. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| M2.1 | Inhuman decision of king: sends man's sons to certain death and then murders man. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| M2 | Inhuman decisions of king. Fansler MAFLS XII 137; Jewish: Neuman. |
| M415 | Irrevocable curse. Penzer VI 103 n. 1, 162 n. 1; Irish myth: Cross; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| M11 | Irrevocable judgment causes judge to suffer first. Has decreed that no one enter a meeting armed. He forgets to remove his sword. Kills himself. Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 353; Spanish Exempla: Keller; Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| M14 | Irrevocable judgment of king upheld. King leaves laws that must be kept until his death. Years later he has his bones sent back to that land to let people know that he is dead and they are free. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| M10 | Irrevocable judgments. |
| M12 | Irrevocable sentence carried out even when innocence is proved. A knight condemned for murdering his comrade is met by the latter on the way to the gallows. A centurion leads them to the emperor, who condemns all three to death: first because he has been sentenced; second for causing by his absence the conviction of his comrade; third for delay in the execution. Oesterley No. 140; Herbert III 208. |
| M437.2 | Jealous sisters curse the child one of them may have by the god Thor, so that it never will grow nor thrive. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| M211.4 | Jews must repay devil's help by giving tribute of persons each year. Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 1867D*. |
| M358.2 | Journey to otherworld foretold. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| M55 | Judgment: pardon given if hero produces the lady about whom he has boasted. English: Wells 132 (Sir Launfal). |
| M56 | Judgment: thief to be pardoned if he can steal king's treasure without being caught. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| M90 | Judgments and decrees—miscellaneous motifs. |
| M0 | Judgments and decrees. |
| M301.17 | King as prophet. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| M205.4 | King breaks promise to care for man's family. Is caught trying to steal his money. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| M414.5 | King cursed. Irish myth: *Cross; Jewish: Neuman. |
| M301.17.1 | King in will foretells that daughters of his son shall be fruitful. Irish myth: Cross. |
| M203.2 | King kills self to carry out own promise. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| M21 | King Lear judgment. A king flattered by his elder daughters and angered by the seeming indifference, though real love, of the youngest, banishes the youngest and favors the elder daughters. Type 510; BP II 47, III 305; *Cox Nos. 208—226; *Hartland FLJ IV 308; *Oesterley No. 273; Herbert III 201; India: *Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 183 No. 124. |
| M203.1 | King punishes one of his men who robs someone to whom the king has given safe conduct. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| M203.3 | King sells self and family into slavery to keep promise. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| M177.1.1 | King swears to become Christian if he wins battle. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| M203 | King's promise irrevocable. Basil Pentamerone I No. 5; Irish myth: *Cross; Missouri French: Carrière; Spanish Exempla: Keller; India: Thompson-Balys; West Indies: Flowers 560. |
| M207 | Land grants (bargains). Irish myth: *Cross. |
| M234.3 | Life bought for gold. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| M234.4 | Life bought with promise of reparations and healing of enemy. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| M234.2 | Life spared for bringing a dreaded enemy without weapon. Icelandic: MacCulloch Eddic 83 f. (Thor and Loki). |
| M234 | Life spared in return for life-long service. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| M234.1 | Life spared in return for poetic mead. Icelandic: MacCulloch Eddic 53. |
| M149.1 | Lovers vow to marry only each other. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| M201 | Making of bargains and promises. |
| M211.3 | Man bequeaths soul to devil. U.S.: Baughman; Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| M219.2.3 | Man contracted to the devil responds to call by voice: "The hour has come but not the man." England, Scotland: *Baughman. |
| M211.1.1 | Man goes to well at midnight on Old Christmas to see water turned into wine. Just as it turns into wine the devil takes him, or injures him. England, U.S.: *Baughman. |
| M202.2 | Man keeps word to return to enemy if his mission to his people fails. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| M101.3.2 | Man offers to sacrifice bangles if he is given a son; when he takes bangles back, son dies. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| M266 | Man promises to build church if he is saved at sea. Danish: Kristensen Danske Sagn III (1895) 145ff., (1931) 107ff.; Estonian: Aarne FFC XXV 134 No. 85; Italian Novella: Rotunda; West Indies: Flowers 562. |
| M411.4 | Man pursued by hatred of the gods. Irish: MacCulloch Celtic 74ff., *Cross; Greek: Grote I 147; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| M211.8 | Man sells soul to devil for devil's doing one specific job. England, Wales: *Baughman. |
| M211.7 | Man sells soul to devil for magic power to escape capture. Canada: Baughman. |
| M211.6 | Man sells soul to devil for visit home in boat that sails through sky. U.S.: Baughman. |
| M211.2 | Man sells soul to devil in return for devil's building house (barn, etc.). Wünsche Teufel 29-56 passim. |
| M211 | Man sells soul to devil. (Faust, Theophilus.) Types 330, 360, 361, 756B, 810, 812, 1170-1199; *BP II 164, 427, 561ff., III 12; *Andrejev FFC LXIX 46, 50, 223, 227 n.; Lidzbarski Am Urds-Brunnen IV 59 n. 1; Scala Celi 9a, 112a, 135b Nos. 58, 625, 749; *Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 667; *Fb "sjæl" III 215a; Faligan RTP V 1; Alphabet Nos. 50, 467; *Ludorff Anglia VII 60ff.; *Loomis White Magic 112f.; *K. Bittner Die Faustsage im russischen Schrifttum (Reichenberg. i. B. [Prager Deutsche Studien No. 37], 1925); *Krappe Bulletin Hispanique XXXIX 34.—Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 3400, Legends No. 757; Spanish: Boggs FFC XC 49, 67 Nos. 330, 510, Espinosa Jr. Nos. 70-74, 83f.; Italian Novella: Rotunda; Argentina: Jijena Sanchez 74; N. A. Indian (Wampanoag): Knight JAFL XXXVIII 134, (Salinan): Mason U Cal X 196. |
| M313 | Man transformed into swine will regain his human form after third marriage. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| M222 | Man umpires dispute in exchange for guarantee of safety. Disputants, bear and tiger, agree not to eat him. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| M211.1 | Man unwittingly sells soul to devil. He jestingly offers to sell his soul. Devil in disguise buys it. *Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 280; *Wesselski Märchen 245 No. 55. |
| M414.11 | Man who betrays secrets cursed. Jewish: Neuman. |
| M381 | Man whose death has been prophesied takes refuge in church, but is accidentally slain through window by arrow directed at stag. Irish myth: Cross. |
| M302.2.2 | Man's destiny read in his face. Korean: Zong in-Sob 73 No. 40. |
| M302.2 | Man's fate written on his skull. *Penzer VII 24 n. 1; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| M268 | Marriage promised to save life. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| M302 | Means of prophesying. Irish myth: Cross. |
| M418 | Method of cursing. |
| M414.8.1 | Mice (rats, cats) cursed. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| M459 | Miscellaneous curses on persons. |
| M369 | Miscellaneous prophecies. Irish myth: Cross. |
| M429 | Miscellaneous ways to overcome curses. (Cf. D2071.1.) |
| M242.1 | Mortal fosters fairy child to prevent destruction of crops. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| M301.7.1 | Moses as prophet. Irish myth: Cross. |
| M344 | Mother-incest prophecy. In spite of all precautions the youth marries his mother. *Type 931; *Cosquin études 451; Hibbard 276; *Baum PMLA XXXI 481; Irish myth: *Cross; Greek: Fox 49 (Oedipus); India: Thompson-Balys. |
| M312.0.4 | Mother's symbolic dream (vision) about the greatness of her unborn child. Loomis: White Magic 18f; Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| M301.15 | Mountain in human shape prophesies whole family's death. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| M371.3 | Murder of child to prevent fulfillment of prophecy of ruin she will bring upon kingdom. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| M376.2 | Murder of pregnant woman to avoid fulfillment of prophecy. Irish myth: Cross; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| M257.2 | Murdered person's request and promise. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| M348 | Murderer warned by God's voice that murder will be avenged. *BP II 535 n. 1; *Wesselski Mönchslatein 88 No. 76; Irish: Beal XXI 336, O'Suilleabhain 123; Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 787*; Spanish: Espinosa Jr. No. 205. |
| M369.4 | Names of future kings foretold. Irish myth: Cross. |
| M402.2 | No one to go security for a satirist. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| M119.7 | Oath by placing hand on genitals. Irish myth: Cross; Jewish: *Neuman. |
| M119.1.1 | Oath by River Styx. Greek: Grote I 56f. |
| M114.1.1 | Oath by Tora. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| M114.6 | Oath by touching sacred thread. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| M110.2 | Oath is valid only when decreed in presence of ten. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| M177.1.2 | Oath not to be christened until he has fought in seven battles for Jesus. English romance: Malory X 47. |
| M166.5 | Oath not to fight relatives of king. English romance: Malory X 44. |
| M188 | Oath not to mention what has been seen. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| M114.1 | Oath on sacred book. |
| M115.1.1 | Oath so heavy it dries up stream; oath so great it splits the rock in twain; oath so violent it makes the tree wither. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| M119.8 | Oath taken by the life of a person. Jewish: Neuman. |
| M113 | Oath taken on arms. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| M116 | Oath taken on hand of saint. Irish myth: Cross. |
| M114.2 | Oath taken on holy stone. (Cf. M119.5.) Icelandic: Boberg. |
| M112 | Oath taken on ring. Hdwb. d. Abergl. II 67; Brumer Deutsche Rechtsgeschichte I 258; Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| M114 | Oath taken on sacred object. Jewish: Neuman; Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| M113.1 | Oath taken on sword. Scottish: Campbell-McKay No. 20; Icelandic: Herrmann Saxo II 197; Jewish: Neuman. |
| M187 | Oath to abide by results of lot drawing. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| M149.5 | Oath to marry daughters only into family with bridegroom for each daughter. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| M110.3 | Oath uttered by pious when in danger of succumbing to temptation. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| M111 | Oaths taken over severed pieces of horse. Pieces are then buried. Greek: Fox 25. |
| M242.3 | Ogre released in return for his magic girdle. Tuamotu: Stimson MS (Z-G. 13/152, 221, 1314). |
| M301.2 | Old woman as prophet. *Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 624; Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| M301.2.2 | Old Woman, "völva", prophesies at child's birth. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| M411.5 | Old woman's curse (satire). Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg; Spanish: Espinosa Jr. No. 106; Italian: Basile Pentamerone |
| M115 | Only one oath binding. It must be by so and so or else it is worthless. Italian: Basile Pentamerone IV Nos. 6, 8, V No. 4. |
| M237.1 | Opponents agree not to fight and are thus undefeated. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| M220 | Other bargains. |
| M219 | Other devil contract motifs. |
| M50 | Other judgments and decrees. |
| M260 | Other promises. |
| M360 | Other prophecies. |
| M166 | Other vows about fighting. |
| M150 | Other vows and oaths. |
| M411.19.2 | Ox curses ungrateful man. Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 812. |
| M201.1.2 | Pact with devil signed in blood. (Theophilus.) (Cf. M211.) Type 756B; *Andrejev FFC LXIX 64; Scala Celi 9a, 135b Nos 58, 749; Wünsche Teufel 55f.; England, U.S.: Baughman; Irish: Beal XXI 310 —312, O'Suilleabhain 33f.; Spanish Exempla: Keller; Argentina: Jijena Sanchez 80. |
| M218.1 | Pacts with the devil, sealed in blood, made ineffective by a saint. *Loomis White Magic 75. |
| M343.0.1 | Parricide prophecy: king's successors will be parricides. Irish myth: Cross. |
| M343 | Parricide prophecy. In spite of all attempts to thwart the fates, the child kills his father. *Type 931; *Krappe Balor 11 n. 37; *Baum PMLA XXXI 481; Krappe Neuphilologische Mitteilungen XXIV 11ff.; Saintyves Saints Successeurs 268—70; Chauvin VI 36 No. 206; Irish myth: *Cross; Greek: Fox 33, 48f., 63, Grote I 6, 9, 85, 206, 243, 263, 466; Jewish: Neuman, bin Gorion Born Judas I 166, 372; India: Thompson-Balys; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 34, 698, II 286, 924; N. A. Indian: Thompson CColl II 414. |
| M236 | Peace bought for husband. Icelandic: MacCulloch Eddic 103, *Boberg. |
| M262 | Person promises to have but one consort if he is cured. Irish myth: Cross. |
| M211.9 | Person sells soul to devil in return for the granting of wishes. England: Baughman. |
| M223.1 | Person who never refuses a request. Irish myth: Cross. |
| M301.8 | Personification prophesies. Irish myth: Cross. |
| M414.8.2 | Pigs cursed. Irish myth: Cross. |
| M413 | Place of giving curse. |
| M364.4 | Place of saint's resurrection prophesied. Irish myth: Cross. |
| M175 | Pledge to say but a single phrase. In carrying out this agreement the men innocently confess a crime. *Types 360, 1697; BP II 561ff.; Wesselski Mönchslatein 37 No. 44; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| M301.18 | Poet as prophet. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| M414.6 | Poet cursed. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| M353 | Prediction by bird that girl will have dead husband. (She disenchants him from magic sleep.) *Cosquin Contes indiens 108ff.; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| M340.5 | Prediction of danger. Africa (Bankon): Ittman 95. |
| M491 | Presence of cursed person brings disaster to land. Greek: Fox 50, 55. |
| M208 | Price set on one's head. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| M411.14.1 | Priest curses sinner: even his grave shall not rest. The grave rolls like a wave. U.S.: Baughman. |
| M232 | Prince to give up life in exchange for learning a secret. Malone PMLA XLIII 405, 413. |
| M177.2 | Prince vows that he will always be servant of a goddess (Kali). India: Thompson-Balys. |
| M134 | Prince vows to marry no woman unless he can beat her daily. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| M261.2 | Princess promises to embrace her teacher on her wedding day. Teacher has only been testing her promise. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| M331 | Princess to marry prince. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| M205.0.1 | Promise kept in deed but not in spirit. English romance: Malory X 38. |
| M206 | Promise made merely as a matter of form not binding. |
| M252 | Promise of dying man to bring news of other world. (Or two friends agree that the first to die shall bring news.) *Type 470; Swiss: Jegerlehner Oberwallis 305 No. 6, 323 Nos. 112, 113, 329 Nos. 31, 33; Irish: Beal XXI 331f., O'Suilleabhain 99—102, *Cross; Jewish: bin Gorion Born Judas VI 123, 311. |
| M254 | Promise to be buried with wife if she dies first. *Type 612; *BP I 128. |
| M202.1 | Promise to be fulfilled when iron shoes wear out. *Cox Cinderella 508. |
| M258.1 | Promise to dying father leads to adventures. Type 884; *BP II 56ff. |
| M258.2 | Promise to dying father not to wed woman of certain tribe. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| M258.3 | Promise to dying father to bury him in his homeland. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| M256 | Promise to dying man broken. |
| M258 | Promise to dying man sacred. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| M267 | Promise to give another one's wife for a day. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| M250 | Promises connected with death. |
| M410 | Pronouncement of curses. Icelandic: Herrmann Saxo II 119. |
| M369.8 | Prophecies about children born at the same time. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| M356 | Prophecies concerning destiny of country. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| M356.1.2 | Prophecies concerning fate of heroes in battle. (Cf. M341.2.18.) Irish myth: *Cross; Jewish: Neuman. |
| M369.5 | Prophecies concerning invasion and conquest. Irish myth: *Cross; Jewish: Neuman. |
| M369.2 | Prophecies concerning love and marriage. Irish myth: Cross. |
| M356.1 | Prophecies concerning outcome of war. Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: Boberg. |
| M358 | Prophecies connected with journeys. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| M301.4 | Prophecies from old man who writes in a book. *Cosquin études 448ff. |
| M369.1 | Prophecies that person will tell three (two) falsehoods before death. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| M390 | Prophecies—miscellaneous motifs. Irish myth: Cross. |
| M300 | Prophecies. *Encyc. Rel. Ethics s.v. "Divination"; Irish: *Cross, Beal XXI 326, 334f.; Schott Weissagen und Erfüllung im deutschen Volksmärchen (München, 1936). |
| M341.2.21.1 | Prophecy (through dream): death from cobra. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| M369.7 | Prophecy about birth of children. (Cf. M365.) Jewish: *Neuman. |
| M369.7.2 | Prophecy about birth of heir. Jewish: Neuman. |
| M300.1 | Prophecy by Jesus that certain people shall live "till coming of Patrick." So it was. Irish myth: Cross. |
| M303 | Prophecy by reading palm. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| M302.8 | Prophecy from book. (Cf. M301.21.) Jewish: Neuman, Gaster Thespis 348. |
| M304 | Prophecy from enigmatical laugh. (Cf. N456.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| M302.6 | Prophecy inscribed on well. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| M356.2 | Prophecy of a plague consisting of "a flame of fire" which shall destroy three-fourths of the population of Ireland. Plague can be prevented by fasting, etc. Irish myth: Cross. |
| M370.1 | Prophecy of death fulfilled. Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 932A*; Russian: Andrejev No. 932I*; Rumanian: Schullerus FFC LXXVII No. 932*; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| M341.0.3 | Prophecy of death not to come true if baby is married to girl of twelve years. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| M341.1.2.2 | Prophecy of death on twelfth day after birth. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| M341.1.1.3 | Prophecy of death upon daughter's marriage. Greek: *Grote I 146. |
| M342.1 | Prophecy of downfall of king (prince). Irish myth: *Cross. |
| M342 | Prophecy of downfall of kingdom. Bødker Exempler 301 No. 68; Irish myth: *Cross; English: Wells 61 (Awntyrs off Arthure at the Terne Wathelyne); Spanish Exempla: Keller; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| M359.9 | Prophecy of famine. Chinese: Graham. |
| M314.4 | Prophecy of future empire for fugitive hero. Greek: *Grote I 307. |
| M312 | Prophecy of future greatness for youth. *Types 461, 517, 725, 930; *BP I 322; English romance: Malory XI 4; Jewish: *Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 531; Korean: Zong in-Sob 72 No. 39, 209 No. 98. |
| M312.0.2 | Prophecy of future greatness given by animals. *Type 517; *BP I 322; Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| M312.0.3 | Prophecy of future greatness if boy lives to be eighteen. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| M340.3 | Prophecy of general misfortune to newborn child. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| M340.6 | Prophecy of great misfortune. Korean: Zong in-Sob 73 No. 40. |
| M340.1 | Prophecy of grief fulfilled by death of relative (friend, etc.). Irish myth: *Cross. |
| M369.2.1.1 | Prophecy of king taking a cruel stepmother to her sons after her death enacted before eyes of dying queen by sparrow family living in tree by palace window. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| M312.7 | Prophecy of luck for outcast child. Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 828. |
| M391.1.1 | Prophecy of misfortune for prince avoided successfully in one respect. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| M341.1.2.5 | Prophecy of only seven days' life for baby. Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 285, 507. |
| M352 | Prophecy of particular perils to prince on wedding journey. *Type 516; *Rösch FFC LXXVII 114; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| M310.1.1.1 | Prophecy of preeminence to descendants of man provided they do the will of saint to be born. Irish myth: Cross. |
| M354.1 | Prophecy of rebirth as monkey. Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 847. |
| M369.4.1 | Prophecy that bird will become king. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| M369.3 | Prophecy that certain person will fight particular battle. Irish myth: Cross. |
| M354 | Prophecy that child will have external soul. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| M341.1.5.2 | Prophecy that hero will not live another eighteen years. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| M311.0.3.2 | Prophecy that if raja should take one more queen he will have a son. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| M351 | Prophecy that youth shall abandon his religion and become Christian. (Baarlam and Josaphat.) *Cosquin études 27ff.; Ward II 111ff.; Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| M302.7 | Prophecy through dreams. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| M370.1.1 | Prophecy wittingly fulfilled by wazir that he will murder the raja, but unwittingly causes his own death twelve years hence. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| M359.6 | Prophecy: all flocks will perish and family die. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| M311.0.2 | Prophecy: birth of hero at certain time (in certain place). Irish myth: *Cross. |
| M369.7.1 | Prophecy: birth of twins. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| M369.10 | Prophecy: boy to be great hunter. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| M312.6 | Prophecy: boys to be fathers of saints. Irish myth: Cross. |
| M361.1 | Prophecy: certain hero to achieve Holy Grail. English romance: Malory XIV 2. |
| M311.2 | Prophecy: child born at certain time will build religious edifice. (Cf. M312.5.) Irish myth: Cross. |
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