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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
K
Deceptions
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Reversals of Fortune
M
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 ▲ |
|---|---|
| M341.1.3.1 | Prophecy: child shall hang before fifteen years. Fb "hænge" I 731b. |
| M346 | Prophecy: child to be abducted at certain time. Hdwb. d. Märchens I 546b nn. 109—126; Italian: Basile Pentamerone IV No. 6. |
| M311.0.3.1 | Prophecy: child to be born to childless couple. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| M311.0.3 | Prophecy: child to be born. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| M312.5 | Prophecy: child will build religious edifice. (Cf. M311.2.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| M363.2 | Prophecy: coming of Messiah. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| M311.0.2.1 | Prophecy: conception of hero at certain time. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| M341.4 | Prophecy: criminal going to death predicts that his judge (king, prince) shall soon meet him. *Pauli (ed. Bolte) Nos. 130, 833, 834. |
| M341.1.4.2 | Prophecy: danger to threatened newborn boy at his eighteenth year. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| M345 | Prophecy: daughter shall commit murder and incest and be sentenced to death. Type 728*. |
| M341.1.6 | Prophecy: death after certain time. Korean: Zong in-Sob 49 No. 29. |
| M341.1.6.1 | Prophecy: death after three life spans. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| M341.1.6.3 | Prophecy: death after three-year dominion. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| M341.1.6.2 | Prophecy: death after two life spans. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| M341.1 | Prophecy: death at (before, within) certain time. Irish: Beal XXI 313, O'Suilleabhain 37, *Cross; Spanish Exempla: Keller; Jewish: Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys; Japanese: Ikeda. |
| M341.1.7 | Prophecy: death at birth of child. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| M341.1.4 | Prophecy: death at certain age. |
| M341.2.19 | Prophecy: death at hands of certain person. Irish myth: *Cross; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| M341.2.15 | Prophecy: death at hands of man bearing a certain name. Russian: Afanasief "Tale of Prince Arta" (Moscow, 1897) 149 (cited in von Sydow Fеvne 45). |
| M343.5 | Prophecy: death at hands of parents. Africa (Fang): Tessman 134f. |
| M341.1.4.1 | Prophecy: death at sixteen. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| M341.1.4.5 | Prophecy: death at sixty. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| M341.1.3 | Prophecy: death before certain age. |
| M341.1.3.2 | Prophecy: death before eighteen years. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| M341.3.2 | Prophecy: death between Erin and Alba. Man dies between two hills so named. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| M341.2.24 | Prophecy: death by alligator (crocodile). India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| M341.2.22 | Prophecy: death by calf. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| M341.2.3 | Prophecy: death by drowning. Irish myth: Cross; Japanese: Ikeda. |
| M341.2.7 | Prophecy: death by fire. India: Thompson-Balys; Africa (Benga): Nassau 107 No. 9. |
| M341.2.23 | Prophecy: death by hanging. Irish: O'Suilleabhain 107; Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| M341.2.5 | Prophecy: death by horse's head. Man is killed in that way. **Taylor MPh XIX 93ff.; Krappe PSASS XVII (1942-43) 20ff.; Icelandic: Boberg. |
| M341.2.11 | Prophecy: death by lightning. Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 932*; Estonian: Aarne FFC XXV No. 932*; Russian: Andrejev No. 932*; Spanish: Boggs FFC XC 62 No. 449*. |
| M341.2.14 | Prophecy: death by means of bone. Italian: Basile Pentamerone II No. 8, III No. 3, V No. 5. |
| M341.2.1 | Prophecy: death by mistletoe. *Frazer Golden Bough X—XI (Balder the Beautiful); Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| M341.2 | Prophecy: death by particular instrument. In spite of all precautions the prophecy is fulfilled. *Basset 1001 Contes II 209; *Krappe Scandinavian Studies 16 (1942) 20—35; Irish myth: *Cross, India: Thompson-Balys; Japanese: Ikeda. |
| M341.2.0.1 | Prophecy: death by particular weapon. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| M341.2.8 | Prophecy: death by poison. Greek: Fox 108 (Pelias and Aeson). |
| M341.2.2 | Prophecy: death by storm. *Type 932*. |
| M341.2.10.1 | Prophecy: death by tiger. Tiger-shaped cake becomes tiger and kills man in spite of all precautions. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| M341.2.6 | Prophecy: death by wolf. Killed by a wolf claw (or by a cat transformed to wolf). Type 333*; Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 166*; Estonian: Aarne FFC XXV 136 No. 94. |
| M341.2.10 | Prophecy: death from bite of stone lion. Man killed by scorpion concealed in the statue. *Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 827; Icelandic: *Boberg; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| M341.2.9 | Prophecy: death from hands of man with one sandal. Greek: *Frazer Apollodorus I 94 n. 1 (Jason); India: Thompson-Balys. |
| M341.2.21 | Prophecy: death from snakebite. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| M341.2.16 | Prophecy: death from thorns in rice. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| M341.2.10.2 | Prophecy: death from tiger. Tiger picture comes to life and kills man. India: *Thompson-Balys; Korean: Zong in-Sob 51 No. 30, 58 No. 33. |
| M341.2.18 | Prophecy: death in battle. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| M341.3.1 | Prophecy: death in Jerusalem. Man dies in Jerusalem Chamber. **R. Meyer Gerbertsagnet 89ff.; *Liebrecht Zur Volkskunde 48; Graf Nuova Anthologia (1890) 239; *Fb "lys" II 483b; Alphabet No. 50. |
| M341.3 | Prophecy: death in particular place. Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: Boberg. |
| M341.1.5.1 | Prophecy: death in ten years. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| M341.1.2.4 | Prophecy: death in three years and three months. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| M341.1.2.1 | Prophecy: death of king (before the morrow). Irish myth: *Cross; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| M362 | Prophecy: death of ruler to insure victory. Spanish Exempla: Keller; Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| M341.1.1.4 | Prophecy: death on entrance to the marriage chamber. Moreno Esdras (N389). |
| M358.1.1 | Prophecy: death on journey. (Cf. M341.1.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| M341.3.4 | Prophecy: death on seashore. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| M341.1.1.2 | Prophecy: death on seventh day of marriage. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| M341.1.4.3.1 | Prophecy: death on twenty-first birthday. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| M341.1.1 | Prophecy: death on wedding day. Type 333*; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| M341.2.12 | Prophecy: death through future husband. Greek: Frazer Apollodorus II 157 n. 4. |
| M341.2.13 | Prophecy: death through spindle wound. *Type 410; *BP I 434. |
| M341.1.4.3 | Prophecy: death when twenty-five years old. Spanish: Boggs FFC XC 62 No. 449*. |
| M341.1.5 | Prophecy: death within certain period. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| M341.1.2.3 | Prophecy: death within two months. Africa (Wakweli): Bender 103. |
| M341.1.1.1 | Prophecy: death within year after marriage. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| M369.2.5 | Prophecy: descendant of mistress shall serve that of handmaid. Irish myth: Cross. |
| M356.1.4 | Prophecy: destruction of fortress. Irish myth: Cross. |
| M341.3.3 | Prophecy: drowning in particular stream. Irish myth: Cross. |
| M341.1.2 | Prophecy: early death. Irish myth: *Cross; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| M341.5 | Prophecy: either youth or mother will die. Prato RTP IV 178. |
| M356.5 | Prophecy: end of Round Table for Arthur's knights. English romance: Malory XI 2. |
| M365 | Prophecy: eternal peace in an early death or long troublesome life. (Cf. M369.7.) Greek: Roscher Lexikon s.v. "Achilleus". |
| M356.4 | Prophecy: evil to come to country. Irish: O'Suilleabhain 88; Jewish: *Neuman. |
| M357.1 | Prophecy: fiery bolt from a dragon to kill world population. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| M356.1.3 | Prophecy: first side to slay in battle will be defeated. Irish myth: Cross. |
| M364.1.1 | Prophecy: founding of church at certain place by saint. Irish myth: Cross. |
| M324 | Prophecy: future Golden Age. Irish myth: Cross; Jewish: Neuman. |
| M310.1 | Prophecy: future greatness and fame. Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| M311 | Prophecy: future greatness of unborn child. (Cf. M301.2.2, M301.5.1, M301.12, M359.3, M371.1.) Gaster Exempla 229 No. 242 (Moses); Wells 103 (Alliterative Alexander Fragment); Loomis White Magic 16f.; Irish myth: *Cross; Danish: Grundtvig No. 42; Icelandic: Boberg; Spanish Exempla: Keller; Greek: Frazer Apollodorus I 24 n. 1 (Zeus and Mitis), Roscher Lexikon s.v. "Achilleus"; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| M326 | Prophecy: future success as hunter. Eskimo (West Hudson Bay): Boas BAM XV 343. |
| M345.1 | Prophecy: girl shall have a hundred lovers, shall marry her servant and die from spider's bite. This happens. *Basset 1001 Contes II 208. Cf. Gaster Exempla 246 No. 341; Chauvin VIII 104 No. 80. |
| M365.3 | Prophecy: girl will be perfect in love but will die in a desert overcome by separation from her love. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| M314.0.1 | Prophecy: girl will be queen. Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 539. |
| M325 | Prophecy: glory and prosperity for a people. Greek: Aeschylus Eumenides 920; Jewish: *Neuman. |
| M364.3.2 | Prophecy: great numbers (three) to be saved through virtue of saint. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| M365.1 | Prophecy: hero may win fame but die early. Chooses fame. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| M366 | Prophecy: hero may win lady's love but die early. Chooses this rather than long life without her. Icelandic: Völsunga saga 53. |
| M397 | Prophecy: hunters will encounter certain wild boar. Irish myth: Cross. |
| M369.2.4 | Prophecy: if the raja marries certain girl he will prosper. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| M367 | Prophecy: immunity from certain types of death. |
| M341.2.17 | Prophecy: king to be slain by certain spear unless it is given when demanded. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| M314.2 | Prophecy: king will be succeeded by the son whom he shall see next. Sends for elder son, who delays and is preceded by younger son. Elder son is slain next day; younger son becomes king. Irish myth: Cross. |
| M369.9 | Prophecy: king will have head pounded by strange queen. Due to peculiar set of circumstances this happens. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| M311.1 | Prophecy: king's grandson will dethrone him. Irish: MacCulloch Celtic 167, *Cross; Babylonian: Spence 157. |
| M341.2.26 | Prophecy: king's son to die for lack of water. Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 598. |
| M321 | Prophecy: long life. Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: Boberg. |
| M356.1.1 | Prophecy: loss of battle (combat). Irish myth: *Cross; Jewish: *Neuman. |
| M369.2.2 | Prophecy: lovers not destined to meet in life will never part after death. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| M314 | Prophecy: man (child) will become king. (Cf. M311.4.) Irish myth: *Cross; Jewish: *Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| M341.1.4.4 | Prophecy: man shall hang himself when he is thirty years old. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| M341.2.25 | Prophecy: man to be swallowed up by earth at the foot of his stairs. Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 1220. |
| M345.2 | Prophecy: man will deceive many women. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| M315 | Prophecy: man will eat magic salmon and gain knowledge. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| M312.8 | Prophecy: man will make sun and moon stand still. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| M369.2.3 | Prophecy: marriage when one is twelve years old. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| M396 | Prophecy: meeting will take place only after death. Irish myth: Cross. |
| M364.8 | Prophecy: miraculous removal of saint's bones. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| M343.0.2 | Prophecy: mother will be killed by children. S. A. Indian (Kaigua): Métraux RMLP XXXIII 139. |
| M343.2 | Prophecy: murder by grandson. Greek: Fox 33 (Perseus). |
| M343.3 | Prophecy: murder by nephew. Irish myth: *Cross; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 428. |
| M343.1 | Prophecy: murder by son-in-law. *Krappe Balor 11 n. 37; Greek: Fox 119 (Pelops). |
| M312.9 | Prophecy: no people or king will be able to stand up against hero. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| M318 | Prophecy: no snakes in Ireland. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| M318.1 | Prophecy: no snakes in Israel. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| M312.2 | Prophecy: parents will humble themselves before their son. (Vaticinium.) *Type 517; *BP I 324; Köhler-Bolte I 145, 430; *Wesselski Märchen 221 No. 35; Campbell Sages cxii; Jewish: *Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| M341.6 | Prophecy: person foretells own death. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| M322 | Prophecy: person will avenge his own death. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| M359.5 | Prophecy: poverty from birth. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| M310.1.1 | Prophecy: preeminence of man's descendants. Irish myth: Cross; Jewish: Neuman. |
| M359.2 | Prophecy: prince's marriage to common woman. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| M369.2.1.2 | Prophecy: princess will marry a bastard. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| M368 | Prophecy: punishment for misappropriation of property. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| M317 | Prophecy: race will never be without an illustrious woman. Irish myth: Cross. |
| M364.6 | Prophecy: rainbow will appear at saint's death. Irish myth: Cross. |
| M364.2 | Prophecy: remission of tax through endeavor of saint. Irish myth: Cross. |
| M359.7 | Prophecy: rich man will have a son but the son will marry a poor girl. Chinese: Graham. |
| M364.3 | Prophecy: saint will succeed in conversion. Irish myth: Cross. |
| M364.1 | Prophecy: saint's monastery will be persecuted. Irish myth: Cross. |
| M369.7.3 | Prophecy: sex of unborn child. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| M364.3.1 | Prophecy: sinners going to heaven are to be numbered by hairs in saint's chasuble. Irish myth: Cross. |
| M341.2.7.1 | Prophecy: sinners to be burnt by fire on Doomsday. Irish myth: Cross. |
| M395 | Prophecy: son of certain name will become king; all sons given the name. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| M312.2.1 | Prophecy: son to be more powerful than father. Greek: Grote I 173. |
| M314.1 | Prophecy: son who catches certain fawn will become king. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| M312.0.5 | Prophecy: son will tie father to a horse's leg and strike him fifty blows. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| M342.2 | Prophecy: son-to-be to destroy lineage. Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 108. |
| M316 | Prophecy: strength to be gained when milk is drunk from hero's skull. Irish myth: Cross. |
| M312.4 | Prophecy: superb beauty for girl. Type 709; Africa (Thonga): Junod II 266ff., (Ekoi): Talbot 401. |
| M341.2.4 | Prophecy: three-fold death. Child to die from hunger, fire, and water. It so happens. *Jackson The Motive of the Threefold Death in the Story of Suibhne Geilt (Essays and Studies Presented to Eoin MacNeill 535—550); Irish myth: *Cross; Estonian: Aarne FFC XXV 136 No. 96; Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| M359.4 | Prophecy: torture "with varied tortures." Irish myth: Cross. |
| M356.3 | Prophecy: unborn (new-born) child (girl) to bring evil upon land. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| M364.7.4 | Prophecy: unborn child shall be nun. Irish myth: Cross. |
| M311.3 | Prophecy: unborn child to be a saint. Loomis White Magic 17f.; Irish: *Cross, Beal XXI 327, O'Suilleabhain 74. |
| M355 | Prophecy: unborn child to be blind, deformed, sickly, etc. Irish myth: Cross. |
| M311.4 | Prophecy: unborn child to become king. (Cf. M314.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| M359.3 | Prophecy: unborn child to kill enemy in revenge. Irish myth: Cross. |
| M311.6 | Prophecy: unborn child will be prophet. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| M364.5 | Prophecy: vicinity in which saint lost tooth will be deserted by heathen. Irish myth: Cross. |
| M323 | Prophecy: victory against great odds. Irish myth: Cross; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 183. |
| M312.1 | Prophecy: wealthy marriage for poor boy. *Types 461, 930; **Aarne FFC XXIII; **Tille Zs. f. Vksk. XXVIII 22a; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| M312.1.1 | Prophecy: wealthy marriage for poor girl. *BP I 288; *Aarne FFC XXIII 110. |
| M359.1 | Prophecy: weapons with which man is killed will recount deed to his son. Irish myth: Cross. |
| M341.2.20 | Prophecy: wholesale slaughter to be inflicted by colossal wheel rolling over Europe. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| M343.4 | Prophecy: wicked couple to be killed by own child. Irish myth: Cross. |
| M363.2.1 | Prophecy: woman to be ancestress of David and the Messiah. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| M345.1.1 | Prophecy: woman will have many lovers. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| M357 | Prophecy: world catastrophe. Irish myth: *Cross; Jewish: *Neuman; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 501. |
| M314.3 | Prophecy: younger son will succeed to throne. Irish myth: Cross. |
| M312.2.2 | Prophecy: youngest brother to rule over his brethren. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| M302.1 | Prophesying through knowledge of animal languages. Type 516; Rösch FFC LXXVII 116; Greek: Frazer Apollodorus I 87 n. 3. |
| M301.0.1 | Prophet destined never to be believed. Greek: Fox 179 (Cassandra); India: Thompson-Balys. |
| M301.0.2 | Prophet speaks six nights each year. Irish myth: Cross. |
| M300.3 | Prophetic gift received from another prophet. Jewish: Neuman. |
| M301 | Prophets. **E. Bass Die merkmale der israelitischen Prophetie nach der traditionellen Auffassung des Talmud (Berlin, 1917); *Hdwb. d. Abergl. IX Nachträge 66—100; Icelandic: *Boberg; Irish myth: *Cross; Jewish: *Neuman. |
| M101.5 | Punishment for broken oath: loss of the inheritance of earth or heaven. Irish myth: Cross. |
| M101 | Punishment for broken oaths. Kristensen Danske Sagn VI (1) (1900) 33ff., (1936) 18ff.; Jewish: *Neuman. |
| M149.4 | Quarreling prince and princess vow that if they are married he will desert her on the wedding day and she will make him eat boiled rice and thin broth for six months. It so happens. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| M392 | Queen dies from fright from evil prophecy. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| M261.1.1 | Raja to marry girl when cut mango branch blooms. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| M161.6 | Rather die in battle than in bed. Icelandic: cf. MacCulloch Eddic 305ff., *Boberg. |
| M161.5 | Rather die than go in the enemy's service. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| M414 | Recipient of curse. |
| M429.3 | Release from curse by burning animal in straw pile. French Canadian: Sister Marie Ursule. |
| M429.1 | Release from curse by burning vomit. French Canadian: Sister Marie Ursule. |
| M429.4 | Release from curse by heating the colter of the plow in the stove. French Canadian: Sister Marie Ursule. |
| M429.5 | Release from curse by pricking louse and hanging it on wall. French Canadian: Sister Marie Ursule. |
| M429.6 | Release from curse by putting a five cent piece in the churn. French Canadian: Sister Marie Ursule. |
| M429.7 | Release from curse by putting a piece of silver in the gun. French Canadian: Sister Marie Ursule. |
| M429.2 | Release from curse by putting pins around horse's heart and then boiling it. French Canadian: Sister Marie Ursule. |
| M421 | Release from curse with birth of child. Penzer VIII 59 n. 2. |
| M183 | Religious vows. (Cf. M177.) |
| M263 | Retreat in return for cessation of attack. Host agrees to march back a day's journey if warrior will cease his feats of arms upon them until a certain battle in the future. Irish myth: Cross. |
| M13.1 | Ruler has son beheaded for rape. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| M414.3 | Saint cursed. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| M411.8.5 | Saint curses books hidden by inhospitable host: no man shall read them. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| M364.8.1 | Saint foretells desecration of his bones. Irish myth: Cross. |
| M341.0.1 | Saint prophesies that certain man will have a warning of coming death. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| M411.8 | Saint's (prophet's) curse. *Loomis White Magic 100f.; Irish myth: *Cross; Jewish: *Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| M364.4.1 | Saint's resurrection to take place where chariot breaks down. Irish myth: Cross. |
| M301.5 | Saints (holy men) as prophets. *Loomis White Magic 71; Irish myth: *Cross; Jewish: *Neuman. |
| M411.8.1 | Saints curse by ringing bells against offender. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| M402 | Satire. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| M1 | Senseless judicial decisions. *Chauvin VIII 203 No. 245. |
| M13 | Sentence applied to king's own son. Those caught in adultery are to have eyes put out. When king's son is found guilty he insists on the punishment. He finally compromises by having one of his own and one of his son's eyes put out. *Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 226; Spanish Exempla: Keller; Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| M414.8.3 | Serpent cursed. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| M217.1 | Servant makes pact with devil denying Christ to secure nobleman's daughter. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| M20 | Short-sighted judgments. |
| M301.21 | Sibyl as prophet. Writes on leaves blown about by winds. (Cf. M302.8.) Greek: *Grote I 307. |
| M369.5.1 | Signs before destruction of Jerusalem. Irish myth: Cross. |
| M375.2 | Slaughter of children to prevent fulfillment of parricide prophecy. Irish myth: Cross; India: Thompson-Balys; Hindu: Keith 171. |
| M375 | Slaughter of innocents to avoid fulfillment of prophecy. *Hartland Perseus I 14; Irish myth: *Cross; Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| M301.19 | Smith as prophet. Irish myth: Cross. |
| M365.2 | Son to be brave and wise but not to remain and cause mother to weep. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| M271 | Sons agree to meet at father's grave after they have been out in world for one year to learn trade. Chinese: Graham. |
| M256.1 | Sons break promise to have masses for father's soul. "If he is in Hell it will do him no good; if he is in Heaven he won't need it; and if he is in Purgatory he can purge himself." Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| M301.11 | Spirit as prophet. (Cf. F400.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| M201.3 | Spitting of all parties into vessel to seal bargain. Icelandic: MacCulloch Eddic 53; England: Baughman. |
| M377.1 | Stone that is to kill one powdered and thrown into distant sea. Irish myth: Cross. |
| M301.14 | Summoned dead prophesies. Icelandic: Herrmann Saxo II 98, *Boberg. |
| M272 | Supernatural woman promises to return if she gives birth to a boy. Chinese: Graham. |
| M300.4 | Suppression of prophecy. Jewish: Neuman. |
| M119.6 | Swearing by "the Seven Things which they serve." Irish myth: *Cross. |
| M119.2 | Swearing by (clan) gods. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| M119.8.2 | Swearing by life of father. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| M119.8.1 | Swearing by one's father and mother. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| M116.1 | Swearing by saint's bachall. Irish myth: Cross. |
| M116.2 | Swearing by saint's bell. Irish myth: Cross. |
| M119.1 | Swearing by the elements: sun, moon, stars, wind. Irish myth: *Cross; Greek: Argonautica III 689, Odyssey V 185. |
| M118 | Swearing on a skull. Irish myth: Cross. |
| M119.5 | Swearing on a stone. (Cf. M114.2.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| M116.0.1 | Swearing on hand of king. Irish myth: Cross. |
| M114.4 | Swearing on sacred relics. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| M110.1 | Swearing while one knows that his oath is rendered valueless. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| M377 | Sword that is to kill one is weighted and sunk so as to avoid the prophecy. (Cf. M341.2.) Icelandic: Boberg. |
| M114.5 | Taking oath on cowdung. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| M119 | Taking of vows and oaths—miscellaneous. |
| M110 | Taking of vows and oaths. |
| M302.5 | Tasks assigned so as to learn future. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| M216.1 | The devil helps man study for priesthood. For this, he must promise the devil his soul. Having become a great priest, the man finds means to save himself. Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 3266, Legends Nos. 400ff. |
| M216.2 | The devil makes the herdsman's son a priest in return for a whistle. After quarreling with the devil, who asked to repair the whistle during Mass, the priest forgets all he learned and does not know how to hold Mass. Is beaten. Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 3269, Legends Nos. 413f. |
| M312.0.4.1 | The dream about a tree which sprouts enormously, indicates the birth of a hero (saint). Loomis White Magic 19. |
| M414.10 | Thief cursed. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| M359.10 | Thievery a predestined lot. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| M455.3 | Thrall cursed to sit on chest and yell and never have rest. Icelandic: Lagerholm 99—100, *Boberg. |
| M233 | Three deformed witches invited to wedding in exchange for help. *Type 501; BP I 109; **Von Sydow Tvе Spinnsagor. |
| M301.12 | Three fates, "norns", prophesy at child's birth. Icelandic: Corpus Poeticum Boreale I 131, FFC LXXIII xxxvii, *Boberg. |
| M115.1 | Three-fold oath. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| M295.1 | Tiger lets man go on condition he does not tell what he has overheard. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| M369.6 | Time and place of landing of returning heroes prophesied. Irish myth: Cross. |
| M412 | Time of giving curse. |
| M291 | Trickster undertakes impossible bargains and collects his part. Trusts that in the year he is given either he or the other will die. Chauvin VIII 117ff. No. 101 n. 1. |
| M205.1.1 | Turtle carrying man through water upsets him because of a broken promise. Chinese: Werner 367. |
| M296 | Two men in love agree to have nothing to do with the girl without the other's consent. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 153. |
| M306.2 | Two sons: one a purse cutter and the other a killer. Wife tells husband that they will make a purse designer of one, and a butcher of the other. Spanish: Childers. |
| M311.5 | Unborn child will become nation's deliverer. Jewish: Neuman. |
| M300.2 | Unconscious prophecy. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| M359 | Unfavorable prophecies—miscellaneous. Irish myth: Cross; Jewish: Neuman. |
| M340 | Unfavorable prophecies. |
| M404 | Unintentional curse or blessing takes effect. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| M370 | Vain attempts to escape fulfillment of prophecy. (Cf. M341.2.10, M343, M344.) *Type 930; **Aarne FFC XXIII 110ff.; *BP IV 116 n. 10; *Fb "rig" III 55a; *Cosquin études 27ff.; Irish myth: *Cross; Greek: Grote I 85; Jewish: *Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 109, 428, 598, II 1220; Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 202 No. 149; Africa (Wakweli): Bender 103. |
| M364 | Various prophecies connected with saints (or holy men). Irish myth: *Cross; Jewish: *Neuman. |
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