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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
M
Ordaining the Future
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Chance and Fate
P
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 ▲ |
|---|---|
| Q501.6 | Punishment of Io. Transformed to cow with gadfly ceaselessly pursuing. Greek: Fox 29. |
| Q501.5 | Punishment of Ixion. Lashed to a wheel which revolves continually. Greek: Fox 144, *Frazer Apollodorus II 148 n. 1. |
| Q232.2 | Punishment of Jew for apostasy. Jewish: Neuman. |
| Q501.3 | Punishment of Loki. A serpent above him continually drops venom in his face. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| Q501.4 | Punishment of Prometheus. Chained to a mountain with eagle preying on his vitals, which are restored nightly. (Punishment for theft of fire.) Greek: *W. Schmid Untersuchungen zum gefesselten Prometheus (Stuttgart, 1929), Fox 13, *Frazer Apollodorus I 228 n. 2; Jewish: Neuman. |
| Q501.1 | Punishment of Sisyphus. Must keep rolling a great stone up hill. It continually falls down. Reinach Revue Archéologique 1903 (4) Series I 154ff.; Greek: Frazer Apollodorus I 78 n. 3. |
| Q501.2 | Punishment of Tantalus. Stands in a pool that ever recedes from his thirsty lips; branches of fruit spring away from him; stone over his head continually threatens to fall. Reinach Revue Archéologique 1903 (4) series I 154ff.; *Frazer Pausanias V 392; Greek: *Frazer Apollodorus II 154 n. 2; Jewish: *Neuman. |
| Q212.3 | Punishment of theft: origin of sweating. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q255 | Punishment of woman who prefers mortal lover to gods. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q438 | Punishment: abandonment in forest. (Cf. S143.) India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| Q466.2 | Punishment: abandonment on cliff that is submerged at high tide. Icelandic: Boberg; Maurer Bekehrung des norwegischen Stammes I 301 and n. 8. |
| Q433.12 | Punishment: abridgment of freedom till extravagant boast is confirmed. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q553.2 | Punishment: angel ceases to appear to self-righteous hermit. Type 756A; Köhler-Bolte I 147f., 578; Spanish: Espinosa II No. 81, Espinosa Jr. No. 186. |
| Q551.2 | Punishment: animal skin grows on man's back. He had masked in the skin in order to cheat. *Type 831; Irish myth: *Cross; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q551.4 | Punishment: animals become sick. |
| Q431 | Punishment: banishment (exile). *Boje 63; Dickson 78; Gaster Thespis 304; Irish: *Cross, O'Suilleabhain 88, Beal XXI 328; Icelandic: *Boberg; Greek: Frazer Apollodorus I 350 n. 1 (Oedipus), Grote I 172; Jewish: *Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 38, 143; Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 205, 214; S. A. Indian (Tupinamba): Métraux RMLP XXXIII 169. |
| Q422.0.1 | Punishment: beating to death. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q421 | Punishment: beheading. DeCock Volkssage 75; *Roberts 211; Irish myth: Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg; French Canadian: Sister Marie Ursule; Jewish: *Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| Q453 | Punishment: being bitten by animal. (Cf. Q415.) |
| Q453.1 | Punishment: being bitten by ants. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q453.2 | Punishment: being bitten by scorpion. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q415.5 | Punishment: being devoured by tiger. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| Q415 | Punishment: being eaten by animals. (Cf. Q453, Q557.) *DeCock Volkssage 88; Irish: O'Suilleabhain 46, Beal XXI 317. |
| Q415.0.1 | Punishment: being eaten by demon. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q415.1 | Punishment: being eaten by dogs. Eskimo: Thompson Tales 4, 272 n. 2. |
| Q415.9 | Punishment: being eaten by fish. Tuamotu: Stimson MS (z-G. 3/1301); Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 504. |
| Q415.4 | Punishment: being fed to lions (wild beasts). Italian Novella: *Rotunda; Jewish: Neuman. |
| Q416.3.1 | Punishment: being gored to death by elephant. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q493 | Punishment: being saddled and ridden as horse. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| Q552.23 | Punishment: being suspended between heaven and earth. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q512.2 | Punishment: binding together sand and string. (Cf. H1021.1.) Swiss: Jegerlehner Oberwallis 304 No. 24. |
| Q559.7 | Punishment: body will not decay after death because man broke saint's covenant. (Cf. Q227.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q414.1 | Punishment: boiling in oil (lead, tar). DeCock Volkssage 80; Child II 312 n. 327, IV 480a, V 53, 56, 230; Icelandic: FSS 243; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| Q469.9 | Punishment: boring hot irons through ears. (Cf. S112.2.) Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q423 | Punishment: breaking upon a wheel. Von Amira Sitzb. bair. Akad. XXXI (3) 106ff.; Icelandic: Boberg; Irish myth: Cross; Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q456.1 | Punishment: burial alive up to the breast (neck). BP I 432; Köhler-Bolte I 571; Cowell Jataka I 130; India: *Thompson-Balys; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 597. |
| Q414 | Punishment: burning alive. **W. Foerster Der Feuertod als Strafe in der altfr. erzählenden Dichtung (Halle, 1913); *Fb "brænde" IV 69ab, "teglovn"; Dickson 74; Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 232; Alphabet No. 353; Grimm No. 3 (Type 710).—Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg; French Canadian: Barbeau JAFL XXIX 20; Spanish: Keller, Espinosa Jr. Nos. 140, 161; Italian: Basile Pentamerone II No. 2, Rotunda; Jewish: *Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 35 No. 22; S. A. Indian (Huamachuco): Métraux RMLP XXXIII 151; Africa (Luba): DeClerq ZsKS IV 222. |
| Q414.3 | Punishment: burning and scattering ashes. Italian: Basile Pentamerone V No. 9. |
| Q551.3.3 | Punishment: calf's head in murderer's hand turns to corpse's head. (Cf. Q211.) *BP I 276 n. 2, II 535. |
| Q511.2 | Punishment: carrying corpse of murdered man until another can be induced to take it. Africa (Gold Coast): Barker and Sinclair 66 No. 9. |
| Q511.1 | Punishment: carrying corpse of murdered man until stone as long as murdered man is found. This is to be put on the grave. Irish: MacCulloch Celtic 72, Cross. |
| Q511 | Punishment: carrying corpse of murdered man. (Cf. Q211.) RTP II 267, VIII 586; FL IX 375ff. No. 3; Zs. f. österreichische Volkskunde VII 197; Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q451.10.1 | Punishment: castration. (Cf. K2111.3.) Herrmann Saxo II 354. |
| Q469.5 | Punishment: choking with smoke. This given a lawyer who has "sold smoke", i.e., idle words. BP III 495 n.; *Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 786; Scala Celi 7b No. 48. |
| Q552.22 | Punishment: city and inhabitants hurled down precipice. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q469.2 | Punishment: climbing red-hot rod. (Cf. S112.2.) Jamaica: Beckwith MAFLS XVII 75 No. 68. |
| Q552.15 | Punishment: cloud cuts off view of man promised all he can see for expelling saint. (Cf. Q227.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q414.3.1 | Punishment: crushing in rice mill and scattering ashes. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q429.1 | Punishment: culprit eaten by cannibals. Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 824. |
| Q421.3 | Punishment: cutting throat. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q414.4 | Punishment: dancing to death in red-hot shoes. Type 709; *BP I 450ff., *464; *Loomis White Magic 118. |
| Q551.6.0.2 | Punishment: death from unknown disease before end of three days for having obtained food by force from monastery. Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q591.1 | Punishment: death pretended becomes real. Revue Celtique xxvii 297; Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q501.2.2 | Punishment: delicious food always fills with maggots just as man is about to eat it. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q554.1 | Punishment: devil carries off thief. (Cf. Q212.) Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 378. |
| Q552.18 | Punishment: disappearance of ill-gotten gains. (Cf. Q585, Q595.) Irish myth: Cross; Jewish: *Neuman. |
| Q473 | Punishment: disgraceful journey through streets. (Cf. Q432.2.) |
| Q416.2 | Punishment: dragging to death by a horse. Cheremis: Sebeok-Nyerges; Lithuanian: Balys Index Nos. 452*f., 481*; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q416.2.2 | Punishment: dragging to death tied to horns of a bull. Greek: Grote I 241. |
| Q416 | Punishment: drawing asunder by horses. (Cf. Q469.12.) Child V 157; BP I 306; Grimm Deutsche Rechtsalterthümer II 272; DeCock Volkssage 91. — Irish myth: Cross; Icelandic: FSS 42, Boberg; Spanish: Espinosa Jr. Nos. 126, 143; Greek: Frazer Apollodorus I 331 n. I (Lycurgus); India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q416.2.1 | Punishment: drawing at the tails of horses. (Cf. S117.) Irish myth: Cross; Jewish: *Neuman. |
| Q417 | Punishment: dropping and dashing to pieces. (Cf. Q551.10.) Von Amira Sitzb. bair. Akad. XXXI (3) 136ff.; Irish myth: Cross; Spanish: Boggs FFC XC 49 No. 327F*. |
| Q467.3 | Punishment: drowning in swamp. (Cf. Q474.) Grimm Rechtsalterthümer II 276ff.; Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| Q428 | Punishment: drowning. (Cf. Q552.19.) Irish myth: *Cross; Jewish: *Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| Q478.5.1 | Punishment: eating ashes (coal) mixed with food. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q478.5 | Punishment: eating ashes instead of food. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q432 | Punishment: ejectment. |
| Q551.8.7 | Punishment: face distorted. India: Thompson-Balys; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 600, 808. |
| Q434 | Punishment: fettering. |
| Q598 | Punishment: fighting all who pass through forest. Dickson 69 n. 16. |
| Q512.1 | Punishment: filling leaky vessels with water from a bottomless jar. (Cf. H1023.2.) Greek: Fox 31. |
| Q552.14.2 | Punishment: flood of mud after which crops of corn come up with black (smutted) ears. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q451.10 | Punishment: genitalia cut off. Liebrecht 94ff.; DeCock Volkssage 86; Spanish Exempla: Keller; Italian Novella: *Rotunda; Jewish: *Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q552.17 | Punishment: grave fills with sand when digger attempts to bury sinner over holy man. (Cf. Q222.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q469.3 | Punishment: grinding up in a mill. Liebrecht 258f.; Fb "male" II 535a; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q413 | Punishment: hanging. *DeCock Volkssage 74; *Hdwb. d. Abergl. III 1438ff.; Irish: O'Suilleabhain 107, Beal XXI 334; Icelandic: *Boberg; Jewish: Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys; Marquesas: Handy 63. |
| Q451.13 | Punishment: head split into many pieces. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| Q551.4.1 | Punishment: horses become sick. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| Q414.2 | Punishment: imprisonment in white-hot iron house. Irish myth: Cross (cf. also S112.6); Welsh: MacCulloch Celtic 101. |
| Q433 | Punishment: imprisonment. Icelandic: *Boberg; Missouri French: Carrière; Spanish: Espinosa Jr. Nos. 139, 206f.; Jewish: *Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| Q551.5.1.2 | Punishment: king and queen reborn as children of scavenger. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q414.5 | Punishment: king hung between two fires. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| Q552.24 | Punishment: lava flow. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 500. |
| Q591 | Punishment: lie becomes truth. (Cf. Q263.) *Loomis White Magic 100; Irish: Beal XXI 327, O'Suilleabhain 74; Japanese: Ikeda. |
| Q551.3.2.1 | Punishment: Loki's son transformed into wolf which tears his brother to pieces. Icelandic: MacCulloch Eddic 146. |
| Q415.3 | Punishment: man eaten by worms (snake). Finnish-Swedish: Wessman 19 No. 180; Jewish: Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q482.6 | Punishment: man must do women's work. Jewish: Neuman. |
| Q551.5.1.1 | Punishment: man reborn as girl. (Cf. Q292.1.) India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| Q591.2 | Punishment: man says salt he carries is stones; it immediately becomes so. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q591.2.1 | Punishment: man says sugar he carries is earth; it becomes so. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q559.2 | Punishment: man stricken blind. (Cf. Q451.7.0.2.) Irish: Beal XXI 336; Icelandic: *Boberg; Finnish-Swedish: Wessman 18 No. 172; Jewish: *Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| Q551.3.2.5 | Punishment: man transformed to a mass of worms. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q599.1 | Punishment: marrying shrewish wife. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q552.11 | Punishment: meeting frightful apparition. (Ghost, mysterious animal, devil.) Finnish-Swedish: Wessman 17ff. Nos. 158—161, 167, 169-71, 179. |
| Q551.3.3.1 | Punishment: melon in murderer's hand turns to murdered man's head. Africa (Fulah): Equilbecq II 205ff. No. 43. |
| Q551.6.0.1 | Punishment: men stricken with leprosy. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| Q412 | Punishment: millstone dropped on guilty person. *Type 720; BP I 412ff., *423; Liebrecht 296; *Fb "möllesten" II 650; Herrmann Saxo II 568 n. 2, Grimm Deutsche Rechtsalterthümer II 277. — Jewish: Neuman. |
| Q469.4 | Punishment: millstone hung around neck. Woman has had desire to kill frog. (Cf. Q211.8.) Tobler 28. |
| Q462.1 | Punishment: nailing to pillar. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q482 | Punishment: noble person must do menial service. (Cf. A181, H465.) Irish: *Cross, Beal XXI 319f., O'Suilleabhain 53; Missouri French: Carrière; Greek: Grote I 54; Jewish: Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys; Tuamotu: Stimson MS (z-G. 13/48, z-G. 3/1386). |
| Q427 | Punishment: opening own veins and bleeding to death. (Seneca) Alphabet No. 224. |
| Q512 | Punishment: performing impossible task. (Cf. H1010.) |
| Q469.9.2 | Punishment: piercing with needles. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q473.6 | Punishment: princess to display self on roof. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q465.3 | Punishment: pushing into well. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| Q553.3.7 | Punishment: reduced number of children. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| Q512.3 | Punishment: ridding country of pests. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q473.1 | Punishment: riding through street on bull. |
| Q469.8 | Punishment: sawing in twain. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q467.3.1 | Punishment: sea-spell chanted by druidess causes rival to drown. Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q473.5 | Punishment: sending out of town on donkeys. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| Q466.0.2 | Punishment: setting adrift in boat. Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q473.5.1 | Punishment: shaving head and covering with tar and driving forth on back of donkey to sound of drum. Stranger thinks he is being honored. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q552.12 | Punishment: shipwreck. Irish myth: *Cross; Finnish-Swedish: Wessman 18 Nos. 174—75. |
| Q553.5 | Punishment: small catch of fish for child-murderers. Fisherman and his wife have always caught three fishes. From greed they kill their child in order to have more fish for themselves. But they thereafter catch but two fishes. (Cf. Q211.4.) Type 832. |
| Q452 | Punishment: snake sucks woman's breasts. Herbert III 9; *Klapper Erzählungen des Mittelalters 175ff., 372f.; Oesterley 683f.; Herrtage EETS (ES) XXXIII 275ff. |
| Q429.4 | Punishment: squeezing to death. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q422 | Punishment: stoning to death. (Cf. Q220.1.1.) Von Amira Sitzb. bair. Akad. XXXI (3) 155ff.; R. Hirzel Abh. sächs. Ges. der Wiss. Phil.-Hist. Klasse XXVII No. 7. — Icelandic: Corpus Poeticum Boreale I 344, *Boberg; Spanish Exempla: Keller; Italian Novella: *Rotunda; Jewish: *Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| Q424 | Punishment: strangling. (Cf. Q469.5, S113.) *DeCock Volkssage 77; Marquesas: Handy 113, 129. |
| Q451.4.10 | Punishment: stretching tongue to enormous length. Korean: Zong in-Sob 145 No. 64. |
| Q425 | Punishment: suffocating. (Cf. Q274.2.) |
| Q594 | Punishment: taking snakes as foster children. *Type 751B. |
| Q469.9.1 | Punishment: tearing off flesh with hot pincers. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q451.8 | Punishment: thong of leather cut from back. DeCock Studien 9f.; Cosquin Contes indiens 179; Fb "rem" III 39a; Norwegian: R. Berge Eventyr II 49, 66, 71; Russian: Ralston Russian Folk Tales 146. |
| Q491.7 | Punishment: throwing dead body into river. Africa (Fang): Trilles 270. |
| Q465.4 | Punishment: throwing into water-filled lime pit. Jewish: Neuman. |
| Q416.1 | Punishment: trampling (kicking) to death by horses. East Gothic: De la Saussaye 135; Grimm Deutsche Rechtsalterthümer II 273; Liebrecht Orient und Occident II 270; G. Kurth Histoire poetique des Merovingiens 420ff. — Icelandic: *Boberg; Indonesia: Snouck-Hurgronje De Atjehers II 142. |
| Q416.3 | Punishment: trampling by elephants. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| Q551.3.2 | Punishment: transformation into animal. (Cf. Q226.2.) S. A. Indian (Toba): Métraux MAFLS XL 31. |
| Q551.3.5.1 | Punishment: transformation into falling star. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q551.3.2.3 | Punishment: transformation into frog. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q551.3.2.4 | Punishment: transformation into monkey. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| Q551.3.5 | Punishment: transformation into other object. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q551.3.5.2 | Punishment: transformation into tree. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q551.3.1 | Punishment: transformation of lovers into lion and lioness for desecrating temple. They have had sexual relations in the temple. It was believed that lions do not mate with each other; hence their sin could not be repeated. Greek: *Frazer Apollodorus I 401 n. 2. |
| Q551.3.2.6 | Punishment: transformation to ass. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q551.3.2.8 | Punishment: transformation to calf. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q415.1.1 | Punishment: transformation to deer which is devoured by dogs. Greek: Frazer Apollodorus I 323 (Acteon). |
| Q551.3.2.7 | Punishment: transformation to dog. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q551.3 | Punishment: transformation. (Cf. D661.) Greek: Grote I 32. |
| Q469.7 | Punishment: twisting entrails from body. Fb III 776a; Mannhardt Wald- und Feldkulte I 28; Heinzel Beschreibung der isländischen Saga 162. |
| Q415.1.2 | Punishment: tying man to horses and setting vicious hounds after him. (Cf. Q416, S117.) Scottish: Campbell-McKay No. 25. |
| Q473.2 | Punishment: tying to horse's tail. Fb "hest" IV 212a; Icelandic: Boberg. |
| Q495 | Punishment: unseemly exposure of body. Jewish: Neuman. |
| Q478.4 | Punishment: using fat rendered from daughter's mutilated corpse to cook with and to light candles. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q502.2 | Punishment: wandering till iron shoes are worn out. *Types 400, 425; *BP II 272; Missouri French: Carrière; Italian: Basile Pentamerone V No. 4. |
| Q552.3.6 | Punishment: water famine. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| Q411.1 | Punishment: winning as wife and then killing. Type 956B; *BP I 373. |
| Q451.9.1 | Punishment: woman suspended by her breasts. Jewish: Neuman. |
| Q551.3.2.2 | Punishment: woman transformed into bird. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q552.9 | Punishment: woman who has prevented birth of children casts no shadow. (Cf. Q251.) *Type 755; *Fb "skygge" III 347ab; Finnish-Swedish: Wessman 19 No. 186. |
| Q451.9 | Punishment: woman's breasts cut off. Zupitza Zs. f. Vksk. XI 91; Child Nos. 5, 80, 81; Scotch: Campbell Tales I lxxxix—xc. See also Peele's "King Edward the First". |
| Q561 | Punishments being prepared in hell. |
| Q567 | Punishments by cold in hell. *Krappe Bulletin Hispanique XXXIX 18; Irish myth: Cross; Jewish: Neuman. |
| Q566 | Punishments by heat in hell. (Cf. A671.2.4.) Irish myth: *Cross; Jewish: *Neuman; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 885. |
| Q563 | Punishments in hell fitted to crimes. (Cf. Q580.) Zs. f. celtische Phil. IX 413ff.; Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q560 | Punishments in hell. (Cf. Q174.) Fb "helvede" IV 209a; Wienert FFC LVI 41; Krappe "Notes on Dante's Inferno" Archivum Romanicum VI 376—385, XI 592—603; Festskrift til Feilberg 202. — Irish: *Cross, Beal XXI 319—23, O'Suilleabhain 51, 53, 58; Icelandic: *Boberg; Lithuanian: Balys Legends Nos. 391, 467f., 470f., 585; Spanish: Espinosa Jr. Nos. 202, 204, Keller; Greek: Grote I 129; Egyptian: Müller 179f.; Jewish: *Neuman, Moreno Esdras; India: *Thompson-Balys; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 598. |
| Q560.1 | Punishments in land of dead (detailed). India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q560.1.1 | Punishments in other world: people reincarnated as buffaloes and killed. Chinese: Graham. |
| Q552.2.0.1 | Quaking of earth as punishment. (Cf. D2148.) Irish myth: Cross; Jewish: *Neuman. |
| Q306 | Quarrelsomeness punished. (Cf. Q551.7.3.) Irish myth: Cross; Africa (Wakweli): Bender 62. |
| Q416.0.1 | Quartering by horses as punishment for breaking betrothal. (Cf. Q252.) Estonian: Aarne FFC XXV 136 No. 93. |
| Q416.0.3 | Quartering by horses as punishment for impostor. (Cf. Q262.) Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| Q416.0.2 | Quartering by horses as punishment for murder. (Cf. Q211.3.) Icelandic: *Boberg; Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| Q416.0.2.1 | Quartering by horses as punishment for uxoricide. (Cf. Q211.3.) Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q596.1 | Quartering in effigy for uxoricide. (Cf. Q211.3.) Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q211.4.1 | Queen expelled for poisoning stepson. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| Q482.2.1 | Queen forced to do menial service rescued by son. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q482.5 | Queen made to scare crows away in fields. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q482.2.2 | Queen ordered to go and live in woodcutter's house as servant. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q482.2 | Queen placed in kitchen and abused by butcher. Irish myth: Cross. Welsh: MacCulloch Celtic 101. |
| Q56.3 | Queen rewards love of man of low lineage by making him an ambassador. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q552.14.4 | Rain of stones as punishment. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q553.7 | Rains withheld until king remembers to have monks' huts roofed as promised. (Cf. Q266.) Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 288. |
| Q244.0.1 | Ravisher is forced to marry girl and then is executed. Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| Q552.1.2 | Ravisher killed by thunderbolt. (Cf. Q244.) Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q414.0.4.1 | Ravisher's grave and body miraculously burnt. Scala Celi 111a No. 619; Wright Latin Stories 112. |
| Q552.10.1 | Recurrent plague during reign of wicked king. (Cf. Q552.3.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q535.3 | Refraining from sexual intercourse as penance. (Cf. C110.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q257 | Refusal of conjugal relations punished. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| Q287 | Refusal to grant request punished. (Cf. Q499.4.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q551.5 | Reincarnation as punishment. (Cf. E600, Q584.3.) India: Thompson-Balys; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 222, 342, 424, 479, 597, 740, 1148, II 355, 670, 691, 792, 918, 1028, 1272. |
| Q584.3 | Reincarnation in form fitted to crime. (Cf. Q551.5.) Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 50, 829, 1020, II 706, 1050, 1357. |
| Q551.5.1 | Reincarnation into degraded form as punishment. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| Q174.1 | Release from hell as reward for repentance. (Cf. Q36.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q170 | Religious rewards. *Krappe Bulletin Hispanique XXXIX 23; Jewish: *Neuman. |
| Q494.2 | Removal from priesthood as punishment. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| Q275 | Remover of landmarks punished. Kuhn Sagen aus Westfalen I 40f. No. 34, 118 No. 127, 177 No. 187; Hoffman JAFL II 33; Frahm Am Urquell II 202. |
| Q222.1.1 | Renegade priest punished by death for allowing heathen to defile the host. A knight slays the priest. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| Q284 | Reproach concerning physical deformity (blemish) punished. (Cf. Q411.9.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q338.1 | Request for immortality punished by transformation into tree. N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 276 n. 18. |
| Q150.1 | Rescue from deluge as reward. Jewish: Moreno Esdras, *Neuman; Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 81f. |
| Q560.2 | Respite from hell. |
| Q151.9 | Resurrection as reward. Jewish: Moreno Esdras (Q151.5); Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 188 No. 128. |
| Q45.4 | Revenge given up as reward for hospitality. (Cf. Q151.6.) Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| Q101 | Reward fitting to deed. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| Q62 | Reward for ability to keep secrets. Type 480; *Roberts 159; Africa (Ekoi): Talbot 178. |
| Q44 | Reward for almsgiving. Scala Celi 81b, 83a Nos. 465, 472; Alphabet 298, 302; Crane Vitry 175 No. 96; Spanish: Keller, Espinosa II No. 86, Espinosa Jr. No. 200; Jewish: Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 134, 342, II 1091, 1366; Japanese: Ikeda. |
| Q85 | Reward for asking proper questions. Irish myth: *Cross; Welsh: MacCulloch Celtic 203. |
| Q38 | Reward for attendance on holy man. (Cf. Q116.1.) Jewish: Neuman; Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 83, 158, 163f. |
| Q34 | Reward for austerities of hermit. (Cf. Q144.1.) The further he must carry water, the greater his heavenly reward. Scala Celi 15a No. 84; Oesterley No. 80; *A. E. Schönbach Die Legende von Engel und Waldbruder (Wien, 1901); India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| Q93.1 | Reward for bringing rain. Chinese: Graham. |
| Q25 | Reward for carrying Christ across a stream. Christ is in the form of a child. (St. Christopher.) *Type 768; Dh II 266; Legenda Aurea (ed. Graesse) 432; *Schwickert Zs. f. Vksk. NF III 14—26; Klapper Erzählungen des Mittelalters 111 No. 101; *Loomis White Magic 114. |
| Q37 | Reward for carrying out dead man's request. Chinese: Graham. |
| Q41.2 | Reward for cleansing loathsome person. Cleansing eyelids, bathing, lousing etc. *Roberts 168; Type 480; Africa (Chaga): Gutmann 132ff. No. 83, (Alo): Pratt-Chadwick and Lamprey The Alo Man (New York, 1927) 17ff., (Batanga): Nassau JAFL XXVIII 45ff. No. 16, (Bulu): Krug JAFL XXV 113 No. 9, (Bambara): Travélé 205ff. No. 66, (Hausa): Equilbecq Contes indigènes III 291ff., Tremearne Hausa Superstitions and Customs (London, 1913) 424ff. No. 93. |
| Q91 | Reward for cleverness. |
| Q36.1 | Reward for confession of sins. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| Q94 | Reward for cure. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q27 | Reward for faith: boy doomed to die saved (miraculously). India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q22 | Reward for faith. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| Q82 | Reward for fearlessness. Reward given by devil or ghost. *Type 326; Penzer VII 120 n. 2; Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: Boberg; India: Thompson-Balys; Japanese: Ikeda. |
| Q95.1 | Reward for flute-playing. Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 70. |
| Q42.5 | Reward for generosity to king's buffoon. Ruler rewards herald who is generous to his buffoon. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q43 | Reward for giving counsel. Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q42.1.1.1 | Reward for giving last loaf. Chinese: Graham. |
| Q86 | Reward for industry. Hdwb. d. Märchens II 66a; India: *Thompson-Balys; West Indies: Flowers 567. |
| Q51.2 | Reward for kindness to tiger. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q87.3 | Reward for long-suffering nun: made abbess of convent. Heptameron No. 22. |
| Q72.1 | Reward for loyalty to king. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q83 | Reward for marital fidelity. (Cf. Q87.) Jewish: Moreno Esdras, Neuman. |
| Q95 | Reward for musician. |
| Q32 | Reward for offering food to crucifix (Madonna). BP III 474ff. |
| Q81 | Reward for perseverance. Penzer II 97. |
| Q87 | Reward for preservation of chastity. Irish myth: Cross; Jewish: Neuman, Moreno Esdras. |
| Q88 | Reward for proficiency. |
| Q46 | Reward for protecting fugitive. |
| Q46.1 | Reward for protecting holy fugitive. Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 3104, Legends Nos. 198—206; Greek: Frazer Apollodorus II 280 n. 1. |
| Q42.2 | Reward for providing coffins for poor. Chinese: Werner 384. |
| Q28 | Reward for religious pilgrimage. Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 188 No. 28. |
| Q21 | Reward for religious sacrifice. India: *Thompson-Balys; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 427. |
| Q42.7 | Reward for remitting tribute. (Cf. Q172.7.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q36 | Reward for repentance. (Cf. Q174.1.) Irish myth: Cross; Jewish: *Neuman. |
| Q53 | Reward for rescue. Icelandic: *Boberg; Jewish: Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys; Japanese: Ikeda. |
| Q93.2 | Reward for resuscitating dead. (Cf. E0.) Chinese: Graham. |
| Q33 | Reward for saying of prayers. (Cf. V50.) Ward II 621 No. 30; Scala Celi 136b No. 760; Jewish: *Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| Q23 | Reward for securing converts. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q20.1 | Reward for service of god, hero, or ascetic for a period. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q57.1 | Reward for shielding Mary in childbirth from gaze of onlookers. Irish: O'Suilleabhain 5. |
| Q55 | Reward for sparing life when in animal form. Hartland Science 51; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q84 | Reward for stoic endurance of pain. Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q93 | Reward for supernatural help. |
| Q42.6 | Reward for tearing out eye when demanded. Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q83.1 | Reward for wife's fidelity. India: Thompson-Balys; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 845. |
| Q35 | Reward for writing hymn. (Cf. Q172.5.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q101.1 | Reward like deed: liberal and munificent girl blessed with riches and prosperity. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q44.1 | Reward to almsgiving monk given in form of restored honor and position. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| Q86.1 | Reward to ant for industry. Ant has food all winter because she keeps it safe and dry by airing it in the sun. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| Q172 | Reward: admission to heaven. Irish myth: *Cross; Spanish Exempla: Keller; Jewish: *Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| Q115.1 | Reward: any boon that may be asked—king's wife demanded. *Schoepperle II 420ff., 528ff.; *Krappe Revue Celtique XLVIII (1931) 94; Cross and Nitze Lancelot and Guenevere (Chicago, 1930) 31ff.; Irish myth: *Cross; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q115.3 | Reward: any boon that may be asked—man asks only for son. India: Thompson-Balys. |
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