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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
C
Motifs of Tabu
D
Magic
E
The Dead
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Marvels
G
Ogres
H
Tests
J
The Wise and the Foolish
K
Deceptions
L
Reversals of Fortune
M
Ordaining the Future
N
Chance and Fate
P
Society
Q
Rewards and Punishments
R
Captives and Fugitives
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Unnatural Cruelty
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Sex
U
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 |
|---|---|
| Q432.1 | Buzzard hatched by hawk ejected for fouling nest. (Cf. Q322.) Herbert III 37ff.; Hervieux IV 276 No. 4; Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles No. 68. |
| Q432.2 | Adulteress ejected into street clad only in her shirt. (Cf. Q241, Q243, Q473.) Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles No. 8; Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| Q433 | Punishment: imprisonment. Icelandic: *Boberg; Missouri French: Carrière; Spanish: Espinosa Jr. Nos. 139, 206f.; Jewish: *Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| Q433.1 | Imprisonment for adultery. (Cf. Q241.) Heptameron No. 61; Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| Q433.1.1 | Adulteress confined in a cage. (Cf. Q241.) Malone PMLA XLIII 415f. |
| Q433.2 | Defeated giants imprisoned in lower world. Gaster Thespis 160; Greek: Fox 8 (Titans), Grote I 8. |
| Q433.3 | Zeus has embassy of dogs imprisoned for fouling his court. (Cf. Q322.) *BP III 555; Dh IV 137ff. |
| Q433.4 | Imprisonment for imposture. (Cf. Q262.) Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q433.5 | Imprisonment for attempted seduction. (Cf. Q243.2.1.) Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q433.6 | Priest imprisoned for incontinence. (Cf. Q243.) Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| Q433.7 | Imprisonment for treachery. (Cf. Q261.) Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q433.8 | Imprisonment for gambling. (Cf. Q381.) Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q433.9 | Wicked son confined on island. Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q433.10 | Earl hunting in the king's forest imprisoned. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| Q433.11 | Undesired suitor's messengers imprisoned. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| Q433.12 | Punishment: abridgment of freedom till extravagant boast is confirmed. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q433.13 | War prisoners shut up between stones. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| Q434 | Punishment: fettering. |
| Q434.1 | Adulteress and paramour fettered. (Cf. Q241.) Malone PMLA XLIII 405, 407, 421. |
| Q434.2 | War prisoners fettered. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| Q434.3 | Fettering to oak. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| Q435 | Magic imprisonment in cleft tree. New Guinea: Dixon 137. Cf. Caliban in Shakespeare's Tempest and Fradubio in Spenser's Faerie Queene Book I. |
| Q436 | Excommunication from religious association as punishment. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| Q437 | Sale into slavery as punishment. Jewish: *Neuman; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 526. |
| Q437.1 | Criminal's wife and children sold into slavery. *Chauvin VI 163 No. 327. |
| Q438 | Punishment: abandonment in forest. (Cf. S143.) India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| Q450 | Cruel punishments. |
| Q450.1 | Torture as punishment. Irish myth: Cross; Jewish: *Neuman. |
| Q450.1.1 | Torture as punishment for murder. (Cf. Q211.) Irish myth: Cross; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q451 | Mutilation as punishment. (Cf. S160.) Missouri French: Carrière; Marquesas: Handy 78, 121. |
| Q451.0.1 | Hands and feet cut off as punishment. Icelandic: Snorra Edda Skaldsk XLI, Herrmann Saxo II 571, *Boberg. |
| Q451.0.2 | Threat to cut off hand or foot. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| Q451.0.3 | Strong girl breaks impudent suitor's right hand and left foot. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| Q451.0.4 | Hands and feet cut off as punishment for robbery. (Cf. Q212.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q451.1 | Hands cut off as punishment. (Cf. S161.) *Type 706; *BP I 295; **Däumling Studie über den Typus des Mädchens ohne Hände (München, 1912); Krappe Zeitschrift für Englische Philologie XLIX 361—69; Missouri French: Carrière; Spanish Exempla: Keller; Latin American: *Knedler Hispanic Review X 314ff.; Italian Novella: Rotunda; India: *Thompson-Balys; Japanese: Ikeda. |
| Q451.1.1 | Hand cut off as punishment for theft. (Cf. Q212.) *Penzer V 61 n. 1, 143 n., VI 19; *Chauvin VI 80 No. 249; Icelandic: *Boberg; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| Q451.1.2 | Hand cut off for contempt of court. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q451.1.3 | Hand cut off for treachery. (Cf. Q261.) Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q451.1.4 | Hand cut off (falls off) as punishment for murder. (Cf. Q211.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q451.1.4.1 | Hand cut off as punishment for fornication. (Cf. Q243.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q451.1.5 | Arms cut off as punishment for adultery. (Cf. Q241.) Heptameron No. 48. |
| Q451.1.6 | Right hands cut off enemy's messengers. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| Q451.1.7 | Arms cut off as punishment for slandering. (Cf. Q263.) Eskimo (Cumberland Sound): Boas BAM XV 207. |
| Q451.2 | Laming as punishment. (Cf. S162.) Icelandic: *Boberg; Jewish: Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| Q451.2.0.1 | Limbs cut off (drop off) as punishment. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q451.2.0.2 | Boring hole through heel as punishment. Jewish: Neuman. |
| Q451.2.0.3 | Hamstringing as punishment. Eskimo (Greenland): Rasmussen I 244. |
| Q451.2.1 | Youth lamed by man whose daughter he refuses to marry. (Cf. Q245.) Köhler-Bolte I 120; *Krappe Herrig's Archiv CLVIII 9ff.; *P. Maurus Wielandsage in der Literatur (Münchner Beiträge zur rom u. eng. Philologie XXV (1902)). |
| Q451.2.2 | Feet cut off as punishment for theft. (Cf. Q212.) Penzer V 143 n.; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| Q451.2.3 | Foot cut off as punishment for murder. (Cf. Q211.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q451.2.4 | Legs cut off as punishment for adultery. (Cf. Q241.) Heptameron No. 48. |
| Q451.3 | Loss of speech as punishment. *Type 710; *BP I 13ff.; Icelandic: *Boberg; Jewish: *Neuman. |
| Q451.3.1 | Dumbness as punishment for hiding children. Fb "stum". |
| Q451.3.2 | Dumbness as punishment for lying. (Cf. Q263.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q451.3.3 | Dumbness as punishment for opposition to holy person. (*Cf. Q227.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q451.3.3.1 | Son stricken dumb as punishment for father's opposition to holy person. (Cf. Q411.3.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q451.3.4 | Dumbness as punishment for blasphemy. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| Q451.4 | Tongue cut off as punishment. DeCock Volkssage 93; Spanish: Boggs FFC XC 98 No. 836G*, Espinosa II No. 94; India: Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Graham; Japanese: Ikeda; Korean: Zong in-Sob 145 No. 64. |
| Q451.4.1 | Tongue cut off as punishment for theft. (Cf. Q212.) *Penzer V 61 n. 1, 143 n. |
| Q451.4.2 | Tongue cut out as punishment for gossip. (Cf. Q314.) Wienert FFC LVI 39; Halm Aesop No. 416. |
| Q451.4.3 | Tongue cut off as punishment for incest. (Cf. Q242.) Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q451.4.4 | Tongue cut off as punishment for treachery. (Cf. Q261.) Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q451.4.5 | Tongue cut out as punishment for murder. (Cf. Q211.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q451.4.6 | Tongue cut out as punishment for fault-finding (satire). (Cf. Q312.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q451.4.7 | Man pulls out his own tongue in remorse. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q451.4.8 | Tongue cut off as punishment for alleged adultery. (Cf. Q241.) Icelandic: Boberg. |
| Q451.4.8.1 | Tongue cut (bitten) off as punishment for unfaithfulness to wife. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| Q451.4.9 | Hanging by tongue as punishment. Cheremis: Sebeok-Nyerges. |
| Q451.4.10 | Punishment: stretching tongue to enormous length. Korean: Zong in-Sob 145 No. 64. |
| Q451.5 | Nose cut off as punishment. Bødker Exempler 280 No. 24; Irish myth: *Cross; India: *Thompson-Balys; Africa: Frobenius Atlantis IV 196. |
| Q451.5.1 | Nose cut off as punishment for adultery. (Cf. Q241.) *Penzer II 88 n. 1, V 82 n. 1, 123, 156, VI 188 n. 1, IX 76; Saxo Grammaticus (ed. Elton) 71; Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| Q451.5.1.1 | Mistress's nose cut off as punishment for faithlessness. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| Q451.5.2 | Nose cut off as punishment for theft. (Cf. Q212.) Penzer II 60ff. |
| Q451.5.3 | Nose of falsely accusing bishop bitten off. (Cf. Q263.) Dickson 46. |
| Q451.5.4 | Nose cut off as punishment for treachery. (Cf. Q261.) Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q451.6 | Ears cut off as punishment. Irish myth: Cross; Missouri French: Carrière; India: *Thompson-Balys; Africa: Frobenius Atlantis IV 196. |
| Q451.6.0.1 | Girl (fairy) bites off ear of ravisher. (Cf. F304.4.1, Q244.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q451.6.1 | Ears cut off as punishment for adultery. (Cf. Q241.) *Penzer V 82 n. 1, 156; Africa (Fang): Einstein 53, Trilles 168. |
| Q451.6.2 | Ear cut off as punishment for theft. (Cf. Q212.) Nouvelles Récréations No. 56. |
| Q451.7 | Blinding as punishment. *Fb "blind" IV 45b, "øje" III 1165a; Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: MacCulloch Eddic 322; Spanish: Espinosa Jr. No. 137; Greek: Frazer Apollodorus I 367 n. 1; Jewish: *Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| Q451.7.0.1 | Loss of one eye as punishment. Hdwb. d. Märchens I 477a n. 5; Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| Q451.7.0.2 | Miraculous blindness as punishment. (Cf. Q559.2.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q451.7.0.2.1 | Miraculous blindness as punishment for opposition to holy person. (Cf. Q227, Q571.1.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q451.7.0.2.2 | Miraculous blindness as punishment for theft. (Cf. Q212.) *Loomis White Magic 98; Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q451.7.0.2.3 | Miraculous blindness as punishment for disobedience. (Cf. Q325.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q451.7.0.2.4 | Miraculous blindness as punishment for criminal intent. (Cf. Q210.1.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q451.7.0.2.5 | Miraculous blindness as punishment for spying (on druids, fairies, witches, etc.). Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q451.7.1 | Blinding as punishment for perjury. (Cf. Q263.) Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 493; Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| Q451.7.2 | Blinding as punishment for ravisher. (Cf. Q244.) Herbert III 206; Oesterley No. 50. |
| Q451.7.2.1 | Blinding (of father) as punishment for ravisher. (Cf. Q411.3.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q451.7.2.2 | Blinding as punishment for attempt to violate girl (queen). Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| Q451.7.3 | Blinding as punishment for incest. (Cf. Q242.) Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q451.7.4 | Blinding as punishment for murder. (Cf. Q211.) Irish myth: *Cross; Italian Novella: Rotunda; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q451.7.5 | Wicked son blinded. Irish myth: Cross; Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| 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. |
| 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". |
| Q451.9.1 | Punishment: woman suspended by her breasts. Jewish: Neuman. |
| Q451.10 | Punishment: genitalia cut off. Liebrecht 94ff.; DeCock Volkssage 86; Spanish Exempla: Keller; Italian Novella: *Rotunda; Jewish: *Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q451.10.1 | Punishment: castration. (Cf. K2111.3.) Herrmann Saxo II 354. |
| Q451.11 | Piecemeal mutilation as punishment. Marquesas: Handy 78; Tonga: Gifford 67. |
| Q451.11.1 | Deception punished by piecemeal mutilation. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q451.12 | Lips sewed together as punishment for slander. (Cf. Q263.) Icelandic: Boberg. |
| Q451.13 | Punishment: head split into many pieces. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| Q451.14 | Adulteress's pregnant belly pierced with pounder. (Cf. Q241.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q452 | Punishment: snake sucks woman's breasts. Herbert III 9; *Klapper Erzählungen des Mittelalters 175ff., 372f.; Oesterley 683f.; Herrtage EETS (ES) XXXIII 275ff. |
| 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. |
| Q455 | Walling up as a punishment. (Cf. S125.) *Type 652; BP II 121ff., *124; Fb "indmure" II 24; Spanish: Espinosa Jr. Nos. 110, 140f.; Italian: Basile Pentamerone I No. 2; Jewish: Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| Q455.1 | Walling up as punishment for murder of children. (Cf. Q211.4.) *Type 652; BP II 121ff.; Fb "indmure". |
| Q455.2 | Walling up as punishment for adultery. (Cf. Q241.) |
| Q455.2.1 | Adulteress walled up with corpse of paramour. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q455.2.1.1 | Adulteress confined in room containing the corpse of her paramour. She becomes ill and dies. Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| Q456 | Burial alive as punishment. (Cf. S123.) *Müllenhoff Deutsche Alterthumskunde (ed. Roediger, Berlin, 1920) IV 244ff.; **Feilberg "Levende Begravet" (Еrbog for dansk Kulturhistorie [1892] pp. 1—60); DeCock Volkssage 83.—Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: Boberg; Greek: Aeschylus Prometheus Bound 366, 1016; Jewish: Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| Q456.0.1 | Burial alive as punishment for adultery. (Cf. Q241.) *Schoepperle II 420 n. 1; Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q456.0.2 | Burial alive as punishment for swindling. (Cf. Q274.) Alphabet No. 755. |
| Q456.0.3 | Burial alive as punishment for disobedience to king. (Cf. Q325.) Greek: Frazer Apollodorus I 373 n. 2 (Antigone). |
| 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. |
| Q456.1.1 | Cast-forth wife buried up to the waist for seven years and despitefully used. Wesselski Märchen 174 No. 64. |
| Q456.2 | Burial alive for uncharitableness. (Cf. Q286.2.) Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| Q457 | Flaying alive as punishment. Grimm Deutsche Rechtsalterthümer II 291; DeCock Volkssage 85f.; Fb "menneskehud" II 579; Irish: O'Suilleabhain 43, Beal XXI 316; Swiss: Jegerlehner Oberwallis 309 No. 18. |
| Q457.1 | Flaying alive as punishment for contesting with a god. Greek: *Frazer Apollodorus I 30 n. 1 (Apollo and Marsyas). |
| Q457.2 | Devil flays impious person. (Cf. G303, Q220.) Finnish: Aarne FFC XXXIII 42 No. 50**; Finnish-Swedish: Wessman 12 No. 108. |
| Q457.3 | Flaying alive as punishment for adultery. (Cf. Q241.) Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q457.4 | Flaying alive as punishment for opposition to holy person. (Cf. Q227.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q458 | Flogging as punishment. *Roberts 212; Spanish: Espinosa Jr. Nos. 109, 164f.; Jewish: Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| Q458.0.1 | Flogging as punishment for adultery. (Cf. Q241.) Malone PMLA XLIII 410. |
| Q458.0.2 | Flogging as punishment for disobedience to rulers. (Cf. Q325.) Alphabet No. 441; Spanish: Espinosa Jr. No. 142. |
| Q458.0.3 | Flogging as punishment for theft. (Cf. Q212.) Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| Q458.0.4 | Flogging as punishment for imposture. (Cf. Q262.) Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q458.0.5 | Flogging as punishment for reviling church. (Cf. Q225.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q458.0.6 | Flogging as punishment for desire to commit adultery. (Cf. Q241.1.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q458.1 | Daily beatings as punishment. Chauvin V 266 No. 154 and frequently elsewhere in Chauvin. |
| Q458.2 | Flogging to death as punishment. (Cf. Q410, S122.) Africa (Fang): Trilles 270. |
| Q458.2.1 | Brother flogs unchaste sister to death. (Cf. Q243.) Child II 102. |
| Q458.2.2 | Flogging to death as punishment for theft. (Cf. Q212.) Fb "piske" II 834. |
| Q458.2.3 | Flogging to death as punishment for seduction. (Cf. Q243.2.) Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q461 | Impalement as punishment. Chauvin V 3 No. 2; Taylor Romanic Review IX 21ff.; India: Thompson-Balys; Hindu: Penzer I 111, Meyer Hindu Tales 226. |
| Q461.1 | Impalement as punishment for faithlessness. Enemy chief has the faithless widow of his victim impaled. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q461.2 | Bodies from which limbs have been cut hung on stakes as punishment. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q461.3 | Impaling as punishment for adultery. (Cf. Q241.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q462 | Crucifixion as punishment. (Cf. Q522.1.) Irish myth: Cross; Spanish Exempla: Keller; Jewish: *Neuman; Hindu: Tawney I 147, 396. |
| Q462.1 | Punishment: nailing to pillar. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q462.2 | Punishment by hanging up by the feet. Eskimo (Smith Sound): Kroeber JAFL XII 179. |
| Q463 | Spiked-cask punishment. Rolling down hill in a cask with spikes on inside. DeCock Volkssage 87; BP I 108; Sébillot France I 302, II 90, 271, IV 293ff.; Fb "spigertønde"; Child II 343, IV 30 n. 32, V 48; *Page JAFL LIX 20ff.; Italian: Basile Pentamerone V No. 8; Icelandic: Boberg. |
| Q464 | Covering with honey and exposing to flies. DeCock Studien 11ff.; Boccaccio Decameron II No. 9; *Gaster Beiträge zur vgl. Sagen- und Märchenkunde 21; Grimm Deutsche Rechtsalterthümer (1828) 701; Icelandic: Heinzel Beschreibung der isländischen Saga 162, Boberg; Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "supplice"; Italian Novella: *Rotunda; Jewish: *Neuman. |
| Q465 | Throwing into a pit as punishment. Jewish: Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| Q465.1 | Throwing into pit of snakes as punishment. *Type 403; BP I 99ff.; Krappe "The Snake Tower" Scandinavian Studies XVI (1940) 22—33.— Icelandic: *Boberg; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| Q465.2 | Prisoners put into pit filled with corpses in order to starve. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| Q465.3 | Punishment: pushing into well. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| Q465.4 | Punishment: throwing into water-filled lime pit. Jewish: Neuman. |
| Q466 | Embarkation in leaky vessel as punishment. *Type 612; BP I 126, *127. |
| Q466.0.1 | Embarkation in rudderless boat as punishment. Icelandic: Herrmann Saxo II 650. |
| Q466.0.2 | Punishment: setting adrift in boat. Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q466.1 | Husband substitutes leaky vessel so that his wife and paramour are drowned. (Cf. Q241.) *Fischer-Bolte 131. |
| Q466.2 | Punishment: abandonment on cliff that is submerged at high tide. Icelandic: Boberg; Maurer Bekehrung des norwegischen Stammes I 301 and n. 8. |
| Q467 | Punishment by drowning. (Cf. Q552.19.) India: *Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Graham. |
| Q467.1 | Casting into water in sack (barrel) as punishment. (Cf. Q474, S142.) H. Goldsmith Zs. f. vgl. Rechtswissenschaft LXI—LXII; Fb "sæk" III 720b, "tønde" III 934b; Italian: Basile Pentamerone IV No. 6. |
| Q467.2 | Thief cast into water in a sack containing a cock, a snake, and a monkey. He had stolen a sacred statue of gold. (Cf. Q212, Q220.) Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q467.3 | Punishment: drowning in swamp. (Cf. Q474.) Grimm Rechtsalterthümer II 276ff.; Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| Q467.3.1 | Punishment: sea-spell chanted by druidess causes rival to drown. Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q467.4 | Man thrown into waterfall as punishment for alleged violating of princess. (Cf. Q244.) Icelandic: FSS 110, Boberg. |
| Q467.5 | Marooning as punishment. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 499f.; Tuamotu: Stimson MS (z-G 13/346). |
| Q469 | Other cruel punishments. |
| Q469.1 | Adulteress caused to fall down stairs from which steps have been removed. (Cf. Q241.) *Fischer-Bolte 217. |
| Q469.2 | Punishment: climbing red-hot rod. (Cf. S112.2.) Jamaica: Beckwith MAFLS XVII 75 No. 68. |
| Q469.3 | Punishment: grinding up in a mill. Liebrecht 258f.; Fb "male" II 535a; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q469.4 | Punishment: millstone hung around neck. Woman has had desire to kill frog. (Cf. Q211.8.) Tobler 28. |
| 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. |
| Q469.6 | Heart and liver of murderer torn out. (Cf. Q211.) Icelandic: *Boberg; Chinese: Werner 339. |
| Q469.6.0.1 | Heart of murderer cut out. (Cf. Q211.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q469.6.1 | Heart and liver of son to be torn out. (Cf. S194.) French Canadian: Sister Marie Ursule. |
| Q469.7 | Punishment: twisting entrails from body. Fb III 776a; Mannhardt Wald- und Feldkulte I 28; Heinzel Beschreibung der isländischen Saga 162. |
| Q469.7.1 | Man fettered with the entrails of his own sons as punishment for treachery. (Cf. Q261.) Icelandic: MacCulloch Eddic 146 (Loki). |
| Q469.8 | Punishment: sawing in twain. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q469.9 | Punishment: boring hot irons through ears. (Cf. S112.2.) Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q469.9.1 | Punishment: tearing off flesh with hot pincers. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q469.9.2 | Punishment: piercing with needles. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q469.10 | Scalding as punishment. |
| Q469.10.1 | Scalding as punishment for attempted seduction. (Cf. Q243.2.1.) Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q469.10.2 | Scalding as punishment for theft. (Cf. Q212.) Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q469.10.3 | Scalding as punishment for insult. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q469.11 | Baby son hurled into battle as punishment for desertion of fairy mistress. (Cf. Q247, Q411.3.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q469.12 | Murderer torn limb from limb. (Cf. Q211, Q416.) Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: Boberg; Jewish: Neuman. |
| Q469.13 | Hands in cleft log as punishment. (Cf. K1111, Q435.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q470 | Humiliating punishments. Irish myth: *Cross; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q471 | Spitting in face as punishment. Spanish: Espinosa Jr. No. 138; Jewish: *Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q471.1 | Persecuted queen meanly clothed and set where all are commanded to spit on her. Köhler-Bolte I 571. |
| Q471.2 | Beggar avenges self on queen who spits at him by disguising as prince and spitting in her face. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q472 | Branding as punishment. (Cf. H55.) BP III 114 n. 1; Cosquin études 428ff.; *Fischer-Bolte 215; Child II 240ff., 513a, III 514, IV 476, V225b; Icelandic: *Boberg; Spanish: Espinosa III No. 192; India: *Thompson-Balys; Hindu: Meyer Hindu Tales 110. |
| Q473 | Punishment: disgraceful journey through streets. (Cf. Q432.2.) |
| Q473.0.1 | Insolvent debtor drawn through streets. (Cf. Q271.) Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "débiteur". |
| Q473.0.2 | Corpse of adulteress drawn through streets. (Cf. Q241.) Icelandic: Boberg. |
| Q473.1 | Punishment: riding through street on bull. |
| Q473.1.1 | Adulteress ridden through street on bull. (Cf. Q241.) *Wesselski Hodscha Nasreddin II 185 No. 349. |
| Q473.2 | Punishment: tying to horse's tail. Fb "hest" IV 212a; Icelandic: Boberg. |
| Q473.2.1 | Wife's paramour tied to horse's tail and conducted through streets. (Cf. Q241.) Malone PMLA XLIII 413. |
| Q473.3 | Seducer, who had disguised as woman, is led naked through streets. (Cf. Q243.2.) Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles No. 45; Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| Q473.4 | Importunate lover put asleep in street. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q473.5 | Punishment: sending out of town on donkeys. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| 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. |
| Q473.5.2 | Riding backwards on donkey as punishment. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q473.6 | Punishment: princess to display self on roof. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q474 | "Cucking-stool" as punishment. (Cf. Q467.3, Q467.1.) Victim is suspended in a basket over filth and thrown in. *Spargo Virgil the Necromancer (Cambridge, Mass., 1934) 147ff.; *J. Grimm Deutsche Rechtsalterthümer (ed. Hensler u. Hübner, Leipzig, 1899) II 162, 363ff. |
| Q475 | Tar and feathers as punishment. (Cf. K31.1, K216.2.) *Fb "tjære" III 811a, "fjer" I 301; Icelandic: *Boberg; Japanese: Ikeda. |
| Q475.1 | Tar and feathers as punishment for vanity. Type 833*. |
| Q475.2 | Shower of pitch as punishment. Roberts 208. |
| Q476 | Exposing mistress's person (excepting face) to her husband (paramour's friends). Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| Q478 | Frightful meal as punishment. Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 597. |
| Q478.1 | The Eaten Heart. Adulteress is caused unwittingly to eat her lover's heart. (Sometimes other parts of his body.) (Cf. Q241.) **Matzke MLN XXVI 1; **K. Nyrop Sangerens Hjærte (København, 1908); *Child V 482 s.v. "heart"; Clouston Tales II 187ff.; *v. d. Hagen I cxvi; DeCock Volkssage 94ff.; *Hibbard 253ff.; Boccaccio Decameron IV Nos. 1, 9 (Lee 116, 143); Schofield PMLA XV 123; Malone PMLA XLIII 413, 430; Numes "A lenda de coraçao comido" Revista Lusitana XXVIII 5—15.—Italian Novella: *Rotunda; India: *Thompson-Balys; Marquesas: Handy 104; Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 136; Eskimo (Cumberland Sound): Boas BAM XV 223, (Greenland): Rasmussen III 241; N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 344 n. 241; Cape Verde Islands: *Parsons MAFLS XV (1) 140 n. 1. |
| Q478.1.1 | Man sends his daughter the heart of her lover. She pours poison over it and drinks the potion. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q478.1.2 | Adulteress made to drink from paramour's skull. (Cf. Q241, Q491.5.) Heptameron No. 32. |
| Q478.1.2.1 | Adulteress forced to eat out of lover's skull. Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q478.1.3 | Adulteress punished by having skeleton of her former paramour hang in her room. Heptameron No. 32. |
| Q478.1.4 | Adulteress forced to have lover's head before her at meals. Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q478.2 | Adulteress compelled to eat with dog. (Cf. Q241, Q478.) *Chauvin VIII 162 No. 170; Malone PMLA XLIII 430; Gibb History of the Forty Vezirs 331ff.; Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q478.3 | Adulteress compelled to eat a dog's leavings. (Cf. Q241, Q523.3.) Malone PMLA XLIII 405—430 passim. |
| Q478.4 | Punishment: using fat rendered from daughter's mutilated corpse to cook with and to light candles. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q478.5 | Punishment: eating ashes instead of food. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q478.5.1 | Punishment: eating ashes (coal) mixed with food. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q481 | Princess (queen) compelled to keep an inn. (Cf. Q523.5.) *Type 304; BP II 503; Fb "kro" II 303. |
| 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). |
| Q482.1 | Princess serves as menial. *Type 425; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q482.1.1 | Second wife (slave) must serve as menial. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q482.2 | Queen placed in kitchen and abused by butcher. Irish myth: Cross. Welsh: MacCulloch Celtic 101. |
| Q482.2.1 | Queen forced to do menial service rescued by son. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q482.2.2 | Queen ordered to go and live in woodcutter's house as servant. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q482.3 | Nobleman after death must serve as menial. *Herbert III 283ff. |
| Q482.4 | Cast-forth wife must sit at horse-block of palace and tell story to each newcomer and offer to carry him inside. Irish myth: *Cross; Welsh: MacCulloch Celtic 94. |
| Q482.5 | Queen made to scare crows away in fields. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q482.6 | Punishment: man must do women's work. Jewish: Neuman. |
| Q483 | Princess must sell goods on market as punishment. *Type 304, 900; BP I 443ff., II 505; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q483.1 | Condemned queen exposed in leather on market place. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q484 | Husband fondles second wife in presence of first as punishment for adultery. (Cf. Q241.) Malone PMLA XLIII 423. |
| Q485 | Noble person must live in hovel. |
| Q485.1 | Princess married to lowly hero must live in slave quarters. Africa (Kordofan): Frobenius Atlantis IV 216ff. No. 19. |
| Q486 | Criminal's property destroyed as punishment. Jewish: Neuman. |
| Q486.1 | Criminal's house burned down. *Chauvin VI 163 No. 327; Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q486.1.1 | Sinful city burnt as punishment. Jewish: Moreno Esdras (Q488), Neuman. |
| Q487 | Adulteress forced to wear symbolic dress. Husband makes her dress in coarse cloth except for her undefiled parts which are covered with gold brocade. (Cf. Q241.) Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles No. 49; Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| Q488 | Cutting hair as punishment. |
| Q488.1 | Lying goat punished by being half-shorn. (Cf. Q263, K1151.) *Type 212; *BP I 346ff. |
| Q488.2 | Head shaved as punishment. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| Q491 | Indignity to corpse as punishment. (Cf. Q271.1.) Jewish: *Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q491.1 | Disgraceful burial as punishment. Jewish: Neuman. |
| Q491.1.1 | Swindler buried on dungheap. (Cf. Q274.) Spanish: Boggs FFC XC 143 No. 1720. |
| Q491.1.2 | Burial in deserted barn as punishment for desecration of holy places. (Cf. Q222.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q491.2 | Debtor's corpse flogged. (Cf. Q271.) *Fb "gjæld" I 448. |
| Q491.3 | Devil beats wicked man's corpse. Estonian: Aarne FFC XXV 124 No. 50. |
| Q491.4 | Toads and snakes devour corpse of rich man in his grave. Scala Celi 74b No. 426; Herbert III 99 No. 65, 666 No. 261; Irish: Beal XXI 327, O'Suilleabhain 74. |
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