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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
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 ▲ |
|---|---|
| T255.1 | The obstinate wife: cutting with knife or scissors. At the end of the argument the man throws his wife into the water. As she sinks she makes with her finger the motion of shearing with the scissors. *Type 1365B; *Köhler-Bolte I 136; *Taylor Washington Univ. Studies IV 181 n. 28; *Crane Vitry 223 No. 222; Bédier Fabliaux (1895) 46ff.; *Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 595; Moe Samlede Skrifter I 209ff.: Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| T255.4.1 | The obstinate wife: insists on eating three of the five eggs. Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| T255.3 | The obstinate wife: sign of the louse. She calls her husband a lousy head. He throws her into the stream. As she sinks she makes a sign of cracking a louse. *Type 1365C; *Crane Vitry 222f. No. 221;. *Bédier Fabliaux 46; *Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 872; Herbert III 17; Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| T255.4 | The obstinate wife: the third egg. The husband and the wife dispute as to who shall eat the third egg. She pretends to die. At the grave she asks him, "Do I eat two of the three eggs?" and he gives his consent. She jumps up and cries out "I eat two!" and everyone flees except a lame man who exclaims, "Poor me and the other one!" Spanish: Boggs FFC XC 123 No. 1365D*. |
| T252 | The overbearing wife. |
| T85.3 | The Pot of Basil. Mistress keeps murdered lover's skull in flower-pot. *Belden PMLA XXXIII 327ff.; Boccaccio Decameron IV No. 5 (Lee 136); Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| T256 | The quarrelsome wife or husband. Penzer II 159f., 180; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T2 | The relative pleasures of love. Do men or women have the greater pleasure in sexual intercourse? Man who has been transformed to woman answers that women have the greater pleasure. The goddess blinds him as punishment. Krappe Science of Folklore 6f.; Penzer VII 227; Greek: Frazer Apollodorus I 367 n. 1; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T317 | The repression of lust. (Cf. D1356.) Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| T70 | The scorned lover. Chinese: Graham. |
| T251 | The shrewish wife. *Penzer II 159f.; Hanna Lindberg "The Shrew", argbiggans typ i den Engelska Literaturen intill Shakespeare (Tavastehus, 1900); India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| T272 | The silent wife. |
| T275 | The spendthrift wife. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T24 | The symptoms of love. *Penzer VII 139 n. 2; *Rohde Der griechische Roman 157ff.; Irish myth: Cross; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| T92.12.1 | The tailor and the smith as rivals. The tailor declares that the smith is blind and the smith declares that the tailor is a fool. At the wedding in church, the smith drops a hot piece of iron into the tailor's boot. Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 1693A*; Estonian: Aarne FFC XXV No. 1631*. |
| T92.1 | The triangle plot and its solutions. Two men in love with the same woman; two women with the same man. *Dickson 243 n. 48; Irish myth: *Cross; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T261 | The ungrateful wife. (Cf. W154.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T251.2.4 | The wicked queen reformed. While asleep she is made to exchange places with the cobbler's wife. She thinks she is in hell. The cobbler teaches her to obey and fear her husband. Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 904*; Russian: Andrejev No. 901I*; Prussian: Plenzat 49. |
| T251.1.6 | Thief overhears and oversees quarrel of two jealous wives. Arraigned before judge, he asks any punishment be given him rather than that of having two wives. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T151.2 | Thirty days' respite from unwelcome marriage. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| T27.1 | Thirty young girls fall in love with a young man. *Loomis White Magic 82. |
| T69.1.1 | Three brothers married to three sisters. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| T92.14 | Three lovers mourn for dead girl: one throws himself into her funeral pyre; another gathers together the ashes and vows to spend his life sitting upon them; third resolves to turn fakir. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T92.2 | Three victims of love. Girl loves boy; boy loves singing girl; singing girl loves the girl. All die of despair. *Chauvin V 110 No. 44. |
| T165.5 | Three years asked before consummation of marriage as trick. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| T549.2 | Thrown cane becomes child. N. A. Indian (California): Gayton and Newman 75. |
| T553 | Thumbling born as result of hasty wish of parents. They wish for a child, no matter how small he may be. *Type 700; *BP I 389ff.; India: Thompson-Balys; Japanese: Anesaki 286, Ikeda. |
| T554.1 | Tiger, spirit, and man sons of one mother. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T46.1 | To reach beauty young man climbs eight fences watched by one hundred guards. Tonga: Gifford 187. |
| T61.4.4 | Token of betrothal sent to parents of a proposed bridegroom; acceptance means agreement to proposed match. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T135.2 | Touching of privates considered a marriage pact. Koryak: *Jochelson JE VI 381. |
| T93.5 | Tragic love between a Pari and a mortal man; they never meet again, but continually roam the earth seeking each other. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T89 | Tragic love—miscellaneous motifs. |
| T80 | Tragic love. Italian Novella: Rotunda; Jewish: Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T579.8.1 | Transparent body of pregnant woman. Jewish: Neuman. |
| T133 | Travel to wedding. |
| T461.3 | Tree as wife. Koryak: Jochelson JE VI 367, 255, 275; Eskimo (Greenland): Rasmussen III 101; N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 304 n. 1090. |
| T257.10 | Trickster sends jealous wife after husband: steals food. (Cf. K343.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T687 | Triplets (as heroes). Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| T586.3.2 | Triplets killed by tribe at birth. Africa (Fang): Einstein 56, Trilles 182. |
| T165.3 | Twenty-four hours to elapse before consummation of marriage. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| T543.0.1 | Twig, born of a woman, is planted and becomes a girl. (Cf. T555.) BP II 125. |
| T685.1 | Twin adventurers. *Harris Cult of the Heavenly Twins passim; Dickson 98ff.; Italian: Basile Pentamerone I No. 7; India: *Thompson-Balys; New Hebrides: Dixon 132; N. A. Indian: Thompson Tales 320 n. 155, (Quiche): Alexander Lat. Am. 169ff. |
| T581.10 | Twins born in tent; mother abducted. Icelandic: FSS 246—48, Boberg. |
| T587.2 | Twins born one with ear of other in mouth. Irish myth: Cross. |
| T584.2.1.1 | Twins freed from dead mother's body as body rots. New Hebrides: Codrington 398. |
| T575.1.3 | Twins quarrel before birth in mother's womb. *Krappe Balor 31 n. 109; Greek: *Frazer Apollodorus I 145 n. 4; Jewish: *Neuman; N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 279 n. 33. |
| T685.3 | Twins who look exactly alike. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T685.4 | Twins: as twins are reared one born earlier becomes continually weaker, the other stronger. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T685 | Twins. (Cf. T587.) Saintyves "Les Jumeaux, dans l'ethnographie et la mythologie" Revue anthropologique XXV (1925) 54—9; Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| T415.4 | Two lovers give each other up when they learn that they are brother and sister. *Bolte Zs. f. Vksk. XXVIII 75; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T135.8 | Two or more weddings at one time as the end of a tale. Icelandic: *Boberg; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T92.12 | Two smiths as rivals for love of girl. Irish myth: Cross. |
| T11.2.0.1 | Ugly picture of suitor makes girl refuse him. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| T42.1 | Unacquainted lovers converse in sign language. Penzer VI 247f. |
| T575.1.6.1 | Unborn child directs his mother on journey. S. A. Indian (Karib): Métraux RMLP XXXIII 146, (Chiriguano): ibid. 154, 160, 165, (Tupinamba): Métraux BBAE CXLIII (3) 132. |
| T61.5.3 | Unborn children promised in marriage to each other. Jewish: Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 1097; Madagascar: Renel I 168ff. No. 30. |
| T322.3 | Undesired lover drugged and carried out. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T121 | Unequal marriage. Child V 500 s.v. "Unequal"; Irish myth: Cross; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T91.7 | Unequals in love—miscellaneous. |
| T91 | Unequals in love. Irish myth: Cross; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T475 | Unknown (clandestine) paramour. Irish myth: Cross. |
| T475.1 | Unknown paramour discovered by string clue. Japanese: Anesaki 341, Ikeda. |
| T591.2 | Unlucky for a woman to look on the face of a childless person. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T571 | Unreasonable demands of pregnant women. *Penzer I 97 n. 1, 221ff., II 31, III 60, V 127 n. 2, VII 201, IX 144; Cowell Jataka Index s.v. "pregnancy"; *M. Bloomfield in Penzer VII vii, JAOS XL 1; Child II 408f., 414; Loomis White Magic 20. — Irish: MacCulloch Celtic 176, *Cross; India: *Thompson-Balys; Japanese: Ikeda; Philippine (Tinguian): Cole 95, 98; Maori: Dixon 60; Indonesian, Polynesian: ibid 233 n. 42; Sumatran: ibid. 161; Batak: Voorhoeve 141; Eskimo (Greenland): Rasmussen III 51; Africa (Ekoi): Talbot 374, (Angola): Chatelain 83 No. 4, (Ila, Rhodesia): Smith and Dale II 414 No. 13; West Indies: Flowers 578. |
| T75.3 | Unrequited love expressed in song (poem). English romance: Malory X 86; Spanish: Childers. |
| T252.1 | Unsuccessful search for man who can rule his wife. Type 1375*. |
| T538 | Unusual conception in old age. Loomis White Magic 20; Jewish: Neuman; S. A. Indian (Inca): Rowe BBAE CXLIII (2) 318. |
| T110 | Unusual marriage. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T27 | Unusual success in love. *Loomis White Magic 82. |
| T68.4 | Vanquished king gives hero his daughter and control over his kingdom. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T549.1 | Vegetable comes to life at woman's prayer. Africa (Gold Coast): Barker and Sinclair 77 No. 12. |
| T252.7 | Vexed woman brings pot down on husband's head in presence of guest. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T104.2 | Victor demands defeated king's daughter (widow) in marriage. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| T52.9 | Village given to bride-to-be as part of her dowry. Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 698. |
| T401 | Virgin Mary as protectress of illicit lovers. Ward II 604 No. 8, 606 No. 14, 612 No. 29, 618 No. 39, 621 No. 30, 626 No. 6, 638 No. 6, 650 No. 1, *663 No. 12, 668 No. 15; Herbert III 24; *Crane Vitry 257 No. 282, Miraculis 308 No. 2; *Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 887; Wells 166f. (Vernon Miracles Nos. 3, 7); Wesselski Mönchslatein 47 No. 40, 72 No. 63. |
| T320.1.1 | Virginity saved in spite of torture. Undesired suitors give up task. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| T338 | Virtuous man seduced by woman. Nouvelles de Sens No. 15; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T24.7 | Waiting for twenty-two years to see a beauty. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| T121.5 | Wealthy girl marries deformed and penniless philosopher. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| T602 | Weapons and horses procured for boy at his birth. Icelandic: Hervarar saga 85, Boberg. |
| T135.3 | Wedding by proxy. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| T135.9 | Wedding ceremony in church. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| T135 | Wedding ceremony. |
| T136.1 | Wedding feast. Icelandic: *Boberg; India: Thompson-Balys; Africa (Zulu): Callaway 66. |
| T135.14 | Wedding-canopy over bride and groom. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| T415.7 | When boy cannot have his sister for a wife he asks for one of her eyes and ears instead. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T589.6 | Where children come from. Explanations given to children. Hdwb. d. Abergl. IV 1342ff.; v. Wlislocki Germania N. R. XXII 134ff. |
| T584.0.5 | While saint's mother was giving birth to the child, she grasps a stout rod which roots and becomes a sturdy tree. Loomis White Magic 22f. |
| T562 | White woman bears black child. Fb "prins og prinsesse" II 876. |
| T287 | Why separation of a good woman from a bad man is a benefit. N. A. Indian (Kaska): Teit JAFL XXX 457. |
| T291 | Why widow does not remarry. (1) Only her property is wanted; (2) her husband is still in her heart; (3) if new husband is bad it will not be well, if he is good there will be the fear that he will die. Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 222. |
| T320.3.1 | Widow dons late husband's armor to put would-be ravisher to flight. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| T131.4 | Widow may not remarry. *Frazer Pausanias III 198. |
| T211.6 | Widowed she-fox rejects suitors who do not resemble her deceased husband. *Type 65; BP I 362; *Taylor JAFL XLVI 78; Fb "ræv" III 113b. |
| T215.7.1 | Wife alone does not desert leprous husband. Jewish: Neuman; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 1060. |
| T230.1 | Wife and husband believe each unfaithful at the slightest provocation. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T251.10 | Wife beats her husband and eats up everything he earns. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T251.2.3 | Wife becomes obedient on seeing husband slay a recalcitrant horse. Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| T450.1 | Wife born to be prostitute. Husband unable to change her ways, submits to them. Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles No. 91. |
| T296 | Wife buys (sells) privilege of sleeping one night with husband. (Cf. D2006.1.4.) Jewish: Neuman. |
| T274 | Wife cannot keep secret. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| T215.1 | Wife carries mutilated husband on her back so that he may beg. Paris Zs. f. Vksk. XIII 4. |
| T288.1 | Wife curses unbeloved husband who attempts to force her. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T211.9.1 | Wife dies of grief for death of husband. (Cf. T81.7.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| T211.1 | Wife dies so that husband's death may be postponed. Greek: Euripides' Alcestis. *Grote I 108. |
| T320.4 | Wife escapes lust of king by shaming him. Spanish Exempla: Keller; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T257.2.1 | Wife exposes bald head of second wife to disgrace her. Hair marvelously regrows. Irish myth: Cross. |
| T299.2 | Wife gives wise warning to husband. |
| T211.3.2 | Wife hangs self because her husband has been killed. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| T222 | Wife hides husband's unfaithfulness from emperor and even shelters his mistress. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| T381.0.2 | Wife imprisoned in tower (house) to preserve chastity. Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| T258.2 | Wife insists upon knowing husband's secret. Type 670; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T291.1 | Wife keeps vow never to wed after her husband's death. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| T215.2 | Wife offers starving husband (father) milk from her breasts. Irish: MacCulloch Celtic 179, *Cross. |
| T211.1.3 | Wife offers to sacrifice her right arm for husband's safe return. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T211.2.1.1 | Wife prefers to be burned together with husband even though she was forced to marry him and she has helped to prepare the revenge. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| T211.2.2 | Wife promises to die with husband. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T318 | Wife proves her faithfulness. Had substituted for husband's mistress. Proves legitimacy of her child by producing tokens and by child's missing toe (like her husband's four-toed foot). Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| T215.4 | Wife puts out one of her eyes to show sympathy with her husband. He has lost an eye in a tournament and is ashamed to return to her. She shows that it makes no difference in her love. Von der Hagen I cxxiv; Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| T315.2.2.1 | Wife reforms continent husband by having walls of bedroom painted with erotic scenes. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T217 | Wife refuses to become unfaithful although she knows her husband to be so. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| T254.6.1 | Wife refuses to bring husband warm water: is beaten. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T288 | Wife refuses to sleep with detested husband. |
| T257.7.1 | Wife repays husband's supposed adultery by doing likewise. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T315.2.2 | Wife reproves continent husband by showing conduct of cock and hens. Nouvelles Récréations No. 32. |
| T481.4 | Wife seduces husband's servant (pupil). Irish myth: *Cross. |
| T320.6 | Wife sets fire to house to escape undesired lover. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T292 | Wife sold unwillingly by husband. *Hibbard 8; Irish myth: *Cross. |
| T81.8 | Wife swallows hot coal and dies because her husband is unfaithful. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| T211.9.1.1 | Wife swoons realizing her husband is dead. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T252.3 | Wife threatens husband with death if he will not tell secrets. *Type 670; **Aarne FFC XV 48ff.; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| T252.6 | Wife threatens suicide if she does not have her own way. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T211.2.1 | Wife throws herself on husband's funeral pyre. Icelandic: *Boberg; Greek: Frazer Apollodorus I 375 n. 3 (Evadne); Spanish Exempla: Keller; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| T215.7 | Wife travels for years with sick husband in order to have him cured. Icelandic: Lagerholm 107—15, Boberg. |
| T211.8 | Wife unwilling to deceive her husband for the man she loves. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| T299.2.2 | Wife warns departing hero against seductions of women. Chinese: Graham. |
| T211.4.2.1 | Wife will not give up dead body of husband to God of Death. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T283 | Wife withholds intercourse from husband to enforce demand. Cf. Aristophanes' Lysistrata. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T211.4.1 | Wife's corpse kept after death. Type 612; Wesselski Märchen 188, 191; BP I 463f.; Moth Danske Studier (1915) 97ff.; Pauls Der Ring der Fastrada (Aachen, 1896); Chauvin II 201ff.; Cowell Jataka II 108. |
| T211.2 | Wife's suicide at husband's death. (Cf. T81.7.) Icelandic: *Boberg; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| T471.2 | Wild man as ravisher of women. (Cf. F567.) Dickson 120 nn. 58—60. |
| T11.6 | Wish for wife red as blood, white as snow, black as raven. Italian: Basile Pentamerone IV No. 9, V No. 9. |
| T611.3 | Witch (fairy) suckles child. Hoffman-Krayer Zs. f. Vksk. XXV 121 n. 4; Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 3297, Legends No. 528. |
| T141.2 | Wives exchanged. Irish myth: *Cross; India: Thompson-Balys; Eskimo (Cumberland Sound): Boas BAM XV 223, (Greenland): Holm 75. |
| T292.1 | Wives traded. Chinese: Graham. |
| T253.2 | Woman advised that nagging will never make a husband virtuous. Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 135. |
| T481.7 | Woman advises husband to kill guest else, she will make him chase husband and marry her instead. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| T71.2 | Woman avenges scorned love. Icelandic: *Boberg; Babylonian: Gilgamesch-Epos VI 6ff. |
| T311 | Woman averse to marriage. (Cf. T321.1, T327.3.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T586.5.1 | Woman bears child every month. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| T554.3 | Woman bears crane. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T554.2 | Woman bears dog. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T554.8 | Woman bears frog. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T554.6 | Woman bears goat. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T554.4 | Woman bears monkey. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| T554.9 | Woman bears three pigs. Philippine (Tinguian): *Cole 116. |
| T554.5 | Woman bears tortoise (turtle). India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| T581.8 | Woman bears twins at end of footrace (with king's horses). Irish myth: *Cross. |
| T532.7 | Woman becomes pregnant after eagle sits on her head. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T455.2.1 | Woman commits adultery to obtain aid for husband in battle. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| T573.1 | Woman conceives and bears same day. Irish myth: Cross; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T232.1 | Woman consorts with leper. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| T315.3 | Woman continent in two marriages to become a nun. Irish myth: Cross. |
| T232 | Woman deserts husband for unworthy lover. (Deformed, mutilated, monstrous, or of different race.) *Penzer V 153 n. 1; Malone PMLA XLIII 418ff.; Strauch Enikels Weltchronik, lines 25177ff. — Irish myth: Cross; Italian Novella: *Rotunda; Palestine: Schmidt-Kahle Volkserzählungen aus Palästina I 139ff.; India: *Thompson-Balys; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 109; Indonesia: Coster-Wijsman 148. |
| T81.7 | Woman dies on hearing of lover's or husband's death. (Cf. T211.9.1.) Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| T312.1 | Woman dies when spoiled of her sanctity. Irish myth: Cross. |
| T450.2 | Woman disappointed in love threatens to become prostitute. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| T211.1.1 | Woman drowns herself as sacrifice to water-gods to save husband's boat from capsizing. Japanese: Anesaki 304. |
| T461.1 | Woman enamored of a river. Greek: *Frazer Apollodorus I 82 n. 1. |
| T236 | Woman enamored of an unknown knight in a tournament loses interest when she finds that it is her husband. (Cf. R222.) Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 750. |
| T232.4 | Woman enamored of repulsive and abusive lover. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T458 | Woman enjoys the ravishings of the enemy. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| T72.4 | Woman entertains two lovers on alternate nights. They expose the deception and scorn her in public. Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles No. 33; Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| T320.4.1 | Woman escapes king's lust by inducing bad breath. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T320.2.1 | Woman escaping from slavery kills man who would ravish her. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| T13 | Woman falls in love as result of husband's praise of her suitor. Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| T89.1 | Woman falls in love with dying warrior. Irish myth: Cross. |
| T16.0.1 | Woman falls in love with man she sees bathing. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| T111.2 | Woman from sky-world marries mortal man. India: *Thompson-Balys; Japanese: Ikeda; Philippine (Tinguian): Cole 110; Africa (Fjort): Dennett 60 No. 12, (Congo): Weeks 206 No. 3, (Angola): Chatelain 131 No. 13. |
| T271.1 | Woman gets rid of impotent husband and remarries. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| T554.10 | Woman gives birth to a bird. Mono-Alu: Wheeler No. 20. |
| T556 | Woman gives birth to a demon. Type 433B; Hindu: Meyer Hindu Tales 62, 117, 165. |
| T555.1 | Woman gives birth to a fruit. Can transform itself to girl. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T555 | Woman gives birth to a plant. (Cf. T543.0.1.) BP II 125; Italian: Basile Pentamerone I No. 2; Persian: Carnoy 295. |
| T554.7 | Woman gives birth to a snake. India: Thompson-Balys; S. A. Indian (Brazil): Oberg 108; Africa (Upoto): Einstein 120. |
| T554 | Woman gives birth to animal. Type 441; BP II 236ff., 482ff.; *Fb "hund" I 678b; Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: MacCulloch Eddic 279; Italian Novella: Rotunda; Greek: Fox 108, 211; India: Thompson-Balys; Africa (Zulu): Callaway 105, 268, (Kaffir): Theal 148. |
| T569.2 | Woman gives birth to grinding-stone. Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 68. |
| T555.1.1 | Woman gives birth to pumpkin. Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 77. |
| T554.8.1 | Woman gives birth to toad. Chinese: Graham. |
| T455.5 | Woman gives favors to pay for help across river. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T511.8.5 | Woman impregnated after accidentally partaking of crane's dung. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T257.1 | Woman jealous of a fair maid in her house. Fears her attraction for her husband. Alphabet No. 796; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| T322.1 | Woman kicks lecherous monk down the stairs. Heptameron No. 46A. |
| T565 | Woman lays an egg. (Cf. T542.) Fb "æg" III 1142b; Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 77; Korean: Zong in-Sob 5 No. 2; S. A. Indian (Huamachuco): Métraux RMLP XXXIII 151. |
| T331.3 | Woman masks as man to deceive anchorite. Toldo I 347. |
| T85 | Woman mourns dead lover. |
| T311.2 | Woman prefers to remain chaste rather than keep an impotent husband. (Cf. T271.1.) Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| T327.5 | Woman raises sores on her body to preserve chastity. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T586.3.1 | Woman ravished by three brothers bears triplets. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| T146.2 | Woman requires thirty men. Irish myth: Cross. |
| T244 | Woman reveals whereabouts of husband to enemy in revenge for desertion. Irish myth: Cross. |
| T244.1 | Woman reveals whereabouts of husband to hungry bear in revenge for desertion. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T455.2 | Woman sacrifices her honor to free her husband (brother) from prison. *Bolte Zs. f. Vksk. XII 65. |
| T89.2 | Woman sacrifices herself in order to save beloved. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T71.2.1 | Woman scorned in love complains of man's coldness. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| T455.3 | Woman sells favors for beautiful clothes. Italian: Basile Pentamerone IV No. 10. |
| T455.6 | Woman sells favors for large sum of money (property). India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| T455 | Woman sells favors for particular purpose. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| T455.1 | Woman sells favors to obtain a jewel. Icelandic: MacCulloch Eddic 123 (Freja), 176 (Frigg); Spanish: Boggs FFC XC 108 No. 900A*. |
| T455.1.1 | Woman sells favors to obtain many jewels. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| T215.8 | Woman sells her hair to feed starving husband. Jewish: Neuman. |
| T332.1 | Woman sent by deity to tempt self-righteous anchorite. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T72.3 | Woman sets out to kill man who has won and then scorned her. Ruler brings about their reconciliation. Italian Novella: *Rotunda |
| T88 | Woman stricken by plague and forsaken by her husband is sought out by unsuccessful lover and dies in his arms. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| T589.8 | Woman strives to delay birth until auspicious day. Loomis White Magic 20f.; Irish myth: *Cross. |
| T327.2 | Woman successfully prays for disease to repel lover. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T215.6 | Woman swims nightly to husband's prison and arranges his escape. Spurns the attentions of treacherous suitor. (Cf. R152.) Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| T24.4 | Woman takes on lover's deformity (while conversing with him). Irish myth: *Cross. |
| T575.2 | Woman talks to her child before it is conceived. N. A. Indian (Blackfoot): Wissler and Duvall PaAM II 126. |
| T85.1 | Woman thinking lover dead erects cenotaph and mourns before it. Chauvin V 153 No. 75 n. 1. |
| T554.0.1 | Woman transformed to animal bears animal. (Cf. T578.2.) Irish: MacCulloch Celtic 169, *Cross. |
| T337 | Woman wagers that she can seduce anchorite. Alphabet No. 528; Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| T72 | Woman won and then scorned. Irish myth: *Cross; Italian Novella: *Rotunda; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T311.0.1 | Woman's aversion to marriage motivated through a dream. Chauvin V 125 No. 59, 130 No. 112. |
| T336.1 | Woman's girdle as source of sin. Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 378. |
| T221 | Woman's naivité proves her fidelity. Man is rebuked for having bad breath. He reproves his wife for never having told him. "I thought that men liked it as I did." He realizes that his wife has not known any other man. Spanish Exempla: Keller; Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| T257.5.1 | Woman's scented hair attracts deer: husband jealous. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| T336.2 | Woman's voice as source of sin. Jewish: Neuman. |
| T461.2 | Women cohabit with magic house pillars. Eskimo (Greenland): Rink 442, Rasmussen I 223. |
| T615.2 | Women old from their birth. Greek: *Frazer Apollodorus I 155 n. 4. |
| T71 | Women scorned in love. *Dickson 87ff. nn. 50, 55; Penzer II 109, 120ff., III 109f., IV 91, 104ff., V 259 n. 1; Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg; Jewish: Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T455.3.1 | Women sells favors for new shoes. (Cf. K1357.) Type 1731; Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| T51 | Wooing by emissary. *Schoepperle I 188 n. 3, 202; Icelandic: Half saga ok Hálfsrekka 69, *Boberg; Missouri French: Carrière; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T51.1.1 | Wooing emissary admitted to woman's room. Elopes with her. (Cf. K1349.1.5.) Icelandic: Boberg. |
| T51.1 | Wooing emissary wins lady's love for himself. *Köhler-Bolte II 328ff.; Schoepperle passim; English: Wells 43 (Arthour and Merlin); Icelandic: *Boberg; Missouri French: Carrière; India: *Thompson-Balys; S. A. Indian (Chiriguano): Métraux RMLP XXXIII 159; Africa (Zulu): Callaway 210. |
| T58 | Wooing the strong and beautiful bride. *Type 519; Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| T69 | Wooing—miscellaneous motifs. |
| T50 | Wooing. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T579.6 | Worm swallowed at conception eats hand of babe before birth. (Cf. T511.5.2.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| T92.1.2 | Would-be unfaithful wife. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| T233 | Wronged wife goes to wronged husband. Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| T151 | Year's respite from unwelcome marriage. *Type 300, 301; *Loomis White Magic 120; Irish myth: *Cross; Welsh: MacCulloch Celtic 94; English: Wells 135 (Sir Degare); Icelandic: *Boberg; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| T376 | Young man betrothed to statue. Man puts marriage ring on finger of statue of Venus (Virgin Mary). She afterwards forbids him the embraces of an earthly bride. **Baum PMLA XXXIV 523ff.; Alphabet Nos. 48, 465, 656; Ward II 609 No. 22, 621 No. 31, 626 No. 7; Scala Celi 111b No. 620. |
| T356 | Young man sleeps on girl's mat without touching her to signify his desire. S. A. Indian (Brazil): Oberg Mato Grosso 110. |
| T92.1.1 | Young wife of old man (king) loves (is loved by) younger man. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| T131.2 | Younger child may not marry before elder. Hdwb. d. Abergl. II 566; Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: Rittershaus No. 2; Indonesia: Pleyte Bataksche Vertellingen 184f., Wilken Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land-, en Volkenkunde van Nederlandsch-Indië I 142; Africa (Zulu): Callaway 323. |
| T423 | Youth attempts to seduce his grandmother. Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles No. 50; Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| T11.2.1.1 | Youth makes statue of girl and seeks a girl like the statue. Icelandic: Boberg; India: Thompson-Balys; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 63, 76, II 476, 1090; Chinese: Chavannes 500 Contes I 374 No. 107. |
| T1 | Zeus gives man modesty, but it leaves when love enters. Wienert FFC LVI 36; Halm Aesop No. 148. |
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