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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
F
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
S
Unnatural Cruelty
T
Sex
U
The Nature of Life
V
Religion
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Traits of Character
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Humor
Z
Miscellaneous Groups of Motifs
| Thompson reference | Description ▲ |
|---|---|
| D1391.1 | Miraculous rain extinguishes fire used at stake. (Cf. D902.) *Basset RTP XXIII 167; Irish myth: *Cross. |
| V224 | Miraculous replacement of objects (animals) for saint. Irish myth: Cross. |
| R131.0.2 | Miraculous rescue of all exposed children. Jewish: Neuman. |
| R122 | Miraculous rescue. Irish myth: Cross. |
| V411 | Miraculous reward for charities. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| D1521 | Miraculous speed from magic object. |
| D2157.4 | Miraculous speedy growth of a tree. *Loomis White Magic 95. |
| F933.1 | Miraculous spring bursts forth for holy person. Dh II 26; *Toldo VI 310ff.; Saintyves Le Miracle de l'apparition des eaux dans ses relations avec les liturgies paпennes et chrétiennes (Revue de l'Université de Bruxelles, 1912, 265—94); Irish myth: *Cross; Spanish Exempla: Keller; Jewish: *Neuman. |
| F833.11 | Miraculous sword of Angel of Death. Jewish: Neuman. |
| D925.0.2 | Miraculous well yielding milk, beer or wine. *Loomis White Magic 38. |
| V34 | Miraculous working of the host. |
| Q145.1 | Miraculously long life as reward for hospitality. (Cf. Q45.1.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q145.2 | Miraculously long life as reward for integrity. (Cf. Q68.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q145 | Miraculously long life as reward. (Cf. Q151.) Greek: Fox 158 (Sarpedon); Jewish: Gaster Exempla 222 No. 179, *Neuman, Moreno Esdras (Q151.6). |
| F1051.2 | Miraculously loud noise of mourning for hero. Irish myth: Cross. |
| K1886.1 | Mirage. Illusory water and land. Hindu: Tawney I 260. |
| D1311.2 | Mirror answers questions. (Cf. D1163, D1323.1.)—*Type 709; *Böklen Sneewittchenstudien 70 (Leipzig, 1915); *MacCulloch Childhood 34ff.; *BP I 463; *Cox Cinderella 483.—Africa (Angola): Chatelain 29. |
| J451.4 | Mirror begrimed by snail. Wienert FFC LVI 75 (ET 412), 120 (ST 300). |
| B81.13 | Miscellaneous actions of mermaid. |
| F473.6 | Miscellaneous actions of poltergeist. |
| E540 | Miscellaneous actions of revenants. |
| G303.9.8 | Miscellaneous actions of the devil. |
| E299 | Miscellaneous acts of malevolent ghosts. |
| B800 | Miscellaneous animal motifs. |
| J1060 | Miscellaneous aspects of wisdom. |
| D1649 | Miscellaneous automatic objects. |
| G303.4.8 | Miscellaneous characteristics of devil. |
| D680 | Miscellaneous circumstances of transformation. |
| S139 | Miscellaneous cruel murders. |
| M459 | Miscellaneous curses on persons. |
| K2370 | Miscellaneous deceptions. |
| D2099 | Miscellaneous destructive magic powers. |
| G303.25 | Miscellaneous devil motifs. |
| C280 | Miscellaneous eating and drinking tabus. |
| A2494.12 | Miscellaneous enmities of mammals. (Cf.A2494.13.3, A2494.13.5.) |
| D1539 | Miscellaneous forms of magic transportation. |
| D490 | Miscellaneous forms of transformation. |
| Z90 | Miscellaneous formulas. |
| A490 | Miscellaneous gods of the earth. *Hartmann Die germanische Gottheit des Jahres und des Lebens (Halle 1935). |
| A751.9 | Miscellaneous images on moon. |
| Z49 | Miscellaneous interdependent chains. |
| A2849.1 | Miscellaneous Jewish origins. Jewish: **Neuman. |
| X319 | Miscellaneous jokes about lawyers. |
| P429 | Miscellaneous learned professions. |
| P548 | Miscellaneous legal customs. Irish myth: Cross. |
| X1233.4 | Miscellaneous lies about hogs. |
| X1800 | Miscellaneous lies and exaggerations. |
| D2150 | Miscellaneous magic manifestations. |
| D1250 | Miscellaneous magic objects. |
| J1149 | Miscellaneous means of detecting. |
| D1889 | Miscellaneous means of rejuvenation. |
| F456.4 | Miscellaneous mine spirit motifs. |
| F420.7 | Miscellaneous motifs connected with water-spirits. |
| D2061.2.2.8 | Miscellaneous objects abused to cause death. |
| A104.3 | Miscellaneous objects become gods. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 2. |
| D1469 | Miscellaneous objects furnish treasure. |
| B159 | Miscellaneous oracular animals. |
| A924 | Miscellaneous origins of the ocean. |
| A2849 | Miscellaneous origins. |
| G303.3.3.8 | Miscellaneous other animal forms in which the devil appears: bear; ant; wild goose. Fb IV 99a; *Loomis White Magic 74; Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| F129 | Miscellaneous otherworlds. Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 141, 1002, II 1369. |
| M369 | Miscellaneous prophecies. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C980 | Miscellaneous punishments for breaking tabu. |
| Q590 | Miscellaneous punishments. |
| H1370 | Miscellaneous quests. |
| A2730 | Miscellaneous reasons for plant characteristics. |
| D659 | Miscellaneous reasons for voluntary transformation. |
| A1031.6 | Miscellaneous reasons for world-fire. S. Am. Indian (Witoto, Apapocuva-Guarani): Métraux MAFLS XL 36, (Toba): ibid. 19, (Inca): Rowe BBAE CXLIII (2) 316. |
| B259 | Miscellaneous religious animals. |
| J1559 | Miscellaneous retorts concerning borrowing and lending. |
| B590 | Miscellaneous services of helpful animals. |
| E402.1.8 | Miscellaneous sounds made by ghost of human being. Canada, England, U.S., Wales: *Baughman. |
| D1619 | Miscellaneous speaking objects. |
| X1119 | Miscellaneous stories of plentiful game. |
| H1149 | Miscellaneous superhuman tasks. |
| C119 | Miscellaneous tabus concerning sexual intercourse. |
| C700 | Miscellaneous tabus. |
| H1180 | Miscellaneous tasks. |
| D600 | Miscellaneous transformation incidents. |
| D1209 | Miscellaneous utensils and implements. |
| G303.16.19 | Miscellaneous ways in which the devil may be escaped or his power destroyed. England, Ireland, U.S.: Baughman. |
| M429 | Miscellaneous ways to overcome curses. (Cf. D2071.1.) |
| A690 | Miscellaneous worlds. Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q270 | Misdeeds concerning property punished. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| W153.8 | Miser appoints himself as the sole heir of his own estate. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| W153.7 | Miser decides not to commit suicide. Does not want the expense of a rope. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| W153.9 | Miser decides to kill his pigs himself. Refuses to pay fee. Chain of circumstances make it infinitely more expensive. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| W153.11 | Miser dies because he will not buy a candle. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| W153.6 | Miser dreams that he spends some money. Strangles himself in his sleep. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K341.28 | Miser enticed from his money by report of "money tree". India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K2097 | Miser goes to mass before committing usury. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K711.2.1 | Miser induced to thrust his head into bag; noose pulled by thief afterwards. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| W153.7.1 | Miser is given rope to hang himself. Miser annoys merchant so much over the price of a rope that the latter gives it to him provided he will hang himself as he plans to do. Spanish: Childers. |
| W153.12 | Miser is kidnapped and held for ransom. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| W153.10 | Miser is rebuked by friend. "You get no benefit from your wealth." Proves his folly. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| J2146.1 | Miser jumps into a ravine to retrieve single grain. Breaks both legs. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| W153.15 | Miser prays to enter heaven with his clothes on: gold coins sewn into undergarments. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| W153.11.2 | Miser runs back home to put out lamp left burning. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| W153.14 | Miser tries to reduce sacrifice promised to god. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| W153.1 | Miser's heart found in his strong-box. Chauvin II 152 No. 14. |
| J1061.4 | Miser's treasure stolen. Advised to imagine that his treasure is still there: he will be as well off as before. Wienert FFC LVI 84 (ET 503), 133 (ST 392); Halm Aesop No. 412; *Wesselski Hodscha Nasreddin I 259 No. 201; Italian Novella: Rotunda; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| W153 | Miserliness. Spanish Exempla: Keller; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| W153.2 | Miserly husband spies on wife to see that she does not eat too much. Gets burned in the chimney and beaten in the bed where he hides. Type 1407; U.S.: Baughman. |
| W153.2.1 | Miserly husband spies on wife, lest she cook too much. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| W153.3 | Miserly wife exposed to guests by her husband. Russian: Andrejev No. 1454. |
| V71.2 | Misfortune ascribed to breaking Sabbath. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| N251.7 | Misfortune pursues farmer. U.S.: *Baughman. |
| U160 | Misfortune with oneself to blame the hardest. Wienert FFC LVI 117. |
| P13.2 | Mismanagement of king's treasury a mortal offense. Fb "penge" II 803a. |
| A1313.3 | Misplaced genitalia. Originally genitals are misplaced. They are properly arranged by the culture hero.—Lithuanian: Balys Legends Nos. 56f.; India: Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Graham.—N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 288 n. 59a.; Hatt Asiatic Influences 84f. |
| T550.3 | Misshapen child from brother-sister incest. (Cf. T415.) Halliday Indo-European Folk-Tales (London, 1933) 134; Greek: Fox 33: Chinese: Werner 408. |
| K1082.1 | Missile thrown among enemies causes them to fight one another. DeVries Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsche Taal- en Letterkunde XLVII 73; Icelandic: Boberg; Greek: Frazer Apollodorus I 317 n. 1; Indonesia: De Vries's list No. 286. |
| H12.1 | Missing female poet discovered through test of poetic ability. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| N692.1 | Missing girl reveals identity and saves man condemned for kidnapping her. Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 817. |
| F141.2 | Mist as barrier to otherworld. Patch XXXIII 627 n. 91.—Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F962.10.1 | Mist settles over lake after fight with serpent. Irish myth: Cross. |
| N398 | Mistake in interpreting prophecy (oracle) brings misfortune. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| G401.1 | Mistake of elder leads two brothers to the home of ogre. Alu: Wheeler 50. |
| J1485 | Mistaken identity. A bride slips up behind her husband and kisses him. He is annoyed. She: "Pardon me, I did not know it was you" Clouston Noodles 94. |
| D1501.1.1 | Mistletoe used by druids to prevent barrenness. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| D965.4.1 | Mistletoe used by druids. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F420.5.2.2.2 | Mistreated boy sings unto water spirits to take him: waters rise up in tank to engulf him. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| L111.4.4 | Mistreated orphan hero. Eskimo (Greenland): Rink 93, Rasmussen I 123, 230, 238, II 34, 38, III 90, 295, (Cumberland Sound): Boas BAM XV 188, (West Hudson Bay): ibid. 309, (Ungava): Turner RBAE XI 265, (Central Eskimo): Boas RBAE VI 630. |
| R51 | Mistreatment of prisoners. Irish myth: Cross. |
| K1223 | Mistress deceives lover with a substitute. Type 1441*; Toldo Zs. f. Vksk. XIV 47; Boccaccio Decameron VIII No. 4 (Lee 254); Icelandic: Boberg; Russian: Andrejev No. 1441*; Italian Novella: *Rotunda; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| N391.1 | Mistress expecting lover accidentally exchanges places with her maidservant. Italian Novella: Rotunda (also K1856). |
| T285 | Mistress has always said her "Aves": Virgin Mary refuses to help wife against her rival. The wife tells this to the mistress, who repents. *Ward II 621 No. 30; Herbert III 18; *Crane Vitry 223 No. 223; Wesselski Mönchslatein 190 No. 149; Scala Celi 115a No. 639. |
| N343.1 | Mistress kills self, believing her lover dead. Irish myth: *Cross; Italian Novella: Rotunda; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| T271.1.1 | Mistress of impotent husband sends her maid to find a man for her. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1223.2 | Mistress sends man's own wife as substitute without his knowledge. *Gaster Exempla 222 No. 173; Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| T86.3 | Mistress springs into dead lover's grave. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| D2074.2.3.1 | Mistress summoned by wish. *Fb "ønske" III 1179a. |
| Q451.5.1.1 | Mistress's nose cut off as punishment for faithlessness. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| K1886.2 | Mists which lead astray. Irish myth: *Cross; Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "brume". |
| X113 | Misunderstanding and quarrels in family of deaf. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| J1823 | Misunderstanding of church customs or ceremonies causes inappropriate action. |
| J2496.2 | Misunderstandings because of lack of knowledge of a different language than one's own. Lithuanian: Balys Index No. *2420; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| J1823.1 | Misunderstandings concerning images of Christ. |
| N341 | Misunderstood message causes messenger to be killed (accused). BP II 366. |
| S411.1 | Misunderstood wife banished by husband. She has decorated the house for his homecoming, but he thinks that she is expecting a paramour. *Type 890 (Christiansen Norske Eventyr 113); Japanese: Ikeda. |
| X111.7 | Misunderstood words lead to comic results. In some the people are not really deaf but fail to catch a word; in some they are deaf. Type 1698G; Aarne FFC XX 40, 76.—Spanish: Espinosa Jr. No. 189; India: Thompson-Balys; Indonesia: DeVries's list No. 296. |
| K1286 | Mock initiation for dupe. Boccaccio Decameron VIII No. 9. |
| K1886.3.3 | Mock sunrise causes supernaturals (thieves) to drop burdens and flee. (Cf. F420.3.4.2.) Tahiti: Henry 589; Tonga: Gifford 88ff. |
| K1886.3.2 | Mock sunrise: dupe made to believe that flaunted bare buttocks are the rising sun. Tonga: Gifford 87—88. |
| K1886.3.1 | Mock sunrise: person causes cock to crow (simulates cock crow). Marquesas: Handy 32, 109; Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 516; Tuamotu: Stimson MS (z-G. 3/1146, T-G. 1/78); Tahiti: Henry 589; Tonga: Gifford 90, 144. |
| K1886.3 | Mock sunrise. Contract is to be fulfilled at dawn. Wolf makes fire as mock sunrise. Is caught. Cape Verde Islands: *Parsons MAFLS XV(1) 6 n. 1. |
| Q3 | Moderate request rewarded; immoderate punished. India: Thompson-Balys; Japanese: Ikeda; West Indies: Flowers 566. |
| L250 | Modest business plans best. |
| L213.1 | Modest choice best: wife chosen from crowd of women—only one poorly dressed. Chinese: Graham. |
| L210 | Modest choice best. Types 480, 580. See also references to L211 and L221. Scala Celi 26a No. 171; *Roberts 177, 198; Spanish: Espinosa Jr. Nos. 71, 74, 139, 191; Italian: Basile Pentamerone III No. 10; Icelandic: Boberg; Japanese: Ikeda; N. A. Indian (Zuсi): Benedict II 340; Africa: Werner African 196, 205; Cape Verde Islands: Parsons MAFLS XV (1) 277 No. 91; West Indies: Flowers 559. |
| L222.1 | Modest choice for parting gift—money or counsels. Counsels chosen. Jewish: bin Gorion Born Judas III 100, 304. |
| L222.3 | Modest choice for parting gift: when offered money man takes magic stick. Chinese: Graham. |
| L222.4 | Modest choice of parting gift: magic iron measure chosen. Korean: Zong in-Sob 27 No. 12. |
| L212.4 | Modest choice proves good (simple unique privilege). Girl offered reward of five villages chooses rather to be only one on certain night to be allowed to have light in her house and to keep all animals who enter as hers. All kinds of livestock come. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| L222 | Modest choice: parting gift. Small gift with blessing preferred to large gift with parent's curse. *Köhler-Bolte I 188; BP I 214 n. 1; Gunkel Das Märchen im alten Testament (Tübingen, 1921) 100f.; Campbell Tales I 220 No. 13; Lang English Fairy Tales 136 No. 23; Gipsy: Aichele Zigeunermärchen 289 No. 69; Jewish: Neuman; Cape Verde Islands: Parsons MAFLS XV (1) 110, 122. |
| L211 | Modest choice: three caskets type. Objects from which choice is to be made are hidden in caskets (or the like). The worst looking casket proves to be the best choice. Type 480; *Cox 501ff.; Cosquin Lorraine No. 17; *Chauvin III 99 No. 4; *Crane Vitry 153 No. 47; *Oesterley No. 251; *Roberts 200; *Cosquin Contes indiens 527; Boccaccio Decameron X No. 1 (Lee 294); *Ward II 122; Herbert III 196; *Wesselski Märchen 213 No. 18; *Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 836; *Fb "skеl" III 352a. —North Carolina: Brown Collection I 633; Spanish Exempla: Keller; Italian Novella: *Rotunda; India: *Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Graham; Japanese: Anesaki 320; N. A. Indian (Arikara): Dorsey CI XVII No. 16, (Nez Percé): Spinden JAFL XXI 156, (Carib): Alexander Lat. Am. 264; Malay: V. Ronkel Catalogus der Maleische Handschriften te Batavia (Den Haag, 1909) 48; Africa (Angola): Chatelain 121 No. 10, 229 No. 41, (Benga): Nassau 225 No. 33. |
| L222.2 | Modest parting gift best—meat or bones. Bones thrown to pursuing dogs delay them and allow escape; not so with meat. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| L220 | Modest request best. *Cox 480; *BP II 232; *MacCulloch Childhood 191; N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 276 n. 18a. |
| L221 | Modest request: present from the journey. Asked what her father shall bring her as a present, the heroine chooses a modest gift. It is usually a flower but sometimes does not turn out to be such a simple gift after all (golden cloak, golden apple). *Type 425; *Fb "rose" III 80a, "guldæble" I 515b, "guldrok" I 514b; *Hdwb. d. Märchens I 206b; Tegethoff 11; Italian Basile Pentamerone II No. 8; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| L290 | Modesty brings reward—miscellaneous. |
| L200 | Modesty brings reward. |
| A102.15 | Modesty of God. Jewish: Neuman. |
| P12.14 | Modesty of king. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| Z139.6 | Modesty personified. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| J831 | Mohammed goes to the mountain (tree) when the mountain will not come to him. Wesselski Hodscha Nasreddin *II 190 No. 372. |
| K1962.1 | Mohammed puts seed in his ears and when doves trained to feed there come, he tells people that they bring messages from God. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| K1642 | Mole as trickster killed in his own tunnel. He tricks the fox by going through the tunnel and eating the common food, but the fox sees the molehill and kills him. Africa (Angola): Chatelain 203 No. 29. |
| J958 | Mole pretends that he sees, smells, and hears. His mother tells him to claim no more senses than he has. Wienert FFC LVI 63 (ET 260), 101 (ST 146); Halm Aesop No. 71. |
| A2213.5.1 | Mole struck on head in attempt to steal fire: hence his flat head. S. Am. Indian (Toba): Métraux MAFLS XL 109. |
| D965.5 | Moly: magic plant. *Taylor JAFL XXXI 561.—Greek: Frazer Apollodorus II 288 n. 1. |
| D2012 | Moments thought years. In a moment a person seems to experience events of many years. Hartland Science 226f.; Wesselski Märchen 255 No. 65; *Krappe Bulletin Hispanique XXXV (1933) 114f., Scandinavian Studies 19 (1947) 217—224; Irish myth: *Cross. |
| V118 | Monasteries. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| V118.1 | Monastery on otherworld island. Irish myth: Cross. |
| N128.2 | Monday and Wednesday as unlucky days. Jewish: Neuman. |
| K443 | Money (or other things) acquired by blackmail. U.S.: Baughman; India: Thompson-Balys; West Indies: Flowers 512. |
| N351 | Money (treasure) unwittingly given away. Unlucky man given a loaf which is filled with gold exchanges it for another loaf. *Type 841; *Pauli (ed. Bolte) Nos. 326, 327; Spanish: Espinosa Jr. No. 185; Italian Novella: Rotunda; Icelandic: Boberg; India: *Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Graham; Japanese: Ikeda; N. A. Indian (Pochulata): Boas JAFL XXV 223. |
| F358 | Money borrowed from the fairies and not returned on time. England: *Baughman. |
| N212 | Money cannot be kept from where it is destined to go. Miser told that his hoard is to go to poor man. He hides it in a trunk and throws it into the sea but it drifts to the house of the poor man who tries in vain to restore it to its owner. *Type 745; *Chauvin II 129 No. 137; *Herbert III 234, 377 No. 61, 447; *Oesterley No. 109, Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 934B*; Russian: Andrejev No. 834B*; West Indies: Flowers 563. |
| J1085 | Money does not always bring happiness. |
| K443.4 | Money exacted from watcher who permits theft of wooden cow supposed to be real. *Type 1535; *BP II 1ff. |
| K443.3.1 | Money exacted from watchers who permit chest to be stolen. The chest is said falsely to be full of money and the watchers subject to severe punishment. *Type 1535; *BP II 10. |
| K443.3 | Money exacted from watchers who permit goods to be stolen. Japanese: Ikeda; Korean: Zong in-Sob 196 No. 95. |
| N524.1 | Money found in the dead beggar's coat. Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 842*; Russian: Andrejev No. 842 I. |
| D1500.1.10.3 | Money from offertory as cure. (Cf. D1288.) Kittredge Witchcraft 151, 470f, n. 126; England: Baughman. |
| J1853.1.1 | Money from the broken statue. Fool sells goods to a statue and when it will not pay him knocks it to pieces. He finds a treasure inside. (Cf. J1852.1.) Type 1643; *Wesselski Hodscha Nasreddin II 211 No. 426; Wienert FFC LVI 80 (ET 459), 138 (ST 430); Halm Aesop No. 66; Chauvin VIII 94 No. 65; Italian: Basile Pentamerone I No. 4. |
| J1161.4 | Money in the stick. Before swearing, the cheater hands a stick containing the stolen money to the man he has stolen it from. He then swears that he has repaid it. *Köhler-Bolte I 137; *Zachariae Zs. f. Vksk. XXXIII—XXXIV 78; **Lewy ibid. XXXVII—XXXVIII 83; Spanish Exempla: Keller; Jewish: *Neuman, *Gaster Exempla 210 No. 121a. |
| F460.4.2.2 | Money left on hill to repay helpful mountain-men. *Fb "penge" II 803a. |
| N183 | Money lost twice: recovered third time. Type 935**; Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 946*; Spanish: Boggs FFC XC 114 No. 945A*. |
| E451.5.1 | Money must be distributed to beggars so that ghost may be laid. Lithuanian: Balys Ghosts. |
| F451.5.1.5 | Money or treasure given by dwarfs. (Cf. F420.5.1.7.1.) Irish myth: Cross; Icelandic: MacCulloch Eddic 268; Finnish-Swedish: Wessman 46 No. 386; German: Haas Greifswald 38 No. 40, 40 No. 44, Bindewald 188, Pröhle Harz. No. 137 III, No. 168 I, No. 220 II, Schöppner I 165 No. 158, Ey 29. |
| E373.1 | Money received from ghosts as reward for bravery. A voice says: "I am letting it fall." The man: "Let it." Money falls to the ground. *Chauvin V 78 No. 22 n. 1; Estonian: Aarne FFC XXV 123 No. 46; cf. Finnish-Swedish: Wessman 24 No. 216; Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 3626; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K482 | Money received to bury sham-dead person. |
| J1931 | Money tested by throwing it into a stream to see if it will swim. Good coins are supposed to swim, counterfeit to sink. *Type 1651; BP II 75; *Fb "penge" II 804a; Russian: Andrejev No. 842*. |
| V64 | Money tied on corpse thrown overboard from ship in order to secure burial. Child III 342, IV 506. |
| B101.9 | Mongoose with golden hair and silver ears. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1915.1 | Monk becomes husband to girl at night, so that his friend may have dowry. Heptameron No. 56. |
| J495 | Monk chooses solitude and loneliness to company and temptation. By living alone he escapes sin. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| T334 | Monk cures himself of desire for dead sweetheart. He digs up her remains. *Crane Vitry 236 No. 245; Herbert III 20. |
| J557.1 | Monk discouraged by large amount of work to be done persuaded to undertake but a small amount each day. The small task will be done; the large one will merely discourage. Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 262; Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| W128.5 | Monk dissatisfied with things as he has them is admonished to take what he receives from God. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| K361.4 | Monk entrusted with care of getting husband for girl, takes dowry himself. Heptameron No. 56. |
| H1553.5 | Monk fails in test of patience. He tries to live alone to test it. One day he loses his temper at a cup which overturns and he breaks it. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| T317.6 | Monk finds that only abuse and cruel treatment from his fellow monks can conquer his lust. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| T334.1 | Monk goes into desert to avoid temptation of women, the prime source of sin. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| J215.4 | Monk goes to wilderness to escape work on material things. Finds that he must work to live and returns to monastery. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| U230.0.1 | Monk leaves monastery when he sees a devil there tempting brethren. Returns when in the world he sees scores of devils tempting the people. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| V461.6 | Monk lives where people speak ill of him to avoid danger of flattery. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| W185.4 | Monk loses temper at cup and breaks it. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| Q223.13.1 | Monk neglecting to prostrate self at canonical hours expelled from monastery by saint and dies on seventh day. Irish myth: Cross. |
| W126.1 | Monk obedient only as long as work is agreeable. Always says that unpleasant work is beneath his dignity. Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 367. |
| K1367 | Monk persuades a father to set daughter afloat in box: monk seduces her. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| U231.1 | Monk rebukes brethren who succumb to temptation. When he is exposed to it he understands what temptation is. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| V462.12 | Monk refuses chance of having temptation removed since he considers it strengthening to have it ever present to test him. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| J1361 | Monk says that he is a stallion. In reply to women's taunts he boasts of his powers. A woman calls on the devil to come and ride him. Bolte Frey 253 No. 97. |
| V465.1.1.1 | Monk seduces girl; then kills her; becomes infidel. *Chauvin VIII 128 No. 118; Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| J91 | Monk shames accuser by telling parable. Wind, Water, and Modesty (Sense of Shame). The first two give their addresses but the third says she has no address as no one wants her. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| U221 | Monk under pressure from abbot forgives the crucifix which has fallen and hurt him. He says that nevertheless there will always be hatred between them. *Wesselski Arlotto II 222 No. 90; *Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 336. |
| T331.8 | Monk unsuccessfully tempted by woman he formerly loved. Heptameron No. 64. |
| T331.1 | Monk unsuccessfully tempted in nunnery. Alphabet No. 127. |
| Q61.1 | Monk who did not ask for position made abbot. He is given the bribe money paid by other ambitious monks. Wesselski Mönchslatein 124 No. 107; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| E411.7 | Monk who dies without his cowl cannot rest in grave. Alphabet No. 501. |
| V475.2 | Monk who has left his order forgiven and miraculously reinstated. Alphabet No. 781. |
| V475.1 | Monk who has left order punished (dies in torment). Alphabet Nos. 73, 784. |
| T331.9 | Monk yells "thief" to repel temptress. When she seeks him in his bed he screams. He says she steals his most valuable possession, virtue. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| J1261.8 | Monk's cordon cannot stand the strain. Franciscan claims that his cordon will save him from Hell. Benedictine answers that he once had a dream in which he saw St. Francis throw his cordon to save members of his order in Purgatory and so many clung to it that it snapped. (Cf. Q291.1.) Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| J581.3 | Monk's enemies quarrel and thus save him. Robber who wants to steal monk's cow and devil who wants to steal his soul quarrel as to which shall begin first; they thus awaken him and the neighbors. Chauvin II 97 No. 53; Bødker Exempler 296 No. 58; Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| K1043.1 | Monkey "shares" ointment with tiger: produces sores. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T252.2.2 | Monkey (jackal, etc.) shows husband how to rule his wife. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| B292.2.1 | Monkey as domestic servant. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A132.2 | Monkey as god. Chinese: Werner 325ff.; Hindu: Penzer II 73, 197 n. 2, IV 126, VIII 44; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B240.12 | Monkey as king of animals. Wienert FFC LVI 47. |
| K644 | Monkey attracts attention of mowers until young birds can fly away from the harvest field. Japanese: Ikeda; Indonesia: DeVries's list No. 82. |
| D487.2 | Monkey becomes 100,000 feet high. Chinese: Werner 361. |
| A2241.11 | Monkey borrows tail from deer and refuses to return it. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B294.2.2 | Monkey buys liquor. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K461.2 | Monkey causes girl to cry as if from hunger: eats food given her. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K171.9 | Monkey cheats fox of his share of bananas. Climbs on a tree and tosses peelings down upon fox. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| D1652.9 | Monkey cut in two by magic sword becomes two monkeys. (Cf. D1081.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| J2413.4.3 | Monkey cuts his throat, thinking that he is imitating the cobbler. Nouvelles Récréations No. 19. |
| Q295 | Monkey destroys nest of bird who has made sport of him. Japanese: Ikeda; Indonesia: DeVries's list No. 52. |
| K1839.3 | Monkey dresses in dead mistress's gown; frightens household. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K579.2 | Monkey in danger on bridge of crocodiles pretends that the king has ordered them counted. India: Thompson-Balys; Japanese: Anesaki 317, Ikeda; Indonesia: DeVries's list No. 7, Dixon 190 n. 10. |
| K1625 | Monkey instead of girl in floating basket: hermit made laughing-stock. He has persuaded girl's foolish father to place her in the basket. Prince takes girl and leaves monkey in her place. (Cf. K1333, K1674.) Penzer II 445. |
| J2133.10 | Monkey jumps into water after a butterfly. Indonesia: DeVries's list No. 77. |
| J2133.2 | Monkey jumps over a ravine with his sword girded on. Falls to his death. Indonesia: DeVries's list No. 79. |
| F916.1 | Monkey jumps through body of tiger. Indonesia: De Vries's list No. 46. |
| K831.2 | Monkey killed by girls who pretend to wash its buttocks. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K812.3 | Monkey lures tiger into tree-top and sets fire to it. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B611.6 | Monkey paramour. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B298.1 | Monkey plays chess. Nouvelles Récréations No. 88. |
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