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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
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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
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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 ▲ |
|---|---|
| D2163.6 | Obstructions magically produced before enemy. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| G79 | Occasional cannibalism—deliberate—miscellaneous. |
| G70 | Occasional cannibalism—deliberate. |
| G50 | Occasional cannibalism. |
| J2347 | Occupational tricks on new employees. U.S.: *Baughman. |
| A923 | Ocean from creator's sweat. Corpus Poeticum Boreale I 64.—Polynesian: Dixon 37 n. 106. |
| A923.1 | Ocean from urine. (Cf. A933.)—Buin: Wheeler Mono-Alu 28, Aurora (New Hebrides): Codrington II 372. |
| A922 | Ocean made from blood. Icel.: MacCulloch Eddic 325f.; Finnish: Aarne FFC XXXIII 51 No. 7**; Livonian: Loorits FFC LXVI 86 No. 45.—Oceanic: Dixon 37 n. 107, 108 (Polynesia, Samoa, Marquesas). |
| A921 | Ocean the son of Earth and Heaven. Greek: Fox. |
| A816.2 | Ocean under this world. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Z71.0.1 | Odd numbers —formulistic. Roman: Pliny Natural History X 151, XXVIII 23; Hindu: Caland Verhandelingen der Koniglijke Akademie van Wetenschappen te Amsterdam XVII (4) 23 and NS I (6) 73, 103; Indonesian: Kruyt Het Animisme 514. |
| D152.4.1 | Odin as falcon. Icelandic: Hervarar saga 82, 140, *Boberg. |
| D1711.6.1 | Odin as magician. Icelandic: MacCulloch Eddic 45ff., 296; Herrmann Saxo Gr. II 239ff., *Boberg. |
| A1082.2 | Odin battles Fenris Wolf at end of world. (Cf. A1070.)—*Olrik Ragnarök 479 s.v. "Fenris-wolf". |
| J34 | Odor of the wine cask. How fine wine must been been to leave so good an odor. Wienert FFC LVI 76 (ET 416), 122 (ST 313); Phaedrus III No. 1; Jacobs Aesop 220 No. 81. |
| A1279.1 | Of first parents husband so hideous he is kept hidden. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A1275.3 | Of ten original men one magically changes sex. New Hebrides: Dixon 107; Eskimo (Cape York): Rasmussen III 49. |
| H1558.1.1 | Of three friends the least loved proves true in emergency. Spanish Exempla: Keller; Jewish: bin Gorion Born Judas IV 32, 275; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| L316 | Offended rats gnaw saddle girths of king's horses so that he is defeated in battle. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| C33 | Offending supernatural child. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| D601 | Offer to make pups born of woman in shape of hound human. Irish myth: Cross. |
| V134.2 | Offerings to holy wells. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| N618 | Officer comes accidentally to the same building where the fugitive sleeps. Jewish: Neuman. |
| J1526.1 | Officer disarmed by sentry. Army major approaches sentry, takes away his rifle, and reproaches him for allowing himself to be disarmed. Sentry draws pistol from inside shirt, demands return of unloaded rifle. U.S.: Baughman. |
| K2136 | Officers praised in reverse from their real merit: trouble for them and their master. Type 1579*. |
| J1309 | Officiousness or foolish questions rebuked—miscellaneous. |
| J1300 | Officiousness or foolish questions rebuked. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F305.2 | Offspring of fairy and mortal extraordinarily beautiful. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F305.3 | Offspring of fairy and mortal has long hair and beard at birth. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F305 | Offspring of fairy and mortal. Malone PMLA XLIII 433; *Krappe études 119ff.; Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| A1277 | Offspring of first parents. |
| B636 | Offspring of human and animal intercourse. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| E474.1 | Offspring of living and dead person. (Cf. E322.1, T540.) *Fb "barn" IV 27a; Tupper and Ogle Walter Map 98; Irish myth: Cross. |
| F420.6.1.6 | Offspring of marriage between mortal and water-spirit. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| B630 | Offspring of marriage to animal. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F455.11 | Offspring of trolls. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| T320.1 | Oft-proved fidelity. Repeated attempts to seduce innocent woman. She escapes them all. *Types 881, 882, 883AB, 888, 892; *Loomis White Magic 95; Irish myth: *Cross; Italian Novella: *Rotunda; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K511.2 | Ogam inscription on shield orders that bearer (who does not know meaning) shall be killed. Poet (who recognizes the meaning) reports to king that inscription means a request for honorable treatment. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| G369.5 | Ogre (demon) with long arm (demon hand) which is thrust down chimney (through door, etc.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| K1710 | Ogre (large animal) overawed. Missouri French: Carrière; Spanish: Espinosa Jr. No. 5; India: Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 14 Nos. 3, 4; Africa (Wachaga): Gutmann 191f.; West Indies: Flowers 542. |
| G442.1 | Ogre abducts new-born babe, keeping it captive for seven years. Irish myth: Cross. |
| G440 | Ogre abducts person. |
| K713.1.5 | Ogre allows self to be tied so as to learn magic. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q41.1 | Ogre appeased by being called uncle (aunt, etc.). India: Thompson-Balys. |
| G475.1 | Ogre attacks intruders in house in woods. *Type 301; India: *Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Graham; Japanese: Ikeda; Philippine: Fansler MAFLS XII 34, 433; Borneo: *Dixon 188 n. 6. |
| G475.2 | Ogre attacks intruders on bridge. *Type 301. |
| G475 | Ogre attacks intruders. |
| G653 | Ogre attracts attention by whistling. N. A. Indian (California): Gayton and Newman 92. |
| G511 | Ogre blinded. **Hackman die Polyphemsage; Gaster Thespis 334; Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| G512.3.2 | Ogre burned in his own oven. *Type 327; *Cosquin RTP XXV 1, 65, 126 (= études 349ff.); Saintyves Perrault 277ff.; Missouri French: Carrière; Am. Negro (Georgia): Harris Nights 314 No. 54; India: Thompson-Balys; Filipino: Fansler MAFLS XII 442; Africa (Zanzibar): Bateman 190 No. 9; Jamaica: *Beckwith MAFLS XVII 271 No. 83. |
| G512.3 | Ogre burned to death. Spanish: Espinosa Jr. No. 81; India: Thompson-Balys; Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 141, 195, 445; N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 353 n. 274, (California): Gayton and Newman 70; Africa (Fang): Trilles 253, (Duala): Lederbogen Fables 57. |
| G514.8 | Ogre captured by animal. |
| G514.8.1 | Ogre captured by tortoise. Africa (Fang): Tessman 16. |
| G514.4 | Ogre captured while transformed to animal. Missouri French: Carrière; Chinese: Werner 359. |
| G514.7 | Ogre captured with decoy smeared with tar. He is then killed and thrown into water. Africa (Duala): Lederbogen Fables 60, 74. |
| G514 | Ogre captured. Irish myth: Cross; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K522.2 | Ogre carries sham-dead man. "He smells already." Type 1139; cf. Indonesian: Coster-Wijsman 52 Nos. 77, 78. |
| G441 | Ogre carries victim in bag (basket). *Type 327; Norwegian: Christiansen 43f. No. 327**; India: Thompson-Balys; Eskimo (Greenland): Rasmussen II 85; N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 351 n. 268a, (California): Gayton and Newman 96; Africa (Basuto): Jacottet 66 No. 10, (Kaffir): Theal 120, 134, (Zulu): Callaway 75. |
| G676 | Ogre carrying mortar and pestle. N. A. Indian (California): Gayton and Newman 91. |
| G514.3 | Ogre caught in noose and killed. New Zealand: Dixon 61, Beckwith 266; Hawaii: Beckwith 174. |
| G371.1 | Ogre clothed in rock. N. A. Indian (California): Gayton and Newman 79. |
| G512.1.2 | Ogre decapitated. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| G335 | Ogre decapitates captive princess before he leaves palace; resuscitates her on return. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| G526 | Ogre deceived by feigned ignorance of hero. Hero must be shown how to get into oven (or the like). Ogre shows him and permits himself to be burnt. *Type 327; *Cosquin RTP XXV 1, 65, 126; Penzer I 157 n. 2, VII 123, 263; Saintyves Perrault 276; India: *Thompson-Balys; Indonesian: De Vries's list No. 244; Africa (Benga): Nassau 121ff. No. 12, (Zanzibar): Bateman 187 No. 9. |
| G572.2 | Ogre deceived by showing sharp knife or sword for nose or tongue. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| G572.1 | Ogre deceived by throwing burning oil instead of spittle on him. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| G524.1 | Ogre deceived into hanging himself. Chinese: Graham; Africa (Masai): Fuchs Sagen, Mythen, und Sitten der Masai (Jena, 1910) 21ff. No. 4. |
| G560 | Ogre deceived into releasing prisoner. |
| G520 | Ogre deceived into self-injury. *Type 328; N. A. Indian: Thompson CColl II 359. |
| G524 | Ogre deceived into stabbing himself. He imitates the hero who has stabbed a bag of blood. Fb "mave" II 565; S. A. Indian (Amazon): Alexander Lat. Am. 300; Missouri French: Carrière. |
| G537 | Ogre defeated with divine help. |
| G537.1 | Ogre defeated with help of goddess. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| G500 | Ogre defeated. Icelandic: *Boberg; Jewish: *Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Graham; Eskimo (Mackenzie Area): Jenness 86; N. A. Indian (Zuсi): Benedict 341. |
| K1827.0.1 | Ogre disguised as holy man. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| G413 | Ogre disguises voice to lure victim. Africa (Basuto): Jacottet 64 No. 10; West Indies: Flowers 453. |
| G426 | Ogre draws girl over waterfall. Eskimo (Kodiak): Golder JAFL XVI 26. |
| G336 | Ogre draws victims under water. |
| G522.1 | Ogre drinks till he bursts—turns into fog. Eskimo (Greenland): Rasmussen III 104; Koryak: Jochelson JE VI 141. |
| G512.11 | Ogre drowned. French Canadian: Sister Marie Ursule (G519.4); Tuamotu: Stimson MS (z-G. 3/1110, z-G. 13/249); Hawaii: Beckwith 174. |
| G13.2 | Ogre eats beautiful girl hoping to have her beauty. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| G312.6 | Ogre eats only men's hearts. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K2011.1.1 | Ogre father poses as mother and kills child. Africa (Rundi): Zuure L'Ame du Murundi (Paris, 1932) 340ff. No. E5, 345f. No. E7, (Luba): DeClerq ZsKS IV 213ff. No. 13. |
| K2345 | Ogre frightened at rustling. Man sets juniper afire. Type 1145; Japanese: Ikeda. |
| K547.6 | Ogre frightened away by beating tom-tom. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K711.3 | Ogre frightened into rolling self in mat: burned. Africa (Nubian): Rochemonteix Quelques Contes Nubiens (Cairo, 1888) 55ff. No. 5, (Swahili): Steere 13ff. |
| G681 | Ogre gives riddle on pain of death. *Penzer I 51; Slavic: Máchal 267; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| G463 | Ogre guesses correctly and gets princess. Italian: Basile Pentamerone I No. 5. |
| G369.4 | Ogre has head and tail of a cat. (Cf. G361.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| D10.1 | Ogre has unique powers of exchange of sex with human being. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1111.3 | Ogre helps tortoise who snaps jaws to and catches him. Africa (Fang): Tessman 16. |
| K1918.1.1 | Ogre imposes on widow by assuming form of dead husband. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| G514.2.1 | Ogre imprisoned in cave. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| G514.2 | Ogre imprisoned in his own house. Type 1167*. |
| G422.1 | Ogre imprisons victim in drum. Africa (Basuto): Jacottet 62 No. 10, (Kaffir): Kidd 233 No. 4, (Yoruba): Ellis 261 No. 1. |
| G422 | Ogre imprisons victim. *Type 327; Oceanic (New Zealand, Mangaia, Rotuma): Dixon 62. |
| G403 | Ogre in animal form lures victim into captivity. Hdwb. d. Märchens I 542b nn. 23—27; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| G376 | Ogre in shape of small boy. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1117 | Ogre induced to sit on reversed harrow. Type 1059*. |
| G334 | Ogre keeps human prisoners. |
| G513 | Ogre killed and resuscitated so as to be of help to hero. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| G519.4 | Ogre killed by blades falling in his food. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| G512.5 | Ogre killed by burning external soul. |
| G512.5.1 | Ogre killed by burning feather containing his life. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| G512.9.1 | Ogre killed by helpful dogs. Africa: Biblioteca Africana IV 60. |
| G512.10 | Ogre killed by lightning. Africa (Fang): Trilles 164. |
| G512.8.1 | Ogre killed by striking with club. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| G512.8.2 | Ogre killed by striking with stones. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| G512.8 | Ogre killed by striking. |
| G512.3.1 | Ogre killed by throwing hot stones (metal) into his throat. Oceanic (New Zealand, Tahiti, Hawaii, Melanesia, Indonesia, New Guinea, Polynesia): Dixon 61, 63, 69, 86, 133 n. 6; Maori: Beckwith Myth 196; Tahiti: ibid. 197 n. 21 and ch. 13 passim; N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 324 n. 167, 353 n. 274, (California): Gayton and Newman 70; Africa (Congo): Weeks 203 No. 1, (Fang): Tessman 150, (Boloki): Weeks Congo 203. |
| G519 | Ogre killed through other tricks. |
| G519.2 | Ogre killed with his own iron bar. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| G512.1 | Ogre killed with knife (sword). Type 327***; India: *Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Graham. |
| G510 | Ogre killed, maimed, or captured. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| G512 | Ogre killed. *Type 328; Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg; Lappish: Qvigstad FFC LX 59 No. 140; India: *Thompson-Balys; Tuamotu: Stimson MS (z-G. 13/249); Eskimo (Greenland): Rink 107, 138; West Indies: Flowers 454. |
| G477 | Ogre kills men and rapes women. Icelandic: *Boberg; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| G478 | Ogre kills noisy children. Eskimo (Greenland): Rink 47; Koryak: Jochelson JE VI 191. |
| G523 | Ogre kills self when he sees crumbs lying on his belly. Indonesia: De Vries's list No. 243. |
| G521 | Ogre made drunk and overcome. *BP III 106; Greek: Frazer Apollodorus I 32f.; Gaster Thespis 328; Japanese: Anesaki 306; Africa (Yoruba): Ellis 258 No. 1. |
| K1733 | Ogre made to believe hero has withstood fire. Hero escapes and after the room he has been in is burned he returns and is found sitting in the ashes. "It was a bit hot," he says. *Type 1116. |
| K1711 | Ogre made to believe small hero is large: overawed. India: Thompson-Balys; Indonesia: DeVries's list No. 245; Africa (Ila, Rhodesia): Smith and Dale II 359 No. 12. |
| N812.6 | Ogre magically produces water for caravan. Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 15. |
| G367 | Ogre monstrous as to blood. |
| G365 | Ogre monstrous as to feet. |
| G361 | Ogre monstrous as to head. (Cf. G369.4.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| G363 | Ogre monstrous as to mouth. Irish myth: Cross. |
| G362 | Ogre monstrous as to nose. |
| G366 | Ogre monstrous as to trunk. |
| G580 | Ogre otherwise subdued. |
| K1718 | Ogre overawed by hero's boasts about marvelous relatives. |
| G572 | Ogre overawed by trick. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| G570 | Ogre overawed. *Types 1145—1154; Icelandic: Boberg; India: Thompson-Balys; Missouri French: Carrière. |
| G522 | Ogre persuaded to drink pond dry bursts. *Type 327; BP I 115; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| G512.4 | Ogre persuaded to go into hole: buried alive. Italian: Basile Pentamerone IV No. 8. |
| G584 | Ogre polluting the wells driven away by shooting. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| G638 | Ogre powerless to cross stream. Penzer III 236. |
| M242.3 | Ogre released in return for his magic girdle. Tuamotu: Stimson MS (Z-G. 13/152, 221, 1314). |
| G635 | Ogre revives after limbs are severed. N. A. Indian (California): Gayton and Newman 71; Africa (Zulu): Callaway 51. |
| G11.9 | Ogre schoolmaster. Girl sees schoolmaster eat human flesh. Refuses to tell him what she saw. He persecutes her. *Cosquin Contes indiens 112ff. |
| G17 | Ogre seduces sleeping girl in order to devour her. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| J1791.6.2 | Ogre sees beautiful woman reflected in water. Attempts to drink the lake dry. (Cf. J1791.3.1.) Type 1141*; Japanese: Ikeda. |
| R49.3 | Ogre seizes girl and puts her in a drum. Africa (Luba): DeClerq ZsKS IV 225. |
| G465 | Ogre sets impossible tasks. *Type 313; Chinese: Graham; Africa (Benga): Nassau 215 No. 33. |
| G652 | Ogre sings constantly, usually own name. N. A. Indian (California): Gayton and Newman 91. |
| G631 | Ogre so old that his eyelids must be propped up. *Krappe Balor 4 n 15; *Fb "öje" III 1167a. |
| G512.2 | Ogre stoned to death. English: Wells 117 (Sir Torrent of Portyngale). |
| G332.1 | Ogre sucks victim's finger and drinks all his blood. Cosquin Contes indiens 369 n. 1; Spanish: Espinosa Jr. No. 80. |
| K912.3 | Ogre suitor persuaded by woman to bury her murdered lover: she cuts off his head. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| G651 | Ogre teaches smith how to transform sand in his smithy. Type 1163; Lithuanian: Balys Legends No. 753. |
| G534 | Ogre tells wife how people may evade his power. Chinese: Graham. |
| K1756 | Ogre terrified by an iron man. In order to save the king's daughter from the ogre an iron man is forged. *Type 1162. |
| K1755 | Ogre terrified by woman's legs. He has formerly been caught in a vise. On his approach, the man's wife stands on her head and ogre thinks her legs are a vise. He flees. *Type 1159; *BP II 530 n. 3. Cf. Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 1154*, 1164C*. |
| G514.5 | Ogre tied to rock. Tuamotu: Beckwith Myth 268. |
| G512.9.2 | Ogre torn to pieces by birds. Africa (Wachaga): Gutman 95. |
| G585 | Ogre tortured by not being allowed to sleep. Eskimo (Kodiak): Golder JAFL XVI 28. |
| G514.1 | Ogre trapped in box (cage). *Type 328; Köhler-Bolte I 306; Missouri French: Carrière; Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "boite"; Indonesia: De Vries's list No. 244; Japanese: Ikeda; N. A. Indian: Thompson CColl II 359ff. |
| G421 | Ogre traps victim. Africa (Zulu): Callaway 6, (Basuto): Jacottet 258 No. 38. |
| G561 | Ogre tricked into carrying his prisoners home in bag on his own back. *Types 311, 1132; Chauvin VI 30 No. 201; Africa (Congo): Weeks 202 No. 1, 212 No. 7. |
| R231.1 | Ogre tries to retain fugitive by tempting him with gold ring; but he takes ring by cutting off the hand. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| G464 | Ogre tyrannizes over fairyland. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Z315 | Ogre vulnerable only when his face is turned away when he is struck. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| G512.8.4 | Ogre whipped to death. Eskimo (Greenland): Holm 14. |
| G632 | Ogre who cannot endure daylight. (Cf. G636.) Penzer I 77. |
| G365.1 | Ogre with feet reversed. Penzer IX 160; S. A. Indian (Araucanian): Alexander Lat. Am. 327. |
| G363.1 | Ogre with flaming mouth. Irish myth: Cross. |
| E715.1.3.2 | Ogre with life in parrot, speaks from inside parrot. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| G341.1 | Ogre with sharpened leg. S. A. Indian (Toba, Mataco, Shipaya, Warrau, Apinarje, Canella, Tukuna): Métraux MAFLS XL 74ff. |
| G369.3 | Ogre without a shadow. Cowell Jataka V 18. |
| G347 | Ogre: karumba kills hero by medicines. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1111.1 | Ogre's (dwarf's) beard caught fast. *Types 1160, 426; BP III 259; Grimm No. 4 (type 326), 161 (type 426). |
| G655 | Ogre's ashes cast on stream cause rapids to stop. Also kill all creatures in the stream. Irish: MacCulloch Celtic 132, *Cross. |
| G613 | Ogre's charm stolen. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| G512.0.2 | Ogre's daughter killed together with her father. Icelandic: Hálfdanar saga XVII 1, XVIII 7, Boberg. |
| G412.1 | Ogre's gingerbread house lures child. *Type 327. |
| G512.1.2.1 | Ogre's head and hands cut off and hung above city gate. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| E715.1.3.1 | Ogre's life in parrot's feather in man's pocket. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| G530.6 | Ogre's maidservant as helper. Chinese: Graham. |
| K1615 | Ogre's own moccasins burned. The ogre plans to burn the hero's moccasins while they are camping together, but the hero exchanges the moccasins. N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 325 n. 172. |
| G530 | Ogre's relative aids hero. |
| G661.2 | Ogre's secret overheard by masking as bird. *Type 812; *Dh I 194ff. |
| G661.1 | Ogre's secret overheard from tree. *Types 613, 812; *BP III 13; Christiansen FFC XXIV 68ff. |
| G661 | Ogre's secret overheard. Christiansen FFC XXIV 68ff.; Japanese: Ikeda. |
| N571.1 | Ogre's son guardian of treasure trove. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| E714.10 | Ogre's soul in "pale spot" below his right ear. (Cf. Z311.2.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| G512.3.2.1 | Ogre's wife (daughter) burned in his own oven. *Types 327, 327*; **Cosquin études 349ff. (= RTP XXV 1ff.); Irish: MacCulloch Celtic 172; Finnish-Swedish: Hackman FFC VI No. *327C; Lithuanian: Balys Index Nos. *327C, 327D; Italian: Basile Pentamerone V No. 4; India: *Thompson-Balys; Africa (Angola): Chatelain 113 No. 8; Jamaica: Beckwith MAFLS XVII 280 No. 98. |
| G674 | Ogre's wife jealous of him. India; Thompson-Balys. |
| G519.1 | Ogre's wife killed through other tricks. Type 1122. |
| K1082 | Ogres (large animals, sharp-elbowed women) duped into fighting each other. Trickster strikes one so that he thinks the other has done it. *Type 1640; BP I 148ff.; Köhler-Bolte I 565; French Canadian: Barbeau JAFL XXIX 20; Greek: Fox 112 (Jason); India: Thompson-Balys; Korean: Zong in-Sob 175 No. 75; Indonesia: DeVries's list Nos. 42, 43, 44; Eskimo (Mackenzie area): Jenness 44; Koryak: Jochelson JE VI 37, 376; N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 327 n. 181; Africa: Weeks Jungle 39ff. |
| G581 | Ogres chased away by fire. *Chauvin VII 82 No. 373bis n. 2. |
| G675 | Ogres harnessed to plow. Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "charrue". |
| G637 | Ogres live in trees. Melanesian, Indonesian: Dixon 63. |
| G636 | Ogres powerless after cockcrow. (Cf. G632.) Penzer I 77 n.; Japanese: Ikeda; Africa (Angola): Chatelain 106 No. 7. |
| G366.1 | Ogres who have no belly. S. A. Indian (Fuegian): Alexander Lat. Am. 340. |
| G310 | Ogres with characteristic methods. |
| G360 | Ogres with monstrous features. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| G370 | Ogres—miscellaneous. |
| G0 | Ogres. For a good discussion of the general concept and of the various kinds of ogres see Saintyves Contes de Perrault 299ff.; **Laistner Rätsel der Sphinx.—Italian: Basile Pentamerone III Nos. 1, 7, V No. 7; Africa: Werner African 242. |
| H1401.2 | Ogress assumes frightful guises to frighten messengers. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 174, 194. |
| G321.2 | Ogress at a spot along the road takes toll of lives. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| G677 | Ogress attracted by scent of sugar cane ravages city. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| G264.0.1 | Ogress bathes in pool, is transformed into beautiful maiden, and becomes king's favorite wife. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| G365.2 | Ogress can extend leg or arm any distance. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| G345.1 | Ogress can make cold oven blaze by putting foot into it. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| R9.3 | Ogress captured and reformed. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| G312.7 | Ogress devours horses. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| G334.1 | Ogress has twenty captive princesses in cave. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| G351.5 | Ogress in form of donkey. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| G351.4 | Ogress in goat-form. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| G414 | Ogress invites boys to live in her house. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| G639 | Ogress lives in water. (Cf. F420.1.4.9, F426.) Icelandic: MacCulloch Eddic 280—81, Corpus Poeticum Boreale I 152, Boberg. |
| G519.1.3 | Ogress lured in bridal bed and killed. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| G94.1 | Ogress takes travelers out of cave and devours them one by one. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 264. |
| G519.1.4 | Ogress tricked into falling into boiling spring. Maori: Beckwith Myth 196. |
| G83.1 | Ogress whets teeth to kill captive. Köhler-Bolte Zs. f. Vksk. VI 64 (to Gonzenbach No. 13); Irish myth: Cross (G153); Italian: Basile Pentamerone IV No. 8, V No. 4. |
| K961.2.2 | Ogress wife demands eyes of six wives of raja or she will die. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| G510.5 | Ogress with knife tail defeated by hunter. Eskimo (Greenland): Rasmussen II 160, III 151, Rink 160. |
| S413.1 | Ogress-wife orders raja to turn out his six wives. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| G514.6 | Ogresses caught in flood of lava. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 174. |
| J2465.7 | Oh bother! put it on my head! Numskulls asking old woman where to put grain obey and smother her. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| V222.5 | Oil bursts from ground as saint is made bishop. Irish myth: Cross. |
| D475.4.9 | Oil changed to jewels. Jewish: Neuman. |
| D1482.1 | Oil comes out of sacred white stone. (Cf. D931.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| V221.0.1.1 | Oil flowing from relics has curative powers. *Loomis White Magic 104. |
| J2214.7 | Oil is cheap (or spilling oil is good luck). Man hearing this breaks oil vessels. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| L475 | Oil lamp blown out: had thought that it outshone stars. Wienert FFC LVI 75 (ET 409), 93 (ST 64); Halm Aesop No. 285. |
| D1346.8.1 | Oil of immortality. (Cf. D1244.)—Jewish: Neuman. |
| D1542.1.6 | Oil poured in left ear of black dog brings rain. (Cf. D1242.2.) Jijena Sanchez 134. |
| J1852.1.2 | Oil sold to iguana. Treasure found. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| W37.1 | Oil well digger runs out of money, leaves the country, forgetting to tell his driller. He returns fifty years later, finds the driller still drilling away. U.S.: Baughman. |
| D1368.1.1 | Ointment applied to eyes makes night seem day. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| D1663.2 | Ointment cures left cheek, not right. (Cf. D1244.) Chinese: Werner 281. |
| D1384.6 | Ointment gives protection on journey. (Cf. D1244.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| J1511.13 | Oisin's poor diet in Patrick's house—pancake size of ivy leaf, measure of butter only size of rowan berry. Later Oisin gives Patrick quarter of a wild boar, servant ivy leaf and rowan berry. Irish myth: Cross. |
| J761 | Old age must be planned for. |
| Z114 | Old age personified. Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: Boberg. |
| K455.3 | Old beggar disguised as gentleman: much money borrowed on his credit. *Type 1526; *BP III 394 (4). |
| T155 | Old beggar transforms wedding party into wolves. (Cf. D113.1.) Dh III 454; Finnish: Aarne FFC VIII 14 No. 75, XXXIII 53 No. 75; Estonian: Aarne FFC XXV 130 No. 73, 145 No. 38; Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 3674; Livonian: Loorits FFC LXVI 63 No. 160. |
| W155.1.1 | Old bullock deserted and left to die. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| L214 | Old chosen rather than new. Fortunate choice. Africa (Basuto): Jacottet 142 No. 20. |
| A192.1.1 | Old god slain by young god. Irish myth: Cross. |
| K1556 | Old Hildebrand. Hidden cuckold reveals his presence by rhymes. He responds to the rhymes made by the wife and paramour concerning their entertainment. *Type 1360C; **Anderson Der Schwank vom alten Hildebrand (Dorpat, 1931); *BP II 373; Hdwb. d. Märchens I 188a nn. 164—5; Spanish: Espinosa II No. 93, III No. 193. |
| P16.3.1 | Old king attacked. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| A15.3 | Old man as creator. |
| F372.2.1 | Old man as godfather to underground folk. Finnish: Aarne FFC XXXIII 43 No. 56; Estonian: Aarne FFC XXV 126 No. 56. |
| N255.6 | Old man burns self with gunpowder, and then burns himself worse when he pours hot water over his body. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K499.3 | Old man cheats crocodile by playing on its ignorance of agriculture. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| J215.1.4 | Old man chooses to be annoyed by occasional and loud chirp of swallows than by never-ending but soft chirp of sandpipers. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| H1557.3 | Old man contented till forbidden to leave city. Immediately disobeys. *Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 319; Wesselski Märchen 220 No. 33. |
| A21.2 | Old man from sky as creator.—Old man with his wife comes from the sky. Are the first couple on earth. Have seven sons and seven daughters. Each son marries a daughter.—Ekoi: Talbot 366. |
| N825.2 | Old man helper. *Types 307, 329, 480, 512*; *BP III 365ff., 534ff.; *Chauvin VI 109 No. 273 n. 1; Roberts 150. — Irish myth: Cross; Missouri French: Carrière; Spanish: Espinosa II Nos. 75, 99 —103, 138f.; India: *Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Graham; Japanese: Ikeda; Tuamotu: Stimson MS (z-G. 13/174); Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 461; N. A. Indian (Seneca): Curtin-Hewitt RBAE XXXII 88 No. 4; Africa (Kaffir): Theal 83. |
| H1233.1.2 | Old man helps on quest. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
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