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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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A
Mythological Motifs
B
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
W
Traits of Character
X
Humor
Z
Miscellaneous Groups of Motifs
| Thompson reference | Description ▲ |
|---|---|
| J951.4.1 | Painted jackal admitted neither to the peacocks nor to the jackals. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| P482 | Painter (artist). |
| H439.1.1 | Painting on wife's stomach as chastity index. Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| A515 | Pair of culture heroes. Amazon tribes: Alexander Lat. Am. 311. |
| A1021.1 | Pairs of animals in ark. Seed of all beings put into ark to escape destruction.—See references to "Sintflutsage" in A1010; also Dh I 267ff.—Irish myth: Cross; Hebrew: Genesis 6:19; Babylonian: Spence 175; Hindu: Keith 147.—Aztec: Alexander Lat. Am. 85f. |
| K1889.6 | Palace appears to be floating on water—actually glass. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| D1483.1 | Palace arises from bull's legs buried in soil. (Cf. D1012.1, D1132.1.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F771.3.7 | Palace at bottom of water tank. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q172.4 | Palace being built in heaven for pious king. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F776.1.1 | Palace gate so big it can only be opened by twelve buffaloes. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q561.4 | Palace in other world of the dead where are rooms full of tongues, hands, etc. of men committing sins in this world. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A151.4.2 | Palace of gods with door at each end for sun's journey. Virgil Aeneid X line 3. |
| F771.1.1.2 | Palace of gold and silver bricks. Africa: Basset Contes populaires d'Afrique 133f. No. 52, (Nubia): Rochemonteix Quelques Contes Nubiens (Cairo, 1888) 48ff. No. 4, 55ff. No. 5, (Swahili): Steere 13ff.; Chinese: Graham. |
| F771.1.7 | Palace of ice. Patch PMLA XXXIII 608 n. 23. |
| F771.1.5 | Palace of jewels. (Cf. F721.5.1.) Penzer VI 111; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 159. |
| D1132.1 | Palace produced by magic. *Chauvin V 63 No. 19. India: Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Werner 183. |
| F639.8 | Palace shakes when strong man gets upon its roof. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F771.2.4.1 | Palace surrounded by rivers of wine, rose-water and honey. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| F771.7 | Palace surrounded by rivers of wine, rosewater, and honey. Chauvin V 41 No. 388; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F776.3 | Palace with seven gates, one within the other. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A151.4 | Palaces of the gods. Icel.: MacCulloch Eddic 327, 329. |
| J646.1 | Palamides, having injured Ulysses, seeks advice from him. Following the advice proves fatal. Pauli (ed. Bolte) No 441. |
| A721.4 | Pale sun made right again by using egg, yellow grass, etc. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F148.4 | Palisade of bronze around otherworld. Irish myth: Cross. |
| D1380.0.1.1 | Palladium. City impregnable while statue remains. (Cf. D1268.) Greek: Grote I 276. |
| B765.26 | Palm tree grows on serpent's body. S. A. Indian (Toba): Métraux MAFLS XL 71. |
| N846.1 | Palmer as helper. Dickson 63. |
| R131.13 | Palmer rescues abandoned child. (Cf. N846.1.) English: Wells 118 *(Octovian). |
| D1531.10 | Palmetto leaves give power of flying. (Cf. D955.) Marquesas: Handy 53. |
| F442 | Pan. Wood-spirit (demigod) part goat and part man. Greek: Fox 267. |
| D476.1.6 | Pancakes made of snow. *Loomis White Magic 78. |
| B732 | Panther's sweet smell protects him from other beasts. Herbert Catalogue of Romances III 37ff. (Odo of Cheriton), Hervieux Fabulistes latins IV No. 60. |
| D1654.11 | Paper in hand which none but king can remove. (Cf. D1266.1.) Spanish: Boggs FFC XC 86 No. 754*B. |
| J81.3 | Parable comparing canons to a stew made of their individual meals. Nouvelles Récréations No. 3. |
| A1331.2.1 | Paradise lost because first woman is seduced. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 43, 61. |
| A1331.2 | Paradise lost because of brother-sister incest. Persian: Carnoy 310. |
| A1331.1.1 | Paradise lost because of forbidden food. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| A1331.1 | Paradise lost because of forbidden fruit (drink). (Cf. A1346).—*Dh I 208ff.; *Frazer Old Testament I 45ff.; Irish myth: Cross; Spanish Exempla: Keller; Lithuanian: Balys Legends No. 34.—Persian: Carnoy 297; India: Thompson-Balys; Burmese, Indo-Chinese: Scott 265, 289.—Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 45; Quiché: Alexander Lat. Am. 171; Yuracare: ibid. 315; Biloxi: Dorsey and Swanton BBAE XLVII 32; African (Baluba): Einstein 199. |
| A1331 | Paradise lost. Original happy state forfeited because of one sin.—*H. Schmidt Die Erzählungen von Paradies und Sündenfall (Tübingen 1931); J. Feidmann Paradies und Sündenfall (1913); *Frazer Old Testament I 45-76; Irish myth: Cross; Jewish: Neuman; Persian: Carnoy 296, 309; Burmese: Scott Indo-Chin. 265, 269f.; Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 43ff., 61. |
| F111.4 | Paradise of the Blessed, a subterranean world. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| H1378 | Paradoxical quests. (Cf. H1050.) |
| H1050 | Paradoxical tasks. *Type 875; *BP II 362; *Gruffydd Math vab Mathonwy (U. of Wales Press, 1928) 307ff. |
| C941.5 | Paralysis as punishment for broken tabu. African (Luba): De Clerq Zs. f. KS. IV 220. |
| D2072.6 | Paralysis by singing magic song. Eskimo (Greenland): Rink 351, Rasmussen III 111. |
| K2213.3.2.1 | Paramour demands that wife bring him her husband's head. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| K1517.9 | Paramour disguised as cloth merchant is surprised by the husband. He asks the woman to be paid for a pretended sale. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K1517.7 | Paramour disguised as pregnant woman. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K1517 | Paramour escapes by disguise. |
| K1517.11 | Paramour escapes by pretending to be returning borrowed basket. Heptameron No. 29. |
| K1517.6 | Paramour escapes disguised as monk. Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| K1517.4.1 | Paramour falls in cesspool. Husband thinks he is a demon. Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles No. 72; Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| K1586 | Paramour feigns loss of genitals in order to obtain the husband's confidence. Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles No. 13; Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| K1521.5 | Paramour hidden behind a screen. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K1521.4 | Paramour hidden in the bed. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K1521.3 | Paramour hidden under the wash. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K1517.3 | Paramour in vat: disguise as vat-buyer. Husband thinks he is testing the vat. Boccaccio Decameron VII No. 2 (Lee 186); Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| T645 | Paramour leaves token with girl to give their son. *Type 873; *Potter Sohrab and Rustem 6ff.; Irish myth: Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg; India: Thompson-Balys; Japanese: Ikeda; Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 86, 330, 478f. |
| K1517.10 | Paramour leaving love-tryst is met by husband. Pretends he had come to see him on business. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K1521.2.1 | Paramour placed in chest and covered with clothing. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K1517.2 | Paramour poses as doctor. Boccaccio Decameron VII No. 3 (Lee 189); Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K1517.8 | Paramour poses as robber. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K1517.5 | Paramour poses as unsuccessful suitor. When surprised with the wife he tells the husband that he has been trying to force the woman, with no success. The wife supports the statement. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K1521.7 | Paramour rolled into a carpet. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1592 | Paramour sends prostitutes in disguise to take mistress to "convent". Husband is deceived by the ruse. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K1521 | Paramour successfully hidden from husband. *Type 1364; *Wesselski Märchen 187 No. 2; Italian Novella: *Rotunda; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1521.2 | Paramour successfully hidden in chest. Italian Novella: *Rotunda; Icelandic: Boberg. |
| K1521.1 | Paramour successfully hidden in chimney (fireplace). Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K1514.14 | Paramour unties mare. Husband chases mare while the wife entertains the paramour. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K675.1 | Paramour unwittingly drinks sleeping potion. Is thought dead and placed in a chest. Chest is stolen. When he escapes he is accused of being a robber. He is saved by his mistress's maid who explains all, transferring the role played by her mistress to herself. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| J581.2 | Paramour who insists on quarreling with mistress about escape caught by her husband. He finds the escape different from that which had been described to him. Chauvin II 84 No. 12; Bødker Exempler 275 No. 11; Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| J1198 | Pardon in return for confession. |
| P515 | Pardoning of criminal comes too late. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| B60.1 | Parent of all fishes. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 24. |
| A512 | Parentage of culture hero. (Cf. also A511.1.8.). |
| N732.3 | Parents accidentally meet daughter who has survived their attempts to drown her. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| T69.2 | Parents affiance children without their knowledge. Type 516; Rösch FFC LXXVII 101; Jewish: *Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| P230 | Parents and children. Hdwb. d. Märchens I 527a s.v. "Eltern und Kinder"; Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| T132.2 | Parents become servants to secure funds for wedding. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T69.2.2 | Parents decide princess can marry no one who weighs more than she. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| P241 | Parents descend to hell instead of sons. Irish: O'Suilleabhain 53. |
| K1921 | Parents exchange children. |
| P270.3 | Parents kill son for slaying their foster son. Irish myth: Cross. |
| A1566 | Parents learn how to wean their children. S. A. Indian (Toba): Métraux MAFLS XL 120. |
| J2311.8 | Parents made to believe that they are dead and are married to each other again. Indonesia: DeVries's list No. 270, Coster-Wijsman 73 No. 11. |
| A111 | Parents of the gods. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 171. |
| R153.1.1 | Parents rescue son from lower world on rope. Africa (Basuto): Jacottet 86 No. 13. |
| R153.1 | Parents rescue son. |
| R153 | Parents rescues child. (Cf. S351.) |
| S311.1 | Parents successively bury alive their sons who mention something about smith's, potter's, washerman's, and tom-tom beater's trade, but keep fifth child who says something about being future king. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| S345 | Parents trick children into going on hunt, and then abandon them in forest. (Cf. S143.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T455.4 | Parents urge girl to trade her favors for truce with hostile warrior. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| T69.2.1 | Parents wooing one of seven daughters for their son. Chinese: Graham. |
| J125 | Parents's misdeeds innocently betrayed by children. Italian Novella: Rotunda; West Indies: Flowers 474. |
| J1262.5 | Parishioner hears preacher say that alms are returned "100 to 1". Chops down crucifix and takes money from box. Is told that such return would take place in other world. "I won't need money then, but I can use it now." Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| B239 | Parliament of animals—miscellaneous. |
| B230 | Parliament of animals. E. Voigt "Odo de Ciringtonis und seine Quellen" Zs. f. d. Alterthum XXIII (N.F. XI) 283; Africa: Stanley 222, (Fang): Trilles 176, Tessman 54, (Wute): Sieber 205, (Duala): Ebding 142, (Wakweli): Bender 62; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B232 | Parliament of birds. (Cf. B236.1, B238.)—Type 220; *BP III 278ff. —*Robinson Complete Works of Chaucer 900ff.; T. Wright The Owl and the Nightingale (Percy Society, 1834); Irish myth: Cross; Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "oiseaux"; Hindu: *Penzer V 100 n. 1; India: *Thompson-Balys;—Seneca (Indians): Curtin-Hewitt RBAE XXXII 695 No. 133. |
| G303.25.19 | Parliament of devils. Irish myth: Cross. |
| B233 | Parliament of fishes. (Cf. B236.2.)—*BP III 284 (Gr. No. 172); *Dh IV 192 ff. |
| F565.3 | Parliament of women. Irish myth: Cross. |
| G243.2 | Parody of church ceremony at witch's sabbath. Kittredge Witchcraft 243. |
| K1961.1.2.1 | Parody sermon. *BP III 116; Fb "messe" II 582a; Bolte Zs. f. Vksk. XIX 182; Boccaccio Decameron VI No. 10 (Lee 179); *Wesselski Arlotto I 174ff. No. 3; Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 1835*; Prussian: Plenzat 77; Italian Novella: Rotunda; West Indies: Flowers 549. |
| T92.9.1 | Parricide because of father-son rivalry for girl's love. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| N323 | Parricide prophecy unwittingly fulfilled. *Type 931; *Krappe Balor 13 n. 45; Greek: *Grote I 206; India: Thompson-Balys. See all references to M343 (Parricide prophecy). |
| M343.0.1 | Parricide prophecy: king's successors will be parricides. Irish myth: Cross. |
| M343 | Parricide prophecy. In spite of all attempts to thwart the fates, the child kills his father. *Type 931; *Krappe Balor 11 n. 37; *Baum PMLA XXXI 481; Krappe Neuphilologische Mitteilungen XXIV 11ff.; Saintyves Saints Successeurs 268—70; Chauvin VI 36 No. 206; Irish myth: *Cross; Greek: Fox 33, 48f., 63, Grote I 6, 9, 85, 206, 243, 263, 466; Jewish: Neuman, bin Gorion Born Judas I 166, 372; India: Thompson-Balys; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 34, 698, II 286, 924; N. A. Indian: Thompson CColl II 414. |
| Q211.1 | Parricide punished. (Cf. Q552.2.3.3, Q552.3.1.1, Q553.3.3.) *Types 756B, 761*; *Andrejev FFC LXIX 239; Irish myth: *Cross; Finnish-Swedish: Wessman 19 No. 185. |
| S22.1 | Parricide to obtain kingship. Irish myth: Cross. |
| S22 | Parricide. (Cf. Q211.1.) Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg; Jewish: Neuman; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 35, 1148, II 651, 1101, 1169; Tonga: Gifford 189. |
| B271.1 | Parrot and sparrow argue right to inherit property left by man. Sparrow says his interests are the same as man's; parrot says that he caused all man's wealth, since man sold his feathers. People's decision for parrot.—Africa (Fang): Nassau 237 No. 5. |
| B291.1.6 | Parrot as messenger. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| B565 | Parrot gives advice to queen playing chess, and she always wins. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K137.2 | Parrot knowing only two words sold as speaking foreign language. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| L451.4 | Parrot prefers cold wet nest in freedom to luxury in royal palace. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B122.8 | Parrot scout sent to enemy camp to ascertain strength. Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 980. |
| B294.5 | Parrot transacts business of trader. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| J1154.1 | Parrot unable to tell husband details as to wife's infidelity. Wife has parrot describe a storm very realistically. Husband observes contrast in the two tales. (Cf. J1152.) *Chauvin VIII 35f. No. 3; Bødker Exempler 286 No. 35; Spanish Exempla: Keller; Italian Novella: *Rotunda; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B551.2.1 | Parrots carry couple across the sea. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| X435.2 | Parson "Where did the father stay?"—"He stayed to hold the oxen." *Type 1833B. |
| P426.1 | Parson (priest). Jewish: Neuman (P426.1, V452). |
| X441 | Parson and sexton at mass. Parson intones instructions to the sexton (cook) as a part of the mass. *Type 1831; Spanish: Boggs FFC XC 147 No. 1831A*. |
| K1371.1.1 | Parson deceived into marrying his intended bride to her real lover. The parson thinks it is a mock-wedding, but it turns out to be real. Danish: Grundtvig MS No. 162 in Dansk Folkemindesamling. |
| X418 | Parson is to let a dove fly in the church. It dies in his pocket. *Type 1837. |
| K2335 | Parson is tricked into giving up his room. Is told there is a snake in it. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| J2321.1 | Parson made to believe that he will bear a calf. In having his urine examined by a doctor, a cow's is substituted by mistake. (Or he dreams that he has borne a calf.) When a calf comes into the house he thinks that he has borne it. (Cf. J1734.1, K1955.2.) *Type 1739; *BP I 317 n. 1; *Fb "kalv"; *Wesselski Bebel I 232 No. 148. |
| X416 | Parson preaches so that half the congregation weeps and half laughs. Has clothes torn in the back. Those that see this laugh. He wins the wager. *Type 1828*; Wesselski Morlini 297 No. 44. |
| X411 | Parson put to flight during his sermon. Type 1785. |
| X445 | Parson refreshes himself during the sermon. |
| X414 | Parson rides ox into church. He wants to show how Christ rode into Jerusalem. Sexton sticks ox with needle. *Type 1786. |
| X417 | Parson smears his hand with butter. Rascals have spread butter on the altarbread. The parson preaches, "What is the life of man?" and therewith brings his hand down on the altar-bread: "Pure butter!" Type 1836*. |
| X445.2 | Parson takes a chew of tobacco during the sermon. Fb "kardus" II 91a. |
| X445.1 | Parson takes a drink of liquor during the sermon. (Cf. X111.13.) *Type 1827. |
| X435.3 | Parson: Where was Christ when he was neither in heaven nor on earth?—He was in the willow-grove looking for a stick to beat those who ask foolish questions. *Type 1833C. |
| J1074.1 | Parson's apology for not answering challenge: I have never regretted silence but have often regretted speech. *Wesselski Arlotto II 265 No. 208; *Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 478. |
| X443 | Parson's poor horsemanship. |
| D1472.1.24 | Part of animal's body supplies food or drink. |
| E545.20 | Part of ghost speaks. |
| D1472.1.34 | Part of human body furnishes food. |
| D702 | Partial disenchantment. |
| A737.11 | Partial eclipses because of ailments of sun or moon. S. Am. Indian (Mojo): Métraux BBAE CXLIII (3) 424. |
| D682.4 | Partial transformation—color changed. Irish myth: Cross. |
| D682.3 | Partial transformation: animal with human mind. Irish myth: *Cross; Penzer VI 5 n. 1. |
| D682.2 | Partial transformation: person with animal hair. Irish: MacCulloch Celtic 168. |
| D682.1 | Partial transformation: person with animal head. Hartland Science 198; India: Thompson-Balys; Eskimo (Greenland): Rasmussen I 150, (Central Eskimo): Boas BAM XV 182, 253, (Mackenzie Area): Jenness 49. |
| D682 | Partial transformation. Tobler 54, 59ff., 80; Jewish: Neuman. |
| E501.2 | Participants in wild hunt. |
| C941 | Particular disease caused by breaking tabu. |
| V310 | Particular dogmas. |
| A751.10 | Particular individual is man in the moon. |
| P715 | Particular nations (races). |
| P14 | Particular practices of kings. |
| G303.15.4.1 | Particular species of tree abode of devils. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| N772 | Parting at crossroads to go on adventures. *Type 303; *Ranke FFC CXIV (motif B2); India: Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Graham. |
| F340.1 | Parting fairies leave gifts for newborn princess. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T136.4.2 | Parting gifts after wedding. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| T61.2 | Parting lovers pledge not to marry for seven years. Child V 488 s.v. "Marriage". |
| K364 | Partner misappropriates common goods. Cheremis: Sebeok-Nyerges; Africa (Luba): DeClerq Zs. f. Kolonialsprachen IV 221; Philippine (Tinguian) Cole 195. |
| K1635 | Partnership of Honesty and Fraud: Fraud loses. Fraud has cheated his partner, Honesty. They hire a housekeeper. Fraud is to have use of her right side, Honesty of her left. The left side is of little use. Fraud falls in love with her and pays Honesty double all his losses to relinquish his rights. Spanish: Boggs FFC XC 99 No. 837, Keller. |
| K341.26 | Partridge plays hide-and-seek with girls while fox eats the curds they are taking to market. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K341.5.2 | Partridge pretending to be wounded entices woman from food while jackal eats it. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| B768.1 | Partridge subsists on moonbeams. Penzer II 235 n. 3. |
| A2241.3 | Partridge's voice borrowed from tortoise. Dh III 132. |
| D411.10.1 | Parts of bears fall off and become geese. Eskimo (Cumberland Sound): Boas BAM XV 256f. |
| A2611.0.4 | Parts of body of god transformed into plants. India: Thompson-Balys; Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 188. |
| S139.2.2.4 | Parts of corpses used in sport. Irish myth: Cross. |
| D1454 | Parts of human body furnish treasure. |
| A2611.0.5 | Parts of human or animal body transformed into plants. India: Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 130f. Nos. 85, 89; S. Am. Indian (Mataco): Métraux MAFLS XL 128. |
| H105 | Parts of slain animals as token of slaying. *Hartland Perseus III 207; *Hdwb. d. Märchens I 242b. nn. 37—47; Missouri French: Carrière; Italian: Basile Pentamerone I No. 7; India: *Thompson-Balys; N. A. Indian (Seneca): Curtin-Hewitt RBAE XXXII 343 No. 59. |
| D447.9 | Parts of sorcerer's body turn into serpents. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| D1500.1.33 | Parts or products of animal cure disease. |
| D1500.1.7 | Parts or products of human body cure disease. |
| T584 | Parturition. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| F911.4.1.1 | Party in canoe swallowed by great clam. Tahiti: Beckwith Myth 260. |
| Q221.4.3 | Party of horsemen detained by bad weather vow to reach town whether God will or no. The earth swallows them up. (Cf. Q552.2.3.) England: Baughman. |
| U260 | Passage of time. |
| N134.1.5 | Passenger brings bad luck to ship. Cast overboard. Jonah. (Cf. S264.1.) |
| N695 | Passengers on a boat are terrorized by a cutthroat. He turns courteous and leaves them unharmed. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| F931.9 | Passing through sea unscathed. (Cf. D1551.) Jewish: *Neuman. |
| V75.1 | Passover. Jewish: Moreno Esdras, *Neuman. |
| D475.1.11 | Paste (smeared on princess's body) turns to gold. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| P294.1 | Paternal aunt as aid. N. A. Indian (California): Gayton and Newman 82. |
| G333 | Path between monsters. Scylla and Charybdis. Greek: Fox 137, 264; N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 307 n. 113b. |
| F95.1 | Path from grave to lower world. Africa (Angola): Chatelain 224 No. 40. |
| F57.3 | Path to heaven on beard. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 256. |
| F95 | Path to lower world. *Siuts 53; Child V 500 s.v. "Ways".—Icelandic: Boberg. |
| F151.1.6 | Path to otherworld over sharp rocks. Eskimo (Greenland): Rasmussen III 186, Rink 326. |
| F154 | Path to sun on sun's rays (eyelashes). (Cf. F152.1.2.) N. A. Indian (Bella Coola): Boas JE I 83. |
| F95.4 | Path to underworld marked by knots tied in grass by spirits. Maori: Clark 48. |
| F95.0.1 | Path to world of dead. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F931.9.3 | Paths open up in sea for each tribe (one for each of Israel's tribes). Jewish: *Neuman. |
| Q64 | Patience rewarded. (Cf. W26.) Jewish: Neuman. |
| W26 | Patience. Spanish Exempla: Keller; Jewish: Neuman. |
| B784.2.1 | Patient fed salt: animal comes out for water. The patient is fed salt or heavily salted food and allowed no water for several days. He then stands with mouth open before a supply of fresh water, often a running brook. The thirsty animal emerges to get fresh water.—Ireland, U.S.: *Baughman; Italian Novella: Rotunda (J1115.2.3). |
| N641.1 | Patient laughs at monkey and cures himself. Monkey takes medicine and cuts capers as result. Nouvelles Récréations No. 89. |
| N641 | Patient laughs so at foolish diagnosis of sham physician that his abscess breaks and he gets well. She has been told to examine the floor around the patient's bed for signs of what he has been eating. She finds the patient surrounded with pillows: he has eaten too many pillows. *Wesselski Mönchslatein 19 No. 13, Theorie 163. |
| B784.2.2 | Patient sits before tempting meal without eating; animal emerges. Ireland, England, U.S.: *Baughman. |
| K1955.1.2 | Patients frightened from hospital by harsh treatment. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| A1440.3 | Patriarchs because of long life made inventions. Tupper and Ogle Map 4. |
| P711.9 | Patriotism: king learning that nation will triumph whose king dies in battle, allows self to be killed. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| P711 | Patriotism. Irish myth: Cross; Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| F959.4 | Paunch opened and fat taken out to cure stomach. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| L123 | Pauper hero. Jewish: *Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| F865.1 | Pavement of pearl. Fb "perle" II 807b. |
| T35.2 | Pavilion as lovers' rendezvous. *Dickson 61 n. 4. |
| D2178.3 | Pavilions produced by magic. Penzer VIII 92. |
| J1382 | Payers of cash favored. |
| K248 | Payment evaded by setting countertasks. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q552.18.3 | Payment for ransom disappears when prisoner is not released. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| K249.4 | Payment in worthless goods which are alleged to be valuable goods transformed. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K231.4 | Payment of money to the devil impossible, since debtor learns that the devil is dead. Type 822*; Russian: Andrejev No. 822*. |
| P537 | Payment of stipend. Irish myth: Cross. |
| P532 | Payment of tax (tribute). Irish myth: *Cross. |
| K249.2 | Payment of the egg-white. A man dreams of an egg hanging under his bed. An interpreter demands half of what he finds as his fee for interpreting the dream. The man finds that the egg is a silver cup filled with gold crowns. He gives the interpreter part of the cup but none of the gold. The interpreter says, "He gave me some of the egg-white but none of the yolk." *Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 616. |
| K220 | Payment precluded by terms of the bargain. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K221 | Payment to be made at harvest of first crop. The man plants acorns. *Type 1185; cf. 1184; Danish: Kristensen Danske Sagn III (1895) 382; German: Schambach und Müller Niedersächsische Sagen und Märchen No. 170. |
| K222 | Payment to be made when last leaf falls. The last leaf never falls from the oak tree. *Type 1184; *BP III 14, 200; Dh I 179; *Krappe Balor 154ff.; *Fb "djævel" I 189a, "løv" II 518; Estonian: Aarne FFC XXV 152 No. 79. |
| K251.6 | Payment to lame man who claims that man's father lamed him. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| J2489.10 | Payment with "something or other." Offered money, fools insist on "something or other." India: Thompson-Balys. |
| J1172.2 | Payment with the clink of the money. Man sued for payment for enjoyment of the flavor of meat when roasting. Pauli (ed. Bolte) No 48; Nouvelles de Sens No. 9; Italian Novella: Rotunda; India: Thompson-Balys; Indonesia: DeVries's list No. 297. |
| J1421 | Peace among the animals. (Peace fable.) The fox tries to beguile the cock by reporting a new law establishing peace among the animals. Dogs appear; the fox flees. "The dogs have not heard of the new law." *Type 62; *BP II 207; Wienert FFC LVI 52 (ET 120), 98 (ST 125); Halm Aesop No. 225; Jacobs Aesop 214 No. 59; *Chauvin II 202 No. 51, V 241 No. 141; *Lancaster PMLA XXII 33; *Graf FFC XXXVIII 26; Fb "ræv" III 114a.—Spanish: Espinosa III No. 225; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K191 | Peace between sheep and wolves. As hostages the dogs are handed over to the wolves; the young wolves to the sheep. The wolves then attack and kill the sheep. Ward II 320; *Herbert III 168f. No. 22; *Crane Vitry 152 No. 45; Wienert FFC LVI *50 (ET 96), 97 (ST 108); Halm Aesop No. 268; *Krappe Bulletin Hispanique XXXIX 47. |
| M236 | Peace bought for husband. Icelandic: MacCulloch Eddic 103, *Boberg. |
| T203 | Peace in marriage more important than truth. Jewish: Neuman. |
| W43 | Peacefulness. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| W116.4 | Peacock admires self in mirror. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| J242.5 | Peacock and crane in beauty contest. Better be able to soar like crane than to strut about like peacock. Wienert FFC LVI 43 (ET 3), 142 (ST 479); Halm Aesop No. 397. |
| B147.2.2.7 | Peacock as bird of ill-omen. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| W128.4 | Peacock dissatisfied with his voice. Wienert FFC LVI 78 (ET 441), 133 (ST 388). |
| A2232.7 | Peacock given ugly feet so as to prevent too great arrogance. (cf. A2375.2.2.)—Dh I 196. |
| A2236.2.2 | Peacock has snake carry devil into paradise: cursed with ugly voice and feet. (Cf. A2375.2.2, A2423.1.2.)—Dh I 206. |
| K916.1 | Peacock helper dances before enemy army of hero; flame of fire from her tail burns them all to ashes. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B242.1.7 | Peacock king of birds. Wienert FFC LVI 47. |
| K1591.1 | Peacock left as spy on adulterous wife. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B754.6 | Peacock pregnant without intercourse. Male spits up semen and female eats it. This as a curse. (Cf. A2236.5.)—India: *Thompson-Balys; Jewish: Neuman (raven). |
| J242.4 | Peacock proved to be bad king. Chosen because of beauty; too weak to defend his flock. Wienert FFC LVI 47 (ET 63), 90 (ST 22), 142 (ST 480); Halm Aesop No. 398; Dh IV 185ff. |
| A934.12 | Peacock shows rivers the way to the big valley so they will not go round and round. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| J515 | Peacock spends so much time preening for coronation that birds become impatient and make the owl king instead. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B131.5 | Peacock's feathers ruffled in presence of poison. (Cf. B143.1.2.) —Penzer I 110 n. 1. |
| A2423.1.2 | Peacock's ugly voice. (See A2236.2.2.) |
| F855.3.1 | Peacocks of gold. Penzer III 57. |
| D1413.1.2 | Pear tree from which one cannot descend. (Cf. D950.5.) Fb "pæretræ" II 905b. |
| N529.2 | Pearl found in fish. Jewish: *Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B103.1.2.1 | Pearl-dropping cow. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| H71.3 | Pearls from hair as sign of royalty. *Type 707; BP II 380, 393. |
| K1071 | Peas strewn on stairs so that person will slip. BP II 57 n. 2; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| J2214.1 | Peas will burn. Fool warns those who ride through a field of peas. "You will burn your horses' feet. I burned my mouth with hot peas the other day." Clouston Noodles 77; French: Irwin Verville No. 83. |
| P270.2 | Peasant and his wife as foster parents of exposed king's son. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| P411.1.1 | Peasant and his wife in hut near castle as contrasts to king and queen. Icelandic: Lagerholm lvi, *Boberg. |
| N854.1 | Peasant as foster father. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| N854 | Peasant as helper. Icelandic: ásmundar saga Kappabana 472, Boberg. |
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