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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
H
Tests
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The Wise and the Foolish
K
Deceptions
L
Reversals of Fortune
M
Ordaining the Future
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Chance and Fate
P
Society
Q
Rewards and Punishments
R
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 ▲ |
|---|---|
| G400 | Person falls into ogre's power. *Types 311, 312. |
| G242.7 | Person flying with witches makes mistake and falls. England, Scotland, U.S.: *Baughman. |
| D1420.2 | Person follows magic receding well. (Cf. D926.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| S183.1 | Person forced to eat hearts (flesh) of relatives (draw blood). Irish myth: *Cross. |
| S183.2 | Person forced to eat loathsome animal. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| S183.0.1 | Person forced to eat red-hot meal. Irish myth: Cross. |
| B210.1 | Person frightened by animals successively replying to his remarks. Example: Man riding horse and followed by dog tells horse to jump over a hole. Horse says, "I will not." Man turns to dog and says, "Isn't that strange—a horse talking!" The dog says, "Yes, isn't it." Often the man runs, meeting other animals which answer him, until he falls exhausted.—U.S.: *Baughman. |
| J2611 | Person frightened into falling down a cliff. N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 303 n. 109f.; West Indies: Flowers 492. |
| G224.8 | Person gets witch power by walking twelve times around a church backward at midnight. England: Baughman. |
| K1613.2.1 | Person gives his wife a poisoned drink; she pours the two drinks together. They both die. England: Baughman. |
| F1041.3 | Person goes blind from overweeping. Malone PMLA XLIII 410; Jewish: *Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| F945 | Person gradually submerged by sea. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| F514.5 | Person grows a second nose. German: Grimm No. 201. |
| F1082.1 | Person has red and black countenance after being burned. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F541.6.2 | Person has red eye. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F529.4 | Person has small animal within his body. Irish myth: Cross. |
| N385.1 | Person has successive misfortunes while making plans because he forgets to say, "If God wills." (Cf. G224.1, J1217.1.) Irish myth: *Cross; Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 848*. |
| D1827.2 | Person hears call for aid from great distance. U.S.: Baughman. |
| K631.3 | Person holds hat just outside shelter; enemies shoot at it, either giving away their position or putting themselves at a disadvantage in having to reload. U.S.: *Baughman. |
| F571.7 | Person hundreds of years old. Icelandic: Herrmann Saxo II 587, *Boberg. |
| K1262 | Person hypnotized into believing himself transformed. *BP III 203 n. 1. |
| G242.8 | Person imitates witch by putting ointment in eye: eye blinded. (Cf. F361.3.) England: Baughman. |
| J1782.8 | Person in haunted house shoots off all his toes thinking they are ghosts. (Cf. J1838.) U.S.: Baughman. |
| D1967 | Person in magic sleep surrounded by protecting fire. BP I 440; *Panzer Sigfrid 281 s.v. "Waberlohe". |
| D1967.1 | Person in magic sleep surrounded by protecting hedge. Type 410; German: Grimm Nos. 3, 50. |
| J1782.6 | Person in white thought to be ghost. U.S.: Baughman. |
| E607.2.1 | Person is swallowed and then reborn. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| N333.1 | Person killed by hitting fly on his face. Italian Novella: Rotunda; India: *Thompson-Balys; Japanese: Ikeda; Indonesia: De Vries's list No. 285. Cf. Type 1586. |
| D2061.2.6 | Person killed by spike magically made to appear on chair. Irish myth: Cross. |
| D2071.2.1 | Person kills animals with glance of Evil Eye. England, Ireland, U.S.: *Baughman. |
| D2071.2 | Person kills with Evil Eye. |
| F491.3.1 | Person led astray by Will-o'-the-Wisp turns garment inside out. Will-o'-the-Wisp exorcised. (Cf. F369.7, F385.1.) England: *Baughman. |
| F561.4 | Person lives by smoking tobacco. Never eats. N. A. Indian: Kroeber JAFL XXI 223. |
| F1096 | Person lives on after being cut through by sword. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F1096.1 | Person lives on after having heart cut free. Heart moves about within his chest. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F1033.1 | Person lives on water (from holy well) for a year. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F1096.2 | Person lives on with intestines exposed. Irish myth: Cross; Icelandic: Boberg. |
| F1033 | Person lives without food or drink for a year (or more). Type 706; Irish myth: *Cross; German: Grimm No. 31. |
| J2311 | Person made to believe that he is dead. *Penzer IX 156; Christensen DF XLVII 228 No. 94. |
| D2069.1.1 | Person made to fall down by pointing at door. (Cf. D2061.2.3.) Chinese: Graham. |
| F954.5 | Person made to speak by warning of danger. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| D2069.1 | Person magically caused to fall. |
| H244 | Person magically disfigured when he speaks falsely. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| D2061.1.1 | Person magically reduced to ashes. (Cf. D1896.) Irish myth: *Cross; India: Thompson-Balys, Penzer IV 232, 244; Chauvin V 16 n. 2, 293. |
| D2061.1.1.1 | Person magically reduced to pile of bones. Jewish: Neuman. |
| D2171.1.3 | Person magically sticks to floor (ground). Irish myth: Cross (D2171.7); Jewish: *Neuman; Eskimo (Greenland): Rink 325, (Cumberland Sound): Boas BAM XV 237. |
| E332.2 | Person meets ghost on road. Canada, England, U.S.: *Baughman. |
| F1041.4 | Person melts away from heat. Irish myth: *Cross; Africa (Efik-Ibibo): Dayrell Folk Stories from Southern Nigeria (London, 1910) 84; Jamaica: *Beckwith MAFLS XVII 263 No. 68. |
| Q551.10 | Person miraculously lifted into air and dashed to death as punishment for blasphemy. (Cf. Q221.3, Q417.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q551.10.1 | Person miraculously lifted into air and dashed to death as punishment for scoffing at church teachings. (Cf. Q225.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| C953 | Person must remain in other world because of broken tabu. Greek myth: Grote 137; Swiss: Jegerlehner Oberwallis 295 No. 13; Jewish: Neuman; Marquesas: Handy 120, 122; Eskimo (Greenland): Rink 371. |
| C983 | Person must remain on mountain because of broken tabu. French Canadian: Sister Marie Ursule. |
| F564 | Person never sleeps. |
| C433.1 | Person obnoxious for his sins spoken of as "the other". Jewish: Neuman.—Krappe "L'autre" The French Review XVII (1944) 145ff. |
| F564.1 | Person of diabolical origin never sleeps. *Krappe Mod. Lang. Review XXIV (1929) 200ff.; Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F641 | Person of remarkable hearing. (Cf. X936.) *Type 513; BP II 79ff. *95; Fb "jord" II 45a; Irish myth: *Cross; Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "ouie"; Italian: Basile Pentamerone I No. 5, III No. 8; Buriat: Holmberg Siberian 428. |
| F642.7 | Person of remarkable sight can see the soul. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| F642.3.1 | Person of remarkable sight can see through hearts of trees. Greek: Fox 26 (Lynkeus). |
| F642.2 | Person of remarkable sight finds tracks of swine stolen seven years before his birth. Welsh: MacCulloch Celtic 190. |
| F642 | Person of remarkable sight. (Cf. X938.) *Type 653; BP II 95, III 45ff.; Köhler-Bolte I 439; Hdwb. d. Märchens I 432b. n. 54; Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: Boberg; Welsh: MacCulloch Celtic 190. |
| F527 | Person of unusual color. |
| X1741.2 | Person or animal jumps back to starting place (from midair). U.S.: *Baughman. |
| X1741.1 | Person or animal rises into the air in defiance of gravity. (Cf. D2135.0.1.) U.S.: *Baughman. |
| E414.1 | Person otherwise killed by accident cannot rest in grave. Icelandic: *Boberg; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| D2072.0.5 | Person paralyzed. (Cf. D5.1, G256.3, G257.) England, Scotland, U.S.: *Baughman. |
| G257.6 | Person places three notched elder twigs under bowl. Witch is forced to remove them, thus revealing herself. England: Baughman. |
| B601.7.1 | Person plans to marry monkey. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1945.1 | Person pretends sickness can be cured only with death (humiliation) of another. |
| M262 | Person promises to have but one consort if he is cured. Irish myth: Cross. |
| D1841.4.2 | Person proof against wet from snow. Irish myth: Cross. |
| X1761.1 | Person pulls up old oil wells and sells them for post holes after sawing them up into short lengths. U.S.: *Baughman. |
| N251 | Person pursued by misfortune. (Placidas, Eustacius.) His goods are destroyed, his wife carried off by a ship captain and his children by animals. *Type 938; Herbert III 241; *Oesterley No. 110; *Bolte Zs. f. Vksk. XXVIII 154f.; Alphabet No. 311; *Hibbard 3ff.; Boccaccio Decameron II Nos. 6, 8 (Lee 34, 39); *Loomis White Magic 112; **Gerould PMLA XIX 335ff.; Dickson 100 n. 7.—Irish: *Cross; O'Suilleabhain 42, Beal XXI 315; Italian Novella: *Rotunda; Jewish: *Neuman, bin Gorion Born Judas I 374; India: *Thompson-Balys; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 113, 793; West Indies: Flowers 564. |
| R131.3.3.1 | Person pushed into well by wife rescued by cowherd. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| G257.5 | Person puts man's breeches over cow's head; the cow stops in front of witch's house. England, Scotland: *Baughman. |
| V462.2.2 | Person refuses to eat dainties. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F554 | Person remarkable as to his blood. |
| F584 | Person remarkably light in weight. |
| D1911 | Person remembers all he has ever learned. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| G271.10 | Person removes string with thirteen knots from child's mouth. U.S.: Baughman. |
| N692 | Person reported lost joins unwittingly in search for himself. |
| P202 | Person reproached for having no relatives. Irish myth: Cross; Koryak: *Jochelson JE VI 372. |
| D702.2 | Person restored to human form retains certain animal features. German: Grimm No. 49. |
| C963.1 | Person returns to original animal form when tabu is broken. Africa (Congo): Weeks 215 No. 11 (fish), (Ila, Rhodesia): Smith and Dale 403 No. 3 (fish). |
| C963.2 | Person returns to original egg form when tabu is broken. Africa (Basuto): Jacottet 108 No. 16. |
| C963 | Person returns to original form when tabu is broken. A person originally transformed from an animal or an object returns to that form when the origin is mentioned. (Cf. C31.2, C33.1, C35.1, C440, C441.) |
| C963.3 | Person returns to original vegetable form when tabu is broken. Africa (Gold Coast): Barker and Sinclair 78 No. 12, (Ekoi): Talbot 133, 134, 135, (Ibo, Nigeria): Thomas 80, (Fjort): Dennett 44 No. 6. |
| J1495 | Person runs from actual or supposed ghost. (Cf. E293, J1483.) |
| S263.3 | Person sacrificed to water spirit to secure water supply. India: *Thompson-Balys; Africa (Lamba): Doke MAFLS XX 14 No. 11, (Hausa): Basset Mélusine III 226f. No. 2, (Fulah): Frobenius Atlantis VI 182ff. No. 4. |
| G303.16.2.2 | Person saved from devil by prayer to Virgin. Scala Celi 122b, 124a, 134b Nos. 673, 677, 742; Köhler-Bolte II 613ff. |
| F642.8 | Person sees enormous distance. Icelandic: MacCulloch Eddic 154, Boberg; Greek: Grote I 158; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 493. |
| F642.4 | Person sees equally well by night or day. Icelandic: MacCulloch Eddic 154, Boberg; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 886. |
| E723.1.1 | Person sees his own wraith; the wraith saves his life. (Cf. E363.2.) England: Baughman. |
| E723.1 | Person sees his own wraith. U.S., Wales: *Baughman. |
| D1825.7.1 | Person sees phantom funeral procession some time before the actual procession takes place. England, Ireland, Scotland: *Baughman. |
| G224.4 | Person sells soul to devil in exchange for witch powers. (Cf. G281, M211, K210ff.) England, U.S.: *Baughman. |
| M211.9 | Person sells soul to devil in return for the granting of wishes. England: Baughman. |
| K1612.1 | Person sends wrong man to sleep with king's daughter. In revenge villain orders whoever first enters temple to be killed. Villain accidentally enters and is slain. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F564.3.4 | Person sleeps for nine months. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F564.3.2 | Person sleeps for three days and nights. Irish myth: Cross. |
| R61 | Person sold into slavery. *Types 506, 888; Italian Novella: *Rotunda; Jewish: Neuman; Africa (Fang): Einstein 151. |
| K1853.2 | Person substitutes for human sacrifice. |
| D2062.2.1.1 | Person suffers from "crookedness in his eye" as result of curse. Irish myth: Cross. |
| D2074.2.1 | Person summoned by thinking of him. Chauvin V 5 n. 3; Penzer II 58. |
| F914 | Person swallowed and disgorged. *Frazer Old Testament III 82; *H. Schmidt Jona 127f.; Irish myth: Cross; Icelandic: Boberg; French Canadian: Barbeau JAFL XXIX 11; Babylonian: Spence 87; India: Thompson-Balys; Indonesia: De Vries's list No. 211; West Indies: Flowers 436. |
| F92.2 | Person swallowed up by earth and taken to lower world. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B784.1.2 | Person swallows pebble on beach; snake grows in stomach. U.S.: Baughman. |
| X1739.1 | Person swallows pin or needle; it later emerges through skin of relative. England, U.S.: *Baughman. |
| B784.1.3 | Person swallows snake semen or egg while eating watercress. England: *Baughman. |
| J1763 | Person thought to be an object. |
| J1765 | Person thought to be animal. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| S142 | Person thrown into the water and abandoned. *Types 450, 506, 612, 667*, 707; *BP I 79ff., 126ff., II 380ff., III 490ff.; *Krappe Balor 12 n. 43; *Fb "spinde" III 492b; Dickson 86. — Irish: MacCulloch Celtic 167, *Cross; Icelandic: Boberg; Italian: Basile Pentamerone IV No. 7; India: *Thompson-Balys; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 526; Tahiti: Handy 408; Tonga: Gifford 122; Tuamotu: Stimson MS (T-G. 3/45, 403, z-G. 3/1117). |
| K988 | Person thrown out of magic airship and killed. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| Q565.1 | Person to be received by neither earth nor heaven. Irish myth: Cross. |
| E765.3.1 | Person to live as long as church stands. Fb "kirke" II 126a, "leve" II 401b. |
| K134.7 | Person trades a dead horse. England, U.S.: *Baughman. |
| H62.1.2 | Person transformed to animal recognized by ability to read. Scotch: Campbell-McKay. |
| H62.1.1 | Person transformed to animal recognized by his eyes. *Fb "öje" III 1166a; Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| D686.1 | Person transformed to animal refuses human food. Will eat only food suitable for his enchanted form. Scottish: Campbell-McKay No. 1 and note. |
| A747 | Person transformed to moon. India: *Thompson-Balys; S. Am. Indian (Chiriguano): Métraux RMLP XXXIII 165, (Cashinawa): Métraux BBAE CXLIII (3) 684, (Warrau): Kirchoff ibid. 879, (Chibcha): Kroeber BBAE CXLIII (2) 908; Norse: Boberg. |
| A934.11.2 | Person transforms self to river. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| E607.2 | Person transforms self, is swallowed and reborn in new form. (Cf. D605.7, D610.) Irish myth: *Cross; Welsh: MacCulloch Celtic 110; India: Thompson-Balys; N. A. Indian: Thompson Tales 282 n. 44. |
| K1613.1 | Person trying to blow poison on another is himself poisoned. Chauvin II 87 No. 22; Zs. d. dt. Morgenl. Ges. XLII 115ff.; B[ö]dker Exempler 280 No. 23; Spanish Exempla: Keller; Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| C927.1 | Person turned to dust. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| E412 | Person under religious ban cannot rest in grave. |
| F516 | Person unusual as to his arms. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F511.2 | Person unusual as to his ears. (Cf. F542.) |
| F512 | Person unusual as to his eyes. (Cf. F531.1.1, F541.1.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F511.1 | Person unusual as to his face. |
| F517.1 | Person unusual as to his feet. (Cf. F551.) |
| F515 | Person unusual as to his hands. (Cf. F552.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F511 | Person unusual as to his head. (Cf. F501.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F517 | Person unusual as to his legs. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F513 | Person unusual as to his mouth. (Cf. F544.) |
| F514 | Person unusual as to his nose. (Cf. F531.1.6.6, F543). |
| F513.1 | Person unusual as to his teeth. (Cf. F544.3, F531.1.6.2.) |
| N320 | Person unwittingly killed. |
| F929.2.1 | Person unwittingly swallows snake, which kills him. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| D2188.2 | Person vanishes. Jewish: Neuman; Philippine (Tinguian): Cole 48, 54, Tuamotu: Stimson MS (z-G. 3/1241). |
| F1041.20 | Person vomits iron. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F61 | Person wafted to sky. |
| F1032 | Person walks unceasingly for year. Africa (Angola): Chatelain 33 No. 1. |
| F1032.1 | Person wanders unceasingly for hundred and fifty years. Irish myth: Cross. |
| T4 | Person wants to learn art of love. |
| E367.1 | Person who has spent two years in hell speaks of importance of religious experience. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F591 | Person who never laughs. Jewish: Neuman; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 347, 1288. |
| M223.1 | Person who never refuses a request. Irish myth: Cross. |
| E411.6 | Person who never said "good morning" cannot rest in grave. Tobler 64. |
| F493.2.1 | Person who speaks with pestilence dies. Finnish-Swedish: Wessman 29 No. 256. |
| D2072.0.5.2 | Person who yawns cannot close mouth. Eskimo (Greenland): Rasmussen I 255. |
| D2061.2.2.1 | Person whose shadow is pierced by spear falls dead. Irish myth: Cross. |
| E765.4.5 | Person will die when he drinks from horn. (Cf. D1793.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| E765.4.4 | Person will die year he marries. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F511.1.3 | Person with animal face. Jewish: Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F511.0.9 | Person with animal's head. (Cf. F511.1.3, F526.) |
| F511.2.2 | Person with ass's (horse's) ears. Midas. Köhler-Bolte I 383 n. 1, 511, 587; RTP I 327, VII 356; *Zs. d. deutschen morgenländ. Gesel. XL 549; Crooke FL XXII 183; *BP IV 147 n. 7 (Celtic); *Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 397; Huet 45; Penzer III 188 n., VII n. 1, VI 26 n. 1; Irish myth: *Cross, *Porter Proc. Royal Irish Academy (1932) 142. |
| F548.1 | Person with black knee. (Cf. F527.5.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F521.3.3 | Person with body of gold. Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 214, 468, 742, 761, 1293; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F521.3.4 | Person with body of silver. |
| F511.0.9.2 | Person with calf's head. Jewish: Neuman. |
| F511.2.2.1 | Person with cat's ears. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F514.3 | Person with cat's snout. (Cf. F511.2.2.1.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| F517.1.4 | Person with claws on the feet. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| F526 | Person with compound body. |
| F514.4 | Person with crook(s) on end of the nose. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| F511.2.1 | Person with ears on breast. Persian: Carnoy 298. |
| F529.6 | Person with enormous belly. Eskimo (Greenland): Rink 155. |
| F554.2 | Person with extraordinary amount of blood. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F512.4 | Person with eyes in back of head. Krappe Balor 19 n. 69; S. A. Indian (Fuegian): Alexander Lat. Am. 340, (Yuracare): ibid. 314. |
| F512.3 | Person with eyes in stomach. (Cf. F511.0.1.1.) *De Cock Volkssage 102ff.; *Chauvin VI 66 No. 233; Persian: Carnoy 298. |
| F511.1.3.1 | Person with face of ape. Jewish: Neuman. |
| F517.1.7 | Person with feet like elephant's. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F521.3.3.2 | Person with golden anus. Africa (Hausa): Equilbecq II 83 No. 24. |
| F511.1.4 | Person with green face. Jewish: Neuman. |
| F555.1.1 | Person with hair partially golden. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F525 | Person with half a body. As if body has been split in two. *DeCock Volkssage 99ff.; Votiak, Ostiak: Holmberg Finno-Ugric 181f.; Indonesian: De Vries's list No. 166; Dixon 216; Chinese: Werner 389; Marquesas: Handy 137; N. A. Indian: Hatt Asiatic Influences 87ff., *Thompson Tales 357 n. 287d; Africa: Werner 244, (Basuto): Jacottet 160 No. 23, (Zulu): Callaway 202, (Luba): De Clerq Zs. f. Kolonialsprachen IV 187, 190. |
| F511.3.1 | Person with horns of silver. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F511.3 | Person with horns. Irish myth: Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| F551.1.2 | Person with horse's foot. Tobler Epiphanie der Seele 62; Icelandic: Boberg. |
| F511.0.9.1 | Person with horse's head. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F517.1.6 | Person with horse's hoofs. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F511.0.3.1 | Person with iron head. Jewish: Neuman. |
| F559.1 | Person with jointless bodies of bone. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F517.1.5 | Person with knees backwards. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F511.2.3 | Person with many ears. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F512.2 | Person with many eyes. |
| F517.1.2 | Person with many feet. |
| F513.1.2 | Person with many teeth. |
| E419.7 | Person with missing bodily member cannot rest in grave. (Cf. E235.) U.S.: *Baughman. |
| F511.0.2 | Person with more than one head. |
| E707 | Person with more than one soul. Jewish: Neuman. |
| F513.0.4 | Person with mouth in breast. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F513.0.1 | Person with mouth in stomach. (Cf. F511.0.1.1.) *Chauvin VII 87 No. 373bis n. 2. |
| F513.0.2 | Person with mouths all over body. Africa (Hausa): Tremearne Hausa Superstitions (London, 1913) 424ff. No. 93. |
| F512.1.3 | Person with one eye in back of head. Krappe Balor 7 n. 22. |
| F512.1.1 | Person with one eye in center of forehead. (Cf. F441.4.1, F531.1.1.1.) *Krappe Balor 5 n. 19, 9 nn. 33—35; Fb "menneske" II 577b, "öje" III 1165b; Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg; Greek: Frazer Apollodorus I 4 n. 1; India: Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Werner 389. |
| F512.1 | Person with one eye. *Type 511; Herbert III 238; Oesterley No. 175; Laistner Rätsel II 48ff.; Irish myth: *Cross; Jewish: Neuman; Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 206 No. 154. |
| F525.3.1 | Person with one foot (one hand, and one eye). Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F517.1.1.1 | Person with one foot. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F517.0.1 | Person with one leg. Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg; Persian: Carnoy 298. |
| F554.1 | Person with pink fluid in place of blood. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F513.1.3 | Person with poisonous tooth. Poison dissolves flesh. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F692 | Person with remarkable memory. (Cf. F654.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F511.0.9.3 | Person with serpent's head. Jewish: Neuman. |
| F524 | Person with several bodies. |
| F524.1 | Person with three bodies. Body of three men grown together in one at waist but parted in three from flanks and thighs. Greek: Frazer Apollodorus I 211 n. 2, Fox 86 (Geryoneus). |
| F555.5.1 | Person with three heads of hair. (Cf. A526.4.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F559.7.1 | Person with three hearts. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F513.1.2.1 | Person with three rows of teeth. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F529.5 | Person with transparent body. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F512.2.1.3 | Person with twelve eyes. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F521 | Person with unusual covering. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F515.2 | Person with unusual fingernails. |
| F515.1 | Person with unusual fingers. |
| F515.2.2 | Person with very long fingernails. Eskimo (West Hudson Bay): Boas BAM XV 170. |
| F548.1.1 | Person with white knee. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F522.1 | Person with wings on feet (head). Greek: Frazer Apollodorus II 106 n. 1. |
| F522 | Person with wings. Greek: Grote I 216; India: Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Werner 390; Persian: Carnoy 298. |
| F525.6 | Person without back. Eskimo (Mackenzie Area): Jenness 49 (West Hudson Bay): Boas BAM XV 179, 181. |
| F511.2.4 | Person without ears. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F512.5 | Person without eyes. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F511.1.0.1 | Person without features (with flat face). Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F517.1.1 | Person without feet. (Cf. F167.7.) Siuts 218. |
| F515.0.1 | Person without hands. Siuts 218. |
| F529.7.1 | Person without joints. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F1038 | Person without shadow. *Type 755; H. C. Andersen "Skyggen"; Fb "skygge" III 347; *Hdwb. d. Abergl. IX Nachträge 133ff.; Spanish: Boggs FFC XC 47 No. 325A*. |
| F513.1.4 | Person without teeth. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F513.2 | Person without tongue. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K2116.3 | Person wounds self and accuses another of attempting murder. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F1034.4 | Person's armpit as hiding place. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 169f. |
| F593 | Person's extraordinary body temperature. (Cf. F546.5). |
| F515.1.1 | Person's fingers not separated from one another. Jewish: Neuman. |
| H38 | Person's rank betrayed by habitual conversation. |
| F1034.3 | Person's thigh as hiding place. |
| F57.2 | Person's tongue as path to sky. India: Thompson-Balys; Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 499. |
| F559.8.1 | Person's urine melts rocks. Irish myth: Cross. |
| E501.7 | Personal appearance of wild huntsmen. |
| Q221 | Personal offences against gods punished. (Cf. Q551.3.4.2, Q552.14.0.1.). |
| N113.3 | Personification of Good Luck leaves palace since king is destined to die that night. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| N113.2 | Personification of Good Luck lives in man's forehead. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| M301.8 | Personification prophesies. Irish myth: Cross. |
| Z139 | Personifications—miscellaneous. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| Z110 | Personifications. |
| F512.2.1 | Persons (animals) with four (six) eyes. *Chauvin VII 82 No. 373bis; Krappe Balor 19 n. 69. |
| E421.1.1.1 | Persons born at midnight can see ghosts. England: *Baughman. |
| N134.1 | Persons bring bad luck. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| J2199.2 | Persons build a wheelbarrow too large to come out of shed. England: *Baughman. |
| P16.4 | Persons buried with dead king. *Wesselski Märchen 230; Icelandic: Corpus Poeticum Boreale I 303, *Boberg. |
| K498 | Persons deceived into eating meat in Lent, the meat being disguised as butter. (Cf. K499.2.1, K499.2.2.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| K1080 | Persons duped into injuring each other. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| N134 | Persons effect change of luck. Irish myth: Cross. |
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