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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
X
Humor
Z
Miscellaneous Groups of Motifs
| Thompson reference | Description ▲ |
|---|---|
| S110.3 | Princess builds tower of skulls of unsuccessful suitors. Malone PMLA XLIII 414; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T76 | Princess calls her suitors ugly names. *Type 900; *BP I 443ff.; *Philippson FFC L 14; Italian: Basile Pentamerone IV No. 10. |
| P41 | Princess cannot be married to someone of low caste, though he passes suitor test. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| N713.1 | Princess catches raja's golden bird; he trails it to her palace. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| N712.1 | Princess concealed in trunk and sent to beggar, who marries her. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Z153 | Princess crushes lotus-flower to show that she will be submissive. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F950.8 | Princess cured by seeing her lost lover dance. Tuamotu: Stimson MS (z-G. 13/10). |
| K538 | Princess cuts hair to escape captor who holds her hair in hand while sleeping with her. Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 871*; Russian: Andrejev No. 871*. |
| T55.1 | Princess declares her love for lowly hero. *Type 314; *Dickson 144 n. 146; Missouri French: Carrière; Jewish: *Neuman; Africa (Ibo, Nigeria): Thomas 120. |
| H607.3 | Princess declares her love through sign language: not understood. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T55.8 | Princess declares love by presenting cup of drink at feast. Krappe Revue Hispanique LXXXI (1933); Irish myth: Cross. |
| T55.1.1 | Princess declares love for courtier. Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| H507.1.0.1 | Princess defeated in repartee by means of objects accidentally picked up. E. g., Hero: What red lips you have!—Princess: There is fire inside.—Hero: Then boil this egg (producing egg). Type 851; N. A. Indian: Thompson CColl II 414ff. |
| K2113 | Princess disguised as man is accused of illicit relations with queen. Spanish: Boggs FFC XC 57 No. 425. |
| T55.7 | Princess elects herself husband from the young men present. (Cf. H311, H362, T131.0.1.) Type 530. |
| T323.1 | Princess escapes from undesired lover by fleeing disguised as a bishop. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| T323.2 | Princess evades unwelcome lover by putting on foul-smelling skin-coat. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T91.6.4.2 | Princess falls in love with a king who becomes a slave. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T28 | Princess falls in love with a man disguised as a woman. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T95.0.1 | Princess falls in love with father's enemy. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T91.6.4.1.1 | Princess falls in love with knight. Marries him after her husband's death. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| T91.6.4 | Princess falls in love with lowly boy. (Cf. L161.) *Type 314; *Boje 74ff.; Penzer V 250, VIII 115ff.; Krappe "The Legends of Amicus and Amelius and of King Horn" Leuvensche Bijdragen XVI (1924) 14—17; Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "jardinier"; Italian Novella: Rotunda; India: *Thompson-Balys; N. A. Indian: Thompson CColl II 348ff. |
| T55.5 | Princess feigns sickness to woo hero. Only marriage to him will cure her. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q91.1 | Princess given in marriage to clever thief. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| H346 | Princess given to man who can heal her. *Types 610, 613; *Christiansen FFC XXIV 98; BP III 267ff.; Italian Novella: Rotunda; India: *Thompson-Balys; Japanese: Ikeda; S. A. Indian (Chincha): Alexander Lat. Am. 231. |
| H331.11 | Princess given to the one confessing all his treachery. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| T455.7 | Princess gives herself to Turks of her own accord in order to save her people. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T85.2 | Princess hangs up weapons of dead lover as continual reminder. *Wesselski Mönchslatein 80 No. 69. |
| K443.12 | Princess has brought ill luck to bridegroom. When palace and retainers disappear after wedding and only humble hut remains, clever fox tells king his daughter's feet have brought ill luck to the groom, his master. King gives half his kingdom in compensation. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T131.0.1 | Princess has unrestricted choice of husband. (Cf. T55.7.) India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| R313 | Princess hides in straw. *Fb "halmstrе" I 540. |
| S322.1.4 | Princess humiliated by father after she has married loathly bridegroom. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q88.2 | Princess kisses ugly poet while he sleeps. Kisses not the ugly face but the divine mouth. Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| K788.1 | Princess lured into the forest by harp-playing boy or thief. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| K1271.1.2 | Princess made to speak desired words when hero threatens to report (falsely) her amorous conduct. *Type 852; *BP II 506; Icelandic: Sveinsson FFC LXXXIII No. 852. |
| S110.3.1 | Princess makes necklace of heads of unsuccessful suitors. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q485.1 | Princess married to lowly hero must live in slave quarters. Africa (Kordofan): Frobenius Atlantis IV 216ff. No. 19. |
| T89.1.1 | Princess married to mortally wounded prince and both left in jungle. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T121.3 | Princess marries courtier. Italian Novella: *Rotunda; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| T121.3.1 | Princess marries lowly man. (Cf. L161.1.) Jewish: Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| T121.5.1 | Princess marries saint. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q483 | Princess must sell goods on market as punishment. *Type 304, 900; BP I 443ff., II 505; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T68.1 | Princess offered as prize to rescuer. *Types 300, 301, 302, 303, 304, 506, 653; *Hartland Perseus III 1—65; *MacCulloch Childhood 17f.; Irish myth: Cross; Italian: Basile Pentamerone I No. 7; India: *Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Werner 420; Africa (Angola): Chatelain 89 No. 5. |
| T68 | Princess offered as prize. Irish myth: Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg; Missouri French: Carrière; Spanish: Espinosa Jr. Nos. 130f.; Jewish: *Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| H511 | Princess offered to correct guesser. *Type 621; BP III 483; Italian: Basile Pentamerone I No. 5; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| H507.1.1 | Princess offered to man who can defeat her in argument. *Penzer VI 73 n. 3. |
| H507.1 | Princess offered to man who can defeat her in repartee. *Type 853; BP I 201; *Wesselski Der Islam XXII (1934) 114 n. 4; Japanese: Ikeda. |
| H551 | Princess offered to man who can out-riddle her. *Types 725, 851, 900; BP I 188ff., 200; Philippson FFC L 22; *Chauvin V 192, 192 No. 113; Fb "bejler" IV 31b; Malone PMLA XLIII 414; von der Hagen Gesammtabenteuer III *lxi; Child V 493 s.v. "riddles".—Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 851A*; India: Thompson-Balys; Filipino: Fansler MAFLS XII 278; Africa: Werner African 356. |
| T55.10 | Princess offers reward for securing prince as husband for her. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| H41.1 | Princess on the pea. Princess recognized by her inability to sleep on bed which has a pea under its dozen mattresses. *BP III 330; Hdwb. d. Märchens I 575b; Grimm No. 182a; *Fb "seng"; Penzer VI 288ff.; Wirth AA o.s. VII (1894) 367ff.; Arthur Christensen Acta Orientalia XIV 241—257; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| H933.3 | Princess orders hero to bring her rings of another princess. French Canadian: Sister Marie Ursule. |
| S241.3 | Princess promised unwittingly to madman: "what you ask for." India: Thompson-Balys. |
| M261.2 | Princess promises to embrace her teacher on her wedding day. Teacher has only been testing her promise. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| R121.1 | Princess pulled through prison window by hand and freed. Cape Verde Islands: Parsons MAFLS XV (1) 280 No. 91, 283 No. 92. |
| R111.1.6 | Princess ransomed from slavery. (Cf. R61.) *Type 506A; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| R161.2 | Princess rescued by blind man restores his sight and marries him. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| R111.1.12 | Princess rescued from captivity of elephant. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| R111.2.3 | Princess rescued from giant's cave where she is fettered to a chair by the hair. (Cf. R41.5.) Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| R111.2 | Princess rescued from place of captivity. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| R111.1.2 | Princess rescued from robbers. *Types 506B, 970**; *BP III 490ff.; *Liljeblad Tobiasgeschichte; Icelandic: Boberg; Italian: Basile Pentamerone I No. 7; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| R111.2.4 | Princess rescued from temple where she is imprisoned. Icelandic: Bуsa saga 30ff ch. 8, 114ff ch. 12, Boberg. |
| R111.1.9 | Princess rescued from undesired suitor. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| R131.11.1 | Princess rescues abandoned child. Sparnaay 33; Dickson 37, 170; Jewish: *Neuman; China: Eberhard FFC CXX 99ff. No. 58, FFC CXXVIII 76f. No. 34. |
| T91.6.4.3 | Princess runs away with hunchback. Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 910. |
| Q482.1 | Princess serves as menial. *Type 425; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| H933 | Princess sets hero tasks. (Cf. H335.) |
| V34.2 | Princess sick because toad has swallowed her consecrated wafer. *Type 613; **Christiansen FFC XXIV 83f.; *BP I 322ff. |
| J1111.1 | Princess skillful in argument. Penzer VI 73 n. 3, 74f. |
| J1111.1.1 | Princess skillful in pleading. Malone PMLA XLIII 408; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T15.1 | Princess so lovely that everyone falls in love with her. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F914.1 | Princess stands in middle of dried-up tank so serpent will release the water, which he had swallowed up completely. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T327.6 | Princess takes on loathsome disguise to avoid unwelcome demon-lover. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T322.2 | Princess threatens to kill amorous king. French Canadian: Sister Marie Ursule. |
| H933.1 | Princess throws handkerchief high in tree; asks hero to get it. Spanish: Boggs FFC XC 66 No. 554. |
| H328.6 | Princess to be married to man who withstands twelve years' fight. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T62 | Princess to marry first man who asks for her. *Type 900; BP 443ff.; *Philippson FFC L 21f.; *Chauvin V 234 No. 134 n. 1; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| H344.1 | Princess to marry man who can give her correct account of what happened in her bedchamber. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| H343.0.1 | Princess to marry man who can make her speak to him in all watches of the night. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| M331 | Princess to marry prince. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T55.11 | Princess transforms self to woo. (Cf. D658.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1372.1 | Princess tricked into engaging herself to suitor rejected by her father. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| J2183.5 | Princess who is too choosy finally marries an idiot. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| H313.1 | Princess will marry whoever will give her anything she wishes for a month. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| H331.6.1.1 | Princess wins wrestling match with suitor by revealing her breast. He looks and is beaten. Köhler-Bolte I 561. |
| F584.1 | Princess' weight that of five flowers. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T63 | Princess's husband selected by elephant bowing to him. (Cf. H171.1.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| C940.1 | Princess's secret sickness from breaking tabu. (Cf. C55.)—*Type 613; BP I 322 n. 1 (Grimm No. 33). |
| R111.2.1 | Princess(es) rescued from lower world. *Type 301; *BP II 300; French Canadian: Barbeau JAFL XXIX 25; Missouri French: Carrière; Spanish: Espinosa II 133—135; India: Thompson-Balys; Indonesia: Dixon 215. |
| P40 | Princesses. |
| P459.1 | Printer. Sébillot Métiers No. 19. |
| V21.4 | Prior pardons sinning friar who has confessed. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| R41.3.1 | Prison filled with snakes. (Cf. Q465.1.) *Boje 92; Hdwb. d. Märchens I 436b nn. 183—198; Irish myth: Cross; Jewish: Neuman. |
| R41.3.3 | Prison floor with spikes in it. Boje 91ff. |
| R41.3.2 | Prison with stream of water in it. Boje 93. |
| R122.2 | Prisoner carried off in cloud. (Cf. D2121.7.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| K649.10 | Prisoner escapes by means of wolf which he lures near by smearing honey on the feet. Icelandic: Völsunga saga ch. 5, *Boberg. |
| J1183.1 | Prisoner has drunk water furnished by the king and thus becomes king's guest. Spared. *Chauvin VI 72 No. 238. |
| K655 | Prisoner kills his watchers who enter to torture him. Escapes. *Boje 95. |
| R51.4 | Prisoner massacred. Jewish: Neuman. |
| K613 | Prisoner released on promise of life-long allegiance. Irish myth: Cross. |
| K612 | Prisoner released on promise to wed guard (captor). Irish myth: Cross. |
| R122.1 | Prisoner whirled away in blaze of fire. Irish myth: Cross. |
| R84 | Prisoner's sustenance from outside prison. (Cf. R81.) Jewish: *Neuman. |
| R51.2 | Prisoners confined in chains. Irish myth: *Cross; Jewish: Neuman. |
| J229.12 | Prisoners given choice between emasculation and blinding. Irish myth: Cross. |
| R51.3 | Prisoners mutilated. Irish myth: Cross; Jewish: Neuman. |
| Q465.2 | Prisoners put into pit filled with corpses in order to starve. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| P14.1 | Prisoners released as celebration of king's success. *Chauvin VI 101 No. 269 n. 2; Babylonian: Spence 59. |
| S260.1.3 | Prisoners sacrificed to goddess. Irish myth: Cross. |
| R51.1 | Prisoners starved. Irish myth: Cross; Jewish: Neuman. |
| S113.1.2 | Prisoners taken in war (enemy's messengers) hanged. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| P13.0.1 | Privileges of under-king. Irish myth: Cross. |
| T252.4 | Prize for husband who rules his wife. (Ham, egg.) *Köhler-Bolte III 609; Fb "æg" III 1142a. |
| H573.2 | Problem of why certain person cannot sleep solved by trickery. Irish myth: Cross. |
| E491 | Procession of the dead. *BP III 472 n. 1; Fb "gjenganger" I 443b, "Nytеrsaften" II 707b; Finnish-Swedish: Wessman 23 No. 204; Swiss: Jegerlehner Oberwallis 323 Nos. 100, 105, 326 Nos. 15, 17; *Geiger Archives suisses des Traditions Populaires XLVII 71—76; West Indies: Flowers 431; Pochulata: Boas JAFL XXV 226; Spanish: Boas ibid. 251; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| V312.1 | Proclamation of dogma of Immaculate Conception stops plague. Pauli (ed. Bolte) Nos. 552, 553. |
| G313 | Procrustes. Monster makes men fit his bed. Tall men sawed off, short men stretched. Greek: Frazer Apollodorus II 131 n. 2, Fox 99; Jewish: Neuman. |
| B221.2.1 | Procurator of rats. Serpent has the office.—Fb "lindorm" II 433a. |
| N172 | Prodigal as favorite of fortune. *Type 935; Irish: Beal XXI 305, O'Suilleabhain 14. |
| N172.1 | Prodigal son favored over faithful son. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| P233.8 | Prodigal son returns. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F1071 | Prodigious jump. To fourth story (or the like). Type 530; Cosquin Contes indiens 333ff.; Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg; India: *Thompson-Balys; Philippine (Tinguian): Cole 103; Marquesas: Handy 114; Tuamotu: Stimson MS (z-G. 13/499). |
| F1051 | Prodigious weeping. Usually by saint. Toldo II 96; India: Thompson-Balys; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 633; Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 87, 260f.; Africa (Upoto): Einstein 127. |
| D1812.5.1.1 | Prodigy as evil omen. *Bolte Zs. f. Vksk. XX 69; *Penzer II 39 n. 2.—Irish myth: *Cross; Greek: Frazer Apollodorus II 185 n. 1, 232 n. 2. |
| Q552 | Prodigy as punishment. Irish myth: *Cross; West Indies: Flowers 569f. |
| P192.1 | Professional fool. Irish myth: Cross. |
| V65.4 | Professional mourning. Virgil Aeneid XI 37; Greek: Aeschylus Libation-Pourers 423; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| J412 | Profitable association of great and lowly. |
| J441 | Profitable association of young and old. |
| K253 | Profitable league made with both parties to a quarrel. Africa (Fang): Nassau 242 No. 9. |
| W131 | Profligacy. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| W131.1 | Profligate wastes entire fortune before beginning his own adventures. *Chauvin V 77 No. 22 n. 1. |
| D1812.5.0.16 | Prognostications for year from winds blowing on January 1. (Cf. D1812.5.0.7.3.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| D1812.5.0.7.3 | Prognostications from day of week on which first day of year falls. (Cf. D1812.5.0.16.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| D900.0.1 | Prognostications from weather phenomena. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| J1487 | Progress in school. A man sends his two sons to schools and later enquires of their progress. One: "I am past Grace." The other: "I am at the devil and all his works." *Clouston Noodles 222; England: *Baughman. |
| A1220.1 | Progressive degeneration to present race of men. Greek: *Grote I 64. |
| N421.1 | Progressive lucky bargains. (Opposite of J2081.) *Type 1415; BP II 199ff.; India: *Thompson-Balys; Africa: Werner African 219f.; American Negro (Georgia): Harris Friends 176 No. 24. |
| K1361.2 | Progressive purchase of favors: the anatomical progression. Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 2916*; Cheremis: Sebeok-Nyerges; Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| F815.6 | Prolific grain. Produces enormously. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| T584.5.1 | Prolonged labor: woman has childbirth pains for 100 days but is not delivered. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| V383.1 | Prolonged prostration in worship causes death. Irish myth: Cross. |
| M205.0.1 | Promise kept in deed but not in spirit. English romance: Malory X 38. |
| M206 | Promise made merely as a matter of form not binding. |
| M252 | Promise of dying man to bring news of other world. (Or two friends agree that the first to die shall bring news.) *Type 470; Swiss: Jegerlehner Oberwallis 305 No. 6, 323 Nos. 112, 113, 329 Nos. 31, 33; Irish: Beal XXI 331f., O'Suilleabhain 99—102, *Cross; Jewish: bin Gorion Born Judas VI 123, 311. |
| P273.2.1 | Promise of marriage to king's daughter induces warrior to fight foster brother. Irish myth: Cross. |
| M254 | Promise to be buried with wife if she dies first. *Type 612; *BP I 128. |
| M202.1 | Promise to be fulfilled when iron shoes wear out. *Cox Cinderella 508. |
| M258.1 | Promise to dying father leads to adventures. Type 884; *BP II 56ff. |
| M258.2 | Promise to dying father not to wed woman of certain tribe. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| M258.3 | Promise to dying father to bury him in his homeland. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| M256 | Promise to dying man broken. |
| M258 | Promise to dying man sacred. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| M267 | Promise to give another one's wife for a day. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| M250 | Promises connected with death. |
| M410 | Pronouncement of curses. Icelandic: Herrmann Saxo II 119. |
| J1563.4 | Proper food for ox and ass. Guests call each other ox and ass. Host offers green grass for the first and fodder for the second. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| E545.19.2 | Proper means of addressing ghosts. England, U.S., Wales: *Baughman. |
| F451.8.2 | Proper names for dwarfs. Icelandic: Snorra Edda Gylf. XIV, *Boberg, MacCulloch Eddic 264, 269—70; German: Eckart 20, 22, Pröhle Harz. No. 137 II, III, Pröhle Unterharz. 145 No. 368, Haas Greifswald. 38 No. 41, 40 No. 44. |
| M369.8 | Prophecies about children born at the same time. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| M356 | Prophecies concerning destiny of country. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| M356.1.2 | Prophecies concerning fate of heroes in battle. (Cf. M341.2.18.) Irish myth: *Cross; Jewish: Neuman. |
| M369.5 | Prophecies concerning invasion and conquest. Irish myth: *Cross; Jewish: Neuman. |
| M369.2 | Prophecies concerning love and marriage. Irish myth: Cross. |
| M356.1 | Prophecies concerning outcome of war. Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: Boberg. |
| M358 | Prophecies connected with journeys. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| M301.4 | Prophecies from old man who writes in a book. *Cosquin études 448ff. |
| M369.1 | Prophecies that person will tell three (two) falsehoods before death. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| M390 | Prophecies—miscellaneous motifs. Irish myth: Cross. |
| M300 | Prophecies. *Encyc. Rel. Ethics s.v. "Divination"; Irish: *Cross, Beal XXI 326, 334f.; Schott Weissagen und Erfüllung im deutschen Volksmärchen (München, 1936). |
| M341.2.21.1 | Prophecy (through dream): death from cobra. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| M369.7 | Prophecy about birth of children. (Cf. M365.) Jewish: *Neuman. |
| M369.7.2 | Prophecy about birth of heir. Jewish: Neuman. |
| M300.1 | Prophecy by Jesus that certain people shall live "till coming of Patrick." So it was. Irish myth: Cross. |
| M303 | Prophecy by reading palm. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| H41.6 | Prophecy for newborn princesses: the one who takes gold in the mouth will be married to a prince; the one who takes hawkweed, to a peasant. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| M302.8 | Prophecy from book. (Cf. M301.21.) Jewish: Neuman, Gaster Thespis 348. |
| M304 | Prophecy from enigmatical laugh. (Cf. N456.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| M302.6 | Prophecy inscribed on well. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| M356.2 | Prophecy of a plague consisting of "a flame of fire" which shall destroy three-fourths of the population of Ireland. Plague can be prevented by fasting, etc. Irish myth: Cross. |
| M370.1 | Prophecy of death fulfilled. Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 932A*; Russian: Andrejev No. 932I*; Rumanian: Schullerus FFC LXXVII No. 932*; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| M341.0.3 | Prophecy of death not to come true if baby is married to girl of twelve years. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| M341.1.2.2 | Prophecy of death on twelfth day after birth. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| M341.1.1.3 | Prophecy of death upon daughter's marriage. Greek: *Grote I 146. |
| A1084 | Prophecy of defeat in battle as sign of end of the world. Jewish: Moreno Esdras (M324.1). |
| M342.1 | Prophecy of downfall of king (prince). Irish myth: *Cross. |
| M342 | Prophecy of downfall of kingdom. Bødker Exempler 301 No. 68; Irish myth: *Cross; English: Wells 61 (Awntyrs off Arthure at the Terne Wathelyne); Spanish Exempla: Keller; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| M359.9 | Prophecy of famine. Chinese: Graham. |
| M314.4 | Prophecy of future empire for fugitive hero. Greek: *Grote I 307. |
| M312 | Prophecy of future greatness for youth. *Types 461, 517, 725, 930; *BP I 322; English romance: Malory XI 4; Jewish: *Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 531; Korean: Zong in-Sob 72 No. 39, 209 No. 98. |
| N682 | Prophecy of future greatness fulfilled when hero returns home unknown. Parents serve him. *Type 517. |
| M312.0.2 | Prophecy of future greatness given by animals. *Type 517; *BP I 322; Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| M312.0.3 | Prophecy of future greatness if boy lives to be eighteen. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| M340.3 | Prophecy of general misfortune to newborn child. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| M340.6 | Prophecy of great misfortune. Korean: Zong in-Sob 73 No. 40. |
| M340.1 | Prophecy of grief fulfilled by death of relative (friend, etc.). Irish myth: *Cross. |
| M369.2.1.1 | Prophecy of king taking a cruel stepmother to her sons after her death enacted before eyes of dying queen by sparrow family living in tree by palace window. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| M312.7 | Prophecy of luck for outcast child. Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 828. |
| M391.1.1 | Prophecy of misfortune for prince avoided successfully in one respect. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K2115.3 | Prophecy of ogre-child so that pregnant woman will be killed. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| M341.1.2.5 | Prophecy of only seven days' life for baby. Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 285, 507. |
| M352 | Prophecy of particular perils to prince on wedding journey. *Type 516; *Rösch FFC LXXVII 114; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| M310.1.1.1 | Prophecy of preeminence to descendants of man provided they do the will of saint to be born. Irish myth: Cross. |
| M354.1 | Prophecy of rebirth as monkey. Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 847. |
| M369.4.1 | Prophecy that bird will become king. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| P11.0.1 | Prophecy that brother who first kisses saint will be king. Irish myth: Cross. |
| M369.3 | Prophecy that certain person will fight particular battle. Irish myth: Cross. |
| M354 | Prophecy that child will have external soul. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| M341.1.5.2 | Prophecy that hero will not live another eighteen years. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| M311.0.3.2 | Prophecy that if raja should take one more queen he will have a son. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| M351 | Prophecy that youth shall abandon his religion and become Christian. (Baarlam and Josaphat.) *Cosquin études 27ff.; Ward II 111ff.; Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| M302.7 | Prophecy through dreams. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| M370.1.1 | Prophecy wittingly fulfilled by wazir that he will murder the raja, but unwittingly causes his own death twelve years hence. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| M359.6 | Prophecy: all flocks will perish and family die. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| M311.0.2 | Prophecy: birth of hero at certain time (in certain place). Irish myth: *Cross. |
| M369.7.1 | Prophecy: birth of twins. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| M369.10 | Prophecy: boy to be great hunter. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| M312.6 | Prophecy: boys to be fathers of saints. Irish myth: Cross. |
| M361.1 | Prophecy: certain hero to achieve Holy Grail. English romance: Malory XIV 2. |
| M311.2 | Prophecy: child born at certain time will build religious edifice. (Cf. M312.5.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| M341.1.3.1 | Prophecy: child shall hang before fifteen years. Fb "hænge" I 731b. |
| M346 | Prophecy: child to be abducted at certain time. Hdwb. d. Märchens I 546b nn. 109—126; Italian: Basile Pentamerone IV No. 6. |
| M311.0.3.1 | Prophecy: child to be born to childless couple. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| M311.0.3 | Prophecy: child to be born. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| M312.5 | Prophecy: child will build religious edifice. (Cf. M311.2.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| M363.2 | Prophecy: coming of Messiah. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| M311.0.2.1 | Prophecy: conception of hero at certain time. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| M341.4 | Prophecy: criminal going to death predicts that his judge (king, prince) shall soon meet him. *Pauli (ed. Bolte) Nos. 130, 833, 834. |
| M341.1.4.2 | Prophecy: danger to threatened newborn boy at his eighteenth year. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| M345 | Prophecy: daughter shall commit murder and incest and be sentenced to death. Type 728*. |
| M341.1.6 | Prophecy: death after certain time. Korean: Zong in-Sob 49 No. 29. |
| M341.1.6.1 | Prophecy: death after three life spans. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| M341.1.6.3 | Prophecy: death after three-year dominion. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| M341.1.6.2 | Prophecy: death after two life spans. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| M341.1 | Prophecy: death at (before, within) certain time. Irish: Beal XXI 313, O'Suilleabhain 37, *Cross; Spanish Exempla: Keller; Jewish: Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys; Japanese: Ikeda. |
| M341.1.7 | Prophecy: death at birth of child. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| M341.1.4 | Prophecy: death at certain age. |
| M341.2.19 | Prophecy: death at hands of certain person. Irish myth: *Cross; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| M341.2.15 | Prophecy: death at hands of man bearing a certain name. Russian: Afanasief "Tale of Prince Arta" (Moscow, 1897) 149 (cited in von Sydow Fеvne 45). |
| M343.5 | Prophecy: death at hands of parents. Africa (Fang): Tessman 134f. |
| M341.1.4.1 | Prophecy: death at sixteen. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| M341.1.4.5 | Prophecy: death at sixty. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| M341.1.3 | Prophecy: death before certain age. |
| M341.1.3.2 | Prophecy: death before eighteen years. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| M341.3.2 | Prophecy: death between Erin and Alba. Man dies between two hills so named. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| M341.2.24 | Prophecy: death by alligator (crocodile). India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| M341.2.22 | Prophecy: death by calf. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| M341.2.3 | Prophecy: death by drowning. Irish myth: Cross; Japanese: Ikeda. |
| M341.2.7 | Prophecy: death by fire. India: Thompson-Balys; Africa (Benga): Nassau 107 No. 9. |
| M341.2.23 | Prophecy: death by hanging. Irish: O'Suilleabhain 107; Icelandic: *Boberg. |
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