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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.
The index is large, so this browser displays 250 entries per page. You can search by motif reference or by words in the description, restrict the results to one of Thompson's main letter categories, and click motif references mentioned inside descriptions to follow cross-references. Individual motif pages also show any ATU tale types whose concordance explicitly cites that Thompson reference.
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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
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 ▲ |
|---|---|
| Q248 | Punishment for banishing wife at wish of paramour. (Cf. Q241, Q556.9.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q224 | Punishment for betraying confessional. (Cf. Q414.0.9.) *Dickson 46 n. 55; *Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 302; *Krappe "La fille de l'homme riche" Byzantion XVII (1944—45) 339—346; Irish: Beal XXI 334. |
| Q252 | Punishment for breaking betrothal. (Cf. Q416.0.1.) Jewish: bin Gorion Born Judas VI 237ff., 316. |
| Q285.1.2 | Punishment for breaking bird's nest. Finnish-Swedish: Wessman 19 No. 183. |
| Q266 | Punishment for breaking promise. Jewish: *Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 187. |
| C901.4 | Punishment for breaking tabu: assigner of punishment suffers his own penalty. |
| C939.1 | Punishment for breaking tabu: water withdrawn from lake. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| C900 | Punishment for breaking tabu. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| M101.5 | Punishment for broken oath: loss of the inheritance of earth or heaven. Irish myth: Cross. |
| M101 | Punishment for broken oaths. Kristensen Danske Sagn VI (1) (1900) 33ff., (1936) 18ff.; Jewish: *Neuman. |
| C939.2 | Punishment for broken tabu: good money turns to counterfeit. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q232 | Punishment for change of religious faith. |
| Q256 | Punishment for clandestine lover of princess. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q243.5 | Punishment for consorting with one of lower class. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| Q551.2.8.1 | Punishment for cupidity: rich man's foot caught in church door: extricated only when he sends money to beggar. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q285.1.1 | Punishment for cutting off bird's tongue. (Cf. Q451.4, Q552.5.1.) Finnish-Swedish: Wessman 19 No. 182; Japanese: Ikeda. |
| Q236 | Punishment for deceiving (divine) emperor. Chinese: Graham: |
| Q225.2 | Punishment for denying pagan gods. (Cf. Q413.6.) |
| Q222.5 | Punishment for desecrating church (shrine, idol). Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| Q222 | Punishment for desecration of holy places (images, etc.) (Cf. Q411.11, Q415.7, Q431.13, Q491.1.2, Q499.3, Q551.6.5, Q551.8.2, Q552.17, Q556.6, Q557.7, Q558.5, Q558.14, Q558.17, Q558.18, Q559.9.) Irish: *Cross, O'Suilleabhain 114; Spanish: Espinosa Jr. No. 190; Greek (Herodotus): Classical Philology XXXIX (1944) 179f.; Jewish: Neuman. |
| Q222.6 | Punishment for desecration of holy temple utensils. Jewish: Neuman. |
| Q222.1 | Punishment for desecration of host. Irish: O'Suilleabhain No. 190; England: Baughman; Heptameron No. 33. |
| Q247 | Punishment for desertion of fairy mistress. (Cf. F302, F361, Q469.11.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q211.8 | Punishment for desire to murder. (Cf. Q210.1, Q469.4, Q552.19.2.) Irish myth: Cross; Jewish: Neuman; Eskimo (Smith Sound): Kroeber JAFL XII 177, (Greenland): Rink 157, 222, 469, Holm 47, (Cumberland Sound): Boas BAM XV 62. |
| Q225.3 | Punishment for doubting Buddha's religion. Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 479. |
| Q223.14 | Punishment for failure to give customary offering to gods. Marquesas: Handy 81, Métraux Ethnology 329. |
| P536 | Punishment for failure to pay tax. Irish myth: Cross. |
| A2631.1.1 | Punishment for Fall of Man: thistles, etc. Jewish: Neuman. |
| Q312.3 | Punishment for finding fault with God's forgiveness of sin. *Type 756B. |
| Q312.1 | Punishment for finding fault with God's works in heaven. *Type 801; BP III 297ff. |
| A2631.1 | Punishment for first murder: thistles, etc. Until murder was committed, only useful plants grew on earth; since then, thistles. (Cf. A2688.1.)—Dh I 248. |
| Q211.6.1 | Punishment for flaying live calf. Fb "kalv" II 79a. |
| Q243.1.2 | Punishment for forcing a girl to become prostitute. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q381 | Punishment for gambling. (Cf. N0, Q433.8.) Jewish: Neuman; Indonesia: DeVries's list No. 182. |
| Q552.3.5 | Punishment for greed: streams of sugar, molasses, and milk from anchorite's tomb dry up and petrify because of townspeople's greed. (Cf. Q272.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| C57.2 | Punishment for having refused to take part in Bacchic rites. Greek myth: Grote I 84. |
| Q222.2 | Punishment for heaping indignities upon crucifix. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| Q227.1.1 | Punishment for imprisoning person under holy protection. Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q555.4 | Punishment for incest: father and son maddened; cut off their sexual organs. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q211.9.2 | Punishment for killing foster brother. Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q211.6.2 | Punishment for killing sacred whale. Polynesia: *Beckwith Myth 504f. |
| Q226 | Punishment for leaving holy orders. (Cf. Q520.5, Q551.3.4.3.) |
| Q232.2.1 | Punishment for leaving Palestine. Jewish: Neuman. |
| Q227.2 | Punishment for looking at saint's corpse. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q242.3 | Punishment for man who makes advances to sister-in-law. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q288 | Punishment for mockery. (Cf. Q556.8, Q583.1.) Irish myth: *Cross; S. A. Indian (Chiriguano): Métraux RMLP XXXIII 181. |
| Q426.1 | Punishment for murder by fatal enema. (Cf. Q211.4.2.) Africa (Wakweli): Bender 86. |
| Q211.10 | Punishment for murder of co-wife. Africa (Bankon): Ittman 100. |
| Q223.7 | Punishment for neglect of mass. Irish: O'Suilleabhain 98. |
| Q223 | Punishment for neglect of services to gods (God). (Cf. Q523.7, Q554.2, Q557.7, Q559.4.) Spanish Exempla: Keller; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| Q221.2 | Punishment for opposition to Christ at crucifixion. (Cf. Q556.1.) |
| Q227 | Punishment for opposition to holy person. (Cf. Q286.1, Q421.2, Q428.3, Q451.3.3, Q451.7.0.2.1, Q457.4, Q494.1, Q551.2.1, Q551.6.2, Q551.7.1, Q551.8.4, Q551.9.1, Q552.1.0.1.1, Q552.1.4, Q552.2.0.1.1, Q552.2.3.1.1, Q552.2.3.1.3, Q552.2.3.2.1, Q552.2.3.2.3, Q552.13.1.1, Q552.13.2.1, Q552.13.2.2, Q552.13.3, Q552.15, Q552.16, Q552.18.1, Q552.18.2, Q552.19.1, Q556.4, Q556.5, Q557.6, Q558.13, Q559.5, Q559.7, Q571.1, Q572.3, Q575, Q576.1, Q582.7, Q591, Q595.1.) *Loomis White Magic 98, 101f.; Irish: *Cross, O'Suilleabhain 82f., Beal XXI 328; Icelandic: *Boberg; Jewish: *Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 59, 1249. |
| V86.3 | Punishment for profane use of the cross. Drunkard kisses cross, thinking it is a bottle of wine. Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 271. |
| Q244 | Punishment for ravisher. (Cf. Q411.7, Q421.0.3, Q431.6, Q451.6.0.1, Q467.4, Q552.1.2.) India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| Q251 | Punishment for refusal to have children. (Cf. Q431.4, Q552.9, T572.) *Type 755; Fb "barn" IV 26a; Bolte Zs. f. Vksk. XIV 114; Lithuanian: Balys Legends Nos. 392ff. |
| Q245 | Punishment for refusal to marry after girl is pregnant. (Cf. Q263, Q451.2.1.) |
| Q225 | Punishment for scoffing at religious teachings. (Cf. Q415.8, Q458.0.5, Q551.10.1, Q552.7, Q552.8, Q552.13.1.2, Q553.1, Q554.3, Q554.4, Q555.1, Q558.1.) Finnish-Swedish: Wessman 18 Nos. 171—173; Spanish Exempla: Keller; Jewish: Neuman. |
| Q391 | Punishment for singing worldly songs. (Cf. Q411.10.1.) |
| Q227.1 | Punishment for slaying king under holy protection. Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q211.7 | Punishment for splitting head and eating man's brains. Greek: Frazer Apollodorus I 369 n. 4 (Tydeus). |
| Q589.3 | Punishment for stinginess: amends made by being generous and liberal. (Cf. Q276.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q551.2.8 | Punishment for stinginess: bundle of fuel (pitcher of lime) sticks to man's head. (Cf. Q276.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q243.3 | Punishment for taking concubine. (Cf. Q499.2.2.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q243.4 | Punishment for taking heathen wives. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| Q393.1 | Punishment for talking too much. Monk punished in hell's fires for this fault. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| Q228 | Punishment for trying to harm sacred animal. Glutton tries to kill a pig dedicated to St. Anthony. The pig turns upon him and tramples him severely. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q265.4 | Punishment for undeserved curse. Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q211.11 | Punishment for wholesale massacre of tribe. India: Thompson-Balys; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 877. |
| Q233 | Punishment for yielding to temptation by the devil. (Cf. Q582.2.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q596 | Punishment in effigy. |
| Q563.1 | Punishment in hell fitted to the grade of wickedness. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| Q403 | Punishment not meted out to persons below twenty years. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| Q402 | Punishment of children for parents' offenses. Jewish: Neuman. |
| Q392 | Punishment of evil magician who has caused plague. German: H. Büschner Heide-Sagen a. d. Münsterlande 9, Klose Führer d. dt. Sagen u. Märchenwelt d. Grafschaft Glatz 104. |
| Q291.2 | Punishment of hard-hearted masters in other world. (Cf. Q285.4.) Lithuanian: Balys Legends Nos. 467—71; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q501.6 | Punishment of Io. Transformed to cow with gadfly ceaselessly pursuing. Greek: Fox 29. |
| Q501.5 | Punishment of Ixion. Lashed to a wheel which revolves continually. Greek: Fox 144, *Frazer Apollodorus II 148 n. 1. |
| Q232.2 | Punishment of Jew for apostasy. Jewish: Neuman. |
| Q501.3 | Punishment of Loki. A serpent above him continually drops venom in his face. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| Q501.4 | Punishment of Prometheus. Chained to a mountain with eagle preying on his vitals, which are restored nightly. (Punishment for theft of fire.) Greek: *W. Schmid Untersuchungen zum gefesselten Prometheus (Stuttgart, 1929), Fox 13, *Frazer Apollodorus I 228 n. 2; Jewish: Neuman. |
| Q501.1 | Punishment of Sisyphus. Must keep rolling a great stone up hill. It continually falls down. Reinach Revue Archéologique 1903 (4) Series I 154ff.; Greek: Frazer Apollodorus I 78 n. 3. |
| Q501.2 | Punishment of Tantalus. Stands in a pool that ever recedes from his thirsty lips; branches of fruit spring away from him; stone over his head continually threatens to fall. Reinach Revue Archéologique 1903 (4) series I 154ff.; *Frazer Pausanias V 392; Greek: *Frazer Apollodorus II 154 n. 2; Jewish: *Neuman. |
| Q212.3 | Punishment of theft: origin of sweating. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q255 | Punishment of woman who prefers mortal lover to gods. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K582 | Punishment which proves fatal to captor. |
| Q438 | Punishment: abandonment in forest. (Cf. S143.) India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| Q466.2 | Punishment: abandonment on cliff that is submerged at high tide. Icelandic: Boberg; Maurer Bekehrung des norwegischen Stammes I 301 and n. 8. |
| Q433.12 | Punishment: abridgment of freedom till extravagant boast is confirmed. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q553.2 | Punishment: angel ceases to appear to self-righteous hermit. Type 756A; Köhler-Bolte I 147f., 578; Spanish: Espinosa II No. 81, Espinosa Jr. No. 186. |
| Q551.2 | Punishment: animal skin grows on man's back. He had masked in the skin in order to cheat. *Type 831; Irish myth: *Cross; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q551.4 | Punishment: animals become sick. |
| Q431 | Punishment: banishment (exile). *Boje 63; Dickson 78; Gaster Thespis 304; Irish: *Cross, O'Suilleabhain 88, Beal XXI 328; Icelandic: *Boberg; Greek: Frazer Apollodorus I 350 n. 1 (Oedipus), Grote I 172; Jewish: *Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 38, 143; Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 205, 214; S. A. Indian (Tupinamba): Métraux RMLP XXXIII 169. |
| Q422.0.1 | Punishment: beating to death. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q421 | Punishment: beheading. DeCock Volkssage 75; *Roberts 211; Irish myth: Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg; French Canadian: Sister Marie Ursule; Jewish: *Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| Q453 | Punishment: being bitten by animal. (Cf. Q415.) |
| Q453.1 | Punishment: being bitten by ants. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q453.2 | Punishment: being bitten by scorpion. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q415.5 | Punishment: being devoured by tiger. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| Q415 | Punishment: being eaten by animals. (Cf. Q453, Q557.) *DeCock Volkssage 88; Irish: O'Suilleabhain 46, Beal XXI 317. |
| Q415.0.1 | Punishment: being eaten by demon. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q415.1 | Punishment: being eaten by dogs. Eskimo: Thompson Tales 4, 272 n. 2. |
| Q415.9 | Punishment: being eaten by fish. Tuamotu: Stimson MS (z-G. 3/1301); Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 504. |
| Q415.4 | Punishment: being fed to lions (wild beasts). Italian Novella: *Rotunda; Jewish: Neuman. |
| Q416.3.1 | Punishment: being gored to death by elephant. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q493 | Punishment: being saddled and ridden as horse. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| Q552.23 | Punishment: being suspended between heaven and earth. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q512.2 | Punishment: binding together sand and string. (Cf. H1021.1.) Swiss: Jegerlehner Oberwallis 304 No. 24. |
| Q559.7 | Punishment: body will not decay after death because man broke saint's covenant. (Cf. Q227.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q414.1 | Punishment: boiling in oil (lead, tar). DeCock Volkssage 80; Child II 312 n. 327, IV 480a, V 53, 56, 230; Icelandic: FSS 243; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| Q469.9 | Punishment: boring hot irons through ears. (Cf. S112.2.) Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q423 | Punishment: breaking upon a wheel. Von Amira Sitzb. bair. Akad. XXXI (3) 106ff.; Icelandic: Boberg; Irish myth: Cross; Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q456.1 | Punishment: burial alive up to the breast (neck). BP I 432; Köhler-Bolte I 571; Cowell Jataka I 130; India: *Thompson-Balys; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 597. |
| Q414 | Punishment: burning alive. **W. Foerster Der Feuertod als Strafe in der altfr. erzählenden Dichtung (Halle, 1913); *Fb "brænde" IV 69ab, "teglovn"; Dickson 74; Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 232; Alphabet No. 353; Grimm No. 3 (Type 710).—Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg; French Canadian: Barbeau JAFL XXIX 20; Spanish: Keller, Espinosa Jr. Nos. 140, 161; Italian: Basile Pentamerone II No. 2, Rotunda; Jewish: *Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 35 No. 22; S. A. Indian (Huamachuco): Métraux RMLP XXXIII 151; Africa (Luba): DeClerq ZsKS IV 222. |
| Q414.3 | Punishment: burning and scattering ashes. Italian: Basile Pentamerone V No. 9. |
| Q551.3.3 | Punishment: calf's head in murderer's hand turns to corpse's head. (Cf. Q211.) *BP I 276 n. 2, II 535. |
| Q511.2 | Punishment: carrying corpse of murdered man until another can be induced to take it. Africa (Gold Coast): Barker and Sinclair 66 No. 9. |
| Q511.1 | Punishment: carrying corpse of murdered man until stone as long as murdered man is found. This is to be put on the grave. Irish: MacCulloch Celtic 72, Cross. |
| Q511 | Punishment: carrying corpse of murdered man. (Cf. Q211.) RTP II 267, VIII 586; FL IX 375ff. No. 3; Zs. f. österreichische Volkskunde VII 197; Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q451.10.1 | Punishment: castration. (Cf. K2111.3.) Herrmann Saxo II 354. |
| Q469.5 | Punishment: choking with smoke. This given a lawyer who has "sold smoke", i.e., idle words. BP III 495 n.; *Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 786; Scala Celi 7b No. 48. |
| Q552.22 | Punishment: city and inhabitants hurled down precipice. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q469.2 | Punishment: climbing red-hot rod. (Cf. S112.2.) Jamaica: Beckwith MAFLS XVII 75 No. 68. |
| Q552.15 | Punishment: cloud cuts off view of man promised all he can see for expelling saint. (Cf. Q227.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q414.3.1 | Punishment: crushing in rice mill and scattering ashes. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q429.1 | Punishment: culprit eaten by cannibals. Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 824. |
| Q421.3 | Punishment: cutting throat. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q414.4 | Punishment: dancing to death in red-hot shoes. Type 709; *BP I 450ff., *464; *Loomis White Magic 118. |
| Q551.6.0.2 | Punishment: death from unknown disease before end of three days for having obtained food by force from monastery. Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q591.1 | Punishment: death pretended becomes real. Revue Celtique xxvii 297; Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q501.2.2 | Punishment: delicious food always fills with maggots just as man is about to eat it. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q554.1 | Punishment: devil carries off thief. (Cf. Q212.) Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 378. |
| Q552.18 | Punishment: disappearance of ill-gotten gains. (Cf. Q585, Q595.) Irish myth: Cross; Jewish: *Neuman. |
| Q473 | Punishment: disgraceful journey through streets. (Cf. Q432.2.) |
| Q416.2 | Punishment: dragging to death by a horse. Cheremis: Sebeok-Nyerges; Lithuanian: Balys Index Nos. 452*f., 481*; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q416.2.2 | Punishment: dragging to death tied to horns of a bull. Greek: Grote I 241. |
| Q416 | Punishment: drawing asunder by horses. (Cf. Q469.12.) Child V 157; BP I 306; Grimm Deutsche Rechtsalterthümer II 272; DeCock Volkssage 91. — Irish myth: Cross; Icelandic: FSS 42, Boberg; Spanish: Espinosa Jr. Nos. 126, 143; Greek: Frazer Apollodorus I 331 n. I (Lycurgus); India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q416.2.1 | Punishment: drawing at the tails of horses. (Cf. S117.) Irish myth: Cross; Jewish: *Neuman. |
| Q417 | Punishment: dropping and dashing to pieces. (Cf. Q551.10.) Von Amira Sitzb. bair. Akad. XXXI (3) 136ff.; Irish myth: Cross; Spanish: Boggs FFC XC 49 No. 327F*. |
| Q467.3 | Punishment: drowning in swamp. (Cf. Q474.) Grimm Rechtsalterthümer II 276ff.; Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| Q428 | Punishment: drowning. (Cf. Q552.19.) Irish myth: *Cross; Jewish: *Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| Q478.5.1 | Punishment: eating ashes (coal) mixed with food. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q478.5 | Punishment: eating ashes instead of food. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q432 | Punishment: ejectment. |
| Q551.8.7 | Punishment: face distorted. India: Thompson-Balys; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 600, 808. |
| Q434 | Punishment: fettering. |
| Q598 | Punishment: fighting all who pass through forest. Dickson 69 n. 16. |
| Q512.1 | Punishment: filling leaky vessels with water from a bottomless jar. (Cf. H1023.2.) Greek: Fox 31. |
| Q552.14.2 | Punishment: flood of mud after which crops of corn come up with black (smutted) ears. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q451.10 | Punishment: genitalia cut off. Liebrecht 94ff.; DeCock Volkssage 86; Spanish Exempla: Keller; Italian Novella: *Rotunda; Jewish: *Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q552.17 | Punishment: grave fills with sand when digger attempts to bury sinner over holy man. (Cf. Q222.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q469.3 | Punishment: grinding up in a mill. Liebrecht 258f.; Fb "male" II 535a; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q413 | Punishment: hanging. *DeCock Volkssage 74; *Hdwb. d. Abergl. III 1438ff.; Irish: O'Suilleabhain 107, Beal XXI 334; Icelandic: *Boberg; Jewish: Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys; Marquesas: Handy 63. |
| Q451.13 | Punishment: head split into many pieces. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| Q551.4.1 | Punishment: horses become sick. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| Q414.2 | Punishment: imprisonment in white-hot iron house. Irish myth: Cross (cf. also S112.6); Welsh: MacCulloch Celtic 101. |
| Q433 | Punishment: imprisonment. Icelandic: *Boberg; Missouri French: Carrière; Spanish: Espinosa Jr. Nos. 139, 206f.; Jewish: *Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| Q551.5.1.2 | Punishment: king and queen reborn as children of scavenger. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q414.5 | Punishment: king hung between two fires. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| Q552.24 | Punishment: lava flow. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 500. |
| Q591 | Punishment: lie becomes truth. (Cf. Q263.) *Loomis White Magic 100; Irish: Beal XXI 327, O'Suilleabhain 74; Japanese: Ikeda. |
| Q551.3.2.1 | Punishment: Loki's son transformed into wolf which tears his brother to pieces. Icelandic: MacCulloch Eddic 146. |
| Q415.3 | Punishment: man eaten by worms (snake). Finnish-Swedish: Wessman 19 No. 180; Jewish: Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q482.6 | Punishment: man must do women's work. Jewish: Neuman. |
| Q551.5.1.1 | Punishment: man reborn as girl. (Cf. Q292.1.) India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| Q591.2 | Punishment: man says salt he carries is stones; it immediately becomes so. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q591.2.1 | Punishment: man says sugar he carries is earth; it becomes so. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q559.2 | Punishment: man stricken blind. (Cf. Q451.7.0.2.) Irish: Beal XXI 336; Icelandic: *Boberg; Finnish-Swedish: Wessman 18 No. 172; Jewish: *Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| Q551.3.2.5 | Punishment: man transformed to a mass of worms. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q599.1 | Punishment: marrying shrewish wife. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q552.11 | Punishment: meeting frightful apparition. (Ghost, mysterious animal, devil.) Finnish-Swedish: Wessman 17ff. Nos. 158—161, 167, 169-71, 179. |
| Q551.3.3.1 | Punishment: melon in murderer's hand turns to murdered man's head. Africa (Fulah): Equilbecq II 205ff. No. 43. |
| Q551.6.0.1 | Punishment: men stricken with leprosy. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| Q412 | Punishment: millstone dropped on guilty person. *Type 720; BP I 412ff., *423; Liebrecht 296; *Fb "möllesten" II 650; Herrmann Saxo II 568 n. 2, Grimm Deutsche Rechtsalterthümer II 277. — Jewish: Neuman. |
| Q469.4 | Punishment: millstone hung around neck. Woman has had desire to kill frog. (Cf. Q211.8.) Tobler 28. |
| Q462.1 | Punishment: nailing to pillar. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q482 | Punishment: noble person must do menial service. (Cf. A181, H465.) Irish: *Cross, Beal XXI 319f., O'Suilleabhain 53; Missouri French: Carrière; Greek: Grote I 54; Jewish: Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys; Tuamotu: Stimson MS (z-G. 13/48, z-G. 3/1386). |
| Q427 | Punishment: opening own veins and bleeding to death. (Seneca) Alphabet No. 224. |
| Q512 | Punishment: performing impossible task. (Cf. H1010.) |
| Q469.9.2 | Punishment: piercing with needles. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q473.6 | Punishment: princess to display self on roof. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q465.3 | Punishment: pushing into well. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| Q553.3.7 | Punishment: reduced number of children. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| Q512.3 | Punishment: ridding country of pests. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q473.1 | Punishment: riding through street on bull. |
| Q469.8 | Punishment: sawing in twain. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q467.3.1 | Punishment: sea-spell chanted by druidess causes rival to drown. Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q473.5 | Punishment: sending out of town on donkeys. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| Q466.0.2 | Punishment: setting adrift in boat. Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q473.5.1 | Punishment: shaving head and covering with tar and driving forth on back of donkey to sound of drum. Stranger thinks he is being honored. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q552.12 | Punishment: shipwreck. Irish myth: *Cross; Finnish-Swedish: Wessman 18 Nos. 174—75. |
| Q553.5 | Punishment: small catch of fish for child-murderers. Fisherman and his wife have always caught three fishes. From greed they kill their child in order to have more fish for themselves. But they thereafter catch but two fishes. (Cf. Q211.4.) Type 832. |
| Q452 | Punishment: snake sucks woman's breasts. Herbert III 9; *Klapper Erzählungen des Mittelalters 175ff., 372f.; Oesterley 683f.; Herrtage EETS (ES) XXXIII 275ff. |
| Q429.4 | Punishment: squeezing to death. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q422 | Punishment: stoning to death. (Cf. Q220.1.1.) Von Amira Sitzb. bair. Akad. XXXI (3) 155ff.; R. Hirzel Abh. sächs. Ges. der Wiss. Phil.-Hist. Klasse XXVII No. 7. — Icelandic: Corpus Poeticum Boreale I 344, *Boberg; Spanish Exempla: Keller; Italian Novella: *Rotunda; Jewish: *Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| Q424 | Punishment: strangling. (Cf. Q469.5, S113.) *DeCock Volkssage 77; Marquesas: Handy 113, 129. |
| Q451.4.10 | Punishment: stretching tongue to enormous length. Korean: Zong in-Sob 145 No. 64. |
| Q425 | Punishment: suffocating. (Cf. Q274.2.) |
| Q594 | Punishment: taking snakes as foster children. *Type 751B. |
| Q469.9.1 | Punishment: tearing off flesh with hot pincers. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q451.8 | Punishment: thong of leather cut from back. DeCock Studien 9f.; Cosquin Contes indiens 179; Fb "rem" III 39a; Norwegian: R. Berge Eventyr II 49, 66, 71; Russian: Ralston Russian Folk Tales 146. |
| Q491.7 | Punishment: throwing dead body into river. Africa (Fang): Trilles 270. |
| Q465.4 | Punishment: throwing into water-filled lime pit. Jewish: Neuman. |
| Q416.1 | Punishment: trampling (kicking) to death by horses. East Gothic: De la Saussaye 135; Grimm Deutsche Rechtsalterthümer II 273; Liebrecht Orient und Occident II 270; G. Kurth Histoire poetique des Merovingiens 420ff. — Icelandic: *Boberg; Indonesia: Snouck-Hurgronje De Atjehers II 142. |
| Q416.3 | Punishment: trampling by elephants. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| Q551.3.2 | Punishment: transformation into animal. (Cf. Q226.2.) S. A. Indian (Toba): Métraux MAFLS XL 31. |
| Q551.3.5.1 | Punishment: transformation into falling star. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q551.3.2.3 | Punishment: transformation into frog. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q551.3.2.4 | Punishment: transformation into monkey. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| Q551.3.5 | Punishment: transformation into other object. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q551.3.5.2 | Punishment: transformation into tree. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q551.3.1 | Punishment: transformation of lovers into lion and lioness for desecrating temple. They have had sexual relations in the temple. It was believed that lions do not mate with each other; hence their sin could not be repeated. Greek: *Frazer Apollodorus I 401 n. 2. |
| Q551.3.2.6 | Punishment: transformation to ass. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q551.3.2.8 | Punishment: transformation to calf. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q415.1.1 | Punishment: transformation to deer which is devoured by dogs. Greek: Frazer Apollodorus I 323 (Acteon). |
| Q551.3.2.7 | Punishment: transformation to dog. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q551.3 | Punishment: transformation. (Cf. D661.) Greek: Grote I 32. |
| Q469.7 | Punishment: twisting entrails from body. Fb III 776a; Mannhardt Wald- und Feldkulte I 28; Heinzel Beschreibung der isländischen Saga 162. |
| Q415.1.2 | Punishment: tying man to horses and setting vicious hounds after him. (Cf. Q416, S117.) Scottish: Campbell-McKay No. 25. |
| Q473.2 | Punishment: tying to horse's tail. Fb "hest" IV 212a; Icelandic: Boberg. |
| Q495 | Punishment: unseemly exposure of body. Jewish: Neuman. |
| Q478.4 | Punishment: using fat rendered from daughter's mutilated corpse to cook with and to light candles. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q502.2 | Punishment: wandering till iron shoes are worn out. *Types 400, 425; *BP II 272; Missouri French: Carrière; Italian: Basile Pentamerone V No. 4. |
| Q552.3.6 | Punishment: water famine. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| Q411.1 | Punishment: winning as wife and then killing. Type 956B; *BP I 373. |
| Q451.9.1 | Punishment: woman suspended by her breasts. Jewish: Neuman. |
| Q551.3.2.2 | Punishment: woman transformed into bird. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q552.9 | Punishment: woman who has prevented birth of children casts no shadow. (Cf. Q251.) *Type 755; *Fb "skygge" III 347ab; Finnish-Swedish: Wessman 19 No. 186. |
| Q451.9 | Punishment: woman's breasts cut off. Zupitza Zs. f. Vksk. XI 91; Child Nos. 5, 80, 81; Scotch: Campbell Tales I lxxxix—xc. See also Peele's "King Edward the First". |
| Q561 | Punishments being prepared in hell. |
| Q567 | Punishments by cold in hell. *Krappe Bulletin Hispanique XXXIX 18; Irish myth: Cross; Jewish: Neuman. |
| Q566 | Punishments by heat in hell. (Cf. A671.2.4.) Irish myth: *Cross; Jewish: *Neuman; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 885. |
| E601.3 | Punishments earned on one life paid in next reincarnation. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q563 | Punishments in hell fitted to crimes. (Cf. Q580.) Zs. f. celtische Phil. IX 413ff.; Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q560 | Punishments in hell. (Cf. Q174.) Fb "helvede" IV 209a; Wienert FFC LVI 41; Krappe "Notes on Dante's Inferno" Archivum Romanicum VI 376—385, XI 592—603; Festskrift til Feilberg 202. — Irish: *Cross, Beal XXI 319—23, O'Suilleabhain 51, 53, 58; Icelandic: *Boberg; Lithuanian: Balys Legends Nos. 391, 467f., 470f., 585; Spanish: Espinosa Jr. Nos. 202, 204, Keller; Greek: Grote I 129; Egyptian: Müller 179f.; Jewish: *Neuman, Moreno Esdras; India: *Thompson-Balys; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 598. |
| Q560.1 | Punishments in land of dead (detailed). India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q560.1.1 | Punishments in other world: people reincarnated as buffaloes and killed. Chinese: Graham. |
| W125.4 | Pupil eats cakes given as alms for his master. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| E368 | Pupil returns from dead to warn master of futility of his studies. *Crane Vitry 145f. No. 31; Alphabet Nos. 151, 700; Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| L142.2 | Pupil surpasses magician. *Type 325; Missouri French: Carrière; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| L142 | Pupil surpasses master. *Fb "mester" II 584a; Alphabet No. 38; Jewish: Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| L142.1 | Pupil surpasses thieves in stealing. *Type 1525E; *BP III 393 n. 1. |
| T52.2 | Purchase money instead of bride given to suitor to settle dispute. Africa (Fjort): Dennett 74ff. No. 16. |
| N91 | Purchase of box without knowledge of its contents. *Chauvin VI 17 No. 189 n. 2. |
| A1174.3 | Purchase of night. Originally no night. Culture hero goes to distant land and buys it. He introduces sleep, etc. Cock to crow for day. (Cf. B755, J2272.1.). —Banks Is.: Dixon 113. |
| F303.1 | Purification in kettle of boiling oil as preparation for marriage to fairy. Tuti-Nameh 10th Night. |
| A102.11 | Purity of God. Jewish: Neuman. |
| Z147.1 | Purple is symbol of royalty. Society Islands: Henry Ancient Tahiti (Honolulu, 1928) 384. |
| F811.3.1 | Purple tree. Patch PMLA XXXIII 624 n. 82; Irish myth: *Cross. |
| B731.9 | Purple wether. Irish myth: Cross. |
| V57 | Purpose of prayer. |
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