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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
E
The Dead
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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
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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 ▲ |
|---|---|
| N884.1 | Robber helps king. *Type 952; *BP III 450ff.; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K439.7 | Robber induced to give respite and come to man's office to get promised larger sum. Cheated. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| J1179.4 | Robber innocent because he is merely following traditions of his ancestors. Wesselski Bebel II 111 No. 39. |
| K421 | Robber mistakenly carries off worthless goods and leaves valuable. Chauvin II 83 No. 8; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| J1782.1 | Robber or dog in church thought to be a ghost. Type 1318*. |
| K437 | Robber overcome. |
| K1054 | Robber persuaded to climb down moonbeam. A man hearing a robber enter tells his wife aloud that he always makes a prayer and then enters the house by climbing down a moonbeam. The thief tries it and falls. *Chauvin II 84, IX 31 No. 22; *Wesselski Hodscha Nasreddin I 231 No. 81; *Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 628; Günter 104 and note 226; Krappe Bulletin Hispanique XXXIX 21; Bødker Exempler 274 No. 10; Spanish Exempla: Keller; Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| K437.2 | Robber with hand of glory killed. A robber disguised as a beggar gets night's lodging at a farm house. Using a candle made of human fat or hand of a corpse, he tries to charm the household into a deep sleep (D1162.2.1). One man who is suspicious and has not gone to sleep sees this and kills the robber. Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 963*. |
| D2072.5 | Robber-proof house: thieves are petrified when they enter house for unlawful purposes; are fed and welcomed, otherwise. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| P475 | Robber. Irish myth: Cross; Missouri French: Carrière; Jewish: *Neuman. |
| J1269.8 | Robber's defense for stealing from rich. God will not permit them to enter heaven unless we take their ill-gotten goods from them. *Wesselski Bebel II 142 No. 131. |
| K335.1.9 | Robbers coming to steal from stable frightened away by bear staying the night there with his keeper. Type 957. |
| J1392.2 | Robbers commiserated. A buffoon says to robbers in his house, "You can't find anything here in the dark, for I can find nothing in broad daylight." *Wesselski Bebel I 132 No. 32; Scala Celi 104b No. 567; Mensa Philosophica No. 62. |
| P475.2 | Robbers defeated and killed. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| K437.5 | Robbers enslaved. Youth told by two robbers to go to town and sell bracelet for each. He goes and offers to sell two slaves. Goes back with buyer and cries out "Did you say both?" "Yes." Youth is paid; robbers are enslaved. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K439.6 | Robbers fed poisoned food. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B576.1.2 | Robbers frightened by grateful dog. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K335.1.10 | Robbers frightened by pretended cannibalism. Tricksters threaten to cook a robber. All the robbers flee in terror, leaving them their booty. Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 967*. |
| K335.1.6 | Robbers frightened from goods by hidden man. Type 1875; Italian Novella: *Rotunda; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K335.1.8 | Robbers frightened from goods by man in tar and feathers. Type 1527. |
| K335.1.3 | Robbers frightened from goods by man's outcry. Trickster hits a slain ox and cries out, "Those others did it!" The thieves flee and leave their treasure. Type 1525D; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K335.1.2.2 | Robbers frightened from goods by sham-dead man. Type 1654**; DeVries Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsche Taal- en Letterkunde XLV 213; *Wesselski Hodscha Nasreddin II 211 No. 429; Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 1654*, 1654A; Estonian: Aarne FFC XXV No. 1654*; Russian: Andrejev No. 1654*; Spanish: Boggs FFC XC 130 No. 1532, 137 No. 1654*, 142 No. 1716*; India: *Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Graham. |
| K335.1.2 | Robbers frightened from goods by the dead. (Cf. K335.0.5.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K335.1.6.2 | Robbers frightened from goods by Thumbling. They can hear him but cannot see him. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K335.1 | Robbers frightened from goods. Trickster steals the goods. Wesselski Hodscha Nasreddin II 211 No. 428, 215 No. 446; Missouri French: Carrière; Italian Novella: *Rotunda; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| K897.3 | Robbers make stairs slippery so that bathing prince falls. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| X424.1 | Robbers mistake man for devil (the "sheep" speaks, "Gently, gently!"). India: Thompson-Balys. |
| J642.2 | Robbers persuaded to give hero sword with which they are afterwards killed. Africa (Somali): Tiling ZsES XVIII 139ff. No. 6. |
| V113.2 | Robbers promise to make offerings to the shrine of a hermit if successful. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| V222.16 | Robbers who enter saint's garden to steal are caused to spade it up for him. This proves him to be saint. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| K912.0.2 | Robbers' (giants') hands cut off as they enter house. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K912 | Robbers' (giants') heads cut off one by one as they enter house. *Types 304, 956AB; *BP I 373; *Fb "hoved" I 654b, "røver" III 132a; Icelandic: *Boberg; Missouri French: Carrière; India: *Thompson-Balys; Japanese: Ikeda. |
| K912.0.1 | Robbers' (giants') noses cut off as they enter house. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| J1162.2 | Robbers' false plea admitted: counteraccusation. Robbers claim a man's knife. In court: "The knife may indeed be theirs. I and my father were attacked yesterday by robbers. I fled. On returning I found my father killed and this knife in his body." Robbers condemned. *Wesselski Märchen 229 No. 40. Irish myth: Cross (K448.1). |
| N455.2 | Robbers' plans overheard: owner warned. Swiss: Jegerlehner Oberwallis 325 No. 8; Missouri French: Carrière; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| N455.2.1 | Robbers' secret overheard and later used in court against them. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| F930.1.0.2 | Robe sent to saint on stream not wet. (Cf. D1052.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| S223.0.1 | Robert the Devil. Childless couple wish for a child even if he comes from the devil. He is diabolical. *Wells 784; *Hibbard 49ff. (Sir Gowther); *Krappe Mod. Lang. Rev. XXIV (1929) 200ff.; Irish myth: Cross. |
| A2218.5 | Robin steals fire, has breast scorched. England: Baughman. |
| B31.1.2 | Roc drops rock on ship. Rock is so large that it destroys ship.—*Chauvin VII 21 No. 373E n. 1; *Basset 1001 Contes I 158. |
| B31.1 | Roc. A giant bird which carries off men in its claws.—Irish myth: Cross; German: Grimm Nos. 51, 161; Penzer I 103ff., II 219; Chauvin VI 3 No. 181 n. 3; Burton I 154 n., V 122f., VI 16n, 48ff., S III 186, S VII 249.—Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 45.—N. A. Indian: Thompson Tales 318 n. 151. |
| B31.1.1 | Roc's egg. *Chauvin VI 93 No. 256, VII 10 No. 373B. |
| D1431.1 | Rock (stone) pursues person. (Cf. D931.) Africa (Kaffir): Theal 161; Eskimo (Greenland): Rasmussen III 99. |
| A1414.7.2 | Rock as repository of fire. Calif. Indian: Gayton and Newman 61. |
| D1549.5.1 | Rock beaten by sword provides water. (Cf. D930.) Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 114. |
| F960.2.3 | Rock bursts into flames at hero's death. (Cf. F964.3.4.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| D476.1.7 | Rock changed into milk. *Loomis White Magic 81. |
| K914.2 | Rock hurled down hill slays enemy passing below. Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 433. |
| D2153.1 | Rock in sea created by magic. Finnish: Kalevala rune 43; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F807 | Rock of extraordinary color. |
| D1472.1.2.2 | Rock produces wine. Herder sees resemblance of stone to wine cask. He strikes it and wine flows. (Cf. D931, D1472.1.2.) Swiss: Jegerlehner Oberwallis 327 No. 21. |
| K476.1.1 | Rock substituted for ham by trickster. Pierre Faifeu No. 24. |
| D1643.2 | Rock travels. (Cf. D931) Jewish: Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| J86 | Rocks falling together and thread entering needle's eye suggest sexual intercourse: hence its beginning. Chinese: Graham. |
| A974 | Rocks from transformation of people to stone. Greek: Fox 175; Icel.: Boberg.—Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 175; Marshall Is.: Davenport 229; Tonga: Gifford 99, 130; Marquesas: Handy 106; India: Thompson-Balys; Eskimo: Boas RBAE VI 639; Calif. Indian: Gayton and Newman 97. |
| D2136.1 | Rocks moved by magic. Irish myth: *Cross; Welsh: MacCulloch Celtic 201 (rocks of Stonehenge), cf. Chaucer's Franklin's Tale; Greek: *Frazer Apollodorus I 17 (Orpheus); Jewish: *Neuman; N. A. Indian (Seneca): Curtin-Hewitt RBAE XXXII 192 No. 37, 310 No. 58; Eskimo (Greenland): Rink 258. |
| A972.5.5 | Rocks or hill-tops flat because persons (gods) slept or cooked on them. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F55.2 | Rocks piled up to sky. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F759.7 | Rocky mountain. French Canadian: Sister Marie Ursule. |
| D1402.10.2 | Rod from magic hazel-tree kills snake immediately. (Cf. D956.) (Cf. D950.1, A2711.4.1.) BP III 477. |
| A666.2 | Rodent gnaws away ladder to other world and thus ghosts remain on earth. S. Am. Indian (Brazil): Oberg Mato Grosso 109. |
| J1516 | Rogues exchange objects and cheat each other. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| P711.5 | Roman undertakes to kill Hannibal. Kills another by mistake. Burns off his hand for having failed. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| V385 | Romans won't include Jesus in their pantheon because of his poverty which they hate. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| R335 | Roof as refuge for pursued animals. West Indies: *Flowers 573 —75, Parsons MAFLS XVIII (3) 26 No. 6. |
| P552.3.1 | Roof of shields. Testudo. Irish myth: Cross. |
| E722.2.3 | Roof taken off above sick man who cannot die. This done so that the soul can escape. Zachariae Zs. f. Vksk XVIII 445; *Fb "engel" I 250. |
| F686.2 | Room heated by crowded corpses kept on hand by ghoulish ogres. Scottish: Campbell-McKay No. 25. |
| Q172.4.1 | Rooms in heaven are prepared for good man in heaven. The dead miser asks the living man to give him at least one of them. Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 804A*. |
| F165.3 | Rooms in otherworld dwellings. Siuts 74ff. |
| J1811.4 | Rooster's crow interpreted. |
| D1338.2.2 | Root of eternal youth. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| D1518.2 | Root restores amputated hands and feet. (Cf. D967.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| H619.3 | Roots and branches of World-tree explained symbolically. Irish myth: Cross. |
| A857.3.1 | Roots created to hold land firm. Tahiti: Henry 342. |
| D1385.2.6 | Roots protect from evil spirits. (Cf. D967.) Jewish: Neuman. |
| D1314.12.1 | Rope breaks at proper burial place. (Cf. D1203.) Chinese: Graham. |
| F152.1.5 | Rope bridge to otherworld. Patch PMLA XXXIII 636 n. 118.—Irish myth: *Cross. |
| K963 | Rope cut and victim dropped. Man is being hauled up on the rope. *Type 301; *BP II 300ff.; Icelandic: Boberg; Spanish: Boggs FFC XC 115 No. 960; India: Thompson-Balys; Japanese: Ikeda; Africa (Zulu): Callaway 78; Jamaica: Beckwith MAFLS XVII 242 No. 17; West Indies: Flowers 532. |
| F843.1 | Rope made of person's hair. Köhler-Bolte I 542f.; English: Child V 482 s.v. "hair". |
| X1757.1 | Rope of dry dust. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| F51.1.5 | Rope of god's own hair. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K963.1 | Rope of mountain-climber cut and victim dropped. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| X1757 | Rope of sand (chaff). (First ed. X961.2.) (Cf. F843.) Type 852; BP II 513; Missouri French: Carrière. |
| F96 | Rope to lower world. *Type 301; *BP II 300ff.—India: *Thompson-Balys; Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 147. |
| H432.1 | Rose as chastity index. Fading rose indicates unfaithfulness. (Cf. D975.2.) G. Paris Romania XXIII 102ff.; Bédier Fabliaux 465; Köhler-Bolte II 444; Penzer I 165. |
| E631.1.2 | Rose from grave. *Fb "rose" III 80a. |
| H1556.4.6 | Rose given by supernatural wife to husband when he leaves for home will shed as many petals as times he thinks of her. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F971.2 | Rose grows from table (stone). Type 755; Fb "sten" III 554a, "rose" III 80a; P. Saintyves Le Thème du bâton qui reverdit (Revue d'Histoire et de Littérature religieuses, III [1912] 330—49, 421—54). |
| D1337.1.8.1 | Rose water gives magic beauty. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| H71.4 | Roses from lips as sign of royalty. Princess laughs roses. *BP I 100. |
| V222.14 | Roses lose thorns when saint walks on them. England: Baughman. |
| G275.13 | Rough treatment of object causes injury or death to witch. Canada, England, U.S.: *Baughman. |
| Z17 | Rounds. Stories which begin over and over again and repeat. Type 2350; Taylor JAFL XLVI 88, Hdwb. d. Märchens II 190; U.S.: Baughman; Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 2300; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A2711.5 | Rowan helps Thor out of river. Icel.: MacCulloch Eddic 84. |
| G272.2.1 | Rowan wood (quicken, etc.) protects against witches. Canada, England, Scotland, U.S.: *Baughman. |
| J229.7 | Rower prefers to be stoned by his master rather than remain out in the storm. Wienert FFC LVI *83 (ET 498), 115 (ST 258). |
| J2164.1 | Rowers pull in opposite directions. Type 1276. |
| K14.1 | Rowing contest won by deception: magic boat. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K14 | Rowing contest won by deception. The boat is already sawed through. Type 1087. |
| J2164.2 | Rowing in a boat which is tied up. Type 1276. |
| A751.9.1 | Rows of palm trees (black spots) on the moon. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| P13.7 | Royal anniversaries. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| T133.2 | Royal bride conducted by embassy to husband's kingdom. (Cf. T51.) Dickson 31. |
| V205 | Royal family as sacred. |
| R169.7 | Royal minister rescues abandoned queen(s). (Cf. P110.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| P110 | Royal ministers. Missouri French: Carrière. |
| P13.9 | Royal perquisites. |
| P13.3 | Royal purple (golden diadem) worn as sign of royalty. Irish myth: Cross. |
| P90 | Royalty and nobility—miscellaneous. |
| P0 | Royalty and nobility. |
| U146 | Royalty unable to endure coarse entertainment. |
| D1473.2 | Rubbing charm provides garments. (Cf. D1273.) Africa (Loango): Pechuël-Loesche 109. |
| P672.3 | Rubbing shaved head of hero with cow dung as insult. Irish myth: Cross. |
| D2105.3 | Rubbish magically becomes food and clothing. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F465 | Rübezahl. A mountain and storm spirit. *Wehrhan 68; **Jungbauer Die Rübezahlsage (Reichenberg, 1923); Koch **Rübezahl (Breslau, n.d.); Bolte Zs. f. Vksk. XXXV—XXXVI 68; *Loewe Zs. f. Vksk. XVIII 1, 151, XXI 31, 126. |
| D1467.2 | Rubies found in whirlpool in sea. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| D1641.14.1 | Ruby shatters into half-dozen pieces when it is acquired by greedy lapidary. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| J1369 | Rude retorts—miscellaneous. |
| J1350 | Rude retorts. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| D1385.2.2 | Rue, when burned, keeps evil spirits at a distance. (Cf. D965.16.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A671.3.2 | Rugged, icy mountains in hell. Irish myth: Cross. |
| G303.15.5 | Ruins of a palace haunted by Satan. Jewish: Neuman. |
| J811.4 | Ruler angered by evil spoken of him is placated by soft words of speakers. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| K1812.6 | Ruler disguises as goblin to frighten uxorious priest. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K2381 | Ruler diverts attention from misgovernment by beginning a war. Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 443. |
| L410.6 | Ruler enslaved. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| U38 | Ruler exiles subject for trivial remark. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| J1161.7 | Ruler forbids blacksmith to reveal solution of riddle unless he has seen him 100 times. Smith reveals the solution on receipt of 100 crowns bearing the ruler's likeness. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| U41 | Ruler forces bishop to ordain ignorant priest. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| W11.6 | Ruler generously settles quarrel between loser and finder of money. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K1848.2 | Ruler has favorite perform tasks so that he may himself win a bride. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| M13.1 | Ruler has son beheaded for rape. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| J553.2 | Ruler interrupts meeting of Senate to amuse his small son. When rebuked for making him a whistle he says: "I would have blown it for him had he asked me to do so." Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| W111.5.7 | Ruler is too lazy to stop quarrels. They lead to his death. Italian Novella: Rotunda (W111.6). |
| J56.1 | Ruler learns lesson from seeing city governed by king as uncharitable as he. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| J55 | Ruler learns lesson from the example of an exiled king. Rewards the exile rather than a successful merchant. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| N681.2 | Ruler makes ready to abandon barren wife and marry another. He remains with her when he learns that she is with child. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| T121.4 | Ruler marries fugitive noblewoman. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q87.1 | Ruler marries maiden who has repulsed his advances. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| J1161.8 | Ruler orders doctor to wear his hair and his robe "not too long and not too short". Has both his hair and his cloak cut half short and half long. Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| W11.5.2 | Ruler pardons emissary who has come to murder him. Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| W11.5.1 | Ruler pardons his enemies. Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| W154.16 | Ruler persecutes his friends and is kind to his enemies. Is killed. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K929.3 | Ruler promises minister that he will not kill him "on any day of his life." Dispels his suspicions. Has him killed at night. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| W11.10 | Ruler protects thief. Asks for the stolen plate and hides it so that it will not be found on the culprit. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| J1566.2 | Ruler refuses hospitality from subject who spends more than he earns. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| W11.5.6 | Ruler reproaches son for bringing him the head of his fallen enemy. Latter given honorable burial. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q56.2 | Ruler rewards captives' love for each other. Sets them free and enriches them. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| W11.11 | Ruler rewards man who would curb him. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q56.1 | Ruler rewards man's love for his captive wife with riches and freedom. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q54.1 | Ruler tries in vain to intimidate judge. Rewards him with high post. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| W181.7 | Ruler who is jealous of his subjects' happiness prohibits their games. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| J1536 | Ruler's absurdity rebuked. |
| C938 | Rulers of inferior character after tabu is broken. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F969.4.1 | Rumble in earth attends slaying of giant serpent. Eskimo (Greenland): Holm 65. |
| K1951.2.1 | Runaway cavalry hero tears out limbs of dead trees. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1951.2 | Runaway cavalry-hero. When the sham hero goes to war his horse runs away with him. To save himself he grasps a cross from a graveyard and waves it from side to side, putting the enemy to flight. *Type 1640; *BP I 148ff.; Missouri French: Carrière; India: *Thompson-Balys; N. A. Indian: *Thompson CColl II 430ff. |
| N721 | Runaway horse carries bride to her lover. Bridegroom unwittingly hires a horse belonging to his rival for his bride to ride to the wedding. A storm arises and the horse carries her to his master. *Bédier Fabliaux 119, 473. |
| N774.3.1 | Runaway ox leads pursuer to burial place of Adam and Eve. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| D1561.1.8 | Runes bring luck. (Cf. D1266.1.) Icelandic: Boberg. |
| D1367.5 | Runes cause frenzy. (Cf. D1266.1.) Norse: MacCulloch Eddic 298, Herrmann Saxo Gr. II 239, *Boberg; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| D1388.1.3 | Runes protect from storm and shipwreck. (Cf. D1266.1.) Norse: MacCulloch Eddic 298. |
| D1385.20 | Runes protect from the curse of a dead Christian woman. (Cf. D1266.1.) Icelandic: MacCulloch Eddic 298, cf. Boberg. |
| D1380.20 | Runes protect. (Cf. D1266.1.) Icelandic: MacCulloch Eddic 298, Boberg. |
| D1566.2.4 | Runes quench fire (D1266.1.) Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| F681.12 | Runner runs so swiftly that he does not snap the ears of wheat (bend grass). Latin: Virgil Aeneid VII 807 ff.; Jewish: Neuman. |
| F933.5 | Rushes uprooted reveal spring. Irish myth: *Cross; French Canadian: Sister Marie Ursule. |
| J1263.1.3.1 | Rushing through the mass. Two priests apply for the position of chaplain and argue as to which one can say the mass more quickly. One clinches the argument saying: "You could not say it more quickly than I because I don't read half of it!" Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| B259.2 | Sabbath-keeping cow. Refuses to work on Sabbath.—Jewish: Bin Gorion Born Judas II 92, *342; Jewish: Neuman. |
| V71 | Sabbath. *Encyc. Rel. Ethics Index 509c; Irish myth: *Cross; Jewish: Moreno Esdras (V71.2.), *Neuman. |
| D915.4.1 | Sabbatical river. Dry on Sabbath. *Chauvin VII 44 No. 153; Gaster Exempla 188 No. 15; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| H86.1 | Saber with king's name inscribed on it. German: Grimm No. 111. |
| D1413.9 | Sack holds person who puts hand into it. (Cf. D1193.) Swiss: Jegerlehner Oberwallis 322 No. 92; Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "blague". |
| F343.20 | Sack of coals as fairy gift. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F531.2.15 | Sack of earth in giant's hand looks no bigger than a pea in hand of a man. Scotland: Baughman. |
| Q296.1 | Sack of flour pushed down on peasant who accuses his wife of theft from it. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| D1318.14 | Sack of gold retains at will any hand thrust in it. (Cf. D1193.) —Spanish: Boggs FFC XC 49 No. 330. |
| J2093.5 | Sacks of gold and silver traded for sacks of rice. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| V39.3 | Sacrament effective even from unworthy priest. Man who has refused such a sacrament shown a vision of a leper giving men good water without harm. Alphabet No. 687; Irish: O'Suilleabhain 126, Beal XXI 334, 337. |
| Q499.3 | Sacrament refused as punishment for desecration of holy place. (Cf. Q222.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| J1261.2.4 | Sacrament too precious to be bought. If that were so, says the apprentice, no one would have given it to you or me. *Wesselski Bebel I 124 No. 12. |
| V39 | Sacrament—miscellaneous motifs. |
| V30 | Sacrament. *Encyc. Rel. Ethics Index 510; DeVooys Middelnederlandse Legenden en Exempelen (Den Haag, 1926) 230ff.; Irish myth: *Cross. |
| N361 | Sacred animal unwittingly killed. |
| B811.3 | Sacred animal: cow. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| H55.2 | Sacred animals branded by conjurer. Eskimo (Greenland): Rink 327. |
| B811 | Sacred animals. Egyptian: Müller 159ff.; Icel.: Boberg. |
| B811.2 | Sacred armadillo. S. A. Indian (Chiriguano): Métraux BBAE CXLIII (3). 484. |
| V1.7.1.2 | Sacred ash. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| V1.7.1.4 | Sacred bo-tree. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| D1841.3.3 | Sacred book or manuscript does not burn in fire. *Loomis White Magic 31f. |
| V212.1 | Sacred books received from Buddha in person. Chinese: Werner 340. |
| B811.3.1 | Sacred buffalo. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B811.3.2 | Sacred bull. Jewish: Neuman. |
| B811.4 | Sacred cat. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B811.3.3 | Sacred cattle of sun god. Greek myth: Grote I 313. |
| V1.10.3 | Sacred feather. Tuamotu: Beckwith Myth 289. |
| V1.6.3.1 | Sacred fire. *Encyc. Rel. Ethics Index 202b; Penzer I 260, II 247—55; Irish myth: *Cross. |
| B811.6 | Sacred fox. S. A. Indian (Chiriguano): Métraux BBAE CXLIII (3) 484. |
| V114.1 | Sacred groves of druids. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| V114 | Sacred groves. *Frazer Golden Bough XII 293 s.v. "Grove(s), sacred"; Irish myth: *Cross. |
| D1500.1.2 | Sacred healing stone. (Cf. D931.) Irish: Plummer clvii, *Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg; Jewish: Neuman. |
| B811.1 | Sacred horse. (Cf. B802.)—Penzer II 57 n. 1. |
| V39.5 | Sacred image appears on host. Woman who has vowed not to use make-up or ornaments thus rewarded. (Cf. V35.1.2.) Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| D1654.8.1 | Sacred image impossible to remove from the spot. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| V35.1.2 | Sacred image miraculously appears on stolen sacrament. (Cf. V39.5.) Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 557. |
| V1.7.1.1 | Sacred oak. Irish myth: *Cross; Jewish: Neuman. |
| D1500.1.10 | Sacred objects cure disease. (Cf. V150.) |
| V150 | Sacred objects—miscellaneous. |
| A992.2 | Sacred place where thunderbolt fell down. Blinkenberg The Thunderweapon (Cambridge 1911); Handwb. d. Abergl. II 325 "Donnerkeil". |
| T457 | Sacred prostitution. *Penzer Poison Damsels 131ff. |
| D1296 | Sacred relic as magic object. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| V144.1 | Sacred relics carried in battle to aid victory. Irish myth: Cross. |
| D1381.20 | Sacred relics protect against attack. (Cf. D1296.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| V140 | Sacred relics. **Saintyves Les réliques et les images légendaires (Paris, 1912); Encyc. Rel. Ethics Index 493a. |
| V1.6.2.1 | Sacred rivers and lakes. (Cf. A425.) |
| D1641.11 | Sacred scroll returns to heaven. (Cf. D1266.1, V151.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| V1.6.4.2 | Sacred shells. Tonga: Gifford 52; Tahiti: Henry 391. |
| V202 | Sacred spirits. Hawaii: *Beckwith Myth 104, 107, 108, 180, 382, 447, 512. |
| V1.6.4.1 | Sacred stones. Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: Corpus Poeticum Boreale I 322, Boberg, Schmidt DF XXXIX 86ff.; Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 88ff.; Tahiti: Henry Ancient Tahiti (Honolulu, 1928) 382. |
| B811.5 | Sacred swan. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| D1400.1.4.1.1 | Sacred sword of saint repulses army of heretics. *Loomis White Magic 123. |
| V1.7.1 | Sacred tree. *Encyc. Rel. Ethics Index 611a; *Fb "træ" III 866a; Wimberly 156; Irish myth: *Cross; Jewish: Neuman. |
| D1542.2.1 | Sacred weapon thrown into sky causes drought. (Cf. D1080.) Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 293. |
| V134 | Sacred wells. *Encyc. Rel. Ethics Index 640c; Fb "kilde" II 119: Namn och Bygd XXXIII (1945) 1ff. — Danish: Schmidt Danmarks Helligkilder (DF XXXIII); Irish myth: *Cross; England, Wales, Ireland, U.S.: Baughman; Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| V151 | Sacred writings. *Encyc. Rel. Ethics Index 530a; Irish myth: *Cross. |
| V1.7.1.3 | Sacred yew. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| V17.2 | Sacrifice after committing a sin. Jewish: Neuman. |
| S274 | Sacrifice as an agricultural rite. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| S276 | Sacrifice as protection against disease. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| V17.8 | Sacrifice at edification of temple. (Cf. V12.4.0.1.) Jewish: Neuman. |
| V16 | Sacrifice at religious festivals. Jewish: Neuman. |
| V17.9 | Sacrifice by women at childbirth. Jewish: Neuman. |
| F962.2.1 | Sacrifice consumed by heavenly fire. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| J2067 | Sacrifice equal to the reward. |
| V17.1 | Sacrifice for a good year, crops. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| V17.4 | Sacrifice for good weather. (Cf. V17.1.) Icelandic: örvar-Odds saga 38f. |
| V17.6 | Sacrifice in order that king may live 300 years. (Cf. F571.7.) Icelandic: Boberg. |
| A755.3.1 | Sacrifice made to free moon from sickness and allow waxing. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| V13 | Sacrifice made when treasure is found. Fb "skat" III 235b. |
| V14 | Sacrifice must be without blemish. Greek: Homer passim; Jewish: Neuman. |
| V12.4.0.1 | Sacrifice of animals at the edification of a temple. Jewish: Moreno Esdras (V17.8). |
| B11.10.0.1 | Sacrifice of animals to dragon. Irish myth: Cross. |
| S272 | Sacrifice of brothers promised if girl is born. *Type 451; BP I 71ff. |
| S268.1 | Sacrifice of child demanded as cure for feigned sickness. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| S271 | Sacrifice of child to remove barrenness. Penzer I 154; Chauvin V 176 No. 100; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| S260.1.4 | Sacrifice of child to save life of another. (Cf. S268.) Korean: Zong in-Sob 44 No. 26. |
| B11.10 | Sacrifice of human being to dragon. *Type 300; Penzer VII 236, 240; Dickson Valentine and Orson 226f.; Gaster Thespis 176; Hartland Legend of Perseus passim; Fb "drage", "pige".—Irish myth: Cross; Greek: Fox 34; Persian: Carnoy 320; India: *Thompson-Balys; Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "exposition"; French Canadian: Barbeau JAFL XXXIX 17; Missouri French: Carrière; Africa (Zulu): Callaway 41; Japanese: Anesaki 249. |
| J2067.1 | Sacrifice of one son to get another. A woman plans to sacrifice her only son so that the gods will permit her to give birth to another son. Penzer V 94. |
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