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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
B
Animal Motifs
C
Motifs of Tabu
D
Magic
E
The Dead
F
Marvels
G
Ogres
H
Tests
J
The Wise and the Foolish
K
Deceptions
L
Reversals of Fortune
M
Ordaining the Future
N
Chance and Fate
P
Society
Q
Rewards and Punishments
R
Captives and Fugitives
S
Unnatural Cruelty
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Sex
U
The Nature of Life
V
Religion
W
Traits of Character
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Humor
Z
Miscellaneous Groups of Motifs
| Thompson reference | Description ▲ |
|---|---|
| D1551.5 | Saint's bachall causes sea to divide. (Cf. D1277.) Irish: Plummer clxxv, Cross. |
| D1400.1.12 | Saint's bachall defeats enemies. (Cf. D1277.) Irish: Plummer clxxv, *Cross. |
| D1314.3 | Saint's bachall discovers gold. (Cf. D1277.)—Irish: Plummer clxxv, Cross. |
| D1549.3.1 | Saint's bachall drives back flooding river. (Cf. D1277.) Irish: Plummer clxxv, Cross. |
| D1395.4 | Saint's bachall enables captive to escape. (Cf. D1277, V220.) Irish: Plummer clxxv, Cross. |
| D1381.12 | Saint's bachall keeps off enemies. (Cf. D1277.) Irish: Plummer clxxv, *Cross.—*Loomis White Magic 123. |
| D1385.8 | Saint's bachall keeps off monsters and ghosts. (Cf. D1277.) Irish: Plummer clxxv, Cross. |
| D1549.3.2 | Saint's bachall leads stream through mountain (or up hill.) (Cf. D1277.) Irish: Plummer clxxv, *Cross. |
| D1351.1 | Saint's bachall makes person peaceful. (Cf. D1277.)—Irish: Plummer clxxv, Cross. |
| D1400.1.12.1 | Saint's bachall overcomes beast in hell. Irish myth: Cross. |
| D1524.1.2 | Saint's bachall permits him to walk on sea. (Cf. D1277.) Irish: Plummer clxxv, Cross. |
| V356.3 | Saint's bachall pointed at idol defaces it. (Cf. V347.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| D1419.3.1 | Saint's bachall prevents ship from moving. (Cf. D1277.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| D1567.4 | Saint's bachall produces fountain. (Cf. D1277.) *Loomis White Magic 37; Irish: Plummer cl, *Cross. |
| D1388.1.1 | Saint's bachall protects from shipwreck. (Cf. D1277.) Irish: Plummer clxxv, Cross. |
| D1566.2.1 | Saint's bachall quenches fire. (Cf. D1277.) Irish: Plummer clxxv, Cross. |
| D1391.2 | Saint's bachall saves prisoner from execution. (Cf. D1277, V220.) Irish: Plummer clxxv, Cross. |
| D1564.3 | Saint's bachall splits rock, cuts stone, and cleaves ground. (Cf. D1277.) Irish: Plummer clxxv, *Cross. |
| D1442.3 | Saint's bachall subdues wild animals. (Cf. D1277, V220.) Irish: Plummer clxxv, Cross. |
| D2175.2 | Saint's bachall used in cursing. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| D1602.9 | Saint's bachall when lost returns. (Cf. D1277.) Irish: Plummer clxxv, Cross. |
| D1389.6 | Saint's bell carried around tribe averts all danger. (Cf. D1213.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| D1524.3.2 | Saint's bell carried on floating stone. (Cf. D1213.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| D1400.1.9 | Saint's bell conquers enemies. (Cf. D1213.) Irish: Plummer clxxvi, *Cross. |
| D1500.1.13.3 | Saint's bell cures disease. (Cf. D1213.) Irish: Plummer clxxvi, Cross. |
| D1336.5 | Saint's bell gives weakness. (Cf. D1213.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| D1446.1 | Saint's bell keeps cattle from straying. (Cf. D1213.) Irish: Plummer clxxvi, Cross. |
| D1314.4.0.1 | Saint's bell lands at place where monastery is to be founded. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| D1508.1 | Saint's bell restores reason. (Cf. D1213.) Irish: Plummer clxxvi, Cross. |
| D1507.3 | Saint's bell restores speech. (Cf. D1213.) Irish: Plummer clxxvi, Cross. |
| D1385.12.1 | Saint's bell rung against black birds (demons). Irish myth: *Cross. |
| D1610.15.2 | Saint's bell speaks. Irish: Plummer clxxvi, Cross. |
| D1563.1.4 | Saint's bell starts crops growing. (Cf. D1213.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| D2175.4 | Saint's bell used in cursing. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| D1500.2.1 | Saint's bell wards off disease. (Cf. D1213, V221.) Irish: Plummer clxxvi, Cross. |
| D1602.8 | Saint's bell when stolen miraculously returns. (Cf. D1213.) Irish: Plummer clxxvii, Cross. |
| D2163.8 | Saint's blessing brings victory. *Loomis White Magic 123. |
| V229.17 | Saint's blessing causes a river to be best place for fishing. Irish myth: Cross. |
| D1311.16.0.1 | Saint's blessing makes stone oracular. Irish myth: Cross. |
| V221.4.0.1.1 | Saint's blessing sufficient to control a mad dog. *Loomis White Magic 106. |
| D1567.1 | Saint's blood produces fountain. (Cf. D1003, V220.) Irish: Plummer cl, Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| D1507.6 | Saint's blood restores speech. (Cf. D1003.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| E411.0.8 | Saint's body miraculously moves so that it is laid properly north and south, not northeast and southwest. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| V229.2.8 | Saint's body remains unspoiled in the earth for a long time. *Loomis White Magic 43f. |
| V143 | Saint's bones for lack of worship remove themselves from church. (Cf. D1641.) Alphabet No. 679. |
| V143.1 | Saint's bones miraculously removed from reliquary broken in pillage. Irish myth: Cross. |
| D1500.4.2.2 | Saint's breath causes death. (Cf. D1005.) *Loomis White Magic 46f. |
| D1364.5 | Saint's breath causes magic sleep. (Cf. D1005.)—Irish: Plummer clxxii, Cross. |
| D2176.3.3.4 | Saint's breath drives away the devil. *Loomis White Magic 46. |
| D1566.1.4.1 | Saint's breath kindles coals. Irish myth: Cross. |
| D1566.1.4 | Saint's breath kindles lamps. (Cf. D1005.) *Loomis White Magic 46f.; Irish: Plummer clxxviii, *Cross. |
| D1500.4.2.1 | Saint's breath makes men drunk. *Loomis White Magic 46. |
| D1565.4 | Saint's breath restores shattered vessel. (Cf. D1005.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| D1505.10 | Saint's breath restores sight. (Cf. D1005.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| D1507.4 | Saint's breath restores speech. (Cf. D1005.) *Loomis White Magic 105; Irish: Plummer clxxviii, Cross. |
| D1445.3 | Saint's chant kills animal. (Cf. D1275, V220.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| D1500.1.13.2 | Saint's cowl as magic cure. (Cf. D1067.3.1.) Irish: Plummer clxxxi, Cross. |
| D1447.2.1 | Saint's cowl protects fox from hounds. (Cf. D1067.3.1.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| D1361.16 | Saint's cowl renders invisible. (Cf. D1067.3.1.)—Irish: Plummer clxxx, Cross. |
| D1344.8 | Saint's cowl renders invulnerable. (Cf. D1067.3.1.)—Irish: Plummer clxxx, *Cross. |
| D1567.5 | Saint's crozier produces fountain. (Cf. D1277.1.) Irish: Plummer cl, *Cross. |
| D1792.1 | Saint's curse splits rocks. Irish myth: Cross. |
| T312 | Saint's daughter dies when wooed. Alphabet No. 390. |
| G303.16.11.5 | Saint's dispute with devil. *Loomis White Magic 76. |
| T337.1 | Saint's enemy, wishing to cause saint to violate his oath never to "commit folly and utter lie," induces his daughter to tempt saint. Saint perceives trick and avoids sin. Irish myth: Cross. |
| D1641.2.1 | Saint's flagstone follows him. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| D1500.1.13.1 | Saint's girdle as magic cure. (Cf. D1057.1.) Loomis White Magic 105; Irish: Plummer clxxxi, *Cross. Cf. Dh II 26f. |
| D1549.2 | Saint's girdle causes tree to fall in right direction. (Cf. D1057.1.) Irish: Plummer clxxxi, Cross. |
| D1344.7 | Saint's girdle renders invulnerable. (Cf. D1057.1.)—Irish: Plummer clxxx, Cross. |
| D1356.1.1 | Saint's girdle represses lust. (Cf V220.)—Irish: Plummer clxxxi, Cross. |
| D1331.4.1 | Saint's gospel-book causes sight-shifting. (Cf. D1266.) Irish: Plummer clxxviii, Cross. |
| D1446.2 | Saint's gospel-book keeps cattle from straying. (Cf. D1266.) Irish: Plummer clxxviii, Cross. |
| D1507.2 | Saint's gospel-book restores speech. (Cf. D1266.) Irish: Plummer clxxviii, Cross. |
| D1478.1 | Saint's hand illumines darkness. (Cf. D996.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| H1573.3.2 | Saint's horse miraculously preserved as proof of power of Christianity before fairy. Irish myth: Cross. |
| D1385.19.1 | Saint's hose protects woman from devil. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| D1622.3 | Saint's image lets golden shoe (ring) fall as sign of favor to suppliant. *Wesselski Erlesenes 64ff.; BP III 242. |
| D1472.1.22.2 | Saint's inexhaustible sack of wheat. Irish myth: Cross. |
| D1500.1.14 | Saint's mallet cures disease. (Cf. D1209.4.) Korean: Zong in-Sob 145. |
| F959.3.4.1 | Saint's palm over wound causes spearhead to come forth. Irish myth: Cross. |
| V52.13 | Saint's Paternoster outweighs ox. Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q557.5 | Saint's pet crane pecks out eye of spying person. (Cf. Q342, Q580.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| D1500.1.13 | Saint's possessions cure disease. (Cf. V221.) |
| D2136.5 | Saint's possessions magically transported. (Cf. V220.) Loomis White Magic 91f.; Irish myth: *Cross. |
| D2163.5.1 | Saint's prayer brings large flight of birds carrying stones in talons. These missiles dropped upon enemies cause terror. *Loomis White Magic 123. |
| B256.8 | Saint's prayer causes wolf to bring back child. Saintyves: Saints Successeurs 129. |
| D2163.5 | Saint's prayer wins battle. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| D457.16.1 | Saint's relics assume form of Buddha. Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 500f. |
| V140.2 | Saint's relics miraculously recovered. *Loomis White Magic 127f. |
| Q174.1.1 | Saint's requests for releasing souls from hell. (Cf. Q20.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| M364.4.1 | Saint's resurrection to take place where chariot breaks down. Irish myth: Cross. |
| D1442.5 | Saint's song silences hound. (Cf. D1275.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| D1381.2 | Saint's spittle protects fugitive from attack. (Cf. D1001.) Irish: Plummer clxxviii, Cross. |
| D1564.2 | Saint's spittle splits rocks. (Cf. D1001.) *Loomis White Magic 131; Irish: Plummer clxxviii, *Cross. |
| D1313.5.1 | Saint's staff as an excellent pilot at sea. *Loomis White Magic 90. |
| D1314.2.5 | Saint's staff becomes tree to indicate building site. England: Baughman. |
| D1446.4 | Saint's staff serves as a shepherd. (Cf. D1254.) *Loomis White Magic 100. |
| D1567.2 | Saint's tears produce fountain. (Cf. D1004.) Irish: Plummer cl, Cross; Jewish: Neuman. |
| D1361.12.1 | Saint's tunic renders invisible. (Cf. D1052.)—Irish: Plummer clxxx, *Cross. (D1361.11.); Icelandic: Boberg. |
| D1344.6 | Saint's tunic renders invulnerable. (Cf. D1052.)—Irish: Plummer clxxx, Cross. |
| D1549.6 | Saint's veil quells volcano. (Cf. D1061.) Acta Sanctorum February I 635. |
| F556.4 | Saint's voice heard from considerable distance. *Loomis White Magic 53; Irish myth: Cross. |
| V229.2.2 | Saintly babe disgorges unclean food. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| V229.2.1 | Saintly babe repeatedly found with arms extended in form of cross. Irish myth: Cross. |
| M301.5 | Saints (holy men) as prophets. *Loomis White Magic 71; Irish myth: *Cross; Jewish: *Neuman. |
| S263.5.1 | Saints (monks) sacrifice themselves (to avert plague). Irish myth: *Cross. |
| V226 | Saints as hermits. *Toldo II 99; Irish myth: Cross; Icelandic: Boberg. |
| V223.5 | Saints blessed with ability to discourse in the native idioms of the people whom they visit. *Loomis White Magic 72. |
| Q558.18 | Saints bring about miraculous death because of desecration of sanctuaries. (Cf. C51.1, Q222, V220.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| D2031.0.1 | Saints cause illusions. Irish: Plummer clix, clxix, *Cross. |
| D2063.3.1.1 | Saints cause magic thirst. Irish myth: Cross. |
| V229.8 | Saints create magic concealing mist. (Cf. D1361.1.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| M411.8.1 | Saints curse by ringing bells against offender. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| P311.7 | Saints exchange bachalls as mark of affection. Irish myth: Cross. |
| P311.7.1 | Saints exchange bells. Irish myth: Cross. |
| V227 | Saints have divine visitors. *Toldo IV 49ff.; Irish myth: *Cross; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| D1812.0.2 | Saints have foreknowledge of coming of guests. Irish: Plummer clxx, *Cross. |
| V223 | Saints have miraculous knowledge. Alphabet No. 482; *Loomis White Magic 72f.; Irish myth: *Cross; Swiss: Jegerlehner Oberwallis 307 No. 25. |
| V513 | Saints have miraculous visions. Irish myth: Cross. |
| V511.1.1 | Saints have visions of heaven. *Toldo IV 49. |
| V225 | Saints in several places at once. *Toldo V 343; *Loomis White Magic 131. |
| D1817.2 | Saints magically detect crime. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q559.9 | Saints miraculously cause child to fall over cliff as punishment for mother's washing clothes in holy well. (Cf. Q222, Q411.3.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| V229 | Saints—miscellaneous. Irish myth: Cross. |
| V220 | Saints. **Toldo Studien zur vgl. Litgsch. I—IX passim; **Saintyves Saints Successeurs 23—26; *Encyc. Rel. Ethics Index 514a.—Norwegian: Solheim Register 22; Jewish: Neuman; Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 140—42, 162, 210, 411. For references in addition to those given below, see volume VI s.v. "Saints". |
| F544.3.4 | Saints' teeth last for 300 years. Irish myth: Cross. |
| V331.7 | Saladin asks to be made a Christian knight. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| B784.1.8 | Salamander gets into veins through cracks in feet when person goes barefoot. U.S.: Baughman. |
| B768.2 | Salamander subsists on fire. Hertz Gesammelte Abhandlungen 257 n.; Irish myth: Cross; Jewish: *Neuman. |
| D1566.2.6 | Salamander's blood quenches fire. (Cf. D1016.) Jewish: Neuman. |
| Q437 | Sale into slavery as punishment. Jewish: *Neuman; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 526. |
| K141 | Sale of a sausage filled with blood. Type 480*; Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 656*. |
| K114.4 | Sale of alleged oracular bamboo cup. Chinese: Graham. |
| K136 | Sale of dead buffalo by making him seem alive. Indonesia: Coster-Wijsman 24 No. 1. |
| K135.1.3 | Sale of dog supposed to excrete sweet dung: dupe deceived. Korean: Zong in-Sob 178f. No. 77. |
| K143 | Sale of dung. Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| K120 | Sale of false treasure. |
| K123 | Sale of gilded (plated) ware as gold or silver. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K122 | Sale of gilded mudcakes. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K119 | Sale of other pseudo-magic objects. |
| K140 | Sale of other worthless objects. |
| K112.3 | Sale of pseudo-magic cake tree. Korean: Zong in-Sob 179 No. 77. |
| K110 | Sale of pseudo-magic objects. French Canadian: Barbeau JAFL XXIX 23; Missouri French: Carrière. |
| K119.1.2 | Sale of reputed self-operating sickle. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K118.1 | Sale of tree alleged to produce clothes. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| K118 | Sale of tree with alleged magic fruit. Indonesia: Coster-Wijsman 24 No. 1. |
| K130 | Sale of worthless animals. |
| K142 | Sale of worthless glass as diamond. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K149 | Sale of worthless objects—miscellaneous. |
| K150 | Sale of worthless services. |
| B124.1 | Salmon as oldest and wisest of animals. Welsh: MacCulloch Celtic 189; Irish myth: Cross. |
| F986.2 | Salmon caught out of season for saint. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F986.3 | Salmon comes every seventh year to certain place. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| B124.1.1 | Salmon of knowledge. Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q501.7.1 | Salt food without drink as punishment for man who accepts Christianity. (Cf. Q232.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Z111.6.2 | Salt in food given Death's messengers renders them harmless. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| N411.4 | Salt in saltless land sold for fortune. Russian: Andrejev No. 1651*; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| P321 | Salt of hospitality. Eating a man's salt creates mutual obligation. *Chauvin VI 196 No. 368. |
| F384.1 | Salt powerful against fairies. |
| G272.16 | Salt protects against witches. (Cf. G271.3, G254.2.) |
| G272.16.1 | Salt put into churn before churning to protect cream from witch. (Cf. D2084.2.) England: *Baughman. |
| F384.1.1 | Salt renders fairy mortal. Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "sel". |
| F384.1.2 | Salt sprinkled on fairy food renders it harmless. Hartland Science 128; Lithuanian: Balys Legends Nos. 523f. |
| D478.10 | Salty water turned into fresh liquid. *Loomis White Magic 78; Jewish: Neuman. |
| D1323.4.1 | Salvatio Romae. Image of land showing by means of magic bell outbreak of rebellion in any province. (Cf. D1213.) *Spargo 496b s.v. "Salvatio Romae". |
| V520 | Salvation. *Encyc. Rel. Ethics Index 517b; Irish myth: Cross. |
| D1331.3.1 | Salve causes magic sight and blindness. (Cf. D1244, D1323.5, D1331.2.2.) Put on left eye causes one to see all treasure of earth; on the right, makes blind. Chauvin V 146 No. 72. |
| J2274.2 | Same air at home as abroad. Because the stars are the same. Wesselski Hodscha Nasreddin I 206 Nos. 3, 242. |
| J2274.3 | Same climate at home and abroad. Because his members look the same in the two places. Wesselski Hodscha Nasreddin I 206 Nos. 3, 242. |
| K2034 | Same reward promised to many helpers. Irish myth: Cross. |
| J2073 | Same wishes used wisely and foolishly. Given to two persons with opposite results. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F871 | Sampo. One side flour mill; one, salt mill; one, mill for coining money. Finnish: Kalevala rune 10. |
| D925.1.3 | Samson makes sweet water flow from jawbone. *Loomis White Magic 37. |
| H221.1.3 | Sanctity of books tested by throwing them into fire. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| H222.4 | Sanctity of books tested by throwing them into water. Irish myth: Cross. |
| H221.1.2 | Sanctity of person tested by survival in burning house. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| V229.2 | Sanctity of saints. Irish myth: Cross. |
| D1524.1.4 | Sand permits man to walk on water. (Cf. D935.1.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| D1521.1.1 | Sandals with magic speed. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| N411.5 | Sandalwood merchant sells his product at high price in land lacking sandalwood. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| B11.6.10 | Sandalwood tree is guarded by dragon with venomous breath. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F969.6 | Sandhill grows around lover keeping watch till it covers all but his head. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| N816 | Santa Claus as bringer of Christmas gifts. *Hoffman-Krayer Zs. f. Vksk. XXV 121 nn. 7—9. |
| D1331.1.5.1 | Sapphire gives magic sight. Jewish: Neuman. |
| F826.4 | Sapphire so large two tables of law hewn out of it. Jewish: Neuman. |
| G303.15.6 | Satan appears at a feast where the poor are absent. Jewish: Neuman. |
| G303.9.8.11 | Satan as blasphemer. Jewish: Neuman. |
| G303.3.1.24 | Satan as very old man. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| G303.9.8.6 | Satan asks God to put man into his power (Job). Jewish: *Neuman. |
| G303.9.6.2 | Satan attacks saints. Kittredge Witchcraft 218, 525 nn. 49, 50; Dh I 138; Irish myth: Cross; England: Baughman; French: Sébillot France II 128, III 530. |
| A63.8 | Satan attempts to create another world. Jewish: Neuman. |
| G303.9.1.15 | Satan builds another world. Jewish: Neuman. |
| G303.9.1.14 | Satan builds idol. Jewish: Neuman. |
| G303.9.4.0.1 | Satan causes storm to destroy property of man he tempts. Jewish: Neuman. |
| G303.9.8.9 | Satan chants songs of praise to God. Jewish: Neuman. |
| G303.1.3.5 | Satan created out of hell fire. Jewish: Neuman. |
| G303.3.1.23 | Satan disguised as beggar. (Cf. K1817.1.) Jewish: *Neuman. |
| K1823.5 | Satan disguised as deer. (Cf. K1811.) Jewish: Neuman. |
| G303.3.1.25 | Satan disguised as king. Jewish: Neuman. |
| G303.9.9.20 | Satan entangles ram's horns on the altar. Jewish: Neuman. |
| G303.18.4 | Satan enters the Golden Calf. Jewish: Neuman. |
| G303.9.6.1.2 | Satan fights Israel. Jewish: Neuman. |
| G303.20.8 | Satan injures man. Jewish: Neuman. |
| G303.9.9.21 | Satan liberates caught deer. Jewish: Neuman. |
| G303.9.8.7 | Satan makes wager with God about mortal's piety. Jewish: Neuman. |
| G303.9.8.8 | Satan prays to God. Jewish: Neuman. |
| G303.17.3.5 | Satan punished in hell fire. Jewish: Neuman. |
| A63.5.1 | Satan seduces Adam to sin because he is jealous of him. Jewish: Neuman. |
| G303.20.9 | Satan slays the first born of the Egyptians. Jewish: Neuman. |
| G303.9.4.0.2 | Satan smites man he tempts with leprosy. Jewish: Neuman. |
| G303.9.4.5.3 | Satan stops men from praying. Jewish: Neuman. |
| G303.20.7 | Satan swallows victim. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| G303.9.8.10 | Satan weeps. Jewish: Neuman. |
| A106.2.2 | Satan's fall from heaven. Jewish: Neuman. |
| G303.12.7.1 | Satan's sexual intercourse with Eve. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| D1402.15.3 | Satire causes ulcers on face. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| M402 | Satire. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q499.4.1 | Satirizing as punishment for breaking treaty. Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q499.4 | Satirizing as punishment for refusal to grant request. (Cf. Q287.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| B24.1 | Satyr reveals woman's infidelity. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| B24 | Satyr. Combination of man and goat.—Greek: Fox 268; Jewish: Neuman. |
| K437.3 | Sausage as revolver. Man scares robber with sausage; later boasts of event at inn. Robber hears this. Innkeeper secretly lends man a real revolver; robber is shot down when boldly attempting a second attack. Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 970*. |
| D1964.1 | Savage elephant lulled to sleep by virgin. Penzer III 172. (Cf. B13.1.) |
| E754.2 | Saved soul goes to heaven. Fb "sjæl" III 213b; Wells 50, 175; Alphabet No. 316; Irish: *Cross, Beal XXI 307f., 322, O'Suilleabhain 24, 27, 99; Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| E722.2.5 | Saved soul leaps from body on hearing heavenly music. (Cf. E754.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| E756.5 | Saved soul of woman assists her husband's soul in battle against demons. (Cf. E754.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| E754 | Saved souls. *Frazer Golden Bough III 55ff.; Irish: *Cross, Beal XXI 327. |
| S250 | Saving the promised child. Missouri French: Carrière. |
| J1813.7 | Savory tea. The peasant entertains a priest at tea. Making it, puts in all the tea, six pounds of sugar, a piece of bacon, etc. Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 2439*; Russian: Andrejev No. 1710*. |
| D1322.1 | Saw for coffin-making sounds to announce death. North Carolina: Brown Collection I 641. |
| F547.5.8 | Saw in vagina. (Cf. F547.1.1.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| V254.1 | Saying of "Aves" obliterates sin. *Crane Miraculis No. 12; Ward II 605ff. Nos. 10, 18, 20; Herbert III 26; *Crane Vitry 263 No. 296. |
| K1818.2 | Scald-head disguise. To avoid having his gold hair seen, the hero covers his head with a cloth and says that he has the scaldhead. *Types 314, 502; *BP III 109; *Chauvin VI 51 No. 217 n. 3; Missouri French: Carrière. |
| Q469.10.1 | Scalding as punishment for attempted seduction. (Cf. Q243.2.1.) Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q469.10.3 | Scalding as punishment for insult. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q469.10.2 | Scalding as punishment for theft. (Cf. Q212.) Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q469.10 | Scalding as punishment. |
| B11.2.10 | Scales of dragon. Chinese: Werner 368. |
| H234 | Scales test: weighing witch against Bible. England, U.S.: *Baughman. |
| B784.1.7 | Scaly lizard jumps into person's mouth. U.S.: Baughman. |
| Q314 | Scandal-mongering punished. (Cf. Q451.4.2.) Jewish: *Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| J401 | Scarcity of real friends. |
| D1773.1 | Scent of flowers from laughter. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| J1185.1 | Scheherazade: story with indefinite sequels told to stave off execution. *Chauvin V 190 No. 111. |
| X1712 | Schlaraffenland lies three miles beyond Christmas. (First ed. X950.1.) BP III 250. |
| X1503 | Schlaraffenland. (Land of Cockaygne.) Land in which impossible things happen. (First ed. X950.) (Cf. X1712.) *Type 1930; *BP III 244ff.; Boccaccio Decameron VIII No. 3 (Lee 254); Irish myth: Cross; Italian Novella: *Rotunda; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1816.0.4 | Scholar disguised as a rustic along road answers questions of school inspector in Greek, Latin, and Hebrew. England, Scotland, Wales: *Baughman. |
| J1539.2 | Scholar given third egg. A scholar, showing his skill in logic, proves that two chickens (or eggs) on the table are really three. His father (or host) takes one chicken for himself, gives the other to the mother, tells son that he can have the third one. England: Baughman. |
| J1894 | Scholar speaks Latin on hunt so that the birds cannot understand him. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| B234 | School of animals. India: Thompson-Balys. |
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