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Stith Thompson Motif Index
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Stith Thompson's Motif-Index of Folk-Literature classifies recurring narrative elements in folktales, myths, legends, ballads and related traditional narratives. Each entry below gives Thompson's motif reference and the description recorded in the index.
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Mythological Motifs
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Animal Motifs
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Motifs of Tabu
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Magic
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The Dead
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Marvels
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Ogres
H
Tests
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The Wise and the Foolish
K
Deceptions
L
Reversals of Fortune
M
Ordaining the Future
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
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The Nature of Life
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Religion
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Traits of Character
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Humor
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Miscellaneous Groups of Motifs
| Thompson reference | Description ▲ |
|---|---|
| F441.1 | Schrätel. An elf-like, male, malevolent wood-spirit. *Type 1161 (Schrätel instead of ogre in many versions); *Taylor MPh XVII 305ff.; *Bolte Zs. f. Vksk. XXXIII—XXXIV 33ff. |
| E600.2 | Science of reincarnation taught. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| J2371.1 | Scientific query: why does not the sea get larger when it rains in it and nothing flows out? Wesselski Arlotto I 213f. No. 54. |
| J2371.2 | Scientific query: why does the sea stink when it is full of salt? Wesselski Arlotto I 213f. No. 54. |
| J2371.3 | Scientific query: why don't rats stick their eyes out in the straw? Wesselski Arlotto I 213f. No. 54. |
| J2371.4 | Scientific query: why don't the poor, being in the majority, kill off the rich? Wesselski Arlotto I 213f. No. 54. |
| P711.4 | Scipio plunges into burning pit to save Rome from destruction. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q551.3.4.1 | Scoffers turned to stone by saint. (Cf. Q225.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q558.1 | Scoffing priest mysteriously stricken dead. (Cf. Q225.) Pauli (ed. Bolte) Nos. 455, 486. |
| J1269.4 | Scolding priest says he is merely trying to get even for all the scolding he must undergo. Wesselski Bebel I 161 No. 96. |
| Q304 | Scolding punished. Africa (Ila, Rhodesia): Smith and Dale II 412 No. 10. |
| J2175.2 | Scolding the drowning child instead of helping him. Wienert FFC LVI 82 (ET 486), 102 (ST 155); Halm Aesop No. 352. |
| T75.1 | Scorn of unloved suitor punished. Types 402*; 906*; Icelandic: Boberg. |
| T81.2.1.1 | Scorned lover (woman) threatens to kill self. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| T75.5 | Scorned lover becomes an anchorite. (Cf. T330.) |
| T81.2.1 | Scorned lover kills self. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| T75.2 | Scorned lover kills successful one. Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| L431.2 | Scorned lover poses as rich man and cheats his scornful mistress. Boccaccio Decameron VIII No. 10 (Lee 266); Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| J877 | Scorned suitor consoles himself by realization that a wife who did not love him would be constant source of trouble. Nouvelles de Sens No. 3. |
| L154 | Scorning stops when it turns out that the scorned has saved the king by fighting alone against four. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| B17.2.4.1 | Scorpion scoops out men's eyes. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| U124 | Scorpion, in spite of himself, stings the turtle carrying him across the stream. Is drowned. *Chauvin II 117 No. 95. |
| A671.2.9 | Scorpions in hell. Irish myth: Cross; Jewish: Neuman. |
| J1759.1 | Scotsman thinks moose is a mouse, asks what rats look like in this country. (Cf. X1423.) Canada: Baughman. |
| A671.2.13 | Scratching cats in hell. Irish myth: Cross. |
| K83.1.1 | Scratching contest with devil: man's wife shows scratches in her oak table. Hdwb. d. Märchens I 193b. |
| K83.1 | Scratching contest: man's wife shows wounds. The man sends his wife to meet the ogre with whom he is to have a scratching contest. She tells the ogre that her husband has gone to have his nails sharpened. She shows him deep wounds that her husband has scratched on her body (obscene). The ogre leaves in terror. *Type 1095; BP III 356, 363; *Penzer III 34; *Bolte Zs. f. vgl. Litgsch. n. F. VII 456; Danish: Kristensen Danske Sagn I (1892) 454. |
| J2242.1 | Scribe cannot write a letter because he has bad leg. Must carry letter in person since no one else can read it. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A165.6 | Scribe of the gods. Siberian, Babylonian, Egyptian: Holmberg Siberian 410; Armenian: Ananikian 30ff. |
| P425.1 | Scribe who cannot read his own writing. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| P425 | Scribe. |
| F526.2 | Scylla. Breast and face of woman. From flanks has six heads and twelve feet of dogs. Greek: Frazer Apollodorus II 293 n. 4. |
| F861.2.2 | Scythed chariot. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F989.12 | Sea animal found inland. Irish myth: Cross. |
| D2151.1.4 | Sea appears like flowery plain. (Cf. F931.3.1.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| V81.5 | Sea bath as purificatory rite. Tahiti: Henry Ancient Tahiti (Honolulu, 1928) 144; Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 152, 176. |
| F931.9.2.2 | Sea bears fruits. Jewish: Neuman. |
| F931.3.1 | Sea behaves like solid earth when man is buried in it. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| D2151.1.3 | Sea calmed by prayer. (Cf. D1766.1, D2151.3.) Irish myth: Cross; Tuamotu: Stimson MS (T-G 3/109). |
| F931.7 | Sea changes color. German: Grimm No. 19; Jewish: *Neuman. |
| B72 | Sea cow. Cow living in sea.—Irish myth: Cross.—Livonian: Loorits FFC LXVI 42 No. 32; Danish: Kristensen Danske Sagn (1893) 153ff., (1928) 105ff.; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A111.3.2 | Sea creatures as ancestors of goddess. Tuamotu: Stimson MS (T-G. 3/600). |
| F931.3 | Sea does not encroach on burial place of saint. (Cf. F930.1.0.1.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| D659.4.2 | Sea dragon in serpent's form to accompany hero. (Cf. D419.1.1, B11.)—Chinese: Werner 311. |
| F931.8 | Sea fettered. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| F931.9.2.1 | Sea flows sweet water. Jewish: Neuman. |
| J1891.3 | Sea foolishly accused of cruelty. Sea says that it is calm itself, but the wind blew it up and broke the ship. Wienert FFC LVI 75 (ET 406), 123 (ST 317); Halm Aesop No. 94. |
| D483 | Sea formed from giant's spittle. (Cf. D1001.)—Indonesian: DeVries Volksverhalen II 285. |
| A924.4 | Sea from earth excavation. Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 973. |
| B71 | Sea horse. Horse living in sea.—*Chauvin VII 7 No. 373a n. 1; *Howey Horse in Magic and Myth 133ff.; Tobler Epiphanie der Seele 97.—Irish myth: Cross; Scotch: MacDougall and Calder 309ff.; Livonian: Loorits FFC LXVI 42 No. 31.—Chinese: Ferguson 30. |
| F711.1 | Sea issues from marvelous cask. Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "tonneau". |
| A1063.1 | Sea makes extraordinary noise and throws out fishes at end of world. Jewish: Moreno Esdras (M307.6). |
| G308 | Sea monster. Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: Boberg; Persian: Carnoy 325; Jewish: Neuman. |
| F711.2.2 | Sea of cream. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A671.2.4.1 | Sea of fire in hell. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F162.4 | Sea of glass in otherworld. Patch PMLA XXXIII 610 n. 30.—Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F711.2.5 | Sea of honey. (Cf. F715.2.4.) Africa (Ba Ronga): Einstein 246. |
| F162.4.1 | Sea of ice in otherworld. Jewish: Neuman. |
| F711.2.1 | Sea of milk. (Cf. F713.4, F715.2.3.) India: *Thompson-Balys, Penzer II 151. |
| F711.2.3 | Sea of pumice. Tonga: Gifford 149, Beckwith Myth 287. |
| F711.2.4 | Sea of slime. Tonga: Gifford 149. |
| F711.3 | Sea of unusual color. |
| F711.2 | Sea of unusual substance. |
| G525 | Sea people give the ogre brandy (tar). Finnish: Aarne FFC XXXIII 44 No. 62**; Lappish: Qvigstad FFC LX 47 No. 68. |
| Z118 | Sea personified. Irish myth: Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg; Jewish: *Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F931.10 | Sea piles up to height of sixteen hundred miles. Jewish: Neuman. |
| D2151.1.1 | Sea produced by magic. Greek: Frazer Apollodorus II 78 n. 1. |
| A924.3 | Sea released from tree-top. Papua: Kerr 25. |
| F931.1 | Sea rises and changes place. Estonian: Aarne FFC XXV 135 No. 89. |
| F931.1.1 | Sea rises at saint's command. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C984.4.1 | Sea rolls in over the land from all sides and a sea serpent comes because of broken tabu. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F423 | Sea spirits. Norwegian: Solheim Register 17; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 675, 1160; Japanese: Anesaki 266ff.; Papua: Ker 25; Eskimo (Greenland): Holm 37, (Central Eskimo): Boas RBAE VI 621; S. A. Indian (Warrau): Kirchoff BBAE CXLIII (3) 880. |
| D675 | Sea turns to ice to permit flight. Eskimo (Greenland): Rasmussen I 328, 367, III 124, 260, Rink 195, (Cumberland Sound): Boas BAM XV 182. |
| D2031.12 | Sea water made to behave like solid earth. Irish myth: Cross. |
| A1063.2 | Sea water mixes with fresh water at end of the world. Jewish: Moreno Esdras (M307.8). |
| F711.6 | Sea with fishes with bodies like men and sharp razor-like snouts. Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 723. |
| F931.9.2 | Sea yields people whatever they desire. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| B556 | Sea-beast allows voyager to land upon his back. Irish myth: Cross. |
| B16.4.1.1.2 | Sea-beast: when it belches landward, it causes disease; upward it kills birds; downward, fishes and sea animals. Irish myth: Cross. |
| B73 | Sea-cat. Irish myth: Cross. |
| E271.2 | Sea-ghost predicting death. Norwegian: Solheim Register 17. |
| E271 | Sea-ghosts. Ghosts which haunt the sea. Lappish: Qvigstad FFC LX 40ff. Nos. 6, 17—22. |
| A421 | Sea-god. Gaster Thespis 123; Icel.: MacCulloch Eddic 102 (Njord), 171 (Aegir); Irish myth: Cross; Greek: Fox 210, *Grote I 3, 10, 173.—Society Is., Cook Group: Dixon 39; Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 19, 61, 97; Tahiti: Beckwith Myth 360, Henry 122; Tuamotu: Stimson MS (z-G. 13/441); Tonga: Gifford 87; Easter Is.: Métraux Ethnology 311. |
| A421.1 | Sea-goddess. Greek: *Grote I 173 (Thetis); Icel.: MacCulloch Eddic 190 (Ran); Babylonian: Gilgamesch X line 1ff., cf. p. 136ff. (Jensen's edition); India: Thompson-Balys; Japanese: Anesaki 269; Chinese: Ferguson 72; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 492.—Tuamotu: Stimson MS (z-G 13/441). |
| B611.3.1 | Sea-horse paramour. Irish myth: Cross. |
| B251.2.8 | Sea-monster honors saint above all others. Irish myth: Cross. |
| A421.1.1 | Sea-queen and hand maidens entice lovers. Tuamotu: Stimson MS (z-G. 13/441). |
| F213.3 | Sea-riding horse carries mortals to fairyland. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| B91.5.1 | Sea-serpent dilates and contracts. Irish myth: Cross. |
| B91.5 | Sea-serpent. *Oudemans (A. C.) The Great Sea-Serpent (London 1892). —Norwegian: Storaker (J.T.) Naturrigerne i den norske Folketro (Oslo 1928) 249; Solheim Register 17; Irish myth: Cross; Icel.: Boberg. |
| A1116.1 | Sea-waves are (manes of) sea-god's horses. Irish myth: Cross. |
| L11.1 | Seal of humiliation put by youngest brother-in-law on the back of his rivals. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| A132.11 | Seal-god. Easter Is.: Métraux Ethnology 310. |
| B80.1 | Seal-man. Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q221.4 | Seaman who defies God shipwrecked. England: Baughman; Finnish-Swedish: Wessman 18 No. 174. |
| V29.1 | Search for confessor. Great sinner sent from one confessor to another. All say that his sins are too great for forgiveness. Finally he succeeds. *Type 756C; **Andrejev FFC LIV 28ff.; Irish: O'Suilleabhain 46, 48, Beal XXI 317. |
| F931.12 | Seas sing hymns of praise. (Cf. F930.6.) Jewish: Neuman. |
| A1153 | Seasons produced by marriage of North and South. N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 288 n. 61. |
| D2171.1.1 | Seat (chair) caused to stick to person. (Cf. D1413.6.) Icelandic: Boberg; England, U.S.: *Baughman. |
| Q561.3 | Seat (room) heating in hell for certain person. *Type 756B; *Andrejev FFC LXIX 106ff.; Irish: Beal XXI 311, O'Suilleabhain 33. |
| D1314.11 | Seat-pillars thrown in the sea (with god's image) indicate where to settle. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| A2615.4 | Seaweed becomes vegetation. Eskimo (Labrador): Hawkes GSCan XIV 152. |
| E11.1 | Second blow resuscitates. First kills. Welsh: MacCulloch Celtic 93. |
| K1366 | Second daughter won by representing first as dead. Irish myth: Cross. |
| K1577 | Second lover burns paramour at window with hot iron. *Type 1361; Chaucer's Miller's Tale; *Thompson The Miller's Tale (Bryan and Dempster 106ff.); Italian Novella: Rotunda. See references for K1225. |
| D1825.1 | Second sight. Power to see future happenings. (Cf. D1812.) *Chauvin V 90 No. 28 n. 2; *Fb "synsk", "spеkjælling", "spеmand", "gjenviser"; *RTP XXVII *145, 151, 284, 382.—Irish: Plummer clxx, *Cross; Scotland: Macdougall and Calder 183, 251, 255, 281; Icelandic: Snorra Edda Prol. V and Gylf. II, *Boberg; Jewish: *Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys; N. A. Indian (Seneca): Curtin-Hewitt RBAE XXXII 478 No. 103, (Plains Ojibwa): Skinner JAFL XXXII 300. |
| Q482.1.1 | Second wife (slave) must serve as menial. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| S413.2 | Second wife orders husband to persecute first. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| T145.2 | Second wife taken because first is barren. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| P17.3.1 | Second-born son declared as successor because message about the birth of first son was slower traveling. Emperor will not change proclamation. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| N455.7 | Secret about prince's father learned by eavesdropper from his mother's talking to him. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| N475.1 | Secret age overheard by eavesdropper. Man masking as cuckoo in tree causes the surprised ogre to disclose secret. BP I 497. |
| N481 | Secret escapes with man's blood. Irish myth: Cross. |
| N455.3 | Secret formula for opening treasure mountain overheard from robbers (Open Sesame). *Type 676; *BP III 137ff.; Missouri French: Carrière; Spanish: Espinosa Jr. No. 144; India: Thompson-Balys; Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 339. |
| N482.1 | Secret learned by burning hand. *Cosquin Contes indiens 397ff. |
| K1165 | Secret learned by intoxicating dupe. Penzer V 1f. 3 n. 1; Siberian: Holmberg Siberian 363. |
| N482 | Secret learned by torture. |
| N478.1 | Secret meat-eating betrayed by grease on mouth. Africa (Larusa): Fokken ZsKS VII 82ff. No. 1, (Masai): Hollis The Masai (Oxford, 1905) 212ff., (Mossi): Frobenius Atlantis VIII 239ff. |
| N475 | Secret name overheard by eavesdropper. *Type 500; *Clodd TomTit-Tot; *Polivka Zs. f. Vksk. X 254ff.; *Von Sydow Tvе Spinnsagor; Icelandic: Boberg; Japanese: Ikeda; Jamaica: *Beckwith MAFLS XVII 247 No. 23, 267 No. 75, 279 Nos. 92, 93; West Indies: Flowers 564. |
| K975.2 | Secret of external soul learned by deception. *Type 302; Scottish: Campbell-McKay No. 1; Spanish: Espinosa Jr. Nos. 65—67; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| N465.1 | Secret of person's sleeplessness discovered by trickery. Irish myth: Cross. |
| K975 | Secret of strength treacherously discovered. *Type 590; BP I 551, III 2 n. 1; *Frazer Old Testament II 480; Huet Contes Populaires 134; MacCulloch Childhood 58; Krappe Revue Archéologique (1933) 195—211.—Irish myth: *Cross; Missouri French: Carrière; Spanish Exempla: Keller; Jewish: Neuman; N. A. Indian: *Thompson CColl II 392, (Pawnee): Dorsey CI LIX 104 No. 25, (Arikara): Dorsey CI XVII 84ff. Nos. 25, 26, (Crow): Simms FM II 309 No. 20. |
| N476 | Secret of unique vulnerability disclosed. |
| K2213.4.1 | Secret of vulnerability disclosed by hero's wife. Huet 134; Irish: MacCulloch Celtic 97, *Cross; Missouri French: Carrière; Jewish: Neuman; Persian: Carnoy 302; India: Thompson-Balys; Africa (Cameroon): Ittman 77. |
| N476.1 | Secret of vulnerability voluntarily disclosed. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| N465.0.1 | Secret physical blemish revealed by beaten handmaid. Irish myth: Cross. |
| N465 | Secret physical peculiarity discovered by barber. (Midas.) See all references to F511.2.2. and D1316.5. Alphabet No. 268; Irish myth: *Cross; Rumanian: Schullerus FFC LXXVIII No. 886 I*. |
| N475.2 | Secret reason why hero does not want to eat the food of the foreign king overheard by eavesdropper. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| N455.5 | Secret remedies learned from green-clad woman. Italian: Basile Pentamerone IV No. 2. |
| N452 | Secret remedy overheard in conversation of animals (witches). *Types 432, 613, 613*; BP II 261ff.; **Christiansen FFC XXIV 77, 81, 123; Lithuanian: Balys Legends No. 527; Italian: Basile Pentamerone II No. 2; India: *Thompson-Balys, Panchatantra III 11 (tr. Ryder) 346; Chinese: Graham; Japanese: Ikeda; Korean: Zong in-Sob 150; Buriat: Holmberg Siberian 427; S. A. Indian (Chincha): Alexander Lat. Am. 230. |
| N452.2 | Secret remedy revealed by departing animal. House spirit (or bird) leaves saying, "If you knew what valerian is good for, the people would not die so fast." **A. Martin "Die Pestage vom Vogel, der Bimbanelle und Baldrian als Heilmittel verkundet im Vogelsberg" Volk. u. Scholle IX No. 1. |
| N476.3 | Secret unique means of killing ogre overheard from children. Chinese: Graham. |
| N478 | Secret wealth betrayed by money left in borrowed money-scales. *Type 676; *BP III 137ff.; *Fb "skjæppe" III 275b; Spanish: Boggs FFC XC 70 No. 545C*; Missouri French: Carrière; India: *Thompson-Balys; Philippine: Fansler MAFLS XII 336, 338; Africa (Ekoi): Talbot 389. |
| B235 | Secrets discussed in animal meeting. *Type 613; *BP II 481 (Gr. Nos. 6, 55, 88, 125, 119a); **Christiansen FFC XXIV; Fb "bjørn" IV 43a; Bloomfield Am. Journ. of Philology XLI 309ff.; Bloomfield in Penzer VII viii;—Missouri-French: Carrière; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| G510.2 | Secrets forced from overpowered monster. (Cf. G515.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| N451.1 | Secrets of animals (demons) accidentally overheard from tree (bridge) hiding place. *Type 613; BP II 468ff., *481; **Christiansen FFC XXIV 60ff.; *Fb "bjørn" IV 43a, "ravn" III 22b, "bro", IV 62n; Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 3296, Legends No. 527; French Canadian: Barbeau JAFL XXIX 16, 23; Missouri French: Carrière; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| N451 | Secrets overheard from animal (demon) conversation. *Types 516, 517, 670, 673; BP I 42ff., 131f.; **Aarne FFC XV; **Rösch FFC LXXVII 102, 114; Penzer I 48, III 60; Icelandic: Corpus Poeticum Boreale I 131, 144, Boberg; Italian Novella: Rotunda, Basile Pentamerone IV No. 9; Greek: Grote I 105; Jewish: Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 1138; Chinese: Graham; Japanese: Ikeda; Korean: Zong in-Sob 150, 155. |
| N450 | Secrets overheard. *Chauvin V 13, 293, VIII 61 No. 26; French Canadian: Barbeau JAFL XXIX 23; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| U270 | Security breeds indifference. |
| J2163.2 | Sedan-bearers must carry master about searching for dog since they have refused to search. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| J122.1 | Seducer about to seduce mother of child refrains when child wisely remarks that he is sad because his father has left his mother exposed to such dangers. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| K1321.1.2 | Seducer successfully disguised as washerwoman for fifteen years. Finally exposed. Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles No. 45; Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| Q473.3 | Seducer, who had disguised as woman, is led naked through streets. (Cf. Q243.2.) Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles No. 45; Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| K1335 | Seduction (or wooing) by stealing clothes of bathing girl (swan maiden). *Types 313, 400; Penzer VIII 58 n. 2, 213ff., IX 20 n. 1; Hdwb. d. Märchens I 433b. nn. 92—105; Irish myth: *Cross; India: *Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Graham; Japanese: Ikeda; Korean: Zong in-Sob 22 No. 11; Philippine (Tinguian): Cole 109. See all notes to D361.1. |
| K1334 | Seduction (or wooing) on an aerial journey. Jones PMLA XXIII 563. |
| K1315.3.2 | Seduction attempted on promise of magic transformation: woman to mare. Finishing the tail. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K1315.6.2 | Seduction attempted on threat of performing miracle. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K1375 | Seduction by alleged vision promising woman to man. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| K1326.1 | Seduction by asking for sham cure for sham illness. Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles No. 95; Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| K1354 | Seduction by bearing false order from husband or father. |
| K1354.4 | Seduction by bearing false order from lover. Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles No. 31. |
| K1354.3 | Seduction by bearing false order from mother. |
| K1361.3 | Seduction by begging into woman's room to get warm. (Cf. K1393.) Korean: Zong in-Sob 13 No. 6. |
| K1354.2 | Seduction by bringing false order from husband. Jewish: Gaster Exempla 220 No. 159, *Neuman. |
| K1310 | Seduction by disguise or substitution. Irish myth: Cross; Icelandic: Boberg. |
| K1332.2 | Seduction by enticing woman to inspect wares in tent. Jewish: Neuman. |
| K1325 | Seduction by feigned death. The girl comes to the man's wake or funeral. Child I 242—253, 506f., II 502a, III 503a, IV 453, V 212, 299a. |
| K1326 | Seduction by feigned illness. S. A. Indian (Toba): Métraux MAFLS XL 147; West Indies: Flowers 536f. |
| K1325.1 | Seduction by feigned sleep. The guest in the conjugal bed feigns sleep as he effects seduction. Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| K1327 | Seduction by feigned stupidity. Cautious farmer seeks laborer who knows nothing about sex. Trickster makes silly explanation of copulation of animals. When admitted into service, seduces both farmer's wife and daughter. Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 2907*; Estonian: Aarne FFC XXV No. 1544*; Russian: Andrejev No. 1544A*. |
| K1315.3.1 | Seduction by feigning enchantment. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K1395 | Seduction by giving aphrodisiac. Woman tricked into standing naked in stream; medicine put into water. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1333 | Seduction by having maiden placed in floating chest. *Hertel Zs. f. Vksk. XIX 83ff.; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1315 | Seduction by impostor. |
| K1339.2.1 | Seduction by luring woman to platform to look for distant ship. Tonga: Gifford 29, 46. |
| K1368 | Seduction by making woman jealous of co-wife. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1321 | Seduction by man disguising as woman. Nouvelles de Sens No. 8; Irish myth: *Cross; Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K1315.13 | Seduction by masking as soldier. Herrmann Saxo II 239. |
| K1311.0.1 | Seduction by masking as woman's husband: "Why—you have just left!" After the seduction the husband comes and the wife shows surprise. Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| K1311 | Seduction by masking as woman's husband. *Penzer II 45 n. 4, III 126f.; Boccaccio Decameron III No. 6 (Lee 79); Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles No. 30; Italian Novella: *Rotunda; Jewish: Neuman, bin Gorion Born Judas I 364; India: *Thompson-Balys; Indonesia: Coster-Wijsman 33 No. 11; N. A. Indian (Klikitat): Jacobs U Wash II 31. |
| K1315.9 | Seduction by offering protection against non-existing danger. Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| K1315.1 | Seduction by posing as a god. (Cf. K1301.) Jones PMLA XXIII 577; Penzer I 145; Icelandic: Boberg; Spanish Exempla: Keller; Italian Novella: *Rotunda; Jewish: Neuman, bin Gorion Born Judas I 365; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1315.4 | Seduction by posing as a relative. Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| K1315.1.1 | Seduction by posing as Angel Gabriel. Boccaccio Decameron IV No. 2 (Lee 123); Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| K1315.10 | Seduction by posing as beggar. Herrmann Saxo II 578. |
| K1315.2 | Seduction by posing as doctor. Icelandic: Herrmann Saxo II 239, Boberg; Italian Novella: Rotunda; N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 305 n. 109r. |
| K1315.6 | Seduction by posing as holy man (churchman). Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 2906*. |
| K1315.11 | Seduction by posing as leper. Icelandic: Sturlaugs saga St. 641-45 ch. 25, Boberg. |
| K1315.3 | Seduction by posing as magician. (Sham incantation, etc.) Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| K1315.12 | Seduction by posing as merchant. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| K1315.5 | Seduction by posing as nobleman. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K1315.6.4 | Seduction by posing as saint. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1315.7 | Seduction by posing as teacher or instructor. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K1315.2.4 | Seduction by pretending to give childless man's wife medicine. When husband comes at cockcrow as he was told, trickster says he came too late and they must do it again. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1315.7.1 | Seduction by pretending to instruct (or to need instruction) in marital duties. Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| K1339.6 | Seduction by priest who insists on woman having confession in his own house. Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 2917*. |
| K1332.3 | Seduction by promise of jewels. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| K1332.1 | Seduction by scattering jewels. Girl seized when she tries to take jewels. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1339.4 | Seduction by sham beauty test. Trickster dupes two girls into submitting to test. Both seduced. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K1315.2.3 | Seduction by sham process of repairing vagina. Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles No. 3. |
| K1315.2.2 | Seduction by sham process of retrieving lost gem. Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles No. 3; Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| K1332 | Seduction by taking aboard ship to inspect wares. *Type 516; **Rosch FFC LXXVII 103; Köhler-Bolte I 464; *Hdwb. d. Märchens I 551a nn. 221—295; Panzer Hilde-Gudrun 268ff.; *Schoepperle I 193 n. 1; Italian: Basile Pentamerone IV No. 9; India: Thompson-Balys. Cf. bin Gorion Born Judas I 187. |
| K1314 | Seduction by wearing coat of invisibility. (Cf. D1361.12.) Chinese: Graham. |
| K1363 | Seduction of person ignorant of sexual intercourse. |
| K1375.1 | Seduction of wife by alleging that husband's vision compels him to leave home. Jewish: Neuman. |
| K1315.1.2.1 | Seduction on feigned orders from angel to engender a pope. Girl born. Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles No. 14; Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| K1315.1.2 | Seduction on promise that issue will be the fifth Evangelist. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q243.2 | Seduction punished. (Cf. K1360, Q421.0.7, Q431.5, Q458.2.3, Q531.5.) Italian Novella: *Rotunda; S. A. Indian (Tucuna): Nimuendaju BBAE CXLIII (3) 724, (Huamachuco): Métraux RMLP XXXIII 151. |
| K1315.7.2 | Seduction under pretence of teaching a game. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K1315.8 | Seduction upon false promise of marriage. Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| K1399.3 | Seduction: trickster shows girl how to store up warmth for winter. Cheremis: Sebeok-Nyerges. |
| K1315.14 | Seduction: weaver posing as king. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1300 | Seduction. |
| K1380 | Seductions—miscellaneous. |
| H1239.5 | Seductive women attempt to divert quester. Tuamotu: Stimson MS (z-G. 3/1174, 1386; z-G. 13/221, 1241). |
| D1355.3.1 | Seed mixed with blood as love charm. (Cf. D971.)—Greek: Frazer Apollodorus I 261 n. 1. |
| D1410.1 | Seeds cast on lions and tigers render them helpless. (Cf. D971.) Fb "frø" I 378b. |
| E439.4 | Seeds of poppy poured into revenant's mouth. Lithuanian: Balys Ghosts. |
| J1812.1 | Seeds rattling in pods thought to be insults. Numskull burns field. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F420.4.7 | Seeing and observing of water-spirits has fatal consequences. German: Knoop 150 No. 114, Pröhle Deutsche Sagen 150 No. 114; French: Sébillot France II 198, 345. |
| E723.2 | Seeing one's wraith a sign that person is to die shortly. (Cf. F405.4.) England, U.S., Wales: *Baughman. |
| X1724 | Seeing without eyes. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| J1289.9 | Seek harmony in your own house. King brought to sense of duty by philosopher who tells him to seek harmony in his own house before inquiring about the harmony in his kingdom. Spanish: Childers. |
| F420.5.1.7.2 | Seemingly worthless gifts of water-spirits turn to gold. (Cf. F451.5.1.4. and cross references there given.) German: Henne-Am Rhyn 119, Meier I 71, 79. |
| Q61 | Self-abnegation rewarded. (Cf. L200.) Irish myth: Cross; Spanish Exempla: Keller; Jewish: Neuman. |
| D1601.18.3 | Self-beating drum. (Cf. 1211.) Eskimo (Greenland): Holm 70; Africa (Fang): Trilles 249. |
| D1601.10.3 | Self-boiling kettle. (Cf. D1171.3.) *Fb "gryde"; N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 349 n. 257; Eskimo (Greenland): Rink 118, 448, (Smith Sound): Kroeber JAFL XII 171. |
| D1672.2 | Self-burning bush. (Cf. D964.) Jewish: *Neuman. |
| D1601.14 | Self-chopping axe. (Cf. D1206.) Fb "økse" III 1171b, "redskab" III 30a; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| D1601.25.2 | Self-cooking fish. (Cf. D1032.1.) German: Grimm No. 42. |
| D1601.25 | Self-cooking food. |
| D1601.25.1 | Self-cooking fowls. (Cf. D1032.) Africa (Hausa): Tremearne Hausa Superstitions and Customs (London, 1913) 424ff. No. 93. |
| D1601.10.1 | Self-cooking pot. (Cf. D1171.1.) *Type 565; BP II 438; India: Thompson-Balys; Africa (Basuto): Jacottet 220 No. 33. |
| D1601.10 | Self-cooking vessel. (Cf. D1171.) Philippine: Fansler MAFLS XII 196. |
| A118 | Self-created deity. Tahiti: Henry 336f. |
| Q522.1 | Self-crucifixion as penance. (Cf. Q462.) *Andrejev FFC LXIX 156f. |
| D1601.12 | Self-cutting shears. (Cf. D1183.) Fb "saks" III 143a; Köhler-Bolte I 187.—Africa (Angola): Chatelain 45. |
| J953 | Self-deception of the lowly. |
| J1030 | Self-dependence. |
| D1601.16.1 | Self-digging hoe. (Cf. D1204.) Africa (Hausa): Rattray I 74ff. No. 4, Best Black Folk Tales (New York, 1928) 23ff.; Chinese: Graham. |
| D1601.16 | Self-digging spade. (Cf. D1205.1.) Fb "redskab" III 30a.—S.A. Indian (Toba): Métraux MAFLS XL 3. |
| D1601.13.2 | Self-fastening line. (Cf. D1272.1.) Eskimo (Greenland): Rasmussen III 216. |
| D1642.1 | Self-folding bridge prevents pursuit. (Cf. D1268.) Type 313. |
| D1642 | Self-folding object. |
| D1609.2 | Self-generated flame. (Cf. D1276.) Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 502. |
| D1601.36 | Self-going shoes. (Cf. D1065.2.) Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 230. |
| D1601.21 | Self-grinding mill. Grinds whatever owner wishes. (Cf. D1263, D1470.) Gering Festschrift für Eugen Mogk (1925) 37; Fb "kværn" II 345b; Irish myth: *Cross (D1601.27). |
| D1601.20 | Self-grinding millstone. (Cf. D1262.) Africa (Gold Coast): Barker and Sinclair 81 No. 13. |
| D1601.21.1 | Self-grinding salt-mill. (Cf. D1263.) *Type 565; *BP II 439; Fb "kværn" II 345b, "salt" III 148b, "hav" I 565b; *Krappe Modern Language Review XIX (1924) 325—334. |
| D1601.2 | Self-growing and self-gathering corn. (Cf. D965.8.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| D1523.2.7.1 | Self-guiding rudderless boat. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| A661.0.7 | Self-illuminating precious stones in heaven. Irish myth: Cross. |
| S125.1 | Self-immolation. Hindu: Tawney I 163, 398, 522, II 255, 490, 546, 558, 560, Panchatantra III 8 (tr. Ryder 334). |
| D1645.7 | Self-luminous artificial boar. (Cf. D1620.2.) Icelandic: MacCulloch Eddic 109. |
| D1645.6 | Self-luminous feather. (Cf. D1021.) Hdwb. d. Märchens s.v. "Baum bewacht". |
| D1645 | Self-luminous objects. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| S160.1 | Self-mutilation. (Cf. T327.1, T327.2, T333.) Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg; India: Thompson-Balys; Hindu: Penzer III 21 n.; Chinese: Werner 314. |
| D1601.37 | Self-opening door. (Cf. D1146.) Africa (Fang): Trilles 249. |
| D1556 | Self-opening tree-trunk. (Cf. D950.) Jewish: Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| D1601.29 | Self-playing game-board. (Cf. D1209.7.*) Icelandic: Boberg. |
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