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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
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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 ▲ |
|---|---|
| D1601.18 | Self-playing musical instruments. (Cf. D1210.) Irish myth: *Cross; Africa (Basuto): Jacottet 176 No. 25. |
| D1601.18.2 | Self-playing violin. (Cf. D1233.) Type 577; Christiansen 87; Fb "spille" III 488a; *Loomis White Magic 52.—Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "violon"; Jewish: Neuman. |
| D1601.26 | Self-pouring horn. (Cf. D1171.6.3.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| D1523.2 | Self-propelling (ship) boat. (Cf. D1121, D1123, D1520.15.) *Barry JAFL XXVIII 195; Irish myth: *Cross; Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "bateau"; India: *Thompson-Balys; Marquesas: Handy 46; N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 275 n. 14a; Africa (Fang): Trilles 137. See also references to D1520.15. |
| D1523.1 | Self-propelling wagon. (Cf. D1113.) *Type 675; Fb "vogn" III 1078a. |
| D1602.5 | Self-returning bangle. (Cf. D1075.) Africa (Vai): Ellis 235 No. 36. |
| D1602.8.0.1 | Self-returning bell. (Cf. D1213.) *Loomis White Magic 53; Irish myth: Cross. |
| D1602.12.1 | Self-returning body. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K366.1.3 | Self-returning cow. A cow allows itself to be sold; then returns to its master. Hindu: Keith 90. |
| D1602.13 | Self-returning cruet. (Cf. D1171.8.1.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| B11.5.5 | Self-returning dragon's head. (cf. B11.2.3, B11.11.2.)—*Type 300; BP I 547; Eng.: Baughman; Greek: Fox 81 (hydra).—Onondaga: Beauchamp JAFL II 261. |
| D1602.15 | Self-returning hammer. (Cf. D1209.4.) Icelandic: Boberg (Mjöllnir). |
| D1602.12 | Self-returning head. When head is cut off it returns to proper place without harm to owner. (Cf. D992.) *Kittredge Gawain 147ff.—Irish myth: *Cross; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| D1602.14 | Self-returning magic apple. (Cf. D981.1.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| D1602.10 | Self-returning magic book. (Cf. D1266.) *Fb "Cyprianus" I 166b; Kristensen Danske Sagn VI (1900) 97ff.; Irish myth: Cross. |
| D1602.11 | Self-returning magic coin. Keeps coming back. (Cf. D1288.) *Type 745; *Fb "vekseldaler"; *Liebrecht Zur Volkskunde 89; Irish: O'Suilleabhain 38, Beal XXI 314; Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 3650. |
| D1602 | Self-returning magic object. (Cf. D868.1.) *Plummer clxxxvi; Irish myth: *Cross. |
| D1602.4 | Self-returning moccasins. (Cf. D1005.4.) N. A. Indian: Thompson Tales 303 n. 109i. |
| D1602.3 | Self-returning robe. (Cf. D1052.) Jewish: Neuman; N. A. Indian: Thompson Tales 303 n. 109; Eskimo (Greenland): Rink 277, Holm 94, (Mackenzie Area): Jenness 40. |
| D1602.6.1 | Self-returning spear-head. (Cf. D1084.1.) Irish myth: Cross; Welsh: MacCulloch Celtic 198f. |
| D1602.6 | Self-returning spear. (Cf. D1084.) Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: Boberg; Gaster Thespis 158; Hindu: Keith 140; Africa (Duala): Lederbogen Märchen 138. |
| D1602.7 | Self-returning wheel. (Cf. D1207.) Cherokee: Mooney JAFL I 103. |
| L435.1 | Self-righteous hermit must do penance. He has said of a condemned man that he deserves his punishment. *Types 756A, 756B; BP III 463ff.; *Andrejev FFC LXIX 160ff., 250ff.; Wesselski Mönchslatein 21 No. 16; Alphabet No. 206; Irish: O'Suilleabhain 99, Beal XXI 332; Spanish: Espinosa II Nos 79f. |
| L435.1.1 | Self-righteous monk rebuked by abbot. Abbot tells him to search his own heart to see if he is free of sin before attacking others. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| L435.3 | Self-righteous tailor in heaven expelled. Throws God's footstool at an old woman thief on earth. *Type 800; BP I 342; Wesselski Bebel I 126 No. 19. |
| L435.2 | Self-righteous woman punished. She has passed judgment on a girl who has a bastard. Köhler-Bolte I 147f., *578, 581. |
| L435 | Self-righteousness punished. |
| D1601.18.1 | Self-ringing bell. (Cf. D1213.) Fb "kirkeklokke"; *Thompson CColl II 348, 358, 363.—English: Wells 97 (Chevalere Assigne), Child I 173, 231, III 235, 244, 519f.; Irish myth: *Cross; U.S.: Baughman. |
| D1601.28 | Self-rocking chair. North Carolina: Brown Collection I 640. |
| D1641.7.1 | Self-rolling head. Jewish: Neuman. |
| W28 | Self-sacrifice. Irish myth: Cross. |
| D1601.34 | Self-serving spoon. (Cf. D1177.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| D1601.11 | Self-sewing needle. (Cf. D1181.) Fb "synеl" III 710b; Köhler-Bolte I 187. |
| E533.2 | Self-tolling bell. England: Baughman. |
| Q522 | Self-torture as penance. *Andrejev FFC LXIX 127, 156. |
| V464 | Self-torture to secure holiness. India: *Thompson-Balys: |
| D564.1 | Self-transformation by smelling stick. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| D1601.13 | Self-tying thread. (Cf. D1184.) Köhler-Bolte I 187. |
| D1601.13.1 | Self-weaving threads. (Cf. D1184.) Africa (Bambara): Travélé 205ff. No. 65. |
| P332 | Selfish guest expels host. Porcupine asks rabbit for hospitality. When rabbit complains of being pricked, porcupine tells him to leave if he does not like it. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| J2088.2 | Seller advises buyer that cow is a thief. Breton: Luzel Legendes chrétiennes de Basse Bretagne (Paris, 1881) I 16. |
| J2083.3 | Seller of fox skins mixes otter skins with them. Thinks to cheat the buyer. Type 1300*. |
| K1684 | Seller of pardons robbed by man whom he has pardoned beforehand. The defence declared good by the judge. *Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 301; Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles No. 63; Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| H151.15 | Seller of trinkets tells of heroine's address of son as "tiger's son" and brings about recognition of true bride. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K196 | Selling by trickery: literal bargain. (Cf. K134.1.) |
| J2213.6 | Selling his half of the house. A man owns half a house. He wants to sell his half so as to get money to buy the other half and thus have a whole house. Wesselski Hodscha Nasreddin I 282 No. 336. |
| J2083.6 | Selling more yards of goods for the money than they received. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K252 | Selling oneself and escaping. *Type 700; BP I 389; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| K134.6 | Selling or trading a balky horse. (Cf. K134.2.) U.S.: *Baughman. |
| D1355.2.3 | Semen in love-philtre.—Kittredge Witchcraft 30, 382 n. 53. |
| A591 | Semi-divine hero granted free access to men's wives. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F564.2 | Semi-supernatural person sleeps little. Irish myth: *Cross; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| J221.1.1 | Senator overlooks wife's adultery rather than impair his reputation. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Z71.2.8 | Sending four messengers with four winds. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F571.2.1 | Sending to the older uncle. French Canadian: Sister Marie Ursule. |
| F571.2 | Sending to the older. Old person refers inquirer to his father, who refers to his father, and so on for several generations. *Type 726; *Baum JAFL XXX 379 n. 2; *Wesselski Archiv Orientální IV 1ff.; Irish myth: *Cross, O'Suilleabhain 74, Beal XXI 326. |
| J461 | Senseless debate of the mutually useful. |
| J466.2 | Senseless debate: which is the greater, St. John the Baptist or St. John the Evangelist? Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| J466 | Senseless debates about usefulness. |
| M1 | Senseless judicial decisions. *Chauvin VIII 203 No. 245. |
| F959.1.1 | Senses regained when person speaks his name. Irish myth: Cross. |
| J2662 | Sent back for the rest of the money. A fool finds a treasure and takes some of it to a judge so as to purchase influence. The judge sends him back for the rest. Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 831. |
| M13 | Sentence applied to king's own son. Those caught in adultery are to have eyes put out. When king's son is found guilty he insists on the punishment. He finally compromises by having one of his own and one of his son's eyes put out. *Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 226; Spanish Exempla: Keller; Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| Q577 | Sentence to hang remitted. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| E715.3.1 | Separable soul in bee. BP III 440; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| E715.1 | Separable soul in bird. BP III 440; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| E715.1.2 | Separable soul in crop of sparrow. Penzer I 131f. |
| E715.4.1 | Separable soul in deer. Eskimo (Greenland): Rasmussen III 55. |
| E715.1.1 | Separable soul in duck. *Fb "and" IV 12b. |
| E715.2 | Separable soul in fish. (Cf. B175.) BP III 440; Irish myth: *Cross; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| E715.3.2 | Separable soul in fly. Africa (Bambara): Equilbecq II 88ff. No. 25. |
| E715.3.3 | Separable soul in hornet. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| E715.6 | Separable soul in hydra's head. Penzer I 132. |
| E715.3 | Separable soul in insect. |
| E715.1.3 | Separable soul in parrot. India: *Thompson-Balys, Penzer I 131. |
| E715.4.4 | Separable soul in seal. Eskimo (Greenland): Rasmussen III 55. |
| E715.5 | Separable soul in snake. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| E715.5.1 | Separable soul in toad. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| E715.4.3 | Separable soul in walrus. Eskimo (Greenland): Rasmussen III 55. |
| E715.4 | Separable soul in wild animal. |
| E715.4.2 | Separable soul in wolf. Eskimo (Greenland): Rasmussen III 55. |
| E715 | Separable soul kept in animal. *Krappe in Penzer Ocean of Story VIII 107; Fb "liv" II 438b. |
| G251.1.1 | Separable soul of witch in parrot. (Cf. E732.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| J1153 | Separate examination of witnesses discredits testimony. *Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 114. |
| N315 | Separation by being on different banks of stream. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| N316 | Separation in jungle (forest). India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| N317 | Separation of family by shipwreck. India: Thompson-Balys; Icelandic: Boberg. |
| N311 | Separation of persons caused by looking for water. *M. Bloomfield in Penzer VII xxiv ff.; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| F112.0.2 | Separation of sexes in otherworld. Irish myth: Cross. |
| N312 | Separation of twins through being carried off by beast. Dickson 107. |
| A42.1 | Seraphim as creator's advisers. Jewish: Neuman. |
| J1845 | Serfs congratulate their master. The delegate slips and falls, cursing: "The devil may take you!" The serfs outside think this was the congratulation, and all cry in chorus: "You and your family!" Lithuanian: Balys Index No. *1708; Rumanian: Schullerus FFC LXXVIII 98 No. 14. |
| N335.6 | Series of accidental animal killings. |
| J1173 | Series of clever unjust decisions: plaintiff voluntarily withdraws. (1) Man pulls off borrowed horse's tail: he shall keep horse till tail grows on. (2) Man falls out of bed and kills a baby (or causes a miscarriage): he shall beget a new baby for the mother. (3) Man falls from a bridge and kills boatsman's son: shall allow boatsman to fall from bridge and kill him *Wesselski Hodscha Nasreddin II 234 No. 515; *Köhler-Bolte II 578; Penzer VI 83f.; *Feilberg Danske Studier (1920) 2ff.; Spanish: Boggs FFC XC 131 No. 1535A*; Italian Novella: *Rotunda; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| A630 | Series of creations. The present universe is the last of a succession of creations.—Etruscan: Fox 289.—Navaho: Alexander N. Am. 159ff.; Aztec: Alexander Lat. Am. 91. |
| F852.4 | Series of enclosed coffins. Coffins of gold, silver, copper, iron, lead, and wood, each inside the other. (Cf. F852.1.1.) German: Zaunert Westfälische Sagen (Jena, 1927) 12, 15, 141, Lachmann überlinger Sagen (Konstanz, 1909) 48 No. 16. |
| F852.1.1 | Series of glass coffins. (Cf. F852.4.) Italian: Basile Pentamerone II No. 8. |
| T241 | Series of husbands try in vain to control adulteress. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A651.2 | Series of lower worlds. Irish myth: Cross. |
| N680.2 | Series of lucky successes. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F134.0.1 | Series of otherworld islands. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| H1241 | Series of quests. One quest can be accomplished when a second is finished, etc. (Cf. H1235.) *Type 550; BP I 503ff.; Wesselski Mönchslatein 91 No. 77; Irish myth: *Cross; Welsh: MacCulloch Celtic 187; Scotch: Campbell II 344; Icelandic: Lagerholm 58—63, 115—118, *Boberg; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| Z39.9 | Series of things acquired by mouse—"You cannot have this but you may have that instead," etc. Clod—fish—cakes—kid—goat—drum—girl. Girl kills mouse accidentally. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Z47.1 | Series of trick exchanges: razor—pot—bride—drum by tricky fox. Fox sings formula of exchanges. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| Z47 | Series of trick exchanges. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| A651.1.8 | Series of upper worlds—miscellaneous. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| A651.1 | Series of upper worlds. Japanese: Holmberg Siberian 344. |
| J1170.1 | Series of wise judgments settles quarrels of village. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A1001 | Series of world catastrophes. **Olrik Ragnarök; Icel.: MacCulloch Eddic 336ff.; Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 3012, Legends No. 15.—Aztec: Alexander Lat. Am. 95. |
| Z65.2 | Series: white cock, red cock, black cock. These crow at dawn and scatter ghosts. (Cf. E452.) Köhler-Bolte III 581. |
| X435.5 | Sermon about the rich man. A boy rides with a rich man. Goes into church and leaves his coat lying on the sled. When the parson preaches about the rich man who went to hell, the boy calls out, "Then he took my coat along!" *Type 1832. |
| J15 | Serpent (bird) having injured man refuses reconciliation. He knows that neither can forget their injuries. Chauvin II 94 No. 43, 102 No. 62; Bødker Exempler 291 No. 47, 301 No. 67; Wienert FFC LVI *69 (ET 331), *127 (ST 352); Babrius No. 167; Jacobs Aesop 201 No. 6; Halm Aesop Nos. 96, 251, 350; cf. BP II 459; Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| J552.3 | Serpent (weasel) tries to bite a file. Wienert FFC LVI 75 (ET 401, 402), 98 (ST 119, 120); Halm Aesop Nos. 86, 126; Jacobs Aesop 206 No. 26. |
| B579.5 | Serpent acts as a rope to collect wood for man. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B176.1.1 | Serpent as deceiver in paradise. Hebrew: Genesis 3:1; Jewish: Neuman; Irish myth: Cross; Spanish Exempla: Keller.—Indo-Chinese: Scott Indo-Chinese 269. |
| F480.2 | Serpent as house-spirit. Armenian: Ananikian 73ff. |
| B191.7 | Serpent as magician. Jewish: Neuman. |
| B535.0.14 | Serpent as nurse for child. Greek: Grote I 44; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 529. |
| B108.1 | Serpent as patron of wealth. Japanese: Anesaki 331. |
| B292.12 | Serpent as saint's whip. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B622.1 | Serpent as wooer. Fb "slange" III 363a.; Jewish: Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| K815.18 | Serpent asks his victim to feed him with honey, then seizes and swallows him. S. A. Indian (Toba): Métraux MAFLS XL 71. |
| F981.1 | Serpent bursts asunder. Dickson 54, 195 n. 78. |
| N332.3 | Serpent carried by bird lets poison drop into milk and poisons drinkers. *Chauvin VIII 60 No. 25; *Krappe Balor 184 n. 12; Spanish Exempla: Keller; Jewish: Neuman, bin Gorion Born Judas III 96; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B91.6 | Serpent causes flood. Irish myth: Cross. |
| D1410.5 | Serpent charmed into helplessness by magic formula. (Cf. D1273.) Finnish: Kalevala rune 26; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q557.2 | Serpent chokes woman's undutiful son. (Cf. Q281.1.) Alphabet No. 359. |
| M414.8.3 | Serpent cursed. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| F582.1 | Serpent damsel. Woman has serpent inside which comes out and kills her bridegrooms. *Type 507C; BP III 490ff., 494; *Liljeblad Tobiasgeschichte 259 s.v. "Schlangenmädchen"; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| J155.1.1 | Serpent directed on journey by his beautiful wife. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| N582 | Serpent guards treasure. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| S263.3.2 | Serpent in stream demands pair of human eyes for drink of water. (Cf. M225.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| G328.1 | Serpent inside man's body eats all his food. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| B91.7 | Serpent is immortal. Gaster Oldest Stories 81. |
| J1761.1.2 | Serpent is taken for island. U.S.: Baughman. |
| A1019.2 | Serpent king causes flood by damming rivers. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B244.1.2 | Serpent king resides in lake. Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 981. |
| B215.5 | Serpent language. Irish myth: Cross. |
| B103.5.1 | Serpent lays treasure in lake. Swiss: Jegerlehner 305, n. 3. |
| B765.14.1 | Serpent reduces man to a heap of ashes by its fiery gaze. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B375.9 | Serpent released: grateful. S. A. Indian (Toba): Métraux MAFLS XL 55. |
| B385 | Serpent relieved from sand blown in eyes: grateful. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B522.1 | Serpent shows condemned man how to save prince's life. Bites the prince and then shows the man the proper remedy (cf. B512). By thus ingratiating himself the man is freed from false accusation.—*Type 160; Chauvin II 106 No. 71.—Spanish Exempla: Keller; Clouston Tales I 230; Bødker Exempler 304 No. 75; India: *Thompson-Balys; Japanese: Ikeda.—Africa (Vai): Ellis 230 No. 39. |
| A2262.3 | Serpent steals from God's coat a stick for his back. (Cf. A2356.1.1.)—Finnish: Aarne FFC VIII 19 No. 109. |
| N352.3 | Serpent steals jewels: person falsely accused of theft. (Cf. N347.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B768.4 | Serpent subsists on dust. Jewish: Neuman. |
| B16.5.1.2.1 | Serpent sucks man's breath (blood). India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| A665.6 | Serpent supports sky. S. Am. Indian (Yuracare): Métraux BBAE CXLIII (3) 503. |
| A844.12 | Serpent supports the earth. (Cf. A844.6.). Hindu: Keith 120, 155, Penzer VI 71 n. 1 (thousand-headed serpent); India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| F911.4.1.2 | Serpent swallows canoe and occupant. Am. Indian (Ladino, Honduras and Nicaragua): Conzemius BBAE CVI 169. |
| F911.7 | Serpent swallows man. S. A. Indian (Cashinawa): Métraux BBAE CXLIII (3) 686. |
| K928.1 | Serpent transforms self to staff, is picked up and bites enemy. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| B29.2.1 | Serpent with human head. Jewish: Neuman. |
| B101.7 | Serpent with jewel in head. (Cf B112, B176).—*BP II 464; Cosquin Les contes indiens 256ff.; Fb "ædelsten".—- Penzer IV 245; Indonesian: Dixon 159 n. 20, 328 n. 20; India: *Thompson-Balys; U.S.: Baughman; Cherokee: Alexander N. Am. 68f; Africa (Cameroon): Meinhof 60. |
| B103.4.2 | Serpent with jewel in his mouth. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| V1.8.6 | Serpent worship. *Encyc. Rel. Ethics Index 539a; *Penzer III 142; Jewish: *Neuman. |
| F541.1.4 | Serpent-eye. Eyes so keen that man is supposed to have serpents in them. De Vries Zs. f. deutsche Philologie XIII (1928) 289; Icelandic: Sörlaюáttr (FAS I) 406, Völundarkvida, stanza 16, Ragnars saga Loрbrуkar 136, *Boberg. |
| F771.5.3 | Serpent-hall. Icelandic: Snorra Edda Gylf. LII. |
| H939.4.1 | Serpent-king assigns task. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B103.6.1 | Serpent's bite produces ornaments and clothes. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| D1361.9 | Serpent's crown renders invisible. (Cf. D1011.3.1, B112.) |
| K1058.1 | Serpent's jewel is covered with spiked helmet so that when he tries to recover it he strikes and is spiked to death. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| E714.2 | Serpent's life in its gold crown. Type 672B; *BP II 463; Chinese: Graham. |
| D1345.1 | Serpent's water gives longevity. (Cf. D1027.1.)—Africa (Zanzibar): Bateman 204 No. 10. |
| B123.1.1 | Serpent's wisdom from eating from tree of knowledge. Jewish: Neuman. |
| F167.11.1 | Serpents (monsters) in otherworld. Irish myth: *Cross |
| A671.2.1 | Serpents in hell. Wimberly Folklore in Ballads 424; Icel.: MacCulloch Eddic 319, 321, 332, Boberg; Irish myth: Cross. |
| B11.6.2.2 | Serpents play with precious green stone. Icel.: *Boberg. |
| J955.3 | Servant asks master for arms of knighthood. Is given a stalk of garlic. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| J2133.5.1.1 | Servant carrying master across stream answers question with gesture that throws master off. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F1041.1.3.2 | Servant grieves over master's death. Kills wife and himself. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K1854 | Servant impersonates dead master and makes a false testament. Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| J2665.2 | Servant injures master while shampooing him. Gives him a slap and breaks his skin. Penzer V 113. |
| K2134 | Servant lays skin of dead dog in the bed of his mistress and master. Makes trouble between them. Type 1573*; Russian: Andrejev No. 1573*. |
| M217.1 | Servant makes pact with devil denying Christ to secure nobleman's daughter. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| P622 | Servant must keep horns and hide of his cattle that are slain. Wesselski Märchen 200. |
| N455.11 | Servant overhearing conversation realizes the misery of his employment. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| P365.2 | Servant planning to possess his master's goods. Has already possessed his wife. Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 613. |
| J2064 | Servant plans to deceive his master by refusing to eat. Type 1698**. |
| J955.2 | Servant plays at being emperor. Master sees him and says, "Now that you are emperor remember your humble master." Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K1969.3 | Servant poses as master. |
| K231.9 | Servant refused payment because of single mistake. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| J1561.4 | Servant repays stingy master (mistress). Type 1561**; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| R131.5 | Servant rescues abandoned child. Irish myth: *Cross, Icelandic: Gunnlaugs saga Ormstungu ch. 3, Boberg; Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| J2241.2 | Servant sent to doctor finds trip futile. Doctor may not be in and, if he is there, he may not give the medicine. He may give the medicine but it may not have any effect; or, if it does have any, he has to die someday anyway and the medicine will not prevent him from dying. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1952.0.2 | Servant takes prince's horse and clothes and passes self off as prince. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| W111.2.9 | Servant tells master to cover his face: no need to put out lamp. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| W111.2.1 | Servant to call his master at daybreak: looks into dark closet to see if it is yet light. They sleep till noon. Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 263. |
| W111.2.2 | Servant to close door at night: leaves it open so that he will not have to open it next morning. Wesselski Mönchslatein 54 No. 47; *Crane Vitry 216 No. 204. |
| T55.2 | Servant-girl helps prince if he will make her chief wife. Malone PMLA XLIII 400. |
| K335.0.11 | Servants frightened by ferocious actions of robbers; give up masters' food. Pierre Faifeu No. 13. |
| J1563.5.2 | Servants touch cooking pot. Food being considered unclean then, guests depart empty but unwitting of true reason. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| J1179.5 | Servants would not have left the coats. Merchants complain to nobleman that his servants have robbed them of money. Nobleman asks whether merchants had on those good coats when the robbery took place. When told yes, he said that the robbers were not his servants, for they would never have left good coats. Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 490; Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| J1312.1 | Serve the water and the wine separately. Server of diluted wine thus taunted. *Wesselski Bebel II 108 No. 29. |
| K1831.2.1 | Service in disguise in order to seduce king's daughter by putting love charm in her food. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| K1831.2 | Service in disguise. Icelandic: *Boberg; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| V238.3 | Service of angels marks saint's destination. Irish myth: Cross. |
| K1831 | Service under a false name. *Dickson 220f. nn. 13, 14; Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| D1658.3 | Services of grateful objects. |
| K1317.1 | Serving-man in his master's place. Chauvin II 92 No. 38; Bødker Exempler 289 No. 41; Spanish Exempla: Keller; Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| J1806 | Setting sun mistaken for fire. Christensen DF XLVII 176, 196; American Negro: Harris Nights 230 No. 39, Work JAFL XXXII 403, Parsons MAFLS XVI 32. |
| J1678 | Settling the dispute. Two men cannot agree to bride's dowry. Third party tells each parent that the other has agreed. Marriage. "Now that you are relatives you can settle it between yourselves." Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Z72.3 | Seven (three) years between feasts. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Z71.5.6 | Seven as a number in religious and social records. Irish myth: Cross. |
| D1273.1.3 | Seven as magic number. *Fb "syv"; Irish myth: *Cross; England: Baughman; French Canadian: Barbeau JAFL XXIX 9; Jewish: Neuman; Siberian: Holmberg Siberian 338. |
| Z71.5.1 | Seven brothers and one sister. Type 451; *Gummere Kittredge Anniversary Volume 17; Italian: Basile Pentamerone IV No. 8; India: *Thompson-Balys; N. A. Indian (Seneca): Curtin-Hewitt RBAE XXXII 565 No. 116. |
| Z71.5.8 | Seven brothers marry seven sisters. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Z71.5.6.1 | Seven causes of poverty. Irish myth: Cross. |
| T586.1.2 | Seven children at a birth. *Fb "gifte" I 432; *BP I 432; Wesselski Märchen 174 No. 64; *Loomis White Magic 87; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Z71.5.6.13 | Seven daughters of Humility. Irish myth: Cross. |
| A1057 | Seven days silence in whole universe at the end of the world. Jewish: Moreno Esdras (M307.10). |
| Z71.5.6.2 | Seven Deadly Sins. Irish myth: Cross. |
| A501.1 | Seven demigods. Siberian and Indo-Iranian: Holmberg Siberian 402ff. |
| K113.0.1 | Seven devils' wives imitate ritual of death and resuscitation done over hero; not having the real water of life and death, the seven enemy devils are killed. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Z71.5.6.3 | Seven ecclesiastical orders. Irish myth: Cross. |
| Z71.5.6.12 | Seven fair rivers in Inis Eidheand (Eden) in the East of Africa. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F789.1 | Seven forts—river, iron, mud, cow-dung, brick, stone, wood. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Z71.5.6.8 | Seven gifts of God (Holy Spirit). Irish myth: *Cross. |
| D658.3.3 | Seven girls in guise of seven parrots come to boy who has spurned them. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Z71.5.6.4 | Seven grades of wisdom. Irish myth: Cross. |
| A651.1.4 | Seven heavens. A series of seven upper worlds.—Irish myth: Cross; Jewish: *Neuman; Hindu: Penzer VII 246; Mohammedan: Hartland Science 224; Siberian: Holmberg Siberian 400f.—Sumatra: Dixon 160. |
| V229.2.12.1 | Seven Irish saints who never died. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Z71.5.6.5 | Seven joys of the Virgin Mary. Irish myth: Cross. |
| A651.2.3 | Seven lower worlds. Hindu: Penzer IV 21 n. 1, VIII 162 n. 1. |
| Z71.5.6.6 | Seven masses necessary to free soul from hell. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Z71.5.6.7 | Seven orders of poets. Irish myth: Cross. |
| Z71.5.6.9 | Seven penitential psalms. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Z71.5.6.10 | Seven prayers of saint. Irish myth: Cross. |
| T69.1.2 | Seven princesses sought by seven princes. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| E604.1 | Seven reincarnations. *Zachariae 33ff.; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F771.11 | Seven rooms in ascetic's house: in one, human heads; in another, horses; in third, dogs; in fourth, pots; in fifth, pile of men's arms; in sixth, a kitchen; in seventh, ascetic lives. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A872.1 | Seven seas encircle the world. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| P252.3 | Seven sisters. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| D1960.1 | Seven sleepers. (Rip Van Winkle.) Magic sleep extending over many years. **Huber Die Wanderlegende von den Siebenschläfern; Type 763*; *Chauvin VII 102 No. 376; *Hartland Science 173ff.; *Frazer Pausanias II 121; Alphabet No. 283; *Loomis White Magic 115.—Irish myth: *Cross; Finnish-Swedish: Wessman 18 No. 163; Jewish: Neuman; N. A. Indian: cf. Thompson Tales 314 No. 143. |
| F679.5.3.1 | Seven stags killed at one shot. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A1260.1.4 | Seven substances employed in composition of human body. Jewish: Neuman. |
| Z71.5.6.11 | Seven to whom alms should be given. Irish myth: Cross. |
| A1715.3 | Seven whistlers are the souls of the Jews who crucified Christ. (Cf. F456.1.1.1.)—England, U.S.: *Baughman. |
| T145.1.2 | Seven wives each to have the husband one day a week. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A651.3.1 | Seven worlds above and below. An angel upholds the seven worlds on his shoulders. Under him in turn are: rock, bull, fish, vast sea, air, fire, and serpent. —*Chauvin VII 58 No. 77 n. 1. |
| Z71.5.3 | Seven year's peace with no killing of men. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Z72.4 | Seven years as length of course in school. Irish myth: Cross. |
| H317.1 | Seven years of service imposed on suitor. Frazer Old Testament II 342—368; English: Wells 149 (The Squyr of Low Degre), Child I 204—6, 255, V 212b; Italian Novella: Rotunda; Jewish: *Neuman; India: Cowell Jataka VI 164. |
| Z72.2 | Seven years, seven months, seven days. Type 451; BP I 431; Köhler-Bolte Zs. f. Vksk. VI 63. |
| F782.3 | Seven-fold doors to room. Italian: Basile Pentamerone III No. 1. |
| B15.1.2.6 | Seven-headed animal. |
| B11.2.3.1 | Seven-headed dragon. *Type 300; Smith Dragon 211f.—Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "bête". Missouri French: Carrière; Spanish: Boggs FFC XC 42 No. 302*A: Gaster Thespis 80f, 186.—India: Thompson-Balys; Araucanian: Alexander Lat. Am. 327. |
| G361.1.4 | Seven-headed ogre. Jewish: Neuman |
| B15.1.2.6.1 | Seven-headed serpent. Gaster Thespis 80f.; Hindu: Keith 154; Zanzibar: Bateman 134. |
| G275.4 | Seven-headed witch defeated by throwing egg at each head. Jamaica: *Beckwith MAFLS XVII 268 Nos. 79, 80. |
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