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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
C
Motifs of Tabu
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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
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Traits of Character
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Humor
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Miscellaneous Groups of Motifs
| Thompson reference | Description ▲ |
|---|---|
| Q569.2 | Sinners in hell swallowed by dragons. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| B53.0.1 | Siren in mermaid form. Irish myth: Cross. |
| B53 | Siren. Bird with woman's head.—*Encyclopaedia Britannica s.v. "sirens"; Bolte Zs. f. Vksk. XIX 310 n. 1 (here considered as half fish, half woman); Roscher Lexikon s.v. "Seirenen"; Penzer VI 282 n. 6; *Frazer Apollodorus I 21, II 291 n. 2; *Weicker Der Seelenvogel in d. alten Literatur und Kunst.—Slavic: Máchal 260; Livonian: Loorits FFC LXVI 41 No. 26.—Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "sirène"; Gascon: Bladé II 342 No. 10; Jewish: Neuman. |
| B53.4 | Siren's song causes sleep. Irish myth: Cross. |
| D1812.5.1.6.1 | Sirius as bad omen. Greek: Homer Iliad XXII 30. |
| P253 | Sister and brother. Type 450; Irish myth: Cross; Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| N2.6.1 | Sister as wager. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| P253.5 | Sister avenges brother's death. India: Thompson-Balys; Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| R321.1 | Sister escapes to the stars to avoid marrying brother. He is the thunder and her face is Lightning. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| P253.2 | Sister faithful to transformed brother. *Types 450, 451; Child I 315f. |
| W175.1 | Sister gives due honor and regard to brother only in times of his prosperity. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| P252.1.1 | Sister kills sister. Irish myth: Cross; Icelandic: Boberg. |
| J2411.6.1 | Sister of goddess tries to imitate her feat of being cooked without harm and dies in the attempt. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 96. |
| R158 | Sister rescues brother(s). *Type 707; Icelandic: *Boberg; Rumanian: Schullerus FFC LXXVII No. 879*; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| P253.6 | Sister warns brothers. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| C172 | Sister-in-law tabu: older brother must avoid younger brother's wife. Jewish: Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| P264 | Sister-in-law. (Cf. K2212.2.) |
| P253.0.1 | Sister's son. Irish myth: Cross. |
| T92.8 | Sisters in love with same man. Irish myth: Cross; Icelandic: Boberg; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| R157 | Sisters rescue sisters. (Cf. G551.2.) |
| Q582.1 | Sisters throw unique jewel into lake; killed and thrown after it. Revue Celtique XVI 76; Irish myth: Cross. |
| H934.2 | Sisters-in-law impose tasks. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| P252 | Sisters. |
| F1011.2 | Sitting (hanging) on a sunbeam. *Köhler-Bolte II 98ff. |
| Q541 | Sitting (standing) in uncomfortable position as penance. |
| P338 | Sitting in a circle of feasts. Irish myth: Cross. |
| G302.4.1 | Six characteristics of demons: three like angels, three like men. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| T586.1.1.1 | Six children at a birth. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F451.5.21 | Six dwarfs listen to singing by confirmed children. German: Kapff 45. |
| T151.1 | Six months' respite from unwelcome marriage. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| P251.6.3 | Six or seven brothers. Type 451. |
| X151.1 | Six short, fat husbands married to six tall, fat wives try absurdly to kiss them at the threshold on their wedding day. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F516.2.1 | Six-armed earthborn men. Greek: Fox 110. |
| B15.1.2.5 | Six-headed animal. |
| B11.2.3.3 | Six-headed dragon. Cheremis: Sebeok-Nyerges. |
| F531.1.2.2.4 | Six-headed giant. English: Child V 184. |
| F511.0.2.4 | Six-headed man. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| G361.1.3 | Six-headed ogre. Luzon (Tinguian): Cole 104. |
| B15.6.3.1.1 | Six-legged horse. Cheremis: Sebeok-Nyerges. |
| B15.6.3.1 | Six-legged quadruped. |
| B15.2.1 | Six-mouthed serpent. Persian: Keith Ind. Myth. 36. |
| E755.1.4 | Sixty thousand Jewish souls in heaven. Jewish: Neuman. |
| A671.0.5 | Size and arrangements of hell. Jewish: Neuman; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 786. |
| A658 | Size and distances of the universe. |
| D631 | Size changed at will. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A2332.3 | Size of animals' eyes. |
| F239.4 | Size of fairies. |
| F241.1.8 | Size of fairies' horses. |
| F531.2 | Size of giant. *Broderius § 37.—Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: Arnason Legends of Iceland (London, 1864) I 120 ff.; MacCulloch Eddic 277, *Boberg; Norwegian: Norske Folkminnelag XIII 26; Finnish-Swedish: Landtmann Finlands Svenska Folkdiktning VII 537; Swiss: Henne-Am Rhyn No. 454. |
| D631.3 | Size of object changed at will. Eskimo (Greenland): Rasmussen 235, III 173. |
| D621.4 | Size of object transformed at night. |
| D480 | Size of object transformed. Irish myth: Cross. |
| E422.3 | Size of revenant. |
| F441.5 | Size of wood-spirit. |
| A120.2 | Size-changing god. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 127. |
| G124 | Skeleton giant. N. A. Indian (California): Gayton and Newman 91. |
| J1262.8 | Skeleton has all his ribs. Indian examines skeleton of man at museum, finds there is no rib missing, concludes that ministers have deceived him in telling him the story of Adam. U.S.: Baughman. |
| V346 | Skeptic kicked by sacrificial animal. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F969.1 | Skies open, revealing heavenly company. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F679.8 | Skill at chess-playing. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| V59.1 | Skill in theft granted as answer to prayer. Africa (Duala): Lederbogen JAS IV 64. |
| F661.11 | Skillful archer uses arrow as boomerang. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F666.1 | Skillful axe-man makes spear-shafts with three chippings. Also at the same time sets them into the spear-rings. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F666 | Skillful axe-man. Cuts down trees with single stroke, and the like. *Kittredge Gawain 199 n. 2; Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F665.1 | Skillful barber shaves running hare. *Type 654; *BP III 10ff. |
| F665 | Skillful barber. |
| F661.6 | Skillful bowman shoots crater of Vesuvius open. *Fb "bue" IV 76b. |
| F675.4 | Skillful carpenter constructs large palace overnight. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F679.6 | Skillful cast of stone: carries away roof tree of burning house and so puts out fire. Irish myth: Cross. |
| H621 | Skillful companions create woman: to whom does she belong? Woodcarver carves a doll, tailor clothes her, gardener gives her speech (or the like). (Answer sometimes given: her father, her mother, or her husband). *Type 945; *BP III 53ff.; Tille FFC XXXIV 254; India: *Thompson-Balys; Indonesia: De Vries's list No. 199; Africa (Fjort): Dennett 33 No. 3; Cape Verde Islands: Parsons MAFLS XV (1) 112 No. 39. |
| H621.1 | Skillful companions resuscitate girl: to whom does she belong? India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| F601.0.1 | Skillful companions. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F667 | Skillful fencer (swordsman). |
| F667.1 | Skillful fencer keeps sword dry in rain. Swings it so fast. *Type 654; *BP III 10ff. |
| F664.1 | Skillful flayer skins running rabbit. *Type 654; *Wesselski Märchen 213 No. 20. |
| F664 | Skillful flayer. |
| F679.7 | Skillful gambler always wins. Whatever he earns in day he spends immediately. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F679.5.2 | Skillful hunter can tell from baying the succession of hounds and what quarry they pursue. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F679.5.1 | Skillful hunter manages hounds. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F679.5 | Skillful hunter. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F661.4.3 | Skillful marksman can hit egg from great distance. Africa: Weeks Jungle 43. |
| F661.8.1 | Skillful marksman casts lance through hole in leaf. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F661.8 | Skillful marksman casts lance through ring. French Canadian: Barbeau JAFL XXIX 18, Carrière. |
| F661.9 | Skillful marksman grazes ear of sleeping person and awakens him. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| F661.5 | Skillful marksman shoots animal (man) through eye. |
| F661.3 | Skillful marksman shoots apple from man's head. Tell. *Hdwb. d. Abergl. s.v. "Meisterschuss Tell"; Fb "æble" III 1136a; English: Child III 17f., 28; Icelandic: Boberg. |
| F661.5.2 | Skillful marksman shoots bird through eye. *Fb "skytte" III 350a.—Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 1123. |
| F661.5.4 | Skillful marksman shoots both eyes of an ogre. Italian: Basile Pentamerone V No. 7. |
| F661.4 | Skillful marksman shoots eggs scattered over table. *Type 653. |
| F661.5.3 | Skillful marksman shoots left eye of fly at two miles. *Type 513. |
| F661.1 | Skillful marksman shoots meat from giant's hands. *Type 304; *BP II 505. |
| F661.2 | Skillful marksman shoots pipe from man's mouth. Type 1708*. |
| F661.5.1 | Skillful marksman shoots serpent through left eye. Chinese: Werner 182. |
| F661.3.1 | Skillful marksman shoots spear through nose-ring. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F661.7 | Skillful marksman throws needles. One enters eye of the other so as to form a straight line. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F661.7.1 | Skillful marksman throws rushes into a curtain. The first remains and each following one lodges in the one before and remains attached to it. Schoepperle Tristan and Isolt II 294. |
| F661.7.2 | Skillful marksman throws swords and scabbards so that swords are sheathed in air. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F661 | Skillful marksman. *Types 304, 653; *BP II 503ff., III 45ff.; Fb "skytte" III 350a; Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg; Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "chasseur"; Italian: Basile Pentamerone I No. 5, III No. 8, V No. 7; India: *Thompson-Balys; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 1071. |
| F678.1 | Skillful milker milks cows incessantly. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F678 | Skillful milker. |
| F679.9 | Skillful musician plays nine mouth harps at once. Chinese: Graham. |
| F674 | Skillful painter. Can paint from description of a dream. Type 516; Rosch FFC LXXVII 97. |
| F668.0.1 | Skillful physician. Irish myth: *Cross; Africa (Konde): Gemuseus und Berger ZsES XXIII 151f. No. 13. |
| F671 | Skillful shipbuilder. Irish myth: Cross; Italian: Basile Pentamerone V No. 7. |
| F663.0.1 | Skillful smith calls self master of all masters. *Type 753; *BP III 198; *Fb "mester" II 584a. |
| F663.1 | Skillful smith shoes running horse. *Type 654; *BP III 10; *Wesselski Märchen 213 No. 20. |
| F663 | Skillful smith. (Cf. F271.3.) *Fb "smed" III 402ab; Krappe Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen CLX (1931) 166ff., CLXI (1932) 1—9; Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: Boberg. |
| F668.4 | Skillful surgeon can tell by whom wound was inflicted. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F668.1 | Skillful surgeon removes and replaces vital organs. (Cf. X1721.2.) *Type 660; *BP II 552. |
| F668.2 | Skillful surgeon removes speck from midge's eye. Does it with one stroke without injuring midge. Welsh: MacCulloch Celtic 190. |
| F668 | Skillful surgeon. Irish myth: *Cross; India: Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Graham. |
| F662.3 | Skillful tailor sews bean together after bean has split from laughing. German: Grimm No. 18. |
| F662.2 | Skillful tailor sews together scattered planks in capsizing boat. *Type 653; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F662.1 | Skillful tailor sews up broken eggs. *Type 653; Africa: Weeks Jungle 43. |
| F662 | Skillful tailor. |
| F676 | Skillful thief. (Cf. K301.) |
| F677.1 | Skillful tracker infallible on land or sea. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F677 | Skillful tracker. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C985.1 | Skin changes color because of broken tabu. (Cf. C94.3.)—Africa (Kaffir): Theal 67. |
| B184.3.2.3 | Skin of magic pig heals wounds. Irish myth: Cross. |
| B81.9.5 | Skin of mermaid. |
| S114.1 | Skin of murdered person found in enemy's house. Koryak: *Jochelson JE VI 377. |
| L112.7 | Skin-sore as hero. Africa (Basuto): Kidd The Bull of the Kraal and the Heavenly Maidens (London, 1908) 51ff. No. 1. |
| F559.4.1 | Skull has words miraculously written on it. Jewish: Neuman. |
| Q503.1 | Skull of suicide must roll in dust until it has saved a life. Man uses the skull to kill an owl that was about to kill a rabbit; thus after 777 years of rolling it has saved a life and is freed. (Cf. Q211.5.) Köhler-Bolte I 406. |
| Q491.5 | Skull used as drinking cup. (Cf. Q478.1.2.) DeCock Volkssage 96ff.; Icelandic: *Boberg; Italian Novella: Rotunda; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| V12.3 | Skulls as sacrifice to a god. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| N818 | Sky as helper. Africa (Thonga): Junod 266ff. |
| A652.4 | Sky as overshadowing tree. Shadowing the earth.—Egyptian: Müller 35. |
| A702.2 | Sky as solid vault (tent). Siberian: Holmberg Siberian 336; Hatt Asiatic Influences 63; Eskimo (Labrador): Hawkes GSCan XIV 153.—African: Werner African 130.—Cf. Isaiah, ch 40. |
| A665.2.1.3 | Sky extended by means of pillars. Tahiti: Henry 342. |
| A665.5 | Sky held against earth by great octopus. Tahiti: Henry 338. |
| A702.9 | Sky immortal, changing skin like a snake. S. Am. Indian (Bacairi): Lévi-Strauss BBAE CXLIII (3) 348. |
| A702.8 | Sky is black because once raised by means of dirty stick. Tonga: Gifford 23. |
| F791.1 | Sky lowers on people. Eskimo (Bering Strait): Nelson RBAE XVIII 495. |
| A702.6 | Sky measured by bird. Chinese: Graham. |
| A669.2 | Sky of solid substance. S. Am. Indian (Chiriguano): Métraux RMLP XXXIII 164. |
| A702.1 | Sky of water. The sky consists of water.—*Eisler Weltenmantel und Himmelszelt 204ff.—Egyptian: Müller 34f. |
| A2741.3 | Sky rests on top of trees: hence flat leaves. (Cf. A2761.3.) —Polynesian: Dixon 51 n. 55. |
| A702.3 | Sky supported by north star ("nail of the north") around which it revolves. (Cf. A665, A774.)—Gaster Thespis 170; Icel.: MacCulloch Eddic 335; Estonian: Loorits Grundzüge I 386.—Finno-Ugric: Holmberg Finno-Ugric 221.—Siberian: Holmberg Siberian 337. |
| F51.2 | Sky-basket. Ascent to or descent from upper world in a basket. N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 355 n. 283. |
| A210 | Sky-god. *Cook Zeus; *Cook Classical Review XVII 270, XVIII 365, FL XV 301, XVI 260; *Hommel "Der allgegenwärtige Himmelsgott" Archiv f. Religionsgeschichte XXIII 193; *Koch Der römische Juppiter (Frankfurt a. M. 1937). —Greek: Fox 152 (Zeus); Babylonian: Spence 76, 121ff.; Hindu: Keith 21, 24 (Dyaus, Varuna); India: Thompson-Balys; Icel.: De la Saussaye 243 (Tiu); Much Der germanische Himmelsgott, Finno-Ugric: *Holmberg Finno-Ugric 217ff.; Irish myth: Cross.—Estonian: Loorits Grundzüge I 583ff.; Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 114, 294; Africa (Luba): Donohugh V 180. |
| A210.1 | Sky-goddess. Egyptian: Müller 37 (Hathor and others), 41 (Nut). —Tonga: Gifford 16. |
| F51.1.7 | Sky-rope of mucus. S. A. Indian (Yuracare): Métraux BBAE CXLIII (3) 504. |
| F51.0.1 | Sky-rope shot by means of arrow. Indonesia: Kruyt Het animisme 494. |
| F51 | Sky-rope. Access to upper world by means of a rope. BP II 511 (Gr. No. 112); Fb "reb" III 25b.—Icelandic: Gering Islensk æventyri II 166f.; India: *Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Graham; Japanese: Ikeda; Korean: Zong in-Sob 24, 227; Oceanic (Indonesia, Melanesia, Polynesia): Dixon 66, 156f, 160, Beckwith Myth 255, (Tonga): Gifford 20; N. A. Indian: Hatt Asiatic Influences 48ff., *Thompson Tales 283 n. 48, (California): Gayton and Newman 78; Maya: Alexander Lat. Am. 153; S. A. Indian (Warrau): Kirchoff BBAE CXLIII (3) 880, Alexander Lat. Am. 271, (Toba, Mataco): Métraux BBAE CXLIII (3) 448, MAFLS XL 101—103; Cape Verde Islands: Parsons MAFLS XV (1) 10, 12. |
| F499.1 | Sky-spirit. German: Grimm No. 166; India: Thompson-Balys; S. A. Indian (Warrau): Kirchoff BBAE CXLIII (3) 880. |
| B91.4 | Sky-traveling snake. N. A. Indian (Zuсi): Alexander N. Am. 188. |
| F56.3 | Sky-window at horizon. Tonga: Gifford 149; Eskimo (Greenland): Rink 467. |
| F56.1 | Sky-window from digging or uprooting plant (tree) in upper world. Chinese: Werner 224f.; N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 332 n. 197. |
| F56 | Sky-window. An opening into the sky gives access to upper world. Gaster Thespis 181; Irish myth: *Cross; Jewish: Neuman; Chinese: Werner 225; Melanesian: Codrington 365; Indonesia: Voorhoeve 64, (Sumatra, Kei Island): Dixon 156; Tonga: Gifford 149; Koryak: Jochelson JE VI 301, 307; Eskimo (Labrador): Hawkes GSCan XIV 153, (West Hudson Bay): Boas BAM XV 339, (Central Eskimo): Boas RBAE VI 599, (Greenland): Rink 468, Rasmussen III 165, 170, Holm 80; N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 278 n. 28, Hatt Asiatic Influences 64; S. A. Indian (Warrau): Alexander Lat. Am. 271, Kirchoff BBAE CXLIII (3) 880, (Mojo): ibid. (3) 424, (Sherente): Lowie ibid. (1) 515. |
| E446.4 | Slain ghost carried off by other ghosts. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F531.6.12.3 | Slain giant turns to salt stone. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| S139.2 | Slain person dismembered. Irish myth: *Cross; Spanish Exempla: Keller; Greek: Frazer Apollodorus II 72 n. 1; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| E155.5 | Slain pigs revive nightly. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| E155.1 | Slain warriors revive nightly. Continue fighting the next day. *Krappe Balor 132ff.; Hdwb. d. Abergl. III 546; Irish myth: *Cross, Beal IV 342, 454, V 210; Icelandic: De la Saussaye 176, Fb "kamp", Panzer Hilde-Gudrun 327ff., Herrmann Saxo II 364, *Boberg; Hindu: Tawney I 476. |
| F156.4 | Slamming (falling) door to otherworld. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F91.1 | Slamming door on exit from mountain otherworld. It (almost) injures the hero because he has failed to bring back the talisman which opened the mountain. *Krappe Balor 108ff.; Gaster Oldest Stories 46. |
| F152.2 | Slamming drawbridge to otherworld. Slams as hero leaves and (almost) injures him. He has failed to do the one compulsory thing. (Percival.) *Krappe Balor 106ff.; Patch Otherworld 204f., 319 n. 64. |
| Q297 | Slander punished. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| K2128 | Slander: prince is bastard. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| K2115.2 | Slander: woman has given birth to objects. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| K2125 | Slander: woman said to be possessed of demons. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| N741.3 | Slandered queen chances to be in Rome at the same time as her estranged husband. Reconciled by the Pope. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| R41.2.1 | Slandered wife is locked in tower for forty days. If no champion appears, she is to be burned. Former suitor rescues her. Spanish: Childers. |
| K2155.2 | Slanderers kill a woman and put her body near Buddha's cell. Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 1216. |
| K2129 | Slanders—miscellaneous. |
| K2110 | Slanders. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| F1041.24 | Slap turns man's face completely around. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K927 | Slaughter of animals by stampede. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| M375.2 | Slaughter of children to prevent fulfillment of parricide prophecy. Irish myth: Cross; India: Thompson-Balys; Hindu: Keith 171. |
| K871.2 | Slaughter of drunken enemies in banquet hall. (Cf. K811.1.) Greek: Grote I 150. |
| M375 | Slaughter of innocents to avoid fulfillment of prophecy. *Hartland Perseus I 14; Irish myth: *Cross; Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| N863 | Slave (swineherd) as helper of princess. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| L113.1.7 | Slave as hero. Jewish: Neuman. |
| Q42.4.1 | Slave freed as reward for killing enemy's two slaves, and given as much land as he can cultivate in three days. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| P175.1 | Slave hanged. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| Q211.13 | Slave killed who killed enemy at owner's order. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| P175 | Slave killed. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| P523.3 | Slave may not bring suit. (Cf. P170.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| K1917.8 | Slave poses as treasurer's son and carries letter purporting to ask for hand of merchant's daughter in marriage. Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 486. |
| H38.3 | Slave recognized by his conversation, habits, and character. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| A732.2.1 | Slave shoots arrow into leg of sun's horse. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K831.1 | Slave washing mistress's back in stream pushes her into crocodile hole. Africa (Ekoi): Talbot 333. |
| Q558.7 | Slave-driver mysteriously stricken dead. (Cf. Q285.4.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q285.4 | Slave-driving punished. (Cf. P270, Q291.2, Q558.7.) Irish myth: Cross; Jewish: *Neuman; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 706. |
| P171.1 | Slave's ear bored. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| Q121.1 | Slaves freed as reward. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| P178 | Slaves freed. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| S113.1.1 | Slaves killed by hanging. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| N734.1 | Slaves ordered married discover they are brother and sister. Irish myth: Cross. |
| P178.2 | Slaves released after definite term. Jewish: Neuman (seven years). |
| P170 | Slaves. Irish myth: Cross. |
| P17.11 | Slayer of king marries widow and inherits kingdom. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| K1883.4 | Slayers magically made to believe stone their enemy. They behead it. Irish myth: Cross. |
| K914.3 | Slaying under cover of darkness. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| J21.2.2 | Sleep before committing suicide. After sleeping you will feel differently about suicide. Spanish: Childers. |
| K911.3 | Sleep feigned to kill enemy. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| H1247 | Sleep forbidden until quest is accomplished. Irish myth: Cross. |
| D1364.22 | Sleep-charm. Charm causes magic sleep. (Cf. D1273.)—Dickson 62 n. 6.—English: Child I 28, 48, 55, 391f; Irish myth: *Cross; India: Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Werner 366. |
| D1364.2 | Sleep-thorn. Thorn causes magic sleep. (Cf. D958.) —*Köhler-Bolte I 261; *BP I 440; *Panzer Sigfrid 281 s.v. "Schlafdorn"; **Cosquin études 95ff., Contes indiens 59ff.—English: Child V 495 s.v. "sleep"; Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| J1782.7 | Sleep-walker thought to be a ghost until discovered. U.S.: Baughman. |
| E721.1.1 | Sleeper not to be awakened, since soul is absent. *Frazer Golden Bough III 37ff.; Tobler 38. |
| D1960.3 | Sleeping Beauty. Magic sleep for definite period (e.g., a hundred years). *Type 410; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K635 | Sleeping enemies' hair tied to an object prevents pursuit. Japanese: Ikeda; N. A. Indian (Hupa): Goddard U Cal I 154ff. |
| J2102.1 | Sleeping in shoes to avoid insect bites. *Wesselski Hodscha Nasreddin II 237 No. 524. |
| N661 | Sleeping king abducted by fairies wakes when his foot touches water. They free him. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| N573 | Sleeping king in mountain as guardian of treasure. *Norlind 4ff.; Hartland Science 207. |
| J1322.2 | Sleeping on salt. Priest blamed for large amount of wine he drinks tells people to consider his great thirst. He has slept on a sack of salt and has enough thirst for a week. *Wesselski Arlotto I 208 No. 45. |
| K515.3 | Sleeping persons covered with oxhide and so saved. Icelandic: Ketils saga Haengs 118, Boberg. |
| K675 | Sleeping potion given to man who is to pass the night with a girl. (Sometimes magic pillow or magic sleeping card.) *Schoepperle I 257 n. 1; *Wesselski Märchen 254 No. 61; Child I 393, III 506b, IV 459b; Spanish: Boggs FFC XC 54 No. 400B*; Italian Novella: Rotunda; Missouri French: Carrière; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1852 | Sleeping potion substituted for poison. (Cf. K2111.1.) Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| D1364.7 | Sleeping potion: drink causes magic sleep. (Cf. D1040, D1242.2, D1364.12.)—Dickson 63; Cox Cinderella 483; Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| J1763.3 | Sleeping soldier thought to be recumbent statue in chapel. Heptameron No. 65. |
| J2173.1 | Sleeping trickster's feast stolen. Before eating his booty the numskull sleeps. N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 296 n. 84. |
| T299.1 | Sleeping with head laid in wife's lap as sign of tenderness. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K331.1 | Sleeping with open eyes. The man claims to sleep thus and beguiles the ogre into sleeping, so as to rob him. Type 1140*; Russian: Andrejev No. 1140. |
| B11.4.3 | Sleepless dragon. Greek Myth (Jason): *Frazer Apollodorus I 95 n. 2. |
| A102.8 | Sleepless god. Jewish: Neuman. |
| D1961 | Sleepless watcher magically put to sleep. Usually has a magic watchful eye, which remains awake while his many other eyes sleep. (Argus). *Frazer Apollodorus I 109 n. 4; Köhler-Bolte I 101; *Fb "øje" III 1166. |
| C995 | Sleeplessness from breaking tabu. Eskimo (Greenland): Rasmussen III 170. |
| D1521.3 | Sleigh as swift as thought. (Cf. D1115.) *Taylor FFC LXX 45ff. |
| D1413.3 | Sleigh makes person magically hold on. (Cf. D1115.) Fb "kane". |
| A136.1.2.1 | Sleipnir: eight-legged horse of Odin. Icel.: MacCulloch Eddic 43. |
| J355 | Slight inconvenience in weather, large gain. |
| H36.1 | Slipper test. Identification by fitting of slipper. *Type 510; *Cox Cinderella 504ff.; *BP I 187; *Fb "sko" III 288a; Cosquin Contes Indiens 48ff.; Saintyves Perrault 115ff., 156.—Icelandic: *Boberg; Italian: Basile Pentamerone I No. 6; French Canadian: Barbeau JAFL XXIX 18f.; India: *Thompson-Balys; New Mexican: Rael Mod. Lang. Forum XVIII (1933). |
| Z139.1 | Sloth personified. Irish myth: Cross. |
| A2233.1.4 | Sloth refuses to help make road: may not look upon sun. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| W115 | Slovenliness. (Cf. Q322.) |
| L394 | Slow flying swan lasts longer than speedy crow in flying. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| L148 | Slowness surpasses haste. |
| T10.1 | Sluggish prince reformed by falling in love. *bin Gorion Born Judas IV 38, 276. |
| K683 | Small animal in mouth of larger causes captor to spit him out. (Defecates.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| L315 | Small animal overcomes large. *BP II 437. |
| B371 | Small animal released from jaws of large one: grateful. |
| L315.15 | Small animals dupe larger into trap. Africa (Bankon): Ittman 85, (Wachaga): Gutmann 190, (Cameroon): Lederbogen 19. |
| L311.5 | Small boy overcomes enraged gorilla. Africa: Stanley 281ff. |
| X1202.1 | Small cart serves as back legs for crippled sow. Pigs also have these carts. U.S.: *Baughman. |
| F611.3.2.5 | Small child beats giant challenger. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B470.1 | Small fish as helper. Marquesas: Handy 99. |
| Z39.8 | Small grain-measure runs away when her husband beats her: succession of suitors. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| J369 | Small inconvenience, large gain—miscellaneous. |
| J1317 | Small jug preferred. Man asks that large jug be filled with wine. Is told to go to the river. Is accommodated when he presents small jug. (Cf. L251.) Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| D489.1 | Small leaves become larger. Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 1205. |
| K182.1 | Small niche in house brings large price. House sold reserving niche. This becomes such a nuisance that buyer pays heavily for it. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| J1763.1 | Small priest covered with large hat thought to be a hat. Nouvelles Récréations No. 37. |
| U11 | Small trespasses punished; large crimes condoned. |
| A137.8 | Small-pox deity rides nude on an ass with the half of a winnowing fan for an umbrella and with a swing in one hand and a broom in the other. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| U32 | Smallness of offense no excuse when hunter prepares to kill lark. She has stolen but a single grain of wheat. Wienert FFC LVI 64 (ET 273), 146 (ST 513); Halm Aesop No. 209. |
| N855.1 | Smith as foster father. *Von Sydow Sigurds strid med Fеvne 19ff.; Icelandic: Boberg. |
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