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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
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Tests
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The Wise and the Foolish
K
Deceptions
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Reversals of Fortune
M
Ordaining the Future
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Chance and Fate
P
Society
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Rewards and Punishments
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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 ▲ |
|---|---|
| P447.1 | Smith as grandfather of king. Irish myth: Cross. |
| L113.6 | Smith as hero. Icelandic: Þiðriks saga I 73ff., 114—34 (Velent), Boberg. |
| P447.3 | Smith as lord of hall of hospitality. Irish myth: Cross. |
| M301.19 | Smith as prophet. Irish myth: Cross. |
| P447.2 | Smith as rath-builder. Irish myth: Cross. |
| D1620.1.3 | Smith forges iron man, who helps him. Fb "jærn" IV 249b. |
| P447.0.1 | Smith from Lochlann (Scandinavia, otherworld [?]) Irish myth: Cross. |
| P447.5 | Smith honored by king as indispensable. Invited to festival. England: *Baughman. |
| A677.1 | Smith of hell. Irish myth: Cross. |
| A142 | Smith of the gods. Greek: Fox 206; Gaster Thespis 154ff.; *Krappe Archiv f. d. Studium d. neueren Sprachen CLVIII—CLXI passim.; Norse: Herrmann Nordische Mythologie 115ff.; Lithuanian: Gray 330; Irish myth: Cross; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A2817.1 | Smith outwits devil, is admitted to neither heaven nor hell. The devil gives him a light to find his way back in the dark; he is known as the will-o'-the-wisp or jack-o'-lantern. England, Ireland, Scotland, U.S.: *Baughman. |
| P447.4 | Smith punished in hell. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| R131.8.4 | Smith rescues abandoned child. (Cf. N855.) Krappe Balor 3; Irish myth: Cross; Icelandic: De la Saussaye 143. |
| F913.1 | Smith swallowed by water-monster and rescued by saint. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| P447 | Smith. *Sébillot Métiers Nos. 17, 18; *Hdwb. d. Abergl. IX Nachträge 257—67; Andree (1878) 153; *Nyrop Dania IX 186ff.; Von Sydow Vеra folksagor (1941) 39ff. — Irish myth: Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg; Missouri French: Carrière; Jewish: *Neuman. |
| V211.2.3.0.2 | Smith's wife made nails for the Cross because her husband believed Christ to be a true prophet. *Loomis White Magic 51f. |
| E643.1 | Smoke from funeral fires of two lovers mingles in sky. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| D1364.28 | Smoke from magic purse makes man sleep. (Cf. D1192.) Icelandic: Boberg. |
| H1511.3 | Smoke test. Attempt to kill hero by smoke. N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 312 n. 120a. |
| Q569.5 | Smokers in otherworld are locked in smoky rooms. Cheremis: Sebeok-Nyerges. |
| H1511.4 | Smoking test. Attempt to kill hero by having him smoke fatal pipe. N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 330 n. 191d. |
| A139.8.3 | Smoldering fire of volcano as head of goddess. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 188. |
| F983.1 | Snail grows and fills house entirely. N. A. Indian (Tahltan): Teit JAFL XXXIV 229 No. 36, (Tlingit): Swanton BBAE XXXIX 151. |
| B784.2.1.1 | Snake (frog) in human body enticed out by milk (water). India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1911.3.6 | Snake adopts true bride thrown into well. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A2247.2 | Snake and turtle exchange head for fangs. Explains snake's fangs and snake-like head of turtle. (Cf. A2320.2, A 2345.5.)—Australian: Dixon 291. |
| W151.4 | Snake and weasel stop fighting in order to catch mouse. Wienert FFC LVI 49 (ET 80), 134 (ST 396); Halm Aesop No. 345. |
| A930.1.1 | Snake as creator of rivers and lakes. Papua: Kerr 57; Mono-Alu: Wheeler 67. |
| A13.4.1 | Snake as creator. Mono-Alu, Fauru, Buin: Wheeler 67. |
| G303.10.3 | Snake as follower of the devil. Fb IV 99a. |
| B511.1 | Snake as healer. *Chauvin VII 25 No. 373 F note 5; *Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 648; Jewish: Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B593.1 | Snake as house-spirit. *Fb "snog" III 436b. |
| B291.4.2 | Snake as messenger. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| G354.1 | Snake as ogre. Cheremis: Sebeok-Nyerges; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| A878.3.1 | Snake at roots of earth-tree. Icel.: MacCulloch Eddic 319, 332; Boberg; Siberian: Holmberg Siberian 357. |
| B765.4.1 | Snake attaches itself to a woman's breast and draws away her milk while she sleeps. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B765.18 | Snake avoids object. |
| B765.18.1 | Snake avoids white ash. U.S.: *Baughman. |
| D1837.4 | Snake becomes powerless when his path is crossed by a pregnant woman. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| C992 | Snake bite for broken tabu. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B29.2.3 | Snake body-woman's head. Aurora (New Hebrides): Codrington No. III 12. |
| E765.4.6 | Snake can die only if it gives away hoarded treasure. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A2236.2.1 | Snake carries devil into paradise: loses feet. (Cf. A2371.3.1.)—Dh I 207—India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q597.1 | Snake carries into fire man who has banned snakes. Finnish: Aarne FFC XXXIII 46 No. 79; Estonian: Aarne FFC XXV 132 No. 79. |
| J623.1 | Snake complains to Zeus that people step on him. Zeus: "If you had bitten the first foot that stepped on you it would not be done now." Wienert FFC LVI 77 (ET 430), 128 (ST 364); Halm Aesop No. 347. |
| B765.10 | Snake cracks self like coach whip and chases man. North Carolina: Brown Coll. I 637. U.S.: Baughman. |
| B765.5 | Snake crawls from sleeper's mouth. Fb "hugorm".—Fr. v.d. Leyen Das Märchen 39ff. |
| A2145.3 | Snake created to suck poison from earth. Esthonian: Aarne FFC XXV 149 No. 60; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| B511.1.1 | Snake creeps into man's mouth and heals him. Estonian: Aarne FFC XXV 132 No. 78; Finnish: Aarne FFC XXXIII 46 No. 78. |
| D759.8 | Snake disenchanted by being allowed to wrap itself three times around person's neck. Tobler 21. |
| J1053 | Snake disregards warnings to improve his manners: eaten by crab. Wienert FFC LVI 50 (ET 99), 60 (ET 219), 89 (ST 13, 281); Halm Aesop No. 346. |
| B752.2 | Snake does not die before sunset.—Fb "orm" II 759a; U.S.: Baughman. |
| B765.6.1 | Snake drinks milk. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B765.6 | Snake eats milk and bread with child. Type 672c.; BP II 463; Fb "snog" III 437a. |
| A2145.1 | Snake from blood of slain monster. Medusa. (Cf. A1724, A2001.) —Greek: Fox 34. |
| A2145.4 | Snake from devil's slaver. Estonian: Aarne FFC XXV 148 No. 59. |
| J621.1.1 | Snake gives away magic pills later used to kill him. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B514.3 | Snake gives man antidote for poison. Africa (Gold Coast): Barker and Sinclair 163 No. 32. |
| B391.1.2 | Snake grateful because man feeds her young snakes milk. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B391.1.3 | Snake grateful for pouring milk into its hole. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B765.7.2 | Snake grows back together after it has been severed. U.S.: Baughman. |
| D487.1 | Snake grows to 300 leagues length. Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 859. |
| B765.14 | Snake has hypnotic stare: person cannot move. U.S.: *Baughman. |
| B765.16 | Snake has stinger. U.S.: *Baughman. |
| B511.1.2 | Snake heals mutilated maiden with magic herbs. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q82.1 | Snake helps girl who permits it to wind itself around her body. Africa (Rozwi): Posselt Fables of the Veld (London, 1929) 39ff., (Thonga): Junod 248ff., Berthoud ZsES XXI 154f. No. 10. |
| N332.3.2 | Snake in jug bites would-be thief. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| J352.2 | Snake is willing to suffer the indignity of serving frog king as mount because frog king gives him frogs to eat. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| K1613.5 | Snake killed by incantation he has taught clever woman. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K897.1 | Snake killed by putting knives in animal he is swallowing. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| B752.3 | Snake kills itself by biting part of body (when in danger or torture). U.S.: Baughman. |
| B765.20 | Snake kills man who has killed snake's mate. U.S., West Indies: *Baughman. |
| W154.10 | Snake kills ungrateful tamer. Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 33 No. 19. |
| R245.2 | Snake king takes fleeing captives across river. Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 785. |
| B225.1.1 | Snake kingdom under the sea.—India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B765.2 | Snake lays aside his crown to bathe. Hoffman-Krayer Zs. f. Vksk. XXV 120 n. 2.; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| D1500.2.8 | Snake liver prevents disease. (Cf. D1015.4.) Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 32. |
| B765.4 | Snake milks cows at night. *Kittredge Witchcraft 484 f. nn. 23, 24.—Swiss: Jegerlehner Oberwallis 300 No. 9. |
| J1761.6.1 | Snake mistaken for a whip by a blind man. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B613.1 | Snake paramour. (Cf. B604.1.) Armenian: Ananikian 74; India: *Thompson-Balys; Japanese: Ikeda, Anesaki 332.—N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 344 n. 239.—S. A. Indian (Warrau, Carib): Alexander Lat. Am. 272; (Amazonia) ibid. 286; (Toba): Métraux MAFLS XL 65f.—Africa (Basuto): Jacottet 142 No. 20. |
| A2145.2 | Snake preserved in ark: to stop hole with tail. Dh I 277.—Finnish: Aarne FFC VIII 19 No. 107, XXXIII 54 No. 107; Esthonian: Aarne FFC XXV 149. No. 61; Lithuanian: Balys Legends Nos. 192ff. |
| K815.6 | Snake promises to do no harm to frog. Kills him. Panchatantra III 13, (tr. Ryder) 368; Indonesia: DeVries's list No. 127. |
| A2233.1.2 | Snake refuses to help make road: dies on road. (Cf. A2441.4.1.)—Type 55.—Finnish: Aarne FFC VIII 19 No. 108. |
| B765.21 | Snake revives snakes which have been injured (the doctor snake). U.S.: Baughman. |
| J2102.2 | Snake rids himself of wasps: he lets himself be run over by a cart wheel along with them. Wienert FFC LVI 49 (ET 49), 128 (ST 363); Halm Aesop No. 393. |
| B748 | Snake shoots rapids of mighty river. S. A. Indian (Pilcomayo River Tribes): Belaieff BBAE CXLIII (1) 379. |
| B765.15 | Snake stands up, whistles. U.S.: Baughman. |
| D1515.4.2 | Snake stone applied to snakebite absorbs poison. (Cf. D930.) Scotland: Baughman. |
| X1205.1 | Snake strikes object, causing it to swell. Canada, U.S.: *Baughman. |
| Q557.6 | Snake strikes person for opposing saint. (Cf. Q227.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| A2435.6.2.1 | Snake sucks milk from woman's breast. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B765.8 | Snake sucks poison from bite it has itself made. **Wesselski Erlesenes 3ff. |
| D2161.4.10.2.2 | Snake sucks poison from snake bite. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B765.3 | Snake sucks poisonous dew from grass. *Fb "hugorm". |
| B751.1 | Snake swallows young to protect them. *Speck JAFL XXXVI 298; England, U.S.: Baughman; North Carolina: Brown Coll. I 637f. |
| B765.1 | Snake takes tail in mouth and rolls like wheel. Fb "stеlorm". |
| J1761.6 | Snake thought to be flute. Bites tiger who tries to play flute. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| N182 | Snake turns to gold in answer to dream. Woman tells dream of pot of gold. Robbers overhear but finding only snake in pot turn it loose on woman's bed. It turns to gold. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B103.4.2.2 | Snake vomits jewels. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| J512.14 | Snake wants to act as pet like parrot: killed. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B765.23 | Snake with legs. U.S.: Baughman. |
| B613.1.1 | Snake woman as paramour. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A132.1 | Snake-god. Smith Dragon 85.—Irish myth: Cross; Jewish: Neuman; Hindu: Penzer X 240 s.v. "Nagas"; India: *Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 139.—Fiji: Beckwith Myth 138, 316. |
| D1561.1.1.3 | Snake's head (when eaten) brings man to kingship. (Cf. D1011.0.3.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B765.11 | Snake's venom kills tree. North Carolina: Brown Coll. I 637. |
| D1563.2.2.2 | Snake's venom poisons tree. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| D2176.1 | Snakes banned by magic. Irish: Plummer clxx, *Cross, O'Suilleabhain 66; Swiss: Jegerlehner Oberwallis 310 No. 33. |
| D2156.5.2 | Snakes expelled from human body by saint's intervention. *Loomis White Magic 64. |
| B253.1 | Snakes have mass. Swiss: Jegerlehner Oberwallis 310 No. 34. |
| J2114 | Snakes in pond to be killed: eels also killed. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B11.2.7 | Snakes issue from dragon's shoulders. Persian: Carnoy 320. |
| B765.7.1 | Snakes may be killed, but do not die. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| D1962.5 | Snakes put to sleep by music on harp. (Cf. B765, D1275.1.) Icelandic: Völsunga saga ch. 39 (37), Boberg. |
| B765.18.3 | Snakes will not cross a ring made of Irish earth. U.S.: Baughman. |
| B765.18.2 | Snakes will not cross rope made of hair. U.S.: Baughman. |
| K736 | Snapping door. Traps victims. N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 307 n. 113. |
| L431.3 | Sneering princess is impregnated by magic. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| A1942.1 | Snipe from man admitted neither to heaven nor to hell. Finnish: Aarne FFC VIII 18 No. 99. Cf. Type 330A and 330B. |
| A2261.6 | Snipe messenger for warriors because he was a messenger when a man. Tuamotu: Stimson MS (z—G 13/10). |
| J1812.5 | Snoring sounds misunderstood. (Cf. J1833.) |
| A1135.2.1 | Snow from feathers or clothes of a witch (Frau Holle). —*Hoffmann-Krayer Zs. f. Vksk. XXV 119 n. 5; *Fb "sne" III 427b. |
| F962.11.1 | Snow has taste of wine. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| D2143.6.5 | Snow magically caused to last. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| D2143.6.4 | Snow magically caused to melt (burn). Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F451.4.1.10 | Snow melts above dwarf's dwelling. Finnish-Swedish: Wessman 46 No. 385; Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| D1812.5.1.18 | Snow on house omen of approaching death. (Cf. D1812.0.1.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| D2143.6.3 | Snow produced by magic. Irish myth: Cross. |
| D2143.6.1 | Snow taken away by planting certain root. Swiss: Jegerlehner Oberwallis 308 No. 4. |
| F420.3 | Social life among water-spirits. |
| H1574.0.1 | Social rank determined according to portion taken from cauldron of food. Irish myth: Cross. |
| P191 | Social status of foreigners. Irish myth: Cross. |
| J81.1 | Society is like a dish: must be properly mixed. Plates having salt, pepper, fish, etc. not edible without mixing. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T251.4 | Socrates and Zanthippe: "After thunder rain". He thus remarks as she empties slops on his head. *Wesselski Arlotto II 258 No. 183; *Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 471; England: Baughman. |
| J401.1 | Socrates builds himself a little house. Criticized for its smallness he says, "I wish I had true friends enough to fill it." Wienert FFC LVI 39; Phaedrus III 9. |
| V29.4 | Sodomist makes sport of confession. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q253.0.2 | Sodomist rebuked by youth. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q253.0.1 | Sodomy punished by death. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q253 | Sodomy punished. (Cf. Q414.0.11, T463.) Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| J1341.1 | Softening bread-crusts. An avaricious master feeds bread-crusts to his servants. "The crusts are already getting soft." Type 1567. |
| A963.3 | Soil dropped to form mountains. Calif. Indian: Gayton and Newman 59. |
| N852 | Soldier as helper. Cheremis: Sebeok-Nyerges. |
| J216.4 | Soldier asks to be stabbed in chest. Prostrate soldier asks enemy to stab him in chest instead of back in order to save his honor. Captor frees him and the two become friends. Spanish: Childers. |
| P461.2 | Soldier dies happy on learning of enemy's rout. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| P461.3 | Soldier is ordered to set fire to enemy's armada. Is caught and sawed in two. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| J327 | Soldier prefers to live rather than die and be avenged on enemy. Nouvelles Récréations No. 44. |
| P461.1 | Soldier who has had both hands severed fights with his teeth until he is killed. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| P461 | Soldier. *Hdwb. d. Abergl. IX Nachträge 485ff.; Missouri French: Carrière. |
| J1526 | Soldier's practical retort to officer. |
| P551.2 | Soldiers chained (tied) together to prevent flight from battle. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F1084.3 | Soldiers fight so closely river is forced from bed. Irish myth: Cross. |
| E501.2.6 | Soldiers in wild hunt. Plischke 29. |
| F252.3.1 | Soldiers of fairy king are trees by day and men by night. Fb "træ" III 867b. |
| E155.1.2 | Soldiers of magic army constantly revived. Irish myth: *Cross; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F517.1.8 | Soles of man's feet covered with hair. Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 789. |
| J1140.1 | Solomon able to detect truth without evidence of witnesses. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| H561.3 | Solomon and Marcolf. Witty questions and answers between youth and servant. *BP II 359 n. 2; Fb "Salomon"; Swiss: Jegerlehner Oberwallis 317 No. 146. |
| K1501.1 | Solomon as cuckold. *Wesselski Märchen 197. |
| D1711.1.1 | Solomon as master of magicians. **G. Weil Biblische Legenden der Musselmänner (Frankfurt, 1845); *C. C. MacCown Journal of the Palestine Oriental Society II (1922) 1—24; **C. Singer Salomosagen in Deutschland (Zs. f. deutsches Altertum XXXV (1891) 177ff.); *E. A. W. Budge The Queen of Sheba (London, 1922); *M. D. Conway Solomon and Solomonic Literature (Chicago, 1900); St. John D. Seymour Tales of King Solomon (Oxford, 1924); *H. A. Winkler Salomo und die Karina: eine orientalische Legende von der Bezwingung einer Kindbettdämonin (Stuttgart, 1931); *Fb "Salomon" III 146b; Jewish: Neuman. |
| J191.1 | Solomon as wise man. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| J158.1 | Solomon pays heed to angel's warning. Rules wisely. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| J80.1.1 | Solomon proves to his mother the inferiority of woman's wisdom. Lithuanian: Balys Index No. *920B. |
| J369.1 | Solomon refuses water of immortality for himself when he cannot have it for his possessions also. Chauvin II 126 No. 129. |
| L212.2 | Solomon, offered any gift from God, chooses wisdom. Granted wisdom and wealth. Irish myth: Cross. |
| J231.1 | Solomon, permitted by God to make any request, asks wisdom. Granted wisdom and wealth. Irish myth: Cross; Jewish: *Neuman. |
| F785.1 | Solomon's golden throne. Thirty-three steps high. Golden animals on all sides and on steps. *Gaster Exempla 209 No. 115, Jewish: *Neuman. |
| J1171.2 | Solomon's judgment: the divided bride. Three suitors dispute over a woman. When it is proposed to divide her, true lover is discovered. *Type 653; India: Thompson-Balys; Japanese: Ikeda. |
| J1171.1 | Solomon's judgment: the divided child. Two women claim a child. Judge offers to cut it in two. Real mother refuses. *Frazer Old Testament II 570; *Goebel Jüdische Motive im Märchenhaften Erzählungsgut (Gleiwitz, 1932) 21ff.; *Gaidoz Mélusine IV 313, 337, 366, 385, 414, 446, 457; *Köhler-Bolte I 531; *Chauvin VI 63 No. 231.—Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "partage"; Spanish Exempla: Keller; Italian Novella: Rotunda; Jewish: *Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys; N. A. Indian (Menomini): Skinner and Satterlee PaAM XIII 397; Cape Verde Islands: Parsons MAFLS XV (1) 348 n. 1; West Indies: Flowers 479. Cf. Cook Group: Dixon 37 (child actually cut in two to settle dispute). |
| D1335.5.2 | Solomon's power to hold kingdom dependent on ring; drops it in water. Jewish: Neuman. |
| D1810.8.4 | Solution to problem is discovered in dream. England: Baughman. |
| H561 | Solvers of riddles. |
| A2275.6 | Son accidentally kills father, who returns to life as cuckoo and tells people when to sow grain. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| P233.1 | Son as pledge for father who has committed murder. Irish myth: Cross. |
| P233.6 | Son avenges father. English romance: Malory X 21, 34, 36; Icelandic: *Boberg; Jewish: Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys; Africa: Bouveignes 163. |
| S21.2 | Son blinds father. (Cf. Q451.7, S165.) Irish myth: Cross; Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| S21.1 | Son buries aged mother alive. Swiss: Jegerlehner Oberwallis 326 No. 4. |
| P233.9 | Son chastizes father for scorning mother. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| P236.4 | Son deposes father and usurps throne. Irish myth: Cross. |
| D735.4.2 | Son disenchants animal father by enduring his caresses without fear. Africa (Suto): Hoffman Zs. f. Eingeborenen-Spr. XXII 172 No. 11. |
| R154.2.1 | Son frees father by bringing riddle the king cannot solve. (Cf. H542.) Spanish: Boggs FFC XC 112 No. 927*B. |
| S21.3 | Son gives mother as hostage. Irish myth: Cross. |
| H1228.2 | Son goes out to avenge father's death. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| P401 | Son insists on following father's trade. This has been kept secret at request of dying father who was unsuccessful. Son learns from mother. *Cosquin Contes indiens 395ff. |
| S303 | Son killed at instigation of lover. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| N338.3 | Son killed because mistaken for someone else. (Cf. N321.) Icelandic: Boberg; Italian Novella: Rotunda (N366); Greek: Grote I 242; Jewish: Neuman; Philippine (Tinguian): Cole 98. |
| D2031.6.2 | Son made to appear to pursuers as spinning wheel, buck, and hog. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| K649.4 | Son mentioned as daughter in order to save him from enemy's pursuit. Icelandic: Ans saga Bogsv. 359, Boberg. |
| P233.7 | Son must threaten father before he will recognize him as son, even though he brings ring from his mother. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| T148.1 | Son named for mother. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| B635.4 | Son of dog ("cu," person). Irish myth: Cross. |
| A1277.3 | Son of first human couple murdered by tiger sent by god; his head becomes the sun, his chest the moon, and his blood gives the red earth its color. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| J1675.8 | Son of God to see king. When steadily unable to be admitted to presence of a king, a clever man demands an interview saying he is the son of God come down to earth and will condescend to see the king. When asked to show the king Heaven and the path to it, the pretender retorts that when he was sent down by the Father, he was told to look to matters relating to this earth. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A736.5.1 | Son of sun so hot no one can hold it. S. Am. Indian (Caviсa, Tumupasa): Métraux BBAE CXLIII (3) 448. |
| K1921.1 | Son of the king and of the smith exchanged. *Type 920; *DeVries FFC LXXIII 40ff., 320ff. |
| A225 | Son of the sun. Irish myth: Cross.—Central Brazil: Ehrenreich International Congress of Americanists XIV 661; Navaho: Matthews MAFLS V 104ff. |
| B635.4.1 | Son of three dogs ("con," persons). Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q586 | Son on gallows bites his mother's (father's) nose off: punishment for neglect in youth. *Types 756B, 838; *Andrejev FFC LXIX 88; Wienert FFC LVI 83 (ET 493), 128 (ST 365, 499); Halm Aesop No. 351; *Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 19; Crane Vitry 259 No. 287; *Chauvin VIII 113 No. 95 n. 1; Alphabet No. 217. — Spanish Exempla: Keller; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| R154.2.2 | Son recovers father's bones. Hawaii: Beckwith myth 259, 263, 346f.; Tahiti: ibid. 266; Maori: ibid. *249. |
| T131.1.2.4 | Son refuses to marry father's choice. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| R154.2 | Son rescues father. Type 301C*; Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: Boberg; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| R154.1.1 | Son rescues mother from burning at stake. (Cf. R175.) *Dickson 128ff. nn. 98, 99. |
| R154.1 | Son rescues mother. Irish myth: *Cross; India: *Thompson-Balys; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 207. |
| N321 | Son returning home after long absence unwittingly killed by parents. (Cf. N338.3.) Type 939*; Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 939*; Livonian: Loorits FFC LXVI No. 9391. |
| N681.4 | Son returns on day his mother is to be married to another (though her husband still lives). India: Thompson-Balys. |
| H1381.2.2.1 | Son seeks unknown father. *Type 707; BP II 380ff.; Irish myth: *Cross; English: Wells 134 (Sir Degare); India: Thompson-Balys; Marquesas: Handy 61, 131; Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 86, 514, 479; Tonga: Gifford 112. |
| J675.1 | Son slays father in order not to be slain himself. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| S268.2 | Son sold for transfusion of blood to sick king. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q451.3.3.1 | Son stricken dumb as punishment for father's opposition to holy person. (Cf. Q411.3.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| P17.0.2 | Son succeeds father as king. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| L142.3 | Son surpasses father in skill. Jewish: *Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| S112.7 | Son takes mother to woods and tries to burn her up while she sleeps. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| M365.2 | Son to be brave and wise but not to remain and cause mother to weep. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B631.0.1 | Son warns animal mother. Irish myth: Cross. |
| P231.2 | Son warns mother. (Hamlet.) Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| K1613.4 | Son who intends to poison father drinks the poison by mistake. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| T417 | Son-in-law seduces mother-in-law. Italian Novella: Rotunda; N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 305 n. 109s. |
| K344.3 | Son-in-law steals father-in-law's pants by making latter believe he has dirtied them. Chinese: Graham. |
| P265 | Son-in-law. |
| V413 | Son's acts of charity save his father's soul. English: Wells 175 (The Child of Bristowe). |
| D1962.4.2 | Song (crуnán) used to lull children to sleep. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| D1384.5 | Song as protection on journey. (Cf. D1275.) Irish: Plummer clxxix, *Cross; Icelandic: Boberg. |
| D1364.23 | Song causes magic sleep. (Cf. D1275, D1364.24.)—Irish myth: *Cross; Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "chant". |
| H503.1 | Song duel. Contest in singing. Irish myth: *Cross; Eskimo: Alexander N. Am. 282 n. 21. |
| D1731.1 | Song learned in dream. (Cf. D1275.) See story of Caedmon in Bede's Ecclesiastical History, as well as numerous biblical stories of "inspiration"; *Kittredge Witchcraft 222, 529 n. 89.—Pawnee: Dorsey CI LIX 241ff. Nos. 77—116 passim. |
| D1383.4 | Song protects against poison. (Cf. D1275.) Irish: Plummer clxxix, Cross. |
| D1382.7 | Song protects from fire. (Cf. D1275.) Irish: Plummer clxxix, Cross. |
| V234 | Songs of the angels. *Chauvin VI 106 No. 270; *Loomis White Magic 53; Irish myth: *Cross. |
| M271 | Sons agree to meet at father's grave after they have been out in world for one year to learn trade. Chinese: Graham. |
| N832.2 | Sons as helpers. Type 551; Icelandic: Boberg. |
| M256.1 | Sons break promise to have masses for father's soul. "If he is in Hell it will do him no good; if he is in Heaven he won't need it; and if he is in Purgatory he can purge himself." Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K1628 | Sons have servant impersonate dead father and falsify his will. Servant deceives them by favoring himself. Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| F531.6.1.1 | Sons of God and Daughters of men. Before the flood angels have relations with human women: origin of giants. Dh I 294; Krappe Studi e Materiali di Storia delle Religioni IX (1933) 157—172. |
| K335.1.11 | Sons of thief frightened by threatening to bring the three strongest men to punish them. French Canadian: Sister Marie Ursule. |
| R154.2.3 | Sons rescue father. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| H500.1 | Sons tested for skill. Types 653, 660. |
| H501.3 | Sons tested for wisdom; given same amount of money. What will they do with it? India: Thompson-Balys. |
| J1021.1 | Sons united make living; separated fail. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K649.6 | Sons warned by talk to oaks to hide. Icelandic: FSS 13, Boberg. |
| D1712 | Soothsayer (diviner, oracle, etc.). (Cf. M301.) *Kittredge Witchcraft 383ff. nn. 61, 62; Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: MacCulloch Eddic 299, *Boberg; England: Baughman; Estonian: Aarne FFC XXV 138 No. 104; Finnish: Aarne FFC XXXIII 48; Jewish: Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 349; Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 254; Africa (Angola): Chatelain 57 No. 2, 139 No. 13, (Congo): Weeks 202 No. 1. |
| D1712.1 | Soothsayer at work by various methods of divination. Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 3667; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| D1726.0.1 | Soothsaying learned from a god. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F721.2.3 | Sorcerer and books in mountain. Opens only for short periods. Chauvin V 142 No. 69 n. 1. |
| B268.4 | Sorcerer's army of magic animals. Icel.: Þiðriks saga II 271, *Boberg. |
| D1741.8 | Sorcerer's power lost when his teeth are knocked out. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| D1278.2 | Sorcerers use marrow of corpses' bones. Irish myth: Cross. |
| T113.1 | Sorceress marries a man every morning and transforms him to some kind of animal in the evening. (Cf. D621.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| D1749.1 | Sorceress to lose her magic power as soon as one of her transformed husbands seizes her and swallows her. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| C943.3 | Sore eyes from breaking tabu. Eskimo (Cumberland Sound): Boas BAM XV 241. |
| C941.3.1 | Sore mouth as punishment for breaking tabu. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 133; Eskimo (Greenland): Rasmussen II 233. |
| C941.3 | Sores on body from breaking tabu. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| D2161.4.10.4 | Sorrowing father magically restored as lost son approaches. He had lost strength, sight and hearing when son left home. Scotland: Campbell-McKay No. 25. |
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