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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
D
Magic
E
The Dead
F
Marvels
G
Ogres
H
Tests
J
The Wise and the Foolish
K
Deceptions
L
Reversals of Fortune
M
Ordaining the Future
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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
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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 ▲ |
|---|---|
| F494.2 | Spirit of boundaries. Finnish: Holmberg Finno-Ugric 173. |
| F424.1 | Spirit of brook. Philippine (Tinguian): Cole 201. |
| F436 | Spirit of cold. Livonian: Loorits FFC LXVI 38 No. 9; N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 288 nn. 61, 61a. |
| A199.1 | Spirit of deity animates earthen jar when it is placed beneath banyan tree. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F438.2 | Spirit of earthquake has very long mouth. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F438.1 | Spirit of earthquake lives underground (below earth). India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F438 | Spirit of earthquake. |
| A482.1.1 | Spirit of ill-luck a son of a god. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F499.1.1 | Spirit of light. Eskimo (Mackenzie Area): Jenness 62. |
| N121.1.1 | Spirit of new-born child in uniform. God has determined fates of everyone. Type 934*; Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 934C*; Livonian: Loorits FFC LXVI No. 934I. |
| F493 | Spirit of plague. Irish myth: *Cross; Dutch: Sinninghe FFC CXXXII 67f. Nos. 251—283; India: Thompson-Balys; N. A. Indian (Yukon): Alexander N. A. Myth. 78. |
| F433.1 | Spirit of snow. Meyer Altgermanische 104; Icelandic: Boberg. |
| F434 | Spirit of thunder. Livonian: Loorits FFC LXVI 37 Nos. 1, 2, 3; Chinese: Werner 199f.; Eskimo (Greenland): Rasmussen III 61f., (West Hudson Bay): Boas BAM XV 175. |
| F429.1 | Spirit of tide-crack. Eskimo (West Hudson Bay): Boas BAM XV 497, (Mackenzie Area): Jenness 60, 510ff. |
| F437 | Spirit of warmth. Livonian: Loorits FFC LXVI 38 No. 10; N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 288 nn. 61, 61a. |
| F426 | Spirit of water-fall. Icelandic: *Boberg; Germanic: Meyer Altgermanische 103. |
| F405.9 | Spirit overcome by driving stake through body it inhabits. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F241.3.1 | Spirit owns herds of pigs. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F473.6.8 | Spirit plays man's fiddle at night. Wales: Baughman. |
| F402.1.10 | Spirit pursues person. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F473.2.3 | Spirit puts out lights. U.S., Wales: *Baughman. |
| F473.4.1 | Spirit rides horses and mules at night, wears them out. (Cf. F366.2, F471.1.1.1, G265.3.) U.S.: Baughman. |
| F473.6.7 | Spirit shoves wagon into ditch. U.S.: Baughman. |
| F473.6.2 | Spirit slashes clothing. Scotland, U.S.: *Baughman. |
| D49.2 | Spirit takes any form. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F473.6.3 | Spirit takes food from table or cupboard. England, Wales: *Baughman. |
| D42.2 | Spirit takes shape of man. India: *Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 167, 169. |
| F473.6.1 | Spirit tears new paper off rooms in house. England: Baughman. |
| F473.6.5 | Spirit throws back shots fired at it. (Cf. G265.8.3.1.2.) U.S.: Baughman. |
| F414.2 | Spirit transports miser to treasure-wood. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F411.0.1 | Spirit travels with extraordinary speed. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F407.1 | Spirit vanishes in smoke. *Kittredge Witchcraft 215f., 524 n. 26. |
| F401.9 | Spirit with feet turned wrong way. (Cf. F451.2.2.1.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F564.3.5 | Spirit woman sleeps through whole year; eats through the next. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| G312.2 | Spirit-woman in rock devours men and cattle. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F418 | Spirits (demons) hover in air shrieking over battle. (Cf. F411.2.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F406.3 | Spirits allow people with faces to ground to pass. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F400 | Spirits and demons (general). *Encyc. Rel. Ethics s.v. "Demons and Spirits"; Roscher s.v. "Daimon" I 938; Pauly-Wissowa s.v. "Daimon" IV 2010; Wehrhan Die Sage 59f.; *Runeberg Witches, Demons and Fertility Magic (Helsinki, 1947); *Hdwb. d. Abergl. s.v. "Dämonen".—Irish myth: *Cross; Dutch: *Sinninghe FFC CXXXII 52ff.; Livonian: Loorits FFC LXVI 37ff. Nos. 1—39; Slovenian: *L. Kretzenbacher Germanische Mythen in der epischen Volksdichtung der Slowenen (Graz, 1941); Jewish: bin Gorion Born Judas I 316, IV passim, Neuman; Chinese: Werner 402; Africa (Yoruba): Ellis 244. |
| F419 | Spirits and demons—miscellaneous. |
| F418.1 | Spirits answer war cry. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F401.5 | Spirits appear horrible. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| E587.4 | Spirits are always in the air. England: Baughman. |
| F407.1.1 | Spirits ascend to heaven by building fire. New Hebrides: Codrington 379. |
| A104.4 | Spirits become gods. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 45. |
| F417.1 | Spirits borrow from mortals at weddings, return goods later. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F405.3 | Spirits deceived by drum-beats and hoodwinkings. Chinese: Werner 163. |
| F401.1 | Spirits dressed in antique clothes. Swiss: Jegerlehner Oberwallis 309 No. 19. See Irving's Rip Van Winkle. |
| F405.2 | Spirits driven off by knife-thrusts and pistol shots. Swiss: Jegerlehner Oberwallis 313 No. 97. |
| K1715.4.1 | Spirits frightened away by making them think they will be eaten. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 443. |
| F403.1 | Spirits give money to mortal. Swiss: Jegerlehner Oberwallis 319 No. 24. |
| F403.2 | Spirits help mortal. Familiar spirits. **Feilberg Nissens Historie; *Polívka Zs. f. Vksk. XXV 226 n. 8, XXVIII 41 n. 2; Dickson 121 n. 64, 213 n. 143; Kittredge Witchcraft 613 s.v. "familiars".—Irish myth: Cross; Jewish: Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys; Eskimo (Greenland): Rasmussen III 97, 267, (Labrador): Hawkes GSCan XIV 91; West Indies: Flowers 433. |
| F401.3.8 | Spirits in form of snake. Mono-Alu: Wheeler 15, 54. |
| F416.1 | Spirits keep mill from working. Cheremis: Sebeok-Nyerges. |
| F405.8 | Spirits leave when report is made of fire at their home. Denied readmittance. *Taylor Washington University Studies X (Humanistic Series) 77—79 n. 181. |
| F402.6.4.1 | Spirits live in caves. Mono-Alu: Wheeler 6f, 18f, 32, 34, 39, 41f., 46, 49, 51f, 60f, 188. |
| T588.1 | Spirits make child from placenta. Philippine (Tinguian): Cole 185. |
| F493.1 | Spirits of various kinds of disease. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F406 | Spirits propitiated. |
| F470.1 | Spirits pull off person's bedclothes. *Kittredge Witchcraft 217, 524f. nn. 37—44; England, Scotland, Wales, U.S.: *Baughman. |
| F402.1.8 | Spirits put corpse into river. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F417 | Spirits receive their share of everything made at certain specified times. Finnish-Swedish: Wessman 46 No. 380. |
| F416 | Spirits set fire to mill. Meet on Christmas (Easter) night. Cease to meet after mortal spies upon them. Finnish-Swedish: Wessman 46 No. 379. |
| F402.1.3 | Spirits tangle up peasant's cows. Swiss: Jegerlehner Oberwallis 323 No. 121. |
| F403.2.3.3 | Spirits teach boy how to sing. Swiss: Jegerlehner Oberwallis 310 No. 26. |
| F412.1.1 | Spirits visible to only one person. Eskimo (Greenland): Rasmussen III 172. |
| F401.3.5 | Spirits with goose (chicken) feet. Hdwb. d. Abergl. III 225. |
| F401.4 | Spirits without heads (or with heads under arms). *Grunwald Hessische Blätter f. Vksk. XXX—XXXI 317 (cf. F511.0.1., F531.2.1); Irish myth: *Cross. |
| G13 | Spiritual exaltation from eating human flesh. Penzer II 198 n. 1. |
| Q471 | Spitting in face as punishment. Spanish: Espinosa Jr. No. 138; Jewish: *Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| M201.3 | Spitting of all parties into vessel to seal bargain. Icelandic: MacCulloch Eddic 53; England: Baughman. |
| D474.7 | Spittle changes to blood. Jewish: Neuman. |
| D1506.1 | Spittle restores hearing. (Cf. D1001.) Mark 7:33. |
| D1505.2 | Spittle restores sight. (Cf. D1001, D1500.1.8.) India: *Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Graham; Maori: Dixon 59. Cf. Mark 8:23. |
| F725.3.4 | Splendid palace underneath tank. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K344.2 | Spoiling the rice-field with dung. Dupe persuaded that the dung has spoiled the field. He gives the field to the trickster. Indonesia: Coster-Wijsman 25 No. 2. |
| A620 | Spontaneous creation of universe. Greek: *Grote I 4.—Maori: Dixon 6ff.; Marquesas Is.: ibid. 10 n. 13; Tahiti: Henry 343. |
| A620.1 | Spontaneous creation—evolutionary type. From primeval chaos gradually arise worlds and life.—Norse: MacCulloch Eddic 327ff.; Greek: Fox 3f.; Hawaiian: Dixon 15 n. 25, 26, Beckwith Myth 3; Maori: ibid. 6, 7, nn. 2, 3, 4, 5; Marquesas Is.: ibid. 11 n. 14. |
| A620.2 | Spontaneous encroachment of heavens and earth checked by creator. Jewish: Neuman. |
| A1234.3 | Spontaneous generation. Scientists find child on deserted island. They suggest that he has emerged from the ground. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Z311.2 | Spot below right ear only vulnerable one. Irish myth: Cross. |
| A2412.1.2 | Spots on leopard. Liberian: Bundy JAFL XXXII 411f. |
| A751.6.1 | Spots on moon a banyan tree planted there by creator to diminish its light. India: Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Graham. |
| S63 | Spouse murder pact. Princess kills her husband. Prince kills his wife. Murderers marry and usurp the throne. Italian Novella: Rotunda; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T211.4 | Spouse's corpse kept after death. |
| D927.3 | Spring augments milk of nursing mothers who drink its water. *Loomis White Magic 38. |
| A941.4.2.1 | Spring breaks forth at need of demigod's warriors. Icel.: Herrmann Saxo II 216, MacCulloch Eddic 134, Boberg. |
| A941.4.2 | Spring breaks forth at primitive hero's need. Irish myth: Cross. |
| A941.5.3 | Spring breaks forth through power of saint at place where leper pulls out clump of rushes. Irish myth: Cross. |
| A941.5 | Spring breaks forth through power of saint. Irish myth: Cross; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A941.4 | Spring breaks forth to commemorate experiences of hero (deity). (Cf. A901, A913.1, A920.1.4.) |
| A941.4.1 | Spring breaks forth to commemorate place of death or burial. Irish myth: Cross; Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 188. |
| A941.5.4 | Spring breaks forth where animal delivers book left behind by saint. Irish myth: Cross. |
| A941.1.2 | Spring breaks forth where fairy horse lies down. Irish myth: Cross. |
| A941.3.1 | Spring breaks forth where magic spear strikes ground. (Cf. A941.5.1.). Irish myth: Cross. |
| A941.5.1 | Spring breaks forth where saint smites rock. (Cf. A941.3.1.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| A941.5.5 | Spring breaks forth where saint's stolen cow is found. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F933.1.1 | Spring bursts forth where saint spills water from his bell. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| D927.4 | Spring follows saint to his country. *Loomis White Magic 38. |
| A941.7.1 | Spring from beneath world-tree. Icel.: MacCulloch Eddic 330-333; Jewish: Neuman. |
| A941.5.8 | Spring from innocent king's blood. Icel.: Boberg. |
| A941.7.2 | Spring from roots of sacred tree when arrow is shot into it. Fiji: Beckwith Myth 317. |
| A941.3 | Spring from striking earth with sword. Sébillot France II 181ff.; Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 114 No. 69. |
| A941.1.1 | Spring from urine of horse. (Cf. A920.1.6., A933.)—Irish myth: Cross. |
| D1311.3.1 | Spring gives omens. (Cf. D927.)—Type 709; Böklen Sneewittchenstudien (Leipzig, 1915) 73; *Kittredge Witchcraft 34, 394 n. 116. |
| D927.1 | Spring made by magic. P. Saintyves Le Miracle de l'apparition des eaux (Revue de l'Université de Bruxelles 1912, 265—94).—Germanic: De la Saussaye 254 (Balder); French Canadian: Barbeau JAFL XXIX 12; Jewish *Neuman. |
| F933.6 | Spring miraculously breaks forth against wrongdoer. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| D927.5 | Spring runs dry (as result of fratricide). Irish myth: *Cross. |
| A941.3.2 | Spring where god throws his staff or spear. Oceanic: Beckwith Myth 64ff. |
| F716.2 | Spring with water lighter than wood and with scent of violets. (Cf. F715.10.) Hdwb. d. Märchens s.v. "Glassarg". |
| A941.7 | Springs from beneath magic (holy) object. |
| A941.1 | Springs originate from horse's hoof-prints. (Cf. A901.)—Malten Jahrb. d. kaiserlichen deutschen archäologischen Inst. XXIX 185.—Icel.: MacCulloch Eddic 134, 328, Herrmann Saxo II 216; Greek: Fox 40, 213; Hungarian: Ipolyi Zs. f. deutsche Mythologie u. Sittenkunde II 273; German: Hdwb. d. deutschen Aberglaubens s.v. "Brunnen"; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A941.2 | Springs originate from tears. (Cf. A901, A911.)—Greek: Fox 41; Jewish: Neuman. |
| Q87.1.1 | Spurned ruler has the maiden marry highest ranking knight. Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| Q87.1.3 | Spurned suitor is offered girl by her mother. He rewards her refusal by a gift of money. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K2111.2 | Spurned woman accuses man of theft. Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| K1663 | Spying parent jolted in basket. A lover is let down into a girl's room at night in a basket. The spying parent stumbles into the basket and is jolted about by the lover's confederate. The parent thinks the devil has got him and leaves the lovers in peace. von der Hagen III 36 No. 55; English: Child No. 281. |
| J2082 | Squaring accounts by shaving the wife. A numskull has paid twice the regular amount for a shave. The barber shaves the wife. Clouston Noodles 180. |
| A137.6 | Squatting god. Irish myth: Cross. |
| A2241.7 | Squirrel borrows coney's tail. When coney's tail is not returned, he goes in shame to live among rocks. (Cf. A2378.1.5, A2433.3.5.)—Ila (Rhodesia): Smith and Dale 357 No. 10. |
| B563.3 | Squirrel points out road. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B375.4 | Squirrel released: grateful and helpful. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A2281.2 | Squirrel steals dog's needle: enmity between them. (Cf. A2494.4.1.) —Finnish: Aarne FFC VIII 11 No. 52. |
| J133.5 | Squirrel tries to dip out lake with his tail: difficulty of reforming the world. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A2302.3 | Squirrel's body made smaller. (See A2213.1.)—Dh III 2. |
| A2426.1.2.1 | Squirrel's call: asks whether viper (who ate up his children) is his friend. Bulu: Krug 106. |
| A2221.8 | Squirrel's markings and immunity from falling as reward by deity. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B256.2 | St. Anthony's pigs. Pigs dedicated to saint held sacred.—Italian. Novella: Rotunda. |
| D1840.1.3 | St. Cecilia withstands three blows of beheading sword and lives three days after. *Loomis White Magic 116. |
| J556.1 | St. George teaches the poor man, "Who steals somewhat and lies somewhat will be rich." Type 790*. |
| A287.2 | St. Peter as ruler for the air and rain. Often misunderstands the orders of God.—Lithuanian: Balys Legends No. 31. |
| J1616 | St. Peter not guiltless. Soldiers are admitted neither to hell nor to heaven. They remind Peter of his denial of Christ. He admits them. *Wesselski Bebel I 155 No. 84. |
| A2623 | St. Peter's grass. Created by the saint as medicine for snakebite. Lithuanian: Balys Legends No. 301. |
| Q291.1 | St. Peter's mother dropped from heaven because of hardheartedness. She is permitted to go to heaven on a stalk, but is weighted down by people holding to her skirts. She shakes them off. (Cf. Q172.) *Type 804; *BP III 538; Köhler-Bolte I 60. |
| T251.3 | St. Peter's wife meets him with a broom handle. She is waiting for him at the rear door of the house. Type 754**. |
| B232.1 | St. Valentine's Day for bird assembly. Sartori Sitte u. Brauch III 88; M. Höfler Das Jahr im oberbayerischen Volksleben (München 1899) 11; G. L. Gomme (ed) Mother Bunch's Closet Newly Broke Open (Leipzig 1839) II (1) 357f.; E. Schröder Korrespondenzblatt des Vereins f. niederdeutsche Sprachforschung XXXVI (1917—1918) 77; *Seelman (cf. B215 above); Sächs "Das Regiment der anderthalbhundert Vögel" (Stuttgart Verein CV) 278ff. |
| L113.1.2 | Stable-boy as hero. Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "garçon"; Missouri French: Carrière. |
| D1300.5 | Staff gives magic wisdom. (Cf. D1254.) Jewish: Neuman. |
| E64.1.1 | Staff of life and death. Black staff kills; brown one restores to life. India: Thompson-Balys; Africa (Basuto): Jacottet 266 No. 40. |
| D1381.32 | Staff protects from attack. (Cf. D1254.) Jewish: Neuman. |
| A2211.13 | Stag defeated by snail vomits his gall-bladder. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| N255.1 | Stag escapes from hunters to be eaten by lion. Wienert FFC LVI *49, 55 (ET 86, 152), 116, 136 (ST 261, 417); Halm Aesop No. 129, 252. |
| J1032 | Stag found by master when overlooked by servants. Hides under hay and escapes until master himself comes. *Type 162**; Jacobs Aesop 207 No. 30. |
| K813 | Stag killed by lion into whose den the fox puts him. Wienert FFC LVI 49 (ET 85), 97 (ST 106, 192); Halm Aesop No. 243; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| L461 | Stag scorns his legs but is proud of his horns. Caught by his horns in trees. *Type 77; Wienert FFC LVI 65 (ET 285), 140 (ST 465); Halm Aesop No. 128; *Crane Vitry 254 No. 274; Herbert III 23; Jacobs Aesop 206 No. 25. |
| B736.5 | Stag sheds tears. German: Grimm No. 11. |
| B101.4.2 | Stag with gold and silver on horns and neck, and a silver bell. Göngu-Hrуlfs saga 273. |
| B101.4.1 | Stag with golden antlers and silver feet. Irish myth: Cross. |
| B731.7.1 | Stag with stripe of every color. Irish myth: Cross. |
| A132.4 | Stag-god. Irish myth: Cross. |
| A2241.1 | Stag's horns borrowed from dog. (Cf. A2326.1.1.)—Dh. III 131. |
| B841.4 | Stags live one thousand years. Tupper and Ogle Map 4. |
| B292.4 | Stags plow for man. Also draw chariot, bear burdens, and allow saints to use their horns as a book rest—Saints' legend (Irish): Plummer cxliii—cxliv; Irish myth: Cross; English: Baughman. |
| B256.9 | Stags plow for saint. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F94 | Stair to lower world. *Siuts 54. |
| F848.5 | Staircase of glass. *Roberts 178. |
| D1413.4 | Stairs to which person sticks. (Cf. D1144.) Spanish: Boggs FFC XC 49 No. 330. |
| F1093 | Stake miraculously bent during night. Irish myth: Cross. |
| N2.0.2 | Stakes not claimed by winner, who insists on another game. Scottish: Campbell-McKay No. 17. |
| F51.1.3 | Stalk as sky-rope. *Type 804. |
| Q541.1.1 | Standing in (Jordan and Tigris) rivers as penance (by Adam and Eve). (Cf. A1331.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F150.3.2 | Standing stone surrounded by withe as challenge at entrance of otherworld. (Cf. F149.1.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| J1738.5 | Standing up for the friendless. Preacher in backwoods asks congregation members who are friends of Jesus to rise. No one rises. "What, are there no friends of Jesus in this house?" A cowboy rises to his feet: "Stranger, I don't know who this man Jesus is. I never heard of him before, but I'll stand up for any man who hasn't got any more friends than he has." U.S.: Baughman. |
| F546.3 | Star (cross) on breast. Panzer Hilde-Gudrun 207; Dixon 48; Icelandic: Lagerholm Drei Lygisögur 87, Boberg. |
| D1291.2 | Star as magic object. Irish myth: Cross; Jewish: Neuman. |
| E741.1.1.2 | Star as sign of birth of hero. Irish myth: Cross. |
| A762 | Star descends as human being. Persian: Carnoy 269; India: Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 56. |
| F962.3 | Star drops from heaven: is money. BP III 233. |
| A760.2 | Star from union of girl with peacock. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| D1314.13 | Star indicates location of newborn hero. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F961.2.8 | Star moves from west to east. Jewish: Neuman. |
| D1314.13.1 | Star of Bethlehem. Irish myth: Cross. |
| H71.1 | Star on forehead as sign of royalty. *Type 707; *BP I 102, II 380, 393; *Fb "stjærne" III 577b, "guldstjærne" I 515a; Köhler-Bolte I 119; Dickson 48; Swiss: Jegerlehner Oberwallis 311 No. 56; Spanish: Espinosa Jr. No. 137; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F961.2.3 | Star shines in day. Irish myth: Cross. |
| V211.1.2 | Star shines through day of Nativity. (Cf. F961.2.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| F961.2.7 | Star swallows four other stars. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| A255 | Star-deity and drought-demon fight. Persian: Carnoy 268. |
| A250 | Star-god. Gressmann Die hellenistische Gestirnreligion (Leipzig 1925). —Chinese: Werner 106; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A762.1 | Star-husband. Star takes mortal maiden as wife.—**Thompson "The Star-husband Tale," Studia Septentrionalia IV (Oslo 1953) 93-163; N. A. Indian: Thompson Tales 330 n. 193, Alexander N. Am. 94, Hatt Asiatic Influences. Cf. Estonian: Loorits Grundzüge I 538f. |
| T111.2.1.1 | Star-wife gives birth to a human baby. Chinese: Graham. |
| J2133.8 | Stargazer falls into well. Wienert FFC LVI 85 (ET 514), 107 (ST 194); Halm Aesop No. 72; Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| F961.2.4 | Stars and planets speak. Jewish: Neuman. |
| A761.5 | Stars are men peering through holes in sky. Eskimo (Kodiak): Golder JAFL XVI 30. |
| A764.4 | Stars are transformed spittle of the moon. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A769.1 | Stars are trees growing on the clouds. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| G11.8.1 | Stars as cannibals. Philippine (Tinguian): Cole 109, 111; Tuamotu: Stimson MS (T-G. 3/931). |
| A764.1.3 | Stars as children of sun and moon. Africa (Fang): Trilles 171, 174. |
| A764.1.1 | Stars as children of sun eaten by their father. Hence no stars in the day.—Frazer Ovid III 205; Hatt Asiatic Influences 74f.—India: Thompson-Balys; Africa (Fang): Trilles 172. |
| A764.1 | Stars as children of the moon. Cook Zeus I 523 n. 6.—Jewish: Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys; Indonesian: Kruyt Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land-, en Volkenkunde van Nederlandsch-Indië LXXIX 470; Philippines: Beckwith Myth 537; S. Am. Indian (Amyara): Tschopik BBAE CXLIII (2) 571. |
| A121 | Stars as deities. H. Gressmann Die hellenistische Gestirn-religion (Leipzig 1925); Gaster Thespis 228f.—Zuсi: Alexander N. Am. 187. |
| A764.2 | Stars as drops of the moon's blood. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A761.4 | Stars as fires in the hearths of ghosts. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A764 | Stars as pieces of the moon. *BP I 232; Köhler-Bolte I 484, 505; Jewish: Neuman. |
| A761.3 | Stars as transformed lovers. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A760.1 | Stars created by creator. Jewish: Neuman. |
| F961.2.9 | Stars drop on grave during conjuration. (Cf. F962.3.) Eskimo (Greenland): Rink 276. |
| A1051.1 | Stars fall down at end of world. *Olrik Ragnarök 482 s. v. "Sterne"; Irish myth: Cross. |
| A763.1 | Stars from arrows shot at sky. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A763 | Stars from objects thrown into sky. Germanic: Herrmann Nordische Mythologie 365, 440; Icel.: MacCulloch Eddic 328; India: Thompson-Balys; Siberian: Holmberg Siberian 431.—African: Frobenius Atlantis I 85.—Fox: Jones PAES I 73. |
| D1812.5.1.6 | Stars furnish omens. |
| A763.2 | Stars hung by god in heavens to decorate it. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| J2271.2.2 | Stars made from the old moon. *Wesselski Hodscha Nasreddin I 208 No. 10. |
| A769.2 | Stars rebel against God. Jewish: Neuman. |
| A767 | Stars sing together. Hebrew: Job 38:7; Jewish: Neuman; Pawnee: Alexander N. Am. 110. |
| A769.3 | Stars supervised by angels. Jewish: Neuman. |
| A761.6 | Stars thought of as living beings. S. Am. Indian (Warrau): Kirchoff BBAE CXLIII (3) 879. |
| D2105.1.1 | Starvation prevented by composition of hymn. (Cf. D1275.3.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| J2214.10 | Starving colt fierce from hunger, but fool refuses to feed it lest it become fiercer. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| S362 | Starving parents come to abandoned child for food. Jewish: *Neuman (Joseph); Sulka of New Britain: Dixon 132 n. 2; N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 349 n. 255. |
| G72.2 | Starving woman abandoned in cave eats newborn child. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| D1317.9 | Statue gives warning. (Cf. D1268.) |
| D1639.4 | Statue laughs and reveals crime. *Bolte Reise der Söhne Giaffers 216; Penzer VII 211. |
| K1972.1 | Statue made to raise its arm. Woman wishing to go on pilgrimage (to meet lover) makes believe that statue of saint has raised its arm in answer to her prayer. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| J1794 | Statue mistaken for living original. (Cf. K1840.) Icelandic: Boberg. |
| K661.2 | Statue mourned and buried in order to account for murdered person. *Chauvin VI 15 No. 188. |
| D1469.13.1 | Statue of eagle gives wealth. Jewish: Neuman. |
| D1620.1.4 | Statue of Virgin sews for suppliant. Spanish: Boggs FFC XC 100 No. 849B. |
| D1625.1 | Statue sheds tears of blood. (Cf. D1624.) Jewish: Neuman. |
| D1625 | Statue weeps. *Loomis White Magic 124; Swiss: Jegerlehner Oberwallis 329 No. 41. |
| F855.2 | Statues animated by water or wind. *Chauvin VI 53 No. 218. |
| D1654.7 | Statues that cannot be removed. (Cf. D1268.) Basset RTP XXVI 22 and succeeding numbers. |
| A857 | Steadying the earth. India: Thompson-Balys; Jewish: Neuman. |
| D2161.2.1 | Steaks cut from live cow who heals herself by magic. Swiss: Jegerlehner Oberwallis 294 No. 7. |
| G610.3 | Stealing from ogre as task. *Type 328; *BP III 21 n. 1; Christiansen 45 No. 328; Italian: Basile Pentamerone III No. 7; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| G610.1 | Stealing from ogre for revenge. *Type 328. |
| G610.2 | Stealing from ogre to help a friendly king. *Type 328. |
| K188 | Stealing only a small amount. A man promises in confession to steal only a small amount. He steals a rope with a mare on the end of it. Spanish: Boggs FFC XC 146 No. 1800A; West Indies: Flowers 498. |
| K362.3.1 | Stealing the platter for the intended gift. Thief asks for silver platter saying that it is needed for an intended gift of confections. Servant carrying platter is told to wait until it is filled. Thief disappears with it. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| J1781.1 | Steamship thought to be the devil. Type 1315*. |
| E434.5 | Steel as protection against revenants. Fb "stеl" III 647a. |
| F771.1.4 | Steel castle (house). Persian: Carnoy 335. |
| G273.7.2 | Steel driven into witch's track immobilizes her. England, U.S.: *Baughman. |
| F384.2 | Steel powerful against fairies. Fb "stеl" III 647a; Wales, U.S.: Baughman. |
| G272.1 | Steel powerful against witches. Fb "stеl" III 647a; England, U.S.: Baughman. |
| F491.3.3 | Steel protects person from Will-o'-the-Wisp. U.S.: Baughman. |
| V282 | Stella Maris: Virgin Mary as protectress of sailors. Canney Revue de l'Histoire des Religions CXV (1937) 90ff.; Krappe Review of Religion (1948) 376ff. |
| P283 | Stepbrother. |
| P283.1 | Stepbrothers kill devastating monsters. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| L55 | Stepdaughter heroine. *Types 403, 425, 432, 450, 480, 510, 709; BP I 226; *Roberts 109; Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 481*; Missouri French: Carrière; Italian: Basile Pentamerone I No. 6. |
| P281.1 | Stepfather as foster father. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| P281.2 | Stepfather murdered. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| P281 | Stepfather. |
| P282.3 | Stepmother in love with stepson. (Cf. T418.) Irish myth: Cross; Greek: Euripides Hippolytus; Chinese-Persian: *Coyajee JPASB XXIV 192. |
| S322.4.3 | Stepmother irritates two stepsons so that one kills the other. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| P282.2 | Stepmother mourns her stepsons' death, not her own son's. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| P282 | Stepmother. Irish myth: Cross; Missouri French: Carrière. |
| P280 | Steprelatives. |
| F725.1 | Steps to submarine world. Tobler 76. |
| P284 | Stepsister. (Cf. K2212.1.) Icelandic: Boberg; Missouri French: Carrière. |
| K2129.3 | Stepsisters scatter sugar in girl's litter so that flies congregate; would-be bridegroom disgusted and tells bearers to abandon her in jungle. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| D5.1.1 | Stepson cursed to stick in grave mound till pretty girl wants to substitute for him. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
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