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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
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Deceptions
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Reversals of Fortune
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Ordaining the Future
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Chance and Fate
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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 ▲ |
|---|---|
| F1015.1.1 | The danced-out shoes. Every morning girl's shoes are danced to pieces. *Type 306; BP III 78; *Fb "sko" III 288b; Finnish: Aarne FFC XXXIII 39 No. 8**. |
| J2066.2 | The daw waits in vain for the figs to ripen in winter. Wienert FFC LVI 45 (ET 25), 119 (ST 288); Halm Aesop 199. |
| E545.0.2 | The dead are silent. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| E545.19.1 | The dead cannot speak until spoken to. England, U.S., Wales: *Baughman. |
| E228 | The dead daughter reproaches her mother for putting her dowery into coffin. Lithuanian: Balys Ghosts. |
| E545.17 | The dead foretell the future. (Cf. E363.3, E576.) U.S.: Baughman; Jewish: *Neuman. |
| J2621 | The dead girl frightens father and lover. The girl dies. The lover, thinking that she is asleep, talks to her. When he hears the father speak of her as dead he is frightened that he has talked to the dead. The father hears the lover talk and thinks that it is the girl's spirit. Both flee. Africa (Vai): Ellis 204 No. 21. |
| E547.1 | The dead groan. North Carolina: Brown Collection I 681, 685. |
| E545.14 | The dead hear saint's bell. (Cf. D1213.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| E556.1.1 | The dead man asks for whiskey. Lithuanian: Balys Ghosts. |
| J2311.5 | The dead man in spite of himself. Neighbors who have heard of the numskull's death insist on the funeral although he is alive and well. He is persuaded and is carried on a bier. They meet a busy man whom they try to persuade to join them. He pleads business. The "dead" man speaks: "It's no use, friend, to try to dissuade them." *Wesselski Hodscha Nasreddin I 239 No. 121; Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| J2311.4 | The dead man speaks up. A numskull who has lain down thinking he is dead is carried off in a bier. The carriers lose their way. He speaks up, "I always went that way when I was alive." Wesselski Hodscha Nasreddin I 216f. No. 49; Italian Novella: *Rotunda; India: Thompson-Balys. Cf. Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 860. |
| E443.2.1.1 | The dead man: "Sell my golden teeth and pay for a mass for my soul." Lithuanian: Balys Ghosts. |
| E215 | The Dead Rider (Lenore). Dead lover returns and takes sweetheart with him on horseback. She is sometimes saved at the grave by the crowing of the cock, though the experience is usually fatal. *Type 365; *Fb "død" I 228a, "ride" III 53a, "spøgelse" III 520ab; Krumbacher Zs. f. vgl. Litt. N. F. I (1887) 214—220; Wlislocki ibid. N.F. XI (1897) 467; Borker Germania XXXI 117; Dieterich Zs. f. Vksk. XII 147;—England: Child V 60ff., 303; England, U.S.: *Baughman; Finnish-Swedish: Wessman 4 No. 28. |
| E546 | The dead sing. (Cf. E371.3.) *Type 4031; *Fb "hvid" I 700b; Irish myth: *Cross; New York: Jones JAFL LVII 244. |
| E545 | The dead speak. Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg; Jewish: *Neuman; West Indies: Flowers 431; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| E547 | The dead wail (Cf. E402ff.) Fb "kirkeklokke" II 131a; Jewish: Neuman. |
| X111.13 | The deaf bishop. The drunken priest says, "In the morning I take a drink of rum and afterwards four or five little drinks." Type 1698M. |
| X111.6 | The deaf man and the proud nobleman. A nobleman amuses himself at the expense of the deaf man. Finally—Nobleman: I wish you a thousand gallows and ropes around your neck.—Peasant: My lord, I wish you twice as many. Type 1698F; *Aarne FFC XX 39ff. |
| X111.8 | The deaf man with the bird in the tree. A traveller asks the way and the man keeps telling him about the bird he has caught. (The questions and answers often rhyme.) Type 1698H; Aarne FFC XX 41ff. |
| X111.12 | The deaf parson. The youth answers unintelligibly but is praised nevertheless. Type 1698L. |
| Z32.1.1 | The death of the cock. (Der Tod des Hühnchens.) The cock chokes and the hen seeks aid of objects and persons (stream, tree, pig, miller, baker, etc.). *Taylor JAFL XLVI 82 No. 2021A; BP II 146; **Haavio FFC XCIX; **Wesselski Hessische Blätter f. Vksk. XXXII 2ff. |
| Z32.2.1 | The death of the little hen described with unusual words. Each act of mourning described by a neologism: the table untables itself. (First ed. Z31.2.2.1.) (Cf. X1506.) *Taylor JAFL XLVI 82 No. 2022A, Hdwb. d. Märchens II 177a; Tegethoff Französische Märchen II 78 No. 18; Rolland Rimes et jeux d'enfance (1881) 119f.; Kristensen Danske Dyrefabler 98ff. No. 171ff. |
| Z32.2 | The death of the little hen. She is characteristically mourned by objects and animals; e.g., flea, door, broom, cart, ashes, tree, girl. (First ed. Z31.2.2.) *Taylor JAFL XLVI 82 No. 2022A; *BP I 293; Parsons JAFL XXXIII 37; Missouri French: Carrière; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| K226 | The debt will be returned to the devil when the pigs walk instead of run home. Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 1183A*. |
| B253.5 | The deer with a cross carried between their horns. *Loomis White Magic 61. |
| D791.1.3 | The deliverer in the cradle. Enchanted person can be delivered by child rocked in a cradle made from an oak sapling after it has grown great. **Ranke Der Erlöser in der Wiege; Hartland Science 244f; *Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 80. |
| F451.9.2 | The destination of emigrating dwarfs. |
| G303.9.7.3 | The devil advises a suspicious husband. The Ring of Hans Garvel. Appears in a dream and hands the husband a ring. "When you wear this ring you will be sure of your wife." He awakens to understand the obscene implication. Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles no. 11; Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| G303.9.7 | The devil advises human beings. |
| G303.11.5.1 | The devil and his nine daughters. Irish myth: Cross. |
| G303.11.2.1 | The devil and his son fight over division of the earth. Dh I 135. |
| G303.23 | The devil and the ark. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| G303.6.3.1.1 | The devil appears during thunderstorm, seeking shelter among people. Swedish, Lappish, Finnish, Estonian, Livonian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Russian, White Russian: *Balys Tautosakos Darbai VI 87—100. |
| G303.3.1.6 | The devil as a black man. Wünsche Teufel 30f., 106f., Fb I 266b; Irish: *Cross, O'Suilleabhain 35f., Beal XXI 313. |
| G303.9.1 | The devil as a builder. *Broderius 27, 58; Boberg FFC CLI. |
| G303.3.1.3 | The devil as a distinguished-looking knight. Wünsche Teufel 61f. |
| G303.3.1.21 | The devil as a great hairy man. England: Baughman. |
| G303.3.1.1 | The devil as a large, strong man. Henne-Am Rhyn Deutsche Volkssage (1874) 278. |
| G303.3.1.5 | The devil as a little, gray old man. Wessman 12 No. 99; Wünsche Teufel 52f.; Lithuanian: Balys Legends Nos. 440, 448, 458. |
| G303.9.4 | The devil as a tempter. Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: Boberg; Jewish: *Neuman. |
| G303.3.1.2 | The devil as a well-dressed gentleman. Wünsche Teufel 37f., 54, 59f.; Irish myth: Cross; Scotch: Campbell Superstitions 293; U.S.: Baughman; Georgia Negro: Harris Remus 32; Finnish-Swedish: Wessman 8 No. 66; Lithuanian: Balys Legends Nos. 347ff., 353, 357, 361, 363f., 367ff., 402, 413, 415, 425ff., 430f., 433ff., 437ff., 441—47, 449ff., 454, 456ff., 461, 464, 466, 655ff., 684f., 737, 764, 766, 772, 776, 786f., 803, 805, 808, 844; Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| G303.9.5 | The devil as an abductor. Fb I 266a, 267a; Dh I 176; French: Sébillot France II 38, IV 341; Jewish: *Neuman; West Indies: Flowers 448f. |
| G303.9.9.11 | The devil as tailor to a dandy. The dandy demands clothes sewed without thread. The devil disguised as a tailor makes them. In church the dandy's clothes fall to pieces, leaving him naked. Lithuanian: Balys Legends Nos. 685ff. |
| G303.3.6.3.1 | The devil cannot change into a sheep. Dh I 165. |
| G303.1.4.1 | The devil creates devils by casting water behind himself. |
| G303.1.4 | The devil creates other devils. Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 3001. |
| G303.14.1 | The devil destroys by night what is built by day. Wünsche Teufel 30; French: Sébillot France IV 46; Canada, England, Scotland: *Baughman. |
| G303.17.3.1 | The devil dies of a nosebleed resulting from overheat. Wünsche Teufel 84f. |
| G303.17.3.2 | The devil dies when he is fastened in hell's door by his beard. German: Henne-Am Rhyn (1874) 276f. |
| G303.5.3 | The devil dressed in red. French: Sébillot France II 29. |
| A977.3.1 | The devil drops stones from apron. (Cf. A963.1.)—England, Ireland: *Baughman. |
| G303.16.14 | The devil exorcised. Alphabet No. 595; Wünsche Teufel 104f., 106f.; Fb I 267a; Irish: *Cross, Beal XXI 315; Finnish-Swedish: Wessman 14 No. 132, 15 Nos. 133, 134; Lithuanian: Balys Index No. *1169; Swiss: Jegerlehner Oberwallis 328 No. 28; Spanish Exempla: Keller; Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| G303.9.6 | The devil fights. |
| K485 | The devil gets into the ark. The devil wants to know what Noah is doing when he is building the ark. He forbids Noah's wife to enter the ark until Noah has also invited him. *Type 825; *Dh I 258; Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 3100, Legends Nos. 192—195. |
| V29.8 | The devil goes to confession. Performs very severe penance, but cannot bear to humble himself and to stoop before the altar. (Cf. G303.16.9.) Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 818*. |
| G303.4.5.4 | The devil has goat feet. Irish: O'Suilleabhain 92, Beal XXI 330; England: Baughman; German: Henne-Am Rhyn (Leipzig, 1874) 278. |
| G303.4.2.1 | The devil has six wings. Dh I 138. |
| G303.4.2.2 | The devil has twelve wings. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| G303.24.1.9 | The devil has two books—one book small for sins of clerics, erased by confession; the other large for unconfessed sins of lay folks. Irish myth: *Cross (G303.24.1.11). |
| M216.1 | The devil helps man study for priesthood. For this, he must promise the devil his soul. Having become a great priest, the man finds means to save himself. Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 3266, Legends Nos. 400ff. |
| G303.22 | The devil helps people. Irish myth: Cross; West Indies: Flowers 451; Jewish: Neuman. |
| G303.9.3 | The devil hires out. |
| G303.3.3 | The devil in animal form. *Loomis White Magic 74; Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| G303.24 | The devil in church. |
| G303.8.3 | The devil in hell. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| G303.3.1 | The devil in human form. *Loomis White Magic 74; Danielsson Vol. II; Scala Celi 42b, 45a Nos. 243, 255; Irish: *Cross; Beal XXI 307, 313, 315, 330; Spanish: Espinosa Jr. Nos 70, 83, 91—93, 155, 200, 218; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 617. |
| G303.3.2 | The devil in superhuman from. |
| K1555.2 | The devil in the barrel. The naked lover hides himself in a sooty barrel. The husband receives from a curious gentleman a good sum of money for showing him the "devil". Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 2900*; Cheremis: Sebeok-Nyerges. |
| X424 | The devil in the cemetery. A sexton hears thieves in the cemetery cracking nuts and thinks it is the devil cracking bones. With the gouty parson on his back he comes upon the thieves who, thinking it is their companion with the sheep, call out, "Is he fat?" The sexton: "Fat or lean, here he is!" *Type 1791; *BP III 395; *Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 82; Scala Celi 101b No. 547; Alphabet No. 333; U.S., England: *Baughman; Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 1791, Legends No. 889. |
| G303.9.3.4 | The devil is always to blame. Even when he tries to be helpful to man. Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 3340, Legends Nos. 659—663; Estonian: Aarne FFC XXV 41 No. 49. |
| G303.9.6.0.1 | The devil is armed. Irish myth: Cross. |
| G303.1.3.2 | The devil is created out of a bubble. Dh I 19, 66f. |
| G303.1.3.3 | The devil is created out of sea-foam. Dh I 19. |
| G303.1.3 | The devil is created without the special aid of God. |
| G303.1.3.1 | The devil is developed from man. Dh I 4f.; West Indies: Flowers 447. |
| G303.16.14.4 | The devil is exorcised with bell, book, and candle. U.S.: Baughman. |
| M216.2 | The devil makes the herdsman's son a priest in return for a whistle. After quarreling with the devil, who asked to repair the whistle during Mass, the priest forgets all he learned and does not know how to hold Mass. Is beaten. Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 3269, Legends Nos. 413f. |
| G303.1.1 | The devil originates from God. Dh I 12; Jewish: Neuman. |
| G303.1.1.2.1 | The devil originates from the spittle of an evil man. Cheremis: Sebeok-Nyerges. |
| G303.10.12 | The devil owns the reeds. Dh I 187. |
| G303.9.2 | The devil performs deeds of unusual strength. |
| D1454.1.1.1 | The devil runs hands through his hair; coins fall to the floor. U.S.: *Baughman. |
| G303.9.3.1.1 | The devil takes service with a farmer in return for the bread he stole. Punishes the evil landowner and makes his master prosperous. Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 3290, Legends Nos. 505—511. |
| G303.19 | The devil takes the hindmost. (Cf. F1038.2.) England: Baughman. |
| G303.9.4.2.1 | The devil teaches man how to hang himself. Lithuanian: Balys Legends Nos. 610—614. |
| A977.2.2 | The devil throws stones at church or churchmen. (Cf. A963.4.) —England: *Baughman. |
| G303.13.4 | The devil tries to learn a trade; he fails miserably at all but versemaking. He now loiters in alehouses, sings songs. Scotland: Baughman. |
| A977.4 | The devil turns object or animal to stone which is still seen. England, U.S.: *Baughman. |
| G303.20.5 | The devil unpeels a bold woman's skin. Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 3257, Legends Nos. 378—387. |
| A1751 | The devil's animals and God's. In the contest between God and the devil, certain animals are made by each. Dh. I 164 (with lists of the animals). Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 3081, Legends Nos. 124-130; German: Grimm No. 148. |
| G303.25.15 | The devil's animals. |
| G303.11.2.2 | The devil's children and grandchildren do his work for him. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| E411.2.2 | The devil's concubine haunts after her death. Lithuanian: Balys Ghosts. |
| G303.11.5 | The devil's daughter. Irish myth: Cross. |
| G303.17 | The devil's disappearance from the world. |
| G303.4.1.7 | The devil's face. |
| G303.4.5 | The devil's feet and legs. |
| A972.2.2 | The devil's footprint. Eng., Wales, U.S.: *Baughman. |
| G303.11.4 | The devil's grandmother. **Lehmann Dania VIII 179ff. |
| G303.4.1 | The devil's head. |
| Q338.2 | The devil's likeness. A squire demands somebody to paint a living picture of the devil; when he sees it, he dies. Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 3355, Legends Nos. 681—84. |
| G303.21.3 | The devil's money is hot. U.S.: *Baughman. |
| G303.21 | The devil's money. |
| G303.11.3 | The devil's mother. Irish: Cross, O'Suilleabhain 92, Beal XXI 330. |
| G303.4 | The devil's physical characteristics. |
| G303.11.1.1 | The devil's son is with his mother at night in his father's place. Type 1720*. |
| G303.11.2 | The devil's son. Irish: O'Suilleabhain 35, Beal XXI 312f. |
| G303.4.6 | The devil's tail. Lithuanian: Balys Legends No. 792. |
| G303.4.3 | The devil's thumb. |
| G303.11.1 | The devil's wife. |
| G303.4.2 | The devil's wings. |
| G303.25.17 | The devils' dances and feasts. |
| T255.5 | The dish which the husband detests and the wife keeps serving him. He affects to like it and thus gets rid of it. Type 1390*; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| J81 | The dishes of the same flavor. Man thus shown that one woman is like another and dissuaded from his amorous purpose. *Basset 1001 Contes II 25; *Wesselski Märchen 209; Boccaccio Decameron I No. 5 (Lee 17), Lithuanian: Balys Index No. *981; Russian: Andrejev No. *981 (II); Italian Novella: *Rotunda; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| T254 | The disobedient wife. |
| J2241 | The doctor no longer needed. As the fool starts for the doctor the wife changes her mind. He continues to the doctor so as to tell him about it and to say that now he need not come. *Wesselski Hodscha Nasreddin II 233 No. 456. |
| J2183.1 | The dog between the two castles. In castles on opposite hills guards play different tunes during meals. The dog goes toward the music in one castle but when he is about half way up the hill the music begins on the other. He keeps alternating and running up and down until the meals are over and he gets nothing. Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 24; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| J2413.5 | The dog imitates a wolf. Wants to kill a horse. He asks the cat: "Is my back bristled, etc." The horse kills him with a kick. (Cf. K1121.) Lithuanian: Balys Index No. *106; Russian: Andrejev No. *119. |
| W156 | The dog in the manger. Has no use for the manger but refuses to give it up to the horse. Wienert FFC LVI 54, 58 (ET 142, 195), 132, 147 (ST 385, 518); Halm Aesop No. 228; Phaedrus I No. 19; Hervieux II 11; Herbert III 14; Crane Vitry 201 No. 161; Jacobs Aesop 209 No. 40. |
| J2462.1 | The dog Parsley in the soup. The foolish bridegroom is told to put parsley in the soup. He throws in his dog, which is named Parsley. *Type 1685; *BP I 311; Köhler-Bolte I 65; Lithuanian: Balys Index No. *1006A; Russian: Andrejev No. *1012 II. |
| K2171 | The dog receives the blows. The cat steals a sausage from the table but the dog receives the blows from the mistress. Type 200*. |
| K231.1.3 | The dog refuses to help the wolf. A farmer plans to kill a faithful old dog. The wolf makes a plan to save the dog. The latter is to rescue the farmer's child from the wolf. The plan succeeds and the dog is rewarded. The wolf in return wants to steal the farmer's sheep. The dog refuses his assistance. *Type 101; Japanese: Ikeda. |
| J1531.2.1 | The dog-eating bugs. Man keeps dog for boy, tells him when he comes for it that the chinch bugs have eaten it. The boy borrows a mule from the man, later tells him that a buzzard has carried it away. He gets his dog back. U.S.: Baughman. |
| A2494.4 | The dog's enemies. |
| J1393 | The double fool. A numskull caught changing meal from others' sacks into his own. Miller asks him what he is doing. "I am a fool." "Why then don't you put your meal into their sacks?" "I am only a simple fool. If I did that I should be a double fool." Wesselski Hodscha Nasreddin II 181 No. 342. |
| K441.1 | The double pension. A husband and wife are jointly under a pension from the king. She reports her husband dead and gets the whole pension. He likewise reports her dead and gets the whole money. Chauvin V 274 No. 155 n. 1; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K486 | The double-cheating miller. He confesses that he has an oversized measure and agrees to get a smaller one. He measures back the grain in the smaller measure. Spanish: Boggs FFC XC 146 No. 1800B*. |
| J1212.1 | The doubly-bribed judge. One of the disputants keeps the hens he is to give the judge in his hand and when the decision begins to go against him makes the hens cry out. *Wesselski Arlotto I 208 No. 48. |
| K441.2 | The doubly-feed lawyer. A lawyer takes a car as fee from a widow and an ox from her adversary. He pleads for the latter saying that the ox draws the car. *Herbert III 375 No. 23; Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 125; Scala Celi 20a No. 122; Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| B11.12.5 | The dragon-king. Chinese: Eberhard 25 No. 13,65, 87 No. 7,158, 245 No. 190. |
| M312.0.4.1 | The dream about a tree which sprouts enormously, indicates the birth of a hero (saint). Loomis White Magic 19. |
| X31 | The dream of marking the treasure. A man dreams that he finds treasure and that he marks the spot with his excrements. Only the latter part of the dream is true. *Wesselski Arlotto II 267 No. 216, Hodscha Nasreddin I 278 No. 314; Lithuanian: Balys Legends No. 788f.; Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| X438 | The dream: all parsons in hell. The smith tells the parson whom he has summoned that he has dreamed of going to heaven where St. Peter would not admit him before he saw a parson. There were no parsons in heaven, but all in hell. *Type 1738. |
| J1211.2.1 | The drunken officer's stolen mantle. Thief confronted by the officer tells all the circumstances of the drunkenness (with many shameful additions). The officer denies the ownership. *Wesselski Hodscha Nasreddin I 239 No. 120. |
| N633 | The early pupil finds the gold. An innkeeper hears that education makes one rich and enters school. He is scolded for coming late. He comes very early and in twilight finds a purse of gold. Type 1645*; Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 1665*; Russian: Andrejev No. 1665*; Livonian: Loorits FFC LXVI No. 1645@1. |
| K1687 | The easier job. Men exchange jobs because each is made to believe that the other's is easier. It is not. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| J2700 | The easy problem made hard. |
| V30.1 | The eaten god. *Encyc. Rel. Ethics V 136—39. |
| K251.1 | The eaten grain and the cock as damages. A trickster has only a grain of corn; this is eaten by a cock, which he demands and receives as damages. Likewise when a hog eats the cock and the ox eats the hog. *Type 1655; *BP II 201; *DeVries Volksverhalen II 381 No. 145; India: Thompson-Balys; American Negro (Georgia): Harris Friends 176 No. 24; Jamaica: Beckwith MAFLS XVII *262 No. 63. |
| Q478.1 | The Eaten Heart. Adulteress is caused unwittingly to eat her lover's heart. (Sometimes other parts of his body.) (Cf. Q241.) **Matzke MLN XXVI 1; **K. Nyrop Sangerens Hjærte (København, 1908); *Child V 482 s.v. "heart"; Clouston Tales II 187ff.; *v. d. Hagen I cxvi; DeCock Volkssage 94ff.; *Hibbard 253ff.; Boccaccio Decameron IV Nos. 1, 9 (Lee 116, 143); Schofield PMLA XV 123; Malone PMLA XLIII 413, 430; Numes "A lenda de coraçao comido" Revista Lusitana XXVIII 5—15.—Italian Novella: *Rotunda; India: *Thompson-Balys; Marquesas: Handy 104; Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 136; Eskimo (Cumberland Sound): Boas BAM XV 223, (Greenland): Rasmussen III 241; N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 344 n. 241; Cape Verde Islands: *Parsons MAFLS XV (1) 140 n. 1. |
| A661.2 | The eight paradises. Hindu: Penzer VII 246. |
| A2494.11 | The elephant's enemies. |
| K445 | The emperor's new clothes. An impostor feigns to make clothes for the emperor and says that they are visible only to those of legitimate birth. The emperor and courtiers are all afraid to admit that they cannot see the clothes. Finally a child seeing the naked emperor reveals the imposture. *Type 1620; **Taylor MPh XXV 17; *Chauvin II 156 No. 32, VIII 130 No. 120; *Wesselski Gonnella 133 No. 33; Spanish Exempla: Keller; Italian Novella: Rotunda; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1518 | The enchanted pear tree. The wife makes the husband, who has seen the adultery from the tree, believe that the tree is magic or that he has seen double. *Type 1423; *F. N. Robinson Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer (Boston, 1933) 817 (Merchant's Tale); *Basset 1001 Contes II 150ff.; Chauvin VIII 98 No. 69, IX 39 No. 34; *Bédier Fabliaux 468; *Stiefel Zs. f. Vksk. VIII 79; *Wesselski Märchen 214f. No. 23; Crane Vitry 240 No. 251; Herbert III 21; *Wesselski Mönchslatein 121 No. 103; Hdwb. d. Märchens I 95b; Boccaccio Decameron VII No. 9 (Lee 231); Dunlop-Wilson II 120f.; Mensa Philosophica No. 76.—Irish myth: Cross; Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K1218.1.3 | The entrapped suitor: tricked into room where he is left to himself. Italian Novella: *Rotunda; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1218.1.2 | The entrapped suitors: the chaste wife has them caught. Forces them to work for her. Italian Novella: Rotunda; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1218.1.1 | The entrapped suitors: the chaste wife tricks them into casks. The husband takes the casks to the marketplace where he opens them. Italian Novella: Rotunda; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| K1218.1 | The entrapped suitors. (Lai l'épervier.) The chaste wife has them one at a time undress and hide. The husband and guests come and chase them off. *Type 1730; *Penzer I 33ff., 42ff., 160ff.; *Baumgarten Arch. f. rel. Wiss. XXXIV 275 n. 3; Bédier Fabliaux 454ff.; Chauvin VI 12 No. 185; *Wesselski Morlini 315 No. 73; *Cosquin études 457ff.; Clouston Tales II 289ff.; von der Hagen III *xxix. Icelandic: Boberg; Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 1730A*; Russian: Andrejev No. 1730 II*; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| J1351.2 | The envious accuser. A woman accuses another of being a harlot. The second: "You would like to be in my place but no one wants you." *Wesselski Bebel II 127 No. 83. |
| Z42.1 | The Esdras chain: stronger and strongest, wine, king, woman, truth. *Taylor JAFL XLVI 85 No. 2031A, Hdwb. d. Märchens II 184b; DeCock Volkssage 35f.; Oesterley No. 258; Köhler-Bolte II 55. —Jewish: Neuman. |
| J1471 | The eunuch's defense. Reproached with his mutilation, the eunuch says that his ill fortune is no shame. The only shame is to merit what you suffer. Wienert FFC LVI 82 (ET 485), 149 (ST 546). |
| K216.1 | The evil woman in the glass case as the last commodity. The man is to belong to the devil as soon as he has sold his goods. If he has any goods that no one will buy, he is to be free. The man puts an evil old woman in a glass case. When the devil sees her, he recognizes her. "Whoever knows her will refuse to buy her." The man goes free. *Type 1170. |
| J1545.4 | The exiled wife's dearest possession. A wife driven from home is allowed by her husband to take her one dearest possession. She takes her sleeping husband and effects reconciliation. *Type 875; *DeVries FFC LXXIII 275—284 passim; *Fb "kjæreste" II 153a; *BP II 349; Fansler MAFLS XII 63; Jewish: *Neuman, *Gaster Exempla 224 No. 196; Japanese: Ikeda. |
| X1506 | The extraordinary names. A place where animals and things are designated by senseless names. (First ed. X951.) (Cf. Z32.2.1.) Type 1940; BP IV 183; Bolte Zs. f. Vksk. XXVII 135; Wisser ibid. XXVIII 135; West Indies: Flowers 585. |
| J2423 | The eye-juggler. A trickster sees a man throwing his eyes into the air and replacing them. He also receives this power but he must not use the power beyond a specified number of times. When he does so, he loses his eyes. He usually gets animal eyes as substitutes. N. A. Indian: *Thompson-Tales 299 n. 92. |
| J1472 | The fairest thing in the garden. Three brothers asked by princess what is the most beautiful thing in the garden. The youngest replies, "Yourself." He wins the princess. Type 925*. |
| K2213.5 | The faithless resuscitated wife. Husband at great sacrifice has brought his wife back to life. She immediately deserts him and plots with a paramour against his life. (Cf. K2213.2.) *Type 612; *BP I 126ff.; *Wesselski Märchen 188; India: *Thompson-Balys; Indonesia: DeVries's list No. 226. Cf. Paris Zs. f. Vksk. XIII 4. |
| T231 | The faithless widow. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| K1516.6 | The faithless wife asks her gullible husband how he would act if he were blind. The husband closes his eyes; meanwhile the lover escapes. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| J1826 | The falcon not so good as represented. A nobleman praises his falcon. His fool, supposing they were praising the falcon as food, kills the bird, but is disappointed in the taste. *Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 52; *Wesselski Bebel I 194 No. 64; Alphabet No. 239. |
| N345 | The falcon of Sir Federigo. An impoverished suitor has only a falcon to catch birds with. His lady's sick son wants the falcon and she goes to ask for it. The suitor serves dinner for her—his falcon. When she makes her request it is too late. *Bédier Fabliaux 153f.; Boccaccio Decameron V No. 9 (*Lee 170); Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| K1911 | The false bride (substituted bride). An impostor takes the wife's place without the husband's knowledge and banishes (kills, transforms) the wife. *Types 403, 408, 425, 450, 480, 510, 511, 533; Tegethoff 20; *BP I 79ff.; *Huet RTP XXII 1ff.; **Arfert Das Motiv von der unterschobenen Braut (Rostock, 1897); *M. Potanine Vostotchnye Motivy v srednevekom evropeiskom Epose (Moscow, 1899—see RTP XXII 8 n. 2); *Godden FL IV 142, 143 n. 1; *Hepding Hessische Blätter fur Volkskunde V 161; Cox 478, 501; *Cosquin Contes indiens 61ff.; Penzer VI 47 n. 1, 48, VIII 12ff., IX 55ff.; *Fb "brud" IV 64b.—French Canadian: Barbeau JAFL XXIX 22, Sister Marie Ursule; Spanish: Boggs FFC XC 61, 82 Nos. 445B*, 708A*; Italian: Basile Pentamerone Int., III No. 10, V No. 9; India: *Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Graham, Eberhard FFC CXX 47f.; Korean: Zong in-Sob 48 No. 28; Indonesia: DeVries's list No. 177; N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 350 nn. 262, 265; Africa: Werner African 230, (Zulu): Callaway 75, 85, (Kaffir): Theal 67, (Bushman): Bleek and Lloyd 85ff. |
| K1915 | The false bridegroom (substitute bridegroom). Takes the place of the true bridegroom. Penzer IX 55; Irish myth: *Cross; Italian Novella: *Rotunda; India: *Thompson-Balys; N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 329 n. 189; Africa (Zulu): Callaway 181ff. |
| K1923 | The false heir. |
| K1912 | The false virgin. Various deceptions practiced to mask bride as virgin. Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| P200 | The family. |
| Z33.2 | The fat cat. While the mistress is away, the cat eats the porridge, the bowl, and the ladle. When the mistress returns she says, "How fat you are!" The cat: "I ate the porridge, the bowl, and the ladle, and I will eat you." The cat meets other animals and eats them after the same conversation. Finally eats too many. (First ed. Z31.3.2.) *Taylor JAFL XLVI 83 No. 2027; *Fb "kat" IV 255b; Danish: Kristensen Danske Dyrefabler 59ff. Nos. 119—130. |
| Z33.4 | The fat troll (wolf). A troll eats the watcher's five horses and finally the watcher himself. The master goes to investigate. The troll: "I ate the five horses, I ate the watcher, and I will eat you." Does so. Likewise the wife, servant, daughter, son, and dog. The cat scratches the troll open and rescues all. (First ed. Z31.3.4.) *Taylor JAFL XLVI 83 No. 2028; *Fb "ulv" III 970b, "æde" III 1139b, "bjørn" IV 43b; Danish: Kristensen Dyrefabler 68ff. Nos. 131—144; Swedish: T. Norlind Svenska Allmogens Liv (Stockholm, 1925) 613; Russian: Andrejev No. 333B*. |
| J1474 | The fatal bed. A sailor says that all his ancestors have drowned. Citizen: "Aren't you afraid of drowning?" Sailor: "How did your ancestors die?" Citizen: "All of them in bed." Sailor: "Aren't you afraid to go to bed?" *Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 264. |
| A463.1.1 | The Fates weave. Icel.: Boberg. |
| A463.1 | The Fates. Goddesses who preside over the fates of men.—Wehrhan Die Sage 81; Gaster Thespis 348.—Norse: De la Saussaye 312, Corpus Poeticum Boreale I 32, 36, 47, 131, MacCulloch Eddic 238ff., *Boberg; Greek: Grote I 7; Irish myth: Cross, Beal. 21, 318, 336; Lappish: Holmberg Finno-Ugric 256ff.; Estonian: Loorits Grundzüge I 527f.—India: Thompson-Balys. |
| J1515.1 | The father of an illegitimate child must walk in front of the cross. Condemned man insists that the priest, who is guilty also, shall lead the way. *Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 71. |
| J2713 | The father of Noah's sons. The fool seeks advice as to how to answer this question: Who is the father of Stoffer's three sons? Stoffer, of course. Then who was the father of Noah's three sons? Stoffer. Danish: MS (SK 41 in Dansk Folkemindesamling). |
| U18 | The fathers have eaten sour grapes and the children's teeth are set on edge. Jewish: Neuman. |
| J1447 | The favored swine. Dog reproaches sow that Venus will not allow those who have eaten swine to enter her temple. Sow says that it is because the goddess abhors those who kill swine. Wienert FFC LVI 56 (ET 161), 107 (ST 191); Halm Aesop No. 408. |
| K265 | The fee used up before the main question is reached. A man with an unsolved question seeks the help of a wit. The latter refuses to answer unless paid. He takes small fees for each easy question leading up to the principal question. Before reaching that point the fee is exhausted, and the question remains unanswered. Wesselski Hodscha Nasreddin I 214 No. 39. |
| K1527 | The feigned wedding-feast. The husband returns unexpectedly to find his wife entertaining the paramour with a sumptuous feast. He is made to believe the feast is in honor of some newly-weds. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Z71.16.11.2 | The fifteen Oes. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| A671.2.4 | The fires of hell. Irish myth: Cross. |
| V70.1 | The first day of summer. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| J1604 | The fish in the sleeve. A particularly obnoxious man delays others while he haggles over prices with a butcher. Meanwhile a parson takes the three fish the man has laid down and puts them into his large sleeves. The man is angry and searches in vain for them. The parson then shows them and advises him not to let people cheat him. *Wesselski Arlotto I 190 No. 10. |
| A2494.15 | The fish's enemies. |
| V211.5 | The five wounds of Christ. Irish myth: Cross. |
| J1356 | The flatterer's retort. Two men meet a homely girl. One of them: "Who wouldn't call that girl pretty?" The girl overhears and says, "No one would say it of you." The man: "Anyone might say it who would lie as I have lied about you." *Wesselski Bebel II 148 No. 155; Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| Z33.1 | The fleeing pancake. A woman makes a pancake, which flees. Various animals try in vain to stop it. Finally the fox eats it up. (First ed. Z31.3.1.) *Taylor JAFL XLVI 82 No. 2025; *Dh III 272; Fb "pandekage" II 782b; Danish: Kristensen Danske Dyrefabler 58f. Nos. 113—18; Norwegian: Christensen Norske Eventyr 149; Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 2025; Russian: Andrejev Nos. 295, 296*. |
| J1541.2 | The flute makes more noise. A man overcomes his quarrelsome wife by playing the flute as long as she is scolding. *Wesselski Bebel I 228 No. 139; Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| E511 | The Flying Dutchman. A sea captain because of his wickedness sails his phantom ship eternally without coming to harbor. **G. Kalff De Sage van den Vliegenden Hollander (Zupthen, 1923); **Engert Die Sage vom Fliegenden Holländer; **W. Söderhjelm Flygande holländeren (Helsingfors, 1890); *Andraea Anglia Beiblatt XIII (1902) 47; Golther Zur deutschen Sage und Dichtung 7; Fb "skib" III 243a; England, U.S.: *Baughman. |
| G303.25.14 | The food and drink of the devils. |
| J2661.1 | The fool accidentally kills his child and loses the body. Indonesia: DeVries's list no. 266. |
| J2088.1 | The fool advises the buyer that the horse is worth little or his father would not sell it. *Wesselski Bebel I 208 No. 95. |
| J2512 | The fool and the visitor's large nose. The fool asks where he got the large nose. Is removed from the room. He comes back to mend matters. He says, "What a small nose you have!" He is again taken from the room. The third time: "What difference does it make whether you have a nose or not?" *Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 41. Cf. Type 2014. |
| J2668 | The fool betrays his brothers. They escape but he is captured and stupidly betrays their hiding places. Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 432. |
| J2482 | The fool is told that his son has given up the ghost. He wonders. He didn't know that the son had a ghost to give up. *Wesselski Hodscha Nasreddin I 250 No. 166. |
| J1963 | The fool puts but one stick of wood in the stove. "Several others have burned up." Type 1260*. |
| J2661.2 | The fool seeks a midwife. Accidentally strikes the dog dead, drowns the midwife, and kills the child. *Type 1680. |
| J2421 | The fool spits in the hot porridge. He has seen the smith spit on the hot iron. Type 1262*. |
| J2667 | The fool testifies: "I had been drinking and was lying on the bench asleep. I saw him hit him over the head with an axe but don't know whether he hit him or not." *Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 816. |
| J2083 | The foolish attempt to cheat the buyer. |
| J2463 | The foolish bride. |
| J2086 | The foolish pawn. The woman sells cows and gets one of them back as a pledge for the unpaid purchase price. *Type 1385; *BP II 440; Christensen DF L 35. |
| K331.6 | The foolishly concealed money: A man hangs a bag of money in the top of a high tree. Servant sleeping with him steals it. Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 1858*. |
| J1443 | The fools in the city. Man ordered to number the fools in the city replies, "It is easier to number the wise men." *Wesselski Hodscha Nasreddin II 241 No. 535; Chauvin VII 126 No. 393bis. |
| J1614 | The forehanded servant. A parson boasts that when he asks his maid if certain work is done she always answers that it has been done long ago. A guest wagers that she can be trapped if she is asked whether she has thrown the parson's suit of clothes into the tub of water. She overhears the wager and has the suit in the water before he asks the question. Bolte Frey's Gartengesellschaft 252 No. 92. |
| J2671 | The forgetful fool. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Z24 | The forgetful man counts the days of the week. On Monday they go to mill, etc. (First ed. Z21.4.) He thus discovers that it is Sunday. *Taylor JAFL XLVI 80 No. 2012, Hdwb. d. Märchens II 174b. |
| J1445 | The forgotten traditions. A man has been told by a seer that there are two ways in which a believer may be distinguished. But he has forgotten one of them and the seer had forgotten the other. *Wesselski Hodscha Nasreddin II 186 No. 353. |
| J755.1 | The forgotten wind. Man allowed to manage the weather forgets to ask help of the wind. All goes wrong and he must give up management. *Type 752B; *Fb "vind" III 1059a. |
| A1101 | The four ages of the world. A development of the present order through four stages or periods, the golden, silver, bronze, and iron ages, or the like.—**Encyc. Religion and Ethics s.v. "Ages of the World".—Irish myth: Cross; Greek: Fox 17, Grote I 62; Hindu: Keith 105, Penzer IV 240 n. 1, VII 1 n. 5; Chinese: Ferguson 33. |
| A2851 | The four characteristics of wine. Devil helps Noah plant vineyard and kills various animals over it. These illustrate the four qualities of wine. peacock: brilliant colors; ape: jokes; lion: boldness; hog: drunkenness.—*Dh I 298ff.; *Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 244; *Köhler-Bolte I 577; Basset III 31; *Krappe Bull. Hispanique XXXIX 48; Spanish Exempla: Keller; Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 3242; Jewish: Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| H585.1 | The four coins. (Focus.) King: What do you do with the four coins you earn? Peasant: First I eat (feed self); second I put out at interest (give my children); third I give back (pay debts); fourth I throw away (give my wife.) Köhler-Bolte Zs. f. Vksk. VI 161 (to Gonzenbach No. 50); BP IV 137; Oesterley No. 57; cf. Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 8; Anderson FFC XLII 356 n. 1.—Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 921A*; Russian: Andrejev No. 921 I*; Italian Novella: Rotunda; India: Thompson-Balys; Africa (Swahili): Steere 295. |
| Z71.2.2 | The four elements. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Z71.2.3 | The four humors. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F162.2.1 | The four rivers of Paradise. *Patch PMLA XXXIII 622, Other World 383 s.v. "rivers, four"; Albright Am. Jour. Semitic Languages XXXIX 40ff.; Gaster Thespis 171.—Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: Boberg; Jewish: Neuman; Siberian: Holmberg Siberian 359. |
| Z122.4 | The four seasons personified. Roberts 122. |
| A841.0.1 | The four world-columns fastened immovably by two gods with their mother's hairs. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| J2283 | The four-footed bishop. A fool finding a nun in bed with a bishop and not seeing her face concludes that the bishop must have four feet and so announces it. Bolte Frey 247 No. 86; Nouvelles Récréations No. 2; Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| N231 | The fourteen lucky daughters. The husband leaves his wife, who has given birth to fourteen girls, thinking he is persecuted by bad luck because of failure to have a son. On the seashore, the girls find precious stones. The wife, now prosperous, finds her husband among beggars. Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 1668*. |
| J871 | The fox and the sour grapes. Pretends that the grapes he cannot reach are sour. Wienert FFC LVI 63 (ET 267), 125 (ST 336); Halm Aesop No. 33; Scala Celi 52b No. 292; Jacobs Aesop 207 No. 31; Spanish: Boggs FFC XC 30 No. 66a*; Jewish: Neuman. |
| K1025.1 | The fox suggests eating his own brains. The wolf, wanting to get brains, strikes his head against a tree. Lithuanian: Balys Index No. *21A. |
| H582.1.1 | The full moon and the thirtieth of the month. Prince sends servant to clever girl with a round tart, thirty cakes, and a capon, and asks her if it is full moon and the thirtieth of the month and if the cock has crowed in the evening. She replies that it is not full moon, that it is the fifteenth of the month, and that the capon has gone to the mill; but that the prince should spare the pheasant for the partridge's sake. She thus shows him that the servant has stolen half the tart, half of the cakes, and the capon. *BP II 361; Köhler Zs. f. Vksk. VI 59; Arab: Azov 401f.; Africa (Sahel): Frobenius Atlantis VI 79—86. |
| J1191.3 | The funeral for the ineligible husband. A king awards a young woman to a gardener, who is already married. The young woman performs a funeral ceremony for him. The king is pleased with the jest and takes her into the harem. Chauvin V 245 No. 146. |
| Z32.1 | The funeral procession of the hen. Animals one by one join the procession. The funeral carriage breaks down or the procession drowns. *Type 2021; *BP II 147 n. 1; *Wesselski Hessische Blätter f. Vksk. XXXII 2ff.; *Taylor JAFL XLVI 82 No. 2021. |
| A486 | The Furies. Goddesses of vengeance.—Greek: Fox 275, Frazer Apollodorus I 5 n. 4; India: Thompson-Balys.—Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 115. |
| K1253 | The general hatches out an egg. The page induces the general to take his place in sitting on the eggs. Then he calls the king to look. Type 1677*. |
| W11.12 | The generous correction. Ruler asks treasurer to give man 200 crowns. Treasurer makes error and puts down 300. Ruler raises sum to 400. "I can't allow your pen to be more liberal than I." Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| E279.1 | The ghost haunts outside at night in human shape. Lithuanian: Balys Ghosts. |
| F531.5.9 | The giant on the ark. Noah saves a giant on the ark. Cannot enter but stays in the rigging. Noah sends him food through a hole. Dh I 283; Jewish: *Neuman. |
| J2415.1.1 | The gift of the donkey. Ruler rewards the gift of a clever donkey. Greedy nobleman seeking a like reward sends ruler two donkeys in rich trappings. Ruler advises the donor that he is sorry that his gift will deprive him of worthy companionship. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| J1272 | The gift of the fool. Of three brothers the shoemaker makes shoes for the queen and princess; the tailor, clothes; the fool—children. Type 1548*; Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 654A. |
| J1174.3 | The girl screams when she is robbed. Accuses young man of raping her. When he tries to rob her of money she summons help. Decision: if she had shouted as loud before, the man could not have raped her. Youth acquitted. Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 15; Herbert III 21; *Crane Vitry 242 No. 255. |
| K434.1 | The girl seizes the robber concealed under the bed by the beard and says: "What a coarse bundle of flax. I need a finer one." Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 959A*. |
| K1984.2 | The girl who ate so little. When the suitor sees her baking he finds that she can eat. *Type 1458. |
| K1984.3 | The girl with the ugly name. Her mother gives her a new one but the girl does not recognize it and her mother must call her by her old name. *Type 1461; Herbert III 174 No. 87, 421 No. 83. |
| B19.7 | The goat Heidrun. Icel.: MacCulloch Eddic 313—14. |
| Z39.1 | The goat who would not go home. One animal after another tries in vain to persuade the goat to go home. Finally a wolf (bee) bites him and drives him home. (First ed. Z31.4.1.) *Taylor JAFL XLVI 81 No. 2015; *BP I 348 n. 1, II 100, 104; Fb "gjed" IV 178a; Swedish: T. Norlind Svenska Allmogens Liv (Stockholm, 1925) 613. |
| Z39.1.1 | The goat who would not leave the hazel bush. Final formula: The devil goes to strangle the Jew, the Jew to kill the ox, the ox to drink the water, the water to quench the fire, the fire to burn the stone, the stone to blunt the axe, the axe to cut the rope, the rope to tie the hunter, the hunter to shoot the goat—the goat leaves the hazel bush, the wee goat leaves the hazel bush. Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 2030. |
| A2002.1 | The god Mahadeo turns wood chips into insects. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A1402 | The gods build houses, and fashion tools. Icel.: MacCulloch Eddic 327. |
| N200 | The good gifts of fortune. |
| J1541.1 | The good words. A man pledged to give his wife only good words hits her with a prayer book. *BP III 278. |
| K402.1 | The goose without a leg. Accused of eating the goose's leg, the thief maintains that it had no leg, and cleverly enforces his point by showing geese standing on one leg. (Usually the master confounds the rascal by frightening the geese so that they use both legs) *Wesselski Hodscha Nasreddin I 229 No. 75; Boccaccio Decameron VI No. 4 (*Lee 177); Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 2424*; Spanish: Espinosa Jr. No. 191; Italian Novella: *Rotunda; India: Thompson-Balys; West Indies: Flowers 508. |
| E341 | The grateful dead. Irish: *Cross, Beal XXI 313; Icelandic: Boberg. |
| J83 | The gray and the black hairs: enemies reconciled. Duke summons two inveterate enemies. Has them tear out one of his hairs, one a gray, the other a black. Both pain him equally. He shows how their quarrels hurt him. They are reconciled. Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 401. |
| J1457 | The gray fox. An old husband tells his young wife, who is concerned about his gray hair, "A gray fox is as good as a red one." "But an old gray fox is not so good as a young red one." Bolte Frey 242 No. 75. |
| X1030.1 | The great building. (First ed. X1033.) Type 1960E. |
| X1150.1 | The great catch of fish. (First ed. X1022.) Type 1960C. |
| X1342.1.1 | The great frog. Eaten by one larger and this in turn by crow. (First ed. X1021.5.) *BP II 515. |
| X1244.3 | The great he-goat. (First ed. X1021.2.) BP II 515. |
| X1241.1 | The great horse. (First ed. X1021.6.) Fb "stud" III 619b. |
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