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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
H
Tests
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The Wise and the Foolish
K
Deceptions
L
Reversals of Fortune
M
Ordaining the Future
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Chance and Fate
P
Society
Q
Rewards and Punishments
R
Captives and Fugitives
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Unnatural Cruelty
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Sex
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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 ▲ |
|---|---|
| J2181 | Burning up the seal. Numskulls buy a charter from their lord. In celebration they get drunk and use the seal as a candle and forfeit their charter. Clouston Noodles 17; England: Baughman. |
| A2416.2 | Burnt smell of mink. Dh III 234. |
| A2416.4 | Burnt smell of wolverine. Tahltan: Teit JAFL XXXII 248. |
| B19.4.1 | Burrowing swine heat ground. Irish myth: Cross. |
| K581.3 | Burying the mole as punishment. *Fb "еl" III 1190b. |
| D621.2.1 | Bush by day; woman by night. Italian: Basile I No. 2. |
| A2741.4 | Bush loses clothes in shipwreck: hence catches passerby looking for clothes. (Cf. A2792.1.)—See A2275.5.3. |
| J1771.4 | Bush thought to be elephant. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A2216.4 | Bush-rat bites off tortoise's tail: hence tortoise's short tail. (Cf. A2378.4.4.)—Ibo (Nigeria): Thomas 70. |
| F451.5.10 | Business relations of dwarfs and mortals. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| A2284.2 | Bustard persuaded to kill all but two children: has but two eggs. (Cf. A2486.2.)—Australian: Dixon 289. |
| P441.4 | Busy tailor asks soldier to mount watch in his place. Missouri French: Carrière 177f. No. 36, 261 No. 59. |
| X231 | Butcher wonders that man who has been buying his meat for seven years can still be alive. Wesselski Mönchslatein 184 No. 142. |
| P448 | Butcher. Sébillot Métiers No. 4. |
| U121.6 | Butcher's son becomes cruel and atrocious ruler. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| J1783.1 | Butter cask thought to be a dead man. Fools knock it in two. Type 1314. |
| D476.1.5 | Butter made from nettles. *Loomis White Magic 81. |
| D2084.2 | Butter magically kept from coming. (Cf. D1573, D2083.) *Kittredge Witchcraft 167, 485f. nn. 30—35; England, Ireland, U.S.: Baughman. |
| D2083.4 | Butter transferred from another by magic. (Cf. D2087.) *Kittredge Witchcraft 168, 487f. nn. 38—43. |
| K478 | Butter weighed with the bread. The peasant weighs the butter which he is selling to the baker along with the bread which he is buying. Type 1566**. |
| Z61.3 | Butterby Church—no church at all. If person says he has gone to Butterby Church, he has not gone to church. England: Baughman. |
| D1317.1 | Buttocks as magic watcher. (Cf. D999.)—N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 296 n. 83. |
| F1041.6 | Buttons burst as consequence of violent emotion. English: Child II 186, IV 101, 302. |
| X111.11 | Buyer and deaf seller. Type 1698K; Aarne FFC XX 60ff., 69ff. (Types 11, 14, 15). |
| J2685 | Buyer draws picture of grindstone on his order list. The grocer sends him a cheese. The buyer has forgotten to draw the hole. U.S.: *Baughman. |
| K196.1 | Buying foxes "as they run". Man sells three hundred foxes to buyer who agrees to "take them as they run": reds, silvers, crosses. He gets a large payment to bind the bargain, waves his hand at the woods: "I sold them as they run; and they're running." Canada: Baughman. |
| Q432.1 | Buzzard hatched by hawk ejected for fouling nest. (Cf. Q322.) Herbert III 37ff.; Hervieux IV 276 No. 4; Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles No. 68. |
| K333.3 | Buzzard steals coyote's eyes, while he is throwing them up in the air. N. A. Indian (Klikitat): Jacobs U Wash II 36. |
| N455.10 | By hiding, stupid son overhears conversation and claims magic power for bamboo cup. Chinese: Graham. |
| D1388.0.5 | By means of magic bag it is possible to stay as long on the bottom of the sea as one wants. (Cf. D1193.) Icelandic: Boberg. |
| D1388.0.6 | By means of magic helmet it is possible to stay on the bottom of the sea as long as one wants. (Cf. D1101.4.) Icelandic: Boberg. |
| G303.16.1 | By the help of the Virgin Mary the devil may be escaped. Scala Celi 111a, 119a, 120b Nos. 617, 657, 659; Irish: *Cross; O'Suilleabhain 41, Beal XXI 315; Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| K232.1 | By using verse with double meaning man appropriates borrowed goods. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| P444 | Cabinet-maker. *Sébillot Métiers No. 14. |
| B521.3.2 | Cackling geese spread alarm. *Frazer Fasti II 175 n. 5. |
| A2426.2.13 | Cackling of guinea hen. North Carolina: Brown Collection I 634. |
| J155.3 | Caesar's scorn of his wife's advice leads to disaster. Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 445. |
| F839.3.1 | Cain slain with an apple. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F839.3 | Cain slays Abel with bone of a camel. (Cf. A1336.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| A988 | Cairn marks burial place. Irish myth: Cross. |
| D1031.2.1 | Cake made by rubbing flour on griddle. Irish myth: Cross. |
| D1652.1.2 | Cake magically increases. (Cf. D1031.2.) Type 751. |
| F1005.1 | Cake, planted in the field, grows and after a time bears cakes. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| D1380.2.1 | Calabash as guardian of girl. (Cf. D965.2.) Africa (Ekoi): Talbot 27. |
| D2099.4 | Calabashes broken by magic. Easter Island: Métraux Ethnology 367. |
| T583.2 | Calamities at birth of hero. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A1003 | Calamity as punishment for sin. Jewish: *Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys; Maori: Beckwith Myth 317; S. Am. Indian (Chiriguano): Métraux RMLP XXXIII 158. |
| V12.4.4.2 | Calf as sacrifice. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| J1759.4.1 | Calf mistaken for colt. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| D1639.5 | Calf of gold moves. Irish myth: Cross. |
| L456 | Calf pities draft ox: is taken to slaughter, ox spared. Wienert FFC LVI 61 (ET 230), 57 (ET 185), *92 (ST 44), 124 (ST 331); Halm Aesop No. 113. |
| B736.6 | Calf sheds tears. Jewish: Neuman. |
| E155.5.1 | Calf, slain at night, alive next day through power of saint. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| K553.0.2 | Calf: "Wait till I grow up." India: Thompson-Balys. |
| H251.3.14 | Calumniated princess' dead body fails to rot; accuser repudiated. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| N741.3.1 | Calumniated wife is forced to flee. (Cf. K2210.) Reunited by chance after many years at Emperor's court. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K2117 | Calumniated wife: substituted letter (falsified message). The letter announcing the birth of her children changed on the way to the king, so that the queen is falsely accused. (Cf. K2115, K2116.) *Type 706; *BP I 295ff.; Hibbard 26ff.; *Schlauch, Chaucer's Constance and Accused Queens (New York, 1927) 12ff.; Missouri French: Carrière; Spanish: Espinosa II No. 119; Italian: Basile Pentamerone III No. 2, Rotunda. |
| K2110.1 | Calumniated wife. *Types 451, 706, 707, 712, 883A, 892; BP I 20, 79ff., *86, 99ff., 295ff., II 121ff., 273, 380ff., *392, III 85ff., 488; **Arfert Das Märchen von der unterschobenen Braut; Hibbard 21ff., 35; **Schlauch Chaucer's Constance and Accused Queens (New York, 1927) 12ff.; *Kittredge Arthur 241 n. 1; *Cox 478, 501;—Irish myth *Cross; Jewish: *bin Gorion Born Judas I 257; Spanish: Boggs FFC XC 107 No. 891*; India: *Thompson-Balys; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 526, 536; N. A. Indian: *Thompson CColl II 385ff.; Africa (Wakweli): Bender 96. |
| W11.5.9.1 | Calumniated woman intercedes for accusers. (Cf. K2112.) Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K1084.4 | Calumniators try to bring friendly kings to fight, but fail at last. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| V65.1 | Calves kept separate from cows in commemoration of hero's death. Irish myth: Cross. |
| P623.0.7 | Calves not let to cows during fast. Irish myth: Cross. |
| J2137.6 | Camel and ass together captured because of ass's singing. *Chauvin III 49 No. 1; Spanish: Espinosa III Nos. 199-201, 204-5; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| J512.11 | Camel and jackal exchange food: camel is led by his good friend to thorny fruit and thorn sticks in his throat. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B240.11 | Camel as king of animals. Wienert FFC LVI 47. |
| A2232.1 | Camel asks for horns: punishment, short ears. (Cf. A2325.4.)—Dh IV 265f.; *Köhler-Bolte I 579; *Crane Vitry 148f. No. 37; Jewish: Neuman; *Chauvin II 110 No. 76, 118 No. 102 (ass), Sébillot RTP II 492; Wienert FFC LVI 78 (ET 437); 109 (ST 215, 389); Halm Aesop No. 184. |
| B151.1.5 | Camel determines road to be taken. Jewish: Neuman. |
| K255.4 | Camel has offered one pound of flesh to jackal for help. Camel's tongue demanded. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| K962 | Camel induced to offer himself as sacrifice. Other animals feign to offer themselves to the lion as food. The lion eats the camel. Penzer V 53 n. 1; Chauvin II 89 No. 29; Bødker Exempler 284 No. 31; Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| K839.5 | Camel lures wolf into looking at the writing on his breast. Crushes wolf. India: Thompson-Balys; Maori: Clark 112. |
| J512.3 | Camel tries in vain to dance. Wienert FFC LVI 46 (ET 46, 47), *88, 90 (ST 10, 20); Halm Aesop No. 182, 365. |
| J2133.1 | Camel with ass on his back dances. Falls and is killed. *Chauvin III 49 No. 1; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F615.3.1.2 | Camels having fallen from sky into girl's eyes; she tells her mother that some grains of sand have fallen down from sky. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1872 | Camouflage. |
| B35 | Camrosh. Giant bird which collects seeds and sees that they are properly placed. Carries off the people's enemies.—Persian: Carnoy 289; Penzer I 103. |
| J1511.15 | Can drink only one kind of wine at a time. Priests come to an inn where host gives them good wine and bad. They insist on having all good since they must drink only one kind of wine. On their return he serves them with all bad. They claim to have had the rule changed. Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 245. |
| D2061.2.2.6 | Candle burned causes victim to waste away. England, U.S.: *Baughman. |
| E434.9 | Candle light protection against ghost. Icelandic: Bárdar saga Snaefellsáss, ed. Vigfússon 1860, 42—43, Boberg. |
| J2122 | Candle put in the stove to dry: melts. Type 1270. |
| N614 | Cane as evidence of robbery. A man believing that he has killed a robber forgets his cane. Later finds it in robber's house. Type 961*; Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 961*; Russian: Andrejev No. 961*. |
| G353.1 | Cannibal bird as ogre. N. A. Indian (California): Gayton and Newman 78. |
| G93 | Cannibal breaks wind as means of attack. N. A. Indian (California): Gayton and Newman 69. |
| G87 | Cannibal crunching human bone says noise is only eating of peas. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| G82.1 | Cannibal cuts captive's finger to test fatness. *Type 327; BP I 115ff.; Fb "slagte", "finger". |
| G11.15 | Cannibal demon. India: *Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Graham; Alu: Wheeler 8, 44, 48, 50, 56. |
| G33.1 | Cannibal disenchanted by overcoming it. Becomes maiden. Type 406*; Russian: Andrejev No. 406. |
| G11.1 | Cannibal dwarfs. *Basset 1001 Contes I 190; N. A. Indian (Zuсi): Benedict II 335. |
| G82 | Cannibal fattens victim. *Type 327, 314, *BP I 115ff.; Chauvin VII 19 No. 373D; Italian: Basile Pentamerone I No. 9; India: *Thompson-Balys; Japanese: Ikeda; Eskimo (Greenland): Rink 107, Holm 11; N. A. Indian (Kaska): Teit JAFL XXX 448 No. 8. |
| G11.2 | Cannibal giant. (Cf. G82, G83, G84.) Irish myth: *Cross; Missouri French: Carrière; Icelandic: Arnason Legends of Iceland (tr. Powell, London, 1864) I 122, 125, 133, *Boberg; India: *Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Werner 387; Easter Island: Métraux Ethnology 377. |
| A153.8 | Cannibal gods. (cf. G11.). India: Thompson-Balys. |
| G92 | Cannibal hard to lift. N. A. Indian (California): Gayton and Newman 70. |
| G88 | Cannibal has long tooth and long nail. Africa (Basuto): Jacottet 210 No. 31. |
| G551.5 | Cannibal is killed by his wife's relatives. Eskimo (Central): Boas RBAE VI 633. |
| G81.1 | Cannibal marries wife by force. Chinese: Graham. |
| G11.8 | Cannibal meteor. N. A. Indian (Luiseсo, Diegueсo, Mohave): Kroeber JAFL XXI 224. |
| H46.1 | Cannibal nature of woman recognized when she devours dead buffalo raw. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| G683 | Cannibal offers wealth to save his life. N. A. Indian (California): Gayton and Newman 69. |
| G312 | Cannibal ogre. India: *Thompson-Balys; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 109, 291, 1113, II 950; Mono-Alu: Wheeler 14, 21. |
| G94.2 | Cannibal ogres eat daily ten men, ten women, ten children from the same tribe. Africa (Fang): Einstein 65. |
| G86.1 | Cannibal ogress gives finger of one girl to her frightened sister. Chinese: Graham. |
| G11.18.1 | Cannibal people driven from land. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 341. |
| H46 | Cannibal recognized by cloud of dust raised. India: Thompson-Balys; Africa (Zulu): Callaway 47, 142, (Basuto): Jacottet 4 No. 1, 206 No. 30, (Kaffir): Theal 125. |
| K605.1 | Cannibal sent for water which magically recedes from him: victim escapes. New Zealand: Dixon 85, Beckwith Myth 196 n. 19. |
| K605 | Cannibal sent for water with vessel full of holes: victim escapes. Indonesia: Dixon 224, 225 n. 31, Beckwith Myth 194; Tahiti: Dixon 63, Beckwith Myth 197 n. 21, ch. 13 passim; Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 194. |
| G83 | Cannibal sharpens knife to kill captive. German: Grimm No. 41; Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 3910; Japanese: Ikeda; Jamaica: *Beckwith MAFLS XVII 270f. Nos. 82, 83. |
| G11.18 | Cannibal tribe. Jewish: Neuman. |
| G11.3 | Cannibal witch. Kittredge Witchcraft 166, 485 nn. 28, 29.—England: Baughman; Icelandic: *Boberg; Lithuanian: Balys Index No. *2027B; Italian: Basile Pentamerone IV No. 6; India: *Thompson-Balys; Hindu: Tawney I 162, II 450; Japanese: Ikeda; Eskimo (Greenland): Rasmussen I 85, II 25, III 50f., 168f., Rink 48, 440, Holm 80, (West Hudson Bay): Boas BAM XV 198, 598, (Smith Sound): Kroeber JAFL XII 180, (Central Eskimo): Boas RBAE VI 599; Africa (Ekoi): Talbot 233. |
| G11.11 | Cannibal with extraordinary features. (Cf. G88.) India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| G11.12 | Cannibal with winnowing tray and pestle. N. A. Indian (California): Gayton and Newman 73. |
| G94 | Cannibal's gigantic meal. |
| G91 | Cannibalism brings madness. Fb "menneskekjød" II 580a. |
| G91.2 | Cannibalism causes death. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| G78 | Cannibalism during plague. Irish myth: *Cross; Jewish: Neuman. |
| G78.1 | Cannibalism in time of famine. Irish myth: Cross; Jewish: *Neuman; Eskimo (Greenland): Holm 92. |
| Q215 | Cannibalism punished. India: Thompson-Balys; Eskimo (Greenland): Holm 91. |
| G10 | Cannibalism. *Types 327, 406*; BP I 115; *Cox Cinderella 499; *Saintyves Perrault 299ff.; *Penzer X 181 s.v. "Human flesh"; *Fb "menneskekjød"; *Freytag Am Ur-Quell N. F. I 179; *MacCulloch Childhood 279; Krause Der Ur-Quell I 1; *Cosquin Contes indiens 208; **DeCock Volkssage 64; *Laistner Rätsel der Sphinx II 87; Krappe The Modern Language Review XLIII (1948) 54ff.—Irish myth: *Cross; Lappish: Qvigstad FFC LX 57 No. 135; Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "anthropophages," "diable"; Jewish: Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 189, 588, II 32, 407, 676, 824; Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 21; Oceanic (Indonesia, Melanesia, New Zealand, Tahiti, Hawaii): Dixon 61, 63, 69, 86, 130ff., 227ff.; Easter Island: Métraux Ethnology 76ff. 83f.; Maori: Clark 100, 159; Eskimo (Greenland): Rasmussen III 272; Siberian: Holmberg Siberian 388; N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 353 n. 274, (Cherokee): Alexander N. Am. 68, (Southern Ute): Lowie JAFL XXXVII 74 No. 46; Africa: Werner African 242, (Basuto): Jacottet 8, 122, 204, 208, 258, (Angola): Chatelain 97, 103, (Fang): Einstein 65, (Bushman): Bleek and Lloyd 199, (Zulu): Callaway 47, 74, 142, 154, *158, 181, (Ila, Rhodesia): Smith and Dale II 413, (Kaffir): Theal 126, 139f., Kidd 225, (Benga): Nassau 227 No. 34, (Congo): Weeks 203, (Mpongwe): Nassau 72 No. 15. |
| G11.0.1 | Cannibalistic god. Irish myth: Cross. |
| G11.7 | Cannibalistic king. Malone PMLA XLIII 403; Missouri French: Carrière; India: *Thompson-Balys; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 581. |
| G11.10.1 | Cannibalistic spirits in upper world. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| G11.10 | Cannibalistic spirits. |
| K619.1 | Cannibals advised to be absent while hero is being cooked; else he will not taste right. Hero escapes. Africa (Zulu): Callaway 6. |
| G86 | Cannibals cut off parts of children's bodies. Dickson Valentine and Orson 41 n. 41; Japanese: Ikeda. |
| K895 | Cannibals enticed to climb slippery barricade: fall. Sulka of New Britain: Dixon 131, *132 n. 2. |
| G18.1 | Cannibals live at cemetery. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K827.2 | Cannibals persuaded to take snuff: killed. Africa (Zulu): Callaway 142. |
| J1269.13 | Cannot leave court of God: reply of saint when king invites him to court. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| D1122.1 | Canoe made by magic. Polynesian, Melanesian, Indonesian: Dixon 68 nn. *39, *40; N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 275 n. 14b; Eskimo (Cumberland Sound): Boas BAM XV 192. |
| F841.1.4.1 | Canoe made from coconut. Marquesas: Handy 46, 91, Beckwith Myth 484. |
| A2615.3 | Canoe transformed into coconut tree. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 232. |
| A1346.2.4 | Canoes at one time self-propelling. Marshall Is.: Davenport 222. |
| F166.9 | Canopies in otherworld. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| D1300.2 | Cap gives magic wisdom. (Cf. D1067.3.) *Type 328. |
| Q429 | Capital punishment—miscellaneous. |
| Q410 | Capital punishment. Jewish: *Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| V67.4.1 | Captain buried with his crew. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| M13.2 | Captain hangs own son for violating order not to enter enemy city. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| P361.7 | Captain will not betray king's secret. He refuses to betray where recruits are being raised. Spanish: Childers. |
| R211.2 | Captive bores way out of prison. Icelandic: *Boberg; Swiss: Jegerlehner Oberwallis 313 No. 98; Korean: Zong in-Sob 174 No. 75. |
| R212.1.2 | Captive buried alive to his neck fastens his teeth on jackal that comes to eat him and companions. Rest flee when they hear him howl. In struggles to get free jackal loosens earth around captive, who manages to free himself. Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 570. |
| K631.1 | Captive dodges when captor tries to cut off his hand; the hatchet sticks in a log and the captor is disarmed. *BP III 454; Wesselski Märchen 222 No. 36; Scala Celi No. 537. |
| R211.5 | Captive hews through iron prison with sword. Irish myth: Cross. |
| P173.1 | Captive king's daughter as slave. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| P173 | Captive king's sons made slaves. Irish myth: Cross; Jewish: Neuman. |
| Q54.2 | Captive knight freed for having kept his word. Is allowed to leave to collect ransom (or marry fiancée). When he returns his captor frees him (or raises ransom). Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| R211.6 | Captive knocks prison roof off. (Cf. F627.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| K522.4 | Captive parrots in net play dead and are thrown out: escape. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K622 | Captive plays further and further from watchman and escapes. Africa (Kaffir): Theal 33, (Basuto): Jacottet 102 No. 15; West Indies: Flowers 519. |
| R71 | Captive prince joins captor out of gratitude for his freedom. (He had refused to promise that he would not fight again.) (Cf. W27.) Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| R85 | Captive protected by angel from abductor. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| V151.1 | Captive released because of ability to recite beginning of Genesis. (Cf. J1185.) Gaster Exempla 193 No. 38. |
| R82 | Captive sends secret message outside (in orange or on handkerchief). India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| H85 | Captive sends token of safety. Africa (Swahili): Steere 143, (Zulu): Callaway 221. |
| G82.1.1 | Captive sticks out bone instead of finger when cannibal tries to test his fatness. *Type 327; BP I 115ff.; *Fb "hale" I 537, "lysepile" II 487; Korean: Zong in-Sob 147 No. 65. |
| K671 | Captive throws his hat to lions who fight over it while he escapes. Spanish: Boggs FFC XC 56 No. 408A*. |
| K672 | Captive throws his shoe at serpent who chokes while he escapes. Spanish: Boggs FFC XC 56 No. 408A*. |
| K638 | Captive tied to captor escapes by tying end of rope to a post. Korean: Zong in-Sob 173 No. 74. |
| K562.1 | Captive trickster persuades captor to pray before eating. Escapes. Africa (Nama): Bleek 23, No. 12, (Hottentot): Meinhof Lehrbücher d. Sem. f. orient. Spr. XXIII 165. |
| G535 | Captive woman in ogre's house helps hero. Icelandic: *Boberg; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| P173.3 | Captives from battle sold as slaves. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| R53 | Captivity as refuge for the captive. Type 870. |
| R41.6 | Captivity in a pillar. Cheremis: Sebeok-Nyerges. |
| R49.2 | Captivity in an oven. Cheremis: Sebeok-Nyerges. |
| R41.2.2 | Captivity in bower. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| R41.7 | Captivity in cages. (Cf. Q433.1.) Cheremis: Sebeok-Nyerges; Jewish: Neuman. |
| R41.1 | Captivity in castle. *Type 400; English: Wells 66 (Ywain and Gawain); Irish myth: *Cross; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| R45.3 | Captivity in cave. |
| R41.3 | Captivity in dungeon. Irish myth: *Cross; English: Wells 22 (Sir Beues of Hamtoun); Jewish: Neuman. |
| R47 | Captivity in lower world. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| R45 | Captivity in mound (cave, hollow hill). *Type 870; *BP III 443ff., 450; *Fb "höj" I 740b, 741; **Liungman Traditionsstudie över sagan om prinsessan i jordkulan (Göteborg, 1925). — Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg; Spanish: Boggs FFC XC 54 No. 405*A; India: *Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Graham. |
| R41.1.1 | Captivity in subterranean palace. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| R42 | Captivity in sunken valley. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| R41 | Captivity in tower (castle, prison). |
| R41.2 | Captivity in tower. *Type 310; Dickson 198 n. 8; Irish myth: *Cross; Italian: Basile Pentamerone II No. 1, IV No. 6, Rotunda; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| R49.1 | Captivity in tree. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| R41.3.4 | Captivity in well. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| R43 | Captivity on island. Irish myth: *Cross; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| J217 | Captivity preferred to death. |
| R46 | Captivity under water. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| R9 | Captivity—miscellaneous. |
| R0 | Captivity. |
| W11.5.8 | Captor contributes to captive's ransom. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K631 | Captor induced to disarm himself. |
| K580 | Captor persuaded into illusory punishment. |
| K526 | Captor's bag filled with animals or objects while captives escape. *Type 327C; Icelandic: Sveinsson FFC LXXXIII No. 327C; Norwegian: Christiansen Norske Eventyr 44; Spanish: Boggs FFC XC 44 No. 311B*; India: *Thompson-Balys; Koryak: Jochelson JE VI 181, 212; N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 351 n. 268a; S. A. Indian (Aymara): Tschapik BBAE CXLIII (1) 571; Africa (Kaffir): Theal 120, 136, (Basuto): Jacottet 66 No. 10, (Zulu): Callaway 6, 74, 345, (Congo): Grenfell 824; American Negro (Georgia): Harris Nights 386 No. 70, (Virginia): Parsons JAFL XXXV 262. |
| K633 | Captor's powder is removed, ashes substituted: gun does not discharge. U.S.: Baughman. |
| K536 | Captors deceived into believing captive is planning to stay with them: vigilance relaxed. Captured general orders heavy boxes taken into the temple. These are thought to be gold and it is concluded that he will not try to leave. He escapes. *Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 527. |
| K551.28 | Captors give captive respite in order to witness alleged marvel. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 511. |
| K656 | Captors lured into drowning selves. U.S.: Baughman. |
| K742 | Capture between branches of tree. Small animal lures large one, who cannot get loose. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K783 | Capture by blinding. |
| K737 | Capture by closing entrance to victim's home. Africa (Basuto): Jacottet 258 No. 38, (Ila, Rhodesia): Smith and Dale II 366 No. 17. |
| K700 | Capture by deception. |
| K750 | Capture by decoy. Irish myth: Cross. |
| K751 | Capture by feigning death. (Cf. K757.) *Types 47A, 56A; Chauvin III 76; Crane Vitry 127 No. 304; Herbert III 461; Jewish: bin Gorion Born Judas IV 29, Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 242, 1131; Indonesia: DeVries's list No. 27; Eskimo (West Hudson Bay): Boas BAM XV 176, 332; N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 298 n. 88; Africa (Basuto): Jacottet 14 No. 1, (Fjort): Dennett 79 No. 17; Cape Verde Islands: Parsons MAFLS XV (1) 310 n. 1, 312, 315, 324; West Indies: Flowers 525ff. |
| K757 | Capture by feigning illness. (Cf. K751.) *Type 50; N. A. Indian (Klikitat): Jacobs U Wash II 35; American Negro (Georgia): Harris Remus 3 No. 1; West Indies: Flowers 527. (See also all references to K961.) |
| K751.1 | Capture by hiding in animal carcass. Animal who comes to eat of carcass caught. Babylonian: Spence 297. |
| K754 | Capture by hiding in artificial animal. Icelandic: Herrmann Saxo II 643. |
| K754.3 | Capture by hiding in artificial bird. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 431. |
| K754.2 | Capture by hiding in artificial elephant. *Penzer I 133 n. 1; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 859. |
| K758 | Capture by hiding in baskets of food. Irish myth: Cross. |
| K753 | Capture by hiding in disguised objects. Egypt: Maspero Contes populaires de l'Ancienne Egypt (Paris, 1882) 85f.; Arabian: Basset 1001 Contes II 301; Indonesia: Overbeck Insulinde I 148. |
| K753.1 | Capture by hiding in disguised ship. DeVries Acta Philologica Scandinavica II 137. |
| K763 | Capture by hiding in hollow tree. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K752 | Capture by hiding under screen (grass, leaves, etc.) Africa (Kaffir): Theal 30 No. 1, (Basuto): Jacottet 100 No. 15, (Ila, Rhodesia): Smith and Dale II 384 No. 2; American Negro (Georgia): Harris Nights 79 No. 15, 95 No. 18 (hollow tree). |
| K2357.15 | Capture by hiding warriors in baskets on back of oxen driven into enemy's camp on pretence that food is being brought. Irish myth: Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| K756 | Capture by imitation of animal's voice. Africa (Kaffir): Theal 119, (Fjort): Dennett 85 No. 10; Jamaica: Beckwith MAFLS XVII 242 No. 17; Antigua, British West Indies: Johnson JAFL XXXIV 68. |
| K776 | Capture by intoxication (or narcotic). Dickson 67 n. 13, 122 n. 71; Malone PMLA XLIII 415; Irish myth: Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg; Italian: Basile Pentamerone III No. 5, Rotunda; Jewish: Neuman; Africa (Wute): Sieber ZsES XII 169; West Indies: Flowers 527. |
| K775 | Capture by luring merchant to look at supposed bargain. Cape Verde Islands: Parsons MAFLS XV (1) 214 No. 73. |
| K778.3 | Capture by luring to courtesan's house. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K782 | Capture by lying in wait in enemy's haunt. Irish myth: Cross. |
| K755 | Capture by masking as another. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 215f., 541. |
| G420 | Capture by ogre. |
| K761 | Capture by putting on the clothes of slain enemy. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| K774 | Capture by sight of women's breasts. Women with uncovered breasts meet hero. He averts his face and is captured. Irish: MacCulloch Celtic 142 (Cuchulainn), *Cross. |
| K775.1 | Capture by taking aboard ship to inspect wares. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K741 | Capture by tarbaby. An image covered with tar (or other adhesive substance) captures the intruder who addresses it and finally strikes it so that he sticks to it. *Type 175; **Cline American Literature II 72ff.; **Espinosa JAFL XLIII 129ff., LVI 31ff., Las versiones hispanicas peninsulares del cuento del muсeco de brea (Estudios dedicados a Menendez Pidal [Madrid, 1951]) 357—81, Sobre los origines del cuento del muсeco de brea (Bol. de la Bibl. Menendez y Pelayo XIII 296—318); *Dh IV 26; **Parsons FL XXX 227, JAFL XXXV 330; *Taylor JAOS LXIV 4ff.; Brown Scientific Monthly XV 228; Werner Folklore X 282.—Spanish: Boggs FFC XC 77 No. 650; India: *Thompson-Balys; Japanese: Ikeda; Philippine: Fansler MAFLS XII 336, 442; N. A. Indian: *Thompson CColl II 440, 444ff.; Africa: Frobenius Atlantis VIII 105, IX 106, XII 319, Weeks Jungle 431, (Angola): Chatelain 185 No. 22; (Hottentot): Theal 90, (Yoruba): Ellis 255 No. 4, (Gold Coast): Barker and Sinclair 71, (Kaffir): Kidd 242 No. 9, (Ekoi): Talbot 397, (Mpongwe): Nassau 22 No. 2, (Ila, Rhodesia): Smith and Dale II 356 398, (Cameroon): Gantenbein 69, (Duala): Lederbogen Märchen 74, Fables 59; American Negro (Georgia): Harris Remus 7 No. 2; Jamaica: *Beckwith MAFLS XVII 244 Nos. 20, 21. |
| K741.1 | Capture by tarring back of a horse. Cheremis: Sebeok-Nyerges. |
| K735 | Capture in pitfall. (Cf. B361.) *Type 160; Chauvin II 106 No. 71; England: Baughman; Icelandic: *Boberg; India: *Thompson-Balys; Tuamotu: Stimson MS (z-G. 3/1323, 1/89); Mono-Alu: Wheeler Nos. 2, 6, 18, 48ff.; Africa (Benga): Nassau 86, 191 Nos. 4, 25, (Ila, Rhodesia): Smith and Dale II 386 No. 11, (Fang): Trilles 267. |
| K735.4 | Capture in trap bed: victim dropped into dungeon. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K735.2 | Capture in trap seat. India: Thompson-Balys; N. A. Indian (California): Gayton and Newman 80. |
| K2362 | Capture of castle by feigning death. *DeVries Arkiv f. Nordisk Filologi XLVII 56ff., 67ff.; Wilken Geschichte der Kreuzzüge II 321ff.; Herrmann Saxo II 126; Icelandic: Boberg. |
| K777 | Capture of castle by pretending to surrender and entering. Dickson 70 n. 19. |
| R5 | Capture on field of battle. Irish myth: Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg; Jewish: Neuman. |
| K778 | Capture through the wiles of a woman. (Cf. K774.) Dickson 122 n. 70; Irish myth: *Cross. |
| K776.1 | Capture with aid of sleep-bringing music. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| K551.7 | Captured animal asks respite while he gives war alarm. Indonesia: DeVries's list No. 2. |
| B278 | Captured animal ransoms self. *Type 159; Chauvin VI 147 No. 304, VIII 148 No. 146 note 1.—India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| Q385 | Captured animals avenge themselves. N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 313 n. 126a. |
| M244.2 | Captured bird promises to deliver fifteen birds in exchange for freedom. Africa (Cameroon): Lederbogen 73. |
| J1024.1 | Captured elephants pull all at once and escape from net. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B143.1.6 | Captured goose warns tortoise: released in gratitude. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| P26 | Captured queen commits suicide. (Cf. P16.3.0.1.) Irish myth: Cross; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F341.2.1 | Captured water fairy promises to make ugly man beautiful in return for her release. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| S139.3 | Captured women hanged and crucified. Irish myth: Cross. |
| N5 | Card-playing parson. The parson plays cards all Saturday night, goes to sleep at church, and calls out the names of the cards. Type 1839A; Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 1785E*. Cf. Type 1839B. |
| J1179.13 | Cardinal's clever decision: that the monks who arise earliest may sound matins. There had been a great argument over this privilege. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| J648 | Care against future imprisonment. |
| J643 | Care against future tyranny. |
| J818 | Care in advising a king. |
| J657 | Care in selecting the creature to carry one. |
| T680 | Care of children—miscellaneous motifs. |
| T600 | Care of children. **Ploss Das Kind; Fellinger Das Kind in der altfranzösischen Literatur (Göttingen, 1908); *McDaniel Conception, Birth and Infancy (Miami, 1948); Irish myth: *Cross. |
| A511.2 | Care of culture hero. |
| N174 | Careful builder outside when storm comes is killed; careless builder saved. Spanish Exempla: Keller; Africa (Angola): Chatelain 247 No. 58. |
| J2136.5 | Careless thief caught. |
| K1461 | Caring for the child: child killed. Finnish: Kalevala rune 31; S. A. Indian (Mataco): Métraux MAFLS XL 133. |
| J2197 | Carpe diem. An abbot is planning to build a palace. The fool: "Why go to all that trouble? Just enjoy yourself with wine, women, and song." Wesselski Bebel I 179 No. 22. |
| A143 | Carpenter (wright) of the gods. Irish myth: Cross; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| J1891.2 | Carpenter blames the nails. On his deathbed refuses to forgive nails which ruined his tools. *Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 702. |
| F675.3 | Carpenter constructs house of sandalwood which will go wherever owner commands. India: Thompson-Balys. |
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