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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 ▲ |
|---|---|
| X512 | Usurers do not reply. The parson asks the various trades and professions to rise one by one for a special blessing. When he calls for the usurers none reply. Pauli (ed. Bolte) Nos. 193, 194; Crane Vitry 207 No. 179; Scala Celi 168b No. 959; Alphabet No. 792. |
| P12.3 | Usurper imposes burdensome taxes. Dickson 175 n. 39. |
| Q273 | Usury punished. Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 198; Alphabet Nos. 231, 278, 287, 794; Scala Celi 154b, 168a Nos. 852, 955—959; Spanish Exempla: Keller; Jewish: *Neuman. |
| A2510 | Utility of animals. |
| Q211.3 | Uxoricide punished. (Cf. Q414.0.1, Q416.0.2.1, Q596.1.) Italian Novella: *Rotunda; Koryak, American Indian: *Jochelson JE VI 378; Africa (Bankon): Ittman 98. |
| N339.5 | Uxorious king is burned to death while taking an alcohol bath. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| P12.11 | Uxorious king neglects duties. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q394 | Uxoriousness punished. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F547.5.5 | Vagina as bag. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F547.1.1 | Vagina dentata. Woman kills her husbands with her toothed vagina. India: *Thompson-Balys; Marquesas: Handy 100; Tuamotu: Beckwith Myth 289; Eskimo (Greenland): Rasmussen I 305, Holm 87; N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 309 n. 115, Hatt Asiatic Influences 85ff., (California): Gayton and Newman 72. |
| F547.5.7 | Vagina in armpit. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F547.5.6 | Vagina in forehead. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A1313.3.1 | Vaginal teeth broken. Women originally had toothed vaginas. Culture hero breaks teeth so that women will be harmless to men. (See practically all references to F547.1.1, Vagina Dentata.)—S. Am. Indian (Toba, Mataco): Métraux MAFLS XL 99, 105, Métraux BBAE CXLIII (1) 367. |
| H1531.2 | Vain attempt to kill hero on stairway set with razors. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| S252.2 | Vain attempt to save promised child by evasions. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| S252.1 | Vain attempt to save promised child by use of substitute. *Type 425. |
| S252 | Vain attempt to save promised child. |
| A1415.4 | Vain attempts to circumvent theft of fire. *Dh III 109ff. —Polynesian: Dixon 47; Massim (British New Guinea): ibid. 115 n. 48. |
| M370 | Vain attempts to escape fulfillment of prophecy. (Cf. M341.2.10, M343, M344.) *Type 930; **Aarne FFC XXIII 110ff.; *BP IV 116 n. 10; *Fb "rig" III 55a; *Cosquin études 27ff.; Irish myth: *Cross; Greek: Grote I 85; Jewish: *Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 109, 428, 598, II 1220; Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 202 No. 149; Africa (Wakweli): Bender 103. |
| Q331.2.1.2 | Vain woman has her cheeks miraculously burned. (Cf. Q550.) Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q331.2.1.4 | Vain woman wears corset so tight that it stifles her to death. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| A661.1.0.1 | Valhalla has five hundred and forty doors. Icel.: Boberg. |
| A661.1 | Valhalla. The hall of warriors who go to Odin. They die and are resurrected daily.—**Neckel Walhall (Dortmund, 1913); M. Olsen Acta Philol. Scand. VI 151f.; MacCulloch Eddic 312; Irish myth: Cross. |
| A485.2 | Valkyries (shield-maidens). Demigoddesses who attend battle. —*Handwb. d. Abergl. IX Nachträge 240ff; **Golther "Der Valkyrenmythus" Abhandl. d. Akad. d. Wiss. (München), 1. Kl., XVIII, Abt. 2, 401ff.; *Krappe Modern Language Review XXI 55 ff.; *Hertz Aus Dichtung und Sage 31ff.—Irish myth: Cross; Norse: De la Saussaye 304ff., MacCulloch Eddic 248ff., 259, 283—84, 314, Penzer X 345 s.v. "Valkyries". |
| A171.1.2 | Valkyries ride through air and water. Icel.: Boberg. |
| D799.2 | Valley disenchanted rises to level of surroundings. Irish myth: Cross. |
| D2102.2 | Valley fills with gold at command. Gaster Rabbis 225 No. 205, Jewish: Neuman. |
| H421.1 | Valley from which no false lover can escape until it has been entered by a true lover. Irish myth: *Cross; English: Child I 267. |
| F756.5.1 | Valley full of dreadful monsters. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F756.1 | Valley of fire. (Cf. F702, F753, F763, F771.1.11, F785.3.) Chauvin VII 57 No. 77. |
| G105 | Valley of the one hundred giants. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Z124.1 | Valor personified as bird which flutters over champion's head. Irish myth: Cross. |
| Z124 | Valor personified. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C967 | Valuable object turns to worthless, for breaking tabu. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| J1655.2 | Valuable rubies baked in bread. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| N440 | Valuable secrets learned. Missouri French: Carrière. |
| J2093 | Valuables given away or sold for trifle. |
| J1061 | Value depends upon real use. |
| J1010 | Value of industry. |
| V4 | Value of religious exercises. |
| J1074 | Value of silence. |
| E251.2.3 | Vampire brought to life by being fed human food and drink. Africa (Ronga): Junod Les Chants et les Contes des Ba-Ronga de la baie de Delagoa (Lausanne, 1897) 317ff. No. 30. |
| E251.2.1 | Vampire brought to life through endurance of punishment by her victim. *Type 307. |
| E251.2 | Vampire brought to life. |
| A139.4 | Vampire goddess. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| E251.3.2 | Vampire milks cows dry. *Kittredge Witchcraft 166, 485 n. 27. |
| E251.5 | Vampire plant. U.S.: Baughman. |
| E251.3.3 | Vampire sucks blood. U.S.: *Baughman. |
| E251.4.2 | Vampire with ass's ears. Penzer VII 163. |
| E251.4.1 | Vampire with elephant face. Penzer VII 163. |
| E251.4.3 | Vampire with eyes of owls. Penzer VII 163. |
| E251 | Vampire. Corpse which comes from grave at night and sucks blood. (Cf. B16.7.1, E268.) *Types 307, 363; *Jellinek Zs. f. Vksk. XIV 322 (327 bibliography of literary treatments); *v. Negelein ibid. XIV 19; *Jaworskij ibid. VIII 331; *Hock Die Vampyrsagen und ihre Verwertung in der deutschen Literatur (Berlin, 1900); *Penzer VI 136, X 346 s.v. "vampires", 350 s.v. "Vetala"; *Fb "blod" IV 47a, "vampyr" IV 361b; *Kittredge Witchcraft 43, 397 n. 160; *Havecost Die Vampirsage in England (1914); Stetson The Animistic Vampire in New England (AA o.s. IX [1896] 1ff.); *Encyc. Rel. Ethics s.v. "Vampire"; Summers **The Vampire in Europe (London, 1929), **The Vampire, its Kith and Kin (London, 1928); *Feilberg Am Urquell III 331ff., VI 84; Wehrhan Die Sage 62; *E. Jobbé-Duval Les morts malfaisants (Paris, 1924)—England: Tupper and Ogle, Map 125f.; Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "vampirisme"; Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 3543; Greek: Fox 278 (Stringes); Slavic: Máchal 231f.; Assyrian: Spence 265; India: *Thompson-Balys; Indonesian: Dixon 231f.; Kai (German New Guinea): ibid. 143; West Indies: Flowers 429; N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 357 n. 287e; S. A. Indian (Araucanian): Alexander Lat. Am. 329. |
| E251.1.1 | Vampire's power overcome by endurance and prayer. Hero continues to pray without looking or speaking while vampire punishes him. *Type 307; Japanese: Ikeda. |
| E251.1 | Vampire's power overcome. Penzer VI 138. |
| E251.3.1 | Vampires eat corpses. *Type 363.—Cf. Fb "hud" I 661; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| R133 | Vanished wife rescued. |
| Q331.2 | Vanity punished. |
| W116 | Vanity. Irish myth: Cross; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T68.4 | Vanquished king gives hero his daughter and control over his kingdom. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| G665 | Vanquished ogre grants hero's three wishes. Irish: MacCulloch Celtic 149, *Cross. |
| J829.3 | Vanquished ruler in disguise gets audience with victor. "What would you do if your enemy were to kneel before you and beg forgiveness?" "I would forgive him." Reveals identity and is pardoned. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| G302.2 | Varieties of demons. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| J182 | Varieties of wisdom. |
| B600.1.1 | Various animals tried out as wives: none accepted. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B600.1 | Various animals tried out as wives. Only one accepted.—N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 348 n. 254b. |
| B241.1 | Various beasts as king of beasts. |
| B242.1 | Various birds as king of birds. |
| A1901 | Various birds from Pharaoh's drowned army. (Cf. A1715.1).—Finnish: Aarne FFC VIII 15 No. 82, Esthonian: Aarne FFC XXV 146 No. 48; Lappish: Qvigstad FFC LX 38 No. 45. |
| A697 | Various Buddhist otherworlds. |
| V71.3 | Various events, from creation to Resurrection, that occurred on Sabbath. Irish myth: Cross; Jewish: Neuman. |
| B243.1 | Various fishes as king of fishes. |
| A2433.2 | Various haunts of animals. |
| G303.16.11 | Various holy persons save one from devil. |
| K950 | Various kinds of treacherous murder. *Type 709; *Böklen 100ff. |
| A934 | Various origins of rivers. |
| A151.14 | Various other dwelling places of gods. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 3, 11, 43, 67. |
| M364 | Various prophecies connected with saints (or holy men). Irish myth: *Cross; Jewish: *Neuman. |
| V61 | Various ways of disposing of dead. |
| F482.4.1 | Various-colored horses of brownie. *Fb "hest" I 598. |
| B46 | Vasa Mortis. Bird with four heads, middle like a whale, feathers and feet of a griffin.—Old English: Solomon and Saturnus (Grein-Wülcker) III (2) 58—82, lines 262ff. |
| V211.1.3.1 | Vast intolerable light on night of Christ's Nativity. Irish myth: Cross. |
| T549.1 | Vegetable comes to life at woman's prayer. Africa (Gold Coast): Barker and Sinclair 77 No. 12. |
| B95.1 | Vegetable lamb born from melons (as from eggs).—Laufer JAFL XXVIII 124. |
| B95 | Vegetable lamb. Generated from ground. Umbilical cord is in the ground and the lambs will die if it is forcibly severed. They are frightened into severing it themselves and then live. Vertebrae of the neck planted to produce new ones.—*Laufer JAFL XXVIII 115ff. |
| D1472.1.4 | Vegetable supporting life without other food. (Cf. D1034.) Icelandic: Boberg. |
| F815.1 | Vegetables (plants) which mature in miraculously short time. (Cf. F811.13.) Irish myth: *Cross; Spanish Exempla: Keller; Jewish: *Neuman; Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 35. |
| F440 | Vegetation spirits. *Kittredge Gawain 195ff.; Frazer Golden Bough XII 510 s.v. "Vegetation"; Irish myth: *Cross; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| D1533.2 | Vehicle travels above and below ground. |
| H431.3 | Veil as chastity index. Flowers on veil fade on head of unchaste. Bédier Fabliaux 465. |
| K1821.3.1 | Veiled adulteress flees with paramour who has enlisted duped husband's aid. Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| A661.0.1.1.2 | Veils of fire and ice before chief door of heaven. Irish myth: Cross. |
| P17.0.3 | Vengeance for destruction of fairy-mound pursues king's descendants. Irish myth: Cross. |
| K1317.3 | Vengeful paramours send syphilitic man to substitute in woman's bed. *Schwartz Zs. f. Vksk. XXVI 136. |
| B776 | Venomous animals. |
| B776.4.2 | Venomous boar. Irish myth: Cross. |
| D1766.6.5 | Venomous dog killed by sign of cross. Irish myth: Cross. |
| B776.3.1 | Venomous dog loosed against saint. Irish myth: Cross. |
| B776.3 | Venomous hound. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F582.3 | Venomous man. Irish myth: Cross. |
| B776.7 | Venomous serpent. (Cf. B776.5.3.)—Irish myth: Cross; Norse: Herrmann Saxo II 602, MacCulloch Eddic 105, Boberg; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B776.1 | Venomous sheep destroy enemy. Irish: MacCulloch Celtic 63, Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q418.2 | Venomous snake put into the mouth as punishment for murder of newborn children. (Cf. Q211.4.) Icelandic: Boberg. |
| B765.12 | Venomous snakes play with precious stones. Icel.: Boberg. |
| B776.4 | Venomous swine. |
| B776.6 | Venomous worm. Irish myth: Cross. |
| E481.8.3 | Venus as land of dead. Africa (Fang): Trilles 136. |
| K1211 | Vergil in the basket. A lover who is to be pulled up to his mistress's window is left hanging in the basket in the public gaze. **Spargo Virgil the Necromancer 136ff., 368ff.; *Comparetti Vergil in the Middle Ages (tr. Benecke) 326ff.; *Lee Decameron 259f.; *Penzer I 42; Clouston Tales II 308; Spanish Exempla: Keller; Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| F555.3 | Very long hair. Child V 482 s.v. "hair"; Icelandic: Boberg; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| F571.3 | Very old woman. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| L112.2 | Very small hero. Irish myth: Cross; Icelandic: Hrуlfssaga Gautrekssonar passim; Spanish: Espinosa Jr. Nos. 133—135; Korean: Zong in-Sob 78 No. 44; Philippine: Fansler MAFLS XII 24. |
| J1316 | Very small to be so old. Guest criticizes host's small serving of wine which he said was six years old. Spanish: Childers. |
| F555.4 | Very thick hair. Irish myth: Cross. |
| Z323 | Vessel from which nothing can be drunk save through certain tube. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F881.2 | Vessel of human bones. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| F1092 | Vessel of poisoned ale inverted; only poison flows out. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| D1318.12.1 | Vessels burst and reveal disobedience. Irish: Plummer clxxxvi, Cross. |
| D1318.12 | Vessels reveal guilt. (Cf. D1171.) |
| J1438 | Veterinarian becomes doctor. When he killed animals he had to pay for them; but he did not have to pay for killing people. Spanish: Childers. |
| T252.7 | Vexed woman brings pot down on husband's head in presence of guest. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| D2156.5 | Vicious snakes easily controlled by saint. *Loomis White Magic 63f.; *Krappe Traditio V (1947) 323—330. |
| S181.1 | Victim bound to a bladed wheel. (Cf. Q423.) *Loomis White Magic 118. |
| K745 | Victim burned in building. Mono: Wheeler No. 34; Alu: ibid. 17, 35; Papua: Ker 7, 17, 36, 73; Aurora: Codrington No. III 12; Lepers Island: ibid. No. III 17. |
| K812 | Victim burned in his own house (or hiding place). Icelandic: *Boberg; India: *Thompson-Balys, Panchatantra III 16 (tr. Ryder) 364; Japanese: Ikeda; Indonesia: DeVries's list Nos. 32, 75. |
| K743 | Victim captured in a noose. Maori: Beckwith Myth 250, Clark 100. |
| K772 | Victim enticed into dancing: captured. Africa (Yoruba): Ellis 257 No. 4. |
| K839.3 | Victim enticed into drinking by over-salting his food: killed when off guard. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| K839.1 | Victim enticed into eating: killed when off guard. N. A. Indian (California): Gayton and Newman 87. |
| K710 | Victim enticed into voluntary captivity or helplessness. |
| K834 | Victim killed while asleep in killer's house. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K831 | Victim killed while being bathed. Greek: *Frazer Apollodorus II 269 n. 2 (Agamemnon); India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| K837 | Victim killed while load is being taken from his back. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F912.1 | Victim kills swallower from within by burning. *Wesselski Märchen 213 No. 18; Hartland Perseus III 15; Finnish: Kalevala rune 17; Oceanic (Cook Group, Melanesia, Indonesia): Dixon 69; Africa (Zulu): Callaway 332ff. |
| F912.2 | Victim kills swallower from within by cutting. Irish myth: *Cross; Mono-Alu: Wheeler 55; New Hebrides: Codrington 365; Cook Islands: Beckwith Myth 503; Marquesas: ibid. 502; S. A. Indian (Eastern Brazil): Lowie BBAE CXLIII (1) 434; Africa (Cameroon): Meinhof 60, (Kaffir): Theal 84, 176, (Basuto): Jacottet 122. |
| F912 | Victim kills swallower from within. Herbert III 196; Oesterley No. 251; Irish myth: Cross; Greek: Fox 86; India: Thompson-Balys; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 291; Chinese: Graham; Japanese: Ikeda; N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 321 n. 159; Africa: Werner African 199. |
| K815 | Victim lured by kind words approaches trickster and is killed. *Type 242; Wienert FFC LVI 50 (ET 101), 97 (ST 112); Halm Aesop No. 263; Spanish: Boggs FFC XC 33 No *127A; India: *Thompson-Balys, Panchatantra III 13 (tr. Ryder) 368; Africa (Basuto): Jacottet 276 No. 41, (Kaffir): Theal 177; West Indies: Flowers 528. |
| K839.2 | Victim lured into approach by false token. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| K714.7 | Victim lured into following deer sent by demon to cave. Dies of suffocation. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K811 | Victim lured into house and killed. *Type 56B; Irish myth: Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg; India: Thompson-Balys; Indonesia: DeVries's list No. 32; West Indies: Flowers 528. |
| K838 | Victim lured into trough: is pounded up with poisoned fish. India: Thompson-Balys; Africa (Hausa): Frobenius Atlantis IX 277ff., 287ff., Nos. 74, 75. |
| F915.1 | Victim pecks on swallower's stomach. (Cf. F912.3.) Bird eaten by king pecks on his stomach. King vomits and bird escapes. Spanish: Boggs FFC XC 37 No. 244; Japanese: Ikeda. |
| K818 | Victim persuaded to disarm. Killed. Irish myth: Cross. |
| K825 | Victim persuaded to hold out his tongue: cut off. Robbers induced by various excuses (to learn to sing, to learn foreign language, to have a hair taken off the tongue). Type 1653; *Cosquin I 244f.; Norwegian: Christiansen Norske Eventyr 141 No. 1654; Spanish: Espinosa III Nos. 147, 181—8; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| K825.1.1 | Victim persuaded to hold out tongue: bitten off. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| K832.5 | Victim persuaded to look for certain tree: pushed over cliff. Chinese: Graham. |
| K832.1.1 | Victim persuaded to look into well or pond: pushed in. Type 408; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| K925 | Victim pushed into fire. Spanish: Boggs FFC XC 60 No. 435*; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| K926 | Victim pushed into water. India: *Thompson-Balys; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 1260. |
| F915 | Victim speaks from swallower's body. *Type 700; BP I 389; Alphabet No. 335; Irish: Plummer cxliii; Italian: Basile Pentamerone V No. 8; Indonesia: De Vries's list No. 58; West Indies: Flowers 436ff. |
| K815.19 | Victim told to stand ready by tree to catch bee nest as it falls; trickster throws club at him instead. S. A. Indian (Toba): Métraux MAFLS XL 75. |
| K730 | Victim trapped. India: Thompson-Balys; Indonesia: DeVries's list No. 47. |
| K714.4 | Victim tricked into entering basket. Chinese: Graham. |
| K714.2 | Victim tricked into entering box. M. Bloomfield in Penzer VII xvii; Missouri French: Carrière; India: Thompson-Balys; Indonesia: DeVries's list No. 294, Dixon 197; American Negro (Georgia): Harris Remus 62 No. 13, (Virginia): Bacon and Parsons JAFL XXXV 267, (North Carolina): Parsons JAFL XXX 175, Brown Collection I 704. |
| K714.2.1 | Victim tricked into jumping in a box by making him think he is going to heaven. (Cf. K842.) Cheremis: Sebeok-Nyerges. |
| K714.1 | Victim tricked into prison and kept there. *Wesselski Arlotto I 209 No. 50; Irish myth: Cross; Africa (Thonga): Junod 216. |
| K818.3 | Victim's arrows made harmless. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F913 | Victims rescued from swallower's belly. (Cf. X1723.1.) *Types 123, 333, 450, 700; *BP I 37, 40, 389; *Penzer VI 154 n. 3; Wesselski Märchen 213 No. 18; Saintyves Perrault 227ff.—Irish myth: *Cross; Jewish: bin Gorion Born Judas I 165, 372; Persian: Carnoy 302; Hindu: Keith 173; India: *Thompson-Balys; Oceanic (Cook Group, Melanesia, Indonesia, Australia): Dixon 69, 296; Eskimo (Smith Sound): Kroeber JAFL XII 175; N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 321 n. 159a; S. A. Indian (Bakairi): Alexander Lat. Am. 313, (Cashinawa): Métraux BBAE CXLIII (3) 686; Africa: Werner African 221, (Zulu): Callaway 55, 78ff., 85ff., 325, 332, (Kaffir): Theal 84, 142, 176, (Basuto): Jacottet 72, 76, 214 Nos. 11, 12, 31; Jamaica: *Beckwith MAFLS XVII 270 No. 82. |
| T104.2 | Victor demands defeated king's daughter (widow) in marriage. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| J684.4 | Victorious ally feared by others. Jewish: Neuman. |
| L0 | Victorious youngest child. *Fb "yngst" III 1132a; *Saintyves Perrault 128ff.; *Jacobs's list s.v. "Youngest best"; Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "cadet"; French Canadian: Barbeau JAFL XXIX 13; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| L50 | Victorious youngest daughter. *Types 361, 425, 431, 440, 480, 510, 511, 707, 901, 923; **Cox Cinderella passim; *BP I 185; Nutt FL IV 133; Jacobs FL IV 269; Lang FL IV 413; Cox FL XVIII 191; *Roberts 110; Tegethoff 10; *MacCulloch Childhood 357; *Saintyves Perrault 113. — Missouri French: Carrière; Spanish: Boggs FFC XC 65 No. 471B*; Italian: Basile Pentamerone I Nos. 2, 8, II Nos. 2, 3, III No. 4, V No. 9, Rotunda; India: *Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 248 No. 193; Indonesia: Dixon 210; N. A. Indian: *Thompson CColl II 382ff., 390, (Maliseet): Mechling GSCan IV No. 9, (Chinook): Boas BBAE XX 77ff. No. 4, (Kwakiutl): Boas and Hunt JE III 371, (Gros Ventre): Kroeber PaAM I 80ff. No. 19, (Wichita): Dorsey CI XXI No. 33. |
| L10 | Victorious youngest son. *Types 326, 402, 471, 513, 550, 551, 554, 569, 570, 571, 577, 580, 610, 935, 1650. See also references under each of these type entries in FFC LXXIV. *Hdwb. d. Märchens I 186a; Malone PMLA XLIII 398f.; *A. Christensen Danske Studier (1916) 46ff.; Chauvin II 115 No. 88.—Irish myth: Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg; Spanish Exempla: Keller; Jewish: *Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Graham; Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 491; Tahiti: Henry Ancient Tahiti (Honolulu, 1928) 614; Tuamotu: Stimson MS (T-G. 3/403, 615); Easter Island: Métraux Ethnology 383; Polynesian: Dixon 41; N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 327 n. 185, (California): Gayton and Newman 74; Africa (Jaunde): Heepe 262, (Fang): Tessman 107, (Zanzibar): Bateman 155ff. No. 8, (Ekoi): Talbot 207, 259, 355, (Fjort): Dennett 65 No. 13, (Gold Coast): Barker and Sinclair 171 No. 34; Cape Verde Islands: Parsons MAFLS XV (1) 110f. No. 39. |
| Q156 | Victory as reward for piety. (Cf. Q20.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Z132.1 | Victory personified. Irish myth: Cross. |
| H1462.1 | Vigil for dead father: youngest son alone endures frightful experiences. Ceiling, floors, and walls knock together. Spanish: Boggs FFC XC 42 No. 302A*. |
| H1462 | Vigil for dead father. *Type 530; *BP III 111 n. 3; Rumanian: Schullerus FFC LXXVIII No. 365B*. |
| E385 | Vigil of husband at wife's grave calls her forth. N. A. Indian (California): Gayton and Newman 99. |
| H1450 | Vigilance test. |
| B155.2.1 | Village founded on spot when cock crows, dog barks, and mithian bellows. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T52.9 | Village given to bride-to-be as part of her dowry. Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 698. |
| D112.1.1 | Village of lion-men. India: Thompson-Balys, Penzer I 67f. |
| F566.1 | Village of men only. N. A. Indian (Thompson River): Teit MAFLS XI 53 No. 34. |
| F768.3 | Village of one-legged people. (Cf. F517.0.1.) Africa (Upoto): Einstein 128. |
| D112.2.1.2 | Village of tiger-men. (Cf. B221.6.1.)—India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B221.6.1 | Village of wer-tigers. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| C984.7 | Village sinks in earth for violation of tabu. S. Am. Indian (Toba): Métraux MAFLS XL 30. |
| D2188.3 | Village vanishes. Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 157. |
| X1564 | Village where rubies sell for four pice apiece. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F168 | Villages in otherworld. Eskimo (Labrador): Hawkes GSCan XIV 154. |
| K2112.4 | Villain brings (threatens to bring) naked servant to woman's house. Threat of false accusation of indiscretion forces woman to yield. Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| K2285 | Villain disguised as ascetic or nun. **M. Bloomfield "On False Ascetics and Nuns in Hindu Fiction" JAOS XLIV 202ff.; *Penzer III 211 n. 1, V 102 n. 2, VI 12 n. 1, IX 23 n. 2; Spanish Exempla: Keller; Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| Q581.2 | Villain in hiding killed by blow aimed at his victim. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q581 | Villain nemesis. Person condemned to punishment he has suggested for others. *Cox 503 and passim (under head "villain nemesis"); *Fb "dom" IV 101b; *Wesselski Theorie 139; Köhler-Bolte Zs. f. Vksk. VI 64 to Gonzenbach No. 13; Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 116; Wienert FFC LVI 49 (ET 83), 51 (ET 109, 110), 59 (ET 199), 132 (ST 382), 135 (ST 406, 447); Halm Aesop Nos. 18, 326. — Irish myth: *Cross; Italian: Basile Pentamerone I No. 2, III No. 10, V Nos. 8, 9; Jewish: *Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K2200 | Villains and traitors. Irish myth: Cross. |
| H218.0.1 | Vindication by champion. Usually noble lady or king accused. Child II 34—48, 508a, 510b. See also most references to H218. |
| F51.1.2 | Vine as sky-rope. Indonesia: Dixon 66; Mono-Alu, Fauru: Wheeler 21f.; Philippine (Tinguian): Cole 33; N. A. Indian: Thompson Star Husband 130; S. A. Indian (Eastern Brazil): Lowie BBAE CXLIII (3) 434. |
| F815.7.3 | Vines smile when a leaf is cut from them. Philippine (Tinguian): Cole 163. |
| D2145.2.2.1 | Vineyard in full fruit and blooming palm found in winter on the night of Christ's Nativity. (Cf. V211.1.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| S312.2 | Violated woman's child exposed. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| M108 | Violators of oaths. |
| W185.5 | Violence of judge's temper leads him to have men given death sentence unjustly. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| W185 | Violence of temper. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| D1502.9 | Viper body cures skin disease. (Cf. D1010.1) Jewish: Neuman. |
| D1711.2 | Virgil as magician. **D. Comparetti Virgilio nel medio evo (Florence, 1896) (Eng. trans. by E. F. M. Benecke, London, 1895); *Chauvin VIII 188ff. No. 228; *Penzer I 24 n. 1; *C. G. Leland Unpublished Legends of Virgil (London, 1899); *Otto Söhring Romanische Forschungen XII (1900) 580ff.; *Hertel Verzauberte Oertlichkeiten; J. D. Bruce MPh X (1913) 511ff.; **John W. Spargo Virgil the Necromancer (Cambridge, Mass., 1934). |
| A592.2 | Virgin daughter of culture hero. S. Am. Indian (Tupinamba): Métraux RMLP XXXIII 168. |
| V254.9 | Virgin forbids devil to take robber as long as he continues to say two "Aves" daily. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| V255.2 | Virgin gives private mass to devout lady unable to attend. Spanish Exempla: Keller |
| K1837.7 | Virgin living disguised as a man and unrecognized in a monastery becomes abbot (St. Eugenia). *Loomis White Magic 110f.; Irish myth: Cross. |
| V276.3 | Virgin Mary aids repentant slayer of priest. Priest is resurrected in order to forgive murderer and then is returned to tomb. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| V276.2 | Virgin Mary appears and pardons monk who has been too overworked to pray to her. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| V277 | Virgin Mary appears to devotee. |
| V277.1 | Virgin Mary appears to devout nun with infant Jesus. The nun devoutly prayed to see Him. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| V276 | Virgin Mary appears to erring man. |
| V276.1 | Virgin Mary appears to erring monk and exalts him to prayer. His prayers weave her a garment. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| Q223.7.1 | Virgin Mary appears to lady who neglected to hear mass. Woman awakens from trance to find piece of taper the Virgin took from her. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| V271 | Virgin Mary as foster mother. Type 710; *BP I 13ff. |
| T401 | Virgin Mary as protectress of illicit lovers. Ward II 604 No. 8, 606 No. 14, 612 No. 29, 618 No. 39, 621 No. 30, 626 No. 6, 638 No. 6, 650 No. 1, *663 No. 12, 668 No. 15; Herbert III 24; *Crane Vitry 257 No. 282, Miraculis 308 No. 2; *Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 887; Wells 166f. (Vernon Miracles Nos. 3, 7); Wesselski Mönchslatein 47 No. 40, 72 No. 63. |
| V264.1 | Virgin Mary brings man a pact he signed with the devil and frees the man from devil's power. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| V251.1 | Virgin Mary brings man back to life after he has seen hell's torments. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| V275 | Virgin Mary comforts repentant criminals. Ward II 603 No. 6, 606 No. 12, 610 No. 25, 618 No. 39, 648 No. 44; Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| V266 | Virgin Mary converts a Jew. (Cf. V330.) Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| V252 | Virgin Mary defends innocent accused. Alphabet No. 381; Wesselski Mönchslatein 78 No. 68; *Crane Miraculis No. 34; Icelandic: Boberg. |
| V261 | Virgin Mary designates favorite for election for office. *Crane Miraculis No. 13; Ward II 608 No. 19. |
| V268.3 | Virgin Mary destroys Moorish army besieging Constantinople. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| V255 | Virgin Mary has dissolute monk buried in consecrated ground: his only mass is that of the Virgin. *Crane Miraculis Nos. 3, 9; Ward II 607 No. 15, 660 No. 29; Scala Celi 116a, 116b Nos. 644, 645; Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| V250.2 | Virgin Mary has golden hair. Irish myth: Cross |
| D2163.3 | Virgin Mary intercepts an arrow in battle. (Cf. V250.) *Ward II 625 No. 3. |
| V251 | Virgin Mary prevents (retards) death so as to save sinner's soul. Permits time for repentance and absolution. (Sometimes resuscitation.) Alphabet No. 464; Ward II 606 No. 14, 633 No. 31, 650 No. 1; *Crane Miraculis Nos. 6, 7, 10, 31, 39; Wells 169 (De Miraculo Beate Marie); Scala Celi 123a, 125b Nos. 674, 681. — Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| V5.1 | Virgin Mary reproves a monk who sleeps at altar. Alphabet No. 284. |
| S251 | Virgin Mary rescues child promised to the devil. *Meyer Romania XXXIII 163ff.; Ward II 632 No. 29, Herbert III 504; Spanish: Espinosa II Nos. 99—103. |
| V264 | Virgin Mary rescues man attacked by the devil. *Crane Miraculis No. 23; Ward II 612 No. 30; Spanish Exempla: Keller; West Indies: Flowers 580. |
| V256.5 | Virgin Mary restores life to drowned man who always had saluted her. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| V256.3 | Virgin Mary restores severed hand to Saint John Damascene. He had cut it off to repress lust. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| V252.1 | Virgin Mary returns borrowed money and reveals cheat. A man borrows money from a Jew with the Virgin as security. Unable to return the money in time, he commits the money to the sea with a prayer to the Virgin. The Jew receives it but claims that the money is not paid. The Virgin reveals the cheat. Ward II 638 No. 10; *Crane Miraculis No. 33; Wells 167 (Vernon Miracles). |
| M91 | Virgin Mary reverses judgments of church. *Ward II 638 No. 5, 651 No. 4, 668 No. 15, 682 No. 21, 704 No. 42, 722 No. 30 and passim; Irish: Beal XXI 315, O'Suilleabhain 41. |
| V252.2 | Virgin Mary saves criminal from fire at stake. *Ward II 663 No. 12; Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| V268.2 | Virgin Mary saves devotee from death in waves. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| V268.4 | Virgin Mary saves devotee's son from shipwreck. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| V256.4 | Virgin Mary saves life of man who at devil's instigation has castrated himself. She will not, however, restore his severed members. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| K1841.3 | Virgin Mary substitutes for woman whom husband has pledged to the devil. Devil flees. Wesselski Mönchslatein 132 No. 114; *Krappe Bulletin Hispanique XXXIX 35; *Loomis White Magic 113; Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 1167*; Rumanian: Schullerus FFC LXXVIII No. 827*. |
| V262 | Virgin Mary supplies mead for unprepared hostess of the king. Ward II 614 No. 35. |
| V254.1.1 | Virgin Mary supports robber on gallows because he once said "Ave Maria". Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| V254.8 | Virgin Mary will not let devil (authorities) take robber noble who daily says "Ave". Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| Q553.1 | Virgin Mary withdraws the sacrament from a scoffer. (Cf. Q225.) Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 551. |
| D1331.2.3 | Virgin Mary's shift as banner causes blindness to opposing army. (Cf. D1058.1.)—*Ward II 603. |
| V265 | Virgin miraculously prevents nun (monk) from deserting cloister. Ward II 634 No. 34, 636 Nos. 7, 41, 667 No. 13, 721 No. 17; Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| V261.2 | Virgin pardons man who repented for cheating in election. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| V261.1 | Virgin restores office to an ignorant man because of his faith. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| K1841.2 | Virgin substitutes in tournament. A knight hears masses so long that he absents himself from a tournament. The Virgin takes his place. *Ward II 662 No. 5; *Loomis White Magic 123. |
| V211.1.4 | Virgin suffers no birth pangs at Christ's Nativity. Irish myth: Cross. |
| T320.1.1 | Virginity saved in spite of torture. Undesired suitors give up task. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Z139.8 | Virginity, Wisdom, and Prophecy personified as three beautiful maidens. Irish myth: Cross. |
| E750.1.1 | Virgins condemned to wander at death. Korean: Zong in-Sob 39. |
| A661.0.1.5 | Virgins with iron rods as guardians of two of the doors in heaven. Irish myth: Cross. |
| H493 | Virility test for husband. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K114.3.1 | Virtue of oracular pill proved. The dupe takes it. "It is dog's dung," he says and spits it out. The trickster says that he is telling the truth and demands pay. *Wesselski Gonnella 99ff. Nos. 4, 4a, 105 No. 9; Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Z125 | Virtue personified. Jewish: Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T338 | Virtuous man seduced by woman. Nouvelles de Sens No. 15; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F235 | Visibility of fairies. |
| F412 | Visibility of spirits. |
| F455.5 | Visibility of trolls. (Cf. F235.) |
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