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Stith Thompson Motif Index
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Stith Thompson's Motif-Index of Folk-Literature classifies recurring narrative elements in folktales, myths, legends, ballads and related traditional narratives. Each entry below gives Thompson's motif reference and the description recorded in the index.
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Mythological Motifs
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Animal Motifs
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Motifs of Tabu
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Magic
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The Dead
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Marvels
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Ogres
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Tests
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The Wise and the Foolish
K
Deceptions
L
Reversals of Fortune
M
Ordaining the Future
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Chance and Fate
P
Society
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Rewards and Punishments
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Captives and Fugitives
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Unnatural Cruelty
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Sex
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The Nature of Life
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Religion
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Traits of Character
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Humor
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Miscellaneous Groups of Motifs
| Thompson reference | Description ▲ |
|---|---|
| J1141.13 | Witness always to answer "No." Thus gets self condemned. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| J1152 | Witness cannot speak language of accusation: discredited. Two parrots taught accusation of mistress in a particular dialect. They know nothing more of the language. (Cf. G1154.1.) Chauvin II 93 No. 41; Bødker Exempler 290 No. 44; Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| J1158 | Witness claims not to have seen crime. |
| J1151.2 | Witness claims the borrowed coat: discredited. Trickster summoned to court on Jew's complaint refuses to go unless he has a new coat: Jew lends him his. In court the trickster says that the Jew is a liar: "He will even claim that I am wearing his coat." The Jew does so and no one believes him. *Type 1642; *BP I 65; Wesselski Hodscha Nasreddin I 220ff. No. 54; *Chauvin VI 126 No. 280; Lithuanian: Balys Index No. *1642A; Italian Novella: *Rotunda; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| J1154 | Witness discredited by inability to tell details. (Cf. J1153.1.) |
| J1158.1 | Witness says that dust storm blew and shut his eyes so that he did not see. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| J1154.2 | Witnesses to make image of diamond they claim to have seen. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| V66.1 | Witty funeral sermon. Priest having nothing good to say about man damns him with faint praise or gives anecdotes with unfavorable implications. (Cf. K1961.1.2.1.) *Wesselski Arlotto I 216ff. No. 64. |
| R152.3 | Wives change clothes with their imprisoned husbands when allowed to visit them. Husbands escape. Greek: Grote I 463. |
| T141.2 | Wives exchanged. Irish myth: *Cross; India: Thompson-Balys; Eskimo (Cumberland Sound): Boas BAM XV 223, (Greenland): Holm 75. |
| K941.1.1 | Wives killed when large price for his mother's (wife's) corpse is reported by trickster. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| J1112.4 | Wives prevent war by placing themselves and their children between two armies. Nouvelles de Sens No. 16. |
| T292.1 | Wives traded. Chinese: Graham. |
| K1545 | Wives wager as to who can best fool her husband. *Type 1406; *Liebrecht 124; Bédier Fabliaux 265ff.; *Crane Vitry 227 No. 231, cf. 238 No. 248; Boccaccio Decameron VII No. 9 (Lee 231); Christensen DF XLVII 229; Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| H1573.3.4 | Wizard (druid) burned, saint saved in test of power of Christianity. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| D1817.0.1.3.1 | Wizard compels thief to deliver stolen property in person to the owner. England: *Baughman. |
| D1817.0.1.3 | Wizard compels thief to return stolen property. England: *Baughman. |
| D1817.0.1.6 | Wizard detects thief by trance. England, U.S.: Baughman. |
| D1817.0.1.5 | Wizard detects thieves by placing leaf from Bible under doorstep. The guilty ones stumble over doorstep. England: Baughman. |
| D2012.2 | Wizard gives man the illusion that he has been away twenty (forty) years. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| W154.28 | Wizard makes pupil think himself Emperor and exposes pupil's ingratitude. Herbert III 94, 431, 536; Chauvin II 150. |
| D2143.1.10 | Wizard sells charm to raise rainstorm to enable eloping couple to escape pursuers. U.S.: Baughman. |
| D1817.0.1.4 | Wizard shows form or shadow or picture of thief. (Cf. D1323.1, D1821.3.7.1.) England: *Baughman. |
| D1814.1.1 | Wizard shows man likeness of cock which will win fight. England: Baughman. |
| D1817.0.1.2 | Wizard tells location of stolen property. England, U.S.: *Baughman. |
| J2351.4 | Wolf (bear) boasts of having eaten horses. When the horse strikes sparks with his hoofs the lion is frightened and picks up the boastful wolf to show him the horse. He squeezes the wolf to death. Type 118; Spanish: Espinosa Jr. No. 28. |
| K1121 | Wolf (lion) approaches too near to horse: kicked in face. *Type 47B; *BP III 77; *Baum MLN XXXVII 350ff.; Crane Vitry 147f. No. 33, 197 No. 152. |
| K1121.1 | Wolf (lion) as sham doctor looks at horse's foot: kicked in face. *Baum MLN XXXVII 350; Herbert III 13; *Crane Vitry 197 No. 152; Bolte Zs. f. Vksk. IX 87; *Wesselski Märchen 250 No. 58; Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| R13.1.5 | Wolf abducts person. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| K579.5.1 | Wolf acts as judge before eating the rams. They are to go to the end of the field and run to him. They run at him and kill him. *Wesselski Märchen 251 No. 58; Spanish: Espinosa Jr. Nos. 30, 31. |
| J2172.2.1 | Wolf almost locked up in the stable by the shepherd. The dog: "What good to lock us up from the wolf when he is with us?" Wienert FFC LVI 68 (ET 327), 135 (ST 411); Halm Aesop No. 371. |
| B621.8 | Wolf and wolverine fight over girl. Eskimo (Mackenzie Area): Jenness 38. |
| K494 | Wolf announces dawn prematurely to collect debt. The contract is to be fulfilled at daybreak. The wolf imitates the cock and crows, but is caught. Cape Verde Islands: *Parsons MAFLS XV (1) 6 n. 1. |
| U37 | Wolf as commander orders all booty divided, but keeps his own. Wienert FFC LVI 47 (ET 58), 103 (ST 157); Halm Aesop No. 281. |
| J581.1 | Wolf as dog's guest sings. He has drunk too much and sings in spite of the dog's warning. He is killed. *Type 100; *BP II 111. |
| A1833.3 | Wolf as God's dog. German: Grimm No. 148. |
| B240.10 | Wolf as king of animals. Wienert FFC LVI 47. |
| G352.1 | Wolf as ogre. Icelandic: MacCulloch Eddic 279, Snorra Edda Gylf. XII. |
| B635.2 | Wolf boy (girl) running around with wolf and cubs recovered by parents after six years: recognized by scar. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1022.4 | Wolf brings cake from the window-sill. He imitates the fox in so doing, but rings a bell, so that he is beaten. Type 160***. |
| B557.15 | Wolf carries man. Cheremis: Sebeok-Nyerges. |
| Q426 | Wolf cut open and filled with stones as punishment. *Type 333; BP I 37, *40; Spanish: Espinosa III No. 212, Espinosa Jr. Nos. 32—34; Cape Verde Islands: *Parsons MAFLS XV (1) 312 n. 1. |
| B524.1.4 | Wolf defends master's child against serpent. Malone PMLA XLIII 420; Irish myth: Cross. |
| K651 | Wolf descends into well in one bucket and rescues fox in the other. *Type 32; BP IV 320; Chauvin III 78 No. 57; Fb "ræv" III 113b; *Krappe Bulletin Hispanique XXXIX 43; English: Wells 184 (The Fox and the Wolf); Spanish Exempla: Keller; Italian Novella: *Rotunda; American Negro (Georgia): Harris Remus 75 No. 16, (Pennsylvania): Parsons JAFL XXX 214, (South Carolina): Parsons JAFL XXXIV 16, Stewart JAFL XXXII 394. |
| J352.1 | Wolf does not mind the dust. Told that dust from flock of sheep will annoy him; he finds it useful. Chauvin III 41 No. 7. |
| G303.17.3.3 | Wolf eats the devil; therefore, devil no longer lives in the world. Dh I 153. |
| B275.1.3 | Wolf executed for thefts. |
| A2211.3 | Wolf falls out of nest: cause of straight back. (Cf. A2356.2.2.) —Finnish: Aarne FFC XXXIII 53 No. 76**. |
| B381.1 | Wolf fetches a man to remove thorn from his children's paws. Does not attack the man's livestock.—Lithuanian: Balys Index No. *156A. |
| A1833.2 | Wolf from man transformed by magician. (Cf. A1710.)—Finnish: Aarne FFC VIII 14 No. 76. |
| A2546.2 | Wolf granted patent of nobility. Dh IV 125. |
| A671.2.6 | Wolf in hell. Icel.: MacCulloch Eddic 319. |
| D2156.8 | Wolf is forced by saint to be substitute for eaten calf. *Loomis White Magic 59. |
| K553.4 | Wolf is requested by horse to start eating from the rear; kicked to death. Cheremis: Sebeok-Nyerges. |
| K551.20 | Wolf is requested by tailor to be measured for suit of clothes; wolf beaten. Cheremis: Sebeok-Nyerges. |
| G303.25.1 | Wolf is the devil's craftiest enemy. Dh I 152. |
| K551.8 | Wolf kept at door until children have been christened. He loses his feast. *Type 122A. |
| J2172.2.2 | Wolf locked up with the sheep. Cheremis: Sebeok-Nyerges. |
| U125 | Wolf loses interest in the sermon when he sees a flock of sheep. A dervish preaches to him. Chauvin II 125 No. 123; Scala Celi 50b No. 285; Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| U21.4 | Wolf objects to lion stealing sheep from him although he has himself stolen it. Wienert FFC LVI 55 (ET 148), 129 (ST 366); Halm No. 279. |
| K2061.6 | Wolf offers to act as midwife for sow: plan detected. *Crane Vitry 202 No. 166; Herbert III 15; Wienert FFC LVI 46 (ET 41), 53 (ET 135), 96 (ST 86). |
| K2061.1 | Wolf offers to act as shepherd: plan detected. Wienert FFC LVI 45 (ET 36), 68 (ET 326), 97 (ST 110); Halm Aesop No. 283. |
| K1022.1 | Wolf overeats in the cellar (smokehouse). Cannot escape through the entrance hole. *Type 41; *BP II 109, IV 318; *Dh IV 232; *Chauvin III 45; Wienert FFC LVI 60 (ET 226); Halm Aesop No. 31; *Graf FFC XXXVIII 71ff.; Herbert III 374 No. 11; Fb "ulv" III 971a.—Italian Novella: *Rotunda; Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 21; N. A. Indian: Thompson CColl II 438; Africa: Frobenius Atlantis XII 291, 327, (Wachaga): Gutmann 188. |
| K2011 | Wolf poses as "grandmother" and kills child. (Red Riding Hood.) *Type 333; BP I 37, *42, 234; *Saintyves Perrault 215, 222; Missouri French: Carrière; Japanese: Ikeda; Africa (Ibo, Nigeria): Thomas 83. |
| K2011.1 | Wolf poses as mother and kills child. Africa (Basuto): Jacottet 62ff. No. 10. |
| L451.3 | Wolf prefers liberty and hunger to dog's servitude and plenty. *Type 201; Crane Vitry 221 No. 217; Wienert FFC LVI 61 (ET 238), 124 (ST 326); Halm Aesop No. 278; Jacobs Aesop 206 No. 28; Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 433; Scala Celi 76b No. 435; Italian Novella: Rotunda; Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| K2061.1.1 | Wolf proposes abolition of dog guards for sheep: plan detected. Wienert FFC LVI 53 (ET 138), 96 (ST 99); Halm Aesop No. 269; Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| K583 | Wolf punished by being married. After debate it is decided that marriage is the greatest punishment. Wesselski Bebel II 103 No. 15; Spanish: Boggs FFC XC 35 No. 165*. |
| J1863.2 | Wolf punished for his father's misdeeds. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| U11.2.1 | Wolf punished for theft; kings honored. Wesselski Bebel II 126 No. 82. |
| K1839.1 | Wolf puts flour on his paw to disguise himself. *Type 333; *BP I 42; Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "farine"; Japanese: Ikeda; Korean: Zong in-Sob 9 No. 3. |
| B256.11 | Wolf returns sheep stolen from saint. Irish myth: Cross. |
| J2066.4 | Wolf scorns salt meat (etc.) in false expectation of other booty. Wesselski Märchen 250 No. 58; Spanish: Espinosa Jr. No. 3. |
| K132 | Wolf sold as a goat (sheep). Types 1535, 1539; *BP II 10; Köhler-Bolte I 323; Missouri French: Carrière. |
| K133.1 | Wolf sold as watch-dog. *Type 1542. |
| B751.6 | Wolf strongly attracted to his own children. Jewish: Neuman. |
| B251.7.1 | Wolf swears by God. Jewish: Neuman. |
| J1752 | Wolf thought to be colt. In the man's absence eats the mare. *Type 1311. |
| J1761.5 | Wolf thought to be log of wood. Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "bыche". |
| K1022.2 | Wolf tied to cow's horns. The fox ties one end of the rope around the wolf's neck, the other to the cow they intend to eat. The cow drags the wolf to the house where the man skins it. Spanish: Boggs FFC XC 29 No. 47C*, Espinosa III No. 208. |
| J512.5 | Wolf tries in vain to be doctor. Only increases patient's suffering. Wienert FFC LVI 46 (ET 40), 122 (ST 309). |
| K828.3 | Wolf tries to cheat ewe by posing as ram. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| J1791.3.1 | Wolf tries to drink well dry to get cheese. Spanish: Boggs FFC XC 29 No. 34. |
| J514.2 | Wolf tries to eat bowstring. Finds hunter, gazelle, and wild boar dead. Tries first to eat the bowstring, and is mortally wounded. Chauvin II 95 No. 47; Bødker Exempler 292 No. 51; Spanish Exempla: Keller; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K2061.4 | Wolf tries to entice goat down from high place: plan detected. Wienert FFC LVI *53 (ET 137), 96 (ST 90); Halm Aesop No. 270; Spanish: Espinosa III No. 216. |
| J411.5 | Wolf tries to make friends with lion: killed. Wienert FFC LVI 49 (ET 82), 92 (ST 54); Halm Aesop No. 280. |
| J2131.5.5 | Wolf trying to catch tongue of camel puts head in camel's mouth: killed. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| U31 | Wolf unjustly accuses lamb and eats him. When all the lamb's defenses are good the wolf asserts the right of the strong over the weak. (Usually accused of stirring up water from lower in stream.) (Cf. U141.) Wienert FFC LVI 50 (ET 97), 148 (ST 526); Halm Aesop No. 274; *Crane Vitry 191 No. 135; Herbert III 12; Alphabet No. 631; Jacobs Aesop 199 No. 2; Italian Novella: Rotunda; Indonesia: DeVries's list No. 83 (monkey and goat). |
| J2066.5 | Wolf waits in vain for the nurse to throw away the child. She has threatened to throw the child to the wolf. Wienert FFC LVI 68 (ET 320), 102 (ST 156); Halm Aesop No. 275; Jacobs Aesop 211 No. 46; Japanese: Ikeda. |
| V1.8.5 | Wolf worship. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| K2327 | Wolf-captor scared by fiddle-playing of captive ram, who escapes. American Negro (Georgia): Harris Nights 44 No. 9. |
| B538.2 | Wolf-tail blankets. Wolves shelter man with their tails.—N. A. Indian (Ojibwa): Jones-Michelson PAES VII (1) 77, Carson JAFL XXX 491 No. 1. |
| A2302.5 | Wolf's body made smaller. (See A2213.1.)—Dh III 7. |
| Q415.7.1 | Wolves and birds eat bodies of slayers of poet. Irish myth: Cross. |
| B275.1.3.2 | Wolves and wild pigs condemned to death in lion's court for killing and eating sheep. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| A165.2.1.1.1 | Wolves as god's dogs. *Fb "ulv" III 971, BP III 199.—Icel.: MacCulloch Eddic 65. |
| J2133.6 | Wolves climb on top of one another to tree: lowest runs away and all fall. Type 121; *BP II 530 n. 3; India: *Thompson-Balys; Japanese: Ikeda. |
| W151.3 | Wolves devour an ox without leaving a share for the rightful owner. Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 495. |
| B256.4.1 | Wolves guard saint's cattle like watchdogs when he is absent. *Loomis White Magic 59. |
| B253.2 | Wolves have annual (church) feast. Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q415.7 | Wolves kill person for quenching holy fire. (Cf. Q222.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| B251.2.3 | Wolves lick saint's shoes. Irish myth: Cross. |
| P711.1 | Wolves of his own country dearer than dogs of another. Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 420. |
| K2010.3 | Wolves sign false truce with sheep. After the dogs have been dismissed the wolves devour the sheep. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K778.1 | Woman (Amazon) in disguise invites enemies singly into forest and overcomes them. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| C435.1.1.1 | Woman (fairy) causes twofold death of mortal husband who utters her name. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F241.2.5 | Woman (fairy) lives only on milk from fairy cow. Irish myth: Cross. |
| S414 | Woman abandoned when with child. Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 1038. |
| S312.4 | Woman abandons baby boy (of which she was artificially impregnated) in forest. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| R16.3 | Woman abducted by (transformed) fairy. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| K1364 | Woman abducted by giving her medicine which appears to have killed her. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| W133.2 | Woman admires marvelous shot of hero which kills deer, but angers him when she begs mercy for the deer. Fischer-Bolte 203ff. |
| T253.2 | Woman advised that nagging will never make a husband virtuous. Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 135. |
| T481.7 | Woman advises husband to kill guest else, she will make him chase husband and marry her instead. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| E155.4.1 | Woman alive by day, dead by night. Irish myth: Cross. |
| K548.1 | Woman alone in house rolls cheeses down the stairs after calling names of men in the house. Attackers think the men of the house are rushing down the stairs. U.S.: Baughman. |
| K2065.1 | Woman and sick husband. "Would that Death take me in his stead." When Death comes she points to her husband. Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| B11.11.7 | Woman as dragon-slayer. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| N572 | Woman as guardian of treasure. |
| E501.1.8 | Woman as leader of wild hunt. Favorites are Herodias, Diana, Frau Holle.—Plischke 47; Schwartz Zs. f. Vksk. VII 231. |
| S303.1 | Woman asks suitor to kill the child of his first wife. Africa (Cameroon): Mansfield 228. |
| T71.2 | Woman avenges scorned love. Icelandic: *Boberg; Babylonian: Gilgamesch-Epos VI 6ff. |
| T311 | Woman averse to marriage. (Cf. T321.1, T327.3.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T586.5.1 | Woman bears child every month. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| T554.3 | Woman bears crane. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T554.2 | Woman bears dog. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T554.8 | Woman bears frog. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T554.6 | Woman bears goat. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T554.4 | Woman bears monkey. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| T554.9 | Woman bears three pigs. Philippine (Tinguian): *Cole 116. |
| T554.5 | Woman bears tortoise (turtle). India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| T581.8 | Woman bears twins at end of footrace (with king's horses). Irish myth: *Cross. |
| W115.2 | Woman becomes clean only after three washings and the use of three pounds of soap. Type 1447*. |
| T532.7 | Woman becomes pregnant after eagle sits on her head. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F324.2 | Woman beset by elves (or phantoms) drowns self. Irish myth: Cross. |
| K1651 | Woman bitten by own fierce watchdog. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| J1142.4.1.2 | Woman breaks milk jars so that weeping for thief will seem natural. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| D1654.13 | Woman can be lifted only by her lover. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| J2025.2 | Woman cannot find pastry which is sticking to her posterior. Mensa Philosophica No. 48. |
| F322.0.1 | Woman carried off by water-fairy. Hartland Science 65; German: Erk-Böhme Deutsche Liederhort No. 2; Lithuanian: Balys Index No. *4250. |
| Q414.6 | Woman cast on husband's funeral pyre as punishment. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| L412.1 | Woman casts ring into sea boasting that it is as impossible for her to become poor as for the ring to be found. Ring is found in fish: she becomes poor. W. Jones Finger-Ring Lore (London, 1898) 440; Finnish-Swedish: Wessman 19 No. 178. |
| J1261.1.5 | Woman causes disturbance in church, is carried out forcibly. She remarks. "Well I am more favored than my Lord. He had but one ass to ride, while I have two." U.S.: *Baughman. |
| D1850.2 | Woman changes into an immortal. Chinese: Graham. |
| D1393.1.1 | Woman charms stick of wood so she can hide inside it. (Cf. D956.) Eskimo (Greenland): Rink 107. |
| T455.2.1 | Woman commits adultery to obtain aid for husband in battle. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| T573.1 | Woman conceives and bears same day. Irish myth: Cross; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| V21.2 | Woman confesses murder: unharmed by execution fire. Alphabet No. 466; Scala Celi 47a No. 265; Wright Latin Stories 66. |
| T232.1 | Woman consorts with leper. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| T315.3 | Woman continent in two marriages to become a nun. Irish myth: Cross. |
| K1549.8 | Woman cooks food for paramour. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| D866.1 | Woman cooks the magic fruits. (Cf. D981.)—Indonesia: DeVries's list No. 195. |
| K522.1.1 | Woman covers fleeing man with placenta of goat and with blood to convince pursuers she has just given birth and thus prevents their capturing him. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A1224.3 | Woman created from dog's tail. Eve.—*Dh I 114ff.; *Bolte Zs f. Vksk. XI 255 n. 3; Polívka ibid. XVI 212.—Finnish: Aarne FFC VII 5 No. 11, XXXIII 52 No. 11; Estonian: Aarne FFC XXV 140 No. 10; Livonian: Loorits FFC LXVI 82 No. 17; Flemish: DeMeyer XXXVII 83 No. 11; Lithuanian: Balys Legends Nos. 36ff., 52, 65. |
| D1812.4.1 | Woman cries out on beholding man her unborn child is destined to slay. (Cf. T575.1.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| K1213.1 | Woman dares husband to try his sword on pile of clothing which hides her paramour. Stops him just in time. Later the paramour entices her to come to him. Exposes her naked, except for face, to his friends. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K1353 | Woman deceived into sacrificing honor. Ruler promises to release her brother (husband) but afterward refuses to do so. *Bolte Zs. f. Vksk. XII 65; Spanish Exempla: Keller; Italian Novella: *Rotunda; Jewish: bin Gorion Born Judas I 107, 366, Neuman. |
| T232 | Woman deserts husband for unworthy lover. (Deformed, mutilated, monstrous, or of different race.) *Penzer V 153 n. 1; Malone PMLA XLIII 418ff.; Strauch Enikels Weltchronik, lines 25177ff. — Irish myth: Cross; Italian Novella: *Rotunda; Palestine: Schmidt-Kahle Volkserzählungen aus Palästina I 139ff.; India: *Thompson-Balys; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 109; Indonesia: Coster-Wijsman 148. |
| K2131.3 | Woman destroys men's friendship by pretending to whisper to one. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| G11.6.4 | Woman devours her husband. Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 838; S. A. Indian (Toba): Métraux MAFLS XL 60ff. |
| F1041.1.3.7 | Woman dies of broken heart on learning that her former husband is still alive. She had remarried thinking him dead. Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles No. 69; Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| F1041.1.13.2 | Woman dies of shame at seeing naked man (husband). Irish myth: *Cross. |
| P253.9 | Woman dies of sorrow for death of brother. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F1041.1.3.3 | Woman dies on having secret love exposed. Italian Novella: Rotunda; Heptameron No. 70. |
| F1041.1.2.2 | Woman dies on hearing of her husband's death. Irish myth: Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| T81.7 | Woman dies on hearing of lover's or husband's death. (Cf. T211.9.1.) Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| T312.1 | Woman dies when spoiled of her sanctity. Irish myth: Cross. |
| T450.2 | Woman disappointed in love threatens to become prostitute. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| J2075.3 | Woman disdainfully throws away pills; punished with sores on body, must use the pills to restore herself. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1828.1.1 | Woman disguised as angel of death. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| R131.10.1 | Woman disguised as hermit rescues abandoned child. (Cf. K1837.3.) Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| R152.2 | Woman disguised as man sells herself into slavery in order to ransom (free) her husband (lover). (Cf. K1837.) Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| P426.3.3 | Woman disguised as monk enters monastery. Irish myth: Cross. |
| K1837.2 | Woman disguised as pilgrim engages lover in conversation and learns of his faithlessness. (Cf. K1817.2.) Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles No. 26; Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| K2357.6 | Woman disguises as man to enter enemy's camp. Slays enemy king. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| J1791.6.0.1 | Woman dives in water three times after reflected image of man peering down from a tree. Marquesas: Handy 46. |
| K1281 | Woman draws a pelt to her instead of her husband. A woman asks of her husband a hair which will magically draw him to her. He gives her a hair from a pelt. *Wesselski Märchen 196; *Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 150. |
| W28.1 | Woman drinks poison that son may be king. Irish myth: Cross. |
| S264.1.2 | Woman drowns herself as sacrifice to water-gods to save husband's boat from capsizing. (Cf. S263.5.) Japanese: Ikeda. |
| T211.1.1 | Woman drowns herself as sacrifice to water-gods to save husband's boat from capsizing. Japanese: Anesaki 304. |
| K1317.6.1 | Woman drugs sister and substitutes for her with lover. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| E432.3 | Woman drying hair scares soul returning from the dead. Eskimo (Greenland): Rink 452. |
| G79.2 | Woman eats daughter-in-law. S. A. Indian (More): Métraux BBAE CXLIII (3) 406. |
| Q281.3 | Woman eats flesh and leaves cat only bones of fish cat has caught for them. Cursed by cat. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| D439.4.1 | Woman emerges from egg. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| D431.6.1 | Woman emerges from plant. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| T461.1 | Woman enamored of a river. Greek: *Frazer Apollodorus I 82 n. 1. |
| T236 | Woman enamored of an unknown knight in a tournament loses interest when she finds that it is her husband. (Cf. R222.) Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 750. |
| T232.4 | Woman enamored of repulsive and abusive lover. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1546.2 | Woman encourages paramour by song. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1372 | Woman engaged to marry by trick. (Cf. K1371.2, K1377, K1771.9.) Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| T458 | Woman enjoys the ravishings of the enemy. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| H152.1.1 | Woman entertains every traveler in the hope of finding her husband. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T72.4 | Woman entertains two lovers on alternate nights. They expose the deception and scorn her in public. Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles No. 33; Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| K1339.3 | Woman enticed into man's room by feigned illness. Heptameron No. 10; Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K1339.2 | Woman enticed to upper world on a stretching tree. N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 332 n. 200. |
| N392.2 | Woman errs on to the road-of-the-tiger: carried off. S. A. Indian (Chiriguano): Métraux RMLP XXXIII 161. |
| K551.16 | Woman escapes by ruse: must go to defecate. Cheremis: Sebeok-Nyerges; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T320.4.1 | Woman escapes king's lust by inducing bad breath. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T320.2.1 | Woman escaping from slavery kills man who would ravish her. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| J2099.1 | Woman exchanges a horse for a sack of bones. She has been falsely told that the sack is filled with gold. Type 2007*. |
| K1588 | Woman excites peasant (secretary), who draws line on floor and dares her to cross it. When she does, adultery is committed. Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles No. 23; Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| X52.1 | Woman exposed to ridicule when her wig is snatched off by a monkey. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| T13 | Woman falls in love as result of husband's praise of her suitor. Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| T89.1 | Woman falls in love with dying warrior. Irish myth: Cross. |
| T16.0.1 | Woman falls in love with man she sees bathing. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| F561.6 | Woman fed by bees' dropping honey into her mouth (lie). India: Thompson-Balys. |
| N343.3 | Woman feigns death to meet exiled lover. It leads to his death. Lover hears of her supposed death, returns and submits to execution. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| F664.1.1 | Woman flays running deer. Eskimo (Greenland): Rasmussen III 197. |
| K1796 | Woman frightens robber away by telling him parrot's cry is husband's voice. Africa (Wakweli): Bender 70. |
| T111.2 | Woman from sky-world marries mortal man. India: *Thompson-Balys; Japanese: Ikeda; Philippine (Tinguian): Cole 110; Africa (Fjort): Dennett 60 No. 12, (Congo): Weeks 206 No. 3, (Angola): Chatelain 131 No. 13. |
| B81.0.2 | Woman from water world. Irish myth: Cross. |
| T271.1 | Woman gets rid of impotent husband and remarries. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| S262.1 | Woman given to devastating monster as wife to appease it. Irish myth: *Cross; Japanese: Ikeda; N. A. Indian (Creek): Alexander N. Am. 71. |
| J2093.2 | Woman gives a jewel for a salad. The recipient is also a numskull and doesn't know its value. *Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 30. |
| T554.10 | Woman gives birth to a bird. Mono-Alu: Wheeler No. 20. |
| T556 | Woman gives birth to a demon. Type 433B; Hindu: Meyer Hindu Tales 62, 117, 165. |
| T555.1 | Woman gives birth to a fruit. Can transform itself to girl. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T555 | Woman gives birth to a plant. (Cf. T543.0.1.) BP II 125; Italian: Basile Pentamerone I No. 2; Persian: Carnoy 295. |
| T554.7 | Woman gives birth to a snake. India: Thompson-Balys; S. A. Indian (Brazil): Oberg 108; Africa (Upoto): Einstein 120. |
| T554 | Woman gives birth to animal. Type 441; BP II 236ff., 482ff.; *Fb "hund" I 678b; Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: MacCulloch Eddic 279; Italian Novella: Rotunda; Greek: Fox 108, 211; India: Thompson-Balys; Africa (Zulu): Callaway 105, 268, (Kaffir): Theal 148. |
| J2342.2.1 | Woman gives birth to child fourteen months after husband's departure. The latter is made to believe it is legitimate. Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| T569.2 | Woman gives birth to grinding-stone. Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 68. |
| T555.1.1 | Woman gives birth to pumpkin. Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 77. |
| T554.8.1 | Woman gives birth to toad. Chinese: Graham. |
| T455.5 | Woman gives favors to pay for help across river. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K476.7 | Woman gives friend dried comb while she herself eats the honey. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| H551.2 | Woman gives self to solver of riddles. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| K1536 | Woman has husband made monk while he is drunk, so as to get rid of him. Scala Celi 87a No. 506; Crane Vitry No. 231; Liebrecht 124; *Krappe Bulletin Hispanique XXXIX 38; Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| Z41.1 | Woman has meat (liver) stolen by bird. Recovery chain (similar to Z41). *Wesselski Hessische Blätter f. Vksk. XXXII 25. |
| K1549.1 | Woman has paramour steal her husband's clothes. Paramour gains entrance disguised as the husband. The husband without his clothes is driven away from his home. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| F1015.1.2 | Woman has worn out carriage-load of shoes with walking. Hartland Science 199. |
| R53.2 | Woman hidden in sacred place which her lover is not supposed to dare to enter. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| R53.1 | Woman hidden in underground chamber or mud cabin. (Cf. R45.) Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| D2141.0.10 | Woman hoists skirt to raise thunderstorm. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 113. |
| K1228 | Woman humiliates would-be lover. Knowing that he has deceived another by paying her with gilded coin she answers: "You will have to pay in better coin than is your wont!" Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| T511.8.5 | Woman impregnated after accidentally partaking of crane's dung. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1961.2.1 | Woman in disguise becomes pope. (Pope Joan.) *J. J. I. von Döllinger Die Papst-Fabeln des Mittelalters (Stuttgart, 1890) 1—53; same translated by A. Plummer (London, 1871) 273—9; *M. le Comte d'I*** (= Jules Gay) Bibliographie des ouvrages relatif's а l'amour@3 (Nice and London, 1872) V 419—23; Alphabet No. 601. |
| K1814 | Woman in disguise wooed by her faithless husband. *Bédier Fabliaux 448; *BP IV 254 n. 1, Italian: Basile Pentamerone V No. 6, *Rotunda; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| J953.8 | Woman in finery in church thinks people are standing up to see her when they rise at gospel reading. Wesselski Bebel II 138 No. 119. |
| K1837.8 | Woman in male disguise made king. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1837.8.1 | Woman in male disguise made minister. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A751.8.4 | Woman in moon's oven seen on clear nights. Samoa: Clark 120. |
| J2012.3 | Woman in tar and feathers does not know herself. *Type 1383; Fb "tjære" III 811a; Christensen DF XLVII 35; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A751.8 | Woman in the moon. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 242, Tuamotu: Stimson MS (T-G. 3/1010). |
| K1086 | Woman induces men to fight over her and kill each other. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| P461.4 | Woman instructs in art of arms. (Cf. F565.1.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| G264.1 | Woman is death of all who behold her. Indo-Chinese: Scott Indo-Chinese 267. |
| J1732.3 | Woman is unacquainted with tea, serves the boiled leaves with butter. Scotland: Baughman. |
| T257.1 | Woman jealous of a fair maid in her house. Fears her attraction for her husband. Alphabet No. 796; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
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