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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
E
The Dead
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Marvels
G
Ogres
H
Tests
J
The Wise and the Foolish
K
Deceptions
L
Reversals of Fortune
M
Ordaining the Future
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Chance and Fate
P
Society
Q
Rewards and Punishments
R
Captives and Fugitives
S
Unnatural Cruelty
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Sex
U
The Nature of Life
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Religion
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Traits of Character
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Humor
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Miscellaneous Groups of Motifs
| Thompson reference | Description ▲ |
|---|---|
| A822.1 | World is transformed mud parrot in golden cage. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A696 | World of serpents. Hindu: Keith 154. |
| A625 | World parents: sky-father and earth-mother as parents of the universe. The sky-father descends upon the earth-mother and begets the world.—Greek: *Frazer Apollodorus I 2 n. 1, Fox 5, 272; Icel.: MacCulloch Eddic 194, 328; Hindu: Keith 16; India: Thompson-Balys.—Eastern Indonesia: Dixon 166; Chatham Is.: ibid. 10 n. 12; Cook and Hervey Is.: ibid. 14 n. 21; Maori: ibid. 7 n. 3, 8 n. 7, 9 n. 10, 31; Tahiti: Henry 337f.; N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 280 n. 37; S. Am. Indian (Cora): Alexander Lat. Am. 121, (Antilles): ibid. 24; African: Werner African 124. |
| A1099.3 | World turned topsy-turvy and eaten by an earthworm. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A841 | World-columns. Four (two, etc.) columns or supports sustain the earth. —Irish myth: Cross; Estonian: Loorits Grundzüge I 385, 400; Jewish: Neuman; Greek: *Grote I 70; India: Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX III No. 66.—Sumatra: Dixon 163; N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 286 n. 56; Maya: Alexander Lat. Am. 154.—See also references to A665.2.1. |
| A1046.1 | World-eclipse ended by bat making sun smile. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A1031.2 | World-fire after theft of fire. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A1031.5 | World-fire because of man's arrogance. African (Fang): Trilles 131. |
| A1039 | World-fire—miscellaneous. |
| A1030 | World-fire. A conflagration destroys the earth. Sometimes (as with the flood legends) the tradition is somewhat local and does not refer to an actual destruction of the whole earth; sometimes the fire marks the end of the world.—*Olrik Ragnarök 483 s.v. "Weltbrand", *Danske Studier (1913) 204ff.; *Eisler Weltenmantel und Himmelszelt 452.—Icel.: MacCulloch Eddic 336ff., Boberg; Greek: Grote I 94; Lithuanian: Balys Tautosakos Darbai VI 133f.; Jewish: Neuman; Babylonian: Meissner Babylonien und Assyrien II 118; Siberian: Holmberg Siberian 368ff.; Hindu: Keith 105; India: Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 84.—Maori: Dixon 47 n. 33; N. Am. Indian: *Thompson Tales 287 n. 57d.; S. Am. Indian (Yuracare, W. Brazil): Alexander Lat. Am. 313, (Araucanian): ibid. 330, (Chaco, Tupinamba, Apapocuva-Guarani, Tembé, Shipaya, Carajá, Mura, Cashinawa, Witoto, Arawak, Yuracare): Métraux MAFLS XL 36 (Mataco): ibid. 35, (Toba): ibid. 33, (Tucuna): Nimuendajú BBAE CXLIII (3) 724, (Bacairi): Lévi-Strauss ibid. (3) 347. |
| A612.1 | World-soul. The universe a manifestation of the creator.—Society Is.: Dixon 12 n. 19. |
| A652 | World-tree. Tree extending from lowest to highest world. (Cf. A878.) —**Holmberg Baum des Lebens.—Irish myth: Cross; Norse: MacCulloch Eddic 331ff., De la Saussaye 346ff.; Hagen MPh I (1903—4) 57; **Olrik Danske Studier, 1917, 49ff.; Babylonian: Spence 138; N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 286 n. 56a. |
| J1217 | Worldly man puts religious man out of countenance. |
| V51.2 | Worldly-minded learn to pray by thinking of their usual business. Pauli (ed. Bolte) Nos. 334, 338; Scala Celi 37b No. 209. |
| A651.3.2 | Worlds above and below—miscellaneous. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 42; S. Am. Indian (Chamacoco): Métraux MAFLS XL 25. |
| A651.3 | Worlds above and below. |
| B714 | Worm (monster) from caul born with child. Irish myth: Cross. |
| A13.4.2 | Worm as creator. Guarayú: Métraux BBAE CXLIII (3) 437. |
| T579.6 | Worm swallowed at conception eats hand of babe before birth. (Cf. T511.5.2.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| A2284.3 | Worm, thinking that world is coming to end, blinds self so as not to see calamity. (Cf. A2332.6.4.)—Dh III 21. |
| E501.10.2 | Worn-out broom at head of wild hunt. Plischke 35. |
| H241 | Worn-out shoes as proof of long journey. *Köhler-Bolte I 574f.; Fb "sko" III 288b; Icelandic: Saga och Sed 1940 p. 35, *Boberg; Spanish: Espinosa Jr. No. 114. |
| Z139.5 | Worry personified. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| V1.2.3 | Worship of "disar". Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| V1.3 | Worship of ancestors. Encyc. Rel. Ethics I 425—67; Irish myth: Cross; Icelandic: Boberg; India: Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 411 s.v. "Ahnenfiguren"; Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 160; Society Islands: Henry Ancient Tahiti (Honolulu, 1928) 561; Tuamotu: Stimson MS (T-G. 3/619); Africa (Cameroon): Mansfield 233, (Fang): Trilles 140. |
| V1.2.4 | Worship of angels. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| V1.8 | Worship of animals. *Encyc. Rel. Ethics Index 28a; Jewish: *Neuman. |
| V1.5.1 | Worship of clouds. (Cf. A283.) |
| V1.5.5 | Worship of dawn. (Cf. A270.) |
| V1.2.2 | Worship of devil. Irish myth: Cross (V1.15, V1.15.1). |
| V1.6.1 | Worship of earth. (Cf. A400.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| V1.6 | Worship of elements of nature. |
| V1.2.1 | Worship of fairies. Irish myth: Cross (V1.16, V1.16.1); Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| V1.10 | Worship of fetish. (Cf. D1274.) *Encyc. Rel. Ethics Index 200a; Irish myth: *Cross; Jewish: *Neuman; Africa (Fjort): Dennett 96. |
| V1.6.3 | Worship of fire. (Cf. A493.) Encyc. Rel. Ethics Index 202c; Penzer III 160; Irish myth: *Cross; Jewish: *Neuman. |
| V1.5.7 | Worship of frost. (Cf. A289.1.) |
| V1.11.1 | Worship of golden calf. Jewish: Neuman. |
| V1.9.3 | Worship of hammer (axe). Tahiti: Henry Ancient Tahiti (Honolulu, 1928) 147. |
| V1.4 | Worship of heavenly bodies. Jewish: Neuman. |
| V1.11 | Worship of idols. (Cf. Q558.12, V11.10.) Irish myth: *Cross; Jewish: *Neuman. |
| V1.5.6 | Worship of light. (Cf. A260.) |
| V1.5 | Worship of manifestations in nature. |
| V1.6.4 | Worship of minerals and metals. (Cf. A492.) |
| V1.4.3 | Worship of moon. (Cf. A240.) Jewish: Neuman. |
| V1.6.1.1 | Worship of mountains and hills. (Cf. A495.) Danish: Kristensen Danske Sagn III (1895) 65ff., (1931) 47ff. |
| V1.1.1 | Worship of one god. Jewish: Neuman. |
| V526 | Worship of particular deity brings reward of birth in Brahma-world. Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 13. |
| V1.1 | Worship of particular gods and goddesses. |
| V1.5.6.1 | Worship of rainbow. (Cf. A288.) |
| V1.6.2.2 | Worship of sea. (Cf. A421.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| V1.2 | Worship of spirits. |
| V1.4.4 | Worship of stars. (Cf. A250.) Jewish: Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| V1.11.2 | Worship of stone idols. Jewish: Neuman. |
| V1.5.4 | Worship of storm. (Cf. A281.) |
| V1.4.1 | Worship of the sky. (Cf. A210.) |
| V1.4.2 | Worship of the sun. (Cf. A220.) Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: Boberg; Jewish: Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys; Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 12. |
| V1.5.2 | Worship of thunder. (Cf. A284.) |
| V1.9 | Worship of tools and implements. |
| V1.7 | Worship of trees and plants. (Cf. A430, C51.2.2.) *Encyc. Rel. Ethics Index 611b; *Penzer II 96 n. 1, VII 162 n. 1; Schmidt Brandtrær og Ulykkestrær Danske Studier (1928) 54ff.; Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: MacCulloch Eddic 214; S. A. Indian (Antilles): Alexander Lat. Am. 25f. |
| V1.6.2.0.1 | Worship of water-goddess. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| V1.6.2 | Worship of water. (Cf. A420.) |
| V1.9.2 | Worship of weapons. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| V1.5.3 | Worship of wind. (Cf. A282.) |
| V1.11.3 | Worship of wooden idol. Icelandic: *Boberg; Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 16. |
| D1469.5 | Worshipped sex organ of horse provides money, etc. (Cf. D1029.4.) Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| K455.9 | Worthless chests offered to obtain credit. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K147 | Worthless fruits (plants) sold. |
| K331.3 | Worthless object (animal) substituted for valuable while owner sleeps. India: *Thompson-Balys; Africa (Hottentot): Held 21ff. |
| J1269.3 | Would be first in all things. Chaplain accused of being first to start all knavery thus defends himself. *Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 56. |
| J2235 | Would have shot himself. Fool shoots full of holes a garment left out at night to dry. "It is a good thing I did not have it on or I would have shot myself." Clouston Noodles 90; *Wesselski Hodscha Nasreddin I 230 No. 79. |
| X906 | Would not lie for a trifle. Liar tells of shooting large number of animals with one shot (an odd number, usually 99). When asked why he did not make it a round number (or an even hundred), he replies indignantly that he would not lie for one pigeon (rabbit). U.S.: *Baughman. |
| K1626 | Would-be killers killed. |
| K1613.0.1 | Would-be poisoner forced to drink poisoned cup. Irish myth: Cross. |
| T92.1.2 | Would-be unfaithful wife. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| D2161.4.10.1 | Wound healed by same spear that caused it. Greek: Fox 125. |
| D1503.16 | Wound healed by water from place wounded man's heel dragged. (Cf. D1240.) Marquesas: Handy 117. |
| D1503.14 | Wound healed by wounding weapon. (Cf. D1080.) Greek: Grote I 268. |
| D2161.4.10.2 | Wound healed only by person who gave it. (Or by member of his family.) (Cf. D2161.2.) *Schoepperle Tristan and Isolt 375ff.; Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| D1503.15 | Wound healed with own blood. (Cf. D1003.) Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 118. |
| K1872.4 | Wound masked by other wound in order not to be recognized. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| F1068.2 | Wound received in dream. Still there when person wakes. *Kittredge Witchcraft 222f., 534 nn. 90—97; Alphabet No. 299; Icelandic: Boberg; England: Baughman. |
| P411.3 | Wounded hero finds shelter and is cured in peasant's house. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| R169.14 | Wounded hero restored in peasant's house. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| Q211.8.1 | Wounded king exacts fine from those intending to slay him. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F184.1 | Wounded otherworld king in Ireland. Irish myth: Cross. |
| P427.5.1 | Wounded soldiers healed by bath in pool of milk through power of druid. Irish myth: Cross. |
| K815.11 | Wounded wolf persuades lamb to bring him a drink, adding that he will get his own food. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| S181 | Wounding by trapping with sharp knives (glass). *Type 432; *BP II 261ff.; Italian: Basile Pentamerone II Nos. 2, 5; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| S180 | Wounding or torturing. |
| F1041.21.6.1 | Wounding self because of excessive grief. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| D1503.14.1 | Wounds caused by sword can only be healed by a certain stone. Icelandic: MacCulloch Eddic 267., *Boberg. |
| V221.8 | Wounds cured by saint leave no scars. *Loomis White Magic 106. |
| D2161.4.14.1.1 | Wounds from poisoned arrows healed by bath of milk. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F959.3.3 | Wounds healed by bath of marrow. Irish myth: Cross. |
| D1503.11 | Wounds healed by eating fruit of magic tree. (Cf. D950.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| F693 | Wounds inflicted by certain man always fatal. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| D1624.2 | Wounds of crucifix bleed. Irish myth: Cross; Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| E723.8.1 | Wraith appears before mine disaster. England: Baughman. |
| E723.7.6 | Wraith binds grain in field. Scotland: Baughman. |
| E723.4 | Wraith does what person wishes to do but is unable to do in the flesh. |
| E723.4.5 | Wraith gives information of death in family. England: Baughman. |
| E723.4.6 | Wraith investigates welfare of absent person. England, U.S.: *Baughman. |
| E723.4.3 | Wraith of debtor tries to find his creditor at time of death. England: Baughman. |
| E723.4.4 | Wraith of dying woman goes to see children for last time before death. England: Baughman. |
| E723.4.2 | Wraith of murderer tells authorities where to find girl he has murdered. The murderer is in church at the time. Scotland: Baughman. |
| E723.5 | Wraith of sweetheart stays in room where lover has died. It disappears only after her death at far distant point twenty years after death of lover. U.S.: Baughman. |
| E723.7.3 | Wraith opens and closes door. England: Baughman. |
| E723.4.1 | Wraith returns to home and goes to bed while body is at home of friends in deep reverie. Ireland: Baughman. |
| E723.7.7 | Wraith rides horse. (Cf. E922.1.1.3.1.) Scotland: Baughman. |
| E723.7.2 | Wraith rings doorbell. Scotland: Baughman. |
| E723.7.5 | Wraith selects wood for coffin. Scotland: Baughman. |
| E723.7.4 | Wraith slams gate. England: Baughman. |
| E723.7.1 | Wraith speaks. England, Wales: *Baughman. |
| E723.3 | Wraith takes place of person unable to do duty at the necessary time. Scotland: Baughman. |
| E723.7.8 | Wraiths of persons drowning appear in dripping clothes. England: *Baughman. |
| E723 | Wraiths of persons separate from body. England, U.S.: Baughman. |
| N226 | Wrecked man saved on coffer of jewels; becomes rich. Boccaccio Decameron II No. 4 (Lee 30); Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| B242.1.2.1 | Wren as "druid of the birds" (drui én). Irish myth: Cross. |
| A1348.1 | Wren helps mankind restore prosperity to the world. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B242.1.2 | Wren king of birds. Wins contest for kingship. (Cf. B236.1.) —*Type 221; *BP III 278 (Gr. No. 171); Irish myth: Cross; Japanese: Ikeda. |
| K1741.4 | Wrestler claims to be able even to carry away a mountain. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K12.5 | Wrestling between porcupine and deer. Deer defeated but always pleads illness. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K12.4 | Wrestling match of man with fever. Man places stone image at wrestling-place; fever enters image and shatters it. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K12.2 | Wrestling match won by deception: bear as "grandfather." A man challenged by an ogre persuades the latter to wrestle with his old grandfather instead. By this he means a bear. (Cf. K11.6, K15.1.) *Type 1071; Köhler-Bolte I 477ff.; *Hackman cf. K12. |
| K12.1 | Wrestling match won by deception: where to throw the ogre. The ogre squeezes the man so that his eyes bulge out. The ogre: "Why do you glare so?"—"I am looking to see where to throw you." The ogre flees (Cf. K18.1.) *Type 1070; Hdwb d. Märchens I 193b. n. 9; *Hackman cf. K12. |
| K12 | Wrestling match won by deception. **Hackman En Finländsk-Svensk Saga av östeuropeiskt Ursprung (Brages Еrsskrift IV, Helsingfors 1910); Icelandic: Boberg; N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 314 n. 137a. |
| K12.3 | Wrestling match: Antaeus. Giant invincible in wrestling because with each contact with earth his strength is renewed. Greek: *Frazer Apollodorus I 222 n. 2. |
| G317 | Wrestling ogre. Greek: Fox 87, 99. |
| H218.2 | Wrestling to test legitimacy of son. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| G219.5 | Wrinkled witch. Irish myth: Cross. |
| D1549.3.7 | Written charm causes river to flow quietly. (Cf. D1266.1.) Korean: Zong in-Sob 57. |
| F962.12.4 | Written scroll (letter) received from heaven. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| N344.1 | Wrong sign put out leads to boys' leaving home. They are to be informed by a sign if a sister is born. *Type 451; BP I 70ff.; Italian: Basile Pentamerone IV No. 8. |
| W11.5.3 | Wronged knight conquers enemy and then pardons him. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| T233 | Wronged wife goes to wronged husband. Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| A2741.2 | Yams dropped by bird and split: why some are good and some bad. (Cf. A2793.3.)—New Hebrides (Leper's Island): Dixon 144. |
| D1338.3.3.1 | Year added to life by eating fruit of magic tree. (Cf. D950.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| F377.2 | Year seems few hours in otherworld. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F772.1.1 | Year taken to mount high tower. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| T151 | Year's respite from unwelcome marriage. *Type 300, 301; *Loomis White Magic 120; Irish myth: *Cross; Welsh: MacCulloch Celtic 94; English: Wells 135 (Sir Degare); Icelandic: *Boberg; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| D624.3 | Yearly transformation to person of different sex. Irish myth: Cross. |
| D624 | Yearly transformation. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| D2011.3 | Years are as moments to creator. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A697.2.1 | Years are days in Tusita world. Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 1033. |
| D2011.1 | Years seem moments while man listens to song of bird. **Hammerich Munken og Fuglen (København, 1933); *Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 562; *Herbert III 67; Longfellow "The Golden Legend"; Hartland Science 188f.—Irish: Plummer clxxxvi, *Cross; Welsh: MacCulloch Celtic 104; Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 472A*; Estonian: Aarne FFC XXV No. 471*; Russian: Andrejev Ukazatel' Skazochnik No. 471. |
| D2011 | Years thought days. (Cf. F379.5.) Years spent in the other world or asleep seem as days because of magic forgetfulness. *Type 470; *Fb "tid" III 790a; Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 561, 562; *Köhler-Bolte II 224ff., 406ff.; *Hartland Science 162ff. —Irish: MacCulloch Celtic 116, 119, 181f., *Cross; Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "temps"; Welsh: MacCulloch Celtic 101; Scottish: McKay Bealoideas III 138; English: Child V 290a; Spanish Exempla: Keller; Lithuanian: Balys Index No. *472; India: Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Graham; Japanese: Ikeda; Eskimo (Greenland): Rasmussen III 299, (Bering Strait): Nelson RBAE XVIII 459; N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 314 n. 143. |
| Z148 | Yellow a lucky color. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F545.3.2 | Yellow, green, blue, purple spot on cheek. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| J818.1 | Yogi advises yogi blood for making king's leaky tank hold water: king cuts off yogi's head. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| J1515 | You lead and I will follow: hard command thus evaded. |
| J12 | Young ass avoids food eaten by animals before being slaughtered. Runs to his mother and asks to have all remains of the hog's food taken out. Wienert FFC LVI 72 (ET 374), 110 (ST 221); Chauvin III 51 No. 7. |
| J1122.1 | Young crow's alertness. Crow advises young ones to fly away if they see man stooping for a stone to throw. Young crows: "What if he already has stone in hand?" India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| J2358 | Young heir too frank in celebrating his father's death. He says to the mourners, "When your fathers die, I too will come and lament their departure." They brand him as a fool. Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 33. |
| P233.2 | Young hero rebuked by his father. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| K3.2 | Young knight substitutes for old man in tournament. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| J482.3 | Young man advised to choose as wife a girl whose mother was chaste. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| T376 | Young man betrothed to statue. Man puts marriage ring on finger of statue of Venus (Virgin Mary). She afterwards forbids him the embraces of an earthly bride. **Baum PMLA XXXIV 523ff.; Alphabet Nos. 48, 465, 656; Ward II 609 No. 22, 621 No. 31, 626 No. 7; Scala Celi 111b No. 620. |
| D621.6 | Young man issues from conch-shell every evening. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| X459.1.1 | Young man plowing corn sees letters "P. C." formed by clouds. He explains situation to minister, asks to be ordained. The minister explains that the letters mean "plow corn" instead of "preach Christ". U.S.: Baughman. |
| T356 | Young man sleeps on girl's mat without touching her to signify his desire. S. A. Indian (Brazil): Oberg Mato Grosso 110. |
| P633 | Young not to precede old. Irish myth: Cross. |
| P293.4 | Young prince sent to his father's mother's brother. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| K2213.12 | Young queen murders her old husband in order to get a new one. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| J13 | Young sparrows have learned to avoid men. Sparrow quizzes his four young as to how to avoid danger from men. Their year of experience has taught them enough. BP III 239 (Gr. No. 157); Hervieux Fabulistes latins II 546 No. 70. |
| T92.1.1 | Young wife of old man (king) loves (is loved by) younger man. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| J2112.1 | Young wife pulls out his gray hairs; old wife his black. Soon all are gone. *Chauvin II 128 No. 134; Fb "hеr" IV 241b; Crane Vitry 215 No. 201; *Herbert III 16; Wienert FFC LVI 82 (ET 489), 129 (ST 372); Halm Aesop No. 56; Jewish: Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1855 | Younger and preferred brother substituted by mother for elder to deceive father. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| L41 | Younger brother given birthright of elder. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| T131.2 | Younger child may not marry before elder. Hdwb. d. Abergl. II 566; Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: Rittershaus No. 2; Indonesia: Pleyte Bataksche Vertellingen 184f., Wilken Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land-, en Volkenkunde van Nederlandsch-Indië I 142; Africa (Zulu): Callaway 323. |
| L72 | Youngest animal in group overcomes adversary. N. A. Indian (Klikitat): Jacobs U Wash II 7—9. |
| H1242 | Youngest brother alone succeeds on quest. *Type 402, 471, 550, 551, 577; BP 260, 503; Irish myth: Cross; Missouri French: Carrière; India: *Thompson-Balys; N. A. Indian: Thompson CColl II 398; Chile: Pino Saavedra 402—405. |
| L31 | Youngest brother helps elder. Types 516, 550; Rösch FFC LXXVII 96; Missouri French: Carrière; Spanish: Espinosa Jr. No. 130; India: Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Graham. |
| R155.1 | Youngest brother rescues his elder brothers. (Cf. L31.) *Types 303, 303*, 327**, 471, 551; MacCulloch Childhood 353; *BP I 503ff., 528ff.— Icelandic: *Boberg; Missouri French: Carrière; Arabian: Burton Nights S V 249; Jewish: *Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys; Indonesia: DeVries's list No. 182; N. A. Indian (Arapaho): Dorsey and Kroeber FM V 23ff. Nos. 10, 11, (Dakota): Wissler JAFL XX 199, (Chinook): Boas BBAE XXV 9ff. Nos. 1, 2, (Quinault): Farrand JE II 114 No. 10, (Caddo): Dorsey CI XLI 58ff. Nos. 32, 33, (Klikitat): Jacobs U Wash II 7; Africa (Thonga): Junod 229, (Fjort): Dennett 64 No. 12. |
| W11.14 | Youngest brother shares wealth with older brothers who foolishly lost theirs. (Cf. L31.) Africa (Jaunde): Heepe 262. |
| K308 | Youngest brother surpasses elder as thief. Type 1525*; Christiansen Norske Eventyr 140 No. 1654. |
| L54.1 | Youngest daughter agrees to marry a monster; later the sisters are jealous. *Type 425; India: Thompson-Balys; Korean: Zong in-Sob 199 No. 76. |
| L63 | Youngest daughter avoids seducer. Elder sisters have been deceived. Type 883B; Italian: Basile Pentamerone III No. 4; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| L62 | Youngest daughter suspects impostor. Elder have been deceived. N. A. Indian (Pawnee): Dorsey CI LIX 166 No. 44, (Kwakiut): Boas and Hunt JE X 196ff.; (Takelma): Sapir U Pa II (1) 64 No. 4, (Modoc): Curtin Myths of the Modocs (Boston, 1912) 27ff., (Yana): Curtin Creation Myths (Boston, 1898) 353ff. |
| L70 | Youngest of group victorious. |
| P516 | Youngest of judges first to give decision. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| D1897 | Youngest of the three Magi becomes the senior through power of the Savior. Irish myth: Cross. |
| R157.1 | Youngest sister rescues elder. (Cf. L50.) *Type 311; *BP I 398ff.; *Roberts 219. |
| L13.1 | Youngest wife's son restores eyesight to blinded six wives of raja and reinstates his mother. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F324.3 | Youth abducted by fairy. Irish myth: Cross. |
| N659.2 | Youth accidentally absent when entire family is wiped out. Greek: Grote I 106. |
| N332.4.1 | Youth accidentally takes the poison he intended for his father. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| J1269.12 | Youth announces fire in imitation of priest's metaphorical language. The fire set by cat's tail gains headway. Nouvelles Récréations No. 21. |
| H611 | Youth asks for branch of tree; promised root. (Branch = youngest daughter; root = eldest.) Type 1465*. |
| T423 | Youth attempts to seduce his grandmother. Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles No. 50; Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| F614.12 | Youth crushes coins to powder with fingers. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| J141 | Youth educated by seven sages. **Campbell Sages. |
| N339.10 | Youth gazing at own image reflected in water falls and drowns. Irish myth: Cross. |
| J1174.1 | Youth in court for kissing prince's daughter pleads his love for her. Prince allows plea: "If we kill those who love us, what shall we do to those who hate us?" Pauli (ed. Bolte) Nos. 120, 733; Alphabet No. 60; Mensa Philosophica No. 16; *Krappe Bulletin Hispanique XXXIX 20; Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| Q451.2.1 | Youth lamed by man whose daughter he refuses to marry. (Cf. Q245.) Köhler-Bolte I 120; *Krappe Herrig's Archiv CLVIII 9ff.; *P. Maurus Wielandsage in der Literatur (Münchner Beiträge zur rom u. eng. Philologie XXV (1902)). |
| K301.1 | Youth learns robbery as a trade: boasts of it. *Type 1525; BP III 379ff.; Missouri French: Carrière; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| J225.1 | Youth made lame: had kicked his mother. *Type 759; Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 682. |
| T11.2.1.1 | Youth makes statue of girl and seeks a girl like the statue. Icelandic: Boberg; India: Thompson-Balys; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 63, 76, II 476, 1090; Chinese: Chavannes 500 Contes I 374 No. 107. |
| G303.8.13.1 | Youth meets devil in woods. Scala Celi 120a No. 658. |
| G461 | Youth promised to ogre visits ogre's home. *Types 313, 314, 313***; Missouri French: Carrière; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| E692.6 | Youth reincarnated as root in punishment for incest. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| R169.6 | Youth saved from death sentence by father's friend. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| J1264.5 | Youth says he is associating with a pious person. He has nun as mistress. (Cf. J1161.5.) Wesselski *Bebel I 191 No. 58. |
| S221.2 | Youth sells himself to an ogre in settlement of a gambling debt. (Cf. M211, S215.) *Type 313; BP I 442. |
| H78.1 | Youth shoots raven and takes feather to raven's sister as token. *Type 553. |
| B82.3 | Youth takes service with merman. *Fb "havmand" I 571a. |
| G452 | Youth takes service with ogre. Scottish: Campbell-McKay No. 25. |
| J657.1 | Youth trusts self to horse over which he has no control. Thrown off. Wienert FFC LVI *71 (ET 358), 109 (ST 210; cf. 533); Halm Aesop No. 302. |
| J1189.1 | Youth will answer question only when king places him on throne: then youth calls executioners to punish cruel king. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| J676 | Youthful fencer yields to infuriated opponent who has picked up a pestle. "Two against me. I surrender." Spanish: Childers. |
| S262.2.1 | Youths and maidens as yearly tribute to monsters (Fomorians). Irish myth: *Cross. |
| K305.3 | Youths execute a series of clever thefts. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| F106 | Youths grind in mill of underworldlings. Fb "male". |
| F107 | Youths tutored by Vulcan, smith of Hell. Irish myth: Cross. |
| K1821.4 | Youths wear false beards (of grass, wool). Irish myth: *Cross. |
| J550 | Zeal—temperate and intemperate. |
| T1 | Zeus gives man modesty, but it leaves when love enters. Wienert FFC LVI 36; Halm Aesop No. 148. |
| Q433.3 | Zeus has embassy of dogs imprisoned for fouling his court. (Cf. Q322.) *BP III 555; Dh IV 137ff. |
| J411.2 | Zeus refuses wedding present from snake. Presents to be received only from equals. Wienert FFC LVI 76 (ET 423), 120 (ST 297); Halm Aesop No. 153. |
| L472 | Zeus smites Capaneus while he is climbing a ladder. Greek: Frazer Apollodorus I 367 n. 3. |
| B242.1.10 | Ziz as king of birds. Jewish: Neuman. |
| A881 | Zones of earth corresponding to Zodiac. Jewish: Neuman. |
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