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Stith Thompson Motif Index
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Stith Thompson's Motif-Index of Folk-Literature classifies recurring narrative elements in folktales, myths, legends, ballads and related traditional narratives. Each entry below gives Thompson's motif reference and the description recorded in the index.
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Mythological Motifs
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Animal Motifs
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Motifs of Tabu
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Magic
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The Dead
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Marvels
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Ogres
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Tests
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The Wise and the Foolish
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Deceptions
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Reversals of Fortune
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Ordaining the Future
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Chance and Fate
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Society
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Rewards and Punishments
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Captives and Fugitives
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Unnatural Cruelty
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Sex
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The Nature of Life
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Religion
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Traits of Character
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Humor
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Miscellaneous Groups of Motifs
| Thompson reference | Description ▲ |
|---|---|
| T612 | Child born of slain mother cares for itself during infancy. Oceanic: Dixon 132, 137; N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 319 n. 152. |
| T541.2.1.1 | Child born of splinter in hand (foot). India: Thompson-Balys; N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 341 n. 228. |
| T581.2 | Child born of woman abandoned in pit. Indonesian, Polynesian: Dixon 234 n. 43. |
| T581.9 | Child born on beach. Irish myth: Cross; Icelandic: örvar-Odds saga 2—5, Boberg. |
| T581.7 | Child born on flagstone. Loomis White Magic 20f.; Irish myth: *Cross. |
| J1276.2.1 | Child born on wedding night. Groom leaves. Can't afford a child every time he lies with his wife. Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles No. 29; Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| J1276.1 | Child born one month after marriage. Father-in-law to son-in-law: "Do like my grandson and you will always be ahead of others." Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| T541.8.3.1 | Child born through nose. India: Thompson-Balys; Africa (Upoto): Einstein 122. |
| T581.2.1 | Child born to an apparently dead mother in her grave. *Bolte "Die Sage von der erweckten Scheintoten" Zs. f. Vksk. XX (1910) 353—81; H. Hauvette "La morte vivante" (Paris, 1933); Krappe "L'enfant de la morte" Lettres Romanes I (1947) 297—310. |
| T552.5.1 | Child born wearing helmet. Irish myth: Cross. |
| T552.7 | Child born wearing jewel. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T585.5 | Child born with all his teeth. Irish myth: Cross. |
| T551.3 | Child born with animal head. Type 711; Christiansen Norske Eventyr 99. |
| T551.8 | Child born with caul (containing serpent). Irish myth: *Cross. |
| S325.0.1.1 | Child born with caul exposed. Irish myth: Cross. |
| H71.7 | Child born with chain around neck: sign of royalty. *Type 707; BP I 432, II 380ff.; Todd MLN VI 7; Wesselski Märchen 174 No. 64; Wells Manual 96 (Chevalere Assigne). |
| T551.9 | Child born with claws as result of curse by dying peddler murdered by its parents. U.S. (New York State): *Baughman (M411.3.1.1.). |
| T552.5 | Child born with complete armor. Hartland Perseus III 198; Hungarian: Ipolyi Zs. f. deutsche Mythologie und Sittenkunde II 168; Malay: Overbeck Malaiische Erzählungen 12; Africa: Frobenius Atlantis IV 300, XII 125. |
| T563.3 | Child born with figure of serpent on his body. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| T585.5.1 | Child born with hairy mane. Irish myth: Cross. |
| T551.3.4.2 | Child born with horns. Greek: Grote I 18. |
| T552.5.3 | Child born with knife and shield. Africa (Upoto): Einstein 120. |
| T551.13.2 | Child born with long beard. Jewish: Neuman. |
| T551.13.1 | Child born with long hair. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| T552.5.2 | Child born with magic iron bow. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| N121.1 | Child born with objects that indicate fate. Cheremis: Sebeok-Nyerges. |
| T551.7 | Child born with one ear. Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q556.4.1 | Child born with one eye blinded as result of saint's curse. Irish myth: Cross. |
| T551.12 | Child born with one leg. Eskimo (Greenland): Rasmussen I 179. |
| T552.2 | Child born with snake around neck. Fb. "slange"; Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| T551.2 | Child born with two heads. (Cf. F551.0.2.1.) Africa (Angola): Chatelain 117 No. 9. |
| T557 | Child born with viper in heart (body). Irish myth: *Cross. |
| T551.1 | Child born without limbs. English: Wells 122 (The King of Tars); Africa (Kaffir): Theal 72. |
| T551.6 | Child born without mouth. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| N215 | Child borne off by tiger, which is caught by griffin, which is killed by lioness, which rears child with her whelps. English: Wells 118 (Octavian); India: Thompson-Balys. |
| S273 | Child bought to serve as sacrifice to demon. Penzer VII 87 n. 1; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| R16.2 | Child carried off by werwolf. (Cf. D113.1.1.) Hibbard 216. |
| S327 | Child cast out because of his stupidity. Type 563; Grimm No. 36; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| S110.1.1 | Child condemned to be killed in famine. Irish myth: Cross. |
| J147 | Child confined to keep him in ignorance of life. Useless. *Chauvin III 97 No. 1; Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| T646.1 | Child cries because his father is unknown. S. A. Indian (Uru-Chipaya): Métraux RMLP XXXIII 169. |
| E412.4 | Child cursed by father cannot rest in grave. Finnish-Swedish: Wessman 2 No. 19; Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 3591. |
| T512.2.1 | Child develops from man's urine. S. A. Indian (Mataco): Métraux MAFLS XL 132. |
| Q42.1.1 | Child divides last loaf with fairy (witch, etc.). Rewarded. Hdwb. d. Märchens I 396b; *Roberts 150, 169. |
| S350.2 | Child driven out (exposed) brought up in secret. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| S335 | Child exposed at palace gate. Penzer VII 81 n. 1, 82 n., 250. |
| S329.1 | Child exposed so as to avoid death decree. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| S334.1 | Child exposed with twelve years' supply of food and attendants. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| N653 | Child falls from cliff; uninjured. Irish myth: Cross. |
| B391.1 | Child feeds snake from its milk-bottle. *Type 285; BP II 459, cf. II 463.—India: Thompson-Balys. |
| J761.1 | Child finds gray hair in wicked father's head. Father sees that it is time for him to reform. Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 292. |
| N313 | Child follows bird and loses its mother. Tobler Epiphanie der Seele 71. |
| T563.2 | Child formed of clot of gore has red birthmark. (Cf. T541.1.1.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F460.4.1.2.1 | Child from dreamed sex relations with mountain-woman. Hartmann 121 (cf. Ibsen's Peer Gynt). |
| Q192 | Child given as reward for prayer. Jewish: Moreno Esdras, *Neuman. |
| T584.8 | Child helps mother in severing his navel string. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| S20.2 | Child hides food from starving parents. Marquesas: Handy 114. |
| H543.2 | Child in cradle guesses devil's riddle: all are saved. Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 3121A. |
| T575.1.6 | Child in mother's belly guides her. S. A. Indian (Warrau): Métraux RMLP XXXIII 145, (Karib): ibid. 146. |
| T575.1.1.2 | Child in mother's womb reveals adultery. DeVries FFC LXXIII 322, 325f. |
| T575.1.1 | Child in mother's womb reveals crime. BP II 535; Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| T575.1.1.1 | Child in mother's womb reveals murder. BP II 535. |
| T575.1.1.3 | Child in mother's womb reveals unjust judgment. DeVries FFC LXXIII 322, 325f.; Loomis White Magic 23f. |
| T575.4 | Child in mother's womb visible from outside. Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 325, 609. |
| T578.1 | Child incubated in man's thigh. Greek: *Frazer Apollodorus I 319 n. 3 (Zeus and Dionysus). |
| T611.2 | Child miraculously suckled by his father. *BP II 296; Icelandic: Boberg. |
| T611.5 | Child miraculously suckled by saint. (Cf. V211.1.8.1.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| M375.3 | Child mutilated to avoid fulfillment of prophecy. Irish myth: Cross. |
| H175.2 | Child mystically recognizes woman as his mother. Chinese: Graham. |
| T611.1 | Child nourished by sucking its own fingers. *Cosquin études 208, 256; Toldo I 341; Babylonian: Spence 54. |
| T611.11 | Child nourished by sucking the eyeballs of snake-mother (frog-mother) who left it. Japanese: Ikeda. |
| T611.1.1 | Child nourished by sucking thumb of a god. Egyptian: Müller 115; India: Thompson-Balys; Hindu: Keith 166. |
| F31.1 | Child of deity stolen and brought down to earth. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F31 | Child of deity visits earth. India: *Thompson-Balys; Africa (Ekoi): Talbot 342, 359, 389, (Ila, Rhodesia): Smith and Dale II 347. |
| F402.2.3 | Child of demon king marries mortal. Jewish: bin Gorion Born Judas I 234ff., 243ff., 249, 376f. |
| S312.1 | Child of incest exposed. (Cf. T410.) *Type 933; Köhler-Bolte Zs. f. Vksk. VI 173 (to Gonzenbach No. 85); *Baum PMLA XXXI 562 n. 59; Krappe Neuphilologische Mitteilungen XXXIV (1933) 11—22; Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: Boberg. |
| B635.3 | Child of mortal and deer has deer's hair on temple. Irish myth: Cross. |
| S313 | Child of supernatural birth exposed. (Cf. T520.) *Nutt FLR IV 1ff., Gaster Thespis 255; Greek: Grote I 103; Jewish: Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T563.1 | Child of three fathers born with three stripes. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| S211.1 | Child of woman and devil taken to his father. Type 756B; *Andrejev FFC LXIX 49. |
| S215 | Child promised to animal. (Cf. B620.1.) India: *Thompson-Balys; Africa: Werner African 223. |
| S224 | Child promised to devil for acting as godfather. (Cf. N411.) *Types 314, 502, 756B; *BP II 319ff., 329; Andrejev FFC LXIX 50; Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "filleul". |
| S226 | Child promised to devil for directions out of woods when father is lost. *Andrejev FFC LXIX 51, 58, 229 n.; BP II 483f. |
| S225 | Child promised to devil for help on road with broken wagon. Andrejev FFC LXIX 50, 56, 228 n. |
| S227 | Child promised to devil in exchange for a good catch of fish. *Andrejev FFC LXIX 51, 60, 230 n.; Irish: O'Suilleabhain 38, Beal XXI 314. |
| S214 | Child promised to mermaid. (Cf. B81.) Köhler-Bolte I 178; Irish myth: Cross. |
| S213 | Child promised to wood-spirit. (Cf. F441.) Type 667*. |
| M393.1 | Child pronounces blessing according to which countries are to be filled with what they are later famous for. India. Thompson-Balys. |
| G61.1 | Child recognizes relative's flesh when it is served to be eaten. India: Thompson-Balys; Africa (Angola): Chatelain 167, 173, (Kaffir): Theal 100, (Basuto): Jacottet 260 No. 38; American Negro (Georgia): Harris Nights 314 No. 54. |
| T584.2 | Child removed from body of dead mother. *Schoepperle 280 n. 2; Loomis White Magic 21; Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: Boberg; Greek: Fox 286; India: Thompson-Balys; Japanese: Ikeda; Oceanic: *Dixon 132 n. 4; N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 324 n. 166i; S. A. Indian (Yuracare): Alexander Lat. Am. 314, Métraux RMLP XXXIII 144, (Karib): ibid. 147, (Tupinamba): Métraux BBAE CXLIII (3) 132. |
| R169.13 | Child rescued by nurse. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| S260.1.1 | Child sacrifice as religious rite. Irish: *Cross, Beal XXI 329, O'Suilleabhain 90; Jewish: *Neuman; N. A. Indian (Aztec): Alexander Lat. Am. 72. |
| S255.2 | Child sacrificed to deity returned to mother alive and whole after the ablution and ceremonial rites in honor of her. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| S263.2 | Child sacrificed to gain favor of gods. Penzer II 214ff.; Irish myth: Cross; Greek: Frazer Apollodorus II 111, Fox 52, 126; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| S268 | Child sacrificed to provide blood for cure of friend. (Cf. S260.1.4.) *Type 516; **Rösch FFC LXXVII 138ff., 161ff.; BP I 56; *Chauvin VIII 195 No. 235: *Wells 787 (Amis and Amiloun); Hibbard 70ff.; Scala Celi 10a No. 64; Alphabet No. 55.—Italian: Basile Pentamerone IV No. 9, Rotunda; India: *Thompson-Balys; Japanese: Ikeda. |
| H1381.2.2.2 | Child seeks unknown mother. Maori: Beckwith Myth 481. |
| H1381.2.2 | Child seeks unknown parent. |
| B391.2 | Child shares food with toad. German: Grimm No. 105. |
| L124.1 | Child silent till seventh year. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| S221 | Child sold (promised) for money. *Type 756B; *Andrejev FFC LXIX 50ff., 56ff., *223, 227 n., *230 n.; Fb "sælge" III 722a; *Ward II 661 No. 4 (wife sold); Spanish: Boggs FFC XC 65 No. 471B*, Espinosa II No. 117. |
| S211 | Child sold (promised) to devil (ogre). See also references to S220—S259, practically all of which apply here. *Types 314, 400, 502, 756B, 810; BP II 329, III 463, 531; *Cosquin études 365, 542ff.; *Wesselski Märchen 242 No. 52; *Andrejev FFC LXIX 46; Sébillot France III 446, IV 127; Gaster Exempla 248 No. 352. — Lappish: Qvigstad FFC LX 42 No. 29AB; Swiss: Jegerlehner Oberwallis 293 No. 1, 300 No. 2; Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "enfant", "diable"; French Canadian: Barbeau JAFL XXIX 17; Missouri French: Carrière; Spanish: Espinosa II Nos. 99—103, Espinosa Jr. No. 66; India: *Thompson-Balys; Indonesia: DeVries's list No. 147; Philippine: Fansler MAFLS XII 210, 212; Africa: Werner African 214. |
| S210.1 | Child sold into slavery. English: Wells 22 (Sir Beues of Hamtoun); Greek: Grote I 163; India: *Thompson-Balys; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 946. See also story of Joseph. |
| S210.2 | Child sold to be killed. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| F321.0.1 | Child sold to fairies. Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "enfant". |
| S212 | Child sold to magician. *Type 325; *Cosquin études 523; BP II 60; Jones PMLA XXIII 567; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| T585.2 | Child speaks at birth. (Cf. T575.1.) *Penzer II 39 n. 2; *Liebrecht 210ff.; Günter 242 s.v. "redend"; Cowell Jataka VI 157, 250; Chavannes 500 Contes I 30, 243, 427.—Irish myth: *Cross; Jewish: *Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 151, II 944, 1247; S. A. Indian (Toba): Métraux MAFLS XL 97; Africa: Frobenius Atlantis II 57, IV 278, VII 148, 208, XII 125, (Benga): Nassau 184 No. 24 version 2, (Bahonga): Einstein 247, (Fang): ibid. 57, (Mkulwe): ibid. 18f. |
| T575 | Child speaks before birth. (Cf. A511.1.2.) |
| T575.3 | Child speaks from dead mother's womb. (Cf. T584.2.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T575.1 | Child speaks in mother's womb. *Chauvin VII 112 No. 379bis n. 1, VIII 63 No. 27; *Fb "ufødt" III 962a; **Colson "L'enfant qui parle avant d'être né" Mélusine V No. 2; Gaidoz Mélusine IV No. 10; *Toldo I 338f.; DeVries FFC LXXIII 322, 325f.; Hdwb. d. Märchens I 102, 520; Child III 367 nn., IV 507a, V 298a; Krappe Zeitschrift für deutsches Altertum LXXII (1935) 161—71; Saintyves Saints Successeurs 253.—Irish: MacCulloch Celtic 207, *Cross; Jewish: *Neuman; Persian: Carnoy 335; India: *Thompson-Balys; S. A. Indian (Aztec): Alexander Lat. Am. 60, (Tupinamba): Métraux RMLP XXXIII 133, (Warrau): ibid. 145; Africa (Angola): Chatelain 85 No. 5, (Kaffir): Theal 89, (Zulu): Callaway 6. |
| T585.2.2 | Child speaks prematurely on first birthday. Moreno Esdras. |
| T585.8 | Child stands (walks) at birth. Jewish: Neuman; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 789, II 299. |
| T585.1.1 | Child stronger than mother on day of birth. Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q553.4.1 | Child taken from parents because they have ceased to think of God. (Cf. Q223.1.) Köhler-Bolte I 148. |
| K1461.2 | Child taken to defecate over ant hole. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q172.1 | Child taken to heaven: offers food to crucifix. BP III 474ff.; Reinhard PMLA XL 93; Irish: O'Suilleabhain 105, Beal XXI 333; Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 3727; Spanish: Boggs FFC XC 90 No. 767*. |
| F628.1.3.2 | Child tears to pieces a live snake with his bare hands. (Cf. F611.3.2.) Greek: Fox 79 (Hercules); India: Thompson-Balys. |
| C25.1 | Child threatened with ogre. Latter takes child off.—Swiss: Jegerlehner Oberwallis 321 No. 72, 323 No. 131; Japanese: Ikeda. |
| T585.2.1 | Child two months old speaks. Irish myth: Cross. |
| J125.2.1 | Child unwittingly betrays his mother's adultery. Tells father not to step across chalk line drawn around secretary; if he does secretary may do to him what he did to Mother the other day. Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles No. 23. |
| S241 | Child unwittingly promised: "first thing you meet." (Jephthah's vow.) *Types 425, 810; *BP II 329, 483; *Fb "først" I 404, "møde" II 647a; Wünsche 34f.; *Tegethoff 18; *Cox Cinderella 511; *Andrejev FFC LXIX 50, 62, 228 n.; Johnston MLN XXII 233. — French Canadian: Barbeau JAFL XXIX 17; Spanish: Espinosa Jr. No. 66; N. A. Indian (Zuсi): Boas JAFL XXXV 66 No. 2. |
| S242 | Child unwittingly promised: "what you have at home." The man thinks it is a cat (dog). *Types 316, 710; *BP I 21; Köhler-Bolte I 312; *Andrejev FFC LXIX 50, 62, 228 n.; Finnish-Swedish: Wessman 54 No. 455; Spanish: Espinosa II Nos. 99—103. |
| S242.1 | Child unwittingly promised: "What you wife has under her belt." BP I 98f.; Danish: Grundtvig No. 33. |
| S243 | Child unwittingly promised: Nix-Naught-Nothing. The child born while the father is away is named Nix-Naught-Nothing. Köhler-Bolte I 279; English: Jacobs English Fairy Tales 33. |
| S245 | Child unwittingly promised: what is born on your farm. Two women agree that what is born on the farm of each belongs exclusively to the owner. The child of one is born on the farm of the other. Africa (Fjort): Dennett 58 No. 11. |
| G442.2 | Child watched throughout night as protection against child-stealing demon. Irish myth: Cross. |
| T551.14 | Child with all of its organs out of place. Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 270. |
| T551.3.4 | Child with cow's head. |
| T551.3.1 | Child with dog's head. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T551 | Child with extraordinary members (limbs). |
| T551.3.2 | Child with hawk's head. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T589.9 | Child with several mothers. (Heimdal.) Icelandic: MacCulloch Eddic 153. |
| G442 | Child-stealing demon. Irish myth: Cross. |
| S333 | Child's ankles pierced before exposing him. Greek: *Frazer Apollodorus I 344 n. 1 (Oedipus). |
| K433 | Child's curiosity exposes thief. Thief steals pig. Slaughters it together with one of his own and takes both to market. Puts little pig inside large one to avoid paying tax on two. Boy notices three hind legs. Thief is caught. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| S161.1.1 | Child's finger-ends cut off to give long life. Irish myth: Cross. |
| K435 | Child's song incriminates thief. U.S.: Baughman; West Indies: Flowers 509f.; Jamaica: *Beckwith MAFLS XVII 235 No. 4, 239 No. 10. |
| N271.6.1 | Child's song reveals murder. Africa (Bantu): Torrend Specimens of Bantu Folk-lore from Northern Rhodesia (New York, 1921) 9ff. No. 1, 14ff. No. 2. |
| J1842.4 | Child's stomach split open to cure him of wandering. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T584.0.4 | Childbirth assisted by angel. Irish myth: Cross. |
| T584.0.1 | Childbirth assisted by magic. (Cf. D1501.2.) *Kittredge Witchcraft 114, 443f. nn. 85—102; Irish myth: Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| T584.0.6 | Childbirth assisted by sacred stone. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| T589 | Childbirth—miscellaneous motifs. |
| T580 | Childbirth. Irish myth: Cross. |
| T676 | Childless couple adopt animal as substitute for child. India: *Thompson-Balys; Japanese: Ikeda. |
| S223 | Childless couple promise child to the devil if they may only have one. *Type 756B; *BP III 107; *Wesselski Märchen 242 No. 52; *Andrejev FFC LXIX 49, 52, *223ff.; Icelandic: *Boberg; India: *Thompson-Balys; Africa (Swahili): Steere 379. |
| S223.4 | Childless couple promise one of two children to devil if they may only have them. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| N825.1 | Childless old couple adopt hero. Malone: PMLA XLIII 399. |
| T676.1 | Childless woman adopts a serpent (transformed man). (Cf. D191.) Italian: Basile Pentamerone II No. 5. |
| E694.4 | Childless woman reborn as fish. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| S322 | Children abandoned (driven forth, exposed) by hostile relative. *Roberts 128; Irish myth: *Cross; Spanish: Espinosa II No. 114, Espinosa Jr. No. 140. |
| S301 | Children abandoned (exposed). *Types 327, 450, 590, 675, 920, 930; *De Vries FFC LXXIII 40ff.; *Penzer VII 81 n. 1, 82 n. 250; *Boje 65; *Cosquin études 199ff.; *Prato RTP IV 178; **Nutt FLR IV 1ff.; **Hartland FLJ IV 308; *Aarne FFC XXIII 60; Cowell Jataka V 230; Dickson 152.—Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg; Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "enfant"; Spanish: Espinosa II Nos. 99—103, 119; Italian: Basile Pentamerone V No. 8, *Rotunda; Jewish: *Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 94f.; Tuamotu: Beckwith Myth 471; Tonga: Gifford 122; Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 523; Easter Island: Métraux Ethnology 369, 385; N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 349 n. 255, (California): Gayton and Newman 89, (Zuсi): Benedict II 335; West Indies: Flowers 576. |
| R131.15 | Children abandoned in a boat survive storm and are rescued. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| S152 | Children abandoned in box in potter's kiln. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| S321.1 | Children abandoned in famine. Eskimo (Greenland): Rasmussen I 374, (Mackenzie Area): Jenness 34a; N. A. Indian (Zuсi): Benedict II 335; Africa (Wachaga): Gutmann 142. |
| R10.3 | Children abducted. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| T465.4 | Children are spotted like leopards as result of bestiality. U.S.: Baughman. |
| J2370.1 | Children ask parents too difficult questions. Get no answers. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T581.2.3 | Children born in dungeon. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T61.5 | Children born on same night betrothed. (Cf. B311, T22.4.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| T589.6.2 | Children brought by midwife. *Fb "barn" I 50b. |
| T589.6.1 | Children brought by the stork. *Fb "barn" I 50b. |
| J1273 | Children by day and by night. Artist paints beautiful children but his own are ugly. One kind, he says, are made by day, the other by night. *Pauli (ed. Bolte) No 412; Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| R13.0.1 | Children carried off by animals. *Hibbard 270 n. 10, 276; Irish myth: *Cross. |
| J325 | Children choose father they know rather than real father they do not yet know. Woman confesses that child is not by her husband. Child, however, chooses to keep the father he knows. (Cf. J391, J1279.1.) Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 809. |
| D799.1 | Children disenchanted after long period are aged. Irish myth: Cross. |
| S31.2 | Children enchanted by stepmother. (Cf. D683.) Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| S337 | Children enticed into grain pot and imprisoned. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| V415 | Children envious of money given by deceased father to bishop. In vision they take their father's body up and find a quittance saying that he has received more than a hundredfold reward. Alphabet No. 302; Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| G31 | Children flee from father who turns cannibal. Cosquin RTP XXX 79. |
| A736.5.2 | Children from union with the sun turn into bit of blood in daytime as soon as they are exposed to sun; take human form (shape) again at sunset.—India: Thompson-Balys. |
| S233 | Children given in return for being taught magic. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| K515.1 | Children hidden to avoid their execution (death). Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: Hrуlfssaga Kraka 3, 22, Hálfdanarsaga Brönufуstra (FAS III) 565; Greek: Fox 155 (Zeus and Kronus), Grote I 6; Jewish: *Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys; Eskimo (West Hudson Bay): Boas BAM XV 189, (Kodiak): Golder JAFL XVI 28; Africa (Ekoi): Talbot 355, (Pangwe): Tessman 366, (Fang): Tessman 108; Jamaica: Beckwith MAFLS XVII 275 No. 88. |
| T575.1.5 | Children in mothers' wombs praise God at birth of Christ. Irish myth: Cross. |
| R228 | Children leave home because their parents refuse them food. Irish myth: Cross. |
| S356 | Children left at home seek exposed brothers and sisters. Indonesia: DeVries's list No. 207. |
| G412 | Children lured into ogre's house. Mono-Alu-Fauru: Wheeler 44f.; Eskimo (West Hudson Bay): Boas BAM XV 189, 311. |
| T611.4 | Children magically prevented from suckling. Fb "patte" I 791a. |
| T611.5.3 | Children miraculously suckled by angel. Jewish: Neuman. |
| S302 | Children murdered. Irish myth: *Cross; Jewish: *Neuman. |
| T596.2 | Children named by numbers (1, 2, 3, etc.). Hdwb. d. Märchens I 521a; Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q553.3.2 | Children of incestuous father die without issue. (Cf. Q242.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| P174 | Children of slave and free person become slaves. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 300. |
| A736.5 | Children of the sun. Tonga: Gifford 115. |
| P273.4 | Children of Tuatha De Danann fostered by Milesians. Irish myth: Cross. |
| N334.1 | Children play hog-killing: one killed. *Type 2401; *BP I 202; Wesselski Archiv Orientální II 431; England, U.S.: Baughman. |
| T675.1 | Children prefer foster mother. Gaster Thespis 252. |
| P242 | Children punished for fathers' sins. Jewish: Neuman. |
| R154.0.1 | Children rescue mother from lion's den. Dickson 57 n. 75. |
| R154 | Children rescue parents. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T589.6.4 | Children said to come from a well. Wuttke Deutsche Aberglaube Register s.v. "Kinderbrunnen". |
| T589.6.5 | Children said to come from cauliflower. Hdwb. d. Abergl. IV 1348. |
| T589.6.6 | Children said to come from stones. Schmidt DF XXXIX 92ff. |
| T589.6.3 | Children said to come from underworld. Kalevala-seuran Vuosikirjaa IV 243. |
| S20.1 | Children sell mother. N. A. Indian (Zuсi): Benedict 340. |
| T688 | Children sleep in village dormitory. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| S234 | Children sold in exchange for food. Africa (Wakweli): Bender 60. |
| S210 | Children sold or promised. *Type 930; Aarne FFC XXIII 54; BP I 98; Grimm Nos. 12, 31, 55, 92, 181; India: *Thompson-Balys; Japanese: Ikeda. |
| M376.3 | Children swallowed one after the other as they are born for fear one of them will overcome father. Greek: Grote I 6. |
| P293.2.1 | Children take after their mother's brothers. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| T61.5.2 | Children ten and twelve years old betroth themselves. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| S240 | Children unwittingly promised (sold). (Cf. S211.) *Types 314, 400, 710, 756B; *BP II 329; *Fb "frugtsommelig" I 376, "ufødt" III 926a; *Andrejev FFC LXIX 50ff., 56ff., 223; *MacCulloch Childhood 418; Irish: Baughman; Italian: Basile Pentamerone I No. 8. |
| G401 | Children wander into ogre's house. *Types 327, 327**; Swiss: Jegerlehner Oberwallis 326 No. 1; Spanish: Boggs FFC XC 48 No. 327E*, Espinosa Jr. No. 81; West Indies: Flowers 453. |
| F954.4 | Chilli plant so hot it causes dumb man to speak: thus discovered for eating. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B14.1 | Chimera. Combination of lion, dragon, and goat. Breathes fire.—*Frazer Apollodorus I 151 n. 2, 153 n. 1; Fox 39.—Egyptian: Müller 169. |
| B563.1.2 | Chimpanzee leads lost hunter home. Africa (Duala): Lederbogen 146. |
| A802 | China first land to appear in our world. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A2217.2 | Chipmunk's back scratched: hence his stripes. As he is trying to escape, bear catches him with his claws and marks him permanently. (Cf. A2413.2.) —Seneca: Curtin-Hewitt RBAE XXXII 111 No. 13, 422 No. 78, Curtin Seneca 437, 505. |
| D1602.2.2 | Chips from tree return to their places as cut. (Cf. D950.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| L212 | Choice among several gifts. The worst horse, armor, or the like proves best. *Fb "hest" I 598b; Child II 444f., 450, 453f.; German: Grimm No. 57; Spanish: Espinosa Jr. Nos. 62, 64; Jewish: *Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Graham; N. A. Indian: Thompson CColl II 341, (Arikara): Dorsey CI XVII No. 16; West Indies: Flowers 559. |
| J229.5 | Choice between bad master, bad official, or bad neighbor. Bad master can do evil if he desires to do so; bad official can harm a poor person and complain against him to his master; bad neighbor can betray secret things about his neighbors. Bad neighbor worst. Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 586. |
| J233 | Choice between desire and duty. Icelandic: Þiðriks saga I 235, Boberg. |
| J201.1 | Choice between eggs: one egg or none. Nouvelles Récréations No. 50. |
| J229 | Choice between evils—miscellaneous. |
| J223 | Choice between evils: pay tribute or lose both money and life. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| J210 | Choice between evils. |
| J267 | Choice between flattering lies and unflattering truths. |
| J231.2 | Choice between love and wisdom. Greek: Fox 76 (Herakles). |
| J266 | Choice between short and dangerous or long and sure way. (Cf. J21.5.3.) Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| J240 | Choice between useful and ornamental. |
| J260 | Choice between worth and appearance. |
| J242.7 | Choice of a learned crow: a dead cat better than a golden crown. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| J400 | Choice of associates. |
| J216 | Choice of deaths. |
| J226.1 | Choice of freeing one son: adopted son or long-missing son. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| J496 | Choice of friend over mistress. Given the choice of his friend or his mistress, man chooses his friend. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| P11.0.2 | Choice of king of trees. |
| P11.1 | Choice of kings by divine will. *Egerton JAOS XXXIII 158; Krappe Revue Hispanique LVI (1922) 5—24; *Penzer V 175ff.; *Chauvin VI 75 No. 239; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| P11 | Choice of kings. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| H511.1.1 | Choice of two sword sheaths (from one a gold shaft protrudes; from the other, a silver). India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| L213.2 | Choice of ugliest girl as bride. Chinese: Graham. |
| P557.4.3 | Choice of weapons alternates each succeeding day. Irish myth: Cross. |
| J229.3 | Choice: a big piece of cake with my curse or a small piece with my blessing. Type 480; *Roberts 138; BP I 214. |
| J225 | Choice: apparent injustice over greater wrong. |
| J226.2 | Choice: blind son with long life or healthy son with short. Latter chosen. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| J494 | Choice: death and revenge preferred to life. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| J226.3 | Choice: foolish son always with him or four wise daughters who will leave him. Latter chosen. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| J211 | Choice: free poverty or enslaved wealth. |
| J213 | Choice: loss of beauty or speech. Latter chosen. Type 710; BP I 13ff. |
| J212 | Choice: plainness with safety or grandeur with danger. |
| J230 | Choice: real and apparent values. |
| J221 | Choice: small injustice permitted rather than to cause troubles of state. |
| J229.1 | Choice: staying at home with loving wife or going to tavern and having unfaithful wife. Man chooses latter. Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 205. |
| J214 | Choice: suffering in youth or old age. *Wesselski Märchen 236; Fb "rig" III 55a; Irish myth: Cross; English: Wells 114 (Sir Isumbras); Lithuanian: Balys Index No. *937; Russian: Andrejev No. *931 I; Rumanian: Schullerus FFC LXXVIII No. 948*. |
| J483 | Choice: to do that which one knows or to learn something. Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 104. |
| N125 | Choices by chance. |
| J370 | Choices: important and unimportant work. |
| J390 | Choices: kind strangers, unkind relatives. |
| J340 | Choices: little gain, big loss. |
| J350 | Choices: small inconvenience, large gain. |
| J200 | Choices. |
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