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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 ▲ |
|---|---|
| G303.3.4.6 | Devil in shape of a stone. Lithuanian: Balys Historical. |
| G303.3.4.7 | Devil in the form of a sheaf. Cheremis: Sebeok-Nyerges. |
| G303.8.12 | Devil in the stable wrapped in horse-hide. Devil chases youth as he hides himself. Estonian: Aarne FFC XXV 122 No. 43. |
| G303.8.13 | Devil in the woods. |
| G303.7.3.1 | Devil in wagon drawn by two black horses carries off impious people. Finnish-Swedish: Wessman 13 No. 118; Lithuanian: Balys Legends No. 822. |
| G303.8.13.3 | Devil in woods to gather nuts on Christmas Eve. Fb I 266a. |
| G303.9.6.2.1 | Devil inflames saint's injured eye. Irish myth: Cross. |
| G303.9.4.6.1 | Devil instructs saint on virtues by which to attain Heaven. Irish myth: Cross. |
| G303.9.9.2 | Devil interrupts mass by pretended battle. Scala Celi 22b No. 144; Alphabet No. 105. |
| G303.4.8.13 | Devil invisible. Jewish: Neuman. |
| G303.6.1.6 | Devil invoked through medium of a black dog. Peru: Jijena Sanchez 132. |
| C12 | Devil invoked: appears unexpectedly. |
| G303.4.5.4.1 | Devil is betrayed by his goat hoofs. Finnish-Swedish: Wessman 8 No. 66. |
| G303.25.10 | Devil is blamed by monk for taking what does not belong to him. Devil denies accusation. Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 366. |
| G303.4.1.2.7 | Devil is blind. Jewish: Neuman. |
| G303.2.2 | Devil is called "the black one". Fb I 267b; Wünsche Teufel 51f. |
| G303.16.7 | Devil is chased by holy water. Type 756B; Andrejev FFC LXIX 103; Irish: Cross, Beal XXI 313—315, 322, O'Suilleabhain 35, 38, 40, 56; Wales, U.S.: Baughman; Finnish-Swedish: Wessman 82 No. 676; Lithuanian: Balys Legends Nos. 639, 708, 715; French: Sébillot France IV 126; West Indies: Flowers 450. |
| K211.1 | Devil is cheated by giving him task: counting the letters in the church Bible. He is unable to read the holy words. England: Baughman. |
| G303.16.16 | Devil is cheated of his reward when priest dismisses mass early. Wünsche Teufel 84. |
| G303.5.1 | Devil is dressed in black. French: Sébillot France I 287, III 144; Jewish: *Neuman. |
| G303.5.2 | Devil is dressed in green. |
| G303.16.11.1 | Devil is driven out of a man by Peter. Dh I 170. |
| G303.9.3.2 | Devil is employed as a midwife. Lappish: Qvigstad FFC LX 43 No. 30. |
| G303.6.3.1 | Devil is followed by a thunderstorm. Dh I 154; England, U.S.: Baughman. |
| G303.16.19.20 | Devil is killed by hunter. A slake of tar remains. Lithuanian: Balys Legends No. 796; Cheremis: Sebeok-Nyerges. |
| G303.16.9 | Devil is made impotent by confession. Scala Celi 42a—46b Nos. 239, 241, 243, 245, 246, 249, 255, 260. |
| K262.1 | Devil is made sick of his bargain. Devil helps shepherd boy become a minister on condition that he mention Satan by name each time he enters pulpit. Boy consents but does so in such a way that devil begs to abolish the agreement. Finnish-Swedish: Wessman 11 No. 87. |
| G303.9.6.1.1 | Devil is overcome by man in fight. Man pulls out one of his horns and beats him with it. Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles No. 70; Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| G303.4.8.6 | Devil is swift of foot. Type 756B; Andrejev FFC LXIX 62; Irish myth: Cross. |
| G303.8.3.1 | Devil is thrust into hell by God. Dh I 5; Lithuanian: Balys Legends Nos. 5f. |
| K219.4 | Devil is to get soul of man whether he is buried "inside or outside of church, above or below ground." The man has himself buried in the wall of the church, partly in and partly out of the ground. (Cf. H1052.) England: *Baughman. |
| S241.2 | Devil is to have last one who leaves "black school". Fb. "fanden" I 267b; Scotland, England: Baughman. |
| K218.7 | Devil is unable to take man contracted to him when friends pray over the corpse. Scotland: *Baughman. |
| G303.20.1 | Devil kills man with fiery sword. Scala Celi No. 662. |
| G302.2.2 | Devil King. Chinese: Graham. |
| G303.4.8.8 | Devil laughs (weeps) when men weep (laugh). Cheremis: Sebeok-Nyerges. |
| G303.9.9.6 | Devil leads and misguides people. Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 3332, Legends Nos. 459, 500, 557, 590, 640—49, 746ff., 759—75, 784, 797f., 800, 804. |
| G303.16.8 | Devil leaves at mention of God's name. England, Ireland, Wales, U.S.: Baughman; Lithuanian: Balys Legends Nos. 651, 774f., 780, 814; Spanish: Boggs FFC XC 95 No. *817, Keller; Jewish: *Neuman. |
| G303.25.3 | Devil likes negligence in men more than anything else. Scala Celi No. 752. |
| G303.8.4 | Devil lives in a church. Fb I 266a. |
| G303.8.8 | Devil lives in the water. Dh I 56, 67. |
| K249.1 | Devil loses his grain and gets thistles. God grants the devil one grain crop, which he can create by calling its name. The devil is tricked into forgetting the name and calling "Thistles". Hence his crop is of thistles. Dh I 185ff. |
| G303.16.3.4 | Devil made to disappear by making sign of the cross. Dh I 48; Scala Celi 13a, 45a, 45b, 66b, 67a, 67b, 70b, 77b Nos 77, 256, 257, 368, 369, 371, 372, 393, 394, 442; Pauli (ed. Bolte) 90; Crane Vitry 189 No. 131, 246 No. 263; Alphabet No. 64.—Irish: O'Suilleabhain 92, Beal XXI 330; Lithuanian: Balys Legends Nos. 642—645, 648, 650, 776, 786, 800, 825; French: Sébillot France I 160, II 403, IV 12; Spanish Exempla: Keller; Argentina: Jijena Sanchez 103; West Indies: Flowers 450. |
| G303.16.3.6 | Devil made visible by making sign of cross. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| N4.1 | Devil makes wager with builder of Cologne Cathedral. Wünsche 83f. |
| A1833.1 | Devil makes wolf; God gives him life. (Cf. A1755.)—Esthonian: Aarne FFC XXV 145 No. 39. Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 3086; Legends Nos. 139—146. |
| G303.12.2 | Devil marries a widow who maltreats him. Wünsche Teufel 62f. |
| G303.12.5.2 | Devil marries disdainful girl; she escapes. U.S.: *Baughman. |
| G303.12.5.3 | Devil marries girl whose rich mother refuses to let her marry common young men of community. U.S.: Baughman. |
| G303.12.5 | Devil marries girl. |
| G303.12.3 | Devil marries old maid who proves to be a termagant and a miser. Wünsche Teufel 62. |
| G303.16.13 | Devil may be escaped by going to church every day. Fb I 267a. |
| G303.9.9.18 | Devil moves seats in church. Scotland: Baughman. |
| K551.4.2 | Devil must wait for man to tie his stocking before the man comes into his possession. It remains untied. *Fb "hosebеnd" I 650, IV 221b. |
| G303.4.8.4 | Devil never eats in an inn. Devil's coachman observes this. Estonian: Aarne FFC XXV 119 No. 28. |
| A478.5 | Devil of leprosy. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| G303.1.1.2 | Devil originates from God's spittle. Dh I 61ff.; Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 3001, Legends Nos. 1, 3, 8. |
| G303.16.14.3 | Devil overpowered or chased with a stick of rowan-tree. Lithuanian: Balys Legends Nos. 653f., 657f., 671f., 799. |
| G303.9.4.2 | Devil persuades man to commit suicide. Scala Celi 153a No. 843; Lithuanian: Balys Legends No. 758; Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| G303.4.8.12 | Devil picks up live coals to light pipe. U.S.: Baughman. |
| G303.9.9.5 | Devil piles sand in ocean so that vessels may run aground. Finnish-Swedish: Wessman 17 No. 156. |
| Q220.1 | Devil plagues impious people. Finnish-Swedish: Wessman 13 No. 113; Lithuanian: Balys Legends Nos. 719—43, 825f.; West Indies: Flowers 567. |
| A63.2 | Devil plans to drown God at time of creation. *Dh I 184f.—Lithuanian: Balys Index 3005; Balys Legends No. 11. |
| G303.9.8.2 | Devil plays fiddle at wedding. Causes bad luck (kills bridegroom). Finnish: Aarne FFC XXXIII 40 No. 24; Estonian: Aarne FFC XXV 118 No. 24. |
| G303.9.9.19 | Devil plays marbles in church. England: Baughman. |
| G303.9.2.3 | Devil plows and plants grain for farmer in one day. Wünsche Teufel 50f. |
| K213 | Devil pounded in knapsack until he releases man. *Type 330. |
| G303.16.11.2 | Devil prevented from revenge by pious priest. Wünsche Teufel 45. |
| G303.9.9.1 | Devil prevents moving of little stone by sitting on it. Scala Celi 149b No. 823. |
| A1756 | Devil produces animals only in God's name. He tries unsuccessfully without using God's name. Dh I 146ff. Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 3086; Legends Nos. 139—146, 152. |
| G303.22.12 | Devil promises help to mistreated apprentice if youth will meet him by night in lonely spot. Scotch: Campbell Superstitions 293. |
| A2216.2 | Devil pulls off goats' tails: hence lack tails. (Cf. A2378.2.2.)—*BP III 200 (Gr. No. 148). |
| P482.1 | Devil pulls painter from chair. Scala Celi 120b No. 660. |
| G303.9.2.1 | Devil pulls up tree to goad his oxen. English: Hunt Popular Romances 230, Baughman. |
| Q386.1 | Devil punishes girl who loves to dance. Scala Celi 62a No. 338; England, U.S.: Baughman; Finnish: Aarne FFC XXXIII 40 No. 24**; Finnish-Swedish: Wessman 10 No. 81, 13 No. 112. |
| G303.7.3.4 | Devil pursues man from carriage drawn by four white horses. U.S.: Baughman. |
| M219.2.6 | Devil puts body of convert on a sea monster which takes it away. U.S.: Baughman. |
| G303.17.1.2 | Devil rebels and disappears on last day. Jewish: Neuman. |
| G303.22.1 | Devil repays a kindness: returns coat lent him and brings the one who had shown him kindness back home when imprisoned. German: Henne-Am Rhyn (1874) 278. |
| G303.17.2.5 | Devil retreats into hell amid thunder and lightning. Wünsche Teufel 32f. |
| G303.7.2 | Devil rides away on an ass. Angered because God has not invited him to his wedding. Dh I 129. |
| G303.7.8 | Devil rides cow until she goes mad. England: Baughman. |
| G303.7.1.3 | Devil rides horse at night hunting lost souls over the heath. England: Baughman. |
| G303.7.1 | Devil rides horse. U.S.: Baughman; Irish: Beal XXI 322, O'Suilleabhain 55. |
| G303.7.1.1 | Devil rides on black horse. Wesselski Märchen 199; English: Hunt Popular Romances 217, 222, Baughman. |
| G303.7.6 | Devil rides on hog, drives another. Fb III 676b. |
| G303.25.14.2 | Devil roasts a toad. Lithuanian: Balys Legends No. 795. |
| G303.22.13 | Devil saves heretic from fire, until priest brings host. Scala Celi 65a No. 355. |
| G303.2.3 | Devil says his name is "Millearces" (thousand ways to lead men to sin). Scala Celi 165b No. 932. |
| G303.22.10 | Devil serves knight faithfully. Devil saves his life and that of his wife. Wesselski Märchen 242 No. 53. |
| G303.25.7.1 | Devil shot with silver bullet. (Cf. D1385.4.) Lithuanian, Latvian, Livonian, Estonian, Ukrainian, Polish, Rumanian: *Balys Tautosakos Darbai VI 53—83. |
| G303.24.1.1 | Devil shows priest long parchment roll of sins of congregation. Scala Celi 44a No. 249; Crane Vitry 233 No. 239. |
| G303.9.8.3 | Devil sings (dances) on grave. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q61.2 | Devil spares abbot because of humility. Scala Celi 104b No. 570. |
| G303.4.7 | Devil speaks with voice of a he-goat. Scotch: Campbell Superstitions 301. |
| G303.9.8.1 | Devil spins and knits. English: Hunt Popular Romances 241. |
| G303.9.9.15 | Devil stampedes horses of general. England: Baughman. |
| G303.24.1.4 | Devil stands in church door and writes down names of his own people on a sheepskin. Fb I 266b. |
| G303.9.9.3 | Devil steals knight's cloak. Scala Celi 153a No. 844; Alphabet No. 620. |
| G303.20.4 | Devil strikes man dead with disease. Irish myth: Cross. |
| G303.20.3 | Devil strikes man dead with iron bar. Two men are fighting and devil thus kills one of them. Estonian: Aarne FFC XXV 122 No. 44. |
| T684 | Devil substitutes himself for new-born child. Köhler-Bolte I 148. |
| Q274.2 | Devil suffocates swindling merchant. (Cf. Q425.) Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| G303.9.9.4 | Devil takes an unbaptized child out of the cradle and lays a wooden log in its place. Finnish-Swedish: Wessman 14 No. 127; Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 3295, Legends Nos. 525ff. |
| G303.12.5.7 | Devil takes form of girl's lover and takes advantage of her. She meets lover on way home, learns what has happened, dies. England: Baughman. |
| D477.1.1 | Devil takes man waiting for water to turn to wine at midnight on Old Christmas Eve. U. S.: Baughman. |
| G303.9.9.16 | Devil takes place of girl man is embracing in private place. The man goes mad. England: Baughman. |
| G303.25.11 | Devil takes place of woman who went to spend night with a priest. Wesselski Mönchslatein 189 No. 147. |
| Q220.1.1 | Devil takes shape of old woman to punish impious nuns. Introduces them to three youths disguised as girls and brings about nuns' seduction. Nuns are stoned to death. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| G303.9.5.8 | Devil takes violinist when he needs a good fiddler in hell. England: Baughman. |
| G303.10.4.3 | Devil teaches a dance-loving maid to dance. Finnish-Swedish: Wessman 10 No. 83. |
| G303.9.4.4 | Devil tempts cleric (hermit). Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 670; Scala Celi 5b, 165a, 166a Nos. 29, 930, 938; Alphabet Nos. 28, 128, 129; Irish myth: *Cross; English: Hunt Popular Romances 232; Spanish Exempla: Keller; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 388, II 1059. |
| G303.9.4.7 | Devil tempts girl. Scala Celi 47b No. 267; Lithuanian: Balys Legends Nos. 395f., 399; West Indies: Flowers 447f. |
| G303.9.4.6 | Devil tempts saints. Scala Celi 112a, 154b Nos. 623, 855; Dh I 174.—Irish myth: Cross. |
| G303.9.4.8 | Devil tempts youth to deny Virgin. Promises youth riches. Scala Celi No. 658. |
| A977.2.3 | Devil throws down quoits when he is told that it is wrong to play on Sunday. They remain as stones to this day.—England: Baughman. |
| A2734.1 | Devil throws sand at aspen: hence rough bark. Angered because aspens will not cease quivering. (Cf. A2751.2.1.)—Finnish: Aarne FFC VIII 23 No. 132. |
| A977.2 | Devil throws stones. England, U.S.: *Baughman. |
| A2734.2 | Devil throws tar at tree: hence tar in tree-heart. (Cf. A2755.3.) —Finnish: Aarne FFC VIII 4 No. 10. Cf. Type 153. |
| M214 | Devil to help gambler in exchange for one task yearly. Spanish: Boggs FFC XC 55 No. 408A*. |
| K216 | Devil to release man for performing seemingly impossible task. The task is performed by trickery. |
| Q331.1 | Devil torments old man who has laid aside his humility. Scala Celi 105a No. 572. |
| G303.7.3.5 | Devil travels in coach drawn by four blood-red horses, the hoofs of which strike fire from the pavement. German: Grimm No. 120. |
| G303.9.4.3 | Devil tries to get man to kill his bride (wife). Finnish-Swedish: Wessman 12 No. 104. |
| G303.9.4.9 | Devil tries to move repentant sinner to despair. Irish myth: Cross. |
| K1992 | Devil tries to pass for Jesus. Forbids man to cut wood on Sunday. Disappears when man demands to see the wounds on his hands and feet. Type 797*. |
| G303.13.3 | Devil tries to wall in too large a piece of ground in a night and fails. Wünsche Teufel 70. |
| G303.24.3 | Devil vexing friars caused to repent by singing "Te sanctum dominum". Scala Celi 3a No. 5. |
| G303.6.2.4 | Devil visible to one who walks in minister's (or minister's wife's) holy shoes (galoshes). Finnish-Swedish: Wessman 10. No. 79. |
| G303.12.4 | Devil visits woman and founds a family. (Cf. G303.11.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| G303.5.2.3 | Devil wears a bright green coat. German: Henne-Am Rhyn 278. |
| X513 | Devil will not carry usurers to hell but will drag them by the legs. So declares a youth paid by a usurer to protest against the priest's remarks that the devil would carry all usurers off. Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 191; cf. Spanish: Espinosa Jr. No. 213. |
| G303.4.1.2.1 | Devil with eye in middle of forehead. Type 756B; Fb I 189b, 266b; Andrejev FFC LXIX 62. |
| G303.4.1.2.2 | Devil with glowing eyes. Fb I 189b, 266b, U.S.: Baughman. |
| G303.4.8.7 | Devil with pitchfork. North Carolina: Brown Collection I 688. |
| G303.12.1 | Devil wooes an innkeeper's daughter. Wünsche Teufel 33. |
| G303.12.5.4 | Devil wooes woman; she discovers identity in time to escape with aid of minister who swallows candle after getting devil to promise she could live as long as the candle lasted. (Cf. K551.9.) Scotland: Baughman. |
| G303.13.2 | Devil works backward. Begins building at top of house. Wünsche Teufel 52. |
| A63.1 | Devil works during God's sleep at creation. *Dh I 2, 42f., 55, 60, 102, 115ff.; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T91.2.1 | Devil would be maid's paramour. (Cf. G303.9.4.7.) Child V 283; Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 368*f., 3265. |
| G303.24.1.6 | Devil writes down all idle words spoken in church. His parchment is not long enough and he has to stretch it. Crane Vitry 233 No. 239. |
| G303.24.1.3 | Devil writes down names of men on a hide in church. Woman laughs when she sees him. Finnish: FFC XXXIII 44 No. 59; Lithuanian: Balys Legends No. 427; Estonian: Aarne FFC XXV 126 No. 59; Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| G303.24.1.7.2 | Devil writes down names of those who look backwards in church. Cheremis: Sebeok-Nyerges. |
| G303.24.1.8 | Devil writes down names of those who whisper in church. Cheremis: Sebeok-Nyerges. |
| G303.24.1.2 | Devil writes faults of man on goat skin. Swiss: Jegerlehner Oberwallis 306 No. 19. |
| G303.6.1.2.1 | Devil writes into book names of those who call on him. Cheremis: Sebeok-Nyerges. |
| G303.24.1.7 | Devil writes names of those who sleep in church. Fb I 266b; Finnish-Swedish: Wessman 11 No. 85. |
| G303 | Devil. (The Devil, Satan, The Bad Man, Old Nick, etc.)1 Not clearly differentiated, especially in German tradition, from the stupid ogre. (See also F531 (Giant), G100—199 and G500—699.)—**Wünsche Teufel; **A Graf The Story of the Devil (tr. E. N. Stone) (London, 1931); **M. J. Rudwin The Devil in Legend and Literature (Chicago 1931); P. Carus History of the Devil (Chicago, 1900); **Toldo II 329ff.; **O. A. Erich Die Darstellung des Teufels in der christlichen Kunst (Berlin, 1931); *De Vooys Middelnederlandse Legenden en Exempelen 159ff.; S. Freud Die Teufelsneurose im 17. Jahrhundert (Wien, 1928).—Irish myth: Cross; North Carolina: Brown Collection I 687; Icelandic: *Boberg; Finnish-Swedish: **P. Danielsson Djävulgestalten i Finlands svenska Folktro (Bidrag till kännedom af Finlands natur och folk LXXXIV pt. 2, [Helsingfors, 1932] 157); Estonian: Loorits Grundzüge I 135—152; Jewish: *Neuman. |
| G303.8.7 | Devil's abode is between hoofs of swine. Fb I 189a. |
| A2286.2.1 | Devil's animals devour God's. God makes white fish, devil a pike to eat it up; God a worm, devil a frog to eat it, etc. (Cf. A1751.)—Finnish: Aarne FFC VIII 20 No. 115; Estonian: Aarne FFC XXV 149 No. 63. |
| G303.4.1.3 | Devil's beard. |
| G303.25.5 | Devil's chair in hell made from thrown-away nail parings. Olrik Ragnarök (tr. Ranisch) 73f., No. 1. |
| G303.6.3.5 | Devil's coming heralded by piercing whistle. German: Grimm No. 195. |
| A2286.2.3 | Devil's cows one-horned; God makes them two-horned. (Cf. A2326.3.1.)—Livonian: Loorits FFC LXVI 88 No 63. |
| G303.8 | Devil's expulsion from heaven and his present haunts. |
| G303.4.1.2 | Devil's eyes. |
| G303.4.1.7.1 | Devil's face is black. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| G303.4.5.3.2 | Devil's footprints without any toes. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| G303.11.4.2 | Devil's grandmother is bleaching when it snows. Fb I 268a. |
| G303.11.4.1 | Devil's grandmother keeps house for devil. Is an old wrinkled woman with red eyes who locks up hell. Fb I 268a; Japanese: Ikeda. |
| G303.4.1.8.1 | Devil's hair blood-red. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| G303.4.1.8 | Devil's hair. Jewish: Neuman. |
| G303.4.8.10 | Devil's hand marks person he touches. England, U.S.: *Baughman. |
| G303.7.1.2.1 | Devil's horse has human feet. Finnish: Aarne FFC XXXIII 40 No. 33; Estonian: Aarne FFC XXV 120 No. 33. |
| G303.7.1.2 | Devil's horses are transformed men. Finnish: Aarne FFC XXXIII 40 No. 33; Estonian: Aarne FFC XXV 118 Nos. 25, 33; Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 3304, Legends Nos. 469, 581ff., 585. |
| G303.8.3.3 | Devil's house is visible on the way to hell. Estonian: Aarne FFC XXV 121 No. 38. |
| G303.4.5.6 | Devil's knees are backwards. Type 756B; Andrejev FFC LXIX 62; Irish myth: *Cross. |
| K214 | Devil's magic power turned on himself. The hero who is riding the devil as a horse receives supernatural strength from plucking a hair from the devil's mane. He then spurs the devil until he agrees to forego his bargain for the man's soul. Spanish: Boggs FFC XC 67 No. 508A*. |
| G303.21.1 | Devil's money becomes ashes. Fb I 803f.; U.S.: Baughman; Lithuanian: Balys Legends Nos. 426, 428, 432f., 444, 447, 449—53, 577, 736. |
| G303.21.2 | Devil's money becomes manure. U.S.: Baughman. |
| G303.11.3.1 | Devil's mother rides a goat. Fb I 268, 439. |
| C12.5 | Devil's name used in curse. Appears. Alphabet No. 246.—Esthonian: Aarne FFC XXV 120 No. 32; Finnish: Aarne FFC XXXIII 40 No. 32. |
| G303.4.1.4 | Devil's nose. |
| G303.25.16.1 | Devil's pipe, gun or music. Man is blinded and gets such as gift or exchange from devil. Lithuanian: Balys Legends Nos. 559—563, 569, 575, 590, 815. |
| G303.16.2.3 | Devil's power avoided by blessing. |
| G303.16.3 | Devil's power avoided by the cross. U.S.: Baughman. |
| G303.16.2 | Devil's power over one avoided by prayer. Fb I 267a; Scala Celi 132b, 137a, 149b Nos. 729, 764, 765, 823; Alphabet No. 591; Wünsche Teufel 44, 102; Irish myth: Cross; England: Baughman, Hunt Popular Romances 224; Finnish-Swedish: Wessman 14 No. 126; French: Sébillot France IV 126; Spanish Exempla: Keller; Jewish: *Neuman. |
| G303.12.7 | Devil's sexual relations with mortals. Jewish: Neuman. |
| G303.4.5.1.2 | Devil's shoes are empty. Lithuanian: Balys Legends Nos. 350, 654, 657. |
| G303.4.1.5 | Devil's teeth. |
| G303.4.3.2 | Devil's thumb the size of two fists. Wünsche Teufel 44. |
| G303.14 | Devil's unfinished work cannot be completed by human hands. One stone missing in church, etc. Wünsche Teufel 37f., 47, 51—56. |
| A1217 | Devil's unsuccessful attempt to vivify his creations as God has done. Succeeds only in making animal.—Dh I 90ff., 156ff.; *Fb "menneske" II 578a.—Lithuanian: Balys Legends Nos. 4, 39, 41, 149; Jewish: *Neuman; Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 61; Maidu: Dixon BAM XVII 39ff. No. 1. |
| A1755 | Devil's unsuccessful creation produces certain animals. (Cf. A1811, A1833.1, A1862, A1893.)—Dh I 156. |
| G303.10.19 | Devil's well. Argentina: Jijena Sanchez 112. |
| E756.1 | Devils and angels contest for man's soul. *Wesselski Märchen 199; *Fb "djævel" IV 99b; *Crane Miraculis 87 No. 11; Irish myth: *Cross; Spanish Exempla: Keller; Italian Novella: Rotunda; Livonian: Loorits FFC LXVI No. 808*; Lithuanian: Balys Index No. *808; Estonian: Aarne in FFC XXV No. 808*; Jewish: *Neuman. |
| G303.3.1.17 | Devils appear as ladies and gentlemen. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| G303.9.4.5 | Devils appear to knight to try to call him from doing penance. Scala Celi 162a No. 919. |
| G303.1.6 | Devils are created from sinful priests. Cheremis: Sebeok-Nyerges. |
| G303.1.4.2 | Devils are created from sparks produced by Satan's striking two stones together. Dh I 60ff.; Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 3001, Legends Nos. 1, 3. |
| G303.25.17.3 | Devils arrange a wedding feast for a woman who hanged herself. Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 3277, 3278, Legends Nos. 443—448, 450—459, 461f., 466. |
| Q274.1 | Devils carry away stones of church built with ill-gotten money. Scala Celi 84a No. 481. |
| G303.8.2 | Devils carry away the sun when they fall from heaven. Dh I 136. |
| Q281.1.1 | Devils carry off girl who abuses her mother. Scala Celi 99a No. 531; Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| V5.3 | Devils cause monk to perspire and stay away from church service. Pauli (ed. Bolte). No. 260. |
| G303.16.2.3.3 | Devils disappear when priest blesses bread. Scala Celi 67a No. 370; Irish: Beal XXI 314, O'Suilleabhain 38. |
| G303.13.1 | Devils do not know or understand thoughts of men. Swiss: Jegerlehner Oberwallis 329 No. 50. |
| G303.16.3.1 | Devils driven away by cross. Scala Celi Nos. 367, 392. |
| G303.16.2.4 | Devils driven away by hymn (psalm). Irish myth: Cross; Jewish: Neuman. |
| G303.8.14 | Devils dwell in heathen idols, as well as portraits and images. *Loomis White Magic 75. |
| G303.25.2 | Devils fear St. Isaac. Scala Celi 135b No. 592. |
| G303.15.4 | Devils haunt tree. (Cf. G312.3.) |
| G303.4.5.1 | Devils have only one leg. They broke one leg when trying to run away from God's attack to protect himself from them. Dh I 50. |
| G303.9.3.3 | Devils help people at work, but are feared nevertheless. Lithuanian: Balys Legends Nos. 790—794. |
| G303.3.1.0.1 | Devils in guise of human beings require remarkable quantity of food. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| G303.8.9 | Devils in woman's train. Scala Celi 141a No. 787; *Loomis White Magic 76. |
| Q559.1 | Devils instead of angels visit woman who has forgotten God in her prosperity. U.S., England: Baughman; Russian: Andrejev No. 796*. |
| G303.16.15 | Devils leave hermit who turns other cheek when struck. Scala Celi No. 795. |
| G303.16.3.3 | Devils put to flight by cross made of leaves. Scala Celi No. 391. |
| E755.2.7 | Devils torment sinners in hell. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| G303.24.2 | Devils worship host. (Cf. G303.16.5.) Krappe Bulletin Hispanique XXXIX 49; Scala Celi 3a No. 5; Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| V267 | Devotee of Virgin is comforted in the hour of death. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| V281 | Devotee of Virgin Mary given present by her. Ward II 660 No. 28. |
| V255.1 | Devotee of Virgin not buried in consecrated ground has lily issue from mouth so that his grave is made known. Spanish Exempla: Keller; Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| V142 | Devout possessor of false relics miraculously receives authentic ones. Alphabet Nos. 89, 402; Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| D1505.5.2.1 | Dew falling on St. John's Night restores sight. (Cf. D902.2.) *Fb "Sankt Hansdag" III 161a. |
| D1500.1.18.1 | Dew from saint's grave as cure. (Cf. D1500.1.10.) Irish: Plummer clxxx, Cross. |
| R268 | Dew in footprints reveals man's way. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| F962.4.2 | Dew of blood from fingers of repentant woman. Irish myth: Cross. |
| D1505.5.2 | Dew restores sight. (Cf. D902.2.) Christiansen FFC XXIV 78. |
| D1381.25.1 | Dextrorsum circuit (around sacred stone) insures victory. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| D1791.1 | Dextrosum (sunwise) circuit (for good luck). Irish myth: Cross. |
| T614 | Diabolical child kills his wet-nurses. (Gowther, Robert the Devil.) *Hibbard 49ff.; *Wells 784. |
| F956.3 | Diagnosis based on smoke rising from house of sick. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| V211.7.2 | Dialogue (debate) between Christ and Satan (at the harrowing of hell). Irish myth: *Cross. |
| E755.2.8 | Dialogue between Christ and the souls in hell. (Cf. V211.7.2.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| V211.6 | Dialogue between Christ and the Virgin Mary. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F771.1.5.1 | Diamond castle. Breton: Sébillot s.v. "diamants". |
| D1442.11 | Diamond charms serpents into harmlessness. (Cf. D1071.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F826.3 | Diamond does not break when struck with sledge hammer; penetrates iron instead. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| N527.1 | Diamond in meat carried to eagle's nest. *Chauvin VII 11 No. 373B n. 1. |
| D1551.7.1 | Diamond in snake king's forehead in hero's pocket opens lake waters to reveal a pathway to underground palace. (Cf. D1071.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| D1610.27.3 | Diamond speaks from inside statue. (Cf. D1071.) Jewish: Neuman. |
| F811.1.8 | Diamond tree. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| D1662.3 | Diamond works by being pressed. (Cf. D1070.) French Canadian: Sister Marie Ursule. |
| G363.3 | Diamond-toothed ogre. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F1014 | Dice game that lasts for nine years. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| N1.2.2 | Dice made from bones from graveyard. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| J2495.3 | Did not want to be Christ. An actor representing Christ in a Passion Play is beaten by Jews. He throws the cross down: "The devil may be God; I won't." *Wesselski Bebel II 109 No. 34. |
| J1815 | Did the calf eat the man? A fool, liking the shoes on the feet of a man hanged on a gallows, cuts off the swollen feet in order to carry off the shoes. In the room in which he sleeps that night is a newborn calf. The next morning the man takes the shoes but leaves the feet. Peasants agree that the calf has eaten the man all but the feet. They burn the house to destroy the calf. Type 1281; *Wesselski Bebel I 231 No. 144; Danish: Christensen DF L 65, Nyrop Dania I (1890) 283ff., cf. II 68ff.; U.S.: Baughman. |
| J2211 | Differences in animal nature overlooked. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| N127.0.1 | Different kinds of luck attending persons born on the several days of the week. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| T131.8 | Different religion as obstacle for marriage. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A1610.5 | Different tribes result from choice of things Sun offers people. S. Am. Indian (Bacairi): Lévi-Strauss BBAE CXLIII (3) 348. |
| A1227 | Different types of men produced from one original type. Jewish: Neuman. |
| A1691 | Differentiation between "free" (saer) and "unfree" (daer). Irish myth: Cross. |
| J226 | Difficult choice between relatives. |
| P427.7.2.1 | Difficult language used by poets. Irish myth: Cross. |
| J94 | Difficulty of thinking of God when occupied with worldly affairs. Shown by test: holy man made to carry milk without spilling. So occupied he forgets to think of God. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| X1725 | Digging without hands. India: Thompson-Balys. |
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