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Stith Thompson Motif Index
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Stith Thompson's Motif-Index of Folk-Literature classifies recurring narrative elements in folktales, myths, legends, ballads and related traditional narratives. Each entry below gives Thompson's motif reference and the description recorded in the index.
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Mythological Motifs
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Animal Motifs
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Motifs of Tabu
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Magic
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The Dead
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Marvels
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Ogres
H
Tests
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The Wise and the Foolish
K
Deceptions
L
Reversals of Fortune
M
Ordaining the Future
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Chance and Fate
P
Society
Q
Rewards and Punishments
R
Captives and Fugitives
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Unnatural Cruelty
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Sex
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The Nature of Life
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Religion
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Traits of Character
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Humor
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Miscellaneous Groups of Motifs
| Thompson reference | Description ▲ |
|---|---|
| B765.24 | Dragon fly serves as snake's servant, feeds snake; it is called snake-feeder. U.S.: Baughman. |
| B11.1.1 | Dragon from cock's egg. (Cf. B12.1.)—*Fb "drage"; Hdwb. d. Abergl. II 600—603. |
| B11.1.2 | Dragon from transformed horse. White horse plunges into water and is changed into a dragon. Chinese: Werner 368. |
| B11.1.3 | Dragon from transformed man lying on his treasures (Fáfnir). (Cf. B11.6.2.)—Hdwb. d. Abergl. II 367; Eisen Esthnische Mythologie 74ff.; Icel.: *Boberg. |
| B11.1.3.1 | Dragon from worm. Irish myth: Cross. |
| B11.6.9 | Dragon gnaws the roots of tree. Icel.: MacCulloch Eddic 332. |
| A139.3 | Dragon god. India: Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 136. |
| B11.6.6 | Dragon guards bridge to otherworld. Icel.: *Boberg. |
| B11.6.5 | Dragon guards hermit's food, frightens off robbers. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| B11.6.4 | Dragon guards holy land. Irish myth: Cross. |
| B11.7.2 | Dragon guards lake. Penzer VII 235 N. 2; Irish myth: Cross; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B11.6.2 | Dragon guards treasure. *Norlind Skattsägner 77f.; Gould Scandinavian Studies and Notes IX (1917) 170 No. 4; Penzer III 133; Smith Dragon 157—165; Finnish-Swedish; Wessman 76, 78 Nos. 632, 657; Icel.: Boberg; Danish: Kristensen Danske Sagn II (1893) 133ff., (1928) 119ff., III (1895) 454ff., (1931) 311ff.; Greek: *Grote I 219; U.S.: Baughman; Wienert FFC LVI 37; Phaedrus IV 21; Chinese: Werner 209. |
| B11.6.1 | Dragon helps hero out of gratitude. Dickson Valentine and Orson 121 n. 64. |
| B11.12.4.1 | Dragon is fed great quantities of milk to keep him pacified. England: *Baughman. |
| B11.12.4 | Dragon is fond of milk. |
| B11.10.1 | Dragon keeps maiden tied with golden chain. Köhler-Bolte I 128. |
| B11.3.7 | Dragon lives beneath tree. Danish: Kristensen Danske Sagn II (1893) 179ff., (1928) 122ff.—Icel.: MacCulloch Eddic 319. |
| B11.3.8 | Dragon lives in isolated island. German: Grimm No. 129. |
| B11.3.1.1 | Dragon lives in lake. Irish myth: Cross. |
| B11.3.5 | Dragon lives under the ground. By his movements a building or village will be dislodged. (Cf. A1070.)—Zingerle Zs. f. deutsche Mythologie und Sittengeschichte II 347; Hdwb. d. Abergl. II 890.—Irish myth: Cross. |
| B549.2 | Dragon makes bridge across stream for holy man. (Cf. B11.)—Jewish: Bin Gorion Born Judas II 170, 349. |
| B11.6.2.1 | Dragon must give up treasure when steel is thrown on him. Fb "stеl". III 647a; Finnish-Swedish: Wessman 76 No. 632. |
| B11.2.12 | Dragon of enormous size. Jewish: Bin Gorion Born Judas II 170, 349, Neuman; Irish myth: Cross; African (Fang): Einstein 47. |
| F796 | Dragon seen in sky. Irish myth: Cross. |
| B11.2.11.1 | Dragon spews venom. Icel.: *Boberg. |
| B529.2 | Dragon swallows arrow (thunderbolt) intended for hero. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| B11.4.4 | Dragon travels on sea or land. Irish myth: Cross. |
| B11.12.1.1 | Dragon which cannot be killed with weapons is kicked in vulnerable spot. England: Baughman. |
| B11.2.2.1 | Dragon with golden feathers. Icel.: *Boberg. |
| B11.2.14 | Dragon with jewel in head. Irish myth: Cross. |
| V1.8.8 | Dragon worship. Jewish: Neuman; Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 103f. |
| D1975 | Dragon-fighter's magic sleep. While waiting for fight with dragon, hero falls into magic sleep. (Cf. D1962.2.) *Type 300; *Hartland Perseus III 211.—French Canadian: Barbeau JAFL XXIX 20; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| H105.1 | Dragon-tongue proof. Dragon slayer cuts out the tongues and uses them later to prove his identity as slayer. *Types 300, 303; *Hartland Perseus III 203ff.; **Ranke FFC CXIV 251ff.; *BP I 534ff., 548; Fb "tunge" III 893b; Hdwb. d. Märchens I 242a nn. 24—47; Schoepperle I 204 n. 3; Irish myth: Cross; French Canadian: Barbeau JAFL XXIX 7, 18f.; Italian Novella: Rotunda; Greek: Frazer Apollodorus II 63 n. 4; India: *Thompson-Balys; N. A. Indian: Thompson CColl II 323ff.; Jamaica: Beckwith MAFLS XVII 278 No. 90. |
| B11 | Dragon. **Smith Dragon; *Fb Drager, lindorme, slanger i folkets tro (Særtryk af Naturen og Mennesket, 1894, pp. 164—196); *Nyrop Dania II 341ff.; *Rуheim Drachen und Drachenkämpfer; *Hdwb. d. Abergl. II 364 ff.; Meyer Germanische Mythologie (1891) 95ff.; **Du Bose The Dragon, Image and Demon (London, 1886); Norlind Skattsägner 44f., 77f., Solheim Register 17; Danish: Kristensen Danske Sagn II (1893) 133ff., 176ff., (1928) 119ff.—*Type 300; *BP I 547.—Icel.: MacCulloch Eddic 216; Celtic: *Henderson Celtic Dragon Myth (Edinburgh, 1911), *Cross; Lettish: Auning Ueber den lettischen Drachenmythus; Armenian: Ananikian 76ff; Jewish: Neuman; Chinese: Ferguson 101; India: Thompson-Balys; Korean: Zong in-Sob 169, No. 73. |
| D1337.2.3 | Dragon's breath renders hideous. (Cf. D1029.1.)—Irish myth: Cross. |
| B11.4 | Dragon's habits. |
| D1500.1.7.3.3 | Dragon's heart-blood as remedy. (Cf. B11.2.9, D1015.1.2, D1016) *Type 305*. |
| B11.3.2 | Dragon's home at top of mountain. His breath forms clouds to hide the mountain.—Smith Dragon 82.—Scotland: Baughman. |
| B11.3.1.2 | Dragon's home beneath waterfall. (Cf. F426.) Icel.: Boberg. |
| B11.3.1 | Dragon's home in bottom of sea. Smith Dragon 82.—Chinese: Werner 210 (only in autumn and winter); Icel.: Boberg. |
| B11.5.4 | Dragon's miraculous speed. Gold Coast: Barker and Sinclair 97 No. 18. |
| B11.5.3 | Dragon's miraculous vision. Can see a fly miles away.—Africa (Gold Coast): Barker and Sinclair 97 No. 18. |
| B11.6.2.3 | Dragon's pearl stolen. Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 233 No. 181. |
| B11.5.2 | Dragon's power of magic invisibility. Chinese: Werner 209. |
| B11.5.1 | Dragon's power of self-transformation. Chinese: Werner 223. |
| B11.12.2 | Dragon's shriek makes land barren. Irish myth: Cross; MacCulloch Celtic 130. |
| B11.3.3 | Dragon's visit to sky. Chinese: Werner 210 (only in spring and summer). (Cf. B11.4.1.) |
| A671.2.5 | Dragons in hell. Irish myth: Cross; Icel.: MacCulloch Eddic 319, 332 (Nidhogg). |
| B11.3.4 | Dragons live beneath castle. Mediaeval Romance: Wells Manual of Writings 39 (Nennius's Historia Britonum) 42f. (Arthour and Merlin). |
| B11.3.6 | Dragons live in hell. Irish myth: Cross; Icel.: MacCulloch Eddic 319, 352. |
| D1741.2.1 | Drawing witch's blood annuls her spells. (Cf. G271.4.4., G273.6.) Kittredge Witchcraft 47, *399f. nn. 190, 191; *Fb "blod" IV 47b. |
| F959.3.1 | Dreadful wound healed. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Z211 | Dreadnaughts. Brothers deliberately seek dangers they have been warned against. Triumph. Greek: Fox 98; India: *Thompson-Balys; Oceanic: Dixon 131, 132 n. 2, 133; Tuamotu: Stimson MS (z-G. 3/1332; T-G. 3/818; z-G. 3/1122; z-G. 13/221); Marquesas: Handy 105; N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 320 n. 156, (California): Gayton and Newman 69. |
| L425 | Dream (prophecy) of future greatness causes banishment (imprisonment). *Type 671, 725; *BP I 322ff., 324; Japanese: Ikeda. |
| T11.3.2 | Dream about a marriage with another's wife. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| J157.3 | Dream advises against the popularizing of science. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| J1527 | Dream answered by dream. Priests misinterpret raja's dream and get his horses. Trickster advises raja to announce dream demanding cauterization of the priests. They return horses. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K444 | Dream bread: the most wonderful dream. Three pilgrims agree that the one who has the most wonderful dream shall eat the last loaf. One eats it and declares that he dreamed that the others were dead and would not need it. *Type 1626; **Baum JAFL XXX 378; *BP IV 139; *Dunlop-Wilson II 201; Basset 1001 Contes I 516; Hdwb. d. Märchens I 95; Barbeau JAFL XXXII 178; *Wesselski Hodscha Nasreddin II 243 No. 540; *Oesterley No. 106; Scala Celi 73a No. 415; Ward II 240; Herbert III 246; Alphabet No. 238; Krappe Bulletin Hispanique XXXIX 22 No. 98; L. Schmidt Oesterr. Zs. f. Vksk. 1954, 135.—Icelandic: Sveinsson FFC LXXXIII No. 1626*; Russian: Andrejev No. 2100*; French Canadian: Barbeau JAFL XXIX 21; Spanish Exempla: Keller; Italian Novella: *Rotunda; Jewish: Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys; Japanese: Ikeda. |
| N531.2 | Dream brings treasure: trade vineyards with neighbor. A treasure is found in the new vineyard. Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 328. |
| D1812.3.3.8 | Dream by a (pregnant) woman about fate of her unborn child. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| K66 | Dream contests. U.S.: *Baughman. |
| F471 | Dream demons. |
| J2326.2 | Dream explained as a dead father's demand for horses. Dupe gives them to trickster. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| D1812.3.3.10 | Dream interpreted by opposites. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| D1812.3.3.0.3 | Dream interpreter corrects dream. Jewish: Neuman. |
| M312.0.1 | Dream of future greatness. *Type 725; *BP I 324; Cox 500; MacCulloch Childhood 354; Irish myth: Cross; Jewish: *Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| N531.3 | Dream of treasure bought. Treasure has been seen by man's soul absent in sleep in form of a fly. The purchaser of the dream finds the treasure. Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 3520; Persian: Lorimer Persian Tales 311 No. 49; Japanese: Ikeda. |
| N531.1 | Dream of treasure on the bridge. A man dreams that if he goes to a distant city he will find treasure on a certain bridge. Finding no treasure, he tells his dream to a man who says that he too has dreamed of treasure at a certain place. He describes the place, which is the first man's home. When the latter returns home he finds the treasure. *Type 1645; **Bolte Zs. f. Vksk. XIX 289ff.; *Wesselski Mönchslatein 120 No. 101; *Hauffen Zs. f. Vksk. X 432; *Tille in Veckenstedt's Zs. f. Vksk. III 132ff.; DeCock RTP XV 294; *Fb "skat" III 235a, "bro" IV 62b; *Chauvin VI 94 No. 258; Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 3636; Japanese: Ikeda. |
| D1813.1.4 | Dream reveals death of brother. (Cf. D1812.3.3, D1812.5.1.2.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| D1817.2.1 | Dream reveals sin to saint. (Cf. D1810.8.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| D1813.1.5 | Dream reveals to girl death of her lover. Heptameron No. 13. |
| D1813.1 | Dream shows events in distant place. (Cf. D1810.8, D1812.3.3, D1812.5.1.2.) India: Thompson-Balys; Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| D1813.1.6 | Dream shows others in danger. Icelandic: FSS 247, 258, *Boberg; Papua: Ker 127. |
| D1810.8.2.1 | Dream shows where stolen girl is hidden. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| D1810.8.2.4 | Dream tells of safety of absent person who has been in danger. Scotland: Baughman. |
| D1813.1.1 | Dream warns emperor of wife's unfaithfulness. English: Wells 138 (The Earl of Toulous); Italian Novella: Rotunda; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| D1813.1.3 | Dream warns king of danger to kingdom. Africa (Temne): Schlenker 87ff. No. 7. |
| D1813.1.2 | Dream warns king of error in judgment. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| D1810.8.3.2 | Dream warns of danger which will happen in near future. Because of advance knowledge, the danger is averted. England, Scotland, U.S.: *Baughman. |
| D1810.8.3.1.1 | Dream warns of illness or injury. The dream is fulfilled. England: *Baughman. |
| F451.2.7 | Dress of dwarf. |
| F821.1 | Dress of extraordinary material. |
| F236 | Dress of fairies. (Cf. F233.) |
| F821.1.6 | Dress of feathers. Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 248 No. 192. |
| F821.1.5 | Dress of gold, silver, color of sun, moon and stars. *Type 510B; *BP II 45ff.; *Eisler Weltenmantel und Himmelszelt I 1ff.; Fb "mеne" II 660a, "klæder" IV 267b; Saintyves Perrault 152ff., 202ff.; Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "étoiles", "robe". |
| F460.1.4 | Dress of mountain-men. *Fb "bjærgmand" IV 41b. |
| F535.3 | Dress of pygmies. |
| F821.1.3 | Dress of raw fur. Cat-fur, mouse-fur, or other undressed fur. *Type 510B; BP II 45ff.; Köhler-Bolte I 420; Icelandic: Boberg. |
| E422.4 | Dress of revenant. |
| F420.1.6 | Dress of water-spirits. |
| F821.2 | Dress so fine that it goes in nutshell. Köhler-Bolte I 420; English: Child I 260 and note, 271. |
| F821.3 | Dress with gold, silver, and diamond bells. Köhler-Bolte Zs. f. Vksk. VI 60 and Köhler to Gonzenbach No. 2. |
| J1762.6 | Dressed up monkey thought to be a nobleman. Christensen DF XLVII 197, 231 No. 23. |
| P452 | Dressmaker (milliner, etc.). Type 326; German Grimm No. 4; *Hdwb. d. Abergl. IX Nachträge 269f.; Sébillot Métiers No. 8. |
| D1314.15 | Dried root sprouts when planted to indicate spot where holy man should set up his abode. (Cf. D967.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| D1365.2 | Drink causes magic forgetfulness. (Cf. D1040, D2004.3.1.) —Jiriczek "Der Vergessenheitstrank in der Nibelungensage" Zs. f. vgl. Litgsch. N. F. VII 49ff.; Cox Cinderella 512; Wimberly 278f.—Irish myth: *Cross; English: Child I 363 and note, 364; Norse: Herrmann II 590; Icelandic: *Boberg; Greek: Odyssey IV line 220 et passim; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| D1410.6 | Drink from magic cup deprives man of legs. (Cf. D1040, D1171.6.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| D1665.1 | Drink has taste of any liquor desired. (Cf. D1040.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| D2105.4 | Drink magically furnished. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| A154 | Drink of the gods. Greek: Grote I 43; Icel.: MacCulloch Eddic 54, 86, 172, 313; Hindu: Penzer X 243 s.v. "nectar"; Keith 46 and passim; India: *Thompson-Balys; Persian: Carnoy 265; Chinese: Ferguson 130. |
| Q552.18.2 | Drink refused saint disappears. (Cf. Q227.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| D1040.1 | Drink supplied by magic. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| K233.2 | Drinkers argue about who is to pay. They blindfold the bartender who is to catch one of them; the one who is caught will have to pay. While the bartender is blindfolded, the drinkers leave the tavern. England: Baughman. |
| H411.4.1 | Drinking bitter water as chastity test. Water will poison the unchaste. Jewish: bin Gorion Born Judas II 119, 345, *Neuman. |
| D1301.2 | Drinking blood teaches animal languages. (Cf. D1041.)—**Scott Thumb; Panzer Sigfrid 281 s.v. "Vogelsprache".—Icelandic: Völsungasaga 45, Boberg. |
| V65.2 | Drinking festival in memory of the dead. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| J2176.2 | Drinking gruel by making hole in pot. Gruel runs out. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| V132.3 | Drinking holy water facilitates cursing. Irish myth: Cross. |
| P312.1 | Drinking mixture of blood, milk, and wine as pledge of covenant. Irish myth: Cross. |
| K236.2 | Drinking only after a bargain. A woman having thus sworn keeps buying and selling the same mule many times a day. *Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 306; Scala Celi 81a No. 463; *Crane Vitry 255 No. 277; Herbert III 24. |
| J1791.1 | Drinking the moon. The numskull sees a cow drink from a pool where the moon is reflected. The moon goes under a cloud. He thinks the cow has eaten the moon and slaughters her to recover it. Type 1335; *Wesselski Hodscha Nasreddin I 241 No. 124; *Köhler-Bolte I 90, 498; Christensen DF XLVII 181. |
| B237 | Drinking-bout assembly of animals. Dh II 298ff.; Riegler Wörter und Sachen VI (1914—15) 194f. |
| H439.2 | Drinking-tube as chastity index: retains taste of another's lips. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| S191 | Driving insane by keeping awake. Nouvelles Récréations No. 68. |
| J581.4 | Drones dispute possession of honey. Ordered to make honey. Dispossessed. Wienert FFC LVI 54 (ET 140), 100 (ST 138). |
| D1310.2 | Drop from magic cauldron gives supernatural information. (Cf. D1171.2.)—Irish myth: *Cross; Welsh: MacCulloch Celtic 110. |
| N381 | Drop of honey causes chain of accidents. Hunter drops honey in a grocery; weasel eats honey; cat chases weasel; dog chases cat; grocer kills dog: all the cause of a bloody feud between villages. *Taylor JAFL XLVI 87 No. 2036; BP II 104 n. 2; *Wesselski Hessische Blätter f. Vksk XXXII 21; Chauvin VIII 41 No. 9; Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| D1404.2 | Drop of hound's blood from magic spear (lance) pierces owner's foot (head). (Cf. D1081.) Irish myth: *Cross (D1403.4). |
| D1305.1 | Drop of water from Paradise gives power of prophecy. (Cf. D1242.1.) Jewish: Neuman. |
| N777 | Dropped ball (basket) leads to adventures when recovery is attempted. Italian: Basile Pentamerone III No. 10 (Type 440). |
| J1782.2 | Dropping dough thought to be a ghost. It drops on the floor and the man thinks the place is haunted. Estonian: Aarne FFC XXV 137 No. 101; Finnish: Aarne FFC XXXIII 47 No. 101. |
| D1812.5.1.1.5 | Drops of blood presage slaughter. Irish myth: Cross. |
| J67 | Drops of water make hollow in stone: thus repeated impressions penetrate mind. Jewish: Neuman. |
| Q552.3.3 | Drought as punishment. Irish myth: Cross; Jewish: Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| D2143.2 | Drought produced by magic. (Cf. D2081, D2157.) Irish myth: Cross; India: Thompson-Balys; Africa (Basuto): Jacottet 15 No. 22. |
| E693.1 | Drowned girl reborn as leech to take revenge on murderers. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| E414 | Drowned person cannot rest in peace. (Cf. E334.4.) Fb "spøgelse" III 521b; Kristensen Danske Sagn V (1897) 90ff., 359ff., (1934) 70ff., 265ff.; Icelandic: *Boberg; Finnish-Swedish: Wessman 5 No. 40. |
| Q428.1 | Drowning as punishment for adultery. (Cf. Q241.) Irish myth: *Cross; Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| Q428.3 | Drowning as punishment for disturbing holy person. (Cf. Q227.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q581.3.1 | Drowning as punishment for drowning. Eskimo. (Cumberland Sound): Boas BAM XV 165. |
| Q552.19.0.1 | Drowning caused by magic wind as punishment of braggart. (Cf. D906, Q330.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| B53.1 | Drowning man rescued by siren. Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "noyé". |
| K581.1 | Drowning punishment for turtle (eel, crab). By expressing horror of drowning, he induces his captor to throw him into the water —his home. *Type 1310; *Dh IV 43; Köhler-Bolte I 266; *Fb "еl" III 1190b; England: Baughman; Danish: Christensen DF XLVII 171; India: *Thompson-Balys; Indonesia: Dixon 195, 196 n. 32, *DeVries Volksverhalen II 360 No. 107; Philippine: Fansler MAFLS XII 443, (Tinguian): Cole 196, 197 n. 1; N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 302 n. 108; Africa (Angola): Chatelain 153 No. 17, (Jaunde): Heepe 107; (Benga): Nassau 124 No. 12, (Ibo, Nigeria): Thomas 88, (Yoruba): Ellis 266 No. 3, (Zanzibar): Bateman 40 No. 2; American Negro (Georgia): Harris Remus 58 No. 12, 115 No. 24, Friends 167 No. 23, cf. Harris Nights 61 No. 12; Jamaica: Beckwith MAFLS XVII 236 No. 5; West Indies: Flowers 516. |
| H1538 | Drowning test. Unavailing attempt to drown hero. Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg; Finnish: Kalevala rune 31; Eskimo (Greenland): Rasmussen III 85; N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 312 n. 124. |
| K873.4 | Drug introduced into half of fruit from enemy's fingernail where it has been hidden. Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 556. |
| P427 | Druid (poet, learned man). Irish myth: Cross; Icelandic: MacCulloch Eddic 311. |
| P427.2 | Druid as emissary of peace. Irish myth: Cross. |
| P427.6 | Druid as judge. Irish myth: Cross. |
| D1711.4 | Druid as magician. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| P427.5 | Druid as physician. (Cf. P424.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| H561.7 | Druid as solver of riddles. Irish myth: Cross. |
| H1573.1.3 | Druid attempts to shake king's faith by magic manifestation. Irish myth: Cross. |
| D1816.5.1 | Druid by magic discovers whereabouts of abducted wife. (Cf. F322.2.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| V229.6.4 | Druid by spells seeks to drive saint from island. Irish myth: Cross. |
| D2146.1.1.1 | Druid causes sun to stand still for two days. (Cf. D1719.1.1.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| D2142.0.3 | Druid controls winds. (Cf. D2141.0.8.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| V331.0.1 | Druid converted to Christianity. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F394.1.1 | Druid directs fairies. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| D1816.5 | Druid divines whereabouts of missing person. (Cf. D1711.4.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| P427.0.1 | Druid inspires great respect and fear. Irish myth: Cross. |
| D1812.3.3.0.1 | Druid interprets prophetic dream. (Cf. D1711.4, D1812.3.3.5.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| D2031.4.1 | Druid makes self appear ugly on one side, beautiful on other. (Cf. D2031.0.4.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| D1791.1.1 | Druid performs circumambulation right-handwise to confer honor or bring good luck. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| D1791.2.1 | Druid performs circumambulation withershins to bring ill luck. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| P427.1 | Druid performs sacrifices. Irish myth: Cross. |
| V229.6.3 | Druid raised in air, cast down, and brains scattered on stone by power of saint. Irish myth: Cross. |
| D1810.0.8.1 | Druid's "keys of wisdom". Irish myth: *Cross. |
| M411.6.1 | Druid's curse makes land sterile. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| M411.6 | Druid's curse. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| D1381.1 | Druid's hedge prevents attack. (Cf. D945, D1282.1.1, D1361.1.) Irish: Plummer clxi, *Cross. |
| D1282.1.1 | Druid's knot: magic defense. Irish myth: Cross. |
| D1402.13.2 | Druid's spells cause drowning. (Cf. D1402.0.2.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| D1402.13 | Druid's spells kill Christian king. (Cf. D1273.) Irish: Plummer clix, Cross. |
| D1402.13.1 | Druid's spells kill enemies. (Cf. D1273.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| D1402.13.2.1 | Druidess' spell causes drowning. Irish myth: Cross. |
| P427.1.3 | Druidic (heathen) baptism. Irish myth: Cross. |
| D902.1.1 | Druidic mist. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| P427.1.4 | Druidic tonsure. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C10.1 | Druidism forbidden. Irish myth: Cross. |
| P427.9 | Druids (poets) boil spell. Irish myth: Cross. |
| A611.1 | Druids as creators. Irish myth: Cross. |
| P427.1.2 | Druids as priests. Irish myth: Cross. |
| M301.3 | Druids as prophets. Irish: Plummer clxii, *Cross. |
| P427.8 | Druids as rath-builders. Irish myth: Cross. |
| P340.0.1 | Druids as teachers. Irish myth: Cross. |
| D2065.3 | Druids bereave men of senses. (Cf. P427.) Irish: Plummer clix, *Cross. |
| D1932 | Druids can pass through trees. (Cf. F694.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| D2031.0.4 | Druids cause illusions. (Cf. D2031.4.1.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| D2063.3.1 | Druids cause magic thirst. (Cf. P427.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| D2091.8.1 | Druids dry up water in enemy's camp. (Cf. D1711.4.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| D1817.1 | Druids magically detect crime. Irish: Plummer clx, *Cross. |
| P427.1.1 | Druids perform human sacrifice. Irish myth: Cross. |
| D1336.9 | Druids' (poets') spells bind. (Cf. D1275.4.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| D1364.25.2 | Drum causes magic sleep. (Cf. D1211.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| D1609.1 | Drum flies about room. (Cf. D1211.) Eskimo (Greenland): Rink 451, Rasmussen I 100. |
| T133.3 | Drummer beats drums before bride on way to wedding. Nouvelles Récréations No. 49. |
| W152.10 | Drummer drums for own wedding so as to save expense. Nouvelles Récréations No. 49. |
| A199.7 | Drums and flutes off-shore announce approach of gods. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 16 n. 3. |
| X813 | Drunk man at the wedding. Goes to sleep and never reaches it, though at home he praises the wedding. Type 1705*. |
| X812 | Drunk man goes to the king and wants to buy an island. Type 1671*. |
| X811 | Drunk man lying under his bed thinks he is lying in his shroud. Is cured of drunkenness. Type 835*. |
| J1063.2 | Drunk man makes sport of another man for being drunk. Wesselski Bebel I 184 No. 38. |
| X815 | Drunk man sees everything revolving and waits for his house to come to him. *Wesselski Hodscha Nasreddin II 236 No. 520. |
| X814 | Drunk men try to see one another home. Absurd results. Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 238. |
| J1161.9 | Drunk philosopher wagers that he can drink the ocean dry. Agrees to do so if the other will hold back streams emptying into the ocean. Agreed to drink only the ocean. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| X818 | Drunk recruits make war on a haystack. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| X816 | Drunk woman thinks she is in heaven. Hears someone play the lyre. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| J1623 | Drunkard cured of seeing double. When he claims to see two roast chickens, his wife takes the one chicken away and he falls into the fire trying to find the other. Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 140. |
| J343.1 | Drunkard refuses cure of fever if it is to take away his thirst. Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 236. |
| Q386.2 | Drunken dancers punished. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1954.2 | Drunken man by pretending to want to buy an elephant makes king think him rich. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| J2311.10 | Drunken man insists that he be beheaded. Is struck with the flat of his sword. He thinks he is dead. Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles No. 6; Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| J2322 | Drunken man made to believe that he has been to heaven and hell. He is dressed up as a rich lord and given rich food and drink. When put back into his own clothes he thinks that he has been to heaven. *Type 1531; Köhler-Bolte I 68; Wesselski Archiv Orientální I (1929) 80 f.; Shakespeare Induction to Taming of the Shrew; Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| X821 | Drunken volunteer firemen bungle their work. U.S.: Baughman. |
| F991.2.1 | Dry bone smells as sign of forgiveness. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| E631.0.5.1 | Dry branch on innocent man's grave blossoms as proof of innocence. Fb "uskyldig". |
| D1812.5.1.16 | Dry river bed as bad omen. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| D1812.5.1.16.1 | Dry river bed as omen of approaching death. (Cf. D1812.0.1.1.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| F971.1.1 | Dry rod blossoms on night of saint's birth. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F971.1 | Dry rod blossoms. *Type 756 ABC, 757; BP III 463, 465, 471 n. 1; *Dh II 265ff.; Fb "nеde" II 726b, "stav" III 541b; RTP IX 504, XIII 505, XV 61, XIX 66, 336, 532, XXI 123, XXV 141; **Andrejev FFC LIV 34, LXIX 126, 129ff., 241ff.; Saintyves Essais de folklore biblique 61ff.; Zs. f. Vksk. X 196f., XIII 72, XV 393; Alphabet No. 568; *Loomis White Magic 94, 114; Goebel Jüdische Motive im märchenhafte Erzählungsgut (Gleiwitz, 1932) 34ff.; Irish: Plummer cliv, *Cross, O'Suilleabhain 108, Beal XXI 318, 334; Spanish: Espinosa Jr. No. 186; Jewish: *Neuman; West Indies: Flowers 438. |
| F933.2 | Dry spring restored by removal of certain stone. Christiansen FFC XXIV 87. |
| F441.2.2 | Dryad. Female spirit dwelling among trees. Greek: Fox 270; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 564. |
| J2121 | Drying snow on the stove. Type 1272*. |
| J1947 | Drying snow to make salt. Wesselski Bebel II 89. |
| A1757 | Dualism of animal creation. persian: Carnoy 291. |
| G353.3 | Duck as ogre. Tonga: Gifford 104. |
| K1065 | Duck persuades cock to cut off his crest and spurs. The cat attacks the duck, who cries, "peace, gentlemen, peace!" Spanish: Boggs FFC XC 36 No. 208*. |
| B548.2.2.2 | Duck recovers lost key from sea. German: Grimm No. 62. |
| D444.10.3 | Duck's sandals transformed to part of his feet. S. A. Indian (Chiriguano): Métraux RMLP XXXIII 178. |
| J64 | Ducklings take to water from instinct. Bridegroom thus brought to understand bride's expertness in lovemaking. Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| V134.4 | Ducks in pool in church: water in which they are placed refuses to boil till ducks are restored to pool. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| B548.4 | Ducks recover lost object from water. Madagascar (Marofotsy): Renel Contes de Madagascar I 65ff. No. 9. |
| V351 | Duel (debate) to prove which religion is better. Dickson 187 nn. 61, 62; English: Wells 88 (Roland and Vernagu), 91 (Otuel); Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| B264.3 | Duel of buffalo and tiger. Buffalo arms self.—India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K97 | Duel won by deception. |
| P677.1 | Duel: shooting and catching arrows in turn. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| L124 | Dumb hero. Dickson 185; Irish myth: *Cross. |
| V23.2 | Dumb man recovers speech in order to confess. *Fb "stum". |
| F954 | Dumb person brought to speak. Irish myth: *Cross; India: Thompson-Balys; West Indies: Flowers 438. |
| H343.1 | Dumb princess brought to speak by shepherd who insults her. Spanish: Boggs FFC XC 105 No. 860; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F954.2.1 | Dumb princess is brought to speech by tale ending with a question to be solved. *Type 945; BP III 53ff.; *Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 534. |
| D2021.1 | Dumbness as curse. *Type 710; *BP I 21; Tawney I 5. |
| Q451.3.4 | Dumbness as punishment for blasphemy. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| C944 | Dumbness as punishment for breaking tabu. (Cf. C311.1.4.)—Type 710; Fb "stum"; Jewish: Neuman. |
| Q451.3.1 | Dumbness as punishment for hiding children. Fb "stum". |
| Q451.3.2 | Dumbness as punishment for lying. (Cf. Q263.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q451.3.3 | Dumbness as punishment for opposition to holy person. (*Cf. Q227.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| F954.2 | Dumbness cured by question. |
| F954.2.2 | Dumbness cured by saint's question. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F1041.19 | Dumbness from disgust. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| D2025.4 | Dumbness magically cured by astonishment. Africa (Basuto): Jacottet 224 No. 33. |
| D2161.3.6 | Dumbness magically cured. (Cf. D2020.) Irish myth: *Cross; Jewish: Neuman. |
| K2321.2 | Dummy set up as corpse to frighten people. Italian Novella: Rotunda; N. A. Indian (California): Gayton and Newman 69. |
| D1649.4 | Dung and wood burst into flames of their own accord. (Cf. D956, D1026.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| D2194 | Dung drops on washing hands. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| L315.7 | Dungbeetle keeps destroying eagle's eggs. Eagle at last goes to the sky and lays eggs in Zeus's lap. The dungbeetle causes Zeus to shake his apron and break the eggs. Wienert FFC LVI *51 (ET 106), 77 (ET 432), 113 (ST 237), 114 (ST 249); Halm Aesop No. 7. |
| U122 | Dungbeetle prefers his dunghill to all other smells. Wienert FFC LVI 60 (ET 217), 119 (ST 292); Halm Aesop No. 185; Herbert III 35ff.; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| J1751 | Dungbeetle thought to be bee. "I know you well enough, you have put on a blue coat." Type 1317*. |
| K1023.1 | Dupe allowed to guard "king's drum": it is a wasp nest. India: *Thompson-Balys; Java: Dixon 188 n. 5; cf. DeVries's list No. 12. |
| K1023.1.1 | Dupe allowed to guard "king's girdle": it is a snake, which bites him. Indonesia: *DeVries's list No. 10. |
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