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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
M
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 ▲ |
|---|---|
| F451.9.1.12 | Dwarfs emigrate because of mortals' ingratitude. German: Sieber 61. |
| F451.9.1.9 | Dwarfs emigrate because they dislike peasants' dancing and loud music. German: Karstens-Goslar 103. |
| F451.9.3 | Dwarfs emigrate New Year's Eve of 1800 to return New Year's Eve of 1900. German: Sieber 61. |
| F451.9.2.2 | Dwarfs emigrate to the Orient. German: Kapff 44. |
| F451.9.2.1 | Dwarfs emigrate to unknown place. German: Karstens-Goslar 155. |
| F451.9.6 | Dwarfs emigrate unseen but heard. (Cf. F455.5.1.) Dutch: Sinninghe FFC CXXXII 59 No. 104; German: Sieber 62. |
| F451.9.1.15 | Dwarfs emigrate when their king dies. Dutch: Sinninghe FFC CXXXII 59 No. 102. |
| F451.9 | Dwarfs emigrate. Danish: Kristensen Danske Sagn I (1892) 417ff., (1928) 256ff.; Dutch: Sinninghe FFC CXXXII 59 Nos. 103—105. |
| F451.5.13 | Dwarfs exact promise from mortals. German: Karstens-Goslar 41, Eckart 22. |
| F451.5.2.3 | Dwarfs exchange children in cradle. Norse: MacCulloch Eddic 272; Danish: Kristensen Danske Sagn I (1892) 294ff., (1928) 186ff.; German: Haas Greifswald 36 No. 39, 40 No. 43, Sieber 60, Pröhle Harz. Nos. 189, 220 I, 207, 269, Pröhle Unterharz. 145 No. 368. |
| F451.3.6.5.2 | Dwarfs fear dogs. Eskimo (Greenland): Rasmussen I 256. |
| F451.5.9.1 | Dwarfs fear the cross. German: Karstens-Goslar 155, Findeisen 3 No. 5. |
| F451.3.6.5.1 | Dwarfs fear the dark. Eskimo (Greenland): Rasmussen I 256. |
| F451.6.3.1 | Dwarfs feast mortals in their home. German: Eckart 22, Ey 29, Pröhle Harz. No. 137 III, No. 168 I, Haas Greifswald. 38 No. 40. |
| F451.6.4 | Dwarfs fight with each other. German: Ey 29, Pröhle Unterharz. 112 No. 294. |
| F451.6.14 | Dwarfs flee to caves for protection. German: Karstens-Goslar 102. |
| F451.3.3.6 | Dwarfs fly through air. German: Pröhle Unterharzische 171 No. 453. |
| F451.9.1.14 | Dwarfs forced to flee by deity. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 328. |
| F451.3.3.4 | Dwarfs free mortals from enchantment. German: Bindewald 56, 142, Findeisen 39 No. 43. |
| F451.5.2.10 | Dwarfs frighten mortals. German: Eckart 7, Bindewald 84, Kapff 44. |
| F451.5.20 | Dwarfs give orders to mortals. German: Pröhle Unterharz 113 No. 298, Findeisen 39 No. 43. |
| F451.5.15 | Dwarfs give riddles and questions to mortals. |
| F451.3.7.3 | Dwarfs given inedible food to eat. Dutch: Sinninghe FFC CXXXII 55ff. No. 66. |
| F451.3.5.4 | Dwarfs have blood. German: Pröhle Unterharz. 112 No. 294. |
| F451.7.6 | Dwarfs have cattle, steeds and wagons. Danish: Kristensen Danske Sagn I (1892) 31ff., (1928) 32ff.; German: Karstens-Goslar 122. |
| F451.2.4.1 | Dwarfs have coarse hair. German: Eckart 20, Pröhle Harzsagen No. 137 II. |
| F451.6.3 | Dwarfs have festivities. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F451.2.3.2 | Dwarfs have gray beards. German: Eckart 22, Kahlo Harzes 55 No. 92, Bindewald 56. |
| F451.4.2 | Dwarfs have homes above the ground. |
| F451.5.5 | Dwarfs have human woman as midwife. Danish: Kristensen Danske Sagn I (1892) 330ff., (1928) 210ff.; Icelandic: MacCulloch Eddic 272; Swiss: Jegerlehner Oberwallis 308 No. 2, 326 No. 2; German: Kahlo Harz. 54 No. 91. |
| F451.7.5 | Dwarfs have little horses. (Cf. F451.6.2.3.) Irish myth: *Cross; German: Pröhle Unterharz. 112 No. 294. |
| F451.7.3 | Dwarfs have little lanterns. German: Winckler 56 No. 57. |
| F451.2.3.1.1 | Dwarfs have long beards in three strands. Tegethoff Schweiz. Archiv f. Vksk. XXIV 148. |
| F451.5.6 | Dwarfs have mortal god-parent. (Cf. F420.5.3.3.) German: Haas Greifswald. 38 No. 40, Eckart 78. |
| F451.6.3.3 | Dwarfs have music. Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: MacCulloch Eddic 270—71; Danish: Kristensen Danske Sagn I (1892) 189ff., (1928) 133ff.; German: Eckart 22, Sieber 62, Pröhle Harz. No. 229, Pröhle Unterharz. 171 No. 453. |
| F451.2.5.1 | Dwarfs have old face. Finnish-Swedish: Wessman 30 No. 263; German: Pröhle Harzsagen No. 137 II. |
| F451.7.2 | Dwarfs have ovens. Boberg DF XLVI 16ff.; German: Schöppner I 186 No. 184. |
| F451.2.4.2 | Dwarfs have silvery white hair. German: Bindewald 56. |
| F451.5.1.10 | Dwarfs heal (give medicine). Icelandic: *Boberg; German: Kahlo Harz. 26 No. 47, Kapff 44, Sieber 283, Eckhart 20. |
| F451.5.1.19 | Dwarfs help human beings with spinning. Type 500; Icelandic: MacCulloch Eddic 271. |
| F451.5.1.20 | Dwarfs help in performing task. German: Grimm Nos. 13, 55, 64, 91. |
| F451.6.3.6 | Dwarfs hold church services. German: Schöppner I 165 No. 158. |
| F451.10.3 | Dwarfs in love with other supernatural beings. (Cf. F531.7.2.) Icelandic: MacCulloch Eddic 95, 123, 270 (Freyja); *Boberg. |
| F167.2 | Dwarfs in otherworld. (Cf. F451.) Siuts 153ff.; Irish myth: Cross. |
| F451.5.2.5 | Dwarfs interfere with mortal's work (destroy buildings, crops, etc.) (Cf. F420.5.2.5.) *Fb "dværg" I 220; Danish: Kristensen Danske Sagn I (1892) 437—38; German: Karstens-Goslar 103, Pröhle Unterharz. 113 No. 297. |
| F451.5.17 | Dwarfs invisibly attend wedding or christening feasts of mortals. (Cf. F451.3.3.8.) Icelandic: *Boberg; Danish: Kristensen Danske Sagn I (1892) 135ff., (1928) 96ff.; German: Pröhle Harz. No. 229, Pröhle Unterharz. 145 No. 368. |
| F451.5.2.4 | Dwarfs kidnap mortals. (Cf. F420.5.2.2. and cross-references there given.) Icelandic: MacCulloch Eddic 269f., 272, *Boberg; Danish: Kristensen Danske Sagn I (1892) 228ff., (1928) 162ff.; German: Eckart 80, Pröhle Harz. No. 229; Eskimo (Greenland): Rink 278, 446. |
| F451.10.2.1 | Dwarfs kill giantess by dropping millstone on her head. Icelandic: MacCulloch Eddic 53. |
| F451.3.12.1 | Dwarfs know herbs. German: Kahlo Harz. 26 No. 47, Pröhle Harzsagen No. 137 II, Kapff 44, 45. |
| F451.6.6 | Dwarfs laugh. German: Karstens-Goslar 122. |
| F451.5.1.11 | Dwarfs lend to mortals. Danish: Kristensen Danske Sagn (1892) 19ff., (1928) 91ff.; German: Pröhle Harz Nos. 189, 269, Pröhle Unterharz. 145 No. 367. |
| F451.4.2.4 | Dwarfs live in a church. German: Pröhle Unterharz. 112 No. 294. |
| F451.4.2.1 | Dwarfs live in a cliff. Icelandic: MacCulloch Eddic 269, *Boberg; German: Eckart 20, 22; Pröhle Harz. No. 269. |
| F451.4.2.3 | Dwarfs live in a forest. German: Pröhle Unterharz. 171 No. 453, Kapff 44. |
| F451.4.1.1 | Dwarfs live in caves. German: Schöppner I 186 No. 184, Eckart 7, 27, Pröhle Unterharz. 145 No. 367, Boberg. |
| F451.4.1.11 | Dwarfs live in hills and mountains. Icelandic: MacCulloch Eddic 267—70. |
| F451.4.1.3 | Dwarfs live in luxurious underground palace. German: Pröhle Harzsagen No. 137 III. |
| F451.4.2.2 | Dwarfs live in ravines. German: Haas Grimmen 46 No. 54. |
| F451.4.1.12 | Dwarfs live in stones. (Cf. F451.3.2.1.1.) *Fb "sten" III 552b; Icelandic: MacCulloch Eddic 265, 268—70, *Boberg; Danish: Schmidt DF XXXIX 27, 108ff. |
| F451.4.1.8 | Dwarfs live in the high banks of the seashore. German: Haas Grimmen 46 No. 54. |
| F451.4.1.2 | Dwarfs live in underground castle. German: Kapff 44. |
| F451.4.1.4 | Dwarfs live in underground passage. German: Schöppner I 264 No. 271. |
| F451.4.1 | Dwarfs live under the ground. Icelandic: Göngu-Hrуlfs saga 308, MacCulloch Eddic 265, 269; German: Haas Grimmen 46 No. 54; Missouri French: Carrière. |
| F451.3.3.8 | Dwarfs made invisible by magic caps. (Cf. F451.5.1.7., F455.5.3.) Icelandic: MacCulloch Eddic 269; German: Eckart 7, 27, 79, Pröhle Harzsagen Nos. 220, 220 I, 229, Sieber 62, Pröhle Unterharz. 145 No. 368. |
| E439.2 | Dwarfs magically keep ghosts from rising. Icelandic: Göngu Hrolfssaga 337. |
| F451.5.1.3 | Dwarfs make new golden hair for woman. Norse: De la Saussaye 239 (Sif, Thor's wife). |
| F451.5.10.8 | Dwarfs make promises with mental reservations. German: Eckart 7. |
| F451.10.4 | Dwarfs make weapons and other precious objects for the gods. (Cf. F451.3.4.2.) Icelandic: MacCulloch Eddic 266. |
| F451.3.2.2 | Dwarfs must return to spirit world by 1 a.m. German: Eckart 69, Winckler 56 No. 57. |
| F451.5.10.2 | Dwarfs object to rewards. (Cf. F451.5.10.9.) German: Schöppner I 354 No. 351, Pröhle Unterharz. 150 No. 379. |
| F451.1.1 | Dwarfs originate from maggots in flesh of giant. Norse: De la Saussaye 318. |
| F451.1.1.1 | Dwarfs originate from the blood and bones of giant. Icelandic: MacCulloch Eddic 264. |
| F451.5.10.6 | Dwarfs pay for being ferried across water. Danish: Kristensen Danske Sagn I (1892) 417ff., (1928) 256ff.; German: Karstens-Goslar 155. |
| F451.6.3.5 | Dwarfs play in the moonlight. Danish: Kristensen Danske Sagn I (1892) 36ff., (1928) 33ff.; German: Haas Greifswald. 38 No. 41. |
| F451.5.2.7 | Dwarfs play pranks. Gaster Oldest Stories 156; German: Bindewald 87, Pröhle Harz. No. 137 II, Kahlo Harz. 30 No. 51, Karstens-Goslar 102, 103. |
| F451.7.1 | Dwarfs possess treasure (gold, jewels, etc.). Icelandic: MacCulloch Eddic 270; Danish: Kristensen Danske Sagn I (1892) 172ff. (1928) 221ff.; German: Eckart 22, Schöppner I 164 No. 157, Pröhle Harz. No. 137 IV, Haas Greifswald. 36 No. 39, 38 No. 40. |
| F451.3.3.7 | Dwarfs predict. Irish myth: Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg; German: Pröhle Harzsagen No. 155, Bindewald 188. |
| F451.9.1.5 | Dwarfs promise to emigrate if captured dwarfs are released. German: Sieber 62. |
| F451.5.1.17 | Dwarfs protect the forest. Pröhle Harz. No. 137 II. |
| F451.5.2.6 | Dwarfs punish. Icelandic: Boberg; Danish: Kristensen Danske Sagn (1892) 156ff., (1928) 171ff.; Dutch: Sinninghe FFC CXXXII 55 No. 65; German: Sieber 61f., 283, Winckler 43 No. 36, Karstens-Goslar 41, Kahlo Harz. 30 No. 51, Förstner Kyffhäuser 22, Kapff 45; Eskimo (Mackenzie Area): Jenness 84. |
| F451.2.7.3 | Dwarfs referred to as "gray", not specifying whether as to dress or hair. (Cf. F236.1.4, F420.1.6.6.2.) Icelandic: MacCulloch Eddic 271; German: Schöppner I 169 No. 163, I 354 No. 351, Bindewald 83, 84, 188. |
| F451.5.9.4 | Dwarfs regard Day of St. John the Divine. German: Schöppner I 164 No. 157, 165 No. 158. |
| F451.4.4.3 | Dwarfs request that cow stable be moved because it is above their home and the seepage strikes their dining table. (Cf. F381.7, F451.4.1.5.) Danish: Kristensen Danske Sagn I (1892) 325ff., (1928) 207ff.; German: Findeisen 3 No. 5; Icelandic: Boberg. |
| F451.4.4.1 | Dwarfs resentful that mortals shoot at birds above Hibichenstein, because this crumbles away the cliff. German: Eckart 22, Pröhle Harz. No. 137 III. |
| F451.5.10.4 | Dwarfs return what they borrow. Boberg DF XLVI 38ff.; Danish: Kristensen Danske Sagn I (1892) 116ff., (1928) 90ff.; German: Schöppner I 186 No. 184; Eckart 78. |
| F451.5.2.9 | Dwarfs scold mortals. German: Beckstein 6, Winckler 34 No. 24. |
| F451.5.23 | Dwarfs seek human help in their fights and troubles. Icelandic: Sveinsson FFC LXXXIII xxxviii—xli; German: MacCulloch Eddic 272. |
| F451.4.2.6 | Dwarfs seen on a mountain. Finnish-Swedish: Wessman 47 No. 393. |
| F451.5.1.7 | Dwarfs serve mortals. Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: Boberg; German: MacCulloch Eddic 270, Haas Greifswald 36 No. 39, Schöppner I 264 No. 271, I 354 Nos. 35, 35@1, Pröhle Harz. No. 137 II, No. 229, Sieber 60, 283, Kapff 45. |
| F451.3.4.6 | Dwarfs spin. Icelandic: MacCulloch Eddic 270, 271; Danish: Kristensen Danske Sagn I (1892) 53ff., (1928) 46ff. |
| F451.5.2.2.2 | Dwarfs steal food and drink. Dutch: Sinninghe FFC CXXXII 56 No. 70. |
| F451.5.2.2 | Dwarfs steal from human beings. Fb "kage" II 72a; Gaster Oldest Stories 156.—Icelandic: *Boberg; Danish: Kristensen Danske Sagn I (1892) 129ff., (1928) 93ff., II (1893) 34ff., (1928) 23ff.; Swiss: Jegerlehner Oberwallis 308 No. 1, 326 No. 23; German: Pröhle Harz. No. 220 I, No. 269, Pröhle Unterharz. 112 No. 291, Sieber 61f., Eckart 7, 27, 79, Karstens-Goslar 102. |
| F451.5.2.2.1 | Dwarfs steal magic objects. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| F451.5.11 | Dwarfs suffer abuses by mortals. German: Schöppner I 264 No. 271, Pröhle Harz. No. 269, Haas Greifswald. 38 No. 40, Eckart 69, Sieber 61, Ey 29. |
| F451.5.4.2 | Dwarfs suspend large millstone on thin thread over head of mortal, to show what anguish dwarfs felt when mortal endangered their lives. Danish: Kristensen Danske Sagn I (1892) 337ff.; Lithuanian: Indogermanische Forschungen XXXV 124 No. 18; German: Haas Greifswald. 38 No. 40. |
| F451.5.1.18 | Dwarfs teach mortals. Icelandic: MacCulloch Eddic 267, *Boberg. |
| F451.5.14 | Dwarfs tease mortals. German: Kapff 44, Pröhle Unterharz. 145 No. 368. |
| F451.5.2.8 | Dwarfs threaten mortals. German: Eckart 69, Pröhle Harz. No. 229. |
| F451.5.12 | Dwarfs thwart efforts of mortals to get additional favors. German: Eckart 7. |
| F451.3.6.5 | Dwarfs timorous. |
| F451.3.3.3 | Dwarfs transform people (animals). German: Ey 9, Kahlo Harzes 30 No. 51. |
| F451.6.2.4 | Dwarfs try to kill serpent. French Canadian: Sister Marie Ursule. |
| F451.3.3.1 | Dwarfs turn peas into gold pieces. German: Karstens-Goslar 102. |
| F451.3.2.1 | Dwarfs turn to stone at sunrise. Hdwb. d. Märchens I 433a nn. 86—91; Icelandic: MacCulloch Eddic 10, 197, 269, 270. |
| F451.4.1.6 | Dwarfs undermine lowlands for homes. German: Haas Greifswald 39 No. 42. |
| F451.5.7 | Dwarfs visit mortal's home. German: Karsten-Goslar 122, Sieber 61, Pröhle Harz. Nos. 137 IV, 229, Bindewald 87. |
| F451.2.0.3 | Dwarfs walk stooped. German: Findeisen 39 No. 43. |
| F451.5.1.15 | Dwarfs warm heath by underground fire. Karstens-Goslar 103. |
| F451.2.7.6 | Dwarfs wear peculiar caps. (Cf. F451.2.7.1.) German: Kapff 45. |
| F451.2.7.5 | Dwarfs wear red coats. Icelandic: MacCulloch Eddic 272, *Boberg; German: Kapff 45, Schöppner I 354 No. 351. |
| F451.6.5 | Dwarfs wed. (Cf. F451.6.3.2.) Irish myth: *Cross (F451.3.17); German: Karstens-Goslar 122, Kahlo Harz. 30 No. 51. |
| F451.6.7 | Dwarfs weep. German: Förstner Kyffhäuser 17. |
| F451.2.2.3 | Dwarfs with goat feet. (Cf. B24, F442.) Icelandic: MacCulloch Eddic 271. |
| F451.2.7.1 | Dwarfs with red heads and red caps. (Cf. F236.3.2, F460.1.4.2.) Fb "rød" III 116b, "rød dreng" III 117b; Finnish-Swedish: Wessman 30 No. 263. |
| F451.4.3.6 | Dwarfs' castle of gold. Icelandic: MacCulloch Eddic 319, 265. |
| F451.5.1.6.1 | Dwarfs' gifts cease when mortal betrays the source. (Cf. C420, F348.5.) Eskimo (Greenland): Rink 463. |
| F451.5.1.4 | Dwarfs' gold. Seemingly worthless gift given by dwarfs turns to gold. *Type 503; Feilberg DF V 50, 75, 99; Grimm Deutsche Myth. I 228f., 400.—Danish: Kristensen Danske Sagn I (1892) 344ff., (1928) 221ff.; German: Eckart 7, 20, 27, 78, Schöppner I 169 No. 163, I 180 No. 175, Bechstein 6, Winckler 34 No. 24, Sieber 63, Kahlo Harz. 26 No. 47, Pröhle Harz. No. 137 II; Russian: Ralston Songs of the Russian People 159; Swiss: Jegerlehner Oberwallis 303 No. 23, 308 Nos. 2, 4, 326 No. 2; French: Sébillot France I 259; Indonesian: Voorhoeve 116 No. 93. |
| F451.4.3.9 | Dwarfs' house covered with skin of fabulous six-legged animal. Eskimo (Greenland): Rasmussen III 247. |
| F451.4.3.8 | Dwarfs' house of reeds. German: Grimm Nos. 55, 163, 169. |
| F451.4.3.1.1 | Dwarfs' rock closed by rock-door. Icelandic: MacCulloch Eddic 269. |
| F402.6 | Dwelling of demons. |
| F220 | Dwelling of fairies. |
| F132.2 | Dwelling of Fortune on lofty mountain. Patch PMLA XXXIII 609ff., Fortuna 132ff.—India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A2432 | Dwelling of other animal than bird. |
| N111.1 | Dwelling place of Fortuna. |
| D1684 | Dye blessed by saint colors animals, trees. (Cf. D1297, V220.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| A565 | Dying culture hero. The culture hero teaches people how to die by dying himself.—Irish myth: Cross; California Indians: *Thompson Tales 285 n. 52a. |
| M438.5 | Dying father condemns weak son to be servant of his brothers. Irish myth: Cross. |
| P310.3 | Dying hero sends greetings to friends. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| V68.3 | Dying hero wants to be buried in the clothes of his brother who killed him. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| M257.1 | Dying hero's request and promise to disciples. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| P17.3 | Dying king names successor. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| X315.1 | Dying lawyer asks delay. Crane Vitry 150 No. 40; Scala Celi 7b No. 45; Mensa Philosophica No. 148. |
| X315 | Dying lawyer says, "I appeal". Crane Vitry 149f. No. 39; Scala Celi 7b No. 48; Herbert III 77 No. 200, 462 No. 94, 497 No. 238, 499 No. 262; Alphabet No. 41; Mensa Philosophica No. 147. |
| X313 | Dying like Christ—between two thieves. The dying man has the lawyer and the notary stand on either side of him. U.S.: Baughman; Spanish: Boggs FFC XC 134 No. 1583*. |
| T61.4.5.1 | Dying lover sends his sweetheart his ring. (Cf. T81.) Icelandic: Boberg. |
| P310.4.1 | Dying man asks friends to let his son inherit his friendship together with his father's weapons. Icelandic: Þiðriks saga II 358, Boberg. |
| T141.1 | Dying man assigns bride to his brother. Child I 376, 378 n. |
| D1715.3 | Dying man commands cloud to bear message to man's wife. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| V311.2 | Dying man refuses to believe in life to come. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| M411.3 | Dying man's curse. Icelandic: *Boberg; Greek: Aeschylus Agamemnon 235. |
| D1812.2.4 | Dying man's power of prophecy. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| M251 | Dying man's promise will be kept. Fb "love" II 452a. |
| W153.11.1 | Dying miser tells son to extinguish candle just as soon as he dies. Spanish: Childers. |
| M257 | Dying monster's request and promise. Hero is to drink his blood, suck his eyes and brains, and give his heart to his loved one to eat. He will become marvelously strong and his wife will have three sons and four daughters with great powers. Köhler-Bolte I 117; Gascon: Bladé I 3, 181; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| D1715.2 | Dying peasant summons greedy bishop for heavenly funeral; the bishop dies hearing the message. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| Q551.5.1.3 | Dying priest looks greedily on ripe plum: is reincarnated as insect feeding within plum. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| J154.1 | Dying saint leaves wise message to followers. Message is cryptic, but is finally made clear. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| K1555.0.1 | Dying woman lures paramour into chest. Asks husband to bury chest with her. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| D1318.5.3 | Each drop of innocent blood turns to burning candle. English: Child I 172, II 39b. |
| T681 | Each likes his own children best. Snipe asks sportsman to spare its small ones, easily recognized as being the prettiest in the forest. To be on the safe side he shoots only the ugliest he can find. They are the young snipes. (Often told of the ape.) *Type 247; Dh II 242ff.; Fb "ugle" III 964a; Wienert FFC LVI 77 (ET 426), 146 (ST 509); Herbert III 39ff.; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| N836.2 | Each of four kings does something to save dying falcon. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| X135.1 | Each of four stutterers thinks the others are ridiculing him. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| B854 | Each of grazing herd of cows eats same amount. Irish myth: Cross. |
| A739.3 | Each of sun brothers works for a month and plays for the other eleven; were they to work all together, the world would be burned up by the heat.—India: Thompson-Balys. |
| J2213.1 | Each of two persons wants to sleep in the middle. (Sometimes solved by placing an object on one side of the bed.) Type 1289; Africa (Ila, Rhodesia): Smith and Dale II 416 No. 15. |
| A659.4 | Each world corresponds to different color. S. Am. Indian (Chamacoco): Métraux BBAE CXLIII (1) 366. |
| W212.1 | Eager warriors go through tent wall. Warriors so eager for battle they do not take time to go out of tent door but go through the tent wall. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| W212 | Eagerness for combat. Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q557.3 | Eagle (ape) carries off ill-gotten gain. Makes away with the receipts of a merchant who had watered his wine. (Cf. Q274.) Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| B147.2.2.5 | Eagle as bird of ill-omen. Irish myth: Cross; Icel.: Boberg. |
| A13.2.2 | Eagle as creator of man. Calif. Indian: Gayton and Newman 94. |
| A165.1.2 | Eagle as god's bird. Icel.: Boberg. |
| B291.1.9 | Eagle as messenger. Africa (Upoto): Einstein 144; Jewish: Neuman. |
| G353.2 | Eagle as ogre. Fb "ørn" III 1183b; Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| B147.2.1.2 | Eagle as omen of victory. Icel.: *Boberg. |
| B143.0.7 | Eagle as prophetic bird. Jewish: Neuman. |
| B535.0.12 | Eagle cares for baby while mother works in field. Africa (Fang): Tessman 134. |
| F531.6.17.3 | Eagle carries giant to its nest. Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "aigle". |
| B542.1.1 | Eagle carries man to safety. *Type 301; BP II 300 (Gr. No. 91). See all references under B322.1.—Irish myth: Cross; Missouri-French: Carrière; Finnish: Kalevala rune 7; Japanese: Hartland Science 194, Ikeda.—Africa (Kaffir): Theal 47, 127, (Vai): Ellis 242 No. 49. |
| B522.4 | Eagle carries off condemned child. Irish myth: Cross. |
| R13.3.2 | Eagle carries off youth. Greek: Fox 240 (Ganymede); Japanese: Ikeda. |
| B754.7.2 | Eagle catches gazelle's young as it is born. Jewish: Neuman. |
| U161 | Eagle killed with arrow made with his own feather. Wienert FFC LVI *64 (ET 277), 117 (ST 273); Halm Aesop No. 4; Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| B242.1.1 | Eagle king of birds. BP III 279; Icel.: Boberg. |
| J497 | Eagle prefers own offspring to changeling. Irish myth: Cross. |
| B589.1 | Eagle regains throne for deposed king. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B375.3.1 | Eagle released: grateful. Lithuanian: Balys Index No. *320. |
| B758 | Eagle renews youth. Feathers fall off and regrow.—*Wensinck "Tree and Bird as Cosmological symbols in Western Asia" Verhandelingen der Koninklijke Akademie von Wetenschappen n.s. XXII no. 1 (1921) 38; Hdwb. d. Aberg. I 180 s.v. "Adler".—Herbert Catalogue of Romances III 69 (Odo of Cheriton); Gaster Oldest Stories 80. |
| B521.2.1 | Eagle saves man from falling wall. The grateful eagle swoops down and takes the man's hat, and thus gets him away from the wall that is about to fall.—Fable: Babrius No. 144, Halm Aesop No. 92, Wienert FFC 70 (ET 339), 127 (ST 353). |
| B299.1.1 | Eagle takes revenge on man. Chinese: Graham. |
| B751.3 | Eagle tests eaglets by having them gaze at sun. Herbert III 38 (Odo of Cheriton), Hervieux Fabulistes latins IV No. 10; Gaster Thespis 30. |
| J715.1 | Eagle warns shepherds that wolf is eating sheep. Crow rebukes eagle for thus imperiling his own food supply. Spanish: Boggs FFC XC 36 No. 229*. |
| B15.7.16 | Eagle with twelve wings and three heads. Jewish: Moreno Esdras (B172.6.) |
| A2302.4 | Eagle's body made smaller. (See A2213.1.)—Dh III 6. |
| A2442.2.8 | Eagle's flight. Jewish: Neuman. |
| R322 | Eagle's nest as refuge. Scottish: Campbell-McKay 1 n., 25; N. A. Indian (California): Gayton and Newman 95. |
| F982.1 | Eagles carry castle in air. De Vries FFC LXXIII 388; French Canadian: Barbeau JAFL XXIX 12. |
| Q451.6.2 | Ear cut off as punishment for theft. (Cf. Q212.) Nouvelles Récréations No. 56. |
| Q552.4 | Ear of stolen animal protrudes from thief's mouth. (Cf. Q212.) Irish: Plummer cxliii, *Cross; *Loomis White Magic 98. |
| B115.1 | Ear-cornucopia. Animal furnishes treasure or supplies from its ears.—*Cox Cinderella 475 n. 2.—*Fb "tyr" III 908a, "øre" III 1181a.—Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "oreille", "boeuf", "nourriture". |
| Q433.10 | Earl hunting in the king's forest imprisoned. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| K1626.1 | Earl killed in combat with man he has undertaken to kill. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| G305 | Earl king. Child-stealing ogre. (Cf. F321.5.) Type 367*. |
| F1041.16.11 | Earl throws jar of water after undesired messenger. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| P50.1 | Earl. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| T68.2 | Earl's daughter as reward to knight who helped to kill fierce buffalo. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| P50.1.1 | Earl's name preferred to king's. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| P273.2.2 | Earl's son seduces foster brother's sister and betrays himself. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| A633 | Earlier universe opposite of present. Everything in the earlier world was the reverse of the present world. Cf. A855.—California tribes (Capistrano, Luiseсo, Diegueсo, Mohave): Waterman AA n. s. XI 52. |
| J216.5 | Early death with fame preferred. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| A189.9 | Early period when gods and men lived together, gods ruling men, ordaining how they should live and originating various customs.—India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q451.6.1 | Ears cut off as punishment for adultery. (Cf. Q241.) *Penzer V 82 n. 1, 156; Africa (Fang): Einstein 53, Trilles 168. |
| Q451.6 | Ears cut off as punishment. Irish myth: Cross; Missouri French: Carrière; India: *Thompson-Balys; Africa: Frobenius Atlantis IV 196. |
| J1184.2 | Ears not to be cut off a second time. Executioner discovers that the prisoner's ears are of stucco, having been clipped for a previous offense. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| J672.1 | Ears stopped with wax to avoid enchanting song. Odysseus and the Sirens. Chauvin VII 98 No. 375 n. 4; Köhler-Bolte I 125; Irish myth: *Cross; Italian Novella: Rotunda; Greek: Fox 137, 263; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| H105.5 | Ears, fingers and noses of demons cut off as proof of killing them. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| D1500.1.28 | Earth as remedy. (Cf. D935, D1503.12.) Seligmann 144ff., *154; England: Baughman. |
| A1234.1 | Earth as virgin mother of Adam. *Denk Zs. f. Vksk. XII 352. |
| A801 | Earth born of Chaos. Greek: Grote I 4ff. |
| A811.2 | Earth brought up by three gods. Icel.: MacCulloch Eddic 326. |
| A811 | Earth brought up from bottom of primeval water. (Cf. A812.)—India: Thompson-Balys.—New Britain, New Hebrides: Dixon 105. |
| A831.4 | Earth by murder of first brother and sister. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A831.3 | Earth by sacrifice of son and daughter of first couple. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A831.9 | Earth created from Adam's body. Jewish: Neuman. |
| A835.1 | Earth created from snow under divine throne. Jewish: Neuman |
| M414.12 | Earth cursed. Jewish: Neuman. |
| D2146.2.4 | Earth darkened because of Sun's defeat in race against Coyote. N. A. Indian (Calif.): Gayton and Newman 83. |
| A812 | Earth Diver. From a raft in the primeval sea, the creator sends down animals to try to bring up earth. After a number of animals have failed, one (often the muskrat) succeeds. The earth is made from the bit brought up.—**E. W. Count The Earth Diver and the Rival Twins (Proceedings 29th International Congress of Americanists [Chicago, 1952] 55-62); Walk "Die Verbreitung des Tauchmotivs in den Urmeerschöpfungs- (und Sintflut-) Sagen" Mitteil. d. anthrop. Gesellschaft Wien LXIII (1933) 60-76.—Siberian: Holmberg Siberian 318, *322ff.; Hatt Asiatic Influences 12-36, India: *Thompson-Balys.—N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 279 n. 30, (Calif. Indian): Gayton and Newman 53. |
| D2081.1 | Earth dried up in three years while hero is under earth. Chinese: Graham. |
| A828.1 | Earth excreted by worm. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A849.1 | Earth founded on stone. Jewish: Neuman. |
| A831.7 | Earth from body of divine suicide. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A831 | Earth from body of person (animal). |
| A831.6 | Earth from body of slain animal. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A831.1 | Earth from body of son of deity. India: Thompson-Balys; Kamchadale: Holmberg Siberian 330. |
| A833 | Earth from creator's cuticle. (Cf. A1211.5.). India: Thompson-Balys; San Carlos Apache: Goddard PaAM XXIV 7. |
| A814.10 | Earth from creator's spittle falling on primeval water.—India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A814.3 | Earth from decayed matter on primeval water. Mongolian, Japanese, Tungus: Holmberg Siberian 328f.; Japanese: Anesaki 223.—Hawaii: Dixon 15. |
| A814.9 | Earth from egg breaking on primeval water. (Cf. A1222).—India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A812.2 | Earth from egg from bottom of sea recovered by bird.—Borneo: Dixon 165. |
| A831.2 | Earth from giant's body (Ymir). (Cf. A614.1.). *Handwb. d. Abergl. IX Nachträge 282.—Icel: MacCulloch Eddic 325; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A814.8 | Earth from lotus seed placed on water. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A835 | Earth from nut in devil's mouth. God throws a nut over his left shoulder. The devil catches it in his mouth. The nut grows rapidly and the devil spits it out.—Livonian: Loorits FFC LXVI 80 No. 1. |
| A814 | Earth from object thrown on primeval water. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A814.7 | Earth from primeval water mixed with seeds of tobacco. Calif. Indian: Gayton and Newman 55. |
| D1385.1 | Earth from saint's grave expels demons. (Cf. D935, V220.) Seligmann 149.—Irish: Plummer clxxx, Cross. |
| A814.2 | Earth from sand strewn on primeval water. India: Thompson-Balys; Yap: Dixon 249. |
| A815.1 | Earth from serpent's head. Earth reared on head of serpent floating in primeval water.—Borneo, Sumatra: Dixon 159f. |
| A814.10.1 | Earth from spittle of primeval potter spreading on surface of water. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A814.5 | Earth from steam made by fire thrown into primeval water. Tungus: Holmberg Siberian 330. |
| A814.1 | Earth from stone thrown on primeval water. Oceanic: Dixon 18 (Samoa), 158 (Borneo), 163 n. 29-32. (Philippines, Samoa, Tonga, Micronesia). |
| A831.5 | Earth from the body of murdered child. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A814.4 | Earth from tree grown in primeval water. Tungus: Holmberg Siberian 329. |
| A815 | Earth from turtle's back. Earth erected on back of a turtle floating in primeval water. (Cf. A844.1.).—N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 279 n. 31. |
| A828 | Earth from worm scratched by creator's nails. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A1234.4 | Earth gives birth to woman. Chinese: Graham. |
| A813.1 | Earth in form of raft supported by spirits. S. Am. Indian (Yuracare): Métraux BBAE CXLIII (3) 503. |
| A817 | Earth let down from sky on to primeval ocean. Siberian: Holmberg Siberian 330. |
| A823 | Earth made by cups of earth placed on spider's web. India: Thompson-Balys. |
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