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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
C
Motifs of Tabu
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Magic
E
The Dead
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Marvels
G
Ogres
H
Tests
J
The Wise and the Foolish
K
Deceptions
L
Reversals of Fortune
M
Ordaining the Future
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Chance and Fate
P
Society
Q
Rewards and Punishments
R
Captives and Fugitives
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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 ▲ |
|---|---|
| F361.1 | Fairy takes revenge for being slighted. |
| F361.1.2.1 | Fairy takes revenge for mortal's failure to bring food and drink to fairy son's wedding. Cheremis: Sebeok-Nyerges. |
| F361.1.1 | Fairy takes revenge for not being invited to feast. *Type 410; BP I 434ff.; Missouri French: Carrière. |
| F361.1.2 | Fairy takes revenge for not being offered food (drink). Irish myth: Cross. |
| F361.8 | Fairy takes revenge for slaying of his relatives. Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: Boberg. |
| F361.2 | Fairy takes revenge for theft. Hartland Science 141, 143; Jacobs's list s.v. "Red Cap"; Scotch: Campbell Tales II 52. |
| F246 | Fairy tobacco pipes. England: Baughman. |
| F386.4 | Fairy transformed as punishment. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| D49.3 | Fairy transforms herself into a monstrous being with head of an ape, thin legs, sharp claws, fish scales and bristles. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F392 | Fairy transforms self to fly, allows self to be swallowed by woman and reborn as fairy. Malone PMLA XLIII 417. |
| F234.0.1 | Fairy transforms self. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F369.4 | Fairy tricks mortal. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F383.3 | Fairy unable to cross plowed ground. *Fb "ellefolk" I 241b. |
| F383.2 | Fairy unable to cross running stream. Hartland Science 144; England, U.S.: Baughman. |
| F383.1 | Fairy unable to pass cross-roads. Hartland Science 142. |
| F393 | Fairy visits among mortals. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F302.3.0.1 | Fairy visits mortal and becomes his mistress. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| K1844.4 | Fairy visits queen in her husband's shape and begets son with her. Icelandic: Þiðriks saga I 319—20, Boberg. |
| F379 | Fairy visits: miscellaneous. |
| F364.1 | Fairy warriors sit upon mortals and thus kill them. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F236.5 | Fairy wears boorish clothes. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F236.1.7 | Fairy wears multi-colored dress. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F236.3.3 | Fairy wears sugar-loaf hat. U.S.: Baughman. |
| F264 | Fairy wedding. *Fb "ellefolk" I 241b. |
| F302.2.1 | Fairy wife deserts mortal husband for repulsive lover. Malone PMLA XLIII 416ff.; Irish myth: *Cross; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| H313.2 | Fairy will marry king only if he will either cut off son's head or give up fasting on eleventh day. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K786 | Fairy wins kiss in game; embraces woman and flies off with her through skylight (smokehole). Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F397 | Fairy woman exhibits her figure to warriors. Is most beautiful of women. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F239.2 | Fairy women identical in form and feature. (Cf. F234.2.4.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F323 | Fairy women take body of dead hero to fairyland. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F302.3.4.3 | Fairy wooes and deserts man. Clouston Tales I 215ff.; Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F302.3 | Fairy wooes mortal man. Irish myth: *Cross; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| D2161.4.10.2.1 | Fairy wounded by mortal is healed only by obtaining mortal's blessing. (Cf. D659.5.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F389.3 | Fairy wounded by mortal. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| G264.4 | Fairy-like witch marries man and causes him misfortune. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F343.7 | Fairy-wife furnishes provisions. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F231.1 | Fairy's arms. |
| F316.1 | Fairy's curse partially overcome by another fairy's amendment. *Type 410; Saintyves Perrault 61. |
| F316.2 | Fairy's curse partially overcome by her own amendment after being appeased. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| F231.2 | Fairy's feet. |
| F241.1.5 | Fairy's horse becomes invisible. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F231.1.1 | Fairy's iron arms. Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "bras". |
| F302.3.4.1.1 | Fairy's kiss fatal. Fb "kys" II 349. |
| F231 | Fairy's limbs. |
| F363.4 | Fairy's look burns mortal to ashes. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F354 | Fairy's ornament snatched. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F361 | Fairy's revenge. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F263.1 | Fairy's share of feast a nut. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F233.4 | Fairy's son is pale, dark, and ugly. Icelandic: Þiðriks saga I 322, 343—44, 351, Boberg. |
| F239.6 | Fairy's tears pearls. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F112.0.1 | Fairyland (Ireland) inhabited (settled) by women only. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F212.1 | Fairyland entered through well. Hartland Science 128.—Irish myth: *Cross; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F211.2 | Fairyland entrance under stone. Hartland Science 184; Fb "sten" III 552b. |
| F215.1 | Fairyland in sky. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F213 | Fairyland on island. Hartland Science 136.—Irish myth: *Cross; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F211 | Fairyland under hollow knoll. Usually entered under roots of trees. Fb "træ" III 866b; Hartland Science 67, 108, 144ff., 155; Patch PMLA XXXIII 612f.—Irish myth: *Cross; Scotch: Campbell Tales II 49, Macdougall and Calder 133, 159, 163, 169, 181, 193, 207, 273, 283; Icelandic: *Boberg; Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 3600; German: Grimm Nr. 39; Germanic: De la Saussaye 322; Italian: Basile Pentamerone III No. 10. |
| F212 | Fairyland under water. Krappe Le lac enchanté (Bulletin Hispanique XXXV 107—125); *Cross MPh XIII 731; Irish myth: *Cross, Baughman; Icelandic: Boberg; Japanese: Ikeda. |
| F210 | Fairyland. *Hartland Science 135ff.—Irish myth: Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B301.2 | Faithful animal at master's grave avenges his murder. English: Wells Manual of Writings 121 (Sir Triamour).—*Hibbard 286. |
| B301.1 | Faithful animal at master's grave dies of hunger. *Type 75*; *Pauli (ed Bolte) No. 428; cf. Alphabet No. 270; Icel.: *Boberg. |
| B301.1.3 | Faithful animal doesn't allow anybody to come near to master's corpse. Þiðriks saga II 154, 386. |
| B335.5 | Faithful animal killed in battle. Icel.: *Boberg. |
| B301.3 | Faithful animal plans suicide when it thinks master dead. English: Wells Manual of Writings 66 (Ywain and Gawain); Icel.: Boberg. |
| B301 | Faithful animal. Köhler-Bolte I 534; Irish myth: Cross. |
| B301.5 | Faithful animals resuscitate master. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| V44 | Faithful attendance at mass outweighs evil deeds. *Crane Vitry Nos. 223ff. passim; Irish: O'Suilleabhain 98, Beal XXI 331. |
| D647.1 | Faithful brother transforms self to deer to seek sister. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B301.6 | Faithful cattle fight at master's grave until they cast their horns. Irish myth: Cross. |
| B301.6.1 | Faithful cattle shed horns in grief for death of man. Irish myth: Cross. |
| B301.6.2 | Faithful cow refuses to move for grief at master's death. Irish myth: Cross. |
| B301.6.3 | Faithful cows lose milk at king's death. Irish myth: Cross. |
| B301.1.1 | Faithful dog follows master's dead body when cast into river. Supports body.—Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| B301.7.1 | Faithful dog helps open mistress' grave and dies on it. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B301.1.2 | Faithful dog helps open mistress' grave—dies on it. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B579.6 | Faithful dog is offered as security for a debt. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B331.2.2 | Faithful dog killed by overhasty master: thinks mistakenly he has returned home against orders. (Cf. Llewellyn and his dog.)—*Emeneau "The Faithful Dog as Security for a Debt; A Companion to the Brahman and Mongoose Story-Type" Journal of American Oriental Society LXI 1—17; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| B524.7 | Faithful dog kills would-be murderer of sleeping master. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B331.1 | Faithful falcon killed through misunderstanding. Tries to warn the king against drinking water poisoned by snake.—*Chauvin II 122 No. 115, V 289 No. 173.—India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| P273.1 | Faithful foster brother. *Type 516; *BP I 46; *Rösch FFC LXXVII 96; Irish myth: Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| B301.4.4 | Faithful horse allows only its master to catch and ride it. Icel.: *Boberg. |
| B301.4.7 | Faithful horse dies together with its master. Icel.: *Boberg. |
| B301.4.8 | Faithful horse fights together with its master. Icel.: *Boberg. |
| B301.4 | Faithful horse follows dead master to grave. *Fb "hest" IV 212a. |
| B301.4.3 | Faithful horse joins in keen at hero's death. Irish myth: Cross. |
| B331.1.1 | Faithful horse killed through misunderstanding. Tries to warn king against drinking water poisoned by snake. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B301.4.3.1 | Faithful horse lays his head in lap of dead master's wife. Irish myth: Cross. |
| B301.4.1 | Faithful horse lays his head on slain master's breast. Irish myth: Cross. |
| B301.4.5 | Faithful horse lies down in order that its mutilated master can mount it. Icel.: *Boberg. |
| B511.3 | Faithful horse pushes sleep thorn out of its master's head, so that he awakes. Icel.: Boberg. |
| B301.4.6 | Faithful horse refuses to go before its master mounts it, even when already loaded with two chests with gold.—Icel.: *Boberg. |
| B301.4.1.1 | Faithful horse weeps for coming death of saint. Irish myth: Cross. |
| B301.4.2 | Faithful horse weeps tears of blood for master. Irish myth: Cross. |
| G519.1.1 | Faithful hound kills ogre's wife. Irish myth: Cross. |
| T210.2 | Faithful husband. Jewish: *Neuman; Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 252. |
| B301.7 | Faithful lapdog dies when mistress dies. Irish myth: Cross; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B301.8 | Faithful lion follows man who saved him. Spanish Exempla: Keller; Icel.: Boberg. |
| P361.4 | Faithful nurse tries to save tyrant's daughter by exposing her own in her place. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q151.4 | Faithful old dog threatened with death proves his worth and is spared. BP I 425 n. 1, III 74 n. 2. |
| B842 | Faithful old dog to be killed. *Type 101. |
| B842.1 | Faithful old horse to be abandoned. German: Grimm No. 132. |
| B331.3 | Faithful parrot killed by mistake. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T133.1 | Faithful servant accompanies bride to new home. Icelandic: *Boberg; Spanish: Espinosa Jr. No. 93. |
| P361.6 | Faithful servant dies avenging master's death. Irish myth: Cross. |
| P361.1 | Faithful servant dies for his master. Puts on his master's clothes so as to be slain in his place. (Cf. P316.) Alphabet No. 327; Japanese: Ikeda. |
| P362 | Faithful servant entrusted with care and education of crown prince. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| N342.1 | Faithful servant guarding master's wife from danger falsely condemned for betraying his master. *Type 516; *BP I 42ff.; *Rösch FFC LXXVII 129; Italian: Basile Pentamerone IV No. 9; India: *Thompson-Balys; Korean: Zong in-Sob 155ff. No. 68. |
| P361.1.1 | Faithful servant kills his master's murderer and is killed in turn. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| R53.4 | Faithful servant locks his master and his friend up in a little house built from wood from their wrecked ships; they falsely think themselves betrayed. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| P361.2 | Faithful servant remains at home and fights for exiled hero. *Boje 82ff. |
| P361.3 | Faithful servant sacrifices sons to save life of king. Sons resuscitated and servant enriched. Penzer IV 177f., VI 272f.; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| P361.8 | Faithful servant undergoes torture for sake of his master. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| P361.1.2 | Faithful servant wants to follow on dangerous quest, where he alone is killed. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| P361 | Faithful servant. *Types 516; *BP I 46; **Rösch FFC LXXVII 95f.; **Hdwb. d. Märchens I 389 (and cross references there given); Icelandic: *Boberg; Spanish Exempla: Keller; Jewish: *Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys; Korean: Zong in-Sob 154ff. No. 68. |
| N342.1.1 | Faithful son guarding his father from monster falsely accused by stepmother. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1596 | Faithful wife in disguise saves husband from punishment for adultery. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T210.1 | Faithful wife. Korean: Zong in-Sob 106ff. No. 57. |
| T210 | Faithfulness in marriage. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T215 | Faithfulness of married couple in misfortune. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T211 | Faithfulness to marriage in death. Herrmann Saxo II 94; Icelandic: *Boberg; Korean: Zong in-Sob 30 No. 13. |
| V253 | Faithfulness to Virgin Mary, even if not to Christ, rewarded. Alphabet No. 555; Wesselski Mönchslatein 128 No. 113. |
| P273.2 | Faithless foster brother. |
| P365.1 | Faithless men-servants corrupt the maids in the household. Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 209; Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K2213.8 | Faithless queen aids lover to dispossess king. Irish myth: Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg, FSS 209—12. |
| P365 | Faithless servant. *Hdwb. d. Märchens I 391; Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| T231.1 | Faithless widow betrothed anew at husband's funeral. Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 751. |
| T231.2 | Faithless widow fans husband's grave. She does not want to remarry until the body is cold (or the earth on the grave is dry). *Wesselski Mönchslatein 85 No. 72; Chinese: Werner 149. |
| T231.5 | Faithless widow marries slayer of husband. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| T231.3.1 | Faithless widow offers city to killer of her husband if he will marry her. Italian Novella: Rotunda; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T231.3 | Faithless widow ready to marry messenger who brings news of husband's death. The husband, however, has only feigned death to test her. (Cf. T235.) *Type 1350. |
| T231.4 | Faithless widow's heartlessness repels the new suitor. She obeys him when he tells her to knock out the teeth of her dead husband. Fearing like treatment, he leaves. Type 1352*. |
| Q411.0.1.3 | Faithless wife (mistress) seized by husband's (lover's) poet, who leaps to death with her in his arms. Irish myth: Cross. |
| K2213.2 | Faithless wife and paramour throw hero overboard. *Type 612; *BP I 126ff., 129. |
| K2213.7 | Faithless wife betrays husband to her father. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| T230.2 | Faithless wife causes her husband to go insane. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K2213.3.3 | Faithless wife deceives husband while she searches for lover. Irish myth: Cross. |
| K2213.3.1 | Faithless wife has husband and children killed so that she can be with paramour. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K2213.9 | Faithless wife incites sons to make war upon father. Irish myth: Cross. |
| K1591.0.1 | Faithless wife kills magic parrot which has betrayed her. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T232.5 | Faithless wife pays her paramour for enjoying herself with him. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| K2213.3 | Faithless wife plots with paramour against husband's life. (Cf. K2213.5.) Malone PMLA XLIII 413, 419, 432; Boje 62; Irish myth: *Cross; Spanish: Espinosa Jr. No. 103; Italian Novella: *Rotunda; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| K2213.3.2 | Faithless wife poisons husband to be with paramour. Paramour fearing a like fate refuses to go to her. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K713.1.7 | Faithless wife ties sleeping husband's hair to bed, allowing lover to kill him. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| K2213.6 | Faithless wife transforms husband. Malone PMLA XLIII 421; *Penzer VI 8. |
| K2213.10 | Faithless wife tricks husband into setting lover free. Irish myth: Cross. |
| T249 | Faithlessness in marriage—miscellaneous. |
| T230 | Faithlessness in marriage. Irish myth: *Cross; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| H1233.3.2 | Fakir as helper on quest. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| N844.2 | Fakir as helper. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| D1812.0.2.3 | Fakir has foreknowledge of coming of guests. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| W34.4 | Fakir rewarded by prince with a life of luxury in city chooses to return to his monkey friends in jungle. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T251.11 | Fakir thankful for shrewish wife: she is a thorn in his flesh and warns him from neglecting the ways of righteousness. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A37.1 | Falcon and crow as joint creators. Calif. Indian: Gayton and Newman 54. |
| X1723.2 | Falcon and heron eaten by wild boar recovered alive from his body. (First ed. X921.9.) Wesselski Bebel II 138 No. 116. |
| B291.1.4 | Falcon as messenger. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| L315.9 | Falcon attacks eagle repeatedly and defeats him. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| B143.1.4 | Falcon saves master from drinking poisoned water. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A1031.4 | Fall of sun causes world-fire. S. Am. Indian (Toba, Mataco, Lengua): Métraux BBAE CXLIII (1) 367, (Mocovi): Métraux MAFLS XL 34. |
| V236.1 | Fallen angels become fairies (dwarfs, trolls). *Fb "engel" I 250; Irish: O'Suilleabhain 59, 61, Beal XXI 323f. |
| V236 | Fallen angels. Jewish: Neuman. |
| K1812.18 | Fallen king in disguise recognized by former ally and helped. Irish myth: Cross. |
| D1602.2.1 | Fallen trees upraised at saint's request. *Loomis White Magic 49; Plummer cliii, *Cross. |
| K1172 | Falling beam in cave kills travelers lured within. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 344. |
| T175.1 | Falling furniture threatens bridal couple. Furniture etc. arranged by jealous rival so that it will fall. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| T11.4.7 | Falling in love at receipt of girl's amulet. Jewish: Neuman. |
| T34.2.1 | Falling in love while playing draughts. Danish: Grundtvig No. 238; Icelandic: Boberg. |
| T34.2 | Falling in love while playing game. |
| T11.8 | Falling in love with beautiful voice. India: *Thompson-Balys; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 1185. |
| T11.5.1 | Falling in love with one's own reflection in water. (Narcissus.) Italian Novella: Rotunda; Ovid Metamorphoses Bk. 3. |
| T11 | Falling in love with person never seen. |
| T11.5 | Falling in love with reflection in water. Princess thus first sees prince. Malone PMLA XLIII 400; India: Thompson-Balys; Japanese: Ikeda. |
| T91.7.2 | Falling in love with someone of a different caste. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T29 | Falling in love—miscellaneous. |
| T10 | Falling in love. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| G455 | Falling into ogre's power through fascination with his daughter. (Cf. G530.2.) Tuamotu: Stimson MS (z-G. 13/152). |
| G450 | Falling into ogre's power—miscellaneous. |
| D1812.5.1.26 | Falling of book satchels as evil omen. (Cf. D1266, D1641.11.1.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| D1812.5.1.25 | Falling of shields as evil omen. (Cf. D1101.1.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| D1311.4.0.2 | Falling of two trees reveals Savior's will as to separation of friends. Irish myth: Cross. |
| J2275.1 | Falling star supposed to have been shot down by astronomer. Christensen DF XLVII No. 55. |
| A788.1 | Falling stars as pieces of the moon. S. Am. Indian (Guayaki): Métraux-Baldus BBAE CXLIII (1) 444. |
| C927.2 | Falling to ashes as punishment for breaking tabu. Irish myth: Cross; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K2112.2.4 | False abortion placed in innocent woman's bed. Korean: Zong in-Sob 202 No. 97. |
| K2127 | False accusation of theft. Icelandic: Boberg; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| N342.4 | False accusation overheard causes hasty killing. Irish myth: Cross. |
| K2100 | False accusation. Missouri French: Carrière; Jewish: Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Graham; West Indies: Flowers 555. |
| K484.3 | False alarm of robbery causes cheated man to be imprisoned. Boccaccio Decameron IX No. 4; Italian Novella: Rotunda; Persian: Lorimer Persian Tales (London, 1919) 321 No. 52. |
| K476.2 | False articles used to produce credit. |
| K2058.2 | False ascetic in partnership with tiger shares his prey. Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 819. |
| K1013 | False beauty-doctor. The trickster pretends to make the dupe beautiful. Injures him. *Cosquin études 385ff.; India: *Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Graham; Indonesia: DeVries's list Nos. 73, 74; Eskimo (Bering Strait): Nelson RBAE XVIII 467; N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 352 n. 271, (California): Gayton and Newman 83; Africa (Ekoi): Talbot 387, (Kaffir): Theal 99, (Wute): Sieber ZsES XII 69f., 172. |
| K1766.1 | False boasting of having killed his foster-brother makes his men follow the boaster. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| K1911.3.3 | False bride fails when husband tests her. Uses slipper test, jumping test, or the like. *Type 510; *Cox passim; India: *Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 22f.; Africa (Zulu): Callaway 122, 315, (Angola): Chatelain 43. |
| K1911.3.3.2 | False bride fails when magician tests her. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1911.1.4 | False bride finishes true bride's task and supplants her. The true bride must perform a certain task to win her husband and, being exhausted, commits the task to a slave. *Arfert Unterschobene Braut; Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 446*; Russian: Andrejev No. 533B*; Italian: Basile Pentamerone Introduction; India: *Thompson-Balys; Africa (Angola): Chatelain 35, 43. |
| K1911.1.8.1 | False bride makes child cry and demand mother's clothes and ornaments. Chinese: Graham. |
| K1911.1.8 | False bride steals true bride's garments in bath. Africa (Hottentot): Karutz Des schwarzen Menschen Märchenweisheit (London, 1929) 140f. No. 27. |
| K1911.1.3 | False bride takes true bride's place at fountain. The true bride, left by her husband for a short time at a fountain, is supplanted by a moor or gypsy, who transforms her. *Type 408; *Arfert Unterschobene Braut; Spanish: Espinosa II Nos. 120f., Espinosa Jr. Nos. 106—110; Italian: Basile Pentamerone Introduction; India: *Thompson-Balys; Japanese: Ikeda. |
| K1911.1.1 | False bride takes true bride's place on the way to the wedding. *Arfert Unterschobene Braut; *Type 533; **Liungman Tvе Folkminnesundersökningar 41ff.; Cosquin Contes indiens 69ff.; BP II 273; Spanish: Espinosa II No. 113; Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 403D*; Rumanian: Schullerus FFC LXXVIII No. 403D*; Missouri French: Carrière; India: *Thompson-Balys; Indonesia: DeVries's list No. 178; Africa (Zulu): Callaway 118, 303, 313, (Kaffir): Theal 134, 145f., (Thonga): Junod 231, (Fjort): Dennett 128; Jamaica: *Beckwith MAFLS XVII 266 No. 74. |
| K1911.1.2 | False bride takes true bride's place when child is born. *Types 403, 450, 480; *BP I 79ff., 99ff., II 284 n. 2; *Arfert Unterschobene Braut; India: Thompson-Balys; N. A. Indian: *Thompson CColl II 383ff. |
| K1911.3.3.1 | False bride's mutilated feet. In order to wear the shoes with which the husband is testing the identity of his bride, the false bride cuts her feet. She is detected. *Type 510; *Cox 1—79, 87—121 passim; Spanish: Espinosa II Nos. 111f., Espinosa Jr. No. 119; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K442 | False claim of reward. Africa (Gold Coast): Barker and Sinclair 159 No. 31, (Ekoi): Talbot 387. |
| K1926 | False daughter: accepted as one's resurrected child. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| H105.1.1 | False dragon-head proof. Impostor cuts off dragon heads (after tongues have been removed) and attempts to use them as proof of slaying the dragon. *Type 300; *BP I 534ff. and all references to H105.1; *Parsons FL XXXII 194ff.; Missouri French: Carrière; Italian Novella: Rotunda; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| K2012 | False friend causes man to eject his wife. He then seduces her. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K2093 | False guardian betrays refuge of fleeing lovers. Irish myth: Cross. |
| K1013.5 | False hair-restorer injures patient. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| Q265 | False judging punished. (Cf. Q551.8.1, Q558.16, Q559.8.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| H251.3.10 | False judgment by judge causes fruit to fall. Just judgment by judge causes fruit to be perfect. Irish myth: Cross. |
| J2214.12 | False judgment of distance in clear atmosphere of mountain area. Canada: Baughman. |
| K1963.1 | False magician exposed by clever girl. *BP III 202; Lappish: Qvigstad FFC LX 51 No. 99; Estonian: Aarne FFC XXV 137 No. 103. |
| K929.12 | False message from other world causes man to go on funeral pyre. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| K2132 | False message of love carried to hero and maiden by troublemaker. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| K1976 | False miraculous relic. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| W136 | False modesty. |
| K231.6 | False offer to return goods in place of payment. |
| K1889.3 | False Paradise. (The Old Man of the Mountain.) Potion is given to dupes who are led into what they believe is Paradise. They are then forced to rob and kill to regain admittance through death. Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| W165 | False pride. Son ashamed of his peasant father who brings him money. Father disinherits him. (Cf. Q331.) *Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 643; U.S.: Baughman. |
| K1894 | False proof: cloak dipped into water used as evidence of stormy weather. Irish myth: Cross. |
| K1962 | False prophet. *Chauvin V 233 No. 132; Jewish: *Gaster Exempla 191 No. 28, *Neuman; Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| K2127.2 | False queen puts horseflesh in bed of one with child so as to identify her as horse-eating thief. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1015 | False remedy for toothache. |
| U236.1 | False repentance of the sick, rich man. After his death it was discovered that he had intended to retrieve his money from church if he recovered. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| U236 | False repentance of the sick. Wolf having eaten too much meat promises God to eat no more meat. When he becomes well he eats as before. Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 307. |
| K476.4 | False set of rings to offset genuine. Jewels bought with counterfeit money. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| M101.1 | False swearer not allowed to approach altar. Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 485. |
| K1864.1 | False tidings of another's death in order to secure his bride. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| K1864 | False tidings of one's own death in order to be able to leave without notice. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| K2112.1 | False tokens of woman's unfaithfulness. Tokens are stolen from the woman, or her secret markings are seen by treachery. *Types 882, 892; *Köhler-Bolte I 211f.; bin Gorion Born Judas I 257; *Grünbaum Jüdischdeutsch Chrestomathie 421ff.; *Paris Romania XXXII 481ff.; *Hilka Neuphilologische Mitteilungen (1913) 16ff.; Dunlop-Wilson II 73f.; Chauvin VII 159.—Italian Novella: *Rotunda; India: *Thompson-Balys; Indonesia: DeVries's list No. 311. |
| J1154.3 | False witnesses cannot describe stolen jewel. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Z131 | Falsehood personified. Irish myth: Cross; Jewish: Neuman |
| K2102 | Falsely accused hero sent on dangerous mission. Dickson 178 n. 45. |
| K2101 | Falsely accused minister reinstates himself by his cleverness. *Marc "Die Achikarsage" Studien zur vgl. Literaturgeschichte II 393ff.; *DeVries FFC LXXIII 365ff.; 374ff.; Jewish: *Neuman. |
| K1087 | Falsified message brings about a war. Irish myth: Cross; Welsh: MacCulloch Celtic 191; Icelandic: Herrmann Saxo II 361ff., Boberg. |
| G225.0.6 | Familiar comes at nightfall and disappears at cockcrow. (Cf. E452.) Argentina: Jijena Sanchez 86f. |
| M219.4 | Familiar devours whoever does not keep pact with devil. Argentina: Jijena Sanchez 82. |
| G225.0.2 | Familiar is given to witch by devil when person becomes witch. England, U.S.: *Baughman. |
| F403.2.1.1 | Familiar spirit acquired by carrying egg under left arm-pit. *Polívka Zs. f. Vksk. XXVIII 41ff. |
| F403.2.3.4 | Familiar spirit brings news with magic speed. Kittredge Witchcraft 216f., 524 n. 36. |
| F403.2.2.3 | Familiar spirit equivalent to man's soul. Finnish: Holmberg Finno-Ugric 10f. |
| F403.2.2.1 | Familiar spirit in animal form. *Kittredge Witchcraft 613 s.v. "familiars"; Tobler 37; Eskimo (Mackenzie Area): Jenness 61. |
| F403.2.3.5 | Familiar spirit reveals infidelity of man's wife. Irish myth: Cross. |
| G225.0.7 | Familiar to be fed on human meat. Argentina: Jijena Sanchez 88, 90. |
| G225.0.5.1 | Familiar's abode is hearth of magician. Argentina: Jijena Sanchez 84, 92. |
| G225.0.5 | Familiar's abode is magician's cellar. Argentina: Jijena Sanchez 85. |
| U131 | Familiarity takes away fear. |
| G225.0.3 | Familiars do work for witch. England: Baughman. |
| M219.3 | Familiars guard and protect those who have pact with the devil. Argentina: Jijena Sanchez 80. |
| F327 | Family carried away to fairyland as part of bargain. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| C441.1 | Family dares not discuss tigers, fearing that son in form of tiger will return. Chinese.: Graham. |
| J1743.2 | Family do not realize that Lent has arrived until it is Palm Sunday. Then they explain that Lent will be short because it has been a short winter. Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles No. 89; Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| K2129.4 | Family is accused of stinginess by recipients of their hospitality. Tuamotu: Stimson MS (T—G. 3/515). |
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