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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
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 ▲ |
|---|---|
| Q191 | Family line of good man rewarded. Irish myth: Cross; Jewish: *Neuman. |
| F402.7 | Family of demons. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A168 | Family of gods. (cf. A111, A164). Greek: Fox 151ff. passim.—Tahiti: Henry 231; Easter Is.: Métraux Ethnology 311; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 964. |
| D1711.11 | Family of magicians. |
| A745 | Family of the moon. |
| K301.2 | Family of thieves. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| Q552.3.2 | Famine as punishment for oppression by victors. Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q552.3.1 | Famine as punishment. *Loomis White Magic 95, 102; Irish myth: *Cross; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F969.7 | Famine. Icelandic: *Boberg; Hindu: Bradley-Birt 121. |
| K2061.5 | Famished wolf asks sheep to bring him water: plan detected. Wienert FFC LVI 53 (ET 136), 96 (ST 91); Halm Aesop No. 284; Spanish: Espinosa III No. 216. |
| L124.1.1 | Famous poet does not speak until he is fourteen (four, seven) years old. Irish myth: Cross. |
| D1331.1.3 | Fan gives magic sight. (Cf. D1077.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| B768 | Fancied nourishment of animals. |
| B752 | Fanciful behavior of animal at death. |
| B720 | Fanciful bodily members of animals. |
| B731 | Fanciful color of animal. Irish myth: Cross. |
| B739 | Fanciful color, smell etc. of animals—miscellaneous. |
| B730 | Fanciful color, smell, etc. of animals. |
| B766 | Fanciful dangers from animals. |
| B750 | Fanciful habits of animals. |
| B740 | Fanciful marvelous strength of animals. |
| B710 | Fanciful origin of animals. |
| B710.1 | Fanciful origin of the jackal. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B765 | Fanciful qualities of snakes. (Cf. B91.3, B751.1, B752.2.)—Jewish: *Neuman. |
| B700 | Fanciful traits of animals. |
| B731.7 | Fancifully colored deer. Irish myth: Cross. |
| B5 | Fantastic beasts, birds, etc., in art. Irish myth: Cross. |
| T126 | Fantastic marriage. |
| W152.12.1 | Farmer gets help up early in morning for a light breakfast: a glass of water and a lantern. Canada: Baughman. |
| G303.19.2 | Farmer has devil aid in reaping contest, loses his shadow when devil attempts to take hindmost. (Cf. K42.) Scotland: Baughman. |
| F482.3.1.1 | Farmer is so bothered by brownie that he decides he must move to get rid of the annoyance. He piles all furniture on wagon and starts for new home, meets acquaintance who remarks: "I see you're flitting." Brownie sticks his head out of the churn on top of the load, answers: "Yes, we're flitting." Farmer goes back to former home. England, Ireland, Wales: *Baughman. |
| J1261.1.4 | Farmer looks at his hay on ground after a rain: "If I was a God, I'd be a God and not a damned fool!" U.S.: Baughman. |
| U133.1 | Farmer prefers stable smells to flowers. Latter make him ill. Wesselski Mönchslatein 13 No. 8; Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| L144.2 | Farmer surpasses astronomer and doctor in predicting weather and choosing food. Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 2448*; Russian: Andrejev No. 2132; Rumanian: Schullerus FFC LXXVIII No. 921 II*. |
| A2721.3.2 | Farmer tells begging monk that potatoes are hard as stones: why potatoes are hard. Japanese: Anesaki Japanese Myth 252. |
| U121.3 | Farmer's son and noble's reared in country. The former takes to toil on farm, the latter to riding and hunting. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| V73.2 | Fast improves health. Irish myth: Cross. |
| V73.1 | Fast to prevent pestilence. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| D1783.3 | Faster one walks, longer the trail. The slower, the shorter. N. A. Indian (Plains Cree): Skinner JAFL XXIX 356 No. 3. |
| P623 | Fasting (as a means of distraint). Irish myth: Cross. |
| D1766.8.1 | Fasting a part of magic ritual. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| P623.0.3 | Fasting against fairies. Irish myth: Cross. |
| P623.0.1 | Fasting against God. Irish myth: Cross. |
| P623.0.4 | Fasting against saints. Irish myth: Cross. |
| P623.0.2 | Fasting against the Devil. Irish myth: Cross. |
| P623.0.5 | Fasting by saints causes tree worshipped by pagans to fall. Irish myth: Cross. |
| V73.5 | Fasting on "Golden Fridays" as charm against certain misfortunes. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| J2135.1 | Fasting the first month. Numskull having enough food to last him eleven out of the twelve months fasts the entire first month so as to get the ordeal over. He starves with eleven months' supply on hand. Clouston Noodles 89; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| P623.0.6 | Fasting to enforce saint's dues. Irish myth: Cross. |
| V73.4 | Fasting to secure a prosperous journey. Jewish: Moreno Esdras (V74.1). |
| V73 | Fasts. Irish myth: Cross; Jewish: *Neuman. |
| F171.1 | Fat and lean kine in otherworld. *Types 470, 471; Irish: O'Suilleabhain 52, Beal XXI 319. |
| X151.2 | Fat man so unwieldly he fishes from his window in the street. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Z49.2.1 | Fat mouse cannot get into hole. "Carpenter, please pare off a little flesh from my ribs." Refused. Final formula: the scythe cuts the creeper loose. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F959.3.5 | Fat of crow as remedy for king's wounds. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| D1382.2 | Fat of crow prevents burning. (Cf. D1017.1.1.) *Fb "fedt" I 278b. |
| K864 | Fatal apple-throwing game. Scottish: Campbell-McKay No. 17. |
| J1824 | Fatal bread. Numskull refuses communion because his sister died shortly after eating the bread. *Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 572. |
| K873 | Fatal deception by giving narcotic. Italian: Basile Pentamerone IV 5; India: *Thompson-Balys; Africa (Fang): Einstein 66, (Basuto): Jacottet 16 No. 2. |
| K870 | Fatal deception by narcotic (intoxication). |
| K875 | Fatal deception by pretended combing of victim's hair. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K839 | Fatal deception into trickster's power—miscellaneous. |
| K810 | Fatal deception into trickster's power. |
| K981 | Fatal deception: changed message from oracle. Greek: Fox 108 (Phrixos). |
| K869 | Fatal deceptive game—miscellaneous. |
| K850 | Fatal deceptive game. |
| J1919 | Fatal disregard of anatomy—miscellaneous. |
| J1910 | Fatal disregard of anatomy. |
| K867 | Fatal duel: brother kills brother in pretended game. |
| F585.1 | Fatal enticements of phantom women. Chauvin V 34 No. 16. |
| K853 | Fatal game: drowning. American Negro (Virginia): Parsons JAFL XXXV 261. |
| K856 | Fatal game: dying and reviving. Hero has power of resuscitation but fails to revive his enemy. Japanese: Ikeda; Tuamotu: Stimson MS (z-G. 13/116); S. A. Indian (Quiche): Alexander Lat. Am. 175. |
| K865 | Fatal game: putting heads in notches. Scottish: Campbell-McKay No. 17 and note. |
| K866 | Fatal game: rolling down hill on barrel. Dupe crushed. Irish myth: Cross. |
| K861 | Fatal game: sewing each other up. Hare is partly sewed up, but he sews antelope entirely up so that he dies. Africa (Thonga): Junod 212. |
| K858 | Fatal game: shaving necks. Dupe's head cut off. Africa (Benga): Nassau 144 No. 16; West Indies: Flowers 531. |
| K854 | Fatal game: throwing from cliff. Spider throws its young; other animal imitates. N. A. Indian (Pueblo): Parsons JAFL XXXI 227f. |
| J2401 | Fatal imitation. (Cf. J2411.1, J2411.2, J2413.4.2, J2422.) *Types 1060-1114 passim; Irish myth: Cross; Missouri French: Carrière; Spanish: Boggs FFC XC 120 No. 1075; N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 353 n. 271b. |
| K871 | Fatal intoxication. Korean: Zong in-Sob 168 No. 72; Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 441; Africa (Ekoi): Talbot 397; West Indies: Flowers 531. |
| E217 | Fatal kiss from dead. English: Child I 439, II 229ff., 236f., III 512f., IV 474f. |
| K869.4 | Fatal swimming race. To trick spirits hero proposes a swimming race. As each spirit arrives, hero drowns it. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 441. |
| K855 | Fatal swinging game. Old woman causes swing to break when her rival is swinging. N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 350 n. 262. Cf. Indonesia: DeVries Volksverhalen I 374 No. 44. |
| A196.1 | Fate controls gods. Greek: Fox 162; Icel.: MacCulloch Eddic 74; Semitic: Langdon 102, 307. |
| N121 | Fate decided before birth. Irish myth: *Cross; Jewish: *Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| S350 | Fate of abandoned child. India: Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 54 No. 33; Japanese: Ikeda. |
| T93 | Fate of disappointed lover. |
| E419.12 | Fate of ghosts of persons eaten by tigers. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| S450 | Fate of outcast wife. |
| J157.2 | Fate of parents revealed in dream. Mother shown in Hell; father in Heaven. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K1811.4.1 | Fate takes form of Brahmin's pupil in order to lure him to his prophesied death. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| M302.2.1 | Fate written on the head. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| M361 | Fated hero. Only certain hero will succeed in exploit. Dickson 132 n. 108; Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: Sturlaugs saga Starfsama; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| E765.4.3.1 | Father (and mother) will die on same day as daughter. Irish myth: Cross. |
| S338 | Father abandons his daughter in forest and leaves axes tied so that they move in wind. Daughter thinks he is cutting wood. *Roberts 137. |
| P16.1.4 | Father abdicates in favor of son. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| N699.1 | Father and brother accidentally return home just as they are most needed in fight. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| P234.2 | Father and daughter die at same time. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| P234 | Father and daughter. Irish myth: Cross; Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| A515.2 | Father and son as culture heroes. Irish myth: Cross.—Amazon tribes: Alexander Lat. Am. 311. |
| T92.9 | Father and son as rivals in love. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| P233 | Father and son. Irish myth: Cross; Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| S11.5 | Father banishes son at request of fairy wife. (Cf. F302, S322.4.3.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| J99.2 | Father bequeathes four pots to sons: eldest finds earth in his; second, bones; third, rice husks; youngest, rupees (eldest to get land; second, cattle; third, grain; youngest to keep money). India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T411.1.1 | Father by trickery secures priest's advice to marry his own daughter. If a man raise a lamb, shall he eat it himself or let another eat it? *Cosquin études 9. |
| S322.1.2 | Father casts daughter forth when she will not marry him. (Cf. T411.1.) *Type 510B; BP II 45; Cox passim; Krappe Zeitschrift für englische Philologie XLIX 361—69; Spanish: Espinosa II Nos. 99—103. |
| S322.1 | Father casts daughter forth. Spanish: Espinosa II Nos. 107f., 154, Espinosa Jr. Nos. 120—123. |
| N344.2 | Father causes death of innocent son, believing him guilty of adultery with father's wife. Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: Boberg. |
| J1561.5 | Father causes inhospitable daughter to spoil her feast by deceptive advice about cooking. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| S322.1.3 | Father condemns daughter to death because he believes her unchaste. Type 883A; India: Thompson-Balys; Africa (Somali): Kirk FL XV 319ff. No. 3, Reinisch Die Saho-Sprache (Wien, 1889) I 76ff. No. 3. |
| K1614 | Father delivering daughter to be eaten by cannibal is himself eaten. Africa (Basuto): Jacottet 114 No. 27. |
| T131.1.2.3 | Father demands that son break all relations with his beloved. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| P233.2.1 | Father drives away bad son whom the mother prefers. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| S11.3.8 | Father eats own children. (Cf. G10.) Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 920; Africa (Pangwe): Tessman 108, 365. |
| D1813.0.3 | Father feels that son is in danger. (Cf. D1812.0.4, D1812.5.1.1.4.) Icelandic: Hrуlfs saga Kraka ch. 14, Boberg. |
| T411.1.2 | Father feigning death returns in disguise and seduces daughter. N. A. Indian: **Schmerler JAFL XLIV 196ff. |
| S11.6 | Father flogs child. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F451.5.2.3.1 | Father given carved wooden image in lieu of son stolen by dwarfs. Eskimo (Greenland): Rasmussen I 110. |
| J462.3.1.1 | Father gives son three rings. Only one is good although they all look the same. Same with religions. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| T151.0.2 | Father giving away daughter makes condition: son-in-law not to see daughter as his wife during one year. Africa (Dahome): Einstein 25. |
| R153.2.1 | Father hides children from murderous mother. After many years they come forth and she dies of fright. *Type 765. |
| R153.3.6 | Father hides son from Satan. Jewish: Neuman. |
| N94 | Father hides wealth to keep son from gambling it away. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| P233.10 | Father in vision reproves son about to succumb to temptation. Jewish: Neuman. |
| S11.3 | Father kills child. |
| T314 | Father kills daughter lest she become prostitute. Alphabet No. 774. |
| T314.1 | Father kills daughter lest she become the property of a tyrant. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| S11.3.2 | Father kills deformed children. (Cf. S325.0.1.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| N349.2 | Father kills his son in battle rage. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| N344 | Father kills self believing that son is dead. The son forgets to spread white sails, the prearranged signal of his safety. (Told also of lovers.) *Schoepperle II 437f.; Greek: Frazer Apollodorus II 137 n. 4. |
| S11.3.3.1 | Father kills son (for stealing). Irish myth: *Cross. |
| S11.3.3 | Father kills son. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| S11.4.2 | Father kisses son while planning to kill him. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| D1813.0.3.1 | Father knows of son's death from far away. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| S22.3 | Father learns that his son is planning to kill him. Gives his son a weapon to do so. Son repents. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| J462.3.1 | Father leaves sons three jewels—Christianity, Judaism, Mohammedanism. All to be used. (Cf. J1262.9.) *Zachariae Zs. f. Vksk. XXXIII —XXXIV 70; Boccaccio Decameron I No. 3 (*Lee 6); Italian Novella: *Rotunda; Jewish: bin Gorion Born Judas IV 150, 281. |
| S11.3.3.2 | Father murders his two sons for whining. Tonga: Gifford 24. |
| S11.1 | Father mutilates children. (Cf. S160.) *Type 706; Greek: Fox 74 (Phineus). |
| G11.0.1.2 | Father of goddess as cannibal. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 141. |
| Q242.4 | Father of incestuous children punished. Eskimo (Bering Strait): Nelson RBAE XVIII 481, (Cumberland Sound): Boas BAM XV 209. |
| A111.2 | Father of the gods. Icel.: Boberg. |
| T97 | Father opposed to daughter's marriage. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| S11.3.7 | Father orders son assassinated. (Cf. K512.) Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 529; Africa (Fang): Tessman 92. |
| T645.3 | Father orders the mother to send the expected illegitimate boy to him when he can perform certain feats. Irish myth: Cross; Greek: Fox 97 (Theseus). |
| N338.3.1 | Father orders unrecognized son thrown into sea. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 480. |
| S11.4 | Father plans child's death. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T131.0.1.1 | Father promises that girl may wed only man of her choice. Irish myth: Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| T69.5 | Father punishes daughter by giving her to poor man in marriage. Chinese: Graham. |
| H165 | Father recognizes son after having thrown him in oven. Marquesas: Beckwith Myth 482. |
| R153.2 | Father rescues children. |
| R153.5 | Father rescues daughter. Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: Lagerholm 134ff., *Boberg; Eskimo (Greenland): Rasmussen III 85, (Central Eskimo): Boas RBAE VI 584, (Cumberland Sound): Boas BAM XV 164. |
| R153.3.1 | Father rescues son captured by enemy. Type 899*; Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| R153.3.4 | Father rescues son from prison. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| R153.3.2 | Father rescues son stolen by animals. Africa (Bushmen, South of Zambesi): Theal 56. |
| R153.3 | Father rescues son(s). Icelandic: Lagerholm 170ff., *Boberg. |
| S141.2 | Father saves himself in storm and forgets his two children. They are abandoned in a boat. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| E387.2.1 | Father summoned to get his sword. Icelandic: Hervararsaga 17—33, 102—13. |
| G75 | Father takes his daughter to cannibal to be eaten. Africa (Basuto): Jacottet 116 No. 27. |
| J2484 | Father tells son that he has been scratched by "hairy rascals" (monkeys). Son attacks hairy ascetics. Penzer V 140. |
| H480 | Father tests. Test as to who is unknown father of child. Irish myth: Cross; Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "père", "enfant"; Arabian: Burton Nights S V 236 n. |
| S11.3.6 | Father throws boy into river (sea). Africa (Congo): Weeks Jungle 407, (Cameroon): Rosenhuber 20 No. 3, (Fang): Tessman 91. |
| M371.0.2 | Father throws boy of boy-girl twin birth into river to avoid evil effects of twin birth. Africa (Fang): Tessman 91. |
| K1371.2 | Father tricked into giving away disguised daughter in marriage. Scottish: Campbell-McKay No. 14. |
| N731.3 | Father unexpectedly meets abandoned son and reinstates him. Irish myth: Cross. |
| N732.1 | Father unwittingly buys daughter who has been sold into slavery. Greek: Frazer Apollodorus I 389 n. 1 (Tisiphone). |
| N365.2.1 | Father unwittingly falls in love with daughter. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| S327.1 | Father wants to kill son because of foolish boasting. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| J1264.3 | Father wears a crown but is no king. Priest's son is thus taunted. *Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 161. |
| S322.1.1 | Father who wanted son exposes (murders) daughter. Irish myth: *Cross; Greek: Fox 56 (Atalanta); India: *Thompson-Balys; Indonesia: DeVries's list No. 203. |
| E765.4.3 | Father will die when daughter bears son. (Cf. E765.4.1.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| E765.4.1 | Father will die when daughter marries. (Cf. E765.4.3.) Irish myth: Cross; Welsh: MacCulloch Celtic 187. |
| J244.1 | Father with handsome son and hideous daughter. Advises both to look in mirror daily lest son exchange handsome face for bad character; daughter to triumph over face by good manners. Wienert FFC LVI 83 (ET 494), 149 (ST 536). |
| M344.1 | Father-daughter incest prophecy. Greek: Fox 120 (Thyestes); India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q242.2 | Father-daughter incest punished. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| T411 | Father-daughter incest. *Köhler-Bolte II 190ff.; *Krappe Review of Religion (1941) 3—17; Heptameron No. 30. — Irish myth: *Cross, MacCulloch Celtic 74f.; English: Wells 176 (The Tale of an Incestuous Daughter); Danish: De la Saussaye 166 (Helgi); Italian Novella: Rotunda; Greek: Grote I 149; India: *Thompson-Balys; Hindu: Keith 75 (Prajapati); Maori: Dixon 164 n. 46; Eskimo (Greenland): Rasmussen III 198. |
| A103 | Father-god. Greek: Grote I 3; Hindu: Keith 50ff., 73ff., 82ff.; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| H588.0.1 | Father-in-law gives daughter-in-law enigmatic permission to go home. Chinese: Graham. |
| W151.5 | Father-in-law sued for breach of contract because he does not die in two years as he has predicted. Nouvelles Récréations No. 49. |
| P261 | Father-in-law. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| N731.2 | Father-son combat. Neither knows who the other is. (Sohrab and Rustem.) **Potter Sohrab and Rustem; Deutschbein I 232ff.; Potter FL XV 216ff.; Rank Inzest-Motif 164ff.; Hibbard 227 n. 5; *Köhler-Bolte II 256ff.; L. Wolff Hessische Blätter f. Volksk. XXXIX 54—63. — Irish: *Cross, MacCulloch Celtic 145, 169 (Cuchulainn, Fionn), Thurneysen 403ff.; English: Wells 135 (Sir Degare); Icelandic: *Boberg; Greek: Fox 140 (Telegonos and Odysseus); Arabian: Burton Nights VII 89 n.; Persian Carnoy 332; Chinese: Werner Myths 315—319, Coyajee JPASB XXIV 179; Philippine: Dixon 235; Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 508. |
| U121.5 | Father, like son, acts foolishly at king's court. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| P293.5 | Father's brother avenged. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| T131.1.2 | Father's consent to son's (daughter's) marriage necessary. Irish myth: Cross; Icelandic: Boberg. |
| H588.9 | Father's counsel: dam up the outlets. (Keep expenditures down—not outlets of rice-field as son-in-law thinks). India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| H588.10 | Father's counsel: don't stay too late with a concubine, nor tell her any secret. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| H588.6 | Father's counsel: dress up the trunks of trees, cover the road. (Plant the road with fruit trees and betel between the trees.) India: *Thompson-Balys; Batak: Voorhoeve 164f. No. 169. |
| H588.7 | Father's counsel: find treasure within a foot of the ground. (Sons dig everywhere and thus loosen soil of vineyard, which becomes fruitful.) Wienert FFC LVI 82 (ET 490), 126 (ST 346); Halm Aesop No. 98; Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 914*; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| H588.5 | Father's counsel: if you want to gamble, then gamble with experienced gamblers. (If you see how wretched professional gamblers are you will not want to gamble.) *Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 376; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| H588.2 | Father's counsel: let pilav be your daily food. (Eat frugally.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| H588.3 | Father's counsel: marry a new wife every week. (Do not see your wife too much.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| H588.4 | Father's counsel: on wishing to drink wine go to the vat and drink it. (Stench in vat so great that desire for wine is turned to loathing.) India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| H588.8 | Father's counsel: the four wells. Three empty and one full (3 sons and father). Full one can fill the three empty but the three when full cannot fill the one when empty (sons when scattered will not support the father). India: Thompson-Balys. |
| H588.1 | Father's counsel: walk not in sunshine from your house to your shop. (Attend to business, rising early and retiring late.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| R153.3.5 | Fathers thrust sons above water even as they themselves drown. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| N16.2 | Fathers whose unborn children are affianced wager as to mastery in the house. (Cf. N12.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| J1903.3 | Fattening the pig. A farmer who wanted to fatten a pig fed it only twice a day. When told to feed it three times a day he says, "A working man must have more to eat than a pig." *Wesselski Bebel I 141 No. 56. |
| J1545.3 | Fault-finding husband nonplussed. The wife has cooked so many dishes that when he complains, she can always supply another. Finally he says, "I had rather eat dung." She produces some. *Wesselski Theorie 175; Plattdeutsch: Wisser Plattdeutsche Volksmärchen (Jena 1922, 1927) II 98; India (Kashmir): Knowles 245. |
| Q312 | Fault-finding punished. (Cf. Q431.12, Q451.4.6, Q557.8, W128.) Jewish: Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q312.4 | Fault-finding with God's handling of weather. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| D1900.1 | Favor with royalty induced by magic. *Kittredge Witchcraft 108 nn. 32—48 passim; Heptameron No. 1; England: Baughman. |
| Q116.1 | Favorable decree as reward for helping holy person. (Cf. Q38.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q116 | Favorable decree as reward. Irish myth: Cross; Icelandic: Boberg; Jewish: *Neuman. |
| D1812.5.2 | Favorable omens. Irish myth: *Cross; India: Thompson-Balys, *Penzer I 116, IV 122 n. 1, 171 n. 1. |
| M393 | Favorable prophecies: blessings, beatitudes. |
| M310 | Favorable prophecies. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| W0 | Favorable traits of character. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| L51 | Favorite youngest daughter. India: Thompson-Balys; Africa (Zulu): Callaway 85. |
| L12 | Favorite youngest son. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B731.7.2 | Fawn with golden lustre. Irish myth: Cross. |
| U127 | Fawn, in spite of his fine horns, runs from the dog. Wienert FFC LVI 63 (ET 257), 89 (ST 12): Halm Aesop No. 303. |
| P427.4.1 | Fear of druidic lampoon as activating power. Irish myth: Cross. |
| H1405 | Fear test: behaving as if enemy is coming in order to see who will flee and who will stay and fight. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| H1423.3 | Fear test: bringing from a hill, seized by a demon, the fattest of goats. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| H1422 | Fear test: cutting devil's fingernails. Type 326; BP I 22ff.; Christiansen Norske Eventyr 42. |
| H1434 | Fear test: eating and drinking from skulls. Irish myth: Cross; Spanish: Boggs FFC XC 47 No. 326. |
| H1435 | Fear test: fetching skulls from a charnel house. Swiss: Jegerlehner Oberwallis 324 No. 146. |
| H1423 | Fear test: fighting with spirits. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| H1412.1 | Fear test: going into the church at night and ringing the bell. German: Grimm No. 4. |
| H1436 | Fear test: keeping goal in hurling-match for corpses. Irish: Read FL XXVII 277f., Knortz Irländische Märchen (Zürich, 1886) 23. |
| H1411.2.1 | Fear test: night watch with magic cats. Irish myth: Cross. |
| H1423.1 | Fear test: passing through door guarded by savage hound and armed soldier. Irish myth: Cross. |
| H1421 | Fear test: playing cards with devil in church. Type 326; BP I 22f.; Christiansen Norske Eventyr 42. |
| H1433 | Fear test: playing game with reassembled dead man. (Cf. H1411.1, H1421.) Type 326; BP I 22ff. |
| H1407 | Fear test: serpent put in flour so that fearless youth kneads it into the dough. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| H1416 | Fear test: spending night by grave. Fb "først" I 404; Jewish: Neuman. |
| H1412 | Fear test: spending night in church. Fb "kirke" II 126a. |
| H1411.4 | Fear test: spending night in house (hall) haunted by demon (monster). Irish myth: *Cross. |
| H1411.3 | Fear test: staying in enchanted castle at night where the devil gives a moral speech and prophesies. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| H1410 | Fear test: staying in frightful place. |
| H1411.2 | Fear test: staying in haunted house infested by cats. Type 326; BP I 22ff.; Irish myth: *Cross. |
| H1411.1 | Fear test: staying in haunted house where corpse drops piecemeal down chimney. Dead man's members call out to hero, "Shall we fall, or shall we not?" *Type 326; *Taylor MPh XVII 321 n. 1; Scott "Marmion" note H; BP I 30 n. 1; Köhler-Bolte I 130; Fb "menneske" II 577b; Cape Verde Islands: Parsons MAFLS XV (1) 241 n. 1. |
| H1411.1.1 | Fear test: staying in haunted house where horse carcass drops down chimney. *Taylor MPh XVII (1919) 321 n. 1; Scott "Marmion" Note H; Finnish: Aarne FFC XXXIII 41 No. 46**. |
| H1411 | Fear test: staying in haunted house. Type 326; Irish: Cross, O'Suilleabhain 53, Beal XXI 319; England: Baughman; North Carolina: Brown Collection I 686; India: Thompson-Balys; Japanese: Ikeda; Eskimo (Greenland): Rasmussen II 73. |
| H1415 | Fear test: staying under gallows at night. Type 326; Norwegian: Christiansen Norske Eventyr 42. |
| H1431 | Fear test: stealing clothes from ghosts. Type 326; BP I 34 n. 1. |
| H1418 | Fear test: taking boy to frightful enemy's tent. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| H1423.2 | Fear test: undergoing terrifying experience out of doors on Hallowe'en. Irish myth: Cross. |
| H1400 | Fear test. A person is put to various tests in the attempt to make him show fear. *Type 326; *BP I 22ff.; Irish myth: *Cross; Missouri French: Carrière; Japanese: Ikeda. |
| J1909.7 | Fear that frog may drown or get dirty. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q524 | Fearful penances. Irish myth: Cross. |
| J2634 | Fearing the earthquake. Fool worries lest earthquake make him fall against an open knife. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| H1441.1 | Fearless hero frightened by being awakened by eels put down his back. Type 326. |
| H1441 | Fearless hero frightened by being awakened with cold water. Type 326. |
| H1420 | Fearless traffic with devils. |
| H1430 | Fearless traffic with ghosts. |
| P634.2 | Feast (hospitality) endures for seven days and seven nights. Irish myth: Cross. |
| P634.1 | Feast (hospitality) endures for three days and three nights. Irish myth: Cross. |
| N770.0.1 | Feast as occasion for the beginning of adventures or the arrival of questers. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| N135.3.1 | Feast for those who have not known sorrow. Dying Alexander's letter to his mother orders such a feast. No one comes. *Köhler-Bolte I 579; Köhler Aufsätze 130. |
| T162 | Feast of "bedding and handspreading" before consummation of marriage. Irish myth: Cross. |
| V70.3.1 | Feast of Saint John the Baptist. Irish myth: *Cross. |
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