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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
D
Magic
E
The Dead
F
Marvels
G
Ogres
H
Tests
J
The Wise and the Foolish
K
Deceptions
L
Reversals of Fortune
M
Ordaining the Future
N
Chance and Fate
P
Society
Q
Rewards and Punishments
R
Captives and Fugitives
S
Unnatural Cruelty
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Sex
U
The Nature of Life
V
Religion
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Traits of Character
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Humor
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Miscellaneous Groups of Motifs
| Thompson reference | Description ▲ |
|---|---|
| P17.1 | First man to arrive after king's death to be heir. (Cf. N683.) Hdwb. d. Märchens I 605a n. 62; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| V463.2 | First martyr: John the Baptist. Irish myth: Cross. |
| A117.1 | First men created with eternal life become gods. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A1225 | First men undeveloped. Rudimentary and amorphous, gradually assume present shape.—Arunta: Dixon 272; Borneo: ibid. 159; Society Is.: ibid. 29, 164; Nias Is., Samoan: ibid. 164 n. 35, 36. |
| A1597.1 | First men without beards: Cain, Abel. Irish myth: Cross; Jewish: Neuman. |
| A1433.0.1 | First money received from kettle which two dead men try in vain to carry from hell to heaven. Finnish: Aarne FFC VIII 7 No. 32. |
| A1546.3.2 | First monk, first pilgrim. Irish myth: Cross. |
| N222 | First objects picked up bring fortune. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| P426.1.1 | First of animals and fruits belong to priest. Jewish: Neuman. |
| A1271.3 | First parents children of god. Persian: Carnoy 294; Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 88. |
| A1277.1 | First parents devour offspring. Persian: Carnoy 297. |
| A1271.4 | First parents originate from gold which is from body of first man. Born fifteen years old.—Persian: Carnoy 294. |
| A1346.2.2 | First people have everything they wish (life without work). India: Thompson-Balys; Africa (Fang): Trilles 144. |
| A1464.1.1 | First poetry composed in imitation of tones of hammer on anvil. Irish myth: Cross. |
| A1009.1 | First race of men perishes when sun first rises. S. Am. Indian (Aymara): Tschopik BBAE CXLIII (2) 571, (Chibaya): La Barre ibid. 585. |
| A1884.0.1 | First sheep in Ireland. Irish myth: Cross. |
| A1443.1 | First shepherder. Irish myth: Cross; Jewish: Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A1335.7 | First son who died before his father after the Flood. Irish myth Cross; Jewish: Neuman. |
| A1586 | First surety. Irish myth: Cross. |
| K176.1 | First to greet the other in morning will lose beauty contest. Dispute is to be settled thus. (Cf. H1529.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| D1812.5.0.7.1 | First to partake of certain feast will be first to disobey the king (etc.). Irish myth: *Cross. |
| P557.4.1 | First to reach field of combat has choice of weapons. Irish myth: Cross. |
| A1392 | First walk by Adam. Irish myth: Cross. |
| A1429.3.1 | First wells dug. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F1041.1.2.2.2 | First woman in Ireland to die of grief for the death of her husband. (Cf. A1335, A1611.5.4.1.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| A1275.6 | First woman's mate made from transformed tree. S. Am. Indian (Yuracare): Métraux RMLP XXXIII 144. |
| E421.1.1.0.1 | First-born of a family cannot see ghosts. England: Baughman. |
| V451 | First-born son and one of every ten born thereafter given to Church. Irish myth: Cross. |
| M205.1.1.1 | Fish (whale) carrying man through water shakes him off when man strikes him with coconut. Tahiti: Beckwith Myth 252; Tuamotu: Stimson MS (T-G. 3/600). |
| V12.4.10 | Fish as sacrifice. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 19, 420; Tahiti: Henry Ancient Tahiti (Honolulu, 1928) 241. |
| B625 | Fish as wooer. |
| B631.3 | Fish bears men-children. Has swallowed rinsings of man's mouth. —India: Thompson-Balys. |
| D1549.3.5 | Fish bone holds back water in river. (Cf. D1013.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| J1772.6 | Fish bones in soup thought to be underdone peas. Nouvelles Récréations No. 73. |
| B548.2 | Fish brings lost object from bottom of sea. |
| B551.1 | Fish carries man across water. See also B541.1; also all references in R246.—Gunter Die Christliche Legende des Abendlandes 17, 56, 80 (dolphin). —Chinese: Werner 366.—*Dixon 72 n. 56 (Hawaii, Tahiti, Celebes). |
| B551.1.0.1 | Fish carries man to upper world. Spanish: Boggs FFC XC 42 No. 302* A. |
| D2106.1.1.1 | Fish caught in waterless field. *Loomis White Magic 70. |
| D370.1 | Fish cleaned by girl becomes man. Irish myth: Cross. |
| B251.2.7.1 | Fish come in great numbers to the bank of a stream in order to hear Anthony of Padua preach. *Loomis White Magic 70. |
| J1813.5 | Fish dancing about in cooking pot appears to be many. Cook eats one; none left. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F931.2 | Fish disappear from sea. Punishment for woman's having washed a child with a fish. Finnish: Aarne FFC XXXIII 47 No. 90; Estonian: Aarne FFC XXV 135 No. 90. |
| A2238.3 | Fish eat other fish: guilty must swim deep. (Cf. A2444.1.) —Finnish: Aarne FFC VIII 19 No. 104. |
| K714.8 | Fish enticed into trap (promised new skins). Tuamotu: Stimson MS (z-G. 3/1951). |
| B767.1 | Fish follow sound of music. Jataka II 157. |
| B375.1.2 | Fish grateful for being transferred from tank to river. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| B576.3.1 | Fish guards cow for master. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| D1500.1.33.5 | Fish head cures disease. (Cf. D1011.) Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 42. |
| A2231.9 | Fish in deluge deride God: are flattened with blow. They mock God for his powerlessness over them. (Cf. A2213, A2305.1, A2354.1.)—Dh I 290. |
| V134.3 | Fish in water from certain well: water refuses to boil till fish are returned to well. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| N625 | Fish jumps into boat of disheartened fisherman. Wienert FFC LVI 67 (ET 311), 141 (ST 472); Halm Aesop No. 24. |
| B102.4.1 | Fish of silver. Irish myth: Cross. |
| D2074.1.2 | Fish or sea animals magically called. Eskimo (West Hudson Bay): Boas BAM XV 324, (Greenland): Rink 116, 153; Marquesas, Tuamotu: Beckwith Myth 269, 289; Philippine (Tinguian): Cole 94. |
| B612 | Fish paramour. (Cf. B603.)—*Cape Verde Islands: Parsons MAFLS XV (1) 140 n. 1.—Japanese: Ikeda.—Africa (Ekoi): Talbot 187. |
| B251.2.2 | Fish perform races as welcome to saint. Irish myth: Cross. |
| L315.8 | Fish pricks monster with fins and defeats him. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K231.11 | Fish promised in return for bacon. Later: "Drink up the river, you shall then have fish. All the fishes there are mine." Lithuanian: Balys Index No. *1634; Russian: Andrejev No. *2104. |
| B527.1 | Fish promises to spare man in coming flood. (Cf. B375.1.)—Hindu: Keith 99; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B548.2.2 | Fish recovers key from sea. *Type 554; *BP II 19ff.; *Fb "haj" I 534, "fisk" I 296, "ring" III 61a.—Irish myth: Cross, Beal XXI 308; Missouri-French: Carrière. |
| B548.2.3 | Fish recovers lost fish-hook from sea. Hatt Asiatic Influences 90f.; *Dixon 157 n. 6 (Indonesian, Japanese, N. Pac. Coast Am. Indian, Micmac); Japanese: Ikeda. |
| B548.2.5 | Fish recovers lost urn from sea. Irish myth: Cross. |
| B548.2.4 | Fish recovers pen from sea. *Type 531. |
| B548.2.1 | Fish recovers ring from sea. *Type 554; *BP II 19ff.; *Fb "gjedde" I 440a, "ring" III 61a; Wünsche (A.) Die Sage vom Ring des Polykrates in der Weltliteratur (Beilage zur Allgemeinen Zeitung, 1893, Nos. 179, 180, 185, 188); Chauvin V 17; Köhler-Bolte II 209; Clouston Tales I 398ff.; Saintyves Essais de folklore biblique 402.—Irish myth: Cross; Italian Novella: Rotunda; Greek: Fox 101; Spanish: Boggs FFC XC 69 No. 515; Jewish: Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys. Cf. L412.1. Woman casts ring into sea. |
| J758.3 | Fish refuse fox's invitation to live on dry land and thus escape danger of fishermen. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| B541.5 | Fish rescues ship. (Cf. B470.)—*Charpentier Kleine Beiträge 34 n. 1. |
| B375.1 | Fish returned to water: grateful. *Fb "fisk"; Hartland Science 174.—India: Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Graham.—Two special forms of this motif are common; in both the fish is returned to the water and rewards the captor. (1). The "King of the Fishes" form: a man captures the king of fishes (B243) who as a reward for the release tells the man to feed parts of his body (when he is later captured) to his wife and parts to certain animals. As a result the hero and congenital helpful animals (B311) are born: *Type 303; BP I 528 (Gr. Nos. 60, 85); Sébillot Incidents s.v. "poisson", Gaster Exempla 251 No. 373.; Missouri French: Carrière.—For other references see B243.—(2) The "Fisher and his Wife" form. The king of the fishes in this case grants the man's wife the power of fulfilling all her wishes; *Type 555; BP I 138 (Gr. No. 19); see C773.1.2. |
| A2213.5.2 | Fish struck by coconut: hence flat tail. Tuamotu: Stimson MS (t-G 3/600). |
| X1723.1.1 | Fish swallows a gourd fruit where people have taken refuge during rain; hawk swallows fish. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B541.1.1 | Fish swallows man to rescue him from sea. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F911.4.1 | Fish swallows ship. Hindu: Tawney II 599. |
| J955.1.1 | Fish swells with pride until it bursts. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| J1761.4 | Fish thought to be chewed sugar-cane. Numskulls therefore throw away their fish. Indonesian: DeVries's list No. 262. |
| B771.4 | Fish trained to answer person's call. Africa: Stanley 54. |
| K815.14 | Fish tricked by crane into letting selves be carried from one pond to another. The crane eats them when they are in his power. (Cf. K713.1.2.) Bødker Exempler 281 No. 26; Spanish Exempla: Keller; India: *Thompson-Balys; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 260. |
| T549.3.1 | Fish when slit open gives up baby boy. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| J1904.4.1 | Fish will climb trees like buffaloes. Numskull considers what will happen if river burns up. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| B737 | Fish with coat of wool. Irish myth: Cross. |
| B103.4.1 | Fish with coin in mouth. Dh II 180. |
| B101.6 | Fish with gold and silver heads. *Fb "fiske". |
| B83 | Fish with human face. *Chauvin 8 No. 373A n. 2. |
| B107.1 | Fish with ingot of gold inside it. Irish myth: Cross. |
| V1.8.11 | Fish worship. Marquesas: Handy 104; Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 129. |
| B70 | Fish-beasts. *Loomis White Magic 64f. |
| B154.3 | Fish-eagle as soothsayer. Ila of Rhodesia: Smith and Dale 354. |
| A132.13 | Fish-god. Tonga: Beckwith Myth 131, Gifford 79. |
| B80 | Fish-men. Tobler Epiphanie der Seele 98. |
| F811.5.3 | Fish-producing tree. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 520; S. A. Indian (Chaco): Métraux BBAE CXLIII (1) 369. |
| K815.14.1 | Fish, lured by kind words, are killed by old man. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| U136 | Fisher and hunter exchange catches for variety: soon return to original food. Wienert FFC LVI 81 (ET 475), 111 (ST 227); Japanese: Ikeda. |
| R131.4 | Fisher rescues abandoned child. *Types 707, 930; BP II 380ff.; *Boje 65, 126; *Aarne FFC XXIII 62; English: Wells 14 (The Lay of Havelok); Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| P271.2 | Fisherman as foster father. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| X1154.1 | Fisherman catches fish with amazing contents. Canada, U.S.: *Baughman. |
| F1088.3.2 | Fisherman dragged through sea by seal escapes. Irish myth: Cross. |
| J1909.1 | Fisherman fails to make fish dance to his flute. Later in his net they jump about without the aid of the flute. Wienert FFC LVI *66 (ET 301), 117 (ST 275); Halm Aesop 27. |
| A165.9 | Fisherman of the gods. Gaster Thespis 154.—Maori: Clark 56. |
| Q552.16.1.1 | Fishermen cut fish into pieces and claim that they have none. Saint says, "If you have none, may you have them; if you have, may they be stones." Pieces of fish are changed to stones. (Cf. A977.5.2.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| J1881.2.3 | Fishes to stop at his house. Fool directs them as he places them in stream. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F931.6 | Fishing under sea. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| K119.1.1 | Fishing-rod alleged to take fish to fisherman's home. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| J1511.4 | Fits become epidemic. After dinner a servant feigns a fit and goes to sleep. The master thereupon feigns a fit and beats the boy, who is thus cured of his laziness. Type 1572*; Russian: Andrejev No. 1572A*. |
| Q583 | Fitting bodily injury as punishment. Irish myth: Cross; Jewish: *Neuman; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 16. |
| Q582 | Fitting death as punishment. (Cf. Q411, D2060.) Irish: O'Suilleabhain 125, Beal XXI 336; Jewish: *Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 374, II 851, 1353; Africa (Duala): Lederbogen JAS IV 61, (Wakweli): Bender 106f. |
| Q585 | Fitting destruction (disappearance) of property as punishment. (Cf. Q552.18, Q595.) India: Thompson-Balys; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 885, II 416, 1264. |
| D1273.1.2.1 | Five as magic number. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| T586.1.4 | Five children at a birth for four successive years. All alive. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| F818.2 | Five demons keepers of marvelous garden and palace. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| G303.1.5 | Five devils created by Adam create other devils in the same manner. Adam has created five devils by wetting five fingers with dew and shaking them behind him; God had commanded him to wet one finger. (Cf. G303.1.4.1.) Dh I 49. |
| A994 | Five great roads of Ireland "discovered" on night of king's birth. Irish myth: Cross. |
| A651.1.3 | Five heavens. S. Am. Indian (Chamacoco): Métraux MAFLS XL 25, BBAE CXLIII (1) 366. |
| F76.1 | Five hundred years to journey from earth to heaven. Jewish: Neuman. |
| A658.2 | Five hundred years travel across universe. Jewish: Neuman. |
| Z71.3.1 | Five sighs we should vent over our sins. Irish myth: Cross. |
| A661.3 | Five trees of paradise. Hindu: Penzer VIII 248 n. |
| Z71.3.2 | Five wounds of Christ. Irish myth: Cross. |
| B15.1.2.4 | Five-headed animal. |
| F531.1.2.2.3 | Five-headed giant. Irish myth: Cross; English: Child II 59. |
| K1432 | Fixing fences: trickster cuts fence down. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| H84.3 | Flail substantiates story of witnessing threshing in heaven. Type 852; German: Grimm No. 112. |
| F1061 | Flame as miraculous index. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| V200.1 | Flame illuminates cradle of sacred person. (Cf. H41.4.) Saintyves Saints Successeurs 247—48. |
| F1061.4 | Flame indicates place where innocent person was murdered. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| F1061.1 | Flame indicates presence of beautiful woman. (Cf. F1041.8.1. and cross references.) Malay, Indonesian: Dixon 222 n. 26. |
| H41.4 | Flame issuing from mouth as sign of royalty. English: Wells 14f. (The Lay of Havelok). |
| D1412.3 | Flames draw person into them. (Cf. D1271.) Jewish: Neuman. |
| E421.3.7 | Flames issue from corpse's mouth. Penzer II 62; Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| A152.2 | Flames surround God's throne. Jewish: Neuman. |
| D1382.5.1 | Flaming shield does not burn owner. (Cf. D1101.1.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| D1672.1 | Flaming shield unquenchable. (Cf. D1101.1.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| D1645.8.1.1 | Flaming spear must be cooled in noxious blood. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F541.1 | Flashing eyes. Irish myth: Cross. |
| D1335.7 | Flask imparts magic strength to drinker. (Cf. D1171.8.)—*Fb "flaske".—Norwegian: Dasent 204, 223. |
| J814.2 | Flatterer always agrees with king even in opposite opinions; defense: he is king's servant. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1637 | Flattering foreman tricked by his master. He always answers his master's remarks, "I have thought of the same thing too." He falls into the trap when his master says, "I am going to sow salt." Type 1574*. |
| J814 | Flattery of the great. |
| J814.4 | Flattery of the wicked to escape death at his hands: "This is an offering to my lord Esau from his slave Jacob". Jewish: Neuman. |
| Q268 | Flattery punished. Jewish: Neuman; Spanish Exempla: Keller (Q393.1.) |
| N777.3 | Flax dropped into well leads to adventures. Type 480; *Roberts 125. |
| E171 | Flayed animal resuscitated. Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q457.3 | Flaying alive as punishment for adultery. (Cf. Q241.) Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q457.1 | Flaying alive as punishment for contesting with a god. Greek: *Frazer Apollodorus I 30 n. 1 (Apollo and Marsyas). |
| Q457.4 | Flaying alive as punishment for opposition to holy person. (Cf. Q227.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q457 | Flaying alive as punishment. Grimm Deutsche Rechtsalterthümer II 291; DeCock Volkssage 85f.; Fb "menneskehud" II 579; Irish: O'Suilleabhain 43, Beal XXI 316; Swiss: Jegerlehner Oberwallis 309 No. 18. |
| F954.4.1 | Flea (magic) enters princess' throat and helps hero make her speak. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| J612.1 | Flea and fever exchange night-lodgings. Flea had attacked abbess and been chased all night; fever, a washerwoman who nearly froze it to death by going to the river and washing clothes. They exchange and succeed. *Crane Vitry 159 No. 59; *Bolte Zs. f. Vksk. XV 105; Wesselski Mönchslatein 87 No. 75; Alphabet No. 15; Scala Celi No. 430. |
| B521.3.3 | Flea's bite alarms king. Robber tells flea of plan to rob king. During the robbery the flea bites and awakens the king.—*Chauvin II 197 No. 29. |
| K961.2 | Flesh (vital organs) of certain person alleged to be only cure for disease. India: *Thompson-Balys; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 882; Africa (Temne): Schlenker Collection of Temne Traditions (London, 1861) 87ff. No. 7, (Hausa): Tremearne FL XXII 464ff. No. 50. |
| D2062.3 | Flesh magically does not regrow. Irish myth: Cross; Icelandic: Boberg. |
| D1318.7.1 | Flesh of animal reveals guilt. (Cf. D1017.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A2381 | Flesh of animal. |
| V30.1.1 | Flesh of Artemis eaten as quail or bear. Greek: Fox 183. |
| D1032.2 | Flesh of cat when chewed has magic results. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| K961 | Flesh of certain animal alleged to be only cure for disease: animal to be killed. (The sick lion.) *Type 50; *Krohn Bär (Wolf) und Fuchs (JSFO VI) 21ff.; **Graf FFC XXXVIII 20; *Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 494; Wienert FFC LVI 47 (ET 55), 50 (ET 102), 99 (ST 129), 100 (ST *133); Halm Aesop No. 255; Herbert IV 431f.; Chauvin III 78; India: *Thompson-Balys; Africa (Hottentot): Bleek 19 No. 10. |
| D1032.3 | Flesh of dog when chewed has magic results. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| D1032.4 | Flesh of pig when chewed has magic results. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| D1318.7.1.1 | Flesh of stolen animal cannot be cooked (turns putrid). Irish: Plummer cxliii, Cross. |
| D1500.1.33.2 | Flesh of white cow with red ears as only cure for mysterious illness. (Cf. D1032.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| E784 | Flesh regrows. Icelandic: *Boberg; Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "chair"; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| D1318.7 | Flesh reveals guilt. |
| G312.3 | Flesh-eating spirits live in trees. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| N339.2 | Flies caught in honey. Death from greed. Wienert FFC LVI 61 (ET 242), 146 (ST 512); Halm Aesop No. 293. |
| A2221.2.1 | Flies on Christ's body rewarded. They look like nails and prevent more nails being driven. They may eat at the king's table. (Cf. A2545.1.) Estonian: Aarne FFC XXV 150 No. 68 (cf. No. 69). |
| A2031.2 | Flies on the ark. Noah tries to keep them out. Devil says that either the flies go in or he does. Noah chooses the lesser of two evils. Later the devil slips in nevertheless. Dh I 268. |
| J971 | Flies try to drink water from elephant's ears. He kills them. *Chauvin II 89 n. 1. |
| K1041.1 | Flight by putting on bird feathers. Dupe falls. Spanish Exempla: Keller; India: Thompson-Balys; N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 295 n. 80. |
| R252 | Flight by vaulting on stick. N. A. Indian (California): Gayton and Newman 92. |
| R242 | Flight carrying friend (girl) on back. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| R227.2 | Flight from hated husband. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| S272.1 | Flight of brothers from home to avoid being sacrificed. *Type 451; BP I 70. |
| T311.1 | Flight of maiden (bridegroom) to escape marriage. Type 888*; cf. Type 510B; *Toldo II 306; Alphabet No. 310; Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg; Italian Novella: Rotunda; Greek: Aeschylus Suppliants line 5; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A2442.2 | Flight of various birds. |
| R251 | Flight on a tree, which ogre tries to cut down. **Parsons Zs. f. Ethnologie LIV 1-29; Bolte Zs. f. Vksk. XXXIII—XXXIV 38; Japanese: Ikeda; Korean: Zong in-Sob 9 No. 3; Africa (Togo): Einstein 12f.; Cape Verde Islands: Parsons MAFLS XV (1) 121 n. 3, 125, 131f.; American Negro (Georgia): Harris Friends 91 No. 12. Cf. Thompson Tales 341 n. 230. Most African references in B421. |
| F1021.1 | Flight on artificial wings. *Type 575; *BP II 131; Penzer IX 149; Köhler-Bolte I 120; *Chauvin V 231 No. 130; Greek: Frazer Apollodorus II 139 n. 2 (Daedalus); India: Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Ferguson 35. |
| B184.1.6.1 | Flight on invisible horse. Cox Cinderella 476 n. 6. |
| B184.1.6 | Flight on magic horse. *Type 314; BP III 94ff. (Gr. No. 136). Irish myth: Cross; India: Thompson-Balys; Japanese: Ikeda; Missouri French: Carrière. |
| R241 | Flight on skis; two on one pair. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| F1021.2.2 | Flight so high that eyelids drop from cold. (Cf. B552.1.) Gaster Exempla 186 No. 5. |
| F1021.2.1 | Flight so high that sun melts glue of artificial wings. Irish myth: Cross; Greek: Frazer Apollodorus II 139 n. 2 (Icarus). |
| R220 | Flights. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F804 | Floating rock (stone). Irish myth: *Cross. |
| B878.1.1 | Flock of birds so numerous that it shakes trees upon which it perches. Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q458.0.1 | Flogging as punishment for adultery. (Cf. Q241.) Malone PMLA XLIII 410. |
| Q458.0.6 | Flogging as punishment for desire to commit adultery. (Cf. Q241.1.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q458.0.2 | Flogging as punishment for disobedience to rulers. (Cf. Q325.) Alphabet No. 441; Spanish: Espinosa Jr. No. 142. |
| Q458.0.4 | Flogging as punishment for imposture. (Cf. Q262.) Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q458.0.5 | Flogging as punishment for reviling church. (Cf. Q225.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q458.0.3 | Flogging as punishment for theft. (Cf. Q212.) Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| Q458 | Flogging as punishment. *Roberts 212; Spanish: Espinosa Jr. Nos. 109, 164f.; Jewish: Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| Q458.2.3 | Flogging to death as punishment for seduction. (Cf. Q243.2.) Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q458.2.2 | Flogging to death as punishment for theft. (Cf. Q212.) Fb "piske" II 834. |
| Q458.2 | Flogging to death as punishment. (Cf. Q410, S122.) Africa (Fang): Trilles 270. |
| S122 | Flogging to death. (Cf. Q458.2.) Fb "piske" II 834; Icelandic: Boberg; Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 152. |
| A1018.1 | Flood as punishment for breaking tabu. Fiji, Tahiti, Maori, Andaman: Beckwith Myth 316—319; S. Am. Indian (Toba, Mataco, Lengua): Métraux BBAE CXLIII (1) 367. |
| A1018.2 | Flood as punishment for incest. American Indian (Namba): Müller Anthropos XXIX 186. |
| Q552.19.6 | Flood as punishment for murder (fratricide). (Cf. Q211.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| A1018 | Flood as punishment. *Frazer Old Testament I 144—360; Spanish Exempla: Keller.—Jewish: Neuman; Greek: Fox 158; Babylonian: Spence 45f.; India: Thompson-Balys; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 1056.—Society Is.: Dixon 39 n. 120; Hawaiian, Maori, Marquesas: ibid. 40; N. Am. Indian (Calif.): Gayton and Newman 59, (Pomo): Angelo JAFL XLVI 241, (Wishosk): Kroeber JAFL XVIII 96, (Apache): Goddard PaAM XXIV 8, (Hopi): Voth FM VIII 53, (Zuсi): Benedict Zuсi Mythology I 10ff.; Caribbean (Cuan): Stewart BBAE CXLIII (4) 267; S. Am. Indian (Chaco): Métraux BBAE CXLIII (1) 369, (Cubeo): Goldman JAFL LIII 244, (Toba): Métraux MAFLS XL 29, (Inca): Rowe BBAE CXLIII (2) 315.—See also references to "Sintflut" in A1010 and A1015, where in nearly all cases the gods produce the flood as punishment. |
| A1019.3 | Flood because earth has become too thickly populated. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| C984.3 | Flood because of broken tabu. Chatham Island: Beckwith Myth 19, notes 10—12; Marquesas: Handy 114; S. Am. Indian (Toba): Métraux MAFLS XL 29. |
| A1018.3 | Flood brought as revenge for injury. Tuamotu: Beckwith Myth 318; N. Am. Indian (Carrier): Jennes JAFL XLVII 141ff., (Ts'etsaut): Boas JAFL IX 262, (North Pacific Tribes): Boas Indianische Sagen 79, (Haida): Swanton BBAE XXIX 142, (Kwakiutl): Boas and Hunt JE III 100, (Mono): Gifford JAFL XXVI 326, (Shasta): Dixon JAFL XXIII 36, (Pima): Lloyd Aw-Aw-Tam 36ff., (Ojibwa): Jones-Michelson PAES VII 151, 271, (Menomini): Skinner and Satterlee PaAM XIII 255—260, Hoffman RBAE XIV 133; Central and S. Am. Indian (Cahita): Beals BBAE CXLII 216f., (Bororo): Baldus Ensaios de Etnologia Brasileira 176ff., (Tupinamba): Métraux BBAE CXLIII (3) 133. |
| A1017.3 | Flood caused by curse. S. Am. Indian (Chiriguano): Métraux BBAE CXLIII (3) 484. |
| A1015.3 | Flood caused by deity stamping on floor of heavens. Maori: Beckwith Myth 250, Clark 162. |
| A1015 | Flood caused by gods or other superior beings. (Cf. A1018.) —Babylonian: Jensen Gilgamesch Epos XI 53ff., 69ff.; Marquesas: Handy 109f.; S. Am. Indian (Tupinamba): Métraux BBAE CXLIII (3) 133, (Yuracare): ibid. 503. |
| A1012.2.1 | Flood caused by loosing fairy horse and allowing it to stale. Irish myth: Cross. |
| A1016.3 | Flood caused by melting of ice after great spell of cold. N. Am. Indian (Déné): Petitot Traditions 373-378; S. Am. Indian (Gusinde): Métraux MAFLS XL 37. |
| A1017.2 | Flood caused by prayer. Maori: Beckwith Myth 316. |
| A1011.2 | Flood caused by rising of river. S. A. Indian (Chiriguano): Métraux RMLP XXXIII 170. |
| A1017 | Flood caused to satisfy emotional need. |
| A1012.1.1 | Flood from Adam's tears of repentance. Dh I 223. |
| A1016.1 | Flood from animals' boring into ground (turtles, crawfishes, etc.). American Negro (Georgia): Harris Remus No. 5. |
| A1013 | Flood from belly. It flows from pierced belly of monster.—Indonesian: Dixon 196 n. 33; N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 287 n. 57c.; S. Am. Indian (Toba): Métraux MAFLS XL 127. |
| A1012.3 | Flood from blood. American Indian (Mono): Gifford JAFL XXVI 306. |
| A1016.4 | Flood from broken calabashes of water. American Indian (Puerto Rico): Fewkes RBAE XXV 73f., (Carajá): Baldus Ensaios de Etnologia Brasileira 174, Lowie Encyc. Rel. Ethics s.v. "flood". |
| A1015.1 | Flood from conflict of gods. Sea god and rain god.—Cook Group: Dixon 39 n. 121, 122; S. Am. Indian (Chiriguano): Campana Archivio per l'Antropologia et la Etnologia XXXII 22. |
| A1015.1.1 | Flood from conflict of monsters (giant animals). S. Am. Indian (Araucanian): Cooper BBAE CXLIII (2) 753, (Aymara): Tschopik ibid. (2) 571, (Chiriguano): Métraux ibid. (3) 484. |
| A1012 | Flood from fluids of the body. |
| A1012.3.1 | Flood from slain giant's blood. Icel.: Boberg. |
| A1012.1.2 | Flood from tears of grieving lover. N. Am. Indian (N'tlaka'panaq): British Association for the Advancement of Science LXIX 574f.; S. Am. Indian (Chaco): Nordenskiöld Indianerleben 253f. |
| A1012.1 | Flood from tears. N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 287 n. 57b; polynesian: Dixon 38 n. 117. |
| A1012.2 | Flood from urine. *Jochelson JE VI 367 (Koryak, Eskimo, Athapascan Indians). |
| A1011.1 | Flood partially caused by breaking forth of springs. Irish myth: Cross; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A1019.4 | Flood puts out world-fire. (Cf. A1030.)—S. Am. Indian (Tupinamba): Métraux BBAE CXLIII (3) 133, (Tucuna): Nimuendajá ibid. 724, (Cubeo): Goldman JAFL LIII 244. |
| S267 | Flood stopped by sacrifice of boy and girl. N. A. Indian (Zuсi): Benedict 337. |
| A1016.7 | Flood whenever shard at earth's core moves. Jewish: Neuman. |
| A1029.4 | Flood: refuge in huge gourds with seven rooms in each. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F451.4.3.5 | Floors in dwarf home are covered with pine twigs. German: Eckart 22. |
| F165.3.3 | Floors of silver in otherworld dwelling. Irish myth: Cross. |
| A2252.4 | Flounder complains in race: crooked mouth. In race between fish he cries out in jealousy because herring is winning. He is punished with crooked mouth. (Cf. A2341.1.)—*Dh IV 192—197; *BP III 284 (Gr. No. 172). |
| D2161.2.2 | Flow of blood magically stopped. (Cf. D1504.) Finnish: Kalevala rune 8. |
| D2182 | Flow of cow's milk increased by licking saint's garment. (Cf. D1052, D1652.3.) Irish: Plummer clxxxi, Cross. |
| D2182.1 | Flow of cow's milk increased by saint. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| D2182.2 | Flow of cow's milk increased by song (music). (Cf. D1275.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| A1069 | Flow of molten metal at end of world. Persian: Carnoy 262. |
| H432 | Flower as chastity index. (Cf. D975.) Fb "brudekrans" IV 65b; English: Child I 268; India: *Thompson-Balys, Penzer I 165. |
| D1648.2 | Flower bends only to certain person. (Cf. D975.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| D2195.1 | Flower blooms when touched. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| D621.2.2 | Flower by day; girl by night. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| E631.0.2 | Flower from grave bears letters. These commemorate the buried person. *Fb "grav" I 478a, "skrift"; Irish myth: Cross; Finnish-Swedish: Wessman 2 No. 11; Greek: *Frazer Apollodorus I 19 n. 3 (Hyacinth). |
| E631.1 | Flower from grave. BP II 126; Hungarian: Solymossy Hongaarache Sagen (1929) 243 No. 68, Moуr Ungarisches Jahrbuch V 430; India: *Thompson-Balys; Korean: Zong in-Sob 207. |
| F979.10 | Flower from otherworld (Land of Promise) miraculously appears to persons (saints). Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F814.3 | Flower only to be found at midnight. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| D2178.9 | Flower produced by magic. Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 135f. |
| K417.1 | Flower thief eats flowers to escape detection. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F814.5 | Flower visible only to blind man. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| E631.0.2.1 | Flower with "ave" on leaves. Crows from tomb as reward for faithful sayings of "Ave Maria". *Ward Catalogue of Romances II 654 No. 21; Herbert ibid. III 342; Von der Hagen Nos. 73, 88; Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| P311.2 | Flower-friendship. Friends take oath of brotherhood by exchanging flowers. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F447 | Flower-spirits. Japanese: Anesaki 342ff. |
| F814.6 | Flowers (lotus) of gold float on a river of milk. (Cf. F715.2.3.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| V12.8 | Flowers as sacrifice. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 16. |
| F971.5 | Flowers bloom in winter. Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 686; Alphabet No. 475; *Pease Cicero De Divinatione 217 (U. of Illinois Studies in Language and Literature); Stier in Pauly-Wissowa XV (1932) 2026; Icelandic: Herrmann Saxo II 102, MacCulloch Eddic 320; Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| D1364.3 | Flowers cause magic sleep. (Cf. D975.)—*Basset 1001 Contes I 143. |
| D2193 | Flowers drop on washing hands. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
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