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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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A
Mythological Motifs
B
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
T
Sex
U
The Nature of Life
V
Religion
W
Traits of Character
X
Humor
Z
Miscellaneous Groups of Motifs
| Thompson reference | Description ▲ |
|---|---|
| P251.1 | Friend unfaithful but brother faithful. Brought to test by actions at apparent death of hero. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| P319.3 | Friend's intercession saves man from execution. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| F475 | Friendly night-spirits. |
| E390 | Friendly return from the dead—miscellaneous. |
| E379 | Friendly return from the dead—other motifs. |
| E300 | Friendly return from the dead. Irish: *Cross, Beal XXI 331; Jewish: Neuman. |
| P310.2 | Friends avenge each other. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| P311.4 | Friends born at same moment. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| H1558.7.2 | Friends desert when man reports loss of his money. England: Baughman. |
| K305.2 | Friends enter into stealing contest. Steal from each other. (Cf. K306.) Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| P311.0.1 | Friends exchange names. Irish myth: Cross. |
| P310.9 | Friends given the power of reading each other's secret thoughts. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F577.1 | Friends identical in appearance. Irish myth: Cross; Cape Verde Islands. Parsons MAFLS XV (1) 212 No. 73. |
| M253 | Friends in life and death. In pursuance of the pledge, the living follows the other to the world of the dead. *Type 470; Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 561; **MacKay The Double Invitation; Jewish Neuman. |
| P315 | Friends offer to die for each other. (Bürgschaft.) Each falsely confesses crime so as to save the other. Neither guilty. Often combined with P325. **Abeles "Die Bürgschaft als Motif in der jüdischen Literatur" Monatschr. f. Geschichte u. Wissenschaft der Juden LX 213ff., 263ff.; **K. Kelling Das Bürgschaftsmotiv in der französischen Literatur (Leipzig diss., 1915); *Chauvin III 124 No. 113, V 215f., VIII 194ff. IX 16f.; *Hdwb. d. Märchens I 350a s.v. "Bürgschaft"; Köhler-Bolte II 557, 580f.; Gaster Exempla Nos. 362, 419; Basset 1001 Contes II 293ff.; Boccaccio Decameron X No. 8 (*Lee 330); Fischer Zs. f. deutsche Morgenländische Ges. LXXII 290; Bolte Zs. f. Vksk. XXI 193 n. 4, 194; Scala Celi 10a, 11b Nos. 62, 68; bin Gorion Born Judas IV 20, 274; Alphabet Nos. 53, 57. — Spanish Exempla: Keller; Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| H1558.8 | Friends refuse to fight against each other. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| P310.4 | Friends want their children to be friends too. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| P310.1 | Friends want to divide good and evil. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| P310.4.2 | Friends' children become enemies. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| P311.8 | Friendship between a prince and common man. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| A2493.29 | Friendship between ant and pheasant. Papua: Ker 118. |
| A2493.32 | Friendship between antelope, woodpecker and tortoise. Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 642. |
| A2493.27 | Friendship between bird and crab. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| A2493.18 | Friendship between cat and tiger. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A2493.16 | Friendship between cock and dog. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A2493.30.2 | Friendship between cow and lioness. Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 1028. |
| A2493.24 | Friendship between cow and tiger, calf and cub. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A2493.19 | Friendship between crab and cobra. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A2493.5 | Friendship between deer and fish. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A2493.31 | Friendship between dog and elephant. Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 137. |
| A2493.20 | Friendship between frog and cricket. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A2493.22 | Friendship between goat and hog. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A2493.21 | Friendship between grasshopper and dungbeetle. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A2493.13 | Friendship between hare and parrot. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A2493.34.1 | Friendship between hen and sparrow. Africa (Wakweli): Bender 51. |
| A2493.11.1 | Friendship between jackal and alligator. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A2493.11 | Friendship between jackal and crocodile. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A2493.11.2 | Friendship between jackal and elephant. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A2493.11.4 | Friendship between jackal and partridge. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A2493.11.3 | Friendship between jackal and tiger. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A2493.8 | Friendship between leopard and goat. Africa (Congo): Weeks Jungle 433ff. |
| A2493.7.1 | Friendship between leopard-cat and night-jar. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A2493.7 | Friendship between leopard-cat and squirrel. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A2493.30.1 | Friendship between lion and jackal. Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 775, II 895. |
| A2493.23 | Friendship between louse and crow. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A2493.4 | Friendship between man and dog. India: Thompson-Balys; Africa (Kweli): Sieber 92f. |
| A2493.14 | Friendship between monkey and elephant. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A2493.14.2 | Friendship between monkey and lion. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A2493.14.4 | Friendship between monkey and rabbit. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A2493.14.3 | Friendship between monkey and stork. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A2493.14.1 | Friendship between monkey and tiger. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A2493.28 | Friendship between mouse and butterfly. Papua: Ker 100. |
| A2493.26 | Friendship between parrot and maina. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A2493.14.5 | Friendship between partridge, monkey and elephant. Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 1008. |
| A2493.33 | Friendship between pike and crawfish. Africa (Wakweli): Bender 41. |
| A2493.25 | Friendship between snake and crow. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| A2493.6 | Friendship between squirrel and quail. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A2493.17 | Friendship between tiger and deer (fawn). India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A2493.30 | Friendship between tiger and lion. Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 623, 823. |
| A2493.12 | Friendship between turtle and heron. New Hebrides: Codrington I 1. |
| A2493.12.1 | Friendship between turtle and wallaby. Papua: Ker I. |
| A2493.15 | Friendship between wolf and ass. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K2010.2 | Friendship feigned to avenge murder. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| H1558.10 | Friendship kept up even during sons' jealousy and enmity. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| A2493.2 | Friendship of bat and owl. Dh III 355. |
| A2493.9 | Friendship of cat and mouse. Grimm No. 2. |
| A2493.10 | Friendship of fox and titmouse. Cheremis: Sebeok-Nyerges. |
| A2493.34 | Friendship of hen and duck. Africa (Wakweli): Bender 81f. |
| A2493.1 | Friendship of prairie-dog and owl. Dh III 352. |
| P32 | Friendship of prince and commoner. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| J426.2 | Friendship of snake and frog ceases when snake wants to eat frog. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A2493.3 | Friendship of tiger and buffalo. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| P310.8 | Friendship possible only between equals. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| P313.1 | Friendship starts at babyhood: two babies exchanged. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| P310 | Friendship. *Type 516; *BP I 46; **Rösch FFC LXXVII 96; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| A2493 | Friendships between the animals. Dh III 324ff.—Bödker Exempler 290 No. 45—46.—Indonesian: De Vries's list No. 86. |
| J2624 | Fright at animals' eyes in the dark. Africa (Angola): Chatelain 209 No. 21. |
| J2615.1 | Fright at noise of mill. North Carolina: Brown Collection I 697; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| J2615 | Fright at the creaking of a wheelbarrow. Type 1321**. |
| A2212.2 | Frightened animals scatter: cause of present habitat of each. (Cf. A2433.1.)—Kaffir: Theal 172, 176. |
| J2627 | Frightened by fireworks. Christensen DF XLVII No. 30. |
| A2212.1 | Frightened rabbit puts head in charred tree: hence black ears. (Cf. A2325.2.)—Finnish: Aarne FFC VII 13 No. 71. |
| K335.1.0.1 | Frightened robber leaves his coat behind. Chauvin II 83 No. 5; Bødker Exempler 273 No. 6. |
| E721.1.2.5 | Frightened soul cannot return to body. Eskimo (Greenland): Rink 452. |
| T284 | Frightened wife shows marks of affection for husband. This is so rare that he pardons the robber who has caused the fright. Chauvin II 97 No. 52; Panchatantra III 9 (tr. Ryder 341); Bødker Exempler 295 No. 57; Spanish Exempla: Keller; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| E481.2.1.1 | Frightening thing at bridge to land of dead. N. A. Indian (California): Gayton and Newman 99. |
| Q478 | Frightful meal as punishment. Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 597. |
| H1567.1 | Frightful meal as test of leadership. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| S183 | Frightful meal. (Cf. Q478.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| A671.3 | Frigidity of hell. Irish myth: Cross; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 786. |
| J1062.1 | Frog as beauty doctor unable to cure his own ugliness. Wienert FFC LVI 45 (ET 27), 57 (ET 179), 101 (ST 134); Halm Aesop No. 78. |
| B535.0.6 | Frog as nurse for child. India: Thompson-Balys; S. A. Indian (Warrau): Métraux RMLP XXXIII 146. |
| K730.2 | Frog causes deer to dance into snare. Indonesia: DeVries's list No. 122. |
| F911.3.4 | Frog eats a rat, a baker, a man, and a horse. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K561.1.2 | Frog escapes after telling crow to sharpen his bill before eating him. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A2231.4 | Frog fails to honor infant Jesus: loses tail. (Cf. A2221.1, A2378.2.3.—Dh II 17. |
| J952.5 | Frog heaps abuse on bullock, who scorns him. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A751.3 | Frog in moon. S. Am. Indian (Warrau): Métraux RMLP XXXIII 123. |
| B784.2.3 | Frog is enticed from patient's mouth by offering it a piece of cheese. England: Baughman. |
| B215.4 | Frog language. *Type 671. |
| J1791.5.3 | Frog leaps into water after elephant's reflection. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B784.0.1 | Frog living in person's stomach rises into throat, croaks every spring. England: Baughman. |
| J652.1 | Frog persists in living in puddle on road. Disregards advice of another frog and is run over. Wienert FFC LVI 59 (ET 203), 118 (ST 279); Halm Aesop No. 75; North Carolina: Brown Collection I 704. |
| F989.23 | Frog pierces hardest metals and marbles. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| B548.2.2.1 | Frog recovers keys from sea. French Canadian: Sister Marie Ursule. |
| B548.5 | Frog recovers Sacred Host from water. French Canadian: Sister Marie Ursule. |
| N641.2 | Frog removed from queen's nose by telling such interesting story that she gives quick breath and dislodges him. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B547.4 | Frog rescues man from kingdom of the snakes. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B375.2 | Frog returned to spring: grateful. Teaches hero animals' language (Cf. B217).—*Type 670B; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| J1772.13 | Frog thinks cattle are distant country. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| J955.1 | Frog tries in vain to be as big as ox. Bursts. Jacobs Aesop 205 No. 22; Wienert FFC LVI 58 (ET 192), 93 (ST 61); Halm Aesop No. 84; *Crane Vitry 145 No. 29; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| J512.12 | Frog wants to be shod like a horse. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B126.1 | Frog with magic knowledge. Jewish: Neuman. |
| B292.9.1 | Frog works in fields for benefactor. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| J1908.3 | Frog-woman betrays self by croaking. Africa (Nama): Des Schwartzen Menschen Märchenweisheit (Stuttgart, 1929) 140f. No. 27. |
| D789.3.1 | Frog-woman disenchanted by sight of water. Hindu: Keith 147. |
| L395 | Frog, tortoise, fish each tell of how long they expect to live. Frog alone does not expect to live to a hundred and ten years and alone escapes fisherman's net. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| J1811.2 | Frog's cries misunderstood. U.S.: *Baughman. |
| A2426.4.1 | Frog's croak. (See A2275.4.)—Jewish: Neuman; Japanese: Ikeda; Angola: Chatelain 217 No. 38; Liberia: Bundy JAFL XXXII 420. |
| F989.24 | Frogs cast themselves into oven-flames and devour bread. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| H71.10.3 | Frogs croak at prince's command. De Vries FFC LXXIII 330. |
| J752.1 | Frogs decide not to jump into the well. Their spring having dried up, they consider jumping into a well. They decide that the well may also dry up. Wienert FFC LVI 59 (ET 202), 108 (ST 201); Halm Aesop No. 74; Italian Novella: Rotunda (J742). |
| J643.1 | Frogs demand a live king. King Log. Zeus has given them a log as king, but they find him too quiet. He then gives them a stork who eats them. Wienert FFC LVI *78 (ET 436), 110 (ST 217); Halm Aesop No. 76; *Crane Vitry 143 No. 24; Lithuanian: Balys Index No. *277; Estonian: Aarne FFC XXV No. *277; Russian: Andrejev No. 277; Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| J613.2 | Frogs fear defeated bull. See two bulls fighting; know that the loser will take refuge in their marsh. Wienert FFC LVI 55 (ET 151), *148 (ST 531). |
| J613.1 | Frogs fear increase of sun's power which will dry up all their puddles. Wienert FFC LVI *76 (ET 421), 136 (ST 418); Halm Aesop No. 77; Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 3189; Legends Nos. 288f. |
| A2426.4.1.1 | Frogs formerly were ducks stolen from Eden by Cain. God changed them to frogs; and so frogs sound like ducks in the spring. (Cf. A2162.)—U. S.: Baughman. |
| J2211.1 | Frogs reprove ass for lamenting when he falls into morass. "What would you do if you had to live here always?" Wienert FFC LVI 56 (ET 163), 90 (ST 30); Halm Aesop No. 327. |
| J2102.8 | Frogs to eat insects, snakes to eat frogs. Snakes eat numskull's family. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| J512.15 | Frogs want to collect honey like bees. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| G303.25.5.1 | From the parings of man's nails devils make little caps for themselves. Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 3305. |
| H765 | From wooden spring iron bucket makes stones from which water flows. (Metal stick picks stone from eye. If you rub lids with it, tears come.) Jewish: bin Gorion Born Judas III 32, 297f., *Neuman. |
| D2143.5 | Frost produced by magic. U.S.: Baughman. |
| F531.1.9 | Frost-giants. Icelandic: Herrmann Saxo II 580, MacCulloch Eddic 278f., 324, Boberg. |
| A289.1 | Frost-god. Gaster Thespis 345; Type 480 (*Roberts 120).—Finno-Ugric: Holmberg Finno-Ugric 233; Icel.: Boberg. |
| H434 | Fruit as chastity index. |
| D1364.4 | Fruit causes magic sleep. (Cf. D980.)—*Basset 1001 Contes I 143e. |
| D1665.3 | Fruit has any taste desired. (Cf. D980.) Jewish: Neuman. |
| D474.8 | Fruit juice turns to blood. Jewish: Neuman. |
| D2145.2.2 | Fruit magically grows in winter. Wells 161 (Sir Cleges); Irish myth: Cross. |
| D2105.7 | Fruit obtained from tree by magic. Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 409. |
| D1346.6 | Fruit of immortality. (Cf. D981.)—Jewish: Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys, Penzer VI 216. |
| D1359.3.3 | Fruit of magic tree exhilarating. (Cf. D950, D981.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| D1355.3.3 | Fruit pierced with pins as love charm. (Cf. D981.) Kittredge Witchcraft 102, 433 n. 226. |
| F971.5.1 | Fruit produced out of season at saint's request. Irish: Plummer cliv, *Cross; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| X1130.2 | Fruit tree grows from head of deer shot with fruit pits. Compare Münchhausen (1944) 32 (cherry tree). Canada, U.S.: *Baughman; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T485 | Fruit-picking time used for sexual promiscuity. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F733 | Fruitful island. Irish myth: Cross. |
| J241 | Fruitful tree chosen. |
| H1574.2 | Fruitfulness of nature as proof of kingly right. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F971.4 | Fruitless tree bears fruit. Done at saint's request. *Dh II 9; Alphabet No. 290; Irish: Plummer cliv, *Cross. |
| F813.0.4 | Fruits always sweet. Jewish: Neuman. |
| F813.0.1 | Fruits containing jewels. Penzer VI 166, 232, 236ff.; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| D1619.3 | Fruits that laugh or cry. Chauvin VII 56 No. 77. |
| E694.3 | Frustrated boy reborn as lizard. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| E694.2 | Frustrated woman reborn as tobacco plant. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| R236.1 | Fugitive aided by magic mist. Irish myth: *Cross; Jewish: Neuman. |
| L111.1.2 | Fugitive bull-calf returns when grown and defeats his father. West Indies: Flowers 557—9. |
| R231.2 | Fugitive cuts tail of camel caught by pursuer and it turns into grass. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| R351 | Fugitive discovered by reflection in water. *Type 408; *Cox 503; *Cosquin Contes indiens 85ff.; *Köhler-Bolte I 281; Köhler-Bolte Zs. f. Vksk. VI 64 to Gonzenbach No. 14; Malone PMLA XLIII 399.—India: *Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Graham; Japanese: Ikeda; Indonesia: DeVries's list No. 212, Dixon 140 n. 21, 226 n. 33; New Hebrides, Torres Straits, New Guinea: ibid. 140 n. 21; Melanesia: ibid. 226 n. 33; N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 352 n. 270. |
| K533.1 | Fugitive disguises successively in different forms and deceives pursuer into self-injury. Chinese: Graham. |
| R236.4 | Fugitive has magic wind against him, pursuer with him (caused by goddess). Icelandic: Boberg. |
| N696 | Fugitive in tree urinates from fright: pursuers think it rain and leave. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| R233 | Fugitive kills pursuer and takes his extraordinary horse to continue flight. Boje 96ff. |
| T215.5 | Fugitive returns to his family so that they may collect reward from his capture. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| N255.4 | Fugitive slave takes refuge in mill house, where he must work harder than ever. Wienert FFC LVI *83 (ET 499), 116 (ST 260); Halm Aesop No. 121. |
| N382 | Fugitive slave takes wrong road and is caught. Wienert FFC LVI 85 (ET 518), 116 (ST 264). |
| D671.0.2 | Fugitive transformed by helper to escape detection. Irish myth: Cross; Greek: Grote I 238. |
| D671.0.1 | Fugitive transforms self to stone. Thrown to safety by pursuer. Africa (Zulu): Held 144ff., (Bechuana): Brown, J. T. Among the Bantu Nomads (London, 1926) 181ff., (Northern Rhodesia): Worthington The Little Wise One (London, 1930) 135ff. No. 19, (Gan): Westermann Die Sprache der Guang (Berlin, 1922) 86f. |
| N185 | Fugitive woman burdened with child saved; childless woman killed. Estonian: Aarne FFC XXV 136 No. 92. |
| K646 | Fugitive's confederate misdirects pursuer. Scottish: Campbell-McKay No. 15; Korean: Zong in-Sob 22, 212; N. A. Indian (Klikitat): Jacobs U Wash II 31. |
| R243 | Fugitives aided by helpful animal. (Cf. B520.) |
| R235 | Fugitives cut support of bridge so that pursuer falls. Indonesia: Dixon 229. |
| R257 | Fugitives sustain selves on apples. Hdwb. d. Märchens I 90b no. 3. |
| R267 | Fugitives trailed by mustard seeds (ashes) dropped from bag. (Cf. R135.) India: *Thompson-Balys; Africa (Kaffir): Theal 127ff. |
| D1813.4 | Fugitives' way revealed by magic. Icelandic: Hrуlfs saga Kraka ch. 1; Egils saga einhenda ch. IX 8 p. 44, *Boberg. |
| M202 | Fulfilling of bargain or promise. |
| Q20.2 | Fulfillment of precepts rewarded. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| M391.1 | Fulfillment of prophecy successfully avoided. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| M391 | Fulfillment of prophecy. |
| V65.5 | Funeral games. Virgil Aeneid V 66; Irish myth: *Cross. |
| V60.2 | Funeral rites by druids. Irish myth: Cross. |
| V62.1 | Funeral rites forbidden. Irish myth: *Cross; Greek: Fox 53, Sophocles' "Antigone". |
| V69 | Funeral rites-miscellaneous. |
| V60 | Funeral rites. *Encyc. Rel. Ethics Index 212a; Irish myth: *Cross; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| V66 | Funeral sermon. |
| V65.4.1 | Funeral song sung over dead. *Hdwb. d. Abergl. VIII 1071ff.; *E. Reiner Die rituelle Totenklage der Griechen (Stuttgart, 1938); Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: Boberg. |
| P672.1 | Fur made of beards of conquered kings. Welsh: MacCulloch Celtic 185. |
| F1084 | Furious battle. Irish myth: *Cross; Jewish: Neuman. |
| F166 | Furniture and objects in the otherworld. Siuts 83. |
| F1041.16.6.7 | Fury enables wounded soldiers to continue fighting. Die at end of battle. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F1041.16.6.1 | Fury in battle causes stream of blood to rise from warrior's head. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F1041.16.6.2 | Fury in battle causes warrior to increase in size. Irish myth: Cross. |
| Z123.1 | Fury personified as demon which enters man's heart and counsels evil. Irish myth: Cross. |
| Z123 | Fury personified. (Cf. A486.) Irish myth: Cross; Jewish: Neuman. |
| A2743.1 | Fuschia belongs to devil: hence ball and red petals. North Carolina: Brown Coll. I 635. |
| U173 | Futile attempt to explain to a blind man meaning of "white". India: Thompson-Balys. |
| P173.4 | Futile attempt to get rid of man by selling him to merchants as slave. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| M382 | Futile moving to avoid death. Man told by Death he will die where he stands sells everything and moves to another town. He goes for a ride on a mare which runs away with him and throws him on the spot he so dreads, killing him. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| J1076 | Futility of distant travel. |
| J1087 | Futility of expecting stranger to have one's interest at heart. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| J1082 | Futility of trying to hide an obvious deed. |
| J1064 | Futility of trying to teach the stupid. |
| M398 | Futility of weather prophecies. Irish: O'Suilleabhain 72, 110. |
| L111.7 | Future hero (heroine) raised by animal. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T617.1 | Future hero as child isolated from world kills increasingly larger game with superior weapons. N. A. Indian (California): Gayton and Newman 69. |
| L111.2.1 | Future hero found in boat (basket, bushes). Legends of Moses, Cyrus, Beowulf and others. *Usener Die Sintfluthsagen (Bonn, 1899) 80ff.; Hdwb. d. Märchens I s.v. "Aussetzung in Boot"; Icelandic: *Boberg; Missouri French: Carrière; Italian Novella: Rotunda; Jewish: *Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys; Japanese: Ikeda. |
| L111.2.4 | Future hero found in wolf den. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| L111.2.2 | Future hero found on shore. Icelandic: *Boberg; Italian Novella: Rotunda; Tonga: Gifford 122. |
| L111.2.3 | Future hero found on top of a tree. Chinese: Graham. |
| L111.2.1.1 | Future heroine found in hollow tree (calfshed, house "without door but only window and skylight"). Irish myth: *Cross. |
| M369.2.1 | Future husband (wife) foretold. Irish myth: Cross; Jewish: Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| D1812.3.3.9 | Future husband (wife) revealed in dream. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| D1812.3.1 | Future learned by sitting on hide. Kittredge Witchcraft 47, *399 nn. 181—186; Irish myth: *Cross. |
| D1812.5 | Future learned through omens. *Fb "varsel"; *Kittredge Witchcraft 398 n. 170; Irish: *Cross, O'Suilleabhain 110, Beal XXI 334; Icelandic: *Boberg; Spanish Exempla: Keller; Jewish: Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys, Cowell Jataka index s.v. "Omens". |
| T575.1.4 | Future poet chants spell in mother's womb. Irish myth: Cross. |
| D1810.3.1 | Future revealed by "knowledge tooth". (Cf. D1009.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| D1812.4 | Future revealed by presentiment: "knowledge within". Irish myth: Cross; England, U.S.: *Baughman; India: Thompson-Balys; S. A. Indian (Toba): Métraux MAFLS XL 88; Africa (Ekoi): Talbot 68, 227, (Zulu): Callaway 194. |
| D1812.3.3 | Future revealed in dream. (Cf. D1810.8, D1812.5.1.2, D1813.1.) *Type 725; *BP I 324; *Fb "sove" III 472b; *Hartland FLJ IV 321; *Pauli (ed. Bolte) Nos. 182, 183, 287, 328, 466, 826—830; *Gaster Exempla Nos. 215, 216, 218, 219, 242; Loomis White Magic; Alphabet Nos. 266, 305; Child V 477 s.v. "dreams"; *Encyc. Religion and Ethics s.v. "Dreams and sleep"; Loomis White Magic 17f.; Corpus Poeticum Boreale I 334, 347.—Irish myth: *Cross; Norse: Sofus Larsen Antik og Nordisk Drømmetro (Aarbøger for Nordisk Oldkyndighed 1917, 37ff.), G. D. Kelchner Dreams in Old Norse Literature and Their Affinities in Folklore (Cambridge, England, 1935); Icelandic: MacCulloch Eddic 311—12, *Boberg; England, Scotland, Wales, U.S.: *Baughman; Spanish Exempla: Keller; Greek: Frazer Apollodorus II 46 n. 1 (Hecuba); Jewish: Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Werner 276, Graham.—S. A. Indian (Cherentes): Alexander Lat. Am. 308; Eskimo (Greenland): Rasmussen I 134; Africa (Angola): Chatelain 67, 249, (Fjort): Dennett 39 No. 5, (Kaffir): Theal 128, (Bushman): Bleek and Lloyd 17, (Zulu): Callaway 146, (Gold Coast): Barker and Sinclair 124. |
| D1976.2 | Future spouse met during magic sleep. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| T575.1.2 | Future suicide weeps in mother's womb. Fb "selvmord". |
| F832.1.1 | Gae bulga. Barbed lance which cannot be withdrawn. (Cf. A1459.1.4.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| G303.2.4 | Gaelic titles given to the devil: the worthless one; the one whom I will not mention; yon one; the one big one; the one from the abyss; the mean mischievous one; the big sorrow; the son of cursing; the big grizzled one; the bad one; the bad spirit; Black Donald. J. G. Campbell Superstitions of the Highlands and Islands of Scotland (Glasgow, 1900) 291. |
| D1505.19 | Gall of slain giant restores sight. Cheremis: Sebeok-Nyerges. |
| A2386 | Gall-bladder of animal. |
| E274 | Gallows ghost. Ghost haunts gallows. Lappish: Qvigstad FFC LX 40 No. 9; U.S.: Baughman. |
| H215.2 | Gallows rope breaks when innocent person is hanged. Irish: O'Suilleabhain 44. |
| R138.2 | Gam rescues hero as boy from shipwreck. Icelandic: Lagerholm 163—164. |
| N9.1 | Gambler loses everything. (Cf. N2.5.) India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| T10.1.1 | Gambler reformed by falling in love. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| N8 | Gambler's attention distracted by women. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| N1 | Gamblers. Spanish: Espinosa Jr. Nos. 70—73, 210; Missouri French: Carrière; Jewish: *Neuman. |
| G11.13 | Gambling cannibal. Icelandic: Boberg; N. A. Indian (California): Gayton and Newman 69. |
| N1.0.1 | Gambling caused by possession of men by evil demons. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K92 | Gambling contest won by deception. N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 354 n. 276. |
| K92.1 | Gambling contest: coin which attracts fly first to win. Winning coin had been rubbed on a pear. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| N3.1 | Gambling with a god. India: Thompson-Balys; N. A. Indian (Zuсi) *Benedict II 338. |
| D2085 | Game animals magically made overwary. Scotch: Campbell II 56. |
| A163.1 | Game between gods. (Cf. A164.3.1.). |
| N622 | Game killed by jumping on it from above. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| H375.1 | Game of hide and seek with seven princesses to determine which is to be hero's wife. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| X1130.1 | Game rolls down hill in snow; snowball builds up around game, keeps it fresh and protected until used. U.S.: *Baughman. |
| P203 | Game with ancestors' bones. A boy interrupts a game played with the bones of his father or other murdered relative. N. A. Indian: Kroeber JAFL XXI 225. |
| K92.2 | Game won with loaded dice. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Z19.1 | Game-tales. (Used as game.) *BP II 210. |
| F959.3.2 | Gaping wound closed with slab of wood. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F975.1 | Garden becomes wilderness because of owner's wickedness. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F975 | Garden becomes wilderness. |
| H216.1 | Garden filled with flowers on innocent girl's approach. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F219.2 | Garden in fairyland. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F162.1 | Garden in otherworld. Patch Other World 377 s.v. "garden"; *Siuts 68ff.—Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: Boberg. |
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