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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
H
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
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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 ▲ |
|---|---|
| E544.2 | Ghost pulls off blanket from sleeper. Lithuanian: Balys Ghosts, Index No. 3540. |
| E234 | Ghost punishes injury received in life. |
| E235.1 | Ghost punishes person who mocks him. Fb "sjæl" III 214b, "gjenganger" I 443b; Spanish Exempla: Keller; U.S.: Baughman. |
| E279.6 | Ghost punishes person who molests him. England, Ireland, Wales: *Baughman. |
| E261.4 | Ghost pursues man. North Carolina: Brown Collection I 677, 681; Eskimo (Greenland): Rink 409, 463, Rasmussen III 182, (Mackenzie Area): Jenness 62. |
| E384.2 | Ghost raised inadvertently by whistling. England: Baughman. |
| E337 | Ghost reenacts scene from own lifetime. U.S.: Baughman. |
| E235.2.2 | Ghost returns because corpse was not properly burned. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| E586.0.1 | Ghost returns before burial. U.S.: Baughman. |
| E363 | Ghost returns to aid living. |
| E376 | Ghost returns to confess misdeed. England: Baughman. |
| E235.2 | Ghost returns to demand proper burial. Fb "lig" II 411b; Irish: *Cross, Baughman; Jewish: Neuman; Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 199. |
| E234.0.1 | Ghost returns to demand vengeance. (Cf. E232.2.) U.S.: *Baughman. |
| E419.8 | Ghost returns to enforce its burial wishes or to protest disregard of them. England, U.S.: *Baughman. |
| E415.1 | Ghost returns to hunt lost article. Finnish-Swedish: Wessman 3 No. 24; U.S.: *Baughman (E328). |
| E231.5 | Ghost returns to murderer, causes him to confess. England, U.S.: *Baughman. |
| E363.2 | Ghost returns to protect the living. England, U.S., Wales: *Baughman; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| E232.4 | Ghost returns to slay enemies. U.S.: Baughman; S. A. Indian (Guaporé River): Lévi-Strauss BBAE CXLIII (3) 378. |
| E232.2 | Ghost returns to slay man who has injured it while living. England, U.S.: *Baughman. |
| E272.2 | Ghost rides behind rider on horse. (Cf. E215.) England, U.S.: *Baughman. |
| E581.4 | Ghost rides bus. |
| E581.3 | Ghost rides cow. U.S.: *Baughman. |
| E581.6 | Ghost rides giant demijohn. U.S.: Baughman. |
| E581.5 | Ghost rides heavy iron chest. U.S.: Baughman. |
| E581.2 | Ghost rides horse. England, U.S.: *Baughman. |
| E332.3.2 | Ghost rides in carriage, disappears suddenly at certain spot. England, U.S.: *Baughman. |
| E272.1 | Ghost rides in cart. Horse can scarcely pull cart, later dies or goes mad. (Cf. D1654.9, E332, E411.0.3.) Ireland, England: Baughman. |
| E581.4.1 | Ghost rides on bus, disappears before it crosses bridge. U.S.: Baughman. |
| E332.3.1 | Ghost rides on horseback with rider. (Cf. E215.) U.S.: Baughman. |
| E262 | Ghost rides on man's back. *Fb "ryg" III 103a, "spøgelse" III 520a; E. H. Meyer Germanische 76; Schönbach Sitzungsberichte d. Phil. Hist. Classe der Kaiserl. Akad. d. Wiss. zu. Wien CXXXIX (1890) 135; Icelandic: Boberg; Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 3511. |
| E581.7 | Ghost sails over sound on bundle of straw. Fb "halmknippe" I 539b. |
| E293.2 | Ghost scares card players. U.S., Wales: *Baughman. |
| E293.1 | Ghost scares thief, prevents theft. England: *Baughman. |
| E599.1 | Ghost searches for breath. U.S.: Baughman. |
| E236.8 | Ghost seeks repayment of stolen money. England, Wales: *Baughman. |
| E421.5 | Ghost seen by two or more persons; they corroborate the appearance. England: *Baughman. |
| E599.9 | Ghost seen in two places simultaneously. England: Baughman. |
| E410.2 | Ghost shakes off earth when he rises from grave. N. A. Indian (California): Gayton and Newman 99. |
| E535.3 | Ghost ship. (Cf. E510.) Canada, England, U.S.: *Baughman. Childs NYFQ V 146ff.; Jones JAFL LVII 244. |
| E402.1.1.4 | Ghost sings. (Cf. E546.) England, U.S.: *Baughman. |
| E231.2 | Ghost skeleton points lance at murderer. U.S.: Baughman. |
| E402.1.7 | Ghost slams door. Canada: Baughman. |
| E234.1 | Ghost slaps face of son who cheated him out of property. A cancer grows on son's face. Canada: Baughman. |
| E402.1.1.5 | Ghost snores. U.S.: Baughman. |
| E402.1.1.6 | Ghost sobs. (Cf. E551.) England: Baughman. |
| E402.1.3.1 | Ghost sounds conch shell. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 349. |
| E234.2 | Ghost stampedes stolen cattle being driven past his ranch. U.S.: Baughman. |
| E593.2 | Ghost steals book from priest. *Fb "bog" IV 53b. |
| E593.1 | Ghost steals collar of priest. Evil therefore befalls priest. *Fb "gjenganger" I 443. |
| E593.5 | Ghost steals food and treasure. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 123. |
| E265.1.3 | Ghost strikes man in face, making his mouth crooked. Ireland: Baughman. |
| E542.1.4.1 | Ghost strikes man on face: cancer grows there. Canada: Baughman. |
| E542.1.4.2 | Ghost strikes man on face: marks remain permanently. U.S.: Baughman. |
| E542.1.4 | Ghost strikes man on face. |
| E542.1.3 | Ghost strikes man on mouth; leaves his mouth crooked. Ireland: Baughman. |
| E363.1.1 | Ghost substitutes for bride on her wedding journey. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| E251.3.4 | Ghost sucks people's breath. Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 173. |
| E384.1 | Ghost summoned by beating drum. England: Baughman. |
| E384.3 | Ghost summoned by blast on horn (whistle). Scottish: Campbell-McKay No. 29; S. A. Indian (Brazil): Oberg 110. |
| E386.2 | Ghost summoned by charm. Icelandic: Herrmann Saxo II 98; MacCulloch Eddic 298—300, 312. |
| E386.1 | Ghost summoned by holy water. Icelandic: MacCulloch Eddic 312. |
| E384 | Ghost summoned by music. |
| E382 | Ghost summoned by pouring blood of sacrifices into trench. Greek: Fox 145. |
| E381 | Ghost summoned by weeping. See all references to E361. *Jellinek Zs. f. Vksk. XIV 323f; India: Thompson-Balys; N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 281 n. 41. |
| E387.3 | Ghost summoned for purposes of necromancy. Jewish: Neuman. |
| E387.1 | Ghost summoned in order to talk to it. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| E387.2 | Ghost summoned to get something from it. |
| E389 | Ghost summoned—miscellaneous. |
| E380 | Ghost summoned. *Fb "mane" II 547a; Irish: Beal XXI 310; Scotland: Baughman; Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 3513; Jewish: *Neuman; Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| E593.4 | Ghost takes bones from grave. Eskimo (Greenland): Holm 81. |
| E593 | Ghost takes things from people. |
| E231.1 | Ghost tells name of murderer. Wales: Baughman. |
| E542.3 | Ghost throws man into ditch, leaving his side numb. England: Baughman. |
| E542.4 | Ghost touches man's hat, scorching it and turning lock of his hair white. U.S.: Baughman. |
| E542.1.2 | Ghost touches man's neck, leaves impression of hand on neck. U.S.: Baughman. |
| D2161.4.2.1 | Ghost transfers boil to a post. Africa (Ekoi): Talbot 7. |
| E453 | Ghost transformed into animal. (Cf. D100, E423.) England: *Baughman. |
| E599.5 | Ghost travels swiftly. (Cf. D2122.) England: Baughman. |
| E591 | Ghost travels under ground. Fb "jord" II 45b. |
| E573 | Ghost tried in court. **Jacoby Zs. f. Vksk. XXIII (1913) 184; Jewish: Neuman. |
| E253 | Ghost tries to kill person for food. Africa (Nyang): Ittman 58. |
| E415.1.1 | Ghost unlaid until iron he hid in life is found. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| E299.5 | Ghost unties boats, setting them adrift. Canada: Baughman. |
| E299.3 | Ghost upsets farmers' wagons. England: Baughman. |
| E599.8 | Ghost vanishes when taken home. (Cf. E332.3.3.1.) U.S.: *Baughman. |
| E279.5 | Ghost violently brands drunkard with "D". U.S.: Baughman. |
| E421.1.6 | Ghost visible only to wild fowls. Greenland: Baughman. |
| E421.1.3 | Ghost visible to dogs alone. England: Baughman; North Carolina: Brown Collection I 681; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| E421.1.2 | Ghost visible to horses alone. *Fb "hest" I 600a, IV 212a; Finnish-Swedish: Wessman 26 No. 227; England, Scotland, U.S.: *Baughman; North Carolina: Brown Collection I 678. |
| E421.1.1 | Ghost visible to one person alone. Spanish Exempla: Keller; New York: Jones JAFL LVII 243; Eskimo (Greenland): Rasmussen III 64; N. A. Indian (Teton): Dorsey AA o.s. II (1889) 148. |
| E587.5 | Ghost walk at midnight. U.S.: Baughman. |
| E572 | Ghost walks through solid substance. U.S.: *Baughman. |
| E363.3 | Ghost warns the living. England, Scotland, U.S.: *Baughman. |
| E599.3 | Ghost watches (follows) its own corpse. England, U.S.: *Baughman. |
| E439.7 | Ghost will not approach a light left burning. England, U.S.: *Baughman. |
| E439.10 | Ghost will not come near person who anoints self with new honey. U.S.: Baughman. |
| E439.9 | Ghost will not return if door is removed and hung backwards. (Cf. D1783.) England: Baughman. |
| E439.8 | Ghost will vanish if seer walks around it nine times. (Cf. D1791, D1273.1.5.) England: Baughman. |
| E422.4.2 | Ghost with bonnet pulled down over her face. North Carolina: Brown Collection I 681. |
| E422.1.6.1 | Ghost with feet twisted backward. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| E421.3.3 | Ghost with glowing face. *Fb "gloende" I 465b; England: *Baughman. |
| E596.1 | Ghost works for human being. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| E557.1 | Ghost writes on wall the answers to problems of person in trouble. U.S.: Baughman. |
| E531 | Ghost-like building. Finnish-Swedish: Wessman 23 No. 207; England, U.S.: *Baughman. |
| E530.1 | Ghost-like lights. Finnish-Swedish: Wessman 23 No. 210; England, Scotland, U.S.: *Baughman. |
| E532 | Ghost-like picture. U.S.: *Baughman. |
| K1911.1.7 | Ghost-ogress pushes bride into hole in tree and takes her place. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| E261.1.1 | Ghost's flying head attacks slayer. Japanese: Anesaki 307. |
| D1836.1 | Ghost's strength waxes and wanes with height of fire. N. A. Indian (Teton): Dorsey Am. Anth. o.s. II (1889) 150. |
| E535 | Ghostlike conveyance (wagon, etc.). Finnish-Swedish: Wessman 22 No. 203; New York: Jones JAFL LVII 241—243. |
| E571 | Ghostly barber. *Type 326; *BP I 24; *Fb "balbere" IV 23a. |
| E533.1 | Ghostly bell sounds from under water. England: *Baughman. |
| E533 | Ghostly bell. |
| E539.4.1 | Ghostly chair in cellar jumps up and down on three legs, points with fourth at spot on floor. Witnesses dig up body from under floor. U.S.: Baughman. |
| E539.4 | Ghostly chair. |
| E599.2 | Ghostly corpses seen on floor of house, disappear when coroner comes. U.S.: Baughman. |
| E542.1.1 | Ghostly fingers leave mark on man's hand. *Fb "hеnd" I 765b. |
| E542.1 | Ghostly fingers leave mark on person's body. U.S.: Baughman. |
| E281.2 | Ghostly horse enters house and puts hoofs on breast of sleeper. Tobler 50. |
| N576.2 | Ghostly lights frighten treasure seekers. England, U.S.: *Baughman. |
| E495.1 | Ghostly marriage party. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| E236.7 | Ghostly noises disturb village until stolen church plate is returned. (Cf. E402.) England: Baughman. |
| E538.2 | Ghostly rope of suicide appears. U.S.: Baughman. |
| E401.0.1 | Ghostly voice heard on battlefield. (Cf. E502, F418.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| E535.2 | Ghostly wagon. England, U.S.: *Baughman. |
| E501.6 | Ghostly warner of wild hunt's approach. Plischke 38. |
| E539.3 | Ghostly wool-packs roll over fields, down hill. England: *Baughman. |
| E400 | Ghosts and revenants—miscellaneous. *Wimberly 451f. s.v. "Ghost", "ghosts"; *Hdwb. d. Abergl. s.v. "Gespenst"; *Bolte Zs. f. Vksk. XX 353; *Feilberg Sjæletro (København, 1914).—Irish: O'Suilleabhain 62, Beal XXI 324; Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "revenant"; Slavic: Máchal 230; Livonian: Loorits FFC LXVI 44f. Nos. 40—77 passim; Estonian: Loorits Grundzüge I 153—170, 506—519; Lappish: Qvigstad FFC LX 41 Nos. 12—16; Finnish-Swedish: Wessman 1ff., Landtman Finlands Svenska Folkdiktning VII pt. 1, 199f.—Melanesian: Dixon 142ff. |
| E421.3.6 | Ghosts as dogs with glowing tongues and eyes. (Cf. E423.1.1, E522.) *Fb "hund" I 676a; Swiss: Jegerlehner Oberwallis 334b s.v. "Geister"; England, Wales, U.S.: *Baughman. |
| E421.4 | Ghosts as shadow. U.S.: *Baughman. |
| E243 | Ghosts attack bishop who has suspended priest for singing for all Christian souls. Alphabet No. 686; Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| E373 | Ghosts bestow gifts on living. |
| E279.7 | Ghosts blow smithy into air. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| E439.6 | Ghosts cannot come near spayed bitch. England: Baughman. |
| E434.3 | Ghosts cannot cross rapid stream. *Fb "gjenganger" I 443b; U.S.: Baughman. |
| E434.4 | Ghosts cannot pass crossroads. (Cf. E431.16, E431.17.) Fb "korsvej" II 277a. |
| E421.2 | Ghosts cast no shadow. *Fb "skygge" III 347a; *Handwb. d. Abergl. IX Nachträge 138ff; *Penzer IV 239 n. 2; U.S.: Baughman; North Carolina: Brown Collection I 682. |
| E565 | Ghosts clank chains. (Cf. E501.13.1.2., E755.2.2.) North Carolina: Brown Collection I 675. |
| E256 | Ghosts eat corpse. Africa (Ekoi): Talbot 238. |
| E443.3 | Ghosts exorcized by name. Fb "navn" II 675b. |
| E255 | Ghosts flay corpse. Fb "hud" I 661. |
| E558 | Ghosts forced to labor. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| E293 | Ghosts frighten people (deliberately). England, U.S.: *Baughman. |
| E755.2.4 | Ghosts gather wood for hell fires. Jewish: bin Gorion II 154ff., 348. |
| E496 | Ghosts gathered on a bridge. *Fb "bro" IV 62b. |
| E280 | Ghosts haunt buildings. (Cf. H1411.) |
| E282 | Ghosts haunt castle. (Cf. F771.4.5.) Type 1160.—Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "château". |
| E283 | Ghosts haunt church. *Type 326.—Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "église", "chapelle"; Lappish: Qvigstad FFC LX 40 No. 7. |
| E281 | Ghosts haunt house. (It is sometimes hard to tell whether haunters are supposed to be ghosts or familiar spirits of some kind.) *Type 326; BP I 22ff.; Scotch: Campbell Tales II 290, 299; Irish: O'Suilleabhain 33, Beal XXI 310; England, Scotland, U.S.: Baughman (F470); North Carolina: Brown Collection I 669, 671; New York: Jones JAFL LVII 248; Swiss: Jegerlehner Oberwallis 311 No. 46, 323 No. 101; Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 3505; Finnish-Swedish Wessman 25 Nos. 220—222. |
| E278 | Ghosts haunt spring. North Carolina: Brown Collection I 678. |
| E276 | Ghosts haunt tree. North Carolina: Brown Collection I 679. |
| E421.3.5 | Ghosts in glowing wagon. Fb "karet" II 91b. |
| E433.4.1 | Ghosts killed by sacrifice of buffaloes. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| E259.2 | Ghosts may eat only female animals. Africa (Bulu): Krug 108f. |
| E599.6 | Ghosts move furniture. U.S.: *Baughman. |
| E530 | Ghosts of objects. Hdwb. d. Abergl. s.v. "Geist"; Finnish-Swedish: Wessman 23 No. 205. |
| A737.4 | Ghosts of the sun's children return to cause eclipse. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| E433 | Ghosts placated by sacrifices. India: Thompson-Balys; Africa (Ekoi): Talbot 7, 9. |
| E433.4 | Ghosts pleased by human sacrifices. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| E273.1 | Ghosts prevent burial of corpse. Finnish-Swedish: Wessman 6 No. 44. |
| N576 | Ghosts prevent men from raising treasure. U.S.: Baughman; North Carolina: Brown Collection I 693; Finnish-Swedish: Wessman 4 No. 30; Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 3642; Italian: Basile Pentamerone I No. 7; West Indies: Flowers 565. |
| E291 | Ghosts protect hidden treasure. |
| E245 | Ghosts punish failure to provide for their wants. Haunt man because he does not leave food and drink for them. Corsican: Ortoli Contes de la Corse (Paris, 1883) 337; Africa (Kweli): Sieber 90. |
| E246 | Ghosts punish failure to sacrifice to them. Greek: Grote I 278; S. A. Indian (Brazil): Oberg 109; Africa: Werner African 198. |
| E241 | Ghosts punish intruders into ghost town. Africa (Ekoi): Talbot 238, 240. |
| E242 | Ghosts punish intruders into mass (procession) of ghosts. Köhler-Bolte I 133; Gascon: Bladé II 266 No. 3; Estonian: Aarne FFC XXV 112f. Nos. 1, 2; Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 3558; Finnish: Aarne FFC XXXIII 39 No. 1; Lappish: Qvigstad FFC LX 39 No. 1; Livonian: Loorits FFC LXVI 48 Nos 64, 65. |
| E251.3.1.1 | Ghosts roast girl daily in oven and devour her flesh. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| E257 | Ghosts seek firewood to roast man. Africa (Ekoi): Talbot 99. |
| E386.3 | Ghosts summoned by calling them by name. Icelandic: *Boberg; England: Baughman. |
| E383 | Ghosts summoned by sacred book. Irish: O'Suilleabhain 32; Estonian: Aarne FFC XXV 138 No. 107; Finnish: Aarne FFC XXXIII 48 No. 107; Lithuanian: Balys Legends Nos. 597, 601; Korean: Zong in-Sob 205. |
| E421.1.5 | Ghosts visible only to seals. Greenland: Baughman. |
| E421.1.4 | Ghosts visible only to sheep. England: Baughman. |
| E587 | Ghosts walk at certain times. |
| E587.6 | Ghosts walk at full moon. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 198. |
| E587.1 | Ghosts walk at midday. Fb "middag" II 585b. |
| E587.3 | Ghosts walk from curfew to cockcrow. (Cf. E452.) England: Baughman. |
| E587.2 | Ghosts walk on Hallowe'en. (Cf. F211.1.1.1.) Irish myth: Cross; U.S.: Baughman. |
| E578.2 | Ghosts warm themselves around fire. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| D1278 | Ghoulish charm. Charm made from parts of corpse or things associated with corpse. *Kittredge Witchcraft 141ff., 458ff. nn. 1—55; Eskimo (Greenland): Rink 148, 173, 347, Rasmussen II 233, III 105, Holm 15, (Bering Strait): Nelson RBAE XVIII 495. |
| E538 | Ghoulish ghost objects. |
| D1500.1.6 | Ghoulish magic object cures disease. (Cf. D1278.) |
| N78 | Ghoulish wager won. England: *Baughman. |
| G20 | Ghouls. Persons eat corpses. Type 363; Chauvin VI 198 No. 371; Icelandic: MacCulloch Eddic 276, 281; India: *Thompson-Balys, *Penzer II 202; Eskimo (Greenland): Rasmussen I 104, III 104; Africa (BaRonga): Einstein 262. |
| F531.1.8.8 | Giant (giantess) as sea-mammal. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| F531.3.13 | Giant (giantess) carries prodigious burden. Icelandic: Hálfdanar saga Br. 577, Boberg. |
| F531.1.6.11 | Giant (giantess) with hump. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| F531.1.4.2 | Giant (giantess) with lips hanging down on the breast. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| F531.1.6.3.1 | Giant (giantess) with particularly long hair. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| F531.3.13.2 | Giant allows others to cling to him while he swims with them safely across the rivers. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B876 | Giant amphibia and other animal forms. |
| F531.6.6.5 | Giant and his wife build Roman road in a trice. Giant paves; wife brings stones. England: Baughman. |
| B870 | Giant animals. (Cf. B16.1, B16.4, B15.7.12)—Coulter Trans. Am. Philological Association LVII 32ff. |
| B873.4 | Giant ant. Jewish: Neuman. |
| B871.2.9 | Giant armadillo. S. A. Indian (Toba): Métraux MAFLS XL 71. |
| F531.0.2 | Giant as Creator's servant. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A523 | Giant as culture hero. Irish myth: Cross; Persian: Carnoy 294; Chinese: Werner 305. |
| F531.1.8.7 | Giant as eagle. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| F531.1.8.3 | Giant as eagle. Icelandic: MacCulloch Eddic 179, 276, 279, Herrmann Saxo II 599, Boberg. |
| F531.1.8.2 | Giant as serpent. Icelandic: MacCulloch Eddic 279f., Boberg. |
| F531.5.10 | Giant as servant to man. Irish myth: Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| F531.6.10.1 | Giant as smith. Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: MacCulloch Eddic 282, *Boberg. |
| F531.1.8.1 | Giant as wolf. Icelandic: MacCulloch Eddic 279f., Boberg. |
| H939.4 | Giant assigns task. French Canadian: Sister Marie Ursule. |
| F531.3.3 | Giant astride a church-roof. Rides it like a horse. Finnish: Aarne FFC XXXIII 44 No. 61**. |
| B872.4 | Giant auk. Eskimo (Greenland): Rink 430. |
| B31.4 | Giant bat. *Chauvin VII n. 9. |
| B871 | Giant beasts. |
| F531.3.5.1 | Giant bestrides mountain. Chinese: Graham. |
| B31.6.2.1 | Giant bird alighting on oak tree causes it to tremble. Irish myth: Cross. |
| B31.6.2 | Giant bird pulls up oak tree by roots. Irish myth: Cross. |
| B31.6.1 | Giant blackbird. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F531.3.1.4 | Giant blows to prevent approach of ship. Irish myth: Cross. |
| B871.1.2.0.1 | Giant boar with hinder part as large as can be carried by nine men. Irish myth: Cross. |
| B871.1.2 | Giant boar. Irish myth: Cross; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| R211.1 | Giant breaks from tower prison. Dickson 130 n. 102; Japanese: Ikeda. |
| F531.1.12 | Giant bride's equipment. Icelandic: Thrymskvida, MacCulloch Eddic 79, *Boberg. |
| B871.1.1.3 | Giant buffalo. |
| F531.6.6.2 | Giant builds hill for his home. England: Baughman. |
| B871.1.1.2 | Giant bull. Irish myth: Cross; *Loomis White Magic 82. |
| F531.2.8 | Giant can find only one horse able to carry him. Dickson 173 n. 33; Icelandic: Þiðriks saga II 380f., Boberg. |
| F612.3.1 | Giant cane for strong man. Cane holds fifty cattle. *Type 650; *Cosquin Contes indiens 482ff.; *Fb "jærn" IV 249a; French: Cosquin Lorraine No. 52; Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "bâton"; French Canadian: Barbeau JAFL XXX 86; N. A. Indian: Thompson CColl II 436. |
| F783.1 | Giant carpet. Sixty miles square. Jewish: bin Gorion Born Judas III 37. |
| F531.5.1.1 | Giant carries man in his pocket (glove, bosom). (Cf. F531.5.3.) German: Grimm No. 193; Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "géant"; India: Thompson-Balys; N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 358 n. 287 I, (Ojibwa): Jones-Michelson PAES VII (2) 171ff. |
| F531.5.1.1.1 | Giant carries man in sack. Eskimo (Greenland): Holm 39. |
| F531.5.1.1.3 | Giant carries man on brim of his hat. German: Grimm No. 193. |
| F531.5.1.1.2 | Giant carries man on his back. Eskimo (Greenland): Rasmussen III 245. |
| F531.5.1.1.4 | Giant carries man under his belt. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| F531.3.13.1 | Giant carries prodigious hunting-prey (whales, bear). Danish: Grundtvig DgF No. 18; Icelandic: Corpus Poeticum Boreale I 223, *Boberg. |
| B871.1.6 | Giant cat. Irish myth: Cross. |
| D55.2.3 | Giant changes to normal size. Micmac: Michelson JAFL XXXVIII 39. |
| K171.0.1 | Giant cheated in division of spoils of the chase. Indonesia: DeVries's list No. 28. |
| B874.6 | Giant clam. Tahiti: Beckwith Myth 266. |
| F167.1.4.1 | Giant clams in otherworld. Tonga: Gifford 169. |
| F531.3.7 | Giant comes to bake too soon; spills dough. Giant who has common oven with another thinks he hears companion in next valley scraping the kneading trough. He bakes his dough but finds he is too early and that he has only heard himself scratching. He spills the dough: hence fruitful soil. (Cf. F451.7.2, F455.3.5.) Broderius § 15; *Höttges FFC CXXII 124. Westphalia: Grässe I 835, Zaunert Westfälische 6. |
| B871.1.1 | Giant cow. Irish myth: Cross. |
| B876.2.1 | Giant crab. Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 249, 472; Chauvin VIII 83 No. 373bis n. 1. |
| B875.2 | Giant crocodile. *Chauvin VII 86 No. 373bis n. 8; Jewish: *Neuman; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 480.—Africa (Fang): Einstein 36f., Trilles 158. |
| B876.2 | Giant crustacean. |
| M445 | Giant cursed: may neither heaven nor earth receive him. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F531.6.12.1.2 | Giant cursed. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F531.5.7.0.2 | Giant demands girl, but is killed in duel about her. (Cf. F610.3.4.2.1.) Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| F531.6.12.6.1 | Giant destroyed by army. Jewish: Neuman. |
| B16.1.4.1 | Giant devastating boar. Irish myth: Cross; Icel.: *Boberg; Greek: Fox 82; Italian: Basile Pentamerone I No. 2; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B16.1.2.1 | Giant devastating hound. Irish myth: Cross. |
| B16.5.1 | Giant devastating serpent. India: *Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 144f.—Africa (Chaga): Stamberg Zs. f. Eingeborenen-Spr. XXIII 296ff., Gutmann Volksbuch der Wadschagga 82f. No. 41, (Ganda): Baskerville King of the Snakes 1ff., (Senegambia): Béranger-Feraud Recueil de Contes Populaires de la Senegambia II 185ff. No. 2, (tribes of Western Sudan): Tauxier Le Noir du Yatengo 496 No. 1. |
| B16.1.4.2 | Giant devastating sow. Irish myth: Cross; Icel.: MacCulloch Celtic 187, *Fb "sø" III 450a. |
| B16.2.4 | Giant devastating wolf overcome by hero. Icel.: Boberg. |
| G11.2.1 | Giant devours any person who fails to do his bidding. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F531.6.6.3 | Giant digs trench for course of Severn River. England: Baughman. |
| F531.6.12.1.1 | Giant disappears in mist. (Cf. F531.6.5.1.) Irish myth: Cross. |
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