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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 ▲ |
|---|---|
| F531.3.12.3 | Giantess kills monstrous bear. Eskimo (West Hudson Bay): Boas BAM XV 197. |
| M411.9 | Giantess lays a curse on the one on earth who eventually hears her. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| F531.3.8.4 | Giantess sings so that it gives echo in all cliffs. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| F531.2.13 | Giantess so heavy that boat almost sinks. Icelandic: Sturlaugs saga St. 620, Boberg. |
| F531.1.5.1 | Giantess throws her breasts over her shoulders. Her two sons can run after her and suck. Fb "givkone" I 438; Italian: Basile Pentamerone V 4. |
| F531.1.8.5 | Giantess transforms self to fly in order to tear woman's stomach. Icelandic: Egils saga ok Asm. ch. XII 9f., Boberg. |
| F531.1.6.14 | Giantess with a tail (many tails). Icelandic: Boberg. |
| F531.1.6.7.3 | Giantess with burned arms. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| F531.1.1.6 | Giantess with green eyes. Icelandic: Illuga saga Gr. 653, Boberg. |
| F531.1.6.1.1 | Giantess with iron nails. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| D2031.0.5 | Giantess' punishment is pure illusion. Icelandic: Egils saga og Asm. 58, Boberg. |
| D537.2.1 | Giantess's cloak makes man grow. Eskimo (Greenland): Rink 430. |
| F531.5.7.0.3 | Giantesses pursue men in order to marry them. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| F531.1.6.2.1 | Giants (giantesses) with long teeth. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| F531.5.8 | Giants and Christians. |
| F531.6.15.3 | Giants and dwarfs friendly. Eskimo (Mackenzie Area): Jenness 83, (Central): Boas RBAE VI 635. |
| F451.10.2 | Giants and dwarfs in contest. Icelandic: MacCulloch Eddic 53. |
| F531.1.11 | Giants and giantesses dressed as human beings. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| F531.6.8.3.1 | Giants and giantesses fight about treasures. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| F531.6.15.1 | Giants and gods in fight. Icelandic: Corpus Poeticum Boreale I 151, MacCulloch Eddic 83—84, 91, 179, 275 ff. |
| F451.10.1 | Giants and heroes created for the protection and aid of dwarfs. (Cf. F451.1.3.) German: MacCulloch Eddic 265. |
| F531.5.1.2 | Giants and men fraternize at Christmas. Liestøl Festskrift til Feilberg 195ff. |
| F531.5 | Giants and men. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F531.6.15 | Giants and supernatural beings. |
| G582 | Giants appeased by feeding them. *Type 531; French Canadian: Barbeau JAFL XXIX 12. |
| F531.6.17.7 | Giants are wise. Icelandic: MacCulloch Eddic 277, 127, *Boberg. |
| F531.6.6 | Giants as builders of great structures. Broderius § 2; Wünsche Teufel 19; **Höttges FFC CXXII 49ff., 218ff.; Irish myth: *Cross; English: Wells 80 (Sir Tristrem); Icelandic: Arnason Legends of Iceland (London, 1864) I 49, MacCulloch Eddic 276, 278, 286, Boberg; Danish: Kristensen Danske Sagn III (1895) 25ff., (1931) 15ff. (churches); Fb "kirke" II 124a; Finnish-Swedish: Wessman 67 No. 580, 68 No. 582, 69f. Nos. 593—97; Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 3714. |
| F531.6.5.4 | Giants as controllers of the elements. *Höttges FFC CXXII 72f., 256; Icelandic: MacCulloch Eddic 75ff., 276, *Boberg. |
| F531.6.1.9 | Giants as descendants of Cain. (Cf. F535.0.1.) Jewish: Neuman. |
| F531.6.5 | Giants as magicians. Broderius § 33; *Höttges FFC CXXII 145; Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: Arnason Legends of Iceland (London, 1864) I 122, 131, 148, *Boberg; German: Grimm Deutsche Sagen (1907) No. 318.4. |
| F531.6.1.5 | Giants as personifications. Icelandic: Herrmann Saxo II 580, MacCulloch Eddic 281. |
| F531.6.1.8 | Giants as reincarnated animals. Korean: Zong in-Sob 64. |
| F531.6.1.7 | Giants as sons of Ymir or Aurgelmir. (See A642, A831.2.) |
| F531.6.9 | Giants as warriors (in army). Broderius § 32; Irish myth: Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg; Bohemian: Jungbauer Böhmerwald Sagen (Jena, 1924). |
| F531.6.6.1 | Giants by night move buildings built by men in day. Broderius § 3.—Norwegian: Norsk Folkminnelag II 28; Danish: Kristensen Danske Sagn III (1892) 174ff., (1931) 127ff. (churches); Fb "kirke" II 124a; Finnish-Swedish: Landtman Finlands Svenska Folkdiktning VII (Helsingfors 1919) 553. |
| F531.6.5.1 | Giants can make selves invisible. (Cf. F531.6.12.1.1.) Irish myth: *Cross; Norwegian: Norsk Folkminnelag XIII 23; Finnish-Swedish: Landtmann Finlands Svenska Folkdiktning VIII 538. |
| F531.3.6 | Giants carry church across a stream. Broderius § 22; Westphalia: Kuhn No. 387a; Hanover: Schambach u. Müller Nos. 165.1, 165.2. |
| F531.3.10 | Giants carry trees. (Cf. F631.) Irish myth: Cross; French Canadian: Barbeau JAFL XXIX 12; Missouri French: Carrière. |
| F531.5.15 | Giants cause men to sin. Jewish: Neuman. |
| F531.5.8.3 | Giants Christianized. Broderius § 25; Irish myth: *Cross; Norwegian: Norske Sagn (Christiania, 1902) 119; German: Grimm Deutsche Sagen (1905) No. 137. |
| F531.6.17.1 | Giants dance. *Fb "danse" I 93a. |
| F531.4.7.1 | Giants dressed in skin. Icelandic: Herrmann Saxo II 80ff., *Boberg. |
| F531.6.12.7 | Giants driven away by men. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| F531.6.12.8.1 | Giants drowned (in Ymir's blood). Icelandic: MacCulloch Eddic 324, Snorra Edda skaldsk. ch. II, Boberg. |
| F531.6.13.1 | Giants enchanted in caverns. Broderius § 34; Swedish: Runa (1847) 34 No. 9; Tirol: Henne-Am Rhyn 2 No. 628. |
| F531.5.8.2 | Giants exorcised by clergy. Icelandic: Arnason Legends of Iceland (London, 1864) I 138; West Indies: Flowers 435. |
| F531.6.11.1 | Giants fear lightning. Broderius § 27; Icelandic: MacCulloch Eddic 278, 285; Swedish: Henne-Am Rhyn No. 609; German: Zaunert Westfäliche 1. |
| F531.2.1.2 | Giants fifty feet tall with footprints six feet long. Chinese: Werner 387. |
| X1743.1 | Giants go through small hole where plant has been torn from earth. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F300.1 | Giants guard fairy princess from mortal man. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F531.6.7.1.1 | Giants have animals (dogs, etc.) Icelandic: Herrmann Saxo II 591, 593, 595; MacCulloch Eddic 66, 85, 88, 111, 230, 276—77, *Boberg. |
| F531.6.8.6 | Giants have children. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| F531.6.4.1 | Giants have great age. Calculated by age of wood. Broderius § 35; Icelandic: MacCulloch Eddic 276, Boberg; Tirol: Zingerle (1891) Nos. 173, 187, 190; Jewish: *Neuman. |
| F531.6.8.5.1 | Giants have king, queen. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| F531.6.8.5.2 | Giants have parliament. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| F531.4.11.1 | Giants have wolf and bears as dogs. Icelandic: örvar-Odds saga 122—24, Boberg. |
| F531.5.8.1 | Giants hostile to Christianity. Broderius § 25. |
| F531.6.2.0.1 | Giants in "Risaland" or "Jotunheimar" without nearer definition. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| F531.6.2.6 | Giants in a region of darkness and cold. Icelandic: MacCulloch Eddic 321, Herrmann Saxo II 583ff., 601. |
| F167.3 | Giants in otherworld. (Cf. F531.) Siuts 161ff.; Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F531.6.2.7 | Giants in wild forests. Icelandic: MacCulloch Eddic 280. |
| G691.1 | Giants keep corpses on hand to eat. Scottish: Campbell-McKay No. 25. |
| F531.6.12.4 | Giants killed by lightning or thunder (personified in the thunder-god). (Cf. F531.6.11.1.) Icelandic: Herrmann Saxo II 592, MacCulloch Eddic 69ff., Boberg. |
| F531.6.5.2 | Giants large or small at will. Broderius § 17; Icelandic: Saxo ed. Elton 26, MacCulloch Eddic 277, *Boberg; German: Henne-Am Rhyn Nos. 441, 562, 225, 365, 444. |
| F531.5.13 | Giants like butter more than anything else. Get trough of butter in return for help. Icelandic: Egils saga einhenda 79, Boberg. |
| F531.6.2.5 | Giants live at the world's end. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| F531.6.3.1 | Giants live in castles (raths, duns) (ruins of which may still be seen). Broderius § 11; Irish myth: *Cross; English: Wells 59 (The Turke and Gowin); Icelandic: MacCulloch Eddic 319, 282; German: Grimm Deutsche Sagen (1905) Nos. 16, 20. |
| F531.6.2.1 | Giants live in mountains or caves. Broderius § 11.—Irish myth: Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg, Arnason Legends of Iceland (London, 1864) 135; Finnish-Swedish: Wessmann 67 No. 572; Jewish: Neuman. |
| F531.6.2.4 | Giants live in the utmost northwest. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| F531.6.4.2 | Giants live to be eighteen thousand years old. Chinese: Werner 387. |
| F531.6.2.2.1 | Giants live under sea. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F531.6.2.2 | Giants live under water. |
| F531.5.7 | Giants marry human beings. (Cf. F420.6.1, F460.4, and cross references.) Broderius § 30.—Irish myth: Cross; Missouri French: Carrière; Icelandic: Arnason Legends of Iceland (London, 1864) I 135, MacCulloch Eddic 278, 175, *Boberg; Norse: Norsk Folkminnelag I 63; Swedish: Runa IV (1843) 41 No. 72. |
| F531.6.8.7 | Giants meet successively larger giants. Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 261. |
| F531.6.8.2 | Giants pursue giant women. Broderius § 30; Irish myth: *Cross; Swedish: Runa IV (1843) 27 No. 10; German: Grimm Deutsche Sagen (1907) No. 318.4; Tirol: Zingerle (1891) 176—180. |
| F531.5.5 | Giants repay loan with large interest. Cask of gold for ale, etc. Icelandic: Feilberg Jul II 56; Swedish: Runa IV (1843) 29, 30, 38, 45. |
| C963.4 | Giants return to life if tabu is broken. French Canadian: Sister Marie Ursule. |
| F531.3.9 | Giants sit on mountains and wash feet in stream below. Broderius § 21; Icelandic: MacCulloch Eddic 285, *Boberg; Danish: Danmarks Folkeminder No. 40 (1933) 71; Norse: Norsk Folkminnelag XIII 28; Swiss: Henne-Am Rhyn No. 611; French: Sébillot France I 232. |
| F531.3.2.1 | Giants throw stones after churches. *Fb "sten" 552ab; **Höttges FFC CXXII 31ff., 199ff.; Danish: Kristensen Danske Sagn III (1895) 27ff., (1931) 17ff., Schmidt DF XXXIX 70 ff.; Finnish-Swedish: Wessman 70 No. 598, 71 No. 604. |
| F531.3.2.3 | Giants throw tools back and forth. Explains rocks, etc. Broderius § 14; England: Baughman. |
| F771.2.3 | Giants uphold castle. Chauvin V 72 No. 21.—Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "château", "géant". |
| F531.4.7.2 | Giants wear long coats with lamps under them. Eskimo (Central): Boas RBAE VI 634. |
| F531.4.7.1.1 | Giants wear skins with flesh still on. Eskimo (West Hudson Bay): Boas BAM XV 210. |
| F531.1.6.3 | Giants with shaggy hair on their bodies. Broderius § 37; Icelandic: Arnason Legends of Iceland (London, 1864) I 150, Corpus Poeticum Boreale I 153, Boberg; Tirol: Zingerle (1891) Nos. 180, 186, 190; Babylonian: Gilgamesch-epos I 86ff., cf. 95ff. |
| F531.6.8.3.3 | Giants wrestle with each other. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F531.3.15 | Giants' awful amusements, playing with men's lives. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| F531.6.8.4 | Giants' festivities. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| F531.5.6 | Giants' gifts to men. |
| F531.6.2.3 | Giants' live in the east. Icelandic: MacCulloch Eddic 81, *Boberg. |
| F531.5.6.1 | Giants' magic gifts return to original form in hands of men. (Cf. F451.5.1.4. and cross-references.) Broderius § 33; Icelandic: Arnason Legends of Iceland (London, 1864) I 148; German: Jahn Nos. 29, 217. |
| F531.6.7.1.2 | Giants' ship (Naglfar). Icelandic: MacCulloch Eddic 340. |
| F531.3.8 | Giants' shouts are storms or great noise. Broderius § 16.—Irish myth: Cross; Icelandic: Arnason Legends of Iceland (London, 1864) I 166; Norse; Norsk Folkekultur IX 99; Swedish: Feilberg Jul II 56; Westphalia: Zaunert Westfälische 6, 11. Cf. Rip Van Winkle. |
| F531.6.8.5 | Giants' social relations. |
| F531.6.16.1 | Giants' watchman (Eggther). Icelandic: MacCulloch Eddic 276, Boberg. |
| F348.9 | Gift barrel of ale which never runs dry goes dry when maid looks into bunghole. England: Baughman. |
| T55.4.1 | Gift made by bride to husband. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| N815.0.2.1 | Gift of gold bracelet from river goddess. (Cf. A4215.1.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| D1815.0.1 | Gift of tongues received from ghosts. Africa (Ekoi): Talbot 99. |
| J1850 | Gift or sale to animal (or object). |
| J1851 | Gift to animal or object. |
| J1851.3 | Gift to object. |
| F962.0.1 | Gifts are obtained or fall from heaven: flowers (roses), crown of gold, blossoms or thorns, bells, gems, books, sword, etc. *Loomis White Magic 88. |
| Q114 | Gifts as reward. (Cf. Q111.5.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q114.2 | Gifts as rewards for gifts. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| T136.4 | Gifts at wedding. Jewish: *Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| T136.4.1 | Gifts for bridal couple by a special ceremony with the bride on a bridebench. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| V232.7 | Gifts from angels. Irish myth: *Cross; Jewish: *Neuman. |
| F349 | Gifts from fairies—miscellaneous. |
| F340 | Gifts from fairies. Type 503; BP III 324; Hdwb. d. Märch. s.v. "Elbengeschenke", "Geschenke des kleinen Volkes"; Irish myth: *Cross; French: Saintyves Perrault 72ff.; Italian: Basile Pentamerone Introduction; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| J1283 | Gifts from the brothers. A king gives a man a coin. "Is that all you give your brother?" "Are you my brother?" "Surely, we both pray, Our father, etc." "If all your brothers give you as much as I you will be rich." Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 517. |
| Q114.0.1 | Gifts made to advisor. (Cf. Q43.). Irish myth: Cross. |
| F348.4 | Gifts of gold and silver not to be accepted from fairies. Scotch: Macdougall and Calder 277. |
| F348.6 | Gifts of the fairies must never be measured or counted. Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 3694. |
| J1851.2 | Gifts to birds. Numskulls hear birds calling and give them gifts. Indonesia: DeVries's list No. 260. |
| J1851.1 | Gifts to frogs. |
| B877.2 | Gigantic animal ("reem"). Jewish: *Neuman. |
| F881.1.1 | Gigantic cauldron. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F866.2 | Gigantic cup. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F866.2.1 | Gigantic drinking horn. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| F814.1 | Gigantic flower. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F813.2.2 | Gigantic grapes. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F531.1.2.0.1 | Gigantic head. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F343.16.1 | Gigantic hog rib as gift from fairies. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| B871.1.2.1.1 | Gigantic hog-rib (in otherworld). Irish myth: Cross. |
| B244.1.3 | Gigantic hood of serpent king. Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 796. |
| F881.1.2 | Gigantic ladle. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F163.4 | Gigantic mill in otherworld. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F813.3.2 | Gigantic nut. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F343.16 | Gigantic ox rib as gift from fairies. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| B871.1.1.1.1 | Gigantic ox-rib (in otherworld). Irish myth: Cross. |
| F531.4 | Gigantic possessions of giant. |
| F839.2.1 | Gigantic shield. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F511.0.8 | Gigantic skull of ancient king discovered. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F531.6.1.4 | Gigantic son of king and mermaid. Icelandic: Þiðriks saga I 73, Boberg. |
| F401.8 | Gigantic spirit. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F833.8 | Gigantic sword. Sword eight elbow-lengths long and two spans broad. Irish myth: Cross; Icelandic: Boberg. |
| F815.7.2 | Gigantic vine. Jewish: Neuman. |
| F771.1.10 | Gingerbread house. House made of cake. *Type 327; BP I 115; *Fb "pandekage", "hus" IV 229b. |
| D1365.4 | Girdle causes forgetfulness. (Cf. D1057.1.) English: Herbert III 207. |
| F829.2 | Girdle made of a climbing-vine. Tuamotu: Stimson MS (z-G. 3/1174). |
| Q562.1 | Girdles of sinners in hell alternately scorch with heat and cold. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q451.6.0.1 | Girl (fairy) bites off ear of ravisher. (Cf. F304.4.1, Q244.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| T118 | Girl (man) married to (enamored of) a monster. *Types 306, 506; *Liljeblad passim; *BP III 83; *Kittredge Harvard Studies and Notes in Philology VIII 250; Irish myth: *Cross; India: *Thompson-Balys; Japanese: Ikeda. |
| F647.12 | Girl (princess) so delicate she can live only on the perfume of flowers. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| R13.1.6 | Girl abducted by bear and made his wife. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| N339.9 | Girl abducted by fairy left on shore, where she is accidentally drowned. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F324 | Girl abducted by fairy. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| T86.4 | Girl and boy promised to each other by parents both die when they see each other after girl's marriage to another. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| D641.1.1 | Girl as bird visits lover. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| N831 | Girl as helper. Types 311, 313; Dickson 52f.; Tobler Epiphanie der Seele 71; Missouri French: Carrière; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| K1227.8 | Girl as umpire in suitor test (shooting arrows) escapes. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T55 | Girl as wooer. Forthputting woman. *Cross MPh XII 612 n. 3; Hibbard 208 n. 18; Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg; Italian Novella: Rotunda; Jewish: Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1218.5 | Girl asks importunate lover for weapon to use against her father. Instead, she uses it to defend herself against the suitor. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K1227.6 | Girl asks undesired lover to follow her but not to step on her shadow. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1227.4 | Girl asks undesired lover to take off his boots. She pulls off one partway and escapes. Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles No. 24; Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| H335.0.2 | Girl assigns tasks to her suitors. *De Vries FFC LXXIII 308; Irish myth: *Cross; Italian Novella: Rotunda; Japanese: Ikeda. |
| G71.1 | Girl attempts to eat parents but they escape. Eskimo (Smith Sound): Kroeber JAFL XII 179, (Greenland): Holm 53, (Mackenzie Area): Jenness 81, Rasmussen III 159. |
| G61.1.1 | Girl avoids eating her mother's flesh by spilling the meat and the soup in the pen. Chinese: Graham. |
| D1865.2.1 | Girl becomes more beautiful as she is burned but her brother, who loves her incestuously, turns to charcoal. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1971.6 | Girl behind the tree advises the unwilling suitor. Believing it to be the advice of angels, he marries her. Type 1461*. |
| T579.8.3 | Girl betrays pregnancy by dropping milk on brother. Philippine (Tinguian): Cole 87. |
| M438.3 | Girl bewitched so that no man will remain faithful to her. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| H71.7.1 | Girl born with costly jewels: sign of royalty. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T552.1 | Girl born with red string around neck. Fb. "rød". |
| F324.1 | Girl borrows comb and mirror from bonga (fairy): carried to fairyland when she returns them. (Cf. F322.1.1.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| N265.1 | Girl brings ill luck and death to everyone she comes in contact with. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T50.1.2 | Girl carefully guarded by father. Irish myth: *Cross; Africa (Togo): Einstein 12f. |
| T50.1.1 | Girl carefully guarded by mother. (Cf. K1349.4.) Irish myth: Cross; S. A. Indian (Chiriguano): Métraux RMLP XXXIII 151, 165. |
| T50.1.3 | Girl carefully guarded from suitors by hag. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| T50.1 | Girl carefully guarded from suitors. Hdwb. d. Märchens I 551a nn. 228—36; Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg; Jewish: Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys; West Indies: Flowers 577. |
| R13.1.7.1 | Girl carried off by monkeys. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| R13.2.1 | Girl carried off by ram. (Cf. R10.1.) Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "bélier". |
| G72.3 | Girl child fed on infant boys' flesh to make her grow faster. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| K1984.2.1 | Girl claims to have overeaten on a nightingale's thigh. Nouvelles Récréations No. 57. |
| P253.4 | Girl comes to brother's aid when he is attacked. She slays the assailant and is eventually acquitted. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| T311.2.1 | Girl commits suicide rather than marry man she does not love. Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 262. |
| T10.3 | Girl continually falling in love. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| K1516.2 | Girl covers nurse's one good eye so that she cannot see her lover. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q281.1.2 | Girl cruel to her mother is slain by God. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| T456.1 | Girl dares not receive gift from a man as it may be supposed to be payment for her favors. Icelandic: Lagerholm 21. |
| H333 | Girl demands suitor's life (or mutilation). |
| D719.2 | Girl destroys crab shape of husband and disenchants him permanently. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F1041.1.13.1 | Girl dies of shame at being seen naked. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| D735.4.1 | Girl disenchants animal husband by enduring his embraces without fear. Africa (Bantu): Theal Zambesi 279ff. |
| D789.9 | Girl disenchants her tiger-husband by putting a garland around his neck, sprinkling sand and water over him. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1825.1.1.1 | Girl disguised as doctor exposes queen's paramour who is masquerading as woman. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K1315.6.3 | Girl disguised as friar gets into priest's bed. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K2113.1 | Girl disguised as man accused of infidelity. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| K92.3 | Girl distracts opponent's attention so that gambling lover wins. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T83.1 | Girl drowns as she swims to see her lover. Her brothers deceive her with false signal light. Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| F561.5 | Girl eats only kola nuts and tobacco. Africa (Angola): Chatelain 33 No. 1. |
| B784.1.6 | Girl eats plums and maggots in them; maggots multiply inside her body. England: Baughman. |
| R12.4 | Girl enticed into boat and abducted. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| K515.2 | Girl escapes by hiding in huge harp. Icelandic: Völsunga saga ch. 45 (43), *Boberg. |
| K536.1 | Girl escapes by making man captor think preparation is being made for wedding. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K525.7 | Girl escapes from ogress by substituting pig. Chinese: Graham. |
| T327.7 | Girl escapes from undesired lover by cutting off her plaits of hair. Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 871*; Russian: Andrejev No. 871*. |
| K521.4.1.1 | Girl escapes in male disguise. *Chauvin V 96 No. 31 n. 1; Boccaccio Decameron II No. 9 (Lee 54); Icelandic: Boberg; Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| D45.4 | Girl exchanges form with sorceress in order to visit her brother and get a son by him. Icelandic: Völsunga saga ch. 7. |
| T81.3 | Girl falls dead on lover's body. Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| K2116.1.3 | Girl falsely accused of murdering her lover. Investigation reveals poisonous breath of toad as cause of death. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K2111.6 | Girl falsely accuses bishop. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| S182 | Girl fastened by hair to rafter. *Fb "hеr" I 771b. |
| T132.1 | Girl fattened before wedding. Africa (Zulu): Callaway 202, (Kaffir): Theal 67, (Ekoi): Talbot 7, 357. |
| R224 | Girl flees to escape incestuous brother. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| C12.5.3 | Girl fond of dancing uses devil's name. (See Q386.1.) Canada, England: Baughman.* |
| T211.7 | Girl forced to marry before sweetheart's return is faithful to her husband. When she refuses to give her former fiancé a kiss, he falls dead. She goes to his funeral and falls dead over his body. Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| T65.1.1 | Girl formally betrothed can never marry another should anything happen to prevent her from marrying the first. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| C661 | Girl from elfland must eat earthly food in order to remain. *Fb "spise" III 495b. |
| F92.2.1 | Girl gathering flowers swallowed up by earth and taken to lower world. Greek: Fox 227 (Proserpine); Oceanic (Mangaia [Cook Group]): Dixon 74. |
| H580.1 | Girl given enigmatic commands must do the opposite. Type 480; Roberts 176. |
| T320.5 | Girl gives up wealth and flees to escape lecherous emperor. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| F301.3 | Girl goes to fairyland and marries fairy. Hartland Science 64. |
| F301.7 | Girl goes to see her fairy lover on certain nights. Icelandic: Sveinsson FFC LXXXVIII 10f. (Type 306 III). |
| T411.2 | Girl got with child by intoxicated father. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| J2131.3.1 | Girl hacks off her heel to get shoe on. Fb "hæl" I 727; Spanish: Espinosa II Nos. 111—112, Espinosa Jr. No. 119. |
| V81.1 | Girl having been stolen by mountain-folk must be baptized anew. *Fb "døbe" I 227. |
| R318 | Girl hidden in skin of her dead mother. Köhler-Bolte I 346. |
| K1892.2 | Girl hides lover under clothing upon which she sits. Irish myth: Cross. |
| S12.5.1 | Girl impregnated by god driven from home by mother. S. A. Indian (Chiriguano): Métraux RMLP XXXIII 164. |
| K1837.4 | Girl in man's clothes avenges her father. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| K1816.0.2 | Girl in menial disguise at lover's court. *Types 511, 870; *Cox passim; *BP III 60, 443; Spanish: Espinosa Jr. Nos. 120—124, Italian: Basile Pentamerone III No. 3, *Rotunda. |
| G204 | Girl in service of witch. *Types 310, 428; Herrmann Saxo II 485. |
| T381.0.1 | Girl intended for marriage with king cloistered. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| T35.3 | Girl intoxicates nurse to keep rendezvous with lover. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| T81.6 | Girl kills herself after lover's death. Herrmann Saxo II 94; Icelandic: *Boberg; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| K872.1 | Girl kills man sleeping with her. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T320.2 | Girl kills man who threatens her virtue. Irish myth: *Cross; Italian Novella: Rotunda; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T92.3.1 | Girl leaves rescuer and elopes with his friend. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T92.3 | Girl leaves rescuer for younger lover. Dickson 119 nn. 55, 56. |
| Z39.7 | Girl left in tree by sisters: asks monkey, ape, bear, and tiger to put her down or else bite her. All refuse. Panther comes and devours her. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| N339.11 | Girl lets down her sari for hero to climb up by but, when he is halfway up, sari breaks and he is killed. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F562.4 | Girl lives in fruit and comes out only to be bathed by her twenty sisters. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T328 | Girl lives in sepulchre to preserve chastity. Scala Celi 33a No. 184. |
| E765.3.4 | Girl lives until her cowslip is pulled. England: Baughman. |
| R53.3 | Girl locked up in order to postpone wedding. Icelandic: Göngu-Hrуlfs saga 306. |
| K321.1 | Girl made to carry shell from which ashes fall: she is thus followed. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| D1871 | Girl magically made hideous. Irish myth: Cross. |
| K551.5 | Girl makes toilet and calls help. When she sees robber under her bed she pretends not to see him and combs her hair at the window. She says, "When I am married my husband will come home from the tavern and seize me by the hair and I shall cry: "Help!" Rescue comes. Type 959*; Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 959B*; Russian: Andrejev No. 959*; Chinese: Graham. |
| G303.12.5.1 | Girl married to a devil. Despairing of ever finding herself a husband, the old maid exclaims: "I would marry even the devil, were he to marry me." The devil takes her at her word. Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 3253, Legends Nos. 367ff. |
| G303.12.5.5 | Girl married to devil escapes with answers to his riddles. Type 812; U.S.: Baughman. |
| T68.5 | Girl marries hunter when he promises to return to monkey brothers their human form. (Cf. D118.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1839.2 | Girl marries lover who thought her dead. On reviving she changes her name and disguises her appearance. Eventually marries her former lover. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| J2521.3 | Girl marries man so she will not be ashamed undressed in his presence. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1322 | Girl masked as man wins princess's love. Type 514; BP II 87, III 84; Spanish: Espinosa III No. 155; Italian: Basile Pentamerone IV No. 6; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| K1825.1.4 | Girl masks as doctor to find departed lover. *Type 434; *Köhler-Bolte I 335. |
| T165 | Girl may remain virgin for three days after marriage. (Cf. C117.) *Fb "brud" IV 64b; *DeVries Zs. f. deutsche Philologie LIII 276f.; Hdwb: d. Abergl. III 739; Icelandic: *Boberg; Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| J1763.2 | Girl mistaken for stone. Espinosa JAFL XXVII 119—129. |
| T92.4 | Girl mistakenly elopes with the wrong lover. The preferred suitor overtakes them, finds them asleep and waits for them to awaken. He himself falls asleep and when he wakes they have gone. Italian: L. de Francia Novellino (Torino, 1930) Gaulteruzzi MS No. 99, Rotunda. |
| T131.1.2.1 | Girl must marry father's choice. Irish myth: Cross (T131.8.1); Icelandic: *Boberg. |
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