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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 ▲ |
|---|---|
| T321.2 | Girl named Mary has virginity spared by knight who has bought her. The Virgin appears to her. *Ward II 628 No. 16, 697 No. 9; Scala Celi 115a No. 641; Von der Hagen III 451. |
| S262.4 | Girl offers to sacrifice herself to dragon in place of her parents. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T579.8.2 | Girl paints face because pregnant. S. A. Indian (Chiriguano): Métraux RMLP XXXIII 154. |
| K1315.2.1 | Girl persuaded to sit on certain plant: seduced. Man as sham doctor tells her how to heal her burnt groins. N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 305 n. 109q. |
| S31.5 | Girl persuades her father to marry a widow who has treated her kindly. *Roberts 136. |
| K1237 | Girl plays at dice with her suitors: locks them up when they are defeated. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T322.4 | Girl pleads vow of chastity to repel lover. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T321.4 | Girl prays to Virgin to spare her virginity. Two soldiers quarrel over possessing her. Captain slays her, thus "saving" her. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| T92.0.1 | Girl promised to three different suitors; because she is unable to settle the dispute she eats poison and dies. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| S240.1 | Girl promised unwittingly by her parents to ogre. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| S215.1 | Girl promises herself to animal suitor. *Type 440; BP I 1ff.; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| S223.1 | Girl promises unborn child to devil if he will suffer the birth pangs. Finnish: Aarne FFC XXXIII 40 No. 31**; Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 3254, Legends Nos. 370ff. |
| S182.2 | Girl pulled about by her hair. Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 706. |
| Q254 | Girl punished for becoming pregnant. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q559.5 | Girl punished for jeering at saint. Is stricken dumb and distaff sticks to her hand. (Cf. Q227.) Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K1227.5.1 | Girl puts off consummation of marriage to undesirable suitor by saying her "stomach is sick". India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1227.3.1 | Girl refuses to dance with a devil until she is well dressed. The devil brings things till the cock crows. Another girl asks for all the things at once and must dance until she dies. Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 3251, Legends No. 353f., 356—362. |
| K1275.1 | Girl refusing her lover final kiss provokes rival to admit selling kisses. Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles No. 8; Italian: Basile Pentamerone V 4. |
| A934.11.1 | Girl reincarnated as river so god Vishnu can lie in its bed in the form of a stone. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T311.3 | Girl remains a virgin after both her suitors are killed in battle. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| B848.2 | Girl removes dog from lion's claws without being harmed. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K2125.1 | Girl reported possessed of demon: suitors frightened away. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| R111.6 | Girl rescued and then abandoned. Types 300, 303; *Ranke FFC CXIV. |
| H621.2 | Girl rescued by skillful companions: to whom does she belong? *Type 653; *BP III 45; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| R111.3.1 | Girl rescued by traveling through air. Jones PMLA XXIII 563; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| R111.2.5 | Girl rescued from tree. Chinese: Graham. |
| B549.1 | Girl saved by lion from ravishment. (Cf. B443.)—Alphabet No. 775; *Loomis White Magic 58; U.S.: Baughman. |
| K1227.7 | Girl says she has made vow not to marry until pilgrimage is made. Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles No. 26. |
| G37 | Girl seduced by brother becomes cannibal ogre. N. A. Indian (California): Gayton and Newman 59. |
| K1344.1 | Girl seduced from beneath ground. S. A. Indian (Uru-Chipaya): Métraux RMLP XXXIII 109. |
| N723 | Girl sees man as he lies sleeping by wayside. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| V511.2.3 | Girl sees vision of her mother in hell. She chooses to live the poor life of her father which leads to heaven. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| K492 | Girl serves her father with piece of her own flesh in place of chicken. Spanish: Boggs FFC XC 125 No. 1374B; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1358 | Girl shows herself naked in return for youth's dancing hogs. *Type 850; *BP II 528; Köhler-Bolte I 428f., 464; Spanish: Espinosa II Nos 5—8, Espinosa Jr. No. 131. |
| Q552.2.3.1 | Girl sinks into earth for dancing in church. (Cf. C51.1.5, Q386.) Fb "kirkegaard" II 129. |
| H45.5 | Girl sleeping naked awakened: is she a goddess? If mortal, she will cover herself; if a goddess, will not. Tonga: Gifford 191. |
| T36 | Girl sleeps in garden to meet lover. Discovered next morning and married. Boccaccio Decameron V No. 4; von der Hagen II *xi, 71 No. 25; Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| V115.2 | Girl sold for new church bell. (Cf. S210.) England: Child I 91ff. |
| T322 | Girl strikes man who tries to kiss her. Pauli (ed. Bolte) Nos. 618, 619. |
| K514.1 | Girl substituted for boy to avoid slaughter by father. Hindu: Keith 171. |
| T611.10.1 | Girl suckled by wolf has nail "like a wolf's nail." Irish myth: Cross. |
| F301.1.1 | Girl summons fairy lover by breaking tabu. |
| F301.1.1.3 | Girl summons fairy lover by lying under tree. English: Child V 499 s.v. "trees". |
| F301.1.1.2 | Girl summons fairy lover by plucking flowers. English: Child I 360 n. |
| F301.1.1.4 | Girl summons fairy lover by pulling nuts. English: Child I 360 n. |
| F301.1.1.1 | Girl summons fairy lover by wishing for him. English: Child I 6ff. No. 2. |
| B784.1.4 | Girl swallows frog spawn; an octopus grows inside her with tentacles reaching to every part of her body. Eng.: Baughman. |
| K1611.3 | Girl takes place of impostor in marriage bed; impostor's mother beats her, thinking she is heroine. Chinese: Graham. |
| K1227.4.1 | Girl tells physician-seducer she cannot meet his wishes until after he bathes. Prepares the bath herself and pours acid into it. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K434.3 | Girl tells the thief money is in chest. When he looks in chest, girl drops lid on him. Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 959C*. |
| H1149.8 | Girl to bring cloth as long as river and raise pig as big as mountain. (Countertask: measure river and weigh mountain.) Chinese: Graham. |
| K551.3.6.1 | Girl to dance for robbers asks to bring her party (strong men in disguise) who overcome robbers. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| H583.10 | Girl to king: Should it (the flood) come I shall not come; should it not come, I shall come. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1339.5 | Girl tricked by use of drugs. Subsequent pregnancy used to force her into marrying seducer. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K1330 | Girl tricked into man's room (or power). |
| K1339 | Girl tricked into man's room (power)— miscellaneous. |
| T99.2 | Girl wants to marry lover even if he is mutilated. Icelandic: Ans saga Bogsveigis 350, Boberg. |
| K1275 | Girl who cannot keep silent thereby provokes her rival to admit unchastity. *Type 886; *von der Hagen II v, vi, 3, 19 Nos. 21, 22; *Bolte Montanus's Wegkürzer 558 No. 1; Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| K2052.2 | Girl who is frightened by love becomes insatiable. Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| T131.6 | Girl will marry on condition she is to be only wife. Irish myth: Cross. |
| H599.1 | Girl will not drink of water which had no father or mother (i.e., stagnant). India: Thompson-Balys. |
| N572.3 | Girl with ghostly treasure in boat. Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 3631. |
| B26.1 | Girl with tiger's legs and ears. Indo-Chinese (Wa tribe): Scott 291. |
| A751.8.5 | Girl with tree carried to moon and is seen there. Samoa: Clark 119. |
| G303.12.5.6 | Girl wooed by devil is saved by magic herb she wears. (Cf. D1386.2.) U.S.: Baughman. |
| B610.1 | Girl's animal lover slain by spying relatives. BP I 69f. (Gr. No. 8a).—Jamaica: Beckwith MAFLS XVII 267 No. 78.—N. A. Indian: Thompson Tales 345 n. 244. |
| T579.2 | Girl's blood examined to see if she is pregnant. Fb "blod" IV 48a. |
| D1594.5 | Girl's blood vitalizes axe and it becomes a tiger. (Cf. D444.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F521.3.3.1 | Girl's body-dirt is golden. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F555.3.1.1 | Girl's hair spreads on ground so that it hides her. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q559.5.2 | Girl's hand withers as punishment for broken oath to God. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| D1905.1 | Girl's heart magically removed and fed to man draws her to him. Cherokee: Mooney RBAE XIX 278 No. 30. |
| F848.1 | Girl's long hair as ladder into tower. Rapunzel. *Type 310; BP I 99; Fb "hеr" IV 241b; Jacobs's list s.v. "Ladder of hair"; Italian: Basile Pentamerone II Nos. 1, 7. |
| K1771.6 | Girl's sham threat in order to evade husband till lover returns. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| T324 | Girl's virginity saved by the kindness of an emissary. Makes the lord believe she is a relative. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| T321.3 | Girl's virginity spared by knight when he sees her surrounded by the Virgin and her train. In her straits the girl has prayed for help. *Herbert III 356; Irish: Beal XXI 327. |
| A661.4 | Girls dancing in heaven. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T326.1 | Girls drown selves to save their virginity. Alphabet No. 773; Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| G73 | Girls eat their sister. Cox Cinderella 499; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| N771.2 | Girls going in the wood for nuts have adventures. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| K1984 | Girls keep up appearances to deceive suitors as to their desirability. Type 1459**; North Carolina: Brown Collection I 702; Japanese: Ikeda. |
| J1174.4 | Girls must pay for young man's virginity. Girls repulsed by man climb in his window at night. Become pregnant and demand marriage. Branded as prostitutes and must pay the man. Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 17. |
| H599.6 | Give coals orange color, let glimmer of gold appear like expanse of heaven, prepare two heads of darkness. (Request for chickens for breakfast.) Jewish: Neuman. |
| K362.10 | Give him what he wants. (Cf. K437.5, K1354.1.) Thief sent to man's house for water, demands money. Man's wife refuses and thief shouts to the husband who replies, "Give him what he wants." India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| V311.3 | Given choice between life and heaven, person chooses latter. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| J2048 | Given things for self and relatives, fool forgets to take his own. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| J2489.6 | Giving half of savings away: "Whoever gives charity gets double in return." India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K2112.5.2 | Giving madman food causes woman to be falsely accused. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F811.1.6 | Glass (crystal) tree in otherworld. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F242.2.1 | Glass boat for fairy. Irish: MacCulloch Celtic 84, *Cross. |
| F152.1.4 | Glass bridge to otherworld. Patch PMLA XXXIII 636 n. 118, Other World 125f.; Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F242.1.4 | Glass car. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| F852.1 | Glass coffin. Type 709; BP I 450ff., III 261; *Böklen Sneewittchenstudien 113. |
| F771.1.6.2 | Glass house. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F145.1 | Glass mountain at borders of otherworld. Mountain is extremely slippery. *Siuts 43; Patch PMLA XXXIII 610 n. 30, Other World 381 s.v. "mountain." |
| F751 | Glass mountain. *Fb "glarbjærg" I 459f., IV 180b, "heks" I 582, "jærnsko" II 63; *Types 400, 425, 451, 530; *BP I 233ff., III 111 n. 3; *Boberg Danske Studier (1928) 16—53; Hdwb. d. Märch. II 627; Köhler-Bolte I 444; *Patch PMLA XXXIII 610 n. 30, Harvard Studies and Notes V 159, 171 and n. 3. |
| F841.1.14 | Glass ship. Africa: Weeks Jungle 43. |
| F823.2 | Glass shoes. Type 510; Cox Cinderella 506; Missouri French: Carrière. |
| F756.4 | Glen of witchcraft. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F718.9 | Glittering well. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F821.6 | Glorified white garments. Moreno Esdras. |
| D1653.1.2.1 | Gloves make spear-cast infallible. (Cf. D1066.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| D1500.4.5 | Gloves thrown after ship cause disease. (Cf. D1066.) Icelandic: Flateyjarbуk 144-45. |
| B19.4 | Glowing animals. Horses, swine, etc. which glow. (Cf. B15.4.2.) —*Wuttke Der deutsche Volksaberglaube der Gegenwart 59; *Hdwb. d. Abergl. s.v. "glühend"; *Fb "gloende".—Irish myth: Cross; Jewish: Neuman; Icel.: Boberg. |
| E487 | Glowing beds of dead. Youth in land of dead puts staff into one of the beds. The iron glows and the wood burns. Irish: O'Suilleabhain 63, 102, Beal XXI 324, 333; Swiss: Jegerlehner Oberwallis 309 No. 7. |
| J1781.3 | Glowing wheel supposed to be the devil. Christensen DF XLVII 184ff. |
| J953.12 | Glowworm thinks he shines like stars. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| J1761.3 | Glowworm thought to be a fire. The bird who tries to keep the monkeys from this error is killed for her pains. Chauvin II 90 No. 32; B[ö]dker Exempler 286 No. 34; Penzer V 58f. |
| W125.2 | Gluttonous wife eats all the meal while cooking it. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| W125 | Gluttony. Jewish: *Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys; N. A. Indian (California): Gayton and Newman 67. |
| A2426.3.2 | Gnat's buzz. (See A2236.1.) |
| J953.10 | Gnats apologize for lighting on bull's horn. He had not felt their weight. Wienert FFC LVI *57 (ET 186), 92 (ST 49); Halm Aesop No. 235; India: Thompson-Balys; Indonesia: DeVries's list No. 136. |
| A2033.0.1 | Gnats created by devil to worry God. Lithuanian: Balys Legends No. 131f. |
| L478 | Gnats having overcome lion are in turn killed by spider. Wienert FFC LVI 48 (ET 75), 92 (ST 57); Halm Aesop No. 234. |
| A671.2.7 | Gnats in hell. Irish myth: Cross. |
| J953.6 | Gnats think they have thrown horse down. He has only rolled over. *Type 281; Russian: Andrejev No. 281; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F839.1 | Gnawed bone as weapon. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| H1593 | Goaling match between fairies and mortals as test of supremacy. Irish myth: Cross. |
| A661.1.0.2 | Goat (Heidrún) in Valhalla gives mead. Icel.: Boberg. |
| D2031.15 | Goat appears to be two every time man aims. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B535.0.3 | Goat as nurse for child. Jewish: Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| V12.4.5 | Goat as sacrifice. Icelandic: *Boberg; Jewish: Neuman. |
| J1835 | Goat chewing cud angers fool, who thinks goat is mimicking him. Type 1211; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| J2136.3 | Goat eats in garden and is caught. Fox says, "If your sense were as long as your beard, you would look for exits as well as entrances." Spanish: Boggs FFC XC 33 No. 128. |
| K521.8 | Goat escapes from jackal by being covered with flowers. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B535.1 | Goat feeds other animals from its body. Permits them to feed from it internally.—Africa (Benga): Nassau 202 No. 32. |
| B103.3.1 | Goat giving coins instead of milk. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| K334.2 | Goat induces the camel to talk and meanwhile eats all the food. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1723 | Goat pretends to be chewing rock. Frightens wolf. American Negro (Georgia): Harris Friends 112 No. 14. |
| K1767 | Goat singing a threatening song bought off with food and jewels. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K547.7 | Goat trembles so hard from fear of tiger that shaking of his beard frightens tiger away. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B15.3.2.2 | Goat with a gold and a silver horn. Cheremis: Sebeok-Nyerges. |
| D1652.3.2 | Goat with inexhaustible milk. Norse: MacCulloch Eddic 313f. |
| G252.2 | Goat's tongue pierced with sharp needle; consequently, witch is sick with pierced tongue. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| L113.1.5 | Goatherd as hero. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| R131.3.2 | Goatherd rescues abandoned child. Greek: Fox 280. |
| F241.4 | Goats follow fairies. Fb "rakker". |
| A450.1 | God "of many arts". Irish myth: Cross. |
| A433.5 | God (angel) of grass. Jewish: Neuman. |
| A182.3 | God (angel) speaks to mortal. Jewish: Neuman. |
| A123.10 | God (deity) girdled with snakes; on his forehead shines the moon. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| D113.1.2 | God (goddess) assumes form of a wolf. Irish myth: Cross; Greek myth: *Grote I 43. |
| A478.3 | God (goddess) of cholera. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| A441 | God (goddess) of domestic animals. Persian: Carnoy 260; Irish myth: Cross. |
| A433.4 | God (goddess) of fruit. Roman: Fox 290 (Pomona); Jewish: Neuman. |
| A474.2 | God (goddess) of longevity. Chinese: Werner 171, 214, Ferguson 81; Japanese: Anesaki 280. |
| A478.2 | God (goddess) of smallpox. India: *Thompson-Balys; Korean: Zong in-Sob 57 No. 32. |
| A443 | God (goddess) of wild animals. Irish myth: Cross. |
| A137.4 | God (goddess) with basket. Irish myth: Cross. |
| A137.5 | God (goddess) with cornucopia. Irish myth: Cross. |
| A151.6.1 | God (Indra) has palace on Milky Way. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A182.3.5 | God advises mortal. Jewish: Neuman. |
| A810.1 | God and Devil fly together over primeval water. Dh I 6. |
| A63.4.1 | God and the devil torment each other with their creations. Devil pesters God with gnats. God makes a fire and safeguards himself; God plagues the devil with fleas—devil is unable to find means of protecting himself.—Lithuanian: Balys Index 3082; Balys Legends No. 131ff. |
| A139.8 | God appears as an object. |
| J1261.1.1 | God as a father-in-law. Nuns tell a man that they are daughters of God. "Come and marry me; I should like such a rich father-in-law." Wesselski Bebel II 120 No. 60. |
| A139.8.1 | God as a tree trunk. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 284. |
| A109.1 | God as a triad. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 44; Icel.: Boberg. |
| A142.0.1 | God as blacksmith. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A451.2.1 | God as canoe builder. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 15. |
| A141 | God as craftsman. Hephaistos.—Greek: Fox 206.—Tahiti: Henry 342. |
| A181.2 | God as cultivator. India: Thompson-Balys; Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 17. |
| A177.1 | God as dupe or trickster. Irish myth: Cross. |
| A2216.6 | God as falcon has tail cut off: hence falcon's short tail. Icel.: Boberg. |
| A184 | God as founder and protector of certain peoples. |
| A189.15 | God as fructifier of mankind and the earth. Jewish: Neuman. |
| A465.2.0.1 | God as harper. Irish myth: Cross. |
| N817.0.1 | God as helper. Irish myth: *Cross; Jewish: *Neuman; Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 22, 111, 174. |
| A187.1 | God as judge of men. Greek: Fox 227, Wienert FFC LVI 36; Icel.: MacCulloch Eddic 162 (Forseti); Jewish: *Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys, Penzer I 198ff., II 249, IV 238, 275f., VIII 64, 108 n. 1, 163 n. 1, 184, 215. |
| T111.4 | God as lover of giantess (18 giantesses). Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| A164.6 | God as lover of giantess. Icel.: *Boberg. |
| D658.3.2.1 | God as mare seduces stallion. Icelandic: De la Saussaye 261 (Loki); India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A131.1 | God as part man, part fish. Babylonian: Spence 151 (Dagon); Assyrian: ibid. 216; Jewish: Neuman.—Samoa: Beckwith Myth 76. |
| A178 | God as prophet. Irish myth: Cross; Jewish: *Neuman. |
| A184.1 | God as protector of Israel. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| A179.1 | God as rath-builder. Irish myth: Cross. |
| A120.1 | God as shape-shifter. Irish myth: Cross. |
| A112.4 | God as son of giant. Icel.: MacCulloch Eddic 139 (Loki), 324 (Odin, Vili, and Ve), Boberg. |
| A112.4.1 | God as son of giantess. Icel.: Boberg. |
| A112.5 | God as son of nine giantesses. Icel.: MacCulloch Eddic 153 (Heimdall). |
| J1559.2 | God as surety; the abbot pays. A young man is ransomed by giving God as surety for the ransom money. He fails to return as agreed. The creditor sees a wealthy abbot, who says that he is a servant of God. He robs the abbot and when the young man finally appears he tells the latter than the debt is already paid by God's servant. Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 59; Alphabet No. 503. |
| A177 | God as thief. Greek: *Frazer Apollodorus II 6 n. 1 (Hermes). |
| A132.15 | God as tortoise. Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 139. |
| A171.0.2 | God ascends to heaven. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 109; Maori: Beckwith Myth 83; So. Am. Indian (Huamachuco): Métraux RMLP XXXIII 151. |
| D142.2 | God assumes form of a cat. Hindu: Penzer II 46, 197 n. 2; Tonga: Gifford 20. |
| D173.1 | God assumes form of an eel. Irish myth: Cross. |
| D133.4.1 | God assumes form of calf. Irish myth: Cross; Jewish: Neuman; Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 136. |
| A1082.2.2 | God battles hound of hell at end of world. Icel.: Boberg. |
| A1082.4 | God battles Leviathan at end of world. Jewish: Neuman. |
| J2215.5 | God blamed for heavy rain. Since he is an old man he should have known that more rain was unwelcome. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| J2215.6 | God blamed for letting pumpkin vines produce larger fruit than nut trees. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| J2215.4.1 | God blamed for scarcity of food. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A182.3.3 | God blesses mortal. Jewish: Neuman. |
| A141.3 | God bores hole in Hell to cause great heat on earth. Jewish: Neuman. |
| A112.7.4 | God born after prematurely short pregnancy. Marquesas: Handy 107. |
| A114.2 | God born from egg. Tahiti: Henry 337; Marquesas: Handy 104.—So. Am. Indian (Huamachuco): Métraux RMLP XXXIII 151. |
| A112.7.2 | God born from mother's armpit. Marquesas: Handy 107. |
| A112.7.1 | God born from mother's ear. Marquesas: Handy 107. |
| A112.7 | God born from peculiar part of parent's body. |
| A114.1.1.1 | God born of another god's sweat. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A141.2 | God builds temple in heaven and brings it later to earth. Jewish: Neuman. |
| A137.4.1 | God carries brothers and sisters on his back in basket. Hivaoa (Marquesas): Handy 116. |
| A185.14.1 | God causes mortals' sin. Jewish: Neuman. |
| A816.3 | God causes primeval sea to roll back and leave bare all the hills. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| G303.1.1.3 | God changes an angel into the devil, because he tried to imitate God in creating the world. Dh I 139. |
| A2286.2.4 | God changes color (tails) of devil's cows. Devil makes all animals of same color (or all tailless). When God makes them of different colors (or with tails) devil no longer recognizes them. (Cf. A2378.1.)—Esthonian: Aarne FFC XXV 146 No. 47; Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 3083, Legends Nos. 134—137. |
| A2723.2 | God changes nature of plant to punish wastefulness of man: yield of plant is decreased. German: Grimm No. 194. |
| K499.6 | God cheats birds by giving false description of tamarind fruit. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K42.2.1 | God cheats devil at mowing. God mows with a chisel, the devil with a scythe. God deceives devil into changing scythe for chisel. Lithuanian: Balys Legends No. 138. |
| K219.3 | God cheats the devil of his promised soul. The devil is to fill a cask full of money. God knocks the bottom out of the cask. Spanish: Boggs FFC XC 91 No. 773B. |
| A181.1 | God clears plains. Irish myth: Cross. |
| A1082.5 | God conquers Satan at end of world. Jewish: Neuman. |
| A182.3.1 | God consoles mortal. Jewish: Neuman. |
| A42.2 | God consults mercy on his right and justice on his left. Jewish: Neuman. |
| A42.1.1 | God consults two angels on creation. Jewish: Neuman. |
| A185.14 | God controls mortals' sinning. |
| A52.0.8 | God created angels by striking one small stone with another. Lucifer created devils by imitation. Lithuanian: Balys Legends Nos. 1, 3. |
| G303.1.1.1 | God creates the devil (Satan) from his own shadow. Dh I 44. |
| G303.1.1.4 | God creates the devil by striking a stone with his whip. Dh I 33. |
| M414.1 | God cursed. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| A195.1 | God dealing with his angels. Jewish: Neuman. |
| A179.3 | God deliberately has enemies kill him. Hivaoa (Marquesas): Handy 105. |
| A171.0.3 | God descends from heaven. |
| A171.0.3.2 | God descends in form of shooting star. New Zealand: Beckwith Myth 113. |
| A171.0.3.1 | God descends on rainbow. Tahiti: Henry 232; Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 37. |
| F32.1 | God descends to found royal dynasty. Tonga: Gifford 28. |
| G303.1.2.3 | God discovers the devil in a piece of solid foam. Dh I 43. |
| G303.1.2 | God discovers the devil. |
| K1811.3 | God disguised as doctor cures mortal. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1816.0.1 | God disguised as menial. Icelandic: MacCulloch Eddic 85; Greek: *Frazer Apollodorus I 390 n. 1. |
| V10.2 | God dislikes offerings beyond one's ability. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A179.7 | God divests self of earthly raiment and clothes self with lightning. Maori: Beckwith Myth 83. |
| A182.3.0.4 | God does not directly address women; uses interpreter. Jewish: Neuman. |
| A182.0.1 | God does not reveal himself; men unable to endure his glory. Jewish: Neuman. |
| A171.0.1 | God drives chariot over waves. Irish myth: Cross. |
| A52.0.7 | God drops water from his finger and the drops become angels. Lucifer imitated God and created devils.—Lithuanian: Balys Legends No. 2. |
| A151.13 | God dwells alone in darkness. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 42. |
| A151.10 | God dwells at particular point on earth. Jewish: Neuman. |
| A111.3.1 | God dwells with his grandfathers. Marquesas: Handy 106. |
| T91.3.3 | God enamored of mortal. (Cf. A188.) Greek: Grote I 85f., 139, 164; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| A185.15 | God establishes peace between mortals. Jewish: Neuman. |
| T91.3.3.1 | God falls in love with a woman of low caste. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| L417 | God finds that his statue sells at low price. He prices it in a statue shop and finds that his price is lower than other gods. Wienert FFC LVI 80 (ET 455), 94 (ST 77); Halm Aesop No. 137. |
| G303.1.2.1 | God finds the devil sitting under a tree which was made by his throwing his staff into the water. Dh I 35. |
| G303.1.2.2 | God finds the devil under a stone. Dh I 31. |
| A171.2 | God flies in bird plumage. Icel.: MacCulloch Eddic 83, Boberg; Greek: Iliad and Odyssey passim. |
| A171.3 | God flies in pillar of floating clouds, thunder, and lightning. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 29. |
| A112.8 | God from adulterous union. Irish myth: Cross. |
| A112.1.1 | God from father-daughter incest. Adonis. Greek: Spence 132.—Icel.: Boberg. |
| A112.1 | God from incestuous union. Krappe The Review of Religion (1941); India: Thompson-Balys. |
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