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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
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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
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Unnatural Cruelty
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Sex
U
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 ▲ |
|---|---|
| A123.4.1 | God with many heads. Slavic (Elbe): Máchal 283f., Boberg. —Chinese: Werner 241, 321. |
| A139.10 | God with myriad natures. Tahiti: Henry 336. |
| A128.4 | God with one hand. Hand cut or bitten off.—*Krappe études 11ff.—Icel.: Boberg, MacCulloch Eddic 21 (Tyr); Irish myth: Cross. |
| A128.3.1 | God with one leg (foot). Irish myth: Cross. |
| A131.3.3 | God with ram's head. (cf. A132.14). Egyptian: Müller 135, 405.—Irish myth: Cross. |
| A125.2 | God with red beard. Icel.: *Boberg. |
| A123.4.1.2 | God with seven heads. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A128.2.2 | God with single eye, through lid of which passes a polished handle with which lid is lifted. Irish myth: Cross. |
| A123.2.1.5 | God with six faces. Hindu: Penzer I 73 n. 1, II 102. |
| A123.11 | God with tail. Mangaia (Cook Is.): Clark 140; Fiji: Beckwith Myth 76; Tahiti: Beckwith Myth 113. |
| A128.5.1 | God with thick (iron) shoe. Icel.: MacCulloch Eddic 159 (Vidarr). |
| A123.3.1.3 | God with thirteen eyes. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A123.3.1.4 | God with thousand eyes. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A123.2.1.2 | God with three faces. *Krappe Balor 8 n. 28.—Chinese: Werner 324. |
| A123.4.1.1 | God with three heads. Irish myth: Cross. |
| A123.6.1 | God with three legs. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A123.2.1.1 | God with two faces. *Krappe Balor 7 n. 24; Usener IV 347ff.; *Frazer Ovid II 95ff; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A123.1.2 | God with two joined bodies. Tahiti: Henry 344. |
| A137.3 | God with wheel. Irish myth: Cross. |
| A185.14.2 | God witholds mortal from sinning. Jewish: Neuman. |
| V201 | God. *Encyc. Relic Ethics Index 223b. |
| A136.2 | God's (goddess's) wagon drawn by unusual animals. Icel.: MacCulloch Eddic 22 (Thor's goats, Freya's cats), 109 (Frey's boars); Greek: *Frazer Pausanias IV 142 (dragons). |
| A151.0.2 | God's abode known to none. Jewish: Neuman. |
| A157.2 | God's arrows. Jewish: Neuman. |
| D1594.2 | God's blood vitalizes image. (Cf. D1003.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A157.6 | God's bow. Jewish: Neuman. |
| A136.3 | God's chariot goes through the air. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A156.2 | God's crown. Jewish: Neuman. |
| A199.5 | God's day is one thousand years. Jewish: Neuman. |
| A155.5 | God's elephant. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A189.14 | God's enemies. Jewish: Neuman. |
| C937 | God's favor lost for breaking tabu. (Cf. C621.)—Jewish: Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys; Tahiti: Henry 85; New Hebrides: Codrington 387; African (Ekoi): Talbot 129. |
| A151.6 | God's home on heavenly bodies. |
| A151.7.1.1 | God's home under tree of life. (cf. F441.2.1.). Jewish: Neuman. |
| A138 | God's ineffable name. Jewish: Neuman. |
| A194.3 | God's jealousy. Jewish: Neuman. |
| A194.4 | God's joy. Jewish: Neuman. |
| A151.12 | God's landing place (on island). Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 11. |
| J2052 | God's mercy contrasted with man's short-sightedness. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| J1617 | God's omniscience. A woman tells her brother of God's omniscience. When he is ill and the priest has been called, he creeps under some straw and hides. The priest leaves. The man: "If God were so omniscient he might have found me for the priest." Wesselski Bebel II 119 No. 57. |
| F961.0.4 | God's praise chanted by the heavenly bodies. (Cf. A659.1, A767.) Jewish: *Neuman. |
| A153.7 | God's preference for cooked food. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A1011.3 | God's promise never to destroy world by water does not apply to local floods. Jewish: Neuman. |
| J229.13 | God's punishment: the sinner may have twelve years of famine or twelve hours of heavy rainfall. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A124.4 | God's radiance upon Moses' face. Jewish: Neuman. |
| A156.3 | God's scepters. Jewish: Neuman. |
| A156.4 | God's seal. Jewish: Neuman. |
| A157.4 | God's shield. Jewish: Neuman. |
| A157.3 | God's spear. Jewish: Neuman. |
| A151.11 | God's spirit dwells among mortals. Jewish: Neuman. |
| A157.5 | God's sword. Jewish: Neuman. |
| A2612.3 | God's tears become peas. (Cf. A2686.2.)—Finnish: Aarne FFC VIII 23 No. 126. |
| A151.4.1 | God's temple of jewels. Jewish: Neuman. |
| A152.9 | God's throne becomes hot because of activities on earth. Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 425, 492, 572, 897. |
| A152.3 | God's throne on wheels. Jewish: Neuman. |
| A152 | God's throne. Jewish: Neuman. |
| A152.1 | God's two thrones (of mercy and of justice). Jewish: Neuman. |
| A123.2.2 | God's unusual mouth. |
| D562.2.1 | God's urine makes chilly fiery. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A1871.0.1 | God's urine used to make pig. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A194.2 | God's vengeance. Jewish: Neuman. |
| A139.5.2 | God's voice causes thunder. Jewish: Neuman. |
| A139.5.1 | God's voice shatters mountain. Jewish: Neuman. |
| A139.5 | God's voice. Jewish: Neuman. |
| J2215.1 | God's wastefulness. A man is robbed and later the same day is given much money. He complains to God, "What was the use of taking from me what you were going to give back to me after stealing from another?" Wesselski Hodscha Nasreddin I 212 No. 34. |
| A139.6 | God's words. Jewish: Neuman. |
| A434 | Goddess (god) of flowers. Roman: *Frazer Ovid III 417; India: Thompson-Balys.—Aztec: Alexander Lat. Am. 77f. |
| A139.8.2 | Goddess appears as coral reef. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 219. |
| K1093 | Goddess arouses heroes' jealousy and eternal fighting. Icelandic: MacCulloch Eddic 123, Herrmann Saxo II 361ff., Boberg. |
| A112.4.2 | Goddess as daughter of giant. Icel.: Boberg. |
| F251.1.1 | Goddess as fairy. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| H1233.5.1 | Goddess as helper on quest. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| N817.0.2 | Goddess as helper. Greek: Grote I 54; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 979. |
| A109.2 | Goddess as mother of Pacific Ocean. Maori: Beckwith Myth 179. |
| H335.0.5 | Goddess assigns task to her mortal suitor. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A112.7.3 | Goddess born from mother's eyes. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 186. |
| A114.1.1 | Goddess born from sweat of rock washed by sea. Minahassa (Celebes): Dixon 157. |
| A431.1.3 | Goddess causes famine. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 289. |
| M414.2 | Goddess cursed. Irish myth: Cross. |
| R110.1 | Goddess delivers and restores goods of man thrown into jail. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A316 | Goddess divides time between upper and lower worlds. Persephone spends six months on earth and six in Hades.—*Frazer Apollodorus I 41 n. 2. |
| A136.1.8 | Goddess flies in bird's plumage. Icel.: MacCulloch Eddic 83, 126, 174. |
| A955.9 | Goddess gives birth to islands. Tonga: Gifford 102. |
| A136.2.1 | Goddess has team of sparrows. Greek: Sappho Ode to Aphrodite. |
| A934.11.3 | Goddess in anger breaks herself into five parts: hence, five branches of a river. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1811.0.2 | Goddess in disguise visits earth and is waylaid by thieves. They set her free after she promises to tell them the fate of the new-born prince. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A132.6.2 | Goddess in form of bird. Irish myth: Cross. |
| A139.8.5 | Goddess in form of tree. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 17. |
| A751.8.6 | Goddess in moon beating tapa beneath tree. Tonga: Gifford 181. |
| A751.8.3 | Goddess in moon with calabash at her side. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 221. |
| Q246.1 | Goddess killed for infidelity with mortal. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 37. |
| A432.1 | Goddess of agriculture. Irish myth: Cross (A432.0.2); Greek: Fox 230. |
| A440.1 | Goddess of animals. Penzer I 272 (Ishtar). |
| A430.1.2 | Goddess of autumn leaves. Japanese: Anesaki 234. |
| A462.1 | Goddess of beauty. Hindu: Penzer VII 129 n. 4, 137; India: Thompson-Balys; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 767. |
| A441.1.1 | Goddess of buffaloes. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A476 | Goddess of chastity. Greek: Fox 185; Icel.: Boberg. |
| A477 | Goddess of childbirth. *Ploss Das Kind I 18ff.; Penzer I 272.—Greek: Fox 164, 167, 185.; Finno-Ugric: *Holmberg Finno-Ugric 252ff.; Armenian: Ananikian 25; Siberian: Holmberg Siberian 414.—India: Thompson-Balys.—Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 285. |
| A477.1 | Goddess of cradle. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A270.1 | Goddess of dawn. Hindu: Keith 32; Greek: Roscher I 1252 s.v. "Eos"; Irish myth: Cross. |
| A487.1 | Goddess of death. Hindu: Penzer IV 110 n. 3. |
| A431.1.4 | Goddess of dryness and sterility. Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 203f. |
| A400.1 | Goddess of earth. Gaster Thespis 128 n., 51; Finnish: Holmberg Finno-Ugric 243ff., 413ff.; Livonian: Loortis Liivi rahva usund I 256; Lithuanian, Chuvashan: Wolter "Die Erdgöttin der Tschuwaschen und Litauer" Archiv f. Religionswiss. II 358ff.; Icel.: MacCulloch Eddic 194; Hindu: Penzer II 241, IV 177 n. 1, India: Thompson-Balys.—Haitian: Alexander Lat. Am. 34; Aztec: ibid. 74f.; Chibcha: ibid. 204. |
| A465.3.1 | Goddess of eloquence and learning. Hindu: Penzer I 1 n. 4, 18 n. 1, 31 n. 3. |
| A466 | Goddess of fame. Hindu: Penzer II 90, 116. |
| A431.1.2 | Goddess of fertility of wild forest plants. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 289. |
| A431.1 | Goddess of fertility. (cf. A401). Irish myth: Cross; Greek-Roman: Fox 292; Babylonian: Carnoy 278 (Ishtar), Spence 124; Lappish: Reuterskiöld De Nordiska Lapparnas Religion 102ff.—Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 185; Icel.: Boberg. |
| A493.1 | Goddess of fire. India: Thompson-Balys; Oceanic: Beckwith Myth 167ff. |
| A482.2 | Goddess of good luck (Lakshmi). India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A454.1 | Goddess of healing. Icel.: MacCulloch Eddic 186 (Eir); Irish myth: Cross; Greek: Fox 184 (Artemis); India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A452.1 | Goddess of hunting. Greek: Fox 183; Icel.: MacCulloch Eddic 103ff., Boberg. |
| A482.1 | Goddess of ill-luck. Hindu: Penzer VI 106; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| A464.1 | Goddess of justice. Greek: Fox 6 (Themis). |
| A260.1 | Goddess of light. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A475.1.1 | Goddess of love with thousand faces. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A475.1 | Goddess of love. Krappe "The Bearded Venus" FL LVI (1945) 325—335.—Irish myth: Cross; Greek: Fox 198, Grote I 5; Norse: MacCulloch Eddic 120 (Freya); Armenian: Ananikian 24f., 38f.; Babylonia: Spence 124.—Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 185, 186; Aztec: Alexander Lat. Am. 78; S. Am. Indian (Chibcha): Kroeber BBAE CXLIII (2) 908. |
| A483.1 | Goddess of mercy. Chinese: Werner 251. |
| A112.1.1.1 | Goddess of music and dance born of incestuous union (Brahma and daughter). India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A465.2.1 | Goddess of music. Hindu: Penzer I 243; India: Thompson-Balys; Japanese: Anesaki 268. |
| A253.1 | Goddess of north star. Chinese: Werner 144. |
| A484.1 | Goddess of oaths. Icel.: MacCulloch Eddic 186 (Vár). |
| A478.1 | Goddess of pestilence. *Krappe "Artemis Mysia" Classical Philology XXXIX (1944) 178—183.—Hindu: Penzer I 147. |
| A465.1.1 | Goddess of poetry. Irish: MacCulloch Celtic 40, Cross. |
| A451.4 | Goddess of pottery. Greek: Grote I 51. |
| A471.1 | Goddess of prophecy. Irish myth: Cross; Icel.: Boberg. |
| A473.1.1 | Goddess of prosperity. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A489.1 | Goddess of protection. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A456.1 | Goddess of sailors. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A472.1 | Goddess of sleep. Hindu: Penzer V 197. |
| A451.1.1 | Goddess of smith-work. Irish myth: Cross. |
| A499.4.1 | Goddess of sorcery. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 114. |
| A430.1.1 | Goddess of splendor of spring. Hindu: Penzer I 112; Japanese: Anesaki 233. |
| A427.1 | Goddess of springs and wells. In Greek myth, the nymphs were regarded as deities of springs. In Babylonian, Ishtar, the goddess of fertility had this function.—Greek: Fox 257; Persian and Babylonian: Carnoy 278. |
| A465.4.1 | Goddess of the dance. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A499.2 | Goddess of the hair. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A499.7 | Goddess of the parasol. Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 421. |
| A475.1.1.1 | Goddess of thousand eyes discovered by lousing. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A284.1 | Goddess of thunder. Maori: Dixon 57. |
| A300.1 | Goddess of underworld. (cf. A310.1). Oceania: Beckwith Myth 294; Polynesia: Beckwith Myth 114; Tuamotu: Stimson MS (z-G. 3/1241) Nukuhiva (Marquesas): Handy 121; Tonga: Beckwith Myth 178. |
| A430.1 | Goddess of vegetation. Irish myth: Cross. |
| A125.1.1 | Goddess of war in shape of (red) woman. Irish myth: Cross. |
| A125.1 | Goddess of war in shape of hag. Irish myth: Cross. |
| A485.1 | Goddess of war. Gaster Thespis 136; Irish myth: Cross; Roman: Frazer Ovid IV 151ff.; Assyrian: Spence 213; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A473.1 | Goddess of wealth. Irish myth: Cross.—Hindu: Penzer X 206 s.v. "Lakshmi"; India: *Thompson-Balys; Japanese: Anesaki 268. |
| A451.3.1 | Goddess of weaving and spinning. Greek: Grote I 51. |
| A461.1 | Goddess of wisdom. Greek: Grote I 10 (Athene).—Tahiti: Henry 85. |
| A310.1 | Goddess of world of the dead. Greek: Fox 230 (Persephone); Icel.: De la Saussaye 280 (Hel), 276 (Freyja), *Boberg, MacCulloch Eddic 303ff.; Armenian: Ananikian 35; Babylonian: Spence 129.—New Zealand (Maori): Dixon 74; Eskimo: Thompson Tales 272 n. 2. |
| A474.1.1 | Goddess of youth. Icel.: MacCulloch Eddic 178 (Idunn); Greek: Fox 240. |
| V10.1 | Goddess prevents suicide of man despairing of ability to make sacrifice. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A119.2 | Goddess produced by heat of earth. Tahiti: Beckwith Myth 178. |
| A189.12 | Goddess protects animals from hunters. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A106.1.1 | Goddess rebels against her father for forbidding her marriage. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A191 | Goddess rejuvenates self when old. Navaho: Alexander N. Am. 164. |
| D610.1 | Goddess repeatedly transforms herself. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A137.9 | Goddess represented as mounted on a drake, attended by eight chief snakes attended by snake jewels. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A2211.15 | Goddess scatters pubic hairs on fish: why he has so many bones. Tuamotu: Stimson MS (t—G 2/44). |
| A155.6 | Goddess sleeps on bed of snakes. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A842.1 | Goddess standing on her head supports earth. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A124.3 | Goddess with body full of fire. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A123.2.2.2 | Goddess with eight mouths. Tonga: Gifford 168. |
| A123.8 | Goddess with one-and-a-half buttocks. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A131.3.2 | Goddess with pig's head. Tonga: Beckwith Myth 178. |
| A131.8 | Goddess with pig's teeth. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A139.9.1 | Goddess with red urine. Easter Is.: Métraux Ethnology 315. |
| A123.3.1.4.1 | Goddess with thousand eyes. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A123.1.7 | Goddess with three supernatural bodies: fire, cliff, sea. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 496. |
| A189.5 | Goddess' throne shakes when some mischance befalls her faithful worshipper. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A136.2.2 | Goddess's chariot drawn by one-footed horse. Irish myth: Cross. |
| A189.10 | Goddesses come down to earth by a silken thread, are offended by raja and produce drought. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| P296.1 | Godfather. Hdwb. d. Abergl. III 803; Missouri French: Carrière. See also N811 and all references and cross-references. |
| P296.2 | Godmother. |
| P296 | Godparents. |
| Q1.1 | Gods (saints) in disguise reward hospitality and punish inhospitality. Usually the hospitable person is poor, the inhospitable rich. *Types 750AB, 751, 750*; *BP II 210, III 206; Aarne FFC XXIII 46; *Dh II 117; *Fb "Sankt Peder" III 164b, "rig" III 55a. — Spanish: Espinosa II No. 86, III Nos. 168—171, Espinosa Jr. No. 181; India: *Thompson-Balys; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 656; Japanese: Ikeda. |
| K1811 | Gods (saints) in disguise visit mortals. *Types 330A, 750A, 751, 752A, 753, 768, 785, 791; *BP II 210, III 198, 451; *Dh II 129; *Rohde Der Griechische Roman 451 n.; Fb "Sankt Peder" III 164a; United States (Mormon): **Lee, Hector, "The Three Nephites: the Substance and Significance of the Legend in Folklore" (Albuquerque, 1949), "The Three Nephites: a Disappearing Legend" Am. Notes and Queries II 35—38, Hand, "The Three Nephites" Am. Notes and Queries II 56—57, Fife, "The Legend of the Three Nephites among the Mormons" JAFL LIII 1—49; Irish: O'Suilleabhain 22, Beal XXI 307, *Cross; Icelandic: MacCulloch Eddic 80, *Boberg; Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "Pierre"; Spanish Exempla: Keller; Italian Novella: Rotunda; Greek: Fox 200, Grote I 36, 63, 88, 103, 160; Jewish: *Neuman, *bin Gorion Born Judas I 176f., 374; India: *Thompson-Balys; Hindu: Tawney I 370; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 19, 318, 473, 477, 648, 840, II 471, 504, 519, 572, 602, 1079, 1182, 1258, 1353, 1366; Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 1f., 169; Japanese: Ikeda; Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 69; S. A. Indian (Inca): Rowe BBAE CXLIII (2) 316, (Chamacoso): Métraux MAFLS XL 28, (Huaroichiri): ibid. 158; Africa (Ekoi): Talbot 177; West Indies: Flowers 545. |
| K1811.1 | Gods (spirits) disguised as beggars. Test hospitality. Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 770*, 930A*; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| A139.1 | Gods (supernatural beings) have many names. (cf. C432). Irish myth: Cross. |
| A188 | Gods and goddesses in love with men. Babylonian: Gilgamesch Epos VI (Ishtar).—Irish myth: Cross; Norse: Herrmann Saxo Gr. II 238ff., *Boberg; Greek: Fox 29, 157, 199, 211.—Tahiti: Henry 231, Beckwith Myth 37, Porapora (Society Is.): *Beckwith Myth 38; Maori: Clark 148; So. Am. Indian (Chiriguano): Métraux RMLP XXXIII 154, 165. |
| A187 | Gods and men judge each other. |
| A106.0.1 | Gods and the demons quarrel over supremacy. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A117.5 | Gods are spirits of deified dead. Easter Is.: Métraux Ethnology 316. |
| A188.2 | Gods as ancestors of mankind. Irish myth: Cross (A188.1); Hawaii: Beckwith myth 2, 70, 294, 300; Tahiti: Beckwith Myth 37; Tuamotu: Stimson MS (T-G. 3/1010); Easter Is.: Métraux 310; So. Am. Indian (Chiriguano): Métraux RMLP XXXIII 171; Inca: Rowe BBAE CXLIII (2) 315. |
| A520.1 | Gods as culture heroes. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 16, chap. 2 passim. |
| A147 | Gods as fishers. (cf. A165.9). Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 24. |
| A112.6 | Gods as sons of supreme god. Icel.: MacCulloch Eddic 61.—Tahiti: Henry 147. |
| A140 | Gods as workmen. Icel.: MacCulloch Eddic 327. |
| A114 | Gods born from object. |
| A112.3 | Gods born from various parts of creator's body. Japanese: Anesaki 224. |
| A112.9 | Gods borne by human woman. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| R8 | Gods captured. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| A139.9.3 | Gods covered with red and yellow feathers. Tahiti: Henry 338. |
| A831.8 | Gods create the earth from their dead victim's blood and bones. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A173 | Gods deposed for a time. Irish myth: Cross; Icel.: De Vries FFC XCIV 38ff., Herrmann Saxo II 109ff.; Hindu: Tawney II 581.—Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 11, 17, 177. |
| A154.3 | Gods discover liquor. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| N817.1 | Gods discuss means of settling dispute among girl's suitors. Venus has girl make her own choice. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| A115.7 | Gods emerge from hole in tree. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| D45.2 | Gods exchange forms. Irish: MacCulloch Celtic 56, Cross. |
| C311.1.8.1 | Gods flee at approach of dawn. (Cf. E452.) Tonga: Gifford 140. |
| A189.13 | Gods forced by mortals to take refuge underground. Irish myth: Cross (A183.1.). |
| S263.2.1 | Gods furnish substitute for child sacrifice. (Cf. S255.) Irish myth: *Cross; Greek: Frazer Apollodorus II 192 n. 1; Jewish: *Neuman. |
| A189.16 | Gods give divinity to mortal. Tahiti: Henry 231. |
| A139.9.2 | Gods have ichor, not blood: can be wounded but not killed. Iliad book V line 137. |
| D698 | Gods have power to transform themselves. Greek myth: passim; Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 2, and chapt. 1 passim. |
| J1034 | Gods help those who help themselves. Ox driver must put his shoulder to the wheel before Hercules will help him. Wienert FFC LVI *78 (ET 440), 138 (ST 436); Halm Aesop No. 81; Jacobs Aesop 214 No 61. Cf. also Halm Aesop No. 300. |
| A173.2 | Gods imprisoned. Irish myth: Cross. |
| A189 | Gods in relation to mortals—miscellaneous. |
| A180 | Gods in relation to mortals. Irish myth: Cross; Norse: Olrik Kilderne til Sakses Oldhistorie I (1892) 30ff., 32ff. |
| A172 | Gods intervene in battle. Irish myth: Cross; Greek: Iliad passim; Norse: Herrmann Nordische Mythologie 291ff, Boberg; Gaster Thespis 349; Hindu: Tawney I 412, II 473—477; Jewish: *Neuman. |
| A155.4 | Gods keep mosquitoes as pets. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A151.1.4 | Gods live in cloudland. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 64, 67; Tahiti: Beckwith Myth 31. |
| A151.3.1 | Gods live in spring. Tonga: Beckwith Myth 74. |
| A5.1 | Gods make earth to have place to rest their feet.—Hawaiian: Beckwith Myth 43. |
| A153.9 | Gods nourished by air. Hivaoa (Marquesas): Handy 105. |
| A489 | Gods of abstractions—miscellaneous. |
| A460 | Gods of abstractions. Greek: Fox 299. |
| A107 | Gods of darkness and light. Darkness thought of as evil, light as good.—Babylonian: Spence 74; Irish myth: Cross; Jewish: Neuman. |
| A400.0.1 | Gods of earth. Irish myth: Cross. |
| A419.3 | Gods of seat-braces on canoe. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 16. |
| A417 | Gods of the Quarters. A god or spirit for each of the world-quarters, north, south, east, and west.—Japanese: Anesaki 243; Chinese: Werner 240.—Marshall Is.: Davenport 222; American Indian: *Alexander N. Am. 286 n. 31; Maya: Alexander Lat. Am. 137. |
| A474 | Gods of youth and age. |
| A433 | Gods or goddesses of special crops. Mangaia (Cook Is.): Clark 140. |
| A163.1.1 | Gods play chess. Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 216 No. 165. |
| Q552.13.0.3 | Gods pour torrents of hot ashes on kingdom as punishment. Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 601. |
| M301.16 | Gods prophesy both good and evil about hero's fate. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| A1429.3.2 | Gods provide drinkable water. (Cf. A941.)—Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 63f. |
| A139.11 | Gods recognized by natural phenomena associated with their worship—color, scent, etc. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 4. |
| A171 | Gods ride through air. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| A1420.2 | Gods teach how to seek and prepare food. Marquesas: Handy 114; Africa (Luba): Donohugh Africa V 180. |
| A1404 | Gods teach people all they know. Marquesas: Handy 123; S. Am. Indian (Cariri): Lowie BBAE CXLIII (1) 559. |
| K2371.2 | Gods tricked into help in escaping one's fate. *Penzer VI 92 n. 2, IX 25 n. 1; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| A131 | Gods with animal features. *De Visser Die nicht menschengestaltigen Götter der Griechen (Leiden 1903).—Egyptian: Müller 15ff.—Mexican: Alexander Lat. Am. 57ff.—Irish myth: Cross. |
| A136 | Gods with unusual transportation. |
| A199 | Gods—additional motifs. |
| A190 | Gods: miscellaneous motifs. |
| A153.2.1 | Gods' food gives supernatural growth. Irish Myth: Cross; India: Thompson-Balys; Greek: Grote I 43. |
| F1041.9.1 | Going to bed for sorrow. Fb "seng" III 187ab. |
| F877.1 | Gold (silver, copper) thread. Hdwb. d. Märch. II 147 nn. 359—367. |
| H71.2 | Gold (silver) hairs as sign of royalty. *Types 533, 707; *BP II 275, 380, 393; *Fb "hеr" I 771b; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F841.2.1 | Gold (silver) mast. Fb "mast" II 564. |
| F855.3 | Gold (silver) statue of animal. Jewish: Neuman; Icelandic: Boberg. |
| J2093.6 | Gold and jewels sold for trifle. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| D1454.1.1 | Gold and silver combed from hair. Fb "hеr" I 771b, "guld" I 512a. |
| Q552.18.1 | Gold and silver demanded of saint disappear. (Cf. Q227.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| V12.5 | Gold as sacrifice to false wooden god. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| F169.6 | Gold chain as support in otherworld. Irish myth: Cross. |
| A1432.2.1 | Gold comes from gourd received from fishes. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| N518 | Gold found, concealed in bricks and successfully secured. Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 1669*. |
| F555.1 | Gold hair. *Types 314, 504, 533; BP II 275, III 97, IV 271, 351, 409; *Fb "guldhеr" I 513, IV 191b, "hеr" I 771b; *Aarne FFC XCII 94ff.—Icelandic: Hdwb. d. Märch. I 431a n. 27, MacCulloch Eddic 266, Boberg; Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "cheveux", "belle", "or"; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| N534.2 | Gold hoard found by cow stepping into hole. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| H71.11 | Gold in stool as sign of royalty. India: Thompson-Balys: |
| H261 | Gold in the Bible. A man professes to be a great Bible reader. King leaves a piece of money in the Bible. On his next visit it is still there. Anderson FFC XLII 361. Cf. Type 1453. |
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