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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
G
Ogres
H
Tests
J
The Wise and the Foolish
K
Deceptions
L
Reversals of Fortune
M
Ordaining the Future
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Chance and Fate
P
Society
Q
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 ▲ |
|---|---|
| D2102 | Gold magically produced. |
| F793.1 | Gold moon, sun, star. Fb "guldmеne" I 514. |
| J1176.3 | Gold pieces in the honey-pot. Woman leaves honey-pot with neighbor to guard. It has gold below the honey. Neighbor steals the gold and substitutes honey. Theft proved by gold pieces sticking to sides of pot. (Cf. J1192.2.) Alphabet No. 261; Jewish: bin Gorion Born Judas III 58ff., 300f., *Neuman. |
| Q111.4 | Gold ring as reward. (Cf. Q91.3, Q91.4.) Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| F841.1.10 | Gold ship. Danish: Kristensen Danske Sagn III (1895) 460ff., (1931) 316ff. |
| F545.2.1 | Gold star on forehead. *Type 400, 533; *Roberts 188; BP I 102, II 275; Köhler-Bolte I 420; Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "étoiles"; Italian: Basile Pentamerone III No. 2. |
| D2087.5 | Gold stolen by magic. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| G279.2.1 | Gold stolen from witch. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B53.3 | Gold thrown on shore by siren. Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "or". |
| H71.6.2 | Gold tint as sign of royalty. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| D1500.1.31 | Gold used in medicine. Irish myth: Cross. |
| D2102.1 | Gold vomited. Irish: Plummer xliv, *Cross. |
| B756 | Gold-digging ants. *Chauvin VII 87 No. 373bis; **F. Schiern Ueber den Ursprung der Sage von den goldgrabenden Ameisen (Copenhagen-Leipzig, 1873). |
| B103.1.5 | Gold-making bird. Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 35f. |
| B103.1.4 | Gold-making deer. Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 35ff. |
| B103.1.1 | Gold-producing ass. Droppings of gold.—*Type 563; **Aarne JSFO XXVII (1909) 1—96; Cox 510 n. 54; Penzer V 11 n. 1; *BP I 349ff. (Gr. No. 36).—Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "âne"; French Canadian: Barbeau JAFL XXIX 10; Missouri French: Carrière; Italian: Basile Pentamerone I No. 1; Philippine: Fansler MAFLS XII 196; Japanese: Ikeda. |
| B103.1.3 | Gold-producing dog. Droppings of gold.—Penzer V 11 n. 1; Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 35f. |
| B103.0.6 | Gold-producing lion. Penzer I 20 n. |
| B103.0.3 | Gold-producing ram. Penzer I 20 n. |
| B103.0.4 | Gold-producing serpent. Penzer I 20 n. |
| F166.2 | Gold-producing spring in otherworld. Siuts 85f. |
| R131.8.7 | Gold-washer rescues abandoned child. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| C939.4 | Golden Age ends as result of broken tabu. (Cf. A1101.1.) S. Am. Indian (Lengua): Métraux BBAE CXLIII (1) 369. |
| A1101.1 | Golden age. A former age of perfection.—Hdwb. d. Abergl. III 927ff.—Irish myth: Cross; Icel.: De la Saussaye 165, MacCulloch Eddic 327, 378 n. 49, Boberg; Lappish: Qvigstad FFC LX 35 No. 8; Greek: Fox 105, Grote I 62; Jewish: Neuman; Persian: Carnoy 300, 305; Hindu: Keith 103; India: Thompson-Balys. —Tuamotu: Stimson MS (z-G 13/50); Aztec: Alexander Lat. Am. 66; Carib: ibid. 262; Ackawoi: ibid. 269. |
| H1596.1 | Golden apple as prize in beauty contest. Judgment of Paris. Scala Celi 22b, 27a Nos. 146, 175; Greek: Fox 124. |
| C713.4 | Golden apple thrown to remind merman's wife not to forget to return to him. Child I 364f. |
| F813.1.1 | Golden apple. Type 502; BP III 111; *Cox Cinderella 494; *Fb "æble" III 1135b, "guldæble" I 515b, 516a, "træ" III 867a, "frugttræ" I 376b.—Irish myth: *Cross; English: Child I 364f.; French Canadian: Barbeau JAFL XXIX 10; Missouri French: Carrière; Icelandic: Boberg; Italian Novella: Rotunda; Greek: Frazer Apollodorus I 400 n. 1, Fox 87; Jewish: Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F846.2 | Golden bed. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F787.2 | Golden bed. Jewish: Neuman. |
| F857.1 | Golden besom (broom). India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B102.1 | Golden bird. Bird with golden feathers. *Type 550.—Cox 510 n. 54; Fb "fugl", "guldfugl", "fjer"—India: Thompson-Balys; Hindu: Keith 149, Tawney II 507; Panchatantra (trans. Ryder) 333; Missouri French: Carrière. |
| F841.1.8 | Golden boat with copper rudder. Finnish: Kalevala rune 10. |
| H71.2.1 | Golden body of boy as sign of royalty. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F152.1.3 | Golden bridge to otherworld. Patch PMLA XXXIII 639 n. 130, Other World 374 s.v. "bridge." |
| F842.1.4 | Golden bridge. Icelandic: Herrmann Saxo II 587, MacCulloch Eddic 130, *Boberg. |
| B102.5 | Golden calf. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| F771.1.1 | Golden castle (palace, house). *Köhler-Bolte I 412; *Fb "slot" III 376b, 377a, "guldslot" I 515a.—Icelandic: MacCulloch Eddic 329, Snorra Edda Gylf. LII, *Boberg, Hdwb. d. Märch. I 431a nn. 28—34; Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "or"; French Canadian: Barbeau JAFL XXIX 12; Persian: Carnoy 335; India: Thompson-Balys; Hindu: Tawney II 568. |
| F163.1.2 | Golden castle in otherworld. Wimberly 146; Irish myth: Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| F757.1 | Golden cave. Cowell Jataka Index s.v. "Golden". |
| F821.1.1 | Golden clothes. Fb "guldklædning"; India: Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Graham. |
| A878.3.6 | Golden cock in earth-tree. Icel.: Boberg. |
| D1317.15 | Golden cock on tent warns against danger. Norse: *Boberg. |
| B143.1.5 | Golden cock warns against attack. Icel.: *Boberg. |
| F852.2 | Golden coffin. Type 709; *Böklen Sneewittchenstudien 115.—English: Child I 506, II 358f., 362, 366, IV 471, V 224 (gold and silver). |
| F827.5 | Golden comb. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| D846.1 | Golden cot found in magic castle. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B102.8 | Golden crab. Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 249. |
| F343.14 | Golden cup (bowl, urn) as gifts from otherworld inhabitants. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F866.3 | Golden cup. Icelandic: *Boberg; Danish: Kristensen Danske Sagn III (1931) 316ff. |
| K341.7.3 | Golden deer sent to entice girl's guardians away, so she can be abducted. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B102.3 | Golden deer. India: *Thompson-Balys; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 1131. |
| B102.7 | Golden dog. Jewish: Neuman. |
| G304.3.1.1 | Golden door to troll's castle. Fb "guldport" I 514. |
| F855.3.3 | Golden dove. Jewish: Neuman. |
| F866.3.1 | Golden drinking horn. Danish: Kristensen Danske Sagn III (1931) 317. |
| C911 | Golden finger as sign of opening forbidden chamber. (Cf. C611.) —*Type 710; BP I 21 (Grimm Nos 3, 136).—Missouri French: Carrière. |
| B102.4 | Golden fish. Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "poisson"; India: Thompson-Balys; Irish myth: Cross. |
| F814.4 | Golden flowers. India: Thompson-Balys; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 891. |
| F813.0.2 | Golden fruits. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F899.2.1 | Golden game-board. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| B102.1.3 | Golden goose. India: Thompson-Balys; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 581, 1264. |
| B102.1.1 | Golden hawk. Icel.: *Boberg. |
| B102.2 | Golden horse. (Cf. B181.)—Cox 510 n. 54; Fb "guldhest"; Danish: Kristensen Danske Sagn III (1895) 461ff., (1931) 316ff.; Icel.: *Boberg; India: Thompson-Balys; Missouri French: Carrière. |
| F862.1 | Golden horseshoe. *Fb "guldsko" I 515a, "guldsmed" I 515a, "hestesko" IV 213b; Icelandic: Boberg; English: Child V 483 s.v. "horse" (silver before and gold behind). |
| F886.1 | Golden key. Danish: Kristensen Danske Sagn III (1895) 461, (1931) 318. |
| K231.3.2 | Golden lamb promised to goddess. Common lamb sacrificed. Greek: Fox 120 (Atreus). |
| F814.4.1 | Golden lotus. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A151.4.3 | Golden mansions of gods. Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 421. |
| F545.1.1.2 | Golden mustache. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F813.3.1 | Golden nut. Fb "guldnød" I 514; Icelandic: Boberg; Philippine (Tinguian): Cole 38. |
| F841.2.4 | Golden oar. Irish myth: Cross. |
| B102.1.2 | Golden peacock. India: Thompson-Balys; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 1052. |
| F858 | Golden plow. Danish: Kristensen Danske Sagn III (1931) 317. |
| F813.8.1 | Golden pomegranates. Jewish: Neuman. |
| F867.1 | Golden reel. *Fb "guldhaspe" I 513. |
| F868.1 | Golden saddle. Fb "guldsadel" I 514b; Icelandic: Boberg. |
| B102.6 | Golden serpent. German: Grimm No. 136. |
| F823.1 | Golden shoes. *Type 510; *Cox Cinderella 506; *Fb "guldsko" I 515a; Jewish: Neuman. |
| F876 | Golden spinning-wheel. Hdwb. d. Märch. II 136 nn. 77—119. |
| D1314.2.6 | Golden staff stuck into ground finds site for city. S. A. Indian (Inca): Rowe BBAE CXLIII (2) 317. |
| F805 | Golden stone. Icelandic: Boberg; Philippine (Tinguian): Cole 43. |
| F895 | Golden swing. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F784.1 | Golden table. Jewish: bin Gorion Born Judas I 217, 375, *Neuman. |
| F544.3.1 | Golden teeth. Icelandic: Boberg; Jamaica: *Beckwith MAFLS XVII 278 No. 90. |
| F773.2 | Golden temple. Jewish: Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F544.2.1 | Golden tongue. Jamaica: *Beckwith MAFLS XVII 278 No. 90. |
| F772.2.3 | Golden tower under sea. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F811.1.1 | Golden tree. Köhler-Bolte I 412; Fb "guldskov" I 515a, "guldtyr" I 515b; Irish myth: Cross; Icelandic: Boberg; Jewish: Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys, Penzer IV 128. |
| F861.1 | Golden wagon (chariot). Greek: Grote I 147. |
| F861.1.2 | Golden wagon drawn by four golden elephants. Italian: Basile Pentamerone II No. 5. |
| F861.1.1 | Golden wagon drawn by moles. Fb "guldvogn" I 515b; Danish: Kristensen Danske Sagn III (1895) 461ff., (1931) 317ff. |
| P447.7 | Goldsmith as lover. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| K419.7 | Goldsmith as thief in king's treasury. Makes golden human figure and says it is a corpse. Gets by guards. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| L363 | Goldsmith gives money to one who addressed him as friend (the goldsmith had no friends because he has cheated everybody.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| J1511.20 | Goldsmith sells thinly plated gold; peasant retaliates: a pot of dirt with a little gyav on top. (Cf. J1556.1.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| N256.1 | Goldsmith unlucky. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| D1635 | Golem. Automatic statue animated by insertion of written magic formula into an opening. *Penzer III 59; Jewish: Neuman. |
| A525 | Good and bad culture heroes. Walapai: Alexander N. Am. 180; S. Am. Indian (Guarani): Métraux BBAE CXLIII (3) 93; Melanesia: Dixon 122ff.; Polynesia, Micronesia: ibid. 122 n. 1. |
| F277.0.3 | Good and bad fairies battle. Irish myth: Cross. |
| J174 | Good and bad in all books. Author says that a prudent man notes only the good in a vain book; a malicious person, only the bad in a good book. Spanish: Childers. |
| J1422 | Good bath. A cat seeing a mouse leave a bath says, "Good bath!" Mouse: "If I had not seen you!" Chauvin III 55 No. 11. |
| J163.4 | Good counsels bought. *Types 910A, 910B; *Fb "rеd"; Spanish Exempla: Keller; India: *Thompson-Balys; Indonesia: DeVries's list No. 229. |
| N113.1 | Good fortune resides in an object. Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 1138. |
| W2 | Good inclinations enter body at puberty. Jewish: Neuman. |
| P12.5 | Good king never retreats in battle. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| N113 | Good luck personified. |
| D1812.5.2.2.1 | Good omen: meeting old woman with pot of newly drawn water. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| J531 | Good shepherd shears his sheep; does not skin them. Emperor thus replies to suggestion of a new tax to be laid on the people. Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 742. |
| F403 | Good spirits. Greek: Grote I 66. |
| Q6 | Good thoughts rewarded, bad punished. Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 186f. |
| J2093.4 | Good timber given for useless because wife says they will have only sickness and trouble. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| U148 | Good weather for one is foul for another. Cf. Heywood's Play of the Weather. |
| A102.14 | Goodness of God. Jewish: Neuman. |
| J244 | Goodness preferred to beauty. |
| J247 | Goodness preferred to wealth. Irish myth: *Cross; Jewish: *Neuman. |
| D2089.7 | Goods magically diminish. |
| K254 | Goods misappropriated. |
| K233.7 | Goods received on partial payment. Buyer refuses to pay more. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| J1852 | Goods sold to animals. *Type 1642; *BP I 59f.; *Chauvin VI 126 No. 280; Fansler MAFLS XII 352. |
| J1853 | Goods sold to object. *Type 1642; *BP I 59; Köhler-Bolte I 135; Spanish: Espinosa III 147. |
| K331 | Goods stolen while owner sleeps. Missouri French: Carrière; India: Thompson-Balys; Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 350; Cook Islands: Beckwith Myth 270; West Indies: Flowers 503. |
| W195.1 | Goose and turkey envious of peacock point out its ugly legs and voice. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B291.1.5 | Goose as messenger. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| L419.1 | Goose boasts superiority to mushroom. Both served up at same meal. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B582.1.1.1 | Goose brings master sleeping princess. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| J1791.8 | Goose dives for star, thinking it a fish. The next day when she sees fish, she lets it escape. Chauvin II 89 No. 28; B[ö]dker Exempler 284 No. 30; Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| B671 | Goose mates with crow. Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 884. |
| J1762.1 | Goose mistaken for a tailor. In a ghost house he is thought to be a tailor who snips the devil with his scissors. *Fb "gеs" I 528b. |
| F526.3 | Gorgon. Head turned about, scales of dragon, tusks of swine brazen hands, golden wings. Greek: Frazer Apollodorus I 153 n. 3. |
| F1011.1.1 | Gospel-book hung from saint's shoulders without strap. Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q393.2 | Gossiping punished. Africa: Casati I 319. |
| F813.5.1 | Gourds with seven rooms in each. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F451.4.5 | Government among dwarfs. |
| F402.2 | Government of demons. |
| F252 | Government of fairies. |
| P500 | Government. |
| X434.2 | Grace before meat. The parson asks the boy: "What does your father say when you begin to eat?" Boy: "You young devil, etc." *Type 1841. |
| J1561.7 | Grace said in name of the host. Neglected guest thus gets his portion of food. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| A2441.2.2 | Graceful step of dove. Jewish: Neuman. |
| H257.1 | Grade of holiness tested: one whose candle burns down first. *Loomis White Magic 129. |
| D701 | Gradual disenchantment. (Cf. D617.)—*Type 307; Wimberly 381; Moe Samlede Skrifter I 52; German: Grimm Nos. 108, 121, 137; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K956.1 | Gradual murder by piecemeal destruction of separable soul. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| E695 | Gradual reincarnation—man to tiger. Chinese: Graham. |
| E156 | Gradual resuscitation—one organ at a time. Korean: Zong in-Sob 47. |
| D681 | Gradual transformation. (Cf. D701.)—Köhler-Bolte I 573.—Greek: Hahn Gr. and alb. Märchen No. 29; Russian: v. Löwis of Menar Russische Märchen No. 29: Norwegian: Aasen Norske Minnestykke No. 62; India: Thompson-Balys; N. A. Indian (Seneca): Curtin-Hewitt RBAE XXXII 170 No. 32, (White Mountain Apache): Goddard PaAM XXIV 128, (Joshua): Farrand-Frachtenberg JAFL XXVIII 241 No. 20;—Eskimo (Mackenzie Area): Jenness 85. |
| R9.2 | Grain and pulse in human form imprisoned by wicked king. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B271.2 | Grain as damages for injury to cat. Swiss: Jegerlehner Oberwallis 294 No. 10. |
| F405.6 | Grain scattered as a means of dispersing spirits. Swiss: Jegerlehner Oberwallis 329 No. 50. |
| J2196 | Grain shot down with guns. People unacquainted with the sickle. *Type 1202; *BP II 72 n. 1. |
| J1031 | Grain will be cut when farmer attends to it himself. Lark leaves her young in the cornfield. They hear farmer tell sons to go to neighbors for help in harvesting. Lark tells young not to worry. Same when he sends for relatives. Farmer decides to harvest it himself. Larks move, for they now know that it will be done Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 867; Wienert FFC LVI *70 (ET 341), 126 (ST 351); Halm Aesop No. 210; Roumania: Schullerus FFC LXXVIII No. 93*. |
| K405.1 | Grain-thief's wagon falls into ditch: duped owner helps him. The thief makes the owner believe that the grain belongs to the thief. Type 1564*. |
| H1483 | Grains slowly munched in order to keep from sleeping. (Cf. H1471.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Z41.6.1 | Gram (parched grain) sticks in post; parrot goes to raja, etc., for help. Final formula: at last creeper took pity on birds, and elephant feared creeper, and ocean feared elephant, and fire feared ocean, and stick feared fire, and snake feared stick, and carpenter feared snake; and carpenter split post which gave up the grain to the birds, who went away. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| G303.15.2 | Granary now haunted because of devil's defeat. Wünsche Teufel 53f. |
| A1.2 | Grandfather as creator.—S. Am. Indian (Paressi): Métraux BBAE CXLIII (3) 359, (Guarayú): Métraux RMLP XXXIII 147. |
| P291.1 | Grandfather as foster father. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| P291 | Grandfather. Irish myth: Cross; Missouri French: Carrière. |
| P292.1 | Grandmother as foster mother. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| K2175 | Grandmother causes grandchildren to be whipped: puts dirt and hairs into cooking pot by stealth and sand in the water they draw. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| P292 | Grandmother. Missouri French: Carrière. |
| D1503.10.1 | Grass and flowers which grew upon a saint's grave are good for cures. (Cf. D975.) *Loomis White Magic 105. |
| G512.3.3 | Grass as fuel for burning ogre. N. A. Indian (California): Gayton and Newman 79. |
| F817.4 | Grass covered with gold dust. Jewish: Neuman. |
| E631.2 | Grass does not grow on murderer's grave. (Cf. H271.) Fb "græs"; England: Baughman. |
| A2611.6.1 | Grass from hair of slain person. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| G272.18 | Grass from new grave protects against witches. England: Baughman. |
| F979.18 | Grass grows anew every night. (Cf. F971.1.3.) Jewish: Neuman. |
| F817.2 | Grass grows anew every night. Jewish: Neuman. |
| F974 | Grass refuses to grow in certain spot. Extraordinary event has happened there. Fb "græs" I 499b, IV 188a; Taylor Attila and Modern Riddles, JAFL LVI (1943) 136—37; Icelandic: Boberg. |
| H215.3 | Grass refuses to grow: indication of innocence of man hanged there. (Cf. E631.2, F974.) U.S., Wales: *Baughman. |
| U65.1 | Grass serves as pleasant couch for poor. Jewish: Neuman. |
| F974.1 | Grass will not grow where blood of murdered person has been shed. England: *Baughman. |
| A2233.4 | Grasshopper builds no house for winter; ant strikes him blind: therefore born blind. (Cf. A2332.6.3.)—Dh III 21. |
| J1785.1 | Grasshopper thought to be the devil. *Field Pent Cuckoo 7; England: Baughman. |
| W154.8 | Grateful animals; ungrateful man. A traveler saves a monkey, a snake, a tiger, and a jeweler from a pit. The monkey gives him fruit; the tiger a necklace of a princess he has killed. The jeweler accuses the rescuer before the king. The serpent saves him by biting the prince and then showing the man the proper remedy. *Type 160; Chauvin II 106 No. 71; *Penzer V 157 n. 1; Cosquin études 22ff.; Moe Samlede Skrifter I 192ff.; *BP IV 139; *Wesselski Theorie 82ff.; *Oesterley No. 119; Fb "ulvgrav"; Bødker Exempler 304 No. 25.—Spanish Exempla: Keller; Jewish: bin Gorion Born Judas IV 51, 277, Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys; Africa: Frobenius Atlantis IX 385f. Nos. 103, 104, (Gold Coast): Barker and Sinclair 163 No. 32, (Zanzibar): Bateman 81ff. No. 6. |
| B350 | Grateful animals. *Types 329, 480, 531, 554, 554*, 559: *BP I 207ff. (Gr. No. 24), 227, II 21 (Gr. Nos. 17, 62, 191), 454 n. 1, III 18ff. (Gr. No. 126), 365 (Gr. No. 191); Hartland Perseus III 193ff.; Clouston Tales I 223ff.; Penzer I 100f., V 157ff., VI 291, VIII 219, IX 156; *Chauvin II 107 No. 71; *Saintyves Perrault 32ff.—Irish myth: Cross.—Greek: **Marx Griechische Märchen von dankbaren Tieren; *Frazer Apollodorus I 86 n. 2; Arabian: Burton SV 326; India: *Thompson-Balys; Japanese: Anesaki 322; Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "fourmi".—N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 316 n. 146a., CColl II 327f., 333, 342, 417; Indonesian: De Vries's list Nos. 56, 65ff., 135; Malay: Dixon 216; *ibid. 218 n. 23; Philippine: Fansler MAFLS XII 167.—Africa (Basuto): Jacottet 214 No. 31. |
| B587.3 | Grateful bull draws one hundred carts for wager for master. Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 29. |
| D1658.2.2 | Grateful carpets. (Cf. D1155.) BP I 227 n. 1. |
| T66.1 | Grateful dead man helps hero win princess. *Type 506; India: Thompson-Balys. See references for E341 (the grateful dead). |
| T172.2.1 | Grateful dead man kills princess's monster husband. (Or otherwise renders her innocuous to the bridegroom.) *Type 506—08. |
| B560.1 | Grateful dragon king gives hero advice. Korean: Zong in-Sob 170, No. 73. |
| B11.6.1.2 | Grateful dragon saves hero and rescues him from prison. Chinese: Eberhard 180. |
| F330 | Grateful fairies. *Hdwb. d. Märch. s.v. "Geschenke des kleinen Volkes"; Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "fées". |
| F343.12 | Grateful fairy gives ring. Icelandic: Göngu-Hrуlfs saga 277. |
| B375.1.1 | Grateful fish grants mad hero his wish: to impregnate a princess. Later the fish saves the hero and his family from death at sea.—Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| B514.1 | Grateful fox fetches fox liver as remedy. Japanese: Mitford 261ff. |
| N812.3 | Grateful giantess as helper. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| B524.6 | Grateful hare raises animal army for hero. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B524.1.9 | Grateful hawk attacks hero's enemies. Chinese: Graham. |
| B380.1 | Grateful hyena leads lost hermit from wilderness as reward for his help. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| N531.4 | Grateful king advises merchant in dream to take treasure from his grave mound. Icelandic: ASB 14 p. 76 n., *Boberg. |
| T66.2 | Grateful little boys help hero win girl. Chinese: Graham. |
| D1658.3.1 | Grateful objects give advice. (Cf. D1312.) BP I 227. |
| D1658.3.3 | Grateful objects give helper gifts. BP I 227. |
| D1658.3.4 | Grateful objects help fugitive. (Cf. D1393, D1611.) BP I 227. |
| D1658.3.2 | Grateful objects help in choice of caskets. BP I 227. |
| D1658 | Grateful objects. *Type 480, 510, BP I 207 ff., *227; *Toldo Studien zur vgl. Littgsch. VIII 48ff., 60ff. |
| G513.1 | Grateful ogre resuscitates his benefactor. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| D1658.2.3 | Grateful plant. Japanese: Anesaki 337. |
| E341.5 | Grateful priest returns to save gambler from devil. Irish: O'Suilleabhain 36. |
| B103.0.4.1 | Grateful snake gives gold piece daily. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B103.4.2.1 | Grateful snake spits out lump of gold for his rescuer. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| D1658.2.1 | Grateful stove. (Cf. D1161.) BP I 227 n. 1. |
| B583.1 | Grateful whales disgorge gold. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| W27 | Gratitude. |
| C181.7 | Grave (of man) upon which no women can look without foolish laugh or "sine crepitu ventris eius." Irish myth: Cross. |
| D482.5.1 | Grave equals five times length of any person's foot. Irish myth: Cross (D484.1). |
| D1413.24 | Grave holds person fast. (Cf. D1299.1.) Eskimo (Greenland): Rink 270. |
| D2151.1.2.3 | Grave on shore rises with the tide. (Cf. D1641.8.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| D1641.8 | Grave removes itself. (Cf. D1299.2.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q552.2.2 | Grave sinks so that grave-robbers cannot get out. (Cf. Q212.2.) Estonian: Aarne FFC XXV 116 No. 17. |
| Q212.2 | Grave-robbing punished. Estonian: Aarne FFC XXV 116 No. 17. |
| F934.1 | Gravel rises from bottom as hero enters lake. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F531.6.13 | Graves of giants. Broderius § 12; **Höttges FFC CXXII 75ff., 256f.; Irish myth: Cross; Icelandic: Arnason Legends of Iceland (London, 1864) I 40, 51, 53, 148; Danish: Kristensen Danske Sagn III (1895) 13ff., (1931) 8ff., VI 74; Finnish-Swedish: Wessman 67 No. 577; Faröe: Zs. f. Vksk. II 18. |
| J2112 | Gray hair cured by pulling it out so that the person is bald. Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 504; U.S.: Baughman. |
| Z155 | Gray hair the symbol of departed usefulness. *Penzer I 121; *Bloomfield JAOS XXXVI 57. |
| F233.10 | Gray-bearded fairy. German: Grimm No. 182. |
| F451.3.11 | Great age of dwarfs. BP I 497; Icelandic: MacCulloch Eddic 271; German: Bindewald 56, Pröhle Unterharz. 112 Nos. 293, 295, Pröhle Harzsagen No. 137 II. |
| A191.1 | Great age of the gods. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F455.2.10 | Great age of trolls. Often centuries old. Hartmann 67. |
| A111.3.3 | Great bird as ancestor of gods. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 92. |
| B523.3 | Great clam fights hero's pursuer. Tahiti: Beckwith Myth 260. |
| A721.2.1 | Great darkness due to awk swallowing the sun. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A972.7 | Great fish killed by hero and cut into sixteen pieces: the great stones may still be seen. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F982.1.1 | Great flock of birds lift grayhound and garments into air. Irish myth: Cross. |
| A1010.2 | Great flood lasts eight months. Maori: Beckwith Myth 316. |
| G361.2 | Great head as ogre. Head detached from body pursues or flies about doing damage. N. A. Indian (Seneca): Curtin-Hewitt RBAE XXXII 262, 291; S. A. Indian (Caviсa, Tumupasa): Métraux BBAE CXLIII (3) 448, (Araucanian): Alexander Lat. Am. 329. |
| F960.2.4 | Great light appears on night of holy man's death. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| U81 | Great possessions bring great risks. Jewish: Neuman. |
| J411 | Great refuse to associate with lowly. Missouri French: Carrière. |
| F167.15 | Great tattooer in otherworld. Maori: Clark 136. |
| P41.1 | Great warrior destroyed by king when he asks for princess in marriage. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| C984.1 | Great wind because of broken tabu. (Cf. C58.)—Swiss: Jegerlehner Oberwallis 308 Nos. 37, 38. |
| X905.2 | Greatest liar made king of Schlaraffenland. (First ed. X950.3.) (Cf. X1503.) BP II 507. |
| K455.7 | Greatest liar to get his supper free. Wager. Each lie is corroborated by a confederate, who poses as a newly arrived stranger. *BP II 509; Japanese: Ikeda. |
| W151 | Greed. Irish myth: Cross; Jewish: *Neuman; Icelandic: *Boberg; West Indies: Flowers 582. |
| W125.1 | Greedy animal eats poisoned fruit in spite of warning. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| N347.7 | Greedy disciple decides to remain in city despite learned teacher's warning and is condemned to take the place of a thief. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A139.15 | Greedy god. Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 215f. |
| J2136.6.1 | Greedy jackal caught in carcass of dead bullock. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| J514.5 | Greedy man dissatisfied with gold looks for jewels; finds only iron and eventually nothing. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| J514.3 | Greedy man keeps demanding one more thing from complacent man; at last is magically blinded. Campbell-McKay No. 21. |
| W151.10 | Greedy man tries to stuff food into his nostrils as well as into his mouth. Africa (Fang): Tessman 140. |
| W151.9 | Greedy person (animal) gets hand (head) stuck in food jar. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| J514.4 | Greedy pig looks up into tree for figs. This causes his death. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| D1293.2 | Green as magic color. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F178.2 | Green as otherworld color. Irish myth: Cross. |
| Z145.1 | Green as symbolic of martyrdom. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F545.1.1.1 | Green beard. Moe Samlede Skrifter III 289f.; English: Gawayne and the Green Knight. |
| F773.1 | Green chapel. Cave in green mound. Irish myth: *Cross; English: Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight. |
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