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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
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
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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 ▲ |
|---|---|
| D491.1.1 | Herd of cattle put into magic cup. (Cf. B182.)—Greek: Fox 86. |
| B184.3.0.5 | Herd of magic swine that cannot be counted twice with the same result. Irish myth: Cross. |
| B19.6 | Herd which came from heaven. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| G308.3 | Herds of sea monsters on surface of sea. Irish myth: Cross. |
| J345.1 | Herdsman neglects his she-goats in favor of wild-goats. She-goats die; wild-goats run off. Wienert FFC LVI 72 (ET 368), 106 (ST 181); Halm Aesop No. 12. |
| R131.3 | Herdsman rescues abandoned child. (Cf. S351.2.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K346.2 | Herdsman slaughters animals entrusted to him. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1784 | Herdsman threatens invasion with enormous herds: bought off. He hires himself as herdsman of all his master's flocks for ten years. He then sends notice to surrounding peoples that he is coming with his master's flocks to graze. They bribe him to stay away. *Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 362. |
| T4.1 | Herdsman to learn art of love so he can become a holy man. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q225.1 | Heresy punished. (Cf. Q414.0.8, Q469.7, Q559.11.) Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| Q415.8 | Heretic preaching against God's creation worried to death by fly. (Cf. Q225.) Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| Q551.7.1.1 | Heretic suddenly becomes tongue-tied. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| V322 | Heretical baptism. Heathen baptized into devil's possession. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| V320 | Heretics. *Encyc. Rel. Ethics Index 251b; Irish myth: Cross. |
| F547.2.1 | Hermaphrodite pygmies. N. A. Indian (Tsimshian): Alexander N. Am. 257. |
| F547.2 | Hermaphrodite. Person with both male and female sexual organs. Greek: *Pauly-Wissowa s.v. "Hermaphroditos"; N. A. Indian (Navaho): Matthews MAFLS V 70; Icelandic: Boberg. |
| A12 | Hermaphroditic creator. The creator is half man and half woman or is thought of as both male and female.—*Lang Myth I 200f., 299; Güntert 324.—Greek: Eisler 396; Egyptian: Maspéro Histoire ancienne des peuples de l'Orient classique 141; Indian (Hindu): Keith 75.—Aztec: Alexander Lat. Am. 88. |
| L301 | Hermes distributes wit. Gives everyone the same measure of wit, so that the smaller are more clever than the large. Wienert FFC LVI 35; Halm Aesop No. 150. |
| K943 | Hermit (deceived by the devil) kills his own father, supposing him to be the devil. Herbert III 5; Crane Vitry 168 No. 76; Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| N843 | Hermit as helper. Irish myth: Cross; Icelandic: Boberg; English: Wells 66 (Ywain and Gawain); Spanish: Boggs FFC XC 70 No. 535, Espinosa Jr. Nos. 129, 139; India: *Thompson-Balys; Hindu: Tawney I 486, II 146. |
| Q144.1 | Hermit as reward for austerities hears voice of God. (Cf. Q34.) Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| M411.8.2 | Hermit curses men who kill his pet bear and all the men die. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| J153.2 | Hermit explains why anger is sin. Nouvelles de Sens No. 20. |
| U231 | Hermit having rebuked youth falls himself when exposed to the same sin. Herbert III 5; *Crane Vitry 169 No. 81. |
| Q226.1 | Hermit leaving his cell to become robber falls and breaks his neck. He has seen a penitent robber's soul borne to heaven and resolves therefore to be a robber. *Crane Vitry 166 No. 72; Kittredge Englische Studien XIX 177; *Herbert III 60. Cf. Type 756B. |
| Z49.12 | Hermit must get cat to kill rats in hunt, cow to give cat milk, etc. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| R131.10 | Hermit rescues abandoned child. (Cf. N843, R169.2.) English: Wells 96 (Chevalere Assigne); Italian Novella: Rotunda; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| P426.2 | Hermit. Hdwb. d. Märchens I 507b; Irish myth: Cross; Spanish: Espinosa II No. 75, Espinosa Jr. No. 186. |
| F147.2 | Hermit's hut at border of otherworld. *Siuts 45. |
| Z215 | Hero "son of seven mothers". Seven mothers each with a child imprisoned. Six eat their children to keep from starving. Seventh does not. He rescues all the mothers and becomes hero. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| N838 | Hero (culture hero) as helper. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F1057 | Hero (giant) wades across sea. Irish myth: *Cross; Welsh: MacCulloch Celtic 101. |
| L112 | Hero (heroine) of unpromising appearance. Icelandic: *Boberg; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| L114 | Hero (heroine) of unpromising habits. Icelandic: Boberg; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| L113 | Hero (heroine) of unpromising occupation. |
| L111 | Hero (heroine) of unpromising origin. India: *Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Graham. |
| F1088.1 | Hero (heroine) spared for his (her) beauty. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| D1856.1 | Hero (saint) taken to Paradise (Heaven) alive. |
| T682 | Hero a posthumous son. *Von Sydow Fеvne 40; Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| R10.4 | Hero abducted by witch who loves him. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| T572.2.3 | Hero an abortion thrown into the bushes. Maori: Dixon 42. |
| T83 | Hero and Leander. Lover drowned as he swims to see his mistress. *Von der Hagen I cxxviii; *Fb "svömme" III 695b; Italian Novella: Rotunda; Greek: Fox 202. |
| P415.1 | Hero as collier. Icelandic: Þiðriks saga I 308f., Boberg. |
| G462.1 | Hero as giant's (ogre's) goatherd. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| P412.3 | Hero as rabbit-herd. Type 570. |
| T141.3 | Hero assigns the bride he has won to another. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| Z252 | Hero at first nameless. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| E261.1.3 | Hero attacked by revenant with half a head, carrying man with half a body. (Cf. E461, E422.1.1, F511.0.5.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| K959.2.5 | Hero attacks and kills at night hero who wanted to go to sleep before their fighting. Icelandic: örvar-Odds saga 52—55. |
| N691.1.1 | Hero attempting to escape from tiger plays music and tiger follows. People marvel and give him money and he is rewarded with princess's hand. Korean: Zong in-Sob 149 No. 65. |
| F691.0.1 | Hero battles under lake for a day and night. Irish myth: Cross. |
| J2119.9 | Hero beheads old woman who asks him to cure her of old age. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| T589.7.2 | Hero born in hour of Christ's Nativity. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Z255 | Hero born out of wedlock. (Cf. L111.2.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| V69.2 | Hero buried as unknown merchant in foreign country. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| V61.3.0.1 | Hero buried in armor, standing with face toward land of enemies. (Cf. V67.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| D1364.0.2 | Hero can only wake when a certain axe falls down. (Cf. D1206.) Icelandic: Boberg. |
| R5.2 | Hero captured by being pressed between shields from all sides. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| N763 | Hero captured by man he has formerly rescued: rewarded. *Type 953; Scottish: Campbell-McKay No. 25. |
| B582.2.1 | Hero carried by bird to mistress' chamber. *Chauvin V 242 No. 142. |
| F174 | Hero carried off to otherworld by his supernatural wives. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F636.5 | Hero catches a giant jug and pitches it about. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| N654 | Hero catches spear hurled at him and kills serpent with it. Irish myth: Cross. |
| K2369.11 | Hero causes confusion in enemy camp in dead of night: army men fall upon one another, convinced the enemy has infiltrated their camp. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B524.1.11 | Hero contests with demons, using fighting animals: cock, goat, bull, horse, wild bull, peacock.—India: Thompson-Balys. |
| D1562.5 | Hero crosses impassable plain in path of magic object. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| M455.1 | Hero cursed to restlessness (except on boat or in tent), till he sees girl. (Cf. D1900.) Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| T333.5 | Hero cuts off head and wraps it in napkin so he will not be tempted by sight of virgins. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| J155.1 | Hero directed on journey by princess. Malone PMLA XLIII 401. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| B392 | Hero divides spoil for animals. *Type 300; Fb "dele" IV 96b; *BP II 22 n. 1.—Lithuanian: Balys Index No. *554A.; Italian Novella: Rotunda.—Missouri-French: Carrière; Africa (Angola): Chatelain 70 No. 3. |
| J1730.1 | Hero does not learn his name until after first adventure. Irish myth: Cross. |
| P551.4 | Hero drives retreating warriors back into battle. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F625.1 | Hero drives spear through seven iron plates. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F420.5.2.1.3 | Hero drowned by water-spirits, who draw him down as he crosses ice. N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 277 n. 23. |
| N781 | Hero embarks in rudderless boat. Köhler-Bolte I 189; *Schoepperle Tristan and Isolt II 370ff.; Irish myth: *Cross. |
| T539.1 | Hero enters womb of sleeping woman and is reborn. India: Thompson-Balys; Hindu: Keith 194, 222. |
| K925.1 | Hero entices enemies into building and sets fire to it. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| N187 | Hero fails to meet the man he seeks, though they are close to one another. Icelandic: Sterka 436, Boberg. |
| T92.4.1 | Hero falls asleep while sweetheart is being married to another. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B322.1 | Hero feeds own flesh to helpful animal. The hero is carried on the back of an eagle who demands food. The hero finally feeds parts of his own flesh.—*Type 301; *BP II 300 (Gr. No. 91); Chauvin VI 3 No. 181 n. 3; Panzer Beowulf 191; Clouston Tales I 241ff., Köhler-Bolte Zs. f. Vksk. VI 164 (to Gonzenbach No. 61).—Hindu: Penzer I 84 n. 1. 85, VI 122 n. 2, VII 126 n. 2; India: Thompson-Balys; Swiss: Jegerlehner Oberwallis 304 No. 32; French Canadian: Barbeau JAFL XXIX 15.—Missouri French: Carrière.—Apache: Goddard PaAM XXIV 94. |
| K1325.0.1 | Hero feigns death and is copulated with by divine maidens. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F176.1 | Hero fights giants who ruin fairyland. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F176 | Hero fights in otherworld and overcomes king (queen), or fairy. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F302.4.3 | Hero fights with fairy person, takes his wife and keeps her (for a year). Irish myth: *Cross. |
| N731.2.1 | Hero fights with friend of father and then reveals himself. English: Wells 17 (Reinbrun, Gy son of Warwike). |
| R133.1 | Hero finds his vanished wife and disenchants her. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| N715.1 | Hero finds maiden at fountain (well, river). Irish myth: *Cross; Jewish: Neuman. |
| N711.2 | Hero finds maiden in (magic) castle. *Types 304, 400, 408, 410, 590; Irish myth: *Cross; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| N711.3 | Hero finds maiden in (magic) garden. *Types 550, 551, 706; Spanish: Espinosa Jr. No. 106; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1346.1 | Hero flies on magic carpet to maiden's room. Africa (Kordofan): Frobenius Atlantis IV 101ff. No. 11. |
| K1346 | Hero flies to maiden's room. Enters her tower by means of artificial wings (or on flying horse). *Type 575; BP II 134 n. 1; *Krappe Balor 11 n. 40; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| F174.1 | Hero forces otherworld person's wife to tell him way to otherworld. Irish myth: *Cross (F174.2.). |
| A511.1.4.2 | Hero formed by god out of mother's apron. Maori: Beckwith Myth 231. |
| K1721.1 | Hero frightens dog into giving up eating men by pretending to eat own entrails. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| H945.2 | Hero goes north to fight with trolls. (Cf. F455.) Icelandic: Boberg. |
| D1812.0.2.2 | Hero has foreknowledge of coming of guests. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F583 | Hero has lain motionless since birth. Koryak, Mongol Turk, Russian: Jochelson JE VI 363. |
| G532 | Hero hidden and ogre deceived by his wife (daughter) when he says that he smells human blood. *Type 327, 425, 461, 480; *Aarne FFC XXIII 161; Tegethoff 44; *BP I 289; *Fb "fugl" I 380; *Saintyves Perrault 303ff.; Roberts 219.—India: *Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Graham; Eskimo (Kodiak): Golder JAFL XXII 16, (West Hudson Bay): Boas BAM XV 203, (Greenland): Rink 218; Africa (Zanzibar): Bateman 133, (Basuto): Jacottet 206 No. 30, (Gold Coast): Barker and Sinclair 124 No. 22. |
| K677.1 | Hero hides in treasure box and thus circumvents plot to leave him below when companions pull up box. Chinese: Graham. |
| W11.5.12 | Hero in battle refuses to slay charioteers, women, or physicians. (Cf. C867.1.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| R169.1 | Hero in disguise of foolish knight, then of black knight, rescues lady. (Cf. R222.) English: Wells 147 (Ipomadon). |
| K1816.0.3.1 | Hero in menial disguise at heroine's wedding. Types 300, 301, 303; Irish myth: *Cross; Welsh: MacCulloch Celtic 94. See nearly all references to N681. |
| G672 | Hero in service of wild man. Italian: Basile Pentamerone I No. 1. |
| T584.7 | Hero is born by splitting mother's womb. Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 93f. |
| H151.11 | Hero is served at table by his unknown son: recognition of his wife follows. English: Wells 130 (Emare). Cf. Chaucer's Man of Law's Tale. |
| J2047 | Hero keeps on leading his horse without discovering that it is dead. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| M341.2.18.1 | Hero kept from going to battle lest he be slain. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| P293.3 | Hero killed in fighting with father's brother. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| G512.0.3 | Hero killing an ogress gains her adopted daughter for his wife. (Cf. G510.1.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B391.3 | Hero kills horse to feed young ravens. German: Grimm No. 17. |
| B17.1.2.2.1 | Hero kills hostile hound (monster) by tearing (forcing) out its entrails (heart). Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q411.5 | Hero kills mutilators of girl. Irish myth: Cross. |
| G512.0.1 | Hero kills trouble-making evil strong men. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| G275.8 | Hero kills witch. Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| T453.1 | Hero learns feats of arms through gratifying woman's lust. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| T617.2 | Hero learns his name at time of first adventure. Irish myth: Cross. |
| T645.4 | Hero leaves bedmate keys to treasure chamber for the son she is supposed to bear. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| F612.3 | Hero leaves home with giant equipment. |
| T475.2 | Hero lies by princess in magic sleep and begets child. Italian: Basile Pentamerone V No. 5; India: Thompson-Balys; Icelandic: Boberg. |
| H81.1 | Hero lies by sleeping girl and leaves identification token with her. *Types 304, 550, 551; *BP II 505; *Fb "sove" III 472a; Irish: MacCulloch Celtic 26; Jewish: Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| R54 | Hero locked up while his father is murdered. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| F574.3.3 | Hero luminous. Cook Islands: Beckwith Myth 247. |
| Q111.1 | Hero made business partner of rich man. English: Wells 175 (The Childe of Bristowe). |
| N1.1 | Hero makes fortune through gambling. Scotch: Campbell Tales II 253, 271. |
| A717 | Hero makes sun and moon from tree and sends them alternately into sky. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A717.1 | Hero makes sun and moon from tree and vivifies them with blood of creator's son. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T111.2.1 | Hero marries star in form of girl. Chinese: Graham. |
| C615.2 | Hero not to swim in certain lake. Irish myth: Cross. |
| L111.9 | Hero of story neglected grandson of raja. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| G510.4 | Hero overcomes devastating animal. Icelandic: Þiðriks saga II 125ff., 135—38; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| G514.5.1 | Hero pegs ogress to boulder. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| H1421.1 | Hero plays skittles with demons. German: Grimm No. 4. |
| L212.3 | Hero prefers fame to long life. Irish myth: Cross. |
| M364.9 | Hero prophesies that one-half of the churches in Ireland shall be named for Ciaran. Irish myth: Cross. |
| K1721 | Hero proves himself a cannibal by trick vomit-exchange. Dh III 142; India: Thompson-Balys; N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 301 n. 102; Africa (Ila, Rhodesia): Smith and Dale II 381 No. 7. |
| H1507 | Hero pursues and kills fugitive in spite of bleeding wounds. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| N848.1 | Hero ransoms maltreated picture of a saint. As reward he gets help from the grateful saint. Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 506C*. |
| D55.2.6 | Hero reduces in size small enough to get into mango seed. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| L225 | Hero refuses reward. Rides away without it. *Types 300, 303; Italian: Basile Pentamerone I No. 7; Icelandic: Boberg. |
| V326 | Hero renounces heaven because dead companions (heathen) are not there. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| K362.11 | Hero reports to king that his ancestors (in heaven) want him rewarded with gold. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| R169.5 | Hero rescued by friend. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| R161.0.1 | Hero rescued by his lady. Irish myth: *Cross; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| R169.12 | Hero rescued by sailors. French Canadian: Sister Marie Ursule. |
| R169.4 | Hero rescued by servant. (Cf. P361, R53.4.) *Type 519, 851; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| E121.1.3.1 | Hero resuscitated by his bride, daughter of king of death. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| H1241.1 | Hero returning from successful quest sent upon another. Irish myth: Cross. |
| H1241.1.1 | Hero returning with berries sent back to bring tree. (Cf. H561.1.2.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| T102 | Hero returns and marries first love. Types 611, 884, 885**, 886; Icelandic: Boberg. |
| R111.4 | Hero returns rescued princess to her betrothed. Type 506; BP III 490ff. |
| B557.11.1 | Hero rides on animated wax elephant. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B557.11.2 | Hero rides on winged elephant.—India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B549.5 | Hero saved from ravaging snake by crab companion. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| B524.1.12 | Hero saved from ravaging snake by crab companion. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| H1381.5 | Hero seeks his equal. (Cf. H1311.1.) Icelandic: Boberg. |
| H1023.2.2 | Hero sets wife to task of filling water-bottle with spout turned downward. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 417. |
| K1861.1 | Hero sewed up in animal hide so as to be carried to height by bird. Köhler-Bolte Zs. f. Vksk. VI 61; BP III 412 n. 1, IV 171; Basset Contes Berbères No. 13; Turkish: Giese Türkische Märchen 131; Africa (Swahili): Steere 351. |
| F661.12 | Hero shoots arrow and cuts thread. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F102.1 | Hero shoots monster (or animal) and follows it into lower world. *Type 301; *Krappe Balor 100 nn. 22, 23; *De Vries Nederlandsche Tijdschrift voor Volkskunde (1924) 97—123.—Indonesia: De Vries's list No. 163, Dixon 213 n. 12; Africa (Ekoi): Talbot 99. |
| K2378.5 | Hero sleeps during the first part of battle and emerges only later. Herrmann Saxo II 185—87; Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| H186 | Hero spits twice at his wife as sign of recognition. Chinese: Graham. |
| P411.4 | Hero stays overnight in peasant's house, to which he accidentally comes, and where he gets advice and direction. (Cf. H1232.4.) Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| L141.3 | Hero stupid at games but fleet of foot. Eskimo (West Hudson Bay): Boas BAM XV 214. |
| K1853.2.1 | Hero substitutes for princess as gift to monster. Kills him. Tonga: Beckwith Myth 345. |
| F129.5.1 | Hero takes a mare to ride to land of no return: mare has just foaled and brings him back in her anxiety over her foal. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| R331 | Hero takes refuge at king's court. *Dickson 143 nn. 140—42; Deutschbein 34; *Boje 74ff. |
| H81.1.1 | Hero takes token from sleeping princess. Type 304; BP II 505; German: Grimm No. 111. |
| K975.1.1 | Hero tells enemies how he may be killed. Marquesas: Handy 105. |
| F611.3.3.1 | Hero tests sword by cutting steer in two. Chinese: Graham. |
| K677 | Hero tests the rope on which he is to be pulled to upper world. By placing stones on the rope he discovers his companions' treacherous plan to cut the rope. *Type 301; Köhler-Bolte Zs. f. Vksk. VI 165 (Gonzenbach No. 64). |
| K547.11 | Hero threatens tiger with plowshare and leads him into village. Frightens villagers. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1745 | Hero threatens to haul away the warehouse with a rope. The ogre is intimidated. Type 1046. |
| K1744 | Hero threatens to pull the lake together with a rope. The ogre is intimidated. *Types 1045, 1650; Spanish: Espinosa Nos. 163—167; Missouri French: Carrière. |
| F698.1 | Hero throws ball, bat, dart (playthings) and catches them before they reach ground. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F636.4.1 | Hero throws up a stone: before it falls, he drinks a full jar empty. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K63.1 | Hero to eat iron grains. Substitutes soft food. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F1088.2 | Hero unharmed by serpent which coils around his waist. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| P644 | Hero unwilling to answer questions before he is dressed. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| N687 | Hero unwittingly helps fee's sons: rewarded. Italian: Basile Pentamerone I No. 3. |
| H1301.1.3 | Hero visits all islands to see if he can find woman to rival wife's beauty. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 539. |
| D1978.4 | Hero wakened from magic sleep by wife who has purchased place in his bed from false bride. |
| K534.3 | Hero walks backward to leave misleading trail. Africa (Fang): Trilles 139. |
| K1883.9 | Hero wears so many different costumes that he is believed to represent a host. Maori: Beckwith Myth 398. |
| L112.3.1 | Hero with deformed head. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| L114.5 | Hero with disgusting habits. Korean: Zong in-Sob 66 No. 36. |
| Z235 | Hero with extraordinary animal companions (cock, goat, cow, horse). India: Thompson-Balys. |
| J246.2 | Hero, despising weapons, fights with fists alone. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| N337.2 | Hero, while measuring wild boar, accidentally wounded mortally by bristle. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| K929.8 | Hero, who has eloped with affianced wife of king, induced to return to court and treacherously slain during enforced absence of his sureties at drinking bouts. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| N686 | Hero's (heroine's) identity established as he (she) is on the point of being executed. Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| D1505.10.1 | Hero's breath restores sight. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| D1518.3 | Hero's breath returns head to headless horseman. (Cf. D1005.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| P361.1.3 | Hero's charioteer faithful to master till death. Irish myth: Cross. |
| M394 | Hero's coming prophesied. Irish myth: Cross. |
| H331.5.1.1.1 | Hero's confederate slows down princess with his breath. Extraordinary blower blows against her so that she is retarded and loses race. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| N810.3 | Hero's divine father as helper. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B11.11.2 | Hero's dogs (horse) prevent dragon's heads from rejoining body. (Cf. B11.2.3.)—*Type 300; *BP I 547. |
| F969.3.2 | Hero's light: appears around head of hero aroused to extraordinary feats of valor. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F1087 | Hero's marvelous sword falls and cuts off hand of enemy. (Cf. F833, N331.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| H151.7 | Hero's power to transform girl to carnation brings about recognition. *Type 652. |
| F611.3.2 | Hero's precocious strength. Has full strength when very young. Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: Herrmann Saxo II 69, Snorra Edda Prol. III, *Boberg; Norwegian: Christiansen 92, India: *Thompson-Balys; Lau Islands: Beckwith Myth 483; Marquesas: Handy 105. |
| P233.3.1 | Hero's son by giantess scorns his father's feebleness: still it is the son who is slain. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| F611.2.0.1 | Hero's unusual strength from drinking his own mother's milk. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| R169.5.1 | Hero's wife rescued by his faithful friend. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| E501.1.8.1 | Herodias as leader of wild hunt. Zachariae Zs. f. Vksk. XXII (1912) 238 n. 7; Germania XVI (1871) 217; Dunlop-Liebrecht 474 n. 170; Grimm Deutsche Mythologie 599; La Tradition IV 69; *Kloss MLN XXIII 82; *Grunwald Hessische Blätter f. Vksk. XXX—XXXI 317. |
| K959.2.2 | Heroes dislike to kill sleeping people. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| A502 | Heroes or demigods as fourth race of men. Greek: Grote I 62. |
| H1395 | Heroes seek judgment as to which is greatest. (Cf. H1311.1.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| L111.8 | Heroes sons of wife not favorite of king. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Z200 | Heroes. *Boggs "The Hero in the Folktales of Spain, Germany, and Russia" JAFL XLIV 27ff.; Dorson American Scholar X 389ff. |
| M311.0.1 | Heroic career prophesied for (new-born) child. Irish myth: *Cross; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| L112.11 | Heroine born with pigeon's head. Tonga: Gifford 31, 61—65. |
| L111.8.1 | Heroine daughter of wife not favorite of king. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| L113.1.0.1 | Heroine endures hardships with menial husband. Rewarded by his success. BP I 443ff.; cf. Type 900; Cosquin Lorraine I 138ff.; Missouri French: Carrière; India: *Thompson-Balys; N. A. Indian: Thompson CColl 348ff., (Blackfoot): Wissler and Duvall PaAM II 81, (Wichita): Dorsey JAFL XVI 160ff., (Teton): Curtis N. A. Indian III 111, cf. Eskimo (Kodiak): Golder JAFL XVI 16. |
| L111.2.5 | Heroine found in harp. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| L113.2.1 | Heroine has been goatherd. Icelandic: Ragnars saga Loрbr. 127, 198, Boberg. |
| T47 | Heroine hidden by stepmother when suitor comes. *Roberts 222. |
| K1342.1 | Heroine in hiding-box which is bought by prince. *Cox 489. |
| H151.6 | Heroine in menial disguise discovered in her beautiful clothes: recognition follows. *Type 510; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| S412 | Heroine taunted with her unknown past. (Cf. F302.) Dickson 74. |
| M151.7 | Heroine will not laugh till arrival of destined hero. (Cf. H341.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| R221 | Heroine's three-fold flight from ball. Cinderella (Cap o' Rushes) after meeting the prince at a ball (church) flees before identification is possible. Repeated three times. *Type 510; **Cox 1—121, 437—446 passim; Missouri French: Carrière; Spanish: Espinosa Jr. Nos. 123f.; Italian: Basile Pentamerone I No. 6; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| W33 | Heroism. Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| U125.1 | Heron (crane) loses interest in heaven if there are no snails. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| B291.1.7 | Heron as messenger. Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 630. |
| B243.1.1 | Herring as king of fishes. *BP III 284, 285 n. I (Gr. No. 172). |
| T35.4 | Hesitation in making up mind spoils lovers' rendezvous. (Cf. J2166.) Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles No. 81; Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| D451.4.2 | Hibiscus blossom transformed to canoe. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 405. |
| N332.7 | Hidden fruit accidentally poisoned by snake. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| J582.1 | Hidden goat discovered by his horn protruding above ground. Phaedrus II No. 8; West Indies: Flowers 476. |
| K1971.8 | Hidden man behind image gives unwelcome answer to suppliant: image blamed. *Wesselski Arlotto I 193 No. 22. |
| K443.1 | Hidden paramour buys freedom from discoverer. *Type 1535; *BP II 1ff.; Japanese: Ikeda. |
| K1216 | Hidden paramour taken to his own wife. He hides in a chest. The chest is taken by a creditor who unwittingly delivers it to the paramour's wife. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K439.10 | Hidden person sees robbers concealing treasure and takes it. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| E712 | Hidden soul (life). |
| J582.2 | Hidden stag discovered when he begins to eat grapevine too soon after hunters have passed. Wienert FFC LVI 65 (ET 286), *109 (ST 209, 521); Halm Aesop No. 127. |
| J2351.2 | Hidden wolf gives himself away by talking. Cape Verde Islands: *Parsons MAFLS XV (I) *7, 13. |
| D1500.1.33.4 | Hide of sheep or goat as cure. (Cf. D1025.8.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| G303.25.14.1 | Hideous food and drink at the night-spirits' (devils') feast. Lithuanian: Balys Legends Nos. 428, 434, 436, 440, 444, 451, 463ff. |
| F531.1.0.2 | Hideous giant. Broderius § 37; Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: Þiðriks saga I 360, *Boberg; Tirol: Zingerle Nos. 172, 181. |
| D2031.4 | Hideous person magically makes self seem beautiful. Malone PMLA XLIII 417. |
| E434.2 | Hiding from ghosts in pulpit. Fb "predikestol" II 882b. |
| E434.1 | Hiding from ghosts under church bell. *Fb "kirkeklokke" II 131a, "gjenganger" I 443b. |
| K2324 | Hiding from the strange animal. A cat shrieks and the frightened bear falls out of the tree and hurts himself. *Type 103; BP I 425; Japanese: Ikeda. |
| D1612.3 | Hiding place speaks and betrays hider. *Beckwith MAFLS XVII 247 No. 23. |
| A161 | Hierarchy of gods. Persian: Carnoy 260; Irish myth: Cross; Hindu: Müller 142f.; India: Thompson-Balys; Greek: Grote I 3, 9; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 729. |
| A651 | Hierarchy of worlds. A series of worlds, one above the other.—Irish myth: Cross; Egyptian: Müller 366 n. 7; Siberian: Holmberg Siberian 307, 309f., 410; Hindu: Keith 15, 134, 228; India: *Thompson-Balys.—N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 287 n. 58, Alexander N. Am. 7, 60, 105, 136, 263, *275 n. 11 (Eskimo, Cherokee, Mandan, Kiowa, Thompson River, Bella Coola); Aztec: Alexander Lat. Am. 52f.; Maya: ibid. 140; Amazon: ibid. 307; Bororo: ibid. 296; S. Am. Indian (Chaco): Métraux MAFLS XL 24, Métraux BBAE CXLIII (1) 366, (Witoto): Métraux MAFLS XL 25; Chuckchee: Bogoras AA n. s. IV 590; Maori: Dixon 59.—Cf. Icel.: De la Saussaye 346 n. 4. |
| A2442.1 | High and low flight of birds. |
| Q113.0.1 | High honors as reward. Chinese: Graham. |
| Q113.3 | High position as reward for piety. (Cf. Q20.) Jewish: Neuman. |
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