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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
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Ogres
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Tests
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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 ▲ |
|---|---|
| J342 | High wages bring expensive living. West Indies: Flowers 475. |
| H41.2 | High-spitting the test of a chief. N. A. Indian (Quileute): Farrand-Mayer JAFL XXXII 253 No. 1, (Chinook): Boas BBAE XX 160, (Nootka): Boas RBAE XXXI 919. |
| A651.1.0.1 | Highest of celestial worlds consists of twenty heavens. Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 336. |
| S263.1 | Highest ranking man in land to be sacrificed for good crops. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| K306.2 | Highjacking. Thief robbed of his booty. Scotch: Campbell-McKay No. 27. |
| A963.8 | Hill as unfinished tower built in the likeness of Nimrod's tower. Irish myth: Cross. |
| A969.6 | Hill brought to country as adopted child. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 379. |
| A963.6 | Hill from anvil (cast by supernatural smith). Irish myth: Cross. |
| A963.7 | Hill from sand left by passersby.—Lithuanian: Balys Historical. |
| F759.3 | Hill on which snow always melts. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| D1552.8 | Hill opens and closes to let fugitives pass. (Cf. D938.1.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A969.4 | Hills because sky asked earth to wrinkle up its feet. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A961.1 | Hills from flapping of primeval bird. Hills and valleys are formed from the flapping of a giant turkey-buzzard when the earth is still plastic.—Yuchi: Alexander N. Am. 62. |
| A962.7 | Hills from hero's striking (earth) with sword. Irish myth: Cross. |
| A963.5 | Hills from stones cast by giants. Irish myth: Cross. |
| A962.10 | Hills represent loads from culture-hero's shoulders. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B105.1 | Hind with gold chain on neck. *Fb "hind". |
| B101.4 | Hind with golden horns. Greek: *Frazer Apollodorus I 190 n. 1. |
| U121.2 | Hind, like his mother, flees before the hounds. Useless for her to urge him to stand up against them. Wienert FFC LVI *63 (ET 256), 103 (ST 158, 501); Halm Aesop No. 130. |
| D1515.4.3 | Hind's horns as antidote for snakebite. (Cf. D1011.1.) Jewish: Neuman. |
| V383.2 | Hindu drinks water by mistake from Mohammedan's vessel: his fortune turns to evil. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B42.1 | Hippogriff. Horse with fore-quarters of griffin.—Howey Horse in Magic and Myth 232. |
| J1341.12 | Hired man shows in saying grace how better food has resulted from arrival of unexpected guests. Nebraska text: |
| J1341.11 | Hired men sing of displeasure with food; change song when food is improved (cante fable). The Westmoreland text follows: |
| J1742.2 | His address: a big high house. Mayor asked about where he lives, names his village and directs the enquirer to a big high house. Wesselski Bebel I 182 No. 31. |
| J2352.1 | His brother cannot pray either. One brother receives the sacrament; the other is refused it because he cannot pray. He replies that his brother cannot pray either and thus deprives him also of the sacrament. Wesselski Bebel II 107 No. 22. |
| V512.1 | His faith into the balance. A clerk sees his good and evil deeds being weighed. He asks them to throw his faith in Christ (the Virgin) into the scale. He is saved. Ward II 651 No. 5; *Herbert III 471. |
| J1274 | His father has been in Rome. A young man comes to Rome who looks like the emperor. Latter asks him if he mother has ever been in Rome. No, but my father has been here often. (Not son but brother.) *Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 502; Mensa Philosophica No. 3; Nouvelles Récréations No. 15; Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| J2174.1 | His last request: a red cap. A man about to be hanged keeps asking for his red cap which he has left in prison. He has no thought of his real peril. Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 27. |
| J1286 | His proper title. A peasant goes to a judge and thinking to gain his favor addresses him with high titles. The judge calls him a fool. "I was mistaken, you swine!" *Wesselski Hodscha Nasreddin I 262 No. 223. |
| J2015 | His pupils grab a dog's tail and think it is their master's. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| J2301.2 | His wife has become a widow. Numskull buys cloth used only by widows and is therefore convinced. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| J1812.4 | Hissing of fire thought to be noise of cooking muffins. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| E501.1.7 | Historic or romantic hero as leader of wild hunt. Plischke 41; RTP XVII 504f. |
| A1421 | Hoarded game released. Animals are kept imprisoned by malevolent creature. Released by culture hero. Hindu: Keith 33f.; India: Thompson-Balys; Kodiak: Jochelson JE VI 143, 164, 187, 367; Tonga: Gifford 91; Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 434f.; S. Am. Indian (Yunca, Peru): Alexander Lat. Am. 229 (fish); Eskimo (Bering Strait): Nelson RBAE XVIII 515, (Greenland): Rink 442, Holm 75, (Cape York): Rasmussen III 51. |
| A1423.0.1 | Hoarded plants released. Rarotonga, Cook Island: Beckwith Myth 236; Hawaii: ibid. 290, 432; S. Am. Indian (Cashinawa): Métraux BBAE CXLIII (3) 685. |
| A1421.0.1 | Hoarded rice made available once more to men by culture hero. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A1425.0.1 | Hoarded seeds. S. Am. Indian (Moré): Métraux BBAE CXLIII (3) 424. |
| J201 | Hobson's choice: choose what is put before you or nothing. |
| A661.1.0.3 | Hog (Soehrímnir) in Valhalla gives meat. Icel.: Boberg. |
| V12.4.3.1 | Hog as sacrifice. Icelandic: Boberg; Greek: Homer Odyssey XIV 435; Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 123. |
| X1233.2.1 | Hog finds dynamite supply, eats it, walks behind mule; the mule kicks the hog. The explosion kills the mule, blows down the barn, breaks windows out of house. The hog is ill for several days. U.S.: *Baughman. |
| U123 | Hog goes to bath but wallows in the mud. Chauvin III 39 No. 2. |
| A2275.5.1 | Hog loses pancake in mud: still seeks it. (Cf. A2471.2, A2477.1, Z24.1.)—*Dh III 280ff.; (Cf. Type 2025.) |
| W128.1 | Hog tired of his daily food. Goes to the judge and gets better food assigned to him, but the fox cheats him out of it. Type 211*. |
| B259.3 | Hog will not accept food from excommunicated men. Alphabet No. 312. |
| W151.6 | Hog with broken leg refuses to tell another where peas are to be found. "I intend to go there myself as soon as I get well again." Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 215*. |
| D702.1.2 | Hog's forefoot cut off: woman's hand missing. Scotland, U.S.: *Baughman. |
| J1242.1 | Hog's head divided according to scripture. To be divided among three students according to their skill in quoting. First: "And they cut one ear off" (takes ear). Second: "And they gave him a box on the ear" (takes other ear). Third: "And they took him away secretly" (takes whole hog away). BP II 361. |
| F241.3 | Hogs follow fairies. Fb "rakker". |
| J1904.3 | Hogs made to sleep in trees to cure their filthy habits. All are killed. England: Baughman. |
| B562.1.1 | Hogs root up gold (treasure) for saint. Irish myth: Cross. |
| K231.5.2 | Hogs used as a mortgage collateral. (Ground hogs.) U.S.: Baughman. |
| F167.11.2 | Hogs with bath of molten lead (iron) in otherworld. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| K1252 | Holding down the hat. Dupe persuaded to guard hat supposed to cover something valuable. It covers a pile of dung. (Dupe's goods are sometimes stolen.) *Type 1528; *Parsons MAFLS XV (1) 54; Java: Dixon 186 n. 2; N. A. Indian: *Thompson CColl II 420, 426. Cf. Indonesia: DeVries Volksverhalen II 396 No. 185B. |
| J1942 | Holding in the heat. A numskull ties yarn around the stove to keep the heat from escaping. Type 1271B*. |
| K1251 | Holding up the rock. Trickster makes dupe believe that he is holding up a great rock and induces him to hold it for a while. (Sometimes steals the dupe's goods.) *Type 1530; *Parsons JAFL XXX 237, XXXI 227 n. 2, MAFLS XV (1) 59; N. A. Indian (Mexico): Boas JAFL XXV 206, 237; Africa (Kaffir): Theal 113, 189, (Hottentot, South of Zambezi): Theal 91, (Basuto): Jacottet 44 n. 1; American Negro (Georgia): Harris Nights 314 No. 54. |
| K1251.1 | Holding up the roof. Fox pretends to be holding up the roof; hence cannot help the bear, who must do the threshing alone. *Type 9A; Dh IV 249ff.; Krohn Bär (Wolf) und Fuchs (JSFO VI) 97ff.; Japanese: Ikeda. |
| A972.5.6 | Hole in stone caused by weapon of warrior. Irish myth: Cross. |
| A1122.1 | Hole of winds: stopper destroyed. The hole is stopped with a wooden stopper, which is destroyed. The country dries up.—Chauvin II 110 No. 75. |
| A682 | Hole to lower world up which people come. S. Am. Indian (Terino): Métraux BBAE CXLIII (1) 367. |
| F92.7 | Hole to underworld kingdom of snakes. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K636 | Holes bored in enemies' boats prevent pursuit. *Hdwb. d. Märchens I 552a n. 285; Herrmann Saxo 125; Kersbergen Literaire Motieven in de Njala (Rotterdam, 1927) 83; Panzer Hilde-Gudrun; Icelandic: *Boberg; Indonesia: Van Baarde Bijdragen voor Taal-, Landen Volkenkunde van Ned.-Indie VII (2) 464; N. A. Indian: Krickeberg Indianermärchen aus Nord-Amerika (Jena, 1924) 209, (Hupa): Goddard U Cal I 154ff., (Montagnais): Speck JAFL XXXVIII 7. |
| A964.1 | Holes in hills result of fight between gods. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A972.3.1 | Holes in stone caused by saint (warrior). Irish myth: Cross. |
| A972.3 | Holes in stones caused by piercing by saint's finger. Irish: Plummer Vitae Sanctorum Hiberniae clvi. |
| H257 | Holiness of saint tested: asked to perform miracles. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F979.7 | Hollow in tree grows over, giving sanctuary to relics within. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F759.2 | Hollow mountain. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F809.2 | Hollow stone fits any person who lies in it. Wales: Baughman. |
| F811.10.1 | Hollow tree as residence for hero. Hdwb. d. Märch. I 206b n. 7; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| H217.3 | Holmgang to decide owner of gold. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| H217.4 | Holmgang to decide who is to be king. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| H1561.2.1 | Holmgang. Single combat on an island. *Schoepperle II 338ff.; English: Wells 32 (Layamon's Brut); Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| V133 | Holy candles. *Encyc. Rel. Ethics III 188ff. |
| A1541.4.0.1 | Holy day established on seventh day. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 45. |
| A102.7 | Holy god. Jewish: Neuman. |
| A1005.3 | Holy Land not ravaged by deluge. Jewish: Neuman. |
| V317.1 | Holy land. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| D1841.3.2.4 | Holy maidens carry glowing embers in their chasubles without being burned. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F574.3 | Holy man (hero) emits light. |
| H1233.3 | Holy man as helper on quest. |
| N848.0.1 | Holy man as helper. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| J1289.18 | Holy man asked by king for the heart of religion answers: "You are sitting on your throne and I'm sitting on the ground, so how can I tell." India: Thompson-Balys. |
| E545.7 | Holy man converses with entombed dead. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| V73.6.3 | Holy man eats pork and beef in Lent because pig is raised on milk, ox on grass; but refuses to eat cake because it contains weevils (live meat). Irish myth: Cross. |
| V43 | Holy man has his own mass. (Cf. F1011.1, V29.3.) When upbraided for not coming to mass, he hangs his coat on a sunbeam. Swiss: Jegerlehner Oberwallis 309 No. 10; Spanish: Boggs FFC XC 147 No. 1805B. |
| V222.8 | Holy man passes through fire for his faith. Only his clothing burns. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| F574.3.2 | Holy man radiant. Jewish: *Neuman; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 802, 1015 (Buddha), I 427, 852, II 695 (ascetic). |
| V222.12 | Holy man restores a garden to bloom. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| V229.10.2 | Holy man restores cut-off hands and feet. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| D1402.0.1.2 | Holy man's cloak burns person up. (Cf. D1053.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| D1812.5.1.14 | Holy man's fall from horse a bad omen. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F555.3.2 | Holy man's hair of enormous length, so long has he remained praying at one spot. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| J153.1 | Holy man's prayer reforms rich man. Holy man prays, "May God bless everything here that is good but cause to disappear all that is bad." Everything disappears. Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 199; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| G515 | Holy men keep devils under control. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F962.12 | Holy object falls from heaven. Irish myth: Cross. |
| V242 | Holy place (object) glorified by angel's presence. (Cf. V421.2.) |
| D1505.5.4 | Holy spring restores sight. (Cf. D927, V134.) *Fb "blind" IV 45b; Irish myth: *Cross. |
| D1385.15 | Holy water and mass prevent demons alighting on grave. (Cf. D1242.1.2.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| D1242.1.2 | Holy water as magic object. Kittredge Witchcraft 124ff., 449f. nn. 1—33 passim; Irish myth: *Cross; England: Baughman. |
| D1500.1.18.3 | Holy water as remedy. (Cf. D1242.1.2.) Kittredge Witchcraft 124ff., 449f. nn. 1—33 passim; *Loomis White Magic 104; Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg; England, U.S.: Baughman; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F382.2 | Holy water breaks fairy spell. (Cf. G303.16.7.) U.S., Wales: *Baughman. |
| D1562.6 | Holy water destroys veil over well. (Cf. D1242.1.2.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| D1385.15.1 | Holy water dispels demons. Irish myth: Cross. |
| V132.2 | Holy water disperses demons. (Cf. D1385.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| V132.1 | Holy water prevents a man from committing incest with his daughter. (Cf. T411.) Alphabet No. 523. |
| D1566.1.7 | Holy water procures fire or light. (Cf. V132.) Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| V132.2.1 | Holy water removes mark placed on man's face by the devil. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| V132 | Holy water. *Encyc. Rel. Ethics IV 61f.; Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| F482.3 | Home of brownies. |
| F451.4.4 | Home of dwarfs is endangered or destroyed. |
| F451.4 | Home of dwarfs. |
| N111.1.1 | Home of Fortuna in other world. Patch PMLA XXXIII 630. |
| N111.1.2 | Home of Fortuna on island (in otherworld). *Köhler-Bolte II 412f.; *Patch Fortuna 129ff.; Hartland Science 199. |
| A151.10.1 | Home of God the ark and the temple. Jewish: Neuman. |
| A151.0.1 | Home of god where he is the only living one. Jewish: Neuman. |
| A151.1.2 | Home of gods in cave. Hivaoa (Marquesas): Handy 104; Tonga: Gifford 81. |
| A151.1.3 | Home of gods in volcano crater. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 167, 173. |
| A151.1.1 | Home of gods inside of hill. Irish myth: Cross.—Cheyenne: Alexander N. Am. 123, 127; Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 39. |
| A151.1 | Home of gods on high mountain. Mt. Olympus. Patch PMLA XXXIII 618; Gaster Thespis 138, 170ff.; Greek: Fox 8, Grote I 10; Icel.: MacCulloch Eddic 23; Hindu: Penzer X 195 s.v. "Kailasa", Keith 149 (Mount Meru); India: *Thompson-Balys; Jewish: Neuman.—Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 19. |
| A151.3.2 | Home of gods on island. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 67f., 85; Tahiti: Beckwith Myth 178. |
| A151.3 | Home of the gods under the sea. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A151 | Home of the gods. Elysium, Avalon, earthly paradise.—Celtic (general): MacCulloch Celtic 14; Irish: ibid. 37f., 114ff., Cross; Welsh: ibid. 193; Icel.: MacCulloch Eddic 312ff.; Hindu: Penzer I 125 n. 1.; Jewish: Neuman.—Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 67; So. Am. Indian (Apapocuvá-Guarani): Métraux RMLP XXXIII 122; Africa (Fang): Trilles 130. |
| F455.1 | Home of trolls. |
| F420.2 | Home of water-spirits. (Cf. F420.7.1.) |
| F531.3.8.3 | Homecoming giant heard far away. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| F531.6.3 | Homes of giants. Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: Herrmann Saxo II 586ff., 595, MacCulloch Eddic 276, Boberg. |
| T465.3 | Homocentaurus born as a result of bestiality. Icelandic: *Boberg; Greek: Fox 61. |
| T463 | Homosexual love (male). Icelandic: Corpus Poeticum Boreale I 137; Spanish Exempla: Keller; Italian Novella: Rotunda; Jewish: *Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q253.2 | Homosexuality punished. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| Q151.10 | Honest brahman spared by tiger. (Cf. Q68.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| J551.7 | Honest servant tells people that shop does not have many customers: dismissed. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q68.2 | Honesty rewarded. Finnish-Swedish: Hackman FFC VI No. 940*; Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 941*; Chinese: Graham. |
| A2385.3 | Honey as excrement of bees. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| D965.0.1 | Honeysuckle "king of trees." Irish myth: Cross. |
| W45 | Honor. |
| F866.7.1 | Hood holds wine as drinking horn. *Loomis White Magic 129. |
| D1344.8.1 | Hood renders invulnerable. Eskimo (Greenland): Holm 17, Rasmussen II 70, III 304, Rink 344. |
| K826 | Hoodwinked dancers. A trickster induces ducks to dance with closed eyes and kills them. N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 295 n. 82, (California): Gayton and Newman 83, 85. |
| E402.2.3 | Hoofbeats of ghost horse. (Cf. E423.1.3, E521.1, E535. 1ff.) U.S.: *Baughman. |
| F988.2 | Hoofs of horses drop from their feet because of heat. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| A2426.2.4 | Hoopoe's song. (See A2261.1, A2275.3.) |
| D1812.5.1.27.1 | Hooting of owl a bad omen. Virgil Aeneid IV 464; *Fb "ugle" IV 963. |
| D1470.2.3 | Horn of plenty (cornucopia.) (Cf. D1011.1, B115, D1475.1.) Cox Cinderella 473; Greek: Grote I 137; Icelandic: Boberg; India: Thompson-Balys; *Cosquin Contes indiens 517. See also references to B115 and D1475.1. |
| R187 | Horn of Roncevalles. Hero calls aid of waiting soldiers on horn. *Thien Motive 32; Old French: Chanson de Roland. |
| J1082.1 | Horn will tell the tale. Thus answers goat to herdsman who begs her not to tell master that he has broken off her horn. Wienert FFC LVI 72 (ET 367), 102 (ST 154); Halm Aesop No. 17. |
| A2241.9 | Hornbill borrows tomtit's bill. (Cf. A2343.1.4.)—Ila (Rhodesia): Smith and Dale 374 No. 24. |
| B242.1.3 | Hornbill king of birds. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F836.2 | Hornbows. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| B15.3.4.2 | Horned armadillo lives underground. S. A Indian (Chaco): Belaieff BBAE CXLIII (1) 379. |
| A131.6 | Horned god. Irish myth: Cross; Egyptian: Müller 38 (Hathors). |
| B91.3 | Horned snake. Jewish: Neuman; N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 357 n. 287f.; (Micmac): Parsons JAFL XXXVIII 95 No. 27; (Cherokee): Alexander N. Am. 68f.; Ladino (Honduras, Nicaragua): Conzemius BBAE CVI 169. |
| B68 | Horned water-monster. S. A. Indian (Chaco): Beliaeff BBAE CXLIII (1) 379. |
| B15.3.0.1.1 | Hornless bull. Irish myth: Cross. |
| B15.3.0.1 | Hornless cow. Irish myth: Cross. |
| D1612.1.1 | Horns call out when girl tries to escape. (Cf. D1011.1.) Africa (Basuto): Jacottet 160 No. 23. |
| H425.2 | Horns grow on cuckold. *New English Dictionary V 385c s.v. "horn"; Dunger Germania XXIX 59; Jewish: bin Gorion Born Judas IV 122. |
| B11.2.5 | Horns of dragon. Smith Dragon 137.—Chinese: Werner 368, Eberhard FFC CXX 73, 85. |
| F545.2.2 | Horns on forehead. Jewish: Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys; Tuamotu: Stimson MS (T-G 2/27). |
| M302.4 | Horoscope taken by means of stars. *Prato RTP IV 178; *Wesselofsky Romania VI (1877) 161ff.; *Patch Fortuna 76—78 and notes; Dickson 33 n. 15; Fb "lykkestjærne" II 477, "stjærne" III 577b; *Hdwb. d. Abergl. VIII 461ff., IX N. 596—762; *Loomis White Magic 52. — Irish: Cross, Beal XXI 313; Icelandic: *Boberg; Italian Novella: *Rotunda; Jewish: *Neuman; Chinese: Graham. |
| A671.2 | Horrible sights in hell. Irish myth: Cross; Gaster Thespis 187f. |
| F1041.2 | Horripilation. Hair rises on end in extraordinary fashion from joy, anger, or love. Irish myth: Cross; Icelandic: Boberg; Hindu: Penzer I 120, VII 60, 139 n. 2, 179, VIII 46 n. 1, 94 n. 1; Korean: Zong in-Sob 83; Missouri French: Carrière. |
| B184.1.1 | Horse (mule) with magic speed. *Chauvin V 259 No. 154 n. 1; *Fb "hest" I 598v.—Greek: Fox 119; Irish myth: Cross; Icel.: Boberg; India: Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Werner 294. |
| D2072.0.2.1.1 | Horse (ox) unable to move wagon paralyzed by witch. England, U.S.: *Baughman. |
| N332.2 | Horse accidentally poisoned instead of master. An attempt is made to give the hero a poisoned cup. He is on horseback and spurs his horse away to avoid the cup. The poison is spilled and enters the horse's ear and kills him. *Type 851; *BP I 189; Spanish: Espinosa Jr. No. 131. |
| B521.1.1 | Horse advises hero not to wash in water (as his false wife told him to) or his eyes will pop out.—India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B151.1.1.0.3 | Horse allowed to go as it pleases, finds unknown person. Chinese: Graham. |
| D2107.1 | Horse and weapons needed by hero are provided after incense is offered to Nandia, the Bull. India. Thompson-Balys. |
| B291.2.1 | Horse as messenger. Irish myth: Cross; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| V12.4.9 | Horse as sacrifice. *Encyc. Rel. Ethics Index 262b; *Howey 185ff.; Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| B621.7 | Horse as suitor. Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 79. |
| B184.1.1.2 | Horse as swift as a bird. Icel.: Boberg. |
| G225.2 | Horse as witch's companion. *Howey 172ff.; Argentina: Jijena Sanchez 76, 87. |
| B19.3 | Horse born of egg. Mythical hero will come riding on such a horse.—Fb "Holger Danske" I 640b, "æg" III 1142b. |
| J2129.7 | Horse drawn across ice till skin is rubbed off. Type 1212. |
| D2072.0.2.1 | Horse enchanted so that he stands still. (Cf. D1654.12.) Fb "hest" IV 212a; Irish myth: Cross; England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, U.S.: *Baughman. |
| B275.1.1 | Horse executed for crime. *Howey Horse in Magic and Myth 215ff. |
| H1233.6.1 | Horse helper on quest. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| E501.4.2.4 | Horse in wild hunt breathes fire. Schweda 25; Schwartz Zs. f. Vksk. VII 235. |
| H171.3 | Horse indicates election of emperor. *Howey Horse in Magic and Myth 157; Penzer IV 104, V 176; Herodotus II cap. 84—87; Herbert III 210; Oesterley No. 270. |
| F989.1 | Horse jumps over high wall. Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "cheval". Cf. Type 530. |
| B591.2 | Horse kicks to death master's murderer. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B562.1.2 | Horse kicks up jewel. Irish myth: Cross. |
| B524.1.7 | Horse kills master's attacking enemies. Irish myth: Cross. |
| V35.1.1 | Horse kneels before stolen sacrament. Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 556; Mensa Philosophica No. 59; Scala Celi 64a Nos. 349f. |
| B159.2 | Horse lies down when grain of wheat falls from load. Irish myth: Cross. |
| A1881.0.1 | Horse lives from time of Adam on. Irish myth: Cross. |
| D2031.7 | Horse made to appear as tree-trunk. Irish myth: Cross. |
| D2061.2.8 | Horse made to hang himself on gate by magic. Cheremis: Sebeok-Nyerges. |
| D1654.12 | Horse magically becomes immovable. (Cf. B181.) Wesselski Bebel II 80 No. 179. |
| A732.2 | Horse of the sun. |
| A2262.1 | Horse originally had eyes on feet: put out and became eyelike marks. (Cf. A2371.2.7.)—Dh III 45.—Finnish: Aarne FFC VIII 12 No. 61. |
| B611.3 | Horse paramour. Hindu: Penzer IV 16, IX 153; Japanese: Ikeda; *N. A. Indian: Thompson Tales 348 n. 254a. |
| H62.2 | Horse recognizes kol transformed to look like his master and throws him off. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B133.4 | Horse refuses to carry one who speaks falsehood. Irish myth: Cross. |
| B133.2 | Horse reveals treachery. (Cf. B131.2.)—Africa (Mpongwe): Nassau 68 No. 15. |
| F984.1 | Horse sewed in buffalo-hides. As protection against a greater horse, hero's horse is sewed in nine buffalo-hides. Köhler-Bolte I 469; *Cosquin Contes indiens 417ff. |
| A1080.1 | Horse shall wade in blood at Armageddon. *Fb "hest" I 600a. |
| B736.2 | Horse sheds tears (of blood). Irish myth: Cross. |
| B184.1.1.1 | Horse so fast fly cannot light on him. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B151.1.1.0.2 | Horse stops where murder has occurred. Finnish: Aarne FFC XXXIII 39 No. 4**. |
| X1241.2.1 | Horse takes cattle out to pasture; brings them in by himself. U.S.: Baughman. |
| J1914 | Horse taught to live without food. Dies. Type 1682; Wienert FFC LVI 72 (ET 364), 129 (ST 370); Halm Aesop No. 176. |
| K491.2 | Horse to be taught to speak. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B272.2.1 | Horse tried for crime. *Howey Horse in Magic and Myth 215ff. |
| E411.0.3 | Horse unable to draw evil dead man. McKay Bealoideas III 141; Icelandic: *Boberg; Estonian: Aarne FFC XXV 113 No. 4; Finnish: Aarne FFC XXXIII 39 No. 4; Finnish-Swedish: cf. Wessman 1 Nos. 7—9; U.S.: *Baughman. |
| F234.4.1 | Horse used by mortal under fairy spell changes to gray cat. Scotch: Macdougall and Calder 271. |
| B133.1 | Horse warns hero of danger. English: Child No. 43; Icel.: *Boberg; Irish myth: Cross; Lithuanian: Leskien-Brugmann 359ff.; Russian: v. Löwis of Menar Russische Märchen 13, Rambaud La Russie épique 49; Persian: Nöldeke Das iranische Volksepos 58; India: Thompson-Balys; Missouri French: Carrière. |
| B141.2.1 | Horse weeps for master's (saint's) approaching death. Irish myth: Cross. |
| K134.1 | Horse which will not go over trees. Salesman tells buyer that he is selling the horse because it eats too much and will not climb trees. On the way home the horse bites everyone and refuses to cross a bridge. Seller is literally correct. *Wesselski Bebel I 133 No. 33; *Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 112; England: Baughman; Lithuanian: Balys Index No. *1631. |
| H172.1 | Horse will permit only certain man to ride him. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K2351.6.1 | Horse with basket of powdered peppers sent into hostile camp: enemy overcome. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B731.2.1 | Horse with crimson mane and green legs. Irish myth: Cross. |
| E501.4.2.5 | Horse with fiery eyes in wild hunt. Schweda 25. |
| B15.5.1 | Horse with fire-breathing nostrils. (Cf. B19.1.)—Fb "ild" II 12a; Icel.: *Boberg. |
| B19.5 | Horse with golden mane. Icel.: MacCulloch Eddic 66, 153. |
| K231.3.4 | Horse withheld as sacrifice to a saint refuses to move. The deceiver takes the horse to the church planning to remove him again, but the horse will not stir until a money equivalent has been paid. Wesselski Bebel II 157 No. 179. |
| V1.8.2 | Horse worship. Penzer II 57; Icelandic: MacCulloch Eddic 216, *Boberg. |
| A132.3.1 | Horse-god. Irish myth: Cross; Jewish: Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A132.3.2 | Horse-goddess. Irish myth: Cross. |
| E605.8 | Horse-headed men reborn as money-lenders. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| R131.8.1 | Horse-keeper rescues abandoned child. Greek: *Frazer Apollodorus I 82 n. 2. |
| M225.1 | Horse, clothes, and members of rider's body exchanged for food. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F874.2 | Horse's forehead as golden chair. Fb "hestepande" I 603. |
| F874 | Horse's head for extraordinary use. Irish myth: Cross; Icelandic: Boberg. |
| F874.1 | Horse's head nailed over gate (door). *Fb "hestehoved" I 602. |
| K1444 | Horse's intestine fastened to stone. Horse twists intestines out of himself. *Fb "tarm" III 776a. |
| E782.4 | Horse's leg cut off and replaced. *Type 753; *BP III 198; *Lowes Romanic Review V 368; Saintyves Saints Successeurs 248—251; Köhler-Bolte I 132, 297 n. 1; Dh II 169; Hoefler Zs. f. Vksk. I 304; Ons Volksleven III 43, V 28, 136f. |
| F874.2.1 | Horse's skull used as pillow. German: Grimm No. 71. |
| F989.1.1 | Horse's tremendous leap. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| J1766.1 | Horsemen thought to be men mounted on cattle. Irish myth: Cross. |
| D2156.10 | Horses (oxen) from sea put temporarily into man's service. *Loomis White Magic 64. |
| G303.10.8 | Horses are offspring of the devil. One cannot trust them. Dh I 239; Lithuanian: Balys Legends Nos. 135, 153—159. |
| F343.9.1 | Horses as fairy gifts. Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: Boberg. |
| B563.1.1 | Horses carry lost riders to safety. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B151.1.1 | Horses determine road to be taken. They are left to pick out the road themselves and to stop at the destination.—*DeCock Studien en Essays 200ff.; Wesselski Theorie 30.—Chinese: Graham. |
| Q589.1 | Horses fail when owner refuses load to saint. (Cf. Q286.1, Q557.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| K2351.5 | Horses frightened by instruments of war are backed into enemy's ranks. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| B802 | Horses in tales and legends. (Cf. B41.1, B41.2, B103, B133, B149.1, B151, B181, B811.1.)—**Howey Horse in Magic and Myth passim; *Malten Jahrb. d. Kaiserl. deutschen archäologischen Inst. XXIX (1914) 179ff. |
| S175 | Horses mutilated: tails cut off and manes torn off with the skin in order to humiliate their owner. (Cf. J1169.5.) Icelandic: Boberg. |
| A155.2 | Horses of the gods. (cf. A171.1). Icel.: MacCulloch Eddic 216; Snorra Edda Gylf. XV. |
| B133.4.1 | Horses refuse to remain with owner who has been cursed by clerics. Irish myth: Cross. |
| B151.1.1.0.1 | Horses travel between clerics without guidance. Irish myth: Cross. |
| D1561.1.3 | Horseshoe brings good luck. (Cf. D1286.) *Howey 102ff.; **Means-Lawrence Magic of the Horseshoe; *Fb "hestesko" I 603b.—England: Baughman. |
| G272.11 | Horseshoe hung up as protection against witches. North Carolina: Brown Collection I 650. |
| F151.0.1 | Hospitable host entertains (guides, advises) adventurer on way to otherworld. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| W151.2.2 | Hospitable man impoverished by greedy guests. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q151.3 | Hospitable person saved from death. (Cf. Q45.1.) Dh II 134ff. |
| W12 | Hospitality as a virtue. (Cf. P320.) Irish myth: Cross. |
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