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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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A
Mythological Motifs
B
Animal Motifs
C
Motifs of Tabu
D
Magic
E
The Dead
F
Marvels
G
Ogres
H
Tests
J
The Wise and the Foolish
K
Deceptions
L
Reversals of Fortune
M
Ordaining the Future
N
Chance and Fate
P
Society
Q
Rewards and Punishments
R
Captives and Fugitives
S
Unnatural Cruelty
T
Sex
U
The Nature of Life
V
Religion
W
Traits of Character
X
Humor
Z
Miscellaneous Groups of Motifs
| Thompson reference | Description ▲ |
|---|---|
| F935.1 | Huge tank has no water in spite of plentiful rains. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F460.2.9 | Huldra have cattle. (Cf. F241.2.) Norwegian: Solheim Register 19. |
| F460.2.10 | Huldra have drinking-horn. Norwegian: Solheim Register 19. |
| F460.2.8 | Huldra have drum. Norwegian: Solheim Register 19. |
| F460.2.5 | Huldra have lake. Norwegian: Solheim Register 19. |
| F460.1.7 | Huldra invisible. Hartmann 37. |
| F460.2.6 | Huldra live like people. Have own churches, king, soldiers, etc. Hartmann 37. |
| F460.2.13 | Huldra sing songs. Norwegian: Hartmann 35, 37. |
| F460.2.11 | Huldra tend herds in mountains. Hartmann 35. |
| F460.4.2.5 | Huldra trade cattle with men. Norwegian: Hartmann 35. |
| F460.1.6 | Huldra-men with long teeth and nose. Norwegian: Hartmann 37. |
| F460.1.4.3 | Huldra-woman's cap. Norwegian: Solheim Register 19. |
| F460.1.5 | Huldra-women have cow's tails. (Cf. F232.8, F518, F531.1.6.14.) Norwegian: Hartmann 37. |
| B633 | Human and animal offspring from marriage to animal. *Wesselski Märchen 247 No. 57. |
| G15 | Human being devoured daily. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| F371 | Human being reared in fairyland. Irish myth: *Cross; Scotland: Baughman. |
| E599.12 | Human being transported by a ghost. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F368 | Human beings as game in fairy hunt. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B631.2 | Human beings descended from seals. Irish myth: Cross. |
| G36.2 | Human blood (flesh) accidentally tasted: brings desire for human flesh. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| S261.0.1 | Human blood mixed with rice to make leaky tanks hold water. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| D437.1 | Human bone transforms self to person. Africa (Pahouine): Largeau 198. |
| E149.1 | Human bone, found in demon's stomach wrapped in silk with bow and arrow, becomes a boy. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| G34 | Human child brought up by ogress becomes a man-eater. Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 943. |
| A15 | Human creator. |
| S165.6 | Human eyes used as fishbait. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 245. |
| F552.1.4 | Human fingers not separated. Jewish: Neuman. |
| G64 | Human flesh being cooked speaks out. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| G60 | Human flesh eaten unwittingly. Penzer II 113; English: Wells 151 (Richard Coer de Lyon); Italian Novella: Rotunda; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B635 | Human foster-child with animal qualities. |
| F839.4 | Human head as weapon. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| N820 | Human helpers. |
| A182.0.2 | Human intellect unable to conceive God's essence. Jewish: Neuman. |
| D1248 | Human liver as medicine. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| J2214.4 | Human milk as best diet (for baby). Fool therefore will take nothing but milk from his wife and starves the baby. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| B631 | Human offspring from marriage to animal. *Type 301, 650; *BP II 300ff., 285ff., especially 293; *Dickson Valentine and Orson 123 n. 76; *Krappe Le Moyen Age XLI 96ff.—Irish myth: Cross; Gaster Oldest Stories 169; India: *Thompson-Balys.—Japanese: Anesaki 332; N. A. Indian (Thompson River): Teit MAFLS XI 42; Danish: Boberg. |
| B631.7 | Human offspring of marriage of person and jaguar. S. A. Indian (Toba): Métraux MAFLS XL 62, (Eastern Brazil): Lowie BBAE CXLIII I 434. |
| B631.8 | Human offspring of marriage of person and lion. Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 1170. |
| B631.9 | Human offspring of marriage of person and snake. S. A. Indian (Tapirape): Wagley-Galvao BBAE 143 III 253. |
| A2611.0.3 | Human placenta transformed into plant. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| V11.6.1 | Human sacrifice in connection with funeral. (Cf. S260.1.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| S263.3.1 | Human sacrifice to water serpent to secure tribal prosperity. Africa Tauxier La Noir du Yatenga (Paris, 1917) 496f. No. 1, (Senegambia): Béranger-Feraud II 185ff. No. 2. |
| S260.1 | Human sacrifice. *Penzer IV 65 n.; *Encyc. Religion Ethics s.v. "Human sacrifice"; *V. Manzini La superstizione omicida e i sacrifici umani, con particolare riguardo alle accuse contro gli Ebrei (2d. ed., Padua, 1930); Krappe Hessische Blätter für Volkskunde XXVI (1927) 18—25. — Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg; Spanish: Keller, Espinosa Jr. Nos. 61, 68f.; Greek: Fox 183; Jewish: *Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 189, II 54, 851; Marquesas: Beckwith 269, Handy 73; N. A. Indian (Sia): Alexander N. Am. 203, (Hopi): ibid. 205, (Zuсi): ibid. 201, *Benedict 342; Africa (Bushongo): Torday 250. |
| T566 | Human son of animal parents. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A736.10 | Human son of sun. Tonga: Gifford 114. |
| P311.3 | Human sons of animal companions go together on adventures Africa. (Lamba): Doke MAFLS XX 14 No. 11. |
| D562.2.2 | Human urine softens rock. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B11.12.7 | Human-dragon marriage. Chinese: Eberhard 49, 64f., 103, 135, No. 92. |
| E423.1.1.2.2 | Human-headed ghostly dog. (Cf. B25.) England: *Baughman. |
| J179.1 | Humble Brahmin teaches king the difference between "mine" and "thine." India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1815 | Humble disguise. (Cap o' Rushes, Peau d'âne Allerleirauh.) Usually in rough clothing. (Cf. K521.4.3, K1812, K1816.) Type 510B; BP II 45ff.; **Cox passim; Cosquin Etudes 4f.; Icelandic: Boberg; Irish myth: *Cross; English: Wells 9 (King Horn); Italian Novella: Rotunda; Greek: *Frazer Apollodorus II 226 n. 2; Japanese: Ikeda; N. A. Indian (Ojibwa): Laidlaw Ontario Archeological Report (1918) 36 No. 111, (California): Gayton and Newman 95. |
| W165.1 | Humble man after speaking to king disdains his own family. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| D41 | Humble man in guise of exalted. |
| Q151.5 | Humble man miraculously saved from drowning. (Cf. Q4.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q4 | Humble rewarded, haughty punished. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| J1251.1 | Humiliated lover in repartee with disdainful mistress. (Cf. K1225.1, K1326.1.) Nouvelles Récréations No. 64. |
| K1210 | Humiliated or baffled lovers. Child II 480—93 No. 112; Braga Romanceiro geral Portuguez (Lisbon, 1906) I 230, 260, III 414f.; *Krappe Romania LX 80ff.; Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| Q499.2.1 | Humiliating death as punishment for adultery. (Cf. Q241.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q499.2.2 | Humiliating death as punishment for taking concubine. (Cf. Q243.3.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q499.2 | Humiliating death as punishment. (Cf. Q411.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q499.1 | Humiliating kiss as punishment. |
| Q499.7 | Humiliating marriage as punishment. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| Q499.8 | Humiliating penance: king to rub nose five times on red hot griddle. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q523 | Humiliating penances. (Cf. Q470.) |
| Q470 | Humiliating punishments. Irish myth: *Cross; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q499.1.1 | Humiliation through kissing a leper as punishment. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q66.1 | Humility before saint (god) in disguise rewarded. Irish myth: Cross. |
| J902 | Humility of angels. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| J910 | Humility of the great. |
| J905 | Humility of the wise "Sons of the East". (Cf. J191.) Jewish: Neuman. |
| J903 | Humility one of the qualifications of a prophet. Jewish: Neuman. |
| Q66 | Humility rewarded. Irish myth: Cross; Jewish: *Neuman. |
| J900 | Humility. |
| L333 | Hummingbird can see fowler's net; eagle is caught in spite of his boasts of good eyesight. *Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 290; Rumanian: Schullerus FFC LXXVIII No. 254*. |
| X800 | Humor based on drunkenness. Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: Boberg. |
| X460 | Humor concerning other professions. |
| X500 | Humor concerning other social classes. |
| X600 | Humor concerning races or nations. |
| X700 | Humor concerning sex.1 |
| X300 | Humor dealing with professions. |
| X200 | Humor dealing with tradesmen. |
| X120 | Humor of bad eyesight. |
| X145 | Humor of bad singing. |
| X110 | Humor of deafness. |
| X100 | Humor of disability. Besides the motifs which follow, the entire series of motifs concerning fools (J1700—J2799) properly belongs here as well as where it is given. |
| X0 | Humor of discomfiture. |
| X151 | Humor of fatness. |
| X143 | Humor of lameness. |
| X900 | Humor of lies and exaggeration. *Types 1875—1999; *Fb "løgn" II 513b; Irish myth: Cross. |
| X137 | Humor of ugliness. U.S.: *Baughman. |
| F953.1 | Hunchback cured by having hump severely beaten. India: *Thompson-Balys; Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 233; Africa (Nyanja): Rattray Some Folk-Lore Stories and Songs in Chinyanja (London, 1907) 149ff. No. 24. |
| F451.2.1.4 | Hunchback dwarf. (Cf. F420.1.4.4.) Africa (Gold Coast): Barker and Sinclair 63 No. 9. |
| Q161.3 | Hunchback healed as reward for kindness. (Cf. Q40.) Africa (Bulu): Krug 109. |
| N886.1 | Hunchback leads blind man. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K2271 | Hunchback villain. *Cosquin Lorraine I 46 No. 3; Malone PMLA XLIII 417 n. 9; Icelandic: *Boberg; Italian Novella: Rotunda; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T27.3 | Hundred rajas fall in love with one woman. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F515.0.2.1 | Hundred-handed giants. Greek: *Frazer Apollodorus I 3 n. 2. |
| B15.1.2.10.2 | Hundred-headed serpent (monster). Irish myth: Cross. |
| D2122.2 | Hundred-league stride. England: Baughman; Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "pas"; Jewish: Neuman; N. A. Indian: Thompson Tales 315 n. 145, (Calif.): Gayton and Newman 59. |
| A689.3 | Hunger in hell. Irish myth: Cross. (A679.4.). |
| J1341.5 | Hungry apprentice attracts master's attention by telling lies on him. Spanish: Boggs FFC XC 143 No. 1718, Keller. |
| E694.1 | Hungry ghost reborn as jackal. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| E281.1 | Hungry ghosts haunt house seeking food. Africa (Ekoi): Talbot 241. |
| B771.2.1 | Hungry lions do not harm saint. Loomis White Magic 58. |
| J1606.1 | Hungry man eats intestines of fish next morning after refusing to do so the evening before. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| G70.1 | Hungry seamen eat human flesh. Fb "menneskekjød" II 579b. |
| J1341.6 | Hungry shepherd attracts attention. He tells of a cow with four teats who bore five calves. They ask what the fifth calf does while the other four are nursing. "It looks on just as I am doing now." Spanish: Boggs FFC XC 134 No. 1555. |
| J1341.9 | Hungry son gets cherries. He slaps another son, and explains that the other boy was saying that he would not get any of the father's cherries. The father shares the cherries. Spanish: Childers. |
| J1341.10 | Hungry student gets meat. By telling a mewing cat that it could not yet have the bones because no meat has been served him, a collegian calls attention to an oversight on the part of a servant. Spanish: Childers. |
| F989.15 | Hunt for extraordinary (magic) animal. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| N724 | Hunter accidentally discovers beautiful girl being secretly reared in a cave. Africa (Pangwe): Tessman 366. |
| W154.4 | Hunter beats dog which has grown old in his service. Wienert FFC LVI 73 (ET 380), 89 (ST 14); Spanish Exempla: Keller. Cf. Type 101. |
| X1112 | Hunter catches fish in boots while wading. (First ed. X921.5.) Type 1895. |
| J1759.2 | Hunter mistakes louse on his eyelash for game. He shoots several times before he notices the trouble. U.S.: *Baughman. |
| D2061.2.5 | Hunter reduced to ashes by power of heroine's chastity. (Cf. D2061.1.1.) Penzer IV 244. |
| R131.1 | Hunter rescues abandoned child. *Type 930; *Aarne FFC XXIII 56, 59; Missouri French: Carrière; Italian Novella: Rotunda; Greek: Fox 22 (Telephos), 57 (Atalanta). |
| X1111 | Hunter shoots ram-rod full of ducks. (First ed. X921.4.) Type 1894. |
| X1124.2 | Hunter turns animal inside out. He reaches down animal's throat, grasps his tail, and turns him inside out. (First ed. X911.1.) Wesselski Bebel II 137 No. 115; U.S.: *Baughman. |
| W121.1 | Hunter wants to be shown lion tracks, not lion himself. Wienert FFC LVI 67 (ET 314), 101 (ST 143); Halm Aesop No. 114. |
| P414 | Hunter. Types 246, 304; Von Sydow Vеra folksagor (1941) 39. |
| D2087.2 | Hunter's prey stolen during night by magic. Icelandic: Grímssaga L. 144, Boberg. |
| P12.1 | Hunting a madness of kings. Penzer II 127; Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: Boberg; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K30 | Hunting contest won by deception. |
| H1592 | Hunting contest. Irish myth: Cross; Icelandic: Boberg. |
| X1124.4 | Hunting wolves with rod and line. (First ed. X921.7.) Type 1896*. |
| E442.1 | Hunting woman beaten with sticks of rowan-tree and ankles of corpse tied with branches of same tree. Lithuanian: Balys Ghosts. |
| K1563 | Husband (god) traps wife and paramour with magic armor. (Vulcan, Mars, Venus.) *Basset RTP XXIII 167. |
| N681 | Husband (lover) arrives home just as wife (mistress) is to marry another. *Types 301, 400, 665; **Splettstösser Der heimkehrende Gatte und sein Weib in der Weltliteratur; *Chauvin V 108 No. 40; **Rajna Romania VI 359ff.; *Bolte Zs. f. Vksk. XII 59, XXVIII 74 n. 2; *BP II 318ff., 335ff., IV 168 n. 6; *Huet RTP XXXII 97, 145; *Oesterley No. 193; Deutschbein I 3, 187; Herrmann Saxo II 84f.; *Boje 105, 116; *Child V 488 s.v. "marriage"; Boccaccio Decameron X No. 9 (Lee 343); Herbert III 193; *Dickson 141, 221 n. 15; Malone PMLA XLIII 432; *Köhler-Bolte I 117, 584. —Icelandic: *Boberg; Norwegian: Solheim Register 21; Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 509*; Livonian: Loorits FFC LXVI No. 974@1; Russian: Andrejev No. 891*; Missouri French: Carrière; French Canadian: Barbeau JAFL XXIX 18; Spanish: Boggs FFC XC 84, 107 Nos. 750A, 896, Espinosa II Nos. 133—135, Espinosa Jr. Nos. 63, 68; Italian Novella: *Rotunda; India: *Thompson-Balys; Indonesia: v. Ronkel Catologus der Maleische Handschriften 263; N. A. Indian: *Thompson CColl 323ff., 334ff.; Jamaica: Beckwith MAFLS XVII 278 No. 90. |
| T294 | Husband (wife) of supernatural being longs for old home and visits relatives. India: *Thompson-Balys; Japanese: Ikeda; Siberian and N. A. Indian: Jochelson JE VI 366. |
| T213 | Husband (wife) sickens as result of separation from spouse. Irish myth: Cross. |
| S143.4 | Husband abandons wife in childbirth in jungle. (Cf. S430.) India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| V462.0.3 | Husband abandons wife to become ascetic. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T584.0.2 | Husband acts as midwife when no woman is available. Boje 125ff. |
| E181.1 | Husband advised how to resuscitate his wife: lift her up and turn her around so her head rests upon the brick which had been under her feet. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T249.2 | Husband and wife (king and queen) each unfaithful to other. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| N741.2 | Husband and wife become separated in shipwreck. Wife unexpectedly meets husband on street. They are reunited. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| J1478 | Husband and wife burn their mouths. A wife served overhot soup, forgets and burns herself so that tears come to her eyes She says that her departed father liked soup so much that she weeps when she eats it. The husband is also burned and weeps: "I am weeping because your accursed mother didn't take you with her when she died." Wesselski Hodscha Nasreddin I 238 No. 115; Köhler-Bolte I 498; Indonesian: Coster-Wijsman 71 No. 129. |
| K1839.14 | Husband and wife disguised as brother and sister. Icelandic: Lagerholm 110-14, Boberg. |
| K482.1 | Husband and wife each receive money (from different persons) to bury the other, who is supposed to be dead. Philippine: Fansler MAFLS XII 154. |
| T211.3 | Husband and wife kill themselves so as not to be separated. Chinese: Werner 400. |
| N741.4 | Husband and wife reunited after long separation and tedious quest. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| J1541.4 | Husband and wife separate and divide property. Man keeps the house, gives the wife the road. U.S.: Baughman. |
| P210 | Husband and wife. |
| K1971.1 | Husband answers behind the statue when wife wants to know how to fool him. He says to feed him well. *Type 1380; *Taylor MPh XV 227 n. 1; Stiefel Zs. f. Vksk. VIII 74ff.; Panchatantra III 18, (tr. Ryder) 370; Russian: Andrejev No. 1380; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| N658 | Husband arrives home just in time to save wife and her father from being burned to death in their home. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| K1971.5 | Husband as God behind the tree forces his wife to confess adultery. Type 1380*; Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 1380A*; Estonian: Aarne FFC XXV No. 1380*; Russian: Andrejev No. 1380*; India: Thompson-Balys; Indonesia: DeVries's list No. 272. |
| H931.1.1 | Husband assigns tasks for king who has stolen his wife. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| H151.8 | Husband attracted by wife's power of healing: recognition follows. *Type 712. |
| J2342.2 | Husband away three years accepts children born in his absence as his own. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K1514.4.1 | Husband beaten by paramour. Husband, dressed in wife's clothing, is beaten by forewarned paramour. The latter says that he is testing the wife's fidelity to her husband. Spanish: Childers; Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| G36.1 | Husband becomes cannibal from eating wife's breast. She cuts off her breasts and cooks them to feed her family. The husband thus acquires a longing for human flesh. *Type 450. |
| K1971.4 | Husband behind saint's statue advises wife to spin. Spanish: Boggs FFC XC 125 No. 1375*. |
| K1521.6 | Husband busied with performing task while paramour escapes. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1555 | Husband carries off box containing hidden paramour. Latter exposed (otherwise discomfited). *Type 1535; **A. Stepphun Das Fabel vom Prestre comporté und seine Versionen (Königsberg, 1913); *BP II 18; *Basset 1001 Contes II 45; *Toldo Zs. f. Vksk. XIII 412, 420; *Wesselski Mönchslatein 10 No. 5; Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles No. 73; Italian Novella: *Rotunda; India: *Thompson-Balys; Japanese: Ikeda. |
| H492.3 | Husband castrates himself to test wife's faithfulness. Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| K1558.1 | Husband castrates paramour. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K1569.5 | Husband catches paramour by using wife's pre-arranged signal. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K1562 | Husband catches paramour in pitfall. The wife sends her maid to investigate. The maid falls in and finally the wife herself. The husband calls the neighborhood to see them. *Wesselski Mönchslatein 9 No. 4; Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles No. 56; Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| T251.1.2.1 | Husband chooses to go to hell rather than join shrewish wife in heaven. Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 757. |
| K1569.1 | Husband collects fee from paramour. Surprised paramour pays. Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles No. 43; Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| F1034.1 | Husband concealed in wife's ear. Hindu: Tawney II 578. |
| T251.9 | Husband consoled by seeing woman even more shrewish than his wife. (Cf. J882.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1549.7 | Husband deceived as to noise made by hidden paramour. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| K1844 | Husband deceives wife with substituted bedmate. |
| K1569.8 | Husband discomfits paramour and wife by clever remark showing that he knows all. Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles No. 35. |
| K1557.1 | Husband discovers paramour's love letter in his wife's purse after having made her drunk. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| K1557 | Husband discovers wife's adultery by riddling conversation. In this indirect manner the wife confesses and promises reform. Spanish: Boggs FFC XC 122 No. 1358*. |
| K1550.1 | Husband discovers wife's adultery. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| J1151.1.2 | Husband discredited by absurd truth. Wife puts fish in furrow where husband plows them up (or like absurdity). At mealtime the husband says, "Where are the fish?" — "What fish?" — "Those I plowed up." He is laughed to scorn. Bédier Fabliaux 196, 436; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1839.13 | Husband disguised as wife's brother. Jewish: Neuman. |
| K1836.1 | Husband disguises as woman to spy on wife. (Cf. K1835.) Icelandic: Boberg; Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| T251.2.2 | Husband dons armor and forces the household to shout: "Long live the Master!" Takes off his breeches and dares his wife to put them on. Establishes his mastery in the home. Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| K1583 | Husband duped by paramour into taking his wife to him. She is veiled. Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| K1514.3 | Husband duped into believing he is in purgatory. Boccaccio Decameron III No. 4 (Lee 91); Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| K1514.2 | Husband duped into doing penance while rascal enjoys the wife. Boccaccio Decameron III No. 4 (Lee 75); Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| G77 | Husband eats wife. Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 886; Eskimo (Greenland): Rasmussen III 157, Rink 106; S. A. Indian (More): Métraux BBAE CXLIII (3) 406, (Toba): Métraux MAFLS XL 161. |
| W125.5 | Husband eats wife's share of food as well as his own. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| S412.1 | Husband expels wife because her industry indicates her peasant origin. Chinese: Graham. |
| T211.3.1 | Husband falls on sword when his wife dies. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| K1553 | Husband feigns blindness and avenges himself on his wife and her paramour. *Type 1380; *BP III 124; *Taylor MPh XV 227 n. 1; Stiefel Zs. f. Vksk. VIII 74; Russian: Andrejev No. 1380; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| K1553.1 | Husband feigns illness to surprise wife with paramour. (Cf. K1514.11.) Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q484 | Husband fondles second wife in presence of first as punishment for adultery. (Cf. Q241.) Malone PMLA XLIII 423. |
| T254.2 | Husband forbids wife to ride on the dog: she immediately does so and is bitten. Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 705. |
| Q171.1.1 | Husband forgiven for having killed jealous wife: builds monastery and becomes monk in it. Heptameron No. 70. |
| R151.1.1 | Husband frees wife who has sold herself into slavery in order to ransom him. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K1542 | Husband frightened by wife's paramour in hog pen. The husband sees the paramour who has hidden in the pen and says, "Who are you?" "I am a miserable hog." The husband thinks that his hogs are possessed. (Cf. K1515, K1555, K1566, K1574.) Wesselski Bebel I 206 No. 92; Spanish: Espinosa III No. 193. |
| K1514.17.2 | Husband frightened into sleeping alone. Adulteress has servants impersonate demons. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K1581.12 | Husband gets gift which paramour has given to wife. U.S.: *Baughman. |
| T583.1.0.1 | Husband goes into seclusion at wife's pregnancy. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| H492.2 | Husband has a friend woo his wife: she is seduced. Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| H492.2.2 | Husband has friend woo his wife: seduction narrowly averted by frightened husband's intervention. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| H492.2.1 | Husband has friend woo his wife: wife is generous to certain point only. Husband makes her wear dress symbolic of her generosity—blouse of coarse cloth; dress of gold brocade. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K1844.1 | Husband has his strong servant substitute in bed with strong wife. The supernaturally strong wife is about to kill her husband. *Type 519; Icelandic: Boberg. |
| K1844.1.1 | Husband has servant substitute in bed. Instructed not to deceive him while he is calling on mistress. Instructions are not followed. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K1514.5 | Husband hides in chest to catch paramour. (Cf. K1566.) Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles No. 27; Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| K1514.4.2 | Husband hides in curtain to catch paramour. On entering, paramour threatens to kill husband if he should appear. Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles No. 4. |
| K1561.1 | Husband hides in wife's room and kills paramour. Heptameron No. 32. |
| E385.1 | Husband ignored or discouraged by ghost wife. N. A. Indian (California): Gayton and Newman 99. |
| K1568 | Husband in disguise begs food of his wife's suitors. Greek: *Frazer Apollodorus II 299 n. 6. |
| K1522 | Husband in hanging tub to escape coming flood. The priest who has thus duped the husband enjoys the wife. *Type 1361; *F. N. Robinson Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer (Boston 1933) 786b (Miller's Tale); *Hammond Chaucer: a Bibliographical Manual 275; *Barnouw "The Miller's Tale van Chaucer" Handlingen van het 6. nederlandsche Philologencongres (1910), Mod. Lang. Rev. VII 145; *Thompson in Bryan and Dempster 106ff. |
| T258.1.1 | Husband insists on knowing wife's secret. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1641.1 | Husband intending to push wife down mountain is pushed over by her. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T257.4 | Husband jealous of wife who goes to confession is punished by the priest. When the husband sees the priest take her behind the altar to punish her he volunteers to take the punishment. The wife says, "Pound him well. I am a terrible sinner." Mensa Philosophica No. 72; *Wesselski Mönchslatein No. 74. Cf. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q411.0.1 | Husband kills returning adulteress. (Cf. Q241.) Italian Novella: Rotunda; Maori: Dixon 80. |
| K1569.9 | Husband kills surprised paramour. Wife persuades him he has killed thief. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q411.0.2 | Husband kills wife and paramour. Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| T211.1.2 | Husband learning from augurs that his wife will die if he saves self from serpent, lets self be bitten to death. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| N455.6 | Husband learns of wife's fidelity through conversation overheard. Irish myth: Cross. |
| S62.4 | Husband leaves wife to die of thirst. Marquesas: Handy 99. |
| J2316 | Husband made to believe that his house has moved during his absence. The wife and her confederates transform the house into an inn with tables, signs, drinkers, etc. The husband cannot find his house. *Type 1406; *Wesselski Hodscha Nasreddin I 274 No. 298; Bédier Fabliaux 266; Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| J2325 | Husband made to believe that yarn has changed to tow through his carelessness. Thus his lazy wife is relieved from spinning. Type 1405; BP III 44. |
| D2003.1 | Husband magically forgets wife. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K435.1 | Husband makes rhymes about cakes wife has stolen. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| J2321.3 | Husband makes wife and mother-in-law believe he will bear a sheep. His wife was pregnant when he married her. Cheremis: Sebeok-Nyerges. |
| J1485.1 | Husband mistaken for lover in bed. Farmer has whiskers shaved off, hair cut short. He gets home late, slips into bed with his wife. She runs her hand over his face, says: "Young man, if you're goin' to do anything, you'd better be agittin' at it, 'cause Old Whiskers'll be here pretty soon." U.S.: Baughman. |
| P213 | Husband more merciful than blood relations. They refuse to ransom condemned woman; husband does so. Child II 346—53, III 511, IV 481f., V 231ff., 296. |
| T215.3 | Husband nourishes starving wife with his own flesh and blood. Paris Zs. f. Vksk. XIII 5. |
| K1550 | Husband outwits adulteress and paramour. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| J1541 | Husband outwits his wife. |
| K1569 | Husband outwits wife and paramour—miscellaneous motifs. |
| K1388.1 | Husband persuaded to dig up a treasure buried in an ant hill. He is poisoned by a snake and his wife taken. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1569.6 | Husband persuades wife to light wicks and carry knife in hand before committing adultery: lovers frightened away. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1919.1 | Husband poses as wife's brother. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| J2342.4 | Husband praises wife's fidelity. Rascal tests it and finds it lacking. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| K235.1.1 | Husband promises a cow to tiger; wife frightens the tiger away. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| K1564 | Husband proves intrigue by secretly blacking paramour's mouth. When he returns, his wife's face is black. *Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 863. |
| F300.2 | Husband pursues fairy wife to heaven. Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 55. |
| Q331.2.1.3.1 | Husband puts soot on wife's cheeks to discourage her from using paint. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| J2342 | Husband refuses to believe in wife's infidelity. |
| J2342.1 | Husband refuses to believe that his wife is unfaithful, even when she is caught in the act. Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| H492.1 | Husband refuses to murder his wife for high honors; wife agrees to murder husband. Jewish: bin Gorion Born Judas III 90, 303, Neuman. |
| J1147.1 | Husband relates his wife's adultery in pretended dream. She dies from fright. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| R151.1 | Husband rescues stolen wife. (Cf. H1385.3, R11.1.) Krappe Revue Celtique XLVIII (1931) 94—123; Irish myth: *Cross; Spanish: Boggs FFC XC 46 No. 316; India: *Thompson-Balys; Japanese: Ikeda; N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 342 n. 235; Africa (Ila, Rhodesia): Smith and Dale II 399 No. 1. |
| R151.2 | Husband rescues wife from burning at stake. (Cf. R175.) *Dickson 78. |
| R151.3 | Husband rescues wife from cannibal. (Cf. G10.) Chinese: Graham. |
| R151 | Husband rescues wife. Irish myth: Cross. |
| K1544.1 | Husband rescues wife's paramour. Not knowing lover's identity, husband takes him to his wife and entrusts him to her care. He then leaves on a trip. Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| E165.2 | Husband resuscitated after wife's nose is cut off and thrown over grave. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1551 | Husband returns home secretly and spies on adulteress and lovers. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1551.1 | Husband returns secretly and kills unwelcome suitor. Icelandic: *Boberg; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q331.2.1.3 | Husband rubs off paint from wife's cheeks. Threatens to scrape them the next time. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| T471.3 | Husband sends wife poison to avoid having her ravished by the enemy. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| F661.9.1 | Husband shoots arrows, barely missing wife's ears. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q466.1 | Husband substitutes leaky vessel so that his wife and paramour are drowned. (Cf. Q241.) *Fischer-Bolte 131. |
| K1569.2 | Husband surprises wife and paramour. Rebukes them for not shutting the door. Italian Novella: *Rotunda; Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles No. 71. |
| J2301.1 | Husband takes back faithless wife on her oath to be faithful. Heptameron No. 61. |
| K1569.4 | Husband takes place of paramour. Beats or otherwise discomfits wife. Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles No. 65; Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| T261.1 | Husband takes wife's place and receives punishment for her adultery. She is ungrateful. Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 31. |
| J1545.5 | Husband tells wife in indecent posture to "lock up shop". She retorts that he has the key. Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| T224 | Husband tempted by own wife disguised in fine clothes: says he will touch no woman save his wife. She puts on her old clothes. India: Thompson-Balys. |
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