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Stith Thompson Motif Index
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Stith Thompson's Motif-Index of Folk-Literature classifies recurring narrative elements in folktales, myths, legends, ballads and related traditional narratives. Each entry below gives Thompson's motif reference and the description recorded in the index.
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Mythological Motifs
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Animal Motifs
C
Motifs of Tabu
D
Magic
E
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
N
Chance and Fate
P
Society
Q
Rewards and Punishments
R
Captives and Fugitives
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Unnatural Cruelty
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Sex
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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 ▲ |
|---|---|
| H476 | Husband tests false wife by sleeping on her hair. Had always done so with true bride. Chinese: Graham. |
| B784.2.1.2 | Husband ties a cock near wife's feet: snake-parasite in her stomach comes out to catch the cock and is killed by husband.—India: Thompson-Balys. |
| J2511.1.1 | Husband to spite wife plays dead. When she tells neighbors that they may come and take dead man's property he gets up. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| R115.1 | Husband transformed into mouse so he can enter cave-prison of his wife. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1531 | Husband transformed to goat must witness wife's adultery. The devil has let him see his wife's unfaithfulness in this way. Type 824*; Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 824*; Estonian: Aarne FFC XXV No. 824*; Russian: Andrejev No. 824*. |
| T235 | Husband transforms himself to test his wife's faithfulness. (Cf. T231.3.) Greek: Fox 72. |
| K1567 | Husband tricks wife into riding a mule which has been denied water. On fording a stream the mule plunges into the water. Wife drowns. (Sometimes also paramour.) Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles No. 47; Nouvelles Récréations No. 90; Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| T251.2.3.1 | Husband tries to reform wife by killing a recalcitrant horse in her presence. She thinks he has lost his mind and continues in her ways. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K1814.4 | Husband twits wife regarding "bought kiss"; she makes him buy one from her by disguising herself. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1544 | Husband unwittingly instrumental in wife's adultery. (Usually shares his bedmate with others, not knowing that she is his wife.) Heptameron No. 8; Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles No. 9; Spanish Exempla: Keller; Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| T254.5 | Husband warns wife not to enter empty furnace. She does so and it falls in upon her. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| K1518.1 | Husband who has surprised wife and paramour is made to believe that he has had an illusion. Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| T251.7 | Husband will not search for shrewish wife who has run away from him. Wesselski Bebel II 145 No. 142. |
| H1556.4.5 | Husband's (wife's) willingness to die for mate disappears when Death seems to arrive. Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 1355*. |
| T211.4.2 | Husband's corpse kept after death. |
| T295 | Husband's indiscreet boast about wife brings about his death. King regards his wife as so beautiful that he has a friend view her naked through a crack in the wall. Wife learns of his act, goes over to the man who has viewed her, and with the latter brings about the king's death. Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| K2117.1 | Husband's letter ordering the calumniated wife to be treated well is altered into an order of execution. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| D1908.1 | Husband's love magically turns to hatred. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| N212.1 | Husband's magic gift returns to him. Wife gives husband's magic gift (fruit) to lover, who presents it to a dancing girl, who sells it back to the husband. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| K1311.1 | Husband's twin brother mistaken by woman for her husband. *Type 303; *BP I 528ff.; Icelandic: Boberg; Italian: Basile Pentamerone I Nos. 7, 9, Rotunda; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| T257.7 | Husband's unjust jealousy forces wife to commit adultery. Italian Novella: *Rotunda; Heptameron No. 47. |
| N13 | Husbands wager that they will be able to do what wives tell them to do. One is told to drown himself: loses wager. England: Baughman. |
| K419.6 | Husks replaced in granary so theft of grain is unnoticed. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| D1867.1 | Hut becomes mansion. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| P661 | Hut for invalid to prevent noxious odor. *Schoepperle 367ff. |
| D479.8 | Hut transformed into golden palace. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B14.3 | Hybrid monster: calf-sheep. S. A. Indian (Araucanian): Cooper BBAE CXLIII II 753. |
| B15.1.2.8.1 | Hydra: nine-headed monster. Middle head immortal. —*Frazer Apollodorus I 187 n. 3. |
| B754.1.1 | Hyena changes sex yearly. Fable: Halm Aesop 405, Wienert FFC LVI 62 (ET 251), 131 (ST 376, 401); Jewish: Neuman. |
| K2011.1.3 | Hyena poses as father and kills child. Africa (Larusa): Fokken ZsKS VII 95f. No. 5. |
| B731.14 | Hyena with three hundred sixty-five different colors. Jewish: Neuman. |
| V83 | Hymns. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| K2096 | Hypocrisy concerning charity. |
| K2095 | Hypocrisy concerning thefts. |
| Q267 | Hypocrisy punished. |
| K2096.1 | Hypocrite breaks vow to give coin in charity. Finds coin is short weight. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| U116 | Hypocrite is acclaimed as saint after his death. Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| K2010 | Hypocrite pretends friendship but attacks. Jewish: Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| K2057 | Hypocrite refuses gifts orally but stretches out his hands. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| K2095.2 | Hypocrite will not share in stolen chicken—only takes some gravy. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K2000 | Hypocrites. |
| K2056 | Hypocritical stepmother weeps as she tells departing husband she will take good care of stepchildren though they beat her (she beats them instead). India: Thompson-Balys. |
| J1431 | I know not how. Sick man: "I came to a place I know not where; something happened I know not how; I am sick I know not where." Doctor: "Go to the pharmacy and buy I know not what, and eat it I know not how, and you will become well I know not when." *Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 629; Scala Celi 47b No. 268. |
| F842.1.2 | Ice bridge. Patch PMLA XXXIII 610 n. 30. |
| D2144.5 | Ice controlled by magic. |
| F935.2 | Ice forms while fish leaps from pool. Irish: O'Suilleabhain 74. |
| D2144.5.2 | Ice melted by magic. Koryak: Jochelson JE VI 170: Eskimo (Greenland): Rink 164, Rasmussen II 223, (Cumberland Sound): Boas BAM XV 191f., (West Hudson Bay): Boas BAM XV 324, (Central Eskimo): Boas RBAE VI 619. |
| D2144.5.1 | Ice produced by magic. Eskimo (Greenland): Rink 164. |
| D491.4 | Iceflake made small by magic. Eskimo (Greenland): Rasmussen III 270. |
| M301.13 | Icelandic guardian spirits, "spádísar", prophesy victory. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| F561.2 | Ichthyophages. People who live on fish. *Chauvin VII 86 No. 373bis n. 4; Irish myth: Cross; India: Thompson-Balys; Icelandic: Boberg. |
| F962.9 | Icicles gathered by saint as firewood burn. Irish myth: Cross. |
| E755.2.5 | Icy hell. (Cf. A677, Q567f.) Alphabet No. 662. |
| E481.7 | Icy inferno. (Cf. E481.6.1.) Krappe études 46 n. 2. |
| H105.6 | Identification between lovers by matching claw and leg of dragon. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| H75 | Identification by a hair. |
| H96 | Identification by amulet. (Cf. D1070.) Jewish: Neuman. |
| H131 | Identification by axe. Recognition by axe which man bears. Fb "økse" III 1171b. |
| H101 | Identification by broken weapon. Point of weapon broken off. Later found to match rest of weapon. English: Wells 80 (Sir Tristrem); Icelandic: Ragnarssaga Loрbrуkar 118, Boberg; French Canadian: Barbeau JAFL XXIX 18f.; Indonesia: cf. De Vries's list No. 163. |
| H119 | Identification by cloth or clothing—miscellaneous. |
| H110 | Identification by cloth or clothing. |
| H126 | Identification by coat of arms. English: Wells 117 (Sir Torrent of Portyngale). |
| H121 | Identification by cup. English: Wells 158 (Amis and Amiloun); Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| H117 | Identification by cut garment. Garment is cut and fragment taken as token. *Types 304, 851; *BP I 197, II 505; *Hartland Perseus 208ff.; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| H111.2 | Identification by feather cloak. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 420, 479. |
| H78.2 | Identification by feather taken from hero when he was transformed to bird. *Type 665. |
| H102.1 | Identification by fitting together two pieces of parchment. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| H111 | Identification by garment. *Types 301, 510B, 451; English: Wells 116 (Sir Eglamour of Artois), 126 (Lai le Freine); Italian Novella: *Rotunda; Africa (Benga): Nassau 229 No. 34. |
| H116 | Identification by girdle. Cheremis: Sebeok-Nyerges. |
| H114 | Identification by glove. English: Wells 134 (Sir Degare); Icelandic: Boberg. |
| H75.2 | Identification by hair dropped by bird. *Type 531; *BP III 31 n. 1, 33; **Golther ibid. |
| H75.1 | Identification by hair found floating on water. *Type 531; *BP III 31 n. 1. 33; **Golther "Die Jungfrau mit den goldenen Haaren" Studien zur Literaturgeschichte M. Bernays gewidmet (Leipzig, 1893).—N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 355 n. 281. |
| H113 | Identification by handkerchief. *Types 300, 301; *Hartland Perseus III 206ff.; Missouri French: Carrière; Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "mouchoir"; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| H102 | Identification by indenture. Each of two persons keeps his half of a contract which has been torn in two. Fitting of the halves brings about recognition. English: Child II 499b. |
| H93 | Identification by jewel. French: Cosquin Lorraine I 220 n.; Hindu: Tawney I 170. |
| H145 | Identification by magic hand. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| H100 | Identification by matching parts of divided token. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| H101.1 | Identification by matching weapon with wound. Africa (Chaga): Stamberg ZsES XXI 296ff., Gutmann 82f. No. 41, (Ganda): Baskerville 1ff. |
| H92 | Identification by necklace. *Types 450, 870, 870A; *BP I 79ff., III 443ff., 445; *Fb "guldkjæde" IV 192a; Italian Novella: *Rotunda; Jewish: Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys; Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 514. |
| H183 | Identification by nurse. Long-missing person identified by his childhood nurse. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| H90 | Identification by ornaments. *Type 870A; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| H91.3 | Identification by producing three golden apples. German: Grimm No. 136. |
| H94.2 | Identification by ring baked in bread. *Type 510; *Fb "ring" III 60a; Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "bague". |
| H94.1 | Identification by ring baked in cake. *Type 400. |
| H94.4 | Identification by ring dropped in glass (cup) of wine. *Types 400, 506, 510; *Fb "guldring" I 514b, "ring" III 60a; *BP II 348; Wesselski Mönchslatein 111 No. 95; Irish: O'Suilleabhain 53, Beal XXI 320; English: Wells 9 (King Horn), Child V 493 s.v. "ring. |
| H94.3 | Identification by ring dropped in pitcher of wine. Penzer II 76 n. 1. |
| H94 | Identification by ring. *Types 301, 304, 882; *BP II 348; Thien Motive 33; *Fb "ring" III 60a; *Hartland Perseus III 207ff.; Liungman Tvе Folkeminnes. 25 n. 1; Saintyves Perrault 204ff.; Irish myth: *Cross, MacCulloch Celtic 26; English: Wells 9ff. (Horn Childe and Maiden Rimnild), 73 (Sir Percyvelle of Galles), 80 (Sir Tristrem); Icelandic: *Boberg; French Canadian: Barbeau JAFL XXIX 181; Missouri French: Carrière; Italian: Basile Pentamerone IV No. 3; Italian Novella: *Rotunda; Jewish: Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys; Hindu: Penzer II 76f., Tawney I 142 n., II 620; Chinese: Graham. |
| H111.1 | Identification by royal garments. Burton Nights S VII 108; English: Wells 126 (Lai la Freine). |
| H112 | Identification by scarf. Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "foulard". |
| H106.1 | Identification by severed hand. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| H106 | Identification by severed limbs. (Cf. also H105.) |
| H118 | Identification by shred of garment of rescued princess used as bandage for wound. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| H125.2 | Identification by spear. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 416. |
| H125.1 | Identification by sword. Irish myth: Cross; Greek: Fox 100 (Theseus). |
| H120 | Identification by tokens—miscellaneous. |
| H80 | Identification by tokens. Types 300, 301, 304, 306, 873; English: Child V 499 s.v. "tokens"; French Canadian: Barbeau JAFL XXIX 18; Greek: Fox 71; Jewish: *Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| H115 | Identification by veil. *Hartland Perseus III 206. |
| H125.3 | Identification by war-club. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 508. |
| H125 | Identification by weapons. Icelandic: Boberg; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| H75.5 | Identification by wolf's hair. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| H79.2 | Identification of man by his little toe. Chinese: Werner 337. |
| H79.5 | Identification of man by his skull. Irish myth: Cross. |
| H94.5 | Identification through broken ring. (Cf. H100.) The two parts of the ring fit together. Type 361, BP II 428; *Fb "guldring" I 514b, "ring" III No. 95; Heptameron No. 24; Köhler-Bolte I 585; Wesselski Mönchslatein 111 No. 95; Icelandic: Boberg; English: Child V 493 "ring"; Filipino: Fansler MAFLS XII 210. |
| H94.9 | Identification through ring concealed in garland. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| H82 | Identifying tokens sent with messenger. English: Child V 499 s.v. "tokens"; Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| H79.8 | Identity established because one of man's teeth is blue. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A1 | Identity of creator. |
| D1819.5 | Identity of grave revealed by magic. Irish myth: Cross. |
| D1819.6 | Identity of singers revealed by magic. Irish myth: Cross. |
| H15 | Identity tested by account of common experiences. Missouri French: Carrière. |
| H15.1 | Identity tested by demanding that person say again what he said on former occasion. (Impostor fails.) *Types 425, 870; Tegethoff 21; Missouri French: Carrière. |
| H0 | Identity tests. Recognition. Elaborate means are employed in folk-literature for the recognition of persons even though they have been separated a very short time. The various means used are detailed in the following discussion. |
| J2311.11 | Idiot tells his mother he has been dead twelve years. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| P265.1 | Idle sons-in-law driven away by gradually reducing their food. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| R325.2 | Idol cracks open to grant refuge to fugitive in answer to prayer; then closes again. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| D1633.1 | Idol drinks up milk. (Cf. D1268.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q237 | Idolatry punished. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| V347 | Idols found on their faces after saint's arrival. *Loomis White Magic 89; Irish myth: Cross. |
| J1293.2 | If his head is taken off other punishments do not matter. Judge shows criminal mercy: he will not punish him as he deserves, only take off his head. Nouvelles Récréations No. 82. |
| X426 | If his son were only a fool he would let him study to be a priest. So says the innkeeper. Type 1865*. |
| P326 | If host does not return, the house shall belong to the guest. So declares the host as he departs on a mission for the guest. *Chauvin V 209 No. 120 n. 1; Japanese: Ikeda. |
| E593.3 | If no lamp is lighted in a house for a period of fourteen days, ghosts take it for their dwelling. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| H252.3 | If oath is false, fruit will fall. (Cf. H251.3.10.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| H413.6 | If princess is chaste her weight will be only that of five flowers; if not, normal. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| J2213.4 | If the horse can pull one load he can pull two. *Type 1242; Christensen DF XLVII 224 No. 86. |
| X1133.3.2 | If the wolf's tail breaks. Trickster and companion are wolf hunting. The companion goes into the wolf hole. The wolf comes. The other catches the wolf by the tail and the wolf scratches dust into the companion's eyes. "What a dust."—"If the wolf's tail breaks, you will see another kind of dust!" (First ed. X911.3.) Wesselski Hodscha Nasreddin I 216 No. 48; West Indies: Flowers 585. |
| G273.4.1 | If witch grabs horse's tail on bridge, man is safe from her. Fb "bro" IV 62b. Cf. Burns's "Tam O'Shanter." |
| L148.1 | If you hasten you will not get there. In spite of the saint's advice the teamster hastens and breaks his wagon. Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 255; Alphabet No. 324. |
| J1732 | Ignorance of certain foods. |
| J1743 | Ignorance of dates. |
| J1744 | Ignorance of marriage relations. Cheremis: Sebeok-Nyerges. |
| J1746 | Ignorance of reading. |
| J1738 | Ignorance of religious matters. |
| J1919.5.1 | Ignorant bride castrates groom when jokingly told to do so. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K1955.9 | Ignorant doctor draws his prescriptions by lot. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| J1749.2 | Ignorant notary cannot draw up document. The names of the participants are not the same as those in his sample form. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| J1738.7 | Ignorant people told religious holiday is coming the next day: camel appears and is feasted. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| J1738.1 | Ignorant priest forces rolls of cloth instead of bread down a dying man's throat. Wesselski Bebel I 222 No. 116. |
| L144.1 | Ignorant steward straightens his master's accounts. The educated stewards have always cheated. The ignorant puts his belongings in one box, his master's in another. Both master and steward gain. Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 355. |
| L144 | Ignorant surpasses learned man. |
| K1955.8.1 | Ignorant youth buys a medical degree. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| J1086 | Ignoring the unpleasant. Wise man refuses to react to unpleasantness. "I don't hear the unpleasant." Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K551.2.1 | Iguana persuades jackal to let him go so he can finish his drink. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| F236.0.1 | Ill-dressed otherworld person. Irish myth: *Cross |
| N119.3 | Ill-omened face of king; harbinger of evil. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T647 | Illegal to care for illegitimate child. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F956.2 | Illegitimacy of child discovered by urinalysis. *Campbell Sages lxxxiv (Medicus). |
| S312 | Illegitimate child exposed. (Cf. S12.2.1, T640.) *Encyc. Religion Ethics s.v. "Abandonment and exposure"; *Nutt FLR IV 1ff.; Frazer Apollodorus I 252 n. 2; Aarne FFC XXIII 63; *Hertel Zs. f. Vksk. XIX 83ff., 91. — Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg; Italian Novella: Rotunda; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| T640.1 | Illegitimate child of nun. (Cf. V465.1.2.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| T646 | Illegitimate child taunted by playmates. *Type 873; DeVries Edda (1923) 155ff., DeVries Studiën over Faerösche balladen 44ff.; Chauvin V 72; Irish: MacCulloch Celtic 52, *Cross; Welsh: MacCulloch Celtic 200; Missouri French: Carrière; India and China: Cowell Jataka VI 21, Chavannes 500 Contes III 331; Chinese: Graham; Japanese: Ikeda; Korean: Zong in-Sob 78 No. 44; Oceanic: Dixon 67f., 82, 113; Africa: Frobenius Atlantis IV 273; Jamaica: Beckwith MAFLS XVII 277 No. 89; West Indies: Flowers 579. |
| T640 | Illegitimate children. Irish myth: *Cross; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| J1111.2 | Illegitimate daughter of trickster inherits father's ability to dupe others. Pierre Faifeu No. 43; Nouvelles de Sens No. 8. |
| T470 | Illicit sexual relations—miscellaneous motifs. |
| T400 | Illicit sexual relations. |
| K1795 | Illiterate man pretends to be weeping because he cannot make others understand the book he is reading. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K523.0.1 | Illness (madness, dumbness, etc.) feigned to escape unwelcome marriage. (Cf. K522.0.1, K523.1.) *Toldo Zs. f. Vksk. XV 365. |
| G263.4.0.1 | Illness caused by curse of witch. England: Baughman. |
| K2091.1 | Illness feigned in order to get better food. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K2091 | Illness feigned in order to learn secret. Africa (Fang): Trilles 259 No. 31. |
| K1514.11 | Illness feigned to call physician paramour. Italian Novella: Rotunda; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K523.0.1.1 | Illness feigned to escape rendezvous with undesired mistress. Heptameron No. 63. |
| K523.0.2 | Illness feigned to escape unwelcome meeting. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| K1569.3 | Illness feigned to go to mistress. Husband leaves bed to go to serving maid. Italian Novella: Rotunda; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F1041.21.1 | Illness from excessive grief. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| W121.8 | Illness from fear. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F1041.9.2 | Illness from keeping a secret. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F1041.9.3 | Illness from shame of enemies' scorn. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| J2213 | Illogical use of numbers. |
| K1884 | Illusion of death. Irish myth: Cross. |
| D2031.14 | Illusion: mountains seem to be fighting. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1886 | Illusions in landscape. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| K1870 | Illusions. *BP III 201ff.; *Hibbard 205 n. 9; Irish myth: *Cross. |
| D2031.11 | Illusive fire stops men. Danish: Kristensen Danske Sagn III (1895) 452—53, (1931) 310—11; Icelandic: Boberg. |
| K1883 | Illusory enemies. |
| K1888 | Illusory light. |
| K1886.7 | Illusory mountain (hill). Irish myth: *Cross. |
| K1889.5 | Illusory night (darkness). Irish myth: Cross. |
| K1886.6 | Illusory shapes of animals made to appear on hilltops. Irish myth: Cross. |
| K1887 | Illusory sounds. |
| D612.1 | Illusory transformation of animals in order to sell and cheat. (Cf. D2031, K1870.)—Kittredge Witchcraft 184 n. 100. |
| D1355.3.2 | Image (animal) pierced with pins as love charm. Kittredge Witchcraft 100, *431f. nn. 202—211; England: Baughman. |
| V122 | Image bars way of nun trying to escape convent to join lover. Wesselski Mönchslatein 74 No. 65. |
| V123 | Image blamed by suppliant for misfortunes. Type 1479**, *Wesselski Arlotto I 196 No. 23; Spanish Exempla: Keller; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| D1624 | Image bleeds. Jewish: Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys; Eskimo (Greenland): Rink 459. |
| D1623 | Image dresses self. (Cf. D1268, V120.) |
| D1633 | Image eats or drinks. |
| D1626 | Image flies through air. Jewish: Neuman. |
| J1795 | Image in mirror mistaken for picture. England, U.S.: *Baughman. |
| D1622 | Image indicates favor to suppliant. (Cf. D1639.3, V120.) *BP III 475. |
| D435.1.3 | Image of boy made of flowers comes to life. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| D1624.1 | Image of Christ bleeds from thrown stone. *Ward II 630 No. 24, 671; *Herbert III 364 No. 159; *Loomis White Magic 123f. |
| V127 | Image of deity in wood (stone). (Cf. V1.11.) Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 111; Cook Islands: ibid. 131; Marquesas: Handy 122; Tahiti: Henry Ancient Tahiti (Honolulu, 1928) 344. |
| T56.2 | Image of God of Love sent to fetch bride. (Cf. A475.) *Penzer I 77 n. 1. |
| D445.3 | Image of golden calf vivified. Jewish: Neuman. |
| D445.1 | Image of horse vivified. Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 231f. |
| D445.1.1 | Image of horse will be vivified only for one person. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| V122.1 | Image of Jesus descends from cross and wounds nun leaving convent. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| D1335.16 | Image of lion gives magic strength. (Cf. D468.) Jewish: Neuman. |
| D1595.1 | Image of love grants man wife. (Cf. D1268.) Jewish: Neuman. |
| V126 | Image of saint speaks. *Loomis White Magic 124. |
| D1610.21.1 | Image of the Virgin Mary speaks. (Cf. V250.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| D1622.2 | Image of Virgin bows to indicate favor. Herbert III *26, 340; Crane Vitry 263 No. 296.—English: Child I 365b. |
| V268.5 | Image of Virgin Mary works miracles. Irish myth: Cross. |
| D1639.2 | Image of Virgin saves painter. Stretches forth hand and keeps him from falling. Ward II 628 No. 17; *Wesselski Mönchslatein 162 No. 124; Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| V265.1 | Image of Virgin tries in vain to keep nun from leaving convent. Crane Vitry 160 No. 60; Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| D1623.1 | Image of Virgin veils and unveils itself. Ward II 616 No. 37; *Crane Miraculis 106 No. 43. |
| D1621 | Image renders judgments. *Chauvin VIII 191 No. 229. |
| F855.4 | Image takes thousand men to carry it. Jewish: Neuman. |
| F855.1 | Image with pointing finger. Inscription says, "Dig here." Treasure etc. found when directions are followed. Oesterley Gesta Romanorum No. 107; Herbert III 191. |
| V120.1 | Images and druids. Irish myth: Cross. |
| D1639.3 | Images at church turn backs as mark of disfavor. Done when abandoned woman or merman enters. (Cf. B82, D1622.) English: Child I 231, 365a. |
| D1631 | Images of animals ridden (driven). Norse: MacCulloch Eddic 109 (Frey). |
| D445.2 | Images of parrots vivified. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| D1632 | Images open and close eyes. *Saintyves Les réliques et les images légendaires (Paris 1912) 84ff.; ibid. Les images qui ouvrent et ferment les yeux (Revue de psychothérapie XXV 316—324). |
| K1883.8 | Images set up to resemble watchmen. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 409. |
| V120 | Images. *Encyc. Rel. Ethics Index 271b; Irish myth: *Cross; Jewish: *Neuman. |
| J1551 | Imaginary debt and payment. *Fischer-Bolte Reise der Söhne Giaffers 209ff.; Hindu: Penzer V 132 n. 2, 133, IX 155f.; cf. Nouvelles de Sens No. 9. |
| J1551.8 | Imagined color. Clerk tells person to imagine that blue cloth is green. The customer walks out without paying. The clerk asks for payment; the customer tells clerk to imagine he has been paid. England, U.S.: *Baughman. |
| J1551.1 | Imagined intercourse, imagined payment. A woman demands money for a visit which she dreams of having had from a merchant. She is shown the money in a mirror. *Chauvin VIII 158 No. 163; *Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 810; *Fischer-Bolte Reise der Söhne Giaffers 209; Tupper and Ogle Walter Map 113; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| J1551.7 | Imagined ownership: derived from a dream. Man claims ownership of bulls because he has dreamed of them. He is given their shadows. Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| J1551.2 | Imagined penance for imagined sin. A penitent confesses that a plan to sin had entered his mind. Priest tells him that the thought is as good as the deed. Assesses four florins as penance. Penitent says that he had only had it in his mind to give the florins; he must take the thought for the deed. *Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 298; *Wesselski Gonnella 110 No. 10; *Fischer-Bolte Reise der Söhne Giaffers 210. |
| J2232 | Imitation and the real pig. Imitator of the pig's cries applauded. Fool brings real pig but fails. Wienert FFC LVI 84 (ET 510), 119 (ST 291); Jacobs Aesop 220 No. 80. |
| J2412.4 | Imitation of diagnosis by observation: ass's flesh. A doctor tells his patient that he has eaten too much chicken, and this the patient confesses. The doctor's son wants to know how the diagnosis was made. The doctor says that as he rode up he observed chicken feathers and made his conclusions. The son imitates. He sees an ass's saddle. Diagnosis: you have eaten too much ass's flesh. *Wesselski Hodscha Nasreddin I 250 No. 167; *Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 792; Italian Novella: *Rotunda; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| J2412.4.1 | Imitation of diagnosis by observation: stick under table. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| J2411.6 | Imitation of jumping into fire without injury: dupe burned up. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| J2411.7 | Imitation of magic production of garden and lake unsuccessful. Cheremis: Sebeok-Nyerges. |
| J2411.1 | Imitation of magic rejuvenation unsuccessful. (Cf. J2401.) *Types 531, 753; Lithuanian: Balys Legends Nos. 633f.; Spanish: Espinosa III Nos 168—171; Missouri French: Carrière; Greek: Frazer Apollodorus I 121 n. 4; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| J2411.4 | Imitation of magician unsuccessful. Person does self injury. Irish myth: Cross. |
| J2411.2 | Imitation of miraculous horse-shoeing unsuccessful. Christ takes off a horse's foot to shoe it and then successfully replaces it. (Cf. J2401.) Type 753; Dh II 168ff.; Lowes Romanic Review V 368ff.; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| J2412.3 | Imitation of the prescription. A peasant envying a doctor's fee for giving him a plaster and predicting a son, poses as a doctor. He predicts a son for a eunuch and gives a plaster for heart disease. Chauvin II 196 No. 23. |
| A511.1.3.3 | Immaculate conception of culture hero. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 227; S. Am. Indian (Chiriguano): Métraux BBAE CXLIII (3) 484, (Manasi): Métraux ibid. 393. |
| C921 | Immediate death for breaking tabu. (Cf. C52, C51.3, C453, C533.) —Irish myth: Cross; Greek: Fox 46 (Semele), 199 (Anchises).—Jewish; *Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Werner 294; Eskimo (Greenland): Rink 375; African (Ekoi): Talbot, 18, 99, (A'Kikuyu): Barrett 41, (Yoruba): Parkinson 104, (Pangwe): Tessman 370f., (Fang): Tessman. |
| C952 | Immediate return to other world because of broken tabu. (Cf. C31, C31.4, C327.)—Type 710 (Gr. No. 3); Greek: Fox 229 (Persephone), 122 (Thetis); India: Thompson-Balys; Japanese: Ikeda; Africa (Congo): Weeks 206 No. 3; (Fjort): Dennett 41 No 5. |
| T587.2.1 | Immediately after birth of twins one puts the other in his mouth: this twin's body becomes made of iron. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q338 | Immoderate request punished. (Cf. Q501.8, Q559.6, Q572.4, Q582.6, Q585.2.) Type 555; Irish myth: *Cross; Jewish: Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| S125 | Immolation. Greek: Grote I 278f.; Jewish: Neuman; S. A. Indian (Inca): Rowe BBAE CXLIII (2) 317. |
| B843 | Immortal animals. Jewish: Neuman. |
| N819.1 | Immortal as helper. Chinese: Graham. |
| B37 | Immortal bird. (cf. B32.) Irish myth: Cross; Jewish: Neuman. |
| B843.2 | Immortal donkey. Jewish: Neuman. |
| B184.1.8 | Immortal horse. Greek: Grote I 173. |
| B19.3.1 | Immortal horses. Greek: Grote I 11. |
| B843.1 | Immortal serpent. Gaster Oldest Stories 81. |
| D1851.4 | Immortality bestowed by Christ. (Cf. V211.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| D1851.5 | Immortality bestowed by deity. Greek: Grote I 174, 284, 287. |
| D1851.3 | Immortality bestowed by saint. (Cf. V220.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| D1851 | Immortality bestowed. Greek: Frazer Apollodorus I 44 n. 1 (Hercules). |
| D1851.1 | Immortality by burning. Greek: Roscher Lexikon s.v. "Achilleus" I 24, Frazer Apollodorus II 69 n. 4, I 37 n. (burning and stripping off mortal flesh [Demophon]) *Carl-Martin Edsman Ignis Divinus: Le feu comme moyen de rajeunissement et d'immortalité (Publications of the New Society of Letters No. 34, Lund, 1949). |
| D1853.1 | Immortality exchanged for death on alternate days. Greek: Grote I 158. |
| D1853 | Immortality exchanged. Wounded Centaur immortal but cannot be cured. He gives away his immortality to Prometheus and is thus allowed to die. Greek: *Frazer Apollodorus I 191 n. 3. |
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