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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
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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 ▲ |
|---|---|
| D1652.1 | Inexhaustible food. (Cf. D1030, and in general D1470—D1499.) Fb "tønde" III 934b; Irish: *Cross, Plummer clxxxiv; India: *Thompson-Balys; Japanese: Anesaki 315; Java: Dixon 209; Philippine: ibid. 221ff.; Melanesia: ibid. 224 n. 28; N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 335 n. 210, (Calif.): Gayton and Newman 70, 100. |
| D1652.1.7 | Inexhaustible fruit. |
| D1652.10 | Inexhaustible fuel. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| D1652.1.3 | Inexhaustible grain. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| D1652.17 | Inexhaustible horn. (Cf. D1171.6.3.) Cox 473. |
| D1652.19 | Inexhaustible human liver. (Cf. D1003.) Greek: Grote I 74 (Prometheus). |
| D1652.18 | Inexhaustible larder. U.S.: Baughman. |
| D1652.5.11 | Inexhaustible meal sack. (Cf. D1193.) U.S.: *Baughman. |
| D1652.5.3 | Inexhaustible measure (for meal or flour). Canada, Scotland, U.S.: *Baughman. |
| D1652.1.9 | Inexhaustible meat. (Cf. D1032.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| D1652.3 | Inexhaustible milk. (Cf. D1018.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| D1652 | Inexhaustible object. Keeps magically renewing itself or expanding. Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "inépuisables". |
| D1652.1.9.1 | Inexhaustible pig. (Cf. B184.3.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| D1652.5.4.1 | Inexhaustible pitcher of milk. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| D1651.4 | Inexhaustible pitcher stops pouring only at owner's command. (Cf. D1171.4, D1652.) Penzer V 3 n. 1. |
| D1652.5.4 | Inexhaustible pitcher. (Cf. D1171.4.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| D1451.1 | Inexhaustible pocket furnishes money. (Cf. D1064.) Chauvin VI 104 No. 270 n. 2.—India: *Thompson-Balys; German: Grimm No. 101. |
| D1652.5.7 | Inexhaustible pot. (Cf. D1171.1.) Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 849, 969, II 656. |
| D1451 | Inexhaustible purse furnishes money. (Cf. D1192.) *Aarne MSFO XXV 116; *Types 564, 566, 580*; *BP I 470ff.; *Fb "pung" II 897b; *Chauvin VI 136 No. 286; *Loomis White Magic 87.—Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "bourse"; English: (Romance) Sir Launfal (Ritson ed.) lines 320ff.; India: Thompson-Balys; Philippine: Fansler MAFLS XII 16, 177. |
| D1652.5.10 | Inexhaustible rice-stores. (Cf. D1033.1.) Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 934. |
| D1652.1.3.1 | Inexhaustible rice. Rice cooked from a single kernel. (Cf. D1033.1.) Chinese: Graham; Indonesian: DeVries' list No. 206. |
| D1652.20 | Inexhaustible sacrificial blood. (Cf. D1003.) Jewish: Neuman. |
| D1652.1.9.2 | Inexhaustible sheep. Jewish: Neuman. |
| D1652.15.1 | Inexhaustible spring. (Cf. D927.) Jewish: Neuman. |
| D2100.1 | Inexhaustible treasure. (Cf. D1652.) Jewish: Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys, Tawney I 350f., 471. |
| D1652.5.5 | Inexhaustible vase of bonbons. (Cf. D1171.7.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| D1652.5 | Inexhaustible vessel. (Cf. D1171.) *BP I 361; *Aarne JSFO XXVII 1—96 passim; Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg; India: *Thompson-Balys. See also all references to motifs D1470—D1475, as indicated below. |
| D1652.15.2 | Inexhaustible water-hole. (Cf. D928.) Eskimo (Greenland): Rasmussen I 180. |
| D1652.15 | Inexhaustible well. (Cf. D926.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| D1652.1.3.3 | Inexhaustible wheat. (Cf. D1033.2.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| N101.2 | Inexorable fate: death from violating tabus. (Cf. C920.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| N101.1 | Inexorable fate: no day without sorrow. A king, who has made decree against sorrow on a certain day is blinded by a swallow in his sleep. Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 481. |
| N101 | Inexorable fate. *Cosquin Contes Indiens 126f.; Hdwb. d. Märchens II 63 s.v. Fatalismus; Icelandic: *Boberg; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| D1653 | Infallible article. |
| D1653.1.9 | Infallible dagger. (Cf. D1083.1.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| D1653.2 | Infallible fish-hook. (Cf. D1209.5.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| D1653.1.7 | Infallible gun. (Cf. D1096.1.) Types *304, *594; *Fb "skyde" III 345b, "bøsse" IV 86b; Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "fusil". |
| B121.1.1 | Infallible hunting-dog. Greek: Fox 72; Irish myth: Cross. |
| D1653.1.3 | Infallible sling. (Cf. D1087.) Irish: MacCulloch Celtic 90. |
| D1653.1.1 | Infallible sword. (Cf. D1081.) Penzer I 109 n. 1, VI 72 n. 1, VIII 154 n. 2; *Thien 30; *Fb "sværd" III 690a; Welsh: MacCulloch Celtic 191, 198; Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg; Spanish: Boggs FFC XC 67 No. 508A*; French Canadian: Barbeau JAFL XXIX 10. |
| D1653.1 | Infallible weapon. *Hdwb. d. Abergl. III 2. |
| T601 | Infant bathed in milk. Irish myth: Cross. |
| T585.3 | Infant born blind immediately drowns self. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| S350.1 | Infant condemned to death saved by a smile. Irish myth: Cross. |
| H481.1 | Infant indicates his unknown father by handing him an apple. *Fb "æble" III 1135b, "guldæble" I 516a; Hdwb. d. Märchens I 93b. |
| T143 | Infant marriages. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| H481 | Infant picks out his unknown father. *Type 675; BP I 485; *Fb "barn" IV 27b; Missouri French: Carrière; Italian: Basile Pentamerone I No. 3; India: *Thompson-Balys; Indonesian: De Vries's list No. 208; Japanese: Ikeda; N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 336 n. 212; S. A. Indian (Yunca): Alexander Lat. Am. 228. |
| H482 | Infant picks out his unknown mother. Chinese: Graham. |
| T585.4 | Infant saint rebukes mother's impiety. Loomis White Magic 23; Irish myth: Cross. |
| B531.1 | Infants fed by bees. *Pease Cicero De Divinatione 391 (Bk. I 79), 597; S. A. Indian (Kaiguá): Métraux RMLP XXXIII 139. |
| K1853.1 | Inferior animals substituted in sacrifice. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| T121.8.1 | Infertile raja marries beggar woman in hope of having a son. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q552.1.8 | Infidel defies God to strike him with lightning. God does. (Cf. Q221.3.) U.S.: Baughman. |
| J481 | Inflicters rather than receivers of wounds chosen. Men with many wounds recommended as soldiers. King had rather have those who gave the wounds. Wesselski Bebel I 69 No. 48. |
| N534.4 | Information about treasure received from overheard conversation. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| D1810.8.2 | Information received through dream. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B17.1.4.1 | Infuriated horses kill driver. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F675 | Ingenious carpenter. Penzer III 282—4, 296—300; Irish myth: *Cross; Jewish: Neuman. |
| X1132 | Ingenious skinning of animal. |
| K2371.3 | Ingeniously worded boon asked of God combines riches, issue, and restoration of eyesight: "Oh God! I want to see from above the seventh story of my mansion my great-grandsons playing in the streets and eating their cakes from golden vessels." India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| W154.23 | Ingratitude from ignorance. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q281 | Ingratitude punished. (Cf. Q551.6.3, Q597.2.) Irish: Beal XXI 331; Spanish: Keller, Espinosa III No. 264, Espinosa Jr. No. 41; Jewish: *Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 1159; Maori, Samoa, Tonga: *Beckwith Myth 504f.; Africa: Woodson 64, (Wakweli): Bender 50, Sieber 89ff., (Bantu): Einstein 148, (Lokele): Grenfell 820, (Jaunde): Heepe 89, (Fang): Tessman 188; West Indies: Flowers 568; Jamaica: Beckwith MAFLS XVII 267 No. 76. |
| W154 | Ingratitude. Jewish: *Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| F30 | Inhabitant of upper world visits earth. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F771.4 | Inhabitants of extraordinary castle. |
| A661.1.1 | Inhabitants of heaven divided into companies. Irish myth: Cross. |
| E489.11 | Inhabitants of land of dead have great thirst. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| F167 | Inhabitants of otherworld. *Siuts 107ff. |
| P201 | Inherent enmity between members of a family. Dickson 100 n. 5. |
| J1243 | Inherited gold ring divided between three by selling it and dividing the money. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| J1561.2 | Inhospitable host punished for hospitality. An abbot has his innkeeper treat his guests with the most shameful neglect. A guest retaliates by telling the abbot that he has been very sumptuously entertained. The innkeeper is discharged. *Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 60; Scala Celi 104a No. 565; Alphabet No. 357. |
| Q292 | Inhospitality punished. (Cf. P320, Q45, Q551.6.7, Q556.7, W158.) Irish: *Cross, O'Suilleabhain 53; Finnish: Kalevala rune 33; Swiss: Jegerlehner Oberwallis 323 No. 94; Spanish Exempla: Keller; Jewish: *Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 824; Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 174; Africa (Wachaga): Gutmann 93, (Loango): Pechuël-Loesche 110. |
| J1561 | Inhospitality repaid. Irish myth: *Cross; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| H594 | Inhospitality reproved enigmatically. |
| Q292.2 | Inhospitality to orphans punished. Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 3728. |
| Q292.1 | Inhospitality to saint (god) punished. (Cf. Q1.1.) *Loomis White Magic 101; Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 772*; Russian: Andrejev No. 796I*; Swiss: Jegerlehner Oberwallis 295 No. 13; Spanish: Espinosa Jr. No. 181; Greek: Fox 20, 94; India: Thompson-Balys; S. A. Indian (Chincha): Alexander Lat. Am. 231. |
| W158 | Inhospitality. (Cf. Q292.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| M2.1 | Inhuman decision of king: sends man's sons to certain death and then murders man. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| M2 | Inhuman decisions of king. Fansler MAFLS XII 137; Jewish: Neuman. |
| G286 | Initiation into witchcraft. Icelandic: *Boberg; Danish: Kristensen Danske Sagn IV (1901) 144ff., (1936) 230ff.; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| C665 | Injunction: protect certain stone from molestation. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C683 | Injunction: sleep where night overtakes you. Otherwise misfortune will come.—Cape Verde Islands: Parsons MAFLS XV (1) 213 No. 73. |
| C664.0.1 | Injunction: to cohabit with first woman met after battle. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C686 | Injunction: to forsake woman who arouses love. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C685 | Injunction: to give sample of food to dog before eating. Misfortune follows failure to do so.—Spanish: Boggs FFC XC 63 No. 453. |
| C664 | Injunction: to marry first woman met. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C687 | Injunction: to perform certain act daily. |
| C687.1 | Injunction: to visit saint daily. Irish myth: Cross. |
| P641 | Injured husband will not kill a naked man. Child V 489 s.v. "naked". |
| K1889.4 | Injurious food (drink) has delusive sweet taste. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| P12.2 | Injustice deadliest of monarch's sins. Penzer I 124 n. 1. |
| Q296 | Injustice punished. (Cf. Q265, Q552.1.6.) Irish myth: *Cross; Jewish: Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F1084.0.1 | Inlay melts from sword with heat of striking. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F147.4 | Inn at border of otherworld. *Siuts 46. |
| K343.0.1 | Innkeeper deceived into going under the floor of the granary; meantime robbed. Type 967**. |
| K476.3.1 | Innkeeper serves sweetened water for wine, cat for rabbit, mule for beef. Revue Hispanique XLV 114. |
| K1584 | Innocent confessor duped into being go-between for adulteress and lover. By following suggestions in her false accusations to confessor the lover reaches her side. Boccaccio Decameron III No. 3 (Lee 71); *Borgeld Vrouwenlist: verbreiding en oorsprong van een novelle uit den Decamerone (Neuphilologische Bibliotheek No. 7, Den Haag, 1926); Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| K1362 | Innocent girl sells her "love" and later receives it back. When she tells her mother what has happened, she is beaten. Thinking to right matters, she demands that the knight return what he has taken. (Sequel: K1275.) Type 886; *von der Hagen II v, vi, 3, 19 Nos. 21, 22; Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K2150 | Innocent made to appear guilty. B[ö]dker Exempler 303 No. 74; Spanish Exempla: Keller; West Indies: Flowers 555. |
| N347 | Innocent man accidentally suspected of crime. (Cf. N342.2.) India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| K2156 | Innocent man compelled to write treasonable letter. It brings about his death sentence. Greek: Frazer Apollodorus II 178 n. 1 (Palamedes). |
| J2233.1 | Innocent man executed because his neck fits the noose (or the like). India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| K2116 | Innocent person accused of murder. |
| Q414.0.7 | Innocent queen burned at stake. *Fb. "brænde" IV 69b. |
| K2116.1.1.1 | Innocent woman accused of eating her new-born children. *Types 652, 706, 710, 712; *BP I 13ff., 18 n. 1, 20, II 121ff.; Köhler-Bolte I 392, 582; Chauvin VI 159 No. 323; *Dickson 38ff. nn. 34, 42, 45, 48, 49; Irish myth: Cross; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| K2116.1.1 | Innocent woman accused of killing her new-born children. *Type 451; BP I 70ff.; *Dickson 43, 73 n. 26; *Schlauch, Chaucer's Constance and Accused Queens (New York, 1927) 12; *Hibbard 26ff.; Irish myth: *Cross; Welsh: MacCulloch Celtic 94f.; Swiss: Jegerlehner Oberwallis 311 No. 56; Missouri French: Carrière; Spanish: Espinosa II Nos. 89, 99—103; Italian Novella: Rotunda; Africa (Zulu): Callaway 321. See also references to K2116.1.1.1. |
| K2116.1 | Innocent woman accused of murder. Dickson 72, 225; *Hibbard 26ff.; Greek: *Frazer Apollodorus I 385 n. 4; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K2123 | Innocent woman accused of using witchcraft. Sham sickness. India: *Thompson-Balys; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 427. |
| R165.2 | Innocently hanged person saved by saint. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| B172.10.1 | Innumerable birds (black birds) fly into and out of tower (steeple) of fire. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F1041.15 | Inordinate longing. (Cf. D1041.1.4.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| J2370 | Inquisitive fool. |
| Q342 | Inquisitiveness punished. (Cf. Q557.5.) Wienert FFC LVI 49 (ET 89), 95 (ST 84); Jewish: Neuman; Africa: Weeks Congo 207. |
| L116 | Insane hero (heroine). Irish myth: Cross (L125). |
| N642 | Insane man accidentally cured by blow on head. Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 36. |
| V321 | Insane man burns heretic in his bed: restored to his senses as reward. Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 47. |
| D2065.5 | Insanity because of Evil Eye. (Cf. D2071.) Fb "øje" III 1167b. |
| C949.1 | Insanity for breaking tabu. Irish myth: Cross; India: Thompson-Balys; Icel.: Boberg. |
| D2065.7 | Insanity from curse. Irish myth: Cross. |
| D2065.2 | Insanity from seeing strange sight. Fb "vild" III 1052a. |
| D2161.3.8 | Insanity magically cured. (Cf. D2065.) Irish myth: *Cross; Jewish: Neuman. |
| D2065.4 | Insanity of princess dependent on height of fire. (Cf. D2064.2.) Spanish: Boggs FFC XC 60 No. 435*. |
| H86 | Inscribed name on article as token of ownership. (Cf. H94.10.) German: Grimm Nos. 60, 101, 111. |
| R217 | Inscription accidentally seen tells hero how to escape captivity. Africa (Swahili): Steere 331ff. |
| H562 | Inscription on home of riddle-solver "I have no care." Anderson FFC XLII 244. |
| J168 | Inscription on walls for condensed education. Chauvin VIII 34 No 1. |
| B268.8 | Insect army. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A13.3 | Insect as creator. |
| A33.3 | Insect as creator's companion. |
| G225.1 | Insect as witch's familiar. (Fly, bee, gnat, spider.) Kittredge Witchcraft 180 n. 54; Tobler 40; England: Baughman. |
| A2435.5.2 | Insect fries human blood and eats it. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B364.3 | Insect having fallen on back grateful for being turned over. Africa (Ganda): Baskerville King of the Snakes 8ff. |
| K661.3 | Insect in nose of murdered person simulates snoring and allays suspicion. Africa (Larusa): Fokken ZsKS VII 82ff. No. 1, (Masai): Hollis The Masai (Oxford, 1905) 212ff. |
| H162.1 | Insect points out deity by settling where he is. Africa (Ekoi): Talbot 18. |
| E32.1 | Insect swallowed by man comes out alive. *Loomis White Magic 66. |
| X1280.2.1 | Insects eat team of horses or mules, pitch horseshoes to see who gets what is left. U.S.: *Baughman. |
| A2001 | Insects from body of slain monster. Usually the monster is burnt; sometimes the insects come from his head, sometimes from his body as it burns. (Cf. A1716.1.)—*Dh I 279, III 152ff., 164ff., 170ff. (dragon); *Fb "myre", "myg"; Persian: Carnoy 288; Siberian: Holmberg Siberian 386; Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 23, 128; Japanese: Ikeda; N. Am. Indian: *Thompson Tales 354 n. 275. |
| A2001.1 | Insects from brains, blood, and bones of slain helpful animal. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A2004 | Insects from devil's post-hole. Devil is given enough land to dig a post-hole. From this come all kinds of insects. To stop them a burning log is put in the hole. Insects therefore hate smoke. Dh I 173—Finnish: Aarne FFC VIII 21 No. 120, XXXIII 55 No. 120. |
| F167.1.3 | Insects in otherworld. |
| L315.6 | Insects worry large animal to despair or death. Wienert FFC LVI *48 (ET 76), 120 (ST 301); Spanish: Espinosa Jr. Nos. 187, 209; Japanese: Ikeda; Indonesia: DeVries's list Nos. 132, 137. |
| B215.6 | Insects' language. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| W187 | Insolence. Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q473.0.1 | Insolvent debtor drawn through streets. (Cf. Q271.) Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "débiteur". |
| H311 | Inspection test for suitors. Suitors for princess's hand must present themselves for public inspection. (Cf. H362, T55.7.) Types 314, 502; BP III 111; Krappe Revue Hispanique LXXXI 5ff.; Icelandic: MacCulloch Eddic 104, *Boberg; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q113.4.1 | Institution of priests and Levites as reward for observance of Sabbath. Jewish: Neuman. |
| J2469 | Instructions followed literally—miscellaneous. |
| Q551.2.5 | Instrument or tool for unlawful work becomes attached to person holding it. *Loomis White Magic 55. |
| D1627.1 | Instrument's ornamental figures climb down and run about as harper plays. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| W185.6 | Insult worse than wound. The lion to the man: "The wound has healed, but the pain of harsh words still remains." Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 161*; Rumanian: Schullerus FFC LXXVIII No. 159IV*; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| P672.4 | Insult: lighting lamp with king's moustache. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q68 | Integrity rewarded. Irish myth: Cross. |
| A1667 | Intelligence of various people. |
| Z128.1 | Intelligence personified. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| D1310.3 | Intelligent ship. (Cf. D1123.)—Icelandic: Boberg; English: Child IV 376—80, V 275f. |
| J562 | Intemperance in charity. A waste of time to make a bed for a dog who lies down wherever he happens to be tired. Likewise a waste of time to help unappreciative people. Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 429. |
| J565 | Intemperance in fasting. |
| J556 | Intemperance in honesty. Irish: Beal XXI 335, O'Suilleabhain 118. |
| J555 | Intemperance in obedience. |
| J561 | Intemperance in pursuit. |
| J558 | Intemperance in sacrificing. Wienert FFC LVI 80 (ET 462), 138 (ST 431); Halm Aesop No. 161; Jewish: Neuman. |
| J554 | Intemperance in service. Emperor rebukes overzealous servant as being a nuisance. Wienert FFC LVI 85 (ET 523), 143 (ST 491). |
| J557 | Intemperance in undertaking labor. |
| J553 | Intemperance in work. |
| J564 | Intemperance in worship. Irish myth: Cross. |
| J552 | Intemperate pugnacity. |
| J551 | Intemperate zeal in truth-telling. |
| Q261.1 | Intended treachery punished. (Cf. Q210.1, Q552.2.3.4.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| J1175.2 | Intentional and accidental fire. Rich man wishing to get rid of a neighbor's tree sets it afire. Neighbor's house catches and burns. Must pay four times value of tree since fire is intentional, but only actual value of house, since that fire was accidental. Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 625. |
| T475.2.1 | Intercourse with sleeping girl. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| J1583 | Interested only in his capital. Preacher tells parishioners (regarding the day's offering): "You will get back 100 for 1." Donor of a penny: "I'll be glad to get back my capital!" Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| A2750 | Interior and bark of plant. |
| A693 | Intermediate future world. Residence for those whose good and evil deeds exactly counterbalance.—Irish myth: Cross; Persian: Carnoy 344. |
| D915.4 | Intermittent river. River flows at stated intervals. *Chauvin VII 44 No. 153. |
| A2755 | Internal parts of plant. |
| D1712.3 | Interpreter of dreams. Jewish: Neuman. |
| D1685 | Interred body of saint performs signs and miracles. Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: Boberg. |
| V540 | Intervention of Providence saves person's life. (Cf. R341.) |
| N2.3.5 | Intestines wagered. Africa (Wute): Sieber 212f. |
| E470 | Intimate relations of dead and living. |
| A1427.0.3 | Intoxicating drink first used at the wedding feast of the first couple. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A1426.2.1 | Introduction of brewing. Irish myth: Cross. |
| A1459.1.2 | Introduction of broad-headed spears into Leinster. Irish myth: Cross. |
| K732 | Intruder captured in chimney. Burned. *Type 124; *BP I 40; U.S. (Maine and New Hampshire): Ford JAFL XV 63; French Canadian: Barbeau JAFL XXIX 11; Japanese: Ikeda; N. A. Indian (Flathead): McDermott JAFL XIV 250; American Negro (Georgia): Harris Nights 38 No. 8, (South Carolina): Parsons JAFL XXXIV 17, (Virginia): Parsons JAFL XXXV 267. |
| J2133.7 | Intruding wolf falls down chimney and kills himself. Type 123; *BP I 40. |
| K891.1 | Intruding wolf tricked into jumping down chimney and killing himself. *Type 333; *BP I 40. Cf. Type 124. |
| V229.7 | Invaders miraculously defeated by saints. Irish myth: Cross. |
| A1468.1 | Invention of chess game. Irish myth: Cross. |
| A1459.1.4 | Invention of gai bulga. Irish myth: Cross. |
| K1681.1 | Inventor of death machine is first to use it. Spanish Exempla: Keller; Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Z174.1 | Inverted shoes at doors to indicate banishment. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| D1985.2 | Invisibility by reciting formula backwards. *Penzer VI 149 n. 1. |
| D1985.1 | Invisibility by scarification. Africa (Basuto): Jacottet 212 No. 31. |
| D1983.1 | Invisibility conferred by a god. (Cf. A180.) Irish myth: Cross; Greek: Fox 127 (Paris). |
| D1983.2 | Invisibility conferred by fairy. (Cf. D1723.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| D1983 | Invisibility conferred on person. |
| A11.1 | Invisibility of creator learned from the impossibility of staring at the sun, his servant.—Jewish: Neuman. |
| G302.4.2 | Invisibility of demons. Jewish: Neuman. |
| F831.1 | Invisible arrow. Visible to only one person. N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 356 n. 287b. |
| D1655.1.1 | Invisible arrows. (Cf. D1092.) Visible to one person alone. N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 356 n. 287b. |
| A11 | Invisible creator.—Jewish: Neuman.—Ackawoi: Alexander Lat. Am. 269. |
| F451.5.17.1 | Invisible dwarfs at christening feast made to speak by brewing beer in egg-shell. (Cf. F321.1.1.1, F481.4.) German: Pröhle Harz. No. 229. |
| E402.1.4 | Invisible ghost jingles chains. (Cf. E231.4.) England, Ireland, U.S.: *Baughman. |
| E402.1.5 | Invisible ghost makes rapping or knocking noise. (Cf. F470.) England, U.S.: *Baughman. |
| E402.1.3 | Invisible ghost plays musical instrument. (Cf. E548.) England, Scotland, U.S.: *Baughman. |
| E421.1 | Invisible ghosts. *Tobler 92ff.; N. A. Indian (Tahltan): Teit JAFL XXXII 226; England, Wales: *Baughman; North Carolina: Brown Collection I 681; Jewish: Neuman. |
| A102.9 | Invisible god. Jewish: Neuman. |
| N810.1 | Invisible guardians. Hindu: Tawney I 193, 544; Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| K1883.6 | Invisible man eats bread and boy and girl quarrel. Each thinks other had eaten bread. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| D1655 | Invisible objects. (Cf. D1981.3; F235.1.) Jewish: Neuman. |
| F412.1 | Invisible spirit speaks. Tobler 93. |
| F455.5.2 | Invisible troll attends wedding and eats food. Hartmann 73. |
| F420.1.5.1 | Invisible water-spirit claps hands and speaks. Tobler 99. |
| D1655.1 | Invisible weapons. (Cf. D1080.) Hindu: Keith 152. |
| G269.17 | Invisible witch sticks victim with pins. England, U.S.: *Baughman. |
| G266.1 | Invisible witches steal goods in market. (Cf. F235.4.1.) England: Baughman. |
| J1577.1 | Inviting to a feast only those whose households have never been touched by death. None comes. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q162 | Invulnerability as reward for pious act. Irish myth: Cross. |
| D1846.2 | Invulnerability bestowed by many-headed monster. (Cf. B15.1.2.) Zulu: Callaway. |
| D1846.5 | Invulnerability bestowed by saint. (Cf. V220.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| D1846.1 | Invulnerability by being burned and anointed with magic ointments. (Cf. D1244.) Roscher Lexikon s.v. "Achilleus" I 24, *Grote I 218. |
| D1846.5.1 | Invulnerability by invoking saint. Irish myth: Cross. |
| D1845 | Invulnerability for limited time. |
| D1845.1 | Invulnerability for single day. Greek: Frazer Apollodorus I 109 n. 4, 110 n. 1. |
| D1841 | Invulnerability from certain things. |
| D1841.9 | Invulnerability from demons. Jewish: Neuman. |
| D1841.5.1.1 | Invulnerability from hurled stones. Jewish: Neuman. |
| D1841.5 | Invulnerability from weapons. Irish myth: Cross. |
| D1847.1 | Invulnerability lost if man forgets sweetheart. English: Child I 189f.; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| G229.4 | Invulnerability of witches. Irish myth: Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| D1845.2 | Invulnerability only when dressed in certain clothes. (Cf. D1344.) Jewish: Neuman. |
| D1846.4 | Invulnerability through bathing in dragon's blood. *Von Sydow Sigurds Strid med Fеvne 27ff.; Lithuanian: Balys Index No. *650A. |
| F610.3.1 | Invulnerable berserk. (Cf. D1840.) Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| D1840.2.1 | Invulnerable cat. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| D1840.2.2 | Invulnerable stag. Chinese and Persian: Coyajee JPASB XXIV 182. |
| A1006.5 | Ireland repopulated by persons who escape flood. Irish myth: Cross. |
| A1006.6 | Ireland, waste for centuries after flood, is repopulated by immigrants. Irish myth: Cross. |
| V250.1 | Irish saint as "Mary of the Gael". Irish myth: *Cross. |
| A1432.1.1 | Iron at first was made for food, not for weapons. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F875 | Iron bands around heart to keep it from breaking. When master is disenchanted, bands around heart of faithful servant snap one by one. *Type 440; *BP I 1ff.; Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| D1674 | Iron blessed by saint incapable of wounding. (Cf. D1080, V220.) *Loomis White Magic 105; Irish: Plummer clxxxv, *Cross. |
| F841.1.13 | Iron boat. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| F51.1.6 | Iron chain hanging from heaven. Korean: Zong in-Sob 10. |
| D1251.1 | Iron chain made by magic. Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "chaine". |
| F835.2.1 | Iron club so heavy that five men can hardly lift it. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| A978.2 | Iron created to punish cedar's pride. Jewish: Neuman. |
| F384.3 | Iron powerful against fairies. Hartland Science 163f.; Penzer II 166; Irish myth: Cross, Baughman; Finnish-Swedish: Wessman 59 No. 504; Japanese: Ikeda. |
| F811.1.9 | Iron tree. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F561.8 | Iron-eating tribe. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q283 | Irreverent young people punished by outraged old man. Icelandic: Boberg; Koryak: *Jochelson JE VI 365f.; Eskimo: *Boas BAM XV 361; N. A. Indian (Tsimshian): Boas BBAE XXVII 95. |
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