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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
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Deceptions
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Reversals of Fortune
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Ordaining the Future
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Chance and Fate
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Society
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Rewards and Punishments
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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 ▲ |
|---|---|
| J1161.5 | Literal penance: boy outwits pope. For three years not to drink wine, not to lie in bed, nor sleep with a prostitute. He goes to a convent, sleeps on eider down, and sleeps with the nuns. (God's daughters). When the pope condemns him he says he will go to his brother-in-law (Christ: he has wedded God's daughters). (Cf. J1764.5.) *Fb "nonne" II 693; Danish: Kristensen Jyske Folkeminder VII No. 36. |
| J1161 | Literal pleading: letter of law has been met. |
| H507.6 | Literary contest won by deception: he who will be first silenced is the loser. When the false teacher answers in nonsense syllables, the true scholar is speechless and so loses contest. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| H1588.1 | Litter of puppies tested by throwing them one by one at hanging hide of wild beast, and keeping the one that grips hide. Puppy grows up to be great hunting dog. Irish myth: Cross. |
| Z32.3 | Little ant finds a penny, buys new clothes with it, and sits in her doorway. Various animals pass by and propose marriage. She asks what they do at night. Each one replies with its characteristic sound, and none pleases her but the quiet little mouse, whom she marries. She leaves him to tend the stew, and he falls in and drowns. She weeps and, on learning the reason, bird cuts off its beak, dove cuts off its tail, etc. (First ed. Z31.2.3.) *Taylor FFC XLVI 82 No. 2023; Spanish: Boggs FFC XC 154 No. 2023*; Italian: Crane Italian Popular Tales (1885) 376—77. |
| J1293.1 | Little bird as large bird's mate. A large bird wishes to mate with a little bird. The latter says that she is going to swallow a large eel. The large bird sees the absurdity of his proposal. Indonesia: DeVries's list No. 104. |
| V72.1 | Little Christmas. Irish myth: Cross. |
| J262.2 | Little coin in empty bottle noisy. Jewish: Neuman. |
| J321.2 | Little fish in the net kept rather than wait for uncertainty of greater catch. Wienert FFC LVI 66 (ET 308), 105 (ST 176); Halm Aesop No. 28; Jacobs Aesop 212 No. 53; Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| L331 | Little fishes escape from the net. The large are caught. *Type 253; *BP III 355; Wienert FFC LVI 66 (ET 299), 113 (ST 240); Halm Aesop No. 26. |
| F624.9 | Little girl moves enormous bow which nobody could ever carry before. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T55.4 | Little girl will give prince marvelous objects if he promises to marry her later. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| L311.4 | Little innocent girl is able to drive giant out of land. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| J493 | Little men preferred to big men. Preacher prefers small men because the intellect has difficulty in reaching to one's heels. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| F205 | Little people from the sky. (Cf. F215.) Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 326—333. |
| F535.2.8 | Little soldiers with officer on rabbit (long needles and knives for weapons). Chinese: Graham. |
| L312 | Little strong man defeats giant in race. Eskimo (Labrador): Hawkes GSCan XIV 150. |
| F827.2 | Live head-dress. N. A. Indian: Thompson Tales 337 n. 214. |
| K2151.1 | Live man thought to be returning corpse pleads with trickster to save him. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F827.1 | Live-bird earrings. N. A. Indian (Menomini): Skinner JAFL XXVII 98. |
| D1594.0.1 | Liver of deer vitalizes. (Cf. D1015.4.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| D1505.14.1 | Liver of shining goat heals blindness of raja. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| N2.2 | Lives wagered. *Fb "spille" III 487b; Icelandic: *Boberg; India: *Thompson-Balys; Burmese: Scott Indo-Chinese 323; Hawaii Beckwith Myth 111, 459; N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 354 n. 277; Africa (Fjort): Dennett 71 No. 15. |
| A2617.2 | Living animals transformed into plants. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A2617.1 | Living boys or girls transformed into plants. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| S123.3 | Living children buried with dead mother. Child I 180, 185, IV 450a (No. 15). |
| E422.1.9 | Living corpse returns every night, shows gradual wasting away of body. U.S.: Baughman. |
| J1738.2 | Living crucifix chosen. Peasants take their old crucifix to an artist for a new one. The artist asks them whether they want a living or dead crucifix. Argument: living God takes less for upkeep and he can be killed later. *Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 409; Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| P271.4 | Living king's or nobleman's son as foster son of father's friend: considered an honor for the foster father. Weinhold Altnordisches Leben (1856) 285ff.; Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| K1974 | Living man at the grave pretends to be dead man speaking. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| E463 | Living man in dead man's shroud. Refuses to let corpse return to grave before he tells how to resuscitate woman living man has killed. Estonian: Aarne FFC XXV 114 No. 7; Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 3543. |
| F755 | Living mountain. (Cf. F1006.) |
| K1842 | Living person acts as image of saint. Type 1827**; Anderson FFC XLII 359; Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 1730B*; Spanish: Espinosa II No. 42; West Indies: Flowers 546f. |
| A104.1 | Living person becomes god. Hawaii: *Beckwith Myth 2, ch. I passim. |
| E596 | Living person in service of a dead man. BP I 214. |
| E501.15.5 | Living smith must repair wagon belonging to wild hunt. Plischke 36. |
| J1761.7 | Living toad or beetles thought to be lost food and therefore eaten by numskulls. Christensen DF XLVII 188, 199 Nos. 13, 31. |
| G354.3 | Lizard as ogre. Samoa: Beckwith Myth 128. |
| L315.11 | Lizard defeats leopard. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A2211.8 | Lizard dips head in palm-oil: cause of red head. (Cf. 2320.3.)—Ibo (Nigeria): Basden 278. |
| Z49.10 | Lizard eats cricket, frog eats lizard, snake eats frog, eagle eats snake, man shoots eagle; animals escape except lizard. Man takes eagle home. U.S.: Baughman. |
| D712.9.1 | Lizard in human form killed; corpse is lizard. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A2255.2 | Lizard loses lawsuit: must bob his head. Lizard and ant accused of theft of king's crow. Ant pours boiling water down lizard's throat. When case is tried, lizard cannot talk but only bobs head up and down. Adjudged guilty and condemned to bob his head eternally. (Cf. A2474.1.)—Gold Coast: Barker and Sinclair 48 No. 5. |
| B613.3 | Lizard paramour. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A2211.9 | Lizard swallows fish bone: hence head bobs up and down. (Cf. A2474.1.)—Ibo (Nigeria): Basden 278. |
| J512.9 | Lizard tries to make himself as long as snake. Kills himself. Wienert FFC LVI 58 (ET 189), 93 (ST 62); Halm Aesop No. 388. |
| A2250.2 | Lizard wins contest with toad: why snakes and lizards change their skins. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B215.5.1 | Lizard's language. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| A2272.2 | Lizard's tail imitated from snake's. Finnish: Aarne FFC VIII 20 No. 110, XXXIII 55 No. 110. |
| G303.10.10 | Lizards are offspring of the devil. Dh I 198. |
| B331.2 | Llewellyn and his dog. Dog has saved child from serpent. Father sees bloody mouth, thinks the dog has eaten the child, and kills the dog.—*Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 257; Köhler-Bolte I 534; *BP I 425 n. I; Ward Catalogue of Romances II 170; *Penzer V 138 n. 1; *Campbell Sages lxxviii ff.; Benfey Panchatantra I 479ff.; Bødker Exempler 299 No. 64; *Chauvin II 100 No. 59, VIII 67 No. 31; Clouston Tales II 167; *Kittredge Arthur and Gorlagon 223 n. 1; *Frazer Pausanias V 421 .—Spanish Exempla: Keller; Irish myth: Cross; India: *Thompson-Balys; U.S.: Baughman. |
| V86.6 | Loaf bursts in oven because sign of cross has not been made over it. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| D1314.6 | Loaf of bread locates drowned man. Floated on water comes to rest directly over corpse. (Cf. D1031.1.)—*Kittredge Witchcraft 48, 400 n. 194; England: *Baughman. |
| D476.1.2 | Loaf of bread made from the leaf of a tree. *Loomis White Magic 81. |
| J1552 | Loans refused. |
| T216 | Loathly bridegroom carried on back in basket by wife. Indonesia: Dixon 211. |
| D733 | Loathly bridegroom. Woman disenchants loathsome man by embracing him.—India: *Thompson-Balys; Eskimo (Kodiak): Golder JAFL XVI 16; N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 329 n. 188; S. A. Indian (Toba): Métraux MAFLS XL 44, 87. |
| H1573.1.2 | Loathly deed performed as evidence of Christian virtue. Irish myth: Cross. |
| D733.3 | Loathly husband a god in disguise. Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 648. |
| D732 | Loathly Lady. Man disenchants loathsome woman by embracing her.—Maynadier The Wife of Bath's Tale; Taylor Washington Univ. Studies IV (2) (1917) 177 n. 9; Vogt MLN XXXVII 339; Coomaraswamy On the Loathly Bride (Speculum 1945, 391ff.); Krappe Philological Quarterly XXVI 352ff.—Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg.—Ila (Rhodesia): Smith and Dale II 404 No. 1; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| L112.1.1 | Loathly man father of supernaturally born boy. S. A. Indian (Chiriguano): Métraux MAFLS XL 159. |
| D1652.1.10.1 | Loaves and fishes, eaten at night, restored next morning through power of saint. Irish myth: Cross. |
| J1762.7 | Lobsters mistaken for Norwegians. Christensen DF XLVII 206 No. 56. |
| A1011 | Local deluges. **Schmarsel Die Sage von der untergegangenen Stadt; *RTP XXVIII 27 and references to earlier volumes.—Irish myth: Cross; Greek: Frazer Apollodorus II 81 n. 2; Jewish: Neuman. |
| A419 | Local gods—miscellaneous. |
| A410 | Local gods. Chinese: Graham; Irish myth: Cross. |
| D2145.1.1 | Local winter. Winter produced in one place while it is summer everywhere else. N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 289 n. 61c. |
| D2162.3 | Locality sanctified against pestilence (by angel) as result of prayer and fasting. (Cf. D1586.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| B155 | Location determined by halting of an animal.—Irish myth: Cross. (Cf. B153.) |
| D1816.4 | Location of buried object (body) magically revealed. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| D1816.4.1 | Location of corpse of drowned person detected by magic. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| D1816.3 | Location of fort determined by reading in book. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| D1816.1 | Location of fountain revealed in dream. (Cf. D925, D925.1, D1731.) Irish: Plummer cl, Cross. |
| D931.0.2.1 | Location of magic stone determines race of king of country. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F130 | Location of otherworld. *Wimberly 121ff.—Irish myth: *Cross. |
| B155.2.2 | Location of settlement at place a cow stops and where milk flows by itself. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| N455.9 | Location of sought object learned from overheard conversation. Korean: Zong in-Sob 69; Tonga: Gifford 54. |
| E330 | Locations haunted by non-malevolent dead. (Cf. E270—E284 for locations haunted by malevolent ghosts.). |
| E599.11 | Locked doors open at touch of ghosts. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| R121.6.2 | Locks marvelously open for person. Irish myth: Cross (F1088.4); Jewish: Neuman. |
| D2088 | Locks opened by magic. Krappe Balor 2 n. 9; Irish myth: Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| G304.2.3.1 | Locks spring open for troll. Fb "lеs" II 523a. |
| B747.2 | Locusts with jaw teeth strong as lion's. Jewish: Neuman. |
| F806.1 | Lodestone draws ship to it. Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "aimant". |
| Z210.1 | Lodge-Boy and Thrown-Away as joint adventurers. Of brothers (sometimes twins taken from body of slain mother) one is abandoned and becomes wild. Later he joins his brother. *Dickson passim; Krappe MLN XLVII 493ff.; Oceanic: Dixon 138 n. 12; N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 319 n. 152, (California): Gayton and Newman 91, 95; S. A. Indian (Bakuiri): Métraux RMLP XXXIII 145. |
| D1401.8 | Log of wood animated by spirit of malignant holy man strikes left and right to kill offending villagers. (Cf. D956.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K2115.2.2 | Log-birth slander. Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 420, II 526. |
| J2210 | Logical absurdity based upon certain false assumptions. |
| J2233 | Logically absurd defenses. Thief brought to judgment for breaking into house blames mason for building poor house. Mason blames maker of mortar, who blames potter, who blames pretty woman who diverted his attention. She blames goldsmith who caused her to go for her earrings. Goldsmith has no one to blame but he is too old to make a good execution. Hence a shopkeeper across the way is convicted. Clouston Noodles 87; *Wesselski Hessische Blätter f. Vksk. XXXII 23; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| Q535.4 | Lone fasting as penance. Jewish: Neuman. |
| A73 | Lonely creator. The creator is tired of solitude and therefore inaugurates the creation.—Finnish: Kalevala rune 2.—So. Am. Indian (Yuracare): Métraux BBAE CXLIII (3) 503. |
| D2031.6.3 | Lonesome wife scares robbers by making it appear that her husband is at home. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| K1391 | Long distance sexual intercourse. Trickster by magic has intercourse with woman across stream. N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 305 n. 109u. |
| F542.1 | Long ears. People must hold them up so as not to impede walking. Liebrecht 90f.; Cosquin Contes indiens 179; Chinese: Werner 389; Indonesian: Kruyt Het Animisme 350; Malay: Gerth van Wijk Tijdschrift voor Indische Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde XXXV 272; Papua: Landtman Nos. 135, 145, 163. |
| P632.5 | Long hair prized by Irish heroes. Irish myth: Cross. |
| W215.3 | Long life sacrificed that descendants may be kings as prophesied. (Cf. M314.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| F559.2 | Long navel. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| F543.1.2 | Long nose used as hen roost. Fb "næse" III 716b. |
| F543.1.1 | Long nose used as poker. Fb. "næse" II 716b. |
| F547.3.1 | Long penis. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| T574.2 | Long pregnancy: seven years. Jewish: *Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 208, II 1222. |
| T574.1 | Long pregnancy: twelve months. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| T574 | Long pregnancy. Delayed by an enemy who bewitches the mother. *Toldo I 337, II 313; *Frazer Pausanias V 45f.; *Fb "føde" I 398; Tegethoff 41; Köhler-Bolte Zs. f. Vksk. VI 63 (to Gonzenbach No. 12); Child I 82ff., 489, III 497, V 285b. — Irish: Thurneyson I 274, *Cross; Icelandic: Boberg; Finnish: Kalevala rune 1; Greek: *Frazer Apollodorus I 166 n. 2; Persian: Carnoy 331; Chinese: Wilhelm Chinesische Märchen Nos. 15, 18, 29; Batak: Frazer Golden Bough I 143; Philippine (Tinguian): Cole 180; Madagascar: Dandoyau Contes populaires des Sakalava No. 57. |
| F564.3.1 | Long sleep, long waking. (Six months sleep followed by six months waking, or the like.) India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| A1323 | Long span of life for first man. Jewish: Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 108. |
| H317 | Long term of service imposed on suitor. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| F544.2.2.1 | Long tongue cut out and used to bridge a stream. *Penzer VI 10 n. 4. |
| F544.2.2 | Long tongue. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F516.3 | Long-armed people. Irish myth: *Cross; Chinese: Werner 388f. |
| F451.2.3.1 | Long-bearded dwarf. (Cf. F451.6.1.) *Type 426; Köhler-Bolte I 545; Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "nain"; Missouri French: Carrière. |
| F517.0.2 | Long-legged people. Chinese: Werner 388f. |
| B841 | Long-lived animals.—Frazer Pausanias IV 217; **Wesselski Archiv Orientální IV 1ff. |
| D2074.2.2.1 | Long-plaited hair struck on ground summons female goddess to aid of owner. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A139.12 | Long-suffering God. Jewish: Neuman. |
| U135 | Longing for accustomed food and living. |
| F374 | Longing in fairyland to visit home. Irish myth: *Cross; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| D2006.2.1 | Longing of human child of sky-mother to visit father on earth. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| W136.1 | Look! look! she cries from the barrel. A nobleman has arranged for a peasant girl to become his mistress. When he comes to take her away he cannot find her. Disappointed, he is about to depart when the girl, who has hidden in a barrel, calls out "Look!" She really wants to be found. Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 13. |
| C315.2.1 | Looking at moon when shooting game. Bushman: Bleek and Lloyd 67. |
| J2127 | Looking for the hole. Numskull is to carry a can of oil with especial care since it has a little hole in it. In order to find the hole he turns the can about and lets all the oil run out. Penzer V 84; Von der Leyen Das Märchen 78 and Herrigs Archiv CXIV 20 n. 2; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| J703.1 | Looking for the keys of the abbey. Monk goes about with downcast eyes until he is made abbot; then lives in luxury. He explains that he was looking for the keys of the abbey. Now he has them. *Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 500. |
| C300 | Looking tabu. *Fb "se" III 172b.—Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "vue"; Greek: Fox 67 (Pandrosus), Odyssey VII line 20.—Irish myth: Cross; India: *Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Graham; Javanese: Dixon 209; N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 338 n. 217; Eskimo (Greenland): Rink 385; S. Am. Indian (Cherentes, Amazonian): Alexander Lat. Am. 308, (Mataco): Métraux MAFLS XL 35. |
| J2131.4.1 | Looking through the gun barrel. The numskull (stupid ogre) is shot. Types 1158, 1228. |
| F856.1 | Loom made of woman's breasts with vagina as shuttle. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A2423.1.3 | Loon's ugly voice. Lappish: Qvigstad FFC LX 38 No. 53. |
| D1782.3.2 | Loosing knots permits horse to return home. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| D1782.3.1 | Loosing sandals destroys fakir's power. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A2231.13 | Loris refuse to look at sun who comes out when they are dancing: hence never looks at sun. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| H331.5.0.1 | Loser in bride-race must die. Italian Novella: Rotunda; Greek: Frazer Apollodorus II 160 n. 2. |
| N55.1 | Loser of shooting wager to go naked into thorns for bird. *Type 592; *BP II 490ff. |
| Q150.2 | Loss of all evil and corruption as reward. Jewish: Moreno Esdras (Q151.9). |
| C934.1 | Loss of crops because of broken tabu. Cheremis: Sebeok-Nyerges. |
| J2228 | Loss of eating contest because of weak legs. The sheep thinks that that is the reason for loss of the contest. Type 203*; Russian: Andrejev No. 203. |
| N178 | Loss of eye saves man from execution. Man to be buried with king. Gets off because he lacks an eye. *Wesselski Märchen 230; Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 480. |
| C939 | Loss of fortune for breaking tabu—miscellaneous. |
| C930 | Loss of fortune for breaking tabu. Irish myth: Cross; India: *Thompson-Balys; Eskimo (Greenland): Rasmussen I 322, (Cumberland Sound): Boas BAM XV 234; African (Loango): Pechuël-Loesche 109. |
| D1847 | Loss of invulnerability. Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q581.0.1 | Loss of life as result of one's own treachery. (Cf. Q261.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| D860.0.2 | Loss of magic object causes madness. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| D860 | Loss of magic object. *Aarne MSFO XXV I—200 passim; Bolte Zs. f. Vksk. XVIII 452 n. 3.—Chinese: Werner 348, Graham. |
| D1741.6 | Loss of magic power through incest. (Cf. Q242.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| D1749 | Loss of magic power—miscellaneous. |
| D1740 | Loss of magic power. |
| D1822 | Loss of magic sight. (Cf. D1741.) |
| C942.1 | Loss of magic strength by smoking. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q595.4 | Loss of money as punishment. Jewish: Moreno Esdras (Q585.1). |
| Q451.7.0.1 | Loss of one eye as punishment. Hdwb. d. Märchens I 477a n. 5; Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| C943.2 | Loss of one eye for breaking tabu. S. Am. Indian (Toba): Métraux MAFLS XL 39. |
| C943 | Loss of sight for breaking tabu. (Cf. C51.2.)—See C312.1.1, C312.1.2. for references.—*Fb "öje" III 1166b; Irish myth: Cross; Jewish: Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys; Tahiti: Henry 143; Eskimo (Cumberland Sound): Boas BAM XV 241. |
| D2099.1 | Loss of skill through magic. Eskimo (Greenland): Holm 84. |
| Q494 | Loss of social position as punishment. Jewish: Neuman. |
| Q451.3 | Loss of speech as punishment. *Type 710; *BP I 13ff.; Icelandic: *Boberg; Jewish: *Neuman. |
| C942 | Loss of strength from broken tabu. Irish myth: Cross; Danish: Fb "klæder" II 200a. |
| C932 | Loss of wife (husband) for breaking tabu. Aarne-Thompson Types 400, 425; Cheremis: Sebeok-Nyerges; India: Thompson-Balys; Maori: Beckwith Myth: 249; African (Loango): Bechuël-Loesche 109. |
| Q595 | Loss or destruction of property as punishment. (Cf. Q552.1.0.1, Q552.13.2, Q552.14.1, Q585, Q552.18.) Irish myth: Cross; Jewish: *Neuman; Africa (Fang): Tessman 195. |
| G406 | Lost (marooned) person falls into ogre's power. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| N211.1.0.1 | Lost articles found in interior of fish through virtue of saint. Irish myth: Cross. |
| J2085.1 | Lost ass, saddle, and bridle offered as reward to the finder. *Wesselski Hodscha Nasreddin II 231 No. 496. |
| F329.4.1 | Lost fairy child found by mortals. Mortals feed, warm it, keep it until one day it hears voice calling: "Coleman Grey!" It leaves with the remark "Ho! ho! ho! My Daddy's come!" England: *Baughman. |
| G691.4 | Lost husband's bones found among cannibals. Eskimo (Kodiak): Golder JAFL XVI 27. |
| N645 | Lost memory recovered in battle. Irish myth: Cross. |
| D1816.2 | Lost object discovered by magic. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| D1816.2.1 | Lost object found by throwing spade at ghost. Where spade sticks one will find the lost object. *Fb "gjenganger" I 443b. |
| D1810.0.3.2 | Lost object or person found by holy man. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| N211 | Lost object returns to its owner. |
| C12.5.4 | Lost parson says he would rather have devil for guide than clerk who is with him. Devil appears, causes death of both. England, U.S.: Baughman.* |
| N211.1.1 | Lost pin found in fish. Irish myth: Cross. |
| N211.1 | Lost ring found in fish. (Polycrates.) *Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 635; *Wesselski Mönchslatein 188 No. 146; *Chauvin V 17 No. 10, 141 No. 68, VI 32 No. 202; Fb "ring" IV 328b; Toldo VIII 40; Saintyves "L'Anneau de Polycrate" Revue de l'histoire des religions (1912) 1—32; *Loomis White Magic 121.—Irish: Plummer clxxxiv, *Cross; Norwegian: Solheim Register 20; Italian Novella: Rotunda; Jewish: *Neuman, *Gaster Exempla 210 No. 118, *bin Gorion Born Judas II 106, 344, III 51, 55, 300; India: *Thompson-Balys; Japanese: Ikeda; Korean: Zong in-Sob 29; Philippine: Fansler MAFLS XII 7; Africa (Gold Coast): Barker and Sinclair 133. |
| E752.7 | Lost soul gnawed by worms. Irish myth: Cross. |
| E752.4 | Lost soul in raven feathers. Fb "ravn" III 22a. |
| E755.2.3 | Lost soul to serve as porter in hell for seven years. Köhler-Bolte I 320; Wimberly 416, 426. |
| E752 | Lost souls. Hdwb. d. Abergl. s.v. "Arme Seelen"; Irish myth: *Cross. |
| N211.1.3 | Lost sword found in fish. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| N211.1.4 | Lost trinket found in fish. Irish myth: Cross. |
| R133.2 | Lost wife restored by conjurer. Eskimo (Cumberland Sound): Boas BAM XV 246. |
| A1122.3 | Lost wind found in hollow tree: has been banished and is needed by men. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q150.1.1 | Lot and family rewarded by being saved from destruction of city. (Cf. Q152.) Spanish Exempla: Keller; Jewish: *Neuman. |
| N126.2 | Lots cast to determine father of illegitimate child. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| N126 | Lots cast to determine luck or fate. Irish myth: Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg; Jewish: *Neuman. |
| N126.1 | Lots cast to determine who shall undertake adventure. Irish myth: Cross. |
| D1365.1.1 | Lotus causes forgetfulness. (Cf. D965.6, D2004.3.) Greek: *Frazer Apollodorus II 280 n. 2. |
| D1641.15 | Lotus disappears whenever anyone tries to pluck it. (Cf. D975.1.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| H432.3 | Lotus flower as chastity index. (Cf. D975.1.) Penzer I 42, 156. |
| J97 | Lotus flower flourishes as long as it is in water: king should not leave castle. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A123.9 | Lotus plants grow from navel of Vishnu. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A813.2 | Lotus-leaf raft in primeval sea. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| J261 | Loudest mourners not greatest sorrowers. Wienert FFC LVI 83 (ET 496), 142 (ST 485); Halm Aesop No. 369. |
| Z33.4.1 | Louse and crow make covenant of friendship: louse eats crow despite crow saying, "If I strike you once with my beak you will disappear; how then can you talk of eating me?" Likewise louse eats loaf of bread, she-goat, cow, buffalo, five sepoys, wedding procession with one lakh of people, elephant, tank of water. A sepoy cuts louse in two with his sword and rescues all. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Z31.2 | Louse and flea wish to marry. Mosquito, toad, ant, etc. volunteer to supply the wedding feast. Spanish: Boggs FFC XC 154 No. 2020*. |
| A2051.1 | Louse created to give women work. (Cf. A2032.2.)—*Fb "lus". |
| F983.2 | Louse fattened. *Type 621; BP III 483; *Köhler-Bolte I 134, *601a; *Bolte Zs. f. Vksk. XVI 242 No. 23, XVII 229; Polívka Archiv. f. slav. Philol. VII 317 No. 65, XXVI 464; Sébillot France III 334 n. 4; Leskien Balkanmärchen No. 20; *Cosquin Contes indiens 529ff.; Italian: Basile Pentamerone I No. 5; Algerian: Desparmet Contes Pop. rec. а Blida 407; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| G466 | Lousing as task set by ogre. *Type 480, Roberts 167f.; Greek: Frazer Pausanias V 269f.; Africa: Werner African 205. |
| F420.6.2 | Love and marriage between water-spirits and other spirits. |
| T6 | Love as inducement to idolatry. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| T15 | Love at first sight. Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg; Italian Novella: Rotunda; Jewish: *Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 614, II 355, 1369. |
| P274.1 | Love between foster sister and foster brother. Icelandic: Herrmann Saxo II 80, *Boberg. |
| D1905.3 | Love by curse. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| D1355.18 | Love charm (words). (Cf. D1273.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| D1355.21.1 | Love charm from tuber. S. A. Indian (Toba): Métraux MAFLS XL 28. |
| D1355.3 | Love charm. (Cf. D1274.)—Kittredge Witchcraft 30, 111, 382 n. 52, 440 nn. 61—70 passim.—Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg; *English: Child I 57; India: *Thompson-Balys, Penzer I 137f.; Am. Negro (Georgia): Harris Nights 198 No. 34. |
| J1142.2 | Love detected by quickening pulse. A woman's adulterous love detected through her pulse quickening at mention of her lover. *Herbert III 268; Oesterley No. 40; Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| K2094 | Love falsely pledged for wooer's benefit. Irish myth: Cross. |
| T11.1 | Love from mere mention or description. *Type 516; *Rösch FFC LXXVII 100; *Chauvin V 132 No. 112; *Penzer X 214 s.v. "Love by mere mention"; Malone PMLA XLIII 399; *Dickson 188 n. 63; Hibbard 208 n. 18, 226 n. 1; *Cross MPh XII 612 n. 3; Moore PMLA XXIX (1914) 527f.; Fb "hеr" IV 241b. — Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg; Italian: Basile Pentamerone IV No. 7, *Rotunda; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| D1900 | Love induced by magic. (Cf. D1355, D1825.1.2.) *Type 580; Kittredge Witchcraft 104ff nn. 1—22 passim; Malory Morte Darthur VIII 1; K. Reuschel "Die Sage vom Liebeszauber Karls des Grossen in dichterischen Behandlungen der Neuzeit" (Philolog. u. volkskundliche Arbeiten K. Vollmöller dargeboten, 1908, pp. 371ff.); Zs. f. Vksk. XIX 243; Crane Miraculis 389ff. No. 34.—India: Thompson-Balys; Penzer II 43; Philippine (Tinguian): Cole 77; Cherokee: Mooney RBAE XIX 259 No. 12; Irish myth: *Cross. |
| T88.1 | Love kept up even after one of the parties is married to another. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| K1872.3 | Love letter hidden in apple. Icelandic: Boberg |
| D1908 | Love lost by magic. |
| T91.3.2 | Love of goddess for mortal. (Cf. T111.1.) Penzer V 33; Greek: Fox 245. |
| T91.2 | Love of mortal and devil. |
| T91.3 | Love of mortal and supernatural person. India: *Thompson-Balys; S. A. Indian (Cashinawa): Métraux BBAE CXLIII (3) 684, (Toba): Métraux MAFLS XL 23. |
| W161 | Love of publicity. |
| P282.3.1 | Love of stepmother who has killed her husband refused. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| D1900.0.1 | Love purified by magic. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F531.6.15.2 | Love relations between giants and other supernatural beings. (Cf. F531.6.8.1.) Icelandic: Corpus Poeticum Boreale I 119, cf. O. Lundberg in Arctos Svecica 2, Ups. 1944, 5ff., Herrmann Saxo II 97ff., MacCulloch Eddic 47ff., 82, 91, 110, 158, 181, Boberg. |
| Q56 | Love rewarded. |
| T11.3 | Love through dream. Falling in love with a person seen in a dream. *Type 516; *BP I 45; *Rösch FFC LXXVII 100; *Chauvin V 132 No. 112; *Penzer III 82 n. 2, IX 36 n. 1; *Moore PMLA XXIX 527f.; Rohde Griechische Roman 45ff.; Dunlop-Wilson II 258; Bédier Fabliaux (1895) 113ff.; *Krappe Revue Hispanique LXXXI 5ff. —Irish: MacCulloch Celtic 78, *Cross; Icelandic: M. Moe in Edda 1914 p. 245, *Boberg; Arabian: Basset 1001 Contes I 136, II 68; India: *Thompson-Balys; Korean: Zong in-Sob 73 No. 40, 136 No. 63; Indonesia: J. Brandes Tijdschrift voor Indische Taal-, Land-, en Volkenkunde XLI 295f., 469, Jeynboll Supplement Catalogus Jav. — Madoereesche Handschriften I 53ff.; Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 231; N. A. Indian (Yana): Curtin Creation Myths 425ff.; Africa: Frobenius Atlantis III 247; Cape Verde Islands: Parsons MAFLS XV (1) 211f. No. 73, 220 No. 74. |
| T11.4.5 | Love through finding lady's handkerchief. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T11.4.6 | Love through finding lady's ornament (ring, comb, etc.). India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T11.4.3 | Love through finding lady's wreath. Cowell Jataka IV 144; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 586. |
| T12 | Love through prophecy that prince shall marry the fairest. *Type 516; *Rösch FFC LXXII 100. |
| T11.4.3.1 | Love through seeing bouquet. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T11.4.4 | Love through seeing marks of lady's teeth in fruit which she has bitten. Indonesia: DeVries Volksverhalen II 89ff. No. 110. |
| T11.7 | Love through sight in magic mirror. (Cf. D1163.) Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| T11.4.1.1 | Love through sight of hair of unknown hero. India: *Thompson-Balys; N. A. Indian (Shasta): Thompson Tales 196. |
| T11.4.1 | Love through sight of hair of unknown princess. **Golther Die Jungfrau mit den goldenen Haaren (Leipzig, 1893); *Cosquin Contes indiens 50 n. 2, 351ff.; Köhler-Bolte II 328ff.; Chavannes III 258 No. 470; Icelandic: Boberg; India: *Thompson-Balys; Japanese: Ikeda; Philippines: Dixon 169. |
| T11.2 | Love through sight of picture. *Types 403, 516, 900; *BP I 45ff., 443ff.; *Rösch FFC LXXVII 98; Philippson FFC L 11f.; *Penzer X 214 s.v. "love with a painting", 263 s.v. "picture, falling in love"; Fb "portræt" II 863; *Köhler-Bolte I 127, 520ff., 527; Wesselski Archiv Orientální II 430; Herbert III 204; Oesterley No. 62.—English: Wells 81 (Sir Tristrem); Icelandic: *Boberg; Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "portrait"; Missouri French: Carrière; Arabian: Burton Nights S II 194ff.; India: *Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Graham, Eberhard FFC CXX 61f., 252; Japanese: Ikeda; Indonesia: DeVries's list No. 218. |
| T11.4.2 | Love through sight of slipper of unknown princess. *Cosquin études 8; Saintyves Perrault 115; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| T11.4 | Love through sight of something belonging to unknown princess. Hdwb. d. Märchens II 103b. nn. 169—76; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T11.2.1 | Love through sight of statue. *Type 516; *Rösch FFC LXXVII 99; Köhler-Bolte I 520 ff., 527; Icelandic: Boberg; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T10.1.2 | Love transforms crude individual into a polished courtier. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| N2.7 | Love wagered in game. Danish: Grundtvig No. 238; Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| D1904 | Love-compelling man sickens of bargain. A man given the power of making all women love him is smothered to death by them. N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 277 n. 19a. |
| K2213.2.1 | Love-mad queen pushes her husband into well, as fakir lover directs. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| D1355.23 | Love-producing magic feather. (Cf. D1021.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| D1355 | Love-producing magic object. *Hdwb. d. Abergl. I 775, 1007, II 1506, 1589, 1616, III 1279.—Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "aimer". |
| D1355.22 | Love-producing magic plant. (Cf. D965.) Cheremis: Sebeok-Nyerges. |
| D1355.1 | Love-producing music. (Cf. D1275.1.)—English: Child V 489 s.v. "music". |
| D1355.1.1 | Love-producing song. (Cf. D1275.)—Icelandic: *Boberg; Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "chant".—N. A. Indian (Wichita): Barbeau GSCan XI 162f. Nos. 50, 51, (Micmac): Leland 82. |
| T24.1 | Love-sickness. *Penzer II 9 n. 2, 10 n., III 68 n. 1; Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg; Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "amoureux"; Italian Novella: *Rotunda; Jewish: *Neuman; Japanese: Ikeda. |
| D1355.13 | Love-spot. Mark which makes man irresistible to any woman who sees it.—*Schoepperle Tristan and Isolt 401f.; Irish myth: *Cross. |
| T99 | Love—additional motifs. Irish myth: Cross. |
| T90 | Love—miscellaneous motifs. |
| T0 | Love. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F725.7 | Lovely garden under water, with marvelous tree. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F181 | Lovemaking in otherworld. Irish myth: Cross. |
| R10.1.2 | Lover abducts maiden from cruel father and brother. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| T161.1 | Lover allowed to sleep with woman first few nights after her marriage to another. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1818.3.2 | Lover approaches mistress disguised as fool. Irish myth: Cross. |
| D641.1 | Lover as bird visits mistress. *Type 432; Child V 39ff.—Irish myth: *Cross; Greek: Grote I 86; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| S56.1 | Lover asks girl to kill her father. India: Thompson-Balys. |
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