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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
H
Tests
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The Wise and the Foolish
K
Deceptions
L
Reversals of Fortune
M
Ordaining the Future
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Chance and Fate
P
Society
Q
Rewards and Punishments
R
Captives and Fugitives
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Unnatural Cruelty
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Sex
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The Nature of Life
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Religion
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Traits of Character
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Humor
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Miscellaneous Groups of Motifs
| Thompson reference | Description ▲ |
|---|---|
| T93.2.1 | Lover becomes friar and sweetheart nun when unable to marry. Heptameron No. 19. |
| K1582 | Lover blackmails adulteress. |
| T45 | Lover buys admission to woman's room. *Type 900; BP I 446; *Philippson FFC L 26f.; *Fb "guldrok" I 514b, "guldhaspe" I 513b. |
| K1549.3 | Lover carried away on mistress's shoulders so that his footprints will not be visible in the snow. Spectator Papers No. 181. |
| K1211.1 | Lover caught in roof. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1581.5.1 | Lover claims payment for cloth in the presence of the husband. The woman returns the cloth but puts a live coal in it. Destroys his whole supply. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| N343.4 | Lover commits suicide on finding beloved dead. Heptameron No. 70. |
| K1232 | Lover deceived by false suicide agreement. The woman persuades her lover to jump from a cliff; she will follow. She does not jump. *Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 596. |
| T57.1 | Lover declares himself by showing her own reflection to his beloved. (Cf. T91.6.1.1.) Heptameron No. 24. |
| K1581.7.1 | Lover delays the gift of the goose hoping to obtain greater favors. Finally has to flee. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K1581.5.2 | Lover demands return of cloth on threat to await the husband's return. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| F1041.1.2.1 | Lover dies beside dying sweetheart. Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| K1826.1.1 | Lover disguised as monk or friar meets sweetheart. Heptameron No. 21. |
| K1810.3 | Lover disguised as other knight in order to reach sweetheart. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| K1349.1.1 | Lover disguised as porter gains access to princess's room. (Cf. K1816.7.) Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K1810.1.2 | Lover disguised in slain enemy's clothes. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| K1521.5.1 | Lover escapes behind the sheet which wife holds up to show her husband. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| T37 | Lover finds lady in tomb apparently dead. She revives and marries him. Boccaccio Decameron X No. 4 (Lee 313ff.); Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| N384.9 | Lover frightens mistress as a joke. She dies from the shock. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K1348 | Lover gets into maiden's room by means of a ladder. Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| K1349.6 | Lover gets self carried into beloved's house to wait for clean clothes after a purposeful fall in mud. Heptameron No. 42. |
| K1225 | Lover given rump to kiss. Sometimes the trick is played by a rival lover. (Chaucer's Miller's Tale). *Type 1361; *F. N. Robinson Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer (Boston, 1933) 786b; *Bolte Frey 251 No. 89; *Barnouw "The Millers Tale van Chaucer" Handlingen van het 6. nederlandsche Philologencongres, 1910; *Thompson The Miller's Tale (Bryan and Dempster 106ff.); Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| T35.5 | Lover goes to see his beloved in her husband's (or her father's) house, defiant of the danger. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| H333.1 | Lover has head cut off at girl's desire. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1218.1.3.2 | Lover hidden by wife in room made to fall into deep pit of treacle. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1517.4 | Lover hidden in chest with feathers. Husband believes he is a devil. (Cf. K1218.1.) J. Prinz "A Tale of a Prioress and her Three Wooers" Literar.-Hist. Forschungen XLVII (Berlin, 1912) 65ff., 113ff.; Hilka Compilatio Singularis Exemplorum No. 14. |
| K1555.1 | Lover hidden in hen-coop discovered by husband. Boccaccio Decameron V No. 10 (Lee 173); Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| K1233 | Lover humiliated by his impotence. Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles No. 28; Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| K1371.4 | Lover in disguise abducts beloved. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| K1831.2.2 | Lover in disguise as duke's son takes service under king with his followers in order to abduct his sister. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| T95.1 | Lover kills his lady's relatives in fight. Irish myth: *Cross; English: Child V 496 s.v. "Slaughter"; Italian Novella: *Rotunda; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T92.5 | Lover kills his rival brother. Irish myth: Cross; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| N343 | Lover kills self believing his mistress dead. She has been frightened away by a lion. (Pyramus and Thisbe.) Köhler-Bolte I 4; Irish myth: *Cross; Italian Novella: Rotunda; Greek: Fox 201, **G. Hart Ursprung und Verbreitung der Pyramus und Thisbe-Sage (1889); *C. de Boer Pyramus et Thisbe (Amsterdam, 1911). |
| T35.0.1 | Lover late at rendezvous; detained by incessant talker. Chauvin V 155 No. 78 n. 1. |
| K1549.4 | Lover leaves horse outside house as husband comes up: wife tells husband their cow has foaled a horse. India: Thompson-Balys. Cf. English, Scottish: *Child No. 274. |
| K1212 | Lover left standing in snow while his mistress is with another. He later tricks her into standing a whole day in July in a tower naked exposed to the sun and flies. Boccaccio Decameron VIII No. 7 (*Lee 258); Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K1826.3 | Lover masks as anchorite to reach sweetheart. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| K1825.1.1 | Lover masks as doctor to reach sweetheart. Chauvin V 227f. No. 130; Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| K1371.4.1 | Lover masks as king, knight. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| K1371.4.2 | Lover masks as minstrel. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1514.16 | Lover masks as pregnant woman: adulteress sent by husband to act as midwife, meets lover. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T95 | Lover opposed to sweetheart's relatives. Irish myth: *Cross; Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| K1227 | Lover put off by deceptive respite. |
| K1227.1 | Lover put off till girl bathes and dresses. She escapes. Jewish: bin Gorion Born Judas I 257. |
| T24.6 | Lover refuses food and drink. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| Q241.2 | Lover refuses to take back unfaithful paramour. English romance: Malory IX 39. |
| R161.1 | Lover rescues his lady from abductor. Irish myth: *Cross; English: Wells 80 (Sir Tristrem); India: Thompson-Balys. |
| R161.3 | Lover rescues his lady from drowning. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| R161.4 | Lover rescues his lady from the gallows. England, U.S.: *Baughman, Child No. 95. |
| R161 | Lover rescues his lady. Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: Boberg; West Indies: Flowers 571. |
| N716 | Lover sees beloved first while she is bathing. II Samuel ch. 11; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| K1371.1 | Lover steals bride from wedding with unwelcome suitor. *Type 885; Child IV 218, 230, V 260f.; Hdwb. d. Märchens I 549b nn. 205-215; *Boje 110ff.; literary treatment: Scott "Lochinvar", Ibsen "Peer Gynt"; Icelandic: *Boberg; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F414.1 | Lover transported to girl's apartments in fortress by spirit. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1349.4 | Lover visits guarded maiden while harper puts mother to sleep. Irish myth: *Cross; Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| N391 | Lover who is detained away beyond stipulated time returns to find fiancée married. Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| K1232.1 | Lover's anger softened by sham suicide attempt. Is later scorned. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| T85.4 | Lover's body kept embalmed for years by grieving mistress. (Cf. T211.4.) *Hibbard 266. |
| H1556.4.1 | Lover's fidelity tested by going to bed with mistress and only kissing. Heptameron No. 18. |
| H1556.4.2 | Lover's fidelity tested by making love to maid. Heptameron No. 18. |
| H1556.4.3 | Lover's fidelity tested by substituting maid in mistress's bed at assignation. He must refuse her. Heptameron No. 18. |
| K1371.1.2 | Lover's foster brother (friend) steals bride from wedding with unwelcome suitor. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| K1581.4 | Lover's gift regained: accidental discovery of identity. The lover, ignorant of the identity of the husband, tells him of his experience with the wife. The husband persuades the lover to lead him to the scene, where the wife is compelled to restore all but a small part of the money. *Spargo FFC XCI; *Euling Studien über Heinrich Kaufringer (Breslau, 1900) 65ff.; Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| K1581.7 | Lover's gift regained: anser venalis (goose as gift). The lover regains his gift by a ruse (obscene). **Spargo FFC XCI; *Semerau Die Schwäke und Schnurren des Poggio (Leipzig, 1905) No. 69; Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K1581.3 | Lover's gift regained: borrowing from the husband and returning to the wife. The lover borrows money from the husband with which to corrupt the wife, later telling the husband that the money was returned to the wife during the husband's absence. **Spargo FFC XCI; Boccaccio Decameron VIII Nos. 1, 2 (*Lee 247ff.); F. N. Robinson Works of Chaucer 838a (Shipman's Tale); Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| K1581.2 | Lover's gift regained: horse and wagon as gift. The lover regains gift of horse and wagon by pretending to the husband that the wife has confiscated them because he brought wood of uneven quality. **Spargo FFC XCI; *Erk-Böhme Deutscher Liederhort (Leipzig, 1893—94) I 40ff. |
| K1581.6 | Lover's gift regained: jewelry as gift. The lover presents the wife with a valuable piece of jewelry, which he regains by pretending to the husband that he has left it as a pledge. **Spargo FFC XCI; *Wesselski Bebel II 115f. No. 49; *Bolte Frey 242 No. 76. |
| K1581.10 | Lover's gift regained: payment with worthless money. Lover bargains with the husband. Pays him with worthless money. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K1581.5 | Lover's gift regained: piece of cloth as gift. The lover regains by a ruse and thievery the borrowed piece of cloth which he has presented to his mistress. **Spargo FFC XCI. |
| K1581.8 | Lover's gift regained: refusal to leave bed. Woman fearing exposure returns money. Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles No. 178; Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| K1581.9 | Lover's gift regained: spending money to purchase lover's worthless goods. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K1581.1 | Lover's gift regained: the broken (removed) article. The lover breaks (or removes) an article of household equipment and convinces the husband that for that reason the wife has confiscated that which he gave her as a present. **Spargo FFC XCI. |
| K1357 | Lover's gift regained. The husband appears before payment can be made to wife. *Type 1731; **Spargo FFC XCI 50ff.; Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 2913*. |
| D1972 | Lover's magic sleep at rendezvous. A lover (husband) is to meet his mistress but magically oversleeps. *Type 400; Chauvin V 145 No. 71 n. 1; *Fb "sove" III 472b; *Dickson 94 n. 78; Wesselski Mönchslatein 172 No. 138; Irish myth: *Cross; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1317 | Lover's place in bed usurped by another. *Child I 137-41; Nouvelles Récréations No. 54; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| N386.1 | Lover's spur catches in sheet when he tries to escape. Uncovers mistress. Heptameron No. 62. |
| N386 | Lover's wound breaks while he is in bed with mistress. He bleeds to death (or is discovered because of the blood). Schoepperle I 222; von der Hagen I cxxvii; Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| R12.3 | Lovers abducted by pirates. Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| E419.6 | Lovers buried apart found in one grave each morning. (Cf. E631.0.1.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| T86 | Lovers buried in same grave. *Chauvin V 107 No. 37; Heptameron Nos. 50, 70; Boccaccio Decameron IV No. 8 (Lee 140); Irish myth: Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg; Italian Novella: *Rotunda; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| T42.2 | Lovers converse in figures of speech not understood by others. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| T86.2 | Lovers die at the same time. Icelandic: FSS 267, Boberg. |
| R225.2 | Lovers elope to prevent girl's marriage to undesired fiancé. Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles No. 98. |
| T22.4 | Lovers fated to marry each other born at same time; identical prophecies for both. (Cf. T61.5.) Jewish: Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| N715 | Lovers first see each other on shores of lake. M. Bloomfield in Penzer VII xxiii; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| R352 | Lovers fleeing from slavery are recaptured. (Cf. R211.4.) Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| T87 | Lovers forbidden to marry starve themselves to death. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| F577.4 | Lovers identical in appearance. Irish myth: Cross. |
| T22.1 | Lovers mated before birth. Fate compels their union as soon as they meet. Chinese: Chavannes 500 Contes I 377 No. 108. |
| T34 | Lovers meet at social gathering. |
| N711.4.1 | Lovers meet at temple. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| T11.3.1 | Lovers meet in their dreams. Irish myth: Cross; Persian: Carnoy 341; India: Thompson-Balys; Hindu: Penzer III 82. |
| K1271.2 | Lovers observed in intrigue make absurd excuses. (Afraid of ghosts, have chill, etc.) Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| R121.7 | Lovers ransomed from prison. Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| T415.3 | Lovers reared as brother and sister learn to their joy that they are not related. *Bolte Zs. f. Vksk. XXVIII 75; Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| T96 | Lovers reunited after many adventures. Boccaccio Decameron Book V (Lee 157ff.); Irish myth: Cross; Icelandic: Boberg; Missouri French: Carrière; Italian Novella: *Rotunda; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| T84 | Lovers treacherously separated. Irish myth: Cross. |
| M149.1 | Lovers vow to marry only each other. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| Z175.2 | Lovers' assignation by symbolic messages. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| T32.1 | Lovers' meeting: hero in heroine's father's prison from which she helps him to escape. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| T31 | Lovers' meeting: hero in service of heroine. As page, or the like. Dickson 143. Cf. Folie Tristan. |
| T31.1 | Lovers' meeting: hero in service of lady's father. *Type 314; Malone PMLA XLIII 421; Boccaccio Decameron II No. 6; Missouri French: Carrière; Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| T32 | Lovers' meeting: heroine heals hero's wounds. (Cf. T67.2.) *Dickson 148 n. 158; Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| T30 | Lovers' meeting. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| T35 | Lovers' rendezvous. (Cf. R315.1.) Irish myth: *Cross; Missouri French: Carrière. |
| T41.3 | Lovers' signal. Informs lover when he must come. Irish myth: Cross; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| E337.3 | Lovers' tragedy re-enacted. (Cf. E334.5.) England, U.S.: *Baughman. |
| T212 | Loving couple die of separation. Penzer II 9. |
| A102.13 | Loving kindness of God. Jewish: Neuman. |
| J952 | Lowly animal tries to move among his superiors. Detected. |
| L165 | Lowly boy becomes king. (Most references to L161 apply here). Jewish: *Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 51; Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 249; Tuamotu: Stimson MS (T-G. 3/45). |
| L161 | Lowly hero marries princess. *Types 300, 301, 302, 303, 304, 306, 307, 308*, 314, 325, 329, 400, 434, 502, 506, 507, 508, 513, 514, 530, 545B, 552, 553, 559, 560, 561, 570, 571, 575, 577, 580, 590, 594*, 725, 853, 854, 930, 935; Child V 488 s.v. "marriages".—Missouri French: Carrière; Italian Novella: *Rotunda; India: *Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Graham; Japanese: Ikeda; Tahiti: Henry Ancient Tahiti (Honolulu, 1928) 614. |
| L156.1 | Lowly hero overcomes proud rivals. Korean: Zong in-Sob 120 No. 58. |
| L162 | Lowly heroine marries prince (king). *Types 310, 403, 428, 431, 440, 442, 450, 451, 501, 510, 511, 545A, 585, 652, 705, 706, 707, 708, 711, 870A, 873, 875, 883A, 887; Hibbard 190ff.; *Roberts 196. — Irish myth: *Cross; Missouri French: Carrière; Spanish: Espinosa II Nos. 107f., 154, Espinosa Jr. Nos. 80, 142; Italian: Basile Pentamerone III No. 5 and passim, *Rotunda; India: Cowell Jataka I 27f., *Thompson-Balys; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 147, 423, II 103, 455, 1366; Japanese: Ikeda. |
| J951 | Lowly masks as great. |
| T91.6.1 | Lowly person falls in love with king (queen). Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| L175 | Lowly successful hero invites king and humbles him. *Type 675; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| L175.1 | Lowly successful soldier invites general and humbles him. Cheremis: Sebeok-Nyerges. |
| J955 | Lowly tries in vain to be greater than he is. |
| W34.2 | Loyal friends refuse to fight against disgraced comrade. (Cf. P310.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q72 | Loyalty rewarded. Jewish: Neuman. |
| W34 | Loyalty. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F451.0.1 | Luchrupáin (leprechauns) (as fairies). Irish myth: *Cross. |
| D191.1 | Lucifer as serpent. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| A63.5 | Lucifer causes fall of man. Irish Myth: Cross; Jewish: Neuman. |
| N119 | Luck and fate personified—miscellaneous. |
| N110 | Luck and fate personified. |
| N113.4 | Luck can be found in certain place. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| N131.4 | Luck changing after change of name. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| N131.5 | Luck changing after change of place. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| N131.1 | Luck changing after cohabitation. Icelandic: Bуsasaga 23, Hrolfs saga Kraka 96ff. |
| N125.2 | Luck determined by whether a crooked-necked demigod is looking at one. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| C933.2 | Luck in fishing lost for breaking tabu. Tonga: Gifford 601; Easter Island: Métraux Ethnology 363; Tuamotu: Stimson MS (t-G 3/600). |
| N6.1 | Luck in gambling from compact with devil. Scala Celi 24a No. 154; Spanish: Boggs FFC XC 55 No. 408A*, Espinosa Jr. Nos. 70—73. |
| N6 | Luck in gambling. |
| C933 | Luck in hunting (fishing) lost for breaking tabu. |
| C933.1 | Luck in hunting lost for breaking tabu. (Cf. C229.2.)—Africa (Ekoi): Talbot 409; Marquesas: Handy 64. |
| N143 | Luck only with money that is earned honestly. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| N141 | Luck or intelligence? Dispute as to which is the more powerful. Man with intelligence remains poor (is brought into court). Saved by mere luck. *Type 945; BP III 53f.; Tille FFC XXXIV 254; Jewish: bin Gorion Born Judas IV 47, 128, 276, 281; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| N400 | Lucky accident. |
| N680 | Lucky accidents—miscellaneous. |
| N421 | Lucky bargain. *Types 571, 1415; Missouri French: Carrière. |
| N410 | Lucky business venture. |
| N623.4 | Lucky cast from sling slays hostile queen. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| N623.3 | Lucky cast of ball made of human brains — ball sticks in head of enemy. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| N623.2 | Lucky cast of ball: boy throws ball into mouth of hostile hound. Ball carries out entrails. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| N623 | Lucky cast of spear (weapon). Irish myth: Cross. |
| N623.1 | Lucky cast of spear—animal's mouth pinned shut. Irish myth: Cross. |
| N680.1 | Lucky fool. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| N135.4 | Lucky marks on body. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| N122 | Lucky or unlucky places. |
| N203 | Lucky person. Icelandic: *Boberg; Jewish: *Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| D1561.1.9 | Lucky places for grave. (Cf. D1073.) India: Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Graham. |
| N113.2.1 | Lucky right hand. Gaster Thespis 174. |
| N621 | Lucky shot with arrow—foot and ear of deer. Deer is scratching ear. *Fischer-Bolte 203ff.; *Wesselski Märchen 226 No. 38; Japanese: Ikeda. |
| K1397 | Lucretia seduced through threat. Sextus says he will kill her and leave a naked slave in her bed to bring dishonor on her house. She yields. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| D1962.4.1 | Lulling to sleep by "sleepy" stories (songs). N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 322 n. 162, (Bella Coola): Boas JE I 98. |
| H71.6.1 | Luminous face as sign of royalty. Irish: MacCulloch Celtic 29, *Cross. |
| E421.3 | Luminous ghosts. (Cf. E530.1, E742.) Tobler 83f.; Swiss: Jegerlehner Oberwallis 334b s.v. "Geister"; New York: Jones JAFL LVII 240. |
| A124 | Luminous god. Icel.: MacCulloch Eddic 129 (Balder); India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| B722.3 | Luminous jewel in animal's head. *Cosquin Contes indiens 254ff.; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F574 | Luminous person. Jewish: *Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys, Penzer II 43 n. 2, VI 1 n. 1. |
| F401.2 | Luminous spirits. Swiss: Jegerlehner Oberwallis 306 No. 13. |
| F544.3.2.1 | Luminous tooth of saint. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| G222.2 | Luminous witch-boat. Carries fishermen to bottom of sea. S. A. Indian (Araucanian): Alexander Lat. Am. 328. |
| G222 | Luminous witches. |
| N529.1 | Lump of gold appears in Arabia at Christ's birth. Irish myth: Cross. |
| Z127.2 | Lust personified. India: Thompson-Balys; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 615. |
| T418.1 | Lustful stepfather. Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| T418 | Lustful stepmother. Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg; Italian Novella: *Rotunda; Greek: Euripides Hippolytus; S. A. Indian (Viracocha): Steward-Métraux BBAE CXLIII (3) 551. |
| D1427.4 | Lute (rubbed) compels one to follow. (Cf. D1232.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| J1566 | Luxury of host rebuked. |
| Q263 | Lying (perjury) punished. (Cf. Q431.17, Q451.1.7, Q451.3.2, Q451.5.3, Q451.7.1, Q488.1, Q551.6.1, Q551.8.5, Q551.9.2, Q552.1.7, Q558.2, Q558.15, Q591.) *Fb "sværge" III 692b, "ed" I 234; Wienert FFC LVI 55 (ET 146), 104 (ST 166, 455); Scala Celi 103b No. 556; Alphabet Nos. 380, 417. — Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg; Finnish-Swedish: Wessman 19 No. 177; Spanish: Keller, Espinosa Jr. Nos. 115, 188, Espinosa II No. 94; Jewish: *Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 113, 150, II 529, 1272; Hawaii: Beckwith 153; Tuamotu: Stimson MS (T-G. 3/711); Philippine (Tinguian): Cole 98; Eskimo (Greenland): Rasmussen III 160; Africa (Fjort): Dennett 89 No. 22, (Ibo, Nigeria): Thomas 124, (Dahome): Einstein 29. |
| X905 | Lying contests. Italian Novella: Rotunda; India: *Thompson-Balys; Japanese: Ikeda. |
| Q488.1 | Lying goat punished by being half-shorn. (Cf. Q263, K1151.) *Type 212; *BP I 346ff. |
| U235 | Lying is incurable. A father asks about his son. When he hears that he lies, he gives the son up as hopeless. Other sins may be outgrown. Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 393; Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| Q583.4 | Lying woman's tongue swells. (Cf. Q551.6.1.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| A2211.1 | Lynx views country from mountainside: cause of his squint. (Cf. A2330.2.)—Ojibwa: Jones-Michelson PAES VII (II) 131 No. 10. |
| D1500.1.38 | M. healing mountain. (Cf. D932.) Icelandic: Boberg. |
| L113.1.3 | Mad fisherman as hero. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| D1442.1.1 | Mad horse becomes tame when girl's voice reaches his ears. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F1041.8.7 | Mad warriors fly up into clouds. (Cf. F1041.16.6.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| P523.2 | Madman may not bring suit. Irish myth: Cross. |
| P192 | Madmen (fools, professional fools). Irish myth: Cross. |
| F1041.8.10 | Madness (rage) from hearing about brother's death. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| Q555.2 | Madness as punishment for adulterer. (Cf. Q241.) Alphabet No. 36; Irish myth: Cross; Greek: Aeschylus Eumenides 341. |
| Q555.1 | Madness as punishment for scoffer. (Cf. Q225.) Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 457. |
| Q555.3 | Madness as punishment for thieves. (Cf. Q212.) *Loomis White Magic 98. |
| Q555 | Madness as punishment. (Cf. D2065.) *Loomis White Magic 98; Irish myth: *Cross; Greek: *Frazer Apollodorus I 146 n. 2, 183 n. 3; Jewish: *Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| D2065.1 | Madness from demonic possession. Kittredge Witchcraft 124ff., 449f. nn. 1—23 passim; Italian Novella: Rotunda; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| N384.0.1 | Madness from fright. U.S.: *Baughman. |
| F1041.8.2 | Madness from grief. (Cf. F1041.21.5.) Child V 487 s.v. "lover". |
| F1041.8.8 | Madness from hearing prophetic voice from air. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F1041.8.11 | Madness from loss of fortune. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T24.3 | Madness from love. *Chauvin VI 51 No. 217 n. 2; Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: Göngu-Hrуlfs saga 300; Italian Novella: *Rotunda; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| F1041.8.5 | Madness from overeating. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F1041.8.9 | Madness from regret that knight has forsaken his wife. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| F1041.8.1 | Madness from seeing beautiful woman. (Cf. F1041.1.6.) Penzer II 6ff., VII 66ff.; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| F1041.8.3 | Madness from seeing ugly ogre. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F1041.8.1.1 | Madness from sight of magically beautiful man. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| E721.3.1 | Madness from spirit leaving body: comes back with cough. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F1041.8.4 | Madness from thirst. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F959.1 | Madness miraculously cured. |
| A123.2.2.1 | Maggots squirm from mouth of man-eating god. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 506. |
| D1344.13 | Magic (golden) helmet renders invulnerable. (Cf. D1101.4.) —Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| D1500.1.1.1 | Magic (healing) well dug by saint. (Cf. V220.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| D1400.1.20.1 | Magic (human) head causes fortress to crumble. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| D1400.1.20 | Magic (human) head defeats enemy. (Cf. D992.) |
| D1335.3 | Magic (iron) glove gives strength. (Cf. D1066.1.)—Fb "styrke" III 630a, "handske" IV 199b.—Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| D2025.0.1 | Magic (loss and) recovery of speech. Irish myth: Cross. |
| D883 | Magic (marvelous object) given back to placate crying child. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| D1359.3.1.1 | Magic (musical) horn (bell) relieves hearers of sorrow. (Cf. D1213, D1222.)—*Krappe Balor 159. |
| D2135.0.3 | Magic ability to fly. Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 189. |
| D985.4 | Magic acorn. Irish myth: Cross. |
| D1667.2 | Magic acorns grow at once. (Cf. D985.4.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| D2171.3 | Magic adhesion to animal. (Cf. F155.) *Fb "holde" IV 219b; Irish myth: Cross. |
| D2171.3.1 | Magic adhesion to goose. *Type 571. |
| D2171.3.4 | Magic adhesion to hose. Cheremis: Sebeok-Nyerges; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| D2171.2 | Magic adhesion to monster (witch, ogre, etc.). (Old Man of the Sea, Burr-Woman). *Basset 1001 Contes I 190f; Estonian: Aarne FFC XXV 126 No. 58; Livonian: Loorits FFC LXVI 42 No. 30; N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 330 n. 191e. |
| Q551.2.1 | Magic adhesion to object as punishment (for opposition to holy person). (Cf. D2171.1, Q227.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| D2171.3.2 | Magic adhesion to swan. Fb "holde ved" I 639. |
| D2171.3.3 | Magic adhesion to turtle. N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 330 n. 191e. |
| D2171 | Magic adhesion. (Cf. D1413.) *Type 593; Fb "holde" IV 219b; Welsh: MacCulloch Celtic 102; Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg; Jewish: Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| D1413.17 | Magic adhesive stone. Makes all who poke in fire stick and say "Fiddevav." (Cf. D931.) Type 593*. |
| D1814 | Magic advice. Jewish: Neuman. |
| D1601.14.2 | Magic adze cuts down tree. Marquesas: Handy 70. |
| D1895 | Magic aging by bathing. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| D1896 | Magic aging by contact with earth after otherworld journey. Fb "jord" II 46a; Hartland Science 197ff.—Irish myth: *Cross; England, Wales: Baughman. |
| D1890 | Magic aging. (Cf. D1857.) Fb "ungdom" III 979b; *Loomis White Magic 80; Penzer I 137.—Irish: Plummer clxxiv, *Cross; Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "vieux"; Estonian: Hartland Science 201; Jewish: Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Graham; N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 284 n. 50b. |
| D2135.2 | Magic air journey from biting an ear. Tehauno: Boas JAFL XXV 244. |
| D2135 | Magic air journey. *Penzer X 64 s.v. "air"; *Fb "ride" III 53a; *Toldo IV 77; *Loomis White Magic 91f.; Jones PMLA XXIII 563; Malone PMLA XLIII 412.—Irish myth: *Cross; Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "voyages"; Jewish: *Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 12, 43, 319; Chinese: Chavannes 500 Contes I 359 No. 94, Graham; Japanese: Coyajee JPASB XXIV 185; N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 316 n. 145d; Eskimo (Greenland): Rasmussen I 87, (Mackenzie Area): Jenness 40. |
| D1118.1 | Magic air-riding basket. Cox Cinderella 323; N. A. Indian (Atsina): Curtis N. A. Indian V 123. |
| D1118 | Magic airships. *BP III 273.—Irish myth: *Cross; India: Thompson-Balys; N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 275 n. 14d. |
| D950.11 | Magic alder tree. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| D1045.1 | Magic ale. Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: MacCulloch Eddic 172. |
| D1402.7.2.2 | Magic all-killing spear-head. (Cf. D1084.1.) Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 418; Africa (Benga): Nassau 178 No. 24, version 1, (Duala): Lederbogen Märchen 138. |
| D1273.6 | Magic alphabet. Jewish: Neuman. |
| D1166 | Magic altar. Jewish: Neuman. |
| B177 | Magic amphibia. |
| D1533 | Magic amphibian vehicle. |
| D1500.1.8 | Magic amulet cures disease. (Cf. D1070.) Jewish: Neuman. |
| D1587.1 | Magic amulet expels person from land. (Cf. D1070.) Africa (Hausa): Mischlich 179ff. No. 24. |
| D1400.1.6 | Magic amulet in mouth conquers enemies. (Cf. D1270.). Eskimo (Greenland): Rasmussen II 175, III 291, (Central Eskimo): Boas RBAE VI 628. |
| D1500.1.33.3 | Magic animal dung. (Cf. D1026.) |
| D1029.3 | Magic animal feet. |
| D1011 | Magic animal head. |
| D1402.3.3 | Magic animal horn kills. (Cf. D1011.1.) Africa (Fang): Trilles 268. |
| D1011.1 | Magic animal horn. (Cf. D992.1.) Cross MPh X 289; Icelandic: Boberg; Greek: Fox 93; Jewish: Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys; Africa (Basuto): Jacottet 160 No. 23, 242 No. 35, (Kaffir): Theal 169f; N. A. Indian (Micmac): Rand 196 No. 25. |
| B192 | Magic animal killed. Irish myth: Cross; N. A. Indian (Seneca): Curtin-Hewitt RBAE XXXII 161 No. 27. |
| D1841.3.1 | Magic animal proof against burning. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| D1841.6.1 | Magic animal proof against drowning. Irish myth: *Cross. |
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