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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 ▲ |
|---|---|
| K787 | Maiden sent to rendezvous with lover, who is captured. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F1041.1.3.1 | Maiden who has been falsely accused apparently dies of sorrow. She revives on being prepared for burial. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| T65.1 | Maiden will not give her troth to two brothers successively. English: Child V 487 s.v. "Maid". |
| T55.6.1 | Maidens (women) request hero to exhibit figure. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| T327.4 | Maidens befoul selves with blood to escape rape. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| Q411.12 | Maidens slain in revenge for deaths of young men. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| K1636 | Maids must rise even earlier. They have killed the cock for waking them too early, but their mistress punishes them. Wienert FFC LVI 64 (ET 279), 116 (ST 262); Halm Aesop No. 10. |
| T484 | Maidservant given to lover's companion as bed-partner. (Cf. T281.) *Schoepperle I 254ff.; Irish myth: *Cross. |
| K2112.2.3 | Maidservant's confederate feigns coming out of woman's bedroom. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| G691.3 | Maimed victims seen at ogre's house. N. A. Indian (California): Gayton and Newman 69. |
| D2062 | Maiming by magic. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| V462.1 | Maintaining silence as ascetic practice. Alphabet Nos. 709, 711, 712, 725; Swiss: Jegerlehner Oberwallis 310 No. 32; Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| J713 | Make use of proper seasons for crops. |
| J1511.1 | Make-believe eating, make-believe work. At table the peasant says, "We will only act as if we were eating." At work the servant replies, "We will only act as if we were working." *Type 1560. |
| K551.4.3 | Making modesty pay. Robber insists on disrobing woman before throwing her from precipice. She pleads to have him turn his face while she disrobes. She pushes him off. (Cf. K1645.) Italian Novella: Rotunda (K551.4.2). |
| J2489.12 | Making money. "Rupees make more rupees." Stupid peasant sticks his sole rupee in hole and loses it. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A1016.5 | Making mountains out of flat earth causes flood. N. Am. Indian (Apache): Goddard PaAM XXIV 28f. |
| M201 | Making of bargains and promises. |
| K1445 | Making sheep laugh and dance. Told to bring in sheep laughing and dancing, trickster cuts off their upper lips and breaks their legs. Meson JAFL XXXV 45. |
| K1013.1 | Making the beard golden: "such a one". A man named "Such a one" persuades an ogre to have his beard gilded. He covers it with tar and leaves the ogre caught to the tar-kettle. The ogre with his tar-kettle wanders about and asks everyone, "Have you seen such a one?" *Type 1138. |
| K1012.1 | Making the dupe strong—by castration. *Types 153, 1133. |
| K1012.2 | Making the dupe strong—by scalding. *Type 1134. |
| K1012 | Making the dupe strong. The false doctor injures him. |
| A853 | Making the earth larger. Gradually extended during creation. See references to A812 in which this idea is always involved.—Siberian: Holmberg Siberian 317.—Oceanic: Dixon 29; India: Thompson-Balys.—N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 279 n. 30. |
| A852 | Making the earth smaller. Earth made too large. God learns from devil by trickery how to make it smaller.—*Dh I 3—89 passim, 127ff. |
| K1013.2.1 | Making wife beautiful by burning her. S. A. Indian (Chiriguano): Métraux RMLP XXXIII 175; Africa (Cameroon): Rosenhuber 79. |
| A112.2 | Male and female creators beget gods. Japanese: Anesaki 223. |
| A12.1 | Male and female creators. Japanese: Anesaki 222; Hawaii: Henry Ancient Tahiti 345. |
| A918 | Male and female waters. Jewish: Neuman. |
| T577.1 | Male embryo transformed in womb to female. Jewish: Neuman. |
| A183.1 | Male god invoked in east; female in west. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 12. |
| B754.4 | Male rabbit bears young. Female rabbit escaped Noah on ark and drowned.—Nouvelles Récréations No. 66. |
| A227.1 | Male sun-god while ascending; female while setting. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 12, chap. 2 passim. |
| A504 | Male virgin demigod. Tuamotu: Stimson MS (z-G. 3/1301). |
| G207 | Male witch. North Carolina: Brown Collection I 648. |
| F451.5.2 | Malevolent dwarf. *Type 301; BP II 301ff.; Icelandic: MacCulloch Eddic 269f., *Boberg; Danish: Kristensen Danske Sagn I (1892) 393ff., (1928) 249ff.; German: Bindewald 87. |
| F369 | Malevolent fairies—miscellaneous. |
| F460.4.4 | Malevolent mountain-men. |
| F360 | Malevolent or destructive fairies (= pixies). Saintyves Perrault 83ff.; Irish: *Cross, O'Suilleabhain 62, Beal XXI 324; Icelandic: Boberg, Papua: Ker 73. |
| F360.0.1 | Malevolent or hostile beings in otherworld. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| E290 | Malevolent return from the dead—miscellaneous. |
| E200 | Malevolent return from the dead. *Fb "spøgelse" III 520b; *Carrington and Nandor Haunted People (New York, 1951); English: Child IV 416, V 303b; U.S. (New York State): *L. C. Jones JAFL LVII 237ff., New York History XXIV 177ff., Spooks of the Valley (Boston, 1948); (Pennsylvania): Balys MWF II 47—52; Icelandic: *Boberg; Norwegian: *Solheim Register 17; India: Thompson-Balys; Easter Island: Métraux Ethnology 316; Eskimo (Greenland): Rasmussen III 64. |
| E279 | Malevolent revenants—miscellaneous. |
| F420.5.2 | Malevolent water-spirits. Icelandic: Grettis Saga ch. 65—66 in RSB VI (1897), Boberg. |
| F456.1.2.1 | Malicious actions of knockers. |
| F482.5.5 | Malicious or troublesome actions of brownies. England, Scotland, Wales: *Baughman. |
| H916.1.1 | Malicious wife reports that her husband is a famous doctor: he is commanded to cure the princess. *Crane Vitry 231f. No. 237; *Bolte Zs. f. Vksk. XXVI 89 n. 1; Herbert III 19; Japanese: Ikeda. |
| S365.1 | Maltreated children transformed to doves. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| S365 | Maltreated children transformed. (Cf. D642.) |
| D2074.1.1 | Mammals magically called. |
| Q411.0.1.2 | Man (fairy) kills wife's lover. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| W12.1 | Man (king) prefers death to loss of reputation for hospitality. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| C420.1 | Man (woman) persuaded to reveal fatal secret. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| C926 | Man (woman) vanishes on breaking of tabu. Calif Indian: Gayton and Newman 100; Eskimo (Greenland): Rasmussen III 147. |
| R12.2 | Man abducted by pirates. French Canadian: Sister Marie Ursule; Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| K1272 | Man abed with his wife is frightened away by an intruder who steals his clothes. *Type 1360A. |
| F667.2 | Man able to strike every arrow with his sword and reduce it to splinters. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| N681.3.1 | Man about to consummate marriage with own mother; accidentally prevented. Italian Novella: Rotunda; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| J1269.2 | Man absents self from church because he does not like to hear people slandered. *Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 797. |
| N332.1 | Man accidentally fed bread which his father has poisoned. The wicked man puts poison in the bread he gives a beggar. The beggar gives his loaf to the son. Type 837; *De Vries Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsche Taal- en Letterkunde XLVII 63ff.; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| N333.2 | Man accidentally killed by bear trying to chase away flies. *Chauvin II 118 Nos. 99, 100; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K2116.2.2 | Man accused of having starved woman to death and taken treasure. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| K1842.1 | Man acts as statue of saint in order to enter convent. Spanish: Boggs FFC XC 145 No. 1787B*. |
| J1785.4.1 | Man addresses colt: "Abide, Satan! I am a righteous man and a psalm singer." England: Baughman. |
| F13 | Man admitted into heaven but must not find fault. *Type 801; BP III 297. |
| Q172.3 | Man admitted to heaven as reward for penance. (Cf. Q520.) *Type 756B; *BP III 463; **Andrejev FFC LXIX 154; English: Wells 114 (Sir Isumbras); Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| Q172.7 | Man admitted to heaven for remitting tribute. (Cf. Q42.7.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q172.2 | Man admitted to heaven for single act of charity. Herbert III 328 No. 9; Irish: Beal XXI 330; Spanish: Keller, Espinosa Jr. No. 182; Jewish: Neuman. |
| Q565 | Man admitted to neither heaven nor hell. He has tricked the devil. *Type 330; *BP II 149ff., 163ff.; Fb "helvede" I 589a, "himmerige" I 611a; Irish: Beal XXI 329, O'Suilleabhain 90; U.S.: *Baughman; Spanish: Espinosa Jr. Nos. 8, 210, 213; American Negro (Georgia): Harris Remus 156 No. 32. |
| E181.1.1 | Man advised how to resuscitate his mother: break waternuts on her head: she would revive and live one year for each nut broken. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| J247.1 | Man advised to choose good poor man for his daughter's husband rather than rich man. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| K558 | Man allowed to pick out tree to be hanged on. Cannot find one. *Crane Vitry 161 No. 62; *Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 283; Krappe Bulletin Hispanique XXXIX 25; U.S., England: Baughman; Swiss: Jegerlehner Oberwallis 324 No. 161; Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| K311.6.2 | Man allows himself to be carried off by monkeys, who mistake him for cow: steals their magic cups. Chinese: Graham. |
| B855 | Man and bear in the rick of hay. The bear, persecuted by wolves, runs onto the hay-rick where the man was hidden, and defends himself from the wolves with bunches of hay.—Lithuanian: Balys Index No. *167. |
| F1083.2 | Man and his camels rise into air. Jewish: Neuman. |
| H1588.2 | Man and king compete by letting their domestic animals fight. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A2250.1.1 | Man and tiger in contest: winner to live in town. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| R219.2 | Man and wife escape from land of dead upon a vine. (Cf. E481.) Philippine (Tinguian): Cole 185. |
| K629.1.1 | Man and woman escape by sending the she-bear to bring the woman's "forgotten" comb. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T317.5 | Man and woman in chaste love for twenty-five years. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K2095.1 | Man announces finding lost jewel, but so softly that no one hears. He thus has clear conscience. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1971.5.1 | Man as God behind the tree forces the girl to admit having an illegitimate child. Or prophesies himself as father so as to marry the girl. Type 1380**; Russian: Andrejev No. 1380**. |
| A189.1.1 | Man as helper of thundergod. Lithuanian, Latvian, Livonian, Estonian, Ukrainian, Polish, and Rumanian: *Balys Tautosakos Darbai VI 53—83, 107f.; Lithuanian: Balys Index No. *1147A; Prussian: Plenzat 60. |
| A1216 | Man as offspring of creator. Greek: Fox 11.—India: Thompson-Balys; Indonesian: Dixon 156, 167, Voorhoeve Overzicht 64. |
| F531.6.16.3 | Man as servant of giant. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| H599.4 | Man asked to kill thousands, press hundreds beneath his arm, etc. (To shave his head, put some hairs under his arm, etc.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K832.6 | Man asked to look at birds: pulled into pool. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| J551.4 | Man asked to tell truth says that his host, his hostess, and the cat have but three eyes between them. He is driven off for his truth telling. Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 3. |
| J1309.1 | Man asks naked Indian if he is not cold. Indian asks if man's face is cold. Man replies that it is not. Indian replies: "Me all face!" U.S.: *Baughman. |
| K558.2 | Man asks to be beheaded standing in tank of water. He ducks and executioners kill each other. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A1281.2 | Man at first covered with hair. Lithuanian: Balys Legends No. 34; Siberian: Holmberg Siberian 383. |
| A1281.3 | Man at first naked. Irish myth: Cross; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A1316.0.1 | Man at first with two faces, separated at birth of first woman. Jewish: Neuman. |
| E261.3 | Man attacked on Christmas night by dancing ghosts. Finnish: Swedish Wessman 6 No. 46. |
| B335.1 | Man attempts to kill faithful serpent at wife's instigation. Loses everything.—*Krappe Bulletin Hispanique XXXIX 20 No. 73.—*Ward III 208; *Oesterley Gesta Romanorum No. 141; *Warnke Die Quellen des Esope der Marie de France 221. |
| F1038.1 | Man attends devil's school to learn witchcraft, has no shadow afterward. Scotland: Baughman. |
| J1866.1 | Man avenges brother's death by wholesale slaughter of wild pigs. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| J1866 | Man avenges self on animals by wholesale slaughter. |
| J1261.1.3 | Man barks his shins on dark night. "By the great bugaboo! If I was the Almighty and had a moon, I'd hang it out on a night like this." U.S.: Baughman. |
| J1511.2.1 | Man bathing rich man uses sand instead of sandalwood: "Consider the sand of the Ganges to be sandalwood." When man asks for his fee, other takes a frog and gives it to him: "Know that the frog of the Ganges is a cow." India: Thompson-Balys. |
| J1863.1 | Man beats calves because the bull has butted him over the fence. England: Baughman. |
| J1867.1 | Man beats his foot for slipping. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| W154.20 | Man beats people bearing him gifts. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| T211.5 | Man becomes a hermit after his wife's death. *Dickson 264 n. 85. |
| B648 | Man becomes deer and marries deer. N. A. Indian: Thompson Tales 348 n. 252. |
| V472.1 | Man becomes hermit when he realizes selfishness of his beloved's love. (Cf. T93.2.) Heptameron No. 24. |
| H171.4.1 | Man before whom oxen stop chosen king. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| H171.4 | Man before whom riderless car stops chosen king. *Penzer V 175ff. |
| V432 | Man beggars self by charity. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| Q421.2 | Man beheaded in place where he turned his back on saint. (Cf. Q227.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| W154.17 | Man beheads rescuer for leaving him so long in pain. Irish myth: Cross. |
| K1971 | Man behind statue (tree) speaks and pretends to be God (spirit). *Type 1380; von der Hagen II 141f. No. 29; Zs. f. Vksk. XXXIX 215; Hdwb. d. Märchens I 239; *Taylor MPh XV 227 n. 1; *BP III 120ff.; *Chauvin II 91 No. 34.—India: *Thompson-Balys; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 659; Indonesia: DeVries's list No. 272, Coster-Wijsman 25 Nos. 3, 4, 5; Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 431, 437; West Indies: Flowers 549—552. |
| K1971.2 | Man behind the tree threatens his debtor. The latter thinks God is calling and repays the debt. Type 1575*; *Wesselski Hodscha Nasreddin II 203 No. 403; Russian: Andrejev No. 1575*. |
| V230.1 | Man beholds angels. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| J2311.1.1 | Man believes he is to die when he breaks wind. Lies down for dead. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| J2311.1.4 | Man believes he will die when he gets a scarlet thread on his coat. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| J2311.1.3 | Man believes, he will die when water falls on his head. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| M211.3 | Man bequeaths soul to devil. U.S.: Baughman; Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K940.1.1 | Man betrayed into eating his own children and setting the village on fire. (Cf. K941.2, K944.) Indonesia: DeVries's list No. 56. |
| K940.1 | Man betrayed into eating his own children. |
| K940.2 | Man betrayed into killing his wife or grandmother. *Type 1535, BP II 3ff. |
| F302.4.4 | Man binds fairy and forces her to marry him. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| J11.1 | Man bitten by snake fears snake-like rope. Jewish: Neuman. |
| J142.2 | Man blames master for not correcting him in youth. Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 315. |
| K2356.1 | Man blinded by throwing dust in his eyes: he is robbed. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| N395 | Man blinded trying to heal girl. Powders blow into his one good eye. Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| S73.3 | Man blinds brother. (Cf. S165.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q582.5 | Man boasts he fears saint no more than hornless sheep; killed by hornless sheep. (Cf. Q333.1.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| A1245.5 | Man born from mountains. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F342.2 | Man borrows money from fairy (dwarf, devil). When the man brings the money back, he learns that the fairy was killed by thunder. He keeps the money. German, Swedish, Finnish-Swedish, Estonian, Livonian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Ukrainian, Kashubish, and Wendish: Balys Tautosakos Darbai VI 163—195. |
| J1174.2.1 | Man breaks promise to sleep chastely with woman. Decision: deceived fiance is to sleep with seducer's wife, if he ever marries. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| F911.5.1 | Man builds boat and sails about in giant's belly. Finnish: Kalevala rune 17. |
| R212.1.1 | Man buried alive escapes from tomb when thief tries to rob it. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| R212.2 | Man buried alive with beloved escapes, as thieves break open the tomb. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| R212.1 | Man buried alive with king escapes from the tomb. Follows noise made by sea animal and finds way out to sea. Chauvin VII 19 No. 373D n. 3. |
| V61.3.0.3 | Man buried upright beneath kitchen stairway in order that he may watch his family. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| K1349.7 | Man burns down own neighboring house to gain access to bedroom of beloved. Heptameron No. 26. |
| J163.1 | Man buys a pennyworth of wit. Nouvelles de Sens No. 6; English: Wells 179 (A Peniworth of Witte); West Indies: Flowers 474. |
| D621.1.1 | Man by day; animal by night. *Taylor MPh XVII 59 n. 8.—Icelandic: Boberg; Finnish: Aarne FFC XXXIII 45 No. 71; Estonian: Aarne FFC XXV 130 No. 71; Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 135; Eskimo (Mackenzie Area): Jenness 52. |
| E601.1 | Man by magic sees his wives in their former incarnations as dog and sow. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| J817.1 | Man called a rogue by a nobleman makes a joke of the insult. He thus avoids trouble. Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 476. |
| B383 | Man called by animal for help to his cubs in danger. *Loomis White Magic 59. |
| K361.1.1 | Man calling self "her husband" abducts child. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K527.5 | Man calls animal by his son's name so he can sacrifice it instead of his son. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| X133 | Man calls convention of all long noses. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| C12.5.5 | Man calls on devil to descend chimney when angry at wife. The devil comes, makes pudding black. U.S.: Baughman. |
| J1263.4.2 | Man calls Saints Peter and Paul fools for enduring poverty if rich abbots can reach heaven, too. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| D511.1 | Man calls wife "my swallow"; she becomes swallow. (Cf. A1917.)—Dh III 414. |
| Z311.4 | Man can be injured only in armpits. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F691 | Man can breathe nine days under water. *Ullrich Archiv für Literaturgeschichte XIV 69ff.; Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F641.2 | Man can hear ant leave nest fifty miles away. Welsh: MacCulloch Celtic 190. |
| F641.1 | Man can hear grass (wool) grow. *Type 513; Hdwb. d. Märchens I 432a n. 55; *BP II 95ff.; *Fb "høre" I 755b, IV 238b;—Icelandic: Boberg; Irish: Hyde Beside the Fire (London 1890) 23; Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "avoine". |
| F641.3 | Man can hear one sleeping by putting ear to ground. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| F673 | Man can keep together feathers in great wind. *Type 654; *Wesselski Märchen 213 No. 20. |
| F679.2 | Man can lengthen swords by twirling them between his fingers. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F681.6.1 | Man can outstrip wild mare, hold her, and bridle her. Jewish: Neuman. |
| F642.5 | Man can see celestial nymphs dancing in divine world. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F682 | Man can stand all day on one foot. Irish myth: Cross; Welsh: MacCulloch Celtic 190. |
| F679.4 | Man can stand on barrel rolling down hill. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F668.3 | Man can transplant feather from one bird to another. Buriat: Holmberg Siberian 428. |
| F679.3 | Man can walk (stand) on weapon edge (point) without injury. Can catch sharp edges without being cut. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| N101.3 | Man cannot die: snake will not bite him though it is provoked by him. (Cf. N146.) Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 1030. |
| Q589.1.0.1 | Man cannot drive cow by himself which he refused to share. (Cf. Q272.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| J2316.1 | Man cannot recognize his own house which has been turned into a mansion by emperor. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| N251.1 | Man captured by pirates is maimed, crippled, blinded. He is patient through it all. Finally he is elected ruler by his dead master's subjects. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| F405.13 | Man captures spirit by hiding his stick and leg-wrappers of copper. When spirit gets them back by trickery he disappears. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1268 | Man carried and dropped in mid-stream. *Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 582; N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 340 n. 227. |
| B552 | Man carried by bird. See all references in B542.1. and B542.1.1. —Chauvin V 230 No. 130, VII 12; *Reinhard PMLA XXXVIII 433 nn. 24, 26.—Greek: Frazer Apollodorus II 37 n. 4 (Ganymede); Jewish: Neuman*, Bin Gorion Born Judas I 228; Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "nid"; Irish myth: Cross, Saints' legend (Irish): Plummer cxlvi.—Missouri-French: Carrière.—German New Guinea: Dixon 141f. India: *Thompson-Balys; Japanese: Ikeda; Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 38f.; Africa: Stanley 83, (Boloki): Weeks 202f., (Upoto): Einstein 138, (Pangwe): Tessman 370, (Fang): ibid. 160. |
| B557.3 | Man carried by deer. Irish myth: Cross; *Loomis White Magic 61; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| B552.2 | Man carried by peacock. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B559.1 | Man carried by toad. Chinese: Graham. |
| K1342.0.1 | Man carried into woman's room hidden in basket. (Cf. K1343.1.) *Spargo Virgil the Necromancer 139, 370 n. 7; English: Wells 140 (Floris and Blauncheflur); Icelandic: Boberg. |
| R219.1 | Man carried off on bed escapes by grasping tree limbs as he passes under tree. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| B557.1 | Man carried on goat's horns. (Goat is transformed man.)—German: Grimm No. 163. |
| S264.1.1 | Man carried on top of mast ready to be sacrificed to storm spirit. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| N814.1 | Man carried through air by angel. Icelandic: Boberg; Jewish: bin Gorion Born Judas I 117, 374. |
| F631.6.2 | Man carries a beam eighteen feet in length and cuts path through jungle at same time. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F1016 | Man carries extraordinary luggage. |
| E322.5 | Man carries his dead wife with him. *Jellinek Zs. f. Vksk. XIV 323f. |
| F511.0.4 | Man carries his head under his arm. Loomis White Magic 54, 93, 125; Irish myth: *Cross; Italian Novella: Rotunda (F1041.14); Africa (Kaffir): Theal 51. |
| J2132.1 | Man catches buffalo by rope and is dragged to death. Africa (Ekoi): Talbot 155 No. 1. |
| X1154.1.1 | Man catches fish with larger fish inside. U.S.: *Baughman. |
| K1317.4 | Man caught running by guards has to tell his destination. One of the guards substitutes for him with his sweetheart. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| D2092 | Man caused to sink into mud. Finnish: Kalevala rune 3. |
| K825.3 | Man causes victim to bite his tongue off. U.S.: Baughman. |
| K11.0.1 | Man challenges devil to race. Cheats him. |
| X584.1 | Man chased by bear to camp claims that he brought it in thus since he did not want to carry it. (Cf. K1741.) U.S.: *Baughman. |
| A189.3 | Man cheats a god in throwing dice. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K219.5 | Man cheats devil by giving him sole instead of soul. (Cf. E459.1.) U.S.: *Baughman. |
| K235.3 | Man cheats devil of reward: to have man if he gets him at first grasp. Man holds cat which flies in devil's face. (Cf. K210.) French: Sébillot France IV 182. |
| A1276 | Man chosen as best gift by primeval women. In beginning only women on earth. Deity kills one by accident and promises anything as reparation. They choose man.—Ekoi: Talbot 98. |
| N178.2 | Man chosen for execution because he is fat. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| T252.4.1 | Man claims prize (boots) as ruler of his house, but is afraid to carry the boots lest he soil his clean shirt and anger his wife. Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 753; Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| F1071.2.1 | Man clears river of enormous width in one leap. Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 102. |
| K157.1 | Man collects toll fraudulently, stamps "Brass Gate" on receipts he gives. People think this is some Government phrase. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| H1573.1.4 | Man commanded by saint to leap into fiery furnace: unharmed. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C12.4 | Man commends wife to devil. Devil takes the charge seriously and guards woman's chastity during husband's absence.—*Type 1352; *Wesseiski Märchen 193. |
| J883.1 | Man compelled to live on peas takes comfort when he sees a man once rich eating the hulls. Chauvin II 150 No. 10; Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| D1472.1.22.1 | Man compels food to enter magic sack. Spanish: Boggs FFC XC Type 330. |
| U21.3 | Man complains of injustice of gods' wrecking ship because of one man's sin. He then kills whole swarm of ants because one has stung him. Wienert FFC LVI 77 (ET 429), 103 (ST 161); Halm No. 118; Irish: O'Suilleabhain 11, Beal XXI 305. |
| P511.2 | Man condemned to lose his eye is allowed to choose the instrument. Herbert III 71; Hervieux IV 310 No. 117; Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| R45.1 | Man confined under roots of tree. N. A. Indian (Seneca): CurtinHewitt RBAE XXXII 705 No. 135. |
| V39.1 | Man considering self unworthy to receive host given it by God himself. Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 687. |
| W34.1 | Man constrained to flee with leader's fiancée resists her blandishments. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| X12.1 | Man continually interrupted from eating answers in rhymed monosyllables. Nouvelles Récréations. |
| M219.2.3 | Man contracted to the devil responds to call by voice: "The hour has come but not the man." England, Scotland: *Baughman. |
| K282.1 | Man contracts for load of hay on the road (without making any payment), orders the seller to deliver it at a certain inn. He then goes to the inn, sells the hay to the innkeeper, and pockets the money. The owner of the hay delivers it at the inn, tries to collect at the inn; the trickster absconds. England: Baughman. |
| A725 | Man controls rising and setting of sun. Irish myth: Cross; Jewish: *Neuman. |
| E545.13 | Man converses with dead. Jewish: Neuman. |
| V311.1 | Man converted to belief in future life on deathbed. Feels sure nevertheless that nothing will come of it. Wesselski Bebel I 182 No. 32. |
| V416.1 | Man convicted of cheating at his bookkeeping is excused when it is learned that he has given the money to the poor. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| K548.2 | Man convinces robbers that house is fully occupied by beating drums all over the house; they flee. Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 574. |
| J1786.1 | Man costumed as demon thought to be devil; thieves flee. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| F521.1 | Man covered with hair like animal. *Williams 17ff.; Gaster Oldest Stories 43; Irish myth: *Cross; Welsh: MacCulloch Celtic 189; India: Thompson-Balys; Persian: Carnoy 298. |
| F558 | Man covered with horn. Irish myth: *Cross; Norse: Panzer Sigfrid 66. |
| K1394 | Man coveting his friend's wife causes her to leave her husband. Friend mutually agree to beat wives. Trickster only pretends to do so while other beats his and angers her. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| X1723.3.1 | Man crawls into body of animal (after killing it) to escape cold. The animal freezes back together; man must eat his way out. U.S.: *Baughman. |
| A1226 | Man created after series of unsuccessful experiments. Greek: *Grote I 62; Quiché: Alexander Lat. Am. 163ff.; Cakchiquel: ibid. 180; Banks Is.: Beckwith Myth 61. |
| A1291.1 | Man created by angels. Jewish: Neuman. |
| A1218 | Man created by co-operation of the gods. *BP III 54.—Icel.: De la Saussaye 263, MacCulloch Eddic 327; Lithuanian: Balys Legends No. 39; Jewish: Neuman; Greek: Fox 15. |
| A1291 | Man created by supernatural creature, not deity. |
| A1263.7 | Man created from animal bone. Jewish: Neuman; Eskimo (Cape York): Rasmussen III 51. |
| A1263.5 | Man created from animal horns that bloomed and bore him as fruit. Chinese: Graham. |
| A1268 | Man created from ashes (cinders). India: Thompson-Balys; Gilbert Is. (Micronesia): Dixon 252; Aztec: Alexander Lat. Am. 85. |
| A1263.1.1 | Man created from blood-clot. Chatham Is., Samoan, Melanesian: Dixon 30; Admiralty Is., Polynesian, Indonesian, Melanesian, New Britain: *ibid. 109 n. 17. |
| A1263.1 | Man created from blood. Jewish: Neuman. |
| A1263.6 | Man created from culture hero's genitals. Koryak: Jochelson JE VI 139, 165, 168, 178, 218. |
| A1261.2 | Man created from egg formed from sea-foam. Minahassa (Celebes): Dixon 157. |
| A1263.2 | Man created from fingernail. Yuracare (West Brazil): Alexander Lat. Am. 314. |
| A1266 | Man created from food. |
| A1263 | Man created from part of body. |
| A1263.3 | Man created from rubbings of skin. India: Thompson-Balys; Zuсi: Parsons JAFL XXIX 394 n. 1. |
| A1261.1 | Man created from sea-foam. *Dh I 18f., cf. 23. |
| A1254 | Man created from seeds. Burmese: Scott Indo-Chin. 281; Eskimo (Bering Strait): Nelson RBAE XVIII 450; Isthmian tribes (Panama): Alexander Lat. Am. 193; S. Am. Indian (Cashinawa): Métraux BBAE CXLIII (3) 684. |
| A1263.4 | Man created from spittle of holy person. *Fb "spytte" III 515b. |
| A1245 | Man created from stones. Hdwb. d. Abergl. I 463.—Greek: *Frazer Apollodorus I 55 n. 2; Fox 11.—Nauru (Pleasant Is.): Dixon 252; Tongan, Samoan, Melanesian: ibid. 158; Indonesian: Kruyt Het Animisme 469.—Central American: Van Cappelle Mythen en Sagen uit West Indië 19; S. Am. Indian (Inca): Rowe BBAE CXLIII (2) 315, (Paressi): Métraux ibid. (3) 359. |
| A1262.1 | Man created from sweat, heat, and breath. Irish myth: Cross. |
| A1262 | Man created from sweat. Icel.: De la Saussaye 342. |
| A1212 | Man created in creator's image. Jewish: *Neuman; Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 43. |
| A1201 | Man created to rule the earth. Africa (Fang): Trilles 131. |
| A1275.5 | Man creates a woman from melted butter, sour milk, sour cream and curds offered on the waters. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F1041.21.4 | Man cries at hearing of friend's death. Þiðriks saga II 358. |
| J246.1 | Man criticizes the devil because his deeds are not fair. Devil says that they are strong nevertheless. Hence strong speakers rather than clever are to be preferred. Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 609. |
| X1787 | Man cures rheumatism: puts mosquito milk in a cat's horn, stirs it with duck's crotch. U.S.: Baughman. |
| C12.5.2 | Man curses and devil fulfills his wish: takes the stone away. Lithuanian: Balys Legends Nos. 497ff. |
| Q551.3.4.2 | Man curses wind; he is turned to stone, along with sack from which he is sowing. (Cf. Q221.) England: *Baughman. |
| H591.3 | Man cuts hooks for the revenge of his father (Hamlet). Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| F511.0.4.1 | Man cuts off own head and throws it against enemy. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| X1726.2 | Man cuts off own head, picks it up and replaces it. (First ed. X927.1.) (Cf. E783.) Type 852; BP II 514; Missouri French: Carrière. |
| X1726 | Man cuts off own head. |
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