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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
M
Ordaining the Future
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Chance and Fate
P
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 ▲ |
|---|---|
| J1114.1 | Man deceived by his hireling. Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 1855*. |
| J674.2 | Man decides to make himself strong in peaceful times rather than wait until attacked. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| J1369.1 | Man decides to spend 100 florins to become known. Friend: "You had better spend 200 so as to not be found out." Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| W154.26 | Man demands ever larger gifts. |
| W185.1 | Man demonstrates his violence of temper. He overhears a man tell of his temper. In anger he enters and demands to know when he has ever lost his temper. Penzer V 90f. |
| F302.5.0.1 | Man deserts wife for fairy. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| J1076.1 | Man desirous of traveling sent six miles to deliver a letter. Told that he has now seen the world, for he will never see more than valleys, hills, fields, meadows, water, streets, cities, and villages. Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 590. |
| T81.1 | Man dies at bedside of dying sweetheart. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| V86.1.3 | Man dies because he has killed a man with the sign of the cross on his forehead. Köhler-Bolte I 382. |
| Q582.4 | Man dies from drop of blood of pet hound he has killed. (Cf. Q211.6.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| F1041.1.11.4 | Man dies from frog's bite, thinking it snakebite. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F1041.1.3.8 | Man dies from grieving over mother's death. Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles No. 77; Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q591.3 | Man dies from pretended illness. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F1041.1.3.5 | Man dies on learning of wife's adultery. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| F1041.1.7 | Man dies when he learns storm is magic. Irish myth: Cross. |
| T81.4 | Man dies when the bride who had been denied him kisses him. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| E765.4.7 | Man dies when tortoise shell is dug up. Tonga: Gifford 52. |
| N534.7 | Man digging stones in the pavement finds a chest of treasure. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| W111.5.12 | Man digs three potatoes in one day: one dug, one being dug, one about to be dug. U.S.: Baughman. |
| D2188.2.1 | Man disappears, leaving only his ring. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| N399.3 | Man discovers he is married to wer-tiger. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| G250.1 | Man discovers his wife is a witch. Papua: Ker 68. |
| T333.3 | Man disfigures his face to remove temptation. Alphabet No. 659; Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| K2358 | Man disguised as animal sent among enemy that first blood be spilled by other side. Irish myth: Cross. |
| K1823.4 | Man disguised as bear. Jewish: Neuman. |
| K1823.2 | Man disguised as elephant. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1323 | Man disguised as gardener enters convent and seduces nuns. (Cf. K1321.4.) Boccaccio Decameron III No. 1 (Lee 59); Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| K1349.1.4 | Man disguised as groom enters mistress's room. Heptameron No. 26. |
| K1823.3 | Man disguised as lamb. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1321.1.1 | Man disguised as pregnant woman admitted to girl's bed. Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| K1321.2 | Man disguised as woman abducts princess. *Type 516; *BP I 46; Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| K1321.1 | Man disguised as woman admitted to women's quarters: seduction. *Types 516, 1542; Rösch FFC LXXVII 109; *Fischer-Bolte 215; *Krappe Balor 12 n. 42; Penzer I 47n., 48n.; Herrmann Saxo II 239, 493, 641; Italian Novella: *Rotunda; Greek: Frazer Apollodorus II 73 n. 2 (Achilles); India: *Thompson-Balys, Ruben FFC CXXXIII 41. |
| K1321.3.1 | Man disguised as woman beguiles hostile chief. Infatuates him and then kills him in drunken sleep. *Wesselski Archiv Orientální II 430; Icelandic: MacCulloch Eddic 88; India: Thompson-Balys; Japanese: Anesaki 303f. |
| K1343.2 | Man disguised as woman carried into princess's room: marries her. (Cf. K1321.1.) Korean: Zong in-Sob 126 No. 60. |
| K1321.3 | Man disguised as woman courted (married) by another man. Spanish: Boggs FFC XC 104 No. 857; India: *Thompson-Balys; Eskimo (West Hudson Bay): Boas BAM XV 248; N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 304 n. 109n. |
| K1823 | Man disguises as animal. |
| K1823.1 | Man disguises as tortoise. East Africa: Woodward FL XXXVI 182ff. No. 2. |
| W154.1 | Man dismissed after years of service with a pittance. *Type 592; BP II 490ff. |
| J1054 | Man disregards mother's warning and is punished. French Canadian: Sister Marie Ursule. |
| J1055 | Man disregards priest's warning and is punished. French Canadian: Sister Marie Ursule. |
| J652.3 | Man disregards priest's warning that he will seduce his wife. Adultery committed. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| W11.3 | Man divides money into three parts: (1) for the poor, (2) for pilgrims, (3) for himself and family. Scala Celi 164a No. 921. |
| J1074.2 | Man does not court ugly woman: she might say yes. Therefore he keeps silent. Spanish: Childers. |
| J2012.5 | Man does not know himself from another identically clad. *Wesselski Hodscha Nasreddin I 214 No. 43. |
| J2016 | Man does not recognize his name when it is called: he is accustomed to hear his nickname. (Cf. K1984.3.) U.S.: Baughman. |
| J1791.7 | Man does not recognize his own reflection in the water. *Wesselski Hodscha Nasreddin I 276 No. 311; Penzer VI 86f.; India: Thompson-Balys; Indonesia: DeVries's list No. 17; Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 441; American Negro: Harris Remus 68 No. 14. |
| K1343.1 | Man drawn up into female apartments in basket. (Cf. K1342.0.1.) *Spargo Virgil the Necromancer 136ff., 368ff.; Penzer V 147 n. 1; Spanish Exempla: Keller; Italian Novella: Rotunda; India: Thompson-Balys; all references to K1211. |
| K1343 | Man drawn up into female apartments on rope. *Spargo Virgil the Necromancer 139, 369 n. 6; Penzer V 24. |
| X953.1 | Man draws sixty (300) carts of wood. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| N531.5 | Man dreams of large jars full of wealth, which he can get if he will sacrifice his wife for the getting. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| X31.1 | Man dreams that he is rich. Finds cat's excrements. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K1064 | Man dupes animals into turning their tongues upside down. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| V411.5.1 | Man earns as much as he gave away for charity in his former life. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| N332.6 | Man eats food which is mysteriously poisoned. S. A. Indian (Chiriguano): Métraux RMLP XXXIII 177; Jewish: *Neuman; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 511. |
| G74 | Man eats friend. Eskimo (Greenland): Rink 121. |
| K361.3 | Man eats up food given him by tiger as bait for deer. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T251.0.1 | Man ejected from heaven for folly of marrying twice. Spanish: Boggs FFC XC 126 No. 1410. |
| K2021.3 | Man embraces other to see if he carries gold in his girdle. Jewish: Neuman. |
| D1819.4.1 | Man enabled to read baptismal service by washing in holy water. Irish myth: Cross. |
| G303.16.2.3.1 | Man escapes devils by reading Lord's blessing. Finnish-Swedish: Wessman 9 No. 74. |
| X1133.2 | Man escapes from bear by running for a long time, from summer to winter. Bear chases man in July; he finally crosses a river on the ice. The bear falls in or stops following (in December). U.S.: *Baughman. |
| X1133.4 | Man escapes from bee's nest on bear's tail. (First ed. X911.2.) Type 1900. |
| W193.1 | Man extorts large price for betel leaf from addict. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| W154.24 | Man fails to feed his animal rescuer. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| X1731.2.1 | Man falls and is buried in earth: goes for spade and digs self out. (First ed. X917.) *Type 1882; Köhler-Bolte I 323; Gardner JAFL XXVII 305; U.S.: *Baughman. |
| N383 | Man falls dead from sudden realization. |
| N383.1 | Man falls dead when he realizes that he has been riding over frozen sea. *Bolte Zs. f. Vksk. XVIII 91. |
| N383.2 | Man falls dead when he realizes that he has eaten bread from flour used for abscess plaster. Chauvin VIII 38 No. 6; Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| Q582.9 | Man falls dead when he sees his sons whom he has reared in sin all killed. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| X1731.2 | Man falls from height, goes into solid rock up to knees. Ireland, U.S.: *Baughman. |
| B547.2.1 | Man falls in hole with horse; buzzards gather; he lassoes a number of buzzards, ties them together, frightens them; all fly at once, carry him from hole. (Tall tale.) Cf. Type 1882.—U.S.: Baughman. |
| T16.1 | Man falls in love by the sight of woman's white arms. Icelandic: MacCulloch Eddic 110f. |
| T16.2 | Man falls in love on seeing dead body of beautiful girl. (Cf. T466.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T16 | Man falls in love with woman he sees bathing. Jewish: *Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| N339.1 | Man falls into jar of honey and is drowned. Chases a mouse. Greek: Frazer Apollodorus I 310 n. 2. |
| K1603 | Man falls into sacrificial grave prepared for others. Rich man orders poor people to dig a grave in order to bury all in it as sacrifice to avert famine. But a Christian frees them and promises those who become Christian a living. The rich man himself falls in the grave and dies. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| N624 | Man falls into well and accidentally kills cobra: rewarded. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| N696.1 | Man falls out of tree and frightens tiger away. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| X1737.1 | Man falls through ice, has to swim two miles to come out at an air hole. U.S.: *Baughman. |
| F949.2 | Man falls underground through hole. Chinese: Graham. |
| N347.6 | Man falsely accused commits suicide. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K2114 | Man falsely accused of infidelity. (Cf. K2121.) Icelandic: Boberg; Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| K2116.2 | Man falsely accused of murder. Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| K1787 | Man falsely claims to have killed elephant with his flat hand. Rewarded. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1265 | Man falsely reported insane. No one will believe him. *Wesselski Arlotto II 225 No. 92, Morlini 275; Alphabet No. 770; Spanish Exempla: Keller; Italian Novella: Rotunda; India: Thompson-Balys. Cf. Malvolio in Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night". |
| N213 | Man fated to be rich. Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 828, 931. |
| N101.4 | Man fated to become king becomes so despite fact he breaks his tooth in which his luck resides. (Cf. N113.2.2.) Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 860. |
| K911.2 | Man feigns death to stab brother who comes to grieve. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| K1349.1.5 | Man feigns sick in order to enter room of princess skilled in healing, and woos her for his friend. (Cf. K1818, T51.1.1.) Icelandic: Boberg. |
| K341.2.2.1 | Man feigns sickness in order to go back to steal hidden gold. (Cf. K325.) Chinese: Graham. |
| F1041.16.3 | Man fells wood with sword (dies) when he hears of Crucifixion. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q469.7.1 | Man fettered with the entrails of his own sons as punishment for treachery. (Cf. Q261.) Icelandic: MacCulloch Eddic 146 (Loki). |
| W152.14.1 | Man finds a bunghole lying around loose, has cooper build a barrel around it. U.S.: Baughman. |
| N224 | Man finds treasure he refused as gift. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F1065 | Man fishes up two blind women from a well. Malone PMLA XLIII 405, 416. |
| W111.1.5 | Man floating in river too lazy to drink. His voice is damaged. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| J1864 | Man flogs his shot. On a rainy day when shot will not go a man flogs the shot. It goes and he shoots a deer. Africa (Vai): Ellis 189 No. 4. |
| T254.4 | Man forbids wife to open chest. Loaded crossbow placed in it. She opens it and is killed. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| G91.1 | Man forced to eat dead father's heart goes mad. Irish myth: Cross; Welsh: MacCulloch Celtic 108. |
| G91.1.1 | Man forced to eat dead father's heart struck dumb. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| T251.1.4 | Man forces devil to take back the shrewish wife. Spanish: Boggs FFC XC 41 No. 301. |
| N339.6 | Man forgets to wear magic gown and is killed. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q42.4 | Man frees slave (incognito prince): rewarded when slave becomes king. Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| X1606.2.1 | Man freezes to saddle. Must be thawed out by the stove. (First ed. X924.) Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 746. |
| A1263.1.2 | Man from blood of game animal. S. Am. Indian (Cashinawa): Métraux BBAE CXLIII (3) 684. |
| A1241.4.1 | Man from clay and animal's blood. Africa (Loango): pechuël-Loesche 267. |
| A1211.1 | Man from dirt mixed with creator's blood. Eitrem Opferritus und Voropfer der Griechen und Römer (Skrifter Akad. Oslo 1914 No. 1 426).—Gaster Oldest Stories 69; Babylonian: Spence 81.—New Britain: Dixon 107 (figures drawn on ground and sprinkled with creator's blood). |
| A1255.2 | Man from ears of corn. Navaho: Alexander N. Am. 158. |
| A1211.3 | Man from spittle of creator. Lithuanian: Balys Legends No. 32; Oceanic: Dixon 24. |
| A1255.1 | Man from sugar-cane stalks. Solomon Is., New Britain: Dixon 110. |
| A1211.2 | Man from sweat of creator. Dh I 113; Lithuanian: Balys Legends No. 33.—Persian: Carnoy 293. |
| K832.4 | Man gets bear off guard by telling her to listen for hunters: kills her. Chinese: Graham. |
| K1371.5 | Man gets bridegroom drunk and enjoys the bride. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 424. |
| E167 | Man given ability to return to life if killed. Eskimo (Greenland): Rasmussen II 301. |
| A1421.1 | Man given dominion over beasts. Jewish: Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| A1225.2.1 | Man given hands, feet, mouth and nose by monkey. S. Am. Indian (Cashinawa): Métraux BBAE CXLIII (3) 68. |
| D1720.1 | Man given power of wishing. Fb "ønske" III 1179a; Irish myth: Cross; Italian: Rotunda, Basile Pentamerone I No. 3; India: *Thompson-Balys; Eskimo (Greenland): Rink 453, Holm 25. |
| X53 | Man given ride on a hemp-dresser. Cheremis: Sebeok-Nyerges. |
| J211.1.1 | Man gives all his wealth away, for it is better to die than to give up virtue. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T69.3 | Man gives daughter in return for his release. (Cf. S222.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| J2469.3.1 | Man gives up half property. Slave cut in two. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q589.2 | Man goes forth naked: cursed with nakedness throughout life. (Cf. Q556.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| F302.1 | Man goes to fairyland and marries fairy. Irish myth: *Cross; English: Wells 130ff. (Sir Launfal, Emare); Spanish Exempla: Keller; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| F321.3 | Man goes to fairyland and rescues stolen child. (Cf. F322.2.) Hartland Science 127. |
| F11.3 | Man goes to heaven for limited time. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| F11.2 | Man goes to heaven without dying. (Cf. D1856, F2.) Jewish: *Neuman. |
| M211.1.1 | Man goes to well at midnight on Old Christmas to see water turned into wine. Just as it turns into wine the devil takes him, or injures him. England, U.S.: *Baughman. |
| N221 | Man granted power of winning at cards. Irish: Beal XXI 329, O'Suilleabhain 90; Spanish: Boggs FFC XC 45, 52 Nos. 313, 345, Espinosa II Nos. 122ff., 168—171, Espinosa Jr. Nos. 70—73, 210. |
| K330.1 | Man gulled into giving up his clothes. N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 332 n. 199 (occurs in most versions). |
| W152.2 | Man had rather be burned alive than to share food with a guest. Penzer V 165ff. |
| T251.1.3 | Man had rather remain transformed to mule than to live with his shrewish wife. Spanish: Boggs FFC XC 86 No. 754C*. |
| S182.1 | Man hanged by hair to tree. Cheremis: Sebeok-Nyerges. |
| B275.1.3.1 | Man hangs wolf who has eaten sheep left in his charge. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| T491 | Man has a son not his wife's; wife has a daughter not her husband's. Children become lovers. Irish myth: Cross. |
| S62.2 | Man has bride drowned so that he may marry another. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q556.4 | Man has color of the dead as result of saint's curse for disobedience. (Cf. Q227.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| J571.4.1 | Man has disinterested party punish servant for him lest he himself be unfair in his anger. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| F555.6 | Man has drop of blood on end of each hair. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| D1719.8 | Man has magic servants who plow for him; he swallows them each day and keeps them secret. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| X907 | Man has servant corroborate his lies. Rewards him poorly. Servant exposes him. Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| F1038.2 | Man has witch aid him in reaping contest, the devil to get the hindmost. The devil tries to take the man but gets shadow instead. (Cf. G303.19, K210.) Scotland: Baughman. |
| N347.4 | Man having purchased stolen ornament unwittingly presents it to owner as gift; is thrown into jail as thief. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1271.1.4.1 | Man having seen woman and lover from roof threatens to tell about it; is paid to stop. *Type 1360B; Lappish: Qvigstad Lappiske Eventyr III No. 84. |
| V542 | Man hears voice telling him to leave danger spot in mine. U.S.: *Baughman. |
| X459.1 | Man heeds what he thinks to be call to the ministry. |
| W155.2 | Man helping another across stream drops him when he learns that he has lost his high position. Jaworskij Der Urquell II 195. |
| H586.1 | Man helps traveler and makes riddling remarks. Gives him food, shares his coat in rain, and carries him over stream. Reproaches him with traveling without mother, house, or bridge (nourishment, shelter, or horse). *Köhler-Bolte I 197f.; Nouvelles de Sens No. 3. |
| K1971.14 | Man hidden behind idol in temple tells robbers they will have good booty but should leave half of it in the temple. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1271.1.4.2 | Man hidden in roof (or elsewhere) sees girl and lover: blows horn. They flee and leave him in possession. Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| K1271.1.4 | Man hidden in roof sees girl and lover and falls: they flee and leave him in possession. *Types 1360, 1776; Wesselski Morlini 303 No. 54; Lithuanian: Balys Legends No. 890; Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| N331.2.1 | Man hidden in tree so frightened of lioness he drops his sword and kills her. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| K547.3 | Man hides in hollow log, fires rifle while Indians are sitting on the log, scares them away. U.S.: Baughman. |
| F1034.3.1 | Man hides sister in wound in his thigh to protect her. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| J2215.3 | Man honored above God: the dead hen. A fool finds a dead hen and cooks it and serves it for dinner. When reproached he says "How should it be unclean when God has killed it instead of men?" Wesselski Hodscha Nasreddin I 270 No. 273. |
| N785.1 | Man hunting honey encounters lost maiden, returns her to her parents. Africa (Fang): Tessman 121. |
| F652.1 | Man identifies picker of berries by their scent. Irish myth: Cross. |
| G303.16.19.4.1 | Man imitates cock crowing: devil is deceived. Lithuanian: Balys Legends No. 343. |
| Q558.5 | Man in anger throws stone at the image of the Virgin. Is stricken dead. (Cf. Q222.) Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| X1133.3 | Man in barrel grabs wolf by the tail and is drawn out of danger. (First ed. X911.) *Type 1875; Köhler-Bolte I 410; *Fb "tønde" III 935a, "ræv" III 114a. |
| J883.2 | Man in cold consoles himself thinking of rich men in hell or prison. Herbert III 8; Crane Vitry 179 No. 108. |
| K521.4.1.2 | Man in danger of life dressed by hostess as woman and set to baking. English: Child IV 151ff. |
| K521.4.1.3 | Man in danger of life dressed by hostess as woman and set to grinding corn. Icelandic: Hrуmundar saga Greipssonar 337, Boberg. |
| K521.4.1.4 | Man in danger of life takes his wife's place in the bed with her night-cap on. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| N545 | Man in despair digging own grave finds treasure. Jewish: bin Gorion Born Judas I 288, 378. |
| N545.1 | Man in despair preparing to hang himself finds treasure in the tree (beam). Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 3623; Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| K611.4 | Man in devils' power makes them believe he will return and is permitted to leave. Deceives them. Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 3303, Legends Nos. 578ff. |
| T251.1.2.2 | Man in hell declares that life there is much better than on earth with his wife. Bargain with the devil: should the latter not be able to endure life with his wife for three years, the man would be released from hell. The devil is the loser. Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 1164B*. |
| X1854 | Man in hollow tree defends himself successfully from leopard and bear. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| N681.3.2 | Man in love with his own sister accidentally learns her identity. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K1342.1.1 | Man in magic hiding box bought by girl's father. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A751.3.1 | Man in moon a frog which has jumped into person's face and remains there. *Köhler-Bolte I 473ff.—N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 291 n. 69. |
| A751.1.3 | Man in moon as punishment for disdainful sacrifice (Cain). Emerson "Medieval Legends of Cain" PMLA XXI 840ff. |
| A751.1.4 | Man in moon banished there for stealing bundle of thorns. Emerson PMLA XXI 840ff. |
| A751.1.1 | Man in moon has punishment for burning brush on Sunday. **Hench The Man in the Moon and his Sticks (SFQ XIV 169).—North Carolina: Brown Collection I 631. |
| A751.8.2 | Man in moon is a woman threshing corn with a dog by her side. India: Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Graham. |
| A751.1 | Man in moon is person thrown or sent there as punishment. *Dh I 254ff.; *ibid. II 242 (Judas); Köhler-Bolte I 114 (Judas), III 597; *Fb "mеne" II 659b.; Kristensen Danske Sagn II (1893) 275ff., (1928) 171; Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 3907; Rumanian: Schullerus FFC LXXVIII 84 No. 4; Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 37f. No. 25; Madison County Virginia (U.S.A.): Hench JAFL XLVIII 384.—Isthmian tribes (Panama): Alexander Lat. Am. 192 (punishment for incest); Yuracare (West Brazil): Alexander ibid. 314. |
| A751.1.2 | Man in moon is put there as punishment for cursing God. U.S.: Baughman. |
| X1851 | Man in moon lets himself down. (First ed. X915.) (Cf. A751.) Fb "mеne" II 660a. |
| W111.5.5 | Man in mud too lazy to take hand extended to help him up. Scala Celi 5a No. 26. |
| F171.6.5 | Man in otherworld kindles fire. It burns out repeatedly while he is gathering more wood. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F171.6.1 | Man in otherworld loaded down with wood. Then more and more put on him. *Type 801; *BP III 302; Irish: O'Suilleabhain 55, Beal XXI 321. |
| A751.2 | Man in the moon a rabbit (hare, other animal). *Werhan Die Sage 65; Fb "mеne" II 659b.—Hindu- Keith 137, Penzer I 109 n. 1, II 82, V 101 n. 2, IX 143, Jataka Index s.v. "moon", Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 675, 1079; India: *Thompson-Balys; Japanese: Anesaki 339.—Aztec: Alexander Lat. Am. 57, 89; S. Am. Indian (Yuracare): Métraux BBAE CXLIII (3) 503 (jaguar). |
| A751.5 | Man in the moon from scratches or paint. S. Am. Indian (Caviсa, Tumupasa): Métraux BBAE CXLIII (3) 448, (Chamacoco): Métraux BBAE CXLIII (1) 366, (Guarani): Métraux BBAE CXLIII (3) 93, (Tembé): Métraux RMLP XXXIII 140, (Toba): Métraux MAFLS XL 142f., (Peru): Métraux RMLP XXXIII 123. |
| A751.8.1 | Man in the moon is an old woman busy with her spindle. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A751.5.2 | Man in the moon: dung (ashes) on moon's face smeared there by sun. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A751.5.1 | Man in the moon: moon's face scratched by hare in retaliation for injury to hare. (Cf. A2216.3.)—Hottentot: Bleek 72 No. 33. |
| A751.4 | Man in the moon: tarring of the moon. Man sets out to tar the moon and remains with his tar-bucket in the moon.—Finnish: *Aarne FFC VIII 4 No. 8; XXXIII 51 No. 8; Livonian: *Loorits FFC LXVI 81 No. 7; Estonian: *Aarne FFC XXV 140 No. 6. |
| A751 | Man in the moon. A man is said to be seen in the moon. Various explanations are given as to how he came to be there.—*Dh I 134; *Volksmann Am Urquell V 285, VI 75, 126, 199; *Cornelissen Ons Volksleven VI 168ff., 189ff.; *Köhler-Bolte III 597; *Robinson Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer (Boston 1933) 929; *Brown English Lyrics of the Thirteenth Century (Oxford 1932) 234ff.; *Hench JAFL XLVIII 384; *G. de Raille RTP III 129ff.; Basset RTP XXIII 220 and references to earlier volumes.—Breton: *Sébillot Incidents s.v. "homme"; Estonian: *Aarne FFC XXV 140 No. 7, Loorits Grundzüge I 427f.; Livonian: *Loorits FFC LXVI 81 No. 8; Siberian: Holmberg Siberian 423; Armenian: Ananikian 52; Flemish: *De Meyer FFC XXXVII 82 No. 8; Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 37, 214 No. 163, 221, 250.—Maori: Dixon 88; N. A. Indian (general): *Thompson Tales 291 n. 69, (Haida, Tlingit, Kwakiutl): Alexander N. Am. 257, (Loucheux): Barbeau JAFL XXVIII 255; Hottentot: Bleek 72 No. 33: Am. Negro (Georgia): Harris Friends 130 No. 17. |
| K1911.4 | Man in woman's clothing poses as bride for beggar. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| J651.2 | Man inattentive to the danger of drowning enters water to save treasure and is drowned. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| K1317.9 | Man intercepts love letter and takes lover's place in elopement. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| X12 | Man interrupted each time he tries to eat something. *Basset 1001 Contes I 273. |
| Z43.6 | Man invites animals to come and work in his field. Rooster kills beetle; cat kills rooster; dog kills cat; leopard kills dog; hyena kills leopard; buffalo kills hyena; elephant kills buffalo, and lion chases elephant so that both fall into trap. Man calls wives to see meat he has killed. Africa (Wute): Sieber 60ff. |
| D1819.7 | Man is able to tell king dream which king himself does not remember. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| J1289.12 | Man is arrested for drunkenness; he is so drunk that trial must be postponed. When he is tried later, he is told how at the earlier trial he had kept repeating that the judge was a very wise judge. When he hears this he admits that he must have been very drunk. U.S.: Baughman. |
| W111.1.1.1 | Man is burned to death because he is too lazy to put out spark. Italian Novella: Rotunda; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F302.3.1.3 | Man is carried to fairyland by fairy and marries her. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| J2217.2 | Man is describing lakes. "One is bottomless; the other is deeper than that." England: Baughman. |
| T326.2 | Man is killed defending sweetheart's honor. She kills herself. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K984 | Man is lured into sitting in a mechanical chair and is killed. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K776.2 | Man is made drunk and left in temple at mercy of demons. Chinese: Graham. |
| K1923.2 | Man is made to believe that his married daughter has borne a child. In reality it is a foundling. When the supposed mother dies her father is about to forfeit dowry, when the child's real parents claim him. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| F1068.2.1 | Man is maltreated in dream so that he feels it next day. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| V541 | Man is prevented from taking passage on ship which later sinks. U.S.: Baughman. |
| W225.1 | Man is rebuked for loquaciousness when he speaks after thirty-seven days. U.S.: Baughman. |
| G303.16.6 | Man is rescued from devil by baptism. Finnish-Swedish: Wessman 14 No. 131. |
| K306.3 | Man is robbed of gold chain while with prostitute. He swallows her string of pearls in revenge. (Cf. K302.1.) Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| J2214.5 | Man is servant of the animals (for he supplies feed for them). Fish so reason. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| W111.5.8.1 | Man is so lazy that he starves rather than open his mouth for food to fall in when it falls from trees. U.S.: Baughman. |
| W153.4 | Man is so miserly that he never drinks wine until it becomes strong. Gets full benefit from it. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K1347 | Man is ushered into maiden's room by maidservant. He then takes the latter's place in the mistress's bed. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| F638.3 | Man is waiting for bird to fall that he had shot eight days before. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| G248.1 | Man joins feast of witches. (Cf. G242.7.) U.S.: *Baughman. |
| N513.1 | Man jumps into the sea, river or waterfall with his treasure. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| W37.2 | Man keeps promise to return to be eaten by tiger: let go without harm. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F1041.9.1.1 | Man keeps to his bed, mourning over drowned son. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| M202.2 | Man keeps word to return to enemy if his mission to his people fails. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| E163 | Man kept alive by consecrated sword. (Cf. D1081, E765.3.0.1.) Irish: Plummer clxxxv, *Cross. |
| F1021.4 | Man kicked so hard that he flies through the air and is never seen again. German: Grimm No. 90. |
| D1846.6 | Man killed and restored as invulnerable. Eskimo (Bering Strait): Nelson RBAE XVIII 503. |
| Q411.4.1 | Man killed at once for treacherously slaying overlord. Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q411.10.1 | Man killed because of scornful singing. (Cf. Q391.) Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| D1812.5.1.23 | Man killed by accident when ship is pushed into the sea taken as an evil omen. Icelandic: Ragnars saga ch. 10 (9), Boberg. |
| Q582.3.1 | Man killed by piece of stone flying from rock his victim dies upon. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F311.2.1 | Man killed on night when fairy guardian relaxes vigilance. Irish myth: Cross. |
| K818.1 | Man killed with sword, which he himself is tricked into passing to captured enemy. Herrmann Saxo II 197—98; Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| S110.2 | Man kills all guests, hoping some day to kill rival. Dickson 83 n. 47. |
| F628.1.2.1 | Man kills cow with flat of hand. Africa (Duala): Lederbogen Märchen 144. |
| K952.2.1 | Man kills giant bear by crawling inside and cutting his way out. Eskimo (Greenland): Rink 438. |
| F531.5.14 | Man kills giant's baby. Eskimo (Mackenzie Area): Jenness 83, (West Hudson Bay): Boas BAM XV 539. |
| W154.12 | Man kills his rescuer in order to collect reward. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| F679.5.3 | Man kills many tigers with one arrow-shot. S. A. Indian (Yurakare): Métraux RMLP XXXIII 144. |
| J96 | Man kills nest of ants: so God punishes man. (Cf. J225.0.4.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F628.1.2 | Man kills ox with flat of hand. Pauli (ed. Bolte) No 250. |
| T211.9.2 | Man kills self in grief for wife. Irish myth: Cross. |
| J2106 | Man kills self to make quarrelsome wife a widow. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F628.1.3.1 | Man kills serpents, toads, dragons with own hands. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| N325.1 | Man kills son thinking that he is cutting a branch. Greek: Frazer Apollodorus I 329 n. 1. |
| W154.5.1.1 | Man kills whale which carried him home across sea. Tonga: Gifford 142. |
| P316.1 | Man knowing of murder plot against his friend disguises and is killed in his place. (Cf. P361.1.) Scala Celi 9b No. 61; Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| F645.2 | Man knows exactly how many grains are in a measure. Jewish: Neuman. |
| X1114 | Man lays bag by fencehole and all the hares run into it. (First ed. X921.11.) Type 1893. |
| J2131.3.3 | Man lays piece of wood on his leg to saw it: saws leg off. U.S.: Baughman. |
| K893.1 | Man leads pursuers to edge of thin ice, swerves suddenly; they fall through the ice. U.S.: Baughman. |
| W28.3 | Man leaps from vessel into jaws of sea-beast so as to save remaining passengers. Irish myth: Cross. |
| S263.5.3 | Man leaps from vessel into jaws of sea-beast, so as to save remaining passengers. Irish myth: Cross. |
| J2146.2 | Man leaps into river and drowns in effort to save his treasure. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| A1445.2.2 | Man learns housebuilding from wasp. S. Am. Indian (Cashinawa): Métraux BBAE CXLIII (3) 685. |
| J27 | Man learns the fear of Death by meeting Life. Life (old woman) beheads him and replaces his head backwards. Simpleton left in fear for hours before head is readjusted. Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| F1021.3 | Man learns to fly. Chinese: Graham. |
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