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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
E
The Dead
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Marvels
G
Ogres
H
Tests
J
The Wise and the Foolish
K
Deceptions
L
Reversals of Fortune
M
Ordaining the Future
N
Chance and Fate
P
Society
Q
Rewards and Punishments
R
Captives and Fugitives
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Unnatural Cruelty
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Sex
U
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 ▲ |
|---|---|
| H71.10 | Marvel as sign of royalty. Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: Boberg; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F697 | Marvelous ball player. Irish myth: Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| F684.1 | Marvelous climber. Irish myth: Cross; Icelandic: Boberg. |
| C918.1 | Marvelous cow offended disappears. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F959.6 | Marvelous cure for poison. |
| F950.7 | Marvelous cure without seeing person. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| F959 | Marvelous cures—miscellaneous. |
| F950 | Marvelous cures. Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| F699.1 | Marvelous dancer. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F818.1 | Marvelous garden with gold and silver flowers, bees. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F552.4 | Marvelous hand without wrist. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| H62.3 | Marvelous horse identified by prince though in form of miserable worn-out one. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F698 | Marvelous juggler. Irish myth: *Cross; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F684 | Marvelous jumper. Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| V222.1 | Marvelous light accompanying saint. Alphabet No. 473; Plummer cxxxviii, clxxviii; Loomis White Magic 27f.; Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| F969.3.1 | Marvelous light reveals man hiding from saint. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F969.3 | Marvelous light. Irish myth: Cross. |
| G278.1 | Marvelous manifestations at death of witch. North Carolina: Brown Collection 386. |
| F661.5.5 | Marvelous marksman can shoot eye off needle at quarter-mile distance. Korean: Zong in-Sob. |
| F811.7.2.2 | Marvelous oranges grow upon tree limbs which are sharp knives. Philippine (Tinguian): Cole 102. |
| F841.2.7 | Marvelous paddle sends canoe enormous distance with each stroke. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 447. |
| F962.12.3 | Marvelous picture falls from sky in storm. Pauli (ed. Bolte) 319 No. 558. |
| D1688 | Marvelous post wears down at top instead of rotting from bottom. (Cf. D956, D1250.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| D1301.3 | Marvelous ruby teaches bird's speech. (Cf. D1071.)—India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F681.5 | Marvelous runner can run round earth in five minutes. *Fb "løbe" II 506. |
| F681.8 | Marvelous runner captures two of every wild animal. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F681.6 | Marvelous runner catches wild game on the run. Italian Novella: Rotunda; Jewish: *Neuman. |
| F681.1 | Marvelous runner keeps leg tied up. To prevent him from running away. *Type 513; *BP II 79ff.; *Fb "ben" IV 32b; Buriat: Holmberg Siberian 428; N. A. Indian: Thompson CColl II 345ff. |
| F681.2 | Marvelous runner outstrips March wind. Irish: MacCulloch Celtic 162. |
| F681.7 | Marvelous runner runs backwards. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F681.4 | Marvelous runner swift as sight. N. A. Indian (Ojibwa): Michelson JAFL XXIV 249. |
| F681.3 | Marvelous runner swift as thought. Irish myth: Cross; Welsh: MacCulloch Celtic 190; Icelandic: MacCulloch Eddic 81, 93, Boberg; N. A. Indian (Ojibwa): Michelson JAFL XXIV 249. |
| F681 | Marvelous runner. Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg; Italian: Basile Pentamerone III No. 8; Jewish: *Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys; Hawaii: *Beckwith Myth 151, 337f.; Tuamotu: Stimson MS (T-G. 3/928). |
| F652 | Marvelous sense of smell. (Cf. F647.5.) Irish myth: Cross; Icelandic: Boberg. |
| F647.9 | Marvelous sensitiveness: blister on back from lying in rose leaves. (Cf. F647.3.) *BP III 238. |
| F647.11 | Marvelous sensitiveness: clarified butter was someone's leavings. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F647.8 | Marvelous sensitiveness: fainting from noise of wooden pestle and mortar. *BP III 238. |
| F647.5.2 | Marvelous sensitiveness: food has been raised in particular kind of manure. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F647.8.1 | Marvelous sensitiveness: fracture from hearing man chopping wood. *BP III 238. |
| F647.3 | Marvelous sensitiveness: injury from rose leaves falling. (Cf. F647.9.) *Penzer VII 204ff.; BP III 238. |
| F647.9.2 | Marvelous sensitiveness: man feels little point of simple thorn in middle of his clothes. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F647.5.3 | Marvelous sensitiveness: man recognizes milk of his stolen cows. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F647.10 | Marvelous sensitiveness: man refuses to eat fifth descendent of stolen cow. Alphabet No. 301. |
| F647.1 | Marvelous sensitiveness: meat (wine) tastes of corpse. Has been near grave. Italian novella: Rotunda (J1661.1.8.); India: *Thompson-Balys, Penzer VI 288; Jewish: Neuman; Korean: Zong in-Sob 102 No. 55. |
| F647.5.1 | Marvelous sensitiveness: meat is dog's flesh. Animal has been suckled by a dog. *Type 655; *Gaster Exempla 195 No. 51; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F647.8.1.1 | Marvelous sensitiveness: stitch in side from being told about hearing a man chopping wood. *BP III 238. |
| F647.2 | Marvelous sensitiveness: suffering from merely seeing work done. *Penzer VII 204ff. |
| F647.7 | Marvelous sensitiveness: ulcer from moon's rays. *BP III 238; Penzer VII 11. |
| F647.6 | Marvelous sensitiveness: wine shows through woman's white throat. *Köhler-Bolte II 348ff.; *BP III 238. |
| F647.4.1 | Marvelous sensitiveness: woman refuses to look at male fish. *BP III 238. |
| F647.5 | Marvelous sensitiveness: woman smells like a goat. She has been brought up on goat's milk. Jewish: *Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys, Penzer VI 219. |
| F647.4 | Marvelous sensitiveness: women blush in presence of male statue. *Penzer VII 204ff.; BP III 238. |
| F647 | Marvelous sensitiveness. *Penzer VI 219, 288, VII 204ff.; Icelandic: Herrmann Saxo II 265ff., *Boberg. |
| F715.3.2 | Marvelous stream containing little black fish bursts forth from mountain. (Cf. A934.9.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| F681.11 | Marvelous swift mower. Chinese: Graham. |
| F681.10 | Marvelous swift plower. Chinese: Graham. |
| F696 | Marvelous swimmer. Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| F811.21 | Marvelous tree (trees) of extraordinary age. Irish myth: *Cross; Jewish: *Neuman; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 870. |
| F162.3.0.1 | Marvelous tree grown from otherworld fruit. Irish myth: Cross. |
| A1029.1 | Marvelous tree survives deluge. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F685 | Marvelous withstander of cold. Type 513. |
| F989.17 | Marvelously swift horse. Jewish: *Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F645 | Marvelously wise man. |
| A123.5.2 | Marvels concerning God's arm and fingers. Jewish: Neuman. |
| D1731.2 | Marvels seen in dreams. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| A2615.1 | Mary hides in ground nail to be used for cross: origin of thistles. (Cf. A2688.1.)—Dh II 216. |
| Q552.7 | Mary-image descends and chastises clerk who scoffs at its rude carving. (Cf. Q225.) Ward II 676 No. 61. |
| J1793 | Mask mistaken for face. Jacobs Aesop 204 No. 20; Wienert FFC LVI 75 (ET 405), 124 (ST 333); Halm Aesop No. 47. |
| P455 | Mason (bricklayer). Sébillot Métiers No. 12. |
| S161.0.1 | Masons who build mausoleum of princess lose their right hands so they may never again construct so fine a building. (Cf. S165.7, W181.2.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| E492 | Mass (church service) of the dead. Held at midnight. *BP III 472, 545; Krappe Balor 116ff., 121 n. 11, JAFL LX 159ff.; *Fb "død" I 228a, "kirke" II 125b; *Grunwald Hessische Blätter f. Vksk. XXX—XXXI 316; Danish: Kristensen Danske Sagn II (1895) 280ff., (1928) 176ff.; Norwegian: Solheim Register 17; Icelandic: Boberg; Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 3558; Jewish: *Neuman; New York: Jones JAFL LVII 242. |
| Q552.14.3 | Mass of sand advances like a tidal wave upon city. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| V45 | Mass said for dead; they arise and say "Amen". Scala Celi 133a No. 732. |
| D231.2.1 | Mass transformation of wedding party to marble statues, etc. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| V49 | Mass—miscellaneous motifs. |
| V40 | Mass. *Encyc. Rel. Ethics Index 368a; Irish myth: *Cross. |
| V42 | Masses release souls from hell (purgatory). Herbert III 284 Nos. 54ff. passim, 473; Alphabet Nos. 613, 652; Scala Celi 111b No. 620; Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 228; Irish: O'Suilleabhain 99, Beal XXI 332; English: Wells 172 (Trentalle Sancti Gregorii); Swiss: Jegerlehner Oberwallis 298 No. 11; Spanish: Espinosa Jr. Nos. 192—97. |
| D1766.5.1 | Masses used along with other magic for cursing. Kittredge Witchcraft 147, 466 n. 88. |
| V41 | Masses work miracles. *Herbert III 273ff. passim; Scala Celi 130b, 131a Nos. 712—16. |
| P360 | Master and servant. **Hdwb. d. Märchens I 389ff. |
| J2136.5.6.1 | Master asked to help in the theft. The fool sent in by thieves is told to bring out the heaviest thing. As this is a grain-grinder and he cannot carry it, he wakes the master of the house to help him. Clouston Noodles 142; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| X905.1 | Master brought to say, "You lie!" Type 1920C; Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 1920D*; Russian: Andrejev No. 1920D*; Prussian: Plenzat 78; Estonian: Aarne FFC XXV 119 No. 27; Livonian: Loorits FFC LXVI 51 No. 89; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| P366 | Master demands that servant tell him of his faults as well as of his good qualities. Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 42. |
| T410.1 | Master discovers that slave girl he wants to marry is a near relative. Type 938*; U.S.: Baughman. |
| K1317.1.1 | Master in serving-man's place in woman's bed. (Cf. K1569.7.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| W152.12.3 | Master insists that maid whistle when she brings in the dessert. He is afraid she will eat the raisins out of the cakes. U.S.: Baughman. |
| W152.12.4 | Master insists that servants whistle as they pick strawberries so that they cannot eat any. U.S.: Baughman. |
| X371 | Master of seven liberal arts begs from wagoner. With his one art latter supports his family. Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 855. |
| J2334 | Master persuaded to buy big fish since small ones creep out of all parts of his body. Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 699. |
| V291 | Master poets (ollamhs) as sacred persons. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| K1963.3 | Master posing as magician plays tricks on his servant. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| R167 | Master rescues disciple. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| J1511.9 | Master says that he has eyes in back of head: servant cheats him. Holds up food to master's back and then not having objection raised, eats it. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| J2178.1 | Master sets servant example by eating rind first: fills up and never reaches the fruit. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| J2461.4 | Master tells servant (sarcastically) to take a year to do errand. Servant stays away a year and then returns to claim salary. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| H1561.10 | Master tests disciple by asking him if he will be willing to plunge with him into the Indus. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K634.2 | Master thief persuades captors to dive into water: steals their clothes. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K341.13.1 | Master thief pretends to throw needle and thread in anger at his son. But it contains stolen cloth. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K331.2.1.2 | Master thief puts guards to sleep and steals meat. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K331.2.1 | Master thief puts watchers to sleep and cuts off their hair. (Cf. K301.) *Fischer and Bolte 215; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K301 | Master thief. Man undertakes to steal various closely guarded things. Succeeds by cleverness. *Type 1525; *BP III 379; *Fb "stjæle" III 575b; *Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 850; Werner Zs. f. Vksk. XXXIX 71ff.; Wesselski Theorie 17f. — Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg; French Canadian: Sister Marie Ursule; Missouri French: Carrière; Italian Novella: *Rotunda; Italian: Basile Pentamerone V No. 7; Greek: *Frazer Pausanias IV 192; India: *Thompson-Balys; Japanese: Ikeda; Indonesia: DeVries Volksverhalen II 385 No. 157; Philippine: Fansler MAFLS XII 71f.; Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 349—51, 446f.; Africa: Weeks Jungle 43, (Duala): Lederbogen JAS IV 65, (Cameroon): Lederbogen 129f. |
| J571.4.2 | Master when angry will not punish servant who has ruined him. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| K1466 | Master's mother killed: wood heaved on her head. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T51.3 | Match arranged by means of pictures of both parties. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T53.0.1 | Matchmakers arrange weddings. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| T53 | Matchmakers. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A52.3 | Material of which angels are created (fire, water and snow). Jewish: Neuman. |
| Q110 | Material rewards. |
| F152.1 | Materials of bridge to otherworld. |
| H494 | Maternity test: to produce a baby within a year. India: Thompson. |
| A164.4 | Matriarchy among the gods. Irish myth: Cross. |
| T148 | Matriarchy. Irish myth: *Cross; Jewish: Neuman. |
| Q211.2 | Matricide punished. Greek: Frazer Apollodorus I 383 n. 3, Aeschylus Eumenides. |
| K2213.1 | Matron of Ephesus. (Vidua.) A woman mourns night and day by her husband's grave. A knight guarding a hanged man is about to lose his life because of the corpse he has stolen from the gallows. The matron offers him her love and substitutes her husband's corpse on the gallows so that the knight can escape. *Type 1510; **Grisebach Die Wanderung der Novelle von der treulosen Witwe durch die Weltliteratur (Berlin, 1889); *Crane Vitry 228 No. 232; *Chauvin VIII 210 No. 254; *Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 752; Irish myth: *Cross; Spanish: Espinosa II No. 93; Italian Novella: *Rotunda; Jewish: *Neuman, bin Gorion Born Judas III 240ff.; *315. |
| K735.1 | Mats over holes as pitfall. India: *Thompson-Balys; Melanesia, Indonesia: Dixon 69 nn. 44, 45, DeVries's Volksverhalen II 385 No. 158; New Zealand: Dixon 61; Africa (Fjort): Dennett 53 No. 8, (Angola): Chatelain 91 No. 5; West Indies: Flowers 524. |
| T91.4.1 | Mature married woman in love with callow youth. Malone PMLA XLIII 418. |
| J1131 | Maxims for use of law court. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| D1385.27 | Meal of fishes protects against demons. (D1032.1.) Jewish: Neuman. |
| A1511.1 | Mealtimes from confused message from God. India: Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 120 No. 77. |
| E692.2 | Mean person reborn as hyena. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A931 | Meander-pursuit. (Cf. A901.)—A fugitive's doublings cause a river's windings.—N. A. Indian: Kroeber JAFL XXI 224, (Micmac): Speck JAFL XXVIII 60, (Calif.): Gayton and Newman 62. |
| A2426.2.12 | Meaning of swallow's song. Fb "svale". |
| D2061.2 | Means employed in magic murder. |
| D1985 | Means of acquiring invisibility. Penzer I 136, VI 149 n. 1. |
| D1821 | Means of acquiring magic sight. |
| T56 | Means of attracting sweetheart. |
| F385 | Means of averting fairy spells. |
| D1711.0.3 | Means of becoming magician. Eskimo (Greenland): Holm 92, 94. |
| D2004 | Means of bringing about magic forgetfulness. |
| A2465 | Means of capturing animal. |
| F405 | Means of combating spirits. |
| K310 | Means of entering house or treasury. |
| K359 | Means of hoodwinking guardian or owner—miscellaneous. |
| K330 | Means of hoodwinking the guardian or owner. |
| D1905 | Means of inducing love. (Cf. D1355ff.) |
| D1962 | Means of inducing magic sleep. (Cf. D1364.) |
| D1812.3 | Means of learning future. (Cf. D1810.8, D1976.2.) |
| A1352.2 | Means of persuading persons to intercourse. India: Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Graham. |
| D1760 | Means of producing magic power. |
| M302 | Means of prophesying. Irish myth: Cross. |
| R121 | Means of rescue from prison. |
| R111.3 | Means of rescuing princess. |
| E181 | Means of resuscitation learned. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| E149 | Means of resuscitation—miscellaneous. |
| B784.2 | Means of ridding person of animal in stomach. |
| H570 | Means of solving riddles. |
| F404 | Means of summoning spirits. |
| D500 | Means of transformation—general. |
| F950.3 | Measuring sick as means of cure. Zachariae Zs. f. Vksk. XXI 151; England, Ireland, Wales, U.S.: Baughman. |
| J1176.2 | Measuring the dregs. Some full and some half-full wine casks left with man by neighbor, who accuses him of theft. Fraud of accusation detected by measuring the dregs. Oesterley No. 246; Herbert III 237; Ward ibid. II 239; *Krappe Bulletin Hispanique XXXIX 45; Spanish Exempla: Keller; Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| J2133.6.1 | Measuring the tower by piling up hampers. They place hampers on top of one another. The fool has them take out the two on the bottom. Spanish: Boggs FFC XC 141 No. 1703, Espinosa III 147; Africa (Ashanti): Werner African 125. |
| A1186 | Measuring the world. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B542.1.3 | Measuring worm rescues from a height. Calif. Indian: Gayton and Newman 76. |
| J1856.1 | Meat fed to cabbages. *Type 1386; BP I 520; Indonesia: Coster-Wijsman 60 No. 92. |
| D476.3.4 | Meat miraculously turned into fish on a feast day, and vice versa. *Loomis White Magic 79. |
| D457.5.2 | Meat received from spirits transformed to banana leaves. Africa (Wachaga): Gutman 105. |
| D476.3.1 | Meat takes on taste of any dainty desired. Jewish: Neuman. |
| D476.3 | Meat transformed. |
| Q340 | Meddling punished. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A2783 | Medicinal properties of trees. Jewish: Neuman. |
| T256.2 | Medicine against quarrelling: the wife must take one dose and keep it in her mouth for ten minutes as soon as her husband is angry. Spanish: Childers; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| D1501.8 | Medicine causes woman to bear twins. (Cf. D1241.) Africa (Fang): Tessman 90. |
| D1346.11 | Medicine gives immortality. (Cf. D1241.)—India: Thompson-Balys. |
| D1331.1.2 | Medicine gives magic sight. (Cf. D1240.)—India: Thompson-Balys; Africa (Benga): Nassau 215 No. 33. |
| D1524.1.1 | Medicine on feet permits man to walk on water. (Cf. D1241.) Zanzibar: Bateman 207 No. 10. |
| B512 | Medicine shown by animal. It heals another animal with a medicine (herb, water, etc.) and thus shows the man the remedy. Sometimes the medicine resuscitates the dead. (The animal is most frequently the serpent. (Cf. B491.)—*Type 160, 303, 590, 612; *BP I 128; Chauvin II 106 No. 71; Kittredge Gawain 153 n. 4; Wesselski Märchen 239f. No. 50.—*Krappe Papers and Trans. of Jubilee Cong. of Folk-Lore Soc. 277ff.—*Fb "blad" IV 44a; *Frazer Apollodorus I 312 n. 2.—Icel.: Boberg, Völsunga saga ch. 8.; Jewish: Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys; Japanese: Ikeda. N. A. Indian: Thompson Tales 354 n. 279. |
| D1365.8.1 | Medicines of forgetfulness and remembering. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| D1812.5.2.2 | Meeting certain person (animal) a good omen. *Kittredge Witchcraft 45, 398 n. 172. |
| D1812.5.1.7 | Meeting certain persons (animals) a bad omen. *Kittredge Witchcraft 44f., 398 nn. 169—173. |
| E265.3 | Meeting ghost causes death. (Cf. E574.) England, U.S.: *Baughman. |
| E265 | Meeting ghost causes misfortune. Fb "spøgelse" III 519b. |
| E265.2 | Meeting ghost causes person to go mad. (Cf. D2065.) Ireland, U.S.: Baughman. |
| E265.1 | Meeting ghost causes sickness. (Cf. D2064.) |
| N765 | Meeting with robber band. Dickson 68 n. 14. |
| E499 | Meetings of the dead—miscellaneous. |
| E490 | Meetings of the dead. |
| H611.1 | Melons ripe and overripe analogous to girls ready for marriage. Iraq: Ethel Stevens Folk Tales of Iraq (London, 1931) 60. |
| K1460 | Members of dupe's family killed. |
| J2066.3 | Men (animals) wait in vain for nuts to fall from a tree. Africa (Ila, Rhodesia): Smith and Dale II 410 No. 8; American Negro: Harris Nights 223 No. 38. |
| A1321 | Men and animals readjust span of life. At first, thirty years are given to all animals and to man. For the animals it is too long, for man too short. Man is given a portion of animals' lives. Years 1—30 vigorous (man's own); 30—48 burdens and blows (ass's); 48—60 no teeth (dog's); 60—70 foolish (monkey's).—*BP III 290 (Gr. No. 176); *Fb "menneske" II 577b; Halm Aesop No. 173; Wesselski Bebel II 135 No. 103.—Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 3060, Balys Legends Nos. 113f.; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| D141.0.2 | Men and women transformed to dogs by druidic spell. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| L482.4 | Men are fearless: tiger made to frighten them. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A1224.5.1 | Men are monkeys who have lost their tails. Chinese: Graham. |
| A1346.2.3 | Men are too happy: pain and sickness created. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| L482.3 | Men are too proud: snakes created. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| L482.1.1 | Men are too rich: gold sent below ground. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| L482.1 | Men are too rich: greedy gods created to impoverish them. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| L482.2 | Men are too rich: weeds created to spoil their harvests. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A41 | Men as God's advisers. *Dh I 3. |
| A1301 | Men at first as large as giants. Dh I 242ff.; Irish myth: Cross; Greek: *Grote I 5; Jewish: Neuman. |
| U131.2 | Men at first frightened at camel take him into their service. Wienert FFC LVI 66 (ET 306), 111 (ST 224); Halm Aesop No. 180. |
| J1796.1 | Men build hedge to keep in the moonlight. (Cf. J1904.2.) England: Baughman. |
| V67.4 | Men buried with dead chief. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| A1265 | Men created from sown dragon's teeth. Cadmus, Jason.—Grierson FL XXXIII (1922) 380.—Greek: Fox 10, 45, 112; Frazer Apollodorus I 315 n. 2. |
| K929.7 | Men deceived into killing each other. Irish myth: Cross; Africa (Wute): Sieber ZsES XII 60ff. |
| A1335.10 | Men die because a snake comes to prey on mankind while creator rests. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| N534.7.1 | Men digging hole to plant rose-tree find treasure. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F809.4.1 | Men disappear at revolving bleeding rock. Eskimo (Greenland): Rink 467. |
| D2087.4 | Men disappear every night. Icelandic: Flateyjarbуk I 282—83, *Boberg. |
| K1321.4 | Men disguised as women enter convent and seduce impious nuns. (Cf. K1323.) Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K1087.0.1 | Men disrobe and report they have been attacked: bring about war. Irish myth: Cross. |
| K581.2.1 | Men double up hare's legs and throw him on the ground as punishment. He escapes. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| J1879.1 | Men drag carts on to roof to shade it from the sun. England: *Baughman. |
| L482.5 | Men enjoy themselves too much: disease created. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| J2431.1 | Men exchange duties: each wants to get better of the other, but is cheated, finding the other's work more difficult. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| N533.5 | Men find mines of copper, silver, gold and iron where balls fall. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A1253.2.2 | Men from long nuts, women from short ones. S. Am. Indian (Brazil): Oberg 108. |
| F1041.8.6 | Men go mad in battle. Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| J2133.5 | Men hang down in a chain until top man spits on his hands. They all fall. *Type 1250; Köhler-Bolte I 113; *Wesselski Hodscha Nasreddin I 242 No. 124; *Bolte Schweiz. Arch. f. Vksk. XXIII (1920-21) 36ff.; Clouston Noodles 46; Christensen DF XLVII 179ff., 193 No. 7; Virginian: Parsons JAFL XXXV 302; Chinese: Chavannes II 324. |
| J2233.1.1 | Men hang old bedridden weaver instead of young, valuable member of colony after the young man has accidentally killed an Indian. The Indian tribe demands punishment. U.S.: Baughman. |
| N455.12 | Men hear father threaten to marry daughters to first comers. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| R7 | Men held captive in the Land of Women. (Cf. F112.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A1038 | Men hide from world-fire and renew race. (Cf. A1006.1., A1045.) —Swiss: Jegerlehner Oberwallis 311 No. 47; India: Thompson-Balys.—S. Am. Indian (Toba, Arawak, Mura, Yuracare, Tupinamba): Métraux MAFLS XL 34-36, (Chiriguano): Métraux RMLP XXXIII 158; African (Fang): Trilles 133f. |
| J1738.8 | Men hide so that God will not see their sin. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| F824.1 | Men in air-tight armor. Penzer II 299. |
| F574.1.3 | Men killed by look of beautiful princess. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A1394 | Men live by the breath of the gods. (Cf. A1241.3.)—India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K912.2 | Men lured into serpent pit one by one and killed. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| K812.2 | Men lured to their death when their fields are set on fire. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| F569.2 | Men menstruate. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| E480.3 | Men must enter spirit world armed. S. A. Indian (Brazil): Oberg 110. |
| J2716.1 | Men must go to look in the pool to see if rain is falling. England: Baughman. |
| J2214.6 | Men must have been calves once (for they are fond of milk). Fish so reason. (Cf. B233.1.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| J911.1 | Men not chosen for their ignorance; else he should have reached heaven. Upbraided for not knowing answer to question, man answers that he was chosen for his position because of what he knew, not of what he did not know. *Wesselski Hodscha Nasreddin II 224 No. 462. |
| F531.6.3.0.1 | Men not to disclose giant's home. (Cf. C420.) Eskimo (Greenland): Rasmussen III 231. |
| F521.3 | Men of metal. |
| K551.3.6.3 | Men ordered to dance before being killed. Dance figure arranged so as to defeat captors. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| A1316.3.3 | Men originally blind: eyes opened by accident. Africa (Dahomey): Einstein 18f. |
| A1281.4 | Men originally self-luminous. Jewish: Neuman; Siberian: Holmberg Siberian 385. |
| T252.5 | Men rulers in their house asked to sing. No man in congregation does so. Priest alone sings. Next year he cannot, for then he has a maid. Wesselski Bebel II 148 No. 157; Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 811. |
| C833.9 | Men sent on mission prohibited from fishing and quarreling. Africa (Bushongo): Torday Notes 247. |
| J87 | Men shamed for their cowardice by woman standing naked before them. (Usually connected with Jus Primae Noctis [T161]). Wesselski Archiv Orientální I 83f.; Lithuanian: Balys Index No. *2429. |
| F911.1 | Men swallow men. |
| F12.3 | Men taken by Brahma to Siva so they can petition him personally. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| L482 | Men too prosperous (happy): things are made more difficult. |
| D615.4 | Men transformed to animals fight. BP III 261 (Grimm No. 163). |
| K1077 | Men tricked into bathing in "disease-water". India: Thompson-Balys. |
| E656.1 | Men who behave irrationally (without plans) reincarnations of animals. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F517.1.5.1 | Men whose feet turn backward so that they will not stub toes. Africa: Weeks Jungle 126ff. |
| F514.2 | Men with birds' beaks. DeCock Volkssage 105; Icelandic: Herrmann Saxo II 599, Boberg. |
| V221.10 | Men with enormous and unnatural appetite cured by saint. Irish myth: Cross. |
| G88.1 | Men with iron claws eat girl. Eskimo (Greenland): Rasmussen III 79. |
| F517.1.3 | Men with sponge-feet. *Chauvin VII 24 No. 373E n. 1. |
| F515.3 | Men with tails on their hands. Eskimo (Greenland): Rasmussen III 79. |
| F526.5 | Men with two faces, three legs, and seven arms (or other such combinations). Hindu: Keith 41f. |
| J1786.6 | Men, on first seeing wives with hair, think they are witches and run away. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| V436 | Mendicant refuses to accept alms from barren woman. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1816.0.3 | Menial disguise of princess's lover. *Types 301, 314, 900; *BP I 446; Child V 109ff., 116ff., 305a; Wells 14 (The Lay of Havelok) 19 (Sir Beves of Hamtoun), 147 (Ipomadon); Icelandic: *Boberg; Italian Novella: *Rotunda; Tuamotu: Stimson MS (z-G. 13/10, 221, 343). |
| L113.1 | Menial hero. Type 594*; *Cox xl, 437—446; Missouri French: Carrière; India: Thompson-Balys; N. A. Indian (Micmac): Rand 440 No. 85, (Zuсi): Parsons MAFL XXXI 245. |
| L113.2 | Menial heroine. Cox 1-121 passim; BP I 183; Missouri French: Carrière; Spanish: Espinosa Jr. No. 119; Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
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