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Stith Thompson Motif Index
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Stith Thompson's Motif-Index of Folk-Literature classifies recurring narrative elements in folktales, myths, legends, ballads and related traditional narratives. Each entry below gives Thompson's motif reference and the description recorded in the index.
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Mythological Motifs
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Animal Motifs
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Motifs of Tabu
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Magic
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The Dead
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Marvels
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Ogres
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Tests
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The Wise and the Foolish
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Deceptions
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Reversals of Fortune
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Ordaining the Future
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Chance and Fate
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Society
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Rewards and Punishments
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Captives and Fugitives
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Unnatural Cruelty
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Sex
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The Nature of Life
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Religion
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Traits of Character
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Humor
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Miscellaneous Groups of Motifs
| Thompson reference ▲ | Description |
|---|---|
| K1528 | Wife confesses to disguised husband. She suspects the fraud and persuades him that she knew the ruse and was testing him. He begs forgiveness. Bédier Fabliaux 290, 453*; Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K1531 | Husband transformed to goat must witness wife's adultery. The devil has let him see his wife's unfaithfulness in this way. Type 824*; Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 824*; Estonian: Aarne FFC XXV No. 824*; Russian: Andrejev No. 824*. |
| K1532 | Gullible husband under the bed. |
| K1532.1 | Adulteress tells her lover how she loves her husband. She thus deceives the spying husband under the bed. Penzer V 108 n. 2; Bødker Exempler 269 No. 59; Spanish Exempla: Keller; Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K1532.2 | Adulteress tells how she may save her husband's life. Discovering him under the bed, she tells lover that at temple she has learned that her husband is to die soon unless she prevents death by sleeping with a strange man. The husband is satisfied. Benfey Panchatantra II 258ff., Panchatantra III 12 (tr. Ryder 348). |
| K1533 | Gullible husband behind the tree. (Tristan and Isolt.) Husband goes to wife's love tryst and hides behind a tree. The wife, having learned of his presence, tells lover that he should not allow their innocent relations to lead to gossip. Husband is appeased. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K1535 | Adulteress transforms her husband into an animal to get rid of him. (The Tsar's Dog.) Type 449*; Malone PMLA XLIII 418, 421, 441; Chauvin V 3, 5f., 198, *VI 198, VII 129f.; Penzer III 194; Kittredge Arthur 246ff.; Anderson Roman apuleja i narodnaja skazka I 376-487, 612-633; Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 3655; Russian: Andrejev No. 499A*; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| K1535.1 | Adulteress transforms man to stone up to the waist. Cheremis: Sebeok-Nyerges. |
| K1536 | Woman has husband made monk while he is drunk, so as to get rid of him. Scala Celi 87a No. 506; Crane Vitry No. 231; Liebrecht 124; *Krappe Bulletin Hispanique XXXIX 38; Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| K1538 | Death feigned to meet paramour. Meetings in the grave (grave box). *Wesselski Märchen 197; *Child V 3f., 6, 280; *Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 876; N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 305 n. 109t. |
| K1538.1 | Wife feigns death and slips out to lover. Heptameron No. 60, 61. Italian Novella: Rotunda (K1862). |
| K1538.2 | Death feigned so man can live with mistress. Eskimo (Aleut): Golder JAFL XXII 10. |
| K1541 | Sexton's own wife brings her offering. The priest grants to the sexton the offerings brought by all women whom the priest has loved. The priest always calls out "Take" when these women offer. The sexton's own wife comes. The priest calls out "Take!" (Cf. Q384.) Wesselski Bebel I 185 No. 40. |
| K1542 | Husband frightened by wife's paramour in hog pen. The husband sees the paramour who has hidden in the pen and says, "Who are you?" "I am a miserable hog." The husband thinks that his hogs are possessed. (Cf. K1515, K1555, K1566, K1574.) Wesselski Bebel I 206 No. 92; Spanish: Espinosa III No. 193. |
| K1543 | The marked coat in the wife's room. A procuress obtains a woman for her client by leaving a marked coat in her room. The husband drives the wife away and she joins her lover. The procuress then goes to the husband and alleges that she lost a coat with certain marks. The husband is deceived and takes the wife back. *Bédier Fabliaux 443; **Eberling Auberée, altfranzösische fabel etc. (Berlin, 1891); Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| K1544 | Husband unwittingly instrumental in wife's adultery. (Usually shares his bedmate with others, not knowing that she is his wife.) Heptameron No. 8; Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles No. 9; Spanish Exempla: Keller; Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| K1544.1 | Husband rescues wife's paramour. Not knowing lover's identity, husband takes him to his wife and entrusts him to her care. He then leaves on a trip. Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| K1545 | Wives wager as to who can best fool her husband. *Type 1406; *Liebrecht 124; Bédier Fabliaux 265ff.; *Crane Vitry 227 No. 231, cf. 238 No. 248; Boccaccio Decameron VII No. 9 (Lee 231); Christensen DF XLVII 229; Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| K1546 | Woman warns lover of husband by parody incantation. (Cf. K1961.1.2.1, V66.1, X441.) Boccaccio Decameron VII No. 1 (Lee 185); Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K1546.1 | Woman warns lover of husband by singing song. U.S.: *Baughman. |
| K1546.2 | Woman encourages paramour by song. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1548 | Adulteress makes believe that her suspicious husband is insane. He is taken away. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K1549 | Adulteress outwits husband—miscellaneous motifs. |
| K1549.1 | Woman has paramour steal her husband's clothes. Paramour gains entrance disguised as the husband. The husband without his clothes is driven away from his home. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K1549.2 | Wife surprised in adultery feigns death. Comes "back to life" on hearing husband say he has seen nothing. (Cf. K1538.) Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K1549.3 | Lover carried away on mistress's shoulders so that his footprints will not be visible in the snow. Spectator Papers No. 181. |
| K1549.4 | Lover leaves horse outside house as husband comes up: wife tells husband their cow has foaled a horse. India: Thompson-Balys. Cf. English, Scottish: *Child No. 274. |
| K1549.5 | Unfaithful wife communicates with lover by pouring milk into stream. Irish myth: Cross. |
| K1549.6 | Wife's attendants on trip chase wrong man as suspected lover and miss real lover. Heptameron No. 15. |
| K1549.7 | Husband deceived as to noise made by hidden paramour. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| K1549.8 | Woman cooks food for paramour. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1550.3 | Adulteress detected by food she prepares for paramour. |
| K1550 | Husband outwits adulteress and paramour. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1550.1 | Husband discovers wife's adultery. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| K1550.1.1 | Adulteress detected: husband secretly drops dye on her dress. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1550.1.2 | Adulteress detected by food she prepares for paramour. India: Thompson-Balys; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 341. |
| K1551 | Husband returns home secretly and spies on adulteress and lovers. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1551.1 | Husband returns secretly and kills unwelcome suitor. Icelandic: *Boberg; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1553 | Husband feigns blindness and avenges himself on his wife and her paramour. *Type 1380; *BP III 124; *Taylor MPh XV 227 n. 1; Stiefel Zs. f. Vksk. VIII 74; Russian: Andrejev No. 1380; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| K1553.1 | Husband feigns illness to surprise wife with paramour. (Cf. K1514.11.) Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K1554 | The husband sets house afire and ousts hidden paramour. Type 1406*; von der Hagen II *xxxvi No. 41. |
| K1554.1 | Trickster sets fire to barrel of tow in which paramour is hidden. The paramour, naked, runs out carrying wisps of burning tow. The trickster tells the husband that he has raised the devil. England, U.S.: *Baughman. |
| K1555 | Husband carries off box containing hidden paramour. Latter exposed (otherwise discomfited). *Type 1535; **A. Stepphun Das Fabel vom Prestre comporté und seine Versionen (Königsberg, 1913); *BP II 18; *Basset 1001 Contes II 45; *Toldo Zs. f. Vksk. XIII 412, 420; *Wesselski Mönchslatein 10 No. 5; Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles No. 73; Italian Novella: *Rotunda; India: *Thompson-Balys; Japanese: Ikeda. |
| K1555.0.1 | Dying woman lures paramour into chest. Asks husband to bury chest with her. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K1555.0.2 | Chest containing paramour unwittingly taken away by husband. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K1555.1 | Lover hidden in hen-coop discovered by husband. Boccaccio Decameron V No. 10 (Lee 173); Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| K1555.2 | The devil in the barrel. The naked lover hides himself in a sooty barrel. The husband receives from a curious gentleman a good sum of money for showing him the "devil". Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 2900*; Cheremis: Sebeok-Nyerges. |
| K1556 | Old Hildebrand. Hidden cuckold reveals his presence by rhymes. He responds to the rhymes made by the wife and paramour concerning their entertainment. *Type 1360C; **Anderson Der Schwank vom alten Hildebrand (Dorpat, 1931); *BP II 373; Hdwb. d. Märchens I 188a nn. 164—5; Spanish: Espinosa II No. 93, III No. 193. |
| K1557 | Husband discovers wife's adultery by riddling conversation. In this indirect manner the wife confesses and promises reform. Spanish: Boggs FFC XC 122 No. 1358*. |
| K1557.1 | Husband discovers paramour's love letter in his wife's purse after having made her drunk. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| K1558 | The husband prepares to castrate the crucifix. The artist's wife's paramour poses as a crucifix when caught. When he sees the husband's preparations, he flees naked. *Köhler-Bolte II 469; Spanish: Espinosa II No. 42; Italian Novella: *Rotunda; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1558.1 | Husband castrates paramour. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K1561 | The husband meets the paramour in the wife's place. Beats him (or cuts off privates). *Wesselski Bebel II 149 No. 161; Nouvelles Récréations No. 60; N. A. Indian (Malecite): Mechling GSCan VI 83 No. 21, (Fox): Jones PAES I 145. |
| K1561.1 | Husband hides in wife's room and kills paramour. Heptameron No. 32. |
| K1562 | Husband catches paramour in pitfall. The wife sends her maid to investigate. The maid falls in and finally the wife herself. The husband calls the neighborhood to see them. *Wesselski Mönchslatein 9 No. 4; Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles No. 56; Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| K1563 | Husband (god) traps wife and paramour with magic armor. (Vulcan, Mars, Venus.) *Basset RTP XXIII 167. |
| K1564 | Husband proves intrigue by secretly blacking paramour's mouth. When he returns, his wife's face is black. *Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 863. |
| K1565 | Blades (broken glass) to wound and detect wife's lover. (Often on window.) Type 432; *Krappe Balor 35ff.; *Schoepperle I 218ff.; Irish myth: Cross. |
| K1566 | Cuckolded man shuts wife's paramour in chest and lies on the chest with latter's wife. Boccaccio Decameron VIII No. 8 (Lee 261); Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K1566.1 | Cuckold unwittingly lies with wife on chest containing her hidden paramour. Italian Novella: Rotunda; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1567 | Husband tricks wife into riding a mule which has been denied water. On fording a stream the mule plunges into the water. Wife drowns. (Sometimes also paramour.) Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles No. 47; Nouvelles Récréations No. 90; Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| K1568 | Husband in disguise begs food of his wife's suitors. Greek: *Frazer Apollodorus II 299 n. 6. |
| K1569 | Husband outwits wife and paramour—miscellaneous motifs. |
| K1569.1 | Husband collects fee from paramour. Surprised paramour pays. Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles No. 43; Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| K1569.2 | Husband surprises wife and paramour. Rebukes them for not shutting the door. Italian Novella: *Rotunda; Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles No. 71. |
| K1569.3 | Illness feigned to go to mistress. Husband leaves bed to go to serving maid. Italian Novella: Rotunda; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1569.4 | Husband takes place of paramour. Beats or otherwise discomfits wife. Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles No. 65; Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| K1569.5 | Husband catches paramour by using wife's pre-arranged signal. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K1569.6 | Husband persuades wife to light wicks and carry knife in hand before committing adultery: lovers frightened away. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1569.7 | Alleged speaking privates. Husband pretends that his wife's privates tell him of her adultery. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1569.8 | Husband discomfits paramour and wife by clever remark showing that he knows all. Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles No. 35. |
| K1569.9 | Husband kills surprised paramour. Wife persuades him he has killed thief. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1570 | Trickster outwits adulteress and paramour. |
| K1571 | Trickster discovers adultery: food goes to husband instead of paramour. *Types 1535, 1725; *BP II 18; von der Hagen III *xxix; Wesselski Märchen 216 No. 27; Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 1360A*, 2901*, 2902*; Rumanian: Schullerus FFC LXXVIII No. 1380 VIII*; Russian: Andrejev 1360A*, 1730 IV; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| K1571.0.1 | Trickster discovers adultery: gets food prepared for paramour. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1571.1 | Trickster as sham magician makes adulteress produce hidden food for her husband. *Type 1535; BP II 18; Scala Celi 37a No. 206; Japanese: Ikeda. |
| K1572 | Trickster makes woman believe that her husband is coming to punish her adultery. She confesses. *Type 1725; BP II 131; Christiansen Norske Eventyr 136. |
| K1573 | Trickster sends his master running after the paramour. Though the master does not know of the adultery, the lover is thoroughly frightened. *Type 1725; BP II 131; Christiansen Norske Eventyr 136. |
| K1574 | Trickster as sham magician buys chest containing hidden paramour. (Cf. K1515, K1542, K1555, K1556.) *Types 1535, 1725; *BP II 18; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1574.1 | Sham magician has paramour fall in a trap. Has trained bird to cling to him. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K1574.2 | Trickster discovers woman's paramour and hides him in outhouse: rewarded by husband. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1577 | Second lover burns paramour at window with hot iron. *Type 1361; Chaucer's Miller's Tale; *Thompson The Miller's Tale (Bryan and Dempster 106ff.); Italian Novella: Rotunda. See references for K1225. |
| K1578 | God Vishnu in shape of nephew scares and torments his aunt's lover. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1580 | Other deceits connected with adultery. |
| K1581 | The lover's gift regained. **J. W. Spargo FFC XCI; *F. N. Robinson Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer 838a. (Shipman's Tale). |
| K1581.1 | Lover's gift regained: the broken (removed) article. The lover breaks (or removes) an article of household equipment and convinces the husband that for that reason the wife has confiscated that which he gave her as a present. **Spargo FFC XCI. |
| K1581.2 | Lover's gift regained: horse and wagon as gift. The lover regains gift of horse and wagon by pretending to the husband that the wife has confiscated them because he brought wood of uneven quality. **Spargo FFC XCI; *Erk-Böhme Deutscher Liederhort (Leipzig, 1893—94) I 40ff. |
| K1581.3 | Lover's gift regained: borrowing from the husband and returning to the wife. The lover borrows money from the husband with which to corrupt the wife, later telling the husband that the money was returned to the wife during the husband's absence. **Spargo FFC XCI; Boccaccio Decameron VIII Nos. 1, 2 (*Lee 247ff.); F. N. Robinson Works of Chaucer 838a (Shipman's Tale); Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| K1581.4 | Lover's gift regained: accidental discovery of identity. The lover, ignorant of the identity of the husband, tells him of his experience with the wife. The husband persuades the lover to lead him to the scene, where the wife is compelled to restore all but a small part of the money. *Spargo FFC XCI; *Euling Studien über Heinrich Kaufringer (Breslau, 1900) 65ff.; Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| K1581.5 | Lover's gift regained: piece of cloth as gift. The lover regains by a ruse and thievery the borrowed piece of cloth which he has presented to his mistress. **Spargo FFC XCI. |
| K1581.5.1 | Lover claims payment for cloth in the presence of the husband. The woman returns the cloth but puts a live coal in it. Destroys his whole supply. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K1581.5.2 | Lover demands return of cloth on threat to await the husband's return. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K1581.6 | Lover's gift regained: jewelry as gift. The lover presents the wife with a valuable piece of jewelry, which he regains by pretending to the husband that he has left it as a pledge. **Spargo FFC XCI; *Wesselski Bebel II 115f. No. 49; *Bolte Frey 242 No. 76. |
| K1581.7 | Lover's gift regained: anser venalis (goose as gift). The lover regains his gift by a ruse (obscene). **Spargo FFC XCI; *Semerau Die Schwäke und Schnurren des Poggio (Leipzig, 1905) No. 69; Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K1581.7.1 | Lover delays the gift of the goose hoping to obtain greater favors. Finally has to flee. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K1581.8 | Lover's gift regained: refusal to leave bed. Woman fearing exposure returns money. Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles No. 178; Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| K1581.9 | Lover's gift regained: spending money to purchase lover's worthless goods. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K1581.10 | Lover's gift regained: payment with worthless money. Lover bargains with the husband. Pays him with worthless money. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K1581.11 | Prostitute paid with counterfeit money. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K1581.12 | Husband gets gift which paramour has given to wife. U.S.: *Baughman. |
| K1582 | Lover blackmails adulteress. |
| K1582.1 | After seducing priest's wife, peasant demands earrings as price of silence. He thus avenges himself on priest who has cheated peasant's wife of her earrings. Russian: Andrejev No. 1726**. |
| K1583 | Husband duped by paramour into taking his wife to him. She is veiled. Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| K1584 | Innocent confessor duped into being go-between for adulteress and lover. By following suggestions in her false accusations to confessor the lover reaches her side. Boccaccio Decameron III No. 3 (Lee 71); *Borgeld Vrouwenlist: verbreiding en oorsprong van een novelle uit den Decamerone (Neuphilologische Bibliotheek No. 7, Den Haag, 1926); Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| K1585 | Wife takes servant's place and discovers husband's adultery. The husband says that he is going into a state of meditation with a cloth over his face. He substitutes a servant and goes to his mistress. The wife finds the deceit and takes the servant's place. On his return the husband tells the supposed servant of his adultery. Japanese: Anesaki 361. |
| K1586 | Paramour feigns loss of genitals in order to obtain the husband's confidence. Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles No. 13; Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| K1587 | Adulteress uses the public baths as a meeting-place with her lover. A naive remark by her child exposes the deception to the husband. Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles No. 66; Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| K1588 | Woman excites peasant (secretary), who draws line on floor and dares her to cross it. When she does, adultery is committed. Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles No. 23; Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| K1591 | Seventy tales of a parrot prevent a wife's adultery. The parrot keeps her interested until her husband's return. *Schmidt Cukasaptati (Kiel, 1894, Stuttgart, 1896); Köhler-Bolte I 47, 336, 513; Clouston Tales II 196ff.; Spanish: Boggs FFC XC 59 No. *435. |
| K1591.0.1 | Faithless wife kills magic parrot which has betrayed her. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1591.1 | Peacock left as spy on adulterous wife. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1591.2 | Dog guards chastity of master's wife during his absence. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1592 | Paramour sends prostitutes in disguise to take mistress to "convent". Husband is deceived by the ruse. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K1593 | Adulteress disguised as boy elopes with paramour. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K1594 | Student extends his course so as to enjoy the professor's wife. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K1595 | The "loyal" adulteress. Complacent in all except kissing. Explains that her mouth is the only part of her body which has promised fidelity to her husband. Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles No. 48; Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| K1596 | Faithful wife in disguise saves husband from punishment for adultery. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1600 | Deceiver falls into own trap. Indonesia: DeVries's list Nos. 59-79; Philippine: Fansler MAFLS XII 264f. |
| K1601 | Deceiver falls into his own trap (literally). Arranges a trap or pitfall but is himself caught. Type 1117; Africa: Werner African 214, (Hottentot): Bleek 78; Jamaica: Beckwith MAFLS XVII 254 No. 33; West Indies: Flowers 539. |
| K1601.1 | Pitfall arranged but victim escapes it. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| 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. |
| K1605 | Thief-catcher caught by his own magic club. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1610 | Deceiver falls into his own trap—miscellaneous incidents. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1611 | Substituted caps cause ogre to kill his own children. The hero and heroine change places in bed with the ogre's children and put on them their caps so that the ogre is deceived. *Types 327, 1119; *BP I 124 n. 1; French Canadian: Barbeau JAFL XXIX 22; India: *Thompson-Balys; N. A. Indian: Thompson CColl II 358ff.; (Northern Paiute [Paviotso]): Lowie JAFL XXXVII 226 No. 10; Cape Verde Islands: *Parsons MAFLS XV (1) 73 n. 3; Jamaica: Beckwith MAFLS XVII 267 No. 77. |
| K1611.1 | Substituted string causes ogre to be killed. Intended victim of cannibal is marked by thread around ankle. Changed in night to host. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1611.2 | Guest to be killed suspects plot and forces host to sleep in his bed. Brothers come home and kill their father. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| K1611.3 | Girl takes place of impostor in marriage bed; impostor's mother beats her, thinking she is heroine. Chinese: Graham. |
| K1611.4 | Noose changed so that ogre's daughter is dragged to death. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1611.5 | Kid puts one of tigress's cubs in his place: she eats the cub. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1612 | Message of death fatal to sender. (Gang nach dem Eisenhammer.) A man is sent by the king to burners of a kiln who have been instructed to throw the first arrival into the fire. The intended victim goes elsewhere and the king's son (or the man's accuser), who next arrives, is burned instead. *Type 930; **J. Schick Das Glückskind mit dem Todesbrief (1932); *Aarne FFC XXIII 73ff.; *Penzer II 113; **Cosquin études 73ff., 129ff.; *Chauvin VIII 145; *Fb "teglovn"; *Wesselski Mönchslatein 40 No. 34; *Oesterley No. 283; Scala Celi 130b No. 713; *Herbert III 198, 589; *Gaster Exempla 239f., 246f. Nos. 320, 345; *Hilka Neue Beiträge zur Erzählungsliteratur des Mittelalters No. 6; *bin Gorion Born Judas V 226f.; Verdam Handelingen en Mededeelingen der Maatschappij der Nederlandsche Letterkunde (1898—99; bijlage) 1ff.; *Taylor MPh XV 177; BP IV 352; Hdwb. d. Märchens I 509; *Krappe Bulletin Hispanique XXXIX 17 No. 8.—Icelandic: Sveinsson FFC LXXXIII xxiv, Boberg; Spanish Exempla: Keller; Italian Novella: *Rotunda; India: *Thompson-Balys; Indonesia: DeVries's list No. 229, Voorhoeve No. 151, 142. |
| K1612.1 | Person sends wrong man to sleep with king's daughter. In revenge villain orders whoever first enters temple to be killed. Villain accidentally enters and is slain. Irish myth: Cross. |
| K1612.2 | "Shoot any thief who comes." King unwittingly shot. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1613 | Poisoner poisoned with his own poison. |
| K1613.0.1 | Would-be poisoner forced to drink poisoned cup. Irish myth: Cross. |
| K1613.1 | Person trying to blow poison on another is himself poisoned. Chauvin II 87 No. 22; Zs. d. dt. Morgenl. Ges. XLII 115ff.; B[ö]dker Exempler 280 No. 23; Spanish Exempla: Keller; Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K1613.2 | Wife poisons husband who in turn poisons her. Before he dies he forces her to drink from the same cup. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K1613.2.1 | Person gives his wife a poisoned drink; she pours the two drinks together. They both die. England: Baughman. |
| K1613.3 | Poisoner's own son takes the beverage intended for step-brother. Spanish: Childers; Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| K1613.4 | Son who intends to poison father drinks the poison by mistake. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K1613.5 | Snake killed by incantation he has taught clever woman. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1614 | Father delivering daughter to be eaten by cannibal is himself eaten. Africa (Basuto): Jacottet 114 No. 27. |
| K1615 | Ogre's own moccasins burned. The ogre plans to burn the hero's moccasins while they are camping together, but the hero exchanges the moccasins. N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 325 n. 172. |
| K1616 | Marooned man reaches home and outwits marooner. |
| K1616.1 | Marooned egg-gatherer. The father-in-law has the youth hunt eggs on an island and deserts him, but the youth outwits him. N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 326 n. 175. Cf. Spanish: Espinosa II No. 49. |
| K1616.2 | Marooned man hides himself in ogre's clothes and outwits him. Type 1118*; Russian: Andrejev No. 1118. |
| K1617 | Substituted arrows. Hero given arrows with soft points and sent after dangerous enemies. The deception discovered and the enemy discomfited. N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 312 n. 121. |
| K1618 | Deceiver in swinging contest killed. Old woman planning to kill hero in swinging game by cutting rope is killed when hero cuts the rope first. N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 324 n. 169. |
| K1621 | Tiger in sheep's clothing stolen by sheep-thief. Comparetti PFLS IX 144; *Jamaica: Beckwith MAFLS XVII 236 No. 5. |
| K1622 | Thief climbing rope discovered and rope cut. He has tricked the guardian of the food-supply in the tree (by imitation of the owner's voice or the discovered pass-word) to let down the rope. *Jamaica: Beckwith MAFLS XVII 242 No. 17. |
| K1623 | Lawyer agrees to pay debt on winning his first case. He refuses to plead so as not to pay. Debtor sues him for double the amount due him. If he wins he has to pay and if he loses he has to pay double. He settles debt. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K1624 | Woman who engages false bridegroom for her daughter has plans go astray. Daughter is seduced. Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| K1625 | Monkey instead of girl in floating basket: hermit made laughing-stock. He has persuaded girl's foolish father to place her in the basket. Prince takes girl and leaves monkey in her place. (Cf. K1333, K1674.) Penzer II 445. |
| K1626 | Would-be killers killed. |
| K1626.1 | Earl killed in combat with man he has undertaken to kill. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| K1626.2 | Treacherous counselor killed in treacherous ballgame he himself has arranged. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| K1626.3 | Boiling water meant for cooking hero used for man who has prepared it. S. Am. Indian (Amuesha): Métraux RMLP XXXIII 150. |
| K1628 | Sons have servant impersonate dead father and falsify his will. Servant deceives them by favoring himself. Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| K1631 | The bribed boy sings the wrong song. The sexton steals the priest's cow. The next day the sexton's son sings, "My father stole the priest's cow." The priest pays the boy to sing the song in church. But the sexton teaches the boy a new song, "The priest has lain with my mother," and this is sung in church. England, U.S.: Baughman; Danish: Kristensen Vore Fædres Kirketjeneste 88ff.; Spanish: Boggs FFC XC 144 No. 1735A*; West Indies: Flowers 541f. |
| K1632 | Fox leads ass to lion's den but is himself eaten. When he gets there the ass kicks him so that he falls on the lion's bed. Spanish: Boggs FFC XC 29 No. 50, Espinosa III Nos. 210f.; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| K1633 | Cock's advice proves disastrous to himself. He causes the ox and the ass to rebel but the master learns the cause of the trouble and kills him. Spanish: Boggs FFC XC 36 No. 207*. |
| K1635 | Partnership of Honesty and Fraud: Fraud loses. Fraud has cheated his partner, Honesty. They hire a housekeeper. Fraud is to have use of her right side, Honesty of her left. The left side is of little use. Fraud falls in love with her and pays Honesty double all his losses to relinquish his rights. Spanish: Boggs FFC XC 99 No. 837, Keller. |
| 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. |
| K1637 | Flattering foreman tricked by his master. He always answers his master's remarks, "I have thought of the same thing too." He falls into the trap when his master says, "I am going to sow salt." Type 1574*. |
| K1641 | Ambushed trickster killed by intended victim. *Penzer V 59 n. 2; Irish myth: Cross; India: Thompson-Balys; Africa (Ekoi): Talbot 69; Jamaica: *Beckwith MAFLS XVII 247 No. 23. |
| K1641.1 | Husband intending to push wife down mountain is pushed over by her. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1642 | Mole as trickster killed in his own tunnel. He tricks the fox by going through the tunnel and eating the common food, but the fox sees the molehill and kills him. Africa (Angola): Chatelain 203 No. 29. |
| K1643 | Animal strangled by victim which he tries to eat. B[ö]dker Exempler 281 No. 26; Chauvin II 88 No. 24. |
| K1645 | Woman ordered to strip has lover turn his back; pushes him into water (pit). (Cf. K551.4.3, K926, K1210.) U.S.: Baughman. Cf. Child Ballad No. 4. |
| K1651 | Woman bitten by own fierce watchdog. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1652 | Woman who tries to push husband into river falls in when he steps aside. She drowns because she has tied his hands and he is unable to aid her. (She also thinks he is blind because she has fed him rich food to induce blindness.) (Cf. Type 1380.) U.S.: *Baughman. |
| K1655 | The lawyer's mad client. (Pathelin.) On the advice of a lawyer, the client feigns insanity when arraigned in court. When the fee is demanded, he still feigns insanity. *Type 1585; *Prato RTP IX 537; *Dubsky RTP XXIII 427; Köhler-Bolte I 362; **Oliver JAFL XXII 395; *Bolte Wickram's Rollwagenbüchlein 371 No. 36; Scala Celi 8a No. 51.—Italian Novella: *Rotunda; India: Thompson-Balys; Africa (Gold Coast): Barker and Sinclair 139 No. 26; West Indies: Flowers 542. |
| K1655.1 | "No argument good without a witness." Lawyer's client therefore refuses payment of fee. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1656 | Sham dumb man wins suit. The trickster meets a man in a narrow place in the road and calls out to him to make room. The man refuses and the trickster turns over the cart. In court the trickster plays dumb. The plaintiff says, "He is not dumb; he called out to me several times to get out of the way." Damages are assessed against the plaintiff for negligence. *Wesselski Hodscha Nasreddin II 210 No. 425. |
| K1657 | Unjust official outwitted by peasant who quarrels with him and thus turns the attention of the ruler to the abuses. *Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 847; Nouvelles de Sens. No. 1; Lithuanian: Balys Historical. |
| K1661 | The order for six loads of snow. The order is given by the king in winter. The courtier waits until summer to present the order. Gets money as substitute. Chauvin VIII 149 No. 149. |
| K1663 | Spying parent jolted in basket. A lover is let down into a girl's room at night in a basket. The spying parent stumbles into the basket and is jolted about by the lover's confederate. The parent thinks the devil has got him and leaves the lovers in peace. von der Hagen III 36 No. 55; English: Child No. 281. |
| K1664 | Trickster eats his own dog. Trickster sells dog for mutton or for opossum. He later eats the dog which has been given to a friend of his by the purchaser. U.S.: *Baughman. |
| K1667.1 | Blind man gets back his stolen treasure by making thief expect a larger one. |
| K1667.1.1 | Retrieving the buried treasure. Buried money is stolen. Blind owner pretends that he is going to bury more. Thief returns the money hoping to get all. Blind man recovers original treasure. Spanish: Childers; Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| K1667.1.2 | Blind man asks thief to invest a larger sum for him. The greedy thief puts back the stolen money hoping to get more. The blind man recovers his money. Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| K1672 | Dwarf himself falls in love with girl he has seduced by magic love, and loses her as he is forced to remove his magic. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| K1673 | Sage's advice followed: he is killed so that sacrifice can be mixed with his blood. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1674 | Bear (tiger) substituted for woman in floating box; kills villain who tries to steal the woman. (Cf. K1625.) India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| K1675 | Swindlers allowed to hide money: proves to be basket of stones. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1676 | Pretended sick man aroused by beating. |
| K1676.1 | Woman, who pretends to faint, comes to life when beaten by magician in order to drive out alleged evil spirit. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1677 | Magician challenged to make good his false claim. Says he can take black and white dogs and make them gray and then reverse process. Trickster furnishes gray dog and challenges magician to show his power. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1681 | Originator of death first sufferer. After the culture hero has instituted death, his own child dies and he repents in vain. N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 285 n. 52, (California): Gayton and Newman 59, 64; Africa: Werner African 162. |
| K1681.1 | Inventor of death machine is first to use it. Spanish Exempla: Keller; Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K1682 | Disguised trickster beaten by man he is trying to frighten. Disguise as ghost. Spanish: Boggs FFC XC 47 No. 326, Espinosa II Nos. 136—138. |
| K1682.1 | "Big 'Fraid and Little 'Fraid." Man decides to frighten another (or his son or servant). He dresses in a sheet; his pet monkey puts on a sheet and follows him. The person who is doing the scaring hears the victim say, "Run Big Fraid, run; Little Fraid'll get you." The scarer sees the monkey in the sheet, runs home. (Cf. K1833.) Canada, England, U.S., Wales: *Baughman. |
| K1683 | Tables turned on procuress by chaste wife. The old woman is enticed into the wife's room, beaten, and driven forth naked. *Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 408. |
| K1684 | Seller of pardons robbed by man whom he has pardoned beforehand. The defence declared good by the judge. *Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 301; Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles No. 63; Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| K1685 | The treasure-finders who murder one another. Two (three) men find a treasure. One of them secretly puts poison in the other's wine, but the other kills him, drinks the wine and dies. *Type 763; Chaucer's "Pardoner's Tale"; *F. N. Robinson Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer (Boston, 1933) 834; *BP II 154; *Basset 1001 Contes III 181ff.; *Chauvin VIII 100 No. 73; *Wesselski Morlini 293 No. 42; *Bolte Montanus 564; *Basset RTP XIV 440; *Hart MPh IX 17; *Wells MPh XXV 163.—Italian Novella: Rotunda; Jewish: *bin Gorion Born Judas IV 41, 276; India: Cowell J[a]taka I 124, *Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Chavannes 500 Contes I 386 No. 115; Eberhard FFC CXX 201f.; Korean: Zong in-Sob 186 No. 81. |
| K1686 | Tail sticking from ground betrays killing of calf. So arranged by servant in revenge on his master. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1687 | The easier job. Men exchange jobs because each is made to believe that the other's is easier. It is not. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1691 | The woman as cuckoo on the tree shot down. The anger bargain is to cease when the cuckoo crows. The ogre's wife climbs the tree and imitates the cuckoo. She is shot down. *Type 1029; Köhler-Bolte I 151; Wünsche 29, 33, 36ff., 47, 51ff., 61, 106; Fb "tjære" III 811a; Irish myth: Cross; Missouri French: Carrière; Spanish: Espinosa III Nos. 163—7; Cape Verde Islands: Parsons MAFLS XV (1) 115. |
| K1691.1 | A man in place of a cuckoo. A cruel master commands his serf to climb a tree and imitate the cry of the cuckoo; he shoots the "cuckoo." Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 3745. |
| K1691.2 | Woman killed. Disliking early rising, the servant kills devil's mother or grandmother, who crows in place of the cock. Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 1029A*. |
| K1692 | Teacher instructs pupil in the art of love: cuckolded. Student, ignoring woman's identity, seduces the teacher's wife, and reports success to him. The teacher makes futile attempts to surprise wife with pupil. Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| K1693 | Trickster's eggs become an omelet. Tries to avoid paying tax by hiding eggs in his breeches. The collectors make him sit down. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K1696 | Trickster makes believe he has found a purse (which he had filled with lead). Merchant claims it and pays ten crowns for it. Trickster wins ensuing suit. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K1700 | Deception through bluffing. |
| K1710 | Ogre (large animal) overawed. Missouri French: Carrière; Spanish: Espinosa Jr. No. 5; India: Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 14 Nos. 3, 4; Africa (Wachaga): Gutmann 191f.; West Indies: Flowers 542. |
| K1711 | Ogre made to believe small hero is large: overawed. India: Thompson-Balys; Indonesia: DeVries's list No. 245; Africa (Ila, Rhodesia): Smith and Dale II 359 No. 12. |
| K1711.1 | Tiger made to believe porcupine bristle is his enemy's hair: overawed. India: *Thompson-Balys; Indonesia: DeVries's list No. 90; Philippine: Fansler MAFLS XII 53. |
| K1714 | Boys threaten to harness tiger. They have jumped on him from behind and he cannot see. He buys them off. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1715 | Weak animal (man) makes large one (ogre) believe that he has eaten many of the large one's companions. The latter is frightened. Types 126*, 1149; *BP I 160 n. 1; *Krappe Neophilologus XV 274ff.; Russian: Andrejev No. 126; Spanish: Espinosa III Nos. 249f.; India: *Thompson-Balys; Indonesia: *Dixon 191 nn. 15, 16, 192 n. 17; Africa: Weeks Jungle 394, Werner African 223, (Kaffir): Kidd 230 No. 2, (Vai): Ellis 191 No. 7, (Hottentot): Bleek 24; Cape Verde Islands: Parsons MAFLS XV (1) 317, 320, 322; West Indies: Flowers 543; American Negro (Georgia): Harris Nights 44 No. 9, 291 No. 49. |
| K1715.1 | Weak animal shows strong his own reflection and frightens him. Tells him that this animal is threatening to kill him. (Usually hare and lion.) *Penzer V 49 n. 1; Chauvin II 88 No. 25; India: *Thompson-Balys; American Negro (Georgia): Harris Friends 134 No. 18, (Virginia): Parsons JAFL XXXV 264 No. 12. |
| K1715.1.1 | Weak animal shows strong his own reflection and makes him believe that it is the head of the last animal slain by the weak. B[ö]dker Exempler 282 No. 27; Indonesia, Malay, Hindu: Dixon 191 n. 16, *DeVries Volksverhalen I 362 No. 14. |
| K1715.1.2 | Man shows ghost its own reflection and frightens it. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1715.1.3 | Man shows demon reflection and frightens him. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1715.2 | Bluff: only one tiger; you promised ten. Child (or shepherd) calls out to the small hero (ape, hare) and makes the tiger (ogre) think that he is lucky to escape alive. *Type 1149; Aarne FFC XI 154; Dh IV 278; Cape Verde Islands: Parsons MAFLS XV (1) 322. |
| K1715.3 | The wolf flees from the wolf-head. The sheep have found a sack and a wolf-head. They make the wolf believe that they have killed a wolf, and he flees in terror. *Type 125; BP I 237ff., 254; Spanish: Espinosa III Nos. 249f., 255f., 266; India: *Thompson-Balys; Africa (Wakweli): Bender 54. |
| K1715.4 | Enemies frightened away by making them think they will be eaten. Chauvin V 23 No. 13 n. 1; Spanish: Espinosa III Nos. 255f., 266. |
| K1715.4.1 | Spirits frightened away by making them think they will be eaten. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 443. |
| K1715.5 | Leopard frightened away by report of lizard's presence. Lizard has bitten leopard before. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1715.6 | Trickster pretends to hunt certain tree with which his ancestors have killed tigers. Tiger frightened away. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1715.7 | Bluff: small (lame) hero makes demon believe he is a god and threatens to eat him. Demon terrorized. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1715.8 | Bluff: hero to brother, "You take one and I can manage the rest." India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1715.9 | Trickster purports to be deity's messenger to procure demon-skins for his drum. Demons bribe him instead of devouring him. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1715.10 | Ass claims to have killed cow: frightens tiger. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1715.11 | Lion frightened away by stabbing at it from inside iron cage. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1715.12 | Large animal frightened by smaller showing him well rope (for his tail), curds (for spit), winnowing fans (for ears). India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1715.13 | Tiger made to believe that his captor has eaten many crabs. Tiger fears crabs and releases him. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1715.14 | Fox overawes lion cubs by his boasting and eats their food. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1716 | Hare as ambassador of the moon. Hare claiming to be ambassador of moon shows elephant the moon irritated in a spring. Elephant is persuaded that the moon is angry. *Penzer V 101 n. 1; Chauvin II 96 No. 49; Panchatantra III 2 (tr Ryder 308); B[ö]dker Exempler 294 No. 54; Spanish Exempla: Keller; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1717 | Big shoes in front of the barn. Man makes giant shoes and places them so that ogre thinks a giant lives there. Type 1151. |
| K1718 | Ogre overawed by hero's boasts about marvelous relatives. |
| K1718.1 | Bluff: thunder said to be the rolling of hero's brother's wagon. Ogre overawed. Type 1147. |
| K1718.2 | Bluff: millstones said to be pearls of hero's mother. Ogre overawed. Type 1146. |
| K1718.3 | Bluff: huge cauldron of tar said to be kitchen-pot of hero's mother. Cheremis: Sebeok-Nyerges. |
| K1718.4 | Bluff: harrow said to be comb of hero's mother. Cheremis: Sebeok-Nyerges. |
| K1718.5 | Bluff: plow said to be hoe of hero's mother. Cheremis: Sebeok-Nyerges. |
| K1721 | Hero proves himself a cannibal by trick vomit-exchange. Dh III 142; India: Thompson-Balys; N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 301 n. 102; Africa (Ila, Rhodesia): Smith and Dale II 381 No. 7. |
| K1721.1 | Hero frightens dog into giving up eating men by pretending to eat own entrails. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1721.2 | Ant-eater deceives jaguar by excrement-exchange. S. A. Indian (Caingeng, Bacairi): Horton BBAE CXLIII (3) 294. |
| K1722 | Monkey pretends that his house always answers him. India: *Thompson-Balys; Indonesia: DeVries's list No. 31. |
| K1723 | Goat pretends to be chewing rock. Frightens wolf. American Negro (Georgia): Harris Friends 112 No. 14. |
| K1725 | "St. George's Dogs" (wolves). The man says, "St. George's dogs are coming!" The ogre flees. Type 1150; Lithuanian: Balys Legends No. 148; West Indies: Flowers 543f. |
| K1725.1 | "Dogs are chasing you," says ox to jackal. Really water gurgling in the ox's stomach. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1725.2 | Tiger thinks sound of water dropping is sound of dreadful monster: flees. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| K1726 | Giantess frightened of leaving cave because of hero's statue in entrance. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| K1727 | Tiger frightened at hearing unknown wind. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1728 | The bear trainer and his bear. (Schrätel und Wasserbär.) Ogre is driven out by hero's bear. The next year the ogre asks, "Is the big cat still living?" Hero says that it now has many kittens. Ogre is overawed. *Type 1161; **Taylor MPh XVII 305ff.; **Bolte Zs. f. Vksk. XXXIII—XXXIV 33ff.; Christiansen "Kjætten paa D[ö]vre" Videnskapsselskapets Skrifter 2 kl. (1922) No. 6; *Fb "hund" I 678b; Kristensen Danske Sagn I (1892) 434ff., (1928) 291—92; Scotland: Baughman. |
| K1732 | Wages: as much as he can carry. To get rid of the boy the troll offers him as large wages as he is able to carry. Boy says that this will be too much, that he will be contented merely with what the troll can carry. Type 1153. |
| K1733 | Ogre made to believe hero has withstood fire. Hero escapes and after the room he has been in is burned he returns and is found sitting in the ashes. "It was a bit hot," he says. *Type 1116. |
| K1733.1 | Giant persuaded that hero has pushed hole in wall with bare hand. Hole bored before. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1735 | Dog pretends to be calling dog in the moon when he barks. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1736 | Troll bluffed away from christening. He is invited but told that guests will include the Virgin Mary, Thor the Thunderer, etc. He stays away but sends the finest present. *Type 1165; Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, German, Finnish, Estonian, Livonian, Latvian, Lithuanian: *Balys Tautosakos Darbai VI 137—161. |
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