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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
K
Deceptions
L
Reversals of Fortune
M
Ordaining the Future
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Chance and Fate
P
Society
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Rewards and Punishments
R
Captives and Fugitives
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Unnatural Cruelty
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Sex
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The Nature of Life
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Religion
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Traits of Character
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Humor
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Miscellaneous Groups of Motifs
| Thompson reference ▲ | Description |
|---|---|
| D1971 | Three-fold magic sleep. Husband (lover) put to sleep by false bride. Only on the third night (the last chance) he wakes. *Types 303, 313; BP II 51, 273; Cox Cinderella 481.—Spanish: Boggs FFC XC 61 No 445A. |
| D1978.4 | Hero wakened from magic sleep by wife who has purchased place in his bed from false bride. |
| D1972 | Lover's magic sleep at rendezvous. A lover (husband) is to meet his mistress but magically oversleeps. *Type 400; Chauvin V 145 No. 71 n. 1; *Fb "sove" III 472b; *Dickson 94 n. 78; Wesselski Mönchslatein 172 No. 138; Irish myth: *Cross; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| D1973 | Magic sleep: in order to sleep off period of enchantment. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| D1975 | Dragon-fighter's magic sleep. While waiting for fight with dragon, hero falls into magic sleep. (Cf. D1962.2.) *Type 300; *Hartland Perseus III 211.—French Canadian: Barbeau JAFL XXIX 20; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| D1976 | Experiences during magic sleep. |
| D1976.1 | Transportation during magic sleep. Dickson 223; Irish myth: *Cross; Greek: Homer Odyssey XVIII 121; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| D1976.2 | Future spouse met during magic sleep. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| D1978 | Waking from sleep. |
| D1978.1 | Waking from magic sleep by cutting off finger. Type 300; *Hartland Perseus III 211f.; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| D1978.2 | Waking from magic sleep by letting tear fall on sleeper. Type 300; *Hartland Perseus III 211. |
| D1978.3 | Waking from magic sleep by removal of enchanting instrument. BP I 436; *Bolte Zs. f. Vksk. XX 354; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| D1978.5 | Waking from magic sleep by kiss. *Type 410. |
| D1980 | Magic invisibility. *Type 306; *Bolte Reise der Söhne Giaffers 214; *Chauvin VII 39 No. 212B, 103 No. 377; *Loomis White Magic 51; *Fb "usynlig"; Penzer VIII 36f.—Irish: MacCulloch Celtic 65, 208, *Cross; Welsh: MacCulloch Celtic 189; Icelandic: *Boberg; Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "invisibilité"; Jewish: *Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys, Keith 152; Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 49, 109f., 134 No. 92.—Africa (Zulu): Callavay 223, (Fang): Trilles 269. |
| D1981 | Certain persons invisible. Jewish: Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| D1981.1 | Magic invisibility of gods. Irish: MacCulloch Celtic 55, *Cross; Jewish: Neuman. |
| D1981.2 | Magic invisibility of saints. (Cf. V229.8.) *Toldo IV 80; Irish myth: *Cross; Jewish: Neuman; Icelandic: Boberg. |
| D1981.3 | Magic invisibility of druids. (Cf. D1711.4.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| D1981.4 | Magic invisibility of ogre. (Cf. G301.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| D1981.5 | Magic invisibility of priests. Jewish: Neuman. |
| D1981.6 | Magic invisibility of angels. Jewish: Neuman. |
| D1982 | Certain objects invisible. |
| D1982.1 | Magic door invisible to women. *Chauvin VI 134 No. 286 n. 2. |
| D1982.2 | Ship made invisible. Kittredge Witchcraft 46, 399 n. 176. |
| D1982.3 | Chariot made invisible. Irish myth: Cross. |
| D1982.4 | Food and drink appear and disappear in otherworld. (Cf. D1030, D1040.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| D1982.5 | Boat made invisible. Eskimo (Greenland): Rasmussen III 293. |
| D1983 | Invisibility conferred on person. |
| D1983.1 | Invisibility conferred by a god. (Cf. A180.) Irish myth: Cross; Greek: Fox 127 (Paris). |
| D1983.2 | Invisibility conferred by fairy. (Cf. D1723.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| D1985 | Means of acquiring invisibility. Penzer I 136, VI 149 n. 1. |
| D1985.1 | Invisibility by scarification. Africa (Basuto): Jacottet 212 No. 31. |
| D1985.2 | Invisibility by reciting formula backwards. *Penzer VI 149 n. 1. |
| D2000 | Magic forgetfulness. *Cox Cinderella 511; *Kittredge Witchcraft 55, 406 nn. 241, 242.—Irish myth: Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg; Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "oubli"; Jewish: Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys; Eskimo (Greenland): Rink 457, Rasmussen III 145. |
| D2003 | Forgotten fiancée. Young husband visiting his home breaks tabu and forgets his wife. Later she succeeds in reawakening his memory. (For details of the ways in which the memory is lost and regained see D2004 and D2006.—*Type 313C, 425; Tegethoff 50ff.; *BP I 442, II 56, 527, III 338, 406, 443 (Gr. Nos. 56, 67, 113, 186, 193, 198); Cox Cinderella 511; *Fb "brud" IV 65a; Jiriczek Der Vergessenheitstrank in der Niebelungensage (Zs. f. vgl. Littgsch. N. F. VII 49): Köhler-Bolte I 169.—English: Child I 461 and note; Icelandic: *Boberg; Korean: Zong in-Sob 25; American Indian (European borrowings): Thompson CColl II 343, 367—371 (Micmac, New Mexican Spanish, Thompson River, Chilcotin), (cf. Seneca): Curtin-Hewitt RBAE XXXII 91 No. 5. |
| D2003.1 | Husband magically forgets wife. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| D2004 | Means of bringing about magic forgetfulness. |
| D2004.1 | Curse of forgetfulness. *Cox Cinderella 512; Köhler-Bolte I 170.—Icelandic: *Boberg; Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| D2004.2 | Kiss of forgetfulness. *Type 313; *Cox Cinderella 511 and practically all references given under D2003 (Forgotten Fiancée); *Fb "kys" II 349.—Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| D2004.2.1 | Dog's licking of man produces forgetfulness. Fb "glemme". |
| D2004.3 | Forgetfulness by eating. Fb "glemme" I 462, "spise" III 495.—Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| D2004.3.1 | Forgetfulness by drinking. Herrmann Saxo II 590.—Africa (Fjort): Dennett 36 No. 4. |
| D2004.4 | Forgetfulness by spitting. Greek: Fox 63 (Polydos). |
| D2004.5 | Forgetting by stumbling. A name or formula is magically forgotten when one stumbles (or jumps). Type 1687*.—Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "nom"; Lithuanian: Balys Index No. *1687; Russian: Andrejev No. 1687*; India: Thompson —Balys; Japanese: Ikeda; N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 303 n. 109g; Africa (Kaffir): Theal 114, (Ila, Rhodesia): Smith and Dale II 394 No. 18. |
| D2004.5.1 | Forgetting by stepping over log. Papua: Ker 36. |
| D2004.6 | Magic forgetting of wife when husband removes shirt she has given him. Fb "glemme" I 462. |
| D2004.7 | Forgetfulness from fright. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| D2004.8 | Forgetfulness by mourning. Jewish: Neuman. |
| D2004.9 | Forgetfulness caused by specific place. Jewish: Neuman. |
| D2004.9.1 | Forgetfulness caused by Tower of Babel. (Cf. F772.1.) Jewish: Neuman. |
| D2004.10 | Barking of brazen dogs causes forgetfulness. (Cf. D1620.) Jewish: Neuman. |
| D2006 | Magic reawakening of memory. (Cf. D1360, D1910.) Irish: Plummer lxxx, Cross. |
| D2006.1 | Forgotten fiancée reawakens husband's memory. |
| D2006.1.1 | Forgotten fiancée reawakens husband's memory by detaining lovers through magic. Heroine takes up residence near home of her forgetful husband. She is apparently going to permit a lover to sleep with her when she detains him by having him try to place some magic birds on their roost. They continue to fall down throughout the night. (Or the lover is left magically sticking to a calf's tail or other object.) The thwarted lover tells of his experience, and in this way the attention of the husband is gained. *Type 313; Tegethoff 50; *BP II 231 n. 1; *Cosquin Lorraine II 28; Italian Novella: Rotunda; India: Thompson-Balys; Thompson River: Thompson CColl II 372 (European borrowing). |
| D2006.1.2 | Forgotten fiancée reawakens husband's memory by serving as milkmaid and talking to calf. *Type 313; BP III 339 (Gr. 186). |
| D2006.1.3 | Forgotten fiancée reawakens husband's memory by having magic doves converse. *Type 313; Köhler-Bolte Zs. f. Vksk. VI 65; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| D2006.1.4 | Forgotten fiancée buys place in husband's bed and reawakens his memory. *Types 313, 425; *BP II 234ff., 527 n. 2; Tegethoff 52f.—Philippine: Fansler MAFLS XII 165. |
| D2006.1.5 | Forgotten fiancée attracts attention by magically stopping wedding carriage of new bride. *Type 313; BP II 517 (incident G). |
| D2006.1.6 | Forgotten fiancée remembered by means of doll. *Bolte Reise der Söhne Giaffers 221. |
| D2006.1.7 | Forgotten fiancée remembered by means of bird. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| D2006.1.8 | Piece of wood revives memory. (Cf. D956.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| D2006.1.9 | Forgotten wife remembered by seeing her initials. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| D2006.1.10 | Forgotten wife gives food to beggar: husband's memory reawakened. Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 527. |
| D2006.2 | Sight of old home reawakens memory and brings about return from other world. Hartland Science 200.—N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 330 n. 193; *Thompson Star Husband; Melanesia: Codrington 365. |
| D2006.2.1 | Longing of human child of sky-mother to visit father on earth. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| D2011 | Years thought days. (Cf. F379.5.) Years spent in the other world or asleep seem as days because of magic forgetfulness. *Type 470; *Fb "tid" III 790a; Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 561, 562; *Köhler-Bolte II 224ff., 406ff.; *Hartland Science 162ff. —Irish: MacCulloch Celtic 116, 119, 181f., *Cross; Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "temps"; Welsh: MacCulloch Celtic 101; Scottish: McKay Bealoideas III 138; English: Child V 290a; Spanish Exempla: Keller; Lithuanian: Balys Index No. *472; India: Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Graham; Japanese: Ikeda; Eskimo (Greenland): Rasmussen III 299, (Bering Strait): Nelson RBAE XVIII 459; N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 314 n. 143. |
| D2011.1 | Years seem moments while man listens to song of bird. **Hammerich Munken og Fuglen (København, 1933); *Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 562; *Herbert III 67; Longfellow "The Golden Legend"; Hartland Science 188f.—Irish: Plummer clxxxvi, *Cross; Welsh: MacCulloch Celtic 104; Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 472A*; Estonian: Aarne FFC XXV No. 471*; Russian: Andrejev Ukazatel' Skazochnik No. 471. |
| D2011.1.1 | Day seems moment while saint listens to music made by bird's wing. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| D2011.1.2 | Three days and three nights seem one hour as saint preaches. (Cf. Z71.1.1.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| D2011.2 | Two friars perceive no passing of time from Shrovetide till following Easter while they talk of Christ. Irish myth: Cross. |
| D2011.3 | Years are as moments to creator. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| D2012 | Moments thought years. In a moment a person seems to experience events of many years. Hartland Science 226f.; Wesselski Märchen 255 No. 65; *Krappe Bulletin Hispanique XXXV (1933) 114f., Scandinavian Studies 19 (1947) 217—224; Irish myth: *Cross. |
| D2012.1 | King in the bath; years of experience in a moment. This illusion takes place when the king puts his head under water. *Chauvin VII 106 No. 94; Penzer VII 244ff.; Hartland Science 225ff. |
| D2012.2 | Wizard gives man the illusion that he has been away twenty (forty) years. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| D2020 | Magic dumbness. Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "muet"; Spanish Exempla: Keller; Eskimo (Greenland): Rink 154. |
| D2021 | Causes of magic dumbness. |
| D2021.1 | Dumbness as curse. *Type 710; *BP I 21; Tawney I 5. |
| D2025 | Magic recovery of speech. |
| D2025.0.1 | Magic (loss and) recovery of speech. Irish myth: Cross. |
| D2025.1 | Speech magically recovered on execution stake. Type 710. |
| D2025.2 | Speech magically recovered when certain bird is caught. Africa (Kaffir): Theal 80. |
| D2025.3 | Speech magically recovered when third person guesses secret transaction. Tawney I 5. |
| D2025.4 | Dumbness magically cured by astonishment. Africa (Basuto): Jacottet 224 No. 33. |
| D2025.5 | Speech magically recovered on Hallowe'en. (Cf. V70.5.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| D2030 | Other temporary magic characteristics. |
| D2031 | Magic illusion. *BP III 203; *Loomis White Magic 51; Irish myth: *Cross; Danish: Kristensen Danske Sagn VI (1900) 426ff., (1936) 193ff., Icelandic: MacCulloch Eddic 93, *Boberg. |
| D2031.0.1 | Saints cause illusions. Irish: Plummer clix, clxix, *Cross. |
| D2031.0.2 | Fairies cause illusions. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| D2031.0.3 | Magic illusion dissipated by sign of the cross. Irish myth: Cross. |
| D2031.0.4 | Druids cause illusions. (Cf. D2031.4.1.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| D2031.0.5 | Giantess' punishment is pure illusion. Icelandic: Egils saga og Asm. 58, Boberg. |
| D2031.1 | Magician makes people lift garments to avoid wetting in imaginary river. *BP III 203; Dickson 222 n. 18; Danish: Kristensen Danske Sagn VI (1900) 426ff; FSS 22—23, Boberg; Estonian: Aarne FFC XXV 137 No. 103; Lappish: Qvigstad FFC LX 51 No. 99. |
| D2031.1.2 | People swim in imaginary rising river. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| D2031.2 | Thread made to appear as a large log carried by a cock. *BP III 203. |
| D2031.3 | Pursued animal runs through imaginary river. Dickson 222 n. 17. |
| D2031.4 | Hideous person magically makes self seem beautiful. Malone PMLA XLIII 417. |
| D2031.4.1 | Druid makes self appear ugly on one side, beautiful on other. (Cf. D2031.0.4.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| D2031.4.2 | Magician appears as swineherd, dwarf, and giant in order to seduce queen and scorns her later in the same shapes. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| D2031.4.3 | Magician appears as beggar or old man in order to free prisoners. Icelandic: FSS 22—23, Boberg. |
| D2031.5 | Man magically made to believe himself bishop, archbishop, and pope. When he continues to refuse payment to the magician, the latter shows him the reality. *Chauvin II 151 No. 11. |
| D2031.6 | Magic illusion as protection. |
| D2031.6.1 | Man made to appear to pursuers as woman carrying babe. Irish myth: Cross. |
| D2031.6.2 | Son made to appear to pursuers as spinning wheel, buck, and hog. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| D2031.6.3 | Lonesome wife scares robbers by making it appear that her husband is at home. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| D2031.6.4 | Pursuers confused in other ways by magic illusion. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| D2031.7 | Horse made to appear as tree-trunk. Irish myth: Cross. |
| D2031.8 | Armies separated with illusion that each has won object of contention. Irish myth: Cross. |
| D2031.9 | Enemy's last arrow made to appear crooked so that he does not use it, and adversary gets time to kill him. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| D2031.10 | Spear made to appear as a reed in order to kill treacherously. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| D2031.11 | Illusive fire stops men. Danish: Kristensen Danske Sagn III (1895) 452—53, (1931) 310—11; Icelandic: Boberg. |
| D2031.12 | Sea water made to behave like solid earth. Irish myth: Cross. |
| D2031.13 | Magic rath always seems distant, never near. Irish myth: Cross. |
| D2031.14 | Illusion: mountains seem to be fighting. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| D2031.15 | Goat appears to be two every time man aims. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| D2031.16 | Vision of food arises to tempt fasting women. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| D2031.17 | Storm appears to be island. Eskimo (Central): Boas RBAE VI 622. |
| D2031.18 | Person appears to be in several places at once. Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 141. |
| D2032 | Magic avoidance of fatigue. (Cf. D1924.) *Fb "hest" I 600. |
| D2033 | Thirst magically caused to disappear. (Cf. D1349.1.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| D2034 | Crying induced by magic as trick to force child's mother. Icelandic: Egils saga Einhenda 66, *Boberg. |
| D2035 | Magic heaviness. Loomis White Magic 49. |
| D2036 | Magic homesickness. Greek: Homer Odyssey XV 66, Iliad III 139. |
| D2038 | Animal becomes magically larger. |
| D2038.1 | Centipede becomes large enough to kill demon. Chinese: Graham. |
| D2050 | Destructive magic power. |
| D2060 | Death or bodily injury by magic. (Cf. C920f., D1207.1, D1400, D2089.3.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| D2061 | Magic murder. (Cf. D1402.) Icelandic: *Boberg; India: Thompson-Balys; Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 115, 120. |
| D2061.1 | Kinds of death produced by magic. (Cf. D1896.) |
| D2061.1.1 | Person magically reduced to ashes. (Cf. D1896.) Irish myth: *Cross; India: Thompson-Balys, Penzer IV 232, 244; Chauvin V 16 n. 2, 293. |
| D2061.1.1.1 | Person magically reduced to pile of bones. Jewish: Neuman. |
| D2061.1.2 | Persons magically caused to dance selves to death. Aztec: Alexander Lat. Am. 66. |
| D2061.1.3 | Poisoning by magic. *Kittredge Witchcraft 136ff., 457f. nn. 1—29 passim; Irish myth: *Cross; England, U.S.: Baughman. |
| D2061.1.4 | Persons magically made to decay and die. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| D2061.1.5 | Plague magically invoked. Irish myth: Cross. |
| D2061.2 | Means employed in magic murder. |
| D2061.2.1 | Death-giving glance. (Cf. F555.7.) Hartland Perseus III 59f.; *Krappe Balor 1ff.; Penzer II 298, IV 232, VIII 75 n. 1; Chauvin V 16 n. 2, 293; Gaster Rabbis 225 No. 203.—Greek: Fox 35 (Gorgon); Irish myth: *Cross; England, Wales, U.S.: *Baughman; Jewish: Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys; Persian: Carnoy 336; N. A. Indian: Thompson Tales 344 n. 242, (Calif): Gayton and Newman 92; Eskimo (Mackenzie Area): Jenness 65. |
| D2061.2.1.1 | Evil eye sets bird on fire. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| D2061.2.2 | Murder by sympathetic magic. An object or an animal is abused or destroyed to bring about the death of a person. *Cox Cinderella 491; Herbert III 200; Oesterley No. 102; *Kittredge Witchcraft 73ff., 411ff. nn. 1—171; Irish myth: Cross; Heptameron No. 1. |
| D2061.2.2.1 | Person whose shadow is pierced by spear falls dead. Irish myth: Cross. |
| D2061.2.2.2 | Spell chanted over person's shadow brings death. Irish myth: Cross. |
| D2061.2.2.3 | Murder by abuse or destruction of image. England, Scotland, U.S.: *Baughman. |
| D2061.2.2.4 | Body of victim abused. |
| D2061.2.2.4.1 | Hair of victim burned, causing his death. England: Baughman. |
| D2061.2.2.5 | Murder by abuse of clothing of victim. |
| D2061.2.2.5.1 | Murder by boiling gloves of victim. England: Baughman. |
| D2061.2.2.6 | Candle burned causes victim to waste away. England, U.S.: *Baughman. |
| D2061.2.2.7 | Animals abused or destroyed to cause death of person. England: *Baughman. |
| D2061.2.2.8 | Miscellaneous objects abused to cause death. |
| D2061.2.2.8.1 | Needle, placed under hearth, burns and causes death of victim. U.S.: Baughman. |
| D2061.2.3 | Murder by pointing. (Cf. D2069.1.1.) N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 345 n. 242a, (Calif.): Gayton and Newman 56, Eskimo (Greenland): Rasmussen III 114, 240, 246. |
| D2061.2.4 | Death by cursing. Irish myth: *Cross; Hebrew: 2 Kings 2:24, Neuman; Icelandic: Boberg; Eskimo: Kroeber JAFL XII 173, Turner RBAE XI 262. |
| D2061.2.4.1 | Death in sin (damnation) by cursing. (Cf. E752.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| D2061.2.4.2 | Curse of clergy causes man to die of wound. Irish myth: Cross. |
| D2061.2.5 | Hunter reduced to ashes by power of heroine's chastity. (Cf. D2061.1.1.) Penzer IV 244. |
| D2061.2.6 | Person killed by spike magically made to appear on chair. Irish myth: Cross. |
| D2061.2.7 | Murder by showing man caul with which he was born. Irish myth: Cross. |
| D2061.2.8 | Horse made to hang himself on gate by magic. Cheremis: Sebeok-Nyerges. |
| D2061.2.9 | Breathing on enemy drives him onto knife. Eskimo (Mackenzie Area): Jenness 36. |
| D2062 | Maiming by magic. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| D2062.1 | Heart removed by magic. Penzer I 129. |
| D2062.2 | Blinding by magic. Irish myth: *Cross; German: Grimm No. 135; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| D2062.2.1 | Blinding by curse. (Cf. M431.1.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| D2062.2.1.1 | Person suffers from "crookedness in his eye" as result of curse. Irish myth: Cross. |
| D2062.2.2 | Sight of holy person causes blindness. Jewish: Neuman. |
| D2062.2.3 | Person caused to squint as punishment. Irish myth: Cross. |
| D2062.2.4 | Enemies magically caused to lose sight of each other while hunting. Irish myth: Cross (D1981.4). |
| D2062.2.5 | Magic blindness by snake bite. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| D2062.2.6 | When certain thief coughs, watchmen become blind. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| D2062.3 | Flesh magically does not regrow. Irish myth: Cross; Icelandic: Boberg. |
| D2062.4 | Magic mutilation: sexual organs. |
| D2062.4.1 | Bride enchanted by witch loses her sexual organs. Cheremis: Sebeok-Nyerges. |
| D2062.4.2 | Castration by magic. Eskimo (Greenland): Rasmussen III 294. |
| D2062.5 | Magic mutilation: temporary growths on person. (Cf. D1375.) Philippine (Tinguian): Cole 39, 62, 701. |
| D2063 | Magic discomfort. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| D2063.1 | Tormenting by magic. England: *Baughman. |
| D2063.1.1 | Tormenting by sympathetic magic. Person (usually witch) tormented by abusing an animal or object. The usual methods of abuse are burning or sticking with pins. *Kittredge Witchcraft 97ff., 429ff. nn. 173—239 passim; England, U.S.: *Baughman; Feilberg DF X 165ff.; Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| D2063.2 | Magic restlessness in bed. Fb "seng" III 187b. |
| D2063.3 | Magic insatiable thirst. (Cf. D1373.0.1.) Irish myth: Cross; Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 105. |
| D2063.3.1 | Druids cause magic thirst. (Cf. P427.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| D2063.3.1.1 | Saints cause magic thirst. Irish myth: Cross. |
| D2063.4 | Magic scratching (itching). Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| D2063.5 | Magic discomfort: continued breaking of wind. (Cf. D2079.1, G303.6.2.15.1.) Cheremis: Sebeok-Nyerges. |
| D2063.6 | Man magically made to bark like dog. Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 32. |
| D2064 | Magic sickness. (Cf. D1837.) Icelandic: *Boberg; Spanish Exempla: Keller; Chinese: Graham; Eskimo (Greenland): Rink 458, 467, Rasmussen III 67, 292. |
| D2064.0.1 | Magic love-sickness. (Cf. D1355.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| D2064.0.2 | Magic heart-sickness. Jewish: Neuman. |
| D2064.0.3 | Magic pestilence. Jewish: Neuman. |
| D2064.1 | Magic sickness because girl has thrown away her consecrated wafer. (Cf. C55, C940.1.) *Type 613; *BP I 322 n. 1; Irish: O'suilleabhain 27, Beal XXI 308. |
| D2064.2 | Sickness of princess dependent on witch's fire. When fire is high, princess is very sick. Princess recovers when fire is put out. (Cf. D2065.4.) Köhler-Bolte I 335. |
| D2064.3 | Sickness transferred to animal. Fb "sygdom" III 609b; England: Baughman. |
| D2064.4 | Magic sickness because of Evil Eye. (Cf. D2071.) Fb "sygdom" III 700a, "overse" II 771a; England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, U.S.: *Baughman. |
| D2064.5 | Magic sickness from curse. Irish myth: Cross; Icelandic: Boberg; India: Thompson-Balys; Eskimo (Greenland): Rink 372. |
| D2064.6 | Magic sickness from wounding sick person. Irish myth: Cross. |
| D2064.7 | Magic sickness from bit of weapon left in head. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| D2064.8 | Magic sickness by making fruit plant dry and shrivel. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| D2065 | Magic insanity. (Cf. D2161.3.8.) *Kittredge Witchcraft 30, *382 n. 51, 124ff., 449f. nn. 1—23 passim; Irish myth: *Cross; Lithuanian: Balys Index 3512; Eskimo (Greenland): Rink 167, 259, 368, 445. |
| D2065.1 | Madness from demonic possession. Kittredge Witchcraft 124ff., 449f. nn. 1—23 passim; Italian Novella: Rotunda; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| D2065.2 | Insanity from seeing strange sight. Fb "vild" III 1052a. |
| D2065.2.1 | Magic insanity caused by hearing strange sound. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| D2065.3 | Druids bereave men of senses. (Cf. P427.) Irish: Plummer clix, *Cross. |
| D2065.4 | Insanity of princess dependent on height of fire. (Cf. D2064.2.) Spanish: Boggs FFC XC 60 No. 435*. |
| D2065.5 | Insanity because of Evil Eye. (Cf. D2071.) Fb "øje" III 1167b. |
| D2065.6 | Person abducted by Echo crazed and dumb. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| D2065.7 | Insanity from curse. Irish myth: Cross. |
| D2066 | Elfshot. (F360.) Magic shooting of small objects into a person's (or animal's) body. Kittredge Witchcraft 133, 453ff. nn. 62—82 passim; *Fb "skud" III 333b, "ellefolk" I 241b.—Irish myth: Cross; England, Ireland: *Baughman. |
| D2066.1 | Elves get stones from fairies who get them from mermaids. The devil does the finishing work on the stones. England: Baughman. |
| D2069 | Death or bodily injury by magic—miscellaneous. |
| D2069.1 | Person magically caused to fall. |
| D2069.1.1 | Person made to fall down by pointing at door. (Cf. D2061.2.3.) Chinese: Graham. |
| D2069.2 | People magically compelled to bend arm. Eskimo (Bering Strait): Nelson RBAE XVIII 501. |
| D2070 | Bewitching. (Cf. D5, G200.) **Kittredge Witchcraft.—Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: Ynglinga saga 29, Boberg; Jewish: Neuman; Eskimo (Greenland): Rink 200. |
| D2070.1 | Magic hair-ball used for bewitching. (Cf. D991.3, D1274.1.) North Carolina: Brown Collection I 668. |
| D2071 | Evil Eye. Bewitching by means of a glance. *Krappe Balor 9ff.; *Chauvin V 161 No. 84, VIII 143 No. 144 n. 1; *Fb "öje" III 1167ab, 1168a; *Hdwb. d. Abergl. I 686; Elworthy The Evil Eye (London, 1895); Jahn über den Aberglauben des bösen Blicks bei den Alten; Pitre Le jettatura ed il mal occhio in Sicilia (Kolozsvár, 1884); Seligman Der böse Blick und Verwandtes (Berlin, 1910); Maclagen, R. C. The Evil Eye in the Western Highlands (London, 1902); Penzer II 298; *Hertz Abhandlungen 181ff.—Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg; Jewish: Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| D2071.0.1 | Evil eye covered with seven veils. *Krappe Balor 25; Gaster Oldest Stories 45. |
| D2071.0.1.1 | Evil eye covered with bag or hide while owner is stoned. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| D2071.0.2 | Evil eye from exposure to magic concoction. Irish myth: Cross. |
| D2071.0.3 | Man with power of evil eye cannot look at any living thing before breaking fast in the morning without causing it to wither and die. England: Baughman. |
| D2071.1 | Averting Evil Eye. See references for D1070, Magic ornaments, a large number of which are used to keep off the Evil Eye. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| D2071.1.1 | Evil eye averted by spitting. (Cf. D1001, D1776.) *Fb "spytte" III 514b; Irish myth: Cross. |
| D2071.1.2 | Evil eye averted by swinging cat over child's cradle. Fb "overse" II 771a. |
| D2071.1.3 | Simulated change of sex to baffle Evil Eye. Penzer IX 163. |
| D2071.1.4 | Black as guard against Evil Eye. Penzer I 212, 217. |
| D2071.1.5 | Countermagic against Evil Eye: returning glance of Evil Eye blights the original glancer. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| D2071.2 | Person kills with Evil Eye. |
| D2071.2.1 | Person kills animals with glance of Evil Eye. England, Ireland, U.S.: *Baughman. |
| D2072 | Magic paralysis. Person or thing rendered helpless. (Cf. D1410.) *Type 952; *BP III 453; Chauvin V 16 n. 2; Tawney I 408, 417, 458; *Fb "stjæle" III 575a; Kittredge Witchcraft 201f. nn. 104—110; Alphabet 624; *Loomis White Magic 56f.—Irish myth: Cross; Icelandic: Göngu-Hrуlfs saga 242, Boberg; Swiss: Jegerlehner Oberwallis 300 No. 10; Missouri French: Carrière; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| D2072.0.1 | Sword made magically helpless. Fb "sværd" III 690a; Spanish Exempla: Keller; Jewish: Neuman. |
| D2072.0.2 | Animal rendered immovable. |
| D2072.0.2.1 | Horse enchanted so that he stands still. (Cf. D1654.12.) Fb "hest" IV 212a; Irish myth: Cross; England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, U.S.: *Baughman. |
| D2072.0.2.1.1 | Horse (ox) unable to move wagon paralyzed by witch. England, U.S.: *Baughman. |
| D2072.0.2.2 | Bird paralyzed. |
| D2072.0.2.2.1 | Person charged with keeping birds from the crops confines them in barn (usually roofless) by magic while he goes to town. England, Wales: *Baughman. |
| D2072.0.2.3 | Oxen paralyzed. England, U.S.: *Baughman. |
| D2072.0.2.4 | Mule paralyzed by witch. England: Baughman. |
| D2072.0.2.5 | Pigs paralyzed by witch. England: Baughman. |
| D2072.0.2.6 | Dog paralyzed. U.S.: Baughman; Eskimo (Greenland): Rink 452. |
| D2072.0.3 | Ship held back by magic. (Cf. D1419.3, F302.3.1.2, F402.1.13.) *BP II 265 n. 1, IV 196 n. 1.—Irish myth: *Cross; Italian: Basile I No. 6; U.S.: Baughman; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| D2072.0.4 | Bird overpowered by stepping on his shadow. Drops the stolen meat. Zachariae 57. |
| D2072.0.5 | Person paralyzed. (Cf. D5.1, G256.3, G257.) England, Scotland, U.S.: *Baughman. |
| D2072.0.5.1 | Witch prevents person from drinking. England: Baughman. |
| D2072.0.5.2 | Person who yawns cannot close mouth. Eskimo (Greenland): Rasmussen I 255. |
| D2072.0.5.3 | Magic paralysis of tongue of a talkative wife. *Loomis White Magic 126. |
| D2072.1 | Magic paralysis by Evil Eye. (Cf. D2071.) Fb "øje" III 1167b. —Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| D2072.2 | Magic paralysis by curse. Tawney II 467. |
| D2072.2.1 | Charm used by witch to cause paralysis. U.S.: Baughman. |
| D2072.3 | Magic paralysis caused by saint. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| D2072.4 | Magic prevention of performance of task. (Cf. H970.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| D2072.5 | Robber-proof house: thieves are petrified when they enter house for unlawful purposes; are fed and welcomed, otherwise. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| D2072.6 | Paralysis by singing magic song. Eskimo (Greenland): Rink 351, Rasmussen III 111. |
| D2074 | Attracting by magic. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
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