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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.
The index is large, so this browser displays 250 entries per page. You can search by motif reference or by words in the description, restrict the results to one of Thompson's main letter categories, and click motif references mentioned inside descriptions to follow cross-references. Individual motif pages also show any ATU tale types whose concordance explicitly cites that Thompson reference.
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Mythological Motifs
B
Animal Motifs
C
Motifs of Tabu
D
Magic
E
The Dead
F
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
S
Unnatural Cruelty
T
Sex
U
The Nature of Life
V
Religion
W
Traits of Character
X
Humor
Z
Miscellaneous Groups of Motifs
| Thompson reference ▲ | Description |
|---|---|
| F962.12.2 | Altar cloths descend from heaven. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F962.12.3 | Marvelous picture falls from sky in storm. Pauli (ed. Bolte) 319 No. 558. |
| F962.12.4 | Written scroll (letter) received from heaven. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F962.12.5 | Mysterious leaf falls on church altar. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F962.13 | Raindrops as large as man's hand. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F963 | Extraordinary behavior of wind. |
| F963.1 | Wind serves Solomon as horse and carries him everywhere. Dh I 321. |
| F963.2 | Extraordinary wind blows arrows shot against Christians back against enemy. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| F963.3 | Extraordinary wind bursts open locked doors of church to show that dead pope is worthy of burial there. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| F963.4 | Wind carries ogre to his castle. French Canadian: Sister Marie Ursule. |
| F964 | Extraordinary behavior of fire. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F964.0.1 | Pillar of fire (in sky). Irish myth: *Cross; Jewish: *Neuman. |
| F964.1 | Fire bends bough to shape of crozier. (Cf. F979.5.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| F964.2 | Fire spares saint's tunic, though wearer is burned. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F964.3 | Fire from extraordinary fuel. |
| F964.3.1 | Extraordinary lamps burn with urine. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F964.3.2 | Extraordinary blood catches fire. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F964.3.3 | Extraordinary corpse burns of its own accord. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F964.3.4 | Extraordinary stone catches fire. (Cf. F960.2.3.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F964.4 | Blazing stick continues to burn even in water. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F964.5 | Indra's tank blazes like gold. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F965 | Premature darkness. (Cf. F961.1.) |
| F965.1 | Darkness comes in daytime in order to save life of maiden about to be executed. Chinese: Werner 266. |
| F965.1.1 | Premature darkness at time of execution of innocent people. U.S.: Baughman. |
| F965.2 | Sun darkened at death of holy person. Usener Kleine Schriften IV 307; Jewish: Neuman; Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| F965.2.1 | Sun does not rise at death of hero. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F965.3 | Impenetrable darkness. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| F965.4 | Extraordinary darkness not dispelled by artificial means. Jewish: Neuman. |
| F966 | Voices from heaven (or from the air). *Penzer X 220 s.v. "Heaven"; Alphabet No. 800; *Loomis White Magic 53; Irish: *Cross, Beal XXI 314, 318, O'Suilleabhain 38, 49; Jewish: bin Gorion Born Judas I 367, *Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F967 | Extraordinary behavior of clouds. |
| F967.1 | Clouds protect fugitives. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| F967.2 | Clouds with fragrance from paradise. Jewish: Neuman. |
| F967.3 | Conversation between clouds. Jewish: Neuman. |
| F967.4 | Thin cloud in form of rainbow. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F968 | Extraordinary thunder and lightning. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F968.1 | Electric storm kills a thousand. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F969 | Extraordinary nature phenomena—miscellaneous. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F969.1 | Skies open, revealing heavenly company. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F969.2 | Earth rises. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F969.3 | Marvelous light. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F969.3.1 | Marvelous light reveals man hiding from saint. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F969.3.2 | Hero's light: appears around head of hero aroused to extraordinary feats of valor. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F969.4 | Extraordinary earthquake. |
| F969.4.1 | Rumble in earth attends slaying of giant serpent. Eskimo (Greenland): Holm 65. |
| F969.4.2 | Fight with monster child causes earth to rock like waves of the sea. Eskimo (Mackenzie Area): Jenness 66. |
| F969.5 | Cultivated places suddenly become desert. Jewish: Moreno Esdras (F964). |
| F969.6 | Sandhill grows around lover keeping watch till it covers all but his head. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F969.7 | Famine. Icelandic: *Boberg; Hindu: Bradley-Birt 121. |
| F970 | Extraordinary behavior of trees and plants. Irish: Beal XXI 308, O'Suilleabhain 27. |
| F971 | Miraculous blossoming and bearing of fruit. Krappe Revue Hispanique LVI (1922) 5—24. |
| F971.1 | Dry rod blossoms. *Type 756 ABC, 757; BP III 463, 465, 471 n. 1; *Dh II 265ff.; Fb "nеde" II 726b, "stav" III 541b; RTP IX 504, XIII 505, XV 61, XIX 66, 336, 532, XXI 123, XXV 141; **Andrejev FFC LIV 34, LXIX 126, 129ff., 241ff.; Saintyves Essais de folklore biblique 61ff.; Zs. f. Vksk. X 196f., XIII 72, XV 393; Alphabet No. 568; *Loomis White Magic 94, 114; Goebel Jüdische Motive im märchenhafte Erzählungsgut (Gleiwitz, 1932) 34ff.; Irish: Plummer cliv, *Cross, O'Suilleabhain 108, Beal XXI 318, 334; Spanish: Espinosa Jr. No. 186; Jewish: *Neuman; West Indies: Flowers 438. |
| F971.1.1 | Dry rod blossoms on night of saint's birth. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F971.1.2 | Witch's horse-switch blossoms. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F971.1.3 | Moss grows on staff overnight. (Cf. F979.18.) Irish: O'Suilleabhain 49. |
| F971.2 | Rose grows from table (stone). Type 755; Fb "sten" III 554a, "rose" III 80a; P. Saintyves Le Thème du bâton qui reverdit (Revue d'Histoire et de Littérature religieuses, III [1912] 330—49, 421—54). |
| F971.3 | Thorn growing in wound becomes tree. Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "épine". |
| F971.4 | Fruitless tree bears fruit. Done at saint's request. *Dh II 9; Alphabet No. 290; Irish: Plummer cliv, *Cross. |
| F971.4.1 | Ash (alder, willow, etc.) tree bears apples ("fair fruit"). Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F971.5 | Flowers bloom in winter. Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 686; Alphabet No. 475; *Pease Cicero De Divinatione 217 (U. of Illinois Studies in Language and Literature); Stier in Pauly-Wissowa XV (1932) 2026; Icelandic: Herrmann Saxo II 102, MacCulloch Eddic 320; Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| F971.5.1 | Fruit produced out of season at saint's request. Irish: Plummer cliv, *Cross; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F971.5.2 | Apples at Christmas. Tree bears apples only at Christmas. Blossoms at midnight and is full of apples by morning. Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 559. |
| F971.5.2.1 | Tree blossoms at midnight on Twelfth Night. England: Baughman. |
| F971.6 | Flowers spring up when saint strikes ground. Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 675. |
| F971.7 | Sowing and reaping same day. Fb "sе." |
| F971.8 | Trees put forth leaves on arrival of God in paradise. Jewish: Neuman. |
| F971.9 | Creeper which blossoms once only in a thousand years. Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 301, 871. |
| F973 | Plants and trees miraculously unbent. |
| F973.1 | Trees unbent. Irish myth: *Cross; Swiss: Jegerlehner Oberwallis 317. |
| F973.2 | Walking on grass-blades without bending them. Irish myth: Cross; Welsh: MacCulloch Celtic 189. |
| F974 | Grass refuses to grow in certain spot. Extraordinary event has happened there. Fb "græs" I 499b, IV 188a; Taylor Attila and Modern Riddles, JAFL LVI (1943) 136—37; Icelandic: Boberg. |
| F974.1 | Grass will not grow where blood of murdered person has been shed. England: *Baughman. |
| F975 | Garden becomes wilderness. |
| F975.1 | Garden becomes wilderness because of owner's wickedness. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F975.2 | After persecuted queen has been driven away from palace, trees do not bear fruits, flowers cease to bloom, and birds do not sing. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F979 | Extraordinary behavior of trees and plants—miscellaneous. |
| F979.1 | Sour fruits made sweet by saint. *Loomis White Magic 80; Irish: Plummer cliv, *Cross; Japanese: Ikeda. |
| F979.2 | Leaves of tree open and close to give saint passage. Irish: Plummer cliii, Cross. |
| F979.3 | Leaves of tree make melody for saints. Irish: Plummer cliii, Cross. |
| F979.4 | Tree seizes person and lifts him up. Africa (Nago): Trautmann La Littérature populaire а la Cфte des Esclaves (Paris, 1927) 6ff. |
| F979.5 | Bough miraculously does not burn. (Cf. F964.1.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F979.5.1 | Unconsumed burning bush. Jewish: Neuman. |
| F979.6 | Tree grows through handle of saint's bell. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F979.7 | Hollow in tree grows over, giving sanctuary to relics within. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F979.8 | Forest springs up from twig (twigs). Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F979.9 | Flowers pressed yield wine. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F979.10 | Flower from otherworld (Land of Promise) miraculously appears to persons (saints). Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F979.11 | Trees spring up to commemorate birth of primitive hero (demigod, deity). (Cf. F960.1.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F979.12 | Trees spring up from blood spilled on ground. (Cf. D1003.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| F979.13 | Convention of trees. Moreno Esdras (F979.4). |
| F979.14 | Grub's urine waters tree. (Cf. D1027.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F979.15 | Tree sheds all its leaves out of sympathy. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F979.16 | Magic tree will allow person to take only two of its fruits. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F979.17 | Plants grow without being sown. Jewish: Neuman. |
| F979.18 | Grass grows anew every night. (Cf. F971.1.3.) Jewish: Neuman. |
| F979.19 | Extraordinary tree supports pious man and his family. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| F979.20 | Tree's branches turn upward when idolators rest beneath it. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| F979.21 | Tree which has two singing blossoms. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 284. |
| F979.22 | Tree acts as master of ceremonies while gods drink. Tonga: Beckwith Myth 74. |
| F979.23 | Trees wither when tragic things happen. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| F980 | Extraordinary occurrences concerning animals. |
| F981 | Extraordinary death of animal. |
| F981.1 | Serpent bursts asunder. Dickson 54, 195 n. 78. |
| F981.1.1 | Animal bursts from anger. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F981.2 | Bull melts away after evil spirit has issued from him. Dickson 197 n. 84. |
| F981.3 | Animals killed by trickster's breaking wind. Koryak: *Jochelson JE VI 381 No. 68. |
| F981.4 | Fiery bolt from heaven kills devastating animal. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F981.5 | Ashes thrown into stream dissolve animals. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F981.6 | Animal dies of broken heart. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F981.6.1 | Animal's broken heart disgorged. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F981.7 | King of cats killed by glowing mass of iron thrown by saint. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F981.8 | Giant magic boar slain by tearing out entrails from behind. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F982 | Animals carry extraordinary burden. |
| F982.1 | Eagles carry castle in air. De Vries FFC LXXIII 388; French Canadian: Barbeau JAFL XXIX 12. |
| F982.1.1 | Great flock of birds lift grayhound and garments into air. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F982.2 | Four cats carry coffin. Type 326; Fb "ligkiste" II 422b. |
| F982.3 | Hawk carries hand of man to saint displeased by handclasp. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F982.4 | Bird brings flower from foreign land. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F982.5 | Crocodile carries extraordinary burden. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F982.6 | Toad carries seven stone mortars on his head. Chinese: Graham. |
| F982.7 | Toad carries tree on back. Chinese: Graham. |
| F982.8 | Crab carries in his ear cat, tiger, bamboos, river. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F983 | Extraordinary growth of animal. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| F983.0.1 | Extraordinary quick growth of animal. (Cf. T585.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| F983.1 | Snail grows and fills house entirely. N. A. Indian (Tahltan): Teit JAFL XXXIV 229 No. 36, (Tlingit): Swanton BBAE XXXIX 151. |
| F983.2 | Louse fattened. *Type 621; BP III 483; *Köhler-Bolte I 134, *601a; *Bolte Zs. f. Vksk. XVI 242 No. 23, XVII 229; Polívka Archiv. f. slav. Philol. VII 317 No. 65, XXVI 464; Sébillot France III 334 n. 4; Leskien Balkanmärchen No. 20; *Cosquin Contes indiens 529ff.; Italian: Basile Pentamerone I No. 5; Algerian: Desparmet Contes Pop. rec. а Blida 407; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F983.3 | Cat grows as large as a cow in a minute. Chinese: Graham. |
| F983.4 | Extraordinary growth of ox horns. German: Grimm No. 112. |
| F984 | Extraordinary protection for animal. |
| F984.1 | Horse sewed in buffalo-hides. As protection against a greater horse, hero's horse is sewed in nine buffalo-hides. Köhler-Bolte I 469; *Cosquin Contes indiens 417ff. |
| F985 | Animals change color. |
| F985.1 | Black sheep turn white. (Cf. H1023.6.) Types 425, 428, 756C*; Andrejev FFC LIV passim; Boberg Classica et Medievalia I 1938. |
| F986 | Extraordinary occurrences concerning fishing. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F986.1 | Clerics catch fish with regularity. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F986.2 | Salmon caught out of season for saint. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F986.3 | Salmon comes every seventh year to certain place. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F986.4 | Stranded fish do not decay for a year. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F986.5 | Shores flooded with sea-fish. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F987 | Animal controls sex of offspring. |
| F987.1 | Bird controls sex and appearance of offspring. Hatches seven eggs—three under each wing and one under breast. The right wing hatches three red males, the left three green females. The egg under the breast shares the characteristics of both sex and color—but dies. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| F988 | Extraordinary limbs of animals. |
| F988.1 | Ox's leg acts as person. Africa (Hausa): Equilbecq III 291ff. |
| F988.2 | Hoofs of horses drop from their feet because of heat. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| F988.3 | Apertures of animals' bodies closed up in certain land. Jewish: Neuman. |
| F989 | Extraordinary occurrences concerning animals—miscellaneous. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F989.1 | Horse jumps over high wall. Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "cheval". Cf. Type 530. |
| F989.1.1 | Horse's tremendous leap. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| F989.2 | Bird's red eye cooks meat. Looks so intently at it that it heats and cooks. N. A. Indian (Maidu): Dixon BAM XVII 65. |
| F989.3 | Cuckoo-clock. Bird calls out the hours. Hdwb. d. Märchens s.v. "Baum bewacht". |
| F989.4 | Man rides on back of fleeing wild boar. (Cf. B557.) Irish myth: Cross; Icelandic: Boberg. |
| F989.5 | Sheep never harmed by wild beasts. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| F989.5.1 | Sheep kill wolves. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| F989.6 | One bull, one cow survive plague. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F989.7 | Swine kick trees to cause fruit to fall. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F989.8 | Mother-love induced in animal. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F989.9 | Milk from saint's cows forms lake. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F989.10 | Animals distribute parts of man's body in accordance with prophecy. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F989.11 | Animal as mighty drinker. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F989.11.1 | Cow lowers ocean by drinking. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F989.12 | Sea animal found inland. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F989.13 | Animal dives into lake and disappears. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F989.14 | Birds hover over battlefield. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F989.15 | Hunt for extraordinary (magic) animal. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F989.16 | Extraordinary swarms of birds. |
| F989.16.1 | Swarms of quails serve as food for Israelites. Jewish: Neuman. |
| F989.16.2 | Swarms of birds darken sun and moon. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| F989.17 | Marvelously swift horse. Jewish: *Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F989.18 | Boar hung in spider's web. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F989.19 | Cock with enormous silver ears. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F989.20 | Egg becomes crowing cock. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F989.21 | Spider spins web across sky. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F989.22 | Animals eat extraordinary food. |
| F989.22.1 | Fowls eat gold and silver. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F989.22.2 | Tiger lives on self-cooking food. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F989.22.3 | Pig swallows necklace. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F989.22.4 | Animals live on pearls. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| F989.23 | Frog pierces hardest metals and marbles. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| F989.24 | Frogs cast themselves into oven-flames and devour bread. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| F990 | Inanimate objects act as if living. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F991 | Object bleeds. |
| F991.1 | Bleeding lance. Stream of blood flows from it into silver cup. (Cf. D1086.) *Brown PMLA XXV (1910) 1; *Gaster FL II 57; Irish myth: *Cross; Welsh: MacCulloch Celtic 202. |
| F991.1.1 | Bleeding knife. Jewish: Neuman. |
| F991.2 | Bleeding bone. Man cuts into dry bone that bleeds. Fb "høle" I 747a; Japanese: Ikeda. |
| F991.2.1 | Dry bone smells as sign of forgiveness. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| F991.3 | Bleeding cake. Bleeds when cut. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F991.3.1 | Bleeding loaf of bread. German: Grimm No. 205. |
| F991.4 | Shrine bleeds. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F991.4.1 | Desecrated altar bleeds. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F991.5 | Bleeding rock. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| F992 | Plant shrieks when uprooted. |
| F992.1 | Mandrake shrieks when uprooted. Stark Der Alraun; Taylor JAFL XXXI 561. |
| F993 | Sunken bell sounds. *Sartori Zs. f. Vksk. VII 113, 270, VIII 29; England: Baughman; Finnish-Swedish: Wessman 72 No. 610; Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 3610. |
| F993.1 | Sunken bell sounds at certain times. England, Wales: *Baughman. |
| F994 | Object expresses sorrow. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F994.1 | Books show sorrow for owner's death by falling from shelf. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F994.2 | Chariots, stones, weapons join in keen at hero's death. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F995 | Shield shrieks in battle. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F996 | Waters react to words of poet. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F997 | Sword pierces rock when possessor will break it. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| F997.1 | Sword is spoken to as to human being. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| F998 | Combat with horse's sex organ. (Cf. D1469.5.) Icelandic: Boberg. |
| F1001 | Extraordinary heads act as living objects. Moreno Esdras (F995). |
| F1002 | Substituted silver hand used as if it were of flesh and blood. *Loomis White Magic 125. |
| F1005 | Cooked food grows when planted. |
| F1005.1 | Cake, planted in the field, grows and after a time bears cakes. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F1006 | Extraordinary activity of mountains. (Cf. F755.) |
| F1006.1 | Mountain moves so that its rocks enter into caves of other mountain. (Cf. D932.) Jewish: Neuman. |
| F1006.2 | Mountain moves to person. (Cf. D932, F755.) Jewish: Neuman. |
| F1006.3 | Mountain trembles. Jewish: Neuman. |
| F1009 | Inanimate object acts as if living. |
| F1009.1 | Doorpost of room rises for holy person. Jewish: Neuman. |
| F1009.2 | Gate swallows axes trying to force it open. Jewish: Neuman. |
| F1009.3 | Altar shakes when unworthy man is elected. (Cf. D1169.) Jewish: Neuman. |
| F1009.4 | Twelve stones unite to become one. (Cf. D931.) Jewish: *Neuman. |
| F1010 | Other extraordinary events. |
| F1011 | Sunbeam as support. |
| F1011.1 | Clothes hung on sunbeam. Fb "solstrеle"; De Vries Germanischromanische Monatsschrift 1922, 40 n. 2; *Loomis White Magic 29; Irish: Plummer cxxxix, *Cross, O'Suilleabhain 101, 106, Beal XXI 332f.; Swiss: Jegerlehner Oberwallis 301 No. 19, 306 No. 19, 309 No. 10, 328 No. 6; Spanish: Boggs FFC XC 146 No. 1805A, 1805B. |
| F1011.1.1 | Gospel-book hung from saint's shoulders without strap. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F1011.2 | Sitting (hanging) on a sunbeam. *Köhler-Bolte II 98ff. |
| F1014 | Dice game that lasts for nine years. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F1015 | Extraordinary occurrences connected with shoes. |
| F1015.1 | Shoes miraculously worn out. |
| F1015.1.1 | The danced-out shoes. Every morning girl's shoes are danced to pieces. *Type 306; BP III 78; *Fb "sko" III 288b; Finnish: Aarne FFC XXXIII 39 No. 8**. |
| F1015.1.2 | Woman has worn out carriage-load of shoes with walking. Hartland Science 199. |
| F1015.2 | Wearing shoes only when crossing river. Filipino: Fansler MAFLS XII 64, 351. |
| F1015.3 | Bill of sale written on man's sandal. Jewish: Neuman. |
| F1016 | Man carries extraordinary luggage. |
| F1016.1 | Man puts his horse in his sleeve when he does not need it. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F1017 | Man washes clothes blindfolded. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F1021 | Extraordinary flights through air. Irish myth: *Cross; Spanish: Espinosa Jr. Nos. 91, 92; Jewish: *Neuman. |
| F1021.1 | Flight on artificial wings. *Type 575; *BP II 131; Penzer IX 149; Köhler-Bolte I 120; *Chauvin V 231 No. 130; Greek: Frazer Apollodorus II 139 n. 2 (Daedalus); India: Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Ferguson 35. |
| F1021.2 | Extraordinary effect of high flight. |
| F1021.2.1 | Flight so high that sun melts glue of artificial wings. Irish myth: Cross; Greek: Frazer Apollodorus II 139 n. 2 (Icarus). |
| F1021.2.2 | Flight so high that eyelids drop from cold. (Cf. B552.1.) Gaster Exempla 186 No. 5. |
| F1021.3 | Man learns to fly. Chinese: Graham. |
| F1021.4 | Man kicked so hard that he flies through the air and is never seen again. German: Grimm No. 90. |
| F1022 | Extraordinary descent into ocean. |
| F1022.1 | Descent into ocean in glass box. Jewish: Gaster Exempla 186 No. 5; bin Gorion Born Judas III 136, 306, *Neuman. |
| F1023 | Creation of a person by cooperation of skillful men. *Type 945; *BP III 53; Icelandic: MacCulloch Eddic 327. |
| F1025 | Objects go journeying together. India: Thompson-Balys; Japanese: Ikeda; Korean: Zong in-Sob 161. |
| F1025.1 | Bean, straw, and coal go journeying. Coal burns straw in two and falls into the water. Bean laughs until it splits. *Type 295; BP I 135; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F1025.2 | Turtle's war-party. Turtle recruits war-party of strange objects (knife, brush, awl, etc.) and animals. Because of their nature the companions get into trouble. N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 302 n. 108. Cf. Japanese: Mitford 185ff., Ikeda. |
| F1025.2.1 | Eggplant, needle, and cowdung go on warpath. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F1031 | Ship wrapped with feather-beds and canvass and pitched (so as to save it). English: Child V 496 s.v. "ship". |
| F1032 | Person walks unceasingly for year. Africa (Angola): Chatelain 33 No. 1. |
| F1032.1 | Person wanders unceasingly for hundred and fifty years. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F1033 | Person lives without food or drink for a year (or more). Type 706; Irish myth: *Cross; German: Grimm No. 31. |
| F1033.1 | Person lives on water (from holy well) for a year. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F1034 | Person concealed in another's body. *Penzer VII 114ff. |
| F1034.1 | Husband concealed in wife's ear. Hindu: Tawney II 578. |
| F1034.2 | Magician carries mistress with him in his body. She in turn has paramour in hers. Wesselski Märchen 186 No. 1; *Cosquin études 276ff.; Chinese: Chavannes 500 Contes I 378 No. 109. |
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