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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
H
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
Q
Rewards and Punishments
R
Captives and Fugitives
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Unnatural Cruelty
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Sex
U
The Nature of Life
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Religion
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Traits of Character
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Humor
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Miscellaneous Groups of Motifs
| Thompson reference ▲ | Description |
|---|---|
| F1034.2.1 | Ascetic carries woman in his hair, but she has two lovers in her cloak and outwits him. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| F1034.3 | Person's thigh as hiding place. |
| F1034.3.1 | Man hides sister in wound in his thigh to protect her. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F1034.3.2 | Bottle concealed in person's thigh. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F1034.3.3 | Garment hidden in hole cut in thigh. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F1034.3.4 | Jewell hidden in wound cut in thigh. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F1034.4 | Person's armpit as hiding place. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 169f. |
| F1034.5 | Other parts of person's body as hiding place. Tuamotu: Stimson MS (z-G. 1/96.). |
| F1034.5.1 | Key to house concealed in man's heart. Africa (Angola): Chatelain III No. 8. |
| F1035 | Disintegration: man eats himself up or dismembers himself. N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 304 n. 109m. |
| F1036 | Hand from heaven writes on wall. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| F1037 | Object thrown from heaven. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| F1037.1 | Footstool thrown from heaven. *Type 800; *BP I 342; *Hdwb. d. Märch. s.v. "Schneider im Himmel". |
| F1038 | Person without shadow. *Type 755; H. C. Andersen "Skyggen"; Fb "skygge" III 347; *Hdwb. d. Abergl. IX Nachträge 133ff.; Spanish: Boggs FFC XC 47 No. 325A*. |
| F1038.1 | Man attends devil's school to learn witchcraft, has no shadow afterward. Scotland: Baughman. |
| F1038.2 | Man has witch aid him in reaping contest, the devil to get the hindmost. The devil tries to take the man but gets shadow instead. (Cf. G303.19, K210.) Scotland: Baughman. |
| F1041 | Extraordinary physical reactions of persons. |
| F1041.0.1 | Neophyte shows no reaction when saint's staff pierces his foot. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F1041.1 | Extraordinary death. |
| F1041.1.1 | Death from broken heart. Penzer II 132, VII 24f., 103; Heptameron No. 9; Irish myth: Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg; Greek: Grote I 134; Jewish: *Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys; West Indies: Flowers 439. |
| F1041.1.1.1 | Heart breaks at third drink from silver canister. Fb "hjærte" I 631. |
| F1041.1.1.2 | Heart breaks when girl hears lover kiss another. Italian: Basile Pentamerone III No. 3. |
| F1041.1.1.3 | Heart breaks from sorrow. Hdwb. d. Märchens I 439a n. 267; Irish myth: *Cross; Italian Novella: *Rotunda; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 883. |
| F1041.1.1.4 | Hearts break when lovers are told beloved is dead. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F1041.1.2 | Death from grief for death of lover or relative. |
| F1041.1.2.1 | Lover dies beside dying sweetheart. Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| F1041.1.2.2 | Woman dies on hearing of her husband's death. Irish myth: Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| F1041.1.2.2.1 | Woman swoons and is near death at hearing of husband's or lover's death. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| F1041.1.2.2.2 | First woman in Ireland to die of grief for the death of her husband. (Cf. A1335, A1611.5.4.1.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| F1041.1.2.2.3 | Death from hearing of wife's death. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F1041.1.2.2.4 | Death from hearing of son's (sons') death. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| F1041.1.3 | Death from sorrow or chagrin. |
| F1041.1.3.1 | Maiden who has been falsely accused apparently dies of sorrow. She revives on being prepared for burial. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| F1041.1.3.2 | Servant grieves over master's death. Kills wife and himself. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| F1041.1.3.3 | Woman dies on having secret love exposed. Italian Novella: Rotunda; Heptameron No. 70. |
| F1041.1.3.4 | Priest dies from having been duped into deceptive bargain. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| F1041.1.3.5 | Man dies on learning of wife's adultery. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| F1041.1.3.6 | Heart breaks when girl learns men are slain in battle on her account. Irish myth: *Cross; Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| F1041.1.3.7 | Woman dies of broken heart on learning that her former husband is still alive. She had remarried thinking him dead. Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles No. 69; Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| F1041.1.3.8 | Man dies from grieving over mother's death. Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles No. 77; Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| F1041.1.3.9 | Death from excitement at news of Christ's crucifixion. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F1041.1.3.10 | Death from chagrin. Man cannot answer question. Alphabet No. 186. |
| F1041.1.3.10.1 | Guilty persons being confronted with their crimes become "insensate like trees." India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F1041.1.4 | Death from longing. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F1041.1.5 | Death from excessive joy. Heptameron No. 9; India: Thompson-Balys, Penzer VII 103. |
| F1041.1.5.1 | Bridegroom dies from joy. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| F1041.1.5.2 | Stranger dies from joy on being rewarded by ruler. Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| F1041.1.5.3 | Mother dies from joy on greeting long-absent son. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| F1041.1.5.4 | Death from joy of kiss. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| F1041.1.6 | Death from sight of beautiful woman. (Cf. F1041.8.1.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F1041.1.6.1 | Fainting away at sight of goddess. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F1041.1.7 | Man dies when he learns storm is magic. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F1041.1.8 | Death on beholding hell. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F1041.1.9 | Death from jealousy. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F1041.1.10 | Death (illness) from envy. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F1041.1.11 | Death from fear. (Cf. F1041.17.) Irish myth: Cross; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| F1041.1.11.1 | Suicide from fear of starving. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| F1041.1.11.2 | Death from fear of demons. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F1041.1.11.3 | Suicide from fright of evil prophecy. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| F1041.1.11.4 | Man dies from frog's bite, thinking it snakebite. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F1041.1.12 | Death from horror. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F1041.1.13 | Death from shame. Irish myth: *Cross; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F1041.1.13.1 | Girl dies of shame at being seen naked. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F1041.1.13.2 | Woman dies of shame at seeing naked man (husband). Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F1041.2 | Horripilation. Hair rises on end in extraordinary fashion from joy, anger, or love. Irish myth: Cross; Icelandic: Boberg; Hindu: Penzer I 120, VII 60, 139 n. 2, 179, VIII 46 n. 1, 94 n. 1; Korean: Zong in-Sob 83; Missouri French: Carrière. |
| F1041.3 | Person goes blind from overweeping. Malone PMLA XLIII 410; Jewish: *Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| F1041.4 | Person melts away from heat. Irish myth: *Cross; Africa (Efik-Ibibo): Dayrell Folk Stories from Southern Nigeria (London, 1910) 84; Jamaica: *Beckwith MAFLS XVII 263 No. 68. |
| F1041.5 | Poison of hydra corrodes the skin. Greek: Frazer Apollodorus I 269 n. 2. |
| F1041.6 | Buttons burst as consequence of violent emotion. English: Child II 186, IV 101, 302. |
| F1041.6.1 | Necklace bursts as consequence of violent emotion. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| F1041.7 | Hair turns gray from terror. *Chauvin VII 112 No. 379 bis n. 1; Korean: Zong in-Sob 81. |
| F1041.8 | Extraordinary madness. Fb "sær" III 723b. |
| F1041.8.1 | Madness from seeing beautiful woman. (Cf. F1041.1.6.) Penzer II 6ff., VII 66ff.; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| F1041.8.1.1 | Madness from sight of magically beautiful man. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F1041.8.2 | Madness from grief. (Cf. F1041.21.5.) Child V 487 s.v. "lover". |
| F1041.8.3 | Madness from seeing ugly ogre. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F1041.8.4 | Madness from thirst. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F1041.8.5 | Madness from overeating. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F1041.8.6 | Men go mad in battle. Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| F1041.8.7 | Mad warriors fly up into clouds. (Cf. F1041.16.6.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F1041.8.8 | Madness from hearing prophetic voice from air. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F1041.8.9 | Madness from regret that knight has forsaken his wife. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| F1041.8.10 | Madness (rage) from hearing about brother's death. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| F1041.8.11 | Madness from loss of fortune. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F1041.9 | Extraordinary illness. |
| F1041.9.1 | Going to bed for sorrow. Fb "seng" III 187ab. |
| F1041.9.1.1 | Man keeps to his bed, mourning over drowned son. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| F1041.9.1.2 | King keeps to his bed, mourning over vanished bride. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| F1041.9.1.3 | Woman keeps to her bed on announcement of lover's death. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| F1041.9.2 | Illness from keeping a secret. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F1041.9.2.1 | Huge boil appears on forehead of youth keeping a secret. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F1041.9.3 | Illness from shame of enemies' scorn. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| F1041.10 | Man sweats blood and absorbs hair into head on exertion of strength. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F1041.11 | Laughing and crying at the same time (sundry reasons given). *De Vries FFC LXXIII 213; Gaster Exempla 130 No. 352; India: *Thompson-Balys, *Bloomfield JAOS XXXVI 54—89, *Penzer VII 261; Chinese: Chavannes 500 Contes I 160 No. 43, 286 No. 78. |
| F1041.11.1 | Laughter from chagrin. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| F1041.11.2 | Man turns pale, red, blue, etc. from emotion or strain. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| F1041.12 | Man perspires in winter while relating fearful vision. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F1041.13 | Biting fingers to see if one is dreaming. Chauvin V 261 No. 154. |
| F1041.14 | Beheaded man swims. (Cf. E783.) North Carolina: Brown Collection I 686. |
| F1041.15 | Inordinate longing. (Cf. D1041.1.4.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| F1041.16 | Extraordinary physical reaction to anger. Irish myth: Cross; Icelandic: MacCulloch Eddic 88. |
| F1041.16.1 | Man spits fire when enraged. Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: Boberg. |
| F1041.16.2 | One eye recedes, other protrudes when angered. (Cf. F541.5.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F1041.16.3 | Man fells wood with sword (dies) when he hears of Crucifixion. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F1041.16.3.1 | Strength from anger enables man to break binding chain. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F1041.16.3.2 | Strength from anger causes man to break stone. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F1041.16.3.3 | Strength from anger enables man to tear opponent to bits. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F1041.16.4 | Heat of saint's anger sets cowl afire. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F1041.16.5 | Extraordinary bodily contortion as result of warrior's anger. (Cuchulain's battle-rage.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F1041.16.6 | Extraordinary physical reactions of angry warriors in battle. (Cf. F1041.8.7.) Irish myth: Cross; Icelandic: Boberg. |
| F1041.16.6.1 | Fury in battle causes stream of blood to rise from warrior's head. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F1041.16.6.2 | Fury in battle causes warrior to increase in size. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F1041.16.6.3 | Fiery columns rise in front of angry warrior. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F1041.16.6.4 | Face of angry warrior lights up with flame. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F1041.16.6.5 | Angry warrior becomes red and purple. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F1041.16.6.6 | Water boils when angry warrior is immersed in it. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F1041.16.6.7 | Fury enables wounded soldiers to continue fighting. Die at end of battle. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F1041.16.6.8 | Angry warrior's breath makes adversary's armour so hot that he must surrender. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| F1041.16.6.9 | Bowstring (arrow, oar) breaks at angry warrior's grasp. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| F1041.16.7 | King about to kill foster-son due to his evil explanation of dream; both jump into sea and are drowned. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| F1041.16.8 | Face and body turn black from anger. Africa (Swahili): Baler FL XXXVIII 279f. |
| F1041.16.9 | Chief beheads sentinel who does not recognize him. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| F1041.16.10 | Man throws cereal and spoon on the floor because he is supposed to eat together with his brother. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| F1041.16.11 | Earl throws jar of water after undesired messenger. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| F1041.17 | Extraordinary result of fear. (Cf. F950.5, F1041.1.11). |
| F1041.17.1 | Barrenness as result of fright. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F1041.18 | Putrescence flows from head when man presses forehead. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F1041.19 | Dumbness from disgust. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F1041.20 | Person vomits iron. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F1041.21 | Reactions to excessive grief. (Cf. F1041.1.1.) |
| F1041.21.1 | Illness from excessive grief. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| F1041.21.1.1 | Tears of blood from excessive grief. Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| F1041.21.2 | Man swells from excessive grief. Icelandic: Egils saga in ASB 3 (1894) ch. LXXVIII 14ff., Völsunga saga ch. 31 (29), Boberg. |
| F1041.21.3 | Refusal to eat from excessive grief. Icelandic: *Boberg; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| F1041.21.3.1 | Refusal to speak because of grief. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| F1041.21.4 | Man cries at hearing of friend's death. Þiðriks saga II 358. |
| F1041.21.5 | Man senseless from grief at hearing of father's death; one doesn't feel that he cuts himself with his knife, the other presses dice so that he bleeds. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| F1041.21.6 | Tearing hair and clothes from excessive grief. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| F1041.21.6.1 | Wounding self because of excessive grief. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F1041.21.6.2 | Bird in great grief tears out feathers. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F1041.21.7 | Swooning from grief. Icelandic: *Boberg; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F1041.22 | Deaf and dumb people speak. *Loomis White Magic 53. |
| F1041.23 | Shame causes smoke to rise from saint's head and sweat to stream from his brow. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F1041.24 | Slap turns man's face completely around. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F1044 | Man suddenly acquires long gray beard on scaffold at execution. Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 656. |
| F1045 | Night spent in tree. Hero goes into tree to spend the night. *Type 327A, 613; Icelandic: *Boberg; German: Grimm No. 163; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F1047 | Anchor floats on water. Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "ancre." |
| F1047.1 | Non-buoyant flasks float. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F1051 | Prodigious weeping. Usually by saint. Toldo II 96; India: Thompson-Balys; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 633; Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 87, 260f.; Africa (Upoto): Einstein 127. |
| F1051.1 | Barrel filled miraculously with penitent's tears. Ward II 664; Herbert III *341, 475; Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| F1051.2 | Miraculously loud noise of mourning for hero. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F1054 | Bones temporarily removed from body by tree climbers to avoid breaking them. Africa (Congo): Weeks Jungle 126ff. |
| F1055 | Books in church read without man's tongue. English: Child III 244. |
| F1057 | Hero (giant) wades across sea. Irish myth: *Cross; Welsh: MacCulloch Celtic 101. |
| F1061 | Flame as miraculous index. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| F1061.1 | Flame indicates presence of beautiful woman. (Cf. F1041.8.1. and cross references.) Malay, Indonesian: Dixon 222 n. 26. |
| F1061.2 | Color of flame indicates what is burning. Blue for furniture, white for money, red for person. Indonesian: Dixon 226. |
| F1061.3 | Burning pit will close only if armed rider will plunge into it. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| F1061.4 | Flame indicates place where innocent person was murdered. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| F1063 | Departing house. Hero in departing takes his house with him. N. A. Indian: Kroeber JAFL XXI 224. |
| F1065 | Man fishes up two blind women from a well. Malone PMLA XLIII 405, 416. |
| F1066 | Arrow shot to heaven returns bloody. Hdwb. d. Märch. I 102a; Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| F1066.1 | Knife plunged into earth comes out bloody. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| F1068 | Realistic dream. Irish: O'Suilleabhain 107, Beal XXI 334; Icelandic: Boberg; Jewish: *Neuman. |
| F1068.1 | Tokens from a dream. Man brings objects received during dream. Krappe Balor 122ff.; Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| F1068.2 | Wound received in dream. Still there when person wakes. *Kittredge Witchcraft 222f., 534 nn. 90—97; Alphabet No. 299; Icelandic: Boberg; England: Baughman. |
| F1068.2.1 | Man is maltreated in dream so that he feels it next day. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| F1068.2.2 | Fight in dream with real result. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| F1071 | Prodigious jump. To fourth story (or the like). Type 530; Cosquin Contes indiens 333ff.; Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg; India: *Thompson-Balys; Philippine (Tinguian): Cole 103; Marquesas: Handy 114; Tuamotu: Stimson MS (z-G. 13/499). |
| F1071.1 | Crossing a river with help of a fig tree whose branches touch the opposite bank. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F1071.2 | Jumping over a ditch which is really an ocean. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F1071.2.1 | Man clears river of enormous width in one leap. Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 102. |
| F1072 | Two children of different sex, not related, have such close resemblance that even parents cannot tell them apart. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| F1073 | Marathon marriage. Woman who has been widowed twenty-two times marries a man who has been a widower twenty times. Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| F1075 | Blood of brother and sister (and smoke from their funeral pyres) refuses to mingle. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F1076 | Tightening belt to counteract hunger: when loosened person falls dead. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F1078 | Detonation from spark struck for fire hurls ships out to sea. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F1081 | Tub of water dropped neither breaks nor spills. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F1082 | Person changes color. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F1082.1 | Person has red and black countenance after being burned. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F1083 | Object rises into the air. Irish myth: Cross; Jewish: Neuman. |
| F1083.0.1 | Object floats in air. Loomis White Magic 47f. |
| F1083.0.1.1 | Altar floats in air. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F1083.0.1.2 | Ark suspended in air. Jewish: Neuman. |
| F1083.0.1.3 | Jerusalem suspended in air. Jewish: Neuman. |
| F1083.1 | Stone cross rises into air. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F1083.2 | Man and his camels rise into air. Jewish: Neuman. |
| F1084 | Furious battle. Irish myth: *Cross; Jewish: Neuman. |
| F1084.0.1 | Inlay melts from sword with heat of striking. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F1084.0.2 | Weapons confined by flying nets of hair in furious battle. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F1084.0.3 | Continuous fighting. No rest or food. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F1084.0.4 | Marks of furious battle left in rock. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F1084.1 | Deep streams of blood flow during battle. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F1084.2 | Warriors use teeth after they exhaust weapons. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F1084.3 | Soldiers fight so closely river is forced from bed. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F1085 | Eye bursts forth from overstrain of voice. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F1086 | Saint preaches for three days and three nights. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F1087 | Hero's marvelous sword falls and cuts off hand of enemy. (Cf. F833, N331.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F1088 | Extraordinary escapes. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F1088.1 | Hero (heroine) spared for his (her) beauty. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F1088.2 | Hero unharmed by serpent which coils around his waist. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F1088.3 | Extraordinary escape from drowning. Icelandic: Snorra Edda Gylf. XLI, Boberg; Danish: Schmidt DF XXXIX 44ff.; Maori: Clark 29. |
| F1088.3.1 | Clerics and property cast safely on shore when enemies attempt their drowning. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F1088.3.2 | Fisherman dragged through sea by seal escapes. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F1088.4 | Animal escapes by slipping out of skin. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F1091 | Food does not spoil saint's clothing. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F1092 | Vessel of poisoned ale inverted; only poison flows out. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F1093 | Stake miraculously bent during night. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F1094 | Milk has taste of wine and honey. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F1095 | Arm grows longer from giving alms. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F1096 | Person lives on after being cut through by sword. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F1096.1 | Person lives on after having heart cut free. Heart moves about within his chest. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F1096.2 | Person lives on with intestines exposed. Irish myth: Cross; Icelandic: Boberg. |
| F1096.3 | Severed head bites earth. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| F1097 | Armies miraculously separated (kept from coming to battle, etc.). Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F1097.1 | Angel forbids armies to approach each other. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F1098 | Object miraculously mended. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F1098.0.1 | Object miraculously broken. Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: Boberg. |
| F1099 | Additional marvels. |
| F1099.1 | Entire household dies on same night. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F1099.2 | Roads miraculously appear on Hallowe'en. (Cf. F900.1.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| F1099.2.1 | Roads miraculously appear on day of hero's birth. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F1099.3 | Words heard though only thought and not uttered. Jewish: Neuman. |
| F1099.4 | Corn takes root in man's hair. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F1099.4.1 | Blades of corn grow through hair of saint as reward for guarding cornkiln. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F1099.5 | Burning bodies vomit. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F1099.6 | Extraordinary plowing. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F1099.6.1 | Extraordinary plowing by teeth. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F1099.7 | Pious die on their birthday. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| F1099.8 | Man meets his future descendants and is instructed by them. Jewish: Neuman. |
| G0 | Ogres. For a good discussion of the general concept and of the various kinds of ogres see Saintyves Contes de Perrault 299ff.; **Laistner Rätsel der Sphinx.—Italian: Basile Pentamerone III Nos. 1, 7, V No. 7; Africa: Werner African 242. |
| G10 | Cannibalism. *Types 327, 406*; BP I 115; *Cox Cinderella 499; *Saintyves Perrault 299ff.; *Penzer X 181 s.v. "Human flesh"; *Fb "menneskekjød"; *Freytag Am Ur-Quell N. F. I 179; *MacCulloch Childhood 279; Krause Der Ur-Quell I 1; *Cosquin Contes indiens 208; **DeCock Volkssage 64; *Laistner Rätsel der Sphinx II 87; Krappe The Modern Language Review XLIII (1948) 54ff.—Irish myth: *Cross; Lappish: Qvigstad FFC LX 57 No. 135; Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "anthropophages," "diable"; Jewish: Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 189, 588, II 32, 407, 676, 824; Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 21; Oceanic (Indonesia, Melanesia, New Zealand, Tahiti, Hawaii): Dixon 61, 63, 69, 86, 130ff., 227ff.; Easter Island: Métraux Ethnology 76ff. 83f.; Maori: Clark 100, 159; Eskimo (Greenland): Rasmussen III 272; Siberian: Holmberg Siberian 388; N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 353 n. 274, (Cherokee): Alexander N. Am. 68, (Southern Ute): Lowie JAFL XXXVII 74 No. 46; Africa: Werner African 242, (Basuto): Jacottet 8, 122, 204, 208, 258, (Angola): Chatelain 97, 103, (Fang): Einstein 65, (Bushman): Bleek and Lloyd 199, (Zulu): Callaway 47, 74, 142, 154, *158, 181, (Ila, Rhodesia): Smith and Dale II 413, (Kaffir): Theal 126, 139f., Kidd 225, (Benga): Nassau 227 No. 34, (Congo): Weeks 203, (Mpongwe): Nassau 72 No. 15. |
| G11 | Kinds of cannibals. |
| G11.0.1 | Cannibalistic god. Irish myth: Cross. |
| G11.0.1.1 | As result of fraud, Saturn swallows stone instead of infant Jove. Irish myth: Cross. |
| G11.0.1.2 | Father of goddess as cannibal. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 141. |
| G11.1 | Cannibal dwarfs. *Basset 1001 Contes I 190; N. A. Indian (Zuсi): Benedict II 335. |
| G11.2 | Cannibal giant. (Cf. G82, G83, G84.) Irish myth: *Cross; Missouri French: Carrière; Icelandic: Arnason Legends of Iceland (tr. Powell, London, 1864) I 122, 125, 133, *Boberg; India: *Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Werner 387; Easter Island: Métraux Ethnology 377. |
| G11.2.1 | Giant devours any person who fails to do his bidding. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| G11.3 | Cannibal witch. Kittredge Witchcraft 166, 485 nn. 28, 29.—England: Baughman; Icelandic: *Boberg; Lithuanian: Balys Index No. *2027B; Italian: Basile Pentamerone IV No. 6; India: *Thompson-Balys; Hindu: Tawney I 162, II 450; Japanese: Ikeda; Eskimo (Greenland): Rasmussen I 85, II 25, III 50f., 168f., Rink 48, 440, Holm 80, (West Hudson Bay): Boas BAM XV 198, 598, (Smith Sound): Kroeber JAFL XII 180, (Central Eskimo): Boas RBAE VI 599; Africa (Ekoi): Talbot 233. |
| G11.4 | Negro cannibal. Malone PMLA XLIII 412. |
| G11.5 | Water cannibal. Spanish: Espinosa Jr. No. 104; N. A. Indian (Cherokee): Alexander N. Am. 68. |
| G11.6 | Man-eating woman. India: *Thompson-Balys; Hindu: Tawney II 616; Tuamotu: Stimson MS (z-G. 13/249, 1110, z-G. 3/1276); Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 194; Tahiti: Beckwith Myth 197; Easter Island: Métraux Ethnology 370; Maori: Clark 39. |
| G11.6.1 | Female ogre changes men into tigers and eats women. Chinese: Graham. |
| G11.6.2 | Woman who marries tiger is fed human nails regularly. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| G11.6.3 | Old woman calls beasts together to join her in feast on human flesh. Africa (Duala): Lederbogen Fables 61. |
| G11.6.4 | Woman devours her husband. Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 838; S. A. Indian (Toba): Métraux MAFLS XL 60ff. |
| G11.7 | Cannibalistic king. Malone PMLA XLIII 403; Missouri French: Carrière; India: *Thompson-Balys; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 581. |
| G11.8 | Cannibal meteor. N. A. Indian (Luiseсo, Diegueсo, Mohave): Kroeber JAFL XXI 224. |
| G11.8.1 | Stars as cannibals. Philippine (Tinguian): Cole 109, 111; Tuamotu: Stimson MS (T-G. 3/931). |
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