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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
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
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Sex
U
The Nature of Life
V
Religion
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Traits of Character
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Humor
Z
Miscellaneous Groups of Motifs
| Thompson reference | Description ▲ |
|---|---|
| B651.7 | Marriage to bear in human form. Eskimo (Smith Sound): Kroeber JAFL XII 176, (Greenland): Holm 82, (Central Eskimo): Boas RBAE VI 638f., (Mackenzie Area): Jenness 76. |
| B601.1 | Marriage to bear. (Cf. B611.1, B631, B635.1).—*Fb "björn" IV 42b.; Icel.: Boberg; India: *Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 64, 178. |
| B640.1 | Marriage to beast by day and man by night. (Cf. D621.)—*Type 425. See references for D621.—*Tegethoff Amor-Psyche 17; Missouri-French: Carrière; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| B651 | Marriage to beast in human form. (Cf. B601, B641.) |
| B653.1 | Marriage to bee in human form. Indonesian: Dixon 219. |
| B652 | Marriage to bird in human form. |
| B602 | Marriage to bird. (Cf. B644.)—India: *Thompson-Balys.—Marquesas: Handy 120; New Hebrides: Codrington 397; Papua: Ker 57; Mono Alu: Wheeler 20.—Eskimo (Mackenzie Area): Jenness 52, 75; (Greenland, Cape York): Rasmussen III 57, 83. |
| B651.2 | Marriage to buffalo in human form. N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 339 n. 222 ("The Piqued Buffalo Wife"). |
| B601.12 | Marriage to cat. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B601.17 | Marriage to coati-puri. S. A. Indian (Cashinawa): Métraux BBAE III 143, 685. |
| B602.5 | Marriage to crane. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B604.3 | Marriage to crocodile. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B651.5 | Marriage to deer in human form. India: Thompson-Balys; S. A. Indian (Maropa): Métraux BBAE CXLIII (3) 448. |
| B601.10 | Marriage to deer. Irish myth: Cross. |
| B651.4 | Marriage to dog in human form. Icel.: MacCulloch Eddic 258; Chinese: Werner 421. |
| B601.2 | Marriage to dog. (Cf. B611.2, B641.1.)—Irish myth: Cross; N. A. Indian: Thompson Tales 272 n. 2.—Africa (Benga): Nassau 165 No. 22; Dobu: Beckwith Myth 349. |
| B652.3 | Marriage to dove-maiden. Icel.: MacCulloch Eddic 260. |
| B605 | Marriage to dragon. Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 64f. |
| B602.1 | Marriage to eagle. India: *Thompson-Balys; N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 341 n. 231. |
| B603.2 | Marriage to eel. Tuamotu: Beckwith Myth 103. |
| B601.5 | Marriage to elephant. Africa (Hottentot): Bleek 61 No. 27. |
| B603 | Marriage to fish (whale). (Cf. B612.)—India: *Thompson-Balys; Japanese: Ikeda.—*N. A. Indian: Thompson Tales 341 n. 231. |
| B654 | Marriage to fish in human form. Irish myth: Cross (B612.0.1); India: Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 47f., 142; Africa (Congo): Weeks 216. |
| B651.1 | Marriage to fox in human form. *N. A. Indian: Thompson Tales 342 n. 233 ("The Fox Woman").—Chinese: Krappe CFQ III (1944) 124, 129ff., 136f., 141, Eberhard FFC CXX 49, 214.—Eskimo (Greenland): Rink 144, 427, Rasmussen I 150, III 76, (Cumberland Sound): Boas BAM XV 222—224, (Labrador): Hawkes GSCan XIV 156, (Ungava) Turner RBAE XI 264; Koryak: Jochelsen JE VI 364; S. A. Indian (Toba): Métraux MAFLS XL 144ff. |
| B601.14 | Marriage to fox. India: Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 63, 214; Eskimo (East Greenland): Rasmussen I 137, 143; S. A. Indian (Chiriguano): Métraux RMLP XXXIII 174. |
| B604.5 | Marriage to frog. India: *Thompson-Balys; Africa (Luba): DeClerq Zs. f. Kolonialsprachen IV 211, (Togo): Einstein 7. |
| B602.2 | Marriage to fulmar. *N. A. Indian: Thompson Tales 272 n. 2. |
| B641.3 | Marriage to god in bull form. (Cf. B611.4, D133.2)—*Frazer Fasti IV 74 nn. 2, 3 (Europa). |
| B602.6 | Marriage to goose. Eskimo (Mackenzie Area): Jenness 47, 77. |
| B601.13 | Marriage to hare. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| B653 | Marriage to insect in human form. |
| B601.11 | Marriage to jackal. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| B601.15 | Marriage to jaguar. S. A. Indian (Mataco, Toba): Métraux MAFLS XL 62, 64, (Jivarу): Steward-Métraux BBAE 143 III 627, (Eastern Brazil): Lowie ibid. I 434, (Yuracare): Métraux ibid. III 504. |
| B602.8 | Marriage to kingfisher. Africa (Togo): Einstein 7. |
| B601.6 | Marriage to lemur. Africa (Ekoi): Talbot 349. |
| B651.11 | Marriage to leopard in human form. Africa (Wakweli): Bender 52. |
| B601.4 | Marriage to leopard. Africa (Benga): Nassau 85 No. 4. |
| B651.3 | Marriage to lion in human form. Africa (Angola): Chatelain 145 No. 15. |
| B604.4 | Marriage to lizard. India: Thompson-Balys; Africa (Fang): Einstein 152. |
| B641.2.1 | Marriage to man in deer form. Africa (Swazi): Bourhill and Drake Fairy Tales from South Africa 212ff. No. 18. |
| B601.7 | Marriage to monkey. India: *Thompson-Balys; Japanese: Ikeda; Philippine: Fansler MAFLS XII 183; Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 411 s.v. "Affenmutter" |
| B601.3.1 | Marriage to mouse. Cheremis: Sebeok-Nyerges. |
| B659 | Marriage to other animals in human form. |
| B602.7 | Marriage to parrot. S. A. Indian (Chiriguano): Métraux RMLP XXXIII 175. |
| B645 | Marriage to person in amphibian form. |
| B647 | Marriage to person in animal form—miscellaneous. |
| B640 | Marriage to person in animal form. |
| B641.4 | Marriage to person in ass form. (Cf. D132.1.)—*Type 430. |
| B641 | Marriage to person in beast form. (Cf. B601, B651.) |
| B642 | Marriage to person in bird form. (Cf. B602, D150.).—Type 432; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| B643.3 | Marriage to person in caterpillar form. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B647.1.1 | Marriage to person in crab form. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| B645.2 | Marriage to person in crocodile form. (Cf. D194.)—Africa (Kaffir): Theal 38; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B647.1 | Marriage to person in crustacean form. |
| B641.1 | Marriage to person in dog form. (Cf. B635.4, D141.)—Irish myth: Cross, MacCulloch Celtic 168; India: *Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Werner 421.—Eskimo (Greenland): Rasmussen II 244; N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 347 n. 247; S. A. Indian (Chaco): Métraux BBAE CXLIII (1) 369. |
| B644 | Marriage to person in fish form. India: Thompson-Balys; Eskimo (Mackenzie Area): Jenness 52. |
| B646.1.1 | Marriage to person in form of five-headed snake. Africa (Hausa): Stigand Black Tales for White Children 83ff. No. 13. |
| B645.1.2 | Marriage to person in frog form. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B641.5 | Marriage to person in hedgehog form. *Type 441; BP II 234, 482. |
| B641.6 | Marriage to person in horse form. Africa (Hausa): Mischlich Neue Märchen aus Africa 186ff. |
| B643 | Marriage to person in insect form. |
| B641.7 | Marriage to person in monkey form. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B641.8 | Marriage to person in opossum form. S. A. Indian (Tupinamba): Métraux BBAE CXLIII (3). 132. |
| B646 | Marriage to person in reptile form. (Cf. B604, B652.) |
| B646.1 | Marriage to person in snake form. (Cf. D191.) Type 433.—India: *Thompson-Balys.—Africa (Zulu): Callaway 57, 321, (Kaffir): Theal 48, (Basuto): Jacottet 126 No. 18, 146 No. 20. |
| B645.1.1 | Marriage to person in toad form. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B602.3 | Marriage to pigeon. Africa (Zulu): Callaway 78. |
| B656.1 | Marriage to python in human form. Africa (Kaffir): Kidd 249. |
| B601.3 | Marriage to rat. Spanish Exempla: Keller; Bødker Exempler 297 No. 60; India: Thompson-Balys; Africa (Duala): Lederbogen Märchen V 192, (Mpongwe): Nassau 41 No. 6. |
| B656 | Marriage to reptile in human form. (Cf. B604, B642.) |
| B604 | Marriage to reptile. (Cf. B613, B622.1, B642, B652.) |
| B651.8 | Marriage to seal in human form. Helge Holmström Svanjung-frumotivet 1919, 84ff.; Icel.: MacCulloch Eddic 258. |
| B601.18 | Marriage to seal. Koryak: Jochelson JE VI 153; Eskimo (Greenland): Rink 127. |
| B656.2 | Marriage to serpent in human form. Hindu: Penzer VI 73 n. 2; India: *Thompson-Balys; Indo-Chinese: Scott 276; S. A. Indian (Toba): Métraux MAFLS XL 66; Eskimo (Greenland): Rasmussen III 76, 201.—Krappe CFQ III (1944) 138ff. |
| B603.1 | Marriage to shrimp. Eskimo (Greenland): Rasmussen I 144. |
| B604.1 | Marriage to snake. (Cf. B613.1.)—Fb "slange" III 363a; *BP II 251.—India: *Thompson-Balys; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 388, 1354; Japanese: Ikeda; Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 49, 176.—Jamaica: *Beckwith MAFLS XVII 272; Buin: Wheeler 43; San Cristoval (Solomon Islands): Beckwith Myth 104.—Eskimo (Mackenzie Area): Jenness 75, (Greenland): Rink 186, Rasmussen I 148, (Cumberland Sound): Boas BAM XV 178f., (West Hudson Bay): Boas BAM XV 555; (Bering Strait): Nelson RBAE XVIII 516.—S. A. Indian (Toba): Métraux MAFLS XL 65. |
| B651.10 | Marriage to squirrel in human form. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B652.1 | Marriage to swan-maiden. See all references for D361.1. |
| B601.8 | Marriage to swine. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| B651.9 | Marriage to tiger in human form. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| B601.9 | Marriage to tiger. India: *Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 62f.; S. A. Indian (Jivarу): Métraux RMLP XXXIII 142. |
| B604.2 | Marriage to tortoise. India: *Thompson-Balys; Africa (Benga): Nassau 134 No. 15. |
| B604.2.1 | Marriage to turtle. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| B602.4 | Marriage to vulture. Arawak, Carib: Alexander Lat. Am. 274. |
| B651.6 | Marriage to wolf in human form. Icel.: MacCulloch Eddic 258.—Eskimo (Mackenzie Area): Jenness 38. |
| B601.16 | Marriage to wolf. Eskimo (Mackenzie Area): Jenness 38, (Bering Strait): Nelson BBAE XVIII 482.—Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 49. |
| B641.2 | Marriage to woman in deer form. (Cf. D114.1.) Irish myth: Cross, MacCulloch Celtic 168; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B652.4 | Marriage to woodpecker in human form. S. A. Indian (Toba): Métraux MAFLS XL 146. |
| B548.1.1 | Martens recover lost magic ring from kite. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B784.2 | Means of ridding person of animal in stomach. |
| B542.1.3 | Measuring worm rescues from a height. Calif. Indian: Gayton and Newman 76. |
| B512 | Medicine shown by animal. It heals another animal with a medicine (herb, water, etc.) and thus shows the man the remedy. Sometimes the medicine resuscitates the dead. (The animal is most frequently the serpent. (Cf. B491.)—*Type 160, 303, 590, 612; *BP I 128; Chauvin II 106 No. 71; Kittredge Gawain 153 n. 4; Wesselski Märchen 239f. No. 50.—*Krappe Papers and Trans. of Jubilee Cong. of Folk-Lore Soc. 277ff.—*Fb "blad" IV 44a; *Frazer Apollodorus I 312 n. 2.—Icel.: Boberg, Völsunga saga ch. 8.; Jewish: Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys; Japanese: Ikeda. N. A. Indian: Thompson Tales 354 n. 279. |
| B81.13.7 | Mermaid appears as omen of catastrophe. Ireland, England: *Baughman. |
| B81.3.1 | Mermaid appears at midnight, entices people into water. England: Baughman. |
| B81.12.1 | Mermaid appears at midnight. England: Baughman. |
| B81.3.2 | Mermaid appears once each year, sings in choir, entices young man to follow her. England: Baughman. |
| B81.12.2 | Mermaid appears once each year. England: Baughman. |
| B81.13.1 | Mermaid asks captain to move boat which blocks entrance to her dwelling. England, U.S.: *Baughman. |
| B81.8 | Mermaid cannot pass through ice. *Fb "havfrue" I 569b. |
| B81.13.11 | Mermaid captured. Irish myth: Cross. |
| B81.4 | Mermaid captures a maiden. *Fb "havfrue" IV 204a. |
| B81.13.11.1 | Mermaid caught by fishermen. Irish myth: Cross. |
| B81.13.4 | Mermaid gives mortals gold from sea bottom. England: Baughman. |
| B81.9.3 | Mermaid half-beautiful, half-monstrous. Irish myth: Cross. |
| B81.9.5.2 | Mermaid has brown skin. England, U.S.: *Baughman. |
| B81.6 | Mermaid has human midwife. *Fb "havfrue" I 569b. |
| B81.9.2 | Mermaid has large breasts. *Fb "havfrue" IV 204a; Boberg. |
| B81.2.1 | Mermaid has son by human father. *Fb "havfrue" I 569b, IV 204a; Icel.: *Boberg. |
| B81.9.5.1 | Mermaid has white skin. Scotland: Baughman. |
| B81.9.1.1 | Mermaid has wooly hair. U.S.: Baughman. |
| B81.13.2 | Mermaid is washed up on beach. Wales, England: *Baughman. |
| B81.3 | Mermaid leads people astray. Fb "havfrue" I 569b. |
| B81.13.12 | Mermaid lives for three hundred years under lake. Irish myth: Cross. |
| B81.2 | Mermaid marries man. Fb "havfrue" IV 204a.—Krappe Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen 159 (1931) 161—175; Irish myth: Cross; Livonian: Loorits FFC XLVI 40 No. 25; Lappish: Qvigstad FFC LX 45f. Nos. 55, 57. |
| B81.13.10 | Mermaid prevents raising of sunken church bell. (See C401.4.) England: Baughman. |
| B81.7.1 | Mermaid prophesies. Icel.: Boberg. |
| B81.13.9 | Mermaid ruins seducer of her adopted daughter. England: Baughman. |
| B81.13.6 | Mermaid sings divinely in church (before enticing man away). England: Baughman. |
| B81.5 | Mermaid sits on knight's bedpost. *Fb "havfrue" I 569b. |
| B81.10 | Mermaid swallows man. Irish myth: Cross; Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| B81.7 | Mermaid warns of bad weather. *Fb "havfrue" I 569b, IV 204a. Danish: Kristensen Danske Sagn II (1893) 143ff., (1928) 101ff. |
| B81 | Mermaid. Woman with tail of fish. Lives in sea.—BP III 324; *Fb "havfrue" I, 569, IV 204a; Thien Motive in König Rother 42; Tobler Epiphanie der Seele 98.—Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "poisson". Icel.: *Boberg; Estonian: Hartland Science of Fairy Tales 201; Irish myth: Cross; Livonian: Loorits FFC LXVI 41 No. 26; Lappish: Qvigstad FFC LX 46 Nos. 58—63; North Carolina: Brown Collection I 636; Jewish: Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B81.9.1 | Mermaid's hair reaches her waist. *Fb "hеr" I 771b. |
| B81.11 | Mermaid's singing causes sleep. Girl tumbles from boat and drowns. —Irish myth: Cross. |
| B81.0.1 | Mermaids are like fishes in the water, like men on land. Icel.: Boberg. |
| B81.1 | Mermaids from Pharoah's children. They were drowned in the Red Sea.—Livonian: Loorits FFC LXVI 41 No. 27. |
| B81.2.2 | Mermaids tear their mortal lovers to pieces. Irish myth: Cross. |
| B82.5 | Merman attacked by putting steel in the water. *Fb "nökke" II 725a. |
| B82.6 | Merman caught by fisherman (released). England: Baughman. |
| B82.2 | Merman demands cattle as offering. *Fb "havmand" I 571a. |
| B82.1.1 | Merman demands princess. *Fb "havmand" I 571a; Gaster Thespis 176. |
| B82.7 | Merman lays hands on side of canoe. U. S.: Baughman. |
| B82.1 | Merman marries maiden. Fb "havmand" I 571a; English ballad: *Child I 366; Danish: Grundtvig Danmarks Gamle Folkeviser No. 38.—Literary treatment: Arnold "The Forsaken Merman". |
| B82.4 | Merman teaches music. *Fb "nökke" II 725a. |
| B82 | Merman. Fb "havmand" IV 205a; *Chauvin V 7 No. 3.—Arabian: Burton V 215, VII 254, 264, 270, IX 169 n., 179, 182ff.; Icelandic: Hálfs saga ok Hálfsrekka (ed. Andrews) 82; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 723; Jewish: Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B501.1.1 | Merry horn and angry horn for summoning buffalo. When all is well hero is to blow on merry-horn; when in trouble on angry-horn.—India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B747.3 | Mice gnaw through metal vessels. Jewish: Neuman. |
| B558.5 | Mice hitched to wagon. Fb. "mus". |
| B36 | Milk-producing bird. Africa (Zulu): Callaway 101; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B240.4.1 | Minister of lion-king a crane. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B23.1 | Minotaur. Body of man, head of bull. Result of union of woman with bull.—Icel.: Boberg; Greek: Fox 61; Roscher Lexikon s.v. "Acheloos"; Frazer Apollodorus I 307 n. I, II 120 n. I.—Chauvin VII 87 No. 373bis n. 3.—Chinese: Ferguson 30. |
| B255 | Miracle wrought for animal. Irish myth: Cross; Jewish: Neuman. |
| B81.13 | Miscellaneous actions of mermaid. |
| B800 | Miscellaneous animal motifs. |
| B159 | Miscellaneous oracular animals. |
| B259 | Miscellaneous religious animals. |
| B590 | Miscellaneous services of helpful animals. |
| B101.9 | Mongoose with golden hair and silver ears. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B292.2.1 | Monkey as domestic servant. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B240.12 | Monkey as king of animals. Wienert FFC LVI 47. |
| B294.2.2 | Monkey buys liquor. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B611.6 | Monkey paramour. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B298.1 | Monkey plays chess. Nouvelles Récréations No. 88. |
| B375.5 | Monkey released: grateful. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B294.2.1 | Monkey's money stolen. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B786 | Monkeys always copy men. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B762 | Monkeys attack by throwing coconuts. *Chauvin VII 22 n. 3. |
| B846 | Monkeys construct a bridge across the ocean. Penzer II 84 n. 1, 85 n. |
| B101.5 | Monster (whale) with golden teeth. Irish myth: Cross. |
| B16.1.1.1 | Monster cat born of a pig. Welsh: MacCulloch Celtic 191. |
| B16.1.1 | Monster cat devastates country. Welsh: MacCulloch Celtic 191; Irish myth: Cross; Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "chat"; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B80.2 | Monster half-man, half-fish. S. A. Indian (Toba): Métraux MAFLS XL 30. |
| B16.1.5.1 | Monster ox (bull) killed. Babylonian: Jensen Gilgamesch-Epos VI 94ff., cf. 120—21, 129ff.; Greek: Fox 29, 62, 84, 102; Icel.: MacCulloch Eddic 85, *Boberg; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B15.7.2 | Monster three-legged ass. Stands in the ocean. Has three feet, six eyes, nine mouths, two ears, one horn, a white body. Two eyes are in eye position, two on top of his head, two on his hump. He renders powerless by the sharpness of his eyes. He has three mouths in his head, three in his hump, and three in the inner parts of his flanks. Each mouth is the size of a cottage. (Cf. B13, B15.1, B15.2, B15.4.)—Persian: Carnoy 270. |
| B15.7.15 | Monster with 100 hands, 100 palms on each hand, and 100 nails on each palm. Irish myth: Cross. |
| B634 | Monstrous offspring from animal marriage. Irish myth: Cross; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 1169, 1354. |
| B634.1 | Monstrous offspring of sea-horse and woman. Irish myth: Cross. |
| B569.3 | Mosquito gives hero advice as to which choice to make. Korean: Zong in-Sob 18 No. 8. |
| B147.1.2.3 | Mouse as beast of ill-omen. *Fb "mus" II 631a. |
| B295.1 | Mouse makes boat of bread-crust. Takes animals and birds into boat. It capsizes.—Type 135*. |
| B776.3.2 | Mud puppy considered poisonous. U.S.: Baughman. |
| B731.3 | Multicolored llama. Wool red, blue, and yellow. No need to dye it for weaving.—Chincha (peru): Alexander Lat. Am. 230. |
| B731.10 | Multicolored worm (serpent). Irish myth: Cross. |
| B297 | Musical animals. |
| B7.2 | Mythical animals surround God's throne. Jewish: Neuman. |
| B99 | Mythical animals—miscellaneous. Africa (Ekoi): Talbot 371, (Zanzibar): Bateman 158 No. 8, (Basuto): Jacottet 70, 200, 276, (Ibo of Nigeria): Thomas 147, (Kaffir): Theal 84, 172. |
| B0 | Mythical animals. |
| B19.8 | Mythical antelope. Jewish: Neuman. |
| B10 | Mythical beasts and hybrids. |
| B7.3 | Mythical bird running before the sun bears inscription of golden letters. Jewish: Neuman. |
| B30 | Mythical birds. Penzer VII 56 n.; Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 29. |
| B30.2 | Mythical cock. Icel.: MacCulloch Eddic 276, 303, 313, 331, Boberg. |
| B94.1 | Mythical crab. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B94 | Mythical crustacean. |
| B19.11 | Mythical donkey. Jewish: Neuman. |
| B64 | Mythical eel. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 102f. |
| B60 | Mythical fish. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| B530.1 | Mythical frog as host to woman. S. A. Indian (Warrau): Métraux RMLP XXXIII 146. |
| B98 | Mythical frog. S. A. Indian (Warrau): Métraux RMLP XXXIII 140. |
| B19.3.2 | Mythical horse belonging to water-spirit. S. A. Indian: Toba Métraux MAFLS XL 50. |
| B63 | Mythical octopus. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 22; Marquesas: Handy 74. |
| B99.1 | Mythical salamander. Jewish: Neuman. |
| B91 | Mythical serpent. Borgese "Giganti e Serpenti" Archivio per lo Studio delle tradizioni popolari XX 507ff., XXI 90ff., 161ff.—Hindu: Penzer I 109 n. 2, II 90 n. 2, 266, III 259 n. 1.—Indo-Chinese: Scott 301; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B65 | Mythical shark. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 128—132. |
| B93 | Mythical spider. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B672 | Mythical tiger has family of jaguars. S. A. Indian (Chiriguano): Métraux RMLP XXXIII 155. |
| B19.10 | Mythical tiger. Jewish: Neuman. |
| B30.1 | Mythical white albatross. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 92. |
| B99.2 | Mythical worm. Jewish: Neuman. |
| B244.2 | Naga-king. Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 694. |
| B91.1 | Naga. Serpent demon.—Penzer I 203f., VI 28 n. 2; India: Thompson-Balys; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 1354. |
| B19.2 | Nectar-yielding cow. Hindu: Keith 37. |
| B155.4 | Neighing of horse indicates important spot. Korean: Zong in-Sob IV No. 2. |
| B741.2 | Neighing of stallion in Assyria impregnates mares in Egypt.—*De Vries FFC LXXIII 375. |
| B241.2.8.1 | Newly-born divine twins cared for by mother-of-tigers. S. A. Indian (Chiriguano): Métraux RMLP XXXIII 161. |
| B15.1.2.8 | Nine-headed animal. |
| B11.2.3.4 | Nine-headed dragon. Cheremis: Sebeok-Nyerges. |
| B15.1.2.8.2 | Nine-headed serpent. Fb. "hugormekonge". |
| B15.3.1.2 | Nine-horned sheep. Irish myth: Cross. |
| B15.7.7.1 | Nine-tailed fox. Korean: Zong-in-Sob 230 No. 99, 20 No. 9, 38 No. 22; Japanese: Ikeda; Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 141. |
| B784.2.0.1 | No remedy possible. England: Baughman. |
| B21.1 | Norse man-horse: "fingalkn" or "fingalp". Icel.: Boberg. |
| B256.5 | Obedience of the feathered creatures to the commands of saint. *Loomis White Magic 67f. |
| B636 | Offspring of human and animal intercourse. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B630 | Offspring of marriage to animal. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B15.4.5 | One-eyed pig. Irish myth: Cross. |
| B15.6.0.1 | One-footed animal. Irish myth: Cross. |
| B15.3.0.2 | One-horned ox. Jewish: Neuman. |
| B150 | Oracular animals. *Hopf (L.) Tierorakel und Orakeltiere in alter und neuer Zeit (Stuttgart, 1888).—Krappe JAFL LV 228ff.; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B11.1 | Origin of dragon. |
| B291.4 | Other animals as messenger. |
| B147.3.2 | Other animals furnish bad omens. |
| B147.3.1 | Other animals furnish good omens. |
| B147.3 | Other animals furnish omens. |
| B374 | Other animals grateful for release. |
| B299 | Other animals with human traits—miscellaneous. |
| B290 | Other animals with human traits. |
| B15.7 | Other animals with unusual limbs or members. (Cf. B20, B142, B92.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| B29 | Other combinations of beast and man. |
| B33.1 | Other devastating birds. Irish myth: Cross. |
| B770 | Other fanciful traits of animals. |
| B31.6 | Other giant birds. Penzer I 104, VI 123 n.—Chinese: Giles Strange Stories of a Chinese Studio (New York, 1927) 547.—Africa (Basuto): Jacottet 222 No. 33. |
| B490 | Other helpful animals.2 |
| B17.2 | Other hostile animals. Irish myth: Cross. |
| B14 | Other hybrid animals. |
| B15.1.2.10 | Other many-headed animals. |
| B90 | Other mythical animals. |
| B19 | Other mythical beasts. Fb "solulv". |
| B39 | Other mythical birds. |
| B92 | Other mythical reptiles. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 125. |
| B599 | Other services of helpful animals. |
| B11.12 | Other traits of dragon. |
| B193 | Otter carries flaming wood in mouth. Irish myth: Cross. |
| B548.3 | Otter retrieves lost magic object from bottom of lake. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B548.1.2 | Otters recover lost magic ring from fish. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B292.7 | Otters supply man with fish and burning wood daily. Irish myth: Cross. |
| B569.1 | Owl advises old man of projected visit by gods (in disguise). India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B569.2 | Owl advises old man where to plant his crops after listening in to council of gods concerning rainfall distribution for the year.—India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B147.2.2.4 | Owl as bird of ill-omen. Hdwb. d. Abergl. II 1073 s.v. "Eule". —Alphabet of Tales Nos. 87, 88.—India: Thompson-Balys; Icel.: Boberg. |
| B242.1.8 | Owl as king of birds. India: Thompson-Balys. |
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