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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
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
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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 |
|---|---|
| F638.1 | Arrow shot thirty miles high. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F638.2 | Arrow shot down years after the shot. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| F638.3 | Man is waiting for bird to fall that he had shot eight days before. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F638.4 | Strong man shoots arrow as far as otherworld. Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 1004. |
| F639 | Extraordinary powers—miscellaneous. |
| F639.1 | Mighty digger. |
| F639.1.1 | Mighty digger of tunnels. Africa (Hausa): Equilbecq II 171ff. |
| F639.1.2 | Strong man's finger digs into ground with such force that water gushes out. Jewish: Neuman. |
| F639.2 | Mighty diver. Can stay extraordinary time under water. Africa (Ziba): Rehse Zs. f. Kolonialspr. III 366f. No. 30, (Madagascar): Renel I 102ff. No. 15, (Malinke): Frobenius Atlantis VIII 145ff. No. 81. |
| F639.3 | Strong man's shield-cast annihilates fleeing enemy and chariot. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F639.4 | Strong man overcomes giant. (Cf. F628.2.3.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F639.5 | Strong man kicks through heavy door. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F639.6 | Strong man tears boat apart with hands. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F639.7 | Man presses out twelve measures of oil without the help of bullocks. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F639.8 | Palace shakes when strong man gets upon its roof. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F639.9 | Strong man crushes ribs of person he embraces. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F639.10 | Strong man's anger: bites brass rods in anger and spits them out as powder. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| F639.11 | Strong man grinds huge rocks into powder. Jewish: Neuman. |
| F639.12 | Nine hundred horses draw chariot in which strong man rides. Jewish: Neuman. |
| F640 | Extraordinary powers of perception. Penzer VI 285; Icelandic: Boberg. |
| F641 | Person of remarkable hearing. (Cf. X936.) *Type 513; BP II 79ff. *95; Fb "jord" II 45a; Irish myth: *Cross; Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "ouie"; Italian: Basile Pentamerone I No. 5, III No. 8; Buriat: Holmberg Siberian 428. |
| F641.1 | Man can hear grass (wool) grow. *Type 513; Hdwb. d. Märchens I 432a n. 55; *BP II 95ff.; *Fb "høre" I 755b, IV 238b;—Icelandic: Boberg; Irish: Hyde Beside the Fire (London 1890) 23; Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "avoine". |
| F641.2 | Man can hear ant leave nest fifty miles away. Welsh: MacCulloch Celtic 190. |
| F641.3 | Man can hear one sleeping by putting ear to ground. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| F642 | Person of remarkable sight. (Cf. X938.) *Type 653; BP II 95, III 45ff.; Köhler-Bolte I 439; Hdwb. d. Märchens I 432b. n. 54; Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: Boberg; Welsh: MacCulloch Celtic 190. |
| F642.1 | Remarkable star-gazer. Sees birds in nest in distant tree. *Type 653; BP III 45, *57; Köhler-Bolte I 298f; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F642.2 | Person of remarkable sight finds tracks of swine stolen seven years before his birth. Welsh: MacCulloch Celtic 190. |
| F642.3 | Person can see through opaque objects. |
| F642.3.1 | Person of remarkable sight can see through hearts of trees. Greek: Fox 26 (Lynkeus). |
| F642.3.2 | Remarkable sight of sage lets him see worm in loaf. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| F642.3.3 | Blind man is able to see two unborn rats within mother rat. Korean: Zong in-Sob. |
| F642.4 | Person sees equally well by night or day. Icelandic: MacCulloch Eddic 154, Boberg; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 886. |
| F642.5 | Man can see celestial nymphs dancing in divine world. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F642.6 | One-eyed barber sees thread of silk stretching to sea. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F642.7 | Person of remarkable sight can see the soul. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| F642.8 | Person sees enormous distance. Icelandic: MacCulloch Eddic 154, Boberg; Greek: Grote I 158; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 493. |
| F645 | Marvelously wise man. |
| F645.1 | Wise man answers all questions. Africa (Hausa): Equilbecq II 171ff. |
| F645.2 | Man knows exactly how many grains are in a measure. Jewish: Neuman. |
| F647 | Marvelous sensitiveness. *Penzer VI 219, 288, VII 204ff.; Icelandic: Herrmann Saxo II 265ff., *Boberg. |
| F647.1 | Marvelous sensitiveness: meat (wine) tastes of corpse. Has been near grave. Italian novella: Rotunda (J1661.1.8.); India: *Thompson-Balys, Penzer VI 288; Jewish: Neuman; Korean: Zong in-Sob 102 No. 55. |
| F647.1.1 | Extraordinary gustatory sense. Woman detects flavor of garlic in a sauce made in a mortar from which garlic has been removed. Spanish: Childers. |
| F647.2 | Marvelous sensitiveness: suffering from merely seeing work done. *Penzer VII 204ff. |
| F647.3 | Marvelous sensitiveness: injury from rose leaves falling. (Cf. F647.9.) *Penzer VII 204ff.; BP III 238. |
| F647.4 | Marvelous sensitiveness: women blush in presence of male statue. *Penzer VII 204ff.; BP III 238. |
| F647.4.1 | Marvelous sensitiveness: woman refuses to look at male fish. *BP III 238. |
| F647.5 | Marvelous sensitiveness: woman smells like a goat. She has been brought up on goat's milk. Jewish: *Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys, Penzer VI 219. |
| F647.5.1 | Marvelous sensitiveness: meat is dog's flesh. Animal has been suckled by a dog. *Type 655; *Gaster Exempla 195 No. 51; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F647.5.2 | Marvelous sensitiveness: food has been raised in particular kind of manure. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F647.5.3 | Marvelous sensitiveness: man recognizes milk of his stolen cows. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F647.6 | Marvelous sensitiveness: wine shows through woman's white throat. *Köhler-Bolte II 348ff.; *BP III 238. |
| F647.7 | Marvelous sensitiveness: ulcer from moon's rays. *BP III 238; Penzer VII 11. |
| F647.8 | Marvelous sensitiveness: fainting from noise of wooden pestle and mortar. *BP III 238. |
| F647.8.1 | Marvelous sensitiveness: fracture from hearing man chopping wood. *BP III 238. |
| F647.8.1.1 | Marvelous sensitiveness: stitch in side from being told about hearing a man chopping wood. *BP III 238. |
| F647.9 | Marvelous sensitiveness: blister on back from lying in rose leaves. (Cf. F647.3.) *BP III 238. |
| F647.9.1 | Prince thinks he has slept on a beam; a hair is found on lower bedding. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| F647.9.2 | Marvelous sensitiveness: man feels little point of simple thorn in middle of his clothes. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F647.10 | Marvelous sensitiveness: man refuses to eat fifth descendent of stolen cow. Alphabet No. 301. |
| F647.11 | Marvelous sensitiveness: clarified butter was someone's leavings. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F647.12 | Girl (princess) so delicate she can live only on the perfume of flowers. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F648 | Extraordinary sympathy (telepathic) with wild animals. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F651 | Remarkable power to walk directly to nearest water. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F652 | Marvelous sense of smell. (Cf. F647.5.) Irish myth: Cross; Icelandic: Boberg. |
| F652.1 | Man identifies picker of berries by their scent. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F652.2 | Man smells pots boiling 400 miles off. Jewish: Neuman. |
| F654 | Remarkable power of recognition. Man remembers all people he has met. (Cf. F692.) India: *Thompson-Balys; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 908. |
| F655 | Extraordinary perception of blind men. |
| F655.1 | Blind man able to recognize real pearls by their smell, diamonds by touch, a good horse by screwing its ears, and raja of noble birth by his generosity. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F655.2 | Blind tiger recognizes by man's voice that he is a hypocrite. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F660 | Remarkable skill. *Types 653, 653*; BP III 45ff.; Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F660.1 | Brothers acquire extraordinary skill. Return home and are tested. *Types 653, 654, 1525; *BP III 10, 45ff., 379ff., 390 n. 1; Italian: Basile Pentamerone V No. 7; India: *Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Graham. |
| F660.2 | Unskilled man made skillful by saint's blessing. *Loomis White Magic 72, 82. |
| F660.2.1 | Follower of a saint is miraculously made a famous preacher. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F661 | Skillful marksman. *Types 304, 653; *BP II 503ff., III 45ff.; Fb "skytte" III 350a; Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg; Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "chasseur"; Italian: Basile Pentamerone I No. 5, III No. 8, V No. 7; India: *Thompson-Balys; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 1071. |
| F661.1 | Skillful marksman shoots meat from giant's hands. *Type 304; *BP II 505. |
| F661.2 | Skillful marksman shoots pipe from man's mouth. Type 1708*. |
| F661.3 | Skillful marksman shoots apple from man's head. Tell. *Hdwb. d. Abergl. s.v. "Meisterschuss Tell"; Fb "æble" III 1136a; English: Child III 17f., 28; Icelandic: Boberg. |
| F661.3.1 | Skillful marksman shoots spear through nose-ring. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F661.4 | Skillful marksman shoots eggs scattered over table. *Type 653. |
| F661.4.1 | Archer shoots eggs through middle. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F661.4.2 | Archer shoots and marks egg in nest without breaking it or disturbing other eggs. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F661.4.3 | Skillful marksman can hit egg from great distance. Africa: Weeks Jungle 43. |
| F661.5 | Skillful marksman shoots animal (man) through eye. |
| F661.5.1 | Skillful marksman shoots serpent through left eye. Chinese: Werner 182. |
| F661.5.2 | Skillful marksman shoots bird through eye. *Fb "skytte" III 350a.—Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 1123. |
| F661.5.3 | Skillful marksman shoots left eye of fly at two miles. *Type 513. |
| F661.5.4 | Skillful marksman shoots both eyes of an ogre. Italian: Basile Pentamerone V No. 7. |
| F661.5.5 | Marvelous marksman can shoot eye off needle at quarter-mile distance. Korean: Zong in-Sob. |
| F661.6 | Skillful bowman shoots crater of Vesuvius open. *Fb "bue" IV 76b. |
| F661.7 | Skillful marksman throws needles. One enters eye of the other so as to form a straight line. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F661.7.1 | Skillful marksman throws rushes into a curtain. The first remains and each following one lodges in the one before and remains attached to it. Schoepperle Tristan and Isolt II 294. |
| F661.7.2 | Skillful marksman throws swords and scabbards so that swords are sheathed in air. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F661.7.3 | One arrow shot into end of last one to make rope of arrows. Melanesia: Codrington 373, 397. |
| F661.8 | Skillful marksman casts lance through ring. French Canadian: Barbeau JAFL XXIX 18, Carrière. |
| F661.8.1 | Skillful marksman casts lance through hole in leaf. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F661.9 | Skillful marksman grazes ear of sleeping person and awakens him. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| F661.9.1 | Husband shoots arrows, barely missing wife's ears. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F661.10 | Man shoots pearls from wife's nose-ring. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F661.11 | Skillful archer uses arrow as boomerang. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F661.12 | Hero shoots arrow and cuts thread. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F662 | Skillful tailor. |
| F662.0.1 | Woman skillful in sewing. Chinese: Graham. |
| F662.0.1.1 | Woman sews nine garments at a time with one needle. Chinese: Graham. |
| F662.1 | Skillful tailor sews up broken eggs. *Type 653; Africa: Weeks Jungle 43. |
| F662.1.1 | Birds hatched from broken eggs repaired by skillful tailor have red line around necks. This indicates where eggs were broken. *Type 653; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F662.2 | Skillful tailor sews together scattered planks in capsizing boat. *Type 653; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F662.3 | Skillful tailor sews bean together after bean has split from laughing. German: Grimm No. 18. |
| F663 | Skillful smith. (Cf. F271.3.) *Fb "smed" III 402ab; Krappe Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen CLX (1931) 166ff., CLXI (1932) 1—9; Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: Boberg. |
| F663.0.1 | Skillful smith calls self master of all masters. *Type 753; *BP III 198; *Fb "mester" II 584a. |
| F663.1 | Skillful smith shoes running horse. *Type 654; *BP III 10; *Wesselski Märchen 213 No. 20. |
| F663.2 | Clever smith makes needle that pierces anvil. Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 1273. |
| F664 | Skillful flayer. |
| F664.1 | Skillful flayer skins running rabbit. *Type 654; *Wesselski Märchen 213 No. 20. |
| F664.1.1 | Woman flays running deer. Eskimo (Greenland): Rasmussen III 197. |
| F665 | Skillful barber. |
| F665.1 | Skillful barber shaves running hare. *Type 654; *BP III 10ff. |
| F666 | Skillful axe-man. Cuts down trees with single stroke, and the like. *Kittredge Gawain 199 n. 2; Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F666.1 | Skillful axe-man makes spear-shafts with three chippings. Also at the same time sets them into the spear-rings. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F667 | Skillful fencer (swordsman). |
| F667.1 | Skillful fencer keeps sword dry in rain. Swings it so fast. *Type 654; *BP III 10ff. |
| F667.2 | Man able to strike every arrow with his sword and reduce it to splinters. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F667.3 | Expert swordsman cuts clothes bag in two. (Cf. F611.3.3.1) Chinese: Graham. |
| F668 | Skillful surgeon. Irish myth: *Cross; India: Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Graham. |
| F668.0.1 | Skillful physician. Irish myth: *Cross; Africa (Konde): Gemuseus und Berger ZsES XXIII 151f. No. 13. |
| F668.1 | Skillful surgeon removes and replaces vital organs. (Cf. X1721.2.) *Type 660; *BP II 552. |
| F668.2 | Skillful surgeon removes speck from midge's eye. Does it with one stroke without injuring midge. Welsh: MacCulloch Celtic 190. |
| F668.3 | Man can transplant feather from one bird to another. Buriat: Holmberg Siberian 428. |
| F668.4 | Skillful surgeon can tell by whom wound was inflicted. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F668.5 | New arm made from another man's arm bone. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F671 | Skillful shipbuilder. Irish myth: Cross; Italian: Basile Pentamerone V No. 7. |
| F671.1 | Rapid boat-builder can build boat in twinkling of an eye. Africa (Hausa): Equilbecq II 171ff. |
| F673 | Man can keep together feathers in great wind. *Type 654; *Wesselski Märchen 213 No. 20. |
| F674 | Skillful painter. Can paint from description of a dream. Type 516; Rosch FFC LXXVII 97. |
| F675 | Ingenious carpenter. Penzer III 282—4, 296—300; Irish myth: *Cross; Jewish: Neuman. |
| F675.1 | King makes a wooden peacock machine for his son. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F675.2 | Moonmakers make new moon. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F675.3 | Carpenter constructs house of sandalwood which will go wherever owner commands. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F675.4 | Skillful carpenter constructs large palace overnight. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F676 | Skillful thief. (Cf. K301.) |
| F676.1 | Thief can eat from man's plate during dinner without detection. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F676.2 | Thief can cut soles off man's boots without detection as he walks along road. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F677 | Skillful tracker. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F677.1 | Skillful tracker infallible on land or sea. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F678 | Skillful milker. |
| F678.1 | Skillful milker milks cows incessantly. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F679 | Remarkable skill—miscellaneous. |
| F679.1 | Remarkable herdsman. Sits on mountain top. Cows come from great distance at his call. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F679.2 | Man can lengthen swords by twirling them between his fingers. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F679.3 | Man can walk (stand) on weapon edge (point) without injury. Can catch sharp edges without being cut. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F679.4 | Man can stand on barrel rolling down hill. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F679.5 | Skillful hunter. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F679.5.1 | Skillful hunter manages hounds. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F679.5.2 | Skillful hunter can tell from baying the succession of hounds and what quarry they pursue. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F679.5.3 | Man kills many tigers with one arrow-shot. S. A. Indian (Yurakare): Métraux RMLP XXXIII 144. |
| F679.5.3.1 | Seven stags killed at one shot. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F679.6 | Skillful cast of stone: carries away roof tree of burning house and so puts out fire. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F679.7 | Skillful gambler always wins. Whatever he earns in day he spends immediately. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F679.8 | Skill at chess-playing. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F679.9 | Skillful musician plays nine mouth harps at once. Chinese: Graham. |
| F680 | Other marvelous powers. |
| F681 | Marvelous runner. Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg; Italian: Basile Pentamerone III No. 8; Jewish: *Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys; Hawaii: *Beckwith Myth 151, 337f.; Tuamotu: Stimson MS (T-G. 3/928). |
| F681.1 | Marvelous runner keeps leg tied up. To prevent him from running away. *Type 513; *BP II 79ff.; *Fb "ben" IV 32b; Buriat: Holmberg Siberian 428; N. A. Indian: Thompson CColl II 345ff. |
| F681.2 | Marvelous runner outstrips March wind. Irish: MacCulloch Celtic 162. |
| F681.3 | Marvelous runner swift as thought. Irish myth: Cross; Welsh: MacCulloch Celtic 190; Icelandic: MacCulloch Eddic 81, 93, Boberg; N. A. Indian (Ojibwa): Michelson JAFL XXIV 249. |
| F681.3.1 | Contest between runner swift as thought and one swift as sight. Former wins. N. A. Indian (Ojibwa): Michelson JAFL XXIV 249. |
| F681.4 | Marvelous runner swift as sight. N. A. Indian (Ojibwa): Michelson JAFL XXIV 249. |
| F681.5 | Marvelous runner can run round earth in five minutes. *Fb "løbe" II 506. |
| F681.6 | Marvelous runner catches wild game on the run. Italian Novella: Rotunda; Jewish: *Neuman. |
| F681.6.1 | Man can outstrip wild mare, hold her, and bridle her. Jewish: Neuman. |
| F681.7 | Marvelous runner runs backwards. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F681.8 | Marvelous runner captures two of every wild animal. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F681.9 | Man who is too heavy for any horse walks faster than horseback riders. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| F681.10 | Marvelous swift plower. Chinese: Graham. |
| F681.11 | Marvelous swift mower. Chinese: Graham. |
| F681.12 | Runner runs so swiftly that he does not snap the ears of wheat (bend grass). Latin: Virgil Aeneid VII 807 ff.; Jewish: Neuman. |
| F681.13 | Boy runs so fast snow makes rainbow behind him. Eskimo (Greenland): Rasmussen III 255. |
| F682 | Man can stand all day on one foot. Irish myth: Cross; Welsh: MacCulloch Celtic 190. |
| F682.0.1 | Person (warrior) uses only one leg, one hand, one eye. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F683 | Sparks come from man's feet. Irish myth: *Cross; Welsh: MacCulloch Celtic 190. |
| F683.1 | Sparks come from man's hands. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F683.1.1 | Fire drops from fingers of warrior whenever he wills it. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F684 | Marvelous jumper. Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| F684.1 | Marvelous climber. Irish myth: Cross; Icelandic: Boberg. |
| F685 | Marvelous withstander of cold. Type 513. |
| F686 | Body with marvelous heat. Melts snow thirty feet around and serves as fuel for man's companions. Irish myth: *Cross; Welsh: MacCulloch Celtic 198. |
| F686.1 | Cauldron warmed by breath of nine maidens. (Cf. D1171.2.) Welsh: MacCulloch Celtic 95. |
| F686.2 | Room heated by crowded corpses kept on hand by ghoulish ogres. Scottish: Campbell-McKay No. 25. |
| F687 | Remarkable fragrance (odor) of person. Jewish: Neuman. |
| F688 | Man with marvelous voice. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| F688.1 | Man's voice shakes heavens. Chinese: Werner 305. |
| F688.2 | Man's shout remains in air three days. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F688.3 | Voice heard over whole land. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| F688.4 | Walls fall because of great shout. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| F691 | Man can breathe nine days under water. *Ullrich Archiv für Literaturgeschichte XIV 69ff.; Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F691.0.1 | Hero battles under lake for a day and night. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F692 | Person with remarkable memory. (Cf. F654.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F692.1 | Whole epic remembered from one hearing. Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 262f. |
| F693 | Wounds inflicted by certain man always fatal. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F694 | Saint passes through closed doors. Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: Boberg. |
| F695 | Extraordinary reading ability. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F695.1 | Reading without learning the alphabet. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F695.2 | Extraordinary amount read in short time. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F695.3 | Learning to read in extraordinarily short time. *Loomis White Magic 24; Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F695.3.1 | Miraculous ability to learn to read and to write foreign language in short time. *Loomis White Magic 72, 114. |
| F696 | Marvelous swimmer. Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| F697 | Marvelous ball player. Irish myth: Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| F697.1 | Culture hero as marvelous ball player. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F697.2 | Saint as marvelous ball player. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F698 | Marvelous juggler. Irish myth: *Cross; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F698.1 | Hero throws ball, bat, dart (playthings) and catches them before they reach ground. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F698.2 | Performing on spear points. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F698.3 | Catching 150 toy spears in shield. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F699 | Additional marvelous powers. |
| F699.1 | Marvelous dancer. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F700 | Extraordinary places. |
| F701 | Land of plenty. Yields everything to heart's desire. Icelandic: Herrmann Saxo II 588, 593, Boberg; Italian Novella: Rotunda; Hindu: Keith 144. |
| F701.1 | Milk and honey flow in land. Usener Kleinere Schriften IV 398; Jewish: *Neuman; Gaster Thespis 201. |
| F701.2 | Land of the Blessed. Everything as it should be. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| F702 | Land of fire. (Cf. F753, F756.1, F763, F771.1.11, F785.3.) Chauvin VII 57 No. 77. |
| F703 | Lands with extraordinary names. Land of the boot, the towel, the walking-stick, and the like. *Köhler-Bolte I 421. Cf. Type 1940, BP III 129; Chinese: Werner 391. |
| F704 | Land of cold and mist. (Cf. A623.) Icelandic: Herrmann Saxo II 584ff., MacCulloch Eddic 281, 304, 324, 326, Boberg. |
| F705 | Artificial paradise and hell to punish and reward. Wesselski Archiv Orientálni II 432. |
| F706 | Land of darkness. Krappe The Land of Darkness (Philol. Quarterly XXI [1942] 334—46); Icelandic: Herrmann Saxo II 595, 598, 599, MacCulloch Eddic 32, Boberg; Jewish: bin Gorion Born Judas III 152, *Neuman. |
| F707 | Extraordinary kingdom. (Cf. F760.) |
| F707.1 | Kingdom where everything is of gold. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F707.2 | Kingdom where everything is of silver. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F707.3 | Kingdom where everything is of diamond. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F707.4 | Kingdom where everything is of pearl. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F708 | Countries with one conspicuous lack. |
| F708.1 | Country without cats. *Types 1650, 1651; *BP II 69; Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "chats", "Alger". |
| F708.2 | Country without grain. Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "blé". |
| F708.3 | Country without wine. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| F709 | Other extraordinary countries. |
| F709.1 | Country of the naked. Chavannes I 195—97, cf. Wesselski in Archiv Orientální I (1929) p. 4. |
| F709.2 | Country of little girls. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| F709.3 | Country of thieves and impostors. Icelandic: Flateyjarbуk II 73ff., Sveinsson FFC LXXXIII xxii; Boberg; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F710 | Extraordinary bodies of water. |
| F710.1 | Water resembling fire. Jewish: Neuman; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 14. |
| F711 | Extraordinary sea. (Cf. D911.) |
| F711.1 | Sea issues from marvelous cask. Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "tonneau". |
| F711.2 | Sea of unusual substance. |
| F711.2.1 | Sea of milk. (Cf. F713.4, F715.2.3.) India: *Thompson-Balys, Penzer II 151. |
| F711.2.2 | Sea of cream. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F711.2.3 | Sea of pumice. Tonga: Gifford 149, Beckwith Myth 287. |
| F711.2.4 | Sea of slime. Tonga: Gifford 149. |
| F711.2.5 | Sea of honey. (Cf. F715.2.4.) Africa (Ba Ronga): Einstein 246. |
| F711.3 | Sea of unusual color. |
| F711.3.1 | White sea. Tonga: Beckwith Myth 287. |
| F711.3.2 | Red sea. Tonga: Gifford 141, Beckwith Myth 287. |
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