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Stith Thompson Motif Index
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Stith Thompson's Motif-Index of Folk-Literature classifies recurring narrative elements in folktales, myths, legends, ballads and related traditional narratives. Each entry below gives Thompson's motif reference and the description recorded in the index.
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Mythological Motifs
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Animal Motifs
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Motifs of Tabu
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Magic
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The Dead
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Marvels
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Ogres
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Tests
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The Wise and the Foolish
K
Deceptions
L
Reversals of Fortune
M
Ordaining the Future
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Chance and Fate
P
Society
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Rewards and Punishments
R
Captives and Fugitives
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Unnatural Cruelty
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Sex
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The Nature of Life
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Religion
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Traits of Character
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Humor
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Miscellaneous Groups of Motifs
| Thompson reference | Description ▲ |
|---|---|
| G636 | Ogres powerless after cockcrow. (Cf. G632.) Penzer I 77 n.; Japanese: Ikeda; Africa (Angola): Chatelain 106 No. 7. |
| G366.1 | Ogres who have no belly. S. A. Indian (Fuegian): Alexander Lat. Am. 340. |
| G310 | Ogres with characteristic methods. |
| G360 | Ogres with monstrous features. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| G370 | Ogres—miscellaneous. |
| 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. |
| G321.2 | Ogress at a spot along the road takes toll of lives. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| G677 | Ogress attracted by scent of sugar cane ravages city. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| G264.0.1 | Ogress bathes in pool, is transformed into beautiful maiden, and becomes king's favorite wife. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| G365.2 | Ogress can extend leg or arm any distance. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| G345.1 | Ogress can make cold oven blaze by putting foot into it. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| G312.7 | Ogress devours horses. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| G334.1 | Ogress has twenty captive princesses in cave. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| G351.5 | Ogress in form of donkey. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| G351.4 | Ogress in goat-form. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| G414 | Ogress invites boys to live in her house. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| G639 | Ogress lives in water. (Cf. F420.1.4.9, F426.) Icelandic: MacCulloch Eddic 280—81, Corpus Poeticum Boreale I 152, Boberg. |
| G519.1.3 | Ogress lured in bridal bed and killed. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| G94.1 | Ogress takes travelers out of cave and devours them one by one. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 264. |
| G519.1.4 | Ogress tricked into falling into boiling spring. Maori: Beckwith Myth 196. |
| G83.1 | Ogress whets teeth to kill captive. Köhler-Bolte Zs. f. Vksk. VI 64 (to Gonzenbach No. 13); Irish myth: Cross (G153); Italian: Basile Pentamerone IV No. 8, V No. 4. |
| G510.5 | Ogress with knife tail defeated by hunter. Eskimo (Greenland): Rasmussen II 160, III 151, Rink 160. |
| G514.6 | Ogresses caught in flood of lava. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 174. |
| G311 | Old man of the sea. Burr-woman. Ogre who jumps on one's back and sticks there magically. *Chauvin VII 23 No. 373E; Fb "ryg" III 103ab; *Basset 1001 Contes I 190; Estonian: Aarne FFC XXV 126 No. 58; Greek: Grote I 7; Eskimo (Central): Boas RBAE VI 626; N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 330 n. 191e; Africa (Luba): DeClerq Zs. f. Kolonialsprachen IV 226. |
| G95 | Old man says his arm is getting thin—indicates desire for human flesh. Eskimo (Greenland): Rasmussen III 86. |
| G11.6.3 | Old woman calls beasts together to join her in feast on human flesh. Africa (Duala): Lederbogen Fables 61. |
| G303.25.6 | Old woman gives chickens to devils. They do not accept them. She gives them to priests and they eat them. Scala Celi 161b No. 916. |
| G551.4 | One brother rescues another from ogre. Type 303; German: Grimm Nos. 60, 85; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| G551.4.1 | One foster brother rescues another from ogre. Type 303; Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| G303.16.19.3 | One is freed if he can set a task the devil cannot perform. Fb I 267a; **Wesselski Niederdeutsche Zeitschrift für Volkskunde X 1ff.; England: *Baughman; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| G303.16.18 | One must not whistle after sunset, else the devil will go along with one. Fb I 267b. |
| G303.4.1.5.2 | One of devil's teeth grows down to the earth; another to sky. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| G369.6 | One-breasted ogress. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| G369.7 | One-eyed demon. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| G511.1 | One-eyed giant (ogre) blinded (and killed) by arrow. Irish myth: Cross. |
| G121.1.1 | One-eyed giant (ogre). Irish myth: *Cross. |
| G213.1 | One-eyed witch. Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: Boberg. |
| G302.1 | Origin of demons and their companions. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| G203 | Origin of witches. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| G225.7 | Other animal as witch's familiar. England, U.S.: *Baughman. |
| G80 | Other motifs dealing with cannibals. |
| G242.5 | Other objects that bear witches aloft. England: *Baughman. |
| G300 | Other ogres. |
| G224.13 | Other sources of witch's power. |
| G299 | Other witch motifs. |
| G279.1 | Overpowered witch-maid commits suicide. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| G303.1.3.4 | Pagan gods became devils. *Loomis White Magic 75. |
| G303.25.19 | Parliament of devils. Irish myth: Cross. |
| G243.2 | Parody of church ceremony at witch's sabbath. Kittredge Witchcraft 243. |
| G303.15.4.1 | Particular species of tree abode of devils. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| G333 | Path between monsters. Scylla and Charybdis. Greek: Fox 137, 264; N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 307 n. 113b. |
| G36.2.1 | People fear that boy who eats raw birds will eat them when he grows older. Chinese: Graham. |
| G303.6.2 | People to whom the devil appears. |
| G55 | People who eat child become supernatural. Eskimo (West Hudson Bay): Boas BAM XV 258, (Greenland): Rink 466. |
| G23 | People who eat their parents when they die, saying: they carried us in their bodies when we were born; now we shall do the same for them. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| G411 | Person aids ogre and is captured. Africa (Zulu): Callaway 75, (Basuto): Jacottet 236 No. 34. |
| G462 | Person as servant in ogre's house. Types 314, 428; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| G30 | Person becomes cannibal. MacCulloch Childhood 297.—Tahiti: Beckwith Myth 197; Maori: Clark 152; Koryak: Jochelson JE VI 295, 302; Eskimo (Greenland): Rink 128, 258, (West Hudson Bay): Boas BAM XV 260; N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 357 n. 287c. |
| G410 | Person betrayed into ogre's power. India: Thompson-Balys; N. A. Indian (Seneca): Curtin-Hewitt RBAE XXXII 76 No. 1. |
| G303.16.11.3 | Person chases the devil away. Devil says, "You also have stolen once." Finnish: Aarne FFC XXXIII 40 No. 30; Estonian: Aarne FFC XXV 119 No. 30; Lithuanian: Balys Legends Nos. 706, 715. |
| G51 | Person eats own flesh. Jewish: Neuman; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 597; Mono-Alu: Wheeler 45; N. A. Indian (Seneca): Curtin-Hewitt RBAE XXXII 232 No. 46. |
| G51.1 | Person eats self up. Eskimo (Greenland): Rasmussen I 186; N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 304 n. 109m, (California): Gayton and Newman 92; Africa (Togo): Einstein 12f. |
| G241.2.2 | Person enchanted by witch's salve so as to be ridden by witch. *Fb "salve" III 151a. |
| G400 | Person falls into ogre's power. *Types 311, 312. |
| G242.7 | Person flying with witches makes mistake and falls. England, Scotland, U.S.: *Baughman. |
| G224.8 | Person gets witch power by walking twelve times around a church backward at midnight. England: Baughman. |
| G242.8 | Person imitates witch by putting ointment in eye: eye blinded. (Cf. F361.3.) England: Baughman. |
| G257.6 | Person places three notched elder twigs under bowl. Witch is forced to remove them, thus revealing herself. England: Baughman. |
| G257.5 | Person puts man's breeches over cow's head; the cow stops in front of witch's house. England, Scotland: *Baughman. |
| G271.10 | Person removes string with thirteen knots from child's mouth. U.S.: Baughman. |
| G303.16.2.2 | Person saved from devil by prayer to Virgin. Scala Celi 122b, 124a, 134b Nos. 673, 677, 742; Köhler-Bolte II 613ff. |
| G224.4 | Person sells soul to devil in exchange for witch powers. (Cf. G281, M211, K210ff.) England, U.S.: *Baughman. |
| G302.4 | Physical characteristics of demons. |
| G120 | Physical characteristics of giant ogres. |
| G303.17.2 | Physical circumstances of devil's disappearance. |
| G322 | Piercer-of-souls: fishes men. Jamaica: *Beckwith MAFLS XVII 250. |
| G314 | Pine bender. Kills victims by springing tree. Greek: Frazer Apollodorus II 124 n. 1, Fox 98. |
| G312.1 | Pisaca. Drinks blood and eats human flesh. Eats corpses and makes living waste away. Hindu: Keith 98, 157. |
| G303.15 | Places haunted by the devil. Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 3440, Legends Nos. 833—850. |
| G110 | Possessions of giant ogres. Irish myth: Cross. |
| G303.25.16 | Possessions of the devil. |
| G331 | Pot-tilter. Ogre who tilts a pot so that victims are drawn into it. N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 321 n. 157. |
| G272.8 | Pouring water on fire from new cup protects from witch. North Carolina: Brown Collection I 653. |
| G303.9.9 | Pranks played by the devil. |
| G303.16.14.1 | Priest chases devil away. French Canadian: Sister Marie Ursule. |
| G303.16.14.1.1 | Priest separates girl from devil's claws. French Canadian: Sister Marie Ursule. |
| G271.2.4 | Priestly exorcism for witch. England: Baughman. |
| G313 | Procrustes. Monster makes men fit his bed. Tall men sawed off, short men stretched. Greek: Frazer Apollodorus II 131 n. 2, Fox 99; Jewish: Neuman. |
| G272 | Protection against witches. |
| G272.5 | Protection from witch by spitting. Fb "heks" I 581b; England, Ireland: Baughman. |
| G362.2 | Pug-nosed ogre. Eskimo: Alexander N. Am. 7. |
| G402 | Pursuit of animal leads to ogre's house. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| G402.1 | Pursuit of bird leads to ogre's house. Type 313; Africa (Kaffir): Theal 108. |
| G402.2 | Pursuit of mongoose leads to witch's house. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| G321.1 | Pusher-into-hole. Africa: Werner African 214, (Hottentot): Bleek 78. |
| G306 | Rainbow as ogre. Africa: Werner African 236. |
| G369.1.2 | Rakshasa can be defeated by hero who has rakshasi blood in his veins. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| G369.1.4 | Rakshasa eats horse, dog, and child. Suspected Ranis ordered for execution. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| G369.1.3 | Rakshasa eats many of the domestic animals each night. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| G369.1.6 | Rakshasa hidden in deer's head swallows men. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| G369.1 | Rakshasa. Dog or ape-shaped; red hair and eyes; mouth reaching from ear to ear; ears pointed like spears; shape-changers; cannibals; three heads, five feet, four eyes, no fingers, bear-neck, horns. Attack women. Hindu: Keith 98, Penzer X 277 s.v. "Rakshasas"; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| G369.1.7 | Rakshasa's mistress with her head severed lying in a pool of blood. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| G369.1.1 | Rakshasas have power of extending bodies eighty miles. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| G257.2 | Reading Bible backwards causes witch to reveal herself. (Cf. D1985.2.) England: Baughman. |
| G283.1.2 | Reason why witch raises wind. |
| G556 | Recognition of captive's voice brings about rescue from ogre. Usually captive sings in the bag. Africa (Kaffir): Theal 64, 134, (Zulu): Callaway 75; Jamaica: *Beckwith MAFLS XVII 273 No. 85. |
| G250 | Recognition of witches. |
| G328 | Rectum snakes. Snakes which creep into living man and devour him. *Fb "snog" III 436b; N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 322 n. 161. |
| G61 | Relative's flesh eaten unwittingly. *Type 720; BP I 412ff.; *MacCulloch Childhood 283ff.; *Cosquin études 394; *Fb "menneskekjød" II 579b.—Irish myth: *Cross; Spanish Exempla: Keller; Greek: Fox 70, 119, 120 (Prokne and Tereus, Tantalus, Thyestes); Jewish: Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 573; Chinese: Graham; Japanese: Ikeda; Oceanic (Indonesia, New Zealand, Molucca): Dixon 58, 195, 229f.; Indonesian: De Vries's list Nos. 227, 228; Eskimo (Greenland): Rink 106, 128, 160, 286, 447, Holm 43, 90, (Bering Strait): Nelson RBAE XVIII 215, (Central Eskimo): Boas RBAE VI 627, (West Hudson Bay): Boas BAM XV 229; N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 300 nn. 97, 98 and 340 n. 226; S. A. Indian (Baikairi): Alexander Lat. Am. 303; Africa (Zulu): Callaway 20, (Ila, Rhodesia): Smith and Dale II 402 No. 2, 405 No. 4, (Kaffir): Theal 100, (Angola): Chatelain 191 No. 24, (Thonga): Junod 217, (Fjort): Dennett 82 No. 19, (Benga): Nassau 105 No. 8, (Basuto): Jacottet 260 No. 38, 276 No. 41; American Negro (Georgia): Harris Nights 314 No. 54, Remus 165 No. 34; Cape Verde Islands: Parsons MAFLS XV (1) 73 n. 3. |
| G354 | Reptile as ogre. |
| G552 | Rescue from ogre by helpful animals. *Type 312; Eskimo (Greenland): Rasmussen II 85; Africa (Kaffir): Kidd 226 No. 1, (Zulu): Callaway 147; Jamaica: *Beckwith MAFLS XVII 274 No. 86. |
| G555 | Rescue from ogre by means of singing. *Type 327; Jamaica: Beckwith MAFLS XVII 271 No. 83. |
| G551 | Rescue from ogre by relative. |
| G550 | Rescue from ogre. *Types 311, 312, 313, 314, 590; Icelandic: *Boberg; Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "Barbe-bleu"; Missouri French: Carrière; Swiss: Jegerlehner Oberwallis 304 No. 30; Indonesia: Dixon 227; Africa (Kaffir): Theal 83; North Africa: *Saintyves Perrault 267; Jamaica: *Beckwith MAFLS XVII 271 No. 83, 273 No. 86. |
| G551.3.1 | Rescue of children from giant (ogre) by hero (skillful companions). Irish myth: Cross. |
| G551.3 | Rescue of children from ogre by brother. *Type 327*; Africa (Kaffir): Kidd 233 No. 4; Jamaica: Beckwith XVII 271 No. 83. |
| G551.2 | Rescue of sister from ogre by another sister. *Type 311; Africa (Angola): Chatelain 103 No. 7. |
| G551.1 | Rescue of sister from ogre by brother. *Type 312; Krappe Revue Celtique XLVIII (1931) 99ff., Rheinisches Museum f. Philologie N. F. LXXX 114ff. —Lithuanian: Balys Index No. *454; Eskimo (W. Hudson Bay): Boas BAM XV 195; Jamaica: *Beckwith MAFLS XVII 274 No. 86; Africa (Zulu): Callaway 146, (Kaffir): Theal 134, (Hottentot): Bleek 62 No. 27. |
| G272.9 | Reversing the poker protects from witch. North Carolina: Brown Collection I 653. |
| G303.16.12 | Ringing of churchbell causes devil to lose his power. Wünsche Teufel 40, 42, 43f. |
| G13.1 | Ritual cannibalism: corpse of hero (demigod) eaten to acquire his strength. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| G275.13 | Rough treatment of object causes injury or death to witch. Canada, England, U.S.: *Baughman. |
| G272.2.1 | Rowan wood (quicken, etc.) protects against witches. Canada, England, Scotland, U.S.: *Baughman. |
| G303.15.5 | Ruins of a palace haunted by Satan. Jewish: Neuman. |
| G303.16.11.4 | Saint expels devil to hell. Nouvelles de Sens No. 5; Irish myth: Cross. |
| G303.6.2.9.1 | Saint is able to see devils. *Loomis White Magic 76f. |
| G303.16.11.5 | Saint's dispute with devil. *Loomis White Magic 76. |
| G272.16 | Salt protects against witches. (Cf. G271.3, G254.2.) |
| G272.16.1 | Salt put into churn before churning to protect cream from witch. (Cf. D2084.2.) England: *Baughman. |
| G303.15.6 | Satan appears at a feast where the poor are absent. Jewish: Neuman. |
| G303.9.8.11 | Satan as blasphemer. Jewish: Neuman. |
| G303.3.1.24 | Satan as very old man. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| G303.9.8.6 | Satan asks God to put man into his power (Job). Jewish: *Neuman. |
| G303.9.6.2 | Satan attacks saints. Kittredge Witchcraft 218, 525 nn. 49, 50; Dh I 138; Irish myth: Cross; England: Baughman; French: Sébillot France II 128, III 530. |
| G303.9.1.15 | Satan builds another world. Jewish: Neuman. |
| G303.9.1.14 | Satan builds idol. Jewish: Neuman. |
| G303.9.4.0.1 | Satan causes storm to destroy property of man he tempts. Jewish: Neuman. |
| G303.9.8.9 | Satan chants songs of praise to God. Jewish: Neuman. |
| G303.1.3.5 | Satan created out of hell fire. Jewish: Neuman. |
| G303.3.1.23 | Satan disguised as beggar. (Cf. K1817.1.) Jewish: *Neuman. |
| G303.3.1.25 | Satan disguised as king. Jewish: Neuman. |
| G303.9.9.20 | Satan entangles ram's horns on the altar. Jewish: Neuman. |
| G303.18.4 | Satan enters the Golden Calf. Jewish: Neuman. |
| G303.9.6.1.2 | Satan fights Israel. Jewish: Neuman. |
| G303.20.8 | Satan injures man. Jewish: Neuman. |
| G303.9.9.21 | Satan liberates caught deer. Jewish: Neuman. |
| G303.9.8.7 | Satan makes wager with God about mortal's piety. Jewish: Neuman. |
| G303.9.8.8 | Satan prays to God. Jewish: Neuman. |
| G303.17.3.5 | Satan punished in hell fire. Jewish: Neuman. |
| G303.20.9 | Satan slays the first born of the Egyptians. Jewish: Neuman. |
| G303.9.4.0.2 | Satan smites man he tempts with leprosy. Jewish: Neuman. |
| G303.9.4.5.3 | Satan stops men from praying. Jewish: Neuman. |
| G303.20.7 | Satan swallows victim. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| G303.9.8.10 | Satan weeps. Jewish: Neuman. |
| G303.12.7.1 | Satan's sexual intercourse with Eve. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| G308 | Sea monster. Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: Boberg; Persian: Carnoy 325; Jewish: Neuman. |
| G525 | Sea people give the ogre brandy (tar). Finnish: Aarne FFC XXXIII 44 No. 62**; Lappish: Qvigstad FFC LX 47 No. 68. |
| G510.2 | Secrets forced from overpowered monster. (Cf. G515.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| G251.1.1 | Separable soul of witch in parrot. (Cf. E732.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| G328.1 | Serpent inside man's body eats all his food. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| G361.1.4 | Seven-headed ogre. Jewish: Neuman |
| G275.4 | Seven-headed witch defeated by throwing egg at each head. Jamaica: *Beckwith MAFLS XVII 268 Nos. 79, 80. |
| G215.1 | Seven-headed witch. Jamaica: *Beckwith MAFLS XVII 268 Nos. 79, 80. |
| G11.17 | Seven-mouthed cannibal ogre. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| G220.0.2 | Sex of witches. Both men and women are called witches. England: *Baughman. |
| G302.7.1 | Sexual relation between man and demons. Jewish: Neuman. |
| G308.5 | Shark-man ogre, eater of children swimming. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 191; Tuamotu: Stimson MS (z-G. 13/346). |
| G341 | Sharp-elbowed women. Kill with their elbows. N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 327 n. 181. |
| G303.25.9 | Ship with devil aboard sinks. Fb III 243b. |
| G269.8 | Ship wrecked by witch. (Cf. F420.5.2.7.3.) Icelandic: Corpus Poeticum Boreale I 152; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| G271.9 | Sick child from witchcraft is put on anvil; smith strikes violently but brings hammer down gently, three times. England: Baughman. |
| G272.6 | Sieve as protection against witches. North Carolina: Brown Collection I 650. |
| G271.2.1 | Sign of the cross marked on bewitched object breaks witch spell. (Cf. G273.1.) Icelandic: Boberg. |
| G303.13.5 | Simple-minded devil indicates how he can be driven away. (Cf. G303.16.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| G302.4.1 | Six characteristics of demons: three like angels, three like men. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| G361.1.3 | Six-headed ogre. Luzon (Tinguian): Cole 104. |
| G124 | Skeleton giant. N. A. Indian (California): Gayton and Newman 91. |
| G303.10.3 | Snake as follower of the devil. Fb IV 99a. |
| G354.1 | Snake as ogre. Cheremis: Sebeok-Nyerges; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| G229.1 | Soul of witch leaves the body. England, U.S.: Baughman; Swiss: Jegerlehner Oberwallis 315 No. 124. |
| G224 | Source of witch's magic. Spanish: Espinosa Jr. Nos. 151—159. |
| G304.2.3 | Special powers of troll. |
| G312.2 | Spirit-woman in rock devours men and cattle. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| G13 | Spiritual exaltation from eating human flesh. Penzer II 198 n. 1. |
| G11.8.1 | Stars as cannibals. Philippine (Tinguian): Cole 109, 111; Tuamotu: Stimson MS (T-G. 3/931). |
| G72.2 | Starving woman abandoned in cave eats newborn child. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| G610.3 | Stealing from ogre as task. *Type 328; *BP III 21 n. 1; Christiansen 45 No. 328; Italian: Basile Pentamerone III No. 7; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| G610.1 | Stealing from ogre for revenge. *Type 328. |
| G610.2 | Stealing from ogre to help a friendly king. *Type 328. |
| G273.7.2 | Steel driven into witch's track immobilizes her. England, U.S.: *Baughman. |
| G272.1 | Steel powerful against witches. Fb "stеl" III 647a; England, U.S.: Baughman. |
| G371 | Stone giants. (Stone coats.) N. A. Indian (Seneca): Curtin-Hewitt RBAE XXXII 178, 330, 344, 438, 682. |
| G272.13 | Stone with a hole through it protects against witches. (Hagstone) England: *Baughman. |
| G272.10 | Stopped bottle as protection against witches. North Carolina: Brown Collection I 647. |
| G273.7.1 | Straw driven into witch's track immobilizes her. England: Baughman. |
| G272.12 | Straws as protection against witch. North Carolina: Brown Collection I 650. |
| G221.2 | Strength of witches depends on their touching earth. Swiss: Jegerlehner Oberwallis 316 No. 128. |
| G221.1 | Strength of witches in hair. *Fb "hеr" I 771b. |
| G221 | Strength of witches. |
| G303.22.3 | Student is helped by devil when he can answer three questions in rhyme. (Cf. H543.) Finnish-Swedish: Wessman 11 No. 92. |
| G528 | Stupid ogre duped into cutting off his own buttocks. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| G501 | Stupid ogre. *Types 311, 312, 327, 328, 330, 1000—1199; **Wünsche Teufel; Gaster Thespis 328; **Hackman Die Polyphemsage; Icelandic: MacCulloch Eddic 277, Boberg; Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "diable"; Italian: Basile Pentamerone II No. 3; India: *Thompson-Balys, Penzer III 33 N. 3, 34 n.; Chinese: Werner 211; Filipino: Fansler MAFLS XII 51, 376; German New Guinea: Dixon 133ff.; N. A. Indian: Thompson Tales 351f. nn. 268, 268a, 270a, 270b, 271, 271b, (Kaska): Teit JAFL XXX 445, (California): Gayton and Newman 69. For incidents connected with the stupid ogre see G500—G599, besides the many cases of deception scattered throughout chapter K. |
| G332 | Sucking monster. Giant (sometimes a giant hall or cave) sucks in victims. Irish myth: *Cross; Siberia: Holmberg Siberian 387; India: Thompson-Balys; N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 321 n. 158, (California): Gayton and Newman 72, cf. 95. |
| G327 | Swinging ogre. Girls who swing their lovers over pit, cut rope, and later devour them. Montaignais: Speck JAFL XXXVIII 15. |
| G219.8 | Tailed witch. |
| G303.25.15.1 | Tailless fish as devil's hog. Lithuanian: Balys Legends No. 807. |
| G303.9.9.8 | Taking snuff with the devil. Lithuanian: Balys Legends Nos. 772, 785ff. |
| G257.4 | Taking tile from witch's house forces her to reveal herself. England: Baughman. |
| G303.16.19.3.2 | Task for devil: making needles. Lithuanian: Balys Index No. *1188. |
| G303.16.19.3.1 | Task for devil: sweeping and winnowing peas on ice. Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 1177. |
| G303.16.19.3.3 | Task for devil: washing a Jew (Jewess), to rid him (her) of the evil smell. (Cf. A1662.1.) Lithuanian: Balys Index No. *1187. |
| G36 | Taste of human flesh leads to habitual cannibalism. Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 573. |
| G361.1.5 | Ten-headed ogre. Philippine (Tinguian): Cole 75. |
| G277 | Testing of witches. **Hertz Aus Dichtung und Saga 198ff.; Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 3664. |
| G303.10.14 | The bagpipe is the devil's bellows. Dh I 189. |
| G303.9.7.3 | The devil advises a suspicious husband. The Ring of Hans Garvel. Appears in a dream and hands the husband a ring. "When you wear this ring you will be sure of your wife." He awakens to understand the obscene implication. Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles no. 11; Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| G303.9.7 | The devil advises human beings. |
| G303.11.5.1 | The devil and his nine daughters. Irish myth: Cross. |
| G303.11.2.1 | The devil and his son fight over division of the earth. Dh I 135. |
| G303.23 | The devil and the ark. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| G303.6.3.1.1 | The devil appears during thunderstorm, seeking shelter among people. Swedish, Lappish, Finnish, Estonian, Livonian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Russian, White Russian: *Balys Tautosakos Darbai VI 87—100. |
| G303.3.1.6 | The devil as a black man. Wünsche Teufel 30f., 106f., Fb I 266b; Irish: *Cross, O'Suilleabhain 35f., Beal XXI 313. |
| G303.9.1 | The devil as a builder. *Broderius 27, 58; Boberg FFC CLI. |
| G303.3.1.3 | The devil as a distinguished-looking knight. Wünsche Teufel 61f. |
| G303.3.1.21 | The devil as a great hairy man. England: Baughman. |
| G303.3.1.1 | The devil as a large, strong man. Henne-Am Rhyn Deutsche Volkssage (1874) 278. |
| G303.3.1.5 | The devil as a little, gray old man. Wessman 12 No. 99; Wünsche Teufel 52f.; Lithuanian: Balys Legends Nos. 440, 448, 458. |
| G303.9.4 | The devil as a tempter. Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: Boberg; Jewish: *Neuman. |
| G303.3.1.2 | The devil as a well-dressed gentleman. Wünsche Teufel 37f., 54, 59f.; Irish myth: Cross; Scotch: Campbell Superstitions 293; U.S.: Baughman; Georgia Negro: Harris Remus 32; Finnish-Swedish: Wessman 8 No. 66; Lithuanian: Balys Legends Nos. 347ff., 353, 357, 361, 363f., 367ff., 402, 413, 415, 425ff., 430f., 433ff., 437ff., 441—47, 449ff., 454, 456ff., 461, 464, 466, 655ff., 684f., 737, 764, 766, 772, 776, 786f., 803, 805, 808, 844; Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| G303.9.5 | The devil as an abductor. Fb I 266a, 267a; Dh I 176; French: Sébillot France II 38, IV 341; Jewish: *Neuman; West Indies: Flowers 448f. |
| G303.9.9.11 | The devil as tailor to a dandy. The dandy demands clothes sewed without thread. The devil disguised as a tailor makes them. In church the dandy's clothes fall to pieces, leaving him naked. Lithuanian: Balys Legends Nos. 685ff. |
| G303.3.6.3.1 | The devil cannot change into a sheep. Dh I 165. |
| G303.1.4.1 | The devil creates devils by casting water behind himself. |
| G303.1.4 | The devil creates other devils. Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 3001. |
| G303.14.1 | The devil destroys by night what is built by day. Wünsche Teufel 30; French: Sébillot France IV 46; Canada, England, Scotland: *Baughman. |
| G303.17.3.1 | The devil dies of a nosebleed resulting from overheat. Wünsche Teufel 84f. |
| G303.17.3.2 | The devil dies when he is fastened in hell's door by his beard. German: Henne-Am Rhyn (1874) 276f. |
| G303.5.3 | The devil dressed in red. French: Sébillot France II 29. |
| G303.16.14 | The devil exorcised. Alphabet No. 595; Wünsche Teufel 104f., 106f.; Fb I 267a; Irish: *Cross, Beal XXI 315; Finnish-Swedish: Wessman 14 No. 132, 15 Nos. 133, 134; Lithuanian: Balys Index No. *1169; Swiss: Jegerlehner Oberwallis 328 No. 28; Spanish Exempla: Keller; Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| G303.9.6 | The devil fights. |
| G303.4.5.4 | The devil has goat feet. Irish: O'Suilleabhain 92, Beal XXI 330; England: Baughman; German: Henne-Am Rhyn (Leipzig, 1874) 278. |
| G303.4.2.1 | The devil has six wings. Dh I 138. |
| G303.4.2.2 | The devil has twelve wings. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| G303.24.1.9 | The devil has two books—one book small for sins of clerics, erased by confession; the other large for unconfessed sins of lay folks. Irish myth: *Cross (G303.24.1.11). |
| G303.22 | The devil helps people. Irish myth: Cross; West Indies: Flowers 451; Jewish: Neuman. |
| G303.9.3 | The devil hires out. |
| G303.3.3 | The devil in animal form. *Loomis White Magic 74; Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| G303.24 | The devil in church. |
| G303.8.3 | The devil in hell. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| G303.3.1 | The devil in human form. *Loomis White Magic 74; Danielsson Vol. II; Scala Celi 42b, 45a Nos. 243, 255; Irish: *Cross; Beal XXI 307, 313, 315, 330; Spanish: Espinosa Jr. Nos 70, 83, 91—93, 155, 200, 218; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 617. |
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