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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
G
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
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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 ▲ |
|---|---|
| G303.3.2 | The devil in superhuman from. |
| G303.9.3.4 | The devil is always to blame. Even when he tries to be helpful to man. Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 3340, Legends Nos. 659—663; Estonian: Aarne FFC XXV 41 No. 49. |
| G303.9.6.0.1 | The devil is armed. Irish myth: Cross. |
| G303.1.3.2 | The devil is created out of a bubble. Dh I 19, 66f. |
| G303.1.3.3 | The devil is created out of sea-foam. Dh I 19. |
| G303.1.3 | The devil is created without the special aid of God. |
| G303.1.3.1 | The devil is developed from man. Dh I 4f.; West Indies: Flowers 447. |
| G303.16.14.4 | The devil is exorcised with bell, book, and candle. U.S.: Baughman. |
| G303.1.1 | The devil originates from God. Dh I 12; Jewish: Neuman. |
| G303.1.1.2.1 | The devil originates from the spittle of an evil man. Cheremis: Sebeok-Nyerges. |
| G303.10.12 | The devil owns the reeds. Dh I 187. |
| G303.9.2 | The devil performs deeds of unusual strength. |
| G303.9.3.1.1 | The devil takes service with a farmer in return for the bread he stole. Punishes the evil landowner and makes his master prosperous. Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 3290, Legends Nos. 505—511. |
| G303.19 | The devil takes the hindmost. (Cf. F1038.2.) England: Baughman. |
| G303.9.4.2.1 | The devil teaches man how to hang himself. Lithuanian: Balys Legends Nos. 610—614. |
| G303.13.4 | The devil tries to learn a trade; he fails miserably at all but versemaking. He now loiters in alehouses, sings songs. Scotland: Baughman. |
| G303.20.5 | The devil unpeels a bold woman's skin. Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 3257, Legends Nos. 378—387. |
| G303.25.15 | The devil's animals. |
| G303.11.2.2 | The devil's children and grandchildren do his work for him. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| G303.11.5 | The devil's daughter. Irish myth: Cross. |
| G303.17 | The devil's disappearance from the world. |
| G303.4.1.7 | The devil's face. |
| G303.4.5 | The devil's feet and legs. |
| G303.11.4 | The devil's grandmother. **Lehmann Dania VIII 179ff. |
| G303.4.1 | The devil's head. |
| G303.21.3 | The devil's money is hot. U.S.: *Baughman. |
| G303.21 | The devil's money. |
| G303.11.3 | The devil's mother. Irish: Cross, O'Suilleabhain 92, Beal XXI 330. |
| G303.4 | The devil's physical characteristics. |
| G303.11.1.1 | The devil's son is with his mother at night in his father's place. Type 1720*. |
| G303.11.2 | The devil's son. Irish: O'Suilleabhain 35, Beal XXI 312f. |
| G303.4.6 | The devil's tail. Lithuanian: Balys Legends No. 792. |
| G303.4.3 | The devil's thumb. |
| G303.11.1 | The devil's wife. |
| G303.4.2 | The devil's wings. |
| G303.25.17 | The devils' dances and feasts. |
| G303.25.14 | The food and drink of the devils. |
| G303.19.1 | The last belongs to the devil. BP III 14; Fb III 196b; Swiss: Jegerlehner Oberwallis 327 No. 37. |
| G612 | The one eye of the three giants stolen. Type 328*. |
| G303.1 | The origin of the devil and his companions. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| G303.11 | The relatives of the devil. Irish myth: Cross. |
| G303.10.11 | The spurge-laurel is the devil's bush. Dh I 200. |
| G303.13 | The stupid devil. Missouri French: Carrière; **Wünsche Teufel; Danielsson Djävulgestalten i Finlands svenska Folktro (Helsingfors, 1930) 35; Spanish: Espinosa Jr. Nos. 82—84, 201; Jewish: Neuman. |
| G610 | Theft from ogre. *Types 328, 314*; Icelandic: MacCulloch Eddic 54, Boberg; Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "argent"; Japanese: Anesaki 314; Molucca: Dixon 230; West Indies: Flowers 454f. |
| G279.2 | Theft from witch. |
| G303.10.13 | Thistles and nettles are the devil's vegetables. Dh I 187. |
| G631.1 | Thousand year old ogre. Korean: Zong in-Sob 99, 169. |
| G121.1 | Three giants with one eye. They pass it around. Type 328*. |
| G201 | Three witch sisters. Sometimes simply three hags. *BP I 114; *R. Drinkuth Hessische Blätter f. Vksk. XXXII 109—154, XXXIII 1—77; *Von Sydow Tvе Spinnsagor 68ff.; Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: MacCulloch Eddic 245; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| G201.1 | Three witches (hags) deformed from much spinning. *Type 501; *Von Sydow Tvе Spinnsagor. |
| G361.1.2 | Three-headed ogre. Hindu: Keith 88; Africa (Fang): Einstein 149. |
| G303.10.2 | Toad as follower of the devil. Fb. IV 99a. |
| G225.4 | Toad as witch's familiar. (Cf. G303.10.2.) Kittredge Witchcraft 182 nn. 76—87; England: Baughman; Argentina: Jijena Sanchez 76. |
| G12 | Transformation in order to eat own kind. Man transforms self to animal and eats men. India: Thompson-Balys; Africa (Mpongwe): Nassau 71 No. 15. |
| G304.1.1.4 | Troll as crow. Fb "krage" II 285b. |
| G304.1.1.1 | Troll as fox. Fb "ræv" III 113a. |
| G304.1.1.3 | Troll as goose. Fb "gеs" I 528b. |
| G304.1.1.2 | Troll as hare. Fb "hare" I 556. |
| G304 | Troll as ogre. (For troll as underground spirit or mountain spirit see F455. For troll-woman see G200—G299, Witches.) **E. Hartmann Die Trollvorstellungen im den Sagen und Märchen der skandinavischen Völker (Stuttgart, 1936); Norse: MacCulloch Eddic 285. |
| G304.2.5 | Troll bursts when sun shines on him. Or he may become stone. *Fb "sol" III 356a; Icelandic: Arnason Icelandic Legends (London, 1864) I 122, Boberg. |
| G304.3.2.2 | Troll drives two he-goats. *Fb "gjedebuk" I 440. |
| G304.3.2.3 | Troll has bear in stable. *Fb "bjørn" IV 43a. |
| G304.3.2.4 | Troll has hares in stable. *Fb "hare" I 556b. |
| G304.3.2.1 | Troll has team of mice. Fb "mus" II 631b. |
| G304.1.1 | Troll in animal form. |
| G304.1.2.1 | Troll in form of cloud. Fb "sky". |
| G304.1.2.2 | Troll in form of key. Fb "nögle" II 723. |
| G304.1.2 | Troll in form of object. |
| G304.2.1.1 | Troll lights fingers. Fb "lys" 483b. |
| G304.2.1.2 | Troll stretches neck so long that fire comes from lips. Fb "hals" I 540. |
| G304.3.2 | Troll's animals. |
| G304.3.1 | Troll's castle. |
| G304.2.2.1 | Troll's food gives men strength. Fb "mad" II 525a; *DF XLVI 66ff. |
| G304.2.2 | Troll's food. |
| G304.3 | Troll's possessions. |
| G304.2.4.2 | Trolls afraid of bears. Danish: Kristensen Danske Sagn I (1892) 434—37. |
| G304.2.4.1 | Trolls cannot endure churchbells. Fb "kirkeklokke" II 130b; Icelandic: Arnason Legends of Iceland (London, 1864) I 120, 124, Boberg; Swedish: Grimm Deutsche Mythologie II 798 n. 1; Finnish-Swedish: Landtman Finlands Svenska Folkdiktning VII 560. |
| G303.9.9.7 | Trying all night to catch an animal (really devil). Lithuanian: Balys Legends Nos. 777—783. |
| G303.1.7 | Tuatha De Danann as demons (fallen angels). Irish myth: Cross. |
| G377 | Tupilac. Monster made of parts of corpses of animals and vivified. Eskimo (Greenland): Rink 151f., 201, 461, Holm 59, 69, Rasmussen III 290f., 295. |
| G257.3 | Turning table, cutting notches in it causes witch to reveal herself. U.S.: Baughman. |
| G303.4.1.2.3 | Two beams of fire shoot from devil's eyes. England: Hunt Popular Romances 218. |
| G303.1.8 | Two devils (male and female) extracted from corpse's belly. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| G303.10.4.2 | Two devils come to a dance-loving maid and play when she bathes. Finnish-Swedish: Wessman 10 No. 82. |
| G151 | Two giants with one axe. They throw it back and forth to each other. *Fb "økse" III 1171b.—Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 3711. |
| G361.1.1 | Two-headed ogre. Irish myth: Cross; Jewish: Neuman; Africa (Fang): Einstein 149. |
| G476 | Ugly ogre terrifies women who flee and are drowned. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| G650 | Unclassified ogre motifs. |
| G85 | Ungrateful cannibal. Eats offered food and then threatens hosts. *Jochelson JE VI 376. |
| G71 | Unnatural children eat parent. *Cox Cinderella 499; MacCulloch Childhood 295; India: Thompson-Balys; Japanese: Ikeda. |
| G72 | Unnatural parents eat children. MacCulloch Childhood 293ff.; Spanish: Espinosa Jr. Nos 148, 216; Greek: *Frazer Apollodorus I 8 n. 2 (Zeus and Kronos); Jewish: Gaster Exempla 198f. No. 69; India: Thompson-Balys; New Zealand: Dixon 85; Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 199; Eskimo (Greenland): Holm 89, Rasmussen III 121, 305; N. A. Indian (Seneca): Curtin-Hewitt RBAE XXXII 232 No. 46; S. A. Indian (Toba): Métraux MAFLS XL 31; Africa (Angola): Chatelain 99 No. 6, (Ila, Rhodesia): Smith and Dale II 413 No. 12, (Kaffir): Theal 140, (Zulu): Callaway 47, (Fang): Tessman 108, (Pangwe): Tessman 365. |
| G63 | Unwitting cannibalism: scavenger in wedding feast finds basket of noses put there by hero and thinks it full of meat. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| G81 | Unwitting marriage to cannibal *Type 311; *MacCulloch Childhood 291ff.; Italian: Basile Pentamerone I No. 5; India: Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Graham; Eskimo (Greenland): I 262; West Indies: Flowers 440. |
| G271.3 | Use of salt in exorcism of witch. (Cf. G254.2, G272.16.) England: *Baughman. |
| G105 | Valley of the one hundred giants. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| G665 | Vanquished ogre grants hero's three wishes. Irish: MacCulloch Celtic 149, *Cross. |
| G302.2 | Varieties of demons. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| G303.16.11 | Various holy persons save one from devil. |
| G72.4 | Voice of slain and eaten child comes from the heart of cannibal. (Cf. F911.1.) Jewish: Neuman. |
| G11.5 | Water cannibal. Spanish: Espinosa Jr. No. 104; N. A. Indian (Cherokee): Alexander N. Am. 68. |
| G308.2 | Water-monster. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| G303.20 | Ways in which the devil kills people. |
| G222.1 | When devil combs witches, sparks fly. Fb "kjæmme" II 148. |
| G303.18.0.1 | When devil leaves dead sinner's body, only bones remain. Irish myth: Cross. |
| G303.6.1 | When the devil appears. Danielsson Djävulgestalten i Finlands Svenska Folktro (Helsingfors, 1930) 74. |
| G303.17.1 | When the devil disappears. |
| G307.1 | Where jinn comes from. |
| G303.10.5 | Where the devil can't reach, he sends an old woman. (Cf. K1085.) *Type 1353; Wesselski Märchen 196. |
| G303.16.14.3.1 | Why the devil fears the rowan-tree. Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 3346. |
| G303.17.3 | Why the devil has disappeared from the world. |
| G691.2 | Widow(s) of ogre's victims seen at ogre's house. N. A. Indian (California): Gayton and Newman 69. |
| G352 | Wild beast as ogre. |
| G352.2 | Wild boar as ogre. Cook Islands: Beckwith Myth 471. |
| G671 | Wild man released from captivity aids hero. *Type 502; BP III 94ff.; Dickson 121 n. 64; Jones PMLA XXIII 567; Missouri French: Carrière; Icelandic: Boberg. |
| G263.0.1 | Witch (female demon) has persons she has enchanted as servants. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| G219.2 | Witch (troll-woman) with beard. Fb "mus" II 631b. |
| G265 | Witch abuses property. |
| G262.3.2 | Witch as cat causes death. England, U.S.: *Baughman. |
| G211.2.7.1 | Witch as hare allows self to be coursed by dogs for pay or for sport. England, Ireland, Scotland, U.S., Wales: *Baughman. |
| G211.2.9 | Witch as hedgehog. England: *Baughman. |
| G284 | Witch as helper. Fb "heks" I 582; Icelandic: *Boberg; Spanish: Espinosa Jr. No. 76, 136, 140, 141, 178; Hindu: Tawney II 608; West Indies: Flowers 447. |
| G211.1.1.2 | Witch as horse shod with horseshoes. Köhler-Bolte I 220, 586; *Fb "Troms kirke" III 858b; Tobler 44; England, Scotland, U.S.: Baughman; Swiss: Jegerlehner Oberwallis 322 No. 91. |
| G275.10 | Witch as participater in battle. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| G211.2.8 | Witch as raccoon. U.S.: Baughman. |
| G269.2 | Witch asks for snuff so that she may seize man. He offers it to her on point of spear and escapes. Scotch: Macdougall and Calder 229, 243, 245, 261. |
| G245 | Witch bathes. Hoffmann-Krayer Zs. f. Vksk. XXV 120 n. 3. |
| G269.1 | Witch begs man to scratch her back: kills him. (Cf. G262.) Fb "kjælling" II 146b. |
| G275.7.1 | Witch beheaded. French Canadian: Sister Marie Ursule. |
| G265.8.5 | Witch bewitches buildings. U.S.: *Baughman. |
| G265.8.2 | Witch bewitches clothing. U.S.: Baughman. |
| G265.8.4.2 | Witch bewitches goose eggs so that they do not hatch. U.S.: Baughman. |
| G265.8.3.1 | Witch bewitches gun. |
| G265.8.1 | Witch bewitches household articles. (Cf. D2083.3, D2083.4., D2084.1, D2084.2.) England, U.S.: *Baughman. |
| G265.8.3 | Witch bewitches implements and machinery. England, U.S.: *Baughman. |
| G265.8 | Witch bewitches objects. (Cf. D2072, D2081, D2087.1, D2071.0.2.) |
| G265.8.3.2 | Witch bewitches wagon. England, U.S.: *Baughman. |
| G224.11.2 | Witch bone from cat. U.S.: Baughman. |
| G224.11.1 | Witch bone from toad. England: *Baughman. |
| G275.7 | Witch bound and beaten. Irish myth: Cross. |
| G269.12.1 | Witch breaks bridegroom's leg when slighted by bride. England: Baughman. |
| G275.5.1 | Witch bribed to divulge her secret powers. Africa (Kordofan): Frobenius Atlantis IV 101ff. No. 11. |
| G275.3.1 | Witch burned by burning bewitched animal. *Kittredge Witchcraft 95ff., 426ff. nn. 155—172. |
| G273.5.1 | Witch burned by furrows drawn round her home. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| G275.3 | Witch burned. *Fb "ild" II 12b, "brænde" IV 69a; Irish myth: Cross; Icelandic: Boberg; Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 3664; Spanish: Espinosa Jr. No. 161; India: Thompson-Balys; Japanese: Ikeda. |
| G299.1 | Witch calls up spirits of dead, causes them to walk on water. (Cf. E380.) U.S.: Baughman. |
| G275.3.0.1 | Witch can be destroyed only by burning her to death. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| G229.4.1 | Witch can be killed only by certain lance. Irish myth: Cross. |
| G229.4.2 | Witch can catch bullets and send them back. (Cf. G265.8.3.1.2.) Lithuanian: Balys Historical. |
| G221.4 | Witch cannot be hurt if she looks attacker in the face. Eskimo (Greenland): Rink 372. |
| G254.1 | Witch cannot rise if ring lies under her chair. *Fb "ring." |
| G275.1 | Witch carried off by devil. *Kittredge Witchcraft 43, *397f. nn. 164—167; England, Wales: Baughman. |
| G275.1.1 | Witch carried off by devil's crew. Irish myth: Cross. |
| G229.2 | Witch carries her children in her own body. Jamaica: *Beckwith MAFLS XVII 269 No. 82. |
| G265.6 | Witch causes animals to behave unnaturally. |
| G265.6.2 | Witch causes cattle to behave unnaturally. U.S.: Baughman. |
| G265.6.2.1 | Witch causes cattle to run about wildly. England, U.S.: *Baughman. |
| G265.4.1 | Witch causes death of animals. England, Scotland, Wales, U.S.: *Baughman. |
| G269.11 | Witch causes deformity. (Cf. G263.4.3.) |
| G265.6.4 | Witch causes dog to behave unnaturally. U.S.: Baughman. |
| G265.6.4.1 | Witch causes dog to dance on hind legs. U.S.: Baughman. |
| G263.4.2 | Witch causes fits. England, U.S.: *Baughman. |
| G269.16 | Witch causes gun to explode, injuring person. England: Baughman. |
| G265.8.4.1 | Witch causes hangman's rope to dance so that it cannot be tied to hang her. U.S.: Baughman. |
| G269.5 | Witch causes haunted houses. Kittredge Witchcraft 214, 521, 523, nn. 1—6, 18. |
| G265.6.3 | Witch causes horse to behave unnaturally. England, U.S.: *Baughman. |
| G265.4.2 | Witch causes illness of animals. (Cf. D2066) England, Scotland, U.S., Canada: *Baughman. |
| G263.7 | Witch causes insanity. England, Scotland, U.S.: *Baughman. |
| G269.23 | Witch causes lovers on stile to think they are surrounded by water. England: Baughman. |
| G269.21.3 | Witch causes man to strip naked and imitate a jockey riding himself. England: Baughman. |
| G263.3 | Witch causes other transformation. |
| G269.14 | Witch causes person to be burned. England: Baughman. |
| G269.11.1 | Witch causes person to become hunchbacked. England: Baughman. |
| G269.12 | Witch causes person to break limbs. England: Baughman. |
| G269.21.1 | Witch causes person to break wind in presence of others. U.S.: *Baughman. |
| G269.13 | Witch causes person to fall from height. Scotland, U.S.: *Baughman. |
| G269.21.2 | Witch causes person to mew like cat and neigh like horse. England: Baughman. |
| G269.25 | Witch causes person to spin around on bedpost. U.S.: Baughman. |
| G269.11.2 | Witch causes person's arm to wither. U.S.: Baughman. |
| G265.6.1 | Witch causes pigs to behave unnaturally. U.S.: Baughman. |
| G265.6.1.1 | Witch causes pigs to dance. England: Baughman. |
| G263.4 | Witch causes sickness. (Cf. D2064.) Icelandic: *Boberg; England, Scotland, Wales, U.S.: Baughman; N. A. Indian (Zuсi): Benedict 344. |
| G263.4.1 | Witch causes toothache. England: *Baughman. |
| G272.15 | Witch controlled by means of magic spells. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| G265.7 | Witch controls actions of animals. (Cf. D2072.0.2, D2083.2.) England, Scotland, Ireland, U.S.: *Baughman. |
| G263.4.3 | Witch cripples or lames through illness. (Cf. G269.11.) England, U.S.: *Baughman. |
| G269.9 | Witch cuts steaks from hero's body. French Canadian: Sister Marie Ursule. |
| G203.1 | Witch daughter of fairy and man. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| G275 | Witch defeated. Irish myth: *Cross; Spanish: Espinosa Jr. No. 68. |
| G264.3.1 | Witch disguised becomes queen, devours king's horses nightly. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| G265.2 | Witch drowns foal. Scotch: Macdougall and Calder 251. |
| G231 | Witch dwells on cliff. Hoffmann-Krayer Zs. f. Vksk. XXV 119; Icelandic: Corpus Poeticum Boreale I 152, Boberg. |
| G232 | Witch dwells on glass mountain. *Fb "glasbjærg" I 459—460, "heks" I 582. |
| G262.2 | Witch eats person's entrails (heart). *Kittredge Witchcraft 225, 532 n. 113; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| G269.6 | Witch eats up visitor's bow. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| G249.3 | Witch enters and leaves house by chimney. (Cf. F275, G242.1.) U.S.: *Baughman. |
| G288 | Witch escapes from locked room. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| G269.7 | Witch estranges brothers. Eskimo (Greenland): Rink 111. |
| G291 | Witch executed for engaging in witchcraft. England, U.S.: *Baughman. |
| G271.1 | Witch exorcised by burning stick. Fb "kjæp" II 151a. |
| G271.2.2 | Witch exorcised by holy water. Irish myth: Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| G271.2 | Witch exorcised by use of religious ceremony, object, or charm. (Cf. D2176.3.2.) |
| G271 | Witch exorcised. |
| G215 | Witch extraordinary as to head. |
| G225.0.1 | Witch feeds animal familiar with her own blood. Kittredge Witchcraft 179 nn. 51—53; England: Baughman. |
| G242.2 | Witch flies as whirlwind. Fb "hvirvlevind" I 707b. |
| G242.1 | Witch flies through air on broomstick. Kittredge Witchcraft 243, 547 n. 33; Fb "lime" II 430, "limeskaft" II 430f.; England, Scotland, Wales, U.S.: Baughman; Icelandic: *Boberg; Finnish-Swedish: Wessman 81f. Nos. 675, 683; Finnish: Aarne FFC XXXIII 48 No. 106; Estonian: Aarne FFC XXV 138 No. 106; Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 3651; Spanish: Espinosa Jr. No. 156. |
| G242.3 | Witch flies through air on leaf. Irish myth: Cross. |
| G242 | Witch flies through air. Kittredge Witchcraft 29; *Penzer II 104, IX 57—59; England, Scotland, U.S.: Baughman; Icelandic: MacCulloch Eddic 300f.; Spanish: Espinosa Jr. Nos. 150—56. |
| G249.6 | Witch followed by husband; dies when discovered. (Cf. G252.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| G275.5 | Witch forced to divulge her secret powers. Africa (Bondei): Woodward FL XXXVI 367ff. No. 12. |
| G224.7 | Witch gets power by licking brew made from a serpent. (Cf. B217.1.1.) Scotland: Baughman. |
| G281.1 | Witch gives away consecrated wafer after service. (Cf. H1292.4.1.) England: *Baughman. |
| G243.3.1 | Witch gives birth to toads and snakes after union with devil. U.S.: Baughman. |
| G269.3 | Witch harnesses man and leads him to dance. Swiss: Jegerlehner Oberwallis 315 No. 124. |
| G206 | Witch has (three) giant sons. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| G225.5 | Witch has an army of dragons, lions and bears. Icelandic: Þiðriks saga II 271—75, Boberg. |
| G221.3 | Witch has extraordinary bodily strength. (Cf. D1830, F610.) Irish myth: Cross; Icelandic: Boberg. |
| G219.3 | Witch has long nails. Irish myth: Cross. |
| G211.6 | Witch in amphibian form. |
| G262.3 | Witch in animal form kills. |
| G211 | Witch in animal form. Kittredge Witchcraft 174 nn. 1—3. |
| G212.3 | Witch in form of a scroll. England: Baughman. |
| G212.4 | Witch in form of a tree. England: Baughman. |
| G211.5 | Witch in form of an insect. |
| G212.5 | Witch in form of ball of fire. (Cf. F491, E742.2.) England: Baughman. |
| G211.2.10 | Witch in form of bat. England: Baughman. |
| G211.2.1 | Witch in form of bear. (Cf. D113.2.) Fb "heks" I 581a. |
| G211.5.2 | Witch in form of bee. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| G211.5.3 | Witch in form of beetle. U.S.: *Baughman. |
| G212.1 | Witch in form of blade of straw. Tobler 45; Wales: Baughman. |
| G252 | Witch in form of cat has hand cut off: recognized next morning by missing hand. Taylor MPh XVII (1919) 59 n. 8; Wales, U.S.: *Baughman; North Carolina: Brown Collection I 660; Icelandic: Boberg; Lithuanian: Balys Index Nos. 3657, 3684; Swiss: Jegerlehner Oberwallis 304 No. 25, 307 No. 31, 325 Nos. 7, 15; Spanish: Espinosa Jr. Nos. 170, 171; Japanese: Ikeda; West Indies: Flowers 444. |
| G211.1.7 | Witch in form of cat. (Cf. D142.) Fb "kat" II 107b, IV 255b; Tobler 42; Irish myth: Cross; England, Wales, U.S.: Baughman; North Carolina: Brown Collection I 659; Icelandic: *Boberg; Swiss: Jegerlehner Oberwallis 325 No. 15; German: Grimm No. 69; Spanish: Espinosa Jr. Nos. 167—172. |
| G212.2 | Witch in form of cookstove. U.S.: Baughman. |
| G211.1.3 | Witch in form of cow. England, U.S.: *Baughman. |
| G211.6.2 | Witch in form of crocodile. Africa: Stanley 100. |
| G211.4.1 | Witch in form of crow. (Cf. D151.4.) Fb "krage" II 285b; U.S.: Baughman; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| G211.2.4 | Witch in form of deer. England, Scotland, U.S.: *Baughman; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| G211.1.8 | Witch in form of dog. (Cf. D141.) *Fb "heks" I 581a; Tobler 41; Kittredge Witchcraft 176f. nn. 22—29; England: Baughman; Lithuanian: Balys Legends No. 438; Spanish: Espinosa Jr. No. 173; West Indies: Flowers 441; S. A. Indian (Arawak of Surinam): Jijena Sanchez 23. |
| G211.1 | Witch in form of domestic beast. |
| G211.3 | Witch in form of domestic bird. |
| G211.9.1 | Witch in form of dragon. (Cf. D119.2.). Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| G211.3.2 | Witch in form of duck. (Cf. D165.) *Fb "and" IV 12b. |
| G211.7 | Witch in form of fish. |
| G211.5.1 | Witch in form of fly. (Cf. D185.) Fb "flue" I 315. |
| G211.2.3 | Witch in form of fox. (Cf. D113.3.) Fb "heks" I 581a; U.S.: Baughman; Swiss: Jegerlehner Oberwallis 304 No. 25; Japanese: Anesaki 325f. |
| G211.1.5 | Witch in form of goat. (Cf. G262.3.1.) U.S.: Baughman. |
| G211.3.3 | Witch in form of goose (gosling). England: Baughman. |
| G211.2.7 | Witch in form of hare. (Cf. D123.) Fb "hare" I 556; Kittredge Witchcraft 179 nn. 45—49; Irish myth: Cross; England, Scotland, Wales, U.S.: Baughman. |
| G211.1.1.1 | Witch in form of headless horse. *Fb "föl" I 400. |
| G211.4.3 | Witch in form of heath hen. U.S.: Baughman. |
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