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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
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Deceptions
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Reversals of Fortune
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Ordaining the Future
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Chance and Fate
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Society
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Rewards and Punishments
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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 ▲ |
|---|---|
| Q551.8.1 | Deformity as punishment for false judging. (Cf. Q265.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q551.8 | Deformity as punishment. Irish myth: Cross; Jewish: Neuman. |
| Q172.9 | Deification as reward. Tahiti: Beckwith Myth 38. |
| Q7 | Deity descends and makes king and wronged subject change places. Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 425. |
| Q414.0.8 | Demons burn heretics at stake. (Cf. Q225.1.) Scala Celi 103b Nos. 555, 556. |
| Q154.1 | Descendants of man who endured pain without crying out not to meet violent deaths. (Cf. Q84.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q222.5.5 | Desecrated church burned by burning straw carried by sparrow. (This is done through power of saint.) Irish myth: Cross; England, Wales, Scotland: Baughman. |
| Q411.11.1 | Desecrating a sanctuary (saint's house) by murder punished. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q241.1 | Desire to commit adultery punished. Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q585.2 | Destruction (disappearance) of property got through immoderate request. (Cf. Q338.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q552.13.2 | Destruction of property by fire from heaven as punishment. (Cf. Q595.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q552.1.0.1 | Destruction of property by thunderbolt as punishment. (Cf. Q595.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q491.3 | Devil beats wicked man's corpse. Estonian: Aarne FFC XXV 124 No. 50. |
| Q312.2 | Devil carries off fault-finding people. (Cf. R11.2.1.) Scala Celi 54b No. 306. |
| Q387.1 | Devil carries off jester. (Cf. R11.2.1.) Scala Celi 77b No. 441. |
| Q272.1.1 | Devil carries off rich man at death. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| Q272.1 | Devil carries off rich man. Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 281; Crane Vitry 204 Nos. 170; Scala Celi 60b, 80a Nos. 322, 456. |
| Q267.1 | Devil comes for hypocrite. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q273.1 | Devil comes for usurer. (Cf. R11.2.1.) Scala Celi 168a Nos. 953, 954; Alphabet No. 758; Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q271.2 | Devil condemns rich man who does not repent until ready to die. Scala Celi 57b No. 322; Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| Q457.2 | Devil flays impious person. (Cf. G303, Q220.) Finnish: Aarne FFC XXXIII 42 No. 50**; Finnish-Swedish: Wessman 12 No. 108. |
| Q331.2.1.1 | Devil impersonates woman's maid at her toilette. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q554.2 | Devil in roof of church into which he thrusts voices of loud singers. (Cf. Q223.) Alphabet No. 123. |
| Q220.1 | Devil plagues impious people. Finnish-Swedish: Wessman 13 No. 113; Lithuanian: Balys Legends Nos. 719—43, 825f.; West Indies: Flowers 567. |
| Q386.1 | Devil punishes girl who loves to dance. Scala Celi 62a No. 338; England, U.S.: Baughman; Finnish: Aarne FFC XXXIII 40 No. 24**; Finnish-Swedish: Wessman 10 No. 81, 13 No. 112. |
| Q61.2 | Devil spares abbot because of humility. Scala Celi 104b No. 570. |
| Q274.2 | Devil suffocates swindling merchant. (Cf. Q425.) Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q220.1.1 | Devil takes shape of old woman to punish impious nuns. Introduces them to three youths disguised as girls and brings about nuns' seduction. Nuns are stoned to death. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q331.1 | Devil torments old man who has laid aside his humility. Scala Celi 105a No. 572. |
| Q274.1 | Devils carry away stones of church built with ill-gotten money. Scala Celi 84a No. 481. |
| Q281.1.1 | Devils carry off girl who abuses her mother. Scala Celi 99a No. 531; Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| Q559.1 | Devils instead of angels visit woman who has forgotten God in her prosperity. U.S., England: Baughman; Russian: Andrejev No. 796*. |
| Q322 | Dirtiness punished. (Cf. Q432.1, Q433.3, W115.) Spanish Exempla: Keller; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q327 | Discourtesy punished. (Cf. Q221.1, Q583.2.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q221.1 | Discourtesy to god punished. (Cf. Q327.) Irish: Beal XXI 336, O'Suilleabhain 125; Spanish Exempla: Keller; Greek: Grote I 32; India: *Thompson-Balys; Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 132, *190, 233; Easter Island: Métraux Ethnology 141; Society Islands: Henry Ancient Tahiti (Honolulu, 1928) 382; West Indies: Flowers 567. |
| Q221.1.1 | Discourtesy to messengers of the Gods punished. Jewish: Moreno Esdras, Neuman. |
| Q491.1 | Disgraceful burial as punishment. Jewish: Neuman. |
| Q53.1 | Disguised king rewards rescuer from robbers. (Cf. K1812.) *BP III 450ff. |
| Q325 | Disobedience punished. (Cf. Q431.3, Q451.7.0.2.3, Q456.0.3, Q458.0.2, Q552.1.0.1.1, Q593.) Alphabet No. 441; Spanish: Keller, Espinosa Jr. Nos. 104, 216; Jewish: *Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys; Eskimo (Greenland): Rink 428, (Bering Strait): Nelson RBAE XVIII 473; Tuamotu: Stimson MS (T-G. 3/629); S. A. Indian (Chiriguano): Métraux RMLP XXXIII 177; Africa (Wakweli): Bender 108, (Duala): Lederbogen Märchen 84, (Congo): Weeks Congo 214, (Luba): DeClerq ZsKS IV 193; West Indies: Flowers 569. |
| Q221.5 | Disobedience to God punished. Jewish: Moreno Esdras (Q229). |
| Q395 | Disrespect punished. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 411, Tahiti: ibid. 244. |
| Q553 | Divine favor withdrawn as punishment. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| Q521.1 | Doing penance till green leaves grow on a dry branch. *Types 756ABC; *BP III 463; **Andrejev FFC LIV 34, LXIX 126, 129ff., 241ff.; Irish: O'Suilleabhain 49; Spanish: Espinosa II Nos. 79f., Espinosa Jr. No. 186; Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 143. |
| Q112.0.6 | Dominion over world as reward. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| Q221.7 | Doubt of veracity of goddess' statement punished. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q552.18.2 | Drink refused saint disappears. (Cf. Q227.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q552.3.3 | Drought as punishment. Irish myth: Cross; Jewish: Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q428.1 | Drowning as punishment for adultery. (Cf. Q241.) Irish myth: *Cross; Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| Q428.3 | Drowning as punishment for disturbing holy person. (Cf. Q227.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q581.3.1 | Drowning as punishment for drowning. Eskimo. (Cumberland Sound): Boas BAM XV 165. |
| Q552.19.0.1 | Drowning caused by magic wind as punishment of braggart. (Cf. D906, Q330.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q386.2 | Drunken dancers punished. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q451.3.4 | Dumbness as punishment for blasphemy. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| Q451.3.1 | Dumbness as punishment for hiding children. Fb "stum". |
| Q451.3.2 | Dumbness as punishment for lying. (Cf. Q263.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q451.3.3 | Dumbness as punishment for opposition to holy person. (*Cf. Q227.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q585.3 | During rainy spring, farmer wishes that Lord would sleep till harvest time. Farmer himself sleeps until all neighbors have finished harvesting. When he wakes, he finds his crops ruined. (Cf. Q235.) England: *Baughman. |
| Q551.5.1.3 | Dying priest looks greedily on ripe plum: is reincarnated as insect feeding within plum. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q557.3 | Eagle (ape) carries off ill-gotten gain. Makes away with the receipts of a merchant who had watered his wine. (Cf. Q274.) Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| Q451.6.2 | Ear cut off as punishment for theft. (Cf. Q212.) Nouvelles Récréations No. 56. |
| Q552.4 | Ear of stolen animal protrudes from thief's mouth. (Cf. Q212.) Irish: Plummer cxliii, *Cross; *Loomis White Magic 98. |
| Q433.10 | Earl hunting in the king's forest imprisoned. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| Q451.6.1 | Ears cut off as punishment for adultery. (Cf. Q241.) *Penzer V 82 n. 1, 156; Africa (Fang): Einstein 53, Trilles 168. |
| Q451.6 | Ears cut off as punishment. Irish myth: Cross; Missouri French: Carrière; India: *Thompson-Balys; Africa: Frobenius Atlantis IV 196. |
| Q552.2.0.1.1 | Earth quakes when saint is opposed. (Cf. Q227.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q552.2.3 | Earth swallowings as punishment. (Cf. F940, Q221.4.3.) Irish: *Cross, Beal XXI 327, O'Suilleabhain 79; Lithuanian: Balys Index Nos. 3610, 3748, Legends Nos. 467f., 470f; Jewish: *Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| Q552.2.3.2.2 | Earth swallows heretical city. (Cf. Q225.1.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q552.2.3.1.2 | Earth swallows man as punishment for sacrilege (blasphemy, heresy, etc.). (Cf. Q221.3.) *Loomis White Magic 101; Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q552.2.3.4 | Earth swallows man intending treachery. (Cf. Q261.1.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q552.2.3.1.1 | Earth swallows man who opposes saint (holy man). (Cf. Q227.) Loomis White Magic 44; Irish myth: *Cross; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 798, II 1220. |
| Q552.2.3.2.1 | Earth swallows mill in which saint's grain was refused grinding. (Cf. Q227.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q552.2.3.2 | Earth swallows object as punishment. Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q552.25 | Earthquake as punishment. |
| Q552.25.1 | Earthquake at dragon's death. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| Q552.25.2 | Earthquake at witch's death. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| Q552.20 | Eclipse as punishment. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q431.2.1 | Elder brothers banished for treachery. (Cf. K2211, Q261.) Spanish: Boggs FFC XC 49 No. 328A*. |
| Q551.6.6 | Emaciation caused by envy. (Cf. Q302.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q466 | Embarkation in leaky vessel as punishment. *Type 612; BP I 126, *127. |
| Q466.0.1 | Embarkation in rudderless boat as punishment. Icelandic: Herrmann Saxo II 650. |
| Q211.0.3 | Emperor punished for his many murders. He is carried to hell. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| Q211.0.2 | Enormity of kin murder. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q302.1 | Envy punished: the found purse. Three men find a purse. They are loath to pick it up, since they will have to divide. The king sees this and assigns them their proper punishments. Chauvin II 120 No. 107. |
| Q302 | Envy punished. (Cf. Q551.6.6, W195.) Irish myth: Cross; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q157 | Escape of hostages miraculously prevented as reward for piety. (Cf. Q20.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q320 | Evil personal habits punished. |
| Q393 | Evil speech punished. Italian Novella: Rotunda; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 50. |
| Q42.1.3 | Excessive hospitality causes chieftain to become poor. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q436 | Excommunication from religious association as punishment. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| Q431.9.2 | Exile as punishment for parricide. (Cf. Q211.1.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q476 | Exposing mistress's person (excepting face) to her husband (paramour's friends). Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| Q553.6 | Failure in all efforts as punishment. Loomis White Magic 100; Jewish: Moreno Esdras (Q479.1); India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q552.3.0.3 | Failure of crops and milk as punishment for adultery. (Cf. Q241.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q552.3.0.2 | Failure of crops as punishment for murder. (Cf. Q211.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q552.3.0.1 | Failure of crops as punishment for uncharitableness. (Cf. Q286.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q552.3 | Failure of crops during reign of wicked king. (Cf. Q552.10.1.) Irish: MacCulloch Celtic 72, *Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg; Greek: Grote I 171, 203; Jewish: Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| Q552.3.0.4 | Failure of crops for mistreating the dead. Africa (Cameroon): Mansfield 233. |
| Q223.11 | Failure to circumcise child punished. Jewish: Neuman. |
| Q223.8 | Failure to do penance punished. Monk fails and becomes ill. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| Q223.12 | Failure to finish period of mourning punished. Philippine (Tinguian): Cole 180. |
| Q223.6 | Failure to observe holiness of Sabbath punished. (Cf. Q551.2.2, Q552.14.1.) *Loomis White Magic 99f.; Irish myth: *Cross; England, Scotland, U.S.: *Baughman; Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 3375, Legends Nos. 719—45; Jewish: *Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q172.0.1 | Fairy minstrel asks admission to heaven as reward for playing for saint. (Cf. F262.3.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q151.4 | Faithful old dog threatened with death proves his worth and is spared. BP I 425 n. 1, III 74 n. 2. |
| Q411.0.1.3 | Faithless wife (mistress) seized by husband's (lover's) poet, who leaps to death with her in his arms. Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q265 | False judging punished. (Cf. Q551.8.1, Q558.16, Q559.8.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q191 | Family line of good man rewarded. Irish myth: Cross; Jewish: *Neuman. |
| Q552.3.2 | Famine as punishment for oppression by victors. Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q552.3.1 | Famine as punishment. *Loomis White Magic 95, 102; Irish myth: *Cross; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q242.4 | Father of incestuous children punished. Eskimo (Bering Strait): Nelson RBAE XVIII 481, (Cumberland Sound): Boas BAM XV 209. |
| Q242.2 | Father-daughter incest punished. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| Q312 | Fault-finding punished. (Cf. Q431.12, Q451.4.6, Q557.8, W128.) Jewish: Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q312.4 | Fault-finding with God's handling of weather. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| Q116.1 | Favorable decree as reward for helping holy person. (Cf. Q38.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q116 | Favorable decree as reward. Irish myth: Cross; Icelandic: Boberg; Jewish: *Neuman. |
| Q524 | Fearful penances. Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q451.2.2 | Feet cut off as punishment for theft. (Cf. Q212.) Penzer V 143 n.; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| Q82.2 | Ferocious animal (lion, tiger, etc.) rewards man who does not fear it. Africa (Congo): Christaller Handbuch der Duala-Sprache (Basel, 1892) 68ff. |
| Q434.3 | Fettering to oak. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| Q65 | Filial duty rewarded. Jewish: *Neuman; Chinese: Graham; Tonga: Gifford 34. |
| Q552.13 | Fire from heaven as punishment. (Cf. F797, F962.2.) Irish myth: *Cross; Jewish: *Neuman. |
| Q552.13.3 | Fire from heaven consumes adulterous wife who has slandered an abbot. (Cf. Q227, Q414.0.3.) *Loomis White Magic 111. |
| Q552.16.1.1 | Fishermen cut fish into pieces and claim that they have none. Saint says, "If you have none, may you have them; if you have, may they be stones." Pieces of fish are changed to stones. (Cf. A977.5.2.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q583 | Fitting bodily injury as punishment. Irish myth: Cross; Jewish: *Neuman; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 16. |
| Q582 | Fitting death as punishment. (Cf. Q411, D2060.) Irish: O'Suilleabhain 125, Beal XXI 336; Jewish: *Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 374, II 851, 1353; Africa (Duala): Lederbogen JAS IV 61, (Wakweli): Bender 106f. |
| Q585 | Fitting destruction (disappearance) of property as punishment. (Cf. Q552.18, Q595.) India: Thompson-Balys; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 885, II 416, 1264. |
| Q268 | Flattery punished. Jewish: Neuman; Spanish Exempla: Keller (Q393.1.) |
| Q457.3 | Flaying alive as punishment for adultery. (Cf. Q241.) Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q457.1 | Flaying alive as punishment for contesting with a god. Greek: *Frazer Apollodorus I 30 n. 1 (Apollo and Marsyas). |
| Q457.4 | Flaying alive as punishment for opposition to holy person. (Cf. Q227.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q457 | Flaying alive as punishment. Grimm Deutsche Rechtsalterthümer II 291; DeCock Volkssage 85f.; Fb "menneskehud" II 579; Irish: O'Suilleabhain 43, Beal XXI 316; Swiss: Jegerlehner Oberwallis 309 No. 18. |
| Q458.0.1 | Flogging as punishment for adultery. (Cf. Q241.) Malone PMLA XLIII 410. |
| Q458.0.6 | Flogging as punishment for desire to commit adultery. (Cf. Q241.1.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q458.0.2 | Flogging as punishment for disobedience to rulers. (Cf. Q325.) Alphabet No. 441; Spanish: Espinosa Jr. No. 142. |
| Q458.0.4 | Flogging as punishment for imposture. (Cf. Q262.) Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q458.0.5 | Flogging as punishment for reviling church. (Cf. Q225.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q458.0.3 | Flogging as punishment for theft. (Cf. Q212.) Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| Q458 | Flogging as punishment. *Roberts 212; Spanish: Espinosa Jr. Nos. 109, 164f.; Jewish: Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| Q458.2.3 | Flogging to death as punishment for seduction. (Cf. Q243.2.) Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q458.2.2 | Flogging to death as punishment for theft. (Cf. Q212.) Fb "piske" II 834. |
| Q458.2 | Flogging to death as punishment. (Cf. Q410, S122.) Africa (Fang): Trilles 270. |
| Q552.19.6 | Flood as punishment for murder (fratricide). (Cf. Q211.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q552.16 | Food and drink refused saint miraculously become putrid. (Cf. D2096, Q227.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q552.16.1 | Food concealed from saint miraculously changed to stones. (Cf. Q551.3.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q585.4 | Food disappears because of wastefulness. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| Q552.3.4 | Food magically disappears. India: Thompson-Balys; Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 431. |
| Q6.1 | Foolishness brings a man to death, quiet calm to fortune. Africa (Wakweli): Bender 92f. |
| Q451.2.3 | Foot cut off as punishment for murder. (Cf. Q211.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q171.1 | Forgiveness of sin for acts of charity. Alphabet No. 296; Irish: Beal XXI 332, O'Suilleabhain 101. |
| Q552.14.1 | Fortress built on Sunday destroyed by tempest. (Cf. C631, Q223.6.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q595.1 | Fortress ravaged when saint is refused admittance. (Cf. Q227.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q222.3 | Foul portrayal of Jesus on the Cross brings punishment to the artist and the man responsible. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| Q88.1 | Fra Lippo Lippi is freed by Moors because of his greatness as a painter. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q211.9 | Fratricide punished. (Cf. Q411, Q414.0.13.) Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: Boberg; Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q121 | Freedom as reward. |
| Q388 | Freemasonry punished. |
| Q388.1 | Freemasons forced to dance till they sweat blood. Finnish-Swedish: Wessman 13 No. 114. |
| Q478 | Frightful meal as punishment. Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 597. |
| Q20.2 | Fulfillment of precepts rewarded. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| Q42 | Generosity rewarded. *Chauvin V 14 No. 68; *Penzer VIII 130ff.; Irish myth: Cross; Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "charité"; Spanish: Keller, Espinosa III No. 152, Espinosa Jr. Nos. 202—204, 210; India: *Thompson-Balys; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 897, 904, 934, 988; Tahiti: Beckwith Myth 38. |
| Q42.3 | Generosity to saint (god) in disguise rewarded. (Cf. Q1, Q45.1.) Alphabet Nos. 297, 344, 365; Scala Celi 39b No. 222; Irish: Beal XXI 304, 325, O'Suilleabhain 2, 68; Spanish: Keller, Espinosa II No. 86, III Nos. 168—171, Espinosa Jr. Nos. 83—85, 181f., 210; India: *Thompson-Balys; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 485; Chinese: Graham. |
| Q111.5 | Giant gives gold, silver and weapon as reward for good advice. (Cf. Q113.1, Q114.) Icelandic: örvar-Odds saga 124—125. |
| Q114 | Gifts as reward. (Cf. Q111.5.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q114.2 | Gifts as rewards for gifts. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| Q114.0.1 | Gifts made to advisor. (Cf. Q43.). Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q562.1 | Girdles of sinners in hell alternately scorch with heat and cold. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q451.6.0.1 | Girl (fairy) bites off ear of ravisher. (Cf. F304.4.1, Q244.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q281.1.2 | Girl cruel to her mother is slain by God. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| Q254 | Girl punished for becoming pregnant. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q559.5 | Girl punished for jeering at saint. Is stricken dumb and distaff sticks to her hand. (Cf. Q227.) Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q552.2.3.1 | Girl sinks into earth for dancing in church. (Cf. C51.1.5, Q386.) Fb "kirkegaard" II 129. |
| Q559.5.2 | Girl's hand withers as punishment for broken oath to God. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| Q176 | God gives "peace and favorable weather" in consequence of enactment of good law. (Cf. Q153.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q174.1.1.2 | God grants to saint the boon that no one buried in any of his churches shall go to hell. Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q174.1.1.3 | God grants to saint the boon that two persons are to be rescued from hell by him "to the end of the world." Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q211.9.1 | God punishes murder of brother-in-law by having murderer's male heirs die. (Cf. Q558.) Heptameron No. 40. |
| Q553.3.1 | God refuses king a son on account of his many wars. (Cf. Q305.) Chinese: Werner 256. |
| Q211.0.1 | God revenges murder after thirty years. *Wesselski Märchen 200; *BP II 535 n. 1. |
| Q246.1 | Goddess killed for infidelity with mortal. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 37. |
| Q1.1 | Gods (saints) in disguise reward hospitality and punish inhospitality. Usually the hospitable person is poor, the inhospitable rich. *Types 750AB, 751, 750*; *BP II 210, III 206; Aarne FFC XXIII 46; *Dh II 117; *Fb "Sankt Peder" III 164b, "rig" III 55a. — Spanish: Espinosa II No. 86, III Nos. 168—171, Espinosa Jr. No. 181; India: *Thompson-Balys; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 656; Japanese: Ikeda. |
| Q552.13.0.3 | Gods pour torrents of hot ashes on kingdom as punishment. Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 601. |
| Q552.18.1 | Gold and silver demanded of saint disappear. (Cf. Q227.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q111.4 | Gold ring as reward. (Cf. Q91.3, Q91.4.) Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| Q6 | Good thoughts rewarded, bad punished. Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 186f. |
| Q393.2 | Gossiping punished. Africa: Casati I 319. |
| Q552.2.2 | Grave sinks so that grave-robbers cannot get out. (Cf. Q212.2.) Estonian: Aarne FFC XXV 116 No. 17. |
| Q212.2 | Grave-robbing punished. Estonian: Aarne FFC XXV 116 No. 17. |
| Q552.14.5 | Hail as punishment. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| Q559.8 | Half of house in which false judgment is given slips down hill. (Cf. Q265.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q112 | Half of kingdom as reward. *Types 575, 653; *BP II 131ff., III 45ff.; Christiansen FFC XXIV 99; *Fb "prins og prinsesse" II 876; Icelandic: Egils saga einhenda ok ásmundar Berserkjabana (FAS III) 366 (one-third of kingdom), Boberg; French Canadian: Barbeau JAFL XXIX 19; Spanish: Espinosa III No. 50; Jewish: Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys; N. A. Indian (Micmac): Rand 427 No. 80; Africa (Yoruba): Ellis 264. |
| Q112.0.2 | Half of property as reward. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q451.2.0.3 | Hamstringing as punishment. Eskimo (Greenland): Rasmussen I 244. |
| Q451.1.4 | Hand cut off (falls off) as punishment for murder. (Cf. Q211.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q451.1.4.1 | Hand cut off as punishment for fornication. (Cf. Q243.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q451.1.1 | Hand cut off as punishment for theft. (Cf. Q212.) *Penzer V 61 n. 1, 143 n., VI 19; *Chauvin VI 80 No. 249; Icelandic: *Boberg; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| Q451.1.2 | Hand cut off for contempt of court. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q451.1.3 | Hand cut off for treachery. (Cf. Q261.) Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q222.5.6 | Hand stuck for beating an idol. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q451.0.4 | Hands and feet cut off as punishment for robbery. (Cf. Q212.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q451.0.1 | Hands and feet cut off as punishment. Icelandic: Snorra Edda Skaldsk XLI, Herrmann Saxo II 571, *Boberg. |
| Q451.1 | Hands cut off as punishment. (Cf. S161.) *Type 706; *BP I 295; **Däumling Studie über den Typus des Mädchens ohne Hände (München, 1912); Krappe Zeitschrift für Englische Philologie XLIX 361—69; Missouri French: Carrière; Spanish Exempla: Keller; Latin American: *Knedler Hispanic Review X 314ff.; Italian Novella: Rotunda; India: *Thompson-Balys; Japanese: Ikeda. |
| Q469.13 | Hands in cleft log as punishment. (Cf. K1111, Q435.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q413.2 | Hanging as punishment for adultery. (Cf. Q241.) Icelandic: *Boberg; German: Grimm No. 4; Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q413.6 | Hanging as punishment for denying pagan gods. (Cf. Q225.2.) Der Heiligen Leben und Leiden 101 (Santa Barbara). |
| Q413.3 | Hanging as punishment for imposture. (Cf. Q262.) Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q413.5 | Hanging as punishment for impudence. (Cf. Q326.) Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| Q413.4 | Hanging as punishment for murder. (Cf. Q211.) Icelandic: *Boberg; Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q413.7 | Hanging as punishment for silence about hidden treasure. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| Q411.11.2 | Hanging as punishment for stealing from a church. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q413.1 | Hanging as punishment for theft. (Cf. Q212.) *Fb "hænge" I 731b; Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg; Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| Q413.8 | Hanging as punishment for treachery. (Cf. Q261.) Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| Q413.8.1 | Hanging by one foot as punishment for treachery. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q451.4.9 | Hanging by tongue as punishment. Cheremis: Sebeok-Nyerges. |
| Q291 | Hard-heartedness punished. (Cf. Q415.2.) Irish: O'Suilleabhain 61, 130, Beal XXI 324, 337; Jewish: *Neuman. |
| Q243.1.1 | Harlot punished by being burned (in hell). Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q421.1.1 | Head cut off and hung on tree outside village. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| Q551.8.5 | Head falls off when man lies to saint. (Cf. Q263.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q488.2 | Head shaved as punishment. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| Q421.1 | Heads on stakes. Punishment by beheading and placing the heads on stakes. *Taylor Romanic Review IX 21ff.; *BP III 368, IV 113; *B. Lewis Classical Mythology and Arthurian Romance 107ff.; Child V 482 s.v. "heads". — Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg; India: Thompson-Balys; Japanese: Ikeda; Africa: Frobenius Atlantis III 78; Cape Verde Islands: Parsons MAFLS XV (1) 214 No. 73. |
| Q161 | Healing as reward. |
| Q161.2 | Healing of disease as reward. Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 188 No. 128. |
| Q145.1.1 | Health as reward for drink. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| Q469.6 | Heart and liver of murderer torn out. (Cf. Q211.) Icelandic: *Boberg; Chinese: Werner 339. |
| Q469.6.1 | Heart and liver of son to be torn out. (Cf. S194.) French Canadian: Sister Marie Ursule. |
| Q469.6.0.1 | Heart of murderer cut out. (Cf. Q211.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q172.6 | Heaven as reward for renouncement of long life. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q225.1 | Heresy punished. (Cf. Q414.0.8, Q469.7, Q559.11.) Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| Q415.8 | Heretic preaching against God's creation worried to death by fly. (Cf. Q225.) Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| Q551.7.1.1 | Heretic suddenly becomes tongue-tied. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q144.1 | Hermit as reward for austerities hears voice of God. (Cf. Q34.) Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| Q226.1 | Hermit leaving his cell to become robber falls and breaks his neck. He has seen a penitent robber's soul borne to heaven and resolves therefore to be a robber. *Crane Vitry 166 No. 72; Kittredge Englische Studien XIX 177; *Herbert III 60. Cf. Type 756B. |
| Q411.5 | Hero kills mutilators of girl. Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q111.1 | Hero made business partner of rich man. English: Wells 175 (The Childe of Bristowe). |
| Q113.0.1 | High honors as reward. Chinese: Graham. |
| Q113.3 | High position as reward for piety. (Cf. Q20.) Jewish: Neuman. |
| Q253.2 | Homosexuality punished. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| Q151.10 | Honest brahman spared by tiger. (Cf. Q68.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q68.2 | Honesty rewarded. Finnish-Swedish: Hackman FFC VI No. 940*; Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 941*; Chinese: Graham. |
| Q589.1 | Horses fail when owner refuses load to saint. (Cf. Q286.1, Q557.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q151.3 | Hospitable person saved from death. (Cf. Q45.1.) Dh II 134ff. |
| Q152.1 | Hospitality of a citizen saves a city from destruction. (Cf. Q45.) Alphabet No. 368. |
| Q45.5 | Hospitality repaid by attack on devastating enemy. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| Q45.6 | Hospitality repaid by magic procuring of provisions. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| Q1 | Hospitality rewarded—opposite punished. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q45 | Hospitality rewarded. Scala Celi 51b, 81b, 83b, 104b, 152b, 158a, 164b Nos. 290, 466, 477, 569, 839, 884, 926; Alphabet No. 368; Irish myth: *Cross; Swiss: Jegerlehner Oberwallis 323 No. 95; Spanish: Espinosa III No. 152, Espinosa Jr. Nos. 181f.; Italian Novella: *Rotunda; India: Thompson-Balys; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 455, 989; Africa (Loango): Pechuël-Loesche 110, (Kaffir): Kidd 251 No. 13, (Ekoi): Talbot 208. |
| Q45.3 | Hospitality to ascetic rewarded. Buddhist Myth: Malalasekera II 221, 604, 656, 775. |
| Q45.2 | Hospitality to devil repaid. *Type 821A; Christiansen Norske Eventyr 105. |
| Q45.3.1 | Hospitality to monk rewarded. Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 819. |
| Q45.1.3 | Hospitality to saint repaid: neither he nor his posterity will ever be hurt by venomous creatures. *Loomis White Magic 131. |
| Q151.5 | Humble man miraculously saved from drowning. (Cf. Q4.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q4 | Humble rewarded, haughty punished. Irish myth: *Cross. |
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