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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 ▲ |
|---|---|
| Q499.2.1 | Humiliating death as punishment for adultery. (Cf. Q241.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q499.2.2 | Humiliating death as punishment for taking concubine. (Cf. Q243.3.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q499.2 | Humiliating death as punishment. (Cf. Q411.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q499.1 | Humiliating kiss as punishment. |
| Q499.7 | Humiliating marriage as punishment. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| Q499.8 | Humiliating penance: king to rub nose five times on red hot griddle. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q523 | Humiliating penances. (Cf. Q470.) |
| Q470 | Humiliating punishments. Irish myth: *Cross; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q499.1.1 | Humiliation through kissing a leper as punishment. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q66.1 | Humility before saint (god) in disguise rewarded. Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q66 | Humility rewarded. Irish myth: Cross; Jewish: *Neuman. |
| Q161.3 | Hunchback healed as reward for kindness. (Cf. Q40.) Africa (Bulu): Krug 109. |
| Q484 | Husband fondles second wife in presence of first as punishment for adultery. (Cf. Q241.) Malone PMLA XLIII 423. |
| Q171.1.1 | Husband forgiven for having killed jealous wife: builds monastery and becomes monk in it. Heptameron No. 70. |
| Q411.0.1 | Husband kills returning adulteress. (Cf. Q241.) Italian Novella: Rotunda; Maori: Dixon 80. |
| Q411.0.2 | Husband kills wife and paramour. Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| Q331.2.1.3.1 | Husband puts soot on wife's cheeks to discourage her from using paint. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q331.2.1.3 | Husband rubs off paint from wife's cheeks. Threatens to scrape them the next time. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q466.1 | Husband substitutes leaky vessel so that his wife and paramour are drowned. (Cf. Q241.) *Fischer-Bolte 131. |
| Q267 | Hypocrisy punished. |
| Q237 | Idolatry punished. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| Q338 | Immoderate request punished. (Cf. Q501.8, Q559.6, Q572.4, Q582.6, Q585.2.) Type 555; Irish myth: *Cross; Jewish: Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q154 | Immunity from death by violence as reward. Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q150 | Immunity from disaster as reward. |
| Q171 | Immunity from punishment for sin as reward. Spanish Exempla: Keller; Jewish: *Neuman. |
| Q461.1 | Impalement as punishment for faithlessness. Enemy chief has the faithless widow of his victim impaled. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q461 | Impalement as punishment. Chauvin V 3 No. 2; Taylor Romanic Review IX 21ff.; India: Thompson-Balys; Hindu: Penzer I 111, Meyer Hindu Tales 226. |
| Q461.3 | Impaling as punishment for adultery. (Cf. Q241.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q220 | Impiety punished. (Cf. Q457.2, Q458.0.5, Q467.2, Q552.2.3.1.2, Q552.2.3.2.2, Q558.11, Q558.12, Q558.17, Q559.4, Q559.5.) Irish: *Cross, Beal XXI 317, 331, 335; Spanish Exempla: Keller; Jewish: *Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| Q473.4 | Importunate lover put asleep in street. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q430.1 | Imposition of tabu as punishment. Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q552.1.3 | Impostor killed by lightning. (Cf. Q262.) Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 110 No. 65. |
| Q262 | Impostor punished. (Cf. K1900, Q413.3, Q414.0.6, Q414.1.1, Q416.0.3, Q431.7, Q433.4, Q458.0.4, Q552.1.3.) English: Wells 42 (Arthour and Merlin); Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "usurpateur", "imposteur"; Missouri French: Carrière; Spanish: Keller, Espinosa Jr. Nos. 106—110, Espinosa II Nos. 133—135; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| Q433.1 | Imprisonment for adultery. (Cf. Q241.) Heptameron No. 61; Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| Q433.5 | Imprisonment for attempted seduction. (Cf. Q243.2.1.) Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q433.8 | Imprisonment for gambling. (Cf. Q381.) Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q433.4 | Imprisonment for imposture. (Cf. Q262.) Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q433.7 | Imprisonment for treachery. (Cf. Q261.) Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q326 | Impudence punished. (Cf. Q411.10, Q413.5.) Irish myth: Cross; Africa (Bushongo): Torday 241. |
| Q413.5.1 | Impudent suitor or his messenger hanged or threatened with hanging. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| Q242 | Incest punished. (Cf. Q414.0.3, Q421.0.6, Q431.8.1, Q451.4.3, Q451.7.3, Q520.3, Q541.3, Q552.19.4.) Spanish Exempla: Keller; Jewish: Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q243 | Incontinence punished—miscellaneous. (Cf. Q414.0.3, Q414.0.3.1, Q431.5.3, Q433.6, Q451.1.4.1, Q458.2.1.) Irish myth: *Cross; Jewish: *Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Graham. |
| Q491 | Indignity to corpse as punishment. (Cf. Q271.1.) Jewish: *Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q552.1.8 | Infidel defies God to strike him with lightning. God does. (Cf. Q221.3.) U.S.: Baughman. |
| Q281 | Ingratitude punished. (Cf. Q551.6.3, Q597.2.) Irish: Beal XXI 331; Spanish: Keller, Espinosa III No. 264, Espinosa Jr. No. 41; Jewish: *Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 1159; Maori, Samoa, Tonga: *Beckwith Myth 504f.; Africa: Woodson 64, (Wakweli): Bender 50, Sieber 89ff., (Bantu): Einstein 148, (Lokele): Grenfell 820, (Jaunde): Heepe 89, (Fang): Tessman 188; West Indies: Flowers 568; Jamaica: Beckwith MAFLS XVII 267 No. 76. |
| Q292 | Inhospitality punished. (Cf. P320, Q45, Q551.6.7, Q556.7, W158.) Irish: *Cross, O'Suilleabhain 53; Finnish: Kalevala rune 33; Swiss: Jegerlehner Oberwallis 323 No. 94; Spanish Exempla: Keller; Jewish: *Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 824; Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 174; Africa (Wachaga): Gutmann 93, (Loango): Pechuël-Loesche 110. |
| Q292.2 | Inhospitality to orphans punished. Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 3728. |
| Q292.1 | Inhospitality to saint (god) punished. (Cf. Q1.1.) *Loomis White Magic 101; Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 772*; Russian: Andrejev No. 796I*; Swiss: Jegerlehner Oberwallis 295 No. 13; Spanish: Espinosa Jr. No. 181; Greek: Fox 20, 94; India: Thompson-Balys; S. A. Indian (Chincha): Alexander Lat. Am. 231. |
| Q296 | Injustice punished. (Cf. Q265, Q552.1.6.) Irish myth: *Cross; Jewish: Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q414.0.7 | Innocent queen burned at stake. *Fb. "brænde" IV 69b. |
| Q342 | Inquisitiveness punished. (Cf. Q557.5.) Wienert FFC LVI 49 (ET 89), 95 (ST 84); Jewish: Neuman; Africa: Weeks Congo 207. |
| Q473.0.1 | Insolvent debtor drawn through streets. (Cf. Q271.) Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "débiteur". |
| Q113.4.1 | Institution of priests and Levites as reward for observance of Sabbath. Jewish: Neuman. |
| Q551.2.5 | Instrument or tool for unlawful work becomes attached to person holding it. *Loomis White Magic 55. |
| Q68 | Integrity rewarded. Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q261.1 | Intended treachery punished. (Cf. Q210.1, Q552.2.3.4.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q162 | Invulnerability as reward for pious act. Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q283 | Irreverent young people punished by outraged old man. Icelandic: Boberg; Koryak: *Jochelson JE VI 365f.; Eskimo: *Boas BAM XV 361; N. A. Indian (Tsimshian): Boas BBAE XXVII 95. |
| Q552.2.3.2.3 | Island sinks for man's offense to saint. (Cf. Q227.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q331.2.2 | Jackal demands to be praised as god: runs with pack of hounds. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q587 | Jealous husband kills bird which wife falsely says she has been listening to. She has really been conversing with her lover. (Laüstic.) *Warncke Lais der Marie de France cxxvi. |
| Q301 | Jealousy punished. (Cf. W181.) Penzer III 177f.; Missouri French: Carrière; Spanish Exempla: Keller; Italian Novella: *Rotunda; Jewish: Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys; Africa (Konnoh): Willans 139. |
| Q387 | Jesting punished. |
| Q111.7 | Jewels as reward. Jewish: Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Graham. |
| Q265.3 | Judge must yield bench to son because he had made a false judgment. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| Q26 | Keeping fast rewarded. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q561.2 | Kettle heating in hell for certain person. *Type 756B; *Andrejev FFC LXIX 106ff. |
| Q211.6 | Killing an animal revenged. (Cf. Q231, Q424.1, Q582.4.) |
| Q2 | Kind and unkind. Churlish person disregards requests of old person (animal) and is punished. Courteous person (often youngest brother or sister) complies and is rewarded. *Types 361, 403, 431, 440, 480, 513, 550, 551, 554, 570, 571, 577, 610, 620, 707, 750**, 287**; *BP I 86, 99, 207, 503, II 21, 39, 380, 394, 427, III 84, 267, 276; **Roberts; *Cox Cinderella 481; MacCulloch Childhood 61; *Saintyves Perrault 10. — Irish: O'Suilleabhain 18; French Canadian: Barbeau JAFL XXIX 15; Missouri French: Carrière; Spanish: Boggs FFC XC 75 No. 594, Espinosa II No. 86, III Nos. 141—143, 153, Espinosa Jr. Nos. 117, 183, 202—204; Italian: Basile Pentamerone III No. 10, IV No. 7, V No. 2; India: *Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Graham; Japanese: Anesaki 318f., Ikeda; Korean: Zong in-Sob 32 No. 15, 46 No. 27; Indonesia: DeVries's list No. 172, Dixon 210; Tuamotu: Stimson MS (z-G. 13/167); N. A. Indian: *Thompson CColl II 383, 386ff., 432, *Thompson Tales 276 n. 18b, (California): Gayton and Newman 95; Africa: Werner African 138ff., 204, 208, 210, (Gold Coast): Barker and Sinclair 89 No. 16, (Benga): Nassau 213 No. 23, (Ekoi): Talbot 237, 280, (Kaffir): Theal 48, 52, (Basuto): Jacottet 140, 146, 224, (Yoruba): Ellis 244 No. 1, (Fjort): Dennett 121f., (Ibo, Nigeria): Basden 282, (Duala): Lederbogen JAS IV 70, Märchen 84; Cape Verde Islands: Parsons MAFLS XV (1) 125 No. 44. |
| Q40 | Kindness rewarded. *Chauvin VI 109 No. 274 n. 2; Irish: Beal XXI 304; Missouri French: Carrière; Greek: Fox 200 (Phaon); Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 362; Chinese: Graham, Eberhard FFC CXX 132 No. 87; Africa (Bankon): Ittman 83, (Bulu): Krug 109, (Duala): Lederbogen JAS IV 71. |
| Q51 | Kindness to animals rewarded. Jewish: *Neuman; Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 83, Africa (Wakweli): Bender 87f., (Wute): Sieber 197, (Fang): Tessman 196. |
| Q47 | Kindness to orphans repaid by dead parents. Jewish: Neuman; Africa (Ekoi): Talbot 99. |
| Q400 | Kinds of punishment—general. *Child V 492 s.v. "punishments"; Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q115.2 | King promises daughter she may marry anyone she desires. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| Q45.1.2 | King refuses to invite Patrick to feast. Poor man kills only cow and uses his only measure of meal to entertain Patrick. Patrick blesses his wife and son. Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q91.3 | King rewards poem. (Cf. Q112.0.1.2, Q411.10.1.) Icelandic: *Boberg; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q91.2 | King rewards scullion for bon-mot. Makes him a valet. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q424.1 | King strangles falcon when it kills eagle. (Cf. Q211.6.) Köhler-Bolte I 583; Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| Q591.1.1 | King tests saint by having man feign death; saint perceives trick and causes man to be dead. Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q520.4 | King who loved to give death sentence accepts penance of always postponing sentence until thirty days period of examination has passed. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| Q431.2.3 | King's foster brothers banished for lawlessness. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q112.0.5 | Kingdom and hand of princess as reward for virtuous life. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| Q112.0.1.3 | Kingdom as reward for finding abducted princess. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| Q112.0.1.1 | Kingdom as reward for piety. (Cf. Q20.) Irish myth: Cross; Jewish: Neuman. |
| Q112.0.1.2 | Kingdom as reward for poem. (Cf. Q91.3.) Icelandic: Boberg. |
| Q112.0.1 | Kingdom as reward. Irish myth: Cross; Jewish: *Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| Q67 | Kingly duty rewarded. Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q51.1 | Knight covers foal with his coat to protect it from storm. English: Wells 60 (Sire Gawene and the Carle of Carelyle). |
| Q244.2 | Knight who ravished nun captured when she miraculously appears before him on his horse and holds reins until he is taken. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| Q113 | Knighthood as reward. English: Wells 94 (The Taill of Rauf Coilyear); and very frequently in medieval romances. |
| Q221.6 | Lack of trust in God punished. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q451.2 | Laming as punishment. (Cf. S162.) Icelandic: *Boberg; Jewish: Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| Q552.2.1 | Land sinks and lake appears as punishment. *Fb "sø" III 449b; Loomis White Magic 41, 101; England: Baughman; Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 787*; Chinese: Werner 405. |
| Q111.8 | Large quantity of land as reward. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| Q5 | Laziness punished; industry rewarded. |
| Q321 | Laziness punished. (Cf. Q495.1.) Spanish: Espinosa Jr. No. 188; Jewish: Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 127; Africa (Wakweli): Bender 104f. |
| Q5.1 | Lazy jackal punished; industrious pig rewarded. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q5.2 | Lazy owl punished; industrious hummingbird rewarded. Africa (Wute): Sieber 200. |
| Q495.1 | Lazy wife taken naked in bundle of straw to a wedding. (Cf. Q321.) Type 902*; Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 902*; Estonian: Aarne FFC XXV No. 902*; Russian: Andrejev No. 902*; Japanese: Ikeda. |
| Q451.2.4 | Legs cut off as punishment for adultery. (Cf. Q241.) Heptameron No. 48. |
| Q564 | Letter sent to the relatives from man punished in hell. Lithuanian: Balys Legends Nos. 467f. |
| Q151.8 | Life spared as reward for bravery and constancy. Centurion tells his enemies to kill him rather than attempt to win him. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| Q151.6 | Life spared as reward for hospitality. (Cf. Q45.4.) Icelandic: Boberg. |
| Q151.7 | Life spared as reward for uprightness. (Cf. Q54.) PMLA XLVI 1004; Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| Q151 | Life spared as reward. |
| Q520.3 | Life-long penance for brother-sister marriage. *Bolte Zs. f. Vksk. XXVIII 75. |
| Q552.1.1 | Lightning strikes monk who despises humility. (Cf. Q331.) Scala Celi 102b No. 152; Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 455; Alphabet No. 116. |
| Q451.2.0.1 | Limbs cut off (drop off) as punishment. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q494.1 | Line of kingship taken from king who defies saint. (Cf. Q227.) Irish myth: *Cross; Jewish: Neuman. |
| Q3.2 | Lion divides slain bullock. The thief who demands half of the bullock driven off; the traveler who modestly withdraws invited to take half. Wienert FFC LVI 70 (ET 342), 140 (ST 459). |
| Q451.12 | Lips sewed together as punishment for slander. (Cf. Q263.) Icelandic: Boberg. |
| Q535.4 | Lone fasting as penance. Jewish: Neuman. |
| Q150.2 | Loss of all evil and corruption as reward. Jewish: Moreno Esdras (Q151.9). |
| Q581.0.1 | Loss of life as result of one's own treachery. (Cf. Q261.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q595.4 | Loss of money as punishment. Jewish: Moreno Esdras (Q585.1). |
| Q451.7.0.1 | Loss of one eye as punishment. Hdwb. d. Märchens I 477a n. 5; Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| Q494 | Loss of social position as punishment. Jewish: Neuman. |
| Q451.3 | Loss of speech as punishment. *Type 710; *BP I 13ff.; Icelandic: *Boberg; Jewish: *Neuman. |
| Q595 | Loss or destruction of property as punishment. (Cf. Q552.1.0.1, Q552.13.2, Q552.14.1, Q585, Q552.18.) Irish myth: Cross; Jewish: *Neuman; Africa (Fang): Tessman 195. |
| Q150.1.1 | Lot and family rewarded by being saved from destruction of city. (Cf. Q152.) Spanish Exempla: Keller; Jewish: *Neuman. |
| Q56 | Love rewarded. |
| Q241.2 | Lover refuses to take back unfaithful paramour. English romance: Malory IX 39. |
| Q72 | Loyalty rewarded. Jewish: Neuman. |
| Q263 | Lying (perjury) punished. (Cf. Q431.17, Q451.1.7, Q451.3.2, Q451.5.3, Q451.7.1, Q488.1, Q551.6.1, Q551.8.5, Q551.9.2, Q552.1.7, Q558.2, Q558.15, Q591.) *Fb "sværge" III 692b, "ed" I 234; Wienert FFC LVI 55 (ET 146), 104 (ST 166, 455); Scala Celi 103b No. 556; Alphabet Nos. 380, 417. — Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg; Finnish-Swedish: Wessman 19 No. 177; Spanish: Keller, Espinosa Jr. Nos. 115, 188, Espinosa II No. 94; Jewish: *Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 113, 150, II 529, 1272; Hawaii: Beckwith 153; Tuamotu: Stimson MS (T-G. 3/711); Philippine (Tinguian): Cole 98; Eskimo (Greenland): Rasmussen III 160; Africa (Fjort): Dennett 89 No. 22, (Ibo, Nigeria): Thomas 124, (Dahome): Einstein 29. |
| Q488.1 | Lying goat punished by being half-shorn. (Cf. Q263, K1151.) *Type 212; *BP I 346ff. |
| Q583.4 | Lying woman's tongue swells. (Cf. Q551.6.1.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q555.2 | Madness as punishment for adulterer. (Cf. Q241.) Alphabet No. 36; Irish myth: Cross; Greek: Aeschylus Eumenides 341. |
| Q555.1 | Madness as punishment for scoffer. (Cf. Q225.) Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 457. |
| Q555.3 | Madness as punishment for thieves. (Cf. Q212.) *Loomis White Magic 98. |
| Q555 | Madness as punishment. (Cf. D2065.) *Loomis White Magic 98; Irish myth: *Cross; Greek: *Frazer Apollodorus I 146 n. 2, 183 n. 3; Jewish: *Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| Q551.2.1 | Magic adhesion to object as punishment (for opposition to holy person). (Cf. D2171.1, Q227.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q571.1 | Magic blindness as punishment for opposition to holy person remitted. (Cf. Q227.) O'Grady Silva Gadelica II 7; Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q571.2 | Magic blindness as punishment for uncharitableness remitted. (Cf. Q286.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q571 | Magic blindness as punishment remitted. (Cf. Q451.7.0.2.) Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| Q559.10 | Magic boat keeps thief at sea until he promises to throw ill-gotten gains into sea. (Cf. D1654.6, Q212.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q551.9.2 | Magic burning to death as punishment for perjury. (Cf. Q263.) Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| Q551.11 | Magic forgetfulness as punishment. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| Q570.1 | Magic foul disease as punishment for persecution of Christians remitted. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| Q435 | Magic imprisonment in cleft tree. New Guinea: Dixon 137. Cf. Caliban in Shakespeare's Tempest and Fradubio in Spenser's Faerie Queene Book I. |
| Q551.6.5.1 | Magic manifestation: blood flows suddenly from mouth of blasphemer. (Cf. Q221.3.) Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| Q551.6.5.2 | Magic manifestation: eyes fall out of head of blasphemer. (Cf. Q451.7.0.2.) Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| Q551 | Magic manifestations as punishments. |
| Q573.1 | Magic paralysis as punishment for opposition to holy person remitted. Cf. O'Grady Silva Gadelica II 28; Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q551.7.1 | Magic paralysis as punishment for opposition to holy person. (Cf. Q227, Q573.1, Q583.3.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q551.7.3 | Magic paralysis as punishment for quarrelsomeness. (Cf. Q306.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q573.2 | Magic paralysis as punishment for scorning of bishop remitted. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| Q551.7.2 | Magic paralysis as punishment for theft. (Cf. Q212.) *Loomis White Magic 98; Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q573 | Magic paralysis as punishment remitted. (Cf. Q551.7.) |
| Q551.7 | Magic paralysis as punishment. Loomis White Magic 98f.; Irish myth: Cross; Spanish Exempla: Keller; Jewish: *Neuman. |
| Q551.8.6 | Magic punishment: tongue protrudes from mouth of sinner and blindness follows. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| Q575 | Magic putrefaction of food as punishment for opposition to holy person remitted. (Cf. Q227.) O'Grady Silva Gadelica II 26; Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q53.2 | Magic shirt and information about sought robbers as reward for rescue of poor fisherman. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| Q551.6.7 | Magic sickness (death) as punishment for inhospitality. (Cf. Q292.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q551.6.5 | Magic sickness as punishment for desecration of holy places (images, etc.). (Cf. Q222.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q572.4 | Magic sickness as punishment for immoderate request remitted. (Cf. Q338.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q551.6.3 | Magic sickness as punishment for ingratitude. (Cf. Q281.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q551.6.1 | Magic sickness as punishment for lying (perjury). (Cf. Q263, Q583.4.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q572.3 | Magic sickness as punishment for opposition to holy person remitted. (Cf. Q227.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q551.6.2 | Magic sickness as punishment for opposition to holy person. (Cf. Q227, Q572.3.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q551.6.2.1 | Magic sickness as punishment for tanning shoes with bark from saint's tree. Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q572.1 | Magic sickness as punishment for theft remitted. (Cf. Q212.) O'Grady Silva Gadelica II 37; Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q551.6.4 | Magic sickness as punishment for theft. (Cf. Q212, Q557.4, Q572.1.) *Loomis White Magic 98; Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q572.2 | Magic sickness as punishment for uncharitableness remitted. (Cf. Q286.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q572 | Magic sickness as punishment remitted. (Cf. Q551.6.) |
| Q551.6 | Magic sickness as punishment. Irish myth: Cross; Icelandic: Boberg; Jewish: *Neuman; Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 187. |
| Q222.5.2 | Magic storm as punishment for desecrating of temple. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| Q222.4 | Magic storm as punishment for profaning of temple. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| Q428.2 | Magic swine cause robbers to be drowned. (Cf. B183, Q212.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q142 | Magic treasure as reward for humility. (Cf. Q66.1.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q53.3.1 | Maiden gives her hand and riches to man who rescues her from trap. Africa (Loango): Pechuël-Loesche 109. |
| Q53.3 | Maiden queen offers her hand as reward for rescuing her town. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| Q411.12 | Maidens slain in revenge for deaths of young men. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q411.0.1.2 | Man (fairy) kills wife's lover. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q172.3 | Man admitted to heaven as reward for penance. (Cf. Q520.) *Type 756B; *BP III 463; **Andrejev FFC LXIX 154; English: Wells 114 (Sir Isumbras); Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| Q172.7 | Man admitted to heaven for remitting tribute. (Cf. Q42.7.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q172.2 | Man admitted to heaven for single act of charity. Herbert III 328 No. 9; Irish: Beal XXI 330; Spanish: Keller, Espinosa Jr. No. 182; Jewish: Neuman. |
| Q565 | Man admitted to neither heaven nor hell. He has tricked the devil. *Type 330; *BP II 149ff., 163ff.; Fb "helvede" I 589a, "himmerige" I 611a; Irish: Beal XXI 329, O'Suilleabhain 90; U.S.: *Baughman; Spanish: Espinosa Jr. Nos. 8, 210, 213; American Negro (Georgia): Harris Remus 156 No. 32. |
| Q421.2 | Man beheaded in place where he turned his back on saint. (Cf. Q227.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q582.5 | Man boasts he fears saint no more than hornless sheep; killed by hornless sheep. (Cf. Q333.1.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q589.1.0.1 | Man cannot drive cow by himself which he refused to share. (Cf. Q272.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q551.3.4.2 | Man curses wind; he is turned to stone, along with sack from which he is sowing. (Cf. Q221.) England: *Baughman. |
| Q582.4 | Man dies from drop of blood of pet hound he has killed. (Cf. Q211.6.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q591.3 | Man dies from pretended illness. Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q582.9 | Man falls dead when he sees his sons whom he has reared in sin all killed. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| Q469.7.1 | Man fettered with the entrails of his own sons as punishment for treachery. (Cf. Q261.) Icelandic: MacCulloch Eddic 146 (Loki). |
| Q42.4 | Man frees slave (incognito prince): rewarded when slave becomes king. Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| Q589.2 | Man goes forth naked: cursed with nakedness throughout life. (Cf. Q556.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q556.4 | Man has color of the dead as result of saint's curse for disobedience. (Cf. Q227.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q558.5 | Man in anger throws stone at the image of the Virgin. Is stricken dead. (Cf. Q222.) Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q411.4.1 | Man killed at once for treacherously slaying overlord. Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q411.10.1 | Man killed because of scornful singing. (Cf. Q391.) Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| Q582.3.1 | Man killed by piece of stone flying from rock his victim dies upon. Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q559.11 | Man miraculously made to excrete his entrails for heresy. (Cf. Q225.1, Q469.7.) Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| Q44.2 | Man pardoned for short accounts when it is learned that he has given the money to the poor as alms. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| Q266.1 | Man promises more to church than he can possibly provide: punished. Finnish-Swedish: Wessman 18 No. 176. |
| Q451.4.7 | Man pulls out his own tongue in remorse. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q235.1 | Man put in moon for cursing God. He is now the man in the moon. (Cf. A751, Q221.3.) U.S.: Baughman. |
| Q585.1 | Man refuses to give to charity: his property disappears. (Cf. Q286, Q595.3.) Irish myth: *Cross; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q151.11 | Man saved from lions as reward. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| Q45.2.1 | Man saves the unrecognized devil from thunder and is generously rewarded. Estonian, Swedish, and Lithuanian: *Balys Tautosakos Darbai VI 27—31; Cheremis: Sebeok-Nyerges. |
| Q583.3 | Man seeking to flee saint paralyzed. (Cf. Q551.7.1.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q478.1.1 | Man sends his daughter the heart of her lover. She pours poison over it and drinks the potion. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q285.1.1.1 | Man slits tongue of magpie so that it can learn to speak. His fingernails grow out like bird's claws as punishment. Wales: Baughman. |
| Q424.3 | Man strangles friar for attempting to seduce his wife. (Cf. Q243.2.1.) Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q583.2 | Man stricken dumb for surly speech. (Cf. Q327, Q451.3.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q467.4 | Man thrown into waterfall as punishment for alleged violating of princess. (Cf. Q244.) Icelandic: FSS 110, Boberg. |
| Q552.21 | Man vomits heart as punishment and lives without it till his death. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q221.4.2 | Man vows to recover loose boat or go to hell trying. He goes to hell. U.S.: Baughman. |
| Q552.2.3.1.3 | Man who angers saint sinks into earth to his knees. (Cf. Q227.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q582.2 | Man who brings fire to his house at devil's instigation burns to death. (Cf. Q233.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q552.5.1 | Man who cuts off tongue of swallow has dumb children. (Cf. Q285.1.1.) Finnish-Swedish: Wessman 19 No. 182; Japanese: Ikeda. |
| Q42.1.2 | Man who divides his food with beggar is later freed from captivity by him. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q583.1 | Man who laughs at blind made blind. (Cf. Q288, Q451.7.0.2.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q551.8.4 | Man's eye bursts forth when he urges saint to marry. (Cf. Q227, Q451.7.0.2.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q556.2 | Mark of Cain. Permanent mark as curse on a murderer. (Cf. Q211.) *Frazer Old Testament I 78ff.; Irish myth: *Cross; Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| Q467.5 | Marooning as punishment. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 499f.; Tuamotu: Stimson MS (z-G 13/346). |
| Q87.1.2 | Married woman spurns king's offer of marriage. King honors her husband. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q552.7 | Mary-image descends and chastises clerk who scoffs at its rude carving. (Cf. Q225.) Ward II 676 No. 61. |
| Q552.14.3 | Mass of sand advances like a tidal wave upon city. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q110 | Material rewards. |
| Q211.2 | Matricide punished. Greek: Frazer Apollodorus I 383 n. 3, Aeschylus Eumenides. |
| Q340 | Meddling punished. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q415.2 | Mice devour hard-hearted man. (Hatto and the Mouse Tower.) (Cf. Q291.) *Fb "rotte" III 83a; Veckenstedt (Veckenstedt's) Zs. f. Vksk. I (1888—9) 364ff.; **Beheim-Schwartzbach Die Mäusenturmsage von Popiel und Hatto (Posen, 1888); *Wehrhan Die Sage 51; *Liebrecht 1ff.; Jewish: Neuman. |
| Q551.2.2 | Miraculous adhesion of objects to human hand as punishment for working on holy day. (Cf. Q223.6.) *Loomis White Magic 55. |
| Q451.7.0.2.4 | Miraculous blindness as punishment for criminal intent. (Cf. Q210.1.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q451.7.0.2.3 | Miraculous blindness as punishment for disobedience. (Cf. Q325.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q451.7.0.2.1 | Miraculous blindness as punishment for opposition to holy person. (Cf. Q227, Q571.1.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q451.7.0.2.5 | Miraculous blindness as punishment for spying (on druids, fairies, witches, etc.). Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q451.7.0.2.2 | Miraculous blindness as punishment for theft. (Cf. Q212.) *Loomis White Magic 98; Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q451.7.0.2 | Miraculous blindness as punishment. (Cf. Q559.2.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q551.9.1 | Miraculous burning as punishment for opposition to holy person. (Cf. Q227.) Irish myth: *Cross; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q551.9 | Miraculous burning as punishment. (Cf. Q414.) Irish myth: Cross; Jewish: *Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q552.20.1 | Miraculous darkness as punishment. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| Q552.19.2 | Miraculous drowning as punishment for desire to murder. (Cf. Q211.8.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q552.19.5 | Miraculous drowning as punishment for haughtiness. (Cf. Q331.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q552.19.4 | Miraculous drowning as punishment for man's flight with stepmother. (Cf. Q242.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q552.19.1 | Miraculous drowning as punishment for opposition to saint (holy man). (Cf. Q227.) Irish myth: *Cross; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 1042. |
| Q552.19.3 | Miraculous drowning as punishment for theft. (Cf. Q212.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q552.19 | Miraculous drowning as punishment. (Cf. Q428, Q467.) Irish myth: Cross; Jewish: *Neuman. |
| Q222.0.2 | Miraculous flow of blood from desecrated building or object. Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q149 | Miraculous or magic reward—miscellaneous. |
| Q140 | Miraculous or magic rewards. |
| Q557 | Miraculous punishment through animals. (Cf. Q415, Q552.4, Q554.5, Q582.6, Q589.1, Q589.1.0.1, Q597.) Jewish: *Neuman. |
| Q550 | Miraculous punishments. |
| Q145.1 | Miraculously long life as reward for hospitality. (Cf. Q45.1.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q145.2 | Miraculously long life as reward for integrity. (Cf. Q68.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q145 | Miraculously long life as reward. (Cf. Q151.) Greek: Fox 158 (Sarpedon); Jewish: Gaster Exempla 222 No. 179, *Neuman, Moreno Esdras (Q151.6). |
| Q590 | Miscellaneous punishments. |
| Q270 | Misdeeds concerning property punished. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q451.5.1.1 | Mistress's nose cut off as punishment for faithlessness. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
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