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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
Q
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 ▲ |
|---|---|
| Q115 | Reward: any boon that may be asked. *Schoepperle II 420ff., 528 —541; Malone PMLA XLIII 413; Irish myth: *Cross; India: *Thompson-Balys; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 946, 1153. |
| Q146 | Reward: end of plague. (Cf. Q552.10.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q145.0.1 | Reward: happiness during last year of life. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| Q144 | Reward: hearing voice of God. |
| Q175 | Reward: holy person to be buried and resurrected in one place. Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q141 | Reward: man's cows magically multiply. (Cf. Q1.) Type 750B; Spanish: Espinosa Jr. No. 181; Japanese: Ikeda. |
| Q174 | Reward: release from hell. Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q112.0.7 | Reward: royal line of descendants. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| Q112.3 | Reward: seat next to king. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q112.2 | Reward: sovereignty for hour (day). India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| Q0 | Rewards and punishments. Irish myth: Cross; Jewish: *Neuman. |
| Q80 | Rewards for other causes. |
| Q172.0.2 | Rewards in heaven. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| Q190 | Rewards—miscellaneous. |
| Q552.6 | Rich lord who robs poor widow of her cow chokes on first mouthful. (Cf. Q212.) Herbert III 35ff. |
| Q111.2 | Riches as reward (for hospitality). (Cf. Q45.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q111.3 | Riches as reward for help against robbers. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| Q111 | Riches as reward. *Roberts 190; Irish myth: *Cross; Spanish: Espinosa Jr. Nos. 132, 181; Jewish; Neuman; Chinese: Graham; Africa (Wakweli): Bender 88. |
| Q473.5.2 | Riding backwards on donkey as punishment. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q451.1.6 | Right hands cut off enemy's messengers. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| Q520.2 | Robber does penance. (Cf. Q212.) *Types 756B; **Andrejev FFC LXIX 81, 118ff., 236ff; Spanish Exempla: Keller; Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| Q172.4.1 | Rooms in heaven are prepared for good man in heaven. The dead miser asks the living man to give him at least one of them. Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 804A*. |
| Q87.1 | Ruler marries maiden who has repulsed his advances. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q56.2 | Ruler rewards captives' love for each other. Sets them free and enriches them. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q56.1 | Ruler rewards man's love for his captive wife with riches and freedom. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q54.1 | Ruler tries in vain to intimidate judge. Rewards him with high post. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q296.1 | Sack of flour pushed down on peasant who accuses his wife of theft from it. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| Q499.3 | Sacrament refused as punishment for desecration of holy place. (Cf. Q222.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q551.2.6 | Sacrilege and blasphemy punished by magic adhesion. (Cf. Q221.3.) *Loomis White Magic 55f. |
| Q227.3 | Saint (hero) drives chariot over person who displeases him. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q552.2.3.3 | Saint causes parricide to sink into earth to his knees. (Cf. D1713, Q211.1.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q556.10.1 | Saint curses murderer with shortness of life here and hell beyond. Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q556.5 | Saint decrees offenders will not be able to fortify their dwellings. Fences fall, earth gapes when dug. (Cf. D2192, Q227, Q552.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q572.5 | Saint deprives enemy king of speech. King repents, speech restored. Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q42.8 | Saint gives a man all his credit for good deeds so that the man may go to heaven. Saint is then rewarded with even greater credit. (Cf. Q172.) Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| Q172.8.1 | Saint goes to heaven every Thursday. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q173 | Saint made judge of doom for men of Ireland (as reward). Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q431.0.1 | Saint prefers to die in exile. Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q174.1.1.4 | Saint requests that any person appealing to him at death shall escape hell. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q174.1.1.1 | Saint requests that on Doomsday he may bring out of hell, for every hair of his chasuble, seven condemned souls. Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q557.5 | Saint's pet crane pecks out eye of spying person. (Cf. Q342, Q580.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q174.1.1 | Saint's requests for releasing souls from hell. (Cf. Q20.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q558.18 | Saints bring about miraculous death because of desecration of sanctuaries. (Cf. C51.1, Q222, V220.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q559.9 | Saints miraculously cause child to fall over cliff as punishment for mother's washing clothes in holy well. (Cf. Q222, Q411.3.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q437 | Sale into slavery as punishment. Jewish: *Neuman; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 526. |
| Q501.7.1 | Salt food without drink as punishment for man who accepts Christianity. (Cf. Q232.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q499.4.1 | Satirizing as punishment for breaking treaty. Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q499.4 | Satirizing as punishment for refusal to grant request. (Cf. Q287.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q469.10.1 | Scalding as punishment for attempted seduction. (Cf. Q243.2.1.) Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q469.10.3 | Scalding as punishment for insult. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q469.10.2 | Scalding as punishment for theft. (Cf. Q212.) Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q469.10 | Scalding as punishment. |
| Q314 | Scandal-mongering punished. (Cf. Q451.4.2.) Jewish: *Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q551.3.4.1 | Scoffers turned to stone by saint. (Cf. Q225.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q558.1 | Scoffing priest mysteriously stricken dead. (Cf. Q225.) Pauli (ed. Bolte) Nos. 455, 486. |
| Q304 | Scolding punished. Africa (Ila, Rhodesia): Smith and Dale II 412 No. 10. |
| Q221.4 | Seaman who defies God shipwrecked. England: Baughman; Finnish-Swedish: Wessman 18 No. 174. |
| Q561.3 | Seat (room) heating in hell for certain person. *Type 756B; *Andrejev FFC LXIX 106ff.; Irish: Beal XXI 311, O'Suilleabhain 33. |
| Q482.1.1 | Second wife (slave) must serve as menial. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q473.3 | Seducer, who had disguised as woman, is led naked through streets. (Cf. Q243.2.) Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles No. 45; Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| Q243.2 | Seduction punished. (Cf. K1360, Q421.0.7, Q431.5, Q458.2.3, Q531.5.) Italian Novella: *Rotunda; S. A. Indian (Tucuna): Nimuendaju BBAE CXLIII (3) 724, (Huamachuco): Métraux RMLP XXXIII 151. |
| Q61 | Self-abnegation rewarded. (Cf. L200.) Irish myth: Cross; Spanish Exempla: Keller; Jewish: Neuman. |
| Q522.1 | Self-crucifixion as penance. (Cf. Q462.) *Andrejev FFC LXIX 156f. |
| Q522 | Self-torture as penance. *Andrejev FFC LXIX 127, 156. |
| Q577 | Sentence to hang remitted. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q557.2 | Serpent chokes woman's undutiful son. (Cf. Q281.1.) Alphabet No. 359. |
| Q240 | Sexual sins punished. |
| Q567.1 | Sharp icy hoods (cowls) worn by sinners in hell. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q475.2 | Shower of pitch as punishment. Roberts 208. |
| Q161.1 | Sight restored as reward. (Cf. F952, Q42.6.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q486.1.1 | Sinful city burnt as punishment. Jewish: Moreno Esdras (Q488), Neuman. |
| Q552.2 | Sinking of earth as punishment. Irish myth: Cross; Finnish-Swedish: Wessman 18f. Nos. 164, 188; India: Thompson-Balys; Tuamotu: Henry Ancient Tahiti (Honolulu, 1928) 511. |
| Q560.3 | Sinners endure hell tortures for one year. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| Q569.3 | Sinners in hell fall into mouth of devil. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q569.1 | Sinners in hell forced to sit in dark puddles up to their middles. (Cf. A689.1.) Irish myth: *Cross; Jewish: *Neuman. |
| Q569.4 | Sinners in hell painfully suspended. Jewish: Neuman. |
| Q569.2 | Sinners in hell swallowed by dragons. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q582.1 | Sisters throw unique jewel into lake; killed and thrown after it. Revue Celtique XVI 76; Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q541 | Sitting (standing) in uncomfortable position as penance. |
| Q503.1 | Skull of suicide must roll in dust until it has saved a life. Man uses the skull to kill an owl that was about to kill a rabbit; thus after 777 years of rolling it has saved a life and is freed. (Cf. Q211.5.) Köhler-Bolte I 406. |
| Q491.5 | Skull used as drinking cup. (Cf. Q478.1.2.) DeCock Volkssage 96ff.; Icelandic: *Boberg; Italian Novella: Rotunda; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q297 | Slander punished. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| Q42.4.1 | Slave freed as reward for killing enemy's two slaves, and given as much land as he can cultivate in three days. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| Q211.13 | Slave killed who killed enemy at owner's order. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| Q558.7 | Slave-driver mysteriously stricken dead. (Cf. Q285.4.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q285.4 | Slave-driving punished. (Cf. P270, Q291.2, Q558.7.) Irish myth: Cross; Jewish: *Neuman; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 706. |
| Q121.1 | Slaves freed as reward. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| Q569.5 | Smokers in otherworld are locked in smoky rooms. Cheremis: Sebeok-Nyerges. |
| Q597.1 | Snake carries into fire man who has banned snakes. Finnish: Aarne FFC XXXIII 46 No. 79; Estonian: Aarne FFC XXV 132 No. 79. |
| Q82.1 | Snake helps girl who permits it to wind itself around her body. Africa (Rozwi): Posselt Fables of the Veld (London, 1929) 39ff., (Thonga): Junod 248ff., Berthoud ZsES XXI 154f. No. 10. |
| Q557.6 | Snake strikes person for opposing saint. (Cf. Q227.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q253.0.2 | Sodomist rebuked by youth. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q253.0.1 | Sodomy punished by death. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q253 | Sodomy punished. (Cf. Q414.0.11, T463.) Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q586 | Son on gallows bites his mother's (father's) nose off: punishment for neglect in youth. *Types 756B, 838; *Andrejev FFC LXIX 88; Wienert FFC LVI 83 (ET 493), 128 (ST 365, 499); Halm Aesop No. 351; *Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 19; Crane Vitry 259 No. 287; *Chauvin VIII 113 No. 95 n. 1; Alphabet No. 217. — Spanish Exempla: Keller; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| Q451.3.3.1 | Son stricken dumb as punishment for father's opposition to holy person. (Cf. Q411.3.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q560.2.3 | Soul (of Judas) tormented on rock in sea on certain days as respite from pains of hell. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q562.2 | Souls in hell alternately drowned and burned. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q560.2.1 | Souls in hell not punished on Sabbath. Irish myth: Cross; Jewish: Neuman. |
| Q562.3 | Souls tormented in hell alternately borne up to firmament and cast down to depths. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q42.1 | Spendthrift knight. Divides his last penny. He is later helped by the grateful person. *Types 508, 592, 665; BP II 490ff., Scala Celi 81b No. 467; *Hibbard 73, 79; Alphabet No. 291; Japanese: Anesaki 320. |
| Q463 | Spiked-cask punishment. Rolling down hill in a cask with spikes on inside. DeCock Volkssage 87; BP I 108; Sébillot France I 302, II 90, 271, IV 293ff.; Fb "spigertønde"; Child II 343, IV 30 n. 32, V 48; *Page JAFL LIX 20ff.; Italian: Basile Pentamerone V No. 8; Icelandic: Boberg. |
| Q501.9 | Spirit in hell must bathe people endlessly. (Cf. Q578.) Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| Q578 | Spirit in hell remitted from humiliating punishment of bathing people. (Cf. Q501.9.) Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| Q471 | Spitting in face as punishment. Spanish: Espinosa Jr. No. 138; Jewish: *Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q87.1.1 | Spurned ruler has the maiden marry highest ranking knight. Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| Q87.1.3 | Spurned suitor is offered girl by her mother. He rewards her refusal by a gift of money. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q291.1 | St. Peter's mother dropped from heaven because of hardheartedness. She is permitted to go to heaven on a stalk, but is weighted down by people holding to her skirts. She shakes them off. (Cf. Q172.) *Type 804; *BP III 538; Köhler-Bolte I 60. |
| Q541.1.1 | Standing in (Jordan and Tigris) rivers as penance (by Adam and Eve). (Cf. A1331.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q553.3.3 | Sterility as punishment for breaking saint's covenant. (Cf. Q227.) Irish myth: Cross; Greek (Herodotus): Classical Philology 39 (1944) 179f. |
| Q553.3.4 | Sterility as punishment for parricide. (Cf. Q211.1.). Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q553.3.5 | Sterility as punishment for uncharitableness to holy person. (Cf. Q286.1.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q553.3 | Sterility as punishment. (Cf. T591.) Jewish: *Neuman. |
| Q552.3.1.1 | Sterility of land as punishment for parricide. (Cf. Q211.1.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q553.3.0.1 | Sterility of women as punishment. Jewish: Moreno Esdras (Q578.3); India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q276 | Stinginess punished. (Cf. Q551.2.8, Q589.4.) India: *Thompson-Balys; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 342. |
| Q552.4.1 | Stolen animal cries out from stomach of thief. *Loomis White Magic 98; Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| Q212.4 | Stolen animal's meat impossible to cook. *Loomis White Magic 101f. |
| Q222.0.1 | Stone in church sheds blood to foretell coming plunder of church. Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q222.5.1 | Stones fall in churchyard, punish desecrators of church. England: Baughman. |
| Q552.14.0.1 | Storm as punishment for affront to disguised supernatural spirit. (Cf. Q221.) S. A. Indian (Chamacoco): Métraux MAFLS XL 28. |
| Q552.14 | Storm as punishment. (Cf. D905.) Jewish: *Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q424.2 | Strangling as punishment for adultery. (Cf. Q241.) Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q424.0.1 | Strangling as punishment for murder. (Cf. Q211.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q451.0.3 | Strong girl breaks impudent suitor's right hand and left foot. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| Q520.0.1 | Substitutions for penances. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q211.5 | Suicide punished. (Cf. Q503.1.) |
| Q143 | Superior rebirth as reward. India: *Thompson-Balys; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 155, 167, 427, 1157, II 604, 671, 775, 904. |
| Q147 | Supernatural manifestations at death of pious person. Irish: Cross, Beal XXI 317, O'Suilleabhain 46; Finnish-Swedish: Wessman 1 Nos. 1—3; Spanish: Espinosa Jr. No. 186. |
| Q550.1 | Supernatural manifestations at death of wicked person. Finnish-Swedish: Wessman 1 Nos. 7, 8, 9. |
| Q65.1 | Supplying food to ungrateful stepmother rewarded. (Cf. Q151.2.) Africa (Gold Coast): Barker and Sinclair 129 No. 23. |
| Q243.0.2 | Suspected incontinence unjustly punished. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q491.1.1 | Swindler buried on dungheap. (Cf. Q274.) Spanish: Boggs FFC XC 143 No. 1720. |
| Q274 | Swindler punished. (Cf. Q414.0.6.1, Q456.0.2, Q491.1.1, Q557.3.) |
| Q552.13.0.2 | Sword (of fire) from heaven drawn upon sinners. Jewish: Neuman. |
| Q114.3 | Sword as reward. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| Q475.1 | Tar and feathers as punishment for vanity. Type 833*. |
| Q475 | Tar and feathers as punishment. (Cf. K31.1, K216.2.) *Fb "tjære" III 811a, "fjer" I 301; Icelandic: *Boberg; Japanese: Ikeda. |
| Q521 | Tedious penances. (Cf. H1110, Q500.) |
| Q500 | Tedious punishments. |
| Q338.2 | The devil's likeness. A squire demands somebody to paint a living picture of the devil; when he sees it, he dies. Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 3355, Legends Nos. 681—84. |
| Q478.1 | The Eaten Heart. Adulteress is caused unwittingly to eat her lover's heart. (Sometimes other parts of his body.) (Cf. Q241.) **Matzke MLN XXVI 1; **K. Nyrop Sangerens Hjærte (København, 1908); *Child V 482 s.v. "heart"; Clouston Tales II 187ff.; *v. d. Hagen I cxvi; DeCock Volkssage 94ff.; *Hibbard 253ff.; Boccaccio Decameron IV Nos. 1, 9 (Lee 116, 143); Schofield PMLA XV 123; Malone PMLA XLIII 413, 430; Numes "A lenda de coraçao comido" Revista Lusitana XXVIII 5—15.—Italian Novella: *Rotunda; India: *Thompson-Balys; Marquesas: Handy 104; Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 136; Eskimo (Cumberland Sound): Boas BAM XV 223, (Greenland): Rasmussen III 241; N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 344 n. 241; Cape Verde Islands: *Parsons MAFLS XV (1) 140 n. 1. |
| Q172.2.1 | The rich man's trial in heaven. A piece of bread given to a beggar is placed on the scales. Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 802A*; Prussian: Plenzat 46. |
| Q502.1 | The Wandering Jew. Ceaseless wandering with inability to die as punishment for blasphemy. (Cf. Q221.3.) Type 754**; **L. Neubaur Die Sage vom Ewigen Jude (Leipzig, 1893); **Zirus Ahasverus, der Ewige Jude (Stoff- und Motivgeschichte der deutschen Literatur No. 6 [Berlin, 1930]); Gielen de Wandelende Jood (Amsterdam, 1931); *K. Nyrop Den evige Jøde (København, 1907); **Neubaur Zs. f. Vksk. XXII 33, Zentralblatt für Bibliothekswesen XXVIII 495ff.; *Dübe Zs. F. Vksk. XVII 143; *Bolte ibid. XIX 308; G. Paris. Légendes du moyen âge (1904) 149ff.; *Fb "Jerusalems skomager" II 40, IV 246a; *Wehrhan 50; Taylor MLN XXXIII 394ff.; Anderson Journal of English and Germanic Philology XLVI 367—82; Braddy California Folklore Quarterly IV 82f.; Bagatti Franciscan Studies IX 1—9.—Finnish-Swedish: Wessman 105 No. 933; Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 778*; Estonian: Aarne FFC XXV No. 754*. |
| Q212.1 | Theft from dwarf (witch) revenged. *Hoffmann-Krayer Zs. f. Vksk. XXV 117. |
| Q221.8 | Theft from water-deity punished. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q212 | Theft punished. (Cf. Q221.8, Q413.1, Q428.2, Q431.15, Q451.0.4, Q451.1.1, Q451.2.2, Q451.4.1, Q451.5.2, Q451.6.2, Q451.7.0.2.2, Q458.0.3, Q458.2.2, Q467.2, Q469.10.2, Q520.2, Q551.2.3.ff., Q551.6.4, Q551.7.2, Q552.4, Q552.6, Q552.19.3, Q554.1, Q558.6, Q559.10, Q597.3.) *Bloomfield Am. Journ. Philology XLIV 227, *Penzer V 61 n. 1, 143 n., VI 19; *Loomis White Magic 98.—Swiss: Jegerlehner Oberwallis 325 No. 1; Spanish: Boggs FFC XC 96 No. 1, Keller; Jewish: *Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys; Easter Island: Métraux Ethnology 378; Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 122; Philippine (Tinguian): Cole 195; Africa (Cameroon): Mansfield 225, (Luba): DeClerq Zs. f. KS IV 222, (Ekoi): Talbot 233; West Indies: Flowers 567. |
| Q467.2 | Thief cast into water in a sack containing a cock, a snake, and a monkey. He had stolen a sacred statue of gold. (Cf. Q212, Q220.) Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q551.2.3 | Thief rendered unable to remove burden of stolen goods from his back. (Cf. Q212.) *Loomis White Magic 55, 98. |
| Q222.5.4 | Thieves who attempt to steal from churches or shrines are miraculously rendered powerless to get out, and walk in a circle. *Loomis White Magic 97f., 98. |
| Q556.12.1 | Thievish abbot to be eaten by wolves: curse by saint. Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q581.3 | Those planning to drown others drowned. Jewish: Neuman. |
| Q413.0.1 | Threat of hanging. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| Q451.0.2 | Threat to cut off hand or foot. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| Q560.2.1.1 | Three hours of respite on Sunday for tormented in hell. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q45.1.1 | Three Nephites give blessings as reward for hospitality. (Mormon tradition.) **H. Lee, The Three Nephites: the Substance and Significance of the Legend in Folklore (Albuquerque, New Mexico, 1949). |
| Q465 | Throwing into a pit as punishment. Jewish: Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| Q465.1 | Throwing into pit of snakes as punishment. *Type 403; BP I 99ff.; Krappe "The Snake Tower" Scandinavian Studies XVI (1940) 22—33.— Icelandic: *Boberg; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| Q552.1.0.2 | Thunder slays people for disregard of him. Lithuanian: Balys Tautosakos Darbai VI 135f. |
| Q552.1.0.1.1 | Thunderbolt demolishes fortress as punishment for disobedience (to saint). (Cf. Q227, Q325.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q243.6 | Tiger instead of girl in box tears lecherous teacher to pieces. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| Q557.7 | Tiger seizes bride and bridegroom at threshold of house because groom has failed to worship deity before ceremony. (Cf. Q223.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q491.4 | Toads and snakes devour corpse of rich man in his grave. Scala Celi 74b No. 426; Herbert III 99 No. 65, 666 No. 261; Irish: Beal XXI 327, O'Suilleabhain 74. |
| Q451.4.8.1 | Tongue cut (bitten) off as punishment for unfaithfulness to wife. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| Q451.4.8 | Tongue cut off as punishment for alleged adultery. (Cf. Q241.) Icelandic: Boberg. |
| Q451.4.3 | Tongue cut off as punishment for incest. (Cf. Q242.) Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q451.4.1 | Tongue cut off as punishment for theft. (Cf. Q212.) *Penzer V 61 n. 1, 143 n. |
| Q451.4.4 | Tongue cut off as punishment for treachery. (Cf. Q261.) Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q451.4 | Tongue cut off as punishment. DeCock Volkssage 93; Spanish: Boggs FFC XC 98 No. 836G*, Espinosa II No. 94; India: Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Graham; Japanese: Ikeda; Korean: Zong in-Sob 145 No. 64. |
| Q451.4.6 | Tongue cut out as punishment for fault-finding (satire). (Cf. Q312.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q451.4.2 | Tongue cut out as punishment for gossip. (Cf. Q314.) Wienert FFC LVI 39; Halm Aesop No. 416. |
| Q451.4.5 | Tongue cut out as punishment for murder. (Cf. Q211.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q450.1.1 | Torture as punishment for murder. (Cf. Q211.) Irish myth: Cross; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q450.1 | Torture as punishment. Irish myth: Cross; Jewish: *Neuman. |
| Q417.2 | Traitor thrown into pit so that he sticks to the waist and is then chased out of the country. (Cf. Q261.) Icelandic: Boberg. |
| Q584 | Transformation as fitting punishment. (Cf. D661, Q551.3.) |
| Q584.2 | Transformation of a man to animal as fitting punishment. (Cf. D661.) Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 773*; S. A. Indian (Tupinamba): Métraux RMLP XXXIII 133, 172. |
| Q551.3.4 | Transformation to stone as punishment. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q584.1 | Transformer transformed. Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q261.2.1 | Treacherous wife abandoned by lover for fear of treachery. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q261.2 | Treacherous wife punished. (Cf. K2213.) |
| Q431.2.2 | Treachery punished by banishment to desert isle. (Cf. S145.) Heptameron No. 67. |
| Q261 | Treachery punished. (Cf. Q413.8, Q414.0.5, Q414.0.6.1, Q417.2, Q423, Q431.2, Q431.10, Q433.7, Q451.1.3, Q451.4.4, Q451.5.4, Q469.7.1, Q552.1.5, Q581.0.1.) Irish myth: *Cross; Missouri French: Carrière; Spanish: Espinosa II Nos. 113, 119, III No. 264, Espinosa Jr. Nos. 75, 80, 106, 110, 126, 138—42; Greek: Grote I 88f., 109, 171, 203; Jewish: *Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys; Eskimo (Mackenzie Area): Jenness 87; (West Hudson Bay): Boas BAM XV 551f.; Tuamotu: Stimson MS (z-G. 3/1122, T-G. 3/912); Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 87, 331; Tonga: Gifford 101, 142; S. A. Indian (Chiriguano): Métraux RMLP XXXIII 180. |
| Q217 | Treason punished. Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 597. |
| Q111.6 | Treasure as reward. Chinese: Graham. |
| Q502.3 | Tribe's long wandering in wilderness as punishment. Jewish: Neuman. |
| Q595.4.1 | Tribute as punishment for trickery. Irish myth: Cross (Q261.2). |
| Q68.1 | Truth-speaking rewarded. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| Q112.0.3 | Two thirds of kingdom as reward for finding abducted princesses. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| Q494.1.1 | Uncharitable king loses power. (Cf. Q286.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q595.3 | Uncharitable king loses wealth. (Cf. Q286, Q585.1.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q286 | Uncharitableness punished. (Cf. Q494.1.1, Q552.3.0.1, Q571.2, Q572.2, Q574.2, Q585.1, Q595.3.) Irish: O'Suilleabhain 93, 129, 131, Beal XXI 330, 337; Spanish: Espinosa Jr. Nos. 186, 202—04; Swiss: Jegerlehner Oberwallis 300 No. 16; India: *Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Werner 255; Africa (Ila, Rhodesia): Smith and Dale II 415 No. 14. |
| Q286.1 | Uncharitableness to holy person punished. (Cf. Q1.1, Q553.3.5, Q556.11, Q589.1.) Type 766*; *Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 329; Irish: *Cross; O'Suilleabhain 22, Beal XXI 307; Spanish: Espinosa Jr. Nos. 183f., 202—04; Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 192. |
| Q411.2 | Undesired suitor hiding under girl's bed is killed. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q411.2.1 | Undesired suitor killed asleep in his tent. Icelandic: *Boberg; Jewish: Judith and Holofernes. |
| Q433.11 | Undesired suitor's messengers imprisoned. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| Q551.1 | Undutiful son punished by toad clinging to face. (Cf. Q281.1.) *BP III 167; Köhler-Bolte I 473ff.; *Ward II 664; Herbert III 343; Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 437; Irish: Beal XXI 317. |
| Q281.1 | Ungrateful children punished. (Cf. Q551.1, Q557.1, Q557.2, Q588.) Irish: Cross, O'Suilleabhain 46, Beal XXI 317; Jewish: *Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q281.4 | Ungrateful king raises old woman's rent; miraculous punishment. (Cf. W154.2.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q281.2 | Ungrateful ruler is deposed. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q588 | Ungrateful son punished by having a son equally ungrateful. (Cf. Q281.1.) BP I 135. |
| Q265.1.1 | Unjust judges punished in hell. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q280 | Unkindness punished. Irish: Beal XXI 320; Missouri French: Carrière; Jewish: Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 127; Africa (Duala): Lederbogen JAS IV 67, (Bulu): Krug 109, (Congo): Weeks Congo 216. |
| Q501.7 | Unremittent thirst as punishment. Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q501 | Unremitting torture as punishment. |
| Q323 | Unthriftiness punished. Alphabet No. 218; Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| Q581.1 | Unusual murder avenged in like manner. Scottish: Campbell-Mckay No. 17; Spanish Exempla: Keller; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q54 | Uprightness rewarded. (Cf. Q151.7.) |
| Q274.3 | Use of false weights and measures punished. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| Q558.3 | Usurer flees city to escape plague. On his return he boasts that God did not get him. He takes the plague and dies. (Cf. Q221.3.) Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q273.3 | Usurer punished in hell. *Crane Vitry Nos. 167—170 and passim; Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| Q273.2 | Usurer refused burial. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q273 | Usury punished. Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 198; Alphabet Nos. 231, 278, 287, 794; Scala Celi 154b, 168a Nos. 852, 955—959; Spanish Exempla: Keller; Jewish: *Neuman. |
| Q211.3 | Uxoricide punished. (Cf. Q414.0.1, Q416.0.2.1, Q596.1.) Italian Novella: *Rotunda; Koryak, American Indian: *Jochelson JE VI 378; Africa (Bankon): Ittman 98. |
| Q394 | Uxoriousness punished. Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q331.2.1.2 | Vain woman has her cheeks miraculously burned. (Cf. Q550.) Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q331.2.1.4 | Vain woman wears corset so tight that it stifles her to death. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q331.2 | Vanity punished. |
| Q418.2 | Venomous snake put into the mouth as punishment for murder of newborn children. (Cf. Q211.4.) Icelandic: Boberg. |
| Q156 | Victory as reward for piety. (Cf. Q20.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q581.2 | Villain in hiding killed by blow aimed at his victim. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q581 | Villain nemesis. Person condemned to punishment he has suggested for others. *Cox 503 and passim (under head "villain nemesis"); *Fb "dom" IV 101b; *Wesselski Theorie 139; Köhler-Bolte Zs. f. Vksk. VI 64 to Gonzenbach No. 13; Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 116; Wienert FFC LVI 49 (ET 83), 51 (ET 109, 110), 59 (ET 199), 132 (ST 382), 135 (ST 406, 447); Halm Aesop Nos. 18, 326. — Irish myth: *Cross; Italian: Basile Pentamerone I No. 2, III No. 10, V Nos. 8, 9; Jewish: *Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q223.7.1 | Virgin Mary appears to lady who neglected to hear mass. Woman awakens from trance to find piece of taper the Virgin took from her. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| Q553.1 | Virgin Mary withdraws the sacrament from a scoffer. (Cf. Q225.) Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 551. |
| Q556.0.2 | Voice from heaven pronounces curse of destruction on city. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q431.1 | Voluntary exile as punishment for murder. (Cf. Q211, Q431.9.) Greek: Fox 93 (Herakles). |
| Q455 | Walling up as a punishment. (Cf. S125.) *Type 652; BP II 121ff., *124; Fb "indmure" II 24; Spanish: Espinosa Jr. Nos. 110, 140f.; Italian: Basile Pentamerone I No. 2; Jewish: Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| Q455.2 | Walling up as punishment for adultery. (Cf. Q241.) |
| Q455.1 | Walling up as punishment for murder of children. (Cf. Q211.4.) *Type 652; BP II 121ff.; Fb "indmure". |
| Q503 | Wandering after death as punishment. |
| Q502 | Wandering as a punishment. |
| Q434.2 | War prisoners fettered. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| Q433.13 | War prisoners shut up between stones. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| Q305 | War-making punished. (Cf. Q553.3.1.) Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| Q520.6 | Warrior retires to a cloister which he later defends against robbers. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| Q501.2.1 | When hungry man tries to gather fruit it flies out of his reach. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q451.7.5 | Wicked son blinded. Irish myth: Cross; Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| Q433.9 | Wicked son confined on island. Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q252.1 | Wife stealing punished with death. (Cf. K1371.) Marquesas: Handy 103. |
| Q473.2.1 | Wife's paramour tied to horse's tail and conducted through streets. (Cf. Q241.) Malone PMLA XLIII 413. |
| Q135 | Wine as reward. Twelve jars of honey-sweet wine as reward for protection. (Cf. Q46.1.) Greek: Frazer Apollodorus II 280 n. 1. |
| Q426 | Wolf cut open and filled with stones as punishment. *Type 333; BP I 37, *40; Spanish: Espinosa III No. 212, Espinosa Jr. Nos. 32—34; Cape Verde Islands: *Parsons MAFLS XV (1) 312 n. 1. |
| Q415.7.1 | Wolves and birds eat bodies of slayers of poet. Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q415.7 | Wolves kill person for quenching holy fire. (Cf. Q222.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q414.6 | Woman cast on husband's funeral pyre as punishment. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q281.3 | Woman eats flesh and leaves cat only bones of fish cat has caught for them. Cursed by cat. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q582.6 | Woman killed by horse got through immoderate request. (Cf. Q338, Q557.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q211.4.2 | Woman murders son's wives. (Cf. Q426.1.) Africa (Wakweli): Bender 86. |
| Q492 | Woman must relight magic fires as punishment. Magician in revenge for ill-treatment causes the lights of the city to go out. They can be relighted only from the naked body of the woman in the public square. None can be relighted until all have applied their torches. Spargo Virgil the Necromancer (Cambridge, Mass., 1934) 199ff.; *Oertel Studien zur vgl. Literaturgeschichte VIII 113; Spanish Exempla: Keller; Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| Q271.3 | Woman on visit to world of dead may not return until she pays debt to dead. India: Thompson-Balys. |
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