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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
C
Motifs of Tabu
D
Magic
E
The Dead
F
Marvels
G
Ogres
H
Tests
J
The Wise and the Foolish
K
Deceptions
L
Reversals of Fortune
M
Ordaining the Future
N
Chance and Fate
P
Society
Q
Rewards and Punishments
R
Captives and Fugitives
S
Unnatural Cruelty
T
Sex
U
The Nature of Life
V
Religion
W
Traits of Character
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Humor
Z
Miscellaneous Groups of Motifs
| Thompson reference | Description ▲ |
|---|---|
| T97 | Father opposed to daughter's marriage. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| T645.3 | Father orders the mother to send the expected illegitimate boy to him when he can perform certain feats. Irish myth: Cross; Greek: Fox 97 (Theseus). |
| T131.0.1.1 | Father promises that girl may wed only man of her choice. Irish myth: Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| T69.5 | Father punishes daughter by giving her to poor man in marriage. Chinese: Graham. |
| T411 | Father-daughter incest. *Köhler-Bolte II 190ff.; *Krappe Review of Religion (1941) 3—17; Heptameron No. 30. — Irish myth: *Cross, MacCulloch Celtic 74f.; English: Wells 176 (The Tale of an Incestuous Daughter); Danish: De la Saussaye 166 (Helgi); Italian Novella: Rotunda; Greek: Grote I 149; India: *Thompson-Balys; Hindu: Keith 75 (Prajapati); Maori: Dixon 164 n. 46; Eskimo (Greenland): Rasmussen III 198. |
| T131.1.2 | Father's consent to son's (daughter's) marriage necessary. Irish myth: Cross; Icelandic: Boberg. |
| T162 | Feast of "bedding and handspreading" before consummation of marriage. Irish myth: Cross. |
| T211.1.4 | Female deer offers herself instead of her mate, who has been captured. Hunter, struck by her sacrifice, lets both go. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T577 | Fetus exchanged from one woman to another. India: Thompson-Balys; Hindu: Keith 171, 223. |
| T243 | Fight between husband and lover for kingdom and wife. Irish myth: Cross; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| T471.0.1 | Fines imposed for rape. Irish myth: Cross. |
| T26.1 | Finger cut because of absorption in the charms of beloved. The person cutting food cannot take his eyes off the man (woman) opposite him. *Köhler-Bolte I 579, II 79ff., 83ff.; Jewish: *Neuman. |
| T282.1 | First (barren) wife insists her husband should take second wife. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| T549.3.1 | Fish when slit open gives up baby boy. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T586.1.4 | Five children at a birth for four successive years. All alive. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| T311.1 | Flight of maiden (bridegroom) to escape marriage. Type 888*; cf. Type 510B; *Toldo II 306; Alphabet No. 310; Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg; Italian Novella: Rotunda; Greek: Aeschylus Suppliants line 5; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T465.2 | Foal born of Loki after dealing with mythical stallion. Icelandic: MacCulloch Eddic 90. |
| T125.1 | Fool given intelligent wife; lame man hardworking wife. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T165.7 | For first six months bride of prince is only to sit an hour or two in his house. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T104 | Foreign king wages war to enforce demand for princess in marriage. *Boje 74ff., 78; Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| T56.3 | Forgotten fiancée sends lover false diamond inscribed with Christ's last words: "Oh Lord why hast Thou forsaken me?" Lover returns. (Cf. D2003.) Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| T586.1.5 | Forty sons born in one day. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T35.1 | Fountain (well) as lovers' rendezvous. Malone PMLA XLIII 402; Nouvelles de Sens No. 3; Irish myth: Cross; Missouri French: Carrière; Jewish: Neuman. |
| T586.4.1 | Four calves to one cow at a birth. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| T586.1.1 | Four children at a birth. Haiti: Alexander Lat. Am. 30. |
| T284 | Frightened wife shows marks of affection for husband. This is so rare that he pardons the robber who has caused the fright. Chauvin II 97 No. 52; Panchatantra III 9 (tr. Ryder 341); Bødker Exempler 295 No. 57; Spanish Exempla: Keller; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T485 | Fruit-picking time used for sexual promiscuity. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T215.5 | Fugitive returns to his family so that they may collect reward from his capture. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| T617.1 | Future hero as child isolated from world kills increasingly larger game with superior weapons. N. A. Indian (California): Gayton and Newman 69. |
| T575.1.4 | Future poet chants spell in mother's womb. Irish myth: Cross. |
| T575.1.2 | Future suicide weeps in mother's womb. Fb "selvmord". |
| T10.1.1 | Gambler reformed by falling in love. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| T453 | Getting advice from a woman in bed. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| T91.1.1 | Giant's daughter has child by hero. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| T91.1 | Giant's daughter loves hero. See references to G530.2. Icelandic: De la Saussaye 337, *Boberg; Irish myth: *Cross; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| T55.4.1 | Gift made by bride to husband. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| T136.4 | Gifts at wedding. Jewish: *Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| T136.4.1 | Gifts for bridal couple by a special ceremony with the bride on a bridebench. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| T118 | Girl (man) married to (enamored of) a monster. *Types 306, 506; *Liljeblad passim; *BP III 83; *Kittredge Harvard Studies and Notes in Philology VIII 250; Irish myth: *Cross; India: *Thompson-Balys; Japanese: Ikeda. |
| T86.4 | Girl and boy promised to each other by parents both die when they see each other after girl's marriage to another. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T55 | Girl as wooer. Forthputting woman. *Cross MPh XII 612 n. 3; Hibbard 208 n. 18; Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg; Italian Novella: Rotunda; Jewish: Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T579.8.3 | Girl betrays pregnancy by dropping milk on brother. Philippine (Tinguian): Cole 87. |
| T552.1 | Girl born with red string around neck. Fb. "rød". |
| T50.1.2 | Girl carefully guarded by father. Irish myth: *Cross; Africa (Togo): Einstein 12f. |
| T50.1.1 | Girl carefully guarded by mother. (Cf. K1349.4.) Irish myth: Cross; S. A. Indian (Chiriguano): Métraux RMLP XXXIII 151, 165. |
| T50.1.3 | Girl carefully guarded from suitors by hag. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| T50.1 | Girl carefully guarded from suitors. Hdwb. d. Märchens I 551a nn. 228—36; Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg; Jewish: Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys; West Indies: Flowers 577. |
| T311.2.1 | Girl commits suicide rather than marry man she does not love. Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 262. |
| T10.3 | Girl continually falling in love. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| T456.1 | Girl dares not receive gift from a man as it may be supposed to be payment for her favors. Icelandic: Lagerholm 21. |
| T83.1 | Girl drowns as she swims to see her lover. Her brothers deceive her with false signal light. Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| T327.7 | Girl escapes from undesired lover by cutting off her plaits of hair. Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 871*; Russian: Andrejev No. 871*. |
| T81.3 | Girl falls dead on lover's body. Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| T132.1 | Girl fattened before wedding. Africa (Zulu): Callaway 202, (Kaffir): Theal 67, (Ekoi): Talbot 7, 357. |
| T211.7 | Girl forced to marry before sweetheart's return is faithful to her husband. When she refuses to give her former fiancé a kiss, he falls dead. She goes to his funeral and falls dead over his body. Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| T65.1.1 | Girl formally betrothed can never marry another should anything happen to prevent her from marrying the first. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T320.5 | Girl gives up wealth and flees to escape lecherous emperor. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| T411.2 | Girl got with child by intoxicated father. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| T381.0.1 | Girl intended for marriage with king cloistered. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| T35.3 | Girl intoxicates nurse to keep rendezvous with lover. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| T81.6 | Girl kills herself after lover's death. Herrmann Saxo II 94; Icelandic: *Boberg; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| T320.2 | Girl kills man who threatens her virtue. Irish myth: *Cross; Italian Novella: Rotunda; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T92.3.1 | Girl leaves rescuer and elopes with his friend. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T92.3 | Girl leaves rescuer for younger lover. Dickson 119 nn. 55, 56. |
| T328 | Girl lives in sepulchre to preserve chastity. Scala Celi 33a No. 184. |
| T68.5 | Girl marries hunter when he promises to return to monkey brothers their human form. (Cf. D118.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T165 | Girl may remain virgin for three days after marriage. (Cf. C117.) *Fb "brud" IV 64b; *DeVries Zs. f. deutsche Philologie LIII 276f.; Hdwb: d. Abergl. III 739; Icelandic: *Boberg; Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| T92.4 | Girl mistakenly elopes with the wrong lover. The preferred suitor overtakes them, finds them asleep and waits for them to awaken. He himself falls asleep and when he wakes they have gone. Italian: L. de Francia Novellino (Torino, 1930) Gaulteruzzi MS No. 99, Rotunda. |
| T131.1.2.1 | Girl must marry father's choice. Irish myth: Cross (T131.8.1); Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| T321.2 | Girl named Mary has virginity spared by knight who has bought her. The Virgin appears to her. *Ward II 628 No. 16, 697 No. 9; Scala Celi 115a No. 641; Von der Hagen III 451. |
| T579.8.2 | Girl paints face because pregnant. S. A. Indian (Chiriguano): Métraux RMLP XXXIII 154. |
| T322.4 | Girl pleads vow of chastity to repel lover. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T321.4 | Girl prays to Virgin to spare her virginity. Two soldiers quarrel over possessing her. Captain slays her, thus "saving" her. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| T92.0.1 | Girl promised to three different suitors; because she is unable to settle the dispute she eats poison and dies. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T311.3 | Girl remains a virgin after both her suitors are killed in battle. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| T36 | Girl sleeps in garden to meet lover. Discovered next morning and married. Boccaccio Decameron V No. 4; von der Hagen II *xi, 71 No. 25; Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| T322 | Girl strikes man who tries to kiss her. Pauli (ed. Bolte) Nos. 618, 619. |
| T611.10.1 | Girl suckled by wolf has nail "like a wolf's nail." Irish myth: Cross. |
| T99.2 | Girl wants to marry lover even if he is mutilated. Icelandic: Ans saga Bogsveigis 350, Boberg. |
| T131.6 | Girl will marry on condition she is to be only wife. Irish myth: Cross. |
| T579.2 | Girl's blood examined to see if she is pregnant. Fb "blod" IV 48a. |
| T324 | Girl's virginity saved by the kindness of an emissary. Makes the lord believe she is a relative. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| T321.3 | Girl's virginity spared by knight when he sees her surrounded by the Virgin and her train. In her straits the girl has prayed for help. *Herbert III 356; Irish: Beal XXI 327. |
| T326.1 | Girls drown selves to save their virginity. Alphabet No. 773; Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| T111.4 | God as lover of giantess (18 giantesses). Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| T91.3.3 | God enamored of mortal. (Cf. A188.) Greek: Grote I 85f., 139, 164; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| T91.3.3.1 | God falls in love with a woman of low caste. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T53.4 | God occupied with matchmaking. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| T66.1 | Grateful dead man helps hero win princess. *Type 506; India: Thompson-Balys. See references for E341 (the grateful dead). |
| T172.2.1 | Grateful dead man kills princess's monster husband. (Or otherwise renders her innocuous to the bridegroom.) *Type 506—08. |
| T66.2 | Grateful little boys help hero win girl. Chinese: Graham. |
| T211.9.2.1 | Grieving man goes to die where his wife's corpse lies. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T137.4 | Groom becomes a member of bride's family. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T137.3 | Groom invited after marriage ceremony into female apartments to eat wedding breakfast with the bride. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T133.6 | Groom's mother visits bride-to-be and puts the betrothal ring on her finger. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T135.4 | Groom's sword makes vermillion mark on bride's forehead as wedding ceremony. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| T381.1 | Guarded maiden first seen by hero in church. *Type 516; Rösch FFC LXXVII 103; Icelandic: Boberg. |
| T381.1.1 | Guarded maiden first seen by hero in otherworld. Irish myth: Cross. |
| T282 | Handmaid given as wife unto husband by barren wife. Jewish: Neuman. |
| T150 | Happenings at weddings. *Hdwb. d. Abergl. IV 148ff.; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T55.9 | Harper as love messenger sent by girl. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| T548.1.1 | Hateful or lovely child to be born first? Childless parents' prayer answered: they are to have two children, one hateful, one lovely. Choice as to which is to come first. Köhler-Bolte I 520ff. |
| T257.0.1 | Heavenly maidens are not jealous. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T373 | Heavy chastity belt imposed on wife. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| T539.4 | Heifers covered by supernatural bull conceive miraculously. Irish myth: Cross. |
| T66 | Help in wooing. (Cf. B582.) |
| T4.1 | Herdsman to learn art of love so he can become a holy man. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T682 | Hero a posthumous son. *Von Sydow Fеvne 40; Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| T572.2.3 | Hero an abortion thrown into the bushes. Maori: Dixon 42. |
| T83 | Hero and Leander. Lover drowned as he swims to see his mistress. *Von der Hagen I cxxviii; *Fb "svömme" III 695b; Italian Novella: Rotunda; Greek: Fox 202. |
| T141.3 | Hero assigns the bride he has won to another. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| T589.7.2 | Hero born in hour of Christ's Nativity. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| T333.5 | Hero cuts off head and wraps it in napkin so he will not be tempted by sight of virgins. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T539.1 | Hero enters womb of sleeping woman and is reborn. India: Thompson-Balys; Hindu: Keith 194, 222. |
| T92.4.1 | Hero falls asleep while sweetheart is being married to another. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T584.7 | Hero is born by splitting mother's womb. Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 93f. |
| T453.1 | Hero learns feats of arms through gratifying woman's lust. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| T617.2 | Hero learns his name at time of first adventure. Irish myth: Cross. |
| T645.4 | Hero leaves bedmate keys to treasure chamber for the son she is supposed to bear. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| T475.2 | Hero lies by princess in magic sleep and begets child. Italian: Basile Pentamerone V No. 5; India: Thompson-Balys; Icelandic: Boberg. |
| T111.2.1 | Hero marries star in form of girl. Chinese: Graham. |
| T102 | Hero returns and marries first love. Types 611, 884, 885**, 886; Icelandic: Boberg. |
| T47 | Heroine hidden by stepmother when suitor comes. *Roberts 222. |
| T35.4 | Hesitation in making up mind spoils lovers' rendezvous. (Cf. J2166.) Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles No. 81; Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| T465.3 | Homocentaurus born as a result of bestiality. Icelandic: *Boberg; Greek: Fox 61. |
| T463 | Homosexual love (male). Icelandic: Corpus Poeticum Boreale I 137; Spanish Exempla: Keller; Italian Novella: Rotunda; Jewish: *Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T91.6.4.1.2 | Hostile amazon's daughter loves hero. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| T173.2 | Hostile brides kill husbands in the bridal bed. *Encyc. Britannica 13 s.v. "Danaus"; Frazer Apollodorus I 143 n. 1; Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 306A*; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| T685.2 | Hostile twins. *Dickson 98ff.; *Krappe Balor 30, 143 n. 33, FL XXXIV 189ff.; Gaster Oldest Stories 168. |
| T566 | Human son of animal parents. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T27.3 | Hundred rajas fall in love with one woman. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T294 | Husband (wife) of supernatural being longs for old home and visits relatives. India: *Thompson-Balys; Japanese: Ikeda; Siberian and N. A. Indian: Jochelson JE VI 366. |
| T213 | Husband (wife) sickens as result of separation from spouse. Irish myth: Cross. |
| T584.0.2 | Husband acts as midwife when no woman is available. Boje 125ff. |
| T249.2 | Husband and wife (king and queen) each unfaithful to other. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| T211.3 | Husband and wife kill themselves so as not to be separated. Chinese: Werner 400. |
| T251.1.2.1 | Husband chooses to go to hell rather than join shrewish wife in heaven. Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 757. |
| T251.9 | Husband consoled by seeing woman even more shrewish than his wife. (Cf. J882.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T251.2.2 | Husband dons armor and forces the household to shout: "Long live the Master!" Takes off his breeches and dares his wife to put them on. Establishes his mastery in the home. Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| T211.3.1 | Husband falls on sword when his wife dies. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| T254.2 | Husband forbids wife to ride on the dog: she immediately does so and is bitten. Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 705. |
| T583.1.0.1 | Husband goes into seclusion at wife's pregnancy. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T258.1.1 | Husband insists on knowing wife's secret. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T257.4 | Husband jealous of wife who goes to confession is punished by the priest. When the husband sees the priest take her behind the altar to punish her he volunteers to take the punishment. The wife says, "Pound him well. I am a terrible sinner." Mensa Philosophica No. 72; *Wesselski Mönchslatein No. 74. Cf. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| T211.1.2 | Husband learning from augurs that his wife will die if he saves self from serpent, lets self be bitten to death. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| T215.3 | Husband nourishes starving wife with his own flesh and blood. Paris Zs. f. Vksk. XIII 5. |
| T471.3 | Husband sends wife poison to avoid having her ravished by the enemy. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| T261.1 | Husband takes wife's place and receives punishment for her adultery. She is ungrateful. Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 31. |
| T224 | Husband tempted by own wife disguised in fine clothes: says he will touch no woman save his wife. She puts on her old clothes. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T235 | Husband transforms himself to test his wife's faithfulness. (Cf. T231.3.) Greek: Fox 72. |
| T251.2.3.1 | Husband tries to reform wife by killing a recalcitrant horse in her presence. She thinks he has lost his mind and continues in her ways. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| T254.5 | Husband warns wife not to enter empty furnace. She does so and it falls in upon her. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| T251.7 | Husband will not search for shrewish wife who has run away from him. Wesselski Bebel II 145 No. 142. |
| T211.4.2 | Husband's corpse kept after death. |
| T295 | Husband's indiscreet boast about wife brings about his death. King regards his wife as so beautiful that he has a friend view her naked through a crack in the wall. Wife learns of his act, goes over to the man who has viewed her, and with the latter brings about the king's death. Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| T257.7 | Husband's unjust jealousy forces wife to commit adultery. Italian Novella: *Rotunda; Heptameron No. 47. |
| T647 | Illegal to care for illegitimate child. Irish myth: Cross. |
| T640.1 | Illegitimate child of nun. (Cf. V465.1.2.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| T646 | Illegitimate child taunted by playmates. *Type 873; DeVries Edda (1923) 155ff., DeVries Studiën over Faerösche balladen 44ff.; Chauvin V 72; Irish: MacCulloch Celtic 52, *Cross; Welsh: MacCulloch Celtic 200; Missouri French: Carrière; India and China: Cowell Jataka VI 21, Chavannes 500 Contes III 331; Chinese: Graham; Japanese: Ikeda; Korean: Zong in-Sob 78 No. 44; Oceanic: Dixon 67f., 82, 113; Africa: Frobenius Atlantis IV 273; Jamaica: Beckwith MAFLS XVII 277 No. 89; West Indies: Flowers 579. |
| T640 | Illegitimate children. Irish myth: *Cross; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T470 | Illicit sexual relations—miscellaneous motifs. |
| T400 | Illicit sexual relations. |
| T56.2 | Image of God of Love sent to fetch bride. (Cf. A475.) *Penzer I 77 n. 1. |
| T587.2.1 | Immediately after birth of twins one puts the other in his mouth: this twin's body becomes made of iron. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T525.2 | Impregnation by a comet. Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 92. |
| T532.1.3 | Impregnation by leaf of lettuce. Greek: Fox 166. |
| T513.1.1 | Impregnation by magician's power. Eskimo (Greenland): Rink 148, Rasmussen II 217; S. A. Indian (Tupinamba): Métraux RMLP XXXIII 168. |
| T532.8 | Impregnation by shadow of Bhimsen. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T525.1 | Impregnation by star. Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 92. |
| T528 | Impregnation by thunder (lightning). Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 91. |
| T512.5 | Impregnation from licking spittle. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| T515 | Impregnation through glance. England: Baughman; Rumanian: Schullerus FFC LXXVIII No. 315; Cape Verde Islands: Parsons MAFLS XV (1) 289 No. 94. |
| T515.1 | Impregnation through lustful glance. N. A. Indian (Yana): Curtin Creation Myths 348. Cf. the "greenclad woman" in Ibsen's Peer Gynt. |
| T381 | Imprisoned virgin to prevent knowledge of men (marriage, impregnation). Usually kept in a tower. (Danaë.) *Types 310, 516; *Krappe Balor 2ff., 11 nn. 38, 39; *Hertel Zs. f. Vksk. XIX 83ff. (chest on water); *Rösch FFC LXXVII 103, 107f.; *Krappe Le Moyen Age 96ff.; *Loomis White Magic 119. — Irish myth: *Cross; Italian Novella: Rotunda; Greek: *Frazer Apollodorus I 153 n. 3, 154 n. 1, *Hartland Perseus chap. 1; Babylonian: Spence 157; Jewish: *Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys; Korean: Zong in-Sob 5 No. 2; N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 277 n. 21b; West Indies: Flowers 578. |
| T321.6 | In answer to maiden's prayer saint changes boat's course and guides it to another place. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T92.4.3 | In darkness of night trickster instead of her chosen lover elopes with girl. Tonga: Beckwith Myth 536. |
| T410 | Incest. **O. Rank Das Inzest-Motiv in Dichtung und Sage (Leipzig u. Wien, 1912); *Child V 484 s.v. "Incestuous"; Irish myth: *Cross; Arabian: Burton Nights I 110 n., II 172 n.; India: Thompson-Balys; Indo-Chinese: Dixon 165 *n. 47; Indonesia: Dixon 172. |
| T476 | Incognito mistress. King's mistress secretly becomes hero's without revealing identity. *Chauvin V 219 No. 129 n. 2. |
| T53.1 | Incognito prophet as matchmaker. Jewish: bin Gorion Born Judas I 177f., 374. |
| T412.2 | Incognito son tempts mother to see whether all women are wicked. Scala Celi 87a No. 509; Icelandic: Gerling Islandzk æventyri 7 No. 1. |
| T601 | Infant bathed in milk. Irish myth: Cross. |
| T585.3 | Infant born blind immediately drowns self. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| T143 | Infant marriages. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| T585.4 | Infant saint rebukes mother's impiety. Loomis White Magic 23; Irish myth: Cross. |
| T121.8.1 | Infertile raja marries beggar woman in hope of having a son. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T475.2.1 | Intercourse with sleeping girl. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T257.5 | Jealous husband kills nightingale which his wife gets up to hear. Herbert III 201; Oesterley No. 121. |
| T257.8 | Jealous husband objects to wife's enjoyment of intercourse: thinks she has had previous experience. Nouvelles Récréations No. 39. |
| T257.9 | Jealous husband spends all his earnings as skillful smith bribing courtiers not to talk to his wife, and at last locks her up in hut in the forest. Icelandic: FSS 14—18, XCVIII, Boberg. |
| T257.6 | Jealous king causes massacre of handsome young captives. Jewish: Neuman. |
| T257.2.2 | Jealous wife (mistress) transforms rival to hound. (Cf. B182.1.0.2.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| T257 | Jealous wife or husband. Irish myth: *Cross; Italian Novella: Rotunda; Jewish: Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| T257.11 | Jealous wife ties husband to her so that he cannot get away to meet another woman. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T257.2 | Jealousy of rival wives. Penzer III 99; Irish myth: *Cross; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| T265 | Jewels of Cornelia. She shows her children as her jewels. Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 141. |
| T580.1 | Jewess must entreat Virgin before she can bear her child. Irish myth: Cross. |
| T137.6 | Journey to husband's home accompanied by attendants. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T161 | Jus primae noctis. Overlord claims right of sleeping the first night with subject's wife. Liebrecht Orient und Occident II 541f., Liebrecht 94, 416; Herrmann Saxo II 324; *Hertz Abhandlungen 207ff.; *Hdwb. d. Abergl. III 746; *Wesselski Archiv Orientální I 82f. — Irish: MacCulloch Celtic 140, *Cross; Swiss: Jegerlehner Oberwallis 319 No. 21; French: Sébillot France IV 285; Jewish: *bin Gorion Born Judas I 363, *Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T91.6.2 | King (prince) in love with a lowly girl. (Cf. L162, T121.8.) Icelandic: *Boberg; Jewish: *Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 1185. |
| T121.8 | King (rich man) weds common girl. (Cf. L162, T91.6.2.) Icelandic: *Boberg; India: *Thompson-Balys; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 938, II 1091. |
| T586.1.2.1 | King and queen have seven sons, all named Maine. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| T131.1.2.2 | King chooses bridegroom for daughter from boys' pictures. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T91.6.2.0.1 | King covets subject's wife. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| T161.0.1 | King deflowers all twelve year old girls. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T579.7 | King demands that his pregnant queen be chained to him. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T586.1.2.2 | King has six (seven) sons, all named Lugaid. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| T583.3 | King leaves bell with his wife for her to ring so he will know when her child is born. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| T50.2 | King likes his daughter so much that he does not wish to marry her to anyone. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| T67.3.1 | King marries girl who frees him from the clutches of magic doll. (Cf. D1268.) Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| T131.7 | King may not marry girl who has been wife of another. Irish myth: *Cross; Jewish: Neuman. |
| T64 | King seeks bride only because counsellors insist. *Thien Motive 4; Chaucer's Clerk's Tale; Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| T252.2.1 | King sees how male stork kills his unfaithful wife. Follows its example. Scala Celi 7a No. 40; Oesterley No. 82; Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| T481.5 | King takes subject's wife while her husband is sent away. Icelandic: *Boberg; Danish: Grundtvig No. 145. |
| T252.2.2.1 | King tells jackal his statistics are wrong since there are more men than women. Jackal: husbands ruled by their wives counted as women. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T50.2.1 | King unwilling to marry his daughter to a man not her equal. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| T586.2.2 | King with 60,000 sons. Hindu: Keith 115. |
| T586.2.1 | King with fifty sons (daughters). Greek: Fox 20, 30. |
| T51.2 | King wooes through his daughter and the princess's maiden. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| T257.1.1 | King's wives jealous of his attention to pet animal. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T582.4 | Knife (other sharp instrument) as childbirth precaution. Jewish: Neuman. |
| T331.2 | Knight unsuccessfully tempted by host's wife. **Kittredge Gawain and the Green Knight. |
| T121.1 | Knight weds peasant girl. English: Wells 60 (Syre Gowene and the Carle of Carelyle). |
| T582.3 | Knots to be untied at childbirth. Particularly knots in the woman's clothes. Aly Hdwb. d. Abergl. V. 19; cf. Frazer Pausanias V 45f.; English: Child I 85. |
| T75.4 | Lady humiliates lover after he leaves wife for her. Chinese: Graham. |
| T55.3 | Lady in love with ruler enlists friend's aid. Rendezvous arranged. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| T587.3 | Last born twin conceived first. Jewish: Neuman. |
| T251.1.2 | Late husband chooses to remain in Purgatory rather than to return to his shrewish wife. Spanish: Boggs FFC XC 129 No. 1516. |
| T125 | Lazy boy and industrious girl matched. Jesus (incognito) as matchmaker. *Type 822. |
| T415.1 | Lecherous brother. Wants to seduce (marry) his sister. Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 314A*; Spanish Exempla: Keller; India: *Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Werner 408; N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 305 n. 109. |
| T411.1 | Lecherous father. Unnatural father wants to marry his daughter. (Manekine.) *Types 510B, 706; BP I 295ff., *301 n. 5, II 45ff.; *Hibbard 25ff.; *Cox Nos. 131—208; Saintyves Perrault 187ff.; Köhler-Bolte I 420, II 184ff.; Wienert FFC LVI *83 (ET 497), 115 (ST 256); Cosquin études 3ff.; Rohde Der griechische Roman 37ff., 448; Dickson 199.—Irish myth: Cross; English: Wells 129 (Emare); Swiss: Jegerlehner Oberwallis 325 No. 6; Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "père"; Italian: Basile Pentamerone II No. 6, III No. 2, *Rotunda; Greek: *Frazer Apollodorus I 46 n. 1; India: Thompson-Balys; N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 304 n. 109p; Africa (Ibo, Nigeria): Thomas 139. |
| T462.1 | Lesbian love: women give birth to monsters as result. India: Thompson-Balys; N. A. Indian (Navaho): Matthews MAFLS V 81, (Fox): Jones PAES I 151ff. |
| T462 | Lesbian love. Jewish: Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T92.4.2 | Letter falsified and elopement with false lover arranged. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T61.4.1 | Liquor brewed for betrothal. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T55.4 | Little girl will give prince marvelous objects if he promises to marry her later. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T216 | Loathly bridegroom carried on back in basket by wife. Indonesia: Dixon 211. |
| T574.2 | Long pregnancy: seven years. Jewish: *Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 208, II 1222. |
| T574.1 | Long pregnancy: twelve months. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| T574 | Long pregnancy. Delayed by an enemy who bewitches the mother. *Toldo I 337, II 313; *Frazer Pausanias V 45f.; *Fb "føde" I 398; Tegethoff 41; Köhler-Bolte Zs. f. Vksk. VI 63 (to Gonzenbach No. 12); Child I 82ff., 489, III 497, V 285b. — Irish: Thurneyson I 274, *Cross; Icelandic: Boberg; Finnish: Kalevala rune 1; Greek: *Frazer Apollodorus I 166 n. 2; Persian: Carnoy 331; Chinese: Wilhelm Chinesische Märchen Nos. 15, 18, 29; Batak: Frazer Golden Bough I 143; Philippine (Tinguian): Cole 180; Madagascar: Dandoyau Contes populaires des Sakalava No. 57. |
| T6 | Love as inducement to idolatry. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| T15 | Love at first sight. Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg; Italian Novella: Rotunda; Jewish: *Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 614, II 355, 1369. |
| T11.1 | Love from mere mention or description. *Type 516; *Rösch FFC LXXVII 100; *Chauvin V 132 No. 112; *Penzer X 214 s.v. "Love by mere mention"; Malone PMLA XLIII 399; *Dickson 188 n. 63; Hibbard 208 n. 18, 226 n. 1; *Cross MPh XII 612 n. 3; Moore PMLA XXIX (1914) 527f.; Fb "hеr" IV 241b. — Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg; Italian: Basile Pentamerone IV No. 7, *Rotunda; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| T88.1 | Love kept up even after one of the parties is married to another. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| T91.3.2 | Love of goddess for mortal. (Cf. T111.1.) Penzer V 33; Greek: Fox 245. |
| T91.2 | Love of mortal and devil. |
| T91.3 | Love of mortal and supernatural person. India: *Thompson-Balys; S. A. Indian (Cashinawa): Métraux BBAE CXLIII (3) 684, (Toba): Métraux MAFLS XL 23. |
| T11.3 | Love through dream. Falling in love with a person seen in a dream. *Type 516; *BP I 45; *Rösch FFC LXXVII 100; *Chauvin V 132 No. 112; *Penzer III 82 n. 2, IX 36 n. 1; *Moore PMLA XXIX 527f.; Rohde Griechische Roman 45ff.; Dunlop-Wilson II 258; Bédier Fabliaux (1895) 113ff.; *Krappe Revue Hispanique LXXXI 5ff. —Irish: MacCulloch Celtic 78, *Cross; Icelandic: M. Moe in Edda 1914 p. 245, *Boberg; Arabian: Basset 1001 Contes I 136, II 68; India: *Thompson-Balys; Korean: Zong in-Sob 73 No. 40, 136 No. 63; Indonesia: J. Brandes Tijdschrift voor Indische Taal-, Land-, en Volkenkunde XLI 295f., 469, Jeynboll Supplement Catalogus Jav. — Madoereesche Handschriften I 53ff.; Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 231; N. A. Indian (Yana): Curtin Creation Myths 425ff.; Africa: Frobenius Atlantis III 247; Cape Verde Islands: Parsons MAFLS XV (1) 211f. No. 73, 220 No. 74. |
| T11.4.5 | Love through finding lady's handkerchief. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T11.4.6 | Love through finding lady's ornament (ring, comb, etc.). India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T11.4.3 | Love through finding lady's wreath. Cowell Jataka IV 144; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 586. |
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