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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
H
Tests
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The Wise and the Foolish
K
Deceptions
L
Reversals of Fortune
M
Ordaining the Future
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Chance and Fate
P
Society
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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 ▲ |
|---|---|
| T165.2 | One year to elapse between ceremony and consummation of marriage. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| T550.6 | Only half a son is born by queen who ate merely half of mango. (Cf. F525, T589.2.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T621 | Orphan inquires about parents. (Cf. L111.4.1.) N. A. Indian (California): Gayton and Newman 69. |
| T299 | Other aspects of married life—miscellaneous. |
| T280 | Other aspects of married life. |
| T383 | Other futile attempts to keep wife chaste. Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| T151.3 | Other respites from unwelcome marriage (three months, two years, etc.). India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| T583.1.1 | Pains of woman in childbirth repeated in person of the man. English: Child II 109, V 292; U.S.: Baughman. |
| T645 | Paramour leaves token with girl to give their son. *Type 873; *Potter Sohrab and Rustem 6ff.; Irish myth: Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg; India: Thompson-Balys; Japanese: Ikeda; Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 86, 330, 478f. |
| T69.2 | Parents affiance children without their knowledge. Type 516; Rösch FFC LXXVII 101; Jewish: *Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T132.2 | Parents become servants to secure funds for wedding. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T69.2.2 | Parents decide princess can marry no one who weighs more than she. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T455.4 | Parents urge girl to trade her favors for truce with hostile warrior. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| T69.2.1 | Parents wooing one of seven daughters for their son. Chinese: Graham. |
| T92.9.1 | Parricide because of father-son rivalry for girl's love. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T136.4.2 | Parting gifts after wedding. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| T61.2 | Parting lovers pledge not to marry for seven years. Child V 488 s.v. "Marriage". |
| T584 | Parturition. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| T35.2 | Pavilion as lovers' rendezvous. *Dickson 61 n. 4. |
| T203 | Peace in marriage more important than truth. Jewish: Neuman. |
| T55.6 | Person (man, woman) exhibits figure. Irish myth: *Cross; Jewish: Neuman. |
| T551.3.4.1 | Person born with cow's ears. (Cf. F511.2.2.) Chinese: Graham. |
| T461 | Person enamored of an object. |
| T4 | Person wants to learn art of love. |
| T465.5 | Pig born with head like that of man as a result of bestiality. U.S.: Baughman. |
| T584.4 | Piglings cut from bodies of sows and reared. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| T581 | Place and conditions of childbirth. |
| T117.10 | Plant wife (in form of a woman). Mono-Alu: Wheeler Nos. 17, 35. |
| T146 | Polyandry. Woman with two husbands. Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: Boberg; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| T145.6 | Polygamist must love all his wives. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T145 | Polygamous marriages. Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg; Jewish: *Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys; Africa (Duala): Lederbogen Märchen 82, (Fang): Trilles Legends 263f. |
| T145.8 | Polygamy so that head wife may be quickly replaced for wrongdoing. Africa (Konnoh): Willans 139. |
| T145.0.1 | Polygyny. Irish myth: Cross. |
| T550.7 | Poor woman gives birth to child who has no body (merely head or skull). India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T582 | Precautions at childbirth. *Penzer II 166ff.; *McDaniel Conception. Birth and Infancy (Miami, 1948); *H. A. Winkler Salomo und die Karina: eine orientalische Legende von der Bezwingung einer Kindbettdämonin (Stuttgart, 1931); Irish myth: Cross. |
| T615.4 | Precocious boy supports his widowed mother and himself by use of his wits. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T585.7 | Precocious hero leaves cradle to go to war. Irish myth: Cross; Icelandic: Boberg. |
| T585 | Precocious infant. *Toldo I 329; Loomis White Magic 23; Gaster Oldest Stories 69; Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg; Greek: Fox 79 (Hercules), 92 (Hermes); India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| T615.1 | Precocious speech. (Cf. T585.) DeVries "De Sage van het ingemetselde Kind" Nederlandsche Tijdschrift voor Volkskunde XXXII (1917) 1; Irish myth: *Cross; Finnish: Kalevala runes 31, 50; Africa (Kaffir): Theal 72f. |
| T615.3 | Precocious wisdom. Jewish: *Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Graham. |
| T615.5 | Precocious young child demands weapons. (Cf. T617.1.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T22.3 | Predestined husband. Icelandic: Hdwb. d. Märchens I 450a n. 534; Italian: Basile Pentamerone, Introduction; Japanese: Ikeda. |
| T22 | Predestined lovers. Future wife or husband assigned by destiny. (Cf. T54.) India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| T22.2 | Predestined wife. (Cf. M312.1.) Basset 1001 Contes II 208 n. 1; Finnish-Swedish: Hackman FFC VI No. 930*; Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 934A*; Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 202 No. 149, FFC CXXVIII 179 No. 95; Japanese: Ikeda. |
| T511.7.2 | Pregnancy from eating an egg. Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 91, 103. |
| T579 | Pregnancy—miscellaneous motifs. |
| T570 | Pregnancy. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T401.1 | Pregnant abbess secretly delivered of her child by Virgin Mary. *Wesselski Mönchslatein 51 No. 44; *Crane Miraculis 99 No. 36; Alphabet No. 13; Spanish Exempla: Keller; Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| T578 | Pregnant man. *Type 705; *Fb "frugtsommelig" I 376b; DeVries FFC LXXIII 268; von der Hagen II 53ff. No. 24; Christensen DF XLVII 227 No. 93, L 72.—Irish myth: Cross; Icelandic: MacCulloch Eddic 145 (Loki); Koryak: Jochelson JE VI 324; Eskimo (Greenland): Rink 444, (West Hudson Bay): Boas BAM XV 326; N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 323 n. 166d; Africa (Basuto): Jacottet 196 No. 29. |
| T313.1.1 | Pregnant nun's virginity restored through power of saint. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| T576 | Prenatal influences. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T132 | Preparation for wedding. |
| T572 | Prevention of childbirth. |
| T52.1 | Prince buys twig (flower) (enchanted girl) from her mother. (Cf. D212, D215.) Type 652; BP II 125; Italian: Basile Pentamerone I No. 2. |
| T91.6.3.1 | Prince falls in love with merchant's daughter exposed in jungle. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T91.6.3 | Prince falls in love with minister's daughter. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T72.2.1 | Prince marries scornful girl and punishes her. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| T67 | Prince offered as prize. |
| T67.3 | Prince will marry girl who will rescue him from embarrassing position. Italian: Basile Pentamerone V No. 1. |
| T68.3 | Princess as prize to man who saves his country. Chinese: Graham. |
| T52.7 | Princess asked for in return for sparing palace. (Cf. S222.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T76 | Princess calls her suitors ugly names. *Type 900; *BP I 443ff.; *Philippson FFC L 14; Italian: Basile Pentamerone IV No. 10. |
| T55.1 | Princess declares her love for lowly hero. *Type 314; *Dickson 144 n. 146; Missouri French: Carrière; Jewish: *Neuman; Africa (Ibo, Nigeria): Thomas 120. |
| T55.8 | Princess declares love by presenting cup of drink at feast. Krappe Revue Hispanique LXXXI (1933); Irish myth: Cross. |
| T55.1.1 | Princess declares love for courtier. Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| T55.7 | Princess elects herself husband from the young men present. (Cf. H311, H362, T131.0.1.) Type 530. |
| T323.1 | Princess escapes from undesired lover by fleeing disguised as a bishop. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| T323.2 | Princess evades unwelcome lover by putting on foul-smelling skin-coat. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T91.6.4.2 | Princess falls in love with a king who becomes a slave. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T28 | Princess falls in love with a man disguised as a woman. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T95.0.1 | Princess falls in love with father's enemy. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T91.6.4.1.1 | Princess falls in love with knight. Marries him after her husband's death. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| T91.6.4 | Princess falls in love with lowly boy. (Cf. L161.) *Type 314; *Boje 74ff.; Penzer V 250, VIII 115ff.; Krappe "The Legends of Amicus and Amelius and of King Horn" Leuvensche Bijdragen XVI (1924) 14—17; Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "jardinier"; Italian Novella: Rotunda; India: *Thompson-Balys; N. A. Indian: Thompson CColl II 348ff. |
| T55.5 | Princess feigns sickness to woo hero. Only marriage to him will cure her. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T455.7 | Princess gives herself to Turks of her own accord in order to save her people. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T85.2 | Princess hangs up weapons of dead lover as continual reminder. *Wesselski Mönchslatein 80 No. 69. |
| T131.0.1 | Princess has unrestricted choice of husband. (Cf. T55.7.) India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| T89.1.1 | Princess married to mortally wounded prince and both left in jungle. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T121.3 | Princess marries courtier. Italian Novella: *Rotunda; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| T121.3.1 | Princess marries lowly man. (Cf. L161.1.) Jewish: Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| T121.5.1 | Princess marries saint. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T68.1 | Princess offered as prize to rescuer. *Types 300, 301, 302, 303, 304, 506, 653; *Hartland Perseus III 1—65; *MacCulloch Childhood 17f.; Irish myth: Cross; Italian: Basile Pentamerone I No. 7; India: *Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Werner 420; Africa (Angola): Chatelain 89 No. 5. |
| T68 | Princess offered as prize. Irish myth: Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg; Missouri French: Carrière; Spanish: Espinosa Jr. Nos. 130f.; Jewish: *Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| T55.10 | Princess offers reward for securing prince as husband for her. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T91.6.4.3 | Princess runs away with hunchback. Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 910. |
| T15.1 | Princess so lovely that everyone falls in love with her. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T327.6 | Princess takes on loathsome disguise to avoid unwelcome demon-lover. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T322.2 | Princess threatens to kill amorous king. French Canadian: Sister Marie Ursule. |
| T62 | Princess to marry first man who asks for her. *Type 900; BP 443ff.; *Philippson FFC L 21f.; *Chauvin V 234 No. 134 n. 1; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| T55.11 | Princess transforms self to woo. (Cf. D658.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T63 | Princess's husband selected by elephant bowing to him. (Cf. H171.1.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T252.4 | Prize for husband who rules his wife. (Ham, egg.) *Köhler-Bolte III 609; Fb "æg" III 1142a. |
| T584.5.1 | Prolonged labor: woman has childbirth pains for 100 days but is not delivered. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T453.2 | Prostitute gets advice from customer. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T450.4 | Prostitute has favorite lover. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T450 | Prostitution and concubinage. *Encyc. Religion Ethics III 809 s.v. "concubinage"; *Penzer X 272 s.v. "prostitution", X 288 s.v. "sacred prostitution"; Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 218; Irish myth: *Cross; Italian Novella: Rotunda; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| T450.3 | Prostitution to avoid starvation. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| T52.2 | Purchase money instead of bride given to suitor to settle dispute. Africa (Fjort): Dennett 74ff. No. 16. |
| T686 | Quadruplet heroes. Haiti: Alexander Lat. Am. 30. |
| T256.0.1 | Quarrel between husband and wife explained by their having been previously a tiger and a dog. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T256.1 | Quarrelsome wife conquered by silent husband. *Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 470. |
| T256.3 | Quarrelsome wife reproved by a good whipping. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T511.0.1 | Queen and maidservant conceive from eating same food. Their sons are like brothers. (Cf. P311.4.) Köhler-Bolte I 512; BP I 545. |
| T481.6 | Queen begets son with duke while the king is in war. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| T481.2.1 | Queen commits adultery with low-born man. Africa (Fang): Einstein 162. |
| T569.1 | Queen delivered of a piece of flesh; abandoned and saved, it gradually separates into forms of boy and girl. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T555.2 | Queen gives birth to a gourd. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T492 | Queen makes all men who come to serve her copulate with her. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T481.2 | Queen's illicit passion for diseased man. Penzer V 181, 183. |
| T69.3.1 | Raja betroths his daughter to visitor's son as a compensation for murder. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T471 | Rape. Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg; Italian Novella: *Rotunda; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T313.1 | Ravished girl's virginity restored by saint. *Loomis White Magic 85; Irish myth: *Cross. |
| T313 | Ravished girl's virginity restored by Virgin Mary. Ward II 703 No. 33; *Hibbard 12ff. |
| T675 | Real mother preferred to foster mothers. Kid abandoned by his mother suckles the whole flock but is not satisfied. Chauvin III 56 No. 15. |
| T298 | Reconciliation of separated couple. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| T104.1 | Rejected suitor wages war. (Cf. T75.2.1.) Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| T75.2.1 | Rejected suitors' revenge. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| T131.1 | Relative's consent to marriage necessary. |
| T317.4 | Repression of lust through fasting. Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles No. 99; Spanish Exempla: Keller; Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| T317.2 | Repression of lust through prayer. Alphabet No. 14; Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| T317.3 | Repression of lust through preaching. Alphabet No. 638. |
| T317.1 | Repression of lust through sitting in water. Dickson 92f. nn. 70, 71; Alphabet No. 750. |
| T151.0.1 | Respite ruse. Captive maiden assigns quest, agreeing to marry when it is accomplished. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| T136.2 | Rice thrown at weddings. *Crane Vitry 249 No. 265; Herbert III 22; *Hdwb. d. Abergl. I 1649, III 385f., IV 168f.; Frazer Golden Bough I 254; Mannhardt Wald und Feldkulte I 222. |
| T91.5 | Rich and poor in love. |
| T673 | Rich but stingy couple adopt young man as their son: everybody is happy. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T52.6 | Rich girl gives poor suitor necklace with which to pay her bride-price. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T91.5.1 | Rich girl in love with poor boy. Spanish: Boggs FFC XC 54 No. 405A*; India: *Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 247 No. 192. |
| T121.5.2 | Rich girl marries fakir. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T121.7 | Rich girl marries servant. Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 249. |
| T85.4.1 | Ring of Fastrada. (Tove's magic ring.) Lover keeps body of dead mistress (wife) intact by means of magic ring. When ring is removed from her finger, the body immediately decays and he is cured of his love. **A. Pauls Der Ring der Fastrada (Aachen, 1896); **K. Nyrop Fortids Sagn og Sange 1: Tove's Tryllering (København, 1907); *Chauvin II 202 No. 48; *Moth Danske Studier (1915) 97ff.; *BP I 463f.; *G. Paris Journal des Savants Nov. 1896; Euphorion VI 186. |
| T92.10 | Rival in love killed. Icelandic: *Boberg; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T92.7 | Rival lovers do battle for girl. (Cf. T86.1.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| T92.11.1 | Rival suitors discomfit each other. Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 1692*, 1693. |
| T86.1 | Rival suitors kill each other over woman's love. Woman dies of broken heart and all three are buried in the same grave. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| T92.11 | Rivals contesting for the same girl. Cheremis: Sebeok-Nyerges; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T92 | Rivals in love. Irish myth: *Cross; Missouri French: Carrière; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T133.2 | Royal bride conducted by embassy to husband's kingdom. (Cf. T51.) Dickson 31. |
| T121.4 | Ruler marries fugitive noblewoman. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| T457 | Sacred prostitution. *Penzer Poison Damsels 131ff. |
| T301 | Sacrifice of virginity. Penzer I 275f.; *Hartland Tylor Anthropological Volume 189. |
| T53.3 | Saint as matchmaker. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| T253.3 | Saint composes hymn to free himself from the mala vita in which he lives with his wife. Irish myth: Cross. |
| T335 | Saint exposes self to temptation but preserves chastity. Thus insures self greater reward in Heaven. Irish myth: *Cross: |
| T611.5.2 | Saint feeds children by cutting off cow's teats and pouring milk into them. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| T331.6 | Saint flogs woman who tempts him. Irish myth: Cross. |
| T611.5.1 | Saint has two paps—a pap with milk and a pap with honey: with these he suckles two infants. Irish myth: Cross. |
| T579.5 | Saint performs miracles while yet unborn. (Cf. D1713.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| T327.3 | Saint plucks out her eye when urged to marry. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| T331.7 | Saint sleeps with maidens without sinning. Another saint, who doubts fact, undergoes same test and perceives its efficacy. Irish myth: Cross. |
| T611.10.2 | Saint suckled by wolf. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| T312 | Saint's daughter dies when wooed. Alphabet No. 390. |
| T337.1 | Saint's enemy, wishing to cause saint to violate his oath never to "commit folly and utter lie," induces his daughter to tempt saint. Saint perceives trick and avoids sin. Irish myth: Cross. |
| T75.1 | Scorn of unloved suitor punished. Types 402*; 906*; Icelandic: Boberg. |
| T81.2.1.1 | Scorned lover (woman) threatens to kill self. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| T75.5 | Scorned lover becomes an anchorite. (Cf. T330.) |
| T81.2.1 | Scorned lover kills self. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| T75.2 | Scorned lover kills successful one. Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| T145.2 | Second wife taken because first is barren. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| T241 | Series of husbands try in vain to control adulteress. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T55.2 | Servant-girl helps prince if he will make her chief wife. Malone PMLA XLIII 400. |
| T586.1.2 | Seven children at a birth. *Fb "gifte" I 432; *BP I 432; Wesselski Märchen 174 No. 64; *Loomis White Magic 87; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T69.1.2 | Seven princesses sought by seven princes. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| T145.1.2 | Seven wives each to have the husband one day a week. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T579.3.1 | Seven-year-old boy begets child. Irish myth: Cross. |
| T579.3 | Seven-year-old girl has child. Gaster Exempla 230 No. 247. |
| T27.2 | Seventy princesses in love with hero. He loves only the youngest one. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T146.1 | Several men marry one woman. Grimm No. 4; Jewish: Neuman. |
| T281.1 | Sex hospitality given to druid. Irish myth: Cross. |
| T281.2 | Sex hospitality given to king (prince). Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| T281 | Sex hospitality. Host gives his wife (daughter) to his guest as bed companion. *Encyc. Religion Ethics s.v. "Adultery"; Irish: MacCulloch Celtic 149, *Cross; Welsh: MacCulloch Celtic 488; English: Wells 60 (Syre Gowene and the Carle of Carelyle); Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| T8 | Sexual desire as original sin. Jewish; Neuman. |
| T460 | Sexual perversions. |
| T579.1 | Sheath and knife as analogy for mother and unborn child. Child V 486 s.v. "knife"; Eskimo: Rink No. 2. |
| T465.1 | Sheep born with human head as a result of bestiality. Wienert FFC LVI 38f. |
| T542.1 | Shepherdess born of red and blue egg. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T573.0.1 | Short pregnancy in animals. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| T573 | Short pregnancy. Jewish: *Neuman; Koryak: Jochelson JE VI 375; N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 309 n. 116; S. A. Indian (Chiriguano): Métraux RMLP XXXIII 142, (Uru-Chipaya): ibid. 169, (Inca): Rowe BBAE CXLIII (2) 318. |
| T251.2.1 | Shrew tamed by setting another shrew against her. Crane Vitry 218 No. 200; Herbert III 16. |
| T251.2.5 | Shrewish wife driven from home but when in danger, runs to husband and receives protection. She is a good wife thereafter. Africa (Congo): Grenfell 819. |
| T251.8 | Shrewish wife gives husband heating every morning. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| T81.5 | Sick lover dies from exertion of embracing beloved. Heptameron No. 50. |
| T286 | Sight of mistress's ring causes husband to withhold himself from his wife. English: Wells 80 (Sir Tristrem). |
| T336 | Sight or touch of woman as source of sin. Alphabet Nos. 16, 527, 732, 776; Scala Celi 121b, 156b Nos. 666, 874; Mensa Philosophica No. 104; Herbert III 343, 434; Spanish Exempla: *Keller. |
| T595 | Sign hung out informing brothers whether mother has borne boy or girl. *Type 451; BP I 70ff.; Italian: Basile Pentamerone IV No. 8. |
| T579.8 | Signs of pregnancy. |
| T272.1 | Silent wife brought to speech by dangers to her husband. (Cf. F954.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T589.7.1 | Simultaneous birth of (domestic) animal and child. Type 303; Irish myth: *Cross. |
| T589.7 | Simultaneous births. Irish myth: Cross. |
| T92.8 | Sisters in love with same man. Irish myth: Cross; Icelandic: Boberg; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T586.1.1.1 | Six children at a birth. Irish myth: Cross. |
| T151.1 | Six months' respite from unwelcome marriage. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| T299.1 | Sleeping with head laid in wife's lap as sign of tenderness. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T10.1 | Sluggish prince reformed by falling in love. *bin Gorion Born Judas IV 38, 276. |
| T251.4 | Socrates and Zanthippe: "After thunder rain". He thus remarks as she empties slops on his head. *Wesselski Arlotto II 258 No. 183; *Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 471; England: Baughman. |
| T148.1 | Son named for mother. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| T131.1.2.4 | Son refuses to marry father's choice. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T417 | Son-in-law seduces mother-in-law. Italian Novella: Rotunda; N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 305 n. 109s. |
| T113.1 | Sorceress marries a man every morning and transforms him to some kind of animal in the evening. (Cf. D621.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T588.1 | Spirits make child from placenta. Philippine (Tinguian): Cole 185. |
| T211.4 | Spouse's corpse kept after death. |
| T251.3 | St. Peter's wife meets him with a broom handle. She is waiting for him at the rear door of the house. Type 754**. |
| T111.2.1.1 | Star-wife gives birth to a human baby. Chinese: Graham. |
| T251.5 | Strength in words, in herbs, and in stones. When first two do not cure shrewish wife, the last does. (Cf. J1563.6, J1581.2, J2412.5.) Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 134; Mensa Philosophica No. 58. |
| T173.1 | Strong bride tries to stifle husband in bed. *Type 519. |
| T677 | Substitute for a child. Aged, childless couple carve themselves a child from wood, or make one from snow, clay, and the like. Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 701*; Russian: Andrejev No. 703. |
| T247.1 | Substituted sword. Husband leaves wooden sword in scabbard of wife's paramour upon discovering their infidelity. Irish myth: Cross. |
| T611 | Suckling of children. |
| T34.1 | Sudden love as woman pours drink for man at festival. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| T415.6 | Suicide to prevent brother-sister marriage. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T326 | Suicide to save virginity. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| T46 | Suitor outwits watchman to meet lady. |
| T75.0.1 | Suitors ill-treated. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| T91.6.4.1 | Sultan's daughter in love with captured knight. Dickson 133 n. 109; English: Wells 85 (The Sowdone of Babylone). |
| T111.2.3 | Sun has a woman for his wife. S. A. Indian (Warrau): Métraux RMLP XXXIII 145. |
| T540.1 | Supernatural birth of saints. *Toldo I 320 n. 2; Loomis White Magic 20; India: Thompson-Balys; Japanese: Ikeda. |
| T615 | Supernatural growth. (Cf. T585.) *Köhler-Bolte I 405, 544; *Child V 482 s.v. "growth"; Fb "pattebarn" II 792; Gaster Oldest Stories 130.—Irish: MacCulloch Celtic 26, *Cross; Welsh: MacCulloch Celtic 95; Icelandic: MacCulloch Eddic 21, 74; Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "croissance"; Greek: *Frazer Apollodorus I 175 n. 2, Fox 175; Persian: Carnoy 332; Babylonian: Spence 54; Jewish: *Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Ferguson 30, Werner 306, *Coyajee JPASB XXIV 179; Japanese: Mitford 189ff., Ikeda; Philippine: Dixon 234, (Tinguian): Cole 30 n. 3, 53, 102; Eskimo (Greenland): Holm 47, Rasmussen I 234, 238, III 153; N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 307 n. 112, (California): Gayton and Newman 69; S. A. Indian (Carajá): Métraux MAFLS XL 49, (Toba): ibid. 89, 98, 157, (Tupinamba): Métraux BBAE CXLIII (3) 132, (Cashinawa): ibid. 684, (Yurakare): Métraux RMLP XXXIII 144, (Karib): ibid. 147, (Uru-Chipaya): ibid. 109; Africa: Werner African 221, (Benga): Nassau 185 No. 24, (Basuto): Jacottet 118 No. 17, 70 No. 11, (Ekoi): Talbot 33, 127, 312, (Zulu): Callaway 8ff., 73, 110, (Gold Coast): Barker and Sinclair 147 No. 29, (Boloki): Einstein 112, (Baluba): ibid. 183, (Fang): ibid. 57. |
| T91.3.1 | Supernatural lover performs girl's work. Jamaica: Beckwith MAFLS XVII 267 No. 78. |
| T111.0.2 | Supernatural wife summoned by bell. Italian: Basile Pentamerone I No. 2. |
| T554.11 | Supernaturally impregnated woman gives birth to dragon. Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 102 No. 60. |
| T24.2.2 | Swooning for fright that lover shall be killed. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| T24.2 | Swooning for love. *Type 516; *Rösch FFC LXXVII 98; India: *Thompson-Balys; Hindu: Penzer II 10 n.; Chinese: Graham. |
| T135.3.1 | Sword and shield as proxy at wedding ceremony. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| T645.1 | Sword left for posthumous son to kill father's murderer. Krappe Balor 35; Marie de France "Yonec". |
| T351 | Sword of chastity. A two-edged sword is laid between the couple sleeping together. *Type 303; *BP I 554, IV 202; *Cox Cinderella 488 n. 21; *Huet Romania XXXVI 50; *Chauvin V 62 No. 19 n. 2, VIII 194 No. 235 n. 1; *Fb "sværd" III 690a; Hdwb. d. Märchens I 104a; Gaster Exempla 242 No. 330; *Hibbard 69 n. 8; Tardel Untersuchungen zur mittelhochdeutschen Spielmannspoesie (Schwerin, 1894) 22 n. 2; Thien 24; Gunter Die christliche Legende des Abendlandes 21; *Schoepperle II 430ff.; Köhler-Bolte Zs. f. Vksk. VI 76 (to Gonzenbach No. 40); Child V 497 s.v. "sword". Irish myth: Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg; Italian: Basile Pentamerone I No. 9, *Rotunda; Jewish: *Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T251.2 | Taming the shrew. By outdoing his wife in shrewishness the husband renders her obedient. *Types 900, 901; *BP I 443; **Philippson FFC L; *Wesselski Arlotto II 229 No. 95; *Gigas "Et eventyrs vandring" Litteratur og Historie (3e samling) (København, 1902); *Krappe études ital. II 141ff.; *Wesselski Märchen 216 No. 24; Köhler-Bolte I 137; Chauvin II 155 No. 27. — Spanish Exempla: Keller; Italian Novella: Rotunda; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| T563.4 | Tattoo on newly born baby's back telling who was his former incarnation. Korean: Zong in-Sob 76 No. 41. |
| T333.4 | Tempted holy man mutilates genitals. Irish myth: Cross; Jewish: Neuman. |
| T333.1 | Tempted man bites out his tongue and spits it in temptress's face. *Herbert III 343; Alphabet No. 138; Scala Celi 15b No. 186. |
| T333.2 | Tempted man burns off his fingers. Frightens his temptress. Wesselski Mönchslatein 23 No. 18; *Crane Vitry 236 No. 246; Herbert III 20; Scala Celi 13b No. 80; *Krappe Bulletin Hispanique XXXIX 34. — Spanish Exempla: Keller; Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| T333.3.1 | Tempted rabbi tears out his eyes to escape temptation. Jewish: Neuman. |
| T642 | Test of legitimacy of children: exposure to asps. Asps will bite only foreigners. (Cf. H222.1.) Herbert III 168 No. 16. |
| T467 | The amorous bite. Penzer II 305. |
| T315.2.1 | The audacious water and the continent husband. A woman with a continent husband (lover) splashes water on her thighs as she crosses a stream and then reproves it for being bolder than her husband. She thus calls attention to her situation. *Schoepperle 413ff.; *Köhler-Bolte II 346f.; Irish myth: *Cross. |
| T371 | The boy who had never seen a woman: the Satans. When he sees a girl and asks his father what it is, the father tells him it is Satan. Asked what he most likes he says, "The Satans." *Type 1678; *Chauvin III 105 No. 16; Herbert III 5; *Crane Vitry 169f. No. 82; Alphabet No. 170; Scala Celi 15b No. 89; Boccaccio Decameron IV (proem) (*Lee 110); Nouvelles de Sens No. 2. — U.S.: Baughman; Spanish Exempla: Keller; Italian Novella: *Rotunda; Jewish: bin Gorion Born Judas IV 169, 282. |
| T135.7 | The bride must have someone to give her away, usually her father or brother. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| T251.6 | The browbeaten husband from under the table: "The man always has a man's heart." Type 1366*; Spanish: Boggs FFC XC 141 No. 1705. |
| T315.2 | The continent husband. (Cf. T271.) |
| T258.1 | The curious wife: wait and see. A man and his wife overhear thieves planning to rob the house, put the man out of the way, and have their will of the wife. The man wants to raise an alarm. She says, "Wait and see." *Wesselski Hodscha Nasreddin II 242 No. 538. |
| T258 | The curious wife. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| T255.5 | The dish which the husband detests and the wife keeps serving him. He affects to like it and thus gets rid of it. Type 1390*; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T254 | The disobedient wife. |
| T231 | The faithless widow. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| T202 | The happy couple: wife blind, husband deaf. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| T254.1 | The husband shows his wife poison to avoid: she takes it and dies. Chauvin II 155 No. 27; Krappe Bulletin Hispanique XXXIX 38; Spanish Exempla: Keller; Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| T263 | The hypocritical wife. Shows what she has done for her husband, but not what she has done for herself. Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 569. |
| T253 | The nagging wife. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| T271 | The neglected wife. Italian Novella: Rotunda; Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| T255 | The obstinate wife or husband. (Cf. J2511.) *Type 1365; India: *Thompson-Balys; Japanese: Ikeda. |
| T255.2 | The obstinate wife sought for up-stream. When she falls into the stream, the husband concludes that she would be too obstinate to go with the current. *Type 1365A; *Crane Vitry 225f. No. 227; Köhler-Bolte I 506 n. 1; *Wesselski Hodscha Nasreddin I 270 No. 276; *Moe Samlede Skrifter I 212; *Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 142; Italian Novella: *Rotunda; India: Thompson-Balys. |
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