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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
R
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 |
|---|---|
| T81.6 | Girl kills herself after lover's death. Herrmann Saxo II 94; Icelandic: *Boberg; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| T81.7 | Woman dies on hearing of lover's or husband's death. (Cf. T211.9.1.) Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| T81.8 | Wife swallows hot coal and dies because her husband is unfaithful. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| T82 | Bath of blood of beloved to cure love-sick empress. Herbert III 212; Oesterley No. 281; Wesselski Mönchslatein 60 No. 50. |
| 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. |
| T83.1 | Girl drowns as she swims to see her lover. Her brothers deceive her with false signal light. Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| T84 | Lovers treacherously separated. Irish myth: Cross. |
| T85 | Woman mourns dead lover. |
| T85.1 | Woman thinking lover dead erects cenotaph and mourns before it. Chauvin V 153 No. 75 n. 1. |
| T85.2 | Princess hangs up weapons of dead lover as continual reminder. *Wesselski Mönchslatein 80 No. 69. |
| T85.3 | The Pot of Basil. Mistress keeps murdered lover's skull in flower-pot. *Belden PMLA XXXIII 327ff.; Boccaccio Decameron IV No. 5 (Lee 136); Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| T85.4 | Lover's body kept embalmed for years by grieving mistress. (Cf. T211.4.) *Hibbard 266. |
| 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. |
| T86 | Lovers buried in same grave. *Chauvin V 107 No. 37; Heptameron Nos. 50, 70; Boccaccio Decameron IV No. 8 (Lee 140); Irish myth: Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg; Italian Novella: *Rotunda; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| 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. |
| T86.2 | Lovers die at the same time. Icelandic: FSS 267, Boberg. |
| T86.3 | Mistress springs into dead lover's grave. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| 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. |
| T87 | Lovers forbidden to marry starve themselves to death. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| T88 | Woman stricken by plague and forsaken by her husband is sought out by unsuccessful lover and dies in his arms. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| T88.1 | Love kept up even after one of the parties is married to another. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| T89 | Tragic love—miscellaneous motifs. |
| T89.1 | Woman falls in love with dying warrior. Irish myth: Cross. |
| T89.1.1 | Princess married to mortally wounded prince and both left in jungle. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T89.2 | Woman sacrifices herself in order to save beloved. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T90 | Love—miscellaneous motifs. |
| T91 | Unequals in love. Irish myth: Cross; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T91.1 | Giant's daughter loves hero. See references to G530.2. Icelandic: De la Saussaye 337, *Boberg; Irish myth: *Cross; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| T91.1.1 | Giant's daughter has child by hero. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| T91.2 | Love of mortal and devil. |
| T91.2.1 | Devil would be maid's paramour. (Cf. G303.9.4.7.) Child V 283; Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 368*f., 3265. |
| 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. |
| T91.3.1 | Supernatural lover performs girl's work. Jamaica: Beckwith MAFLS XVII 267 No. 78. |
| T91.3.2 | Love of goddess for mortal. (Cf. T111.1.) Penzer V 33; Greek: Fox 245. |
| 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. |
| T91.4 | Age and youth in love. |
| T91.4.1 | Mature married woman in love with callow youth. Malone PMLA XLIII 418. |
| T91.4.1.1 | Old teacher wishes to marry his young girl pupil. India: Thompson-Balys; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 860. |
| T91.5 | Rich and poor in love. |
| 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. |
| T91.5.1.1 | Daughter of merchant develops intimacy with slave. Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 897. |
| T91.6 | Noble and lowly in love. |
| T91.6.1 | Lowly person falls in love with king (queen). Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| T91.6.1.1 | Courtier in love with queen. Queen asks him whom he loves. He holds up a mirror to her as answer. (Cf. T57.1.) Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| 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. |
| T91.6.2.0.1 | King covets subject's wife. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| T91.6.3 | Prince falls in love with minister's daughter. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T91.6.3.1 | Prince falls in love with merchant's daughter exposed in jungle. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| 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. |
| T91.6.4.1 | Sultan's daughter in love with captured knight. Dickson 133 n. 109; English: Wells 85 (The Sowdone of Babylone). |
| T91.6.4.1.1 | Princess falls in love with knight. Marries him after her husband's death. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| T91.6.4.1.2 | Hostile amazon's daughter loves hero. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| T91.6.4.2 | Princess falls in love with a king who becomes a slave. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T91.6.4.3 | Princess runs away with hunchback. Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 910. |
| T91.7 | Unequals in love—miscellaneous. |
| T91.7.1 | Brahmin in love with washerwoman. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T91.7.2 | Falling in love with someone of a different caste. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T92 | Rivals in love. Irish myth: *Cross; Missouri French: Carrière; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| 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. |
| T92.1 | The triangle plot and its solutions. Two men in love with the same woman; two women with the same man. *Dickson 243 n. 48; Irish myth: *Cross; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T92.1.1 | Young wife of old man (king) loves (is loved by) younger man. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| T92.1.2 | Would-be unfaithful wife. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| T92.2 | Three victims of love. Girl loves boy; boy loves singing girl; singing girl loves the girl. All die of despair. *Chauvin V 110 No. 44. |
| T92.3 | Girl leaves rescuer for younger lover. Dickson 119 nn. 55, 56. |
| T92.3.1 | Girl leaves rescuer and elopes with his friend. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| 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. |
| T92.4.1 | Hero falls asleep while sweetheart is being married to another. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T92.4.2 | Letter falsified and elopement with false lover arranged. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T92.4.3 | In darkness of night trickster instead of her chosen lover elopes with girl. Tonga: Beckwith Myth 536. |
| T92.5 | Lover kills his rival brother. Irish myth: Cross; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| T92.6 | Mother and daughter as rivals in love. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| T92.7 | Rival lovers do battle for girl. (Cf. T86.1.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| T92.8 | Sisters in love with same man. Irish myth: Cross; Icelandic: Boberg; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T92.9 | Father and son as rivals in love. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| T92.9.1 | Parricide because of father-son rivalry for girl's love. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T92.10 | Rival in love killed. Icelandic: *Boberg; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T92.11 | Rivals contesting for the same girl. Cheremis: Sebeok-Nyerges; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T92.11.1 | Rival suitors discomfit each other. Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 1692*, 1693. |
| T92.12 | Two smiths as rivals for love of girl. Irish myth: Cross. |
| T92.12.1 | The tailor and the smith as rivals. The tailor declares that the smith is blind and the smith declares that the tailor is a fool. At the wedding in church, the smith drops a hot piece of iron into the tailor's boot. Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 1693A*; Estonian: Aarne FFC XXV No. 1631*. |
| T92.13 | Older warrior preferred as suitor. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| T92.14 | Three lovers mourn for dead girl: one throws himself into her funeral pyre; another gathers together the ashes and vows to spend his life sitting upon them; third resolves to turn fakir. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T93 | Fate of disappointed lover. |
| T93.1 | Disappointed lover becomes a wild man in the woods. (Cf. F567.) *Dickson 116 n. 44; Irish myth: *Cross; Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| T93.2 | Disappointed lover turns hermit. (Cf. V472.) Heptameron No. 64, 19; Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| T93.2.1 | Lover becomes friar and sweetheart nun when unable to marry. Heptameron No. 19. |
| T93.3 | Disappointed lover kills self. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| T93.4 | Disappointed lover buys poison for girl. Druggist substitutes sleeping potion. Girl revives and is reconciled. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| T93.5 | Tragic love between a Pari and a mortal man; they never meet again, but continually roam the earth seeking each other. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T95 | Lover opposed to sweetheart's relatives. Irish myth: *Cross; Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| T95.0.1 | Princess falls in love with father's enemy. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T95.1 | Lover kills his lady's relatives in fight. Irish myth: *Cross; English: Child V 496 s.v. "Slaughter"; Italian Novella: *Rotunda; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T96 | Lovers reunited after many adventures. Boccaccio Decameron Book V (Lee 157ff.); Irish myth: Cross; Icelandic: Boberg; Missouri French: Carrière; Italian Novella: *Rotunda; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| T97 | Father opposed to daughter's marriage. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| T99 | Love—additional motifs. Irish myth: Cross. |
| T99.1 | Death from excess of women. (Cf. F112.1.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| T99.2 | Girl wants to marry lover even if he is mutilated. Icelandic: Ans saga Bogsveigis 350, Boberg. |
| T100 | Marriage. *E. Westermarck The History of Human Marriage (2 vols. London, 1925); Hdwb. d. Abergl. I 1522; Irish myth: Cross; Jewish: *Neuman. |
| T102 | Hero returns and marries first love. Types 611, 884, 885**, 886; Icelandic: Boberg. |
| T104 | Foreign king wages war to enforce demand for princess in marriage. *Boje 74ff., 78; Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| T104.1 | Rejected suitor wages war. (Cf. T75.2.1.) Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| T104.2 | Victor demands defeated king's daughter (widow) in marriage. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| T110 | Unusual marriage. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T111 | Marriage of mortal and supernatural being. *Type 425; *Tegethoff 16; Krappe MLR XXIV (1929) 200ff.; India: *Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Graham. |
| T111.0.1 | Marriage to supernatural wives who disappear. *Holmström Svanjungfrumotivet 11ff.; Lithuanian: Balys Index Nos. 404*, 423*; India: Thompson-Balys; Mono-Alu: Wheeler Nos. 17, 35. |
| T111.0.2 | Supernatural wife summoned by bell. Italian: Basile Pentamerone I No. 2. |
| T111.1 | Marriage of a mortal and a god. Irish: MacCulloch Celtic 13, *Cross; Greek: cf. the various love affairs of Zeus with mortal maidens; India: *Thompson-Balys; Hindu: Tawney I 256, 302, 335, 351, 560f.; Maori: Dixon 57. |
| T111.1.1 | Maiden chooses disguised god as husband. Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 648. |
| T111.1.2 | Man marries the daughter of a god. Korean: Zong in-Sob 137 No. 63; S. A. Indian (Chiriguano): Métraux RMLP XXXIII 181f. |
| T111.2 | Woman from sky-world marries mortal man. India: *Thompson-Balys; Japanese: Ikeda; Philippine (Tinguian): Cole 110; Africa (Fjort): Dennett 60 No. 12, (Congo): Weeks 206 No. 3, (Angola): Chatelain 131 No. 13. |
| T111.2.1 | Hero marries star in form of girl. Chinese: Graham. |
| T111.2.1.1 | Star-wife gives birth to a human baby. Chinese: Graham. |
| T111.2.2 | Marriage of mortal and moon. (Cf. A753.1.) Eskimo (Kodiak): Golder JAFL XVI 29, (West Hudson Bay): Boas BAM XV 307, (Cumberland Sound): ibid. 198, (Greenland): Holm 47, Rasmussen III 307; S. A. Indian (Viracocha): Steward-Métraux BBAE CXLIII (3) 550. |
| T111.2.3 | Sun has a woman for his wife. S. A. Indian (Warrau): Métraux RMLP XXXIII 145. |
| T111.3 | Marriage of man with woman who has come from an egg. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| T111.4 | God as lover of giantess (18 giantesses). Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| T111.5 | Marriage of mortal and dwarf. Eskimo (Greenland): Rink 183, 209, (Labrador): Hawkes GSCan XIV 151, (Cumberland Sound): Boas BAM XV 170—3; Koryak: Jochelson JE VI 154, 201, 227. |
| T111.6 | Marriage of mortal and angel. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| T113 | Marriage to man alive by night but dead by day. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| T113.1 | Sorceress marries a man every morning and transforms him to some kind of animal in the evening. (Cf. D621.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T115 | Man marries ogre's daughter. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T117 | Marriage of person and object. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T117.1 | Marriage of girl to a dagger. Penzer I 242, 244. |
| T117.2 | Marriage of girl to a sword. Penzer I 257; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T117.3 | Marriage of girl to a drum. Penzer I 257. |
| T117.4 | Marriage of girl to an idol. Penzer I 244. |
| T117.5 | Marriage with a tree. Frazer Golden Bough I 195f.; India: Thompson-Balys; N. A. Indian: Thompson Tales 304 n. 109o. |
| T117.5.1 | Marriage to tree by day, man by night. (Cf. D621.2, T113.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T117.6 | Marriage to a flower. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T117.7 | Marriage to a gourd. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T117.8 | Marriage to doll. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| T117.9 | Marriage to river. Mono: Wheeler No. 34. |
| T117.10 | Plant wife (in form of a woman). Mono-Alu: Wheeler Nos. 17, 35. |
| T117.11 | Marriage to a statue. Saintyves Saints Successeurs 255—57. |
| 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. |
| T118.1 | Monster husband invisible. Africa (Basuto): Jacottet 152ff. No. 22. |
| T118.2 | Marriage of dragon girl to orphan boy. Chinese: Graham. |
| T121 | Unequal marriage. Child V 500 s.v. "Unequal"; Irish myth: Cross; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T121.1 | Knight weds peasant girl. English: Wells 60 (Syre Gowene and the Carle of Carelyle). |
| T121.2 | Noblewoman weds shepherd. Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles No. 57; Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| 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. |
| T121.4 | Ruler marries fugitive noblewoman. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| T121.5 | Wealthy girl marries deformed and penniless philosopher. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| T121.5.1 | Princess marries saint. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T121.5.2 | Rich girl marries fakir. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T121.6 | Man weds his bondmaid. Irish myth: Cross; Jewish: Neuman. |
| T121.7 | Rich girl marries servant. Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 249. |
| 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. |
| T121.8.1 | Infertile raja marries beggar woman in hope of having a son. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T122 | Marriage by royal order. Widow hesitates to marry. Queen sends her a letter ordering her to marry the bearer (a suitor). Italian Novella: Rotunda; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T125 | Lazy boy and industrious girl matched. Jesus (incognito) as matchmaker. *Type 822. |
| T125.1 | Fool given intelligent wife; lame man hardworking wife. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T125.2 | Blind girl marries lame man. (Cf. H886.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T126 | Fantastic marriage. |
| T126.1 | Marriage of Mother Earth and ogre. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T126.2 | Marriage of mountain and cockle-shell. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T126.3 | Marriage of earth and sky. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T130 | Marriage customs. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| T131 | Marriage restrictions. |
| T131.0.1 | Princess has unrestricted choice of husband. (Cf. T55.7.) India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| T131.0.1.1 | Father promises that girl may wed only man of her choice. Irish myth: Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| T131.1 | Relative's consent to marriage necessary. |
| T131.1.1 | Brother's consent for sister's marriage needed. Child I 142ff.; Heptameron No. 40; Icelandic: *Boberg; Japanese: Ikeda. |
| T131.1.2 | Father's consent to son's (daughter's) marriage necessary. Irish myth: Cross; Icelandic: Boberg. |
| T131.1.2.1 | Girl must marry father's choice. Irish myth: Cross (T131.8.1); Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| T131.1.2.2 | King chooses bridegroom for daughter from boys' pictures. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T131.1.2.3 | Father demands that son break all relations with his beloved. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| T131.1.2.4 | Son refuses to marry father's choice. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T131.1.3 | Marriage against will of parents. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| T131.2 | Younger child may not marry before elder. Hdwb. d. Abergl. II 566; Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: Rittershaus No. 2; Indonesia: Pleyte Bataksche Vertellingen 184f., Wilken Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land-, en Volkenkunde van Nederlandsch-Indië I 142; Africa (Zulu): Callaway 323. |
| T131.3 | Eldest daughter will marry man only if he will marry all her sisters too. Africa (Angola): Chatelain 119 No. 10. |
| T131.4 | Widow may not remarry. *Frazer Pausanias III 198. |
| T131.5 | Exogamy. Marriage only outside the group. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| T131.5.1 | Marriage within clans sanctioned because of incest-origin of tribe. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T131.6 | Girl will marry on condition she is to be only wife. Irish myth: Cross. |
| T131.7 | King may not marry girl who has been wife of another. Irish myth: *Cross; Jewish: Neuman. |
| T131.8 | Different religion as obstacle for marriage. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T131.9 | Brahmin may marry from all four castes. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T132 | Preparation for wedding. |
| T132.1 | Girl fattened before wedding. Africa (Zulu): Callaway 202, (Kaffir): Theal 67, (Ekoi): Talbot 7, 357. |
| T132.2 | Parents become servants to secure funds for wedding. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T133 | Travel to wedding. |
| T133.1 | Faithful servant accompanies bride to new home. Icelandic: *Boberg; Spanish: Espinosa Jr. No. 93. |
| T133.2 | Royal bride conducted by embassy to husband's kingdom. (Cf. T51.) Dickson 31. |
| T133.3 | Drummer beats drums before bride on way to wedding. Nouvelles Récréations No. 49. |
| T133.4 | Bridegroom and his men come for the bride. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| T133.5 | Mounting upon horse to fetch bride. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T133.6 | Groom's mother visits bride-to-be and puts the betrothal ring on her finger. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T134 | Conduct of bridal couple before ceremony. |
| T134.1 | Bridal couple must never see each other before wedding. Chinese: Werner 375. |
| T134.2 | Betrothed parties do not see each other until night of the wedding. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T134.3 | Man who has once been married helps groom to dress for wedding. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T135 | Wedding ceremony. |
| T135.1 | Marriage formula: "You are mine and I am yours". *BP II 58. |
| T135.2 | Touching of privates considered a marriage pact. Koryak: *Jochelson JE VI 381. |
| T135.3 | Wedding by proxy. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| T135.3.1 | Sword and shield as proxy at wedding ceremony. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| T135.4 | Groom's sword makes vermillion mark on bride's forehead as wedding ceremony. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| T135.5 | Marriage by exchange of garlands. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| T135.6 | Marriage by drinking festival. (Cf. T136.1.) Icelandic: Boberg. |
| T135.7 | The bride must have someone to give her away, usually her father or brother. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| T135.8 | Two or more weddings at one time as the end of a tale. Icelandic: *Boberg; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T135.9 | Wedding ceremony in church. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| T135.10 | Marriage custom: going round and round fire (pillar, etc.). India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| T135.11 | Bride and groom drink from same cup as part of ceremony. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| T135.12 | Bodies of would-be bride and groom besmeared with turmeric and mustard-oil. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T135.13 | Bride and groom look into a big mirror while old member of family knocks both their heads together. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T135.14 | Wedding-canopy over bride and groom. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| T135.15 | Breaking a glass during wedding ceremony. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| T136 | Accompaniments of wedding. |
| T136.1 | Wedding feast. Icelandic: *Boberg; India: Thompson-Balys; Africa (Zulu): Callaway 66. |
| 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. |
| T136.3 | Amusements at wedding. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| T136.3.1 | Dancing at wedding. Jewish: Neuman. |
| T136.3.2 | Marriage odes sung at wedding feast. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| 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. |
| T136.4.2 | Parting gifts after wedding. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| T136.4.3 | Bride scatters presents among groom's relations. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T137 | Customs following wedding. |
| T137.1 | Advice to a parting bride. Dickson 165 n. 10. |
| T137.2 | Bride and bridegroom conducted to bridal bed. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| T137.2.1 | Bride and groom simultaneously touch hearthstones and put one foot down inside threshold as they enter groom's house. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T137.3 | Groom invited after marriage ceremony into female apartments to eat wedding breakfast with the bride. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T137.4 | Groom becomes a member of bride's family. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T137.5 | Bride (and party) fetched by groom and party after wedding. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T137.6 | Journey to husband's home accompanied by attendants. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T141 | Assignment of bride to another. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| T141.1 | Dying man assigns bride to his brother. Child I 376, 378 n. |
| T141.2 | Wives exchanged. Irish myth: *Cross; India: Thompson-Balys; Eskimo (Cumberland Sound): Boas BAM XV 223, (Greenland): Holm 75. |
| T141.3 | Hero assigns the bride he has won to another. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| T143 | Infant marriages. 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. |
| T145.0.1 | Polygyny. Irish myth: Cross. |
| T145.1 | Marriage to five women, each with separate duties. India: Thompson-Balys; Africa (Benga): Nassau 169 No. 22. |
| T145.1.1 | Man requires seven women. Irish myth: Cross. |
| T145.1.2 | Seven wives each to have the husband one day a week. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T145.1.3 | Man married to several sisters. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| T145.2 | Second wife taken because first is barren. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| T145.3 | Competition in ale-brewing between king's two wives. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| T145.4 | Man's two wives each claim part of his body: they torment him. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| T145.5 | Man pulled down stairs by his two wives. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T145.6 | Polygamist must love all his wives. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T145.7 | Man's senior wife ugly but diligent; his second, beautiful but lazy. Africa (Fang): Trilles 264. |
| T145.8 | Polygamy so that head wife may be quickly replaced for wrongdoing. Africa (Konnoh): Willans 139. |
| T146 | Polyandry. Woman with two husbands. Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: Boberg; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| T146.1 | Several men marry one woman. Grimm No. 4; Jewish: Neuman. |
| T146.2 | Woman requires thirty men. Irish myth: Cross. |
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