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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
B
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 ▲ |
|---|---|
| V222.1 | Marvelous light accompanying saint. Alphabet No. 473; Plummer cxxxviii, clxxviii; Loomis White Magic 27f.; Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| V45 | Mass said for dead; they arise and say "Amen". Scala Celi 133a No. 732. |
| V49 | Mass—miscellaneous motifs. |
| V40 | Mass. *Encyc. Rel. Ethics Index 368a; Irish myth: *Cross. |
| V42 | Masses release souls from hell (purgatory). Herbert III 284 Nos. 54ff. passim, 473; Alphabet Nos. 613, 652; Scala Celi 111b No. 620; Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 228; Irish: O'Suilleabhain 99, Beal XXI 332; English: Wells 172 (Trentalle Sancti Gregorii); Swiss: Jegerlehner Oberwallis 298 No. 11; Spanish: Espinosa Jr. Nos. 192—97. |
| V41 | Masses work miracles. *Herbert III 273ff. passim; Scala Celi 130b, 131a Nos. 712—16. |
| V291 | Master poets (ollamhs) as sacred persons. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| V67.4 | Men buried with dead chief. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| V221.10 | Men with enormous and unnatural appetite cured by saint. Irish myth: Cross. |
| V436 | Mendicant refuses to accept alms from barren woman. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| V438 | Merit for charity lost by asking work in return. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| V81.3 | Metamorphosis brought about by baptism. Monster born of union of heathen ruler and Christian maiden becomes a handsome boy on being baptized. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| V70.3 | Midsummer. (Cf. A1535.3.) Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: Boberg. |
| V29.3 | Miracle attests fact that man does not need to confess. He hangs his sack on a sunbeam. Spanish: Boggs FFC XC 146 No. 1805A. |
| V340 | Miracle manifested to non-believers. Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg; Jewish: Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| V229.2.11 | Miracle saves saint from unjust censure. Irish myth: Cross. |
| V23 | Miracle to permit confession. |
| V113.0.1 | Miracles at shrine. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| V256.2 | Miracles of healing performed before image of Virgin Mary. Irish myth: Cross. |
| V268 | Miracles performed under protection of Virgin Mary. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| V331.3 | Miraculous beautification upon conversion to Christianity. (Cf. D1860.) English: Wells 122 (The King of Tars). |
| V221 | Miraculous healing by saints. Encyc. Rel. Ethics Index 246a; Irish myth: *Cross; India: Thompson-Balys; Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| V256 | Miraculous healing by Virgin Mary. (Cf. D2161.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| V221.0.3 | Miraculous healing power of saint as child. *Loomis White Magic 25. |
| V121 | Miraculous image of Christ impressed on napkin. Veronica. Ward II 641 No. 20. |
| V222 | Miraculous manifestation acclaims saint. Alphabet Nos. 345, 354, 602, 637, 762; Irish: Beal XXI 305, 326, 335, O'Suilleabhain 70f., 115; Spanish: Keller, Espinosa Jr. Nos. 45, 182; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| V24 | Miraculous manifestation at confession. |
| V412 | Miraculous manifestations during act of charity. *Ward III 7; *Crane Vitry Nos. 92, 94, 95. |
| V86.4 | Miraculous manifestations to scoffers of the cross. Alphabet. No. 230; English: Wells 97 (Chevalere Assigne), 89 (The Sege of Melayne). |
| V52 | Miraculous power of prayer. Irish: *Cross, Beal XXI 334, O'Suilleabhain 112; Spanish Exempla: Keller; West Indies: Flowers 579. Cf. Nouvelles de Sens No. 26. |
| V224 | Miraculous replacement of objects (animals) for saint. Irish myth: Cross. |
| V411 | Miraculous reward for charities. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| V34 | Miraculous working of the host. |
| V71.2 | Misfortune ascribed to breaking Sabbath. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| V118 | Monasteries. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| V118.1 | Monastery on otherworld island. Irish myth: Cross. |
| V64 | Money tied on corpse thrown overboard from ship in order to secure burial. Child III 342, IV 506. |
| V461.6 | Monk lives where people speak ill of him to avoid danger of flattery. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| V462.12 | Monk refuses chance of having temptation removed since he considers it strengthening to have it ever present to test him. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| V465.1.1.1 | Monk seduces girl; then kills her; becomes infidel. *Chauvin VIII 128 No. 118; Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| V475.2 | Monk who has left his order forgiven and miraculously reinstated. Alphabet No. 781. |
| V475.1 | Monk who has left order punished (dies in torment). Alphabet Nos. 73, 784. |
| V29.2 | Monks shrive selves clean under threat of complete exposure of their sins by brother possessed of fiend. Alphabet No. 171. |
| V211.2.3.2 | Moon bloody at Crucifixion. (Cf. F961.3.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| V235 | Mortal visited by angel. Irish: Plummer clxxxii, *Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg; Swiss: Jegerlehner Oberwallis 301 No. 16; Spanish: Keller Espinosa Jr. No. 186; Jewish: *Neuman. |
| V235.0.1 | Mortals visited by angel in vision. (Cf. V510.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| V112.2 | Mosques. |
| V128 | Motions of various kinds attributed to images. |
| V254.7 | Murdered boy still sings "Ave" after his death. (Chaucer's Prioress's Tale.) **Brown PMLA XXI 486ff.; Ward II 656, 697 and passim; Herbert III 528; Wells Catalogue of Romances 166 (Vernon Miracles). |
| V462.0.4 | Murderer becomes ascetic. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| V12 | Nature of sacrifice. |
| V5 | Negligence in religious exercise. (Cf. Q223.) |
| V5.2 | Negligent priests buried under bags filled with words omitted from service. *Crane Vitry 141 No. 19. |
| V514 | Non-religious visions. Irish myth: *Cross; Jewish: *Neuman. |
| V254.5 | Nun forgets to hail Mary and goes into the world to sin. Alphabet No. 470. |
| V465.1.2.1 | Nun hidden by abbess from pursuing knight betrays her own hiding place to him. Is afterwards abandoned. *Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 13; Crane Vitry 159 No. 58. |
| V465.1.2.2 | Nun tempted into sinning with man who tells her God can't see things that happen in the dark. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| V461.1 | Obedient and industrious nun the worthiest in the convent. Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 690; Alphabet No. 322; Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| V229.19 | Objects mourn death of saint (holy man). India: Thompson-Balys. |
| V1 | Objects of worship. *Encyc. Rel. Ethics Index 649b; Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: MacCulloch Eddic 214, *Boberg. |
| V52.4 | Objects supplied through prayer. Irish myth: Cross. |
| V224.1 | Objects used as firewood for saint miraculously replaced. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| V134.2 | Offerings to holy wells. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| V222.5 | Oil bursts from ground as saint is made bishop. Irish myth: Cross. |
| V221.0.1.1 | Oil flowing from relics has curative powers. *Loomis White Magic 104. |
| V510.2 | Only man without sin can see God. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| V62.2 | Only usurers to carry body of usurer to grave. Alphabet No. 793. |
| V134.1 | Oracles and auguries from holy well. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| V67.1 | Ornaments (arms, chariots) buried with hero. Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| V440 | Other religious virtues. Irish myth: Cross. |
| V130 | Other sacred objects connected with worship. |
| V290 | Other sacred persons. Irish myth: Cross. |
| V12.4.4 | Ox (bull) as sacrifice. Irish myth: Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg: Greek: Homer passim; Jewish: Neuman. |
| V352.1 | Pagan disputant with Christian bested by the words put in his mouth by God. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| V352 | Pagan disputant with Christian stricken dumb. English: Wells 76 (Joseph of Aramathie); Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| V356.2 | Pagan shrines and idols, or magic books destroyed by fire from heaven. *Loomis White Magic 35. |
| V341 | Pagan sybil draws picture of Madonna and Child in sand. Result of vision. Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 560. |
| V310 | Particular dogmas. |
| V75.1 | Passover. Jewish: Moreno Esdras, *Neuman. |
| V46 | Pebble put in box each time mass is heard. Irish: O'Suilleabhain 127. |
| V27 | Penance magically concluded by confession. Type 756B; *Andrejev FFC LXIX 136ff. |
| V29.6 | Penitent brings manuscript of sins to confession. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| V224.4 | Performing fox accidentally killed miraculously replaced for saint. Irish myth: Cross. |
| V61.3.0.2 | Person buried in standing position with friends about him. Irish myth: Cross. |
| V462.2.2 | Person refuses to eat dainties. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| V12.4.3 | Pig as sacrifice. Irish myth: *Cross; Jewish: Neuman; Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 218 No. 167. |
| V533 | Pilgrimage to Benares. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| V531.1 | Pilgrimage to follow roads Christ walked. Irish myth: Cross. |
| V531 | Pilgrimage to Holy Land. Irish myth: Cross. |
| V535 | Pilgrimage to Jerusalem. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| V532 | Pilgrimage to Mecca. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| V530 | Pilgrimages. Irish myth: Cross; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| V222.0.1.1 | Pillar of fire rises over woman pregnant with future saint. Irish myth: Cross. |
| V435 | Pious man charitable to man who has formerly refused him charity. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| V84.3 | Pirate excommunicated, goes on pilgrimage as penance. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| V229.2.5 | Place of saint's martyrdom perpetually green. *Loomis White Magic 95. |
| V111.3 | Place where a church must be built miraculously indicated. *Loomis White Magic 127f. |
| V362 | Plague from Jews' poisoning wells. German: H. Rauchfuss Alte Geschichte u. neue Sagen aus Thuringen 60. |
| V1.9.1 | Plow worship. (Cf. A432.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| V466.1 | Pope guilty of simony. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| V263 | Portrait of the Virgin appears to devotee. *Ward II 611 Nos. 26, 27; *Crane Miraculis Nos. 21, 44. |
| V128.2 | Portraits exude oil. *Loomis White Magic 124. |
| V141 | Possession of relic brings prosperity, its loss sickness. Wesselski Mönchslatein 113 No. 96. |
| V461.8 | Poverty as saintly virtue. Irish myth: Cross. |
| V135.1 | Poverty-stricken couple wrap newly-born child in altar-coverings. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| V315.1 | Power of repentance. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| V11 | Power to which sacrifice is made. |
| V58 | Prayer as ceremony. |
| V52.7 | Prayer at saint's flagstone averts trouble. Irish myth: Cross. |
| V52.3 | Prayer before battle brings victory. Scala Celi 151b No. 833; Irish myth: *Cross; Spanish Exempla: Keller; Jewish: *Neuman. |
| V52.8 | Prayer brings death to enemy. Irish myth: *Cross; Spanish Exempla: Keller; Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 105, 345. |
| V57.1 | Prayer for good harvest. India: Thompson-Balys; Maori: Clark 32. |
| V52.9 | Prayer for protection on journey to land of dead. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| V57.2 | Prayer for shower of gold. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| V52.11 | Prayer of sinner changes his color from black into white. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| V57.3 | Prayer on special occasions. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| V52.5 | Prayer restores shattered vessel. Irish myth: Cross. |
| V52.15 | Prayer said by saint into his right hand restores displaced eye of opponent. Irish myth: *Cross |
| V58.5 | Prayer shawl. Jewish: Neuman. |
| V53.1 | Prayer unfastens boy's fetters. (Cf. R211.) Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 345. |
| V58.2 | Prayer with face toward east. Irish myth: Cross. |
| V351.4 | Prayer-contest to prove which religion is better. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| V50 | Prayer. *Encyc. Rel. Ethics Index 470a; Irish myth: *Cross; Missouri French: Carrière; Jewish: *Neuman. |
| V59 | Prayers answered—miscellaneous. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| V58.1 | Prayers at sunrise and sunset. Tahiti: Henry Ancient Tahiti (Honolulu, 1928) 143. |
| V52.10 | Prayers of devout woman free husband from death and imprisonment. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| V53 | Prayers of family comfort prisoner. Alphabet No. 298. |
| V86.5 | Praying with arms extended so as to form a cross. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| V124 | Preacher criticizes the likeness of Christ exhibited in his church. Says that it is unworthy of the original. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| V212.2 | Precepts heard from Buddha in person. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| V68 | Preparations for burial. Irish myth: Cross; Icelandic: Lagerholm 33, *Boberg. |
| V468 | Priest is bribed into betraying the confessional. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| V84.2 | Priest shows power of excommunication over host. It turns black. Scala Celi 85b No. 495; Herbert III 446 No. 17. |
| V467 | Priest uses cook-book instead of breviary. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| V410.2 | Prince's motto: charity conquers. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| V34.2 | Princess sick because toad has swallowed her consecrated wafer. *Type 613; **Christiansen FFC XXIV 83f.; *BP I 322ff. |
| V21.4 | Prior pardons sinning friar who has confessed. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| V312.1 | Proclamation of dogma of Immaculate Conception stops plague. Pauli (ed. Bolte) Nos. 552, 553. |
| V65.4 | Professional mourning. Virgil Aeneid XI 37; Greek: Aeschylus Libation-Pourers 423; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| V383.1 | Prolonged prostration in worship causes death. Irish myth: Cross. |
| V20.1 | Protection of sinners by confession. *Crane Vitry 245 No. 261, 246f. No. 263; Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| V117 | Pulpits. |
| V86.3 | Punishment for profane use of the cross. Drunkard kisses cross, thinking it is a bottle of wine. Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 271. |
| V57 | Purpose of prayer. |
| V17 | Purpose of sacrifice. |
| V411.1 | Queen gives away a sleeve of her dress: miraculously restored. Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 322. |
| V222.1.1 | Radiance fills church when saint dies. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| V115.1.2 | Raising sunken church bell. Finnish-Swedish: Wessman 73 No. 620. |
| V52.14 | Reciting martyrology will prevent decomposition of body of one who recites it. Irish myth: Cross. |
| V143.2 | Relics (images) carried away return to their original church. *Loomis White Magic 48. |
| V221.0.1 | Relics of saint cure disease. Alphabet Nos. 398, 432; *Loomis White Magic 104. |
| V380 | Religious beliefs—miscellaneous. |
| V300 | Religious beliefs. |
| V110 | Religious buildings. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| V93 | Religious dancing. (Cf. A1542.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| V100 | Religious edifices and objects. Irish myth: Cross. |
| V4.1 | Religious exercises weighed in balance. A son doubts whether the words spoken by the priests to whom his father has willed a sum of money is worth so much. The words are put on paper and are found to outweigh the money. Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 465; Irish: O'Suilleabhain 65, 113, Beal XXI 325, 335. |
| V383 | Religious fanaticism. Irish myth: Cross. |
| V70 | Religious feasts and fasts. *Encyc. Rel. Ethics Index 198; Irish myth: *Cross; Jewish: *Neuman. |
| V210 | Religious founders. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| V463 | Religious martyrdom. Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg; Jewish: *Neuman |
| V450 | Religious orders. *Encyc. Rel. Ethics Index 384a, 389b; Irish myth: Cross. |
| V85 | Religious pilgrimages. (Cf. V84.3.) Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 186f. |
| V131 | Religious robes (vestments). *Encyc. Rel. Ethics Index 629c; Gaster Thespis 270f.; Jewish: *Neuman. |
| V19 | Religious sacrifices—miscellaneous. |
| V10 | Religious sacrifices. *Encyc. Rel. Ethics Index 511b; *Hdwb. d. Abergl. IX Nachträge 19—54, 496—547; Irish: *Cross, Beal XXI 329; Jewish: *Neuman. |
| V80 | Religious services—miscellaneous. |
| V0 | Religious services. Irish myth: Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg; Norwegian: Solheim 22; Jewish: *Neuman. |
| V510 | Religious visions. *Encyc. Rel. Ethics Index 632b; Irish myth: *Cross; Jewish: *Neuman. |
| V475 | Renunciation of clerical vows. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| V58.3 | Repeated circumambulations with prayer. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| V62 | Restrictions on burial. |
| V420 | Reward of the uncharitable. |
| V19.1 | Rising smoke as sign of acceptance of sacrifice. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| V96 | Ritual bathing. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| V113.2 | Robbers promise to make offerings to the shrine of a hermit if successful. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| V222.16 | Robbers who enter saint's garden to steal are caused to spade it up for him. This proves him to be saint. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| V385 | Romans won't include Jesus in their pantheon because of his poverty which they hate. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| V222.14 | Roses lose thorns when saint walks on them. England: Baughman. |
| V205 | Royal family as sacred. |
| V71 | Sabbath. *Encyc. Rel. Ethics Index 509c; Irish myth: *Cross; Jewish: Moreno Esdras (V71.2.), *Neuman. |
| V39.3 | Sacrament effective even from unworthy priest. Man who has refused such a sacrament shown a vision of a leper giving men good water without harm. Alphabet No. 687; Irish: O'Suilleabhain 126, Beal XXI 334, 337. |
| V39 | Sacrament—miscellaneous motifs. |
| V30 | Sacrament. *Encyc. Rel. Ethics Index 510; DeVooys Middelnederlandse Legenden en Exempelen (Den Haag, 1926) 230ff.; Irish myth: *Cross. |
| V1.7.1.2 | Sacred ash. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| V1.7.1.4 | Sacred bo-tree. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| V212.1 | Sacred books received from Buddha in person. Chinese: Werner 340. |
| V1.10.3 | Sacred feather. Tuamotu: Beckwith Myth 289. |
| V1.6.3.1 | Sacred fire. *Encyc. Rel. Ethics Index 202b; Penzer I 260, II 247—55; Irish myth: *Cross. |
| V114.1 | Sacred groves of druids. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| V114 | Sacred groves. *Frazer Golden Bough XII 293 s.v. "Grove(s), sacred"; Irish myth: *Cross. |
| V39.5 | Sacred image appears on host. Woman who has vowed not to use make-up or ornaments thus rewarded. (Cf. V35.1.2.) Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| V35.1.2 | Sacred image miraculously appears on stolen sacrament. (Cf. V39.5.) Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 557. |
| V1.7.1.1 | Sacred oak. Irish myth: *Cross; Jewish: Neuman. |
| V150 | Sacred objects—miscellaneous. |
| V144.1 | Sacred relics carried in battle to aid victory. Irish myth: Cross. |
| V140 | Sacred relics. **Saintyves Les réliques et les images légendaires (Paris, 1912); Encyc. Rel. Ethics Index 493a. |
| V1.6.2.1 | Sacred rivers and lakes. (Cf. A425.) |
| V1.6.4.2 | Sacred shells. Tonga: Gifford 52; Tahiti: Henry 391. |
| V202 | Sacred spirits. Hawaii: *Beckwith Myth 104, 107, 108, 180, 382, 447, 512. |
| V1.6.4.1 | Sacred stones. Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: Corpus Poeticum Boreale I 322, Boberg, Schmidt DF XXXIX 86ff.; Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 88ff.; Tahiti: Henry Ancient Tahiti (Honolulu, 1928) 382. |
| V1.7.1 | Sacred tree. *Encyc. Rel. Ethics Index 611a; *Fb "træ" III 866a; Wimberly 156; Irish myth: *Cross; Jewish: Neuman. |
| V134 | Sacred wells. *Encyc. Rel. Ethics Index 640c; Fb "kilde" II 119: Namn och Bygd XXXIII (1945) 1ff. — Danish: Schmidt Danmarks Helligkilder (DF XXXIII); Irish myth: *Cross; England, Wales, Ireland, U.S.: Baughman; Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| V151 | Sacred writings. *Encyc. Rel. Ethics Index 530a; Irish myth: *Cross. |
| V1.7.1.3 | Sacred yew. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| V17.2 | Sacrifice after committing a sin. Jewish: Neuman. |
| V17.8 | Sacrifice at edification of temple. (Cf. V12.4.0.1.) Jewish: Neuman. |
| V16 | Sacrifice at religious festivals. Jewish: Neuman. |
| V17.9 | Sacrifice by women at childbirth. Jewish: Neuman. |
| V17.1 | Sacrifice for a good year, crops. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| V17.4 | Sacrifice for good weather. (Cf. V17.1.) Icelandic: örvar-Odds saga 38f. |
| V17.6 | Sacrifice in order that king may live 300 years. (Cf. F571.7.) Icelandic: Boberg. |
| V13 | Sacrifice made when treasure is found. Fb "skat" III 235b. |
| V14 | Sacrifice must be without blemish. Greek: Homer passim; Jewish: Neuman. |
| V12.4.0.1 | Sacrifice of animals at the edification of a temple. Jewish: Moreno Esdras (V17.8). |
| V11.7 | Sacrifice to animal. Jewish: Neuman. |
| V17.7 | Sacrifice to deity for return of abducted persons. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| V17.0.1 | Sacrifice to deity in order to obtain favors. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| V11.9 | Sacrifice to deity. Jewish: Neuman. |
| V17.5.1 | Sacrifice to find out where abducted daughter is. Icelandic: Flateyjarbуk I 219, Boberg. |
| V17.3 | Sacrifice to get help in danger. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| V17.5 | Sacrifice to get knowledge. |
| V17.4.1 | Sacrifice to get snow and good conditions for skiing. Icelandic: Flateyjarbуk I 21f., Boberg. |
| V11.10 | Sacrifice to idols. (Cf. V1.11.) Jewish: *Neuman. |
| V11.2.1 | Sacrifice to river. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| V11.8 | Sacrifice to saint. Irish: O'Suilleabhain 89. |
| V11.2 | Sacrifice to sea. *Penzer II 72 n. 1, VII 146 n. 1; Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: Boberg; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| V11.7.1 | Sacrifice to serpent. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| V11.3 | Sacrifice to stone. *Encyc. Rel. Ethics Index 570; *Fb "sten" III 553a; Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: MacCulloch Eddic 225, *Boberg; Danish: Schmidt DF XXXIX 90ff. |
| V11.6 | Sacrifice to the dead. (Cf. A108.1.) *Encyc. Rel. Ethics Index 512b; Irish myth: *Cross. |
| V11.1 | Sacrifice to tree. (Cf. V1.1.) *Encyc. Rel. Ethics Index 611a; Fb "træ" III 866a. |
| V11.9.1 | Sacrifice to unknown god. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 70. |
| V11.5 | Sacrifice to wind. Encyc. Rel. Ethics Index 645b; Icelandic: *Boberg; Swiss: Jegerlehner Oberwallis 307 No. 29; Greek: Euripides Iphigenia at Aulis. |
| V15 | Sacrifice: olive branch laid on altar of Mercy. Greek: Frazer Apollodorus I 375 n. 2. |
| V16.1 | Sacrifices at Passover. Jewish: Moreno Esdras, *Neuman. |
| V11.4 | Sacrifices to Confucius. Encyc. Rel. Ethics IV 13f.; Chinese: Werner 102. |
| V462.4.3 | Saint always extends one hand toward heaven while performing such acts as eating or reaping. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| V229.2.3.1 | Saint as baby refuses to take mother's breast on Wednesdays and Fridays. *Loomis White Magic 114. |
| V223.6 | Saint as prognosticator. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| V229.5 | Saint banishes demons. Irish myth. *Cross. |
| V229.3 | Saint banishes snakes. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| V223.6.1 | Saint can foretell the weather. Irish myth: Cross. |
| V223.3 | Saint can perceive the thoughts of another man and reveal hidden sins. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| V229.2.11.1 | Saint causes gluttonous reptile to leap from saint's body into bishop's throat and then return as proof of bishop's injustice. Irish myth: Cross. |
| V229.10.3 | Saint causes grey hair to grow in black. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| V73.3 | Saint causes two youths to be fed with the best food, says one is doomed to go to hell, the other will practice austerity in his old age. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| V222.15 | Saint changes maggots in the sores of a nun into precious stones. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| V229.1 | Saint commands return from dead with supernatural information. Irish myth: Cross. |
| V462.8.1 | Saint confines himself in narrow pen during Lent. Irish myth: Cross. |
| V229.5.1 | Saint confines monster (dragon) in lake. Irish myth: *Cross. |
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