Folklore Database · Browse
Stith Thompson Motif Index
About this index and how to read it
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.
The index is large, so this browser displays 250 entries per page. You can search by motif reference or by words in the description, restrict the results to one of Thompson's main letter categories, and click motif references mentioned inside descriptions to follow cross-references. Individual motif pages also show any ATU tale types whose concordance explicitly cites that Thompson reference.
All
A
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
X
Humor
Z
Miscellaneous Groups of Motifs
| Thompson reference | Description ▲ |
|---|---|
| X111.10 | "Good day." — "A woodchopper." The workman answers the traveler's courtesies with remarks about his work. (Cf. X111.8.) Type 1698J; Aarne FFC XX 51ff., cf. 67ff., 72, 75 (Types 12, 13, 16, 18). |
| X441.1 | "I can't hear you." Rector confesses his sacristan: "Have you drunk the wine designated for the mass?" — "I can't hear you." Exchange of places. Sacristan asks rector: "Have you kissed my wife?" — "Really, I can't hear you." Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 2451*; Rumanian: Schullerus FFC LXXVIII No. 1777*. |
| X435.1 | "What says David?"—Boy: "Pay your old debts." Variants: (a) What evil did Adam do?—He (shoemaker) made my shoes too small. (b) What kind of man was Moses? He was a day laborer. *Type 1833A; *Wesselski Arlotto II 233 No. 113. |
| X427 | A bad year for priests: few funerals. All but the priest rejoice over the good health of the community. He bemoans his loss of income from burials. *Wesselski Arlotto II 248 No. 155. |
| X753 | A youth promises to marry an old maid if she will sit all night on the roof. She falls down. Type 1479*; Russian: Andrejev No. 1479*. |
| X1739 | Absurd disregard of anatomy—miscellaneous. U.S.: *Baughman. |
| X1720 | Absurd disregard of anatomy. (Cf. X1202, X1203, X1204.) |
| X1740 | Absurd disregard of natural laws. |
| X1761 | Absurd disregard of the nature of holes. U.S.: *Baughman. |
| X1760 | Absurd disregard of the nature of non-material things. |
| X1750 | Absurd disregard of the nature of objects. U.S.: *Baughman. |
| X1727 | Absurd stories about beards. |
| X1780 | Absurdity based on the nature of the object. |
| X21 | Accidental cannibalism. A man eats up the dried meat of a Jew on shipboard. It happens that the Jew is carrying his dead father back home for burial in this form. (Cf. G60.) *Wesselski Hodscha Nasreddin I 257 No. 193; Italian Novella: Rotunda. Cf. Japanese: Ikeda. |
| X1124.3 | Accidental discharge of gun kills much game. Gun kills a bird which falls on loose limb of tree, which falls on bear, etc., etc. (First ed. X921.1.) Type 1890; American Negro (Georgia): Harris Friends 154 No. 21. |
| X438.1 | All devout women in hell. Devout woman and a priest retell their dreams. The priest has dreamed that all the devout women are to be found in hell. Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 1847*. |
| X1133.3.1 | Animal unwittingly puts tail into man's hands and is caught. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| X1208 | Animals already cooked for eating. |
| X421 | At the blessing of the grave the parson's ox breaks loose: "Now the devil has him." *Type 1840; *Fb "tyr" III 908b. |
| X145.1 | Audience of one hired to listen to egoistic dismal-voiced singer. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| X986.1 | Axe of wax cuts jungle. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| X511 | Barber alone praises usurer. Custom not to bury dead until someone has something good to say about him. No one will praise a dead usurer until a barber is willing to say that he had a good beard. *Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 195; Wesselski Mönchslatein 122 No. 105. |
| X252.2 | Barber uses cut hair to staunch cuts. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| X651 | Battle between lice of Strassburg and of Hungary. Hungarians win. Wesselski Bebel II 149 No. 160. |
| X943.1 | Beautiful girl seated on large lotus flower holding big elephant in each hand which she devours and throws off alternately. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| X312 | Beggar frightens lawyer into giving by telling him of all the lawyers in hell. Spanish: Boggs FFC XC 95 No. 819*; cf. U.S.: Baughman. |
| X531 | Begging cripples hurry away from shrine lest they be healed and lose their livelihood. Wesselski Mönchslatein 183 No. 141. |
| X1303.1 | Big fish pulls man or boat. (Cf. B551.1.) U.S.: *Baughman. |
| X1286.1.6 | Big mosquito with golden palace in his mouth. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| X457.1 | Bishop willing to admit castrated man as monk: wishes all were in the same condition. Nouvelles Récréations No. 15. |
| X681 | Blason populaire. Despiteful names used by one city for another. P. Sébillot and H. Gaidoz Le Blason Populaire de la France. |
| X123 | Blind man and the bull. Man asks bull if he is on the right road. Bull butts him and knocks him down. The man says that all that was not necessary, simply to say yes or no. Spanish: Boggs FFC XC 140 No. 1699. |
| X128 | Blind man in awkward position pretends to see. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| X123.1 | Blind man reaches his home hanging on ox's tail (or in other ridiculous situation). India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| X124.1 | Blind man strikes woman thinking she is buffalo. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| X125 | Blind men trying to kill pigs with clubs strike one another. (Cf. K1081.) Herbert III 71, 133, 572. |
| X124.2 | Blind son-in-law visits his wife's family: gets into difficulties. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| X1503.2 | Blind town, its king fourfold blind. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| X141 | Blind, lame, and deaf as witnesses in court. Type 1673*. |
| X1781.1 | Boat sailing over dry river bed (rice water). India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| X1852 | Boy shot from a cannon. (First ed. X913.) Type 1880; Fb "kanon" II 87. |
| X905.4.1 | Boy to deceive his uncle: induces uncle to climb tree before deception begins: this is the deception. Chinese: Graham. |
| X1853 | Boy with hat of butter, clothes of paper, etc. (First ed. X914.) *Type 1880. |
| X1280.1.1 | Bumblebees imported to rout mosquitoes; the two insects crossbreed and have stingers on both ends. U.S.: *Baughman. |
| X231 | Butcher wonders that man who has been buying his meat for seven years can still be alive. Wesselski Mönchslatein 184 No. 142. |
| X111.11 | Buyer and deaf seller. Type 1698K; Aarne FFC XX 60ff., 69ff. (Types 11, 14, 15). |
| X454 | Chapel endowed with fifty blows for the friar. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| X443.1 | Chaplain on bucking mule. Nouvelles Récréations No. 27. |
| X909.1.1 | Church member who has been called to task about his lying habits tells another lie in expressing his concern for his weakness. He says he has shed barrels of tears because of his weakness. U.S.: *Baughman. |
| X1563 | City into which only married and mothers may enter. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| X905.3 | Claim of property based on unusual lie. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| X252.1 | Client flees when cobwebs are brought in to medicate cuts. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| X451 | Cock crows at church and the sexton awakes and begins to sing. *Type 1828. |
| X541 | Cohabitation between lunatics brought about for sport. Irish myth: Cross. |
| X1235.2.1 | Cow gives so much cream that several men do nothing but skim cream. U.S.: *Baughman. |
| X1235.1.1 | Cow wears church bell for cowbell. U.S.: *Baughman. |
| X1526.1 | Crooked railroads in mountains or hills. (Cf. X1815.) U.S.: *Baughman. |
| X1317 | Crowded fish. U.S.: *Baughman. |
| X112 | Deaf husband orders deaf wife to prepare a certain dish: misunderstanding. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| X111.14 | Deaf litigants and deaf judge misunderstand one another. (Cf. X111.1.) *Chauvin VII 113 No. 381; Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| X111.5 | Deaf man on the bridge. Lord: Good day, Caspar. — Caspar: I am making a reel.—L. Good day, Caspar.—C. It is worth four pence. —L. Good day, Caspar.—C. Yes, my lord, whenever you wish. Type 1698E; *Aarne FFC XX 38ff. |
| X111.9 | Deaf man visits the sick. He plans the conversation with the expected answers. The answers turn out otherwise.—A. How are you?—B. I am dead. —Thank God! What have you eaten? — Poison, I think.—I hope it agrees with you. *Type 1698I; Aarne FFC XX 50ff.; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| X111 | Deaf men and their answers. *Type 1698; **Aarne FFC XX; *Fb "tunghør"; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| X111.4 | Deaf peasant: the wedding invitation. Lord: Good morning, Peter. —Peasant: I come from Bingen.—L. What is the hog worth? —P. Two weeks from next Sunday (the wedding).—L. Shall I come to the wedding?—P. Three and a half gulden. *Type 1698D; *Aarne FFC XX 35ff.; *Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 719. |
| X111.2 | Deaf peasant: travelers ask the way. Travelers ask their direction. Peasant thinks they want to buy oxen.—Peasant's wife arrives; thinks they say her food is too salty.—Daughter-in-law and father-in-law misunderstand each other. *Type 1698B; Aarne FFC XX 28ff.; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| X111.1 | Deaf persons: search for the lost animal. A inquires for his lost animal.—B talks about his work and makes a gesture.—A follows the direction of the gesture and happens to find the animals. He returns and offers an injured animal to B in thanks. — B thinks that he is blamed for injuring the animals. Dispute. Taken to deaf judge. (Cf. X111.14.) *Type 1698A; Aarne FFC XX 16ff.; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| X513 | Devil will not carry usurers to hell but will drag them by the legs. So declares a youth paid by a usurer to protest against the priest's remarks that the devil would carry all usurers off. Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 191; cf. Spanish: Espinosa Jr. No. 213. |
| X1725 | Digging without hands. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| X1756 | Disregard of nature of basketry. |
| X372.5 | Doctor called to attend sick man immediately gives orders for the funeral. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| X372.1 | Doctor cures palpitation of heart: patient stops breathing. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| X1215.1 | Dog and other animal chase each other in hot weather. Canada, U.S.: *Baughman. |
| X1316 | Dogfish act like dogs. U.S.: *Baughman. |
| X813 | Drunk man at the wedding. Goes to sleep and never reaches it, though at home he praises the wedding. Type 1705*. |
| X812 | Drunk man goes to the king and wants to buy an island. Type 1671*. |
| X811 | Drunk man lying under his bed thinks he is lying in his shroud. Is cured of drunkenness. Type 835*. |
| X815 | Drunk man sees everything revolving and waits for his house to come to him. *Wesselski Hodscha Nasreddin II 236 No. 520. |
| X814 | Drunk men try to see one another home. Absurd results. Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 238. |
| X818 | Drunk recruits make war on a haystack. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| X816 | Drunk woman thinks she is in heaven. Hears someone play the lyre. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| X821 | Drunken volunteer firemen bungle their work. U.S.: Baughman. |
| X142.1 | Dwarf king falls into porridge-pot at court of human king. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| X142.2 | Dwarf poet forced to swim in drinking-horn of human being. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| X315.1 | Dying lawyer asks delay. Crane Vitry 150 No. 40; Scala Celi 7b No. 45; Mensa Philosophica No. 148. |
| X315 | Dying lawyer says, "I appeal". Crane Vitry 149f. No. 39; Scala Celi 7b No. 48; Herbert III 77 No. 200, 462 No. 94, 497 No. 238, 499 No. 262; Alphabet No. 41; Mensa Philosophica No. 147. |
| X313 | Dying like Christ—between two thieves. The dying man has the lawyer and the notary stand on either side of him. U.S.: Baughman; Spanish: Boggs FFC XC 134 No. 1583*. |
| X135.1 | Each of four stutterers thinks the others are ridiculing him. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| X941.3 | Elephant (camel) put in pocket as a curiosity to show friends. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| X319.1 | Eloquent lawyer makes obviously guilty client doubt his own guilt. Canada, U.S.: *Baughman. |
| X428 | Enmity between priests and monks: chickens and eggs. Monks eat eggs and make chickens expensive; priests eat hens and make eggs high. Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 69. |
| X1070 | Extraordinary man's family. |
| X372.3 | Eyedrops prescribed for stomach ache so that patient can see what he eats. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| X1723.2 | Falcon and heron eaten by wild boar recovered alive from his body. (First ed. X921.9.) Wesselski Bebel II 138 No. 116. |
| X151.2 | Fat man so unwieldly he fishes from his window in the street. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| X1342.2 | Ferocious frog. U.S.: *Baughman. |
| X941.2 | Fight on old woman's hand. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| X1723.1.1 | Fish swallows a gourd fruit where people have taken refuge during rain; hawk swallows fish. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| X1154.1 | Fisherman catches fish with amazing contents. Canada, U.S.: *Baughman. |
| X372.4 | Foolish doctor performs useless operation. |
| X332 | Foreigner wonders why city with so many judges has not been destroyed. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| X461.1 | Fortune-teller shows others how to get rich but remains poor himself. (Cf. J1062.) Herbert III 22 No. 186; Crane Vitry 250 No. 266. |
| X1130.2 | Fruit tree grows from head of deer shot with fruit pits. Compare Münchhausen (1944) 32 (cherry tree). Canada, U.S.: *Baughman; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| X1130.1 | Game rolls down hill in snow; snowball builds up around game, keeps it fresh and protected until used. U.S.: *Baughman. |
| X1550 | Geography and topography—miscellaneous motifs. |
| X1743.1 | Giants go through small hole where plant has been torn from earth. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| X434.2 | Grace before meat. The parson asks the boy: "What does your father say when you begin to eat?" Boy: "You young devil, etc." *Type 1841. |
| X905.2 | Greatest liar made king of Schlaraffenland. (First ed. X950.3.) (Cf. X1503.) BP II 507. |
| X331 | Guilty of everything connected with the seven senses. When the priest to whom he is confessing says there are but five senses, the magistrate says that he needs two more senses than other people. Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 297. |
| X1124.3.1 | Gunshot splits limb and catches feet of birds. Type 1890. |
| X1267.1 | Hawk flies away with geese on a line. They have been tied together as a protection. (First ed. X912.) *Type 1876; BP III 337. |
| X372.2 | Head cut off to cure snakebite. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| X1233.2.1 | Hog finds dynamite supply, eats it, walks behind mule; the mule kicks the hog. The explosion kills the mule, blows down the barn, breaks windows out of house. The hog is ill for several days. U.S.: *Baughman. |
| X1241.2.1 | Horse takes cattle out to pasture; brings them in by himself. U.S.: Baughman. |
| X1505.1 | House where omens go by contraries. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| X611 | How the Jews were drawn from heaven. Someone cries, "Clothes are being auctioned off in hell." *Type 2403; Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 1868*; cf. U.S.: Baughman (X597.1, X902). |
| X800 | Humor based on drunkenness. Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: Boberg. |
| X460 | Humor concerning other professions. |
| X500 | Humor concerning other social classes. |
| X600 | Humor concerning races or nations. |
| X700 | Humor concerning sex.1 |
| X300 | Humor dealing with professions. |
| X200 | Humor dealing with tradesmen. |
| X120 | Humor of bad eyesight. |
| X145 | Humor of bad singing. |
| X110 | Humor of deafness. |
| X100 | Humor of disability. Besides the motifs which follow, the entire series of motifs concerning fools (J1700—J2799) properly belongs here as well as where it is given. |
| X0 | Humor of discomfiture. |
| X151 | Humor of fatness. |
| X143 | Humor of lameness. |
| X900 | Humor of lies and exaggeration. *Types 1875—1999; *Fb "løgn" II 513b; Irish myth: Cross. |
| X137 | Humor of ugliness. U.S.: *Baughman. |
| X1112 | Hunter catches fish in boots while wading. (First ed. X921.5.) Type 1895. |
| X1111 | Hunter shoots ram-rod full of ducks. (First ed. X921.4.) Type 1894. |
| X1124.2 | Hunter turns animal inside out. He reaches down animal's throat, grasps his tail, and turns him inside out. (First ed. X911.1.) Wesselski Bebel II 137 No. 115; U.S.: *Baughman. |
| X1124.4 | Hunting wolves with rod and line. (First ed. X921.7.) Type 1896*. |
| X426 | If his son were only a fool he would let him study to be a priest. So says the innkeeper. Type 1865*. |
| X1133.3.2 | If the wolf's tail breaks. Trickster and companion are wolf hunting. The companion goes into the wolf hole. The wolf comes. The other catches the wolf by the tail and the wolf scratches dust into the companion's eyes. "What a dust."—"If the wolf's tail breaks, you will see another kind of dust!" (First ed. X911.3.) Wesselski Hodscha Nasreddin I 216 No. 48; West Indies: Flowers 585. |
| X1132 | Ingenious skinning of animal. |
| X1280.2.1 | Insects eat team of horses or mules, pitch horseshoes to see who gets what is left. U.S.: *Baughman. |
| X252 | Jokes about barbers. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| X230 | Jokes about butchers. |
| X240 | Jokes about cobblers (shoemakers). |
| X584 | Jokes about hunters. |
| X210 | Jokes about millers. (Cf. P443.) |
| X250 | Jokes about other artisans and tradesmen. |
| X220 | Jokes about tailors. (Cf. P441.) |
| X583 | Jokes about travelers. U.S.: *Baughman. |
| X530 | Jokes concerning beggars. |
| X610 | Jokes concerning Jews. |
| X650 | Jokes concerning other races or nations. |
| X520 | Jokes concerning prostitutes. |
| X510 | Jokes concerning usurers. |
| X680 | Jokes concerning various cities. |
| X760 | Jokes on courtship. |
| X372 | Jokes on doctors. U.S.: Baughman; Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| X253 | Jokes on fishermen. Nouvelles Récréations. |
| X461 | Jokes on fortune-tellers. |
| X551 | Jokes on freemasons. *Fb "frimurer" I 371b; *Hdwb. d. Abergl. III 23ff. |
| X310 | Jokes on lawyers. (Cf. P422.) |
| X540 | Jokes on madmen. Irish myth: Cross. |
| X330 | Jokes on magistrates. (Cf. P421.) |
| X457 | Jokes on monks. |
| X750 | Jokes on old maids. *Types 1475—1499; Hdwb. d. Abergl. I 334 s.v. "Alte Jungfer". |
| X459 | Jokes on parsons—miscellaneous. England, U.S.: *Baughman. |
| X410 | Jokes on parsons. *Types 1725—1824; **Kristensen Vore Fædres Kirketjeneste (Aarhus, 1899); *Fb "præst" II 884a; West Indies: Flowers 583. |
| X370 | Jokes on scholars. |
| X550 | Jokes on secret societies. |
| X350 | Jokes on teachers. |
| X251 | Jokes on weavers. (Cf. P445.) *Chauvin VIII 105 No. 81 n. 2. |
| X143.1 | Lame man taken on hunt in wheel chair beats the dogs home when they tree a spook or when a bear gets after them. (Cf. K1861.) U.S.: *Baughman. |
| X1503.1 | Land in which highest praise parents can earn is that they marry their children when they are babies. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| X1115 | Large bag of frozen raccoons taken by hunter. (Cf. X1130.3.) U.S.: Baughman. |
| X1235.1 | Large cow. (Cf. B871.1.1.) |
| X1286.1.5 | Large mosquitoes carry off prey. U.S.: *Baughman. |
| X1286.1.4 | Large mosquitoes fly off with kettle. They have drilled through kettle. Their bills are clinched inside like nails. U.S.: *Baughman. |
| X1286.1.7 | Large mosquitoes—miscellaneous. Canada, U.S.: *Baughman. |
| X1741.3 | Law of gravity is petrified in petrified forest. U.S.: *Baughman. |
| X318 | Lawyer loses tongue in death because he sold it in life. Alphabet No. 40. |
| X317 | Lawyer thrown back into mud when rescuers learn that he is a lawyer. Mensa Philosophica No. 37. |
| X314 | Lawyer who tries to practice without lying fails. He enters religious order and tries to conduct the legal business without lying. *Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 127; Crane Vitry 155 No. 52; Scala Celi 7b No. 47; Alphabet No. 483. |
| X652 | Learning the Bavarian language. A caretaker of an estate recently sold to a Bavarian sits among the swine so as to learn Bavarian. *Wesselski Bebel I 201 No. 80. |
| X902 | Liar comes to believe his own lie. He tells a lie so often that he believes it himself. (Cf. X611.) U.S.: Baughman. |
| X904.2 | Liar reduces the size of his yarn when challenged. U.S.: Baughman. |
| X1235.2 | Lie about cow's rich milk. U.S.: *Baughman. |
| X1815.1 | Lie about rough railroad. U.S.: *Baughman. |
| X1402 | Lie about the fast-growing plants. |
| X912 | Lie concerning babyhood and boyhood of hero. England, U.S.: *Baughman. |
| X911 | Lie concerning birth of hero. U.S.: *Baughman. |
| X903 | Lie used as catch tale. (Cf. Z13.) Type 2200; U.S.: Baughman. |
| X1743.3 | Lie: 900,000 roofs on point of needle. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| X1663.1 | Lie: air from healthy climate revives dying person. U.S.: *Baughman. |
| X1203 | Lie: animal's food affects him in unusual way. (E.g. Pine tops: milk good for cough syrup.) U.S.: *Baughman. |
| X1204 | Lie: animals eat one another up. U.S.: *Baughman. |
| X1202 | Lie: animals inherit acquired characteristics or conditions. Canada, U.S.: *Baughman. |
| X1401.1 | Lie: animals live inside great vegetable, usually feeding from it. Ireland, U.S.: *Baughman. |
| X1741.4 | Lie: anvil swims river. (First ed. X961.24.) Type 1930; BP III 258. |
| X1242.0.1.1 | Lie: ass with silver nose hunts hares. (First ed. X961.32.) Type 1930; BP III 244ff. |
| X1012.1 | Lie: axes ground on boulders rolling down hill. U.S.: *Baughman. |
| X1727.1 | Lie: barber shaves wife's beard. (First ed. X961.17.) Type 1930; BP III 244ff. |
| X1653.2 | Lie: blue snow. Canada, U.S.: *Baughman. |
| X1643.1 | Lie: bullfrogs several years old cannot swim — have never had water to learn in. Canada, U.S.: *Baughman. |
| X1211.1 | Lie: cat scratches out bear's tongue. (First ed. X961.36.) Type 1930; BP III 244ff. |
| X1856.1 | Lie: child throws down a kid. (First ed. X961.30.) Type 1930; BP III 244ff. |
| X1856.2 | Lie: child throws down mill-wheels from one town to another. (First ed. X961.31.) Type 1930; BP III 244ff. |
| X943.1.1 | Lie: child throws out elephant's carcass. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| X1642 | Lie: clouds beaten by man until they promise to water his crops thrice daily. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| X1523.1 | Lie: country so steep that people look up chimney to see when the cows come home. U.S.: *Baughman. |
| X1235.4 | Lie: cow climbs to roof. (First ed. X961.7.) Type 1930; BP III 258. |
| X1235.5 | Lie: cow puts bread in oven. (First ed. X961.22.) Type 1930; BP III 244ff. |
| X1344.1 | Lie: crab hunts hare. (First ed. X961.34.) Type 1930; BP III 258. |
| X1211.2 | Lie: crippled cat uses wooden leg to kill mice. U.S.: *Baughman. |
| X1252.1 | Lie: crows mow meadow. (First ed. X961.14.) Type 1930; BP III 244ff. |
| X1791 | Lie: deaf, dumb, blind, and lame men catch hare. (First ed. X961.33.) Type 1930; BP III 116, 258. |
| X913 | Lie: death of extraordinary man. U.S.: *Baughman. |
| X1215.10 | Lie: dog with remarkable scent. U.S.: *Baughman. |
| X1256.1 | Lie: doves tear up wolf. (First ed. X961.37.) Type 1930; BP III 244ff. |
| X1654.1 | Lie: dry rain. U.S.: *Baughman. |
| X1633 | Lie: effect of heat on animals. |
| X1340 | Lie: extraordinary amphibia and other animals. |
| X961 | Lie: extraordinary bodily skills. |
| X1023 | Lie: extraordinary equipment of remarkable man. U.S.: *Baughman. |
| X1287 | Lie: extraordinary fireflies. U.S.: *Baughman. |
| X1654.2 | Lie: extraordinary floods produced by heavy rain. U.S.: *Baughman. |
| X1233 | Lie: extraordinary hog. Ireland, U.S.: *Baughman. |
| X1025 | Lie: extraordinary machinery of remarkable man. Canada, U.S.: *Baughman. |
| X1031.7 | Lie: extraordinary piles of garbage from great kitchen. U.S.: *Baughman. |
| X1024 | Lie: extraordinary tools of remarkable man. U.S.: *Baughman. |
| X1215.7 | Lie: fast dog. U.S.: *Baughman. |
| X1653.1 | Lie: fast-melting snow leaves horse dangling in air. U.S.: *Baughman. |
| X1215.6 | Lie: ferocious dog. Canada, U.S.: *Baughman. |
| X1153 | Lie: fish caught by remarkable trick. U.S.: *Baughman. |
| X1156.1 | Lie: fish caught with another's cries. (First ed. X961.10.) Type 1930; BP III 244ff. |
| X1546.1 | Lie: fish pond supplies both fresh fish and cooked. Italian Novella: Rotunda (X925.1). |
| X1623.3 | Lie: flame freezes: startling results. U.S.: *Baughman. |
| X1294.1 | Lie: flies build bridge. (First ed. X961.15.) Type 1930; BP III 244ff. |
| X1796.1 | Lie: footless man outruns swift horse. (First ed. X961.3.) Type 1930; BP III 244ff. |
| X1342.3 | Lie: frog eats plowshare. (First ed. X961.25.) (Cf. J1531.2.) Type 1930; BP III 258. |
| X1623.2.1 | Lie: frozen words thaw out in the spring. Canada, U.S.: *Baughman. |
| X1244.1 | Lie: goat carries one hundred cartloads of grease. (First ed. X961.13.) Type 1930; BP III 244ff. |
| X1244.2 | Lie: goats heat oven. (First ed. X961.21.) Type 1930; BP III 244ff. |
| X1061 | Lie: great boat or ship of remarkable man. (Cf. F861.) |
| X923 | Lie: great girth of large person. U.S.: *Baughman. |
| X1321.1.2 | Lie: great snake is thought to be a log. U.S.: *Baughman. |
| X922 | Lie: great weight of large person. U.S.: *Baughman. |
| X1215.12 | Lie: greyhounds drag mill out of water. (First ed. X961.19.) Type 1930; BP III 244ff. |
| X1401.2 | Lie: harvesting great vegetable. Canada, U.S.: *Baughman. |
| X1267.2 | Lie: hawk swims. (First ed. X961.11.) Type 1930; BP III 244ff. |
| X1654.2.1 | Lie: heavy rain of boiling water melts palace. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| X1031.2 | Lie: help in big kitchen. U.S.: *Baughman. |
| X959.1 | Lie: hero breaking wen causes wall to fall down. (Cf. D1562.3, F610.) Korean: Zong in-Sob 67 No. 37. |
If you wish to get access to data for projects and research, then please contact us, we do our best to help
How to cite: Fielder-White, Jonathan (2026). The Folklore Database. https://folkloredatabase.com
0009-0006-1672-4451
Please cite the relevant sources, catalogues, and classification systems, including the Folklore Database, Berezkin-Duvakin Catalogue, ATU, Thompson, alongside the page accessed and the last time accessed. Please respect copyright and licenses.
Editorial annotations and database enhancements © Jonathan Fielder-White licensed under CC BY 4.0. Berezkin-Duvakin derived narrative and metadata licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Full rights information can be found here.
All rights are reserved in the database structure, selection, arrangement, metadata, classifications, software, interface design, and original editorial content.
Important: The Folklore Database expressly reserves all rights in relation to text and data mining, automated extraction, scraping, machine learning, dataset creation, and the training, development, validation, or improvement of artificial intelligence technologies or systems. No part of this website or database may be scraped, copied, reproduced, harvested, downloaded in bulk, or otherwise used for AI training or commercial data extraction without prior written permission.
Designed and Developed by Jonathan Fielder-White.
© 2024–2026 Crecganford / Jonathan Fielder-White. All rights reserved.