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Stith Thompson Motif Index
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Stith Thompson's Motif-Index of Folk-Literature classifies recurring narrative elements in folktales, myths, legends, ballads and related traditional narratives. Each entry below gives Thompson's motif reference and the description recorded in the index.
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Mythological Motifs
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Animal Motifs
C
Motifs of Tabu
D
Magic
E
The Dead
F
Marvels
G
Ogres
H
Tests
J
The Wise and the Foolish
K
Deceptions
L
Reversals of Fortune
M
Ordaining the Future
N
Chance and Fate
P
Society
Q
Rewards and Punishments
R
Captives and Fugitives
S
Unnatural Cruelty
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Sex
U
The Nature of Life
V
Religion
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Traits of Character
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Humor
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Miscellaneous Groups of Motifs
| Thompson reference | Description ▲ |
|---|---|
| H382.1 | Bride test: key in flax reveals laziness. Suitor hides key in flax on spinning wheel. Finds it there next day. Type 1453; BP III 236. |
| H384.1 | Bride test: kindness—father-in-law disguised as beggar. Type 1455. |
| H384 | Bride test: kindness. Jewish: Neuman. |
| H381.1 | Bride test: making dress from wasted flax. *Type 1451; BP III 239. |
| H386 | Bride test: obedience. *Type 901. |
| H373 | Bride test: performance of tasks. *Type 875; Italian: Basile Pentamerone IV No. 4; India: Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Graham. |
| H375.3 | Bride test: procuring food plants in shortest time. S. A. Indian (Toba): Métraux MAFLS XL 44, 45. |
| H383.2.3 | Bride test: sewing a shirt for bridegroom's father. Cheremis: Sebeok-Nyerges. |
| H365 | Bride test: size of feet. Hindu: Tawney II 356. |
| H383.3 | Bride test: skillful sweeping. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| H383.2.1 | Bride test: spinning—girl cannot use spinning-wheel. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| H381 | Bride test: thrift. *Types 1451, 1452. |
| H381.2 | Bride test: thrifty cutting of cheese. Three girls tested. First eats rind and all, second cuts away good cheese, third cuts away just enough. Type 1452; BP III 236; Hdwb. d. Märchens I 92b. |
| H381.2.1 | Bride test: thrifty peeling of apple. Hdwb. d. Märchens I 92b. |
| H381.2.2 | Bride test: thrifty scraping of bread tray. North Carolina: Brown Collection I 702. |
| H386.1 | Bride test: to allow oneself to be beaten with shoe. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| H363.1 | Bride test: wearing deceased wife's clothes. *Type 510B; Cox 53—79 passim; Fb "kjole" II 142. |
| H363.2 | Bride test: wearing deceased wife's ring. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| H383.2.2 | Bride test: weaving magic cloth, sewing magic shirt. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| H388 | Bride test: wisdom (cleverness). Irish myth: Cross; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| H360 | Bride test. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| T152 | Bride wounded accidentally on way home. Fatal wound from bridegroom's sword. Child I 142b. |
| K1371 | Bride-stealing. *Hdwb. d. Märchens I 549a nn. 175-204; Icelandic: *Boberg; Missouri French: Carrière; Jewish: *Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| H387.1 | Bride's constancy tested by seven year's mourning over supposed dead lover. English: Wells 151 (The Squyr of Lowe Degre). |
| T172.3 | Bride's monster-father tries to kill husband, but is defeated. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| H335.0.1.2 | Bride's parents (supernatural) help suitor win in suitor contests. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| H31.12.1 | Bridegroom alone able to pluck flower from bride's grave. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| T133.4 | Bridegroom and his men come for the bride. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| F1041.1.5.1 | Bridegroom dies from joy. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| J1744.1 | Bridegroom does not know what to do on his wedding night. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T171 | Bridegroom driven from bridal chamber by magic. Usually by hornets or wasps. *Type 559; *BP II 454; Italian: Basile Pentamerone III No. 5; Japanese: Ikeda; N. A. Indian: Thompson CColl II 411ff. |
| J1744.1.1 | Bridegroom gets into bed. The numskull groom on his wedding night does not know how to get to the bed, the curtains being drawn. He scales one of the posts, clambers to the canopy, falls upon his bride below, who screams for help. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Z140.4 | Bridegroom inadvertently buys for bride cloth suitable only for widows. She supposes he has died. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T177 | Bridegroom magically impelled to leave his bride. Irish myth: *Cross; Italian: Basile Pentamerone I Nos. 7, 9. See also all references to Forgotten Fiancée (D2003). |
| T166.2 | Bridegroom must be taught sexual intercourse. Chinese: Graham. |
| J1392.5 | Bridegroom promises thief spoils later if he will not interfere with wedding. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| H540.5 | Bridegroom propounds riddles at wedding feast. Jewish: Neuman. |
| T153 | Bridegroom slain on way to bride. Child I 142, 386, IV 179ff. |
| M340.4 | Bridegroom to meet with disaster if he rides a certain elephant which comes to meet him. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| H312.8 | Bridegroom-to-be has to have three pecks, three quarts of gold and an animal with a horn on his head pointing to the sky, and a large red hair. Chinese: Graham. |
| A657.1 | Bridge connecting earth and heaven. Icel.: Boberg. |
| D1258.1 | Bridge made by magic. *Types 313, 314; Köhler-Bolte I 195.—Irish myth: *Cross; Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "pont"; Chinese: Werner 213; Japanese: Ikeda; N. A. Indian (Cherokee): Mooney RBAE XIX 319 No. 67, (Quinault): Farrand JE II 115 No. 10. |
| F842.1.3 | Bridge of apples. Scotch: Campbell Tales I 297. |
| F842.2.3.1 | Bridge of boats across sea. Saxo (ed. Elton) 145; Irish myth: Cross; Greek: Aeschylus Prometheus Bound line 720. |
| A661.0.5 | Bridge of heaven. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F842.1.5 | Bridge of straw. German: Grimm No. 18. |
| F152.1.2 | Bridge of sunbeams to otherworld. (Cf. F154.) Wimberly 114; Patch Other World 248, 254. |
| A986 | Bridge of the Gods. A conflict of the gods breaks a primeval bridge and thus causes a rapid in a river (the Columbia River at The Dalles, Oregon).—Salishan: Alexander N. Am. 134. |
| F152.1.7 | Bridge of thread on way to world of dead. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| E481.2.1 | Bridge to land of dead. Type 471; *Fb "bro" IV 62b; Wimberly 110ff.; Ward Catalogue of Romances II 399, 420, 607, Herbert ibid. III 279; Moe Samlede Skrifter III 212, 226ff.; Frazer Immortality III 150; Icelandic: *Boberg; Finnish: Holmberg Finno-Ugric 74; India: *Thompson-Balys; Persian: Carnoy 344; Kachin: Scott Indo-Chinese 265; N. A. Indian: Brinton Myths of the New World (New York, 1868) 248, Skinner PaAM XIII 86. |
| F152.1.6.1 | Bridge to otherworld covered with knives. BP III 43; Von Hegelein Zs. f. Vksk. XI 150 n. 2. |
| F152.0.1 | Bridge to otherworld guarded by animals. Patch PMLA XXXIII 635ff.; Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F152 | Bridge to otherworld. *Type 471; Encyc. Rel. Ethics II 852ff.; Patch PMLA XXXIII 630ff., Other World 374 s.v. "bridge"; Ward II 399, 441; Rуheim Animism 39ff.; Fb "bro" IV 62b; Darmesteter Sacred Books of the East IV 212f.; Alphabet No. 603.—Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: MacCulloch Eddic 130, 305; Siberian: Holmberg Siberian 488ff.; Melanesia: Codrington 257; Eskimo (Labrador): Hawkes GSCan XIV 153; N. A. Indian: Brinton Myths of the New World (New York, 1868) 248, (Menomini): Skinner PaAM XIII 86. |
| Q417.3 | Bridge to world of dead cut from under wicked person so that he falls into hell. (Cf. F152.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F842.2.2 | Bridge which falls when mounted. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| P621 | Bridle goes with horse when horse is bought. *Wesselski Märchen 245f. No. 55. |
| H71.6 | Bright eyes as sign of royalty (nobility). Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| F961.2.1 | Bright star indicates birth of holy person. *Toldo I 327; Matthew 2: 2; Irish myth: *Cross; Spanish Exempla: Keller; Babylonian: Spence 53. |
| B251.2.10.1 | Brilliantly white cow comes to be milked for infant saint. Irish myth: Cross. |
| A1028 | Bringing deluge to end. |
| H1177 | Bringing fairies to court. |
| P523 | Bringing suit in law courts. Irish myth: Cross. |
| K216.2 | Bringing the devil an unknown animal. The man sends his naked wife on all fours in tar and feathers. The devil has never seen such an animal. *Type 1091; *BP I 411, III 358; *Fb "pige" II 816a, "kjende" II 140, "tjære" III 811a; Lithuanian: Balys Legends Nos. 755f. |
| K1741.3 | Bringing the whole well. Told to get water, hero demands bucket large enough to bring in the whole well. The ogre is frightened. Type 1049; *BP III 333; Spanish: Espinosa III Nos. 163—167. |
| J2499.4 | Brings back all stolen cattle possible. Simple monk eats all he can of abbey's stolen cattle so as to bring them back home. *Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 61; Alphabet No. 718; Mensa Philosophica No. 187. |
| F171.2 | Broad and narrow road in otherworld. *Type 470; Irish: O'Suilleabhain 63, Beal XXI 324. |
| F95.2 | Broad path to hell. Kachin: Scott Indo-Chinese 265. |
| N178.1 | Broken leg saves man from fatal fight. King has ordered that he be killed in a fight. He breaks his leg and cannot take part. Meantime the king learns of his innocence. Chauvin II 152 No. 18; Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| M101.4 | Broken oath causes girl's hand to wither. (Cf. D2062.) Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| M101.2 | Broken oaths cause of maimed people. Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 487. |
| V229.10 | Broken objects restored to their original forms by saint. *Loomis White Magic 82f., 85. |
| N783 | Broken vessel (calabash, etc.) to be mended leads to adventure. Africa (Guinea Coast): Trautmann La Litterature а la Cфte des Esclaves (Paris, 1927), West Africa: Travélé Proverbes et contes Bambara (Paris, 1923) 205ff., No. 66, Frobenius Atlantis VIII 274ff. No. 120. |
| D2163.1 | Broken weapons magically restored. (Cf. D1080, F1098, H1023.8.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| D1868.1 | Broken-down nag becomes magnificent riding horse. Type 314.—India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F841.1.2 | Bronze boat. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F841.2.5 | Bronze sail. Irish myth: Cross. |
| N211.1.5 | Brooch lost by saint found in fish. Irish myth: Cross. |
| G272.7.2 | Broom across door protects from witch. North Carolina: Brown Collection I 653. |
| B524.5 | Broom, transformed into porcupine, drives away would-be ravisher. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1988 | Brother (sister) secures blessing due to another. Jewish: Neuman. |
| P253.1 | Brother about to drink blood of seemingly guilty sister. Köhler-Bolte Zs. f. Vksk. VI 61. |
| K2121.1 | Brother accused of paternity of mystically impregnated sister. S. A. Indian (Amuesha): Métraux RMLP XXXIII 149. |
| M146.4 | Brother and sister arrange marriage of their unborn children to each other. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| N365.3.1 | Brother and sister unwittingly in love with each other. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| K991.1 | Brother causes brother's death by sending him to robbers and giving false advice. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| P253.3 | Brother chosen rather than husband or son. Only one can be saved; he alone is irreplaceable. Chauvin II 190 No. 2; Tawney Journal of Philology XII 121; Aly Volksmärchen bei Herodot 35, 109; Philippine: Fansler MAFLS XII 257 No. 31. |
| G73.2 | Brother eats brother. Mono-Alu: Wheeler 22. |
| P253.2.1 | Brother faithful to persecuted sister. East Africa: Zuure L'Ame du Murundi (Paris, 1932) 331ff. No. 2. |
| Q458.2.1 | Brother flogs unchaste sister to death. (Cf. Q243.) Child II 102. |
| S73.1.2 | Brother kills and eats brother. (Cf. G10.) Tonga: Gifford 27, Mono: Wheeler No. 22. |
| T415.2 | Brother repels incestuous sister. *Bolte Zs. f. Vksk. XXVIII 75; N. A. Indian: *Demetrocoupoulou JAFL XLVI 101—125. |
| R156 | Brother rescues sister(s). (Cf. G551.1.) Irish myth: Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg; Spanish: Espinosa II No. 18; Greek: Grote I 156; India: *Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Graham. |
| P251.5.5 | Brother unjustly imprisoned by brother. Irish myth: Cross. |
| N733.2 | Brother unwittingly kills half brother in fight. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| H310.2 | Brother unwittingly qualifies as bridegroom of sister in test. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| J815.2 | Brother who conforms to naked people's customs honored. Two brothers go to the land of Naked People. One of the brothers wears clothes and is punished. Wesselski Archiv Orientální I 80. |
| G323 | Brother-Dead. Trapper of game; silent; pursues trickster. Jamaica: Beckwith MAFLS XVII 249 No. 27. |
| T425 | Brother-in-law seduces (seeks to seduce) sister-in-law. Irish myth: *Cross; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| P263 | Brother-in-law. (Cf. K2211.1.) |
| T415 | Brother-sister incest. *Type 933; *Bolte Zs. f. Vksk. XXVIII 75; *Sparnaay 30; Köhler-Bolte II 173ff., 182ff.; Baum PMLA XXXI 562 n. 59; Schröder Germanisch-Romanische Monatschrift XIX 13; Chauvin V 197 No. 115; *Krappe Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen 167 (1935) 161—176; Heptameron Nos. 30, 33.—Irish: MacCulloch Celtic 25, 90, *Cross; Welsh: MacCulloch Celtic 98; Icelandic: De la Saussaye 251, Boberg; Spanish Exempla: Keller; Italian Novella: Rotunda; Persian: Carnoy 310; Egyptian: Müller 119; Jewish: Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys; Philippine: Dixon 164 n. 45; N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 274 n. 8; Africa (Fang): Einstein 189. |
| A1552.3 | Brother-sister marriage of children of first parents. Lithuanian: Balys Legends No. 68. |
| A164.1 | Brother-sister marriage of the gods. Irish myth: Cross; Icel.: MacCulloch Eddic 102; Greek: Grote I 58; Marquesas: Handy 122. |
| T415.5 | Brother-sister marriage. Icelandic: Boberg; Greek: Fox 164 (Zeus and Hera), *Frazer Pausanias II 84; India: Thompson-Balys; N. A. Indian (Klikitat): Jacobs U Wash II 31; Africa (Fang): Tessman 185. |
| T131.1.1 | Brother's consent for sister's marriage needed. Child I 142ff.; Heptameron No. 40; Icelandic: *Boberg; Japanese: Ikeda. |
| J1633 | Brotherly love and patience both dead. A man failing to receive alms in a village, rings the bell for mass. He tells the sexton that he is ringing because of the death of brotherly love. The sexton rings another bell. It is for the death of the other man's patience. *Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 474. |
| N733.5 | Brothers accidentally reunited when wedding of one to a king's daughter is celebrated and neighboring rulers are invited. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F660.1 | Brothers acquire extraordinary skill. Return home and are tested. *Types 653, 654, 1525; *BP III 10, 45ff., 379ff., 390 n. 1; Italian: Basile Pentamerone V No. 7; India: *Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Graham. |
| P250 | Brothers and sisters. |
| A15.2 | Brothers as creators. So. Am. Indian (Guaporé River): Levi-Strauss BBAE CXLIII (3) 379. |
| Z210 | Brothers as heroes. Type 303; **A. Christensen "Trebrødre- og Tobrødre-Stamsagn" Danske Studier (1916) 45ff.—Irish: MacCulloch Celtic 158; India: *Thompson-Balys; N. A. Indian: *Alexander N. A. Myth 295 n. 44. |
| J552.5 | Brothers compose quarrel and save umpire's fee. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1092 | Brothers duped into killing each other by slander that one of them is father to the other's child. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| G73.1 | Brothers eat their sister. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| N384.13 | Brothers fall dead at sight of long lost brother whom they sold into captivity. (Cf. N733.) Jewish: *Neuman. |
| P251.3 | Brothers follow each other in exile. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| R166 | Brothers having extraordinary skill rescue princess. *Type 653; BP III 45ff.; *Köhler-Bolte I 198, 439; Italian: Basile Pentamerone V No. 7; Japanese: Ikeda. |
| F577.2 | Brothers identical in appearance. *Type 303; BP I 528; *Ranke FFC CXIV 286. |
| P251.4.1 | Brothers kill brother because they fail to understand his wise answer. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| P253.7 | Brothers persecute sister's lover and are in return killed by him. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| K1952.3 | Brothers pose as princes, deeming their parentage not worthy of their merit. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| R155 | Brothers rescue brothers. Icelandic: *Boberg; Missouri French: Carrière; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| P17.5 | Brothers rule jointly. Irish myth: Cross; Icelandic: Boberg. |
| P251.4 | Brothers scorn brother's wise counsel. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| P251.3.1 | Brothers strive to avenge each other. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| N733.1 | Brothers unwittingly fight each other. (Cf. N731.2.2.) Dickson 100, 109, 153; Icelandic: Boberg; Tuamotu: Stimson MS (z-G. 13/317). |
| P251 | Brothers. *Penzer III 272 n. 1; Irish myth: Cross; Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| Z146.1 | Brown hair as sign child is descended from goddess. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 285. |
| E501.4.2.3 | Brown horse in wild hunt. Schweda 25. |
| F527.4 | Brown man with white back. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F482 | Brownie (nisse). **Feilberg Nissens Historie; *Fb "nisse" II 688; Norwegian: *Solheim Register 19; *Hartmann 28. |
| F363.2 | Brownie (Redcap, Redcomb, Bloody Cap) murders travelers, catches their blood in his cap. England: Baughman. |
| F482.2.1 | Brownie dressed in green. Fb "nisse" II 688a. |
| F482.5.4.2 | Brownie restores stolen property, gives thief a twitch in eyelid. England: Baughman. |
| F482.5.4.1 | Brownie rides for midwife when needed. England, Scotland: *Baughman. |
| F482.1.1 | Brownie with red hair. *Fb "nisse" II 688a. |
| F482.5.1 | Brownies dance. (Cf. F471.1.1.2. and cross-references there given.) *Fb "danse" IV 93a. |
| F482.3.1 | Brownies live in house. Move when persons move. (Cf. F481.3.) Fb "nisse" II 688b. |
| F482.3.2 | Brownies live in knoll. *Fb "høj" I 740a. |
| F482.5.2 | Brownies sew by moonlight. Fb "mеne" II 659b. |
| F482.5.3 | Brownies tease. Kristensen Danske Sagn II (1893) 80ff., (1928) 61ff. |
| F135 | Bruidhen (banqueting-hall) as otherworld. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| N777.2 | Bucket dropped into well leads to adventures. Type 480; *Roberts 125. |
| V212 | Buddha. |
| V355 | Buddhists become slaves of Taoists because they cannot produce rain. Chinese: Werner 353. |
| A2771 | Budding and bearing of plant. |
| A2247.1 | Buffalo and cow exchange hides: hence bad fitting hides. (Cf. A2311.6.)—Indonesian: *De Vries's list No. 97. |
| B240.7 | Buffalo as king of animals. Africa (Luba): De Clerq Zs. f. Kolonialspr. IV 198ff. No. 10. |
| B501.1 | Buffalo give hero horns for summoning them. |
| J1192.1.1 | Buffalo has eaten up turban. Judge decides for greater bribe. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A2211.12 | Buffalo helps tiger quench fire: white mark left on buffalo's neck where tiger held on while being ducked in water. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| D2074.1.1.1 | Buffalo magically called. Southern Ute: Lowie JAFL XXXVII 45. |
| J425.2 | Buffalo refuses tiger's invitation to dinner. He sees fire prepared to cook him. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F914.2 | Buffalo sucks hero with water it is drinking and throws him up again in game of hide-and-seek. (Cf. F911.3.1.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| N119.2 | Buffalo's fate in bamboo growing from head. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A1714.3.1 | Buffaloes emerge from earth, the first man holding the tail of last one. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A2231.12 | Buffaloes fail to come at god's leavetaking: now are killed by tigers. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B395.1 | Buffaloes grateful for being cleaned and combed. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B395 | Buffaloes grateful for care of their calves. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| J1565.2 | Bugs unable to eat honey at banquet of bees, and bees unable to eat dung at bug's dinner. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| J741 | Build shelter for the whole year. |
| J2171.3 | Builders throw away beams from the scaffolding until it all falls down. Type 1245***. |
| K1441 | Building a bridge of cattle. Ordered to build a bridge not of wood, stone, iron, or earth, the trickster uses the carcasses of cattle. *Type 1005. |
| F771.12 | Building at bottom of which flows stream of rubies. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| J2171.1.3.2 | Building boat of clay. Tuamotu: Beckwith Myth 267. |
| C931 | Building falls because of breaking of tabu. (Cf. C771.1.)—Hartland Science 221; Gaster Exempla 229 No. 239; Jewish: *Neuman; English: Wells 42 (Arthour and Merlin); Swedish: Wessman 71 No. 605; India: Thompson-Balys. —Eskimo (Greenland): Rasmussen III 245, (West Hudson Bay); Boas BAM XV 234. |
| F941 | Building sinks into earth. Irish: *Cross, O'Suilleabhain 79; Jewish: *Neuman. |
| B155.1 | Building site determined by halting of animal. Where the animal stops the building is erected.—Fb "kvie" II 338a, "kirke" IV 258a; Sébillot France IV 114, 127; Günter Christliche Legende des Abendlandes 81; Dickson Valentine and Orson 54 n. 66; *Pease Classical Philology XII (1917) 8ff.; Norden on Vergil Aeneid VI, lines 136ff.; Stemplinger Neue Jahrb. XLVII (1920) 41.—Finnish-Swedish: Wessman 70 no. 598; Finnish: Holmberg Finno-Ugric 125, 145, Aarne FFC XXXIII 46 No. 82; Estonian: Aarne FFC XXV 133 No. 82; Danish: Kristensen Danske Sagn III (1895) 167ff., (1931) 117ff.; Irish myth: Cross; Eng., Wales: Baughman. |
| B155.1.0.1 | Building site determined by other action of animal. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F163 | Buildings in otherworld. Irish myth: Cross. |
| R13.2.2 | Bull carries off devil after he has tried to deceive God. (Cf. A60.) Dh I 35. |
| B151.1.2 | Bull determines road to be taken. Irish myth: Cross. |
| B297.0.1 | Bull lows musically. Irish myth: Cross (B214). |
| F981.2 | Bull melts away after evil spirit has issued from him. Dickson 197 n. 84. |
| J1759.4 | Bull mistaken for horse. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B611.4 | Bull paramour. Greek: Frazer Apollodorus I 305 n. (Pasiphoe), I 299 n. 2. (Europa); Am. Negro (Georgia): Harris Friends 81 No. 11. |
| J371.1 | Bull refuses to fight goat. Bull being pursued by lion tries to go into cave. Goat refuses to let him in. Bull must go on, for with lion pursuing he has no time to fight goat. Wienert FFC LVI 56 (ET 168), 112 (ST 234); Halm Aesop 396. |
| B15.6.4 | Bull with human hands and feet. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B23.2 | Bull with man's head. Persian: Carnoy 333. |
| V1.8.1.1 | Bull worship. Irish myth: Cross; Jewish: *Neuman. |
| A132.9 | Bull-god. Irish myth: Cross. |
| D1400.1.21 | Bull's tail becomes a stick that lashes hero's enemies and exterminates an army. (Cf. D1029.2.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B765.17 | Bullets have no effect on giant serpent; only stroke of lightning effective. Ladino: Conzemius BBAE CVI 169. |
| G225.0.4 | Bullets will not harm witch's familiars. Argentina: Jijena Sanchez 81 (D1840). |
| J1906.1 | Bullock struck on hindquarters instead of head in attempt to kill it. (Only frightens it.) India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| X1280.1.1 | Bumblebees imported to rout mosquitoes; the two insects crossbreed and have stingers on both ends. U.S.: *Baughman. |
| D1523.3 | Bundle of wood magically acts as riding horse. Italian: Basile I No. 3. |
| D1523.2.6 | Bundle of wood magically acts as riding-horse. |
| J2671.3 | Bungling fool forgets what elephant is called. Says it is an "earth egg" (confused with name for potatoes). India: Thompson-Balys. |
| J2661 | Bungling fool has succession of accidents. Irish myth: Cross; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| J2650 | Bungling fool. Type 1690*; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| J2675 | Bungling rescuer caught by crab. He tries to rescue woman caught by crab. Is caught himself and found in embarrassing position. Wesselski Hodscha Nasreddin I 178 No. 313; Indonesia: Coster-Wijsman 43 No. 44. |
| J2532 | Bureaucrats debate as to who shall put out palace fire: meantime palace burns. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q456.0.1 | Burial alive as punishment for adultery. (Cf. Q241.) *Schoepperle II 420 n. 1; Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q456.0.3 | Burial alive as punishment for disobedience to king. (Cf. Q325.) Greek: Frazer Apollodorus I 373 n. 2 (Antigone). |
| Q456.0.2 | Burial alive as punishment for swindling. (Cf. Q274.) Alphabet No. 755. |
| Q456 | Burial alive as punishment. (Cf. S123.) *Müllenhoff Deutsche Alterthumskunde (ed. Roediger, Berlin, 1920) IV 244ff.; **Feilberg "Levende Begravet" (Еrbog for dansk Kulturhistorie [1892] pp. 1—60); DeCock Volkssage 83.—Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: Boberg; Greek: Aeschylus Prometheus Bound 366, 1016; Jewish: Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| Q456.2 | Burial alive for uncharitableness. (Cf. Q286.2.) Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| S123.1 | Burial alive of drugged person. *Chauvin VI 15 No. 188 n. 1. |
| S123.5 | Burial alive of maiden to keep her safe from rival. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| S123 | Burial alive. **Feilberg "Levende begravet" (Еrbog for dansk Kulturhistorie, 1892); *Liebrecht 284; *Fb "høj" I 741b, "levende" II 403a—404a, "jord" II 45b. — Irish: *Cross, O'Suilleabhain 74, Beal XXI 327; Swiss: Jegerlehner Oberwallis 326 No. 4; Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "enterrement"; Spanish: Espinosa Jr. Nos. 203f.; Greek: Sophocles' Antigone; India: *Thompson-Balys; Society Islands: Henry Ancient Tahiti (Honolulu, 1928) 557; Eskimo (Greenland): Rink 221, 232, Rasmussen II 94, III 53, (Cumberland Sound): Boas BAM XV 171, (Central Eskimo): Boas RBAE VI 639, (Mackenzie Area): Jenness 34, (Labrador): Hawkes GSCan XIV 161, (Ungava): Turner RBAE VI 262. |
| F268 | Burial among underworld folk. *Fb "begravelse" IV 30b; Irish myth: Cross. |
| E754.3 | Burial in certain ground assures going to heaven. Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q491.1.2 | Burial in deserted barn as punishment for desecration of holy places. (Cf. Q222.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| V61.8 | Burial in grave-mound. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| J2212.2 | Burial in old grave to deceive angel. Fool thinks that the angel who comes to question him will pass him by since he has apparently been dead a long time. Wesselski Hodscha Nasreddin I 210 No. 22. |
| A1591.1 | Burial learned from watching raven bury its dead. Dh I 249. |
| E431.19 | Burial of corpse at midnight to prevent walking. England: Baughman. |
| S266 | Burial of live girl to banish plague. German: Knoop Sagen u. Erzählungen aus Posen 123. |
| S123.2 | Burial of living husband or wife with dead spouse. Type 612; *BP I 126ff., 128; *Chauvin VII 20 No. 373D; Missouri French: Carrière. |
| S123.2.1 | Burial of living man with dead blood brother. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| E431.16 | Burial of suicide to prevent walking. (Cf. E334.7, E411.1.1, E441.) |
| F451.4.1.9 | Burial places (barrows, howes) as homes of dwarfs. *Gould Scandinavian Studies and Notes IX 190; Icelandic: *Boberg; Danish: Kristensen Danske Sagn I (1892) spec. 151ff., (1928) 107ff. |
| F268.1 | Burial service for fairy queen is held at night in Christian church. England: *Baughman. |
| E431.1 | Burial service read into hat to prevent dead walking. *Fb "hat" I 563b, "gjenganger" I 444a. |
| N511.1.4 | Buried treasure wanders from place to place. Indicated by a light. (Cf. N532.) *Winter 30. |
| S54.1 | Burned and underbaked bread. Wishing to rid herself of her father-in-law, the daughter-in-law starts to feed him burned bread; but the old man begins to thrive on it. When she tries underbaked bread, he dies very soon. Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 2427*. |
| V229.10.1 | Burned clothes restored to their previous form. *Loomis White Magic 128. |
| C927.3 | Burning and drowning as punishment for breaking tabu. |
| Q414.0.4.2 | Burning as punishment for abductor. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q414.0.2 | Burning as punishment for adultery. (Cf. Q241.) Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 229; Irish myth: *Cross; Spanish: Boggs FFC XC 57 No. 425; Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| Q414.0.9 | Burning as punishment for betraying the confessional. (Cf. Q224.) Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| C927 | Burning as punishment for breaking tabu. Irish myth: Cross; Jewish: Neuman; Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 264; S. Am. Indian (Chamacoco): Métraux MAFLS XL 48; Eskimo (Greenland): Rink 441, Rasmussen III 51, Holm 72. |
| Q414.0.6.1 | Burning as punishment for counterfeiting. (Cf. Q261.) Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q414.0.13 | Burning as punishment for fratricide. (Cf. Q211.9.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q414.0.6 | Burning as punishment for impostor. (Cf. Q262.) Missouri French: Carrière; Spanish: Espinosa Jr. No. 106; Italian Novella: *Rotunda; India: Thompson-Balys; Africa (Fjort): Dennett 130. |
| Q414.0.3 | Burning as punishment for incest (incontinence). (Cf. Q242, Q243.) Child II 41—48 passim, 113—25 passim, III 508b, V 292b; Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q414.0.12 | Burning as punishment for murder. (Cf. Q211.) Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg; Africa (Bankon): Ittman 100. |
| Q414.0.4 | Burning as punishment for ravisher. (Cf. Q244.) Malone PMLA XLIII 406. |
| Q414.0.5 | Burning as punishment for traitor. (Cf. Q261.) Icelandic: *Boberg; Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "bыcher"; Missouri French: Carrière; Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q414.0.1 | Burning as punishment for uxoricide. (Cf. Q211.3.) Africa (Fjort): Dennett 54 No. 19. |
| F1099.5 | Burning bodies vomit. Irish myth: Cross. |
| D2144.4 | Burning by magic. (Cf. D2158.) |
| D1355.3.6 | Burning candle stuck with pins fetches lover. England: *Baughman. |
| K1013.2.2 | Burning children on promise of giving them fawn's beautiful spots. N. A. Indian (Zuсi): Benedict II 344. |
| D2176.5 | Burning cut hair to prevent witchcraft. *Fb "hеr" I 771a; Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| H1511.2 | Burning food test. Attempt to kill hero by feeding him burning food. N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 312 n. 120b. |
| Q414.0.11 | Burning for sodomy. (Cf. Q253.) Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q414.0.5.1 | Burning for traitor: unwittingly suggested by culprit. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q414.0.10 | Burning for witchcraft. Icelandic: *Boberg; Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| D1841.3 | Burning magically evaded. (Cf. D1656.) Chauvin VI 189 No. 356; Crane Liber de Miraculis 88 No. 15; Günter Christliche Legende 234 s.v. "Feuer"; Cosquin Indiens 439ff.; Toldo Studien VI 298; Alphabet No. 308; *Loomis White Magic 114.—Jewish: *Neuman, Spence 51f., Gaster Rabbis 191 No. 28, 185 No. 28; Irish: *Cross, O'suilleabhain 71, Beal XXI 326; Spanish Exempla: Keller; N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 311 n. 120. |
| Q414.0.3.1 | Burning monastery and monks in it as punishment for incontinence. Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles No. 32; Heptameron No. 31. |
| G257.1 | Burning object forces witch to reveal herself: sympathetic magic. England, U.S.: *Baughman. |
| F774.2 | Burning pillar reaching heaven. Patch PMLA XXXIII 626 n. 87. |
| F1061.3 | Burning pit will close only if armed rider will plunge into it. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| A671.2.4.4 | Burning plains in hell. Irish myth: Cross. |
| G272.17 | Burning thatch from home of witch protects against witch. England: *Baughman. |
| K581.5 | Burning the jackal. He expresses horror of that punishment. Sets fire to village from his burning tail. Why he has burnt tip on tail. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| J2162.1 | Burning the temple to attain notoriety. *Crane Vitry 143 No. 27. |
| J2102.5 | Burning the wasp nest. The house catches fire and burns. Clouston Noodles 40 n. 1; England: Baughman. |
| S112 | Burning to death. (See notes to K955 and Q414.) Irish myth: *Cross; English: Wells 97 (Chevalere Assigne); Spanish Exempla: Keller; India: *Thompson-Balys; Africa (Basuto): Jacottet 192 No. 28. |
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