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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
G
Ogres
H
Tests
J
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
U
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 ▲ |
|---|---|
| C966 | Change of language for breaking tabu. Frazer Golden Bough XII 341 s.v. "Language".—Jewish: Neuman. |
| D10.2 | Change of sex after crossing water. McKay Beal III 139. |
| D593 | Change of sex by exchange with a yaksa (ogre). (Cf. D10.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| W175 | Changeableness. Wienert FFC LVI 134. |
| F321.1.1.3 | Changeling addresses woman in verse and thus betrays maturity. Hartland Science 125. |
| F321.1.4.6 | Changeling beaten and left outside; the mortal child is returned. England: *Baughman. |
| F321.1.1.1 | Changeling betrays his age when his wonder is excited. Usually pottage is boiled in an eggshell. The changeling: "I shall soon be a hundred years old but I never saw this done before!" *BP I 368; Hartland Science 113—116; E. H. Meyer Germanische Myth. 79; Lithuanian: Balys Legends No. 525. |
| F322.1 | Changeling bride. Fairies steal bride and leave a substitute. Hartland Science 130, 142; U.S.: Baughman. |
| F321.1.1.5 | Changeling calculates his age by the age of the forest. "I have seen the forest grow up three times." *BP I 369; Fb "gammel" IV 174a; Hartland Science 113ff.; Danish: Kristensen Danske Sagn I (1892) 314ff., (1928) 198ff. |
| F321.1.1.2.1 | Changeling dances wild dance to music, betrays maturity. England: Baughman. |
| F321.1.1 | Changeling deceived into betraying his age. *Fb "skifting" III 252b; Rhys Celtic Folk Lore 62, 220, 223, 264, 268; Köhler-Bolte I 220; Zs. f. Vksk. XVI 414; Sikes British Goblins 2, 59f. |
| F321.1.2.1 | Changeling has abnormal features or growth. Limbs grow too rapidly, head is too big, or he is slow to learn to walk, or the like. Hartland Science 108. |
| F321.1.2.2 | Changeling is always hungry, demands food all the time. England, Scotland, Wales: *Baughman. |
| F321.1.2.3 | Changeling is sickly (often the fairy exchanged for a baby is an elderly, infirm member of the fairy clan whom the fairies are tired of caring for). England: Baughman. |
| F321.1.4.4 | Changeling left on hill (dunghill, barrow etc.) and thus banished. Hartland Science 118, 126f. |
| F321.1.4.9 | Changeling made to believe that his house is burning up; he leaves. England, Ireland: *Baughman. |
| F321.1.1.2 | Changeling plays on pipe and thus betrays his maturity. Hartland Science 111.—Scotch: Macdougall and Calder 155ff. |
| F321.1.1.4 | Changeling shows supernatural power to work and thus betrays maturity. Hartland Science 113; England, Scotland: Baughman. |
| F321.1.4.2 | Changeling thrown into ravine and thus banished. Scotch: Macdougall and Calder. |
| F321.1.4.1 | Changeling thrown into water and thus banished. Hartland Science 123f., 129.—England, Ireland: *Baughman; Scotch: Macdougall and Calder 149. |
| F321.1.4.3 | Changeling thrown on fire and thus banished. (Cf. F321.1.4.5.) Hartland Science 120f.; England, Scotland, Ireland: *Baughman. |
| F321.1 | Changeling. Fairy steals child from cradle and leaves fairy substitute. Changeling is usually mature and only seems to be a child. *BP I 368; **G. Piaschewski Der Wechselbalg (Breslau, 1935); Hdwb. d. Abergl. IX Nachträge 835—864; **E. Hartmann Die Trollvorstellungen in den Sagen und Märchen der skandinavischen Völker (Stuttgart, 1936) 76ff.; *Hartland Science 105—122, 134, 145; *Fb "skifting" III 252b.—Irish myth: Cross; England, Ireland, Wales: Baughman; Scotch: Macdougall and Calder 7, 117, 143ff., 149, 155ff., 267, Campbell Tales II 57; Icelandic: *Boberg; Danish: Kristensen Danske Sagn II (1893) 10ff., (1928) 11ff.; Norwegian: *Solheim Register 18; Lappish: Qvigstad FFC LX 43 No. 36; Dutch: Sinninghe FFC CXXXII 58 No. 91; Slavic: Polívka Slavische Sagen vom Wechselbalg (Archiv f. Religionswissenschaft VI 151ff.), Máchal Slavic Myth. 260, 264; Armenian: Ananikian 78 (left by dragon); India: Penzer VIII 87 n. 1. |
| A850 | Changes in the earth. |
| N130 | Changing of luck or fate. |
| J2272.1 | Chanticleer believes that his crowing makes the sun rise. Disappointed when it rises without his aid. *Vossische Zeitung 17. Sept. 1910; India: *Thompson-Balys; N. A. Indian (Hopi): Voth FM VIII 176 No. 55. |
| F382.5 | Chanting song of St. Nicholas drives fairy away. U.S.: Baughman. |
| X454 | Chapel endowed with fifty blows for the friar. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| G303.16.5.1 | Chaplain administers sacrament and saves woman's soul from devil. Wünsche Teufel 37. |
| X443.1 | Chaplain on bucking mule. Nouvelles Récréations No. 27. |
| P12 | Character of kings. |
| F455.3 | Characteristic activities of trolls. |
| D1793.1 | Characteristics of animal acquired by eating it. Jewish: Neuman; Eskimo (Greenland): Rink 227. |
| F321.1.2 | Characteristics of changeling. |
| A102 | Characteristics of deity. |
| F451.3 | Characteristics of dwarfs. |
| F259 | Characteristics of fairies—miscellaneous. |
| F460.2 | Characteristics of mountain-men. |
| G630 | Characteristics of ogres. |
| F165 | Characteristics of otherworld dwellings. |
| F535.4 | Characteristics of pygmies. |
| A1641 | Characteristics of tribal subdivisions. Tahltan: Teit JAFL XXXII 216; Laguna and Zuсi: Parsons JAFL XXXI 263. |
| G304.2 | Characteristics of trolls. |
| A1680 | Characteristics of various peoples—in habits. Irish myth: Cross. |
| A1670 | Characteristics of various peoples—in industry and warfare. |
| A1660 | Characteristics of various peoples—in personal appearance. Icel.: MacCulloch Eddic 153, Corpus Poeticum Boreale I 234 ff. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F420.4 | Characteristics of water-spirits. |
| G229 | Characteristics of witches—miscellaneous. |
| G220 | Characteristics of witches. |
| T250 | Characteristics of wives and husbands. |
| Q411.13.1 | Charge of theft avenged by assault. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| K255.1 | Charging thirty cakes for cooking twenty-five. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| D1601.33 | Chariot collects flowers by itself. (Cf. D1114.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A761.2 | Chariot from heaven takes couple to live with sages in the Great Bear. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| H71.10.4 | Chariot horses spring at anyone who is not entitled to throne. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| D1982.3 | Chariot made invisible. Irish myth: Cross. |
| A136.3.1 | Chariot of fire drawn by four steeds of fire. Jewish: Neuman. |
| E722.2.10.1 | Chariot of gods bears astral bodies of dead to heaven. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A724.1.2 | Chariot of sun accompanied by angels. Jewish: Neuman. |
| A156.5 | Chariot of the gods. Virgil Aeneid X line 635; India: *Thompson-Balys; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 77, 916. |
| A724 | Chariot of the sun. *Helm Altgermanische Religionsgeschichte I 178, 256; Cook Zeus I 205ff.—Greek: Fox 243, cf. A722.1., Grote I 313; Icel.: MacCulloch Eddic 198; Babylonian: Spence 236; Jewish: Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| D1654.5.1 | Chariot refuses to move. (Cf. D1114.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| H41.9.1 | Chariot tilts under anyone who is not entitled to throne. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| A724.1 | Charioteer of the sun. Sun drives his horses and chariot across sky.—Howey Horse in Magic and Myth 114ff.—Icel.: MacCulloch Eddic 196; Greek: Fox 243; Hindu: Penzer I 143 n. 2, II 150ff. |
| F861.4.4 | Chariots of fire. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| F994.2 | Chariots, stones, weapons join in keen at hero's death. Irish myth: Cross. |
| V411.7 | Charitable king blows nose after having given to beggar. Huge ruby appears in his kerchief. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| Q151.1 | Charitable man's death postponed. (Cf. Q42, Q145.) Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 337. |
| V411.9 | Charity miraculously repaid: flame settles on forehead. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| V433 | Charity of saints. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| V431 | Charity of usurers ineffective. Alphabet Nos. 260, 754, 786, 789, 792; Irish: Beal XXI 337; Spanish: Espinosa Jr. No. 213. |
| V410.1 | Charity rewarded above prayer or hearing of masses. Irish: O'Suilleabhain 131; Spanish: Boggs FFC XC 87 No. 756E*. |
| T548.4 | Charity rewarded by birth of child. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| V410 | Charity rewarded. Irish: O'Suilleabhain 22, Beal XXI 307, 337; Spanish: Espinosa Jr. No. 137, 200—204; Jewish: *Neuman. |
| V430 | Charity—miscellaneous motifs. |
| V400 | Charity. *Encyc. Rel. Ethics Index 111c; Spanish Exempla: Keller; Jewish: *Neuman. |
| D1313.9 | Charm (medicine) indicates direction. (Cf. D1241.)—Africa (Ekoi): Talbot 34. |
| D1344.4 | Charm (written) renders invulnerable. (Cf. D1273.)—De Cock Studien 161; Irish myth: Cross. |
| D1500.2.2 | Charm against sickness. (Cf. D1273.) Kittredge Witchcraft 40, *396 n. 145, 146; England: Baughman. |
| D1441.2 | Charm calls down swarm of bees. (Cf. D1273.) Kittredge Witchcraft 32, 388 n. 92. |
| D1375.1.3 | Charm causes horns to grow on person. (Cf. D992.1.) Penzer III 187. |
| D1428.2 | Charm causes spearhead to return. (Cf. D1273.) Africa (Benga): Nassau 178 No. 24 version 1. |
| D1273.0.4 | Charm chanted standing on one foot with one eye shut, etc. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| D1273.0.5 | Charm containing name of God. Jewish: Neuman. |
| D1443.1 | Charm expels flies from city. (Cf. D1273.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| D1503.3.1 | Charm for burns or scalds. (Cf. D1273.) England, U.S.: Baughman (D1500.1.23.1). |
| D1505.11 | Charm for diseased eye. (Cf. D1273.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| D1502.3.1 | Charm for fever. (Cf. D1273.) *Kittredge Witchcraft 392 n. 105.—Jewish: Neuman; Hindu: Tawney II 165. |
| D1502.1.1 | Charm for headache. (Cf. D1273.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| D1514.3 | Charm for pain. (Cf. D1273.) England, U.S.: Baughman (D1500.1.23.2). |
| D1505.11.1 | Charm for removing object from eye. U.S.: *Baughman (D1500.1.23.3.) |
| D1502.2.2 | Charm for toothache. (Cf. D1273.) Kittredge Witchcraft 33, 389 n. *105.—England: Baughman. |
| D1502.6.1 | Charm for urinary disease. (Cf. D1273.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| D1503.3 | Charm for wounds. (Cf. D1273.) Kittredge Witchcraft 32, 387 n. 80.—Irish myth: *Cross; England: *Baughman; Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "blessure". |
| D1561.2.4 | Charm gives invisibility and power of moving everywhere. (Cf. D1273.) Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 750. |
| D1337.1.1 | Charm gives magic beauty. (Cf. D1273.)—Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "charme". |
| D1300.6 | Charm gives magic wisdom. (Cf. D1273.) Jewish: Neuman. |
| D1384.3 | Charm gives safety on journey. (Cf. D1273.) Kittredge Witchcraft 32, 388 n. 93; Hälsig Der Zauberspruch bei den Germanen 48ff.—Irish myth: *Cross. |
| D1400.1.10 | Charm gives victory in fight. (Cf. D1273.) *Kittredge Witchcraft 32, 388 n. 97. |
| D1407.4 | Charm gives victory in game of dice. (Cf. D1273.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| D1681 | Charm incorrectly uttered will not work. Spanish: Boggs FFC XC 84 No. 746. |
| D1584.1 | Charm induces dreams. Penzer VI 76ff. |
| D1449.1 | Charm makes cows give plenty of milk. (Cf. D1273.) *Kittredge Witchcraft 164, 483 n. 12. |
| D1469.17 | Charm makes treasure rain from sky. (Cf. D1273.) Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 920. |
| D1355.13.1 | Charm placed on cheeks of hag causes love. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| D1472.2.4 | Charm prepares feast. (Cf. D1273.) India: Thompson-Balys; Jewish: Neuman; Marquesas: Handy 114; Africa (Fjort): Dennett 60 No. 9. |
| D1449.4 | Charm prevents fish being caught. (Cf. D1273.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| D1385.13 | Charm prevents witchcraft. (Cf. D1273.) *Kittredge Witchcraft 32, 388 nn. 87, 98, 99; ibid. 133, 453ff. nn. 62—82 passim; *Fb "læse", "læsning", "Fader Vor"; Penzer III 137. |
| D1447.1 | Charm protects against wild animals. (Cf. D1273.) *Kittredge Witchcraft 32, 388 n. 84.—Irish: Plummer clxxix, Cross. |
| D1513 | Charm removes thorn. (Cf. D1273.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| D1577.2 | Charm renders amulet efficacious. (Cf. D1070, D1273.) *Kittredge Witchcraft 31, 386f. n. 72; England: Baughman. |
| D1577 | Charm renders magic efficacious. |
| D1577.1 | Charm renders medicinal herbs efficacious. (Cf. D1273, D1500.) *Kittredge Witchcraft 31f., 386, 388, nn. *71, 90; England: Baughman. |
| D1500.3.1 | Charm shifts diseases to another person. (Cf. D1273.) Kittredge Witchcraft 32, 388 n. 86. |
| D1504.1 | Charm stanches blood. (Cf. D1273.) Kittredge Witchcraft 32, 387 n. 81; Irish myth: Cross; English: Child II 441, 445, 450; England, Wales, U.S.: *Baughman. |
| D1273.0.3 | Charm sung over flesh chewed by wizard has magic power. Irish myth: Cross. |
| D1444.2 | Charm to catch hare and monkey. (Cf. D1273.) Africa (Angola): Chatelain 183 No. 22. |
| D1406.1 | Charm to win cases in law court. (Cf. D1273.) Kittredge Witchcraft 55, *406 nn. 240—3. |
| D2072.2.1 | Charm used by witch to cause paralysis. U.S.: Baughman. |
| D1402.13.3 | Charm used to kill. (Cf. D1273.) S. A. Indian (Toba): Métraux MAFLS XL 126f. |
| D1351.4 | Charm which makes inhabitants of city faint-hearted. (Cf. D1273.) —India: Thompson-Balys. |
| D1273.0.1 | Charm written in blood has magic power. (Cf. D1003.) Fb "blod" IV 47b. |
| D1516 | Charms against elfshot. (Cf. D2066, D1273.) Kittredge Witchcraft 133, 453ff. nn. 62—82 passim; Irish myth: Cross; Icelandic: MacCulloch Eddic 83, Snorra Edda Skaldsk. XVII; England: *Baughman. |
| F321.2 | Charms against theft of children by fairies. Fb "forbytte" I 337b; Irish myth: Cross; Wales, Scotland: *Baughman; Finnish: Aarne FFC XXXIII 40 No. 22; Estonian: Aarne FFC XXV 117 No. 22. |
| D1389.2 | Charms against theft. (Cf. D1273.) *Kittredge Witchcraft 32, 190f., 388 n. 96, 508 nn. 34—43. |
| D1515.2 | Charms as antidote for poison. (Cf. D1273.) Kittredge Witchcraft 32, 387 nn. 82, 83; England: Baughman. |
| D1515.2.1 | Charms as antidote for snakebite. (Cf. D1273, D1515.4.) Kittredge Witchcraft 32, 389 n. 101; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| D1541.0.1 | Charms control storms. (Cf. D1273.) Kittredge Witchcraft 32, 388 n. 94. |
| D1318.3 | Charms indicate guilt. (Cf. D1274.)—Africa (Bushman): Theal Zambesi 56. |
| D1501.2 | Charms make childbirth easy. (Cf. D1273.) Kittredge Witchcraft 32, 388 n. 88; Icelandic: MacCulloch Eddic 296, *Boberg. |
| D1563.1.1 | Charms make soil fertile. (Cf. D1273.) Kittredge Witchcraft 32, 388 n. 91. |
| D1501.1 | Charms prevent barrenness or miscarriage. (Cf. D1273.) Kittredge Witchcraft 32, 388 n. 89; Irish myth: *Cross; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| D1384.4 | Charms prevent fatigue. (Cf. D1273.) Kittredge Witchcraft 32, 388 n. 93. |
| D1383.2 | Charms protect from poison. (Cf. D1273.) *Kittredge Witchcraft 32, 387 n. 82; Irish myth: *Cross; India: Penzer I 113. |
| G257 | Charms to cause witch to reveal herself. (Cf. G271.) |
| D1573 | Charms to make butter come. (Cf. D1273, D2084.2.5.) Kittredge Witchcraft 169, 487f. nn. 46, 47; Irish myth: Cross; England, Scotland: *Baughman. |
| A672.1.1 | Charon exacts fee to ferry souls across Styx. Greek: Fox 142; Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| P613 | Charon's fee: putting coin in dead person's mouth to pay for ferry across Styx. Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| A972.5.2 | Chasms between rocks mark "leaps" of giants, heroes, etc. Irish myth: Cross. |
| D1714.1.1 | Chaste maiden at prayer vanishes from would-be ravisher's embrace. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| T354 | Chaste sleeping together to torment woman. Man remains utterly impassive. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T355 | Chaste sleeping together with six sisters-in-law one by one. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T350 | Chaste sleeping together. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| T325.1 | Chaste woman promises conqueror drug of invulnerability. Has him try it on her. Cuts her head off. *Bonner Byzantion XIV 142ff. |
| M261.1 | Chaste woman promises herself to her lover when he can make a garden bloom in winter. (Cf. H352.) Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| M261 | Chaste woman promises herself to her lover when the rocks leave the coast. (They are moved by magic.) Robinson Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer (Cambridge, Mass., 1933) 826 (Franklin's Tale); **Dempster and Tatlock in Bryan and Dempster Sources and Analogues of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales 333—56; Irish myth: Cross; cf. Type 976. |
| K1231 | Chaste woman refers lover to her husband for permission. *Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 749; Heptameron No. 27; Irish myth: Cross; Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| K1231.1 | Chaste woman refers lover to his wife. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T325 | Chaste woman resists advances of a conqueror. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K1223.2.1 | Chaste woman sends man's own wife as substitute (without his knowledge). Then the first woman's husband is substituted for the importunate lover, who has his own wife seduced. Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| K1223.4 | Chaste woman substitutes corpse for herself in the bed of an insistent suitor. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| T360 | Chastity and celibacy—miscellaneous. |
| T300 | Chastity and celibacy. *Penzer III 172 n. 2; *Encyc. Religion Ethics III 474 s.v. "Chastity"; **J. Main Religious Chastity (New York, 1913); *E. Fehrle Die kultische Keuschheit im Altertum (Giessen, 1910).— Irish myth: Cross; Missouri French: Carrière; Jewish: *Neuman. |
| V461.3 | Chastity as clerical virtue. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| H439 | Chastity index—miscellaneous. |
| H430 | Chastity index. Objects indicate faithfulness or unfaithfulness of separated lovers (husband or wife). *Type 888; *Penzer I 165ff.; *BP III 517ff.; Clouston Tales II 290ff.; Jewish: bin Gorion Born Judas III 110f. |
| H412.6 | Chastity ordeal: drawing lover out of wall with single thread rope. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| H412.3 | Chastity ordeal: feather over door; if girl who enters blushes she is not a virgin. Fb "pige" II 817a. |
| H412.4.1 | Chastity ordeal: holding hot iron. Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 227; Alphabet No. 173. |
| H412.2 | Chastity ordeal: holding shaven and greased tail of bull. Wade-Evans Welsh Mediaeval Law (Oxford, 1909) 241. |
| H412.7.1 | Chastity ordeal: jumping over magic thread. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| H412.7.2 | Chastity ordeal: jumping over pit. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| H412.7 | Chastity ordeal: jumping. |
| H412.4.2 | Chastity ordeal: oath on boiling oil. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| H412.4 | Chastity ordeal: passing through fire. Irish myth: Cross; India: *Thompson-Balys, Keith 128. |
| H412.1 | Chastity ordeal: passing under magic rod. Unchaste woman bears twins. (Cf. D1254.2.) Irish myth: Cross; Welsh: MacCulloch Celtic 96. |
| H412.5 | Chastity ordeal: poisonous snake around girl's neck. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| H410 | Chastity test by magic objects or ordeals. |
| H455 | Chastity test: king weighs princess against a flower. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| H413.5 | Chastity test: throwing certain number on dice. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| H400 | Chastity test. Various means are employed to test a woman's (or man's) chastity. *Types 870, 870A; *Bédier Fabliaux 465; Dunlop-Liebrecht 85; Child I 258—71, 507a, II 502, III 503, IV 454a, V 215f., 289a; *Cross MPh X 289; Heinrich von dem Türlin Diu Crone, lines 917f.; Clouston Tales I 173ff.—Irish myth: *Cross; Jewish: *Neuman; Arabian: Burton Nights V 271, 278, VII 259, IX 252ff.; India: Thompson-Balys, Penzer I 167, *Tawney I 86 n., 329, 487, *II 601 n.; Chinese: Werner 269; Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 516, 535; Samoa: Beckwith Myth 535; N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 358 n. 287 m. |
| H412 | Chastity tested by ordeal. |
| H426 | Chastity tests of holy men and monks. Irish myth: Cross. |
| N15.1 | Chastity wager: woman succumbs. Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 51. |
| N15 | Chastity wager. A man makes a wager on his wife's chastity. In spite of unsuccessful attempts to seduce her and of false proofs presented, he wins the wager. *Type 882; *Köhler-Bolte I 211f., 375, 581; **G. Paris Romania XXXII 481ff.; *von der Hagen III lxxxiii; Boccaccio Decameron II No. 9 (Lee 42); Shakespeare's "Cymbeline"; *Child V 500 s.v. "wager".—Irish myth: Cross; Welsh: MacCulloch Celtic 110; England: Baughman; Italian Novella: *Rotunda; Jewish: bin Gorion Born Judas I 276ff., III 109, 304; India: *Thompson-Balys; Philippine: Fansler MAFLS XII 62, 253ff. |
| A878.3.3 | Chattering squirrel in the earth-tree. Holmberg Baum 67ff. Icel.: MacCulloch Eddic 332ff., Boberg. |
| K343.5 | Cheat induces dupe to go get food reported found and steals clothes as soon as they are left behind. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1955.6.1 | Cheat: demon kills people so his pupil can resuscitate them and get reward. Chinese: Graham. |
| L114.4 | Cheater as hero. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| J1149.2 | Cheater discovered by fishing in the street. Man arouses the curiosity of the rascal who has swindled his wife. Type 1382. |
| K198 | Cheater is forced to eat excrements. Gentleman agrees to exchange his good horse for the peasant's jade, provided the peasant will eat its excrements. The peasant finds no difficulty in the task, whereas the gentleman, put to the same condition when he wants to get back his horse, finds it impossible. Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 1533*; Russian: Andrejev No. 1529 I*; Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 324f. No. 48, FFC CXXVIII 271f. No. 170. |
| K448 | Cheater marks coveted object with his name and later claims it. Irish myth: Cross. |
| J1216 | Cheater put out of countenance by raising alarm. Wine seller carries water into his cellar. Man raises alarm pretending that he thought the house must be afire. Wesselski Bebel II 109 No. 31. |
| J1141.3 | Cheaters examined apart; first made to repeat paternoster. Others think that he has confessed and truth is discovered. *Herbert III 202; Oesterley No. 128. |
| K148 | Cheaters sell each other valueless articles. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q554.6 | Cheaters visited by god in animal form. Frightened into restitution. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K484 | Cheating by raising an alarm. |
| K476.8 | Cheating by substitution of common cow for magic one. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K476 | Cheating by substitution of worthless articles. Indonesia: De Vries's list No. 290. |
| K475 | Cheating through equivocation. Köhler-Bolte I 513; Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "équivoque"; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K453 | Cheating through knowledge of the law. Irish myth: Cross. |
| D1812.0.1.1 | Cheek bitten as warning of approaching death. (Cf. D1812.5.1.16.1.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| K827.5 | Cheese smeared on crab lures giant to smell him. Crab pinches giant's neck and kills him. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| J1881.1.1 | Cheeses thrown down to find their way home. Clouston Noodles 35; Field Pent Cuckoo 4. |
| D1413.1.1 | Cherry tree from which one cannot descend. (Cf. D950.4.) Breton: Sébillot s.v. "cerisier". |
| F811.7.2.3 | Cherry tree has lotos-flowers. Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 240 No. 186. |
| S139.2.2.4.3 | Chess board and men made from bones of slain enemies. Irish myth: Cross. |
| H509.3 | Chess game as test. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| K1555.0.2 | Chest containing paramour unwittingly taken away by husband. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| A741.2 | Chest of sacrificed youth becomes the moon. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F930.8 | Chewed nut spread on waters clarifies them. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 436. |
| B292.9.2 | Chicken as laborer. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B524.8 | Chicken picks out one of attacker's eyes. Jewish: Neuman. |
| H611.3 | Chief asks another for cutting of yams to complete his yam patch (daughter in marriage). Reply that seed yams for the year are shrivelled and old and it is too early for seedlings (his daughters are too young or too old). Tonga: Gifford 43. |
| F1041.16.9 | Chief beheads sentinel who does not recognize him. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| H41.10 | Chief in disguise carries bundle so large that rank is recognized. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 388. |
| H1401.1 | Chief of dead assumes frightful guises to frighten visitors. New Guinea: Beckwith Myth 508, 512. |
| D1819.1.1 | Chief reads visitor's thoughts. California Indian: Gayton and Newman 101. |
| N812.7 | Chief with three supernatural ogre helpers. Marquesas: Handy 76. |
| V61.8.1 | Chiefs buried in hidden caves. Tahiti: Henry Ancient Tahiti (Honolulu, 1928) 224. |
| H173.1 | Chieftain recognized by faithful swineherd. Irish myth: Cross. |
| H173.2 | Chieftain recognized by former captive. Irish myth: Cross. |
| W11.5.11 | Chieftain spares enemies whom he takes unawares (unarmed). Irish myth: *Cross. |
| W11.5.11.1 | Chieftain who takes king unawares, spares him on condition that chieftain be called "lover" by women of king's tribe. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| P28.1 | Chieftainess of such rank that none of her countrymen can woo her. Maori: Clark 2. |
| Q112.1 | Chieftainship as reward. Tuamotu: Stimson MS (z-G. 3/1142, 13/174, 420); Africa (Ganda): Baskerville 1ff., (Hausa): Mischlich 164ff. No. 22, (Bondei): Woodward FL XXXVI 367ff. No. 12. |
| S143.1 | Child abandoned in hollow tree. English: Wells 126 (Lai Le Freine); Irish myth: *Cross. |
| R12.2.1 | Child abducted by robbers and brought up in their ways. Later becomes wealthy and law-abiding. Irish myth: Cross. |
| K2015 | Child adopted by rich man in order to get rid of him. *Type 930; **Aarne FFC XXIII 54. |
| S261.1 | Child as foundation sacrifice smiles and wins freedom. The king asks him why he smiles. "One first expects mercy from the parents; if they have none, then from the king. Now only God will have mercy." *Krappe Balor 171ff.; Penzer VII 87 n. 1, 88—96, 250ff.; *DeVries "De Sage van het ingemetselde Kind" Nederlandsche Tijdschrift voor Volkskunde XXXII (1917); India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| N827 | Child as helper. (Cf. N832.) Spanish: Boggs FFC XC 105 No. 860; Chinese: Graham; Korean: Zong in-Sob 47. |
| M301.20 | Child as prophet. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| T644 | Child betrays his own illegitimacy. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| G33 | Child born as cannibal. *Type 406*; *Fb "menneskeæder" II 580. |
| T551.1.1 | Child born as formless lump of flesh. Icelandic: Ragnars saga Loрbrуkar (ed. Olsen, Copenhagen, 1906—08) 129; *Schlauch Chaucer's Constance and Accused Queens (New York, 1927) 126; *Hornstein Philological Quarterly XX 1; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 782, 1268f. |
| T552 | Child born bearing an object. |
| T552.2.1 | Child born bearing lizard in each hand. Irish myth: Cross. |
| T551.4.1 | Child born beautiful on one side, hairy on other. Hibbard 45ff. (King of Tars); Irish myth: Cross. |
| T551.15 | Child born blood-red. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| T552.6 | Child born carrying a stone. Irish myth: Cross. |
| T552.4 | Child born carrying handful of hair. Africa (Fjort): Dennett 56 No. 10. |
| T552.3 | Child born carrying knife and calabash. Africa (Ekoi): Talbot 32. |
| T585.9 | Child born circumcised. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| T581.5 | Child born during snowstorm. Irish myth: Cross. |
| T586.5.2 | Child born each day for seven days. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T549.4 | Child born from miscarried fetus. Philippine (Tinguian): Cole 68, 83, 89. |
| T549.4.1 | Child born from placenta. Philippine (Tinguian): Cole 79. |
| A112.11 | Child born from union of God with hen. Easter Is.: Métraux Ethnology 130. |
| T585.1 | Child born full (nearly) grown. *Ranke FFC CXIV 156; Persian: Carnoy 287; Jewish: Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys; Korean: Zong in-Sob 5 No. 2; Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 230; S. A. Indian (Aztec): Alexander Lat. Am. 60, (Inca): Rowe BBAE CXLIII (2) 318, (Chiriguano): Métraux RMLP XXXIII 161, 166, (Karib): ibid. 147; Africa (Ekoi): Talbot 126, (Fjort): Dennett 60 No. 12, (Zulu): *Callaway 9; Cape Verde Islands: Parsons MAFLS XV (1) 352. |
| T551.13 | Child born hairy. Jewish: Neuman. |
| T551.5 | Child born half man, half fish. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| T552.2.2 | Child born holding worm (in each hand). Irish myth: *Cross. |
| T561.3 | Child born in a bag. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T561.2 | Child born in a furnace. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T561 | Child born in a jug (jar). Penzer IX 89 n. 3; N. A. Indian: Thompson Tales 323 n. 166c; Africa (Kaffir): Theal 149. |
| T548.1 | Child born in answer to prayer. *Prato RTP IV 177; Toldo I 321 n. 1; Spanish: Boggs FFC XC 77, 113 Nos. 650, 936; Italian: Basile Pentamerone I No. 2; Jewish: Neuman, Gaster Thespis 270f.; India: *Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 76f.; Japanese: Ikeda; Korean: Zong in-Sob 1 No. 4, 171 f. No. 74; West Indies: Flowers 578. |
| T561.1 | Child born in conch shell. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| T561.4 | Child born in pot. India: Thompson-Balys; S. A. Indian (Toba): Métraux MAFLS XL 40, 97ff., 129-33, BBAE CXLIII (1) 368. |
| T581.4 | Child born in stable. English: Child II 85—99 passim, V 221. |
| T581.3 | Child born in tree. English: Child II 109; Indonesian, Polynesian: Dixon 234 n. 43. |
| T584.2.1 | Child born of dead mother in grave. Irish myth: Cross. |
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