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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
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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 ▲ |
|---|---|
| F1041.9.1.3 | Woman keeps to her bed on announcement of lover's death. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| T322.1 | Woman kicks lecherous monk down the stairs. Heptameron No. 46A. |
| Q582.6 | Woman killed by horse got through immoderate request. (Cf. Q338, Q557.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| K1691.2 | Woman killed. Disliking early rising, the servant kills devil's mother or grandmother, who crows in place of the cock. Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 1029A*. |
| T565 | Woman lays an egg. (Cf. T542.) Fb "æg" III 1142b; Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 77; Korean: Zong in-Sob 5 No. 2; S. A. Indian (Huamachuco): Métraux RMLP XXXIII 151. |
| F569.1 | Woman lays eggs and hatches them. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1227.5 | Woman leaves importunate lover waiting in her room. Feigns illness and then escapes. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| D477.1.2 | Woman loses eye when she goes to well at midnight on Old Christmas Eve when the water turns to wine. England: Baughman. |
| D1749.2 | Woman loses her magic power when she loses her simplicity and humility. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K788 | Woman lured into the forest and captured. Icelandic: MacCulloch Eddic 179 (Idunn), *Boberg. |
| K1085.1 | Woman makes trouble between man and wife (to lick husband's body). India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1085 | Woman makes trouble between man and wife: the hair from his beard. She tells the wife to increase her husband's love by cutting a hair from his beard. Also tells the husband that his wife will try to cut his throat. He kills his wife. *Type 1353; *Wesselski Märchen 194; Chauvin II 158 No. 42, 195 No. 20; *Wesselski Mönchslatein 27 No. 22; *Prato Zs. f. Vksk. IX 189ff., 311ff.; Herbert III 399; Hilka Neue Beiträge zur Erzählungslit. d. Mittelalters 19 No. 17; Scala Celi 109b No. 610; Krappe Bulletin Hispanique XXXIX 48; Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| K1085.2 | Woman makes trouble between man and wife: to keep certain rendezvous. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| K2111.1 | Woman makes vain overtures to stepson and falsely accuses him of murder. She tries to poison him but her own son accidentally takes the beverage and apparently dies. Plot is revealed when doctor states that he had substituted sleeping potion for the poison. Italian Novella: *Rotunda; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| C168.1 | Woman marries in spite of warning dream. Bears blind child who soon dies. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K959.2.4 | Woman marries king feigning that she can heal him, and murders him in sleep. Afterward she takes the kingdom together with his counsellor. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| K1825.2 | Woman masks as lawyer (judge) and frees her husband. *Type 890; Icelandic: Boberg. Cf. Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice. |
| T331.3 | Woman masks as man to deceive anchorite. Toldo I 347. |
| Z33.3 | Woman meets a pig. "Good morning." "Why are you up so early?" "I am not up so early. I have drunk seven vats of milk and eaten seven plates of porridge and I shall eat you." She ate the pig. (First ed. Z31.3.3.) *Taylor JAFL XLVI 83 No. 2027A; Swedish: Norlander "Barnvisor och barnrim" Svenska Landsmеlen V No. 5 n. 265. |
| N342.6 | Woman mistakenly accused of cannibalism. She is seen biting off finger of corpse to get its ring. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| K1317.7 | Woman mistakes passer-by for lover. Substitution in the dark. Italian Novella: Rotunda; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| T85 | Woman mourns dead lover. |
| Q211.4.2 | Woman murders son's wives. (Cf. Q426.1.) Africa (Wakweli): Bender 86. |
| Q492 | Woman must relight magic fires as punishment. Magician in revenge for ill-treatment causes the lights of the city to go out. They can be relighted only from the naked body of the woman in the public square. None can be relighted until all have applied their torches. Spargo Virgil the Necromancer (Cambridge, Mass., 1934) 199ff.; *Oertel Studien zur vgl. Literaturgeschichte VIII 113; Spanish Exempla: Keller; Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| Q271.3 | Woman on visit to world of dead may not return until she pays debt to dead. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1645 | Woman ordered to strip has lover turn his back; pushes him into water (pit). (Cf. K551.4.3, K926, K1210.) U.S.: Baughman. Cf. Child Ballad No. 4. |
| K1350 | Woman persuaded (or wooed) by trick. |
| K346.3 | Woman persuaded to go after her forgotten comb. Goods stolen by guard. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K714.5 | Woman persuaded to hide head in jug: she is caught. Chinese: Graham. |
| G72.1 | Woman plans to eat her children. *Type 450; Grimm No. 143a; BP III 151. |
| N384.12 | Woman playing dead to spy on husband killed. Lithuanian: Balys Legends No. 866. |
| K2221.1 | Woman poisons her successful rival. Irish myth: Cross; Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| T311.2 | Woman prefers to remain chaste rather than keep an impotent husband. (Cf. T271.1.) Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K1923.4 | Woman pretends to be mother of child chosen to be king. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| S222.1 | Woman promises her unborn child to appease offended witch. Italian: Basile Pentamerone II No. 1. |
| K233.8 | Woman promises marriage for pair of earrings: she escapes with them. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| S222.3 | Woman promises unborn child to tiger if he will spare her. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| S222.2 | Woman promises unborn daughter to snake as wife for ferrying her across stream. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K525.1.1 | Woman puts figures of paramour and herself in bed. Husband attacks them. Woman uses it as a lesson to "reform" husband. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| T327.5 | Woman raises sores on her body to preserve chastity. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T586.3.1 | Woman ravished by three brothers bears triplets. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| E693.2 | Woman reborn as bedbug to take revenge on husband. (Cf. E616.5.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| E693.3 | Woman reborn as scorpion to take revenge on husband. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| J482.1.1 | Woman refuses second marriage. Her husband abides in her heart. Spanish: Childers. |
| J482.1 | Woman refuses second marriage. If husband is good she will fear to lose him; if bad she will repent. Alphabet No. 565; Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| V221.7 | Woman relieved of incurable malady by kissing letter from saint. (Cf. D1266.1.) *Loomis White Magic 105. |
| J1541.3 | Woman repulses ugly husband's advances. He placates her by telling her that he wants a handsome child. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| M137.1 | Woman requires husband free from jealousy. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| T146.2 | Woman requires thirty men. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F460.4.4.1.1 | Woman rescued from mountain-men. Norwegian: Solheim Register 19, *Hartmann 117. |
| T244 | Woman reveals whereabouts of husband to enemy in revenge for desertion. Irish myth: Cross. |
| T244.1 | Woman reveals whereabouts of husband to hungry bear in revenge for desertion. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| J1955.1 | Woman runs after guest to tell him he must restore her husband whom he has unintentionally killed. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T455.2 | Woman sacrifices her honor to free her husband (brother) from prison. *Bolte Zs. f. Vksk. XII 65. |
| T89.2 | Woman sacrifices herself in order to save beloved. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| W28.2 | Woman sacrifices life for son's honor. Irish myth: Cross. |
| M402.1 | Woman satirist. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| M402.1.1 | Woman satirists punished in hell. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q414.0.12.1 | Woman saved from being burned as punishment for killing impudent suitor. Icelandic: FSS 240, Boberg. |
| K2361 | Woman saves herself from soldiers by receiving them joyfully rather than fearfully. Alphabet No. 541; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T71.2.1 | Woman scorned in love complains of man's coldness. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| K1399.4 | Woman secures man's spear (arrow), lures him with it into her hut. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 47f.; Maori: Clark 4. |
| K1393 | Woman seduces boy by feigning illness (chill, etc.) Italian Novella: Rotunda; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 887. |
| H1381.2.1 | Woman seeks unknown father of her child. *Type 551; BP II 394ff.; Icelandic: Boberg; Missouri French: Carrière; India: Thompson-Balys; S. A. Indian (Chiriguano): Métraux BBAE CXLIII (3) 484; (Tupinamba): Métraux BBAE CXLIII (3) 132. |
| T455.3 | Woman sells favors for beautiful clothes. Italian: Basile Pentamerone IV No. 10. |
| T455.6 | Woman sells favors for large sum of money (property). India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| T455 | Woman sells favors for particular purpose. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| T455.1 | Woman sells favors to obtain a jewel. Icelandic: MacCulloch Eddic 123 (Freja), 176 (Frigg); Spanish: Boggs FFC XC 108 No. 900A*. |
| T455.1.1 | Woman sells favors to obtain many jewels. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| T215.8 | Woman sells her hair to feed starving husband. Jewish: Neuman. |
| T332.1 | Woman sent by deity to tempt self-righteous anchorite. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K492.1 | Woman serves beggar with coals instead of food. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T72.3 | Woman sets out to kill man who has won and then scorned her. Ruler brings about their reconciliation. Italian Novella: *Rotunda |
| F662.0.1.1 | Woman sews nine garments at a time with one needle. Chinese: Graham. |
| W15 | Woman shelters son's murderer out of charity. Spanish: Boggs FFC XC 86 No. 756D*; Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| V51.3 | Woman shows that the Lord's Prayer is the best. Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 333. |
| F662.0.1 | Woman skillful in sewing. Chinese: Graham. |
| K2112 | Woman slandered as adulteress (prostitute). (Usually by unsuccessful suitor.) (Crescentia, Genoveva, Susanna.) *Types 712, 883A; **Wallensköld Le conte de la femme chaste convoitée par son beaufrère (Acta Societatis Fennicae XXXIV, Helsingfors, 1907); *Köhler-Bolte I 392, 582; *BP I 18, 305 n. 1, Chauvin VI 159 No. 323, *167 No. 327; Ward II 680; Herbert III 342; *Dickson 72, 166 n. 12; *bin Gorion Born Judas I 361f.; *Wesselski Mönchslatein 136 No. 116; Alphabet Nos. 147, 672; **J. Kentenich Die Genovefalegende (Trier, 1927); Oesterley No. 249; Scala Celi 27b, 32a Nos. 179, 183; Hilka Neue Beiträge z. Erzählungslit. des Mittelalters 13 No. 11; *Graber Festschrift für Eugen Mogk (1924) 525ff.; *Revue des Langues romanes LII 163ff.; Archiv f. Literaturgeschichte XII 132ff.; *von der Hagen I c—civ; Hibbard 12, 21, 29ff., 35; *Puckett MPh XIII 609.—Icelandic: *Boberg; Spanish Exempla: Keller; Italian Novella: *Rotunda; Jewish: *Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 660; Chinese: Graham; Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 152. |
| B522.3 | Woman slandered as adulteress is thrown into lion pit. Lions do not harm her.—Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K2124 | Woman slandered as an ogress. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B331.2.1 | Woman slays faithful mongoose which has saved her child. "A Classical Indian Folk-Tale as a Reported Modern Event: The Brahman and the Mongoose" Proceedings, American Philosophical Society, LXXXIII 503—13; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| F575.1.3 | Woman so beautiful sea is calm for her. Eskimo (Greenland): Rasmussen I 307. |
| F571.3.1 | Woman so old her chin reaches her knee. Italian: Basile Pentamerone IV No. 8. |
| T88 | Woman stricken by plague and forsaken by her husband is sought out by unsuccessful lover and dies in his arms. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| T589.8 | Woman strives to delay birth until auspicious day. Loomis White Magic 20f.; Irish myth: *Cross. |
| K1922 | Woman substitutes child for her own and sells it. Exchanges sleeping places. Cape Verde Islands: Parsons MAFLS XV (1) 46 n. 1. |
| K1317.5 | Woman substitutes for her daughter in the dark. Heptameron No. 30; Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K3.3 | Woman substitutes for husband in combat. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| T327.2 | Woman successfully prays for disease to repel lover. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| R81.1 | Woman suckles husband isolated on rock. Irish myth: Cross. |
| R81 | Woman suckles imprisoned relative through prison wall. **Köhler-Bolte I 373, II 387; *Fb "datter" IV 94b; *DeCock Studien en Essays 23ff.; *Crane Vitry 232f. No. 238; *Oesterley No. 215; Herbert III 220; Alphabet No. 166; Scala Celi 39a No. 220; *Krappe Bulletin Hispanique XXXIX 28.—Spanish: Keller, Espinosa II No. 17; Jewish: Neuman. |
| T215.6 | Woman swims nightly to husband's prison and arranges his escape. Spurns the attentions of treacherous suitor. (Cf. R152.) Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| F1041.1.2.2.1 | Woman swoons and is near death at hearing of husband's or lover's death. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| J816.4 | Woman tactfully restrains amorous king. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| T24.4 | Woman takes on lover's deformity (while conversing with him). Irish myth: *Cross. |
| T575.2 | Woman talks to her child before it is conceived. N. A. Indian (Blackfoot): Wissler and Duvall PaAM II 126. |
| V51.4 | Woman taught that it is better to pray before Christ's image than before a saint's. Wesselski Arlotto I 201 No. 26. |
| J1075.1 | Woman tests enduring power of gossip by having a servant ride through streets on a flayed ass. By the third day he has ceased to attract attention. She concludes that it will be the same way in connection with her intended marriage. Köhler-Bolte II 571 No. 4; Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| T85.1 | Woman thinking lover dead erects cenotaph and mourns before it. Chauvin V 153 No. 75 n. 1. |
| J1895 | Woman thinks calf's bleating has accused her of stealing from harvest. Begs that people not believe what calf said. (Cf. N611.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| J1786.2 | Woman thought to be devil; thieves flee. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| H1578.1.4.1 | Woman throws apple to man in woman's dress. He puts his legs together to catch it. (Cf. H1578.1.4.) England, U.S.: *Baughman. |
| J2199.1.2 | Woman to sound bell for help in childbirth persuaded to sound false alarms: not heeded when help is needed. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| D518 | Woman transformed for nourishing an animal. Eskimo (Smith Sound): Kroeber JAFL XII 176, (Greenland): Rink 413, Rasmussen III 81, (West Hudson Bay): Boas BAM XV 638. |
| T554.0.1 | Woman transformed to animal bears animal. (Cf. T578.2.) Irish: MacCulloch Celtic 169, *Cross. |
| H63.1 | Woman transformed to flower is recognized by the absence of dew on petals. Type 407; BP III 259; German: Grimm No. 160. |
| A920.1.11 | Woman transformed to pool of water. Irish myth: Cross. |
| D11.2 | Woman transforms herself into a bird and lends her female organ to a boy. He fails to return it and she becomes a man when she resumes human form. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K945 | Woman tricked into giving poison to her husband: thinks it a love-philtre. Greek: Fox 94 (Deianeira). |
| K1222 | Woman tricks importunate lover with the head of a pike. Thereafter he thinks the vagina is toothed. Cheremis: Sebeok-Nyerges. |
| J2133.12 | Woman tries to climb rope of excrement and urine. (Cf. H1021.1.) Marquesas: Handy 40. |
| N332.5 | Woman unwittingly poisons her son. Mistakes poison for medicine. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| P671 | Woman veils self as expression of surprise. Chauvin V 149 No. 73 n. 1. |
| T337 | Woman wagers that she can seduce anchorite. Alphabet No. 528; Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| K1546 | Woman warns lover of husband by parody incantation. (Cf. K1961.1.2.1, V66.1, X441.) Boccaccio Decameron VII No. 1 (Lee 185); Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K1546.1 | Woman warns lover of husband by singing song. U.S.: *Baughman. |
| Q552.1.7 | Woman who accused saint of raping her is struck by lightning. (Cf. Q263.) Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| Q411.4.2 | Woman who disrobes to attract attention of hostile fighter killed. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| V39.9 | Woman who eats before communion cannot swallow the wafer. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| K1624 | Woman who engages false bridegroom for her daughter has plans go astray. Daughter is seduced. Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| A21.1 | Woman who fell from the sky.—Daughter of the sky-chief falls from the sky, is caught by birds, and lowered to the surface of the water. She becomes the creator. —*Iroquois: Thompson Tales n. 27.—Cf. Finnish: Kalevala rune 1. |
| G11.6.2 | Woman who marries tiger is fed human nails regularly. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| W154.14 | Woman who saves suitor from death is later condemned to die by the ingrate. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K1652 | Woman who tries to push husband into river falls in when he steps aside. She drowns because she has tied his hands and he is unable to aid her. (She also thinks he is blind because she has fed him rich food to induce blindness.) (Cf. Type 1380.) U.S.: *Baughman. |
| J133.4 | Woman will not follow donkey on safe path: attacked by robbers. Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 630. |
| F521.1.1 | Woman with animal hair. Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 189 No. 130; Eskimo (Greenland): Rasmussen I 213. |
| F546.5 | Woman with breasts hot enough to cook food. (Cf. F593.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F551.1.2.1 | Woman with horseshoe on one foot. *Fb "hestesko" I 604a. |
| F547.5.10 | Woman with privates like dog's. Eskimo (Greenland): Rasmussen III 111. |
| F546.2 | Woman with three breasts. Irish myth: Cross; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| L435.2.1 | Woman with three hundred sixty-five children. Punished for self-righteous condemnation of unchaste girl. *Taylor Notes and Queries No. 251 (Feb., 1923) 96; *K. Nyrop Grevinden med de 365 Born (København, 1909); Zs. f. Vksk. XIX 469; Child II 67f., IV 463b.; *Köhler Lais der Marie de France xc; *DeCock Volkssage 9ff. |
| F597 | Woman without womb. Jewish: Neuman. |
| K1302 | Woman won and lost by a ruse. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| T72 | Woman won and then scorned. Irish myth: *Cross; Italian Novella: *Rotunda; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| G303.9.4.10 | Woman worships the devil. Irish myth: Cross. |
| N340.3 | Woman wrongly condemned for drunkenness when seen to take one drink. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| K1676.1 | Woman, who pretends to faint, comes to life when beaten by magician in order to drive out alleged evil spirit. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| D1427.2 | Woman's arm-tassel lent to ogre compels her to follow him. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T311.0.1 | Woman's aversion to marriage motivated through a dream. Chauvin V 125 No. 59, 130 No. 112. |
| F574.1.1 | Woman's beauty burns onlooker. N. A. Indian (Chuckchee): Bogoras AA n.s. IV 666. |
| F574.1.2 | Woman's beauty shows through seven veils. Köhler to Gonzenbach No. 13; *Köhler-Bolte Zs. f. Vksk. VI 63. |
| F891.1 | Woman's body used as still. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| C942.4 | Woman's breasts dry up because of broken tabu. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K959.2.1 | Woman's father and brothers kill her husband in sleep for having married against their wishes. Italian Novella: Rotunda |
| J2012.2 | Woman's garments cut off: does not know herself. *Type 1383; *Wesselski Hodscha Nasreddin I 274 No. 298; Christensen DF XLVII 35. |
| T336.1 | Woman's girdle as source of sin. Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 378. |
| E373.3 | Woman's hand rises from grave and gives man performing vigil letter of salvation. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| D2161.1.3 | Woman's labor pains magically eased. Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 23. |
| T221 | Woman's naivité proves her fidelity. Man is rebuked for having bad breath. He reproves his wife for never having told him. "I thought that men liked it as I did." He realizes that his wife has not known any other man. Spanish Exempla: Keller; Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| H582.3 | Woman's question to her husband disguised as woman, how many men she had in one night. This is properly understood as, how many helpers he had, and answered by lifting ten fingers. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| T257.5.1 | Woman's scented hair attracts deer: husband jealous. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| W167.2 | Woman's stubbornness causes loss of chance to go on pilgrimage. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| Q331.2.1 | Woman's vain display punished. Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| T336.2 | Woman's voice as source of sin. Jewish: Neuman. |
| K2051.4 | Women adorn their heads, though they are immoral below. Irish myth: Cross. |
| A1313.4.1 | Women at first with breasts on their foreheads. S. Am. Indian (Yuracare): Métraux BBAE CXLIII (3) 503. |
| K713.1.8 | Women bind warrior's hair to wall of hostel while he sleeps. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| J1351 | Women call each other prostitutes. |
| Q552.16.1.2 | Women carrying cheeses concealed pretend that they are carrying webs or balls of thread. Saint changes cheeses to stones. (Cf. A977.5.1.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| T461.2 | Women cohabit with magic house pillars. Eskimo (Greenland): Rink 442, Rasmussen I 223. |
| K822 | Women draw warrior aside so that confederate may kill him. Irish myth: Cross. |
| P427.0.3 | Women druids. Irish myth: Cross. |
| K521.9 | Women escape from enemy's camp disguised as ascetics. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F565.4 | Women hunters. English: Malory Morte Darthur XVIII 21. |
| K443.9 | Women lead man into intrigue and then shout for help. Get money. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| G286.1 | Women learn witchcraft by masking as men. Hence women are witches. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| P611 | Women meet when bathing. Icelandic: Snorra Edda Skaldsk. XLI (Nibel), *Boberg; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| C146 | Women must wear certain things during menstruation. |
| T615.2 | Women old from their birth. Greek: *Frazer Apollodorus I 155 n. 4. |
| P427.7.4 | Women poets. Irish myth: Cross. |
| K2014 | Women pretend to weep over warrior's wounds while attempting to inflame them. Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q151.13 | Women rewarded with their lives for excellent dancing. Tuamotu: Stimson MS (z-G. 3/1260). |
| T71 | Women scorned in love. *Dickson 87ff. nn. 50, 55; Penzer II 109, 120ff., III 109f., IV 91, 104ff., V 259 n. 1; Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg; Jewish: Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T455.3.1 | Women sells favors for new shoes. (Cf. K1357.) Type 1731; Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K2352 | Women spread shawls on enemy's path and entangle them. They are easily defeated. *Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 525. |
| H252.4.2 | Women swear falsely by their husbands and children, who immediately fall dead. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K2356 | Women throw ashes in eyes of attacking soldiers, so that they are defeated. Swiss: Jegerlehner Oberwallis 301 No. 17; Jewish: *Neuman. |
| H1596.3 | Women to appear naked in beauty contest. Jewish: Neuman. |
| A2611.0.4.1 | Women transformed into flowers. Marquesas: Handy 135. |
| B297.2.1 | Women transformed to bitches enchanted by music. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F565 | Women warriors or hunters. |
| Q321.1 | Women who will not sew are cast from community. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| N325.2 | Women, driven mad, devour their infants' flesh. Greek: Frazer Apollodorus I 331 n. 4. |
| F110.1 | Wonder voyages. **Jacobs Book of Wonder Voyages; *Chauvin VII 77ff.; Ward II 516ff.; Krappe Philological Quarterly XXIII (1944) 97—107.—Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: Boberg; Japanese: Anesaki 363; Indonesian: De Vries's list No. 183; Africa (Benga): Nassau 208 No. 33. |
| G375 | Wonderful birds guarded by monster. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F900.1.1 | Wonders occur on Hallowe'en. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F143 | Wood at borders of otherworld. *Siuts 30ff.; MLN XXXIV 321; Irish: *Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg; Africa (Yoruba): Ellis 245 No. 1. |
| W153.13 | Wood dealer prays for raja's death so that he can sell sandal wood for funeral pyre. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F812.2 | Wood of sixty trees nourishing three hundred men apiece. Patch PMLA 624 n. 82. |
| D476.1.3 | Wood turned into grain. *Loomis White Magic 81. |
| F812.8 | Wood which cannot be consumed by fire. Jewish: Neuman. |
| F811.5.2 | Wood which distills wine. *Loomis White Magic 124. |
| F441.2.1.1 | Wood-nymph comes to the fire to warm. Danish: Kristensen Danske Sagn II (1893) 38ff., (1928) 26ff.; Finnish: Aarne FFC XXXIII 44 No. 56**; Finnish-Swedish: Wessman 49 No. 398. |
| F441.2.1.2 | Wood-nymph with breasts so long that she throws them over her shoulder. (Cf. F232.2, F460.1.2, G123.) Danish: Kristensen Danske Sagn II (1893) 120ff., (1928) 90ff.; Swiss: Jegerlehner Oberwallis 321 No. 58. |
| F441.2.1.3 | Wood-nymph wooes and then deserts man. Norse: MacCulloch Eddic 205. |
| F441.2.1 | Wood-nymph. Type 480; Roberts 121; Swedish: Hartmann 26, 27; Slavic: Máchal 262ff.; Armenian: Ananikian 84. |
| F441.6.4 | Wood-spirit calls after one in woods (Hehmann). **E. Rath Der Hehmann (Wien, 1953). |
| F441.4.1 | Wood-spirit gigantic with one eye in center of forehead. Cheremis: Holmberg Finno-Ugric 182. |
| F441.5.2 | Wood-spirit gigantic. (Cf. F232.6, F531.) S. A. Indian (Pitcomayo-Chaco): Belaieff BBAE CXLIII (1) 379. |
| F441.5.1 | Wood-spirit tiny. (Cf. F239.4.3, F535.) S. A. Indian (Pitcomayo-Chaco): Belaieff BBAE CXLIII (1) 379. |
| F441.4.2 | Wood-spirit without hands, feet, or mouth. Africa (Kpelle): Westermann Zs. f. Afrikan. ozean., u. ostasiat. Spr. VII 161 No. 29a. |
| F441 | Wood-spirit. *Type 667*; *Hdwb. d. Märchen I 198a; *Mannhardt I 87ff., 311ff.—Irish myth: Cross; U.S.: Baughman; Icelandic: MacCulloch Eddic 204f., 226; Swedish: G. Granberg Skogsrеet (Stockholm, 1934); Finnish: Holmberg Finno-Ugric 177, 185; Estonian: *Loorits Grundzüge I 521f., 546f., 559ff.; Germanic: Meyer Altgermanische 94; Livonian: Loorits FFC LXVI 40 No. 22; Slavic: Máchal 261ff.; Persian: Carnoy 298; S. A. Indian (Warrau): *Kirchoff BBAE CXLIII (3) 880, (Tapirapé): Wagley-Baldao ibid. (3) 178, (Pilcomayo, Chaco): Belaieff ibid. (1) 379; Africa (Ekoi): Talbot 247, 251. See also F200—F399 (Fairies and Elves), F420 (Water-spirits), F461 (Dwarfs) and F460 (Mountain-spirits) for many common motifs. |
| E501.5.3 | Wood-spirits pursued in wild hunt. Plischke 66. |
| F441.6.1 | Wood-spirits responsible for sickness and failure. S. A. Indian (Warrau): Kirchoff BBAE CXLIII (3) 880. |
| F441.6.2 | Wood-spirits transform men into animals. S. A. Indian (Warrau): Kirchoff BBAE CXLIII (3) 880. |
| F441.4.5 | Wood-spirits with such heavy eyebrows they must lie on backs to see upwards. (Cf. F571.1.) S. A. Indian (Warrau): Kirchoff BBAE CXLIII (3) 880. |
| F441.4.6 | Wood-spirits with teeth on stomach. S. A. Indian (Warrau): Kirchoff BBAE CXLIII (3) 880. |
| A2423.1.1 | Woodcock's ugly voice. Exchanged with thrush. (See A2245.1.) |
| L113.5 | Woodcutter hero. Africa (Nubian): Rochemonteix Quelques Contes Nubiens (Cairo, 1888) 48ff. No. 4, (Suaheli): Steere 13ff. |
| J2212.3 | Wooden anchor would hold if it were only large, thinks the fool. Type 1277**. |
| A714.8 | Wooden circles that were the sun and moon animated after human sacrifice of blood. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F821.1.4 | Wooden coat. *Type 510B; BP II 45ff; Liungman Jordkulan 90; Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "bois"; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K2346 | Wooden image frightens away invaders. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 388. |
| F839.7 | Wooden lizard used to kill evil spirits. Easter Island: Métraux Ethnology 370. |
| A1957.1 | Woodpecker from devil's herdsman transformed. The devil strikes his herdsman so that he turns into a bird who continually calls after his beloved cow. (Cf. A1710.)—Livonian: Loorits FFC LXVI 90 No. 80. |
| A2239.4 | Woodpecker punished for stinginess. North Carolina: Brown Collection I 633. |
| A2261.4 | Woodpecker transformed from stingy woman: therefore stingy. North Carolina: Brown Collection I 633. |
| D1554.1 | Woods opens and hides fugitive. (Cf. D941.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q3.1 | Woodsman and the gold axe. A woodsman lets his axe fall into the water. Hermes comes to his rescue. Takes out a gold axe but the woodsman says that it is not his. The same with a silver axe. Finally he is given his own axe and rewarded for his modest choice. His companion tries this plan and loses his axe. Wienert FFC LVI 79* (ET 449), 139 (ST 444); Halm Aesop No. 308; Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 729*; Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 34 No. 20; Japanese: Ikeda. |
| P458 | Woodsman. Types 327, 700; Köhler Aufsätze 49; Sébillot Métiers No. 16; Missouri French: Carrière. |
| M375.4 | Wooers slain to avoid fulfillment of prophecy. Irish myth: Cross. |
| T51 | Wooing by emissary. *Schoepperle I 188 n. 3, 202; Icelandic: Half saga ok Hálfsrekka 69, *Boberg; Missouri French: Carrière; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T51.1.1 | Wooing emissary admitted to woman's room. Elopes with her. (Cf. K1349.1.5.) Icelandic: Boberg. |
| K1952.5 | Wooing emissary poses as king and suitor, but is refused. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| T51.1 | Wooing emissary wins lady's love for himself. *Köhler-Bolte II 328ff.; Schoepperle passim; English: Wells 43 (Arthour and Merlin); Icelandic: *Boberg; Missouri French: Carrière; India: *Thompson-Balys; S. A. Indian (Chiriguano): Métraux RMLP XXXIII 159; Africa (Zulu): Callaway 210. |
| T58 | Wooing the strong and beautiful bride. *Type 519; Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| T69 | Wooing—miscellaneous motifs. |
| T50 | Wooing. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A2255.1 | Wool on his forehead awarded sheep in lawsuit. He is given the privilege of keeping it when the rest of his body is shorn. (Cf. A2322.5.)—Finnish: Aarne FFC VIII 12 No. 64. |
| J1851.1.4 | Wool taken to pond for frogs and toads to weave. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| G224.12 | Word charm gives witch power. (Cf. D1273.) England, Scotland: *Baughman. |
| D1355.18.1 | Word charms woven in clothing produce love. England: Baughman. |
| F1099.3 | Words heard though only thought and not uttered. Jewish: Neuman. |
| J1802 | Words in a foreign language thought to be insults. Type 1322*; Nouvelles Récréations No. 65. |
| F883.1.3 | Words of Decalogue legible on both sides. Jewish: Neuman. |
| G303.16.4 | Words of religious comfort cause devil and his crew to vanish. England: Baughman, Hunt Popular Romances 218; Jewish: Neuman. |
| E545.0.1 | Words uttered from the tomb. *Loomis White Magic 53; Icelandic: Boberg; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| D2192 | Work of day magically overthrown at night. *Fb "kirke" II 125 a; Wells 42 (Arthour and Merlin); Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: Boberg; Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 3602; India: Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Graham; Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 465; Ellice Island: ibid. 270; Marquesas: ibid. 269; Tuamotu: ibid. 267; Tahiti: ibid. 266; Maori: ibid. 265; Africa (Duala): Lederbogen Fables 59. |
| W154.21 | Workers (builder) killed when secret building or grave is finished. (Cf. W181.2.) Krappe "Les funérailles d'Alaric" Annuaire de l'institut de philologie et d'histoire orientales et slaves VII (1939—44) 229ff. |
| A677 | Workmen and tradesmen of hell. |
| A655 | World as egg. The two halves are heaven and earth.—Hindu: Penzer I 10 n. 3; Greek: Fox 5. |
| F725.8 | World at bottom of pond. German: Grimm No. 181. |
| F725.9 | World at bottom of well. German: Grimm Nos. 24, 79. |
| A1090 | World calamities and renewals: miscellaneous motifs. |
| A1099 | World calamities—additional motifs. |
| A1007 | World calamity will begin in Palestine. Jewish: Neuman. |
| A1000 | World catastrophe. The world is destroyed. The incidents are usually the same whether a final destruction is thought of or a destruction which may be overcome by a renewal of the earth.—**Olrik Ragnarök; Fb "verden" III 1039ab; *G. Neckel Studien zu den germanischen Dichtungen vom Weltuntergang (Stzb. d. Heidelberger Akad. d. Wissenschaften 1918); **H. Fischer Weltwenden (1928); **Henne-am Rhyn Das Jenseits: kulturgeschichtliche Darstellung der Ansichten über .... Weltuntergang (1881); **Reitzenstein Weltuntergangsvorstellungen (Kyrkohistoriska Еrsskrift [Uppsala 1924]).—Icel.: MacCulloch Eddic 336ff.; Irish myth: *Cross; Jewish: *Neuman; Egyptian: Smith Dragon 111; Hindu: Keith 105.—S. Am. Indian (Guarani): *Métraux RMLP XXXIII 124. |
| A1009 | World catastrophes—miscellaneous. |
| A1099.1 | World destroyed by rain of stones. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A1099.2 | World devoured by ogre. India: Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Graham. |
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