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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
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Ogres
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Tests
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The Wise and the Foolish
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Deceptions
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Reversals of Fortune
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Ordaining the Future
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Chance and Fate
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Society
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Rewards and Punishments
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Captives and Fugitives
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Unnatural Cruelty
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Sex
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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 |
|---|---|
| Q223.13 | Neglect of clerical duties punished. Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q223.13.1 | Monk neglecting to prostrate self at canonical hours expelled from monastery by saint and dies on seventh day. Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q223.13.2 | Punishment (fine) for not giving benediction on finished work. Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q223.14 | Punishment for failure to give customary offering to gods. Marquesas: Handy 81, Métraux Ethnology 329. |
| Q224 | Punishment for betraying confessional. (Cf. Q414.0.9.) *Dickson 46 n. 55; *Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 302; *Krappe "La fille de l'homme riche" Byzantion XVII (1944—45) 339—346; Irish: Beal XXI 334. |
| Q225 | Punishment for scoffing at religious teachings. (Cf. Q415.8, Q458.0.5, Q551.10.1, Q552.7, Q552.8, Q552.13.1.2, Q553.1, Q554.3, Q554.4, Q555.1, Q558.1.) Finnish-Swedish: Wessman 18 Nos. 171—173; Spanish Exempla: Keller; Jewish: Neuman. |
| Q225.1 | Heresy punished. (Cf. Q414.0.8, Q469.7, Q559.11.) Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| Q225.2 | Punishment for denying pagan gods. (Cf. Q413.6.) |
| Q225.3 | Punishment for doubting Buddha's religion. Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 479. |
| Q226 | Punishment for leaving holy orders. (Cf. Q520.5, Q551.3.4.3.) |
| Q226.1 | Hermit leaving his cell to become robber falls and breaks his neck. He has seen a penitent robber's soul borne to heaven and resolves therefore to be a robber. *Crane Vitry 166 No. 72; Kittredge Englische Studien XIX 177; *Herbert III 60. Cf. Type 756B. |
| Q226.2 | Mutinous clerics expelled in shapes of swine. (Cf. Q551.3.2.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q227 | Punishment for opposition to holy person. (Cf. Q286.1, Q421.2, Q428.3, Q451.3.3, Q451.7.0.2.1, Q457.4, Q494.1, Q551.2.1, Q551.6.2, Q551.7.1, Q551.8.4, Q551.9.1, Q552.1.0.1.1, Q552.1.4, Q552.2.0.1.1, Q552.2.3.1.1, Q552.2.3.1.3, Q552.2.3.2.1, Q552.2.3.2.3, Q552.13.1.1, Q552.13.2.1, Q552.13.2.2, Q552.13.3, Q552.15, Q552.16, Q552.18.1, Q552.18.2, Q552.19.1, Q556.4, Q556.5, Q557.6, Q558.13, Q559.5, Q559.7, Q571.1, Q572.3, Q575, Q576.1, Q582.7, Q591, Q595.1.) *Loomis White Magic 98, 101f.; Irish: *Cross, O'Suilleabhain 82f., Beal XXI 328; Icelandic: *Boberg; Jewish: *Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 59, 1249. |
| Q227.1 | Punishment for slaying king under holy protection. Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q227.1.1 | Punishment for imprisoning person under holy protection. Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q227.2 | Punishment for looking at saint's corpse. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q227.3 | Saint (hero) drives chariot over person who displeases him. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q228 | Punishment for trying to harm sacred animal. Glutton tries to kill a pig dedicated to St. Anthony. The pig turns upon him and tramples him severely. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q231 | Brahmin punished for killing animal. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q232 | Punishment for change of religious faith. |
| Q232.1 | Pagan punished by fellows for conversion to Christianity. Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q232.2 | Punishment of Jew for apostasy. Jewish: Neuman. |
| Q232.2.1 | Punishment for leaving Palestine. Jewish: Neuman. |
| Q233 | Punishment for yielding to temptation by the devil. (Cf. Q582.2.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q235 | Cursing punished. |
| Q235.1 | Man put in moon for cursing God. He is now the man in the moon. (Cf. A751, Q221.3.) U.S.: Baughman. |
| Q236 | Punishment for deceiving (divine) emperor. Chinese: Graham: |
| Q237 | Idolatry punished. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| Q240 | Sexual sins punished. |
| Q241 | Adultery punished. (Cf. Q411.0.1, Q413.2, Q414.0.2, Q416.1.1, Q418.1, Q421.0.2, Q421.0.6, Q424.2, Q428.1, Q431.8, Q432.2, Q434.1, Q451.1.5, Q451.2.4, Q451.4.8, Q451.5.1, Q451.6.1, Q451.14, Q455.2, Q456.0.1, Q457.3, Q458.0.1, Q461.3, Q466.1, Q469.1, Q473.0.2, Q473.1.1, Q473.2.1, Q478.1, Q478.2, Q478.3, Q484, Q493.1, Q499.2.1, Q537.1, Q552.3.0.3, Q555.2, Q587.) **Encyc. Rel. Ethics s.v. "adultery"; *Schoepperle 446ff.; *Penzer II 88 n. 1, VI 189 n. 2; Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 228; Herbert III 134, 472, 574; Boccaccio Decameron V No. 8 (*Lee 166); *Chauvin VIII 120 No. 104; Alphabet Nos. 35—37; Wesselski Bebel I 175 No. 18; Grimm No. 4; Loomis White Magic 99; Foulché-Delbosc and Krappe "La légende du roi Ramire" Revue Hispanique LXXVIII (1930) 489—543. — Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg; Spanish Exempla: Keller; Italian Novella: *Rotunda; Greek: Fox 197 (cf. K1563); Jewish: *Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 794, 1369; Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 127; Easter Island: Métraux Ethnology 114; Marquesas: Handy 113, 118; Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 170; Tonga: Gifford 76, 119; N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 344 n. 240; S. A. Indian (Toba): Métraux MAFLS XL 120, 161; Africa (Congo): Grenfell 817. |
| Q241.1 | Desire to commit adultery punished. Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q241.2 | Lover refuses to take back unfaithful paramour. English romance: Malory IX 39. |
| Q242 | Incest punished. (Cf. Q414.0.3, Q421.0.6, Q431.8.1, Q451.4.3, Q451.7.3, Q520.3, Q541.3, Q552.19.4.) Spanish Exempla: Keller; Jewish: Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q242.1 | Cohabitation of godfather and godmother punished. (Cf. P296.) Andrejev FFC LXIX 240. |
| Q242.2 | Father-daughter incest punished. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| Q242.3 | Punishment for man who makes advances to sister-in-law. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q242.4 | Father of incestuous children punished. Eskimo (Bering Strait): Nelson RBAE XVIII 481, (Cumberland Sound): Boas BAM XV 209. |
| Q243 | Incontinence punished—miscellaneous. (Cf. Q414.0.3, Q414.0.3.1, Q431.5.3, Q433.6, Q451.1.4.1, Q458.2.1.) Irish myth: *Cross; Jewish: *Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Graham. |
| Q243.0.1 | Punishment by extinction of royal line for sexual incontinence. Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q243.0.2 | Suspected incontinence unjustly punished. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q243.1 | Prostitution punished. |
| Q243.1.1 | Harlot punished by being burned (in hell). Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q243.1.2 | Punishment for forcing a girl to become prostitute. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q243.2 | Seduction punished. (Cf. K1360, Q421.0.7, Q431.5, Q458.2.3, Q531.5.) Italian Novella: *Rotunda; S. A. Indian (Tucuna): Nimuendaju BBAE CXLIII (3) 724, (Huamachuco): Métraux RMLP XXXIII 151. |
| Q243.2.1 | Attempted seduction punished. (Cf. Q424.3, Q431.5.1, Q469.10.1.) Icelandic: Boberg; Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q243.3 | Punishment for taking concubine. (Cf. Q499.2.2.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q243.4 | Punishment for taking heathen wives. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| Q243.5 | Punishment for consorting with one of lower class. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| Q243.6 | Tiger instead of girl in box tears lecherous teacher to pieces. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| Q244 | Punishment for ravisher. (Cf. Q411.7, Q421.0.3, Q431.6, Q451.6.0.1, Q467.4, Q552.1.2.) India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| Q244.0.1 | Ravisher is forced to marry girl and then is executed. Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| Q244.1 | Punishment for attempted rape. (Cf. Q411.2.) Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q244.2 | Knight who ravished nun captured when she miraculously appears before him on his horse and holds reins until he is taken. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| Q244.3 | Prostitute with venereal disease sent to lecherous king. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q245 | Punishment for refusal to marry after girl is pregnant. (Cf. Q263, Q451.2.1.) |
| Q246 | Mortal's attempt to defile goddess punished. Greek: Frazer Apollodorus II 34 n. 2 (Iasion and Demeter). |
| Q246.1 | Goddess killed for infidelity with mortal. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 37. |
| Q247 | Punishment for desertion of fairy mistress. (Cf. F302, F361, Q469.11.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q248 | Punishment for banishing wife at wish of paramour. (Cf. Q241, Q556.9.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q251 | Punishment for refusal to have children. (Cf. Q431.4, Q552.9, T572.) *Type 755; Fb "barn" IV 26a; Bolte Zs. f. Vksk. XIV 114; Lithuanian: Balys Legends Nos. 392ff. |
| Q251.1 | Punishment for abortion. Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 918. |
| Q252 | Punishment for breaking betrothal. (Cf. Q416.0.1.) Jewish: bin Gorion Born Judas VI 237ff., 316. |
| Q252.1 | Wife stealing punished with death. (Cf. K1371.) Marquesas: Handy 103. |
| Q253 | Sodomy punished. (Cf. Q414.0.11, T463.) Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q253.0.1 | Sodomy punished by death. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q253.0.2 | Sodomist rebuked by youth. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q253.1 | Bestiality punished. (Cf. T465.) India: Thompson-Balys; Marquesas: Handy 121; Samoa: Beckwith Myth 103. |
| Q253.2 | Homosexuality punished. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| Q254 | Girl punished for becoming pregnant. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q255 | Punishment of woman who prefers mortal lover to gods. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q256 | Punishment for clandestine lover of princess. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q257 | Refusal of conjugal relations punished. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| Q260 | Deceptions punished. (Cf. Q551.2, Q558.10.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q261 | Treachery punished. (Cf. Q413.8, Q414.0.5, Q414.0.6.1, Q417.2, Q423, Q431.2, Q431.10, Q433.7, Q451.1.3, Q451.4.4, Q451.5.4, Q469.7.1, Q552.1.5, Q581.0.1.) Irish myth: *Cross; Missouri French: Carrière; Spanish: Espinosa II Nos. 113, 119, III No. 264, Espinosa Jr. Nos. 75, 80, 106, 110, 126, 138—42; Greek: Grote I 88f., 109, 171, 203; Jewish: *Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys; Eskimo (Mackenzie Area): Jenness 87; (West Hudson Bay): Boas BAM XV 551f.; Tuamotu: Stimson MS (z-G. 3/1122, T-G. 3/912); Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 87, 331; Tonga: Gifford 101, 142; S. A. Indian (Chiriguano): Métraux RMLP XXXIII 180. |
| Q261.1 | Intended treachery punished. (Cf. Q210.1, Q552.2.3.4.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q261.2 | Treacherous wife punished. (Cf. K2213.) |
| Q261.2.1 | Treacherous wife abandoned by lover for fear of treachery. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q262 | Impostor punished. (Cf. K1900, Q413.3, Q414.0.6, Q414.1.1, Q416.0.3, Q431.7, Q433.4, Q458.0.4, Q552.1.3.) English: Wells 42 (Arthour and Merlin); Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "usurpateur", "imposteur"; Missouri French: Carrière; Spanish: Keller, Espinosa Jr. Nos. 106—110, Espinosa II Nos. 133—135; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| Q263 | Lying (perjury) punished. (Cf. Q431.17, Q451.1.7, Q451.3.2, Q451.5.3, Q451.7.1, Q488.1, Q551.6.1, Q551.8.5, Q551.9.2, Q552.1.7, Q558.2, Q558.15, Q591.) *Fb "sværge" III 692b, "ed" I 234; Wienert FFC LVI 55 (ET 146), 104 (ST 166, 455); Scala Celi 103b No. 556; Alphabet Nos. 380, 417. — Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg; Finnish-Swedish: Wessman 19 No. 177; Spanish: Keller, Espinosa Jr. Nos. 115, 188, Espinosa II No. 94; Jewish: *Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 113, 150, II 529, 1272; Hawaii: Beckwith 153; Tuamotu: Stimson MS (T-G. 3/711); Philippine (Tinguian): Cole 98; Eskimo (Greenland): Rasmussen III 160; Africa (Fjort): Dennett 89 No. 22, (Ibo, Nigeria): Thomas 124, (Dahome): Einstein 29. |
| Q263.1 | Death as punishment for perjury. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q265 | False judging punished. (Cf. Q551.8.1, Q558.16, Q559.8.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q265.1 | Bribed false judge punished. (Cf. J1192.) Alphabet No. 433; Spanish Exempla: Keller; Jewish: *Neuman. |
| Q265.1.1 | Unjust judges punished in hell. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q265.2 | Punishment for (undeserved) satire. (Cf. Q558.8.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q265.2.1 | Blotches on face of satirist (judge) as punishment for wrongful satire (judgment). Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q265.3 | Judge must yield bench to son because he had made a false judgment. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| Q265.4 | Punishment for undeserved curse. Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q266 | Punishment for breaking promise. Jewish: *Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 187. |
| Q266.1 | Man promises more to church than he can possibly provide: punished. Finnish-Swedish: Wessman 18 No. 176. |
| Q267 | Hypocrisy punished. |
| Q267.1 | Devil comes for hypocrite. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q268 | Flattery punished. Jewish: Neuman; Spanish Exempla: Keller (Q393.1.) |
| Q270 | Misdeeds concerning property punished. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q271 | Debtor punished. (Cf. Q421.0.1, Q473.0.1, Q491.2, Q499.5.) |
| Q271.1 | Debtor deprived of burial. (Cf. Q421.0.1, Q491.) See all references to E341 (The grateful dead). **A. Esmein "Débiteurs privés de sepulture" Mélanges d'histoire du droit (Paris, 1886) 244ff.; S. Riccobono "Cristianesimo e diritto privato" Revista di diritto civile III (1911) 43ff.; Antonucci Lares I No. 2 (1930) 3—5. |
| Q271.2 | Devil condemns rich man who does not repent until ready to die. Scala Celi 57b No. 322; Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| Q271.3 | Woman on visit to world of dead may not return until she pays debt to dead. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q272 | Avarice punished. (Cf. Q552.3.5, Q589.1.0.1, W151.) *Hdwb. d. Märchens I 188 nn. 154, 166, 167; Crane Liber de Miraculis 86 No. 10; Icelandic: *Boberg; Irish myth: *Cross; Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 774*; Spanish: Boggs FFC XC 98, 760C*, 836C*, Keller; India: Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Graham, Eberhard FFC CXX 67, 196; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 268, 556, 1264; Tonga: Gifford 207; Tuamotu: Beckwith Myth 504; Maori: ibid. 374; Eskimo (Greenland): Rink 396; Africa (Wakweli): Bender 63, 106, (Fang): Tessman 117, (Jaunde): Heepe 247ff.; West Indies: Flowers 568. |
| Q272.1 | Devil carries off rich man. Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 281; Crane Vitry 204 Nos. 170; Scala Celi 60b, 80a Nos. 322, 456. |
| Q272.1.1 | Devil carries off rich man at death. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| Q272.2 | Avaricious man has neck broken when top of his treasure chest falls on him. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| Q272.3 | Avaricious miser tries to eat his adored money and chokes to death. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| Q272.4 | Avaricious woman and her gold consumed by hell's fires which burn in her grave. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| Q273 | Usury punished. Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 198; Alphabet Nos. 231, 278, 287, 794; Scala Celi 154b, 168a Nos. 852, 955—959; Spanish Exempla: Keller; Jewish: *Neuman. |
| Q273.1 | Devil comes for usurer. (Cf. R11.2.1.) Scala Celi 168a Nos. 953, 954; Alphabet No. 758; Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q273.1.1 | Dead usurer fed molten silver by devil. Crane Vitry 203 No. 168; Alphabet No. 785; Mensa Philosophica No. 221; Scala Celi 168a No. 953; Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| Q273.2 | Usurer refused burial. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q273.3 | Usurer punished in hell. *Crane Vitry Nos. 167—170 and passim; Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| Q273.4 | Church built by usurer's money made to collapse by devil. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| Q274 | Swindler punished. (Cf. Q414.0.6.1, Q456.0.2, Q491.1.1, Q557.3.) |
| Q274.1 | Devils carry away stones of church built with ill-gotten money. Scala Celi 84a No. 481. |
| Q274.2 | Devil suffocates swindling merchant. (Cf. Q425.) Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q274.3 | Use of false weights and measures punished. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| Q275 | Remover of landmarks punished. Kuhn Sagen aus Westfalen I 40f. No. 34, 118 No. 127, 177 No. 187; Hoffman JAFL II 33; Frahm Am Urquell II 202. |
| Q276 | Stinginess punished. (Cf. Q551.2.8, Q589.4.) India: *Thompson-Balys; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 342. |
| Q277 | Covetousness punished. Jewish: *Neuman, Moreno Esdras (Q332). |
| Q280 | Unkindness punished. Irish: Beal XXI 320; Missouri French: Carrière; Jewish: Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 127; Africa (Duala): Lederbogen JAS IV 67, (Bulu): Krug 109, (Congo): Weeks Congo 216. |
| Q281 | Ingratitude punished. (Cf. Q551.6.3, Q597.2.) Irish: Beal XXI 331; Spanish: Keller, Espinosa III No. 264, Espinosa Jr. No. 41; Jewish: *Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 1159; Maori, Samoa, Tonga: *Beckwith Myth 504f.; Africa: Woodson 64, (Wakweli): Bender 50, Sieber 89ff., (Bantu): Einstein 148, (Lokele): Grenfell 820, (Jaunde): Heepe 89, (Fang): Tessman 188; West Indies: Flowers 568; Jamaica: Beckwith MAFLS XVII 267 No. 76. |
| Q281.1 | Ungrateful children punished. (Cf. Q551.1, Q557.1, Q557.2, Q588.) Irish: Cross, O'Suilleabhain 46, Beal XXI 317; Jewish: *Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q281.1.1 | Devils carry off girl who abuses her mother. Scala Celi 99a No. 531; Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| Q281.1.2 | Girl cruel to her mother is slain by God. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| Q281.2 | Ungrateful ruler is deposed. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q281.3 | Woman eats flesh and leaves cat only bones of fish cat has caught for them. Cursed by cat. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q281.4 | Ungrateful king raises old woman's rent; miraculous punishment. (Cf. W154.2.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q283 | Irreverent young people punished by outraged old man. Icelandic: Boberg; Koryak: *Jochelson JE VI 365f.; Eskimo: *Boas BAM XV 361; N. A. Indian (Tsimshian): Boas BBAE XXVII 95. |
| Q284 | Reproach concerning physical deformity (blemish) punished. (Cf. Q411.9.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q285 | Cruelty punished. (Cf. E501.3.1, Q415.3.1.) Spanish: Espinosa Jr. No. 187; Jewish: *Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys; Africa: Stanley 61, 103. |
| Q285.1 | Cruelty to animals punished. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q285.1.1 | Punishment for cutting off bird's tongue. (Cf. Q451.4, Q552.5.1.) Finnish-Swedish: Wessman 19 No. 182; Japanese: Ikeda. |
| Q285.1.1.1 | Man slits tongue of magpie so that it can learn to speak. His fingernails grow out like bird's claws as punishment. Wales: Baughman. |
| Q285.1.2 | Punishment for breaking bird's nest. Finnish-Swedish: Wessman 19 No. 183. |
| Q285.1.2.1 | Boy reaches into bird's nest for pigeon's eggs. A stone in the nest holds his hand for three days and nights. He is finally released by prayers. Wales: Baughman. |
| Q285.2 | Cruelty to sick persons punished. Finnish-Swedish: Wessman 19 No. 181. |
| Q285.3 | Cruel mutilation punished. (Cf. Q411.5.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q285.4 | Slave-driving punished. (Cf. P270, Q291.2, Q558.7.) Irish myth: Cross; Jewish: *Neuman; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 706. |
| Q286 | Uncharitableness punished. (Cf. Q494.1.1, Q552.3.0.1, Q571.2, Q572.2, Q574.2, Q585.1, Q595.3.) Irish: O'Suilleabhain 93, 129, 131, Beal XXI 330, 337; Spanish: Espinosa Jr. Nos. 186, 202—04; Swiss: Jegerlehner Oberwallis 300 No. 16; India: *Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Werner 255; Africa (Ila, Rhodesia): Smith and Dale II 415 No. 14. |
| Q286.1 | Uncharitableness to holy person punished. (Cf. Q1.1, Q553.3.5, Q556.11, Q589.1.) Type 766*; *Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 329; Irish: *Cross; O'Suilleabhain 22, Beal XXI 307; Spanish: Espinosa Jr. Nos. 183f., 202—04; Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 192. |
| Q286.2 | Priest will not bury dead unless paid in advance. Ruler has him buried alive with the corpse. (Cf. Q456.2.) Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| Q287 | Refusal to grant request punished. (Cf. Q499.4.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q288 | Punishment for mockery. (Cf. Q556.8, Q583.1.) Irish myth: *Cross; S. A. Indian (Chiriguano): Métraux RMLP XXXIII 181. |
| Q291 | Hard-heartedness punished. (Cf. Q415.2.) Irish: O'Suilleabhain 61, 130, Beal XXI 324, 337; Jewish: *Neuman. |
| Q291.1 | St. Peter's mother dropped from heaven because of hardheartedness. She is permitted to go to heaven on a stalk, but is weighted down by people holding to her skirts. She shakes them off. (Cf. Q172.) *Type 804; *BP III 538; Köhler-Bolte I 60. |
| Q291.2 | Punishment of hard-hearted masters in other world. (Cf. Q285.4.) Lithuanian: Balys Legends Nos. 467—71; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q292 | Inhospitality punished. (Cf. P320, Q45, Q551.6.7, Q556.7, W158.) Irish: *Cross, O'Suilleabhain 53; Finnish: Kalevala rune 33; Swiss: Jegerlehner Oberwallis 323 No. 94; Spanish Exempla: Keller; Jewish: *Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 824; Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 174; Africa (Wachaga): Gutmann 93, (Loango): Pechuël-Loesche 110. |
| Q292.1 | Inhospitality to saint (god) punished. (Cf. Q1.1.) *Loomis White Magic 101; Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 772*; Russian: Andrejev No. 796I*; Swiss: Jegerlehner Oberwallis 295 No. 13; Spanish: Espinosa Jr. No. 181; Greek: Fox 20, 94; India: Thompson-Balys; S. A. Indian (Chincha): Alexander Lat. Am. 231. |
| Q292.2 | Inhospitality to orphans punished. Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 3728. |
| Q292.3 | Abuse of hospitality punished. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q295 | Monkey destroys nest of bird who has made sport of him. Japanese: Ikeda; Indonesia: DeVries's list No. 52. |
| Q296 | Injustice punished. (Cf. Q265, Q552.1.6.) Irish myth: *Cross; Jewish: Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q296.1 | Sack of flour pushed down on peasant who accuses his wife of theft from it. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| Q297 | Slander punished. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| Q300 | Contentiousness punished. (Cf. W188.) |
| Q301 | Jealousy punished. (Cf. W181.) Penzer III 177f.; Missouri French: Carrière; Spanish Exempla: Keller; Italian Novella: *Rotunda; Jewish: Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys; Africa (Konnoh): Willans 139. |
| Q302 | Envy punished. (Cf. Q551.6.6, W195.) Irish myth: Cross; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q302.1 | Envy punished: the found purse. Three men find a purse. They are loath to pick it up, since they will have to divide. The king sees this and assigns them their proper punishments. Chauvin II 120 No. 107. |
| Q304 | Scolding punished. Africa (Ila, Rhodesia): Smith and Dale II 412 No. 10. |
| Q305 | War-making punished. (Cf. Q553.3.1.) Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| Q306 | Quarrelsomeness punished. (Cf. Q551.7.3.) Irish myth: Cross; Africa (Wakweli): Bender 62. |
| Q312 | Fault-finding punished. (Cf. Q431.12, Q451.4.6, Q557.8, W128.) Jewish: Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q312.1 | Punishment for finding fault with God's works in heaven. *Type 801; BP III 297ff. |
| Q312.2 | Devil carries off fault-finding people. (Cf. R11.2.1.) Scala Celi 54b No. 306. |
| Q312.3 | Punishment for finding fault with God's forgiveness of sin. *Type 756B. |
| Q312.4 | Fault-finding with God's handling of weather. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| Q313 | Bad temper punished. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q314 | Scandal-mongering punished. (Cf. Q451.4.2.) Jewish: *Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q320 | Evil personal habits punished. |
| Q321 | Laziness punished. (Cf. Q495.1.) Spanish: Espinosa Jr. No. 188; Jewish: Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 127; Africa (Wakweli): Bender 104f. |
| Q321.1 | Women who will not sew are cast from community. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| Q322 | Dirtiness punished. (Cf. Q432.1, Q433.3, W115.) Spanish Exempla: Keller; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q323 | Unthriftiness punished. Alphabet No. 218; Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| Q325 | Disobedience punished. (Cf. Q431.3, Q451.7.0.2.3, Q456.0.3, Q458.0.2, Q552.1.0.1.1, Q593.) Alphabet No. 441; Spanish: Keller, Espinosa Jr. Nos. 104, 216; Jewish: *Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys; Eskimo (Greenland): Rink 428, (Bering Strait): Nelson RBAE XVIII 473; Tuamotu: Stimson MS (T-G. 3/629); S. A. Indian (Chiriguano): Métraux RMLP XXXIII 177; Africa (Wakweli): Bender 108, (Duala): Lederbogen Märchen 84, (Congo): Weeks Congo 214, (Luba): DeClerq ZsKS IV 193; West Indies: Flowers 569. |
| Q326 | Impudence punished. (Cf. Q411.10, Q413.5.) Irish myth: Cross; Africa (Bushongo): Torday 241. |
| Q327 | Discourtesy punished. (Cf. Q221.1, Q583.2.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q330 | Overweening punished. (Cf. Q552.19.1, Q582.5.) |
| Q331 | Pride punished. (Cf. Q552.19.5.) Penzer IV 142f.; Irish myth: Cross; Spanish Exempla: Keller; Jewish: *Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys; Africa (Bulu): Krug 110. |
| Q331.1 | Devil torments old man who has laid aside his humility. Scala Celi 105a No. 572. |
| Q331.2 | Vanity punished. |
| Q331.2.1 | Woman's vain display punished. Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| Q331.2.1.1 | Devil impersonates woman's maid at her toilette. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q331.2.1.2 | Vain woman has her cheeks miraculously burned. (Cf. Q550.) Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q331.2.1.3 | Husband rubs off paint from wife's cheeks. Threatens to scrape them the next time. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q331.2.1.3.1 | Husband puts soot on wife's cheeks to discourage her from using paint. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q331.2.1.4 | Vain woman wears corset so tight that it stifles her to death. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q331.2.1.5 | Clothes-proud woman trips over long skirt. Devil laughs. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| Q331.2.2 | Jackal demands to be praised as god: runs with pack of hounds. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q333 | Boldness punished. |
| Q333.1 | "God has no use for me, and the devil will not take me." On the way home the bold woman is strangled by the devil. (Cf. Q582.5.) Lithuanian: Balys Legends No. 376f. |
| Q338 | Immoderate request punished. (Cf. Q501.8, Q559.6, Q572.4, Q582.6, Q585.2.) Type 555; Irish myth: *Cross; Jewish: Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q338.1 | Request for immortality punished by transformation into tree. N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 276 n. 18. |
| Q338.2 | The devil's likeness. A squire demands somebody to paint a living picture of the devil; when he sees it, he dies. Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 3355, Legends Nos. 681—84. |
| Q340 | Meddling punished. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q341 | Curiosity punished. Spanish Exempla: Keller; India: Thompson-Balys; Africa (Luba): DeClerq ZsKS IV 189, (Cameroon): Rosenhuber 52. |
| Q342 | Inquisitiveness punished. (Cf. Q557.5.) Wienert FFC LVI 49 (ET 89), 95 (ST 84); Jewish: Neuman; Africa: Weeks Congo 207. |
| Q380 | Deeds punished—miscellaneous. |
| Q381 | Punishment for gambling. (Cf. N0, Q433.8.) Jewish: Neuman; Indonesia: DeVries's list No. 182. |
| Q385 | Captured animals avenge themselves. N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 313 n. 126a. |
| Q386 | Dancing punished. Scala Celi 61b No. 336; Lithuanian: Balys Legends Nos. 347—352; Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| Q386.1 | Devil punishes girl who loves to dance. Scala Celi 62a No. 338; England, U.S.: Baughman; Finnish: Aarne FFC XXXIII 40 No. 24**; Finnish-Swedish: Wessman 10 No. 81, 13 No. 112. |
| Q386.2 | Drunken dancers punished. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q387 | Jesting punished. |
| Q387.1 | Devil carries off jester. (Cf. R11.2.1.) Scala Celi 77b No. 441. |
| Q388 | Freemasonry punished. |
| Q388.1 | Freemasons forced to dance till they sweat blood. Finnish-Swedish: Wessman 13 No. 114. |
| Q391 | Punishment for singing worldly songs. (Cf. Q411.10.1.) |
| Q391.1 | Prince of devils gives up seat to man who goes to hell for singing worldly songs. Scala Celi 25b No. 169. |
| Q392 | Punishment of evil magician who has caused plague. German: H. Büschner Heide-Sagen a. d. Münsterlande 9, Klose Führer d. dt. Sagen u. Märchenwelt d. Grafschaft Glatz 104. |
| Q393 | Evil speech punished. Italian Novella: Rotunda; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 50. |
| Q393.1 | Punishment for talking too much. Monk punished in hell's fires for this fault. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| Q393.2 | Gossiping punished. Africa: Casati I 319. |
| Q394 | Uxoriousness punished. Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q395 | Disrespect punished. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 411, Tahiti: ibid. 244. |
| Q400 | Kinds of punishment—general. *Child V 492 s.v. "punishments"; Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q401 | Chain of punishments. Horse must break leg, since he has broken leg of man who broke leg of dog which bit leg of fox. *Wesselski Hessische Blätter f. Vksk. XXXII 21. |
| Q402 | Punishment of children for parents' offenses. Jewish: Neuman. |
| Q403 | Punishment not meted out to persons below twenty years. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| Q404 | Punishment comes in seventh generation. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| Q410 | Capital punishment. Jewish: *Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q411 | Death as punishment. (Cf. Q455, Q456, Q458.2, Q558, Q582.) F. Ström On the Sacral Origin of the Germanic Death Penalties (Stockholm, 1942); *Roberts 211; Irish myth: *Cross; Missouri French: Carrière; Spanish: Espinosa Jr. Nos. 108, 133, 141; Jewish: Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 556; S. A. Indian (Toba): Métraux MAFLS XL 120; Africa (Wakweli): Bender 43. |
| Q411.0.1 | Husband kills returning adulteress. (Cf. Q241.) Italian Novella: Rotunda; Maori: Dixon 80. |
| Q411.0.1.1 | Adulterer killed. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q411.0.1.2 | Man (fairy) kills wife's lover. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q411.0.1.3 | Faithless wife (mistress) seized by husband's (lover's) poet, who leaps to death with her in his arms. Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q411.0.1.4 | Death for repeated adultery. Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 1369. |
| Q411.0.2 | Husband kills wife and paramour. Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| Q411.1 | Punishment: winning as wife and then killing. Type 956B; *BP I 373. |
| Q411.2 | Undesired suitor hiding under girl's bed is killed. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q411.2.1 | Undesired suitor killed asleep in his tent. Icelandic: *Boberg; Jewish: Judith and Holofernes. |
| Q411.3 | Death of father (son, etc.) as punishment. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q411.4 | Death as punishment for treachery. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q411.4.1 | Man killed at once for treacherously slaying overlord. Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q411.4.2 | Woman who disrobes to attract attention of hostile fighter killed. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q411.5 | Hero kills mutilators of girl. Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q411.6 | Death as punishment for murder. (Cf. Q211.) Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| Q411.7 | Death as punishment for ravisher. (Cf. Q244.) Irish myth: Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| Q411.8 | A man in every house in the land killed as punishment for abduction by their king. Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q411.9 | Death as punishment for reproach concerning physical deformity (blemish). (Cf. Q284.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q411.10 | Death as punishment for impudence. (Cf. Q326.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q411.10.1 | Man killed because of scornful singing. (Cf. Q391.) Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| Q411.11 | Death as punishment for desecration of holy places (images, etc.). (Cf. Q222.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q411.11.1 | Desecrating a sanctuary (saint's house) by murder punished. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q411.11.2 | Hanging as punishment for stealing from a church. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q411.12 | Maidens slain in revenge for deaths of young men. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q411.13 | Death as punishment for thievery. Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q411.13.1 | Charge of theft avenged by assault. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| Q411.14 | Death as punishment for spying on uncanny persons. Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q411.15 | Death as punishment for dropping on emperor's coat. Icelandic: FSS 125, 168—70, Boberg. |
| Q412 | Punishment: millstone dropped on guilty person. *Type 720; BP I 412ff., *423; Liebrecht 296; *Fb "möllesten" II 650; Herrmann Saxo II 568 n. 2, Grimm Deutsche Rechtsalterthümer II 277. — Jewish: Neuman. |
| Q413 | Punishment: hanging. *DeCock Volkssage 74; *Hdwb. d. Abergl. III 1438ff.; Irish: O'Suilleabhain 107, Beal XXI 334; Icelandic: *Boberg; Jewish: Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys; Marquesas: Handy 63. |
| Q413.0.1 | Threat of hanging. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| Q413.1 | Hanging as punishment for theft. (Cf. Q212.) *Fb "hænge" I 731b; Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg; Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
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