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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
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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
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
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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 |
|---|---|
| Q413.2 | Hanging as punishment for adultery. (Cf. Q241.) Icelandic: *Boberg; German: Grimm No. 4; Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q413.3 | Hanging as punishment for imposture. (Cf. Q262.) Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q413.4 | Hanging as punishment for murder. (Cf. Q211.) Icelandic: *Boberg; Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q413.5 | Hanging as punishment for impudence. (Cf. Q326.) Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| Q413.5.1 | Impudent suitor or his messenger hanged or threatened with hanging. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| Q413.6 | Hanging as punishment for denying pagan gods. (Cf. Q225.2.) Der Heiligen Leben und Leiden 101 (Santa Barbara). |
| Q413.7 | Hanging as punishment for silence about hidden treasure. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| Q413.8 | Hanging as punishment for treachery. (Cf. Q261.) Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| Q413.8.1 | Hanging by one foot as punishment for treachery. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q414 | Punishment: burning alive. **W. Foerster Der Feuertod als Strafe in der altfr. erzählenden Dichtung (Halle, 1913); *Fb "brænde" IV 69ab, "teglovn"; Dickson 74; Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 232; Alphabet No. 353; Grimm No. 3 (Type 710).—Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg; French Canadian: Barbeau JAFL XXIX 20; Spanish: Keller, Espinosa Jr. Nos. 140, 161; Italian: Basile Pentamerone II No. 2, Rotunda; Jewish: *Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 35 No. 22; S. A. Indian (Huamachuco): Métraux RMLP XXXIII 151; Africa (Luba): DeClerq ZsKS IV 222. |
| Q414.0.1 | Burning as punishment for uxoricide. (Cf. Q211.3.) Africa (Fjort): Dennett 54 No. 19. |
| Q414.0.2 | Burning as punishment for adultery. (Cf. Q241.) Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 229; Irish myth: *Cross; Spanish: Boggs FFC XC 57 No. 425; Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| Q414.0.3 | Burning as punishment for incest (incontinence). (Cf. Q242, Q243.) Child II 41—48 passim, 113—25 passim, III 508b, V 292b; Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q414.0.3.1 | Burning monastery and monks in it as punishment for incontinence. Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles No. 32; Heptameron No. 31. |
| Q414.0.4 | Burning as punishment for ravisher. (Cf. Q244.) Malone PMLA XLIII 406. |
| Q414.0.4.1 | Ravisher's grave and body miraculously burnt. Scala Celi 111a No. 619; Wright Latin Stories 112. |
| Q414.0.4.2 | Burning as punishment for abductor. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q414.0.5 | Burning as punishment for traitor. (Cf. Q261.) Icelandic: *Boberg; Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "bыcher"; Missouri French: Carrière; Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q414.0.5.1 | Burning for traitor: unwittingly suggested by culprit. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q414.0.6 | Burning as punishment for impostor. (Cf. Q262.) Missouri French: Carrière; Spanish: Espinosa Jr. No. 106; Italian Novella: *Rotunda; India: Thompson-Balys; Africa (Fjort): Dennett 130. |
| Q414.0.6.1 | Burning as punishment for counterfeiting. (Cf. Q261.) Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q414.0.7 | Innocent queen burned at stake. *Fb. "brænde" IV 69b. |
| Q414.0.8 | Demons burn heretics at stake. (Cf. Q225.1.) Scala Celi 103b Nos. 555, 556. |
| Q414.0.9 | Burning as punishment for betraying the confessional. (Cf. Q224.) Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q414.0.10 | Burning for witchcraft. Icelandic: *Boberg; Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q414.0.11 | Burning for sodomy. (Cf. Q253.) Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q414.0.12 | Burning as punishment for murder. (Cf. Q211.) Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg; Africa (Bankon): Ittman 100. |
| Q414.0.12.1 | Woman saved from being burned as punishment for killing impudent suitor. Icelandic: FSS 240, Boberg. |
| Q414.0.13 | Burning as punishment for fratricide. (Cf. Q211.9.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q414.1 | Punishment: boiling in oil (lead, tar). DeCock Volkssage 80; Child II 312 n. 327, IV 480a, V 53, 56, 230; Icelandic: FSS 243; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| Q414.1.1 | Boiling in tar as punishment for impostor. (Cf. Q262.) Africa (Angola): Chatelain 49 version B. |
| Q414.2 | Punishment: imprisonment in white-hot iron house. Irish myth: Cross (cf. also S112.6); Welsh: MacCulloch Celtic 101. |
| Q414.3 | Punishment: burning and scattering ashes. Italian: Basile Pentamerone V No. 9. |
| Q414.3.1 | Punishment: crushing in rice mill and scattering ashes. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q414.4 | Punishment: dancing to death in red-hot shoes. Type 709; *BP I 450ff., *464; *Loomis White Magic 118. |
| Q414.5 | Punishment: king hung between two fires. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| Q414.6 | Woman cast on husband's funeral pyre as punishment. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q415 | Punishment: being eaten by animals. (Cf. Q453, Q557.) *DeCock Volkssage 88; Irish: O'Suilleabhain 46, Beal XXI 317. |
| Q415.0.1 | Punishment: being eaten by demon. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q415.1 | Punishment: being eaten by dogs. Eskimo: Thompson Tales 4, 272 n. 2. |
| Q415.1.1 | Punishment: transformation to deer which is devoured by dogs. Greek: Frazer Apollodorus I 323 (Acteon). |
| Q415.1.2 | Punishment: tying man to horses and setting vicious hounds after him. (Cf. Q416, S117.) Scottish: Campbell-McKay No. 25. |
| Q415.2 | Mice devour hard-hearted man. (Hatto and the Mouse Tower.) (Cf. Q291.) *Fb "rotte" III 83a; Veckenstedt (Veckenstedt's) Zs. f. Vksk. I (1888—9) 364ff.; **Beheim-Schwartzbach Die Mäusenturmsage von Popiel und Hatto (Posen, 1888); *Wehrhan Die Sage 51; *Liebrecht 1ff.; Jewish: Neuman. |
| Q415.3 | Punishment: man eaten by worms (snake). Finnish-Swedish: Wessman 19 No. 180; Jewish: Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q415.3.1 | Cobras placed in boxes and given to cruel parents, so that they are bitten. (Cf. Q285.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q415.4 | Punishment: being fed to lions (wild beasts). Italian Novella: *Rotunda; Jewish: Neuman. |
| Q415.5 | Punishment: being devoured by tiger. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| Q415.6 | Bears devour the wicked. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| Q415.7 | Wolves kill person for quenching holy fire. (Cf. Q222.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q415.7.1 | Wolves and birds eat bodies of slayers of poet. Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q415.8 | Heretic preaching against God's creation worried to death by fly. (Cf. Q225.) Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| Q415.9 | Punishment: being eaten by fish. Tuamotu: Stimson MS (z-G. 3/1301); Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 504. |
| Q416 | Punishment: drawing asunder by horses. (Cf. Q469.12.) Child V 157; BP I 306; Grimm Deutsche Rechtsalterthümer II 272; DeCock Volkssage 91. — Irish myth: Cross; Icelandic: FSS 42, Boberg; Spanish: Espinosa Jr. Nos. 126, 143; Greek: Frazer Apollodorus I 331 n. I (Lycurgus); India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q416.0.1 | Quartering by horses as punishment for breaking betrothal. (Cf. Q252.) Estonian: Aarne FFC XXV 136 No. 93. |
| Q416.0.2 | Quartering by horses as punishment for murder. (Cf. Q211.3.) Icelandic: *Boberg; Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| Q416.0.2.1 | Quartering by horses as punishment for uxoricide. (Cf. Q211.3.) Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q416.0.3 | Quartering by horses as punishment for impostor. (Cf. Q262.) Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| Q416.1 | Punishment: trampling (kicking) to death by horses. East Gothic: De la Saussaye 135; Grimm Deutsche Rechtsalterthümer II 273; Liebrecht Orient und Occident II 270; G. Kurth Histoire poetique des Merovingiens 420ff. — Icelandic: *Boberg; Indonesia: Snouck-Hurgronje De Atjehers II 142. |
| Q416.1.1 | Adulteress kicked to death by mule as punishment. (Cf. Q241.) *Fischer-Bolte 217. |
| Q416.2 | Punishment: dragging to death by a horse. Cheremis: Sebeok-Nyerges; Lithuanian: Balys Index Nos. 452*f., 481*; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q416.2.1 | Punishment: drawing at the tails of horses. (Cf. S117.) Irish myth: Cross; Jewish: *Neuman. |
| Q416.2.2 | Punishment: dragging to death tied to horns of a bull. Greek: Grote I 241. |
| Q416.3 | Punishment: trampling by elephants. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| Q416.3.1 | Punishment: being gored to death by elephant. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q417 | Punishment: dropping and dashing to pieces. (Cf. Q551.10.) Von Amira Sitzb. bair. Akad. XXXI (3) 136ff.; Irish myth: Cross; Spanish: Boggs FFC XC 49 No. 327F*. |
| Q417.1 | Murderess forced to leap from cliff. (Cf. Q211.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q417.2 | Traitor thrown into pit so that he sticks to the waist and is then chased out of the country. (Cf. Q261.) Icelandic: Boberg. |
| Q417.3 | Bridge to world of dead cut from under wicked person so that he falls into hell. (Cf. F152.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q418 | Punishment by poisoning. (Cf. S111.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q418.1 | Murder of faithless wife with poisoned salad. (Cf. Q241.) Heptameron No. 36. |
| Q418.2 | Venomous snake put into the mouth as punishment for murder of newborn children. (Cf. Q211.4.) Icelandic: Boberg. |
| Q421 | Punishment: beheading. DeCock Volkssage 75; *Roberts 211; Irish myth: Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg; French Canadian: Sister Marie Ursule; Jewish: *Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| Q421.0.1 | Beheading as punishment for debt. (Cf. Q271.) *Fb "gjæld" I 448. |
| Q421.0.2 | Beheading as punishment for adultery. (Cf. Q241.) Pauli (ed. Bolte) Nos. 229, 230; Italian Novella: Rotunda; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q421.0.3 | Beheading as punishment for rape. (Cf. Q244.) Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| Q421.0.4 | Beheading as punishment for murder. (Cf. Q211.) Irish myth: *Cross; Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| Q421.0.5 | Beheading as punishment for mutilation. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q421.0.6 | Beheading as punishment for incest. (Cf. Q242.) Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| Q421.0.7 | Beheading as punishment for seduction. (Cf. Q243.2.) Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q421.0.8 | Beheading for persecution of wife. (Cf. S410.) Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q421.1 | Heads on stakes. Punishment by beheading and placing the heads on stakes. *Taylor Romanic Review IX 21ff.; *BP III 368, IV 113; *B. Lewis Classical Mythology and Arthurian Romance 107ff.; Child V 482 s.v. "heads". — Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg; India: Thompson-Balys; Japanese: Ikeda; Africa: Frobenius Atlantis III 78; Cape Verde Islands: Parsons MAFLS XV (1) 214 No. 73. |
| Q421.1.1 | Head cut off and hung on tree outside village. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| Q421.2 | Man beheaded in place where he turned his back on saint. (Cf. Q227.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q421.3 | Punishment: cutting throat. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q422 | Punishment: stoning to death. (Cf. Q220.1.1.) Von Amira Sitzb. bair. Akad. XXXI (3) 155ff.; R. Hirzel Abh. sächs. Ges. der Wiss. Phil.-Hist. Klasse XXVII No. 7. — Icelandic: Corpus Poeticum Boreale I 344, *Boberg; Spanish Exempla: Keller; Italian Novella: *Rotunda; Jewish: *Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| Q422.0.1 | Punishment: beating to death. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q423 | Punishment: breaking upon a wheel. Von Amira Sitzb. bair. Akad. XXXI (3) 106ff.; Icelandic: Boberg; Irish myth: Cross; Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q424 | Punishment: strangling. (Cf. Q469.5, S113.) *DeCock Volkssage 77; Marquesas: Handy 113, 129. |
| Q424.0.1 | Strangling as punishment for murder. (Cf. Q211.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q424.1 | King strangles falcon when it kills eagle. (Cf. Q211.6.) Köhler-Bolte I 583; Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| Q424.2 | Strangling as punishment for adultery. (Cf. Q241.) Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q424.3 | Man strangles friar for attempting to seduce his wife. (Cf. Q243.2.1.) Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q425 | Punishment: suffocating. (Cf. Q274.2.) |
| Q426 | Wolf cut open and filled with stones as punishment. *Type 333; BP I 37, *40; Spanish: Espinosa III No. 212, Espinosa Jr. Nos. 32—34; Cape Verde Islands: *Parsons MAFLS XV (1) 312 n. 1. |
| Q426.1 | Punishment for murder by fatal enema. (Cf. Q211.4.2.) Africa (Wakweli): Bender 86. |
| Q427 | Punishment: opening own veins and bleeding to death. (Seneca) Alphabet No. 224. |
| Q428 | Punishment: drowning. (Cf. Q552.19.) Irish myth: *Cross; Jewish: *Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| Q428.1 | Drowning as punishment for adultery. (Cf. Q241.) Irish myth: *Cross; Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| Q428.2 | Magic swine cause robbers to be drowned. (Cf. B183, Q212.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q428.3 | Drowning as punishment for disturbing holy person. (Cf. Q227.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q429 | Capital punishment—miscellaneous. |
| Q429.1 | Punishment: culprit eaten by cannibals. Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 824. |
| Q429.2 | Death at hands of foreign invaders as punishment. Jewish: Moreno Esdras. |
| Q429.3 | Cutting into pieces as punishment. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| Q429.4 | Punishment: squeezing to death. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q430 | Abridgment of freedom as punishment. |
| Q430.1 | Imposition of tabu as punishment. Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q431 | Punishment: banishment (exile). *Boje 63; Dickson 78; Gaster Thespis 304; Irish: *Cross, O'Suilleabhain 88, Beal XXI 328; Icelandic: *Boberg; Greek: Frazer Apollodorus I 350 n. 1 (Oedipus), Grote I 172; Jewish: *Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 38, 143; Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 205, 214; S. A. Indian (Tupinamba): Métraux RMLP XXXIII 169. |
| Q431.0.1 | Saint prefers to die in exile. Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q431.1 | Voluntary exile as punishment for murder. (Cf. Q211, Q431.9.) Greek: Fox 93 (Herakles). |
| Q431.2 | Banishment for treachery. (Cf. Q261.) Italian Novella: Rotunda; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q431.2.1 | Elder brothers banished for treachery. (Cf. K2211, Q261.) Spanish: Boggs FFC XC 49 No. 328A*. |
| Q431.2.2 | Treachery punished by banishment to desert isle. (Cf. S145.) Heptameron No. 67. |
| Q431.2.3 | King's foster brothers banished for lawlessness. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q431.3 | Banishment because of disobedience. Maiden wants to become nun and not marry. (Cf. Q325.) Spanish Exempla: Keller; India: Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Werner 260. |
| Q431.4 | Banishment till rose grows from table for preventing childbirth. (Cf. F971.2, Q251, T572).) *Type 755. |
| Q431.5 | Banishment for seduction. (Cf. Q243.2.) Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| Q431.5.1 | Banishment for attempted seduction. (Cf. Q243.2.1.) Icelandic: *Boberg; Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| Q431.5.2 | Banishment for abduction of bride (girl). Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| Q431.5.3 | Princes banished as punishment for lewd conduct with female subjects. (Cf. Q243.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q431.6 | Banishment for rape. (Cf. Q244.) Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| Q431.7 | Banishment for imposture. (Cf. Q262.) Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q431.8 | Banishment as punishment for adultery. (Cf. Q241.) Irish myth: Cross; Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q431.8.1 | Banishment as punishment for incest. (Cf. Q242.2.) India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| Q431.9 | Banishment for murder. (Cf. Q211.) Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| Q431.9.1 | Banishment for attempted murder. Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| Q431.9.2 | Exile as punishment for parricide. (Cf. Q211.1.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q431.10 | Banishment for assault on king's tax collectors. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| Q431.11 | Banishment as punishment for breach of faith with animals. (Cf. Q263.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q431.12 | Banishment as punishment for fault-finding. (Cf. Q312.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q431.13 | Banishment for desecration of holy places. (Cf. Q222.) Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| Q431.14 | Berserks banished because of defeat. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| Q431.15 | Banishment as punishment for robbery. (Cf. Q212.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q431.16 | Boy banished for breaking women's water pots. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| Q431.17 | Banishment for lying. (Cf. Q263.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q431.18 | Banishment for association with those of another faith. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q431.19 | Banishment for laziness. (Cf. Q321.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q432 | Punishment: ejectment. |
| Q432.1 | Buzzard hatched by hawk ejected for fouling nest. (Cf. Q322.) Herbert III 37ff.; Hervieux IV 276 No. 4; Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles No. 68. |
| Q432.2 | Adulteress ejected into street clad only in her shirt. (Cf. Q241, Q243, Q473.) Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles No. 8; Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| Q433 | Punishment: imprisonment. Icelandic: *Boberg; Missouri French: Carrière; Spanish: Espinosa Jr. Nos. 139, 206f.; Jewish: *Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| Q433.1 | Imprisonment for adultery. (Cf. Q241.) Heptameron No. 61; Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| Q433.1.1 | Adulteress confined in a cage. (Cf. Q241.) Malone PMLA XLIII 415f. |
| Q433.2 | Defeated giants imprisoned in lower world. Gaster Thespis 160; Greek: Fox 8 (Titans), Grote I 8. |
| Q433.3 | Zeus has embassy of dogs imprisoned for fouling his court. (Cf. Q322.) *BP III 555; Dh IV 137ff. |
| Q433.4 | Imprisonment for imposture. (Cf. Q262.) Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q433.5 | Imprisonment for attempted seduction. (Cf. Q243.2.1.) Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q433.6 | Priest imprisoned for incontinence. (Cf. Q243.) Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| Q433.7 | Imprisonment for treachery. (Cf. Q261.) Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q433.8 | Imprisonment for gambling. (Cf. Q381.) Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q433.9 | Wicked son confined on island. Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q433.10 | Earl hunting in the king's forest imprisoned. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| Q433.11 | Undesired suitor's messengers imprisoned. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| Q433.12 | Punishment: abridgment of freedom till extravagant boast is confirmed. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q433.13 | War prisoners shut up between stones. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| Q434 | Punishment: fettering. |
| Q434.1 | Adulteress and paramour fettered. (Cf. Q241.) Malone PMLA XLIII 405, 407, 421. |
| Q434.2 | War prisoners fettered. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| Q434.3 | Fettering to oak. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| Q435 | Magic imprisonment in cleft tree. New Guinea: Dixon 137. Cf. Caliban in Shakespeare's Tempest and Fradubio in Spenser's Faerie Queene Book I. |
| Q436 | Excommunication from religious association as punishment. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| Q437 | Sale into slavery as punishment. Jewish: *Neuman; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 526. |
| Q437.1 | Criminal's wife and children sold into slavery. *Chauvin VI 163 No. 327. |
| Q438 | Punishment: abandonment in forest. (Cf. S143.) India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| Q450 | Cruel punishments. |
| Q450.1 | Torture as punishment. Irish myth: Cross; Jewish: *Neuman. |
| Q450.1.1 | Torture as punishment for murder. (Cf. Q211.) Irish myth: Cross; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q451 | Mutilation as punishment. (Cf. S160.) Missouri French: Carrière; Marquesas: Handy 78, 121. |
| Q451.0.1 | Hands and feet cut off as punishment. Icelandic: Snorra Edda Skaldsk XLI, Herrmann Saxo II 571, *Boberg. |
| Q451.0.2 | Threat to cut off hand or foot. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| Q451.0.3 | Strong girl breaks impudent suitor's right hand and left foot. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| Q451.0.4 | Hands and feet cut off as punishment for robbery. (Cf. Q212.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q451.1 | Hands cut off as punishment. (Cf. S161.) *Type 706; *BP I 295; **Däumling Studie über den Typus des Mädchens ohne Hände (München, 1912); Krappe Zeitschrift für Englische Philologie XLIX 361—69; Missouri French: Carrière; Spanish Exempla: Keller; Latin American: *Knedler Hispanic Review X 314ff.; Italian Novella: Rotunda; India: *Thompson-Balys; Japanese: Ikeda. |
| Q451.1.1 | Hand cut off as punishment for theft. (Cf. Q212.) *Penzer V 61 n. 1, 143 n., VI 19; *Chauvin VI 80 No. 249; Icelandic: *Boberg; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| Q451.1.2 | Hand cut off for contempt of court. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q451.1.3 | Hand cut off for treachery. (Cf. Q261.) Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q451.1.4 | Hand cut off (falls off) as punishment for murder. (Cf. Q211.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q451.1.4.1 | Hand cut off as punishment for fornication. (Cf. Q243.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q451.1.5 | Arms cut off as punishment for adultery. (Cf. Q241.) Heptameron No. 48. |
| Q451.1.6 | Right hands cut off enemy's messengers. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| Q451.1.7 | Arms cut off as punishment for slandering. (Cf. Q263.) Eskimo (Cumberland Sound): Boas BAM XV 207. |
| Q451.2 | Laming as punishment. (Cf. S162.) Icelandic: *Boberg; Jewish: Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| Q451.2.0.1 | Limbs cut off (drop off) as punishment. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q451.2.0.2 | Boring hole through heel as punishment. Jewish: Neuman. |
| Q451.2.0.3 | Hamstringing as punishment. Eskimo (Greenland): Rasmussen I 244. |
| Q451.2.1 | Youth lamed by man whose daughter he refuses to marry. (Cf. Q245.) Köhler-Bolte I 120; *Krappe Herrig's Archiv CLVIII 9ff.; *P. Maurus Wielandsage in der Literatur (Münchner Beiträge zur rom u. eng. Philologie XXV (1902)). |
| Q451.2.2 | Feet cut off as punishment for theft. (Cf. Q212.) Penzer V 143 n.; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| Q451.2.3 | Foot cut off as punishment for murder. (Cf. Q211.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q451.2.4 | Legs cut off as punishment for adultery. (Cf. Q241.) Heptameron No. 48. |
| Q451.3 | Loss of speech as punishment. *Type 710; *BP I 13ff.; Icelandic: *Boberg; Jewish: *Neuman. |
| Q451.3.1 | Dumbness as punishment for hiding children. Fb "stum". |
| Q451.3.2 | Dumbness as punishment for lying. (Cf. Q263.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q451.3.3 | Dumbness as punishment for opposition to holy person. (*Cf. Q227.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q451.3.3.1 | Son stricken dumb as punishment for father's opposition to holy person. (Cf. Q411.3.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q451.3.4 | Dumbness as punishment for blasphemy. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| Q451.4 | Tongue cut off as punishment. DeCock Volkssage 93; Spanish: Boggs FFC XC 98 No. 836G*, Espinosa II No. 94; India: Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Graham; Japanese: Ikeda; Korean: Zong in-Sob 145 No. 64. |
| Q451.4.1 | Tongue cut off as punishment for theft. (Cf. Q212.) *Penzer V 61 n. 1, 143 n. |
| Q451.4.2 | Tongue cut out as punishment for gossip. (Cf. Q314.) Wienert FFC LVI 39; Halm Aesop No. 416. |
| Q451.4.3 | Tongue cut off as punishment for incest. (Cf. Q242.) Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q451.4.4 | Tongue cut off as punishment for treachery. (Cf. Q261.) Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q451.4.5 | Tongue cut out as punishment for murder. (Cf. Q211.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q451.4.6 | Tongue cut out as punishment for fault-finding (satire). (Cf. Q312.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q451.4.7 | Man pulls out his own tongue in remorse. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q451.4.8 | Tongue cut off as punishment for alleged adultery. (Cf. Q241.) Icelandic: Boberg. |
| Q451.4.8.1 | Tongue cut (bitten) off as punishment for unfaithfulness to wife. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| Q451.4.9 | Hanging by tongue as punishment. Cheremis: Sebeok-Nyerges. |
| Q451.4.10 | Punishment: stretching tongue to enormous length. Korean: Zong in-Sob 145 No. 64. |
| Q451.5 | Nose cut off as punishment. Bødker Exempler 280 No. 24; Irish myth: *Cross; India: *Thompson-Balys; Africa: Frobenius Atlantis IV 196. |
| Q451.5.1 | Nose cut off as punishment for adultery. (Cf. Q241.) *Penzer II 88 n. 1, V 82 n. 1, 123, 156, VI 188 n. 1, IX 76; Saxo Grammaticus (ed. Elton) 71; Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| Q451.5.1.1 | Mistress's nose cut off as punishment for faithlessness. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| Q451.5.2 | Nose cut off as punishment for theft. (Cf. Q212.) Penzer II 60ff. |
| Q451.5.3 | Nose of falsely accusing bishop bitten off. (Cf. Q263.) Dickson 46. |
| Q451.5.4 | Nose cut off as punishment for treachery. (Cf. Q261.) Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q451.6 | Ears cut off as punishment. Irish myth: Cross; Missouri French: Carrière; India: *Thompson-Balys; Africa: Frobenius Atlantis IV 196. |
| Q451.6.0.1 | Girl (fairy) bites off ear of ravisher. (Cf. F304.4.1, Q244.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q451.6.1 | Ears cut off as punishment for adultery. (Cf. Q241.) *Penzer V 82 n. 1, 156; Africa (Fang): Einstein 53, Trilles 168. |
| Q451.6.2 | Ear cut off as punishment for theft. (Cf. Q212.) Nouvelles Récréations No. 56. |
| Q451.7 | Blinding as punishment. *Fb "blind" IV 45b, "øje" III 1165a; Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: MacCulloch Eddic 322; Spanish: Espinosa Jr. No. 137; Greek: Frazer Apollodorus I 367 n. 1; Jewish: *Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| Q451.7.0.1 | Loss of one eye as punishment. Hdwb. d. Märchens I 477a n. 5; Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| Q451.7.0.2 | Miraculous blindness as punishment. (Cf. Q559.2.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q451.7.0.2.1 | Miraculous blindness as punishment for opposition to holy person. (Cf. Q227, Q571.1.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q451.7.0.2.2 | Miraculous blindness as punishment for theft. (Cf. Q212.) *Loomis White Magic 98; Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q451.7.0.2.3 | Miraculous blindness as punishment for disobedience. (Cf. Q325.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q451.7.0.2.4 | Miraculous blindness as punishment for criminal intent. (Cf. Q210.1.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q451.7.0.2.5 | Miraculous blindness as punishment for spying (on druids, fairies, witches, etc.). Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q451.7.1 | Blinding as punishment for perjury. (Cf. Q263.) Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 493; Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| Q451.7.2 | Blinding as punishment for ravisher. (Cf. Q244.) Herbert III 206; Oesterley No. 50. |
| Q451.7.2.1 | Blinding (of father) as punishment for ravisher. (Cf. Q411.3.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q451.7.2.2 | Blinding as punishment for attempt to violate girl (queen). Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| Q451.7.3 | Blinding as punishment for incest. (Cf. Q242.) Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q451.7.4 | Blinding as punishment for murder. (Cf. Q211.) Irish myth: *Cross; Italian Novella: Rotunda; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q451.7.5 | Wicked son blinded. Irish myth: Cross; Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| Q451.8 | Punishment: thong of leather cut from back. DeCock Studien 9f.; Cosquin Contes indiens 179; Fb "rem" III 39a; Norwegian: R. Berge Eventyr II 49, 66, 71; Russian: Ralston Russian Folk Tales 146. |
| Q451.9 | Punishment: woman's breasts cut off. Zupitza Zs. f. Vksk. XI 91; Child Nos. 5, 80, 81; Scotch: Campbell Tales I lxxxix—xc. See also Peele's "King Edward the First". |
| Q451.9.1 | Punishment: woman suspended by her breasts. Jewish: Neuman. |
| Q451.10 | Punishment: genitalia cut off. Liebrecht 94ff.; DeCock Volkssage 86; Spanish Exempla: Keller; Italian Novella: *Rotunda; Jewish: *Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q451.10.1 | Punishment: castration. (Cf. K2111.3.) Herrmann Saxo II 354. |
| Q451.11 | Piecemeal mutilation as punishment. Marquesas: Handy 78; Tonga: Gifford 67. |
| Q451.11.1 | Deception punished by piecemeal mutilation. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q451.12 | Lips sewed together as punishment for slander. (Cf. Q263.) Icelandic: Boberg. |
| Q451.13 | Punishment: head split into many pieces. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| Q451.14 | Adulteress's pregnant belly pierced with pounder. (Cf. Q241.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q452 | Punishment: snake sucks woman's breasts. Herbert III 9; *Klapper Erzählungen des Mittelalters 175ff., 372f.; Oesterley 683f.; Herrtage EETS (ES) XXXIII 275ff. |
| Q453 | Punishment: being bitten by animal. (Cf. Q415.) |
| Q453.1 | Punishment: being bitten by ants. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q453.2 | Punishment: being bitten by scorpion. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q455 | Walling up as a punishment. (Cf. S125.) *Type 652; BP II 121ff., *124; Fb "indmure" II 24; Spanish: Espinosa Jr. Nos. 110, 140f.; Italian: Basile Pentamerone I No. 2; Jewish: Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| Q455.1 | Walling up as punishment for murder of children. (Cf. Q211.4.) *Type 652; BP II 121ff.; Fb "indmure". |
| Q455.2 | Walling up as punishment for adultery. (Cf. Q241.) |
| Q455.2.1 | Adulteress walled up with corpse of paramour. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
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