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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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A
Mythological Motifs
B
Animal Motifs
C
Motifs of Tabu
D
Magic
E
The Dead
F
Marvels
G
Ogres
H
Tests
J
The Wise and the Foolish
K
Deceptions
L
Reversals of Fortune
M
Ordaining the Future
N
Chance and Fate
P
Society
Q
Rewards and Punishments
R
Captives and Fugitives
S
Unnatural Cruelty
T
Sex
U
The Nature of Life
V
Religion
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Traits of Character
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Humor
Z
Miscellaneous Groups of Motifs
| Thompson reference ▲ | Description |
|---|---|
| U114 | Mountain in labor brings forth a mouse. Wienert FFC LVI *44 (ET 24), *101 (ST 141); Jacobs Aesop 203 No. 14; Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| U115 | The skeleton in the closet. An apparently happy man lets another see the actual misery of his existence. Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 223. |
| U115.1 | Apparently happy woman discloses the skeleton of her slain paramour. Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| U116 | Hypocrite is acclaimed as saint after his death. Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| U117 | Man rejects bride because she seems immature. Her father reassures him that she has had several children already. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| U119 | Other ways in which appearances deceive. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| U119.1 | Revelations of a satyr. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| U119.1.1 | At a funeral of a child a satyr reveals that the real father (officiating priest) sings while the cuckold weeps. (Cf. U15.) Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| U119.1.2 | At a hanging the witnesses are bigger thieves than the culprit. (Cf. U10.) Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| U119.2 | Peasant wishes to exchange places with monks. Thinks they lead a very easy life. One night's experience in the monastery makes him change his mind. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| U119.3 | Handsome exterior does not indicate beautiful soul. Angel holds nose when handsome sinner passes. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| U119.4 | An ugly face does not mean an ugly soul. A noble and holy man who is very ugly is proved to be a saintly soul. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| U119.5 | Stories to show that one's name does not alter his condition. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| U120 | Nature will show itself. |
| U121 | Like parent, like child. |
| U121.1 | Crab walks backward: learned from his parents. *Crane Vitry 152 No. 44; Wienert FFC LVI *63 (ET 258), *103 (ST 159); Halm Aesop No. 187. |
| U121.2 | Hind, like his mother, flees before the hounds. Useless for her to urge him to stand up against them. Wienert FFC LVI *63 (ET 256), 103 (ST 158, 501); Halm Aesop No. 130. |
| U121.3 | Farmer's son and noble's reared in country. The former takes to toil on farm, the latter to riding and hunting. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| U121.4 | Alleged son of king proved to be bastard when he displays habits of his true father. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| U121.5 | Father, like son, acts foolishly at king's court. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| U121.6 | Butcher's son becomes cruel and atrocious ruler. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| U122 | Dungbeetle prefers his dunghill to all other smells. Wienert FFC LVI 60 (ET 217), 119 (ST 292); Halm Aesop No. 185; Herbert III 35ff.; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| U122.1 | Beetles treated with as much honor as oxen will not learn to act as oxen. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| U123 | Hog goes to bath but wallows in the mud. Chauvin III 39 No. 2. |
| U124 | Scorpion, in spite of himself, stings the turtle carrying him across the stream. Is drowned. *Chauvin II 117 No. 95. |
| U125 | Wolf loses interest in the sermon when he sees a flock of sheep. A dervish preaches to him. Chauvin II 125 No. 123; Scala Celi 50b No. 285; Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| U125.1 | Heron (crane) loses interest in heaven if there are no snails. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| U126 | Dog allowed to warm self in house begins to bark. Is chased off. Chauvin III 39 No. 1. |
| U127 | Fawn, in spite of his fine horns, runs from the dog. Wienert FFC LVI 63 (ET 257), 89 (ST 12): Halm Aesop No. 303. |
| U128 | Tiger son of human mother scratches her and licks her blood. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| U128.1 | Tiger father of human child licks its blood. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| U129 | Nature will show itself—miscellaneous. |
| U129.1 | Thieving nature of the fox will show itself. Nouvelles Récréations No. 29. |
| U129.2 | Prostitute will deceive new lover as always. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| U129.3 | Washerman as minister thinks of washing and fails the king. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| U130 | The power of habit. Wienert FFC LVI 111. |
| U130.1 | Newly rich cannot resist call for distribution of food to beggars. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| U131 | Familiarity takes away fear. |
| U131.1 | Fox finally converses with lion whom he had feared at first. Wienert FFC LVI 60 (ET 224), 111 (ST 224); Halm Aesop No. 39; Jacobs Aesop 208 No. 34. |
| U131.2 | Men at first frightened at camel take him into their service. Wienert FFC LVI 66 (ET 306), 111 (ST 224); Halm Aesop No. 180. |
| U133 | Man soon learns to stand the smells of the tannery. Wienert FFC LVI 81 (ET 474), 111 (ST 226); Halm Aesop No. 368; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| U133.1 | Farmer prefers stable smells to flowers. Latter make him ill. Wesselski Mönchslatein 13 No. 8; Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| U134 | Knight doesn't want to go to heaven if there are no hunting dogs there. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| U135 | Longing for accustomed food and living. |
| U135.1 | At feast cat chooses rat meat; other animals cannot eat it. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| U135.2 | Shepherd in king's palace sickens for country air. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| U135.3 | Former slave sickens for accustomed food. Spanish Exempla: Keller; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| U135.3.1 | Peasant girl married to king longs for peasant ways of eating. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| U135.3.2 | Peasants fed white bread demand the rye bread to which they are accustomed. Pauli (ed. Bolte). No. 570. |
| U136 | Fisher and hunter exchange catches for variety: soon return to original food. Wienert FFC LVI 81 (ET 475), 111 (ST 227); Japanese: Ikeda. |
| U136.1 | Dissatisfied workmen exchange work: still more dissatisfied. Bødker Exempler 276 No. 14; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| U136.2 | Beasts and fishes exchange places: fatal to both. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| U137 | Mill horse when taken to war keeps going in a circle, as he has learned in the mill. *Liebrecht 110f. |
| U138 | Habit of dishonesty (thievery) cannot be broken. |
| U138.1 | Dishonest silversmith restless until silver ornament is mixed with alloy. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| U138.2 | Thieves cannot quit plundering. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| U139 | Power of habit—miscellaneous. |
| U139.1 | Habitual food and drink continued even when it is harmful. Bødker Exempler. |
| U139.2 | Conservatism defies reason. |
| U139.2.1 | Conservative but absurd way of slaughtering hog stubbornly kept. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| U140 | One man's food is another man's poison. Wienert FFC LVI 121. |
| U141 | Enmity between fisherman and dweller on the river. Fishing stirs up the water and makes it unfit for drinking. (Cf. U31.) Wienert FFC LVI 84 (ET 512), 121 (ST 303); Halm Aesop No. 25. |
| U142 | Ox likes loving strokes of man; flea fears them. Wienert FFC LVI 60 (ET 223), 121 (ST 307); Halm Aesop No. 426. |
| U143 | Collier and fuller cannot live together: one makes things clean, the other soils them. Wienert FFC LVI 85 (ET 513), 121 (ST 305); Halm Aesop No. 59. |
| U144 | Nightingale cannot lodge with birds whose nest is made of manure. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| U146 | Royalty unable to endure coarse entertainment. |
| U146.1 | Coarse food, etc., sends adulterous king back to his wife. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| U147 | Animals try unsuccessfully to exchange food. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| U148 | Good weather for one is foul for another. Cf. Heywood's Play of the Weather. |
| U148.1 | Bird wants sunshine, worm clouds. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| U149 | What is one man's food is another man's poison—miscellaneous. |
| U149.1 | Lions despise what asses admire (braying). India: Thompson-Balys. |
| U150 | Indifference of the miserable. |
| U151 | Ass indifferent to enemy's approach: he could be no more miserable than now. Wienert FFC LVI 71 (ET 352), 144 (ST 498). |
| U160 | Misfortune with oneself to blame the hardest. Wienert FFC LVI 117. |
| U161 | Eagle killed with arrow made with his own feather. Wienert FFC LVI *64 (ET 277), 117 (ST 273); Halm Aesop No. 4; Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| U162 | Tree cut down with axe for which it has furnished a handle. Wienert FFC LXI *74 (ET 388), 117 (ST 274); Halm Aesop No. 123; Jewish: *Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| U170 | Behavior of the blind. |
| U171 | Blind man crosses a narrow bridge which his guide is afraid to attempt. Alphabet No. 140. |
| U172 | Two blind men succeed in fooling each other about their blindness. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| U173 | Futile attempt to explain to a blind man meaning of "white". India: Thompson-Balys. |
| U180 | In vino veritas. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| U181 | Man unable to persuade wife to confess misdeed to priest succeeds when he makes her drunk. (Cf. J1141.) Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 242. |
| U210 | Bad ruler, bad subject. |
| U211 | No great knights now because no great kings. Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 531. |
| U212 | To have good servants a lord must be good. Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 532. |
| U220 | Forced peace valueless. |
| U221 | Monk under pressure from abbot forgives the crucifix which has fallen and hurt him. He says that nevertheless there will always be hatred between them. *Wesselski Arlotto II 222 No. 90; *Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 336. |
| U230 | The nature of sin. |
| U230.0.1 | Monk leaves monastery when he sees a devil there tempting brethren. Returns when in the world he sees scores of devils tempting the people. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| U231 | Hermit having rebuked youth falls himself when exposed to the same sin. Herbert III 5; *Crane Vitry 169 No. 81. |
| U231.1 | Monk rebukes brethren who succumb to temptation. When he is exposed to it he understands what temptation is. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| U232 | No place secret enough for sin. Alphabet No. 3; Wienert FFC LVI 80 (ET 458), 138 (ST 441); Halm No. 354. |
| U235 | Lying is incurable. A father asks about his son. When he hears that he lies, he gives the son up as hopeless. Other sins may be outgrown. Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 393; Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| U235.1 | Liar cannot be healed even when taking bath in the Ganges. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| U236 | False repentance of the sick. Wolf having eaten too much meat promises God to eat no more meat. When he becomes well he eats as before. Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 307. |
| U236.1 | False repentance of the sick, rich man. After his death it was discovered that he had intended to retrieve his money from church if he recovered. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| U240 | Power of mind over body. |
| U241 | King grows lean from fear of death. *Chauvin VIII 181 No. 213. |
| U242 | Hares fearing death outrun pursuing dogs. Wienert FFC LVI 51 (ET 103), 142 (ST 476); Japanese: Ikeda. |
| U242.1 | The hare's last will. Surrounded by hunters and hounds, the hare considers to whom each of his members will be allotted. Succeeds in escaping. Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 160*; Prussian: Plenzat 8. |
| U243 | Courage conquers all and impossible is made possible. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| U250 | Shortness of life. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| U251 | The bad custom in the world: the young die as well as the old. Hence youth enters monastery. *Crane Vitry 184 No. 116; Alphabet No. 212; *Mensa Philosophica No. 181. |
| U260 | Passage of time. |
| U261 | Time seems short to those who play, long for those who wait. So says servant girl whose mistress upbraids her for late hours. Wesselski Bebel I 185 No. 39. |
| U262 | Suffering healed by time. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| U270 | Security breeds indifference. |
| U271 | Cat ceases catching rats as soon as he is given a home in a monastery. Thus with lazy priests. Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 573. |
| V0 | Religious services. Irish myth: Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg; Norwegian: Solheim 22; Jewish: *Neuman. |
| V1 | Objects of worship. *Encyc. Rel. Ethics Index 649b; Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: MacCulloch Eddic 214, *Boberg. |
| V1.1 | Worship of particular gods and goddesses. |
| V1.1.1 | Worship of one god. Jewish: Neuman. |
| V1.2 | Worship of spirits. |
| V1.2.1 | Worship of fairies. Irish myth: Cross (V1.16, V1.16.1); Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| V1.2.2 | Worship of devil. Irish myth: Cross (V1.15, V1.15.1). |
| V1.2.3 | Worship of "disar". Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| V1.2.4 | Worship of angels. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| V1.3 | Worship of ancestors. Encyc. Rel. Ethics I 425—67; Irish myth: Cross; Icelandic: Boberg; India: Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 411 s.v. "Ahnenfiguren"; Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 160; Society Islands: Henry Ancient Tahiti (Honolulu, 1928) 561; Tuamotu: Stimson MS (T-G. 3/619); Africa (Cameroon): Mansfield 233, (Fang): Trilles 140. |
| V1.4 | Worship of heavenly bodies. Jewish: Neuman. |
| V1.4.1 | Worship of the sky. (Cf. A210.) |
| V1.4.2 | Worship of the sun. (Cf. A220.) Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: Boberg; Jewish: Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys; Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 12. |
| V1.4.3 | Worship of moon. (Cf. A240.) Jewish: Neuman. |
| V1.4.4 | Worship of stars. (Cf. A250.) Jewish: Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| V1.5 | Worship of manifestations in nature. |
| V1.5.1 | Worship of clouds. (Cf. A283.) |
| V1.5.2 | Worship of thunder. (Cf. A284.) |
| V1.5.3 | Worship of wind. (Cf. A282.) |
| V1.5.4 | Worship of storm. (Cf. A281.) |
| V1.5.5 | Worship of dawn. (Cf. A270.) |
| V1.5.6 | Worship of light. (Cf. A260.) |
| V1.5.6.1 | Worship of rainbow. (Cf. A288.) |
| V1.5.7 | Worship of frost. (Cf. A289.1.) |
| V1.6 | Worship of elements of nature. |
| V1.6.1 | Worship of earth. (Cf. A400.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| V1.6.1.1 | Worship of mountains and hills. (Cf. A495.) Danish: Kristensen Danske Sagn III (1895) 65ff., (1931) 47ff. |
| V1.6.2 | Worship of water. (Cf. A420.) |
| V1.6.2.0.1 | Worship of water-goddess. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| V1.6.2.1 | Sacred rivers and lakes. (Cf. A425.) |
| V1.6.2.2 | Worship of sea. (Cf. A421.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| V1.6.3 | Worship of fire. (Cf. A493.) Encyc. Rel. Ethics Index 202c; Penzer III 160; Irish myth: *Cross; Jewish: *Neuman. |
| V1.6.3.1 | Sacred fire. *Encyc. Rel. Ethics Index 202b; Penzer I 260, II 247—55; Irish myth: *Cross. |
| V1.6.3.1.1 | (Sacrificial) fire from which all others must be lighted. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| V1.6.4 | Worship of minerals and metals. (Cf. A492.) |
| V1.6.4.1 | Sacred stones. Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: Corpus Poeticum Boreale I 322, Boberg, Schmidt DF XXXIX 86ff.; Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 88ff.; Tahiti: Henry Ancient Tahiti (Honolulu, 1928) 382. |
| V1.6.4.2 | Sacred shells. Tonga: Gifford 52; Tahiti: Henry 391. |
| V1.7 | Worship of trees and plants. (Cf. A430, C51.2.2.) *Encyc. Rel. Ethics Index 611b; *Penzer II 96 n. 1, VII 162 n. 1; Schmidt Brandtrær og Ulykkestrær Danske Studier (1928) 54ff.; Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: MacCulloch Eddic 214; S. A. Indian (Antilles): Alexander Lat. Am. 25f. |
| V1.7.1 | Sacred tree. *Encyc. Rel. Ethics Index 611a; *Fb "træ" III 866a; Wimberly 156; Irish myth: *Cross; Jewish: Neuman. |
| V1.7.1.1 | Sacred oak. Irish myth: *Cross; Jewish: Neuman. |
| V1.7.1.2 | Sacred ash. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| V1.7.1.3 | Sacred yew. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| V1.7.1.4 | Sacred bo-tree. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| V1.8 | Worship of animals. *Encyc. Rel. Ethics Index 28a; Jewish: *Neuman. |
| V1.8.1 | Cow worship. Encyc. Rel. Ethics Index 142bc; **Burnell FL LVIII 377ff.; *Penzer II 240; Icelandic: Boberg. |
| V1.8.1.1 | Bull worship. Irish myth: Cross; Jewish: *Neuman. |
| V1.8.2 | Horse worship. Penzer II 57; Icelandic: MacCulloch Eddic 216, *Boberg. |
| V1.8.3 | Dog worship. Encyc. Rel. Ethics Index 167b; Jewish: Neuman; Chinese: Werner 422. |
| V1.8.4 | Swine worship. Irish myth: Cross; Icelandic: MacCulloch Eddic 109, *Boberg. |
| V1.8.5 | Wolf worship. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| V1.8.6 | Serpent worship. *Encyc. Rel. Ethics Index 539a; *Penzer III 142; Jewish: *Neuman. |
| V1.8.7 | Bird worship. (Cf. A132.6.1.) Irish myth: Cross; Jewish: Neuman; Easter Island: Métraux Ethnology 313f. |
| V1.8.8 | Dragon worship. Jewish: Neuman; Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 103f. |
| V1.8.9 | Lion worship. Jewish: Neuman. |
| V1.8.10 | Ass worship. Jewish: Neuman. |
| V1.8.11 | Fish worship. Marquesas: Handy 104; Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 129. |
| V1.9 | Worship of tools and implements. |
| V1.9.1 | Plow worship. (Cf. A432.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| V1.9.2 | Worship of weapons. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| V1.9.3 | Worship of hammer (axe). Tahiti: Henry Ancient Tahiti (Honolulu, 1928) 147. |
| V1.10 | Worship of fetish. (Cf. D1274.) *Encyc. Rel. Ethics Index 200a; Irish myth: *Cross; Jewish: *Neuman; Africa (Fjort): Dennett 96. |
| V1.10.1 | Man worships a cake which from time to time he eats. *Chauvin V 24 No. 13 n. 1. |
| V1.10.2 | Cult of heads. Irish myth: Cross. |
| V1.10.3 | Sacred feather. Tuamotu: Beckwith Myth 289. |
| V1.11 | Worship of idols. (Cf. Q558.12, V11.10.) Irish myth: *Cross; Jewish: *Neuman. |
| V1.11.1 | Worship of golden calf. Jewish: Neuman. |
| V1.11.2 | Worship of stone idols. Jewish: Neuman. |
| V1.11.3 | Worship of wooden idol. Icelandic: *Boberg; Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 16. |
| V4 | Value of religious exercises. |
| V4.1 | Religious exercises weighed in balance. A son doubts whether the words spoken by the priests to whom his father has willed a sum of money is worth so much. The words are put on paper and are found to outweigh the money. Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 465; Irish: O'Suilleabhain 65, 113, Beal XXI 325, 335. |
| V5 | Negligence in religious exercise. (Cf. Q223.) |
| V5.1 | Virgin Mary reproves a monk who sleeps at altar. Alphabet No. 284. |
| V5.2 | Negligent priests buried under bags filled with words omitted from service. *Crane Vitry 141 No. 19. |
| V5.3 | Devils cause monk to perspire and stay away from church service. Pauli (ed. Bolte). No. 260. |
| V10 | Religious sacrifices. *Encyc. Rel. Ethics Index 511b; *Hdwb. d. Abergl. IX Nachträge 19—54, 496—547; Irish: *Cross, Beal XXI 329; Jewish: *Neuman. |
| V10.1 | Goddess prevents suicide of man despairing of ability to make sacrifice. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| V10.2 | God dislikes offerings beyond one's ability. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| V11 | Power to which sacrifice is made. |
| V11.1 | Sacrifice to tree. (Cf. V1.1.) *Encyc. Rel. Ethics Index 611a; Fb "træ" III 866a. |
| V11.2 | Sacrifice to sea. *Penzer II 72 n. 1, VII 146 n. 1; Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: Boberg; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| V11.2.1 | Sacrifice to river. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| V11.3 | Sacrifice to stone. *Encyc. Rel. Ethics Index 570; *Fb "sten" III 553a; Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: MacCulloch Eddic 225, *Boberg; Danish: Schmidt DF XXXIX 90ff. |
| V11.4 | Sacrifices to Confucius. Encyc. Rel. Ethics IV 13f.; Chinese: Werner 102. |
| V11.5 | Sacrifice to wind. Encyc. Rel. Ethics Index 645b; Icelandic: *Boberg; Swiss: Jegerlehner Oberwallis 307 No. 29; Greek: Euripides Iphigenia at Aulis. |
| V11.6 | Sacrifice to the dead. (Cf. A108.1.) *Encyc. Rel. Ethics Index 512b; Irish myth: *Cross. |
| V11.6.1 | Human sacrifice in connection with funeral. (Cf. S260.1.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| V11.6.2 | Animal sacrifice in connection with funeral. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| V11.7 | Sacrifice to animal. Jewish: Neuman. |
| V11.7.1 | Sacrifice to serpent. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| V11.8 | Sacrifice to saint. Irish: O'Suilleabhain 89. |
| V11.9 | Sacrifice to deity. Jewish: Neuman. |
| V11.9.1 | Sacrifice to unknown god. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 70. |
| V11.10 | Sacrifice to idols. (Cf. V1.11.) Jewish: *Neuman. |
| V12 | Nature of sacrifice. |
| V12.1 | Blood as sacrifice. Irish: O'Suilleabhain 90. |
| V12.2 | Jewels as sacrifice to sea. (Cf. V11.2.) *Penzer II 72 n. 1. |
| V12.3 | Skulls as sacrifice to a god. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| V12.4 | Animals as sacrifice. Irish myth: *Cross; Jewish: *Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| V12.4.0.1 | Sacrifice of animals at the edification of a temple. Jewish: Moreno Esdras (V17.8). |
| V12.4.1 | Dog as sacrifice. Irish myth: Cross; Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 218 No. 167. |
| V12.4.2 | Cat as sacrifice. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| V12.4.3 | Pig as sacrifice. Irish myth: *Cross; Jewish: Neuman; Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 218 No. 167. |
| V12.4.3.1 | Hog as sacrifice. Icelandic: Boberg; Greek: Homer Odyssey XIV 435; Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 123. |
| V12.4.4 | Ox (bull) as sacrifice. Irish myth: Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg: Greek: Homer passim; Jewish: Neuman. |
| V12.4.4.1 | Cow as sacrifice. Cheremis: Sebeok-Nyerges. |
| V12.4.4.1.1 | Heifer as sacrifice. Greek: Homer passim. |
| V12.4.4.2 | Calf as sacrifice. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| V12.4.5 | Goat as sacrifice. Icelandic: *Boberg; Jewish: Neuman. |
| V12.4.6 | Sheep (ram) as sacrifice. Cheremis: Sebeok-Nyerges; Jewish: Neuman. |
| V12.4.7 | Hare as sacrifice. Cheremis: Sebeok-Nyerges. |
| V12.4.8 | Ass as sacrifice. *Krappe Classical Philology XLII (1947) 223—34; Jewish: *Neuman. |
| V12.4.9 | Horse as sacrifice. *Encyc. Rel. Ethics Index 262b; *Howey 185ff.; Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| V12.4.10 | Fish as sacrifice. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 19, 420; Tahiti: Henry Ancient Tahiti (Honolulu, 1928) 241. |
| V12.4.11 | Bird as sacrifice. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| V12.5 | Gold as sacrifice to false wooden god. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| V12.6 | Thrall as sacrifice. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| V12.7 | Eyes (human or animal) as sacrifice. Marquesas: Handy 134; Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 130, 497. |
| V12.8 | Flowers as sacrifice. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 16. |
| V12.9 | Libations. Drink poured out to the gods. Greek: Homer passim; Chinese: Graham. |
| V12.10 | Incense as sacrifice. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| V13 | Sacrifice made when treasure is found. Fb "skat" III 235b. |
| V14 | Sacrifice must be without blemish. Greek: Homer passim; Jewish: Neuman. |
| V15 | Sacrifice: olive branch laid on altar of Mercy. Greek: Frazer Apollodorus I 375 n. 2. |
| V16 | Sacrifice at religious festivals. Jewish: Neuman. |
| V16.1 | Sacrifices at Passover. Jewish: Moreno Esdras, *Neuman. |
| V17 | Purpose of sacrifice. |
| V17.0.1 | Sacrifice to deity in order to obtain favors. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| V17.1 | Sacrifice for a good year, crops. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| V17.2 | Sacrifice after committing a sin. Jewish: Neuman. |
| V17.3 | Sacrifice to get help in danger. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| V17.4 | Sacrifice for good weather. (Cf. V17.1.) Icelandic: örvar-Odds saga 38f. |
| V17.4.1 | Sacrifice to get snow and good conditions for skiing. Icelandic: Flateyjarbуk I 21f., Boberg. |
| V17.5 | Sacrifice to get knowledge. |
| V17.5.1 | Sacrifice to find out where abducted daughter is. Icelandic: Flateyjarbуk I 219, Boberg. |
| V17.6 | Sacrifice in order that king may live 300 years. (Cf. F571.7.) Icelandic: Boberg. |
| V17.7 | Sacrifice to deity for return of abducted persons. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| V17.8 | Sacrifice at edification of temple. (Cf. V12.4.0.1.) Jewish: Neuman. |
| V17.9 | Sacrifice by women at childbirth. Jewish: Neuman. |
| V18 | Ceremony of sacrifice. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| V19 | Religious sacrifices—miscellaneous. |
| V19.1 | Rising smoke as sign of acceptance of sacrifice. Jewish: *Neuman. |
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