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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
H
Tests
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The Wise and the Foolish
K
Deceptions
L
Reversals of Fortune
M
Ordaining the Future
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Chance and Fate
P
Society
Q
Rewards and Punishments
R
Captives and Fugitives
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Unnatural Cruelty
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Sex
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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 ▲ |
|---|---|
| A471.1 | Goddess of prophecy. Irish myth: Cross; Icel.: Boberg. |
| A473.1.1 | Goddess of prosperity. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A489.1 | Goddess of protection. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A456.1 | Goddess of sailors. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A472.1 | Goddess of sleep. Hindu: Penzer V 197. |
| A451.1.1 | Goddess of smith-work. Irish myth: Cross. |
| A499.4.1 | Goddess of sorcery. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 114. |
| A430.1.1 | Goddess of splendor of spring. Hindu: Penzer I 112; Japanese: Anesaki 233. |
| A427.1 | Goddess of springs and wells. In Greek myth, the nymphs were regarded as deities of springs. In Babylonian, Ishtar, the goddess of fertility had this function.—Greek: Fox 257; Persian and Babylonian: Carnoy 278. |
| A465.4.1 | Goddess of the dance. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A499.2 | Goddess of the hair. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A499.7 | Goddess of the parasol. Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 421. |
| A475.1.1.1 | Goddess of thousand eyes discovered by lousing. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A284.1 | Goddess of thunder. Maori: Dixon 57. |
| A300.1 | Goddess of underworld. (cf. A310.1). Oceania: Beckwith Myth 294; Polynesia: Beckwith Myth 114; Tuamotu: Stimson MS (z-G. 3/1241) Nukuhiva (Marquesas): Handy 121; Tonga: Beckwith Myth 178. |
| A430.1 | Goddess of vegetation. Irish myth: Cross. |
| A125.1.1 | Goddess of war in shape of (red) woman. Irish myth: Cross. |
| A125.1 | Goddess of war in shape of hag. Irish myth: Cross. |
| A485.1 | Goddess of war. Gaster Thespis 136; Irish myth: Cross; Roman: Frazer Ovid IV 151ff.; Assyrian: Spence 213; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A473.1 | Goddess of wealth. Irish myth: Cross.—Hindu: Penzer X 206 s.v. "Lakshmi"; India: *Thompson-Balys; Japanese: Anesaki 268. |
| A451.3.1 | Goddess of weaving and spinning. Greek: Grote I 51. |
| A461.1 | Goddess of wisdom. Greek: Grote I 10 (Athene).—Tahiti: Henry 85. |
| A310.1 | Goddess of world of the dead. Greek: Fox 230 (Persephone); Icel.: De la Saussaye 280 (Hel), 276 (Freyja), *Boberg, MacCulloch Eddic 303ff.; Armenian: Ananikian 35; Babylonian: Spence 129.—New Zealand (Maori): Dixon 74; Eskimo: Thompson Tales 272 n. 2. |
| A474.1.1 | Goddess of youth. Icel.: MacCulloch Eddic 178 (Idunn); Greek: Fox 240. |
| A119.2 | Goddess produced by heat of earth. Tahiti: Beckwith Myth 178. |
| A189.12 | Goddess protects animals from hunters. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A106.1.1 | Goddess rebels against her father for forbidding her marriage. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A191 | Goddess rejuvenates self when old. Navaho: Alexander N. Am. 164. |
| A137.9 | Goddess represented as mounted on a drake, attended by eight chief snakes attended by snake jewels. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A2211.15 | Goddess scatters pubic hairs on fish: why he has so many bones. Tuamotu: Stimson MS (t—G 2/44). |
| A155.6 | Goddess sleeps on bed of snakes. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A842.1 | Goddess standing on her head supports earth. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A124.3 | Goddess with body full of fire. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A123.2.2.2 | Goddess with eight mouths. Tonga: Gifford 168. |
| A123.8 | Goddess with one-and-a-half buttocks. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A131.3.2 | Goddess with pig's head. Tonga: Beckwith Myth 178. |
| A131.8 | Goddess with pig's teeth. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A139.9.1 | Goddess with red urine. Easter Is.: Métraux Ethnology 315. |
| A123.3.1.4.1 | Goddess with thousand eyes. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A123.1.7 | Goddess with three supernatural bodies: fire, cliff, sea. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 496. |
| A189.5 | Goddess' throne shakes when some mischance befalls her faithful worshipper. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A136.2.2 | Goddess's chariot drawn by one-footed horse. Irish myth: Cross. |
| A189.10 | Goddesses come down to earth by a silken thread, are offended by raja and produce drought. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A139.1 | Gods (supernatural beings) have many names. (cf. C432). Irish myth: Cross. |
| A188 | Gods and goddesses in love with men. Babylonian: Gilgamesch Epos VI (Ishtar).—Irish myth: Cross; Norse: Herrmann Saxo Gr. II 238ff., *Boberg; Greek: Fox 29, 157, 199, 211.—Tahiti: Henry 231, Beckwith Myth 37, Porapora (Society Is.): *Beckwith Myth 38; Maori: Clark 148; So. Am. Indian (Chiriguano): Métraux RMLP XXXIII 154, 165. |
| A187 | Gods and men judge each other. |
| A106.0.1 | Gods and the demons quarrel over supremacy. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A117.5 | Gods are spirits of deified dead. Easter Is.: Métraux Ethnology 316. |
| A188.2 | Gods as ancestors of mankind. Irish myth: Cross (A188.1); Hawaii: Beckwith myth 2, 70, 294, 300; Tahiti: Beckwith Myth 37; Tuamotu: Stimson MS (T-G. 3/1010); Easter Is.: Métraux 310; So. Am. Indian (Chiriguano): Métraux RMLP XXXIII 171; Inca: Rowe BBAE CXLIII (2) 315. |
| A520.1 | Gods as culture heroes. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 16, chap. 2 passim. |
| A147 | Gods as fishers. (cf. A165.9). Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 24. |
| A112.6 | Gods as sons of supreme god. Icel.: MacCulloch Eddic 61.—Tahiti: Henry 147. |
| A140 | Gods as workmen. Icel.: MacCulloch Eddic 327. |
| A114 | Gods born from object. |
| A112.3 | Gods born from various parts of creator's body. Japanese: Anesaki 224. |
| A112.9 | Gods borne by human woman. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A139.9.3 | Gods covered with red and yellow feathers. Tahiti: Henry 338. |
| A831.8 | Gods create the earth from their dead victim's blood and bones. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A173 | Gods deposed for a time. Irish myth: Cross; Icel.: De Vries FFC XCIV 38ff., Herrmann Saxo II 109ff.; Hindu: Tawney II 581.—Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 11, 17, 177. |
| A154.3 | Gods discover liquor. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A115.7 | Gods emerge from hole in tree. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A189.13 | Gods forced by mortals to take refuge underground. Irish myth: Cross (A183.1.). |
| A189.16 | Gods give divinity to mortal. Tahiti: Henry 231. |
| A139.9.2 | Gods have ichor, not blood: can be wounded but not killed. Iliad book V line 137. |
| A173.2 | Gods imprisoned. Irish myth: Cross. |
| A189 | Gods in relation to mortals—miscellaneous. |
| A180 | Gods in relation to mortals. Irish myth: Cross; Norse: Olrik Kilderne til Sakses Oldhistorie I (1892) 30ff., 32ff. |
| A172 | Gods intervene in battle. Irish myth: Cross; Greek: Iliad passim; Norse: Herrmann Nordische Mythologie 291ff, Boberg; Gaster Thespis 349; Hindu: Tawney I 412, II 473—477; Jewish: *Neuman. |
| A155.4 | Gods keep mosquitoes as pets. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A151.1.4 | Gods live in cloudland. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 64, 67; Tahiti: Beckwith Myth 31. |
| A151.3.1 | Gods live in spring. Tonga: Beckwith Myth 74. |
| A5.1 | Gods make earth to have place to rest their feet.—Hawaiian: Beckwith Myth 43. |
| A153.9 | Gods nourished by air. Hivaoa (Marquesas): Handy 105. |
| A489 | Gods of abstractions—miscellaneous. |
| A460 | Gods of abstractions. Greek: Fox 299. |
| A107 | Gods of darkness and light. Darkness thought of as evil, light as good.—Babylonian: Spence 74; Irish myth: Cross; Jewish: Neuman. |
| A400.0.1 | Gods of earth. Irish myth: Cross. |
| A419.3 | Gods of seat-braces on canoe. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 16. |
| A417 | Gods of the Quarters. A god or spirit for each of the world-quarters, north, south, east, and west.—Japanese: Anesaki 243; Chinese: Werner 240.—Marshall Is.: Davenport 222; American Indian: *Alexander N. Am. 286 n. 31; Maya: Alexander Lat. Am. 137. |
| A474 | Gods of youth and age. |
| A433 | Gods or goddesses of special crops. Mangaia (Cook Is.): Clark 140. |
| A163.1.1 | Gods play chess. Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 216 No. 165. |
| A1429.3.2 | Gods provide drinkable water. (Cf. A941.)—Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 63f. |
| A139.11 | Gods recognized by natural phenomena associated with their worship—color, scent, etc. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 4. |
| A171 | Gods ride through air. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| A1420.2 | Gods teach how to seek and prepare food. Marquesas: Handy 114; Africa (Luba): Donohugh Africa V 180. |
| A1404 | Gods teach people all they know. Marquesas: Handy 123; S. Am. Indian (Cariri): Lowie BBAE CXLIII (1) 559. |
| A131 | Gods with animal features. *De Visser Die nicht menschengestaltigen Götter der Griechen (Leiden 1903).—Egyptian: Müller 15ff.—Mexican: Alexander Lat. Am. 57ff.—Irish myth: Cross. |
| A136 | Gods with unusual transportation. |
| A199 | Gods—additional motifs. |
| A190 | Gods: miscellaneous motifs. |
| A153.2.1 | Gods' food gives supernatural growth. Irish Myth: Cross; India: Thompson-Balys; Greek: Grote I 43. |
| A1432.2.1 | Gold comes from gourd received from fishes. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A1101.1 | Golden age. A former age of perfection.—Hdwb. d. Abergl. III 927ff.—Irish myth: Cross; Icel.: De la Saussaye 165, MacCulloch Eddic 327, 378 n. 49, Boberg; Lappish: Qvigstad FFC LX 35 No. 8; Greek: Fox 105, Grote I 62; Jewish: Neuman; Persian: Carnoy 300, 305; Hindu: Keith 103; India: Thompson-Balys. —Tuamotu: Stimson MS (z-G 13/50); Aztec: Alexander Lat. Am. 66; Carib: ibid. 262; Ackawoi: ibid. 269. |
| A878.3.6 | Golden cock in earth-tree. Icel.: Boberg. |
| A151.4.3 | Golden mansions of gods. Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 421. |
| A525 | Good and bad culture heroes. Walapai: Alexander N. Am. 180; S. Am. Indian (Guarani): Métraux BBAE CXLIII (3) 93; Melanesia: Dixon 122ff.; Polynesia, Micronesia: ibid. 122 n. 1. |
| A102.14 | Goodness of God. Jewish: Neuman. |
| A2441.2.2 | Graceful step of dove. Jewish: Neuman. |
| A1.2 | Grandfather as creator.—S. Am. Indian (Paressi): Métraux BBAE CXLIII (3) 359, (Guarayú): Métraux RMLP XXXIII 147. |
| A2611.6.1 | Grass from hair of slain person. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| A2233.4 | Grasshopper builds no house for winter; ant strikes him blind: therefore born blind. (Cf. A2332.6.3.)—Dh III 21. |
| A191.1 | Great age of the gods. Irish myth: Cross. |
| A111.3.3 | Great bird as ancestor of gods. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 92. |
| A721.2.1 | Great darkness due to awk swallowing the sun. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A972.7 | Great fish killed by hero and cut into sixteen pieces: the great stones may still be seen. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A1010.2 | Great flood lasts eight months. Maori: Beckwith Myth 316. |
| A139.15 | Greedy god. Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 215f. |
| A2275.4.1 | Green pigeon cheated out of its chick: is always mourning. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A2232.4 | Griffin disdains to go on ark; drowned: hence extinct. Dh I 288. |
| A671.2.10 | Griffins in hell. Irish myth: Cross. |
| A992.3 | Ground bursts open and a temple rises from it. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A856.2 | Ground, previously all wet, dries up when first woman cuts her little finger and blood drips on ground. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A501 | Groups of demigods. |
| A511.4 | Growth of culture hero. |
| A1945.2 | Gull a transformed ravished maiden. While he is sleeping, the maiden the hero has stolen is ravished by another man. The hero thereupon turns her into a gull. (Cf. A1710.)—Finnish: Kalevala Rune 38. |
| A1945.1 | Gull from transformed cat. A cat catches a strong fish with her claws. The fish carries the cat on its back to the sea, where the gull originates from the cat. (Cf. A1710.)—Finnish: Aarne FFC VIII 18 No. 102. |
| A2431.3.4 | Gull's nest. Exchanged with ringdove. (See A2247.)—Dh III 124. |
| A2434 | Habitat of animal. The country or locality in which animal is found. |
| A2433.6.8 | Habitat of snake. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A2433.6.6 | Habitation of frog. India: Thompson-Balys; Africa (Togo): Einstein 7. |
| A934.6 | Hail-storm leaves twelve chief rivers in Ireland. Irish myth: Cross. |
| A1661 | Hair and beard of various peoples. Irish myth: Cross. |
| A2611.6 | Hair transformed into plants. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A506 | Half-spirit, half-man. Samoa: Beckwith Myth 368. |
| A157.7 | Hammer of thunder god. Gaster Thespis 135, 363. |
| A856 | Hardening of the earth. At first it is soft, but is hardened by sun's rays.—India: Thompson-Balys.—Carib: Alexander Lat. Am. 39. |
| A2256.1 | Hare and man contest in watching for leaf to fall off tree. First one to succeed may eat other. Hare loses. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| A2239.1 | Hare punished for perjury: eyes deep in head. (Cf. A2332.4.1.). —Finnish: Aarne FFC VIII 13 No. 70. |
| A2215.2 | Hare runs away at creation; almost loses tail. When, as the most timid of all beasts, he runs away, God throws a tail at him from a pile of tails. (Cf. A2378.4.1.)—Dh III 185.—Finnish: Aarne FFC VIII 13 No. 72; Flemish: DeMeyer FFC XXXVII 86 No. 72. |
| A2461.1 | Hare sleeps with open eyes as defense. Dh III 234. |
| A2234.4 | Hare weeps for mother when forbidden: moon hits him and cleaves lip. (Cf. A2211.2, A2231.8, A2342.1.)—Bushman: Bleek and Lloyd 59. |
| A878.3.2 | Hart(s) eating of the earth-tree. Holmberg Baum 67ff.—Icel.: MacCulloch Eddic 332ff., Boberg. |
| A1388.1 | Hate released among mankind. Greek: Fox 78. |
| A2433.4 | Haunts of birds. |
| A2433.6.3 | Haunts of crab. |
| A2433.5 | Haunts of insects. |
| A2433.6 | Haunts of reptiles, etc. |
| A2433.5.3 | Haunts of spider. (See A2211.6, large stones, A2261.2, dusty corners.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A2433.6.1 | Haunts of tortoise (turtle). |
| A2433.3 | Haunts of various animals—mammals. |
| A2275.5.2 | Hawk (vulture) loses grandmother: still hovers and seeks her. (Cf. A2471.3.)—Ibo (Nigeria): Basden 274, (Cameroon): Mansfield 233. |
| A522.2.3 | Hawk as culture hero. S. Am. Indian (Toba): Métraux MAFLS XL 3, BBAE CXLIII (1) 368. |
| A878.3.5 | Hawk in the earth-tree. Holmberg Baum 67ff.—Icel.: MacCulloch Eddic 332ff., Boberg. |
| A2442.2.5 | Hawk's flight. Africa (Ekoi): Talbot 189. |
| A2216.5 | Hawk's tail cut in two by sword as he is being transformed. Cause of his forked tail. (Cf. A2378.5.2.)—Dh III 54. |
| A2711.4.1 | Hazel gives Virgin Mary shelter. Blessed. *BP III 477; Lithuanian: Balys Legends No. 198f., 204. |
| A2302.2 | Hazel-cock's body made smaller. (See A2231, A2213.1.) Dh III 2.—Lappish: Qvigstad FFC LX 38 No. 51. |
| A179.4 | Head of god bitten off by shark. Hivaoa (Marquesas): Handy 108. |
| A1663 | Heads of various people. |
| A411.4 | Hearth-god. Greek: Grote I 55 (Hestia, Vesta). |
| A733 | Heat and light of the sun. |
| A641.1 | Heaven and earth from egg. They are the two halves of an egg shell. Eros escapes as they are separated.—Greek: Fox 5.—Indonesian: L. d. Backer L'Archipel indien 232. |
| A625.2.1 | Heaven and earth originally connected by navel string. Navel string cut.—India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A657.2 | Heaven and earth touch each other at east, west, and south. Jewish: Neuman. |
| A133.2.2 | Heaven as God's throne, earth His footstool. Jewish: Neuman. |
| A661.0.9 | Heaven surrounded by seven walls. Irish myth: Cross. |
| A625.1 | Heaven-mother—earth-father. Kachin (North Burma): Scott Indo-Chinese 263. |
| A661 | Heaven. A blissful upper world.—Kohler Heaven and Hell in Comparative Religion (New York 1923); Jeremias Hölle und Paradies bei den Babyloniern (Leipzig 1903); Gaster Thespis 286; Irish myth: Cross, Beal XXI 330; Norse: MacCulloch Eddic 312; German: Grimm Nos. 3, 35, 81, 82, 112, 167, 175, 178; Egyptian: Müller 176; Persian: Carnoy 345; Hindu: Keith 99, 131, 201.—Japanese: Anesaki 237, 241.—Haida: Alexander N. Am. 263; Eskimo: ibid. 7; Aztec: Alexander Lat. Am. 81; Maya: ibid. 138, 140; Isthmian tribes (Panama): ibid. 193. |
| A38 | Heavenly bodies as creator's companions. |
| A700.4 | Heavenly bodies created after the plant world. Jewish: Neuman. |
| A700.1 | Heavenly bodies from objects thrown into sky. The Christ Child throws mud pies into the sky and creates sun, moon, and stars.—*Dh II 78ff.; Icel.: MacCulloch Eddic 325—26. |
| A700.2 | Heavenly bodies vomited up by creator. Bushongo: Werner African 144. |
| A152.5 | Heavenly curtain surrounds God's throne. Jewish: Neuman. |
| A790.1 | Heavenly lights originate from firmament. Jewish: Neuman. |
| A661.0.2.1 | Heavenly music caused by four columns under Lord's chair. Irish myth: Cross. (Cf. A661.0.3.). |
| A744 | Heavenly smith is hammering on the moon. Africa (Sudanese): Frobenius Atlantis VII 18f. |
| A152.8 | Heavenly throne has Jacob's face engraved on it. Jewish: Neuman. |
| A1050 | Heavens break up at end of world. *Olrik Ragnarök 480 s.v. "Himmel". |
| A1482.1 | Hebrew the language of the inhabitants of heaven. Irish myth: Cross; Jewish: Neuman. |
| A2220.1 | Hedgehog's skin reward for good deed. (Cf. A2311.4.)—Esthonian: Aarne FFC XXV 146 No. 44. |
| A671.0.4 | Hell confused with fairy land. Irish myth: Cross. |
| A671.0.1 | Hell located to the north. Irish myth: Cross; Icel.: MacCulloch Eddic 319. |
| A671 | Hell. Lower world of torment.—Jeremias Hölle und Paradies bei den Babyloniern (Leipzig 1903); Kohler Heaven and Hell in Comparative Religion (New York 1923); *Landau Hölle und Fegfeuer in Volksglaube, Dichtung, und Kirchenlehre (Heidelberg, 1909); *Jataka Index s.v. "hell".—Norse: De la Saussaye 256, 291, MacCulloch Eddic 303, Herrmann Saxo Gr. II 588, *Boberg; Greek: Fox 143; Egyptian: Müller 179; Babylonian: Spence 128; Persian: Carnoy 345; Hindu: Penzer X 169 s.v. "Hades", Keith 100, 160; India: Thompson-Balys.—Japanese: Anesaki 237.—Aztec: Alexander Lat. Am. 80; Maya: ibid. 138; Chaco: ibid. 324; Chibcha: ibid. 198; Eskimo: Alexander N. Am. 7. |
| A12 | Hermaphroditic creator. The creator is half man and half woman or is thought of as both male and female.—*Lang Myth I 200f., 299; Güntert 324.—Greek: Eisler 396; Egyptian: Maspéro Histoire ancienne des peuples de l'Orient classique 141; Indian (Hindu): Keith 75.—Aztec: Alexander Lat. Am. 88. |
| A511.1.4.2 | Hero formed by god out of mother's apron. Maori: Beckwith Myth 231. |
| A717 | Hero makes sun and moon from tree and sends them alternately into sky. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A717.1 | Hero makes sun and moon from tree and vivifies them with blood of creator's son. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A502 | Heroes or demigods as fourth race of men. Greek: Grote I 62. |
| A161 | Hierarchy of gods. Persian: Carnoy 260; Irish myth: Cross; Hindu: Müller 142f.; India: Thompson-Balys; Greek: Grote I 3, 9; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 729. |
| A651 | Hierarchy of worlds. A series of worlds, one above the other.—Irish myth: Cross; Egyptian: Müller 366 n. 7; Siberian: Holmberg Siberian 307, 309f., 410; Hindu: Keith 15, 134, 228; India: *Thompson-Balys.—N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 287 n. 58, Alexander N. Am. 7, 60, 105, 136, 263, *275 n. 11 (Eskimo, Cherokee, Mandan, Kiowa, Thompson River, Bella Coola); Aztec: Alexander Lat. Am. 52f.; Maya: ibid. 140; Amazon: ibid. 307; Bororo: ibid. 296; S. Am. Indian (Chaco): Métraux MAFLS XL 24, Métraux BBAE CXLIII (1) 366, (Witoto): Métraux MAFLS XL 25; Chuckchee: Bogoras AA n. s. IV 590; Maori: Dixon 59.—Cf. Icel.: De la Saussaye 346 n. 4. |
| A2442.1 | High and low flight of birds. |
| A651.1.0.1 | Highest of celestial worlds consists of twenty heavens. Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 336. |
| A963.8 | Hill as unfinished tower built in the likeness of Nimrod's tower. Irish myth: Cross. |
| A969.6 | Hill brought to country as adopted child. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 379. |
| A963.6 | Hill from anvil (cast by supernatural smith). Irish myth: Cross. |
| A963.7 | Hill from sand left by passersby.—Lithuanian: Balys Historical. |
| A969.4 | Hills because sky asked earth to wrinkle up its feet. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A961.1 | Hills from flapping of primeval bird. Hills and valleys are formed from the flapping of a giant turkey-buzzard when the earth is still plastic.—Yuchi: Alexander N. Am. 62. |
| A962.7 | Hills from hero's striking (earth) with sword. Irish myth: Cross. |
| A963.5 | Hills from stones cast by giants. Irish myth: Cross. |
| A962.10 | Hills represent loads from culture-hero's shoulders. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A1421 | Hoarded game released. Animals are kept imprisoned by malevolent creature. Released by culture hero. Hindu: Keith 33f.; India: Thompson-Balys; Kodiak: Jochelson JE VI 143, 164, 187, 367; Tonga: Gifford 91; Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 434f.; S. Am. Indian (Yunca, Peru): Alexander Lat. Am. 229 (fish); Eskimo (Bering Strait): Nelson RBAE XVIII 515, (Greenland): Rink 442, Holm 75, (Cape York): Rasmussen III 51. |
| A1423.0.1 | Hoarded plants released. Rarotonga, Cook Island: Beckwith Myth 236; Hawaii: ibid. 290, 432; S. Am. Indian (Cashinawa): Métraux BBAE CXLIII (3) 685. |
| A1421.0.1 | Hoarded rice made available once more to men by culture hero. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A1425.0.1 | Hoarded seeds. S. Am. Indian (Moré): Métraux BBAE CXLIII (3) 424. |
| A661.1.0.3 | Hog (Soehrímnir) in Valhalla gives meat. Icel.: Boberg. |
| A2275.5.1 | Hog loses pancake in mud: still seeks it. (Cf. A2471.2, A2477.1, Z24.1.)—*Dh III 280ff.; (Cf. Type 2025.) |
| A972.5.6 | Hole in stone caused by weapon of warrior. Irish myth: Cross. |
| A1122.1 | Hole of winds: stopper destroyed. The hole is stopped with a wooden stopper, which is destroyed. The country dries up.—Chauvin II 110 No. 75. |
| A682 | Hole to lower world up which people come. S. Am. Indian (Terino): Métraux BBAE CXLIII (1) 367. |
| A964.1 | Holes in hills result of fight between gods. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A972.3.1 | Holes in stone caused by saint (warrior). Irish myth: Cross. |
| A972.3 | Holes in stones caused by piercing by saint's finger. Irish: Plummer Vitae Sanctorum Hiberniae clvi. |
| A1541.4.0.1 | Holy day established on seventh day. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 45. |
| A102.7 | Holy god. Jewish: Neuman. |
| A1005.3 | Holy Land not ravaged by deluge. Jewish: Neuman. |
| A151.10.1 | Home of God the ark and the temple. Jewish: Neuman. |
| A151.0.1 | Home of god where he is the only living one. Jewish: Neuman. |
| A151.1.2 | Home of gods in cave. Hivaoa (Marquesas): Handy 104; Tonga: Gifford 81. |
| A151.1.3 | Home of gods in volcano crater. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 167, 173. |
| A151.1.1 | Home of gods inside of hill. Irish myth: Cross.—Cheyenne: Alexander N. Am. 123, 127; Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 39. |
| A151.1 | Home of gods on high mountain. Mt. Olympus. Patch PMLA XXXIII 618; Gaster Thespis 138, 170ff.; Greek: Fox 8, Grote I 10; Icel.: MacCulloch Eddic 23; Hindu: Penzer X 195 s.v. "Kailasa", Keith 149 (Mount Meru); India: *Thompson-Balys; Jewish: Neuman.—Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 19. |
| A151.3.2 | Home of gods on island. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 67f., 85; Tahiti: Beckwith Myth 178. |
| A151.3 | Home of the gods under the sea. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A151 | Home of the gods. Elysium, Avalon, earthly paradise.—Celtic (general): MacCulloch Celtic 14; Irish: ibid. 37f., 114ff., Cross; Welsh: ibid. 193; Icel.: MacCulloch Eddic 312ff.; Hindu: Penzer I 125 n. 1.; Jewish: Neuman.—Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 67; So. Am. Indian (Apapocuvá-Guarani): Métraux RMLP XXXIII 122; Africa (Fang): Trilles 130. |
| A2385.3 | Honey as excrement of bees. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A2426.2.4 | Hoopoe's song. (See A2261.1, A2275.3.) |
| A2241.9 | Hornbill borrows tomtit's bill. (Cf. A2343.1.4.)—Ila (Rhodesia): Smith and Dale 374 No. 24. |
| A131.6 | Horned god. Irish myth: Cross; Egyptian: Müller 38 (Hathors). |
| A671.2 | Horrible sights in hell. Irish myth: Cross; Gaster Thespis 187f. |
| A1881.0.1 | Horse lives from time of Adam on. Irish myth: Cross. |
| A732.2 | Horse of the sun. |
| A2262.1 | Horse originally had eyes on feet: put out and became eyelike marks. (Cf. A2371.2.7.)—Dh III 45.—Finnish: Aarne FFC VIII 12 No. 61. |
| A1080.1 | Horse shall wade in blood at Armageddon. *Fb "hest" I 600a. |
| A132.3.1 | Horse-god. Irish myth: Cross; Jewish: Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A132.3.2 | Horse-goddess. Irish myth: Cross. |
| A155.2 | Horses of the gods. (cf. A171.1). Icel.: MacCulloch Eddic 216; Snorra Edda Gylf. XV. |
| A942.1 | Hot springs rise where Christ bathed his feet. (Cf. A901.)—Dh II 68. |
| A673 | Hound of hell. Cerberus (monstrous dog) guards the bridge to the lower world.—*Encyc. Rel. Ethics I 493a; *Fb "hund" III 678b.—Gaster Thespis 214; Greek: Fox 88; Frazer Apollodorus I 232 n. 1; Norse: Herrmann Nordische Mythologie 599ff., MacCulloch Eddic 303f.; Persian and Hindu: Keith 69.—Eskimo (Greenland): Rink 326, (Cumberland Sound): Boas BAM XV 165. |
| A151.4.4 | House of god with pillars made of dead chief's bones. Samoa: Beckwith Myth 76. |
| A182.1.1 | Household gods speak to explain events. Virgil Aeneid III line 155. |
| A411 | Household gods. Irish myth: Cross; Istrian: Máchal 229; Slavic (general): ibid. 240ff.; Germanic: Meyer Germanen 213ff.; Roman: (Lares and Penates) *Frazer Ovid II 470 n. 1, IV 12ff., Roscher II 1868 s.v. "Lares"; Siberian: Holmberg Siberian 454; Finno-Ugric: Holmberg Finno-Ugric 113ff.; Estonian: Loorits Grundzüge I 543—570; Chinese: Ferguson 75. |
| A2421 | How animal got voice. Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 3168, Legends Nos. 263—270; Japanese: Ikeda. |
| A2428.1 | How animal lost hearing. Dh III 231. |
| A2422 | How animal lost voice (or power of speech). Dh III 231ff.—India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A2326.1 | How animals got horns. Africa (Fang): Tessman 16f. |
| A2571 | How animals received their names. *Dh III 186ff.—Marshall Islands: Davenport 222. |
| A2791.3 | How banyan got its milk. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A2378.2.4 | How bear lost tail. (See A2216.1.) |
| A2431.1 | How bird learned to build nest. *Dh III 202. |
| A2442.3 | How birds began to fly. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A2486.4 | How birds began to lay eggs. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A2322.1 | How buffalo got hair under chin. Dh III 34. |
| A2326.1.2 | How caribou got antlers. Exchanged his teeth for walrus's horns. (See A2247.) Eskimo (Labrador): Hawks GSCan XIV 159. |
| A2513.2 | How cat was domesticated. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A2376.4 | How crab got its claws. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A2425.1 | How dog began to bark. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A2378.1.7 | How dog got its tail. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A2345.6 | How elephant got its tusks. India: Thompson-Balys. |
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