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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
M
Ordaining the Future
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Chance and Fate
P
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 ▲ |
|---|---|
| C51.4.2 | Tabu: spying on secret help of angels. *Toldo Studien zur vgl. Littgsch. IV 52ff.; Irish myth: Cross. |
| C51.4.3 | Tabu: spying on secret help of fairies. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C761.3 | Tabu: staying too long at ball. Must leave before certain hour.—*Type 510AB; *Cox Cinderella passim; Missouri French: Carrière. |
| C761.2 | Tabu: staying too long at home. *Type 425; Tegethoff Amor und Psyche 34ff. |
| C761.4 | Tabu: staying too long in certain place. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C712.1 | Tabu: staying too long in fairyland. (Cf. C713.3.)—*R. M. Meyer Zs. f. Vksk. XXI 1ff. |
| C761.4.2 | Tabu: staying too long in meadow of otherworld. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| C712 | Tabu: staying too long in other world. |
| C761.4.1 | Tabu: staying two nights in one place until certain event is brought to pass. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C51.1.2 | Tabu: stealing from altar. (Cf. C51.2.)—Fable: Phaedrus IV 11; Wienert FFC LVI 80 (ET 465), 138 (ST 433). |
| C51.2 | Tabu: stealing from god or saint. (Cf. C51.1.2.)—Greek: Grote I 145; Tuamotu: Stimson MS (3—G 3/1386); S. Am. Indian (Chiriguano): Métraux RMLP XXXIII 173. |
| C51.2.4 | Tabu: stealing from holy statue. Spanish: Boggs FFC XC 91 No. 769C. |
| C51.1.2.1 | Tabu: stealing from sacred booty. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| C91 | Tabu: stealing from spirits. (Cf. C51.2.)—Irish saints' legend: Plummer cliii (cf. C43, C51.2).—Finnish: Aarne FFC XXXIII 42 No. 53** (cf. C42). |
| C91.2 | Tabu: stealing fruits from sacred tree. (Cf. C262.3.)—India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| C91.1 | Tabu: stealing garment from a rock. The rock pursues. (The offended rolling stone.)—N. A. Indian: Thompson Tales 300 n. 96. |
| C51.2.3 | Tabu: stealing wife of god. Africa (Ekoi): Talbot 129. |
| C535 | Tabu: stepping on bread (or otherwise misusing it). *Fb "brød" IV 74a. |
| C55.1 | Tabu: stepping on sacred bread. Finnish-Swedish: Wessman 19 No. 188. |
| C56.2 | Tabu: stopping enroute while carrying image of a god. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| C892 | Tabu: stranger to play with someone without asking permission. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C546 | Tabu: striking certain rock. Samoa: Beckwith Myth 19, notes 10—12. |
| C742 | Tabu: striking monster twice. Though monster begs that hero strike him again, hero refuses. Monster would otherwise revive.—*Chauvin VII 69 No. 348 n. 2; *Wesselski Theorie 143 and n.; *Köhler-Bolte I 469ff.; *Krappe Révue d'Ethnographie et des Traditions Populaires (1925) 432ff.; **Wesselski Erlesenes 18ff.; *BP IV 395. |
| C31.8 | Tabu: striking supernatural wife. Irish myth: Cross; Wales: Baughman; Kassai (Congo): Frobenius Atlantis XII 106. |
| C51.1.12 | Tabu: striking tree which belongs to deity. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 111. |
| C825 | Tabu: studying occult books. Jewish: Neuman. |
| C752.2.1 | Tabu: supernatural creatures being abroad after sunrise. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 333. |
| C858 | Tabu: swimming with certain birds. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C897.2 | Tabu: taking census. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| C541.5 | Tabu: taking down corpse of hanged man. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| C51.2.2.1 | Tabu: taking fruit and fish dedicated to goddess. (Cf. C221, C225, C241.)—India: Thompson-Balys. |
| C762.4 | Tabu: taking more than one fruit from certain tree. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| C195 | Tabu: taking the advice of a woman. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C241.1 | Tabu: tasting milk of "cow of plenty", dedicated to the gods. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| C564.6 | Tabu: teaching genealogy of chiefs to commoners. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 309. |
| C757.2 | Tabu: telling adventure in otherworld too soon. India: *Thompson-Balys; Calif. Indian: Gayton and Newman 99. |
| C423.6 | Tabu: telling children about lake monster. Eskimo (Kodiak): Golder JAFL XXII 21. |
| C493 | Tabu: thanking (under certain circumstances). Fb "takke" III 763a; Hdwb. d. Abergl. II 171; Icel.: *Boberg. |
| C630 | Tabu: the one forbidden time. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| C560 | Tabu: things not to be done by certain class. Irish Myth: Cross. |
| C851.2 | Tabu: throwing "living fire" into river. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| C94.6 | Tabu: throwing away holy image. Finnish-Swedish: Wessman 19 No. 184. |
| C726.1 | Tabu: throwing away nail trimmings. Jewish: Neuman; Tahiti: Henry 143. |
| C549.1 | Tabu: tiger and lion after having killed a man not to touch certain animals: cow, buffalo, pig, deer, wild goat. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| C51.1.10 | Tabu: to enter sacred places closed to the female sex. (Cf. C51.1.2.) *Loomis White Magic 97. |
| C686.1 | Tabu: to refuse help to a woman. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C735.2.9 | Tabu: to rest sitting or lying until answer to certain question is learned. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C762.2 | Tabu: too much weeping for dead. Persian: Carnoy 345. Eskimo (Greenland): Holm 73, 80, Rasmussen III 166, 180. |
| C530 | Tabu: touching (miscellaneous). |
| C549 | Tabu: touching (miscellaneous). |
| C515 | Tabu: touching (plucking) flowers. Type 451; Hartland Science 200.—English-Scottish: Child I 360 n.; Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 17. |
| C549.1.1 | Tabu: touching a horse or moving a dead cat or dog. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| C621.2.1 | Tabu: touching apple. Hdwb. d. Märchens s.v. *"Apfel" n. 31.—Spanish: Boggs FFC XC 41 No. 301. |
| C621.2.2 | Tabu: touching banana. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 146. |
| C541.3 | Tabu: touching bones of murdered person. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| C533 | Tabu: touching box. Eskimo (Cumberland Sound): Boas BAM XV 203. |
| C537.1 | Tabu: touching camel after he has retired from work. Cyprus: Hadjioannou Kypriakoi Mythoi (Leukosia, 1948) No. 22. |
| C537 | Tabu: touching certain animals. |
| C545 | Tabu: touching certain clothes. |
| C545.2 | Tabu: touching clothes of certain person. Eskimo (Mackenzie Area): Jenness 58. |
| C545.3 | Tabu: touching dress. French Canadian: Sister Marie Ursule. |
| C542.2 | Tabu: touching fire in other world. S. Am. Indian (Toba): Métraux MAFLS XL 45. |
| C551.1 | Tabu: touching food of another caste. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| C621.2 | Tabu: touching fruit. |
| C520 | Tabu: touching ground. (Cf. C516.) Hartland Science 197.—Irish myth: Cross; Tahiti: Beckwith Myth 246; Africa (Zulu): Callaway 303. |
| C537.2 | Tabu: touching hairless dog. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 343. |
| C564.7 | Tabu: touching head of chief. Hawaii, Marquesas, Lau Islands: Beckwith Myth 468. |
| C537.3 | Tabu: touching horse or moving dead cat or dog. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| C511 | Tabu: touching leaves (of tree). Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "feuilles". |
| C533.1 | Tabu: touching magic box. (Cf. D1174.) Africa (Ekoi): Talbot 18, 178, (Vai): Ellis 187 No. 3, (Basuto): Jacottet 220 No. 33. |
| C545.1 | Tabu: touching old clothes. (Abandoned clothes should be thrown away.)—Tahiti: Henry 143. |
| C51 | Tabu: touching possessions of god. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| C526 | Tabu: touching sacred mountain. Jewish: Neuman. |
| C549.2 | Tabu: touching soldiers of enchanted (sleeping) army and their horses. Lithuanian: Balys Historical. |
| C51.7 | Tabu: touching stone image of deity with unwashed hands. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| C542 | Tabu: touching treasures of other world. *Krappe Balor 125 n. 17.—Icel.: Herrmann Saxo II 589; MacCulloch Eddic 321, *Boberg. |
| C519 | Tabu: touching tree (plant)—miscellaneous. |
| C510 | Tabu: touching tree (plant). Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "arbres".—Jewish: Neuman; Chatham Islands: Beckwith Myth 19, Notes 10, 11, 12. |
| C532 | Tabu: touching water. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C531 | Tabu: touching with iron. *MacCulloch Childhood 339; Hartland Science 163f.; Fb "jærn" II 61a.—Irish myth: Cross; Jewish: Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys; Eskimo (Greenland): Holm 93. |
| C500 | Tabu: touching. Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "toucher". —Missouri-French: Carrière; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| C833.6 | Tabu: traveling beyond spot where feat of skill was performed before duplicating it. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C51.1.13 | Tabu: treating scornfully statue and dress of goddess. Greek Myth: Grote I 84. |
| C93 | Tabu: trespassing sacred precinct. Alphabet No. 52.—Irish: Plummer clxxxiv; Irish myth: Cross.—Swiss: Jegerlehner Oberwallis 295, No. 12.—Eskimo (Central Eskimo): Boas RBAE VI 600; Africa (Ekoi): Talbot 59 (ghost town). |
| C726 | Tabu: trimming fingernails. Jewish: Neuman; German: Grimm Nos. 100, 101. |
| C785 | Tabu: trying to save provision for another day. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| C194 | Tabu: trysting with woman at certain place. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C833.2 | Tabu: turning aside for anyone. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C872 | Tabu: turning away from (refusing requests of) poets. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C833.3 | Tabu: turning back after beginning a journey. *Fb "gе" I 525a, "vende" IV 1035b; African: Werner African 172. |
| C643 | Tabu: turning left side of chariot toward certain place. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C94.1 | Tabu: uncivil answer to holy (or supernatural) being. Gaster Exempla 229 No. 239; Estonian: Aarne FFC XXV 125 No. 54; Finnish: Aarne FFC XXXIII 43.—India: Thompson-Balys. |
| C891 | Tabu: uncleanliness. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C56 | Tabu: unseemly acts while carrying divine image. |
| C867 | Tabu: unusual cruelty. |
| C51.1.9 | Tabu: unworthy men to enter or see sanctuary. (Cf. C300.) *Loomis White Magic 97. |
| C99.1.1 | Tabu: urinating on fire (fire-god).—India: Thompson-Balys. |
| C891.3 | Tabu: urinating on fire. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| C93.5.1 | Tabu: use of palanquin within temple. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| C725.1 | Tabu: use of water after attending call of nature. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| C51.1.1 | Tabu: using altar for secular purposes. Irish: Plummer clxxxiv; Irish myth: Cross. |
| C495 | Tabu: using any except one certain phrase. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| C851.1 | Tabu: using food for unworthy purpose. |
| C851.1.2 | Tabu: using grain to clean child. German: Grimm No. 194. |
| C888 | Tabu: using leaven for cooking. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| C752.1.6 | Tabu: using magic power after nightfall. Tuamotu: Stimson MS (z-G 13/116). |
| C762.1 | Tabu: using magic power too often. N. A. Indian: Thompson Tales 299 n. 93; Eskimo (Greenland): Rink 461. |
| C96 | Tabu: using miracle for trifling purpose. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| C496 | Tabu: using obscene language. Jewish: Neuman. |
| C895 | Tabu: using stone fish-hooks. Easter Island: Métraux Ethnology 363. |
| C431 | Tabu: uttering name of god (or gods). *Frazer Golden Bough XII 383 s.v. "names"; *Chauvin VI 66 No. 233; Hebrew: Exodus 20:7, Gaster Exempla 233f. No. 288; Jewish: *Neuman. |
| C433 | Tabu: uttering name of malevolent creature (Eumenides). To avoid the evil results of naming these creatures other names are substituted. The Furies are spoken of as Eumenides; rats and mice as "the large" and "the small".—*Fb "rotte" III 83a, "mus" II 630b; Güntert Von der Sprache der Götter und Geister (Halle, 1921) 16; ibid. Kalypso 91; Irish myth: Cross; Esthonian: Loorits Grundzüge I 239—248; Greek: Fox 276.—African: Werner African 83. |
| C435.2 | Tabu: uttering name of other close relations. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| C435.2.1 | Tabu: uttering name of sister-in-law. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| C432 | Tabu: uttering name of supernatural creature. Irish myth: Cross; Icelandic: Boberg. |
| C435.1.1 | Tabu: uttering name of supernatural wife. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C435 | Tabu: uttering relative's name. |
| C420.3 | Tabu: uttering secret overheard. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| C423.4 | Tabu: uttering secrets heard from spirits. Type 516; Rösch FFC LXXVII 119.—India: *Thompson-Balys; Jewish: Neuman. |
| C420 | Tabu: uttering secrets. Fb "sten" III 553b.—Irish myth: Cross; Jewish: Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys; S. Am. Indian (Toba): Métraux MAFLS XL 59. |
| C429 | Tabu: uttering secrets.—miscellaneous. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| C435.1 | Tabu: uttering spouse's name. *MacCulloch Childhood 337; Frazer Golden Bough III 333—339 passim.—Irish myth: Cross; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| C118.1 | Tabu: violating insane woman. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C51.2.5 | Tabu: violating refuge with saint. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C118 | Tabu: violating woman. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C152.1 | Tabu: violence to woman during pregnancy. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C566.5 | Tabu: warriors being in hero's land without receiving challenge from him. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C631.3 | Tabu: washing hair on sabbath. Irish myth: Cross; Jewish: Neuman. |
| C851 | Tabu: wastefulness. |
| C746 | Tabu: watching a game without helping the losing player. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C882 | Tabu: watching game without aiding loser. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C878.1 | Tabu: wearing satin. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C51.1.15 | Tabu: wearing shoes at shrine. Jewish: Neuman. |
| C878.2 | Tabu: wearing silk. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C51.2.1 | Tabu: wearing unauthorized sacred robe (jewel). Crane Liber de Miraculis 82 No. 1; Ward Catalogue of Romances II 603 No. 6, 604 No. 7; Irish saints' legend: Plummer xliv; Irish myth: Cross. |
| C99.2 | Tabu: weaving leather shoes on pilgrimage. China: Eberhard 188 No. 129. |
| C482 | Tabu: weeping. |
| C762.3 | Tabu: whipping magic horse more than once on journey. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| C480.1.1 | Tabu: whistling in mine. U.S.: Baughman (C896.1). |
| C483.1 | Tabu: whistling in other world. Tuamotu: Stimson MS (z-G 3/1301). |
| C483 | Tabu: whistling. |
| C221.4.1 | Tabu: wife eating first animal caught in trap. Ekoi: Talbot 114. |
| C713.3 | Tabu: wife of merman staying too long at home (on visit). (Cf. C712.1.)—Norwegian: Child I 364. |
| C713.2 | Tabu: wife of supernatural husband seeing old home. Usually a part of the "Star-Husband" tale of the North American Indians: Thompson Tales 332 n. 197. |
| C32.1.1 | Tabu: wife seeing transformed husband. Chinese: Graham. |
| C851.1.1 | Tabu: wiping children with bread. *Smyser Harvard Studies and Notes in Phil. and Lit. XV (1933) 62 n. 5. |
| C493.1 | Tabu: wishing good luck. One must not wish a hunter good luck or a sailor good voyage.—Fb "ønske" III 1178b. |
| C193.1 | Tabu: woman being in one's dwelling. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C336 | Tabu: woman in other world forbidden to look behind curtains. Kodiak: Golder JAFL XVI 30. |
| C313 | Tabu: woman looking at man. |
| C181.1 | Tabu: woman not to touch husband's drum (magic object). Africa (Basuto): Jacottet 176 No. 25, (Ekoi): Talbot 18. |
| C181.12 | Tabu: woman sacrificing in temple. Jewish: Neuman. |
| C313.1 | Tabu: woman seeing nude man. Greek: Odyssey VI line 128 (Odysseus). |
| C566.3 | Tabu: women leaving hero's land without his knowing it. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C566.4 | Tabu: women marrying until hero has chosen their husbands. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C181.4 | Tabu: women not to climb on roof. India: Thompson-Balys |
| C229.2 | Tabu: women not to eat genitals (heart, liver, etc.) of animals. (Cf. C221.3.1.)—Nippigen Revue Anthropologique XIV 399.—Ekoi: Talbot 409. |
| C181.8 | Tabu: women not to eat pork. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| C181.2 | Tabu: women not to participate in hunting activities. Lappish: Holmberg Finno-Ugric 84. |
| C181.3 | Tabu: women not to touch man's weapons. (Cf. C835.2.) —*Krappe études de Mythologie 115ff., Jewish: Neuman; Icelandic: Boberg. |
| C181.10 | Tabu: women riding in canoe. Marquesas: Handy 134. |
| C619.4 | Tabu: women to be on certain island. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C842.1 | Tabu: working iron under direct rays of sun. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| C841.0.2 | Tabu: wounding animal; must be killed outright. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C631.5 | Tabu: writing on sabbath. Jewish: Neuman. |
| C917.1 | Tabued pot broken: town appears. Africa (Vai): Ellis 187, No. 3. |
| C898 | Tabus concerned with mourning. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| C897 | Tabus concerning counting. *Fb "tælle" IV 923b. |
| C853 | Tabus concerning entry into assembly. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C835 | Tabus concerning fighting. |
| C714 | Tabus concerning requests made in otherworld. |
| C845 | Tabus concerning war. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C835.2 | Tabus concerning weapons. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C710 | Tabus connected with other-world journeys. Babylonian: Gilgamesch-Epos XII p. 64ff.—Icelandic: Boberg; Eskimo (Greenland): Rink 371, 440, Rasmussen III 170; Marquesas: Beckwith Myth 149. |
| C152 | Tabus during pregnancy. *Frazer Golden Bough I 141 n., III 147; *Fb "glød", "grav", "gryn", "hul", "hvid" I 700b, "hеr" I 771a, "ild" II 11b, "karklud", "kaste" II 103a, "kniv" II 221.—India: Thompson-Balys. |
| C154 | Tabus following childbirth. |
| C161 | Tabus for girl going to her husband. Kaffir: Theal 49. |
| C833 | Tabus for journeys. |
| C572 | Tabus of a thief. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C575 | Tabus of bastards. Jewish: Neuman. |
| C565 | Tabus of bearded men. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C564 | Tabus of chiefs. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C566 | Tabus of heroes. Irish myth: Cross; Jewish: Neuman. |
| C563 | Tabus of kings. Irish myth: Cross; Jewish: *Neuman. |
| C568 | Tabus of poets. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C573 | Tabus of priests. Jewish: *Neuman; Maori: Clark 132, 149. |
| C567 | Tabus of princesses. |
| C561 | Tabus of slaves. |
| C576 | Tabus of strangers. Jewish: Neuman. |
| C985.2 | Teeth blackened as punishment for breaking tabu. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C755.2 | Telling tales except at certain time of year (or day). De Vries Het Sprookje 49.—Dakota: Wallis JAFL XXXVI 56f. |
| C94.1.1 | The cursed dancers. Dancers rude to holy man (Jesus) cursed and must keep dancing till Judgment Day.—*Bolte Zs. f. Vksk. XIX 309 n. 1; *Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 388; Ward Catalogue II 660 No. 30; *Herbert ibid, III 283, 312; Alphabet No. 215; Swiss: Jegerlehner Oberwallis 296f. Nos. 3, 28; Finnish-Swedish: Wessman 18 No. 168. |
| C13 | The offended skull (statue) (Festin de Pierre). A skull (statue) is invited to dinner. Attends the dinner and takes his host off to the other world.—*Type 470; **D.E. MacKay The Double Invitation in the Legend of Don Juan; *BP III 483 n. 1; *Wesselski Märchen 241 No. 51; Armeto La Leyenda de Don Juan (Madrid, 1908); *DeCock Studien en Essays 108—152, 308ff.; *Lancaster PMLA XXXVIII 471 n. 1; G. de Bevotte La Legende de Don Juan (Paris, 1906) (bibliography pp. 517—521); Manning PMLA XXXVIII 479; *Waxman JAFL XXI 184; *Pauli (ed. Bolte) no. 561; *Fb "menneskehoved" I 579b; Hartland Science 167; Sébillot France IV 132; Klapper Erzählungen des Mittelalters 157 No. 164; Gering Islenzk Aeventyri I 97 No. 34. |
| C11 | The Old Man and Death. Weary old man wishes for death. When Death appears at the summons he asks for help with the load.—Halm Aesop No. 90; Wienert FFC LVI 81 (ET 468, 469), 109 (ST 212, cf. ST 109, 115, 141, 342); *Jacobs Aesop 216 No. 69; *BP III 294; Italian Novella: Rotunda; U.S.: Baughman; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| C651 | The one compulsory question. Percival must ask the meaning of the strange sights he sees; else the Fisher King will not be healed.—Voretzsch Altfranz Lit. 325 (Chretien de Troyes Conte del Graal). |
| C671 | The one compulsory song. Beer cannot be brewed until an old man sings the song of the origin of beer.—Finnish: Kalevala rune 20. |
| C650 | The one compulsory thing. Unless one does this one thing, misfortune comes. (Sometimes one is under magic compulsion.)—**Reinhard the Survival of Geis in Mediaeval Romance.—Irish myth: Cross, MacCulloch Celtic 177ff., passim, *Schoepperle Tristan and Isolt II 307; Beal XXI 312. |
| C619 | The one forbidden place—miscellaneous. |
| C610 | The one forbidden place. Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "interdits". —Irish myth: Cross; India: *Thompson-Balys; Jewish: *Neuman; Calif. Indian: Gayton and Newman 86; Africa (Luba): DeClerq Zs. f. KS. IV 219; Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 70, 186; Marquesas: Handy 36; New Hebrides: Codrington 385; Tuamotu: Stimson MS (z—G 13/317). |
| C644 | The one forbidden thing: returning to home country after marrying fairy. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| C984.4 | Tidal wave for breaking tabu. Lau Islands: Beckwith Myth 19. |
| C750 | Time tabus. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| C948.3 | Tongue of woman who breaks tabu protrudes and entwines itself around a post in the home. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| C960 | Transformation for breaking tabu. India: *Thompson-Balys; Jewish: Neuman. |
| C962 | Transformation to animal for breaking tabu. Greek: Frazer Apollodorus I 334 n. 1; Jewish: Neuman; S. A. Indian (Mataco): Métraux MAFLS XL 35, (Tupinamba): Métraux RMLP XXXIII 172; Africa (Fjort): Dennett 105, No. 29. |
| C961.5 | Transformation to anthill for breaking tabu. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| C962.2 | Transformation to bird for breaking tabu. Greek: Grote I 128. |
| C961.4 | Transformation to mountain ridge for breaking tabu. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 189. |
| C962.1 | Transformation to mouse for breaking tabu. Eskimo (Mackenzie Area): Jenness 154. |
| C961 | Transformation to object for breaking tabu. |
| C961.1 | Transformation to pillar of salt for breaking tabu. (Cf. C331.)—— *Fb "se" III 173b, "sten" III 553b; Spanish Exempla: Keller; Hebrew: Genesis 19: 26; Jewish: Neuman. |
| C961.2 | Transformation to stone for breaking tabu. (Cf. C331, C452.) —*Type 516; *Rösch FFC LXXVII 119, 132ff.; *Chauvin VII 98 No. 375; *Fb "se" III 173b, "sten" III 553b.—*Loomis White Magic 80; Greek: Fox 175 (Niobe); India: *Thompson-Balys; Maori: Beckwith Myth 349; S. Am. Indian (Aymara): Tschopik BBAE CXLIII (1) 570. |
| C961.3.2 | Transformation to tree for breaking tabu. Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 84. |
| C961.3 | Transformation to wood for breaking tabu. German: Grimm No. 43; Calif. Indian: Gayton and Newman 100. |
| C961.3.1 | Transformation to wooden image for breaking tabu. Marquesas: Handy 113. |
| C331.2 | Travelers to other world must not look back. (See all references to F81.1., Orpheus.)—Eskimo (Greenland): Rink 169, 299, Rasmussen III 124, (Mackenzie Area): Jenness 51. |
| C621.1 | Tree of knowledge forbidden. Dh I 212ff.—Jewish: *Neuman. |
| C998 | Trees wither because of broken tabu. Jewish: Neuman. |
| C916.1 | Trespass betrayed by dripping candle. (Cf. C31.1, C32.1.) —*Type 425; *Tegethoff 39; *BP III 114. |
| C915.1 | Troubles escape when forbidden casket is opened. See references to C321 (Tabu: looking into box). |
| C531.1 | Umbilical cord not to be cut with iron. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| C993 | Unborn child affected by mother's broken tabu. Rarotonga: Beckwith Myth 262; S. Am. Indian (Chiriguano): Métraux RMLP XXXIII 160. |
| C31.12 | Unfaithful husband loses magic wife. Chinese: Graham. |
| C601 | Unique prohibition announced by mysterious voice. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| C640 | Unique prohibition—miscellaneous. |
| C600 | Unique prohibition. A person is forbidden to do one particular thing; everything else he is free to do.—Celtic: *Schoepperle Tristan and Isolt. II 307.—Irish myth: Cross; Jewish: Neuman. |
| C551 | Untouchables. Certain castes whose touch is considered a pollution. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| C967 | Valuable object turns to worthless, for breaking tabu. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| C984.7 | Village sinks in earth for violation of tabu. S. Am. Indian (Toba): Métraux MAFLS XL 30. |
| C51.1.11 | Visits of goddess cease when her sacred spring is disturbed. Tahiti: Henry 85. |
| C936 | War lost because of breaking tabu. Greek: *Grote II 130. |
| C942.3 | Weakness from seeing woman (fairy) naked. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C623.1 | Well upon which no one can look without losing his eyes. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C480.1 | Whistling tabu. *Fb I 326 "fløjte". |
| C227.1 | Why cannibalism is out of vogue. New Guinea: Ker 13. |
| C226.0.1 | Why slayers of tigers must not eat certain plants. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| C771.1.1 | Wicked man constructs tower neither too large nor too high. (Santa Barbara.) Der Heiligen Leben u. Leiden (Leipzig, 1921) 101ff. |
| C12.5.7 | Wife curses wicked husband: "May devil take you!" Devil does. (See M432.) U.S.: Baughman. |
| C26 | Wish for animal husband realized. Girl says she will marry a certain animal. Latter appears and carries her off. (Cf. C15.)—*Type 552.—Norwegian: Christiansen Norske Eventyr 80.—N. A. Indian: Thompson Tales 341 n. 231. |
| C15.1.1 | Wish for star wife realized. S. Am. Indian (Toba): Métraux MAFLS XL 40, 43, (Sherente): Lowie BBAE CXLIII (1) 516. |
| C15.1 | Wish for star-husband realized. *Thompson The Star-Husband Tale (Studia Septentrionalia IV [1953] 93ff.); N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 330 n. 193. |
| C15 | Wish for supernatural husband (wife) realized. (Cf. C26.)—English: Child I 6ff. No. 2. |
| C15.2 | Wish for tree as husband realized. Tree comes to life.—Yuracare: Alexander Lat. Am. 314. |
| C435.1.1.1 | Woman (fairy) causes twofold death of mortal husband who utters her name. Irish myth: Cross. |
| C168.1 | Woman marries in spite of warning dream. Bears blind child who soon dies. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| C942.4 | Woman's breasts dry up because of broken tabu. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| C146 | Women must wear certain things during menstruation. |
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