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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
K
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 ▲ |
|---|---|
| F531.1.4.1 | Giant with upper lip reaching heaven; lower earth. Olrik Ragnarök 94f.; Cosquin études 537; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F531.1.6.2.2 | Giant with very broad teeth. Chinese: Graham. |
| F531.1.6.3.2 | Giant without hair. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| F531.0.4 | Giant woman. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F531.5.7.0.1 | Giant wooes mortal woman. Jewish: Neuman. |
| F531 | Giant.1 A person of enormous size. (For giants who are primarily ogres see G100 and G400—G599.) *BP III 375; *Fb "kjæmpe" II 149, "Langben Rise" II 377b; Lorenz Das Titan-Motiv in der allgemeinen Mythologie (Imago II 1913] 22—72); Weinhold Die Riesen des germanischen Mythus (Sitzungsberichte d. kais. Akad. d. Wiss. XXVI [1858] 225—306); Laistner Nebelsagen (Stuttgart, 1860); Schoning Dödsriger i Nordisk Hedentro (København, 1903); **Von Sydow Jätterna i Mytologi och Folktro (F och F [1919] 52—96); Ahrendt Die Riese in der mittelhochdeutschen Epik (Rostock, 1923); **F. Wolgemuth Riesen u. Zwerge in den altfranzösischen erzählenden Dichtung (Tübingen, 1906); **V. Höttges Typenverzeichnis der deutschen Riesen; und riesischen Teufelssagen FFC CXXII (Helsinki, 1937); Tegethoff Schweiz. Archiv f. Vksk. XXIV (1922) 137ff.; Borgese Giganti e Serpenti (Archivio per lo studio delle Tradizioni popolari XX 507ff., XXI 90ff., 161ff.); *Handwb. d. Abergl. IX Nachträge 1120—1138.—Irish myth: *Cross; U.S. (lumbermen): *Folk-Say I 62 (bibliography of "Paul Bunyan" stories); Icelandic: *Boberg; Finnish-Swedish: Wessman 66 Nos. 565—592; Estonian: Loorits Grundzüge I 465—490; Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 3720; Germanic: Meyer Germanen 226ff.; French: Sébillot France IV 455 s.v. "Géants", >>Gargantua", Sébillot **Gargantua dans les Traditions Populaires; Greek: Frazer Apollodorus I 32f.; Jewish: *Neuman Arabian: Burton Nights I 65n., V 316, VI 24n., 84, 265n., 268ff., VII 84n.; Eskimo (Greenland): Rink 47, 430, Holm 7, (Central Eskimo): Boas RBAE VI 656, (Smith Sound): Kroeber JAFL XII 167; N. A. Indian (Tahltan): Teit JAFL XXXIV 346ff. Nos. 69, 70, 73, (Kaska): Teit JAFL XXX 446 No. 7, (Aztec): Alexander Lat. Am. 92f. |
| F531.6.16.2 | Giant's animals help him in fight. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| F531.4.7 | Giant's clothes. |
| F531.2.2.2 | Giant's ears six hundred feet long. Korean: Zong in-Sob 15. |
| F531.4.11 | Giant's enormous animals. |
| F531.4.10 | Giant's enormous bed. Icelandic: *Boberg; Jewish: *Neuman. |
| F531.4.5 | Giant's enormous weapons. |
| F531.5.4.2 | Giant's head gnawed by foxes: thinks soot is falling on him. Eskimo (Greenland): Rasmussen III 150. |
| F531.6.2.2.3 | Giant's home beneath waterfall in lake. Icelandic: *Boberg. Cf. Beowulf. |
| F531.4.9 | Giant's huge kettle. Icelandic: Corpus Poeticum Boreale I 220, MacCulloch Eddic 86, *Boberg. |
| F531.3.12 | Giant's hunting (fishing). |
| F531.2.4 | Giant's large footprints. (Cf. F531.2.1.2.) Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| F531.3.1.2 | Giant's leg stops ship at sea. Hindu: Penzer II 72. |
| F531.3.5.2 | Giant's mighty stride spans earth's width. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F531.4.12 | Giant's net can hem in whole forest. Africa (Fang): Trilles 202. |
| F531.1.6.8 | Giant's peculiar cheeks. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| F531.5.6.2 | Giant's present: magic loaf producing inexhaustible harvest. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F531.5.6.3 | Giant's presents cease when source is disclosed. (Cf. F348.5.) Eskimo (Greenland): Rasmussen III 235. |
| F531.1.2.3 | Giant's self-returning head. Korean: Zong in-Sob 72. |
| F531.2.3 | Giant's skull holds a man seated. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F531.2.3.2 | Giant's skull holds three hounds. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F531.2.3.1 | Giant's skull so large fowl can pass through eye-hole. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F531.3.8.1 | Giant's snoring as thunder or storm. Icelandic: Snorra Edda Gylf. XLVI, MacCulloch Eddic 92, *Boberg. |
| F531.3.8.2 | Giant's snoring felt as rain. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| F531.1.3.4 | Giant's step leaves deep furrows. Jewish: Neuman. |
| F531.1.6.13 | Giant's strength in hair. (Cf. D1831, G221.1.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| F531.5.3 | Giant's toy. A young giantess picks up a man plowing. Wants him as a toy. Her mother says, "Take him back. He will drive us away." (Cf. F531.5.1.) **V. Höttges Die Sage vom Riesenspielzeug (Jena, 1931); Höttges FFC CXXII 172; Broderius § 29; Type 701*; *Fb "kjæmpe" II 149a; "plove" II 848; *Tegethoff Schweiz. Archiv f. Vksk. XXIV 139 n. 14.—Finnish-Swedish: Wessman 67 No. 575; Lappish: Qvigstad FFC LX 47 No. 73; Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 3712; Livonian: Loorits FFC LXVI 73 No. 225; Flemish: Meyer FFC XXXVII No. 701*; Missouri French: Carrière. |
| F531.6.7 | Giant's treasure. (Cf. F531.6.8.3.1.) *Höttges FFC CXXII 143; Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: Herrmann Saxo II 583ff., MacCulloch Eddic 277 (Sutting's poetic mead, runes), Snorra Edda Gylf. IV and XV (Mimir's well), Snorra Edda Skald. XXXII (gold); Estonian: Veckenstedt Sagen der Zamaiten (Heidelberg, 1883) II 141 No. 4, 200 No. 24; Hesse-Nassau: Zaunert 61. |
| F531.5.7.1.2 | Giantess daughter of giant and abducted maiden (therefore helps hero). Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| F531.1.8.4 | Giantess in crow's shape. Icelandic: Völsungasaga ch. 1, Boberg. |
| F531.4.7.1.2 | Giantess in obscenely shriveled skin skirt. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| F531.4.7.3 | Giantess in red dress. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| F531.2.5.1 | Giantess is more broad than tall. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| F531.2.1.6 | Giantess is twice as tall as tall man. Icelandic: övar-Odds saga 121. |
| F531.3.12.3 | Giantess kills monstrous bear. Eskimo (West Hudson Bay): Boas BAM XV 197. |
| F531.3.8.4 | Giantess sings so that it gives echo in all cliffs. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| F531.2.13 | Giantess so heavy that boat almost sinks. Icelandic: Sturlaugs saga St. 620, Boberg. |
| F531.1.5.1 | Giantess throws her breasts over her shoulders. Her two sons can run after her and suck. Fb "givkone" I 438; Italian: Basile Pentamerone V 4. |
| F531.1.8.5 | Giantess transforms self to fly in order to tear woman's stomach. Icelandic: Egils saga ok Asm. ch. XII 9f., Boberg. |
| F531.1.6.14 | Giantess with a tail (many tails). Icelandic: Boberg. |
| F531.1.6.7.3 | Giantess with burned arms. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| F531.1.1.6 | Giantess with green eyes. Icelandic: Illuga saga Gr. 653, Boberg. |
| F531.1.6.1.1 | Giantess with iron nails. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| F531.5.7.0.3 | Giantesses pursue men in order to marry them. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| F531.1.6.2.1 | Giants (giantesses) with long teeth. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| F531.5.8 | Giants and Christians. |
| F531.6.15.3 | Giants and dwarfs friendly. Eskimo (Mackenzie Area): Jenness 83, (Central): Boas RBAE VI 635. |
| F451.10.2 | Giants and dwarfs in contest. Icelandic: MacCulloch Eddic 53. |
| F531.1.11 | Giants and giantesses dressed as human beings. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| F531.6.8.3.1 | Giants and giantesses fight about treasures. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| F531.6.15.1 | Giants and gods in fight. Icelandic: Corpus Poeticum Boreale I 151, MacCulloch Eddic 83—84, 91, 179, 275 ff. |
| F451.10.1 | Giants and heroes created for the protection and aid of dwarfs. (Cf. F451.1.3.) German: MacCulloch Eddic 265. |
| F531.5.1.2 | Giants and men fraternize at Christmas. Liestøl Festskrift til Feilberg 195ff. |
| F531.5 | Giants and men. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F531.6.15 | Giants and supernatural beings. |
| F531.6.17.7 | Giants are wise. Icelandic: MacCulloch Eddic 277, 127, *Boberg. |
| F531.6.6 | Giants as builders of great structures. Broderius § 2; Wünsche Teufel 19; **Höttges FFC CXXII 49ff., 218ff.; Irish myth: *Cross; English: Wells 80 (Sir Tristrem); Icelandic: Arnason Legends of Iceland (London, 1864) I 49, MacCulloch Eddic 276, 278, 286, Boberg; Danish: Kristensen Danske Sagn III (1895) 25ff., (1931) 15ff. (churches); Fb "kirke" II 124a; Finnish-Swedish: Wessman 67 No. 580, 68 No. 582, 69f. Nos. 593—97; Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 3714. |
| F531.6.5.4 | Giants as controllers of the elements. *Höttges FFC CXXII 72f., 256; Icelandic: MacCulloch Eddic 75ff., 276, *Boberg. |
| F531.6.1.9 | Giants as descendants of Cain. (Cf. F535.0.1.) Jewish: Neuman. |
| F531.6.5 | Giants as magicians. Broderius § 33; *Höttges FFC CXXII 145; Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: Arnason Legends of Iceland (London, 1864) I 122, 131, 148, *Boberg; German: Grimm Deutsche Sagen (1907) No. 318.4. |
| F531.6.1.5 | Giants as personifications. Icelandic: Herrmann Saxo II 580, MacCulloch Eddic 281. |
| F531.6.1.8 | Giants as reincarnated animals. Korean: Zong in-Sob 64. |
| F531.6.1.7 | Giants as sons of Ymir or Aurgelmir. (See A642, A831.2.) |
| F531.6.9 | Giants as warriors (in army). Broderius § 32; Irish myth: Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg; Bohemian: Jungbauer Böhmerwald Sagen (Jena, 1924). |
| F531.6.6.1 | Giants by night move buildings built by men in day. Broderius § 3.—Norwegian: Norsk Folkminnelag II 28; Danish: Kristensen Danske Sagn III (1892) 174ff., (1931) 127ff. (churches); Fb "kirke" II 124a; Finnish-Swedish: Landtman Finlands Svenska Folkdiktning VII (Helsingfors 1919) 553. |
| F531.6.5.1 | Giants can make selves invisible. (Cf. F531.6.12.1.1.) Irish myth: *Cross; Norwegian: Norsk Folkminnelag XIII 23; Finnish-Swedish: Landtmann Finlands Svenska Folkdiktning VIII 538. |
| F531.3.6 | Giants carry church across a stream. Broderius § 22; Westphalia: Kuhn No. 387a; Hanover: Schambach u. Müller Nos. 165.1, 165.2. |
| F531.3.10 | Giants carry trees. (Cf. F631.) Irish myth: Cross; French Canadian: Barbeau JAFL XXIX 12; Missouri French: Carrière. |
| F531.5.15 | Giants cause men to sin. Jewish: Neuman. |
| F531.5.8.3 | Giants Christianized. Broderius § 25; Irish myth: *Cross; Norwegian: Norske Sagn (Christiania, 1902) 119; German: Grimm Deutsche Sagen (1905) No. 137. |
| F531.6.17.1 | Giants dance. *Fb "danse" I 93a. |
| F531.4.7.1 | Giants dressed in skin. Icelandic: Herrmann Saxo II 80ff., *Boberg. |
| F531.6.12.7 | Giants driven away by men. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| F531.6.12.8.1 | Giants drowned (in Ymir's blood). Icelandic: MacCulloch Eddic 324, Snorra Edda skaldsk. ch. II, Boberg. |
| F531.6.13.1 | Giants enchanted in caverns. Broderius § 34; Swedish: Runa (1847) 34 No. 9; Tirol: Henne-Am Rhyn 2 No. 628. |
| F531.5.8.2 | Giants exorcised by clergy. Icelandic: Arnason Legends of Iceland (London, 1864) I 138; West Indies: Flowers 435. |
| F531.6.11.1 | Giants fear lightning. Broderius § 27; Icelandic: MacCulloch Eddic 278, 285; Swedish: Henne-Am Rhyn No. 609; German: Zaunert Westfäliche 1. |
| F531.2.1.2 | Giants fifty feet tall with footprints six feet long. Chinese: Werner 387. |
| F300.1 | Giants guard fairy princess from mortal man. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F531.6.7.1.1 | Giants have animals (dogs, etc.) Icelandic: Herrmann Saxo II 591, 593, 595; MacCulloch Eddic 66, 85, 88, 111, 230, 276—77, *Boberg. |
| F531.6.8.6 | Giants have children. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| F531.6.4.1 | Giants have great age. Calculated by age of wood. Broderius § 35; Icelandic: MacCulloch Eddic 276, Boberg; Tirol: Zingerle (1891) Nos. 173, 187, 190; Jewish: *Neuman. |
| F531.6.8.5.1 | Giants have king, queen. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| F531.6.8.5.2 | Giants have parliament. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| F531.4.11.1 | Giants have wolf and bears as dogs. Icelandic: örvar-Odds saga 122—24, Boberg. |
| F531.5.8.1 | Giants hostile to Christianity. Broderius § 25. |
| F531.6.2.0.1 | Giants in "Risaland" or "Jotunheimar" without nearer definition. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| F531.6.2.6 | Giants in a region of darkness and cold. Icelandic: MacCulloch Eddic 321, Herrmann Saxo II 583ff., 601. |
| F167.3 | Giants in otherworld. (Cf. F531.) Siuts 161ff.; Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F531.6.2.7 | Giants in wild forests. Icelandic: MacCulloch Eddic 280. |
| F531.6.12.4 | Giants killed by lightning or thunder (personified in the thunder-god). (Cf. F531.6.11.1.) Icelandic: Herrmann Saxo II 592, MacCulloch Eddic 69ff., Boberg. |
| F531.6.5.2 | Giants large or small at will. Broderius § 17; Icelandic: Saxo ed. Elton 26, MacCulloch Eddic 277, *Boberg; German: Henne-Am Rhyn Nos. 441, 562, 225, 365, 444. |
| F531.5.13 | Giants like butter more than anything else. Get trough of butter in return for help. Icelandic: Egils saga einhenda 79, Boberg. |
| F531.6.2.5 | Giants live at the world's end. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| F531.6.3.1 | Giants live in castles (raths, duns) (ruins of which may still be seen). Broderius § 11; Irish myth: *Cross; English: Wells 59 (The Turke and Gowin); Icelandic: MacCulloch Eddic 319, 282; German: Grimm Deutsche Sagen (1905) Nos. 16, 20. |
| F531.6.2.1 | Giants live in mountains or caves. Broderius § 11.—Irish myth: Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg, Arnason Legends of Iceland (London, 1864) 135; Finnish-Swedish: Wessmann 67 No. 572; Jewish: Neuman. |
| F531.6.2.4 | Giants live in the utmost northwest. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| F531.6.4.2 | Giants live to be eighteen thousand years old. Chinese: Werner 387. |
| F531.6.2.2.1 | Giants live under sea. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F531.6.2.2 | Giants live under water. |
| F531.5.7 | Giants marry human beings. (Cf. F420.6.1, F460.4, and cross references.) Broderius § 30.—Irish myth: Cross; Missouri French: Carrière; Icelandic: Arnason Legends of Iceland (London, 1864) I 135, MacCulloch Eddic 278, 175, *Boberg; Norse: Norsk Folkminnelag I 63; Swedish: Runa IV (1843) 41 No. 72. |
| F531.6.8.7 | Giants meet successively larger giants. Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 261. |
| F531.6.8.2 | Giants pursue giant women. Broderius § 30; Irish myth: *Cross; Swedish: Runa IV (1843) 27 No. 10; German: Grimm Deutsche Sagen (1907) No. 318.4; Tirol: Zingerle (1891) 176—180. |
| F531.5.5 | Giants repay loan with large interest. Cask of gold for ale, etc. Icelandic: Feilberg Jul II 56; Swedish: Runa IV (1843) 29, 30, 38, 45. |
| F531.3.9 | Giants sit on mountains and wash feet in stream below. Broderius § 21; Icelandic: MacCulloch Eddic 285, *Boberg; Danish: Danmarks Folkeminder No. 40 (1933) 71; Norse: Norsk Folkminnelag XIII 28; Swiss: Henne-Am Rhyn No. 611; French: Sébillot France I 232. |
| F531.3.2.1 | Giants throw stones after churches. *Fb "sten" 552ab; **Höttges FFC CXXII 31ff., 199ff.; Danish: Kristensen Danske Sagn III (1895) 27ff., (1931) 17ff., Schmidt DF XXXIX 70 ff.; Finnish-Swedish: Wessman 70 No. 598, 71 No. 604. |
| F531.3.2.3 | Giants throw tools back and forth. Explains rocks, etc. Broderius § 14; England: Baughman. |
| F771.2.3 | Giants uphold castle. Chauvin V 72 No. 21.—Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "château", "géant". |
| F531.4.7.2 | Giants wear long coats with lamps under them. Eskimo (Central): Boas RBAE VI 634. |
| F531.4.7.1.1 | Giants wear skins with flesh still on. Eskimo (West Hudson Bay): Boas BAM XV 210. |
| F531.1.6.3 | Giants with shaggy hair on their bodies. Broderius § 37; Icelandic: Arnason Legends of Iceland (London, 1864) I 150, Corpus Poeticum Boreale I 153, Boberg; Tirol: Zingerle (1891) Nos. 180, 186, 190; Babylonian: Gilgamesch-epos I 86ff., cf. 95ff. |
| F531.6.8.3.3 | Giants wrestle with each other. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F531.3.15 | Giants' awful amusements, playing with men's lives. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| F531.6.8.4 | Giants' festivities. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| F531.5.6 | Giants' gifts to men. |
| F531.6.2.3 | Giants' live in the east. Icelandic: MacCulloch Eddic 81, *Boberg. |
| F531.5.6.1 | Giants' magic gifts return to original form in hands of men. (Cf. F451.5.1.4. and cross-references.) Broderius § 33; Icelandic: Arnason Legends of Iceland (London, 1864) I 148; German: Jahn Nos. 29, 217. |
| F531.6.7.1.2 | Giants' ship (Naglfar). Icelandic: MacCulloch Eddic 340. |
| F531.3.8 | Giants' shouts are storms or great noise. Broderius § 16.—Irish myth: Cross; Icelandic: Arnason Legends of Iceland (London, 1864) I 166; Norse; Norsk Folkekultur IX 99; Swedish: Feilberg Jul II 56; Westphalia: Zaunert Westfälische 6, 11. Cf. Rip Van Winkle. |
| F531.6.8.5 | Giants' social relations. |
| F531.6.16.1 | Giants' watchman (Eggther). Icelandic: MacCulloch Eddic 276, Boberg. |
| F348.9 | Gift barrel of ale which never runs dry goes dry when maid looks into bunghole. England: Baughman. |
| F962.0.1 | Gifts are obtained or fall from heaven: flowers (roses), crown of gold, blossoms or thorns, bells, gems, books, sword, etc. *Loomis White Magic 88. |
| F349 | Gifts from fairies—miscellaneous. |
| F340 | Gifts from fairies. Type 503; BP III 324; Hdwb. d. Märch. s.v. "Elbengeschenke", "Geschenke des kleinen Volkes"; Irish myth: *Cross; French: Saintyves Perrault 72ff.; Italian: Basile Pentamerone Introduction; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F348.4 | Gifts of gold and silver not to be accepted from fairies. Scotch: Macdougall and Calder 277. |
| F348.6 | Gifts of the fairies must never be measured or counted. Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 3694. |
| F881.1.1 | Gigantic cauldron. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F866.2 | Gigantic cup. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F866.2.1 | Gigantic drinking horn. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| F814.1 | Gigantic flower. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F813.2.2 | Gigantic grapes. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F531.1.2.0.1 | Gigantic head. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F343.16.1 | Gigantic hog rib as gift from fairies. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F881.1.2 | Gigantic ladle. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F163.4 | Gigantic mill in otherworld. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F813.3.2 | Gigantic nut. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F343.16 | Gigantic ox rib as gift from fairies. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F531.4 | Gigantic possessions of giant. |
| F839.2.1 | Gigantic shield. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F511.0.8 | Gigantic skull of ancient king discovered. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F531.6.1.4 | Gigantic son of king and mermaid. Icelandic: Þiðriks saga I 73, Boberg. |
| F401.8 | Gigantic spirit. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F833.8 | Gigantic sword. Sword eight elbow-lengths long and two spans broad. Irish myth: Cross; Icelandic: Boberg. |
| F815.7.2 | Gigantic vine. Jewish: Neuman. |
| F771.1.10 | Gingerbread house. House made of cake. *Type 327; BP I 115; *Fb "pandekage", "hus" IV 229b. |
| F829.2 | Girdle made of a climbing-vine. Tuamotu: Stimson MS (z-G. 3/1174). |
| F647.12 | Girl (princess) so delicate she can live only on the perfume of flowers. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F324 | Girl abducted by fairy. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F324.1 | Girl borrows comb and mirror from bonga (fairy): carried to fairyland when she returns them. (Cf. F322.1.1.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F1041.1.13.1 | Girl dies of shame at being seen naked. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F561.5 | Girl eats only kola nuts and tobacco. Africa (Angola): Chatelain 33 No. 1. |
| F92.2.1 | Girl gathering flowers swallowed up by earth and taken to lower world. Greek: Fox 227 (Proserpine); Oceanic (Mangaia [Cook Group]): Dixon 74. |
| F301.3 | Girl goes to fairyland and marries fairy. Hartland Science 64. |
| F301.7 | Girl goes to see her fairy lover on certain nights. Icelandic: Sveinsson FFC LXXXVIII 10f. (Type 306 III). |
| F562.4 | Girl lives in fruit and comes out only to be bathed by her twenty sisters. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F301.1.1 | Girl summons fairy lover by breaking tabu. |
| F301.1.1.3 | Girl summons fairy lover by lying under tree. English: Child V 499 s.v. "trees". |
| F301.1.1.2 | Girl summons fairy lover by plucking flowers. English: Child I 360 n. |
| F301.1.1.4 | Girl summons fairy lover by pulling nuts. English: Child I 360 n. |
| F301.1.1.1 | Girl summons fairy lover by wishing for him. English: Child I 6ff. No. 2. |
| F521.3.3.1 | Girl's body-dirt is golden. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F555.3.1.1 | Girl's hair spreads on ground so that it hides her. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F848.1 | Girl's long hair as ladder into tower. Rapunzel. *Type 310; BP I 99; Fb "hеr" IV 241b; Jacobs's list s.v. "Ladder of hair"; Italian: Basile Pentamerone II Nos. 1, 7. |
| F811.1.6 | Glass (crystal) tree in otherworld. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F242.2.1 | Glass boat for fairy. Irish: MacCulloch Celtic 84, *Cross. |
| F152.1.4 | Glass bridge to otherworld. Patch PMLA XXXIII 636 n. 118, Other World 125f.; Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F242.1.4 | Glass car. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| F852.1 | Glass coffin. Type 709; BP I 450ff., III 261; *Böklen Sneewittchenstudien 113. |
| F771.1.6.2 | Glass house. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F145.1 | Glass mountain at borders of otherworld. Mountain is extremely slippery. *Siuts 43; Patch PMLA XXXIII 610 n. 30, Other World 381 s.v. "mountain." |
| F751 | Glass mountain. *Fb "glarbjærg" I 459f., IV 180b, "heks" I 582, "jærnsko" II 63; *Types 400, 425, 451, 530; *BP I 233ff., III 111 n. 3; *Boberg Danske Studier (1928) 16—53; Hdwb. d. Märch. II 627; Köhler-Bolte I 444; *Patch PMLA XXXIII 610 n. 30, Harvard Studies and Notes V 159, 171 and n. 3. |
| F841.1.14 | Glass ship. Africa: Weeks Jungle 43. |
| F823.2 | Glass shoes. Type 510; Cox Cinderella 506; Missouri French: Carrière. |
| F756.4 | Glen of witchcraft. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F718.9 | Glittering well. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F821.6 | Glorified white garments. Moreno Esdras. |
| F839.1 | Gnawed bone as weapon. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| F241.4 | Goats follow fairies. Fb "rakker". |
| F32.1 | God descends to found royal dynasty. Tonga: Gifford 28. |
| F911.1.1 | God swallows his wife and incorporates her into his own being. (Cf. F1034.2.) Greek: Fox 156, 170, Grote I 9f. |
| F32 | God visits earth. Jewish: *Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 1003; Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 3; Africa (Fang): Einstein 94, Trilles 137, (Ila [Rhodesia]): Smith and Dale II 348. |
| F961.0.4 | God's praise chanted by the heavenly bodies. (Cf. A659.1, A767.) Jewish: *Neuman. |
| F251.1.1 | Goddess as fairy. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F1041.9.1 | Going to bed for sorrow. Fb "seng" III 187ab. |
| F877.1 | Gold (silver, copper) thread. Hdwb. d. Märch. II 147 nn. 359—367. |
| F841.2.1 | Gold (silver) mast. Fb "mast" II 564. |
| F855.3 | Gold (silver) statue of animal. Jewish: Neuman; Icelandic: Boberg. |
| F169.6 | Gold chain as support in otherworld. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F555.1 | Gold hair. *Types 314, 504, 533; BP II 275, III 97, IV 271, 351, 409; *Fb "guldhеr" I 513, IV 191b, "hеr" I 771b; *Aarne FFC XCII 94ff.—Icelandic: Hdwb. d. Märch. I 431a n. 27, MacCulloch Eddic 266, Boberg; Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "cheveux", "belle", "or"; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| F793.1 | Gold moon, sun, star. Fb "guldmеne" I 514. |
| F841.1.10 | Gold ship. Danish: Kristensen Danske Sagn III (1895) 460ff., (1931) 316ff. |
| F545.2.1 | Gold star on forehead. *Type 400, 533; *Roberts 188; BP I 102, II 275; Köhler-Bolte I 420; Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "étoiles"; Italian: Basile Pentamerone III No. 2. |
| F166.2 | Gold-producing spring in otherworld. Siuts 85f. |
| F813.1.1 | Golden apple. Type 502; BP III 111; *Cox Cinderella 494; *Fb "æble" III 1135b, "guldæble" I 515b, 516a, "træ" III 867a, "frugttræ" I 376b.—Irish myth: *Cross; English: Child I 364f.; French Canadian: Barbeau JAFL XXIX 10; Missouri French: Carrière; Icelandic: Boberg; Italian Novella: Rotunda; Greek: Frazer Apollodorus I 400 n. 1, Fox 87; Jewish: Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F846.2 | Golden bed. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F787.2 | Golden bed. Jewish: Neuman. |
| F857.1 | Golden besom (broom). India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F841.1.8 | Golden boat with copper rudder. Finnish: Kalevala rune 10. |
| F152.1.3 | Golden bridge to otherworld. Patch PMLA XXXIII 639 n. 130, Other World 374 s.v. "bridge." |
| F842.1.4 | Golden bridge. Icelandic: Herrmann Saxo II 587, MacCulloch Eddic 130, *Boberg. |
| F771.1.1 | Golden castle (palace, house). *Köhler-Bolte I 412; *Fb "slot" III 376b, 377a, "guldslot" I 515a.—Icelandic: MacCulloch Eddic 329, Snorra Edda Gylf. LII, *Boberg, Hdwb. d. Märch. I 431a nn. 28—34; Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "or"; French Canadian: Barbeau JAFL XXIX 12; Persian: Carnoy 335; India: Thompson-Balys; Hindu: Tawney II 568. |
| F163.1.2 | Golden castle in otherworld. Wimberly 146; Irish myth: Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| F757.1 | Golden cave. Cowell Jataka Index s.v. "Golden". |
| F821.1.1 | Golden clothes. Fb "guldklædning"; India: Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Graham. |
| F852.2 | Golden coffin. Type 709; *Böklen Sneewittchenstudien 115.—English: Child I 506, II 358f., 362, 366, IV 471, V 224 (gold and silver). |
| F827.5 | Golden comb. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F343.14 | Golden cup (bowl, urn) as gifts from otherworld inhabitants. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F866.3 | Golden cup. Icelandic: *Boberg; Danish: Kristensen Danske Sagn III (1931) 316ff. |
| F855.3.3 | Golden dove. Jewish: Neuman. |
| F866.3.1 | Golden drinking horn. Danish: Kristensen Danske Sagn III (1931) 317. |
| F814.4 | Golden flowers. India: Thompson-Balys; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 891. |
| F813.0.2 | Golden fruits. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F899.2.1 | Golden game-board. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| F862.1 | Golden horseshoe. *Fb "guldsko" I 515a, "guldsmed" I 515a, "hestesko" IV 213b; Icelandic: Boberg; English: Child V 483 s.v. "horse" (silver before and gold behind). |
| F886.1 | Golden key. Danish: Kristensen Danske Sagn III (1895) 461, (1931) 318. |
| F814.4.1 | Golden lotus. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F545.1.1.2 | Golden mustache. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F813.3.1 | Golden nut. Fb "guldnød" I 514; Icelandic: Boberg; Philippine (Tinguian): Cole 38. |
| F841.2.4 | Golden oar. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F858 | Golden plow. Danish: Kristensen Danske Sagn III (1931) 317. |
| F813.8.1 | Golden pomegranates. Jewish: Neuman. |
| F867.1 | Golden reel. *Fb "guldhaspe" I 513. |
| F868.1 | Golden saddle. Fb "guldsadel" I 514b; Icelandic: Boberg. |
| F823.1 | Golden shoes. *Type 510; *Cox Cinderella 506; *Fb "guldsko" I 515a; Jewish: Neuman. |
| F876 | Golden spinning-wheel. Hdwb. d. Märch. II 136 nn. 77—119. |
| F805 | Golden stone. Icelandic: Boberg; Philippine (Tinguian): Cole 43. |
| F895 | Golden swing. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F784.1 | Golden table. Jewish: bin Gorion Born Judas I 217, 375, *Neuman. |
| F544.3.1 | Golden teeth. Icelandic: Boberg; Jamaica: *Beckwith MAFLS XVII 278 No. 90. |
| F773.2 | Golden temple. Jewish: Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F544.2.1 | Golden tongue. Jamaica: *Beckwith MAFLS XVII 278 No. 90. |
| F772.2.3 | Golden tower under sea. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F811.1.1 | Golden tree. Köhler-Bolte I 412; Fb "guldskov" I 515a, "guldtyr" I 515b; Irish myth: Cross; Icelandic: Boberg; Jewish: Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys, Penzer IV 128. |
| F861.1 | Golden wagon (chariot). Greek: Grote I 147. |
| F861.1.2 | Golden wagon drawn by four golden elephants. Italian: Basile Pentamerone II No. 5. |
| F861.1.1 | Golden wagon drawn by moles. Fb "guldvogn" I 515b; Danish: Kristensen Danske Sagn III (1895) 461ff., (1931) 317ff. |
| F277.0.3 | Good and bad fairies battle. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F403 | Good spirits. Greek: Grote I 66. |
| F526.3 | Gorgon. Head turned about, scales of dragon, tusks of swine brazen hands, golden wings. Greek: Frazer Apollodorus I 153 n. 3. |
| F1011.1.1 | Gospel-book hung from saint's shoulders without strap. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F813.5.1 | Gourds with seven rooms in each. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F451.4.5 | Government among dwarfs. |
| F402.2 | Government of demons. |
| F252 | Government of fairies. |
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