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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
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
W
Traits of Character
X
Humor
Z
Miscellaneous Groups of Motifs
| Thompson reference | Description ▲ |
|---|---|
| F234.3.2 | Bonga girl (fairy) appears as flame. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F302.5.1.1 | Bonga girl (fairy) surrenders man to his mortal wife if he will name first daughter after her. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F302.3.1.1 | Bonga girl (fairy) will return stolen goods only if mortal man will go with her. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F221.2 | Bonga house filled with snakes, tigers, and lions. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F343.6 | Bonga lends dishes to mortals. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F216.2 | Bonga lives in tree. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F347.1 | Bonga made village headman and advice asked. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F302.0.1 | Bonga mistress. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F201 | Bongas. Roughly equivalent to fairies. Generally malevolent, but often not. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F379.2.1 | Book (medical) brought back from otherworld. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F930.1 | Book dropped in water by saint not wet. *Loomis White Magic 39f.—Irish: Plummer cxxxviii, *Cross. |
| F883.1.5 | Book made of sapphires. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| F883.1.1 | Book of glass. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F883.1.2 | Book written with black fire on white fire (in God's lap). Jewish: *Neuman. |
| F1055 | Books in church read without man's tongue. English: Child III 244. |
| F994.1 | Books show sorrow for owner's death by falling from shelf. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F883.1.4 | Books unscathed by water and fire. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| F1034.3.2 | Bottle concealed in person's thigh. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F713.2 | Bottomless lakes (pools, etc.). *Fb "bundløs"; JAFL V 329; FL III 70. |
| F979.5 | Bough miraculously does not burn. (Cf. F964.1.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F149 | Bounds of the otherworld—miscellaneous. |
| F140 | Bounds of the otherworld. *Siuts 44. |
| F836.3.1 | Bow can be strung only by one thousand men. Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 596. |
| F836.1 | Bow of gold, silver, and copper. Finnish: Kalevala rune 10. |
| F1041.16.6.9 | Bowstring (arrow, oar) breaks at angry warrior's grasp. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| F561.7 | Boy drinks perspiration. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F102.4 | Boy follows nut into lower world. Africa (Cameroon): Mansfield 226f. |
| F866.7.2.1 | Boy Jesus carries water in his cloak when water bottle is broken. *Loomis White Magic 41. |
| F562.5 | Boy lives in ant-hill. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F562.1 | Boy lives on ox. Never walks on ground. Missouri French: Carrière; Africa (Zulu): Callaway 221. |
| F681.13 | Boy runs so fast snow makes rainbow behind him. Eskimo (Greenland): Rasmussen III 255. |
| F515.4 | Boy with seal flippers. Eskimo (Kodiak): Golder JAFL XXII 20. |
| F813.1.4 | Brass apple. Fb "messing" II 582b; Irish: O'Suilleabhain 50, Beal XXI 318. |
| F821.1.2 | Brass clothes. Fb "messing" II 582b. |
| F772.2.1 | Brazen tower. Liebrecht Zur Volkskunde 89f. |
| F546.1 | Breast broad and made of glittering metal. Africa (Kaffir): Theal 150. |
| F531.1.5 | Breasts of giantess. |
| F481.4 | Brewing in eggshell to drive away cobold. (Cf. F321.1.1.1, F451.5.17.1.) *BP 368; Keightley 126, 418, 436, 473; Germania V 376; Kristensen Danske Sagn I (1892) 314—24 Nos. 1049—1075; Jahn 72 No. 87; Euphorion III 784; Zs. f. Vksk. XVI 414; Zs. f. deutsche Mythol. I (1853) 290. |
| F1041.1.5.1 | Bridegroom dies from joy. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| F842.1.3 | Bridge of apples. Scotch: Campbell Tales I 297. |
| F842.2.3.1 | Bridge of boats across sea. Saxo (ed. Elton) 145; Irish myth: Cross; Greek: Aeschylus Prometheus Bound line 720. |
| F842.1.5 | Bridge of straw. German: Grimm No. 18. |
| F152.1.2 | Bridge of sunbeams to otherworld. (Cf. F154.) Wimberly 114; Patch Other World 248, 254. |
| F152.1.7 | Bridge of thread on way to world of dead. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F152.1.6.1 | Bridge to otherworld covered with knives. BP III 43; Von Hegelein Zs. f. Vksk. XI 150 n. 2. |
| F152.0.1 | Bridge to otherworld guarded by animals. Patch PMLA XXXIII 635ff.; Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F152 | Bridge to otherworld. *Type 471; Encyc. Rel. Ethics II 852ff.; Patch PMLA XXXIII 630ff., Other World 374 s.v. "bridge"; Ward II 399, 441; Rуheim Animism 39ff.; Fb "bro" IV 62b; Darmesteter Sacred Books of the East IV 212f.; Alphabet No. 603.—Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: MacCulloch Eddic 130, 305; Siberian: Holmberg Siberian 488ff.; Melanesia: Codrington 257; Eskimo (Labrador): Hawkes GSCan XIV 153; N. A. Indian: Brinton Myths of the New World (New York, 1868) 248, (Menomini): Skinner PaAM XIII 86. |
| F842.2.2 | Bridge which falls when mounted. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F961.2.1 | Bright star indicates birth of holy person. *Toldo I 327; Matthew 2: 2; Irish myth: *Cross; Spanish Exempla: Keller; Babylonian: Spence 53. |
| F171.2 | Broad and narrow road in otherworld. *Type 470; Irish: O'Suilleabhain 63, Beal XXI 324. |
| F95.2 | Broad path to hell. Kachin: Scott Indo-Chinese 265. |
| F841.1.2 | Bronze boat. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F841.2.5 | Bronze sail. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F660.1 | Brothers acquire extraordinary skill. Return home and are tested. *Types 653, 654, 1525; *BP III 10, 45ff., 379ff., 390 n. 1; Italian: Basile Pentamerone V No. 7; India: *Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Graham. |
| F577.2 | Brothers identical in appearance. *Type 303; BP I 528; *Ranke FFC CXIV 286. |
| F527.4 | Brown man with white back. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F482 | Brownie (nisse). **Feilberg Nissens Historie; *Fb "nisse" II 688; Norwegian: *Solheim Register 19; *Hartmann 28. |
| F363.2 | Brownie (Redcap, Redcomb, Bloody Cap) murders travelers, catches their blood in his cap. England: Baughman. |
| F482.2.1 | Brownie dressed in green. Fb "nisse" II 688a. |
| F482.5.4.2 | Brownie restores stolen property, gives thief a twitch in eyelid. England: Baughman. |
| F482.5.4.1 | Brownie rides for midwife when needed. England, Scotland: *Baughman. |
| F482.1.1 | Brownie with red hair. *Fb "nisse" II 688a. |
| F482.5.1 | Brownies dance. (Cf. F471.1.1.2. and cross-references there given.) *Fb "danse" IV 93a. |
| F482.3.1 | Brownies live in house. Move when persons move. (Cf. F481.3.) Fb "nisse" II 688b. |
| F482.3.2 | Brownies live in knoll. *Fb "høj" I 740a. |
| F482.5.2 | Brownies sew by moonlight. Fb "mеne" II 659b. |
| F482.5.3 | Brownies tease. Kristensen Danske Sagn II (1893) 80ff., (1928) 61ff. |
| F135 | Bruidhen (banqueting-hall) as otherworld. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F914.2 | Buffalo sucks hero with water it is drinking and throws him up again in game of hide-and-seek. (Cf. F911.3.1.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F771.12 | Building at bottom of which flows stream of rubies. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F941 | Building sinks into earth. Irish: *Cross, O'Suilleabhain 79; Jewish: *Neuman. |
| F163 | Buildings in otherworld. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F981.2 | Bull melts away after evil spirit has issued from him. Dickson 197 n. 84. |
| F268 | Burial among underworld folk. *Fb "begravelse" IV 30b; Irish myth: Cross. |
| F451.4.1.9 | Burial places (barrows, howes) as homes of dwarfs. *Gould Scandinavian Studies and Notes IX 190; Icelandic: *Boberg; Danish: Kristensen Danske Sagn I (1892) spec. 151ff., (1928) 107ff. |
| F268.1 | Burial service for fairy queen is held at night in Christian church. England: *Baughman. |
| F1099.5 | Burning bodies vomit. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F774.2 | Burning pillar reaching heaven. Patch PMLA XXXIII 626 n. 87. |
| F1061.3 | Burning pit will close only if armed rider will plunge into it. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| F451.5.10 | Business relations of dwarfs and mortals. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| F1041.6 | Buttons burst as consequence of violent emotion. English: Child II 186, IV 101, 302. |
| F839.3.1 | Cain slain with an apple. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F839.3 | Cain slays Abel with bone of a camel. (Cf. A1336.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| F1005.1 | Cake, planted in the field, grows and after a time bears cakes. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F615.3.1.2 | Camels having fallen from sky into girl's eyes; she tells her mother that some grains of sand have fallen down from sky. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F841.1.4.1 | Canoe made from coconut. Marquesas: Handy 46, 91, Beckwith Myth 484. |
| F166.9 | Canopies in otherworld. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| F341.2.1 | Captured water fairy promises to make ugly man beautiful in return for her release. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F675.3 | Carpenter constructs house of sandalwood which will go wherever owner commands. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F861.4 | Carriage from extraordinary material. |
| F861.4.3 | Carriage from pumpkin. Type 510 (Perrault's version). |
| F861.4.1 | Carriage made from turnip. German: Grimm No. 63. |
| F861.3.1 | Cart of lapis lazuli and gold with golden wheels. Babylonian: Gilgamesch-Epos VI 10. |
| F771.4.5 | Castle (house) haunted by demons. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F771.4.2.1 | Castle (house) infested by demon cats. (Cf. H1411.2.) |
| F771.2 | Castle (house) with extraordinary support. |
| F771.3.4 | Castle at middle point of earth. Fb "verden" III 1039a. |
| F771.3.1 | Castle at world's end. *Fb "slot" III 376b, "Røde Hav", "tеrn". |
| F771.2.4 | Castle built on sea. Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "château", "mer"; India: Thompson-Balys; Philippine: Fansler MAFLS XII 183. |
| F771.2.1.2 | Castle carried through air by four eagles. French Canadian: Barbeau JAFL XXIX 12. |
| F771.3.2 | Castle east of sun and west of moon. *Fb "slot" III 376b. |
| F771.5.1 | Castle guarded by beasts. Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "château"; Missouri French: Carrière; Jewish: Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F771.5.2 | Castle guarded by giants (ogres). Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "château". |
| F80.1.1 | Castle in lower world. Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "château". |
| F163.1 | Castle in otherworld. Patch Other World 375 s.v. "castle"; Siuts 58ff.; Dickson 94 n. 76; Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F771.2.1 | Castle in the air. Icelandic: Boberg; India: Thompson-Balys, Penzer II 110f. |
| F771.2.2 | Castle in tree-top. *Fb "slot" III 377a; Hindu: Tawney I 229. |
| F771.4.4 | Castle in which everyone is asleep. Type 304; BP II 503; Fb "sove" III 472a. |
| F771.4.6 | Castle in which inhabitants have been turned to stone. German: Grimm No. 62. |
| F771.4.7 | Castle inhabited by enchanted princess. German: Grimm Nos. 92. 137. |
| F771.4.1 | Castle inhabited by ogres. *Types 304, 545A; Irish myth: Cross; Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "château"; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| F771.8 | Castle of extraordinary size. Icelandic: Boberg; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 349, 529, 915. |
| F771.1.11 | Castle of fire. (Cf. F702, F753, F756.1, F763, F785.3.) Chauvin VII 57 No. 77. |
| F771.1 | Castle of unusual material. |
| F771.1.8 | Castle of wax, shining like gold. *Fb "slot" III 377a. |
| F771.2.7 | Castle on serpents. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| F771.1.1.1 | Castle paved with gold and gems. Hartland Science 174; Irish myth: Cross. |
| F771.2.6.2 | Castle revolving at night so that entrance cannot be found. *Kittredge Gawain 245 n. 1; Schoepperle II 325f.; Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F771.3.6 | Castle rises from the ground. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F771.10 | Castle shall stand when everything else has departed (Gimle and Brimir). Icelandic: Snorra Edda Gylf. XVII, LII, Boberg. |
| F941.1 | Castle sinks into earth. Wesselski Märchen 200; Jewish: Neuman. |
| F771.2.5 | Castle stands on a pillar (pillars). Fb "guldpæle" I 514b.—Icelandic: Boberg; Hindu: Meyer Hindu 98 n. |
| F771.2.1.1 | Castle suspended on four chains. *Fb "slot" III 377a, "Røde Hav"; Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "château", "chaine". |
| F725.3.2 | Castle under lake. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F771.13 | Castle warmed by love. No fire is required because love makes perpetual summer. Neilson Court of Love 28. |
| F771.1.6.1 | Castle with glass wall. Irish myth: *Cross; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F163.1.4 | Castles of gold and silver in otherworld. Icelandic: Corpus Poeticum Boreale I 71 (Glitnir), Snorra Edda Gylf. XVII (Breidablik), Boberg. |
| F163.1.3 | Castles thatched with golden shields in otherworld. Icelandic: Snorra Edda Gylf. II, XVII, MacCulloch Eddic 329 (Valhalla and Gimlé), Boberg. |
| F163.1.5 | Castles thatched with silver in otherworld. (Cf. F163.3.2.) Icelandic: Snorra Edda Gylf. XVII, MacCulloch Eddic 329 (Valaskjalf and Hlidskjalf), Boberg. |
| F771.4.2 | Cat castle. Castle occupied by cats (enchanted women). *Type 566; Fb "slot" III 377a; Icelandic: *Boberg; French and N. A. Indian: Thompson CColl II 400f. |
| F983.3 | Cat grows as large as a cow in a minute. Chinese: Graham. |
| F405.5 | Cat, dog, and mouse ward off evil spirit. Man takes these animals along with him as protection. Swiss: Jegerlehner Oberwallis 297 No. 28. |
| F698.3 | Catching 150 toy spears in shield. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F686.1 | Cauldron warmed by breath of nine maidens. (Cf. D1171.2.) Welsh: MacCulloch Celtic 95. |
| F757.1.1 | Cave of gold, silver and crystal. German: Grimm No. 202. |
| F526.6 | Cecrops. Body compounded of man and serpent. Greek: Frazer Apollodorus II 76 n. 3. |
| F566 | Celibate peoples. |
| F302.6.1 | Celtic fairy mistress dominant. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F455.9.1 | Certain persons can ban trolls. Hartmann 74. |
| F455.5.4 | Certain persons can see trolls. (Cf. F235.3.) Hartmann 74. |
| F51.1.4 | Chaff sky-rope. Fb "hakkelse" I 535. |
| F863.2 | Chains of fire. Jewish: Neuman. |
| F473.2.1 | Chair is rocked by invisible spirit. (Cf. D1601.28.) U.S.: Baughman, (North Carolina): Brown Collection I 640. |
| F786.1 | Chairs of gold and silver. Scottish: Campbell-McKay No. 1 and Note 5. |
| F150.3 | Challenge at entrance of otherworld. The adventurer challenges or is challenged. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F165.3.1.1 | Chamber with crystal ceiling in otherworld. Patch PMLA XXXIII 610 n. 30. |
| F321.1.1.3 | Changeling addresses woman in verse and thus betrays maturity. Hartland Science 125. |
| F321.1.4.6 | Changeling beaten and left outside; the mortal child is returned. England: *Baughman. |
| F321.1.1.1 | Changeling betrays his age when his wonder is excited. Usually pottage is boiled in an eggshell. The changeling: "I shall soon be a hundred years old but I never saw this done before!" *BP I 368; Hartland Science 113—116; E. H. Meyer Germanische Myth. 79; Lithuanian: Balys Legends No. 525. |
| F322.1 | Changeling bride. Fairies steal bride and leave a substitute. Hartland Science 130, 142; U.S.: Baughman. |
| F321.1.1.5 | Changeling calculates his age by the age of the forest. "I have seen the forest grow up three times." *BP I 369; Fb "gammel" IV 174a; Hartland Science 113ff.; Danish: Kristensen Danske Sagn I (1892) 314ff., (1928) 198ff. |
| F321.1.1.2.1 | Changeling dances wild dance to music, betrays maturity. England: Baughman. |
| F321.1.1 | Changeling deceived into betraying his age. *Fb "skifting" III 252b; Rhys Celtic Folk Lore 62, 220, 223, 264, 268; Köhler-Bolte I 220; Zs. f. Vksk. XVI 414; Sikes British Goblins 2, 59f. |
| F321.1.2.1 | Changeling has abnormal features or growth. Limbs grow too rapidly, head is too big, or he is slow to learn to walk, or the like. Hartland Science 108. |
| F321.1.2.2 | Changeling is always hungry, demands food all the time. England, Scotland, Wales: *Baughman. |
| F321.1.2.3 | Changeling is sickly (often the fairy exchanged for a baby is an elderly, infirm member of the fairy clan whom the fairies are tired of caring for). England: Baughman. |
| F321.1.4.4 | Changeling left on hill (dunghill, barrow etc.) and thus banished. Hartland Science 118, 126f. |
| F321.1.4.9 | Changeling made to believe that his house is burning up; he leaves. England, Ireland: *Baughman. |
| F321.1.1.2 | Changeling plays on pipe and thus betrays his maturity. Hartland Science 111.—Scotch: Macdougall and Calder 155ff. |
| F321.1.1.4 | Changeling shows supernatural power to work and thus betrays maturity. Hartland Science 113; England, Scotland: Baughman. |
| F321.1.4.2 | Changeling thrown into ravine and thus banished. Scotch: Macdougall and Calder. |
| F321.1.4.1 | Changeling thrown into water and thus banished. Hartland Science 123f., 129.—England, Ireland: *Baughman; Scotch: Macdougall and Calder 149. |
| F321.1.4.3 | Changeling thrown on fire and thus banished. (Cf. F321.1.4.5.) Hartland Science 120f.; England, Scotland, Ireland: *Baughman. |
| F321.1 | Changeling. Fairy steals child from cradle and leaves fairy substitute. Changeling is usually mature and only seems to be a child. *BP I 368; **G. Piaschewski Der Wechselbalg (Breslau, 1935); Hdwb. d. Abergl. IX Nachträge 835—864; **E. Hartmann Die Trollvorstellungen in den Sagen und Märchen der skandinavischen Völker (Stuttgart, 1936) 76ff.; *Hartland Science 105—122, 134, 145; *Fb "skifting" III 252b.—Irish myth: Cross; England, Ireland, Wales: Baughman; Scotch: Macdougall and Calder 7, 117, 143ff., 149, 155ff., 267, Campbell Tales II 57; Icelandic: *Boberg; Danish: Kristensen Danske Sagn II (1893) 10ff., (1928) 11ff.; Norwegian: *Solheim Register 18; Lappish: Qvigstad FFC LX 43 No. 36; Dutch: Sinninghe FFC CXXXII 58 No. 91; Slavic: Polívka Slavische Sagen vom Wechselbalg (Archiv f. Religionswissenschaft VI 151ff.), Máchal Slavic Myth. 260, 264; Armenian: Ananikian 78 (left by dragon); India: Penzer VIII 87 n. 1. |
| F382.5 | Chanting song of St. Nicholas drives fairy away. U.S.: Baughman. |
| F455.3 | Characteristic activities of trolls. |
| F321.1.2 | Characteristics of changeling. |
| F451.3 | Characteristics of dwarfs. |
| F259 | Characteristics of fairies—miscellaneous. |
| F460.2 | Characteristics of mountain-men. |
| F165 | Characteristics of otherworld dwellings. |
| F535.4 | Characteristics of pygmies. |
| F420.4 | Characteristics of water-spirits. |
| F861.4.4 | Chariots of fire. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| F994.2 | Chariots, stones, weapons join in keen at hero's death. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F321.2 | Charms against theft of children by fairies. Fb "forbytte" I 337b; Irish myth: Cross; Wales, Scotland: *Baughman; Finnish: Aarne FFC XXXIII 40 No. 22; Estonian: Aarne FFC XXV 117 No. 22. |
| F811.7.2.3 | Cherry tree has lotos-flowers. Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 240 No. 186. |
| F930.8 | Chewed nut spread on waters clarifies them. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 436. |
| F1041.16.9 | Chief beheads sentinel who does not recognize him. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| F460.4.1.2.1 | Child from dreamed sex relations with mountain-woman. Hartmann 121 (cf. Ibsen's Peer Gynt). |
| F31.1 | Child of deity stolen and brought down to earth. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F31 | Child of deity visits earth. India: *Thompson-Balys; Africa (Ekoi): Talbot 342, 359, 389, (Ila, Rhodesia): Smith and Dale II 347. |
| F402.2.3 | Child of demon king marries mortal. Jewish: bin Gorion Born Judas I 234ff., 243ff., 249, 376f. |
| F321.0.1 | Child sold to fairies. Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "enfant". |
| F628.1.3.2 | Child tears to pieces a live snake with his bare hands. (Cf. F611.3.2.) Greek: Fox 79 (Hercules); India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F954.4 | Chilli plant so hot it causes dumb man to speak: thus discovered for eating. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F243.0.1 | Christianized fairy woman refuses to eat fairy food. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F163.2 | Church (chapel) in otherworld. Siuts 62.—English: Gawayne and the Green Knight. |
| F941.2.2 | Church and congregation sink to bottom of sea. Finnish: Aarne FFC XXXIII 46 No. 86**; Estonian: Aarne FFC XXV 134 No. 86. |
| F941.2 | Church sinks underground. |
| F941.2.1 | Church sinks: song heard from underground. *Fb "kirke" IV 258b; Finnish: Aarne FFC XXXIII 47 No. 87; Estonian: Aarne FFC XXV 134 No. 87. |
| F771.2.6.1 | Circular house rotating on cock's claw. *Halliday in Penzer VII xx; Köhler-Bolte I 405; *Solymossy Ethnographia XL (1929) 133ff. |
| F769.2 | Cities of sin. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| F767.3 | City inaccessible to death. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| F765 | City inside a tree. (Cf. F811.) Penzer VI 130; Hdwb. d. Märch. I 207a n. 12. |
| F948.5 | City is buried under sand. England: *Baughman. |
| F761.2 | City of brass. Chauvin V 33 No. 16; Burton Nights IV 176, VI 83ff., 101ff., VII 49. |
| F402.3 | City of demons. Jewish: bin Gorion Born Judas I 229. |
| F769.3 | City of elephants. Africa: Stanley 305ff. |
| F761.4.1 | City of emerald. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F768.2 | City of enchanted people. Apparently dead. Chauvin V 34 No. 16; Kittredge Gawain 238, 246; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F762 | City of extraordinary color. |
| F768 | City of extraordinary people. |
| F763 | City of fire. (Cf. F702, F753, F756.1, F771.1.11, F785.3.) Chauvin VII 57 No. 77. |
| F761.1 | City of gold. (Cf. F771.1.1.) Penzer II 171—238 passim, VI 130, VII 49; Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F761.4 | City of jewels. Penzer II 175 n. 2. |
| F761.3 | City of onyx. Chauvin V 27 No. 13. |
| F768.1 | City of petrified people. Chauvin V 2 No. 2, 4 No. 443; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F761 | City of precious metals and stones. Jewish: Neuman. |
| F112.2 | City of women. (Cf. F566.2.) Jewish: *Neuman. |
| F761.5 | City paved with precious seeds. |
| F761.5.3 | City paved with seeds of brass. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F761.5.1 | City paved with seeds of gold. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F761.5.2 | City paved with seeds of silver. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F767.2 | City protected by red-hot iron floor around it. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F944.1 | City sinks in sea or lake as punishment. England, Scotland, U.S.: *Baughman. |
| F944 | City sinks in the sea. Schmersel Die Sage von der versunkenen Stadt; Schütte Danske Studier (1925) 117; Le Braz Légende de la Mort (Paris, 1902); **Smyser Harward Studies and Notes Phil. and Lit. XV (1933) 49ff.; England: Baughman; Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 3610. |
| F761.1.1 | City with hundred palaces and gardens; in one everything is of gold, in another, silver, etc. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F1088.3.1 | Clerics and property cast safely on shore when enemies attempt their drowning. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F986.1 | Clerics catch fish with regularity. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F234.2.4.1 | Clerics mistaken for fairies. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F663.2 | Clever smith makes needle that pierces anvil. Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 1273. |
| F821.1.3.2 | Cloak made from fur of all animals in realm. German: Grimm No. 65. |
| F1011.1 | Clothes hung on sunbeam. Fb "solstrеle"; De Vries Germanischromanische Monatsschrift 1922, 40 n. 2; *Loomis White Magic 29; Irish: Plummer cxxxix, *Cross, O'Suilleabhain 101, 106, Beal XXI 332f.; Swiss: Jegerlehner Oberwallis 301 No. 19, 306 No. 19, 309 No. 10, 328 No. 6; Spanish: Boggs FFC XC 146 No. 1805A, 1805B. |
| F821.7 | Clothes of light (worn by Adam and Eve). Jewish: *Neuman. |
| F821.11 | Clothes remain ever new. Jewish: Neuman. |
| F821.8 | Clothes which do not wear out. *Loomis White Magic 88. |
| F482.2 | Clothing of brownie. Scandinavian: Hartmann 28. |
| F33 | Cloud-folk visit earth. Africa (Congo): Weeks 205 No. 3. |
| F431 | Cloud-spirit. Meyer Altgermanische 100; Livonian: Loorits FFC LXVI 38 No. 8. |
| F967.1 | Clouds protect fugitives. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| F795.1 | Clouds take form of letters. Jewish: Neuman. |
| F967.2 | Clouds with fragrance from paradise. Jewish: Neuman. |
| F835.2.2 | Club takes 4,000 men to carry it. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 419. |
| F813.2.1 | Clusters of diamond and emerald grapes. Chauvin VI 110 No. 274. |
| F420.1.7.2 | Coat pockets of water-spirits are dripping with water. Wiener 118; Handrick 30. |
| F821.2.1 | Coat so light it can be concealed in closed palms of hand. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| F481.0.1.4 | Cobold accidently acquired. A rope or chicken is found and taken home. Found to be a cobold. Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 3464. |
| F481.0.1.3 | Cobold acquired by placing food for him in a certain place. He likes scrambled eggs. Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 3466. |
| F481.1 | Cobold avenges uncivil answer (or treatment). Finnish: Aarne FFC XXXIII 43 Nos. 53, 54; Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 3477; Estonian: Aarne FFC XXV 124f. Nos. 53, 54. |
| F481.2.1 | Cobold furnishes inexhaustible grain to grinder of handmill. Latter kills him in disgust. Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 3478. |
| F481.0.1.1 | Cobold hatched out from a seven-year-old cock's egg or a boar's testicle. Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 3461; Rumanian: Schullerus FFC LXXVIII No. 213 I*. |
| F481.0.1.2 | Cobold purchased. Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 3462f.; Livonian: Loorits FFC LXVI 62 No. 159. |
| F481 | Cobold. A house-spirit. **Feilberg Der Kobold in nordischer überlieferung (Zs. f. Vksk. VIII 1, 130, 264); *Kittredge Witchcraft 215f., 523f. nn. 23, 25.—Danish: Kristensen Danske Sagn II (1893) 41ff., (1928) 29ff.; Estonian: L. v. Schroeder Germanische Elben und Götter beim Estenvolke (Wien 1906), Loorits Grundzüge I 266—281, 295—304. |
| F481.2 | Cobolds furnish supplies to their masters. Finnish: Aarne FFC XXXIII 43 No. 54; Estonian: Aarne FFC XXV 125 No. 55; Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 3471. |
| F62.3 | Cock carries god to upper world. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F989.19 | Cock with enormous silver ears. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F169.7 | Coldness of otherworld. |
| F241.2.1 | Color of fairies' cows. |
| F241.1.1 | Color of fairies' horses. Wales: Baughman. |
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