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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
E
The Dead
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Marvels
G
Ogres
H
Tests
J
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 |
|---|---|
| F543.2 | Remarkably large nose. Tobler 63. |
| F543.3 | Nose turned upside down. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F543.4 | Remarkable nostrils. Jewish: Neuman. |
| F544 | Remarkable mouth. (Cf. F513, F531.1.4, F531.1.6.2.) |
| F544.0.1 | Remarkably large mouth. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F544.0.1.1 | Mouth opens so wide that lungs (gullet) may be seen. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F544.0.2 | Man's mouth, from fear of sea-monster under lake, "distended to both his ears." Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F544.0.3 | Mouth of man emits flames when open for speech. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| F544.0.4 | Mouth open to drink for forty days. Jewish: Neuman. |
| F544.1 | Remarkable lips. |
| F544.1.1 | Upper lip curls over nostril; lower hangs down to neck. Malone PMLA XLIII 401. |
| F544.1.2 | When sad, man lets one lip fall to stomach; other makes hood over his head. Welsh: MacCulloch Celtic 190. |
| F544.1.3 | Lips on side of face. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F544.1.4 | Lips used as a spear. Oceanic: Beckwith Myth 200. |
| F544.2 | Remarkable tongue. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F544.2.1 | Golden tongue. Jamaica: *Beckwith MAFLS XVII 278 No. 90. |
| F544.2.2 | Long tongue. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F544.2.2.1 | Long tongue cut out and used to bridge a stream. *Penzer VI 10 n. 4. |
| F544.2.3 | Tongue with hair growing from it. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F544.2.4 | Tongue with thorns. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F544.3 | Remarkable teeth. Irish myth: Cross; Jewish: Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F544.3.1 | Golden teeth. Icelandic: Boberg; Jamaica: *Beckwith MAFLS XVII 278 No. 90. |
| F544.3.2 | Teeth of angered saint give off sparks. (Cf. F552.1.2.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| F544.3.2.1 | Luminous tooth of saint. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F544.3.3 | Blue teeth. Jewish: Neuman; Icelandic: Boberg. |
| F544.3.3.1 | Blue, protruding teeth of one and a half elbow-length. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| F544.3.4 | Saints' teeth last for 300 years. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F544.3.5 | Remarkably long teeth. Jewish: Neuman. |
| F544.3.6 | Tooth travels automatically. Africa (Dzalamo): Meinhof ZsES XI 283. |
| F545 | Other facial features. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F545.1 | Remarkable beard. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| F545.1.0.1 | Beardless man. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F545.1.1 | Blue beard. *Type 312. |
| F545.1.1.1 | Green beard. Moe Samlede Skrifter III 289f.; English: Gawayne and the Green Knight. |
| F545.1.1.2 | Golden mustache. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F545.1.2 | Beard projected over beams of great hall. Welsh: MacCulloch Celtic 190. |
| F545.1.3 | Beard grows through table. (Usually told of king asleep in mountain.) Hartland Science 217; *BP III 460; Fb "sten" III 554a. |
| F545.1.4 | Beard shelters fifty men from rain. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F545.1.5 | Bearded woman. (Cf. T321.1.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| F545.1.5.1 | Enormously fat woman with beard. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F545.1.6 | Beard travels detached from owners. Africa (Dzalamo): Meinhof ZsES XI 284. |
| F545.2 | Remarkable forehead. Jewish: Neuman. |
| 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. |
| F545.2.2 | Horns on forehead. Jewish: Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys; Tuamotu: Stimson MS (T-G 2/27). |
| F545.2.3 | Man with inscription on forehead. Jewish: Neuman. |
| F545.2.4 | Man with forehead of iron. S. A. Indian (Toba): Métraux MAFLS XL 75f. |
| F545.3 | Remarkable cheek. |
| F545.3.1 | One cheek white, other red. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F545.3.2 | Yellow, green, blue, purple spot on cheek. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F545.4 | Face covered with long moss. French Canadian: Sister Marie Ursule. |
| F546 | Remarkable breast. (Cf. F232.2, F441.2.1.2, F460.1.2, F531.1.5.1.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F546.1 | Breast broad and made of glittering metal. Africa (Kaffir): Theal 150. |
| F546.2 | Woman with three breasts. Irish myth: Cross; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F546.3 | Star (cross) on breast. Panzer Hilde-Gudrun 207; Dixon 48; Icelandic: Lagerholm Drei Lygisögur 87, Boberg. |
| F546.4 | Thorns around nipples. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F546.5 | Woman with breasts hot enough to cook food. (Cf. F593.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F546.6 | Milk in man's breast. Jewish: Neuman. |
| F547 | Remarkable sexual organs. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F547.1 | Toothed private parts. (Cf. F547.3.3.) N. A. Indian: Thompson Tales 309 n. 115. |
| F547.1.1 | Vagina dentata. Woman kills her husbands with her toothed vagina. India: *Thompson-Balys; Marquesas: Handy 100; Tuamotu: Beckwith Myth 289; Eskimo (Greenland): Rasmussen I 305, Holm 87; N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 309 n. 115, Hatt Asiatic Influences 85ff., (California): Gayton and Newman 72. |
| F547.2 | Hermaphrodite. Person with both male and female sexual organs. Greek: *Pauly-Wissowa s.v. "Hermaphroditos"; N. A. Indian (Navaho): Matthews MAFLS V 70; Icelandic: Boberg. |
| F547.2.1 | Hermaphrodite pygmies. N. A. Indian (Tsimshian): Alexander N. Am. 257. |
| F547.3 | Extraordinary penis. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F547.3.1 | Long penis. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| F547.3.2 | Penis that eats and drinks. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F547.3.3 | Toothed penis. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F547.3.4 | Penis tatooed with name of God. Jewish: Neuman. |
| F547.3.5 | Man's genitals hidden in his body. Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 31. |
| F547.3.6 | Penis cuts down trees. N. A. Indian (Klikitat): Jacobs U Wash II 29. |
| F547.4 | Extraordinary clitoris. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F547.5 | Extraordinary vagina. (Cf. F547.1.1.) |
| F547.5.1 | Removable vagina. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 113, 186. |
| F547.5.2 | Enormous vagina. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F547.5.3 | Eye in vagina. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F547.5.4 | Double vagina. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F547.5.5 | Vagina as bag. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F547.5.6 | Vagina in forehead. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F547.5.7 | Vagina in armpit. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F547.5.8 | Saw in vagina. (Cf. F547.1.1.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F547.5.9 | Hair in vagina which becomes a mantis. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F547.5.10 | Woman with privates like dog's. Eskimo (Greenland): Rasmussen III 111. |
| F547.6 | Remarkable pubic hairs. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F547.6.1 | Remarkably long pubic hair. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F547.7 | Enormous testicles. Eskimo (Greenland): Rasmussen III 75. |
| F548 | Remarkable legs. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F548.0.1 | Pointed leg. S. A. Indian (Toba): Métraux MAFLS XL 75f. |
| F548.1 | Person with black knee. (Cf. F527.5.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F548.1.1 | Person with white knee. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F551 | Remarkable feet. (Cf. F517.1.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| F551.1 | Animal foot on human being. |
| F551.1.1 | Man with snake-like feet. Greek: Fox 68 (Erichtheus). |
| F551.1.2 | Person with horse's foot. Tobler Epiphanie der Seele 62; Icelandic: Boberg. |
| F551.1.2.1 | Woman with horseshoe on one foot. *Fb "hestesko" I 604a. |
| F551.1.3 | Man with dog's feet. Icelandic: Hrуlfs saga Kr. 54ff., Boberg. |
| F551.2 | Feet with unusual number of toes. Irish: MacCulloch Celtic 143 (seven), *Cross; Icelandic: Boberg. |
| F551.3 | Remarkably pretty white feet. Icelandic: MacCulloch Eddic 103, *Boberg. |
| F551.4 | Remarkably ugly feet (and hands). Icelandic: Boberg. |
| F551.5 | Single-footed people lie on their backs and shade themselves from sun with their soles. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F552 | Remarkable hands. (Cf. F515, F531.1.6.7, F551.4.) Japanese: Ikeda. |
| F552.1 | Hands with unusual fingers. |
| F552.1.1 | Hands with unusual number of fingers. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F552.1.2 | Fingers of saint (angel) give light or fire. (Cf. F544.3.2.) *Loomis White Magic 34; Irish myth: *Cross; Jewish: Neuman. |
| F552.1.3 | Extraordinary fingernails. (Cf. G11.11.1.) Eskimo (Greenland): Holm 87, Rasmussen III 79; Oceania: *Lessa MS. |
| F552.1.4 | Human fingers not separated. Jewish: Neuman. |
| F552.1.5 | Milk from finger. Jewish: Neuman. |
| F552.2 | Remarkably strong hands. (Cf. F610.) Tonga: Beckwith Myth 486. |
| F552.3 | Remarkably pretty white hands. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| F552.4 | Marvelous hand without wrist. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F554 | Person remarkable as to his blood. |
| F554.1 | Person with pink fluid in place of blood. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F554.2 | Person with extraordinary amount of blood. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F555 | Remarkable hair. (Cf. F521, F531.1.6.3.) 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. |
| F555.1.1 | Person with hair partially golden. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F555.2 | Silver hair. *Type 533; BP II 275. |
| F555.3 | Very long hair. Child V 482 s.v. "hair"; Icelandic: Boberg; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| F555.3.0.1 | Hair recedes into head. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F555.3.1 | Nude woman clothed in own hair (Godiva). *Fb "hеr" I 771b; Type 710; *BP I 21; England: Baughman. |
| F555.3.1.1 | Girl's hair spreads on ground so that it hides her. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F555.3.2 | Holy man's hair of enormous length, so long has he remained praying at one spot. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| F555.3.3 | Hair so long that girl can cover herself with it. Icelandic: Gunnlaugs saga Ormstunga ch. V 13, ed. Altnord, Text bibl. 1908, Boberg. |
| F555.3.4 | Rapid growth of hair as protection against being seen nude. *Loomis White Magic 95f. |
| F555.4 | Very thick hair. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F555.5 | Multi-colored hair. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F555.5.1 | Person with three heads of hair. (Cf. A526.4.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F555.6 | Man has drop of blood on end of each hair. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F555.7 | Poisonous white hair in eyebrow that causes death to the first person who sees it each day. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F555.8 | Hair so stiff that apples falling on it would be impaled. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F555.8.1 | Hair above heart so stiff it rends five garments. Jewish: Neuman. |
| F555.9 | Hair so curly that nuts falling on it would be held. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F555.10 | Hair emits sound. Jewish: Neuman; Eskimo (Greenland): Holm 75. |
| F556 | Remarkable voice. (Cf. X937). |
| F556.1 | Voice made rough by swallowing hot iron. Africa (Kaffir): Theal 119, (Basuto): Jacottet 64 No. 10. |
| F556.1.1 | Voice made smooth by swallowing hot iron. Africa (Bechuana): Arbousset et Daumas Voyage d'exploration au Nord-Est de la Colonie du Cap de Bonne-Espérence (Paris, 1842) 119f., Fraser FLJ VII 167f., (Basuto): Jacottet I 62f. No. 10. |
| F556.1.2 | Voice made smooth by having ant bite tongue. Africa (Mwimbe): Browne The Vanishing Tribes of Kenya (London, 1925) 211ff. |
| F556.2 | Voice changed by work of silversmith (goldsmith). Jamaica: Beckwith MAFLS XVII 242 No. 17; N. Am. Negro (Georgia): Harris 236 No. 40. |
| F556.3 | Voice changed by medicine. Africa (Hausa): Rattray II 14ff. No. 23, (Madagascar): Renel I 247ff. No. 46. |
| F556.4 | Saint's voice heard from considerable distance. *Loomis White Magic 53; Irish myth: Cross. |
| F557 | Removable organs. India: Thompson-Balys; Ibo (Nigeria): Basden 140 (nose, feet, hands, face). |
| F557.1 | Removable brain. Saint's brain kept in a missile ball. Irish: Plummer xxxiv. |
| F558 | Man covered with horn. Irish myth: *Cross; Norse: Panzer Sigfrid 66. |
| F558.1 | Double-skinned tribe. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F559 | Remarkable physical organs—miscellaneous. |
| F559.1 | Person with jointless bodies of bone. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F559.2 | Long navel. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| F559.3 | Extraordinary excrement. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F559.3.1 | Excreta is so fiery it starts great fires. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F559.4 | Remarkable skull. |
| F559.4.1 | Skull has words miraculously written on it. Jewish: Neuman. |
| F559.5 | Remarkable neck. |
| F559.5.1 | Neck as hard as ivory. Jewish: Neuman. |
| F559.6 | Extraordinary stomach. |
| F559.6.1 | Stomach attains immense proportions by overeating. Eskimo (Greenland): Rasmussen III 155. |
| F559.7 | Remarkable heart. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F559.7.1 | Person with three hearts. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F559.7.2 | Adder grows in heart of man. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F559.8 | Extraordinary urine. |
| F559.8.1 | Person's urine melts rocks. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F560 | Unusual manner of life. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F561 | People of unusual diet. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| F561.1 | People who prefer raw flesh. Maori: Dixon 78 n. 77. |
| F561.2 | Ichthyophages. People who live on fish. *Chauvin VII 86 No. 373bis n. 4; Irish myth: Cross; India: Thompson-Balys; Icelandic: Boberg. |
| F561.3 | People who live on coconuts. Chauvin VII 22 No. 373 E n. 2. |
| F561.4 | Person lives by smoking tobacco. Never eats. N. A. Indian: Kroeber JAFL XXI 223. |
| F561.5 | Girl eats only kola nuts and tobacco. Africa (Angola): Chatelain 33 No. 1. |
| F561.6 | Woman fed by bees' dropping honey into her mouth (lie). India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F561.7 | Boy drinks perspiration. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F561.8 | Iron-eating tribe. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F562 | People of unusual residence. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| F562.1 | Boy lives on ox. Never walks on ground. Missouri French: Carrière; Africa (Zulu): Callaway 221. |
| F562.2 | Residence in a tree. Type 710, Grimm No. 3; Missouri French: Carrière; Hindu: Tawney I 121, 381, 531, 552, II 79, 162. |
| F562.3 | Residence in (under) water. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F562.4 | Girl lives in fruit and comes out only to be bathed by her twenty sisters. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F562.5 | Boy lives in ant-hill. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F564 | Person never sleeps. |
| F564.1 | Person of diabolical origin never sleeps. *Krappe Mod. Lang. Review XXIV (1929) 200ff.; Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F564.2 | Semi-supernatural person sleeps little. Irish myth: *Cross; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F564.3 | Person does not sleep for many months (years). Jewish: Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F564.3.1 | Long sleep, long waking. (Six months sleep followed by six months waking, or the like.) India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| F564.3.2 | Person sleeps for three days and nights. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F564.3.3 | King sleeps for six days and acquires after that magic wisdom. Icelandic: Hjálmpérs saga ok ölvis 505, Boberg. |
| F564.3.4 | Person sleeps for nine months. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F564.3.5 | Spirit woman sleeps through whole year; eats through the next. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F564.3.6 | Twelve years' sleep customary to demons. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F564.4 | Man sleeps with one eye and one ear open. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F565 | Women warriors or hunters. |
| F565.1 | Amazons. Women warriors. **Klein Die Antiken Amazonensagen in der deutschen Literatur (Leipzig, 1919); *Chauvin VIII 55 No. 22; *Gaster Exempla 186f. No. 5A.—Irish myth: *Cross; MacCulloch Celtic 144; English: Wells 105 (The Prose Alexander) Malory Morte Darthur X 39; Icelandic: Olrik Sakses Oldhistorie I (1892) 52ff., *Boberg; Greek: Fox 85, *Frazer Apollodorus I 98 n. 1; India: *Thompson-Balys, Tawney II 589 n.; Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 411 s.v. "Amazonen"; Philippine (Tinguian): Cole 68; N. A. Indian: Hatt Asiatic Influences 70ff.; S. A. Indian: *Chamberlain JAFL XXIV 16, Alexander Lat. Am. 19 n. 5, 281f., (Tropical Forests): Lowie BBAE CXLIII (3) 55. |
| F565.1.1 | Amazons cut off left breast of daughters so that they can handle bow. Greek: Fox 85. |
| F565.1.2 | All male children killed by Amazons. Greek: Fox 85; S. A. Indian (Aspinayé, Carajá, Taulipang, Tupinamba): Lowie BBAE CXLIII (1) 516. |
| F565.1.3 | Queen takes husband's place in battle. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F565.2 | Remarkably strong women. Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| F565.3 | Parliament of women. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F565.4 | Women hunters. English: Malory Morte Darthur XVIII 21. |
| F566 | Celibate peoples. |
| F566.1 | Village of men only. N. A. Indian (Thompson River): Teit MAFLS XI 53 No. 34. |
| F566.1.1 | Country which no woman may enter. Africa (Swahili): Stignand 97ff. No. 15. |
| F566.2 | Land where women live separate from men. Cohabit with water monsters. Irish myth: Cross; S. A. Indian (Amazon): Alexander Lat. Am. 286. |
| F567 | Wild man. Man lives alone in wood like a beast. Type 502; *Dickson 113ff.; Irish myth: Cross; Italian Novella: Rotunda; Jewish: Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys; Africa (Fang): Trilles Proverbs 199. |
| F567.1 | Wild woman. (Similar to wild man.) Type 314; **Hdwb. d. Abergl. IX Nachträge 968ff.; U.S.: *Baughman. |
| F568 | Naked tribe. Sun, cold, wind, rain do not harm them. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F568.1 | Naked men (boy). Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F569 | Unusual manner of life—miscellaneous. |
| F569.1 | Woman lays eggs and hatches them. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F569.2 | Men menstruate. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F569.3 | Silent person. |
| F569.3.1 | Silent princess. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F570 | Other extraordinary human beings. |
| F571 | Extremely old person. Irish myth: *Cross, O'Suilleabhain 28, Beal XXI 309; Icelandic: *Boberg; Jewish: *Neuman; Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 206f. |
| F571.1 | Old man with hanging eyelids. So old that the eyelids hang down to his chin and must be lifted up. *Fb "öje" III 1167a; *BP II 398 n. 2, IV 148; Welsh, Irish: MacCulloch Celtic 187; N. A. Indian (Seneca): Curtin-Hewitt RBAE XXXII 213 No. 41. |
| F571.2 | Sending to the older. Old person refers inquirer to his father, who refers to his father, and so on for several generations. *Type 726; *Baum JAFL XXX 379 n. 2; *Wesselski Archiv Orientální IV 1ff.; Irish myth: *Cross, O'Suilleabhain 74, Beal XXI 326. |
| F571.2.1 | Sending to the older uncle. French Canadian: Sister Marie Ursule. |
| F571.3 | Very old woman. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F571.3.1 | Woman so old her chin reaches her knee. Italian: Basile Pentamerone IV No. 8. |
| F571.4 | Man so old he sleeps in cradle. Scotch: Campbell-McKay Nos. 1, 2. |
| F571.5 | King so old that he only can take food from a horn. Icelandic: Flateyjarbуk I 26, Boberg. |
| F571.6 | King so old that he cannot get on horseback without help. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| F571.7 | Person hundreds of years old. Icelandic: Herrmann Saxo II 587, *Boberg. |
| F571.8 | Man lives for nine generations. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F572 | Dancers upon whom icicles hang. Swiss: Jegerlehner Oberwallis 323 No. 97. |
| F573 | Negro so black that he makes whole garden somber. Malone PMLA XLIII 401. |
| F574 | Luminous person. Jewish: *Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys, Penzer II 43 n. 2, VI 1 n. 1. |
| F574.1 | Resplendent beauty. Woman's face lights up the dark. *Fb "prins og prinsesse"; Irish myth: *Cross; Jewish: *Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys, *Penzer VI 1 n. 1, II 43 n. 2, VII 189 n. 2; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 1339; Koryak: *Jochelson JE VI 363; Philippine (Tinguian): Cole 35 n. 1, 62, 68, 106, 154. |
| F574.1.1 | Woman's beauty burns onlooker. N. A. Indian (Chuckchee): Bogoras AA n.s. IV 666. |
| F574.1.2 | Woman's beauty shows through seven veils. Köhler to Gonzenbach No. 13; *Köhler-Bolte Zs. f. Vksk. VI 63. |
| F574.1.3 | Men killed by look of beautiful princess. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F574.1.4 | Man's beauty eclipses splendor of sun. Jewish: Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F574.2 | Man with luminous arms. Jewish: Gaster Exempla 227 No. 223, Neuman. |
| F574.3 | Holy man (hero) emits light. |
| F574.3.1 | Face of saint radiant. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F574.3.2 | Holy man radiant. Jewish: *Neuman; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 802, 1015 (Buddha), I 427, 852, II 695 (ascetic). |
| F574.3.3 | Hero luminous. Cook Islands: Beckwith Myth 247. |
| F575 | Remarkable beauty. (Cf. F574.1.) Jewish: *Neuman. |
| F575.1 | Remarkably beautiful woman. Greek: Grote I 279 f.; India: *Thompson-Balys; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 349, 762. |
| F575.1.1 | Birth of daughter so beautiful mother is frightened and abandons her. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F575.1.2 | Old woman beautiful as in youth. Jewish: Neuman. |
| F575.1.3 | Woman so beautiful sea is calm for her. Eskimo (Greenland): Rasmussen I 307. |
| F575.2 | Handsome man. Jewish: Neuman. |
| F575.2.1 | Supernatural beauty of men in Messianic era. (Cf. A1095.) Jewish: *Neuman. |
| F575.2.2 | Supernatural beauty of Jerusalem's inhabitants. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| F575.3 | Remarkably beautiful child. Jewish: Neuman. |
| F576 | Extraordinary ugliness. (Cf. A2402.) Jewish: Neuman. |
| F577 | Persons identical in appearance. (Cf. F1072.) Jewish: *Neuman. |
| F577.1 | Friends identical in appearance. Irish myth: Cross; Cape Verde Islands. Parsons MAFLS XV (1) 212 No. 73. |
| F577.2 | Brothers identical in appearance. *Type 303; BP I 528; *Ranke FFC CXIV 286. |
| F577.3 | King and fool identical in appearance. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F577.4 | Lovers identical in appearance. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F577.5 | All people in certain place identical in appearance. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F582 | Poison damsel. Woman nourished on poison is fatal to her husbands. Sometimes the poisoning is from fatal look or breath, sometimes from intercourse. *Penzer X 265 s.v. "Poison Damsel"; **Penzer Poison Damsels 3ff.; Herbert III 211; *Oesterley No. 11; **Hertz Abhandlungen 156ff.; Krappe Mitt. d. schles. Gesell. f. Volkskunde XXVIII (1927) 131ff.; *bin Gorion Born Judas I 360f. |
| F582.1 | Serpent damsel. Woman has serpent inside which comes out and kills her bridegrooms. *Type 507C; BP III 490ff., 494; *Liljeblad Tobiasgeschichte 259 s.v. "Schlangenmädchen"; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| F582.2 | Man spews venom. Icelandic: FSS 119, *Boberg. |
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