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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
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Ordaining the Future
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Chance and Fate
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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 |
|---|---|
| H310 | Suitor tests. A suitor is put to severe tests by his prospective bride or father-in-law. Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg; English: Wells 16 (Guy of Warwick); Welsh: MacCulloch Celtic 187; Italian Novella: Rotunda; Jewish: *Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Graham; N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 324 n. 170, 328 n. 186; S. A. Indian (Tropical Forests): Lowie BBAE CXLIII (3) 55, (Carib): Alexander Lat. Am. 264; Africa: Werner African 153f., (Benga): Nassau 227 No. 34. |
| H310.1 | Tests for hero, husband of supernatural (divine) wife. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| H310.2 | Brother unwittingly qualifies as bridegroom of sister in test. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| H311 | Inspection test for suitors. Suitors for princess's hand must present themselves for public inspection. (Cf. H362, T55.7.) Types 314, 502; BP III 111; Krappe Revue Hispanique LXXXI 5ff.; Icelandic: MacCulloch Eddic 104, *Boberg; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| H312 | Physical and mental requirements for suitors. Penzer III 66; Irish myth: *Cross; Cape Verde Islands: Parsons MAFLS XV (1) 106 n. 1. |
| H312.1 | Successful suitor to be without blotches. Africa (Mpongwe): Nassau 69 No. 15; Jamaica: *Beckwith MAFLS XVII 272 No. 85. |
| H312.2 | Successful suitor must have gold teeth. *Fb "tand" III 771a; Spanish: Espinosa Jr. No. 93; Italian: Basile Pentamerone III No. 1. |
| H312.3 | Suitors chosen with feet as only part seen. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| H312.4 | Successful suitor must have whitest hands. Blacksmith qualifies because of frequent washing of hands. Herbert III 86. |
| H312.4.1 | Successful suitor must have the prettiest hands; not whitest, but dark with scars and gold rings. Köhler-Bolte I 90; Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| H312.5 | Successful suitor must have cheeks like blood, skin like snow and hair like a raven. (Cf. Z65.1.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| H312.6 | Suitor test: correct wearing of clothes. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| H312.7 | Suitor test: to be able to go through a wall. Chinese: Graham. |
| H312.8 | Bridegroom-to-be has to have three pecks, three quarts of gold and an animal with a horn on his head pointing to the sky, and a large red hair. Chinese: Graham. |
| H313 | Suitor test: obedience and humility before bride. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| H313.1 | Princess will marry whoever will give her anything she wishes for a month. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| H313.2 | Fairy will marry king only if he will either cut off son's head or give up fasting on eleventh day. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| H314 | Suitor's sincerity tested. Chinese: Werner 272. |
| H314.1 | Suitor's sincerity tested by reporting girl's death. All but one make excuses for not helping with funeral. Africa (Gold Coast): Barker and Sinclair 85 No. 14. |
| H314.2 | Suitor's sincerity tested by seven years' banishment. Heptameron No. 24. |
| H315 | Suitor test: to whom the princess turns. Rival suitors sleep with princess. The one she turns to is to have her. They vie in enticements. *Type 621, 850; Köhler-Bolte I 428f. |
| H315.1 | Suitor test: to make the princess fall in love with him. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| H315.2 | Suitor contest: bride offered to suitor giving the token of the greater love. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| H316 | Suitor test: apple thrown indicates princess's choice. (Often golden apple.) *Type 502; *BP III 111; Cosquin Contes Indiens 317ff.; Chauvin VI 3, *201, VIII 151, *Galtier RTP XIV 65; Fb "guldæble" I 516a; Hdwb. d. Märchens I 93a. |
| H316.1 | Orange (lemon) thrown to indicate princess's choice. Cosquin Contes Indiens 317ff. |
| H316.2 | Flowers thrown to indicate princess's choice. Cosquin Contes Indiens 317ff.; Missouri French: Carrière; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| H316.3 | Ball (goblet) thrown indicates princess's choice. Indonesian: De Vries's list No. 216; Persian: Carnoy 341. |
| H316.4 | Suitor test: garland thrown indicates girl's choice. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| H316.5 | Expressing love by throwing little stones. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| H317 | Long term of service imposed on suitor. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| H317.1 | Seven years of service imposed on suitor. Frazer Old Testament II 342—368; English: Wells 149 (The Squyr of Low Degre), Child I 204—6, 255, V 212b; Italian Novella: Rotunda; Jewish: *Neuman; India: Cowell Jataka VI 164. |
| H317.2 | Two years of silence imposed on suitor. Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| H317.3 | Gardener's son to marry princess if he remains in prison twelve years. India: Thompson-Balys |
| H317.4 | Test of suitor's love and endurance by constant postponing. Icelandic: Ragnars saga Loрbr. 127—29, Boberg. |
| H318 | Suitor preferred who will pay enormous sum for bride. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| H321 | Suitor test: hiding from princess. She has magic sight. *Types 329, 554; *BP II 365; Köhler-Bolte I 408. |
| H322 | Suitor test: finding princess. Type 590; Fb "skjule"; cf. Thompson CColl II 393; Filipino: Fansler MAFLS XII 183; Tuamotu: Stimson (z-G. 13/1241); West Indies: Flowers 457. |
| H322.1 | Suitor test: finding object hidden by princess. *Type 507A; Irish myth: Cross. |
| H322.2 | Suitor test: to get to imprisoned princess in a year's time. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| H322.3 | Suitor test: bringing leg that fits into dragon claw left by the beloved of the princess. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| H322.4 | Suitor test: bringing maiden's lost shoe. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| H323 | Suitor test: learning girl's name. Africa (Gold Coast): Barker and Sinclair 45 No. 5. |
| H324 | Suitor test: choosing princess from others identically clad. *Type 554; BP II 28; Irish myth: Cross; India: *Thompson-Balys; Indonesia: Dixon 217; Chinese: Graham; Japanese: Ikeda. |
| H324.1 | Suitor test: choosing sweetheart's sedan chair from thirty others like it. Chinese: Graham. |
| H326 | Suitor test: skill. |
| H326.1 | Suitor test: aptness in handicrafts. |
| H326.1.1 | Suitor test: constructing automatic peacock. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| H326.1.2 | Suitor test: skill in archery. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| H326.2 | Suitor test: eating a pomegranate without letting a single seed fall. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| H326.3 | Suitor test: skill in hunt. Eskimo (Aleut): Golder JAFL XXII 17. |
| H326.4 | Suitor test: skill in fishing. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| H327 | Suitor test: cleverness and learning. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| H328 | Suitor test: power of endurance. |
| H328.1 | Suitor test: resisting intoxication after much drinking. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| H328.2 | Suitor test: being swung by mustache without shedding tears. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| H328.3 | Suitor test: enduring blow from spear. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| H328.4 | Suitor test: standing naked in river through a winter night. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| H328.5 | Suitor test: bathing in boiling water. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| H328.6 | Princess to be married to man who withstands twelve years' fight. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| H331 | Suitor contests: bride offered as prize. *Types 513, 514, 900; Philippson FFC L 12f.—Icelandic: Egils saga einhendsa ok ásmundar Berserkjabana (FAS III) 366; Finnish: Kalevala rune 3; Italian: Basile Pentamerone I No. 9, *Rotunda; French Canadian: Barbeau JAFL XXIX 18f.; India: *Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Werner 420; Japanese: Ikeda; Oceanic (New Zealand, Tahiti, Cook Group, Society Group): Dixon 61, 64; Eskimo (Aleut): Golder JAFL XXII 17; N. A. Indian: *Thompson-Tales 328n. 186; West Indies: Flowers 457. |
| H331.1 | Suitor contest: difficult riding. |
| H331.1.1 | Suitor contest: riding up glass mountain. *Type 530; *BP III 111 n. 3; Köhler-Bolte I 67; Hdwb. d. Märchens II 627ff.; **Boberg Prinsessen pе Glasbjærget (Danske Studier [1928] 16ff.); *Fb "glarbjærg" I 459; Krappe The Glass Mountain (Modern Language Quarterly VIII 139—145); India: Thompson-Balys. |
| H331.1.2 | Suitor contest: riding to fourth story of tower. *Type 530; *BP III 112 n. 1. |
| H331.1.2.1 | Suitor contest: jumping horse over palace. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| H331.1.3 | Suitor contest: riding up mast (spear). *BP III 113 n. 3; N. A. Indian (Chilcotin): Farrand JE II 43. |
| H331.1.3.1 | Suitor test: jumping over high hedge. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| H331.1.4 | Suitor contest: riding across pit. *BP III 113 n. 2. |
| H331.1.5 | Suitor contest: riding through fire. *Panzer Sigfrid 110; Krappe Waberlohe (Archiv fur das Studium der neueren Sprachen CLXXII 10ff.); Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| H331.1.6 | Suitor contest: jumping river on horseback. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| H331.1.6.1 | Suitor contest: jumping ditches and hedges of spears. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| H331.1.7 | Contest in reaping: best reaper to get beautiful girl as wife. Irish myth: Cross. |
| H331.2 | Suitor contest: tournament. *Type 508; Cosquin Contes Indiens 329ff.; *Liljeblad 39ff.; Dickson 181; English: Wells 147 (Ipomedon); Icelandic: Boberg; Italian Novella: *Rotunda; Jewish: Neuman. |
| H331.2.1 | Suitor contest: success in battle. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| H331.2.1.1 | Suitor contest: bride offered to the one distinguishing himself most in battle. Girl loves both suitors equally. Italian Novella: Rotunda; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| H331.3 | Suitor contest: prize to one whose staff blooms. Told of Joseph in contest for Virgin Mary. *Dh II 265; Jewish: *Neuman. |
| H331.4 | Suitor contest: shooting. Icelandic: Boberg; India: *Thompson-Balys; Japanese: Anesaki 295, Ikeda; N. A. Indian (Kutenai): Boas BBAE LIX 199 No. 64, (Sahaptin): Farrand MAFLS XI 157 No. 9, (Tsimshian): Boas BBAE XXVII 137, (Wichita): Dorsey CI XXI 130 No. 19, Dorsey Contributions to N. A. Ethnology VI 604, (Pawnee): Grinnell 87 No. 1, Dorsey MAFLS VIII 113 No. 31, 239 No. 60, (Crow): Simms FM II 292 No. 13, (Dakota): Zitkala-Sa Old Indian Legends 77; (Menomini): Skinner and Satterlee PaAM XIII 396 No. 25, (Seneca): Curtin-Hewitt RBAE XXXII 139, 318, 513, 567, (Wyandot): Barbeau GSCan XI 212, (Zuсi): Cushing 215; Africa (Gold Coast): Barker and Sinclair 126. |
| H331.4.1 | Suitors contest with bride's father in shooting. Greek: Frazer Apollodorus I 238 n. 1. |
| H331.4.2 | Suitor contest: bending bow of woman's absent husband. Greek: Frazer Apollodorus II 300 n. 3; Japanese: Ikeda. |
| H331.5 | Suitor contest: race. Dh III 145; Irish myth: Cross; Greek: Frazer Apollodorus II 23 n. 5, 160 n. 2; India: Thompson-Balys; N. A. Indian (Salishan): Hill-Tout British North America 229, (Shuswap): Teit JE II 684 No. 22, (Thompson River): Teit MAFLS VI 36 No. 7, (Skykomish): Haeberlin JAFL XXXVII 383 No. 9, (Achomawi): Curtin JAFL XXII 284 No. 2, (Arapaho): Dorsey and Kroeber FM V 105, (Ponca): Dorsey CNAE VI 333, (Menomini): Skinner and Satterlee PaAm XIII 396 No. 25, (California): Gayton and Newman 92; Africa (Vai): Ellis 189 No. 5; West Indies: Flowers 458. |
| H331.5.0.1 | Loser in bride-race must die. Italian Novella: Rotunda; Greek: Frazer Apollodorus II 160 n. 2. |
| H331.5.1 | Race with princess for her hand. *Types 513, 514; Missouri French: Carrière; Italian: Basile Pentamerone III No. 8; Greek: Fox 59. |
| H331.5.1.1 | Apple thrown in race with bride. Distracts girl's attention and as she stops to pick it up, suitor passes her. (Atalanta.) Oesterley Gesta Romanorum No. 60; *BP IV 138; Herbert III 193; Italian Novella: *Rotunda; Greek: Fox 59, *Grote I 138. |
| H331.5.1.1.1 | Hero's confederate slows down princess with his breath. Extraordinary blower blows against her so that she is retarded and loses race. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| H331.5.2 | Suitor contest: race with bride's father. Irish: MacCulloch Celtic 181; Greek: Frazer Apollodorus II 157 n. 4. |
| H331.5.3 | Suitor test: winning horse-race three times. Hdwb. d. Märchens I 229a n. 3. |
| H331.5.4 | Suitor test: boat race. Eskimo (Aleut): Golder JAFL XXII 17. |
| H331.6 | Suitor contest: wrestling. (Cf. H1562.9.) India: Thompson-Balys Eskimo (Aleut): Golder JAFL XXII 17. |
| H331.6.1 | Suitor contest: wrestling with bride. N. A. Indian (Wasco): Curtin PAES II 290 No. 2. |
| H331.6.1.1 | Princess wins wrestling match with suitor by revealing her breast. He looks and is beaten. Köhler-Bolte I 561. |
| H331.7 | Suitor contest: aiming with missile. Jamaica: Beckwith: MAFLS XVII 269 No. 82. |
| H331.8 | Suitor contest: splitting antlers. N. A. Indian (Snohomish): Hill-Tout British Assn. Adv. Science (70th meeting) 525. |
| H331.9 | Suitor contest: trapping. N. A. Indian (Shoshoni): Lowie JAFL XXXVII 237 No. 18, (Pawnee): Dorsey MAFLS VIII 178 No. 45, (Gros Ventre): Kroeber PaAM I 80 No. 19. |
| H331.10 | Suitor contest: carrying one hundred jugs of water from sea to castle in one day. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| H331.11 | Princess given to the one confessing all his treachery. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| H331.12 | Suitor contest: splitting block of wood. Cheremis: Sebeok-Nyerges. |
| H331.13 | Suitor contest: cheating. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| H331.14 | Suitor contest: trial of strength. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| H331.15 | Suitor contest: animal fight. |
| H331.15.1 | Suitor contest: cockfight. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| H331.15.2 | Suitor contest: bullfight. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| H331.16 | Suitor contest: throwing ball up to princess. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| H331.16.1 | Suitor contest: throwing iron ball. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| H331.17 | Suitor contest: eating one hundred carcasses at a sitting. (Cf. H1141.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| H332 | Suitor in contest with bride or member of her family. See H331.4.1, H331.5.1, H331.5.2, H331.6.1. |
| H332.1 | Suitor in contest with bride. |
| H332.1.1 | Suitor test: duel with bride. Wesselski Archiv Orientální II 430. |
| H332.1.2 | Suitor test: to defeat bride in game. Italian Novella: Rotunda; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| H332.1.2.1 | Suitor test: to defeat bride at dice. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| H332.1.3 | Suitor test: to defeat bride in harping. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| H332.1.4 | Suitor test: tournament with bride. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| H332.1.5 | Shooting contest with bride-to-be. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| H332.2 | Suitor contest with brother-in-law. Icelandic: *Boberg; S. A. Indian (Chincha): Alexander Lat. Am. 231. |
| H332.3 | Suitor test: duel with father-in-law. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| H332.4 | Groom and his army have to fight bride's army. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| H333 | Girl demands suitor's life (or mutilation). |
| H333.1 | Lover has head cut off at girl's desire. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| H333.2 | Suitor test: tribute of his severed hands. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| H335 | Tasks assigned suitors. Bride as prize for accomplishment. (For nature of tasks see H1000ff.) *Types 313, 502, 513, 514, 518, 570, 577; BP II 87ff., III 267ff., 424ff.; Hibbard 275ff. (Sir Eglamour).—Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg; Finnish: Kalevala runes 7, 8, 13, 14, 19; Italian Novella: *Rotunda, Basile Pentamerone II Nos. 5, 7; Greek: Frazer Apollodorus I 87 n. 3, II 61 n. 3, Fox 107; Jewish: Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys; Indonesian: De Vries's list No. 168; Indo-Chinese: Scott Indo-Chinese 290; Chinese: Graham; Japanese: Anesaki 262; Tuamotu: Stimson MS (z-G. 13/174, 13/203, 13/276, 13/317, 13/441, 13/499, 13/730, 13/243, 13/1241); Easter Island: Métraux Ethnology 57; N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 324 n. 170; Africa (Mpongwe): Nassau 31 No. 4, (Benga): Nassau 134 No. 15; West Indies: Flowers 458. Cf. Wünsche Teufel 33 (devil). |
| H335.0.1 | Bride helps suitor perform his tasks. *Type 313; Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg; German: Grimm Nos. 92, 113, 121, 196; Italian: Basile Pentamerone II No. 7, Rotunda; India: Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Graham; Japanese: Ikeda. |
| H335.0.1.1 | Otherworld mistress instructs hero how to perform tasks (imposed by her mother). Irish myth: Cross. |
| H335.0.1.2 | Bride's parents (supernatural) help suitor win in suitor contests. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| H335.0.2 | Girl assigns tasks to her suitors. *De Vries FFC LXXIII 308; Irish myth: *Cross; Italian Novella: Rotunda; Japanese: Ikeda. |
| H335.0.2.1 | Suitor task: to study philosophy for five years. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| H335.0.2.2 | Suitor task: prince to learn a trade. Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 949*. |
| H335.0.3 | Devil as suitor assigned tasks. Lithuanian: Balys Legends Nos. 343f., 345f., 363, 398. |
| H335.0.4 | Suitor tasks announced by inscription on statue. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| H335.0.5 | Goddess assigns task to her mortal suitor. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| H335.1 | Suitor task: avenging bride's father's death before marriage. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| H335.1.1 | Suitor task: avenging bride's former fiance before marriage. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| H335.2 | Suitor task: cutting open magic gourd. Indo-Chinese: Scott Indo-Chinese 290. |
| H335.3 | Suitor task: killing ferocious animal. |
| H335.3.1 | Suitor task: to kill dragon to whom the princess is to be sacrificed. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| H335.3.2 | Suitor task: killing lion guarding girl. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| H335.3.3 | Suitor task: to slay thieving boar. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| H335.3.4 | Suitor task: to kill treasure-guarding snake lying around the princess's chamber. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| H335.3.5 | Task: hero's servant must kill giant pig. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| H335.3.6 | Suitor task: killing tiger demons. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| H335.3.7 | Suitor task: to kill other monsters. Icelandic: *Boberg; Tuamotu: Stimson MS (z-G. 13/317). |
| H335.4 | Suitor task: to defeat enemies. Icelandic: *Boberg; Cheremis: Sebeok-Nyerges. |
| H335.4.1 | Suitor task: to bring enemy's head. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| H335.4.2 | Suitor task: to overcome robbers. Chinese: Graham. |
| H335.4.3 | Suitor task: to kill all earlier suitors. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| H335.4.4 | Suitor task: to kill (defeat) unwelcome suitor. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| H335.5 | Suitor task: to bring back food as a marriage present. Chinese: Graham. |
| H335.6 | Suitor task: making weather calm. (Cf. D2141.0.8.1.) Tonga: Gifford 176. |
| H335.6.1 | Suitor task: controlling violent tide. Tuamotu: Stimson MS (T-G. 3/730). |
| H336 | Suitors assigned quests. *Types 513, 514; Irish myth: *Cross; English: Wells 115 (Sir Eglamore); German: Grimm Nos. 6, 62, 93, 96, 97, 106, 137, 163, 197; Icelandic: *Boberg; Africa (Fjort): Dennett 74. |
| H336.1 | Prospective father-in-law requires that suitor for his daughter's hand visit foreign country (otherworld?) to learn feats of arms. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| H336.2 | Suitor required to catch wild animals. (Cf. H335.3.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| H338 | Suitor test: faithfulness. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| H338.1 | Suitor test: keeping princess's secret. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| H341 | Suitor test: making princess laugh. Sadfaced princess has never laughed. *Types 559, 571, 1642; *BP I 59, 61, II 39ff., 454 n. 1; *Bolte Zs. f. Vksk. XXVI 89 n. 1; Italian: Basile Pentamerone Introduction, I No. 3; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| H341.1 | Princess brought to laughter by people sticking together. *Type 571; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| H341.2 | Princess brought to laughter by small animals. *Type 571; Italian: Basile Pentamerone III No. 5. |
| H341.3 | Princess brought to laughter by foolish actions of hero. *Type 571; *Bolte Zs. f. Vksk. XXVI 89 n. 1; Italian: Basile Pentamerone I No. 3. |
| H341.3.1 | Princess brought to laughter by indecent show made in quarrel with old woman at well. Italian: Basile Pentamerone Introduction. |
| H342 | Suitor test: outwitting princess. |
| H342.1 | Suitor test: forcing princess to say, "That is a lie." *Type 852; BP II 506; *Fb "løgn" II 513a; Japanese: Ikeda. |
| H343 | Suitor test: bringing dumb princess to speak. *Type 945; BP III 53ff.; *Gründwald Hessische Blätter f. Vksk. XXX 317; India: *Thompson-Balys; Africa (Yoruba): Ellis 263; Jamaica: Beckwith MAFLS XVII 279 No. 95; Cape Verde Islands: Parsons MAFLS XV (1) 277 n. 1. |
| H343.0.1 | Princess to marry man who can make her speak to him in all watches of the night. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| H343.1 | Dumb princess brought to speak by shepherd who insults her. Spanish: Boggs FFC XC 105 No. 860; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| H343.2 | Silent princess gives right answer when talking monkey is given wrong one by suitor-prince. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| H344 | Suitor test: entering princess's chamber. *Type 854. |
| H344.1 | Princess to marry man who can give her correct account of what happened in her bedchamber. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| H345 | Suitor test: overcoming princess in strength. *Type 519. |
| H345.1 | Suitor test: lifting strong princess's giant weapon. *Type 519. |
| H345.2 | Suitor test: riding strong princess's horse. *Type 519. |
| H346 | Princess given to man who can heal her. *Types 610, 613; *Christiansen FFC XXIV 98; BP III 267ff.; Italian Novella: Rotunda; India: *Thompson-Balys; Japanese: Ikeda; S. A. Indian (Chincha): Alexander Lat. Am. 231. |
| H346.1 | Maiden queen promises herself to the man who heals her husband and kills his bewitcher. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| H347 | Suitor test: to consort with princess without sleeping. Suitors are given sleeping potion. Italian Novella: Rotunda; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| H351 | Suitor test: to live on small amount of food. |
| H351.1 | Suitor test: to live on as much food as can be piled on a leaf. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| H352 | Suitor test: to make garden bloom in winter. (Cf. M261.1.) Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| H353 | Suitor test: to plunge into a stream. Italian Novella: Rotunda; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| H355 | Suitor test: finding an extraordinary object. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| H355.0.1 | Who will find the most marvelous thing? Each finds some marvelous thing. It turns out, that to save the girl's life all the things must be used together. Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 467*. |
| H355.1 | Suitor test: finding a cow with silver horns. Cheremis: Sebeok-Nyerges. |
| H355.2 | Suitor test: finding a hog with silver bristles. Cheremis: Sebeok-Nyerges. |
| H355.3 | Suitor test: bringing marvelous tree. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| H355.4 | Suitor test: obtaining flowers. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| H355.5 | Suitor test: obtaining for bride a necklace like her mother's. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| H355.6 | Suitor test: to get wedding dress so fine that it will go through ring. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| H359 | Other suitor tests. |
| H359.1 | Suitor test: building causeway. (Cf. H1131.) Irish myth: *Cross (H345.3). |
| H359.2 | Suitor test: clearing land. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| H360 | Bride test. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| H361 | Ring (jewel) bride test. Hero will marry girl possessing certain ring or jewel. Cox 505. |
| H362 | Bride chosen from girls assembled at feast. (Cf. H311.) German: Grimm No. 21. |
| H363 | Deceased wife marriage test. Man will marry woman meeting certain specifications prescribed by his deceased wife. *Type 610B; Cox 53—79 passim. |
| H363.1 | Bride test: wearing deceased wife's clothes. *Type 510B; Cox 53—79 passim; Fb "kjole" II 142. |
| H363.2 | Bride test: wearing deceased wife's ring. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| H365 | Bride test: size of feet. Hindu: Tawney II 356. |
| H373 | Bride test: performance of tasks. *Type 875; Italian: Basile Pentamerone IV No. 4; India: Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Graham. |
| H375 | Bride contest: game. |
| H375.1 | Game of hide and seek with seven princesses to determine which is to be hero's wife. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| H375.2 | Man marries girl bringing his clothes soonest. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| H375.3 | Bride test: procuring food plants in shortest time. S. A. Indian (Toba): Métraux MAFLS XL 44, 45. |
| H381 | Bride test: thrift. *Types 1451, 1452. |
| H381.1 | Bride test: making dress from wasted flax. *Type 1451; BP III 239. |
| H381.2 | Bride test: thrifty cutting of cheese. Three girls tested. First eats rind and all, second cuts away good cheese, third cuts away just enough. Type 1452; BP III 236; Hdwb. d. Märchens I 92b. |
| H381.2.1 | Bride test: thrifty peeling of apple. Hdwb. d. Märchens I 92b. |
| H381.2.2 | Bride test: thrifty scraping of bread tray. North Carolina: Brown Collection I 702. |
| H382 | Bride test: industry. Eskimo (Greenland): Rasmussen I 259. |
| H382.1 | Bride test: key in flax reveals laziness. Suitor hides key in flax on spinning wheel. Finds it there next day. Type 1453; BP III 236. |
| H383 | Bride test: domestic skill. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| H383.1 | Bride test: bread-making. Africa (Kaffir): Theal 52. |
| H383.1.1 | Bride test: bread-making—dough under fingernails. After three weeks the girl still has dough under her fingernails. Type 1453***; Russian: Andrejev No. 1453*; Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 1454.* |
| H383.1.2 | Bride test: cooking griddle cakes. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| H383.2 | Bride test: cloth-working. |
| H383.2.1 | Bride test: spinning—girl cannot use spinning-wheel. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| H383.2.2 | Bride test: weaving magic cloth, sewing magic shirt. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| H383.2.3 | Bride test: sewing a shirt for bridegroom's father. Cheremis: Sebeok-Nyerges. |
| H383.3 | Bride test: skillful sweeping. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| H383.4 | Bride test: cooking. India: *Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Graham. |
| H383.4.1 | Bride test: ale brewing. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| H383.5 | Bride test: cutting up a monster fish with scaly hide. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| H384 | Bride test: kindness. Jewish: Neuman. |
| H384.0.1 | Suitor chooses kindly girl. N. A. Indian (California): Gayton and Newman 75. |
| H384.1 | Bride test: kindness—father-in-law disguised as beggar. Type 1455. |
| H384.1.1 | Wealthy (handsome) suitor disguised as beggar to test bride's kindness. India: Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Graham; S. A. Indian (Caraja): Métraux MAFLS XL 49. |
| H384.1.2 | Prince disguised as a madman to test bride's character. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| H385 | Bride test: greediness. Type 1454*. |
| H386 | Bride test: obedience. *Type 901. |
| H386.1 | Bride test: to allow oneself to be beaten with shoe. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| H387 | Bride test: constancy. |
| H387.1 | Bride's constancy tested by seven year's mourning over supposed dead lover. English: Wells 151 (The Squyr of Lowe Degre). |
| H388 | Bride test: wisdom (cleverness). Irish myth: Cross; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| H400 | Chastity test. Various means are employed to test a woman's (or man's) chastity. *Types 870, 870A; *Bédier Fabliaux 465; Dunlop-Liebrecht 85; Child I 258—71, 507a, II 502, III 503, IV 454a, V 215f., 289a; *Cross MPh X 289; Heinrich von dem Türlin Diu Crone, lines 917f.; Clouston Tales I 173ff.—Irish myth: *Cross; Jewish: *Neuman; Arabian: Burton Nights V 271, 278, VII 259, IX 252ff.; India: Thompson-Balys, Penzer I 167, *Tawney I 86 n., 329, 487, *II 601 n.; Chinese: Werner 269; Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 516, 535; Samoa: Beckwith Myth 535; N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 358 n. 287 m. |
| H410 | Chastity test by magic objects or ordeals. |
| H411 | Magic object points out unchaste woman. |
| H411.1 | Magic stone as chastity test. At foot of bed: cannot be stepped on by unchaste woman. (Cf. D931.) *Type 870A; Fb "sten" III 554b; English: Child I 269 n. |
| H411.1.1 | Stone breaks when unchaste woman looks at it. Jewish: Neuman. |
| H411.2 | Magic tree as chastity test. Cannot be climbed by unchaste woman. (Cf. D950.) Dunlop-Liebrecht 416. |
| H411.3 | Magic plant as chastity test. (Cf. D965.) Chauvin VII 168; Penzer I 168. |
| H411.4 | Magic drinking horn (cup) as chastity test. (Cf. D1171.6.) Unchaste woman cannot drink from cup. *Chauvin VII 167; Bédier Fabliaux 465; Child I 262—273 passim; Penzer I 165; Cross MPh X 289; Irish myth: *Cross. |
| H411.4.1 | Drinking bitter water as chastity test. Water will poison the unchaste. Jewish: bin Gorion Born Judas II 119, 345, *Neuman. |
| H411.4.2 | Magic cup as chastity test: sticks to hands of adulterer. Irish myth: Cross. |
| H411.5 | Magic pin as chastity test. If it floats, woman is chaste. (Cf. D1182.) Chauvin VII 168; RTP XIV 598. |
| H411.6 | Magic chair as chastity test. Unchaste woman cannot sit in it till bidden. (Cf. D1151.2.) Chauvin VII 168; English: Child I 72f., 75. |
| H411.7 | Mantle as chastity test. Will not fit unchaste woman. (Cf. D1053.) *Chauvin VII 168; *Cross MPh X 289, XVI 649; *Child I 260ff., 265, V 289a; Bédier Fabliaux 465; BP IV 138; Oesterley No. 69; Irish myth: *Cross. |
| H411.8 | Magic bridge as chastity test. Cannot be crossed by unchaste. (Cf. D1258.) *Bolte Montanus 631; Chauvin VII 168; Child I 267, 269. |
| H411.9 | Magic statue as chastity test. Moves eyes in presence of unchaste woman. (Cf. D1268.) *Chauvin VII 169; Puymaigre Folklore (Paris, 1885) 37. |
| H411.9.1 | Magic idol as chastity test. Turns black in presence of unchaste woman. Lights up in presence of chaste woman. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| H411.10 | Magic bed and pillows as chastity test. Speak and reveal unchastity. (Cf. D1154.1.) Liungman Tvе Folkminnesundersökningar 1ff.; English: Child I 64—70 passim. |
| H411.11 | Magic spring as chastity test. Wells up if girl is not a virgin. (Cf. D927.) Irish myth: Cross; English: Floris and Blanchefleur line 618. |
| H411.11.1 | Unchaste woman dips arm into the water: skin boiled away. *Loomis White Magic 126. |
| H411.11.2 | Fountains as chastity tests. One fountain of clear water, other muddy. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| H411.12 | Magic harp as chastity test. Plays out of tune at approach of unchaste girl. (Cf. D1231.) English: Child I 269. |
| H411.13 | Magic lamp as chastity test. Only virgin can light it. (Cf. D1162.1.) *Oesterley No. 278; Herbert III 210. |
| H411.14 | Apple as chastity test. Fades if owner is not virgin. (Cf. D981.1.) Fb "pige" II 817a. |
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