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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
L
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 ▲ |
|---|---|
| K1422 | Threshing grain: granary roof used as threshing flail. *Types 650, 1031; BP II 285ff., *293; Fb "tærske" III 927b; N. A. Indian: Thompson CColl II 436. |
| K1915.2 | Through power of saint, man is caused to assume lover's form and sleep with princess. Lover plots death of saint, but is accidentally slain in his place. Irish myth: Cross. |
| K18 | Throwing contest won by deception. *Fb "kaste" II 103a; French Canadian: Barbeau JAFL XXIX 21; Africa (Bankon): Ittman 88. |
| K18.3 | Throwing contest: bird substituted for stone. The ogre throws a stone; the hero a bird which flies out of sight. *Type 1062; BP I 148; Lappish: Qvigstad Lappiske Eventyr II 237, 251; French Canadian: Barbeau JAFL XXIX 95; Philippine: Fansler MAFLS XII 51; N. A. Indian: Thompson CColl II 431ff., (Navaho): Matthews MAFLS V 84; Africa: Meinhof Afrikanische Märchen 178, (Jaunde): Nekes 252. |
| K18.2 | Throwing contest: golden club on the cloud. Trickster shows the ogre the club he has thrown. (Really only a bright spot on the cloud.) (Cf. K1746.) *Type 1063; French Canadian: Barbeau JAFL XXIX 22. |
| K18.1.2 | Throwing contest: trickster addresses Angel Gabriel or St. Peter, warns him to get out of way of missile trickster is about to throw. U.S.: *Baughman. |
| K18.1.1 | Throwing contest: trickster addresses Angel Gabriel. Offers him the ogre's cane. The ogre is intimidated. N. A. Indian (Penobscot): Speck JAFL XXVIII 56. |
| K18.1 | Throwing contest: trickster shouts. He is trying to warn the people beyond the sea with his cry. The ogre is intimidated. (Cf. K12.1.) Köhler-Bolte I 64; U.S.: Baughman. |
| K584 | Throwing the thief over the fence. Thief, surprised at theft says: "Do your worst, only don't throw me over the fence." When thrown over, he escapes. Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 1627A*. |
| K565 | Thumbling in animal's belly persuades latter to go to his father's house for plunder: rescued. *Type 700; *BP I 389. |
| K842.3 | Tied animal persuades another to take his place. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| K1822.4 | Tiger disguises as human being. Chinese: Graham. |
| K629.2.2 | Tiger enticed away by slain pig. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K629.2.1 | Tiger enticed away to gather berries: victims escape. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K714.2.2 | Tiger enticed into coffin. Chinese: Graham. |
| K735.6 | Tiger enticed into pit by being tempted to leap after boar-leader. Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 819. |
| K815.9 | Tiger flatters cow into showing that she has few teeth. Kills her. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1727 | Tiger frightened at hearing unknown wind. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K2345.1 | Tiger frightened at sound of clashing knives: thinks it is leak in house of which he is afraid. Chinese: Graham. |
| K2336 | Tiger frightened away from man's tree refuge by man's stick and rope. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1621 | Tiger in sheep's clothing stolen by sheep-thief. Comparetti PFLS IX 144; *Jamaica: Beckwith MAFLS XVII 236 No. 5. |
| K1951.3.2 | Tiger intimidated by boasting of the sham-warrior. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1711.1 | Tiger made to believe porcupine bristle is his enemy's hair: overawed. India: *Thompson-Balys; Indonesia: DeVries's list No. 90; Philippine: Fansler MAFLS XII 53. |
| K1715.13 | Tiger made to believe that his captor has eaten many crabs. Tiger fears crabs and releases him. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K555.3 | Tiger persuaded by jackals to settle argument. Tricked. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1183 | Tiger persuaded to cross river carrying vat rim-upwards. Trickster fills it with stones and tiger loses it. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1025.2 | Tiger persuaded to eat own eyes. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K737.2 | Tiger persuaded to walk into house: locked in. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1725.2 | Tiger thinks sound of water dropping is sound of dreadful monster: flees. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| K579.5.2 | Tiger to help foxes divide their young. Foxes escape into hole. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K649.1.2 | Tiger-mother hides concealed guests in jar. S. A. Indian (Chiriguano): Métraux RMLP XXXIII 162, (Yuracare): ibid. 144. |
| K2011.2 | Tiger-ogress pretends to be girls' mother: explains tail as boil. Chinese: Graham. |
| K961.1.1 | Tit for tat. Wolf tells sick lion that fox does not esteem him. Fox overhears it. Later fox tells lion that his only cure lies in his wrapping himself in the wolf's skin. Wolf is killed. Spanish Exempla: Keller; Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K551.3.7 | Titmouse receives permission to sit on branch and sing before being sacrificed. Cheremis: Sebeok-Nyerges. |
| K1462.2 | To cover house with straw: suffocates mother under straw. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1446 | To drive cattle to jungle: trickster kills a bull every day. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1218.1.8 | To get "nothing" and to show it. Wife pushes lecherous king first into glue and then in the closet with feathers. That is "nothing" — neither bird nor man. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K576 | To get out of thieves' clutch, man reports high prices in another town. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1462.1 | To heat water for master's bath. Servant pours boiling water on him. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K285 | To keep first thing touched. Wealth (or woman) is on platform. First thing touched is ladder leading up. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| K224 | To owe sixteen florins. Horse bought on condition that the buyer pay ten florins and owe sixteen. In court the buyer insists on the bargain and shows that if he pays the sixteen florins which he owes he will break the bargain, for then he would no longer owe. *Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 110; Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K231.14 | To pay beggar for standing in tank all night. Beggar sees lights in temple. Payment refused since beggar has thus warmed himself. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K231.8 | Toad receives water from frog; refuses earth in return. Herbert III 49, 93. |
| K553.6 | Too dirty to eat. Trickster, cornered by leopard, leaps into swamp, then says he is too dirty to eat. Leopard smells of him and agrees. Africa (Wute): Sieber ZsES XII 173. |
| K439.7.1 | Tortoise asks greedy man to give him first ruby it has given him to be sure second one will be perfect match: disappears into water with it. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K476.1.2 | Tortoise cheats leopard by substituting bundle of resin for bundle of meat. Africa (Jaunde): Heepe 106. |
| K730.4 | Tortoise leads elephant down wrong trail into trap. Africa (Bankon): Ittman 85. |
| K563.2 | Tortoise persuades tiger captor to put him in pocket with hole, escapes. Africa (Cameroon): Meinhof 7. |
| K28 | Tournament won by deception on borrowed horse. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| K335.0.8 | Town crier is frightened by the voice of a cleric robbing a grave. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K401.1.1 | Trail of stolen goods made to lead to dupe. The crane in revenge for the loss of her young ones strews pieces of fish from the dwelling of the mongoose to that of the snake. The mongoose follows the trail and kills the snake. *Penzer V 61 n. 3; Bødker Exempler 287 No. 37; Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| K1361.1 | Transformed person sleeps before girl's door, at foot of bed, in the bed. Is disenchanted upon admission to the bed. *Type 440; *BP I 1ff. |
| K32 | Trapping contest won by deception. N. A. Indian: Thompson Tales 328 n. 187. |
| K1886.4 | Travelers mistake brushwood at a distance for a ship. Wienert FFC LVI 75 (ET 411), 123 (ST 323); Halm Aesop No. 310. |
| K2285.2 | Treacherous anchorite. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K2295 | Treacherous animals. Wienert FFC LVI *134. |
| K2299.1 | Treacherous astrologer. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| K2253 | Treacherous barber. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| K2291 | Treacherous beggar. Tawney I 132f., 349f. |
| K2281 | Treacherous bishop. Dickson 46 n. 55. |
| K2284.2 | Treacherous brahmin. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K2211.1 | Treacherous brother-in-law. *Types 315, 712; Dickson 178, Schlauch Chaucer's Constance and Accused Queens (New York, 1927) 108; Icelandic: *Boberg; Spanish: Espinosa III Nos. 139, 151, 157. |
| K2211 | Treacherous brother. Usually elder brother. *Types 301, 502, 506, 550, 551; Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg; Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "jalousie"; French Canadian: Barbeau JAFL XXIX 21; Missouri French: Carrière; Spanish: Boggs FFC XC 49 No. 328*A, Espinosa II Nos. 120f., III Nos. 141f., Espinosa Jr. Nos. 81, 202—204; Italian Novella: *Rotunda; Jewish: *Neuman; Persian: Carnoy 323; India: *Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Graham, Eberhard FFC CXX 125; Marquesas: Handy 86; Tuamotu: Stimson MS (T-G. 3/615); Eskimo (Greenland): Rasmussen I 170; Africa (Zulu): Callaway 68. |
| K2249.4.1 | Treacherous butcher. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K2295.5 | Treacherous camel. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K2282 | Treacherous cardinal. |
| K2284.1 | Treacherous chaplain. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K2262 | Treacherous charcoal-burner. *Type 300; Hdwb. d. Märchens I 241b n. 14; Missouri French: Carrière; Spanish: Espinosa Jr. No. 68. |
| K2214 | Treacherous children. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| K2280 | Treacherous churchmen. |
| K2222 | Treacherous co-wife (concubine). Type 450; Dickson 29 n. 3, 41 n. 41; Irish myth: Cross; Italian: Basile Pentamerone I No. 2; India: *Thompson-Balys; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 526; Africa: Werner 203, (Basuto): Jacottet 246 No. 36, (Fjort): Dennett 47 No. 7, (Ekoi): Talbot 312. |
| K2295.3 | Treacherous cock. Wienert FFC LVI 49 (ET 84); 135 (ST 407, 449). |
| K2254 | Treacherous cook. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1626.2 | Treacherous counselor killed in treacherous ballgame he himself has arranged. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| K1094 | Treacherous counselor persuades king's son to woo his father's young bride whom he is sent to get, and as he tells the king that he is her lover both are killed. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| K2298 | Treacherous counselor. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| K2260.1 | Treacherous dark man. Malone PMLA XLIII 417 n. 9; Icelandic: Boberg. |
| K2260.2 | Treacherous dark woman. *Dickson 43 n. 47. |
| K2214.2.1 | Treacherous daughter-in-law plots against husband's mother. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| K2214.2 | Treacherous daughter-in-law. |
| K2214.1 | Treacherous daughter. Irish myth: Cross; Greek: *Frazer Apollodorus II 117 n. 3; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1911.2 | Treacherous disposal of true bride by false. Missouri French: Carrière. |
| K2277 | Treacherous dwarf. Schlauch Chaucer's Constance and Accused Queens (New York, 1927) 104. |
| K2295.2 | Treacherous eagle. Wienert FFC LVI *51, 59 (ET 108, 200), 135, 139 (ST 404, 446); Halm Aesop No. 5. |
| K2211.0.1 | Treacherous elder brother(s). India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K2218.2 | Treacherous father-in-law. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| K2211.2 | Treacherous foster brother. False accusation of theft. Missouri French: Carrière; Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K2214.3.1 | Treacherous foster son. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K499.9 | Treacherous friend drinks out of other's flask to save the water in his own. Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 186. |
| K2297 | Treacherous friend. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| K2257 | Treacherous gardener. *Type 314. |
| K2249.3 | Treacherous goldsmith. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| K2261.1 | Treacherous gypsy. Type 450. |
| K2255 | Treacherous herdsman. |
| K2294 | Treacherous host. Irish myth: Cross; Jewish: *Neuman. |
| K1930 | Treacherous impostors. |
| K2241 | Treacherous inn-keeper. *Type 563; Missouri French: Carrière; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K2369.2.2 | Treacherous king participates in battle only when he sees who is likely to win. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| K2246.1.1 | Treacherous king spies so that he may levy fines. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K2246.1 | Treacherous king. Icelandic: *Boberg; Irish myth: *Cross; Tuamotu: Stimson MS (Z-G. 13/420). |
| K2259.2 | Treacherous lamplighter. Hdwb. d. Märchens I 241b. n. 18. |
| K2295.4 | Treacherous lizard. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K2247 | Treacherous lord. Hdwb. d. Märchens I 241b n. 8; Icelandic: Boberg. |
| K2232 | Treacherous lover (man). English and Scottish: Child Ballads Nos. 4; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K2232.1 | Treacherous lover betrays woman's love and deserts her. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| K2230 | Treacherous lovers. (Cf. K2221.) |
| K2252 | Treacherous maidservant. *Types 408, 553; Missouri French: Carrière; Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K2245 | Treacherous marshall. Hdwb. d. Märchens I 241b n. 6. |
| K2249.4 | Treacherous merchant. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K2248 | Treacherous minister. Hdwb. d. Märchens I 241b n. 9; Spanish Exempla: Keller; India: *Thompson-Balys; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 715; Jewish: Neuman. |
| K2248.1 | Treacherous minister's son. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K2231 | Treacherous mistress. *Dickson 245 n. 51; Irish myth: *Cross; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K2218.1 | Treacherous mother-in-law accuses innocent wife. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| K917 | Treacherous murder during hunt. Boje XIX 61, 64; Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| K930 | Treacherous murder of enemy's children or charges. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| K2261 | Treacherous negro (Moor). Malone PMLA XLIII 408—432 passim; Spanish: Boggs FFC XC 56, 60 Nos. 408A*, 435*, Espinosa II Nos. 120f., Espinosa Jr. Nos. 106—110; Italian: Basile Pentamerone Int., I No. 2, V No. 5. |
| K2217.1 | Treacherous nephew kills good uncle for his money. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| K2240 | Treacherous officers and tradesmen. |
| K2293 | Treacherous old woman. *Type 1353; Irish myth: *Cross. |
| K2255.2 | Treacherous ox-herd. Chinese: Chavannes I 382 No. 112. |
| K2296 | Treacherous partner. Scottish: Campbell-McKay No. 23 and notes. |
| K2295.1 | Treacherous partridge. Wienert FFC LVI 51 (ET 111), *65 (ET 290), 139 (ST 448); Halm Aesop No. 356. |
| K2258 | Treacherous peasant. Hdwb. d. Märchens I 241b n. 16; Icelandic: *Boberg; Italian: Basile Pentamerone I No. 7; Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K2299.2 | Treacherous peoples (tribes). Jewish: *Neuman. |
| K2292 | Treacherous physician. Penzer II 2; Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| K2061 | Treacherous plan of hypocritical animal detected and prevented. |
| K2244 | Treacherous porter. Dickson 240; *Boje 71. |
| K2249.1 | Treacherous potter. Hdwb. d. Märchens I 241b n. 17. |
| K2259.3 | Treacherous potter. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K2284 | Treacherous priest. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| K2354 | Treacherous priests prolong mass to let enemy destroy city. Swiss: Jegerlehner Oberwallis 301 No. 17, 326 No. 28. |
| K2246 | Treacherous prince. Hdwb. d. Märchens I 241b n. 7; Irish myth: Cross; Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| K2246.0.1 | Treacherous princess (queen). Irish myth: *Cross. |
| K2212.0.3 | Treacherous queen has her brother killed. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K2213.15 | Treacherous queen lures her husband into chest and betrays him to hostile king. He is hung up between two fires, but his second wife cuts the strings so that he falls down and kills his enemy and takes his kingdom back. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| K2213.11 | Treacherous queen tricks king into bestowing kingdom upon her son. Irish myth: *Cross (fuller text). |
| K2265 | Treacherous red knight. *Type 300; *Fb "Ridder R[ö]d"; *Ranke FFC CXIV 236. |
| K2218 | Treacherous relatives-in-law. Irish myth: Cross (cf. K2211.1). |
| K2210 | Treacherous relatives. Distinction between treacherous relatives and cruel relatives (S0-S99) is frequently impossible to make. Relatives whose treachery seems to be uppermost have been listed here; those usually possessing power over their charges and exercising their power in a cruel fashion have been listed under cruel relatives. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| K2221 | Treacherous rival lover. Wife's paramour or rival in love. (Cf. K2230.) *Type 560, 561; Malone PMLA XLIII 417; Missouri French: Carrière; India: *Thompson-Balys; Tuamotu: Stimson MS (z-G. 13/10). |
| K2220 | Treacherous rivals. Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: Boberg; Missouri French: Carrière; Jewish: *Neuman. |
| K2296.1 | Treacherous robber-partner. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K2369.3 | Treacherous ruler of city under siege sends sons to deliver city to enemy. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| K2259.4 | Treacherous sailor. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K2243 | Treacherous seneschal. Dickson 74 n. 31; *Boje 62; Schlauch Chaucer's Constance and Accused Queens (New York, 1927) 98. |
| K2250.1 | Treacherous servant. Jewish: *Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| K2250 | Treacherous servants and workmen. Types 450, 652; Dickson 236 n. 37; Hdwb. d. Märchens I 241b n. 12; Malone PMLA XLIII 417 n. 9; Icelandic: FFC LXXXIII xxxvi—vii, *Boberg; Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "jalousie". P365. Faithless servants. |
| K2212.0.2 | Treacherous sister as mistress of robber (giant) plots against brother. *Type 315; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K2212.0.1 | Treacherous sister attempts to poison brother. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| K2212.2 | Treacherous sister-in-law. *Type 706; BP I 295ff.; *bin Gorion Born Judas I 364; Rumanian: Schullerus FFC LXXVIII No. 315C*; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K2212 | Treacherous sister. Usually elder sister. *Types 300, 315, 425, 706, 709, 780; *BP I 551, III 2; Dickson 29 n. 3; Irish myth: Cross; Missouri French: Carrière; Spanish: Espinosa Jr. Nos. 138-141; Italian Novella: *Rotunda; India: Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 125; N. A. Indian: Thompson CColl II 382ff., 391; Africa (Zulu): Callaway 297. |
| K2251.1 | Treacherous slave-girl. *Penzer VI 47 n. 1; Spanish: Boggs FFC XC 61 No. *445B, Espinosa Jr. No. 114. |
| K2251 | Treacherous slave. Hdwb. d. Märchens I 241b n. 19; Italian Novella: Rotunda; Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| K2214.3 | Treacherous son: leads revolt against his father to whom he owes all. Spanish Exempla: Keller; Jewish: *Neuman; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 286. |
| K2256 | Treacherous stable-groom. Malone PMLA XLIII 406; Hdwb. d. |
| K2211.3 | Treacherous stepbrother. Irish myth: Cross. |
| K2212.1 | Treacherous stepsisters. *Types 403, 425, 432, 450, 510, 516, 592; India: Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Graham. |
| K2242 | Treacherous steward. Malone PMLA XLIII 437; Icelandic: Boberg; Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| K2255.1 | Treacherous swineherd. Malone PMLA VLIII 417 n. 9. |
| K2249.2 | Treacherous treasurer. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| K2217 | Treacherous uncle. Irish myth: Cross; Spanish Exempla: Keller; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K2213 | Treacherous wife. *Types 560, 561, 566, 612, 670, 1350, 1510; Icelandic: *Boberg; Irish myth: *Cross; Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 315B*, 894*; Russian: Andrejev No. 315B*, 894*; Prussian: Plenzat 25; Rumanian: Schullerus FFC LXXVIII No. 315B*; Missouri French: Carrière; Jewish: *Neuman, *bin Gorion Born Judas III 90ff., 95; India: *Thompson-Balys; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 93, 884, 998, II 491, 510, 516, 1014; Japanese: Ikeda; Easter Island: Métraux Ethnology 381, 385; Africa (Fang): Trilles 277, Tessman 113f. |
| K2259.1 | Treacherous woodsman. Hdwb. d. Märchens I 241b n. 15. |
| K2211.0.2 | Treacherous younger brother(s). India: Thompson-Balys; Jewish: *Neuman; Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 43; Mono: Wheeler No. 22. |
| K2353 | Treasure cast down crushes besiegers. English: Wells 85 (The Sowdone of Babylone). |
| K2131.5 | Treasure-animal introduced into family's flock in order to stir up dissension and enmity. Greek: Grote I 149. |
| K1112.1 | Tree becomes light (after all honey has been collected from nests), springs back and kills tribe's enemies. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K983.1 | Tree cut down to get at victim in top. Alu: Wheeler No. 54; Mono: ibid. No. 21; Buin: ibid. No. 4; Papua: Ker 86. |
| K46 | Tree-pulling contest. N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 330 n. 191f. |
| K236.3 | Tribute paid in enchanted snow. After payment, snow takes proper form. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| K149.1 | Trick exchange: basket of stones for one of bread; a few pieces of money shown through slit in basket-cover to dupe. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1013.6 | Trick: breaking legs for prowess in dancing (or for swiftness). N. A. Indian (Zuсi): Benedict II 344. |
| K2366.1 | Trickster admits defeat: enemy and friends invited to fort for ceremony and then attacked. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1339.7 | Trickster agrees to carry old woman and girl across stream: carries girl across and rides off with her leaving old woman on other side. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| K1392 | Trickster and girls play obscene tricks on one another. N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 306 n. 109w. |
| K1574 | Trickster as sham magician buys chest containing hidden paramour. (Cf. K1515, K1542, K1555, K1556.) *Types 1535, 1725; *BP II 18; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1571.1 | Trickster as sham magician makes adulteress produce hidden food for her husband. *Type 1535; BP II 18; Scala Celi 37a No. 206; Japanese: Ikeda. |
| K354 | Trickster asks hospitality: expels owner and appropriates house. |
| K1354.2.1 | Trickster asks husband for one thing and the wife for another. The husband's order: "Let him have what he wants." Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K1084.3 | Trickster attempts to bring friends to fight. (Plans that one kill the other.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| K846 | Trickster being attacked by ferocious animal persuades dupe to take his place. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| K499.4 | Trickster breaks cat of taste for milk by overheating its milk. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K341.10 | Trickster bribes guards to start a fight. While the master goes to investigate, the trickster enters his bed with his wife. Spanish: Boggs FFC XC 129 No. 1525. |
| K455.4.1 | Trickster buys chickens telling owner that priest will pay. When owner comes to collect, the trickster tells the priest that a heretic has come for confession. Then he flees. (Cf. K242.1.) Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| K348 | Trickster causes owner and another to fight over goods. Meantime he steals it. Wienert FFC LVI 48 (ET 71), 119 (ST 293); Halm Aesop No. 247; Panchatantra III 10 (tr. Ryder 343); West Indies: Flowers 505. |
| K231.15 | Trickster cheats by pretending deafness. Palm rat, when asked to throw down nuts according to bargain, replies that he is deaf when eating. Africa: Weeks Jungle 400. |
| K474 | Trickster cheats rescuers into digging his well. The well that he has dug falls in. He throws his clothes into the hole and hides. People going to church think that man is drowned and dig the well out. Type 1614*. |
| K547.14 | Trickster claims to be holding up sky. Leopard, afraid to let sky fall, leaves him. Africa (Wute): Sieber ZsES XII 173. |
| K441.4 | Trickster collects from both husband and wife. Estranged couple both pay him to effect reconciliation. Scottish: Campbell-McKay No. 12. |
| K1971.10 | Trickster concealed in sacred tree advises that he is to marry the princess. India: Thompson-Balys; Japanese: Ikeda; Indonesia: *Dixon 202 n. 39. |
| K344.1.3 | Trickster cuts up partridges with his knife. He is given all of them when he tells his companions that he is an executioner. Spanish: Childers. |
| K1464 | Trickster deceives dupe into killing his own children. Chinese: Graham. |
| K251.2 | Trickster demands return of food guest has just eaten: gets damages. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1571 | Trickster discovers adultery: food goes to husband instead of paramour. *Types 1535, 1725; *BP II 18; von der Hagen III *xxix; Wesselski Märchen 216 No. 27; Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 1360A*, 2901*, 2902*; Rumanian: Schullerus FFC LXXVIII No. 1380 VIII*; Russian: Andrejev 1360A*, 1730 IV; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| K1571.0.1 | Trickster discovers adultery: gets food prepared for paramour. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1574.2 | Trickster discovers woman's paramour and hides him in outhouse: rewarded by husband. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K237 | Trickster disguises himself and escapes notice of creditors. *Wesselski Gonnella 104 No. 6. |
| K499.8 | Trickster dupes rival by exchanging beds: receives his food. Overhears maiden tell rival she will bring food at night, waits until rival is asleep and carries him to another bed, takes his place, and is fed by maiden. Africa (Wute): Sieber 190. |
| K359.3 | Trickster dupes woman into putting him into basket. He thus learns where food is kept. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K933 | Trickster eats all of tiger's cubs but one. Counts that one many times and deceives tiger. Jamaica: Beckwith MAFLS XVII 257 No. 39. |
| K372.1 | Trickster eats food left by tiger (his trapping partner) at snare. Tiger accused of the theft. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1664 | Trickster eats his own dog. Trickster sells dog for mutton or for opossum. He later eats the dog which has been given to a friend of his by the purchaser. U.S.: *Baughman. |
| K254.2 | Trickster eats sacrifice offerings. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K931.1 | Trickster employed to educate baby crocodiles: he eats them instead. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| K341.17 | Trickster entices children to dance and steals their food. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K443.5 | Trickster entices wolves out of a stable by music: exacts money from their watcher for his carelessness. *Types 1650, 1652. |
| K233 | Trickster escapes without paying. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| K443.6.1 | Trickster exacts beautiful wife from curious people. They look into a carriage in which it is falsely said there is a princess. Trickster's dead wife is in the carriage. Cheremis: Sebeok-Nyerges. |
| K443.6.2 | Trickster exacts money as price of silence after lying with princess (queen). India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| K443.6 | Trickster exacts promise of marriage as price of silence after having seen a princess naked. *Type 850; *BP II 528. |
| K1456 | Trickster exchanges master's tame horse for vicious bullock. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K341.12 | Trickster falsely announces marriage celebration and distracts owner's attention. Africa (Kaffir): Theal 109. |
| K1784.1 | Trickster falsely reports impending invasion from his own people. Receives money to buy them off. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K154 | Trickster feigns ability to influence the sun; sells services. Sun to shine on fools' backs as they go to town in morning and return in afternoon. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K314 | Trickster feigns being pursued by drunken husband to obtain entrance. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K1981.1 | Trickster feigns deafness and gets hospitality from miser. *Type 1544; *Aarne FFC XX 79 (type 24). |
| K1867.1 | Trickster feigns death and eats the ripe fruit from the tree. Africa (Hottentot): Bleek 80 No. 39. |
| K231.6.2.2 | Trickster fills his gallon jug half full of water, then has it filled with rum at the store. When seller refuses credit, he pours back half gallon of the liquid—now half rum and half water. Sometimes trickster repeats operation, getting richer mixture with each transaction. U.S.: *Baughman. |
| K336.2 | Trickster fills house with smoke so that partner cannot see to eat. Africa (Cameroon): Lederbogen 75. |
| K2131.4 | Trickster fills supposed treasure box with trash. Joint owners each accuse other of theft. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1354.2.2 | Trickster friar seduces woman under pretence of administering forgotten sacrament. When the woman objects, the husband who thinks the friar is engaging in a legitimate process, orders: "Bear the ordeal in peace." Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K1349.2 | Trickster gains access to woman's room by pretending he has news of her absent lover. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K1349.1.3 | Trickster gains access to woman's room disguised as peddler. (Cf. K1817.4.) Italian Novella: Rotunda; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| K484.1 | Trickster gets money from a bank by raising an alarm and demanding "what is owing to him." *Wesselski Gonnella 99 No. 3. |
| K231.6.2 | Trickster gets strong drink by trickery in returning goods. |
| K344.1 | Trickster gives a woman a knife to cut him a slice of white bread. He gets the whole loaf when he says that he has just cut a dog with the same knife. Type 1578*. |
| K134.3 | Trickster grooms master's old mule and then sells him back without detection at huge profit. Nouvelles Récréations No. 25. |
| K1892.1 | Trickster hides in bag in order to be carried. His father imitates and is beaten. Indonesia: Coster-Wijsman 34 No. 15, DeVries's list No. 294. |
| K1892.1.2 | Trickster hides in basket and is carried. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1892.1.1 | Trickster hides in box in order to be carried. Africa (Western Sudan): Frobenius Atlantis VIII 145ff. No. 81. |
| K371 | Trickster hides in food and eats it. India: Thompson-Balys; Indonesia: DeVries's list No. 57, Coster-Wijsman 35 No. 16; Africa (Thonga): Junod 209. |
| K1971.1.1 | Trickster hides in hollow tree and eats food he has persuaded his wife to bring to feed a bird. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| K1963.5 | Trickster impersonates necromancer to seduce latter's wife. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K134.4 | Trickster in disguise regains possession of his own horse by trading with man whom he has duped once before. Pierre Faifeu No. 47. |
| K1971.11 | Trickster in tree advises that tree and fruit belong to him. Others think God speaks and leave. Africa (Ila, Rhodesia): Smith and Dale II 391 No. 16. |
| K1311.0.2 | Trickster kills husband and puts on his skin so as to seduce wife. S. A. Indian (Toba): Métraux MAFLS XL 151. |
| K196.3 | Trickster lends bamboo on condition that it is returned exactly as it is. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K335.0.10 | Trickster lights torches and bluffs old woman into giving him money. Torches alleged to belong to man coming to collect damages from her. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K2033 | Trickster makes basket for his partner tiger to carry meat, but does not sever bamboo from roots. Tiger left behind. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1696 | Trickster makes believe he has found a purse (which he had filled with lead). Merchant claims it and pays ten crowns for it. Trickster wins ensuing suit. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K2131 | Trickster makes two friends each suspicious of the other's intentions. BP II 129; Irish myth: *Cross (cf. K2130); India: Thompson-Balys; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 1028; Africa (Wakweli): Bender 40. |
| K1572 | Trickster makes woman believe that her husband is coming to punish her adultery. She confesses. *Type 1725; BP II 131; Christiansen Norske Eventyr 136. |
| K1354.3.2 | Trickster masking as bridegroom tells bride that he comes at her mother's request. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K1354.1.1 | Trickster masking as girl's father advises intercourse with trickster. She obeys. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1825.1.3 | Trickster masks as doctor and punishes his cheaters. *Type 1538; *BP III 394 (5); *Wesselski Hodscha Nasreddin II 213 No. 437. |
| K1353.1 | Trickster offers food for woman's favors which will completely satisfy him. He refuses payment on grounds that he is not satisfied. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1570 | Trickster outwits adulteress and paramour. |
| K491 | Trickster paid to educate an ass. He gets paid in advance. He gradually starves the ass. *Type 1675; *BP I 59; *Bolte Zs. f. Vksk. VII 93; *Wesselski Hodscha Nasreddin II 247f. No. 552; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K491.1 | Trickster paid to teach monkey to talk. Nouvelles Récréations No. 88; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K351 | Trickster permitted to try on clothes. Goes away with them. *Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 727. |
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