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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
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 ▲ |
|---|---|
| Q474 | "Cucking-stool" as punishment. (Cf. Q467.3, Q467.1.) Victim is suspended in a basket over filth and thrown in. *Spargo Virgil the Necromancer (Cambridge, Mass., 1934) 147ff.; *J. Grimm Deutsche Rechtsalterthümer (ed. Hensler u. Hübner, Leipzig, 1899) II 162, 363ff. |
| Q333.1 | "God has no use for me, and the devil will not take me." On the way home the bold woman is strangled by the devil. (Cf. Q582.5.) Lithuanian: Balys Legends No. 376f. |
| Q411.8 | A man in every house in the land killed as punishment for abduction by their king. Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q213 | Abduction punished. (Cf. Q411.8, Q595.2, R10.) Irish myth: Cross; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q430 | Abridgment of freedom as punishment. |
| Q292.3 | Abuse of hospitality punished. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q411.0.1.1 | Adulterer killed. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q434.1 | Adulteress and paramour fettered. (Cf. Q241.) Malone PMLA XLIII 405, 407, 421. |
| Q469.1 | Adulteress caused to fall down stairs from which steps have been removed. (Cf. Q241.) *Fischer-Bolte 217. |
| Q478.3 | Adulteress compelled to eat a dog's leavings. (Cf. Q241, Q523.3.) Malone PMLA XLIII 405—430 passim. |
| Q478.2 | Adulteress compelled to eat with dog. (Cf. Q241, Q478.) *Chauvin VIII 162 No. 170; Malone PMLA XLIII 430; Gibb History of the Forty Vezirs 331ff.; Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q433.1.1 | Adulteress confined in a cage. (Cf. Q241.) Malone PMLA XLIII 415f. |
| Q455.2.1.1 | Adulteress confined in room containing the corpse of her paramour. She becomes ill and dies. Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| Q432.2 | Adulteress ejected into street clad only in her shirt. (Cf. Q241, Q243, Q473.) Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles No. 8; Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| Q478.1.2.1 | Adulteress forced to eat out of lover's skull. Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q478.1.4 | Adulteress forced to have lover's head before her at meals. Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q487 | Adulteress forced to wear symbolic dress. Husband makes her dress in coarse cloth except for her undefiled parts which are covered with gold brocade. (Cf. Q241.) Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles No. 49; Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| Q416.1.1 | Adulteress kicked to death by mule as punishment. (Cf. Q241.) *Fischer-Bolte 217. |
| Q478.1.2 | Adulteress made to drink from paramour's skull. (Cf. Q241, Q491.5.) Heptameron No. 32. |
| Q478.1.3 | Adulteress punished by having skeleton of her former paramour hang in her room. Heptameron No. 32. |
| Q473.1.1 | Adulteress ridden through street on bull. (Cf. Q241.) *Wesselski Hodscha Nasreddin II 185 No. 349. |
| Q493.1 | Adulteress transformed to mare and stirruped. (Cf. Q241.) *Penzer VI 8. |
| Q455.2.1 | Adulteress walled up with corpse of paramour. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q451.14 | Adulteress's pregnant belly pierced with pounder. (Cf. Q241.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q241 | Adultery punished. (Cf. Q411.0.1, Q413.2, Q414.0.2, Q416.1.1, Q418.1, Q421.0.2, Q421.0.6, Q424.2, Q428.1, Q431.8, Q432.2, Q434.1, Q451.1.5, Q451.2.4, Q451.4.8, Q451.5.1, Q451.6.1, Q451.14, Q455.2, Q456.0.1, Q457.3, Q458.0.1, Q461.3, Q466.1, Q469.1, Q473.0.2, Q473.1.1, Q473.2.1, Q478.1, Q478.2, Q478.3, Q484, Q493.1, Q499.2.1, Q537.1, Q552.3.0.3, Q555.2, Q587.) **Encyc. Rel. Ethics s.v. "adultery"; *Schoepperle 446ff.; *Penzer II 88 n. 1, VI 189 n. 2; Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 228; Herbert III 134, 472, 574; Boccaccio Decameron V No. 8 (*Lee 166); *Chauvin VIII 120 No. 104; Alphabet Nos. 35—37; Wesselski Bebel I 175 No. 18; Grimm No. 4; Loomis White Magic 99; Foulché-Delbosc and Krappe "La légende du roi Ramire" Revue Hispanique LXXVIII (1930) 489—543. — Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg; Spanish Exempla: Keller; Italian Novella: *Rotunda; Greek: Fox 197 (cf. K1563); Jewish: *Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 794, 1369; Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 127; Easter Island: Métraux Ethnology 114; Marquesas: Handy 113, 118; Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 170; Tonga: Gifford 76, 119; N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 344 n. 240; S. A. Indian (Toba): Métraux MAFLS XL 120, 161; Africa (Congo): Grenfell 817. |
| Q45.1 | Angels entertained unawares. Hospitality to disguised saint (angel, god) rewarded. (Cf. Q42.3.) *Dh II 133ff.; *bin Gorion Born Judas I 366; Scala Celi 39b, 81b Nos. 221, 464, 468; Alphabet Nos. 167, 365, 439; Herbert III 392; Literary treatment: Lowell "Vision of Sir Launfal". — Irish: Cross, O'Suilleabhain 90; Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 752B*; Spanish: Keller, Espinosa Jr. Nos. 181f.; Greek: Pauly-Wissowa s.v. "Baukis"; India: *Thompson-Balys; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 35; Japanese: Anesaki 251f.; N. A. Indian (Maliseet): Mechling JAFL XXVI 219ff.; Africa (Konnoh): Willans 140. |
| Q597 | Animals avenge injury. (Cf. Q557.) |
| Q558.14.1 | Animals stricken dead for desecration of holy places. (Cf. D2089.3.) *Loomis White Magic 102; Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q558.11 | Animals which eat of saint's body stricken dead. (Cf. B275.3, Q220.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q91.4 | Answer rewarded with gold ring; message rewarded with purse with silver. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| Q113.2 | Appointment as page as reward. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| Q113.1 | Appointment to earldom as reward for good advice. (Cf. Q43, Q111.5.) Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| Q113.4 | Appointment to priesthood as reward. |
| Q451.1.5 | Arms cut off as punishment for adultery. (Cf. Q241.) Heptameron No. 48. |
| Q451.1.7 | Arms cut off as punishment for slandering. (Cf. Q263.) Eskimo (Cumberland Sound): Boas BAM XV 207. |
| Q39.1 | Asceticism rewarded. (Cf. V462.) Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 500, II 750. |
| Q243.2.1 | Attempted seduction punished. (Cf. Q424.3, Q431.5.1, Q469.10.1.) Icelandic: Boberg; Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q57 | Attendance on the sick rewarded. Africa (Duala): Lederbogen JAS IV 66, Märchen 83. |
| Q272 | Avarice punished. (Cf. Q552.3.5, Q589.1.0.1, W151.) *Hdwb. d. Märchens I 188 nn. 154, 166, 167; Crane Liber de Miraculis 86 No. 10; Icelandic: *Boberg; Irish myth: *Cross; Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 774*; Spanish: Boggs FFC XC 98, 760C*, 836C*, Keller; India: Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Graham, Eberhard FFC CXX 67, 196; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 268, 556, 1264; Tonga: Gifford 207; Tuamotu: Beckwith Myth 504; Maori: ibid. 374; Eskimo (Greenland): Rink 396; Africa (Wakweli): Bender 63, 106, (Fang): Tessman 117, (Jaunde): Heepe 247ff.; West Indies: Flowers 568. |
| Q272.2 | Avaricious man has neck broken when top of his treasure chest falls on him. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| Q272.3 | Avaricious miser tries to eat his adored money and chokes to death. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| Q272.4 | Avaricious woman and her gold consumed by hell's fires which burn in her grave. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| Q469.11 | Baby son hurled into battle as punishment for desertion of fairy mistress. (Cf. Q247, Q411.3.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q313 | Bad temper punished. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q431.8 | Banishment as punishment for adultery. (Cf. Q241.) Irish myth: Cross; Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q431.11 | Banishment as punishment for breach of faith with animals. (Cf. Q263.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q431.12 | Banishment as punishment for fault-finding. (Cf. Q312.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q431.8.1 | Banishment as punishment for incest. (Cf. Q242.2.) India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| Q431.15 | Banishment as punishment for robbery. (Cf. Q212.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q431.3 | Banishment because of disobedience. Maiden wants to become nun and not marry. (Cf. Q325.) Spanish Exempla: Keller; India: Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Werner 260. |
| Q431.5.2 | Banishment for abduction of bride (girl). Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| Q431.10 | Banishment for assault on king's tax collectors. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| Q431.18 | Banishment for association with those of another faith. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q431.9.1 | Banishment for attempted murder. Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| Q431.5.1 | Banishment for attempted seduction. (Cf. Q243.2.1.) Icelandic: *Boberg; Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| Q431.13 | Banishment for desecration of holy places. (Cf. Q222.) Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| Q431.7 | Banishment for imposture. (Cf. Q262.) Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q431.19 | Banishment for laziness. (Cf. Q321.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q431.17 | Banishment for lying. (Cf. Q263.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q431.9 | Banishment for murder. (Cf. Q211.) Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| Q431.6 | Banishment for rape. (Cf. Q244.) Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| Q431.5 | Banishment for seduction. (Cf. Q243.2.) Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| Q431.2 | Banishment for treachery. (Cf. Q261.) Italian Novella: Rotunda; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q431.4 | Banishment till rose grows from table for preventing childbirth. (Cf. F971.2, Q251, T572).) *Type 755. |
| Q497 | Beard shaved as punishment for murder. (Cf. Q211, P672.) Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q415.6 | Bears devour the wicked. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| Q561.1 | Bed heating in hell for certain person. *Type 756B; **Andrejev FFC LXIX 106ff.; *Fb "seng" III 187a; Lithuanian: Balys Legends No. 391. |
| Q597.3 | Bees sting honey-thieves. (Cf. Q212.) Wienert FFC LVI *67 (ET 312), 98 (ST 122); Halm Aesop No. 288. |
| Q471.2 | Beggar avenges self on queen who spits at him by disguising as prince and spitting in her face. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q421.0.2 | Beheading as punishment for adultery. (Cf. Q241.) Pauli (ed. Bolte) Nos. 229, 230; Italian Novella: Rotunda; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q421.0.1 | Beheading as punishment for debt. (Cf. Q271.) *Fb "gjæld" I 448. |
| Q421.0.6 | Beheading as punishment for incest. (Cf. Q242.) Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| Q421.0.4 | Beheading as punishment for murder. (Cf. Q211.) Irish myth: *Cross; Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| Q421.0.5 | Beheading as punishment for mutilation. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q421.0.3 | Beheading as punishment for rape. (Cf. Q244.) Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| Q421.0.7 | Beheading as punishment for seduction. (Cf. Q243.2.) Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q421.0.8 | Beheading for persecution of wife. (Cf. S410.) Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q431.14 | Berserks banished because of defeat. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| Q253.1 | Bestiality punished. (Cf. T465.) India: Thompson-Balys; Marquesas: Handy 121; Samoa: Beckwith Myth 103. |
| Q551.1.1 | Betel-nut grows upon a person's knee as a punishment. Philippine (Tinguian): Cole 56. |
| Q597.2 | Birds take back their feathers from ungrateful wolf to whom they have lent them. (Cf. Q281.) Cape Verde Islands: *Parsons MAFLS XV (1) 310 n. 1; West Indies: Flowers 570. |
| Q559.5.1 | Birth of child prevented until girl confesses slander. She has accused a bishop of fathering the child. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| Q558.4 | Blasphemer stricken dead. (Cf. Q221.3.) England: Baughman; Irish myth: *Cross; Spanish Exempla: Keller (Q221.3.3); Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q221.3 | Blasphemy punished. (Cf. Q551.1.8, Q558.4.) *Loomis White Magic 98f.; Spanish: Keller, Espinosa Jr. No. 190; Jewish: *Neuman. |
| Q195 | Blessings. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q451.7.2.1 | Blinding (of father) as punishment for ravisher. (Cf. Q411.3.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q451.7.2.2 | Blinding as punishment for attempt to violate girl (queen). Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| Q451.7.3 | Blinding as punishment for incest. (Cf. Q242.) Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q451.7.4 | Blinding as punishment for murder. (Cf. Q211.) Irish myth: *Cross; Italian Novella: Rotunda; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q451.7.1 | Blinding as punishment for perjury. (Cf. Q263.) Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 493; Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| Q451.7.2 | Blinding as punishment for ravisher. (Cf. Q244.) Herbert III 206; Oesterley No. 50. |
| Q451.7 | Blinding as punishment. *Fb "blind" IV 45b, "øje" III 1165a; Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: MacCulloch Eddic 322; Spanish: Espinosa Jr. No. 137; Greek: Frazer Apollodorus I 367 n. 1; Jewish: *Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| Q265.2.1 | Blotches on face of satirist (judge) as punishment for wrongful satire (judgment). Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q461.2 | Bodies from which limbs have been cut hung on stakes as punishment. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q559.3 | Body of murdered man cannot be moved nor can water be drawn from a well to wash it. Leads to exposure of murderer. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q147.1 | Body of saint miraculously rolls over to make room in his grave for pious man. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| Q414.1.1 | Boiling in tar as punishment for impostor. (Cf. Q262.) Africa (Angola): Chatelain 49 version B. |
| Q222.5.3 | Bold woman who danced naked in church is stricken with leprosy. *Loomis White Magic 97. |
| Q333 | Boldness punished. |
| Q451.2.0.2 | Boring hole through heel as punishment. Jewish: Neuman. |
| Q431.16 | Boy banished for breaking women's water pots. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| Q285.1.2.1 | Boy reaches into bird's nest for pigeon's eggs. A stone in the nest holds his hand for three days and nights. He is finally released by prayers. Wales: Baughman. |
| Q25.1 | Boy risks life to carry leper across stream. Leper is Christ in disguise. Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q582.7 | Boy who threw stones at clerics killed by thrown stone. (Cf. Q227.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q231 | Brahmin punished for killing animal. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q472 | Branding as punishment. (Cf. H55.) BP III 114 n. 1; Cosquin études 428ff.; *Fischer-Bolte 215; Child II 240ff., 513a, III 514, IV 476, V225b; Icelandic: *Boberg; Spanish: Espinosa III No. 192; India: *Thompson-Balys; Hindu: Meyer Hindu Tales 110. |
| Q265.1 | Bribed false judge punished. (Cf. J1192.) Alphabet No. 433; Spanish Exempla: Keller; Jewish: *Neuman. |
| Q417.3 | Bridge to world of dead cut from under wicked person so that he falls into hell. (Cf. F152.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q458.2.1 | Brother flogs unchaste sister to death. (Cf. Q243.) Child II 102. |
| Q456.0.1 | Burial alive as punishment for adultery. (Cf. Q241.) *Schoepperle II 420 n. 1; Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q456.0.3 | Burial alive as punishment for disobedience to king. (Cf. Q325.) Greek: Frazer Apollodorus I 373 n. 2 (Antigone). |
| Q456.0.2 | Burial alive as punishment for swindling. (Cf. Q274.) Alphabet No. 755. |
| Q456 | Burial alive as punishment. (Cf. S123.) *Müllenhoff Deutsche Alterthumskunde (ed. Roediger, Berlin, 1920) IV 244ff.; **Feilberg "Levende Begravet" (Еrbog for dansk Kulturhistorie [1892] pp. 1—60); DeCock Volkssage 83.—Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: Boberg; Greek: Aeschylus Prometheus Bound 366, 1016; Jewish: Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| Q456.2 | Burial alive for uncharitableness. (Cf. Q286.2.) Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| Q491.1.2 | Burial in deserted barn as punishment for desecration of holy places. (Cf. Q222.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q414.0.4.2 | Burning as punishment for abductor. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q414.0.2 | Burning as punishment for adultery. (Cf. Q241.) Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 229; Irish myth: *Cross; Spanish: Boggs FFC XC 57 No. 425; Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| Q414.0.9 | Burning as punishment for betraying the confessional. (Cf. Q224.) Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q414.0.6.1 | Burning as punishment for counterfeiting. (Cf. Q261.) Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q414.0.13 | Burning as punishment for fratricide. (Cf. Q211.9.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q414.0.6 | Burning as punishment for impostor. (Cf. Q262.) Missouri French: Carrière; Spanish: Espinosa Jr. No. 106; Italian Novella: *Rotunda; India: Thompson-Balys; Africa (Fjort): Dennett 130. |
| Q414.0.3 | Burning as punishment for incest (incontinence). (Cf. Q242, Q243.) Child II 41—48 passim, 113—25 passim, III 508b, V 292b; Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q414.0.12 | Burning as punishment for murder. (Cf. Q211.) Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg; Africa (Bankon): Ittman 100. |
| Q414.0.4 | Burning as punishment for ravisher. (Cf. Q244.) Malone PMLA XLIII 406. |
| Q414.0.5 | Burning as punishment for traitor. (Cf. Q261.) Icelandic: *Boberg; Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "bыcher"; Missouri French: Carrière; Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q414.0.1 | Burning as punishment for uxoricide. (Cf. Q211.3.) Africa (Fjort): Dennett 54 No. 19. |
| Q414.0.11 | Burning for sodomy. (Cf. Q253.) Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q414.0.5.1 | Burning for traitor: unwittingly suggested by culprit. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q414.0.10 | Burning for witchcraft. Icelandic: *Boberg; Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q414.0.3.1 | Burning monastery and monks in it as punishment for incontinence. Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles No. 32; Heptameron No. 31. |
| Q432.1 | Buzzard hatched by hawk ejected for fouling nest. (Cf. Q322.) Herbert III 37ff.; Hervieux IV 276 No. 4; Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles No. 68. |
| Q215 | Cannibalism punished. India: Thompson-Balys; Eskimo (Greenland): Holm 91. |
| Q429 | Capital punishment—miscellaneous. |
| Q410 | Capital punishment. Jewish: *Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q54.2 | Captive knight freed for having kept his word. Is allowed to leave to collect ransom (or marry fiancée). When he returns his captor frees him (or raises ransom). Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| Q385 | Captured animals avenge themselves. N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 313 n. 126a. |
| Q456.1.1 | Cast-forth wife buried up to the waist for seven years and despitefully used. Wesselski Märchen 174 No. 64. |
| Q482.4 | Cast-forth wife must sit at horse-block of palace and tell story to each newcomer and offer to carry him inside. Irish myth: *Cross; Welsh: MacCulloch Celtic 94. |
| Q467.1 | Casting into water in sack (barrel) as punishment. (Cf. Q474, S142.) H. Goldsmith Zs. f. vgl. Rechtswissenschaft LXI—LXII; Fb "sæk" III 720b, "tønde" III 934b; Italian: Basile Pentamerone IV No. 6. |
| Q595.2 | Cattle killed, crops burned as punishment for abduction. (Cf. Q213.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q552.1.8.1 | Cattle thief calls on God to strike him with lightning if he has ever stolen a cow or calf. Lightning strikes him. U.S.: Baughman. |
| Q501.8 | Ceaseless humming (singing) as punishment for immoderate request. (Cf. Q338.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q560.2.2 | Certain number of souls released from hell every Saturday through virtue of saint. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q401 | Chain of punishments. Horse must break leg, since he has broken leg of man who broke leg of dog which bit leg of fox. *Wesselski Hessische Blätter f. Vksk. XXXII 21. |
| Q411.13.1 | Charge of theft avenged by assault. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| Q151.1 | Charitable man's death postponed. (Cf. Q42, Q145.) Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 337. |
| Q554.6 | Cheaters visited by god in animal form. Frightened into restitution. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q112.1 | Chieftainship as reward. Tuamotu: Stimson MS (z-G. 3/1142, 13/174, 420); Africa (Ganda): Baskerville 1ff., (Hausa): Mischlich 164ff. No. 22, (Bondei): Woodward FL XXXVI 367ff. No. 12. |
| Q556.4.1 | Child born with one eye blinded as result of saint's curse. Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q42.1.1 | Child divides last loaf with fairy (witch, etc.). Rewarded. Hdwb. d. Märchens I 396b; *Roberts 150, 169. |
| Q192 | Child given as reward for prayer. Jewish: Moreno Esdras, *Neuman. |
| Q553.4.1 | Child taken from parents because they have ceased to think of God. (Cf. Q223.1.) Köhler-Bolte I 148. |
| Q172.1 | Child taken to heaven: offers food to crucifix. BP III 474ff.; Reinhard PMLA XL 93; Irish: O'Suilleabhain 105, Beal XXI 333; Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 3727; Spanish: Boggs FFC XC 90 No. 767*. |
| Q553.3.2 | Children of incestuous father die without issue. (Cf. Q242.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q273.4 | Church built by usurer's money made to collapse by devil. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| Q552.13.2.2 | Church which refused to bury saint miraculously burned. (Cf. Q227.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q552.13.2.1 | City of king who opposed saint miraculously burned. (Cf. Q227.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q152 | City saved from disaster as reward. Jewish: *Neuman; Chinese: Graham; Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 63, 70. |
| Q537.2 | Cleric tempts self among beautiful women, lives chastely. Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q331.2.1.5 | Clothes-proud woman trips over long skirt. Devil laughs. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| Q42.9 | Cobbler gives new pair of shoes to poor boy and says: "You can pay me when you become archbishop." Generously rewarded many years later. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q415.3.1 | Cobras placed in boxes and given to cruel parents, so that they are bitten. (Cf. Q285.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q242.1 | Cohabitation of godfather and godmother punished. (Cf. P296.) Andrejev FFC LXIX 240. |
| Q149.1 | Color (of animal) as reward for pious act. Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q483.1 | Condemned queen exposed in leather on market place. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q300 | Contentiousness punished. (Cf. W188.) |
| Q473.0.2 | Corpse of adulteress drawn through streets. (Cf. Q241.) Icelandic: Boberg. |
| Q551.2.4 | Corpse of murdered man sticks to murderer's back. (Cf. Q211.) *Loomis White Magic 55. |
| Q491.6 | Corpse of murderer mutilated. (Cf. Q211.) Italian Novella: *Rotunda; Greek: Grote I 275, 278. |
| Q87.2 | Courtier rewarded for resisting princess's advances. When her father learns of the affair he rewards the courtier and has him marry his daughter. Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| Q464 | Covering with honey and exposing to flies. DeCock Studien 11ff.; Boccaccio Decameron II No. 9; *Gaster Beiträge zur vgl. Sagen- und Märchenkunde 21; Grimm Deutsche Rechtsalterthümer (1828) 701; Icelandic: Heinzel Beschreibung der isländischen Saga 162, Boberg; Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "supplice"; Italian Novella: *Rotunda; Jewish: *Neuman. |
| Q277 | Covetousness punished. Jewish: *Neuman, Moreno Esdras (Q332). |
| Q552.18.1.1 | Cowl demanded as ransom from saint bursts into flame. Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q153.1 | Cows white-headed during reign of good king. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q554.7 | Creditor in former existence comes to confiscate riches of unkind man in next existence. (Cf. Q281.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q210 | Crimes punished. Irish myth: Cross; Norwegian: Solheim Register 21. |
| Q210.1 | Criminal intent punished. (Cf. Q211.8, Q261.1, Q451.7.0.2.4.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q486.1 | Criminal's house burned down. *Chauvin VI 163 No. 327; Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q486 | Criminal's property destroyed as punishment. Jewish: Neuman. |
| Q437.1 | Criminal's wife and children sold into slavery. *Chauvin VI 163 No. 327. |
| Q193 | Crowns and palms as reward. Jewish: Moreno Esdras (Q191). |
| Q462 | Crucifixion as punishment. (Cf. Q522.1.) Irish myth: Cross; Spanish Exempla: Keller; Jewish: *Neuman; Hindu: Tawney I 147, 396. |
| Q285.3 | Cruel mutilation punished. (Cf. Q411.5.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q450 | Cruel punishments. |
| Q285 | Cruelty punished. (Cf. E501.3.1, Q415.3.1.) Spanish: Espinosa Jr. No. 187; Jewish: *Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys; Africa: Stanley 61, 103. |
| Q285.1 | Cruelty to animals punished. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q285.2 | Cruelty to sick persons punished. Finnish-Swedish: Wessman 19 No. 181. |
| Q341 | Curiosity punished. Spanish Exempla: Keller; India: Thompson-Balys; Africa (Luba): DeClerq ZsKS IV 189, (Cameroon): Rosenhuber 52. |
| Q576 | Curse as punishment remitted. (Cf. Q556.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q556 | Curse as punishment. Roberts 217; Irish: *Cross, O'Suilleabhain 83, Beal XXI 328; Jewish: *Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q556.9 | Curse for banishing wife at wish of paramour. (Cf. Q248.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q556.7.1 | Curse for enforced hospitality. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q556.7 | Curse for inhospitality. (Cf. Q292.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q556.3 | Curse for leaving home. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q556.8 | Curse for mockery. (Cf. Q288.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q556.10 | Curse for murder. (Cf. Q211.) |
| Q556.1 | Curse for participation in Crucifixion. (Cf. Q221.2.) Dh II 216ff., 219ff.; England: Baughman. |
| Q556.6 | Curse for plundering church: king loses battles. (Cf. Q222.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q556.12 | Curse for stealing. (Cf. Q212.) |
| Q556.11 | Curse for uncharitableness. (Cf. Q286.1.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q576.1 | Curse of loss of victory for opposition to holy person remitted. (Cf. Q227.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q556.0.1 | Curse threatened to enforce demand. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q235 | Cursing punished. |
| Q488 | Cutting hair as punishment. |
| Q429.3 | Cutting into pieces as punishment. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| Q458.1 | Daily beatings as punishment. Chauvin V 266 No. 154 and frequently elsewhere in Chauvin. |
| Q221.4.1 | Dam builder remarks that God Almighty could not sweep completed dam away. The whole structure gives away, disappears. U.S.: Baughman. |
| Q386 | Dancing punished. Scala Celi 61b No. 336; Lithuanian: Balys Legends Nos. 347—352; Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| Q525 | Dangerous penances. Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q552.8 | Dead cock rises, crows, and spatters scoffers so that they become leprous. (Cf. Q225.) Alphabet No. 117. |
| Q593 | Dead mother appears and makes disobedient child eat fatal serpent. (Cf. Q325.) Jamaica: *Beckwith MAFLS XVII 263 No. 66. |
| Q273.1.1 | Dead usurer fed molten silver by devil. Crane Vitry 203 No. 168; Alphabet No. 785; Mensa Philosophica No. 221; Scala Celi 168a No. 953; Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| Q411.11 | Death as punishment for desecration of holy places (images, etc.). (Cf. Q222.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q411.15 | Death as punishment for dropping on emperor's coat. Icelandic: FSS 125, 168—70, Boberg. |
| Q411.10 | Death as punishment for impudence. (Cf. Q326.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q411.6 | Death as punishment for murder. (Cf. Q211.) Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| Q263.1 | Death as punishment for perjury. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q411.7 | Death as punishment for ravisher. (Cf. Q244.) Irish myth: Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| Q411.9 | Death as punishment for reproach concerning physical deformity (blemish). (Cf. Q284.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q411.14 | Death as punishment for spying on uncanny persons. Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q411.13 | Death as punishment for thievery. Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q411.4 | Death as punishment for treachery. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q411 | Death as punishment. (Cf. Q455, Q456, Q458.2, Q558, Q582.) F. Ström On the Sacral Origin of the Germanic Death Penalties (Stockholm, 1942); *Roberts 211; Irish myth: *Cross; Missouri French: Carrière; Spanish: Espinosa Jr. Nos. 108, 133, 141; Jewish: Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 556; S. A. Indian (Toba): Métraux MAFLS XL 120; Africa (Wakweli): Bender 43. |
| Q429.2 | Death at hands of foreign invaders as punishment. Jewish: Moreno Esdras. |
| Q552.13.1.1 | Death by fire from heaven as punishment for opposition to holy person. (Cf. Q227.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q552.13.1.2 | Death by fire from heaven as punishment for scoffing at church teachings. (Cf. Q225.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q552.13.1 | Death by fire from heaven as punishment. *Loomis White Magic 35; Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q147.3 | Death by kiss from God. Jewish: Neuman. |
| Q552.1.6 | Death by thunderbolt as punishment for injustice. (Cf. Q296.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q552.1.4 | Death by thunderbolt as punishment for opposition to holy person. (Cf. Q227.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q552.1.5 | Death by thunderbolt as punishment for treachery. (Cf. Q261.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q552.1 | Death by thunderbolt as punishment. *Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 458; *Blinkenberg The Thunderweapon in Religion and Folklore (Cambridge, Eng., 1911); *P. Saintyves Pierres magiques (Paris, 1936).—Irish: *Cross, Beal XXI 336, O'Suilleabhain 123; Finnish-Swedish: Wessman 18 Nos. 165, 173; Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 3267; Spanish Exempla: Keller; Greek: Frazer Apollodorus II 34 n. 2 (Iasion), 52 n. 2 (Asopus); Jewish: *Neuman. |
| Q558.17 | Death by ulcer for destroying churches. (Cf. Q222.) Irish myth: |
| Q411.0.1.4 | Death for repeated adultery. Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 1369. |
| Q552.0.1 | Death from elements as punishment for unjust judgment (by poets). Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q553.4 | Death of children as punishment. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| Q411.3 | Death of father (son, etc.) as punishment. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q151.2 | Death passes by man who fed his stepmother. (Cf. Q65.1.) Africa (Gold Coast): Barker and Sinclair 129 No. 23. |
| Q499.5 | Debtor clerics forbidden churchly offices. (Cf. Q271.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q271.1 | Debtor deprived of burial. (Cf. Q421.0.1, Q491.) See all references to E341 (The grateful dead). **A. Esmein "Débiteurs privés de sepulture" Mélanges d'histoire du droit (Paris, 1886) 244ff.; S. Riccobono "Cristianesimo e diritto privato" Revista di diritto civile III (1911) 43ff.; Antonucci Lares I No. 2 (1930) 3—5. |
| Q271 | Debtor punished. (Cf. Q421.0.1, Q473.0.1, Q491.2, Q499.5.) |
| Q491.2 | Debtor's corpse flogged. (Cf. Q271.) *Fb "gjæld" I 448. |
| Q451.11.1 | Deception punished by piecemeal mutilation. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q260 | Deceptions punished. (Cf. Q551.2, Q558.10.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q380 | Deeds punished—miscellaneous. |
| Q200 | Deeds punished. **Encyc. Rel. Ethics s.v. "Crimes and punishments"; *DeCock Volkssage passim; Irish myth: Cross; Jewish: *Neuman. |
| Q10 | Deeds rewarded. |
| Q433.2 | Defeated giants imprisoned in lower world. Gaster Thespis 160; Greek: Fox 8 (Titans), Grote I 8. |
| Q551.8.3 | Deformity (putridity) as punishment for murder. (Cf. D2061.1.4, Q211.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q551.8.2 | Deformity as punishment for desecration of holy places (images, etc.). (Cf. Q222.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
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