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Stith Thompson Motif Index
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Stith Thompson's Motif-Index of Folk-Literature classifies recurring narrative elements in folktales, myths, legends, ballads and related traditional narratives. Each entry below gives Thompson's motif reference and the description recorded in the index.
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Mythological Motifs
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Animal Motifs
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Motifs of Tabu
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Magic
E
The Dead
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Marvels
G
Ogres
H
Tests
J
The Wise and the Foolish
K
Deceptions
L
Reversals of Fortune
M
Ordaining the Future
N
Chance and Fate
P
Society
Q
Rewards and Punishments
R
Captives and Fugitives
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Unnatural Cruelty
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Sex
U
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 ▲ |
|---|---|
| Q3 | Moderate request rewarded; immoderate punished. India: Thompson-Balys; Japanese: Ikeda; West Indies: Flowers 566. |
| Q223.13.1 | Monk neglecting to prostrate self at canonical hours expelled from monastery by saint and dies on seventh day. Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q61.1 | Monk who did not ask for position made abbot. He is given the bribe money paid by other ambitious monks. Wesselski Mönchslatein 124 No. 107; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q295 | Monkey destroys nest of bird who has made sport of him. Japanese: Ikeda; Indonesia: DeVries's list No. 52. |
| Q141.1 | Monks' who always shared with the poor receive supplies of flour or bread. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| Q552.5 | Monstrous births as punishment for girl's pride. (Cf. M437, Q331, T550.) Child I 210; Ireland, U.S.: Baughman. |
| Q246 | Mortal's attempt to defile goddess punished. Greek: Frazer Apollodorus II 34 n. 2 (Iasion and Demeter). |
| Q172.8 | Mother of saint admitted to heaven. Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q557.4 | Mouse causes hair of thief to fall out. (Cf. Q551.6.4.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q497.1 | Moustache pulled out as punishment. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q211.4 | Murder of children punished. (Cf. Q418.2, Q455.1, Q553.5.) *Types 781, 832; Irish: O'Suilleabhain 31, Beal XXI 310; Spanish: Espinosa Jr. Nos. 148f.; Greek: Grote I 160; Jewish: *Neuman; Tuamotu: Stimson MS (T-G. 3/15). |
| Q418.1 | Murder of faithless wife with poisoned salad. (Cf. Q241.) Heptameron No. 36. |
| Q211.12 | Murder of parents punished by member of family. Tuamotu: Stimson MS (T-G. 3/818); Easter Island: Métraux Ethnology 385; Tonga: Gifford 53; Maori: Beckwith Myth 474. |
| Q211 | Murder punished. (Cf. Q411.6, Q413.4, Q414.0.12, Q416.0.2, Q417.1, Q421.0.4, Q424.0.1, Q431.1, Q431.9, Q450.1.1, Q451.1.4, Q451.2.3, Q451.4.5, Q451.7.4, Q469.6, Q469.12, Q491.6, Q497, Q511, Q511.1, Q512.0.1, Q520.1, Q545, Q551.3.3, Q551.8.3, Q552.3.0.2, Q556.2, Q556.10, Q558.9, Q582.3.) Irish: Beal XXI 336, O'Suilleabhain 124; Icelandic: MacCulloch Eddic 319f.; Spanish: Keller, Espinosa Jr. Nos. 202, 205—09; Jewish: *Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 267; Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 38 No. 25; Tuamotu: Stimson MS (z-G. 3/818, 1353, 13/127); Eskimo (Cumberland Sound): Boas BAM XV 168, (Greenland): Rasmussen III 76, 111, 294; S. A. Indian (Chiriguano): Métraux RMLP XXXIII 156, 163. |
| Q520.1 | Murderer does penance. (Cf. Q171.1.1, Q211.) *Types 756BC; **Andrejev FFC LIV, LXIX 85, 118ff., 238ff.; Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q582.3 | Murderer killed by his own spear. (Cf. Q211.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q469.12 | Murderer torn limb from limb. (Cf. Q211, Q416.) Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: Boberg; Jewish: Neuman. |
| Q491.6.1 | Murderer's corpse cut into pieces. Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q545 | Murderer's penance complete when he kills a greater murderer and prevents a crime. (Cf. Q211.) *Type 756C; **Andrejev FFC LIV; Wesselski Archiv Orientální II 39ff. |
| Q417.1 | Murderess forced to leap from cliff. (Cf. Q211.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q552.3.7 | Murrain upon cattle as punishment. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| Q223.9.2 | Musician flogged for eating a kid on Friday (day of fast). (Cf. Q458.) Icelandic: Boberg. |
| Q451 | Mutilation as punishment. (Cf. S160.) Missouri French: Carrière; Marquesas: Handy 78, 121. |
| Q226.2 | Mutinous clerics expelled in shapes of swine. (Cf. Q551.3.2.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q554.5 | Mysterious animal punishes penitent. Returning from the pope he is met by a mysterious animal who jumps on his back. Then in the man's room, whither he has carried the animal, a three hours' noise is heard as of a fight. Neither man nor beast is found in the room. (Cf. Q557.) Köhler-Bolte I 132; Euphorion IV 332; Irish: Beal XXI 317, O'Suilleabhain 46; Gascon: Bladé Contes pop. de Gascogne II 201 No. 13. |
| Q558.14 | Mysterious death as punishment for desecration of holy places (images, etc.). (Cf. Q222.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q558.13.2 | Mysterious death as punishment for disbelief in druidism. Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q558.16 | Mysterious death as punishment for false judging. Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q558.10 | Mysterious death as punishment for feigning sleep. (Cf. Q260.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q558.15 | Mysterious death as punishment for lying (perjury). (Cf. Q263.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q558.9 | Mysterious death as punishment for murder. (Cf. Q211.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q574.1 | Mysterious death as punishment for opposition to holy person remitted. (Cf. Q558.13.) O'Grady Silva Gadelica II 71; Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q558.13 | Mysterious death as punishment for opposition to holy person. (Cf. Q227, Q574.1.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q558.6 | Mysterious death as punishment for theft. (Cf. Q212.) *Loomis White Magic 98; Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q558.12 | Mysterious death as punishment for worshiping idols on All-Saints-Day. Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q558.8 | Mysterious death as punishment for wrongful satire. (Cf. Q265.2.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q574 | Mysterious death as punishment remitted. (Cf. Q558.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q558 | Mysterious death as punishment. (Cf. Q411, Q574, Q591.1.) |
| Q574.2 | Mysterious death of animals as punishment for uncharitableness remitted. (Cf. D2089.3, Q286.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q558.15.1 | Mysterious death of son as punishment for lying (perjury). Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q558.9.1 | Mysterious death of son as punishment for murder. Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q558.13.1 | Mysterious death of son as punishment for opposition to holy person. (Cf. Q411.3.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q554.3 | Mysterious stranger blows ashes into face of scoffer and chokes him to death. (Cf. Q225.) Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 666. |
| Q554 | Mysterious visitation as punishment. |
| Q554.4 | Mysterious wolf enters church and kills blaspheming priest. (Cf. Q225.) Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 550. |
| Q153 | Nature benign and fruitful during reign of good king. (Cf. Q67.) Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| Q100 | Nature of rewards. |
| Q535 | Negative penances. Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q223.13 | Neglect of clerical duties punished. Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q223.5 | Neglect to attend church punished. U.S.: Baughman; Finnish-Swedish: Wessman 18 No. 1167. |
| Q223.9.1 | Neglect to fast punished by sight of dragon ready to carry man off to hell. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| Q223.9 | Neglect to fast punished. Jewish: Neuman. |
| Q223.4 | Neglect to hear confessional punished. Scala Celi 47a No. 263; Alphabet No. 175; Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| Q223.1 | Neglect to pray punished. Köhler-Bolte I 148; Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 3361, Legends Nos. 691f.; Swiss: Jegerlehner Oberwallis 280 No. 47. |
| Q223.3 | Neglect to sacrifice punished. Alphabet No. 782; Greek: Frazer Apollodorus I 305 n. 3; Jewish: Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q223.10 | Neglect to study scriptures punished. |
| Q223.10.1 | Neglect to study Tora punished. Jewish: Neuman. |
| Q223.2 | Neglect to thank gods punished. Greek: Fox 59. |
| Q485 | Noble person must live in hovel. |
| Q482.3 | Nobleman after death must serve as menial. *Herbert III 283ff. |
| Q81.1 | Nobleman's perseverance wins him coveted place on reserved bench. Elected upon the death of one of its occupants. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q451.5.1 | Nose cut off as punishment for adultery. (Cf. Q241.) *Penzer II 88 n. 1, V 82 n. 1, 123, 156, VI 188 n. 1, IX 76; Saxo Grammaticus (ed. Elton) 71; Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| Q451.5.2 | Nose cut off as punishment for theft. (Cf. Q212.) Penzer II 60ff. |
| Q451.5.4 | Nose cut off as punishment for treachery. (Cf. Q261.) Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q451.5 | Nose cut off as punishment. Bødker Exempler 280 No. 24; Irish myth: *Cross; India: *Thompson-Balys; Africa: Frobenius Atlantis IV 196. |
| Q451.5.3 | Nose of falsely accusing bishop bitten off. (Cf. Q263.) Dickson 46. |
| Q172.5 | Numerous sinners to go to heaven as reward for man's writing hymn. (Cf. Q35.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q551.3.4.3 | Nun breaks her vow. She is turned to stone. (Cf. Q226.) U.S.: Baughman. |
| Q41.1 | Ogre appeased by being called uncle (aunt, etc.). India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q21.1 | Old woman gives her only cow believing she would receive a hundred in return from God. A bishop hearing of her faith sends her a hundred cows. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| Q44.3 | One rupee given away for charity incidentally brings back ten rupees. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q112.0.4 | One third of kingdom and the king's daughter as reward for getting victory-stone during the night. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| Q469 | Other cruel punishments. |
| Q60 | Other good qualities rewarded. |
| Q499 | Other humiliating punishments. Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q559 | Other miraculous punishments. |
| Q569 | Other punishments in hell. Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q599 | Other punishments. |
| Q330 | Overweening punished. (Cf. Q552.19.1, Q582.5.) |
| Q232.1 | Pagan punished by fellows for conversion to Christianity. Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q562 | Pain of souls tormented in hell alternately ebbs and flows. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q553.3.6 | Painful birth of children as punishment. Jewish: Neuman. |
| Q172.4 | Palace being built in heaven for pious king. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q561.4 | Palace in other world of the dead where are rooms full of tongues, hands, etc. of men committing sins in this world. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q211.1 | Parricide punished. (Cf. Q552.2.3.3, Q552.3.1.1, Q553.3.3.) *Types 756B, 761*; *Andrejev FFC LXIX 239; Irish myth: *Cross; Finnish-Swedish: Wessman 19 No. 185. |
| Q221.4.3 | Party of horsemen detained by bad weather vow to reach town whether God will or no. The earth swallows them up. (Cf. Q552.2.3.) England: Baughman. |
| Q64 | Patience rewarded. (Cf. W26.) Jewish: Neuman. |
| Q552.18.3 | Payment for ransom disappears when prisoner is not released. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q559.4 | Peasants punished for working on feast day. They cannot leave the field for several days. (Cf. Q223.) Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q499.6 | Penance for three years and a half for eating horseflesh. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q520.5 | Penance in wilderness as punishment for men who left holy orders to marry. (Cf. Q226.) Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| Q521.7 | Penance to be done until seven spires of Benares are reduced to powder and rebuilt. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q537.1 | Penance: adulteress masks as monk and lives chastely in monastery. (Cf. Q241.) Toldo Zs. f. Vksk. XIV 52 (St. Theodora). |
| Q544 | Penance: being locked in cellar (well) with key thrown into water. *Type 756B; *Andrejev FFC LXIX 127, 248. |
| Q521.2 | Penance: carrying bag of stones (one for each murder) on the back until it falls off. (Cf. Q211.) *Type 756C; *Andrejev FFC LIV 35. |
| Q521.3 | Penance: carrying iron hoop on head until it falls off. *Types 756C; *Andrejev FFC LIV 35. |
| Q521.1.2 | Penance: carrying water in mouth from a distance and watering dry staff until it blooms. *Types 756BC; **Andrejev FFC LIV 34, LXIX 133; *BP III 471 n. 1. |
| Q521.1.1 | Penance: crawling on knees and watering a dry staff until it blooms. Types 756BC; **Andrejev FFC LIV 34, LXIX 132; *BP III 471 n. 1; Scala Celi 136a No. 755; Alphabet No. 568. |
| Q523.1.1 | Penance: crawling to grave on knees. Irish: O'Suilleabhain 48. |
| Q523.1 | Penance: crawling to Rome on knees. *Andrejev FFC LXIX 127. |
| Q522.3 | Penance: creeping naked through thorns. *Type 756B; *Andrejev FFC LXIX 127; Hdwb. d. Märchens I 202a; Irish: O'Suilleabhain 44, Beal XXI 316; Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| Q523.3 | Penance: eating food offered to dogs. *Dickson 257 n. 80; English: Wells 136 (Sir Gowther); Irish: Beal XXI 330; Spanish: Boggs FFC XC 86 No. 756B. |
| Q523.10 | Penance: fasting in sackcloth and ashes. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| Q521.5 | Penance: ferryman setting people over a stream until relieved by another. *Types 460, 461; *Aarne FFC XXIII 138. |
| Q542 | Penance: giving all earnings to poor. Spanish: Boggs FFC XC 86 No. 756B. |
| Q541.3 | Penance: Gregory on the stone. Standing on a stone (pillar) as penance for incest. (Cf. Q242, T415.) *Type 933; Köhler-Bolte Zs. f. Vksk. VI 173 to Gonzenbach No. 85; *Baum PMLA XXXI 562 n. 59; *Toldo II 89. |
| Q522.6 | Penance: hanging for a thousand years head downward over a fire of chaff. Hindu: Keith 168. |
| Q521.6 | Penance: holding midnight mass until someone will make responses. *Sébillot RTP X 584, XIII 179, XV 621; Ireland: Baughman, O'Suilleabhain 27, Beal XXI 308; Spanish: Espinosa II Nos. 70f. |
| Q527 | Penance: inviting one Brahmin for dinner every Wednesday. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q522.5 | Penance: iron band forged round a man's waist. Child I 172. |
| Q541.4 | Penance: keeping self suspended on two iron hooks placed under armpits. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q522.2 | Penance: killing oneself with wooden knife. *Andrejev FFC LXIX 156. |
| Q523.9 | Penance: king to take off crown and lick spittle from ground. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q535.2 | Penance: lioness foregoes meat. Her two cubs are killed. The jackal tells her that he has had the same experience. She gives up eating meat and lives on grass. Chauvin II 105 No. 68; Bødker Exempler 302 No. 71; Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| Q523.4 | Penance: living under stairs as mendicant. *Dickson 255 n. 77; Alphabet No. 600 (Alexius). |
| Q524.2 | Penance: lying the first night with every corpse brought to certain church. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q522.8 | Penance: man wears huge serpent coiled around him in lieu of clothing. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| Q535.1 | Penance: not to speak. *Krappe Balor 181ff.; *Toldo II 91; *Dickson 255 nn. 76, 77; English: Wells 136 (Sir Gowther); Spanish: Boggs FFC XC 86 No. 756B, Keller. |
| Q521.4 | Penance: pasturing black sheep until they become white. *Types 756C; *Andrejev FFC LIV 35. |
| Q523.8 | Penance: performing all services asked for by anyone. Klapper Erzählungen des Mittelalters 112 No. 101. |
| Q522.4 | Penance: pilgrimage with hands and loins weighted with iron. Child II 128. |
| Q523.5 | Penance: planting garden and offering free hospitality to all. (Cf. Q481.) *Type 756C; *Andrejev FFC LIV. |
| Q537 | Penance: resisting temptation. (Cf. T330.) |
| Q523.7 | Penance: seven years' service for seven days' neglect of religious duty. (Cf. Q223.) Jewish: bin Gorion Born Judas I 179f., 374. |
| Q541.1 | Penance: sitting in water. *Dickson 91f. nn. 57—69; *Toldo II 94f.; Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q523.6 | Penance: slain cats, dogs, etc. to be hung up and covered with grain by man who has killed them. Köhler-Bolte I 261. |
| Q524.1 | Penance: spending lonely night in cave. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q541.2 | Penance: standing in water for forty days. Dh I 228ff.; Irish: O'Suilleabhain 49, Beal XXI 318. |
| Q541.5 | Penance: staying for ten months rooted to one spot, with eyes closed, while birds build nests in one's hair. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q525.1 | Penance: staying on rock in dashing sea. Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q523.2 | Penance: walking on all-fours like beast. Herbert III 131, 339, 465, 571; *Williams 10; Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| Q522.7 | Penance: wearing friar's cord about bare skin. Heptameron No. 41. |
| Q520 | Penances. *Types 756ABC; *BP III 463; **Andrejev FFC LIV, LXIX 126ff., 234ff.; *Toldo II 87; Irish: Beal XXI 316, *Cross; Jewish: *Neuman. |
| Q557.8 | People given charm to dispel flies grumble: flies return a thousandfold. (Cf. Q312.) India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| Q512.0.1 | Performing impossible task as punishment for murder. (Cf. Q211.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q558.2 | Perjurer stricken dead. (Cf. Q263.) Icelandic: Boberg; Finnish-Swedish: Wessman 19 No. 177. |
| Q471.1 | Persecuted queen meanly clothed and set where all are commanded to spit on her. Köhler-Bolte I 571. |
| Q582.8 | Person drinks poison he prepared for another. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q551.10 | Person miraculously lifted into air and dashed to death as punishment for blasphemy. (Cf. Q221.3, Q417.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q551.10.1 | Person miraculously lifted into air and dashed to death as punishment for scoffing at church teachings. (Cf. Q225.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q565.1 | Person to be received by neither earth nor heaven. Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q221 | Personal offences against gods punished. (Cf. Q551.3.4.2, Q552.14.0.1.). |
| Q451.11 | Piecemeal mutilation as punishment. Marquesas: Handy 78; Tonga: Gifford 67. |
| Q39 | Piety rewarded—miscellaneous. |
| Q20 | Piety rewarded. Irish: *Cross, O'Suilleabhain 120, Beal XXI 336; Spanish Exempla: Keller; Jewish: *Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 1153; Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 70. |
| Q526 | Pilgrimage as penance. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q552.10 | Plague as punishment. Irish myth: *Cross; Swiss: Jegerlehner Oberwallis 165; German: O. Busch Nordwestthüringer Sagen 145, E. Handreck Müllersagen 194, O. Schöppner Sagenbuch d. bairischen Lande I 72; Spanish Exempla: Keller; Jewish: *Neuman. |
| Q141.2 | Plentiful game animals (fish) as reward. Africa (Wakweli): Bender 37; S. A. Indian (Toba): Métraux MAFLS XL 27f. |
| Q53.2.1 | Plenty of fishes as reward for rescue. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| Q559.6 | Poets lose ability to compose verse as punishment for immoderate request. (Cf. Q338.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q557.1 | Poisonous toad sits on food of undutiful children. (Cf. Q281.1.) Tobler Epiphanie der Seele 25. |
| Q41 | Politeness rewarded. *Roberts 173; Icelandic: Boberg; Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "politesse"; Missouri French: Carrière; Spanish: Espinosa III No. 152, Espinosa Jr. Nos. 117, 130, 183; Italian: Basile Pentamerone IV Nos. 7, 8. |
| Q147.2 | Pope who has warred on wicked nobles refused burial in church. Magic wind blows doors open to show he has right to be buried there. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| Q151.12 | Pot of boiling oil thrown at compassionate woman does not harm her. Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 362. |
| Q114.1 | Precious knife and belt as gift on unknown helper's spearshaft outside his tent. Icelandic: Göngu-Hrуlfs saga 346. |
| Q551.12 | Premature aging as punishment. (Cf. D1890.) Jewish: *Neuman. |
| Q331 | Pride punished. (Cf. Q552.19.5.) Penzer IV 142f.; Irish myth: Cross; Spanish Exempla: Keller; Jewish: *Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys; Africa (Bulu): Krug 110. |
| Q433.6 | Priest imprisoned for incontinence. (Cf. Q243.) Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| Q223.4.1 | Priest joins devils after death because he lets woman die without confession. Scala Celi 161b No. 916. |
| Q286.2 | Priest will not bury dead unless paid in advance. Ruler has him buried alive with the corpse. (Cf. Q456.2.) Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| Q551.2.7 | Priest's concubine is unable to rise from stone. She is finally freed by prayers and repentance. (Cf. Q243.1.) England: Baughman. |
| Q391.1 | Prince of devils gives up seat to man who goes to hell for singing worldly songs. Scala Celi 25b No. 169. |
| Q431.5.3 | Princes banished as punishment for lewd conduct with female subjects. (Cf. Q243.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q481 | Princess (queen) compelled to keep an inn. (Cf. Q523.5.) *Type 304; BP II 503; Fb "kro" II 303. |
| Q91.1 | Princess given in marriage to clever thief. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q88.2 | Princess kisses ugly poet while he sleeps. Kisses not the ugly face but the divine mouth. Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| Q485.1 | Princess married to lowly hero must live in slave quarters. Africa (Kordofan): Frobenius Atlantis IV 216ff. No. 19. |
| Q483 | Princess must sell goods on market as punishment. *Type 304, 900; BP I 443ff., II 505; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q482.1 | Princess serves as menial. *Type 425; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q465.2 | Prisoners put into pit filled with corpses in order to starve. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| Q552 | Prodigy as punishment. Irish myth: *Cross; West Indies: Flowers 569f. |
| Q244.3 | Prostitute with venereal disease sent to lecherous king. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q243.1 | Prostitution punished. |
| Q223.13.2 | Punishment (fine) for not giving benediction on finished work. Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q570 | Punishment and remission. Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q552.13.0.1 | Punishment by arrows of fire from heaven. Jewish: Neuman. |
| Q467 | Punishment by drowning. (Cf. Q552.19.) India: *Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Graham. |
| Q243.0.1 | Punishment by extinction of royal line for sexual incontinence. Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q462.2 | Punishment by hanging up by the feet. Eskimo (Smith Sound): Kroeber JAFL XII 179. |
| Q418 | Punishment by poisoning. (Cf. S111.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q404 | Punishment comes in seventh generation. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| Q589 | Punishment fitted to crime—miscellaneous. Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q580 | Punishment fitted to crime. Irish myth: *Cross; Jewish: *Neuman; West Indies: Flowers 570. |
| Q265.2 | Punishment for (undeserved) satire. (Cf. Q558.8.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q251.1 | Punishment for abortion. Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 918. |
| Q244.1 | Punishment for attempted rape. (Cf. Q411.2.) Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q248 | Punishment for banishing wife at wish of paramour. (Cf. Q241, Q556.9.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q224 | Punishment for betraying confessional. (Cf. Q414.0.9.) *Dickson 46 n. 55; *Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 302; *Krappe "La fille de l'homme riche" Byzantion XVII (1944—45) 339—346; Irish: Beal XXI 334. |
| Q252 | Punishment for breaking betrothal. (Cf. Q416.0.1.) Jewish: bin Gorion Born Judas VI 237ff., 316. |
| Q285.1.2 | Punishment for breaking bird's nest. Finnish-Swedish: Wessman 19 No. 183. |
| Q266 | Punishment for breaking promise. Jewish: *Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 187. |
| Q232 | Punishment for change of religious faith. |
| Q256 | Punishment for clandestine lover of princess. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q243.5 | Punishment for consorting with one of lower class. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| Q551.2.8.1 | Punishment for cupidity: rich man's foot caught in church door: extricated only when he sends money to beggar. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q285.1.1 | Punishment for cutting off bird's tongue. (Cf. Q451.4, Q552.5.1.) Finnish-Swedish: Wessman 19 No. 182; Japanese: Ikeda. |
| Q236 | Punishment for deceiving (divine) emperor. Chinese: Graham: |
| Q225.2 | Punishment for denying pagan gods. (Cf. Q413.6.) |
| Q222.5 | Punishment for desecrating church (shrine, idol). Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| Q222 | Punishment for desecration of holy places (images, etc.) (Cf. Q411.11, Q415.7, Q431.13, Q491.1.2, Q499.3, Q551.6.5, Q551.8.2, Q552.17, Q556.6, Q557.7, Q558.5, Q558.14, Q558.17, Q558.18, Q559.9.) Irish: *Cross, O'Suilleabhain 114; Spanish: Espinosa Jr. No. 190; Greek (Herodotus): Classical Philology XXXIX (1944) 179f.; Jewish: Neuman. |
| Q222.6 | Punishment for desecration of holy temple utensils. Jewish: Neuman. |
| Q222.1 | Punishment for desecration of host. Irish: O'Suilleabhain No. 190; England: Baughman; Heptameron No. 33. |
| Q247 | Punishment for desertion of fairy mistress. (Cf. F302, F361, Q469.11.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q211.8 | Punishment for desire to murder. (Cf. Q210.1, Q469.4, Q552.19.2.) Irish myth: Cross; Jewish: Neuman; Eskimo (Smith Sound): Kroeber JAFL XII 177, (Greenland): Rink 157, 222, 469, Holm 47, (Cumberland Sound): Boas BAM XV 62. |
| Q225.3 | Punishment for doubting Buddha's religion. Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 479. |
| Q223.14 | Punishment for failure to give customary offering to gods. Marquesas: Handy 81, Métraux Ethnology 329. |
| Q312.3 | Punishment for finding fault with God's forgiveness of sin. *Type 756B. |
| Q312.1 | Punishment for finding fault with God's works in heaven. *Type 801; BP III 297ff. |
| Q211.6.1 | Punishment for flaying live calf. Fb "kalv" II 79a. |
| Q243.1.2 | Punishment for forcing a girl to become prostitute. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q381 | Punishment for gambling. (Cf. N0, Q433.8.) Jewish: Neuman; Indonesia: DeVries's list No. 182. |
| Q552.3.5 | Punishment for greed: streams of sugar, molasses, and milk from anchorite's tomb dry up and petrify because of townspeople's greed. (Cf. Q272.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q222.2 | Punishment for heaping indignities upon crucifix. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| Q227.1.1 | Punishment for imprisoning person under holy protection. Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q555.4 | Punishment for incest: father and son maddened; cut off their sexual organs. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q211.9.2 | Punishment for killing foster brother. Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q211.6.2 | Punishment for killing sacred whale. Polynesia: *Beckwith Myth 504f. |
| Q226 | Punishment for leaving holy orders. (Cf. Q520.5, Q551.3.4.3.) |
| Q232.2.1 | Punishment for leaving Palestine. Jewish: Neuman. |
| Q227.2 | Punishment for looking at saint's corpse. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q242.3 | Punishment for man who makes advances to sister-in-law. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q288 | Punishment for mockery. (Cf. Q556.8, Q583.1.) Irish myth: *Cross; S. A. Indian (Chiriguano): Métraux RMLP XXXIII 181. |
| Q426.1 | Punishment for murder by fatal enema. (Cf. Q211.4.2.) Africa (Wakweli): Bender 86. |
| Q211.10 | Punishment for murder of co-wife. Africa (Bankon): Ittman 100. |
| Q223.7 | Punishment for neglect of mass. Irish: O'Suilleabhain 98. |
| Q223 | Punishment for neglect of services to gods (God). (Cf. Q523.7, Q554.2, Q557.7, Q559.4.) Spanish Exempla: Keller; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| Q221.2 | Punishment for opposition to Christ at crucifixion. (Cf. Q556.1.) |
| Q227 | Punishment for opposition to holy person. (Cf. Q286.1, Q421.2, Q428.3, Q451.3.3, Q451.7.0.2.1, Q457.4, Q494.1, Q551.2.1, Q551.6.2, Q551.7.1, Q551.8.4, Q551.9.1, Q552.1.0.1.1, Q552.1.4, Q552.2.0.1.1, Q552.2.3.1.1, Q552.2.3.1.3, Q552.2.3.2.1, Q552.2.3.2.3, Q552.13.1.1, Q552.13.2.1, Q552.13.2.2, Q552.13.3, Q552.15, Q552.16, Q552.18.1, Q552.18.2, Q552.19.1, Q556.4, Q556.5, Q557.6, Q558.13, Q559.5, Q559.7, Q571.1, Q572.3, Q575, Q576.1, Q582.7, Q591, Q595.1.) *Loomis White Magic 98, 101f.; Irish: *Cross, O'Suilleabhain 82f., Beal XXI 328; Icelandic: *Boberg; Jewish: *Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 59, 1249. |
| Q244 | Punishment for ravisher. (Cf. Q411.7, Q421.0.3, Q431.6, Q451.6.0.1, Q467.4, Q552.1.2.) India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| Q251 | Punishment for refusal to have children. (Cf. Q431.4, Q552.9, T572.) *Type 755; Fb "barn" IV 26a; Bolte Zs. f. Vksk. XIV 114; Lithuanian: Balys Legends Nos. 392ff. |
| Q245 | Punishment for refusal to marry after girl is pregnant. (Cf. Q263, Q451.2.1.) |
| Q225 | Punishment for scoffing at religious teachings. (Cf. Q415.8, Q458.0.5, Q551.10.1, Q552.7, Q552.8, Q552.13.1.2, Q553.1, Q554.3, Q554.4, Q555.1, Q558.1.) Finnish-Swedish: Wessman 18 Nos. 171—173; Spanish Exempla: Keller; Jewish: Neuman. |
| Q391 | Punishment for singing worldly songs. (Cf. Q411.10.1.) |
| Q227.1 | Punishment for slaying king under holy protection. Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q211.7 | Punishment for splitting head and eating man's brains. Greek: Frazer Apollodorus I 369 n. 4 (Tydeus). |
| Q589.3 | Punishment for stinginess: amends made by being generous and liberal. (Cf. Q276.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q551.2.8 | Punishment for stinginess: bundle of fuel (pitcher of lime) sticks to man's head. (Cf. Q276.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q243.3 | Punishment for taking concubine. (Cf. Q499.2.2.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q243.4 | Punishment for taking heathen wives. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| Q393.1 | Punishment for talking too much. Monk punished in hell's fires for this fault. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| Q228 | Punishment for trying to harm sacred animal. Glutton tries to kill a pig dedicated to St. Anthony. The pig turns upon him and tramples him severely. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q265.4 | Punishment for undeserved curse. Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q211.11 | Punishment for wholesale massacre of tribe. India: Thompson-Balys; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 877. |
| Q233 | Punishment for yielding to temptation by the devil. (Cf. Q582.2.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q596 | Punishment in effigy. |
| Q563.1 | Punishment in hell fitted to the grade of wickedness. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| Q403 | Punishment not meted out to persons below twenty years. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| Q402 | Punishment of children for parents' offenses. Jewish: Neuman. |
| Q392 | Punishment of evil magician who has caused plague. German: H. Büschner Heide-Sagen a. d. Münsterlande 9, Klose Führer d. dt. Sagen u. Märchenwelt d. Grafschaft Glatz 104. |
| Q291.2 | Punishment of hard-hearted masters in other world. (Cf. Q285.4.) Lithuanian: Balys Legends Nos. 467—71; India: Thompson-Balys. |
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