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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
C
Motifs of Tabu
D
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
S
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 |
|---|---|
| Q287 | Refusal to grant request punished. (Cf. Q499.4.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q288 | Punishment for mockery. (Cf. Q556.8, Q583.1.) Irish myth: *Cross; S. A. Indian (Chiriguano): Métraux RMLP XXXIII 181. |
| Q291 | Hard-heartedness punished. (Cf. Q415.2.) Irish: O'Suilleabhain 61, 130, Beal XXI 324, 337; Jewish: *Neuman. |
| Q291.1 | St. Peter's mother dropped from heaven because of hardheartedness. She is permitted to go to heaven on a stalk, but is weighted down by people holding to her skirts. She shakes them off. (Cf. Q172.) *Type 804; *BP III 538; Köhler-Bolte I 60. |
| Q291.2 | Punishment of hard-hearted masters in other world. (Cf. Q285.4.) Lithuanian: Balys Legends Nos. 467—71; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q292 | Inhospitality punished. (Cf. P320, Q45, Q551.6.7, Q556.7, W158.) Irish: *Cross, O'Suilleabhain 53; Finnish: Kalevala rune 33; Swiss: Jegerlehner Oberwallis 323 No. 94; Spanish Exempla: Keller; Jewish: *Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 824; Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 174; Africa (Wachaga): Gutmann 93, (Loango): Pechuël-Loesche 110. |
| Q292.1 | Inhospitality to saint (god) punished. (Cf. Q1.1.) *Loomis White Magic 101; Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 772*; Russian: Andrejev No. 796I*; Swiss: Jegerlehner Oberwallis 295 No. 13; Spanish: Espinosa Jr. No. 181; Greek: Fox 20, 94; India: Thompson-Balys; S. A. Indian (Chincha): Alexander Lat. Am. 231. |
| Q292.2 | Inhospitality to orphans punished. Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 3728. |
| Q292.3 | Abuse of hospitality punished. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q295 | Monkey destroys nest of bird who has made sport of him. Japanese: Ikeda; Indonesia: DeVries's list No. 52. |
| Q296 | Injustice punished. (Cf. Q265, Q552.1.6.) Irish myth: *Cross; Jewish: Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q296.1 | Sack of flour pushed down on peasant who accuses his wife of theft from it. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| Q297 | Slander punished. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| Q300 | Contentiousness punished. (Cf. W188.) |
| Q301 | Jealousy punished. (Cf. W181.) Penzer III 177f.; Missouri French: Carrière; Spanish Exempla: Keller; Italian Novella: *Rotunda; Jewish: Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys; Africa (Konnoh): Willans 139. |
| Q302 | Envy punished. (Cf. Q551.6.6, W195.) Irish myth: Cross; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q302.1 | Envy punished: the found purse. Three men find a purse. They are loath to pick it up, since they will have to divide. The king sees this and assigns them their proper punishments. Chauvin II 120 No. 107. |
| Q304 | Scolding punished. Africa (Ila, Rhodesia): Smith and Dale II 412 No. 10. |
| Q305 | War-making punished. (Cf. Q553.3.1.) Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| Q306 | Quarrelsomeness punished. (Cf. Q551.7.3.) Irish myth: Cross; Africa (Wakweli): Bender 62. |
| Q312 | Fault-finding punished. (Cf. Q431.12, Q451.4.6, Q557.8, W128.) Jewish: Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q312.1 | Punishment for finding fault with God's works in heaven. *Type 801; BP III 297ff. |
| Q312.2 | Devil carries off fault-finding people. (Cf. R11.2.1.) Scala Celi 54b No. 306. |
| Q312.3 | Punishment for finding fault with God's forgiveness of sin. *Type 756B. |
| Q312.4 | Fault-finding with God's handling of weather. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| Q313 | Bad temper punished. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q314 | Scandal-mongering punished. (Cf. Q451.4.2.) Jewish: *Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q320 | Evil personal habits punished. |
| Q321 | Laziness punished. (Cf. Q495.1.) Spanish: Espinosa Jr. No. 188; Jewish: Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 127; Africa (Wakweli): Bender 104f. |
| Q321.1 | Women who will not sew are cast from community. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| Q322 | Dirtiness punished. (Cf. Q432.1, Q433.3, W115.) Spanish Exempla: Keller; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q323 | Unthriftiness punished. Alphabet No. 218; Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| Q325 | Disobedience punished. (Cf. Q431.3, Q451.7.0.2.3, Q456.0.3, Q458.0.2, Q552.1.0.1.1, Q593.) Alphabet No. 441; Spanish: Keller, Espinosa Jr. Nos. 104, 216; Jewish: *Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys; Eskimo (Greenland): Rink 428, (Bering Strait): Nelson RBAE XVIII 473; Tuamotu: Stimson MS (T-G. 3/629); S. A. Indian (Chiriguano): Métraux RMLP XXXIII 177; Africa (Wakweli): Bender 108, (Duala): Lederbogen Märchen 84, (Congo): Weeks Congo 214, (Luba): DeClerq ZsKS IV 193; West Indies: Flowers 569. |
| Q326 | Impudence punished. (Cf. Q411.10, Q413.5.) Irish myth: Cross; Africa (Bushongo): Torday 241. |
| Q327 | Discourtesy punished. (Cf. Q221.1, Q583.2.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q330 | Overweening punished. (Cf. Q552.19.1, Q582.5.) |
| 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. |
| Q331.1 | Devil torments old man who has laid aside his humility. Scala Celi 105a No. 572. |
| Q331.2 | Vanity punished. |
| Q331.2.1 | Woman's vain display punished. Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| Q331.2.1.1 | Devil impersonates woman's maid at her toilette. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q331.2.1.2 | Vain woman has her cheeks miraculously burned. (Cf. Q550.) Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q331.2.1.3 | Husband rubs off paint from wife's cheeks. Threatens to scrape them the next time. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q331.2.1.3.1 | Husband puts soot on wife's cheeks to discourage her from using paint. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q331.2.1.4 | Vain woman wears corset so tight that it stifles her to death. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q331.2.1.5 | Clothes-proud woman trips over long skirt. Devil laughs. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| Q331.2.2 | Jackal demands to be praised as god: runs with pack of hounds. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q333 | Boldness punished. |
| 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. |
| Q338 | Immoderate request punished. (Cf. Q501.8, Q559.6, Q572.4, Q582.6, Q585.2.) Type 555; Irish myth: *Cross; Jewish: Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q338.1 | Request for immortality punished by transformation into tree. N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 276 n. 18. |
| Q338.2 | The devil's likeness. A squire demands somebody to paint a living picture of the devil; when he sees it, he dies. Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 3355, Legends Nos. 681—84. |
| Q340 | Meddling punished. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q341 | Curiosity punished. Spanish Exempla: Keller; India: Thompson-Balys; Africa (Luba): DeClerq ZsKS IV 189, (Cameroon): Rosenhuber 52. |
| Q342 | Inquisitiveness punished. (Cf. Q557.5.) Wienert FFC LVI 49 (ET 89), 95 (ST 84); Jewish: Neuman; Africa: Weeks Congo 207. |
| Q380 | Deeds punished—miscellaneous. |
| Q381 | Punishment for gambling. (Cf. N0, Q433.8.) Jewish: Neuman; Indonesia: DeVries's list No. 182. |
| Q385 | Captured animals avenge themselves. N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 313 n. 126a. |
| Q386 | Dancing punished. Scala Celi 61b No. 336; Lithuanian: Balys Legends Nos. 347—352; Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| Q386.1 | Devil punishes girl who loves to dance. Scala Celi 62a No. 338; England, U.S.: Baughman; Finnish: Aarne FFC XXXIII 40 No. 24**; Finnish-Swedish: Wessman 10 No. 81, 13 No. 112. |
| Q386.2 | Drunken dancers punished. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q387 | Jesting punished. |
| Q387.1 | Devil carries off jester. (Cf. R11.2.1.) Scala Celi 77b No. 441. |
| Q388 | Freemasonry punished. |
| Q388.1 | Freemasons forced to dance till they sweat blood. Finnish-Swedish: Wessman 13 No. 114. |
| Q391 | Punishment for singing worldly songs. (Cf. Q411.10.1.) |
| Q391.1 | Prince of devils gives up seat to man who goes to hell for singing worldly songs. Scala Celi 25b No. 169. |
| 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. |
| Q393 | Evil speech punished. Italian Novella: Rotunda; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 50. |
| Q393.1 | Punishment for talking too much. Monk punished in hell's fires for this fault. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| Q393.2 | Gossiping punished. Africa: Casati I 319. |
| Q394 | Uxoriousness punished. Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q395 | Disrespect punished. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 411, Tahiti: ibid. 244. |
| Q400 | Kinds of punishment—general. *Child V 492 s.v. "punishments"; 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. |
| Q402 | Punishment of children for parents' offenses. Jewish: Neuman. |
| Q403 | Punishment not meted out to persons below twenty years. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| Q404 | Punishment comes in seventh generation. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| Q410 | Capital punishment. Jewish: *Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| 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. |
| Q411.0.1 | Husband kills returning adulteress. (Cf. Q241.) Italian Novella: Rotunda; Maori: Dixon 80. |
| Q411.0.1.1 | Adulterer killed. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q411.0.1.2 | Man (fairy) kills wife's lover. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q411.0.1.3 | Faithless wife (mistress) seized by husband's (lover's) poet, who leaps to death with her in his arms. Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q411.0.1.4 | Death for repeated adultery. Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 1369. |
| Q411.0.2 | Husband kills wife and paramour. Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| Q411.1 | Punishment: winning as wife and then killing. Type 956B; *BP I 373. |
| Q411.2 | Undesired suitor hiding under girl's bed is killed. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q411.2.1 | Undesired suitor killed asleep in his tent. Icelandic: *Boberg; Jewish: Judith and Holofernes. |
| Q411.3 | Death of father (son, etc.) as punishment. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q411.4 | Death as punishment for treachery. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q411.4.1 | Man killed at once for treacherously slaying overlord. Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q411.4.2 | Woman who disrobes to attract attention of hostile fighter killed. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q411.5 | Hero kills mutilators of girl. Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q411.6 | Death as punishment for murder. (Cf. Q211.) Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| Q411.7 | Death as punishment for ravisher. (Cf. Q244.) Irish myth: Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| Q411.8 | A man in every house in the land killed as punishment for abduction by their king. Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q411.9 | Death as punishment for reproach concerning physical deformity (blemish). (Cf. Q284.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q411.10 | Death as punishment for impudence. (Cf. Q326.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q411.10.1 | Man killed because of scornful singing. (Cf. Q391.) Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| Q411.11 | Death as punishment for desecration of holy places (images, etc.). (Cf. Q222.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q411.11.1 | Desecrating a sanctuary (saint's house) by murder punished. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q411.11.2 | Hanging as punishment for stealing from a church. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q411.12 | Maidens slain in revenge for deaths of young men. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q411.13 | Death as punishment for thievery. Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q411.13.1 | Charge of theft avenged by assault. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| Q411.14 | Death as punishment for spying on uncanny persons. Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q411.15 | Death as punishment for dropping on emperor's coat. Icelandic: FSS 125, 168—70, Boberg. |
| Q412 | Punishment: millstone dropped on guilty person. *Type 720; BP I 412ff., *423; Liebrecht 296; *Fb "möllesten" II 650; Herrmann Saxo II 568 n. 2, Grimm Deutsche Rechtsalterthümer II 277. — Jewish: Neuman. |
| Q413 | Punishment: hanging. *DeCock Volkssage 74; *Hdwb. d. Abergl. III 1438ff.; Irish: O'Suilleabhain 107, Beal XXI 334; Icelandic: *Boberg; Jewish: Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys; Marquesas: Handy 63. |
| Q413.0.1 | Threat of hanging. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| Q413.1 | Hanging as punishment for theft. (Cf. Q212.) *Fb "hænge" I 731b; Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg; Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| Q413.2 | Hanging as punishment for adultery. (Cf. Q241.) Icelandic: *Boberg; German: Grimm No. 4; Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q413.3 | Hanging as punishment for imposture. (Cf. Q262.) Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q413.4 | Hanging as punishment for murder. (Cf. Q211.) Icelandic: *Boberg; Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q413.5 | Hanging as punishment for impudence. (Cf. Q326.) Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| Q413.5.1 | Impudent suitor or his messenger hanged or threatened with hanging. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| Q413.6 | Hanging as punishment for denying pagan gods. (Cf. Q225.2.) Der Heiligen Leben und Leiden 101 (Santa Barbara). |
| Q413.7 | Hanging as punishment for silence about hidden treasure. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| Q413.8 | Hanging as punishment for treachery. (Cf. Q261.) Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| Q413.8.1 | Hanging by one foot as punishment for treachery. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q414 | Punishment: burning alive. **W. Foerster Der Feuertod als Strafe in der altfr. erzählenden Dichtung (Halle, 1913); *Fb "brænde" IV 69ab, "teglovn"; Dickson 74; Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 232; Alphabet No. 353; Grimm No. 3 (Type 710).—Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg; French Canadian: Barbeau JAFL XXIX 20; Spanish: Keller, Espinosa Jr. Nos. 140, 161; Italian: Basile Pentamerone II No. 2, Rotunda; Jewish: *Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 35 No. 22; S. A. Indian (Huamachuco): Métraux RMLP XXXIII 151; Africa (Luba): DeClerq ZsKS IV 222. |
| Q414.0.1 | Burning as punishment for uxoricide. (Cf. Q211.3.) Africa (Fjort): Dennett 54 No. 19. |
| 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. |
| Q414.0.3 | Burning as punishment for incest (incontinence). (Cf. Q242, Q243.) Child II 41—48 passim, 113—25 passim, III 508b, V 292b; Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q414.0.3.1 | Burning monastery and monks in it as punishment for incontinence. Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles No. 32; Heptameron No. 31. |
| Q414.0.4 | Burning as punishment for ravisher. (Cf. Q244.) Malone PMLA XLIII 406. |
| Q414.0.4.1 | Ravisher's grave and body miraculously burnt. Scala Celi 111a No. 619; Wright Latin Stories 112. |
| Q414.0.4.2 | Burning as punishment for abductor. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q414.0.5 | Burning as punishment for traitor. (Cf. Q261.) Icelandic: *Boberg; Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "bыcher"; Missouri French: Carrière; Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q414.0.5.1 | Burning for traitor: unwittingly suggested by culprit. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| 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. |
| Q414.0.6.1 | Burning as punishment for counterfeiting. (Cf. Q261.) Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q414.0.7 | Innocent queen burned at stake. *Fb. "brænde" IV 69b. |
| Q414.0.8 | Demons burn heretics at stake. (Cf. Q225.1.) Scala Celi 103b Nos. 555, 556. |
| Q414.0.9 | Burning as punishment for betraying the confessional. (Cf. Q224.) Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q414.0.10 | Burning for witchcraft. Icelandic: *Boberg; Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q414.0.11 | Burning for sodomy. (Cf. Q253.) Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q414.0.12 | Burning as punishment for murder. (Cf. Q211.) Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg; Africa (Bankon): Ittman 100. |
| Q414.0.12.1 | Woman saved from being burned as punishment for killing impudent suitor. Icelandic: FSS 240, Boberg. |
| Q414.0.13 | Burning as punishment for fratricide. (Cf. Q211.9.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q414.1 | Punishment: boiling in oil (lead, tar). DeCock Volkssage 80; Child II 312 n. 327, IV 480a, V 53, 56, 230; Icelandic: FSS 243; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| Q414.1.1 | Boiling in tar as punishment for impostor. (Cf. Q262.) Africa (Angola): Chatelain 49 version B. |
| Q414.2 | Punishment: imprisonment in white-hot iron house. Irish myth: Cross (cf. also S112.6); Welsh: MacCulloch Celtic 101. |
| Q414.3 | Punishment: burning and scattering ashes. Italian: Basile Pentamerone V No. 9. |
| Q414.3.1 | Punishment: crushing in rice mill and scattering ashes. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q414.4 | Punishment: dancing to death in red-hot shoes. Type 709; *BP I 450ff., *464; *Loomis White Magic 118. |
| Q414.5 | Punishment: king hung between two fires. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| Q414.6 | Woman cast on husband's funeral pyre as punishment. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q415 | Punishment: being eaten by animals. (Cf. Q453, Q557.) *DeCock Volkssage 88; Irish: O'Suilleabhain 46, Beal XXI 317. |
| Q415.0.1 | Punishment: being eaten by demon. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q415.1 | Punishment: being eaten by dogs. Eskimo: Thompson Tales 4, 272 n. 2. |
| Q415.1.1 | Punishment: transformation to deer which is devoured by dogs. Greek: Frazer Apollodorus I 323 (Acteon). |
| Q415.1.2 | Punishment: tying man to horses and setting vicious hounds after him. (Cf. Q416, S117.) Scottish: Campbell-McKay No. 25. |
| Q415.2 | Mice devour hard-hearted man. (Hatto and the Mouse Tower.) (Cf. Q291.) *Fb "rotte" III 83a; Veckenstedt (Veckenstedt's) Zs. f. Vksk. I (1888—9) 364ff.; **Beheim-Schwartzbach Die Mäusenturmsage von Popiel und Hatto (Posen, 1888); *Wehrhan Die Sage 51; *Liebrecht 1ff.; Jewish: Neuman. |
| Q415.3 | Punishment: man eaten by worms (snake). Finnish-Swedish: Wessman 19 No. 180; Jewish: Neuman; 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. |
| Q415.4 | Punishment: being fed to lions (wild beasts). Italian Novella: *Rotunda; Jewish: Neuman. |
| Q415.5 | Punishment: being devoured by tiger. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| Q415.6 | Bears devour the wicked. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| Q415.7 | Wolves kill person for quenching holy fire. (Cf. Q222.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q415.7.1 | Wolves and birds eat bodies of slayers of poet. Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q415.8 | Heretic preaching against God's creation worried to death by fly. (Cf. Q225.) Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| Q415.9 | Punishment: being eaten by fish. Tuamotu: Stimson MS (z-G. 3/1301); Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 504. |
| Q416 | Punishment: drawing asunder by horses. (Cf. Q469.12.) Child V 157; BP I 306; Grimm Deutsche Rechtsalterthümer II 272; DeCock Volkssage 91. — Irish myth: Cross; Icelandic: FSS 42, Boberg; Spanish: Espinosa Jr. Nos. 126, 143; Greek: Frazer Apollodorus I 331 n. I (Lycurgus); India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q416.0.1 | Quartering by horses as punishment for breaking betrothal. (Cf. Q252.) Estonian: Aarne FFC XXV 136 No. 93. |
| Q416.0.2 | Quartering by horses as punishment for murder. (Cf. Q211.3.) Icelandic: *Boberg; Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| Q416.0.2.1 | Quartering by horses as punishment for uxoricide. (Cf. Q211.3.) Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q416.0.3 | Quartering by horses as punishment for impostor. (Cf. Q262.) Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| Q416.1 | Punishment: trampling (kicking) to death by horses. East Gothic: De la Saussaye 135; Grimm Deutsche Rechtsalterthümer II 273; Liebrecht Orient und Occident II 270; G. Kurth Histoire poetique des Merovingiens 420ff. — Icelandic: *Boberg; Indonesia: Snouck-Hurgronje De Atjehers II 142. |
| Q416.1.1 | Adulteress kicked to death by mule as punishment. (Cf. Q241.) *Fischer-Bolte 217. |
| Q416.2 | Punishment: dragging to death by a horse. Cheremis: Sebeok-Nyerges; Lithuanian: Balys Index Nos. 452*f., 481*; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q416.2.1 | Punishment: drawing at the tails of horses. (Cf. S117.) Irish myth: Cross; Jewish: *Neuman. |
| Q416.2.2 | Punishment: dragging to death tied to horns of a bull. Greek: Grote I 241. |
| Q416.3 | Punishment: trampling by elephants. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| Q416.3.1 | Punishment: being gored to death by elephant. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q417 | Punishment: dropping and dashing to pieces. (Cf. Q551.10.) Von Amira Sitzb. bair. Akad. XXXI (3) 136ff.; Irish myth: Cross; Spanish: Boggs FFC XC 49 No. 327F*. |
| Q417.1 | Murderess forced to leap from cliff. (Cf. Q211.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q417.2 | Traitor thrown into pit so that he sticks to the waist and is then chased out of the country. (Cf. Q261.) Icelandic: Boberg. |
| Q417.3 | Bridge to world of dead cut from under wicked person so that he falls into hell. (Cf. F152.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q418 | Punishment by poisoning. (Cf. S111.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q418.1 | Murder of faithless wife with poisoned salad. (Cf. Q241.) Heptameron No. 36. |
| Q418.2 | Venomous snake put into the mouth as punishment for murder of newborn children. (Cf. Q211.4.) Icelandic: Boberg. |
| Q421 | Punishment: beheading. DeCock Volkssage 75; *Roberts 211; Irish myth: Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg; French Canadian: Sister Marie Ursule; Jewish: *Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| Q421.0.1 | Beheading as punishment for debt. (Cf. Q271.) *Fb "gjæld" I 448. |
| Q421.0.2 | Beheading as punishment for adultery. (Cf. Q241.) Pauli (ed. Bolte) Nos. 229, 230; Italian Novella: Rotunda; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q421.0.3 | Beheading as punishment for rape. (Cf. Q244.) 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. |
| Q421.0.6 | Beheading as punishment for incest. (Cf. Q242.) 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. |
| Q421.1 | Heads on stakes. Punishment by beheading and placing the heads on stakes. *Taylor Romanic Review IX 21ff.; *BP III 368, IV 113; *B. Lewis Classical Mythology and Arthurian Romance 107ff.; Child V 482 s.v. "heads". — Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg; India: Thompson-Balys; Japanese: Ikeda; Africa: Frobenius Atlantis III 78; Cape Verde Islands: Parsons MAFLS XV (1) 214 No. 73. |
| Q421.1.1 | Head cut off and hung on tree outside village. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| Q421.2 | Man beheaded in place where he turned his back on saint. (Cf. Q227.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q421.3 | Punishment: cutting throat. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q422 | Punishment: stoning to death. (Cf. Q220.1.1.) Von Amira Sitzb. bair. Akad. XXXI (3) 155ff.; R. Hirzel Abh. sächs. Ges. der Wiss. Phil.-Hist. Klasse XXVII No. 7. — Icelandic: Corpus Poeticum Boreale I 344, *Boberg; Spanish Exempla: Keller; Italian Novella: *Rotunda; Jewish: *Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| Q422.0.1 | Punishment: beating to death. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q423 | Punishment: breaking upon a wheel. Von Amira Sitzb. bair. Akad. XXXI (3) 106ff.; Icelandic: Boberg; Irish myth: Cross; Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q424 | Punishment: strangling. (Cf. Q469.5, S113.) *DeCock Volkssage 77; Marquesas: Handy 113, 129. |
| Q424.0.1 | Strangling as punishment for murder. (Cf. Q211.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q424.1 | King strangles falcon when it kills eagle. (Cf. Q211.6.) Köhler-Bolte I 583; Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| Q424.2 | Strangling as punishment for adultery. (Cf. Q241.) Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q424.3 | Man strangles friar for attempting to seduce his wife. (Cf. Q243.2.1.) Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q425 | Punishment: suffocating. (Cf. Q274.2.) |
| Q426 | Wolf cut open and filled with stones as punishment. *Type 333; BP I 37, *40; Spanish: Espinosa III No. 212, Espinosa Jr. Nos. 32—34; Cape Verde Islands: *Parsons MAFLS XV (1) 312 n. 1. |
| Q426.1 | Punishment for murder by fatal enema. (Cf. Q211.4.2.) Africa (Wakweli): Bender 86. |
| Q427 | Punishment: opening own veins and bleeding to death. (Seneca) Alphabet No. 224. |
| Q428 | Punishment: drowning. (Cf. Q552.19.) Irish myth: *Cross; Jewish: *Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| Q428.1 | Drowning as punishment for adultery. (Cf. Q241.) Irish myth: *Cross; Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| Q428.2 | Magic swine cause robbers to be drowned. (Cf. B183, Q212.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q428.3 | Drowning as punishment for disturbing holy person. (Cf. Q227.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q429 | Capital punishment—miscellaneous. |
| Q429.1 | Punishment: culprit eaten by cannibals. Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 824. |
| Q429.2 | Death at hands of foreign invaders as punishment. Jewish: Moreno Esdras. |
| Q429.3 | Cutting into pieces as punishment. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| Q429.4 | Punishment: squeezing to death. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q430 | Abridgment of freedom as punishment. |
| Q430.1 | Imposition of tabu as punishment. Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q431 | Punishment: banishment (exile). *Boje 63; Dickson 78; Gaster Thespis 304; Irish: *Cross, O'Suilleabhain 88, Beal XXI 328; Icelandic: *Boberg; Greek: Frazer Apollodorus I 350 n. 1 (Oedipus), Grote I 172; Jewish: *Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 38, 143; Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 205, 214; S. A. Indian (Tupinamba): Métraux RMLP XXXIII 169. |
| Q431.0.1 | Saint prefers to die in exile. Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q431.1 | Voluntary exile as punishment for murder. (Cf. Q211, Q431.9.) Greek: Fox 93 (Herakles). |
| Q431.2 | Banishment for treachery. (Cf. Q261.) Italian Novella: Rotunda; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q431.2.1 | Elder brothers banished for treachery. (Cf. K2211, Q261.) Spanish: Boggs FFC XC 49 No. 328A*. |
| Q431.2.2 | Treachery punished by banishment to desert isle. (Cf. S145.) Heptameron No. 67. |
| Q431.2.3 | King's foster brothers banished for lawlessness. 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. |
| Q431.4 | Banishment till rose grows from table for preventing childbirth. (Cf. F971.2, Q251, T572).) *Type 755. |
| Q431.5 | Banishment for seduction. (Cf. Q243.2.) Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| Q431.5.1 | Banishment for attempted seduction. (Cf. Q243.2.1.) Icelandic: *Boberg; Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| Q431.5.2 | Banishment for abduction of bride (girl). Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| Q431.5.3 | Princes banished as punishment for lewd conduct with female subjects. (Cf. Q243.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q431.6 | Banishment for rape. (Cf. Q244.) Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| Q431.7 | Banishment for imposture. (Cf. Q262.) Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q431.8 | Banishment as punishment for adultery. (Cf. Q241.) Irish myth: Cross; Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q431.8.1 | Banishment as punishment for incest. (Cf. Q242.2.) India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| Q431.9 | Banishment for murder. (Cf. Q211.) Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| Q431.9.1 | Banishment for attempted murder. Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| Q431.9.2 | Exile as punishment for parricide. (Cf. Q211.1.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q431.10 | Banishment for assault on king's tax collectors. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| 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. |
| Q431.13 | Banishment for desecration of holy places. (Cf. Q222.) Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| Q431.14 | Berserks banished because of defeat. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| Q431.15 | Banishment as punishment for robbery. (Cf. Q212.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q431.16 | Boy banished for breaking women's water pots. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| Q431.17 | Banishment for lying. (Cf. Q263.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q431.18 | Banishment for association with those of another faith. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q431.19 | Banishment for laziness. (Cf. Q321.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q432 | Punishment: ejectment. |
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