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Stith Thompson Motif Index
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Stith Thompson's Motif-Index of Folk-Literature classifies recurring narrative elements in folktales, myths, legends, ballads and related traditional narratives. Each entry below gives Thompson's motif reference and the description recorded in the index.
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Mythological Motifs
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Animal Motifs
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Motifs of Tabu
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Magic
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The Dead
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Marvels
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Ogres
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Tests
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The Wise and the Foolish
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Deceptions
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Reversals of Fortune
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Ordaining the Future
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Chance and Fate
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Society
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Rewards and Punishments
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Captives and Fugitives
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Unnatural Cruelty
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Sex
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The Nature of Life
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Religion
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Traits of Character
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Humor
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Miscellaneous Groups of Motifs
| Thompson reference ▲ | Description |
|---|---|
| Q552.12 | Punishment: shipwreck. Irish myth: *Cross; Finnish-Swedish: Wessman 18 Nos. 174—75. |
| Q552.13 | Fire from heaven as punishment. (Cf. F797, F962.2.) Irish myth: *Cross; Jewish: *Neuman. |
| Q552.13.0.1 | Punishment by arrows of fire from heaven. Jewish: Neuman. |
| Q552.13.0.2 | Sword (of fire) from heaven drawn upon sinners. Jewish: Neuman. |
| Q552.13.0.3 | Gods pour torrents of hot ashes on kingdom as punishment. Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 601. |
| Q552.13.1 | Death by fire from heaven as punishment. *Loomis White Magic 35; Irish myth: Cross. |
| 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. |
| Q552.13.2 | Destruction of property by fire from heaven as punishment. (Cf. Q595.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q552.13.2.1 | City of king who opposed saint miraculously burned. (Cf. Q227.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q552.13.2.2 | Church which refused to bury saint miraculously burned. (Cf. Q227.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q552.13.3 | Fire from heaven consumes adulterous wife who has slandered an abbot. (Cf. Q227, Q414.0.3.) *Loomis White Magic 111. |
| Q552.14 | Storm as punishment. (Cf. D905.) Jewish: *Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q552.14.0.1 | Storm as punishment for affront to disguised supernatural spirit. (Cf. Q221.) S. A. Indian (Chamacoco): Métraux MAFLS XL 28. |
| Q552.14.1 | Fortress built on Sunday destroyed by tempest. (Cf. C631, Q223.6.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q552.14.2 | Punishment: flood of mud after which crops of corn come up with black (smutted) ears. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q552.14.3 | Mass of sand advances like a tidal wave upon city. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q552.14.4 | Rain of stones as punishment. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q552.14.5 | Hail as punishment. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| Q552.15 | Punishment: cloud cuts off view of man promised all he can see for expelling saint. (Cf. Q227.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q552.16 | Food and drink refused saint miraculously become putrid. (Cf. D2096, Q227.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q552.16.1 | Food concealed from saint miraculously changed to stones. (Cf. Q551.3.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q552.16.1.1 | Fishermen cut fish into pieces and claim that they have none. Saint says, "If you have none, may you have them; if you have, may they be stones." Pieces of fish are changed to stones. (Cf. A977.5.2.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q552.16.1.2 | Women carrying cheeses concealed pretend that they are carrying webs or balls of thread. Saint changes cheeses to stones. (Cf. A977.5.1.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q552.17 | Punishment: grave fills with sand when digger attempts to bury sinner over holy man. (Cf. Q222.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q552.18 | Punishment: disappearance of ill-gotten gains. (Cf. Q585, Q595.) Irish myth: Cross; Jewish: *Neuman. |
| Q552.18.1 | Gold and silver demanded of saint disappear. (Cf. Q227.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q552.18.1.1 | Cowl demanded as ransom from saint bursts into flame. Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q552.18.2 | Drink refused saint disappears. (Cf. Q227.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q552.18.3 | Payment for ransom disappears when prisoner is not released. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q552.19 | Miraculous drowning as punishment. (Cf. Q428, Q467.) Irish myth: Cross; Jewish: *Neuman. |
| Q552.19.0.1 | Drowning caused by magic wind as punishment of braggart. (Cf. D906, Q330.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q552.19.1 | Miraculous drowning as punishment for opposition to saint (holy man). (Cf. Q227.) Irish myth: *Cross; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 1042. |
| Q552.19.2 | Miraculous drowning as punishment for desire to murder. (Cf. Q211.8.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q552.19.3 | Miraculous drowning as punishment for theft. (Cf. Q212.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q552.19.4 | Miraculous drowning as punishment for man's flight with stepmother. (Cf. Q242.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q552.19.5 | Miraculous drowning as punishment for haughtiness. (Cf. Q331.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q552.19.6 | Flood as punishment for murder (fratricide). (Cf. Q211.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q552.20 | Eclipse as punishment. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q552.20.1 | Miraculous darkness as punishment. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| Q552.21 | Man vomits heart as punishment and lives without it till his death. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q552.22 | Punishment: city and inhabitants hurled down precipice. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q552.23 | Punishment: being suspended between heaven and earth. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q552.24 | Punishment: lava flow. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 500. |
| Q552.25 | Earthquake as punishment. |
| Q552.25.1 | Earthquake at dragon's death. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| Q552.25.2 | Earthquake at witch's death. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| Q553 | Divine favor withdrawn as punishment. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| Q553.1 | Virgin Mary withdraws the sacrament from a scoffer. (Cf. Q225.) Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 551. |
| Q553.2 | Punishment: angel ceases to appear to self-righteous hermit. Type 756A; Köhler-Bolte I 147f., 578; Spanish: Espinosa II No. 81, Espinosa Jr. No. 186. |
| Q553.3 | Sterility as punishment. (Cf. T591.) Jewish: *Neuman. |
| Q553.3.1 | God refuses king a son on account of his many wars. (Cf. Q305.) Chinese: Werner 256. |
| Q553.3.0.1 | Sterility of women as punishment. Jewish: Moreno Esdras (Q578.3); India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q553.3.2 | Children of incestuous father die without issue. (Cf. Q242.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q553.3.3 | Sterility as punishment for breaking saint's covenant. (Cf. Q227.) Irish myth: Cross; Greek (Herodotus): Classical Philology 39 (1944) 179f. |
| Q553.3.4 | Sterility as punishment for parricide. (Cf. Q211.1.). Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q553.3.5 | Sterility as punishment for uncharitableness to holy person. (Cf. Q286.1.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q553.3.6 | Painful birth of children as punishment. Jewish: Neuman. |
| Q553.3.7 | Punishment: reduced number of children. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| Q553.4 | Death of children as punishment. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| Q553.4.1 | Child taken from parents because they have ceased to think of God. (Cf. Q223.1.) Köhler-Bolte I 148. |
| Q553.5 | Punishment: small catch of fish for child-murderers. Fisherman and his wife have always caught three fishes. From greed they kill their child in order to have more fish for themselves. But they thereafter catch but two fishes. (Cf. Q211.4.) Type 832. |
| Q553.6 | Failure in all efforts as punishment. Loomis White Magic 100; Jewish: Moreno Esdras (Q479.1); India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q553.7 | Rains withheld until king remembers to have monks' huts roofed as promised. (Cf. Q266.) Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 288. |
| Q554 | Mysterious visitation as punishment. |
| Q554.1 | Punishment: devil carries off thief. (Cf. Q212.) Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 378. |
| Q554.2 | Devil in roof of church into which he thrusts voices of loud singers. (Cf. Q223.) Alphabet No. 123. |
| Q554.3 | Mysterious stranger blows ashes into face of scoffer and chokes him to death. (Cf. Q225.) Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 666. |
| Q554.4 | Mysterious wolf enters church and kills blaspheming priest. (Cf. Q225.) Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 550. |
| 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. |
| Q554.6 | Cheaters visited by god in animal form. Frightened into restitution. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q554.7 | Creditor in former existence comes to confiscate riches of unkind man in next existence. (Cf. Q281.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q555 | Madness as punishment. (Cf. D2065.) *Loomis White Magic 98; Irish myth: *Cross; Greek: *Frazer Apollodorus I 146 n. 2, 183 n. 3; Jewish: *Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| Q555.1 | Madness as punishment for scoffer. (Cf. Q225.) Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 457. |
| Q555.2 | Madness as punishment for adulterer. (Cf. Q241.) Alphabet No. 36; Irish myth: Cross; Greek: Aeschylus Eumenides 341. |
| Q555.3 | Madness as punishment for thieves. (Cf. Q212.) *Loomis White Magic 98. |
| Q555.4 | Punishment for incest: father and son maddened; cut off their sexual organs. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q556 | Curse as punishment. Roberts 217; Irish: *Cross, O'Suilleabhain 83, Beal XXI 328; Jewish: *Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q556.0.1 | Curse threatened to enforce demand. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q556.0.2 | Voice from heaven pronounces curse of destruction on city. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q556.1 | Curse for participation in Crucifixion. (Cf. Q221.2.) Dh II 216ff., 219ff.; England: Baughman. |
| Q556.2 | Mark of Cain. Permanent mark as curse on a murderer. (Cf. Q211.) *Frazer Old Testament I 78ff.; Irish myth: *Cross; Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| Q556.3 | Curse for leaving home. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q556.4 | Man has color of the dead as result of saint's curse for disobedience. (Cf. Q227.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q556.4.1 | Child born with one eye blinded as result of saint's curse. Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q556.5 | Saint decrees offenders will not be able to fortify their dwellings. Fences fall, earth gapes when dug. (Cf. D2192, Q227, Q552.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q556.6 | Curse for plundering church: king loses battles. (Cf. Q222.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q556.7 | Curse for inhospitality. (Cf. Q292.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q556.7.1 | Curse for enforced hospitality. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q556.8 | Curse for mockery. (Cf. Q288.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q556.9 | Curse for banishing wife at wish of paramour. (Cf. Q248.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q556.10 | Curse for murder. (Cf. Q211.) |
| Q556.10.1 | Saint curses murderer with shortness of life here and hell beyond. Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q556.11 | Curse for uncharitableness. (Cf. Q286.1.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q556.12 | Curse for stealing. (Cf. Q212.) |
| Q556.12.1 | Thievish abbot to be eaten by wolves: curse by saint. Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q557 | Miraculous punishment through animals. (Cf. Q415, Q552.4, Q554.5, Q582.6, Q589.1, Q589.1.0.1, Q597.) Jewish: *Neuman. |
| Q557.1 | Poisonous toad sits on food of undutiful children. (Cf. Q281.1.) Tobler Epiphanie der Seele 25. |
| Q557.2 | Serpent chokes woman's undutiful son. (Cf. Q281.1.) Alphabet No. 359. |
| Q557.3 | Eagle (ape) carries off ill-gotten gain. Makes away with the receipts of a merchant who had watered his wine. (Cf. Q274.) Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| Q557.4 | Mouse causes hair of thief to fall out. (Cf. Q551.6.4.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q557.5 | Saint's pet crane pecks out eye of spying person. (Cf. Q342, Q580.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q557.6 | Snake strikes person for opposing saint. (Cf. Q227.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q557.7 | Tiger seizes bride and bridegroom at threshold of house because groom has failed to worship deity before ceremony. (Cf. Q223.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q557.8 | People given charm to dispel flies grumble: flies return a thousandfold. (Cf. Q312.) India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| Q558 | Mysterious death as punishment. (Cf. Q411, Q574, Q591.1.) |
| Q558.1 | Scoffing priest mysteriously stricken dead. (Cf. Q225.) Pauli (ed. Bolte) Nos. 455, 486. |
| Q558.2 | Perjurer stricken dead. (Cf. Q263.) Icelandic: Boberg; Finnish-Swedish: Wessman 19 No. 177. |
| Q558.3 | Usurer flees city to escape plague. On his return he boasts that God did not get him. He takes the plague and dies. (Cf. Q221.3.) Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q558.4 | Blasphemer stricken dead. (Cf. Q221.3.) England: Baughman; Irish myth: *Cross; Spanish Exempla: Keller (Q221.3.3); Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q558.5 | Man in anger throws stone at the image of the Virgin. Is stricken dead. (Cf. Q222.) Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q558.6 | Mysterious death as punishment for theft. (Cf. Q212.) *Loomis White Magic 98; Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q558.7 | Slave-driver mysteriously stricken dead. (Cf. Q285.4.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q558.8 | Mysterious death as punishment for wrongful satire. (Cf. Q265.2.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q558.9 | Mysterious death as punishment for murder. (Cf. Q211.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q558.9.1 | Mysterious death of son as punishment for murder. Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q558.10 | Mysterious death as punishment for feigning sleep. (Cf. Q260.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q558.11 | Animals which eat of saint's body stricken dead. (Cf. B275.3, Q220.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q558.12 | Mysterious death as punishment for worshiping idols on All-Saints-Day. Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q558.13 | Mysterious death as punishment for opposition to holy person. (Cf. Q227, Q574.1.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q558.13.1 | Mysterious death of son as punishment for opposition to holy person. (Cf. Q411.3.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q558.13.2 | Mysterious death as punishment for disbelief in druidism. Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q558.14 | Mysterious death as punishment for desecration of holy places (images, etc.). (Cf. Q222.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q558.14.1 | Animals stricken dead for desecration of holy places. (Cf. D2089.3.) *Loomis White Magic 102; Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q558.15 | Mysterious death as punishment for lying (perjury). (Cf. Q263.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q558.15.1 | Mysterious death of son as punishment for lying (perjury). Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q558.16 | Mysterious death as punishment for false judging. Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q558.17 | Death by ulcer for destroying churches. (Cf. Q222.) Irish myth: |
| Q558.18 | Saints bring about miraculous death because of desecration of sanctuaries. (Cf. C51.1, Q222, V220.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q559 | Other miraculous punishments. |
| Q559.1 | Devils instead of angels visit woman who has forgotten God in her prosperity. U.S., England: Baughman; Russian: Andrejev No. 796*. |
| Q559.2 | Punishment: man stricken blind. (Cf. Q451.7.0.2.) Irish: Beal XXI 336; Icelandic: *Boberg; Finnish-Swedish: Wessman 18 No. 172; Jewish: *Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| 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. |
| Q559.4 | Peasants punished for working on feast day. They cannot leave the field for several days. (Cf. Q223.) Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q559.5 | Girl punished for jeering at saint. Is stricken dumb and distaff sticks to her hand. (Cf. Q227.) Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q559.5.1 | Birth of child prevented until girl confesses slander. She has accused a bishop of fathering the child. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| Q559.5.2 | Girl's hand withers as punishment for broken oath to God. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| Q559.6 | Poets lose ability to compose verse as punishment for immoderate request. (Cf. Q338.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q559.7 | Punishment: body will not decay after death because man broke saint's covenant. (Cf. Q227.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q559.8 | Half of house in which false judgment is given slips down hill. (Cf. Q265.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q559.9 | Saints miraculously cause child to fall over cliff as punishment for mother's washing clothes in holy well. (Cf. Q222, Q411.3.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q559.10 | Magic boat keeps thief at sea until he promises to throw ill-gotten gains into sea. (Cf. D1654.6, Q212.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q559.11 | Man miraculously made to excrete his entrails for heresy. (Cf. Q225.1, Q469.7.) Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| Q560 | Punishments in hell. (Cf. Q174.) Fb "helvede" IV 209a; Wienert FFC LVI 41; Krappe "Notes on Dante's Inferno" Archivum Romanicum VI 376—385, XI 592—603; Festskrift til Feilberg 202. — Irish: *Cross, Beal XXI 319—23, O'Suilleabhain 51, 53, 58; Icelandic: *Boberg; Lithuanian: Balys Legends Nos. 391, 467f., 470f., 585; Spanish: Espinosa Jr. Nos. 202, 204, Keller; Greek: Grote I 129; Egyptian: Müller 179f.; Jewish: *Neuman, Moreno Esdras; India: *Thompson-Balys; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 598. |
| Q560.1 | Punishments in land of dead (detailed). India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q560.1.1 | Punishments in other world: people reincarnated as buffaloes and killed. Chinese: Graham. |
| Q560.2 | Respite from hell. |
| Q560.2.1 | Souls in hell not punished on Sabbath. Irish myth: Cross; Jewish: Neuman. |
| Q560.2.1.1 | Three hours of respite on Sunday for tormented in hell. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q560.2.2 | Certain number of souls released from hell every Saturday through virtue of saint. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q560.2.3 | Soul (of Judas) tormented on rock in sea on certain days as respite from pains of hell. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q560.3 | Sinners endure hell tortures for one year. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| Q561 | Punishments being prepared in hell. |
| Q561.1 | Bed heating in hell for certain person. *Type 756B; **Andrejev FFC LXIX 106ff.; *Fb "seng" III 187a; Lithuanian: Balys Legends No. 391. |
| Q561.2 | Kettle heating in hell for certain person. *Type 756B; *Andrejev FFC LXIX 106ff. |
| Q561.3 | Seat (room) heating in hell for certain person. *Type 756B; *Andrejev FFC LXIX 106ff.; Irish: Beal XXI 311, O'Suilleabhain 33. |
| 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. |
| Q562 | Pain of souls tormented in hell alternately ebbs and flows. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q562.1 | Girdles of sinners in hell alternately scorch with heat and cold. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q562.2 | Souls in hell alternately drowned and burned. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q562.3 | Souls tormented in hell alternately borne up to firmament and cast down to depths. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q563 | Punishments in hell fitted to crimes. (Cf. Q580.) Zs. f. celtische Phil. IX 413ff.; Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q563.1 | Punishment in hell fitted to the grade of wickedness. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| Q564 | Letter sent to the relatives from man punished in hell. Lithuanian: Balys Legends Nos. 467f. |
| Q565 | Man admitted to neither heaven nor hell. He has tricked the devil. *Type 330; *BP II 149ff., 163ff.; Fb "helvede" I 589a, "himmerige" I 611a; Irish: Beal XXI 329, O'Suilleabhain 90; U.S.: *Baughman; Spanish: Espinosa Jr. Nos. 8, 210, 213; American Negro (Georgia): Harris Remus 156 No. 32. |
| Q565.1 | Person to be received by neither earth nor heaven. Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q566 | Punishments by heat in hell. (Cf. A671.2.4.) Irish myth: *Cross; Jewish: *Neuman; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 885. |
| Q567 | Punishments by cold in hell. *Krappe Bulletin Hispanique XXXIX 18; Irish myth: Cross; Jewish: Neuman. |
| Q567.1 | Sharp icy hoods (cowls) worn by sinners in hell. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q569 | Other punishments in hell. Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q569.1 | Sinners in hell forced to sit in dark puddles up to their middles. (Cf. A689.1.) Irish myth: *Cross; Jewish: *Neuman. |
| Q569.2 | Sinners in hell swallowed by dragons. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q569.3 | Sinners in hell fall into mouth of devil. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q569.4 | Sinners in hell painfully suspended. Jewish: Neuman. |
| Q569.5 | Smokers in otherworld are locked in smoky rooms. Cheremis: Sebeok-Nyerges. |
| Q570 | Punishment and remission. Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q570.1 | Magic foul disease as punishment for persecution of Christians remitted. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| Q571 | Magic blindness as punishment remitted. (Cf. Q451.7.0.2.) Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| Q571.1 | Magic blindness as punishment for opposition to holy person remitted. (Cf. Q227.) O'Grady Silva Gadelica II 7; Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q571.2 | Magic blindness as punishment for uncharitableness remitted. (Cf. Q286.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q572 | Magic sickness as punishment remitted. (Cf. Q551.6.) |
| Q572.1 | Magic sickness as punishment for theft remitted. (Cf. Q212.) O'Grady Silva Gadelica II 37; Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q572.2 | Magic sickness as punishment for uncharitableness remitted. (Cf. Q286.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q572.3 | Magic sickness as punishment for opposition to holy person remitted. (Cf. Q227.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q572.4 | Magic sickness as punishment for immoderate request remitted. (Cf. Q338.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q572.5 | Saint deprives enemy king of speech. King repents, speech restored. Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q573 | Magic paralysis as punishment remitted. (Cf. Q551.7.) |
| Q573.1 | Magic paralysis as punishment for opposition to holy person remitted. Cf. O'Grady Silva Gadelica II 28; Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q573.2 | Magic paralysis as punishment for scorning of bishop remitted. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| Q574 | Mysterious death as punishment remitted. (Cf. Q558.) 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. |
| Q574.2 | Mysterious death of animals as punishment for uncharitableness remitted. (Cf. D2089.3, Q286.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q575 | Magic putrefaction of food as punishment for opposition to holy person remitted. (Cf. Q227.) O'Grady Silva Gadelica II 26; Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q576 | Curse as punishment remitted. (Cf. Q556.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q576.1 | Curse of loss of victory for opposition to holy person remitted. (Cf. Q227.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q577 | Sentence to hang remitted. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q578 | Spirit in hell remitted from humiliating punishment of bathing people. (Cf. Q501.9.) Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| Q580 | Punishment fitted to crime. Irish myth: *Cross; Jewish: *Neuman; West Indies: Flowers 570. |
| Q581 | Villain nemesis. Person condemned to punishment he has suggested for others. *Cox 503 and passim (under head "villain nemesis"); *Fb "dom" IV 101b; *Wesselski Theorie 139; Köhler-Bolte Zs. f. Vksk. VI 64 to Gonzenbach No. 13; Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 116; Wienert FFC LVI 49 (ET 83), 51 (ET 109, 110), 59 (ET 199), 132 (ST 382), 135 (ST 406, 447); Halm Aesop Nos. 18, 326. — Irish myth: *Cross; Italian: Basile Pentamerone I No. 2, III No. 10, V Nos. 8, 9; Jewish: *Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q581.0.1 | Loss of life as result of one's own treachery. (Cf. Q261.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q581.1 | Unusual murder avenged in like manner. Scottish: Campbell-Mckay No. 17; Spanish Exempla: Keller; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q581.2 | Villain in hiding killed by blow aimed at his victim. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q581.3 | Those planning to drown others drowned. Jewish: Neuman. |
| Q581.3.1 | Drowning as punishment for drowning. Eskimo. (Cumberland Sound): Boas BAM XV 165. |
| Q582 | Fitting death as punishment. (Cf. Q411, D2060.) Irish: O'Suilleabhain 125, Beal XXI 336; Jewish: *Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 374, II 851, 1353; Africa (Duala): Lederbogen JAS IV 61, (Wakweli): Bender 106f. |
| Q582.1 | Sisters throw unique jewel into lake; killed and thrown after it. Revue Celtique XVI 76; Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q582.2 | Man who brings fire to his house at devil's instigation burns to death. (Cf. Q233.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q582.3 | Murderer killed by his own spear. (Cf. Q211.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q582.3.1 | Man killed by piece of stone flying from rock his victim dies upon. Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q582.4 | Man dies from drop of blood of pet hound he has killed. (Cf. Q211.6.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q582.5 | Man boasts he fears saint no more than hornless sheep; killed by hornless sheep. (Cf. Q333.1.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q582.6 | Woman killed by horse got through immoderate request. (Cf. Q338, Q557.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q582.7 | Boy who threw stones at clerics killed by thrown stone. (Cf. Q227.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q582.8 | Person drinks poison he prepared for another. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q582.9 | Man falls dead when he sees his sons whom he has reared in sin all killed. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| Q583 | Fitting bodily injury as punishment. Irish myth: Cross; Jewish: *Neuman; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 16. |
| Q583.1 | Man who laughs at blind made blind. (Cf. Q288, Q451.7.0.2.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q583.2 | Man stricken dumb for surly speech. (Cf. Q327, Q451.3.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q583.3 | Man seeking to flee saint paralyzed. (Cf. Q551.7.1.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q583.4 | Lying woman's tongue swells. (Cf. Q551.6.1.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q584 | Transformation as fitting punishment. (Cf. D661, Q551.3.) |
| Q584.1 | Transformer transformed. Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q584.2 | Transformation of a man to animal as fitting punishment. (Cf. D661.) Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 773*; S. A. Indian (Tupinamba): Métraux RMLP XXXIII 133, 172. |
| Q584.3 | Reincarnation in form fitted to crime. (Cf. Q551.5.) Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 50, 829, 1020, II 706, 1050, 1357. |
| Q585 | Fitting destruction (disappearance) of property as punishment. (Cf. Q552.18, Q595.) India: Thompson-Balys; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 885, II 416, 1264. |
| Q585.1 | Man refuses to give to charity: his property disappears. (Cf. Q286, Q595.3.) Irish myth: *Cross; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q585.2 | Destruction (disappearance) of property got through immoderate request. (Cf. Q338.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q585.3 | During rainy spring, farmer wishes that Lord would sleep till harvest time. Farmer himself sleeps until all neighbors have finished harvesting. When he wakes, he finds his crops ruined. (Cf. Q235.) England: *Baughman. |
| Q585.4 | Food disappears because of wastefulness. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| Q586 | Son on gallows bites his mother's (father's) nose off: punishment for neglect in youth. *Types 756B, 838; *Andrejev FFC LXIX 88; Wienert FFC LVI 83 (ET 493), 128 (ST 365, 499); Halm Aesop No. 351; *Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 19; Crane Vitry 259 No. 287; *Chauvin VIII 113 No. 95 n. 1; Alphabet No. 217. — Spanish Exempla: Keller; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| Q587 | Jealous husband kills bird which wife falsely says she has been listening to. She has really been conversing with her lover. (Laüstic.) *Warncke Lais der Marie de France cxxvi. |
| Q588 | Ungrateful son punished by having a son equally ungrateful. (Cf. Q281.1.) BP I 135. |
| Q589 | Punishment fitted to crime—miscellaneous. Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q589.1 | Horses fail when owner refuses load to saint. (Cf. Q286.1, Q557.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q589.1.0.1 | Man cannot drive cow by himself which he refused to share. (Cf. Q272.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q589.2 | Man goes forth naked: cursed with nakedness throughout life. (Cf. Q556.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q589.3 | Punishment for stinginess: amends made by being generous and liberal. (Cf. Q276.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q590 | Miscellaneous punishments. |
| Q591 | Punishment: lie becomes truth. (Cf. Q263.) *Loomis White Magic 100; Irish: Beal XXI 327, O'Suilleabhain 74; Japanese: Ikeda. |
| Q591.1 | Punishment: death pretended becomes real. Revue Celtique xxvii 297; Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q591.1.1 | King tests saint by having man feign death; saint perceives trick and causes man to be dead. Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q591.2 | Punishment: man says salt he carries is stones; it immediately becomes so. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q591.2.1 | Punishment: man says sugar he carries is earth; it becomes so. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q591.3 | Man dies from pretended illness. Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q593 | Dead mother appears and makes disobedient child eat fatal serpent. (Cf. Q325.) Jamaica: *Beckwith MAFLS XVII 263 No. 66. |
| Q594 | Punishment: taking snakes as foster children. *Type 751B. |
| Q595 | Loss or destruction of property as punishment. (Cf. Q552.1.0.1, Q552.13.2, Q552.14.1, Q585, Q552.18.) Irish myth: Cross; Jewish: *Neuman; Africa (Fang): Tessman 195. |
| Q595.1 | Fortress ravaged when saint is refused admittance. (Cf. Q227.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q595.2 | Cattle killed, crops burned as punishment for abduction. (Cf. Q213.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q595.3 | Uncharitable king loses wealth. (Cf. Q286, Q585.1.) Irish myth: Cross. |
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