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Stith Thompson Motif Index
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Stith Thompson's Motif-Index of Folk-Literature classifies recurring narrative elements in folktales, myths, legends, ballads and related traditional narratives. Each entry below gives Thompson's motif reference and the description recorded in the index.
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Mythological Motifs
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Animal Motifs
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Motifs of Tabu
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Magic
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The Dead
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Marvels
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Ogres
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Tests
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The Wise and the Foolish
K
Deceptions
L
Reversals of Fortune
M
Ordaining the Future
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Chance and Fate
P
Society
Q
Rewards and Punishments
R
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 ▲ |
|---|---|
| S182 | Girl fastened by hair to rafter. *Fb "hеr" I 771b. |
| S12.5.1 | Girl impregnated by god driven from home by mother. S. A. Indian (Chiriguano): Métraux RMLP XXXIII 164. |
| S262.4 | Girl offers to sacrifice herself to dragon in place of her parents. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| S31.5 | Girl persuades her father to marry a widow who has treated her kindly. *Roberts 136. |
| S240.1 | Girl promised unwittingly by her parents to ogre. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| S215.1 | Girl promises herself to animal suitor. *Type 440; BP I 1ff.; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| S223.1 | Girl promises unborn child to devil if he will suffer the birth pangs. Finnish: Aarne FFC XXXIII 40 No. 31**; Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 3254, Legends Nos. 370ff. |
| S182.2 | Girl pulled about by her hair. Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 706. |
| S263.2.1 | Gods furnish substitute for child sacrifice. (Cf. S255.) Irish myth: *Cross; Greek: Frazer Apollodorus II 192 n. 1; Jewish: *Neuman. |
| S187.2 | Hair combed with iron combs. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| S327.3 | Half-wit abandoned because of his tricks. Eskimo (Kodiak): Golder JAFL XXII 23. |
| S162.2 | Hamstringing. E. H. Meyer Germanen 161f.; *P. Maurus Wielandsage in der Literatur (Müncher Beiträge zur rom. und eng. Philologie XXV [1902]); Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| S139.2.2.1.5 | Hand of slain enemy nailed to castle. Irish myth: Cross. |
| S139.2.1 | Head of murdered man displayed before his own house. *Siberian and North Pacific Coast of America: Jochelson JE VI 381. |
| S139.2.1.1 | Head of murdered man taken along as trophy. Icelandic: *Boberg; Jewish: Neuman; Philippine (Tinguian): Cole 43, 77. |
| S139.2.2.4.1 | Head used as ball. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| S139.2.2.1.1 | Heads (tongues) of slain enemies as trophies. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| S139.2.2.1.6 | Heads brandished to intimidate foe. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| S139.2.2.1.4 | Heads of defeated enemies hung on conqueror's saddle. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| S139.2.2.1 | Heads of slain enemies impaled upon stakes. (Cf. Q421.1.) Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| S412 | Heroine taunted with her unknown past. (Cf. F302.) Dickson 74. |
| S263.1 | Highest ranking man in land to be sacrificed for good crops. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| S175 | Horses mutilated: tails cut off and manes torn off with the skin in order to humiliate their owner. (Cf. J1169.5.) Icelandic: Boberg. |
| S123.0.1 | Hostages buried alive. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| S265.1 | Hostages sacrificed. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| S112.0.2 | House (hostel) burned with all inside. Irish myth: *Cross; Marquesas: Handy 132; Easter Island: Métraux Ethnology 386; Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 514. |
| S261.0.1 | Human blood mixed with rice to make leaky tanks hold water. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| S165.6 | Human eyes used as fishbait. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 245. |
| S263.3.1 | Human sacrifice to water serpent to secure tribal prosperity. Africa Tauxier La Noir du Yatenga (Paris, 1917) 496f. No. 1, (Senegambia): Béranger-Feraud II 185ff. No. 2. |
| S260.1 | Human sacrifice. *Penzer IV 65 n.; *Encyc. Religion Ethics s.v. "Human sacrifice"; *V. Manzini La superstizione omicida e i sacrifici umani, con particolare riguardo alle accuse contro gli Ebrei (2d. ed., Padua, 1930); Krappe Hessische Blätter für Volkskunde XXVI (1927) 18—25. — Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg; Spanish: Keller, Espinosa Jr. Nos. 61, 68f.; Greek: Fox 183; Jewish: *Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 189, II 54, 851; Marquesas: Beckwith 269, Handy 73; N. A. Indian (Sia): Alexander N. Am. 203, (Hopi): ibid. 205, (Zuсi): ibid. 201, *Benedict 342; Africa (Bushongo): Torday 250. |
| S143.4 | Husband abandons wife in childbirth in jungle. (Cf. S430.) India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| S412.1 | Husband expels wife because her industry indicates her peasant origin. Chinese: Graham. |
| S62.4 | Husband leaves wife to die of thirst. Marquesas: Handy 99. |
| S312 | Illegitimate child exposed. (Cf. S12.2.1, T640.) *Encyc. Religion Ethics s.v. "Abandonment and exposure"; *Nutt FLR IV 1ff.; Frazer Apollodorus I 252 n. 2; Aarne FFC XXIII 63; *Hertel Zs. f. Vksk. XIX 83ff., 91. — Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg; Italian Novella: Rotunda; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| S125 | Immolation. Greek: Grote I 278f.; Jewish: Neuman; S. A. Indian (Inca): Rowe BBAE CXLIII (2) 317. |
| S139.2.2.1.2 | Impaled head used as target. Irish myth: Cross. |
| S350.1 | Infant condemned to death saved by a smile. Irish myth: Cross. |
| S322.3.1 | Jealous co-wife demands murder of woman's children. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| S322.3 | Jealous co-wife kills woman's children. (Cf. K2222.) India: *Thompson-Balys; Africa (Basuto): Jacottet 246 No. 36, (Zulu): Callaway 237. |
| S322.3.2 | Jealous concubine plots against real wife's daughter. Chinese: Graham. |
| S11.2 | Jealous father sends son to upper world on stretching tree. N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 332 n. 199; Africa (Benga): Nassau 176 No. 23. |
| S11.4.1 | Jealous father vows to kill daughter's suitors. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| S322.2 | Jealous mother casts daughter forth. (Cf. S12.) *Type 709; Africa (Angola): Chatelain 30 No. 1. |
| S322.6 | Jealous mother-in-law and sisters cast woman's children forth. Roberts 132; Italian Novella: Rotunda; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| S463 | Jealous wife has merchant turn out queen and son, whom he had befriended and taken into his home. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| S160.2 | Jealous women mutilate her who is most attractive to men. Irish myth: Cross. |
| S21.4 | King banishes mother to stables. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| S185.2 | King demands intercourse with woman in childbed. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| S322.1.5.1 | King, jealous of son, banishes him and his wife. Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 210. |
| S123.3 | Living children buried with dead mother. Child I 180, 185, IV 450a (No. 15). |
| S56.1 | Lover asks girl to kill her father. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| S223.0.2 | Maid pledged to devil dresses conspicuously. Finnish-Swedish: Wessman 14 No. 124. |
| S365.1 | Maltreated children transformed to doves. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| S365 | Maltreated children transformed. (Cf. D642.) |
| S73.3 | Man blinds brother. (Cf. S165.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| S264.1.1 | Man carried on top of mast ready to be sacrificed to storm spirit. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| S182.1 | Man hanged by hair to tree. Cheremis: Sebeok-Nyerges. |
| S62.2 | Man has bride drowned so that he may marry another. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| S110.2 | Man kills all guests, hoping some day to kill rival. Dickson 83 n. 47. |
| S263.5.3 | Man leaps from vessel into jaws of sea-beast, so as to save remaining passengers. Irish myth: Cross. |
| S263.6 | Man sacrifices his wife to procure wealth in jars. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| S263.2.3 | Man shows himself willing to sacrifice his child to prove his desire to follow God. He is prevented by abbot. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| S141.1 | Man springs ashore and pushes companion in boat out to sea. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| S264.1 | Man thrown overboard to placate storm. (Cf. S263.5.3.) Type 973*; Child V 496 s.v. "Ships"; Chauvin VII 30 No. 212 n. 2; Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg; Jewish: bin Gorion Born Judas I 227; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 1024; Korean: Zong in-Sob 107 No. 57. |
| S11.3.1 | Man who doubts his children's paternity kills them. Murders wife and paramour. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| S161.0.1 | Masons who build mausoleum of princess lose their right hands so they may never again construct so fine a building. (Cf. S165.7, W181.2.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| S139 | Miscellaneous cruel murders. |
| S411.1 | Misunderstood wife banished by husband. She has decorated the house for his homecoming, but he thinks that she is expecting a paramour. *Type 890 (Christiansen Norske Eventyr 113); Japanese: Ikeda. |
| S263.5.2 | Monks sacrifice themselves (to save king and princes from pestilence). Irish myth: Cross. |
| S325.0.1 | Monstrous (deformed) child exposed. (Cf. S11.3.2, T550.) Irish myth: Cross; Greek: Grote I 55; Chinese: Graham; Marquesas: Handy 114; Tonga: Gifford 31, 60. |
| S160.5 | Moon mutilates his earth mistress. Eskimo (Smith Sound): Kroeber JAFL XII 180. |
| S223.2 | Mother curses her unborn child. (Cf. M411.1.) *Type 756B; *Andrejev FFC LXIX 49. |
| S322.2.1 | Mother exposes child (for fear of jealous co-wife). Irish myth: *Cross. |
| S12.2.1 | Mother feeds newly-born illegitimate child to dog. (Cf. S312.) Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| S12.2.3 | Mother forces child to break eating tabu: child dies. Africa (Fang): Tessman 162. |
| S342 | Mother induced by rival to kill her children. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| S12.3 | Mother orders son's death. Icelandic: Völsunga saga ch. 6—8, 40 (38), 43 (41); Italian Novella: Rotunda; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| S328 | Mother sells her child to heathen sailors. Boje 63, *67. |
| S12.7 | Mother tells healthy sons to wipe soiled hands on lame son. Africa (Wakweli): Bender 79. |
| S12.2.2 | Mother throws children into fire. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| S216 | Mothers exchange children. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| S133 | Murder by beheading. (Cf. Q421.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| S139.8 | Murder by biting the throat. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| S116.3 | Murder by breaking back. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| S116.5 | Murder by crushing beneath falling tree. India: Thompson-Balys; Tonga: Gifford 184. |
| S116.4 | Murder by crushing head. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| S116 | Murder by crushing. (Cf. S167.) Irish myth: Cross; Icelandic: Herrmann Saxo II 592, Boberg; Africa (Basuto): Jacottet 168 No. 24. |
| S118.1 | Murder by cutting adversary in two. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| S139.5 | Murder by cutting off uvula. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| S118.2 | Murder by cutting throat. Africa (Cameroon): Mansfield 228. |
| S118 | Murder by cutting. |
| S115.2.1 | Murder by driving nail through head. West Africa: Nassau Fetischism in West Africa (London, 1904) 337ff. No. 2. |
| S112.2.2 | Murder by driving red-hot iron spits through soles of feet and into shins. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| S131 | Murder by drowning. Hdwb. d. Märchens I 346b nn. 130—46; English: Wells 96 (Chevalere Assigne); Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg; Missouri French: Carrière; Jewish: Neuman; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 651; Marquesas: Handy 53; Maori: Beckwith Myth 318; Eskimo (Greenland): Holm 56, Rasmussen I 363, III 200, (Labrador): Hawkes GSCan XIV 152, (Central Eskimo): Boas RBAE VI 637; Africa (Fang): Einstein 153. |
| S112.5 | Murder by feeding on over-hot food. Person forced to eat. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| S111.8 | Murder by feeding poisonous snake. English ballad: Child No. 12 (Lord Randal); Icelandic: *Boberg; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| S114 | Murder by flaying. *Fb "hud" I 661; Icelandic: *Boberg; Jewish: Neuman. |
| S116.1 | Murder by grinding in mill. Irish myth: *Cross; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| S113.1 | Murder by hanging. Dickson 186 n. 60; Icelandic: *Boberg; Missouri French: Carrière. |
| S112.2.1 | Murder by hot iron through heart. Icelandic: Herrmann Saxo II 592, Boberg. |
| S112.3 | Murder by hot lead poured into ear. (Cf. S115.1.) *Fb "øre" III 1180b, 1181a. |
| S113.2.3 | Murder by luring to feast and suffocating. All holes are stopped and house set afire. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| S139.4 | Murder by mangling with axe. Irish myth: Cross. |
| S115.3 | Murder by piercing with pins and needles. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| S111.9 | Murder by placing a poisoned fingernail on step. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| S111 | Murder by poisoning. *Type 709; *Böklen 100ff.; *Child V 491 s.v. "Poisoning"; Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg; Spanish: Espinosa II Nos. 115f., Espinosa Jr. Nos. 143, 145; Missouri French: Carrière; Italian Novella: Rotunda; Jewish: *Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 80, 491, 510, |
| S112.6 | Murder by roasting alive in oven furnace). Jewish: *Neuman; Tonga: Gifford 190. |
| S121 | Murder by slamming down chest-lid. Done while victim is looking into the chest. *Type 720; *BP I 412ff., 422; *Cox 479; *Hdwb. d. Märchens I 91b n. 36; Italian: Basile Pentamerone I No. 6; Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| S139.7 | Murder by slicing person into small pieces. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 154; Tuamotu: Stimson MS (TpG. 3/912). |
| S135 | Murder by springing bent tree. Man bound to it is torn to pieces. (Cf. H1522.1.) Fb "træ" III 865b; India: Thompson-Balys; Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| S115.1 | Murder by stabbing in ear. (Cf. S112.3.) Koryak: Jochelson JE VI 236, 265; N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 350 n. 264. |
| S115 | Murder by stabbing. Heptameron No. 40; Icelandic: Herrmann Saxo II 592; Japanese: Ikeda. |
| S132 | Murder by starvation. (Cf. R51.1, S123.4.) Jewish: *Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 287. |
| S115.2 | Murder by sticking needle through head. Italian: Basile Pentamerone V No. 9; Eskimo (Greenland): Holm 52, Rasmussen III 65, (Cumberland Sound): Boas BAM XV 185. |
| S113 | Murder by strangling. See references to Q424. Irish myth: Cross; Chinese: Werner 267. |
| S113.2 | Murder by suffocation. Irish myth: Cross; Spanish Exempla: Keller; West Indies: Flowers 575. |
| S139.6 | Murder by tearing out heart. India: Thompson-Balys; Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| S127 | Murder by throwing from height. Greek: Grote I 278. |
| S116.6 | Murder by trampling of horses (elephants). English romance: Malory IX 25; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 647. |
| S139.1 | Murder by twisting out intestines. (Cf. K1444, Q469.7.) *Fb "tarm" III 776a; Icelandic: *Boberg; Easter Island: Métraux Ethnology 66, 384. |
| S73.1.0.1 | Murder of stepbrother (foster brother). Irish myth: *Cross. |
| S112.2 | Murder with hot iron. Bored through eye or nose. *Krappe Balor 4ff.; Icelandic: Herrmann Saxo II 592, Boberg; India: Thompson-Balys.; Africa (Fjort): Dennett 52 No. 8. |
| S111.4 | Murder with poisoned apple. *Type 709; *BP I 450ff.; *Böklen 100; Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| S111.5 | Murder with poisoned book. King wets finger to turn leaves and falls dead. *Chauvin V 276 No. 156 n. 3. |
| S111.1 | Murder with poisoned bread. *Type 709; *Böklen 102; India: *Thompson-Balys; Africa (Basuto): Jacottet 80 No. 12. |
| S111.3 | Murder with poisoned comb. *Type 709; *BP I 450ff.; *Böklen 109. |
| S111.2 | Murder with poisoned lace. *Type 709; *BP I 450ff.; *Böklen 104. |
| S111.6 | Murder with poisoned robe. Consumes wearer. Greek: Fox 115, *Frazer Apollodorus I 123; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| S111.7 | Murder with poisoned slippers. Africa (Thonga): Junod 266ff., (Swahili): Baker FL XXXVIII 299ff. No. 16. |
| S110.5 | Murderer kills all who come to certain spot. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| S110 | Murders. Irish myth: *Cross; Jewish: *Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| S143.3 | Mutilated man on horseback chased into the forest. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| S167 | Mutilation by crushing. (Cf. S116.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| S160.4 | Mutilation of envoys. (Cf. R51.3.) Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 701. |
| S166.1 | Mutilation: beard torn off with the skin (and cheeks). (Cf. S187.1.) Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| S173 | Mutilation: breaking (two, three) ribs. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| S166.2 | Mutilation: cheek and chin cut off, but held together by biting the beard. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| S166.4 | Mutilation: cheeks cut off. (Cf. S166.2.) Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| S166.5 | Mutilation: chin and lips cut off. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| S162.5 | Mutilation: crushing feet and turning them backward. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| S167.1 | Mutilation: crushing victim's limbs. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| S163 | Mutilation: cutting (tearing) out tongue. Often to prevent revelation of secret. Irish myth: *Cross; Spanish: Boggs FFC XC 67 No. 510, Keller; Greek: Fox 70 (Philomela), Grote I 181; India: Thompson-Balys; Japanese: Ikeda; Tuamotu: Stimson MS (T-G. 3/600); Koryak, American Indian: *Jochelson JE VI 372. |
| S161.1 | Mutilation: cutting off fingers. *Fb "guld ring" I 514a; *Dickson 41 n. 41; Icelandic: *Boberg; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 22; Eskimo (Greenland): Rink 17, Rasmussen III 58, (Smith Sound): Kroeber JAFL XII 168, (Ungava): Turner RBAE XI 262, (Labrador): Hawkes GSCan XIV 152, (Cumberland Sound): Boas BAM XV 165, (Central): Boas RBAE VI 584, 586, 637. |
| S161 | Mutilation: cutting off hands (arms). Heptameron No. 48; Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg; Missouri French: Carrière; Spanish: Keller, Espinosa II Nos. 99—103, Espinosa Jr. No. 137; Jewish: *Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 710, 885; Eskimo (Labrador): Hawkes GSCan XIV 151. |
| S162.4 | Mutilation: cutting off heelbone. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| S162 | Mutilation: cutting off legs (feet). *Type 519; *Krappe Archiv f. d. Studium d. neueren Sprachen CLX 161ff.; Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg; India: *Thompson-Balys; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 710, 885; Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 242. |
| S162.3 | Mutilation: cutting off toes. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| S176.1 | Mutilation: emasculation. Irish myth: *Cross; Eskimo (Greenland): Rasmussen I 270, III 293. |
| S164 | Mutilation: knocking out teeth. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| S172 | Mutilation: nose cut off or crushed. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| S165 | Mutilation: putting out eyes. *Types 310, 533, 590, 613; *BP I 97ff., II 273ff., 468ff., III 1ff.; **Christiansen FFC XXIV 46ff.; *Cox 501; Gaster Thespis 332f. — Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg; Missouri French: Carrière; Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "yeux"; Spanish: Boggs FFC XC 63, 67 Nos. 455, 510, Espinosa II 99—103, 111—112, Espinosa Jr. No. 137; Greek: *Grote I 183, Fox 74 (Phineus); Jewish: Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 111, 1163; Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 250 No. 193; Tahiti: Beckwith Myth 251; Hawaii: ibid. 248; Eskimo (Cumberland Sound): Boas BAM XV 165, (Central Eskimo): Boas RBAE VI 585; N. A. Indian: *Thompson CColl II 391ff. |
| S176 | Mutilation: sex organs cut off. (Cf. Q241, Q451.10.) Icelandic: *Boberg; Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| S166.3 | Mutilation: shoulder-skin torn off in wrestling. Icelandic: Göngu-Hrуlfs saga 264. |
| S166 | Mutilation: skin cut from back. Hdwb. d. Märchens II 102a n. 140; Icelandic: Herrmann Saxo II 447, Boberg; Missouri French: Carrière; Spanish: Espinosa III Nos. 163—7; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| S168 | Mutilation: tearing off ears. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| S160 | Mutilations. Nouvelles de Sens No. 24; Irish myth: Cross; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| S165.5 | Necklace made of torn out human eyes. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| S74.1 | Nephew (niece) kills uncle. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| S413.1 | Ogress-wife orders raja to turn out his six wives. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| S110.1 | Old people killed in famine. *Wesselski Märchen 237 No. 48; Fb "gammel" IV 174a; Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| S375 | Old woman's maledictions inform abandoned hero of his parentage and future. He has knocked her over (broken pots). *Cosquin Contes indiens 398. |
| S262.0.1 | One man disappears each night. English: Beowulf; Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| S322.0.1 | Orphaned boy deprived of his inheritance by relatives. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| S460 | Other cruel persecutions. |
| S70 | Other cruel relatives. Missouri French: Carrière. |
| S139.2.2 | Other indignities to corpse. Irish myth: Cross. |
| S442 | Outcast wife and her son live in poverty. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| S451 | Outcast wife at last united with husband and children. *Types 706, 712, 938; *Loomis White Magic 118; *Chauvin VI 167ff. No. 327. Chauvin discusses the following stories having this motif: St. Clement, St. Eustace, Crescentia, Hildegarde, Florence, Octavianus, Sebile, Genevieve of Brabant, Euriant, the Maiden without Hands, Helena of Constantinople, the Count of Toulouse.—Missouri French: Carrière; Spanish: Espinosa II Nos. 105, 119, Espinosa Jr. Nos. 138—41; India: *Thompson-Balys; Indonesia: DeVries's list Nos. 201, 202. |
| S452 | Outcast wife commits suicide when confronted with heads of relatives killed in revenge for her wrong-doing. Irish myth: Cross. |
| S311.1 | Parents successively bury alive their sons who mention something about smith's, potter's, washerman's, and tom-tom beater's trade, but keep fifth child who says something about being future king. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| S345 | Parents trick children into going on hunt, and then abandon them in forest. (Cf. S143.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| S22.1 | Parricide to obtain kingship. Irish myth: Cross. |
| S22 | Parricide. (Cf. Q211.1.) Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg; Jewish: Neuman; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 35, 1148, II 651, 1101, 1169; Tonga: Gifford 189. |
| S139.2.2.4 | Parts of corpses used in sport. Irish myth: Cross. |
| S262 | Periodic sacrifices to a monster. *Schoepperle II 326ff.; *Panzer Beowulf 276ff.; *Frazer Pausanias V 143; Brown Iwain 17 and passim; *Freytag Am Urquell I (1890) 179ff., 197ff.; *Fb "glarbjærg" I 459, "jomfru" II 43; Chauvin VI 110 No. 274.—Irish myth: *Cross; Missouri French: Carrière; Spanish: Espinosa III Nos. 139, 151, 157; Greek: *Frazer Apollodorus I 207 n. 2, II 119 n. 2, 134 n. 1; India: *Thompson-Balys; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 189, II 573, 1188; Japanese: Ikeda; Africa (Basuto): Jacottet 154 No. 22, (Fang): Trilles 166. |
| S471 | Persecuted sons of co-wife. (Cf. K2222.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| S410 | Persecuted wife. *Types 450, 705, 706, 707, 708, 712, 872*; *BP II 236, 284; *Schlauch Constance and Accused Queens (New York, 1927); *Hibbard 29, 35ff.; *Wehrhan 51; *Krappe Anglia XLIX 361ff. —Missouri French: Carrière; Spanish: Keller, Espinosa II No. 105; India: *Thompson-Balys; Eskimo (Greenland): Rasmussen I 365, III 104, Rink 441, (Cumberland Sound): Boas BAM XV 198. |
| S73.2 | Person banishes brother (sister). Irish myth: Cross. |
| S183.1 | Person forced to eat hearts (flesh) of relatives (draw blood). Irish myth: *Cross. |
| S183.2 | Person forced to eat loathsome animal. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| S183.0.1 | Person forced to eat red-hot meal. Irish myth: Cross. |
| S263.3 | Person sacrificed to water spirit to secure water supply. India: *Thompson-Balys; Africa (Lamba): Doke MAFLS XX 14 No. 11, (Hausa): Basset Mélusine III 226f. No. 2, (Fulah): Frobenius Atlantis VI 182ff. No. 4. |
| S142 | Person thrown into the water and abandoned. *Types 450, 506, 612, 667*, 707; *BP I 79ff., 126ff., II 380ff., III 490ff.; *Krappe Balor 12 n. 43; *Fb "spinde" III 492b; Dickson 86. — Irish: MacCulloch Celtic 167, *Cross; Icelandic: Boberg; Italian: Basile Pentamerone IV No. 7; India: *Thompson-Balys; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 526; Tahiti: Handy 408; Tonga: Gifford 122; Tuamotu: Stimson MS (T-G. 3/45, 403, z-G. 3/1117). |
| S312.3 | Posthumous child to be exposed. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| S466 | Practice of one's religion forbidden. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| S116.2 | Pregnant woman crushed beneath chariot. (Cf. S185.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| S324 | Pregnant woman ordered by husband to kill child to be born. Irish myth: Cross. |
| S354.3 | Prince (princess) adopts exposed child. Jewish: Neuman; Africa (Wachaga): Gutmann 142. |
| S222 | Prince plans to kill wicked father for cruelty. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| S110.4 | Prince resolves to drive relatives from his domain. Kills many. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| S268.1.1 | Prince's life can only be prolonged if servant sacrifices his only son to goddess. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| S110.3 | Princess builds tower of skulls of unsuccessful suitors. Malone PMLA XLIII 414; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| S322.1.4 | Princess humiliated by father after she has married loathly bridegroom. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| S110.3.1 | Princess makes necklace of heads of unsuccessful suitors. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| S241.3 | Princess promised unwittingly to madman: "what you ask for." India: Thompson-Balys. |
| S260.1.3 | Prisoners sacrificed to goddess. Irish myth: Cross. |
| S113.1.2 | Prisoners taken in war (enemy's messengers) hanged. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| S411.2.1 | Queen banished for saying that man's condition depends on what kind of wife he has. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| S416 | Queen banished when she defeats king in argument. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| S332 | Queen hides her child and accuses wolf of eating it. Malone PMLA XLIII 437. |
| S263.3.3 | Raja sacrifices his entire family so as to purify lake water. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| S329 | Reasons for abandonment of children—miscellaneous. |
| S310 | Reasons for abandonment of children. (Cf. K2015, M371, M373, M375.) |
| S220 | Reasons for promise (sale) of child. |
| S446 | Rejected wife asks to take away only what she brought. Type 887; Chinese: Graham. |
| S322.5 | Repulsed lover kills woman's child. Dickson 73 n. 26. |
| S100 | Revolting murders or mutilations. |
| S131.1 | River carrier (whale, crocodile) throws passenger off and drowns him. India: Thompson-Balys; Africa (Madagascar): Renel II 207f. No. 119. |
| S223.0.1 | Robert the Devil. Childless couple wish for a child even if he comes from the devil. He is diabolical. *Wells 784; *Hibbard 49ff. (Sir Gowther); *Krappe Mod. Lang. Rev. XXIV (1929) 200ff.; Irish myth: Cross. |
| S274 | Sacrifice as an agricultural rite. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| S276 | Sacrifice as protection against disease. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| S272 | Sacrifice of brothers promised if girl is born. *Type 451; BP I 71ff. |
| S268.1 | Sacrifice of child demanded as cure for feigned sickness. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| S271 | Sacrifice of child to remove barrenness. Penzer I 154; Chauvin V 176 No. 100; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| S260.1.4 | Sacrifice of child to save life of another. (Cf. S268.) Korean: Zong in-Sob 44 No. 26. |
| S260.1.2 | Sacrifice of sister on advice of yogi. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| S265 | Sacrifice of strangers. Greek: *Frazer Apollodorus I 224 n. 1, II 273 n. 2; Japanese: Ikeda. |
| S263 | Sacrifice to appease spirits (gods). (Cf. K1603, T211.1.1.) Irish myth: Cross; Japanese: Ikeda. |
| S263.4.1 | Sacrifice to offended gods, who hold ship back. Icelandic: Herrmann Saxo II 586; Greek: Frazer Apollodorus II 111. |
| S263.4 | Sacrifice to river-god who has stopped boat in mid-stream. India: *Thompson-Balys; Africa (Basuto): Jacottet 152ff. No. 22. |
| S264 | Sacrifice to rivers and seas. *Fb "sø" III 731a, "е" III 1187b. |
| S264.2 | Sacrifice to tank. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| S260 | Sacrifices. (Cf. S255.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| S263.5 | Sacrificial suicide. (Cf. S264.1.2.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| S262.3 | Sacrificial victim chosen by lot. (Cf. N126.) Icelandic: *Boberg; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 793; West Africa: Tauxier La Noir du Yatenga (Paris, 1917) 496f. No. 1, (Hausa): Basset Mélusine III 226f. No. 2, (Senegambia): Bérenger-Feraud II 185ff. No. 2. |
| S263.5.1 | Saints (monks) sacrifice themselves (to avert plague). Irish myth: *Cross. |
| S250 | Saving the promised child. Missouri French: Carrière. |
| S413.2 | Second wife orders husband to persecute first. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| S125.1 | Self-immolation. Hindu: Tawney I 163, 398, 522, II 255, 490, 546, 558, 560, Panchatantra III 8 (tr. Ryder 334). |
| S160.1 | Self-mutilation. (Cf. T327.1, T327.2, T333.) Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg; India: Thompson-Balys; Hindu: Penzer III 21 n.; Chinese: Werner 314. |
| S263.3.2 | Serpent in stream demands pair of human eyes for drink of water. (Cf. M225.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| S114.1 | Skin of murdered person found in enemy's house. Koryak: *Jochelson JE VI 377. |
| S139.2 | Slain person dismembered. Irish myth: *Cross; Spanish Exempla: Keller; Greek: Frazer Apollodorus II 72 n. 1; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| S113.1.1 | Slaves killed by hanging. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| S21.2 | Son blinds father. (Cf. Q451.7, S165.) Irish myth: Cross; Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| S21.1 | Son buries aged mother alive. Swiss: Jegerlehner Oberwallis 326 No. 4. |
| S21.3 | Son gives mother as hostage. Irish myth: Cross. |
| S303 | Son killed at instigation of lover. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| S268.2 | Son sold for transfusion of blood to sick king. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| S112.7 | Son takes mother to woods and tries to burn her up while she sleeps. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| S63 | Spouse murder pact. Princess kills her husband. Prince kills his wife. Murderers marry and usurp the throne. Italian Novella: Rotunda; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| S362 | Starving parents come to abandoned child for food. Jewish: *Neuman (Joseph); Sulka of New Britain: Dixon 132 n. 2; N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 349 n. 255. |
| S322.4.3 | Stepmother irritates two stepsons so that one kills the other. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| S113.2.2 | Suffocating in bathroom. Icelandic: Boberg; Danish: Grundtvig No. 121; Lithuanian: M. Boehm u. F. Sprecht Lettische-Litauische Volksmärchen (Jena, 1924) 193 No. 11. |
| S222.4 | Sultan's daughter demanded by giant ogre as price for letting his subjects alone. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| S461 | Tale-bearer unjustly drowned for lack of proof of accusation. Irish myth: Cross. |
| S334 | Tokens of royalty (nobility) left with exposed child. (Cf. H80.) *Penzer VII 81 n. 1; Irish myth: Cross; English: Wells 134 (Sir Degare), 126 (Lai Le Freine); Greek: Fox 71. |
| S143.2.1 | Tortoise placed in tall tree and left. India: Thompson-Balys; Africa: Weeks Congo 209ff. No. 6. |
| S187.1 | Torture by tearing out the sides (of a person). (Cf. S166.1.) Der Heiligen Leben und Leiden 100f. (Santa Barbara); Jewish: Neuman. |
| S186 | Torturing by beating. Der Heiligen Leben und Leiden 100ff. (Santa Barbara); Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 587. |
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