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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 ▲ |
|---|---|
| V221.12 | Saint cures blindness. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| V221.11 | Saint cures dumb person. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| V221.4.0.1 | Saint cures frenzied animal. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| V221.3 | Saint cures leprosy. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| V221.1 | Saint cures palsy. Alphabet No. 731; Irish myth: *Cross. |
| V229.15 | Saint disguised as poor man saves almsgiving king from punishment in hell. Irish myth: Cross. |
| V356.1 | Saint dispels pagan devils from ancient shrines. *Loomis White Magic 115. |
| V228.1.1 | Saint drinks poison without being injured. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| V229.7.1 | Saint drives away an army by bringing upon it a dense and smoky cloud. (Cf. D2163.4.) *Loomis White Magic 123; Irish myth: Cross; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| V411.2 | Saint exchanges coat with beggar: gold sleeves miraculously appear. Herbert III 6; Crane Vitry 173 No. 92. |
| V222.10 | Saint falling into an abyss found perched in the branches of a tree which projected from the cliff. As soon as the man is drawn up, the tree vanishes. *Loomis White Magic 127. |
| V223.1 | Saint gives advice. Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 119f. |
| V124.1 | Saint hangs cowl in thornbrake as symbol of Christ on the Cross. Irish myth: Cross. |
| V441.1 | Saint heals enemy. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| V223.4 | Saint helps with learning. |
| V222.0.1.2 | Saint identified by pillar of fire above her head. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| V228.1 | Saint immune to poisoning. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| V229.14 | Saint in anger shows strength: wall broken by his kick. (Cf. F610.) *Loomis White Magic 131. |
| V229.6 | Saint in conflict with druid. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| V513.1 | Saint incited (instructed) through vision. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| V475.4 | Saint leaves his order because he is fond of music. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| V229.6.1 | Saint limits powers of satirist (druid). Irish myth: Cross. |
| V229.2.12.2 | Saint lives for 300 (100?) years without eating food or uttering evil. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| V221.0.2 | Saint miraculously healed. Irish myth: Cross. |
| V462.5.1.1 | Saint never wears woolen clothing, but skins of wolves and other beasts. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| V229.4 | Saint overcomes (destroys) monsters (dragons). Irish myth: *Cross. |
| V229.2.13 | Saint promises to return from heaven. Irish myth: Cross. |
| V221.5 | Saint purifies monk with sign of the cross. (Cf. D1766.6.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| V462.2.2.1 | Saint refuses pearls as alms and asks for food. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| V73.6.2 | Saint remains silent during Lent by holding stone in mouth. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| V437 | Saint repeatedly bestows father's goods upon the poor. Irish myth: Cross. |
| V221.2 | Saint restores dumb man's speech. (Cf. D1507.) Alphabet No. 401; Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| V515.1.3 | Saint sees vision of flames covering Ireland quenched except for sparks; then great light appears, dispelling darkness. Flames are those of the faith brought by St. Patrick; they become less until restored by St. Columkill. Irish myth: Cross. |
| V414 | Saint shares punishment of sinful man whose cloak he shared in life. Irish myth: Cross. |
| V229.2.6.1 | Saint sheds tears of blood. Irish myth: Cross. |
| V462.8.2 | Saint stands (asleep) while bird builds nest and hatches brood in his hand. Irish myth: Cross. |
| V462.5.2.2 | Saint stands for seven years without sleep. Irish myth: Cross. |
| V221.4 | Saint subdues madman. (Cf. D1508.1.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| V221.6 | Saint sustains man on gallows. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| V462.5.2.1 | Saint takes but little sleep. Irish myth: Cross. |
| V229.24 | Saint turns snakes to stones. (Cf. D420.) England: Baughman. |
| V223.5.1 | Saint understands language of wren, fly, cat. Irish myth: Cross. |
| V223.2 | Saint warns against poisoned well. Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 114 No. 99. |
| V229.2.3 | Saint will drink only milk of cow milked by faithful woman. Irish myth: Cross. |
| V229.11 | Saint with tongue of fire (literally). *Loomis White Magic 34. |
| V356.3 | Saint's bachall pointed at idol defaces it. (Cf. V347.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| V229.17 | Saint's blessing causes a river to be best place for fishing. Irish myth: Cross. |
| V221.4.0.1.1 | Saint's blessing sufficient to control a mad dog. *Loomis White Magic 106. |
| V229.2.8 | Saint's body remains unspoiled in the earth for a long time. *Loomis White Magic 43f. |
| V143 | Saint's bones for lack of worship remove themselves from church. (Cf. D1641.) Alphabet No. 679. |
| V143.1 | Saint's bones miraculously removed from reliquary broken in pillage. Irish myth: Cross. |
| V52.13 | Saint's Paternoster outweighs ox. Irish myth: Cross. |
| V140.2 | Saint's relics miraculously recovered. *Loomis White Magic 127f. |
| V229.2.2 | Saintly babe disgorges unclean food. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| V229.2.1 | Saintly babe repeatedly found with arms extended in form of cross. Irish myth: Cross. |
| V226 | Saints as hermits. *Toldo II 99; Irish myth: Cross; Icelandic: Boberg. |
| V223.5 | Saints blessed with ability to discourse in the native idioms of the people whom they visit. *Loomis White Magic 72. |
| V229.8 | Saints create magic concealing mist. (Cf. D1361.1.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| V227 | Saints have divine visitors. *Toldo IV 49ff.; Irish myth: *Cross; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| V223 | Saints have miraculous knowledge. Alphabet No. 482; *Loomis White Magic 72f.; Irish myth: *Cross; Swiss: Jegerlehner Oberwallis 307 No. 25. |
| V513 | Saints have miraculous visions. Irish myth: Cross. |
| V511.1.1 | Saints have visions of heaven. *Toldo IV 49. |
| V225 | Saints in several places at once. *Toldo V 343; *Loomis White Magic 131. |
| V229 | Saints—miscellaneous. Irish myth: Cross. |
| V220 | Saints. **Toldo Studien zur vgl. Litgsch. I—IX passim; **Saintyves Saints Successeurs 23—26; *Encyc. Rel. Ethics Index 514a.—Norwegian: Solheim Register 22; Jewish: Neuman; Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 140—42, 162, 210, 411. For references in addition to those given below, see volume VI s.v. "Saints". |
| V331.7 | Saladin asks to be made a Christian knight. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| V520 | Salvation. *Encyc. Rel. Ethics Index 517b; Irish myth: Cross. |
| V229.2 | Sanctity of saints. Irish myth: Cross. |
| V254.1 | Saying of "Aves" obliterates sin. *Crane Miraculis No. 12; Ward II 605ff. Nos. 10, 18, 20; Herbert III 26; *Crane Vitry 263 No. 296. |
| V81.5 | Sea bath as purificatory rite. Tahiti: Henry Ancient Tahiti (Honolulu, 1928) 144; Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 152, 176. |
| V29.1 | Search for confessor. Great sinner sent from one confessor to another. All say that his sins are too great for forgiveness. Finally he succeeds. *Type 756C; **Andrejev FFC LIV 28ff.; Irish: O'Suilleabhain 46, 48, Beal XXI 317. |
| V464 | Self-torture to secure holiness. India: *Thompson-Balys: |
| V1.8.6 | Serpent worship. *Encyc. Rel. Ethics Index 539a; *Penzer III 142; Jewish: *Neuman. |
| V238.3 | Service of angels marks saint's destination. Irish myth: Cross. |
| V229.2.12.1 | Seven Irish saints who never died. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| V211.0.3 | Seventeen marvels at the birth of Christ. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| V229.22 | Severed head of saint speaks so that searchers can find it. (Cf. D1610.5.) England: Baughman. |
| V142.1 | Sham relics perform miracles if faith is great. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| V12.4.6 | Sheep (ram) as sacrifice. Cheremis: Sebeok-Nyerges; Jewish: Neuman. |
| V211.1.3 | Shining cloud marks place of Nativity. Irish myth: Cross. |
| V254.2 | Ship in storm saved because of sailors' "Ave Maria". (Cf. D2141.1.) *Crane Miraculis No. 28; Ward II 626 No. 9, 640 Nos. 12, 14, 15, *677 No. 12. |
| V421 | Shipman refuses alms: ship turned to stone. Alphabet No. 608. |
| V64.1 | Shipwrecked each get a piece of the chief's gold ring in order to have gold with them in death. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| V67.2 | Shoes buried with the dead. Icelandic: MacCulloch Eddic 305. |
| V231.2 | Shooting star as angel. BP III 234. |
| V221.0.1.3 | Shrine of saint carried around to suppress pestilence. *Loomis White Magic 105. |
| V113 | Shrines. (Cf. C51.1.) *Encyc. Rel. Ethics Index 546a; Irish myth: *Cross; Missouri French: Carrière; Jewish: Neuman. |
| V39.8 | Sick men die and go to hell because they hesitate to take sacrament. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| V131.1 | Sight of holy fringe on garment restrains a man from fornication and reforms the harlot. Gaster Exempla 192f. No. 35; Jewish: *Neuman. |
| V342 | Sign of cross intimidates Jews. Type 1709*. |
| V86.1.1 | Sign of cross prevents child from being stolen from cradle. Fb "kors" II 285f. |
| V86.1.2 | Sign of cross prevents garment from burning. Alphabet No. 232. |
| V86.1 | Sign of cross protects from injury. |
| V86 | Sign of the Cross. Encyc. Rel. Ethics VI 539b; Fb "kors" II 274; Scala Celi 67b—71b Nos. 373—404 passim. |
| V466 | Simony. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| V462.0.2 | Since salvation is predestined, asceticism deemed useless. Irish myth: Cross. |
| V21.1 | Sincere confession miraculously obliterated as sign of forgiveness. *Crane Vitry 266f. Nos. 301, 302; Alphabet Nos. 205, 209; Scala Celi 44b, 46a, 55a, 56b, 85b, 104a Nos. 251, 258, 308, 316, 493, 561; Ward II 663 No. 12; Herbert III 259, 380, 432, 469. |
| V229.12 | Sinful beauty is converted and spends the end of her life doing penance (Mary Magdalene, Mary of Egypt, and Thais). *Loomis White Magic 109f. |
| V21.5 | Sinner confesses before sinning and thus is pardoned. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| V522 | Sinner reformed after visit to heaven and hell. Irish myth: Cross. |
| V525 | Sinner who thinks of God saved; devotee who thinks of worldly things goes to hell. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| V21.6 | Sinner's tearmarks on written confession cause bishop to pardon his sins. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| V346 | Skeptic kicked by sacrificial animal. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| V59.1 | Skill in theft granted as answer to prayer. Africa (Duala): Lederbogen JAS IV 64. |
| V12.3 | Skulls as sacrifice to a god. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| V211.2.3.0.2 | Smith's wife made nails for the Cross because her husband believed Christ to be a true prophet. *Loomis White Magic 51f. |
| V29.4 | Sodomist makes sport of confession. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| V413 | Son's acts of charity save his father's soul. English: Wells 175 (The Child of Bristowe). |
| V234 | Songs of the angels. *Chauvin VI 106 No. 270; *Loomis White Magic 53; Irish myth: *Cross. |
| V112.1 | Spirit huts. Philippine (Tinguian): Cole 69; Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 112. |
| V211.1.2 | Star shines through day of Nativity. (Cf. F961.2.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| V282 | Stella Maris: Virgin Mary as protectress of sailors. Canney Revue de l'Histoire des Religions CXV (1937) 90ff.; Krappe Review of Religion (1948) 376ff. |
| V35.2 | Stolen sacred hosts put into coffin. Before death, a woman asks to put a bag into coffin. It is filled with hosts. (Cf. C55, D1031.1.1.) Lithuanian: Balys Legends Nos. 628ff. |
| V229.23 | Stone turns red when saint's picture is removed. England: Baughman. |
| V229.2.10 | Stones answer "Amen" after saint's preaching. *Loomis White Magic 126. |
| V111.2 | Stones for building church (chapel) miraculously supplied. (Cf. D931.0.1.) Irish myth: Cross; Icelandic: Boberg. |
| V60.1 | Stones sold at funeral wakes. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| V411.4 | Stones turn to gold for charitable money-lender. Hence money borrowed for wedding is never refused by lenders. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| V97 | Study of Tora as religious service. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| V118.2 | Subaqueous monastery. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| V118.2.1 | Submarine oratory. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| V461.4 | Submission as clerical virtue. Irish myth: Cross. |
| V211.2.3.3 | Sun darkened at Crucifixion. (Cf. F965.2.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| V222.13 | Sun sends shaft of heat to cook meat given persecuted saint. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| V115.1.1 | Sunken bell travels on sea bottom. Finnish-Swedish: Wessman 72 No. 609. |
| V115.1.3 | Sunken church bell cannot be raised. Finnish-Swedish: Wessman 73 Nos. 612—22. |
| V222.1.0.1 | Supernaturally bright light marks sleeping infant saint. Irish myth: Cross. |
| V224.5 | Supply of lime for building church miraculously renewed for saint. Irish myth: Cross. |
| V331.9 | Swans (transformed children) do not suffer in harsh weather after conversion to Christianity. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| V1.8.4 | Swine worship. Irish myth: Cross; Icelandic: MacCulloch Eddic 109, *Boberg. |
| V112.3 | Synagogues. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| V81.2 | Tails fall off mountain spirits when they are baptized. Fb "hale" IV 197b. |
| V96.1 | Taking bath in a sacred river (Ganges). India: Thompson-Balys. |
| V471 | Taking clerical vows heals disease. Alphabet No. 783. |
| V344 | Temple about to be taken over by pagans saved by appearance of a Sign of the Cross (image of the Virgin). Alphabet No. 708; *Crane Miraculis No. 20. |
| V112 | Temples. *Encyc. Rel. Ethics Index 591b; Jewish: *Neuman. |
| V283 | Testament of Virgin Mary. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| V140.4 | Testing the authenticity of relics: bones are cast into fire; with great noise they jump away from the flames. *Loomis White Magic 92. |
| V292 | The Apostles of Christ. |
| V48 | The canonical hours. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| V317 | The chosen people. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| V52.12 | The clever brothers work, the foolish brother only prays; finally he acquires all the property. Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 1666*. |
| V211.2.3 | The Crucifixion. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| V29.8 | The devil goes to confession. Performs very severe penance, but cannot bear to humble himself and to stoop before the altar. (Cf. G303.16.9.) Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 818*. |
| V30.1 | The eaten god. *Encyc. Rel. Ethics V 136—39. |
| V70.1 | The first day of summer. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| V211.5 | The five wounds of Christ. Irish myth: Cross. |
| V211.7.1 | The harrowing of hell. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| V211.1.8 | The Infant Jesus. Irish myth: Cross. |
| V412.2 | The more bread (flour) the monks give to the poor the more God places in their bins. (Cf. D1652.1.1.) Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| V211.1 | The Nativity of Christ. Irish myth: Cross. |
| V523 | The only king ever saved in spite of himself. Irish myth: Cross. |
| V294 | The Pope. Irish myth: Cross. |
| V144.2 | The relics of saint protect horses from the attack of wild beasts. *Loomis White Magic 106. |
| V86.7 | The seven significances of the sign of the cross. Irish myth: Cross. |
| V35 | The stolen sacrament. |
| V211.7.3 | The three bolts left on hell by Christ. Irish myth: Cross. |
| V292.2 | The Twelve Apostles of Ireland. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| V250 | The Virgin Mary. **Crane Liber de Miraculis; *DeVooys Middelnederlandse Legenden en Exempelen 57; Genthe Die Jungfrau Maria: ihre Evangelien und ihre Wunder (Halle, 1852); *Encyc. Rel. Ethics Index 366c. — Irish: *Cross, O'Suilleabhain 59, 78, Beal XXI 307, 314, 323, 327; Spanish: Keller, Espinosa Jr. Nos. 202—04. For references in addition to those given below, see volume VI s.v. "Virgin Mary". |
| V221.0.1.2 | The wine (water) occasionally used to bathe relics assumes healing powers. *Loomis White Magic 104. |
| V205.1 | Third son of king possesses sacred power. Easter Island: Métraux Ethnology 130. |
| V12.6 | Thrall as sacrifice. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| V211.1.7 | Three (seven) druids come to adore infant Jesus. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| V331.0.2 | Three (two) Irishmen who believed in Christianity before the coming of St. Patrick. (Cf. A1546.3.1.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| V229.2.9 | Tombs of saints distill oil. *Loomis White Magic 43. |
| V242.1 | Train of angels rises from graveyard. Irish myth: Cross. |
| V67.3 | Treasure buried with the dead. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| V411.5 | Treasure given away by saint miraculously restored. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| V134.0.1 | Tree beside holy well. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| V223.4.1 | Truant boy learns long lesson while asleep with head in saint's lap. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| V461.2 | Truthful monk refuses to cheat even for his order. Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 111. |
| V461.4.1 | Truthfulness as clerical virtue. Irish myth: Cross. |
| V351.2 | Unbeliever loses argument with hermit. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| V422 | Uncharitable knight drives bargain even in giving alms: devoured by serpents. His alms of corn turn to serpents. *Herbert III 334 No. 7, 340. |
| V425 | Uncharitable pope wanders after death. Alphabet No. 294. |
| V31.2 | Unconsecrated host ineffective. Alphabet No. 162. |
| V31.3 | Unconsecrated host refused. Alphabet Nos. 161, 310. |
| V31 | Unconsecrated host. |
| V29.5 | Unnecessary for husband to confess as his wife has already done it for him. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| V23.1 | Unshriven man restored to life in order to confess. (Cf. V251.) Herbert III 14; *Crane Vitry 267 No. 303; *Crane Miraculis 93 No. 27; English: Wells 167 (Vernon Miracles). |
| V229.9 | Unusual fuel used by saints: burning stone, snow and icicles, marble pillar, and green timber. *Loomis White Magic 34f. |
| V4 | Value of religious exercises. |
| V71.3 | Various events, from creation to Resurrection, that occurred on Sabbath. Irish myth: Cross; Jewish: Neuman. |
| V61 | Various ways of disposing of dead. |
| V211.1.3.1 | Vast intolerable light on night of Christ's Nativity. Irish myth: Cross. |
| V254.9 | Virgin forbids devil to take robber as long as he continues to say two "Aves" daily. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| V255.2 | Virgin gives private mass to devout lady unable to attend. Spanish Exempla: Keller |
| V276.3 | Virgin Mary aids repentant slayer of priest. Priest is resurrected in order to forgive murderer and then is returned to tomb. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| V276.2 | Virgin Mary appears and pardons monk who has been too overworked to pray to her. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| V277 | Virgin Mary appears to devotee. |
| V277.1 | Virgin Mary appears to devout nun with infant Jesus. The nun devoutly prayed to see Him. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| V276 | Virgin Mary appears to erring man. |
| V276.1 | Virgin Mary appears to erring monk and exalts him to prayer. His prayers weave her a garment. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| V271 | Virgin Mary as foster mother. Type 710; *BP I 13ff. |
| V264.1 | Virgin Mary brings man a pact he signed with the devil and frees the man from devil's power. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| V251.1 | Virgin Mary brings man back to life after he has seen hell's torments. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| V275 | Virgin Mary comforts repentant criminals. Ward II 603 No. 6, 606 No. 12, 610 No. 25, 618 No. 39, 648 No. 44; Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| V266 | Virgin Mary converts a Jew. (Cf. V330.) Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| V252 | Virgin Mary defends innocent accused. Alphabet No. 381; Wesselski Mönchslatein 78 No. 68; *Crane Miraculis No. 34; Icelandic: Boberg. |
| V261 | Virgin Mary designates favorite for election for office. *Crane Miraculis No. 13; Ward II 608 No. 19. |
| V268.3 | Virgin Mary destroys Moorish army besieging Constantinople. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| V255 | Virgin Mary has dissolute monk buried in consecrated ground: his only mass is that of the Virgin. *Crane Miraculis Nos. 3, 9; Ward II 607 No. 15, 660 No. 29; Scala Celi 116a, 116b Nos. 644, 645; Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| V250.2 | Virgin Mary has golden hair. Irish myth: Cross |
| V251 | Virgin Mary prevents (retards) death so as to save sinner's soul. Permits time for repentance and absolution. (Sometimes resuscitation.) Alphabet No. 464; Ward II 606 No. 14, 633 No. 31, 650 No. 1; *Crane Miraculis Nos. 6, 7, 10, 31, 39; Wells 169 (De Miraculo Beate Marie); Scala Celi 123a, 125b Nos. 674, 681. — Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| V5.1 | Virgin Mary reproves a monk who sleeps at altar. Alphabet No. 284. |
| V264 | Virgin Mary rescues man attacked by the devil. *Crane Miraculis No. 23; Ward II 612 No. 30; Spanish Exempla: Keller; West Indies: Flowers 580. |
| V256.5 | Virgin Mary restores life to drowned man who always had saluted her. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| V256.3 | Virgin Mary restores severed hand to Saint John Damascene. He had cut it off to repress lust. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| V252.1 | Virgin Mary returns borrowed money and reveals cheat. A man borrows money from a Jew with the Virgin as security. Unable to return the money in time, he commits the money to the sea with a prayer to the Virgin. The Jew receives it but claims that the money is not paid. The Virgin reveals the cheat. Ward II 638 No. 10; *Crane Miraculis No. 33; Wells 167 (Vernon Miracles). |
| V252.2 | Virgin Mary saves criminal from fire at stake. *Ward II 663 No. 12; Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| V268.2 | Virgin Mary saves devotee from death in waves. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| V268.4 | Virgin Mary saves devotee's son from shipwreck. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| V256.4 | Virgin Mary saves life of man who at devil's instigation has castrated himself. She will not, however, restore his severed members. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| V262 | Virgin Mary supplies mead for unprepared hostess of the king. Ward II 614 No. 35. |
| V254.1.1 | Virgin Mary supports robber on gallows because he once said "Ave Maria". Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| V254.8 | Virgin Mary will not let devil (authorities) take robber noble who daily says "Ave". Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| V265 | Virgin miraculously prevents nun (monk) from deserting cloister. Ward II 634 No. 34, 636 Nos. 7, 41, 667 No. 13, 721 No. 17; Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| V261.2 | Virgin pardons man who repented for cheating in election. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| V261.1 | Virgin restores office to an ignorant man because of his faith. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| V211.1.4 | Virgin suffers no birth pangs at Christ's Nativity. Irish myth: Cross. |
| V515.2.1 | Vision in which chieftain sees pair of gray seals that sucked at his two breasts. They are two of his allies who are being overpowered by invaders. Irish myth: Cross. |
| V515.2.3 | Vision in which king sees his four sons changed into lion, greyhound, beagle, cur, which fight with alternating success, until lion subdues the other three. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| V515.2.1.1 | Vision in which king sees whelp reared by him gather dogs of Ireland and Britain against him but suffer death in battle at last. The whelp is one of king's two foster sons. Irish myth: Cross. |
| V515.2.2 | Vision in which saint foresees allegorically the ramifications of king's family Irish myth: Cross. |
| V515.1.3.2 | Vision in which swineherd sees yew tree upon a rock, with an oratory in front of it and angels ascending from it. Vision interpreted by druid as symbolizing founding of Cashel and the royal line of Munster. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| V511.1.2 | Vision of angels defending road to heaven against devils. Irish myth: Cross. |
| V515.1.1 | Vision of chairs (thrones) in heaven. Chairs of gold, silver, crystal (glass) assigned to saints according to merit. (Cf. A661.0.3.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| V515.1.5 | Vision of dry bones. Jewish: Neuman. |
| V511.2.1 | Vision of fires of hell. Irish myth: Cross. |
| V516 | Vision of future. Jewish: Neuman. |
| V511.2.2 | Vision of gate of hell. Irish myth: Cross. |
| V512 | Vision of judgment. Man sees his own soul being judged. |
| V39.4 | Vision of sacrament in form of young child. Alphabet No. 694; Scala Celi 66a Nos. 360—64; Toldo IV 49ff.; Irish: O'Suilleabhain 109. |
| V513.2 | Vision of the earth in the devil's snares. Saint sees earth in snares. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| V511.1 | Visions of heaven. **Becker Medieval Visions of Heaven and Hell (Baltimore, 1899); **Ward II 396ff. passim; Alphabet No. 622, 743; Dickson 265; Scala Celi 66a, 138b Nos. 362, 777. — Irish: *Cross, O'Suilleabhain 57, Beal XXI 322; English: Malory Morte D'Arthur XV 3; Finnish-Swedish: Wessman 105 No. 932; Spanish Exempla: Keller; Jewish: *Neuman. |
| V511.2 | Visions of hell. *Becker (see V511.1); Alphabet No. 610; Dickson 265; Herbert III 25; **Ward II 386ff.; *Crane Vitry 260f. No. 289; Scala Celi 34b, 74a, 85b Nos. 195, 422, 497. — Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg; Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| V511.4 | Visions of Land of the Saints. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| V511.3 | Visions of purgatory. *Dickson 265 n. 87; *Loomis White Magic 116; Irish myth: *Cross. |
| V511 | Visions of the other world. |
| V111.1 | Visit to certain church protects from drowning on pilgrimage. (Cf. D1384, D1388.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| V39.7 | Voice from grave asks that it be opened. Corpse spits out host because he has missed confession. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| V113.0.2 | Vow to visit shrine. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| V65.3 | Wedding and funeral festival on same time. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| V49.1 | Werwolves hold mass. (Cf. D113.1.1, E492, G243.) Köhler-Bolte I 134; Gascon: Bladé Contes pop. de Gascogne II 360 No. 4. |
| V115.4 | What church bells say. Fb "kirkeklokke" IV 260A. |
| V515.1.3.1 | When shower falls, small stone becomes larger, large stone wastes away. Vision of present and future state of Irish church. Irish myth: Cross. |
| V131.2 | White robes of druids. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| V70.2 | Whitsuntide. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| V39.2 | Wicked woman unable to endure presence of host at mass. English: Wells 151 (Richard Coer de Lyon). |
| V515.1.2 | Wife sees moon enter mouth of husband; husband sees star enter mouth of wife: famous child (saint) will be born. Irish myth: Cross. |
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