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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
H
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 ▲ |
|---|---|
| J751.1 | Truth the best policy. Servant about to be caught for theft rehearses the lie he is to tell his master. He finds lies so transparent that he decides to tell the truth. Wesselski Märchen 200. |
| B132 | Truth-speaking cow. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| B133 | Truth-speaking horse. Type 531; BP III (Gr. No. 126). |
| Q68.1 | Truth-speaking rewarded. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| B130 | Truth-telling animals. |
| B133.0.1 | Truth-telling ass (mule). Jewish: Neuman. |
| B135 | Truth-telling cat. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B136 | Truth-telling deer. Jewish: Neuman. |
| B339.1 | Truth-telling dog killed so as to hide murder. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B134.1.1 | Truth-telling dog tells of incest. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B134 | Truth-telling dog. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B131.0.1 | Truth-telling owl. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| D1317.4.1 | Truth-telling voice in wall warns against poisoned food. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| H251.3.12 | Truth-testing vessel. 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. |
| G303.9.9.7 | Trying all night to catch an animal (really devil). Lithuanian: Balys Legends Nos. 777—783. |
| J1961.1 | Trying to catch light in a mouse-trap. Type 1245**. |
| F171.6.3 | Trying to get a beam through a door crosswise in otherworld. *Type 801; BP III 303. |
| J1944 | Trying to get fruit from fruitless tree. |
| J1905.5 | Trying to have cows make curds before being milked. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| J1964.1 | Trying to stretch the beam. *Type 1244. |
| J1821.1 | Trying to swim in the mist. Mistaken for sea. Tonga: Gifford 98. |
| G303.1.7 | Tuatha De Danann as demons (fallen angels). Irish myth: Cross. |
| K1886.7.1 | Tuatha Dé Danann cause island to appear to be "hog's back". Irish myth: Cross. |
| F211.0.2.1 | Tuatha Dé Danann, conquerors of Ireland, are overcome by invaders. (Maic Milid, "Milesians," Gaels) and betake themselves into hills. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F1081 | Tub of water dropped neither breaks nor spills. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| A913.4 | Tub that drips at high tide but holds water at low tide. Irish myth: Cross. |
| N127.1 | Tuesday as auspicious day. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| K1344 | Tunnel entrance to guarded maiden's chamber. Icelandic: Boberg; Italian: Basile Pentamerone II No. 2; Italian Novella: Rotunda; India: *Thompson-Balys; S. A. Indian (Chiriguano): Métraux RMLP XXXIII 142, MAFLS XL 159. |
| F721.1.1 | Tunnel of crystal four miles long. Italian: Basile Pentamerone II No. 2. |
| G377 | Tupilac. Monster made of parts of corpses of animals and vivified. Eskimo (Greenland): Rink 151f., 201, 461, Holm 59, 69, Rasmussen III 290f., 295. |
| D1323.7 | Turf from church roof gives clairvoyance. Placed on head in order to see witches. (Cf. D934.)—Fb "græstørv"; *De Vries Acta Philologica Scandinavica III 106ff. |
| E431.6 | Turf laid on breast of dead to prevent return. Wimberly 256. |
| J1811.3 | Turkey's gobble misunderstood by man lost in woods. U.S.: Baughman. |
| A2431.3.8 | Turkey's nest. |
| J1825 | Turkish ambassador misunderstands Christian ceremonies. Makes ridiculous report to his king. Bolte Frey's Gartengesellschaft 217 No. 5. |
| J1293.3 | Turning king into Brahmin like turning donkey into horse. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| N131.2 | Turning right-handwise in certain place brings luck. Irish myth: Cross. |
| D1384.3.1 | Turning right-handwise insures safe journey. (Cf. D1272.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| G257.3 | Turning table, cutting notches in it causes witch to reveal herself. U.S.: Baughman. |
| J1562.1 | Turning the plate around. A cuts the meat and puts all the good things on his side. B turns the plate around: "See how all things turn about in this world." A turns it back: "However the world may turn, with good friends like us the plate will always remain the same." *Wesselski Arlotto II 222 No. 89; Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 1568*; Estonian: Aarne FFC XXV No. 1568*. |
| J1511.2 | Turnips called bacon: cat called rabbit. A peasant compels his servant to call turnips bacon. Under favorable circumstances the servant compels the master to call a cat a rabbit. Type 1565**. |
| D1521.5.1 | Turquoise gives miraculous speed. Jewish: Neuman. |
| B551.5 | Turtle (tortoise) carries person across river (ocean). Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 997; Tonga: Gifford 53. |
| K551.26 | Turtle allowed to go to pool to pick flowers before death. Escapes. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| M205.1.1 | Turtle carrying man through water upsets him because of a broken promise. Chinese: Werner 367. |
| B761 | Turtle holds with jaws till it thunders. Ojibwa: Jones-Michelson PAES VII (2) 347 No. 44; American Negro (Georgia): Harris Friends 167 No. 23. |
| K1022.5 | Turtle induced to rob in a man's garden. Indonesia: DeVries's list No. 18. |
| B245.2 | Turtle king. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K582.1 | Turtle persuades an animal to swallow him: causes the animal's death and escapes. Africa (Hottentot): Bleek 29 No. 14, 30 No. 15. |
| J1172.4 | Turtle released by man to carry him across stream. Threatens him midway. Fox to be judge. Feigns deafness and makes turtle come so near shore man jumps and saves self. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B375.8 | Turtle released: grateful. Korean: Zong in-Sob 169 No. 73. |
| J1761.1.1 | Turtle thought to be an island. U.S.: Baughman. |
| F1025.2 | Turtle's war-party. Turtle recruits war-party of strange objects (knife, brush, awl, etc.) and animals. Because of their nature the companions get into trouble. N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 302 n. 108. Cf. Japanese: Mitford 185ff., Ikeda. |
| A697.2 | Tusita world. Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 1034. |
| Z71.8.2 | Twelve abuses of the world. Irish myth: Cross. |
| Z71.8.1 | Twelve articles of faith. Irish myth: Cross. |
| D1273.1.5 | Twelve as magic number. Fb "tolv"; Gaster Thespis 369; Jewish: Neuman. |
| F610.3.3 | Twelve berserks. (Cf. F610.3.4.1.) Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| P251.6.7 | Twelve brothers. Type 451. |
| A841.3 | Twelve iron pillars steady the earth. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1825.7 | Twelve men in disguise as carpenters are engaged to build hall for the king's wedding: they abduct the bride. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| Z122.3 | Twelve months as youths seated about fire. *Roberts 122, 219; Italian: Basile Pentamerone V No. 2. |
| P475.1 | Twelve robbers. Fb III 132a "røver". |
| F1009.4 | Twelve stones unite to become one. (Cf. D931.) Jewish: *Neuman. |
| D491.6 | Twelve stones unite to make one. Jewish: Neuman. |
| F611.3.2.6 | Twelve year old hero captures town of father's enemy. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Z72.7 | Twelve years and thirteen days. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F564.3.6 | Twelve years' sleep customary to demons. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B11.2.3.5 | Twelve-headed dragon. Cheremis: Sebeok-Nyerges. |
| B15.1.2.10.1 | Twelve-headed serpent. Cheremis: Sebeok-Nyerges. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B15.6.3.2 | Twelve-legged bird. Irish myth: Cross. |
| J2213.5 | Twenty better than ten. A numskull is asked how many daily prayers (Moslem) there are. "Twenty."—"There are only four."—"I said that there are twenty; that is even better." *Wesselski Hodscha Nasreddin I 261 No. 222. |
| T165.3 | Twenty-four hours to elapse before consummation of marriage. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Z71.16.14.1 | Twenty-two rooms and twenty-two doors built by skillful carpenter. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| J2074 | Twice the wish to the enemy. (The covetous and the envious). A can have a wish, but B will get twice the wish. A wishes that he may lose an eye, so that B may be blind. *Type 1331; *BP II 219 n. 1; Crane Vitry 212 No. 126; Bédier Fabliaux 457; Wienert FFC LVI 79 (ET 446), 132 (ST 387); Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 647; *Reinhard JAFL XXXVI 383 n. 1; Scala Celi 106b No. 589; Krappe Bulletin Hispanique XXXIX 31.—Spanish Exempla: Keller; Italian Novella: *Rotunda; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| D1648.1.2.2 | Twig of a tree bows down and releases a bag with relics when the man makes a promise. *Loomis White Magic 129f. |
| T543.0.1 | Twig, born of a woman, is planted and becomes a girl. (Cf. T555.) BP II 125. |
| A1179.1.1 | Twilight reflection of fires of hell. Jewish: Neuman. |
| T685.1 | Twin adventurers. *Harris Cult of the Heavenly Twins passim; Dickson 98ff.; Italian: Basile Pentamerone I No. 7; India: *Thompson-Balys; New Hebrides: Dixon 132; N. A. Indian: Thompson Tales 320 n. 155, (Quiche): Alexander Lat. Am. 169ff. |
| A515.1.1.3 | Twin culture heroes conceived of as sun and moon. S. Am. Indian (Amuesha): Métraux RMLP XXXIII 150, (Chiriguano): ibid. 158ff. |
| A511.1.2.1 | Twin culture heroes quarrel before birth. (Cf. A515.1.1.)—Dh I 11; Jewish: Neuman. |
| A515.1.1.1 | Twin culture heroes sired by two fathers. S. Am. Indian (Guarani): Métraux BBAE CXLIII (3) 92f., RMLP XXXIII 136. |
| A515.1.1.2 | Twin culture heroes—one foolish, one clever. (Cf.A525.) S. Am. Indian (Bacairi): Lévi-Strauss BBAE CXLIII (3) 347, (Tupinamba): Métraux RMLP XXXIII 135, (Chiriguano): ibid. 163. |
| A515.1.1 | Twin culture heroes. (Cf. A511.1.2.1.). P. Saintyves "Les Jumeaux dans l'ethnographie et la mythologie" Revue Anthrop. XXV (1925) 54ff.—Jewish: Neuman; N. Am. Indian (Plains Tribes): Alexander N. Am. 104, 106, (Pima): ibid. 176, (Sia): ibid. 204; S. Am. Indian (Jíbaros, Eastern Ecuador): Karsten Myths of the Jíbaros (cf. Boas JAFL XXXII 446), Amazon tribes: Alexander Lat. Am. 311, (Warrau, Carib, Tupinamba, Kaigua, Tembé, Apapocuvá-Guarani, Bakairi, Kaingang, Amuesha, Huamachucho, Chiriguano): Métraux RMLP XXXIII 123, 135f., 138, 145ff., 158—165, (Tenetchara): Wagley-Galvao BBAE CXLIII (3) 147, (Cashinawa, Guarani, Guarayú): Métraux BBAE CXLIII (3) 92f., 438, 685, (Toba): Métraux BBAE CXLIII (1) 368, (Bakairi): Lévi-Strauss BBAE CXLIII (3) 347, (Paressi): Métraux BBAE CXLIII (3) 359.—Tonga: Gifford 20. |
| A116.2.1 | Twin daughters of a god. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A1273 | Twin first parents. Persian: Carnoy 294f. |
| A116.2 | Twin goddesses (or trinity of goddesses). Irish myth: Cross. |
| A116.1 | Twin gods—one mortal, other immortal. Harris Twins 4ff. |
| A116 | Twin gods. *Harris Twins, Boanerges, Picus who is also Zeus; Krappe Etudes de mythologie 137ff.; Güntert Weltkönig 253ff.; S. Eitrem Die göttlichen Zwillinge bei den Griechen (Christiania 1902); H. Grégoire Saints jumeaux et dieux cavaliers (Paris 1905); J.R. Harris The Dioscuri in the Christian Legends (London 1903); Krappe The Classical Journal XVIII (1923) 502ff.; Zeitschrift für Ethnologie LXVI (1929) 187ff.; "Les dieux jumeaux dans la religion germanique" Acta Philologica Scandinavica (1930); Review of Religion (1944) 123ff.; Revue Celtique XLIX (1932) 96ff; P. Saintyves, "Les Jumeaux, dans l'ethnographie et la mythologie," Revue Anthrop. XXXV (1925) 54—59; T. Gaster Oldest Stories 69.—Germanic: Helm Altgermanische Religionsgeschichte I 321ff.; Irish myth: Cross; Greek: Fox 26; Armenian: Ananikian 40; Hindu: Keith 30f. (Lettish also mentioned).—Zuсi: Alexander N. Am. 188; Mixtec: Alexander Lat. Am. 86; Indians of Central Brazil: Ehrenreich International Cong. of Americanists XIV 661; Chiriguano: Métraux RMLP XXXIII 172. |
| E631.0.1 | Twining branches grow from graves of lovers. (Cf. E419.6.) *Gaidoz Mélusine IV No. 4; Type 966*; *Fb "rose" III 80a, "lilie" II 427b, "træ" III 867a; Chauvin V 107 No. 37; Irish myth: *Cross; India: Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 264f.; Japanese: Anesaki 253, 346f. |
| S314 | Twins (triplets) exposed. (Cf. T587.) *Krappe Balor 17 n. 55; Dickson 103 n. 10; Gaster Thespis 255; Italian Novella: Rotunda; Greek: Grote I 103. |
| T581.10 | Twins born in tent; mother abducted. Icelandic: FSS 246—48, Boberg. |
| T587.2 | Twins born one with ear of other in mouth. Irish myth: Cross. |
| T584.2.1.1 | Twins freed from dead mother's body as body rots. New Hebrides: Codrington 398. |
| T575.1.3 | Twins quarrel before birth in mother's womb. *Krappe Balor 31 n. 109; Greek: *Frazer Apollodorus I 145 n. 4; Jewish: *Neuman; N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 279 n. 33. |
| T685.3 | Twins who look exactly alike. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T685.4 | Twins: as twins are reared one born earlier becomes continually weaker, the other stronger. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T685 | Twins. (Cf. T587.) Saintyves "Les Jumeaux, dans l'ethnographie et la mythologie" Revue anthropologique XXV (1925) 54—9; Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| K1433 | Twisting twine: trickster cuts it. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A2283 | Two animals learn songs together—one successfully, the other unsuccessfully. (Cf. A2425.)—*Dh III 365ff. |
| D1620.3.1 | Two automatic giants fight until separated. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| G303.4.1.2.3 | Two beams of fire shoot from devil's eyes. England: Hunt Popular Romances 218. |
| F610.3.3.1 | Two berserk-brothers. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| U172 | Two blind men succeed in fooling each other about their blindness. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| H71.10.5 | Two blocks of stone that move apart to allow passage of chariot of true king. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| P251.5.2 | Two brothers are confusingly like each other. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| P251.5.4 | Two brothers as contrasts. Hdwb. d. Märchens II "Formel"; Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| P251.5.1 | Two brothers follow and help each other on piracy, etc. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| P251.5 | Two brothers. Type 303; Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| K421.3 | Two cheats exchange articles as genuine and both find themselves cheated. (Cf. K306.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A751.7 | Two children in moon with yoke and bucket. Icel.: MacCulloch Eddic 184, Boberg. |
| F1072 | Two children of different sex, not related, have such close resemblance that even parents cannot tell them apart. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| A902.1 | Two creators go by different route to establish features of the earth. Calif. Indian: Gayton and Newman 59. |
| E467.1 | Two dead men struggle over living man. Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 3548, Balys Ghosts. |
| H1574.3.0.2 | Two deities test virtues of a king. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| G303.1.8 | Two devils (male and female) extracted from corpse's belly. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| G303.10.4.2 | Two devils come to a dance-loving maid and play when she bathes. Finnish-Swedish: Wessman 10 No. 82. |
| D1812.5.1.1.2 | Two drops of blood in book mean that two have been killed. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| J1341.4 | Two eggs. Widow serves tailor one egg. He sings, "One egg, one egg." She decides one egg is not enough and serves him two next time. He then sings "Two eggs are two eggs." He is next given two eggs and a sausage, etc. Spanish: Boggs FFC XC 142 No. 1715. |
| A733.3 | Two faces of the sun: fire, directed toward earth; hail, directed toward heaven. Jewish: Neuman. |
| J2212.1 | Two fifteen-year old slaves ordered: fool brings one thirty years old. Clouston Noodles 4. |
| J2083.2 | Two for the price of one. The fool sells two fox-skins pulled into each other. Type 1265*. |
| D2011.2 | Two friars perceive no passing of time from Shrovetide till following Easter while they talk of Christ. Irish myth: Cross. |
| K1976.1 | Two friars take arm from corpse and allege it is a miracle-producing relic. One of the tricksters questions its powers in public. Feigns being struck dead. Feigned resurrection. Tricksters enriched as a result. Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| P319.1 | Two friends captured by Moors have money to ransom only one. The ransomed one returns home, gets money and buys the other's freedom. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| D45.3 | Two friends exchange forms. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| G151 | Two giants with one axe. They throw it back and forth to each other. *Fb "økse" III 1171b.—Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 3711. |
| B260.1 | Two groups of animals make peace treaty. Tahltan: Teit JAFL XXXII 213 No. 1 (18); Shuswap: Teit JE II 658f. |
| X1114.1 | Two hares run into each other and are caught. (First ed. X921.6.) Type 1895*. |
| D1857.2 | Two hundred years of unfailing life and happiness offered to warrior by fairy woman in exchange for one day's delay of battle. Irish myth: Cross. |
| K137.1 | Two jars full of live black wasps sold as interpreters of foreign language. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| D1373.2 | Two loaves of bread—one to excite, the other to appease hunger. (Cf. D1031.1.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| T415.4 | Two lovers give each other up when they learn that they are brother and sister. *Bolte Zs. f. Vksk. XXVIII 75; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A651.2.1 | Two lower worlds. S. Am. Indian (Chamacoco): Métraux MAFLS XL 25, BBAE CXLIII (1) 366. |
| M296 | Two men in love agree to have nothing to do with the girl without the other's consent. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 153. |
| J1369.3 | Two men meet in narrow passage. One says: "I do not give every coxcomb the wall!" The other says: "I do, sir!" England: Baughman. |
| J1606 | Two monks renew their appetites. Entertained by a lord, they say that they are going to certain waters to recover their appetites. They are taken to a chamber and locked in for a day They recover their appetites without further journeying. (Cf. K1955.1.1.) *Köhler-Bolte I 137, II 5714; *Anderson FFC XLII 359; Boccaccio Decameron X No. 2 (Lee 311ff.); Scala Celi 126a Nos. 685, 686; Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| K1921.2 | Two mothers exchange their children, a boy and a girl. Type 975*; Irish myth: *Cross. |
| T135.8 | Two or more weddings at one time as the end of a tale. Icelandic: *Boberg; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| X111.3 | Two persons believe each other deaf. A trickster tells each of two persons before they meet that the other is hard of hearing and must be shouted at. A great shouting takes place, and each thinks the other out of his wits. *Type 1698C; *Aarne FFC XX 29ff.; Wesselski Gonnella 118 No. 16; Nouvelles Récréations No. 10; Nouvelles de Sens No. 4. |
| K2142 | Two persons separately informed about each other's death. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F523 | Two persons with bodies joined. Siamese twins. Irish myth: Cross; Greek: Frazer Apollodorus I 248 n. 2. |
| F493.2.2 | Two pestilence spirits speak together. Finnish-Swedish: Wessman 29 No. 255. |
| J2183.4 | Two prisoners use up their hour of grace disputing over road to take home. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| E501.4.4 | Two ravens follow wild huntsman. *Zingerle Sagen aus Tirol 588. |
| N733.4 | Two returning brothers unwittingly purchase bird, which is transformed youngest brother, as present intended for him. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K527.4 | Two rival parties of fifteen each on ship. When food is exhausted, it is agreed that half the company be thrown overboard, "every ninth man as they stood to be selected." Clever sister of leader of one party arranges men so that enemies are chosen and so drowned. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| A977.5.4 | Two rocks from split and transformed lapdog. Irish myth: Cross. |
| J624.1 | Two sheep kill a fox who has licked up the blood they have spilled in a fight. Chauvin II 87 No. 22; Bødker Exempler 279 No. 22; Spanish Exempla: Keller; Jewish: Neuman. |
| P252.1 | Two sisters. Type 480, 711, 426. |
| T92.12 | Two smiths as rivals for love of girl. Irish myth: Cross. |
| K1883.3 | Two soldiers slay each other thinking they are slaying a common enemy. Irish: Plummer clxix, *Cross. |
| M306.2 | Two sons: one a purse cutter and the other a killer. Wife tells husband that they will make a purse designer of one, and a butcher of the other. Spanish: Childers. |
| A773.7 | Two stars from Great Bear constellation transferred to Pleiades. Jewish: Neuman. |
| W167.1 | Two stubborn goats meet each other on a bridge. Neither will step aside; both fall into water. Type 202*; Wienert FFC LVI 56 (ET 171). |
| A227 | Two sun-gods. |
| F961.1.3.1 | Two suns shine in sky. Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: Boberg. |
| Q112.0.3 | Two thirds of kingdom as reward for finding abducted princesses. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| J2075.2 | Two transferred wishes used unwisely: redeemed by wise use of third. Wife uses two transferred wishes selfishly. Husband kills wife and uses remaining wish to his advantage. Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| K528.3 | Two wicked men put to a fiery test ask for a third (pious) man to be tested together with them. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| X1204.1 | Two wolves eat each other up so that only tails are left. (First ed. X911.4.) *Fb "hale" IV 197b. |
| H317.2 | Two years of silence imposed on suitor. Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| F511.1.1 | Two-faced person. Janus. Roman: Fox 297; Spanish: Boggs FFC XC 49 No. 327F*; N. A. Indian (Teton): Dorsey AA o.s. II 151ff., (Ponka): Dorsey Contr. to N. Am. Ethnology VI 207; Easter Island: Métraux Ethnology 85. |
| W171 | Two-facedness. |
| B15.1.2.1 | Two-headed animal. U.S.: Baughman; Jewish: Neuman. |
| B15.1.2.1.4 | Two-headed dog. Greek: *Frazer Apollodorus I 211 n. 3 (Orthus). |
| B11.2.3.6 | Two-headed dragon. England: Baughman. |
| E422.1.1.1 | Two-headed ghost. Swiss: Jegerlehner Oberwallis 334b s.v. "Geister"; England, Scotland, U.S.: Baughman. |
| F531.1.2.2.1 | Two-headed giant. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| G361.1.1 | Two-headed ogre. Irish myth: Cross; Jewish: Neuman; Africa (Fang): Einstein 149. |
| F511.0.2.1 | Two-headed person. Irish myth: *Cross; Jewish: Neuman N. A. Indian (Quinault): Farrand JE II 124 No. 14. |
| B15.1.2.1.1 | Two-headed serpent. One head in front and one at rear.—Penzer V 135 n. 2. |
| B15.1.2.1.2 | Two-headed tiger. S. A. Indian (Chiriguano): Métraux RMLP XXXIII 142—158 passim. |
| E501.4.2.6 | Two-legged horse in wild hunt. Plischke 30. |
| K2383 | Tying cat to balky horse's tail to make him move. Nouvelles Récréations No. 41. |
| K1447 | Tying the cattle: trickster ties them so tightly they are strangled. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| J2410 | Types of foolish imitation. |
| L110 | Types of unpromising heroes (heroines). |
| F526.1 | Typhon. Human down to thighs; coil of vipers below. Dragon heads from his hands. Bigger than mountains. Greek: Frazer Apollodorus I 47 n. 4. |
| P12.2.1 | Tyrannical king. Jewish: *Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1982 | Ubiquitous beggar. In disguise obtains alms three times from the same person. Herbert III 282; Spanish: Espinosa Jr. Nos. 210f. |
| D621.3 | Ugly by day; fair by night. *Köhler-Bolte II 435ff.; Irish myth: Cross. |
| L112.9 | Ugly child becomes great poet. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| X241 | Ugly cobbler continually threatens to throw his last at people. The object of jokes. Spanish: Boggs FFC XC 98 No. 836D*. |
| K1815.2 | Ugly disguise. India: *Thompson-Balys; Samoa: Beckwith Myth 254. |
| K1918.1 | Ugly fish borrows skin of handsome fish for courtship and marriage. Africa (Wakweli): Bender 57f. |
| A139.14 | Ugly god. Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 194 No. 135. |
| D52.2 | Ugly man becomes handsome. Samoa: Beckwith Myth 473. |
| G476 | Ugly ogre terrifies women who flee and are drowned. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| T11.2.0.1 | Ugly picture of suitor makes girl refuse him. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| L145 | Ugly preferred to pretty sister. Type (4032); Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "laide". |
| L145.1 | Ugly sister helps pretty one. *Type 711. |
| J1791.6.1 | Ugly woman sees beautiful woman reflected in water and thinks it is herself. Prides herself on her beauty. *Type 408; BP II 121ff.; Italian: Basile Pentamerone V No. 9; Indonesian: Dixon 226. |
| K1984.4 | Ugly women complain of falling flowers. King hearing them supposes them delicate and beautiful. Italian: Basile Pentamerone I No. 10. |
| C531.1 | Umbilical cord not to be cut with iron. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K419.3 | Umpire awards his own stolen coat to thief. Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 1525K*; Russian: Andrejev No. 1525 I*. |
| P273.3 | Unable to hit man himself, enemy kills his foster brother. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| A1205 | Unacceptable gods as first inhabitants of earth. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 60. |
| T42.1 | Unacquainted lovers converse in sign language. Penzer VI 247f. |
| N211.2 | Unavailing attempt to get rid of slippers; they always return. *Chauvin VI 130 No. 283. |
| F321.3.1 | Unbaptized child stolen by fairies found in barn and rescued. Lithuanian: Balys Index No. *412. |
| F251.3 | Unbaptized children as fairies. Fb "udøbt" III 960a; Irish: O'Suilleabhain 61, Beal XXI 324; England: Baughman; Finnish-Swedish: Wessman 30 No. 262. |
| F471.1.3 | Unbaptized children as nightmares. When caught, they beg baptism. Usually they are murdered illegitimates. Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 3685. |
| E501.2.7 | Unbaptized children in wild hunt. Plischke 30; *Fb "udøbt" III 960a. |
| E501.5.4 | Unbaptized children pursued in wild hunt. Plischke 65. |
| E412.2 | Unbaptized person cannot rest in grave. *Fb "udøbt" III 960a; Tobler 47; Irish: Beal XXI 315, O'Suilleabhain 41; England: Baughman; Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 3557. |
| V351.2 | Unbeliever loses argument with hermit. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| C993 | Unborn child affected by mother's broken tabu. Rarotonga: Beckwith Myth 262; S. Am. Indian (Chiriguano): Métraux RMLP XXXIII 160. |
| T575.1.6.1 | Unborn child directs his mother on journey. S. A. Indian (Karib): Métraux RMLP XXXIII 146, (Chiriguano): ibid. 154, 160, 165, (Tupinamba): Métraux BBAE CXLIII (3) 132. |
| M311.5 | Unborn child will become nation's deliverer. Jewish: Neuman. |
| T61.5.3 | Unborn children promised in marriage to each other. Jewish: Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 1097; Madagascar: Renel I 168ff. No. 30. |
| F863.1 | Unbreakable chain. Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "chaоne". |
| J2010 | Uncertainty about own identity. |
| Q494.1.1 | Uncharitable king loses power. (Cf. Q286.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q595.3 | Uncharitable king loses wealth. (Cf. Q286, Q585.1.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| 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. |
| Q286 | Uncharitableness punished. (Cf. Q494.1.1, Q552.3.0.1, Q571.2, Q572.2, Q574.2, Q585.1, Q595.3.) Irish: O'Suilleabhain 93, 129, 131, Beal XXI 330, 337; Spanish: Espinosa Jr. Nos. 186, 202—04; Swiss: Jegerlehner Oberwallis 300 No. 16; India: *Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Werner 255; Africa (Ila, Rhodesia): Smith and Dale II 415 No. 14. |
| Q286.1 | Uncharitableness to holy person punished. (Cf. Q1.1, Q553.3.5, Q556.11, Q589.1.) Type 766*; *Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 329; Irish: *Cross; O'Suilleabhain 22, Beal XXI 307; Spanish: Espinosa Jr. Nos. 183f., 202—04; Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 192. |
| H411.11.1 | Unchaste woman dips arm into the water: skin boiled away. *Loomis White Magic 126. |
| E412.2.1 | Unchristened person cannot rest in grave nor enter heaven. Scotland: Baughman. |
| G650 | Unclassified ogre motifs. |
| N738.1 | Uncle and nephew unwittingly about to kill one another. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| K361.5 | Uncle entrusted with niece's patrimony slanders her so marriage will be broken off and he will not have to part with her money. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| P293 | Uncle. **W. O. Farnsworth Uncle and Nephew in the Old French Chansons de Geste (New York, 1913); Irish myth: Cross. |
| E411.0.2.2 | Unconfessed person cannot rest in grave. Spanish Exempla: Keller; England: Baughman. |
| M300.2 | Unconscious prophecy. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| V31.2 | Unconsecrated host ineffective. Alphabet No. 162. |
| V31.3 | Unconsecrated host refused. Alphabet Nos. 161, 310. |
| V31 | Unconsecrated host. |
| F979.5.1 | Unconsumed burning bush. Jewish: Neuman. |
| F842.2.3.2 | Under-water bridge. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F842.2.4 | Under-water causeway (to otherworld). (Cf. F93.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F93.0.2 | Under-water entrance to lower world. *Siuts 54. |
| F153.1 | Underground channel to otherworld. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F764 | Underground city. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F771.3.5 | Underground house. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| F721.3.2 | Underground kingdom reached in a box which was swallowed by a dragon and later released. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F721.3 | Underground kingdom. |
| A1071.1 | Underground monster fettered by trick. Is persuaded to try on fetters. (Sometimes told of fettering Satan, who plays same role.)—*Type 803; *Olrik Ragnarök 204ff., 248ff.; Lithuanian: Balys Lithuanian Legends of the Devil in Chains (Tautosakos Darbai III [1937] 321-331.) |
| F721.5.1 | Underground palace full of jewels. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K315.0.1 | Underground passage gives entrance to closed chamber. Italian: Basile Pentamerone I No. 2; Jewish: Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| D1555 | Underground passage magically opens. Chinese: Graham. |
| K1523 | Underground passage to paramour's house. (Inclusa.) Woman goes from one to the other. Her husband is made to believe that the woman next door is her sister. *Fischer-Bolte 219; Wesselski Märchen 188 No. 2; *Chauvin V 213 No. 121, VIII 96 No. 67; *Köhler-Bolte I 393; Campbell Sages cx; *Krappe Archivum Romanicum XIX (1935) 213—226; Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles No. 1; Icelandic: *Boberg; Italian Novella: *Rotunda; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| F721.1 | Underground passages. Journey made through natural subways. *Fb "löngang" II 515; Missouri French: Carrière; Finnish: Aarne FFC XXXIII 47 Nos. 89**, 98; Estonian: Aarne FFC XXV 136 No. 98; Gaster Oldest Stories 48. |
| F535.6.1 | Underground pygmy kingdom. Tupper and Ogle Walter Map 17. |
| F450.1.2 | Underground spirit instructs a smith. (Cf. F451.3.4.2.) Estonian: Aarne FFC XXV 126 No. 57. |
| F450 | Underground spirits. (Cf. F200—F399, Fairies and Elves.) Danish: Kristensen Danske Sagn I (1892) 4ff., (1928) 9ff.; Icelandic: MacCulloch Eddic 228ff.; Finnish: Holmberg Finno-Ugric 178; Finnish-Swedish: Wessman 45ff.; Persian Carnoy 298. |
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