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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 |
|---|---|
| Q541.1.1 | Standing in (Jordan and Tigris) rivers as penance (by Adam and Eve). (Cf. A1331.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q541.2 | Penance: standing in water for forty days. Dh I 228ff.; Irish: O'Suilleabhain 49, Beal XXI 318. |
| Q541.3 | Penance: Gregory on the stone. Standing on a stone (pillar) as penance for incest. (Cf. Q242, T415.) *Type 933; Köhler-Bolte Zs. f. Vksk. VI 173 to Gonzenbach No. 85; *Baum PMLA XXXI 562 n. 59; *Toldo II 89. |
| Q541.4 | Penance: keeping self suspended on two iron hooks placed under armpits. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q541.5 | Penance: staying for ten months rooted to one spot, with eyes closed, while birds build nests in one's hair. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q542 | Penance: giving all earnings to poor. Spanish: Boggs FFC XC 86 No. 756B. |
| Q544 | Penance: being locked in cellar (well) with key thrown into water. *Type 756B; *Andrejev FFC LXIX 127, 248. |
| Q545 | Murderer's penance complete when he kills a greater murderer and prevents a crime. (Cf. Q211.) *Type 756C; **Andrejev FFC LIV; Wesselski Archiv Orientální II 39ff. |
| Q550 | Miraculous punishments. |
| Q550.1 | Supernatural manifestations at death of wicked person. Finnish-Swedish: Wessman 1 Nos. 7, 8, 9. |
| Q551 | Magic manifestations as punishments. |
| Q551.1 | Undutiful son punished by toad clinging to face. (Cf. Q281.1.) *BP III 167; Köhler-Bolte I 473ff.; *Ward II 664; Herbert III 343; Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 437; Irish: Beal XXI 317. |
| Q551.1.1 | Betel-nut grows upon a person's knee as a punishment. Philippine (Tinguian): Cole 56. |
| Q551.2 | Punishment: animal skin grows on man's back. He had masked in the skin in order to cheat. *Type 831; Irish myth: *Cross; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q551.2.1 | Magic adhesion to object as punishment (for opposition to holy person). (Cf. D2171.1, Q227.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q551.2.2 | Miraculous adhesion of objects to human hand as punishment for working on holy day. (Cf. Q223.6.) *Loomis White Magic 55. |
| Q551.2.3 | Thief rendered unable to remove burden of stolen goods from his back. (Cf. Q212.) *Loomis White Magic 55, 98. |
| Q551.2.4 | Corpse of murdered man sticks to murderer's back. (Cf. Q211.) *Loomis White Magic 55. |
| Q551.2.5 | Instrument or tool for unlawful work becomes attached to person holding it. *Loomis White Magic 55. |
| Q551.2.6 | Sacrilege and blasphemy punished by magic adhesion. (Cf. Q221.3.) *Loomis White Magic 55f. |
| Q551.2.7 | Priest's concubine is unable to rise from stone. She is finally freed by prayers and repentance. (Cf. Q243.1.) England: Baughman. |
| Q551.2.8 | Punishment for stinginess: bundle of fuel (pitcher of lime) sticks to man's head. (Cf. Q276.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q551.2.8.1 | Punishment for cupidity: rich man's foot caught in church door: extricated only when he sends money to beggar. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q551.3 | Punishment: transformation. (Cf. D661.) Greek: Grote I 32. |
| Q551.3.1 | Punishment: transformation of lovers into lion and lioness for desecrating temple. They have had sexual relations in the temple. It was believed that lions do not mate with each other; hence their sin could not be repeated. Greek: *Frazer Apollodorus I 401 n. 2. |
| Q551.3.2 | Punishment: transformation into animal. (Cf. Q226.2.) S. A. Indian (Toba): Métraux MAFLS XL 31. |
| Q551.3.2.1 | Punishment: Loki's son transformed into wolf which tears his brother to pieces. Icelandic: MacCulloch Eddic 146. |
| Q551.3.2.2 | Punishment: woman transformed into bird. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q551.3.2.3 | Punishment: transformation into frog. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q551.3.2.4 | Punishment: transformation into monkey. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| Q551.3.2.5 | Punishment: man transformed to a mass of worms. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q551.3.2.6 | Punishment: transformation to ass. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q551.3.2.7 | Punishment: transformation to dog. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q551.3.2.8 | Punishment: transformation to calf. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q551.3.3 | Punishment: calf's head in murderer's hand turns to corpse's head. (Cf. Q211.) *BP I 276 n. 2, II 535. |
| Q551.3.3.1 | Punishment: melon in murderer's hand turns to murdered man's head. Africa (Fulah): Equilbecq II 205ff. No. 43. |
| Q551.3.4 | Transformation to stone as punishment. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q551.3.4.1 | Scoffers turned to stone by saint. (Cf. Q225.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q551.3.4.2 | Man curses wind; he is turned to stone, along with sack from which he is sowing. (Cf. Q221.) England: *Baughman. |
| Q551.3.4.3 | Nun breaks her vow. She is turned to stone. (Cf. Q226.) U.S.: Baughman. |
| Q551.3.5 | Punishment: transformation into other object. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q551.3.5.1 | Punishment: transformation into falling star. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q551.3.5.2 | Punishment: transformation into tree. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q551.4 | Punishment: animals become sick. |
| Q551.4.1 | Punishment: horses become sick. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| Q551.5 | Reincarnation as punishment. (Cf. E600, Q584.3.) India: Thompson-Balys; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 222, 342, 424, 479, 597, 740, 1148, II 355, 670, 691, 792, 918, 1028, 1272. |
| Q551.5.1 | Reincarnation into degraded form as punishment. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| Q551.5.1.1 | Punishment: man reborn as girl. (Cf. Q292.1.) India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| Q551.5.1.2 | Punishment: king and queen reborn as children of scavenger. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q551.5.1.3 | Dying priest looks greedily on ripe plum: is reincarnated as insect feeding within plum. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q551.6 | Magic sickness as punishment. Irish myth: Cross; Icelandic: Boberg; Jewish: *Neuman; Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 187. |
| Q551.6.0.1 | Punishment: men stricken with leprosy. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| Q551.6.0.2 | Punishment: death from unknown disease before end of three days for having obtained food by force from monastery. Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q551.6.1 | Magic sickness as punishment for lying (perjury). (Cf. Q263, Q583.4.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q551.6.2 | Magic sickness as punishment for opposition to holy person. (Cf. Q227, Q572.3.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q551.6.2.1 | Magic sickness as punishment for tanning shoes with bark from saint's tree. Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q551.6.3 | Magic sickness as punishment for ingratitude. (Cf. Q281.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q551.6.4 | Magic sickness as punishment for theft. (Cf. Q212, Q557.4, Q572.1.) *Loomis White Magic 98; Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q551.6.5 | Magic sickness as punishment for desecration of holy places (images, etc.). (Cf. Q222.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q551.6.5.1 | Magic manifestation: blood flows suddenly from mouth of blasphemer. (Cf. Q221.3.) Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| Q551.6.5.2 | Magic manifestation: eyes fall out of head of blasphemer. (Cf. Q451.7.0.2.) Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| Q551.6.6 | Emaciation caused by envy. (Cf. Q302.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q551.6.7 | Magic sickness (death) as punishment for inhospitality. (Cf. Q292.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q551.7 | Magic paralysis as punishment. Loomis White Magic 98f.; Irish myth: Cross; Spanish Exempla: Keller; Jewish: *Neuman. |
| Q551.7.1 | Magic paralysis as punishment for opposition to holy person. (Cf. Q227, Q573.1, Q583.3.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q551.7.1.1 | Heretic suddenly becomes tongue-tied. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q551.7.2 | Magic paralysis as punishment for theft. (Cf. Q212.) *Loomis White Magic 98; Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q551.7.3 | Magic paralysis as punishment for quarrelsomeness. (Cf. Q306.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q551.8 | Deformity as punishment. Irish myth: Cross; Jewish: Neuman. |
| Q551.8.1 | Deformity as punishment for false judging. (Cf. Q265.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q551.8.2 | Deformity as punishment for desecration of holy places (images, etc.). (Cf. Q222.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q551.8.3 | Deformity (putridity) as punishment for murder. (Cf. D2061.1.4, Q211.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q551.8.4 | Man's eye bursts forth when he urges saint to marry. (Cf. Q227, Q451.7.0.2.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q551.8.5 | Head falls off when man lies to saint. (Cf. Q263.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q551.8.6 | Magic punishment: tongue protrudes from mouth of sinner and blindness follows. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| Q551.8.7 | Punishment: face distorted. India: Thompson-Balys; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 600, 808. |
| Q551.9 | Miraculous burning as punishment. (Cf. Q414.) Irish myth: Cross; Jewish: *Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q551.9.1 | Miraculous burning as punishment for opposition to holy person. (Cf. Q227.) Irish myth: *Cross; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q551.9.2 | Magic burning to death as punishment for perjury. (Cf. Q263.) Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| Q551.10 | Person miraculously lifted into air and dashed to death as punishment for blasphemy. (Cf. Q221.3, Q417.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q551.10.1 | Person miraculously lifted into air and dashed to death as punishment for scoffing at church teachings. (Cf. Q225.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q551.11 | Magic forgetfulness as punishment. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| Q551.12 | Premature aging as punishment. (Cf. D1890.) Jewish: *Neuman. |
| Q552 | Prodigy as punishment. Irish myth: *Cross; West Indies: Flowers 569f. |
| Q552.0.1 | Death from elements as punishment for unjust judgment (by poets). Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q552.1 | Death by thunderbolt as punishment. *Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 458; *Blinkenberg The Thunderweapon in Religion and Folklore (Cambridge, Eng., 1911); *P. Saintyves Pierres magiques (Paris, 1936).—Irish: *Cross, Beal XXI 336, O'Suilleabhain 123; Finnish-Swedish: Wessman 18 Nos. 165, 173; Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 3267; Spanish Exempla: Keller; Greek: Frazer Apollodorus II 34 n. 2 (Iasion), 52 n. 2 (Asopus); Jewish: *Neuman. |
| Q552.1.0.1 | Destruction of property by thunderbolt as punishment. (Cf. Q595.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q552.1.0.1.1 | Thunderbolt demolishes fortress as punishment for disobedience (to saint). (Cf. Q227, Q325.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q552.1.0.2 | Thunder slays people for disregard of him. Lithuanian: Balys Tautosakos Darbai VI 135f. |
| Q552.1.1 | Lightning strikes monk who despises humility. (Cf. Q331.) Scala Celi 102b No. 152; Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 455; Alphabet No. 116. |
| Q552.1.2 | Ravisher killed by thunderbolt. (Cf. Q244.) Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q552.1.3 | Impostor killed by lightning. (Cf. Q262.) Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 110 No. 65. |
| Q552.1.4 | Death by thunderbolt as punishment for opposition to holy person. (Cf. Q227.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q552.1.5 | Death by thunderbolt as punishment for treachery. (Cf. Q261.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q552.1.6 | Death by thunderbolt as punishment for injustice. (Cf. Q296.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q552.1.7 | Woman who accused saint of raping her is struck by lightning. (Cf. Q263.) Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| Q552.1.8 | Infidel defies God to strike him with lightning. God does. (Cf. Q221.3.) U.S.: Baughman. |
| Q552.1.8.1 | Cattle thief calls on God to strike him with lightning if he has ever stolen a cow or calf. Lightning strikes him. U.S.: Baughman. |
| Q552.2 | Sinking of earth as punishment. Irish myth: Cross; Finnish-Swedish: Wessman 18f. Nos. 164, 188; India: Thompson-Balys; Tuamotu: Henry Ancient Tahiti (Honolulu, 1928) 511. |
| Q552.2.0.1 | Quaking of earth as punishment. (Cf. D2148.) Irish myth: Cross; Jewish: *Neuman. |
| Q552.2.0.1.1 | Earth quakes when saint is opposed. (Cf. Q227.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q552.2.1 | Land sinks and lake appears as punishment. *Fb "sø" III 449b; Loomis White Magic 41, 101; England: Baughman; Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 787*; Chinese: Werner 405. |
| Q552.2.2 | Grave sinks so that grave-robbers cannot get out. (Cf. Q212.2.) Estonian: Aarne FFC XXV 116 No. 17. |
| Q552.2.3 | Earth swallowings as punishment. (Cf. F940, Q221.4.3.) Irish: *Cross, Beal XXI 327, O'Suilleabhain 79; Lithuanian: Balys Index Nos. 3610, 3748, Legends Nos. 467f., 470f; Jewish: *Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| Q552.2.3.1 | Girl sinks into earth for dancing in church. (Cf. C51.1.5, Q386.) Fb "kirkegaard" II 129. |
| Q552.2.3.1.1 | Earth swallows man who opposes saint (holy man). (Cf. Q227.) Loomis White Magic 44; Irish myth: *Cross; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 798, II 1220. |
| Q552.2.3.1.2 | Earth swallows man as punishment for sacrilege (blasphemy, heresy, etc.). (Cf. Q221.3.) *Loomis White Magic 101; Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q552.2.3.1.3 | Man who angers saint sinks into earth to his knees. (Cf. Q227.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q552.2.3.2 | Earth swallows object as punishment. Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q552.2.3.2.1 | Earth swallows mill in which saint's grain was refused grinding. (Cf. Q227.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q552.2.3.2.2 | Earth swallows heretical city. (Cf. Q225.1.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q552.2.3.2.3 | Island sinks for man's offense to saint. (Cf. Q227.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| Q552.2.3.3 | Saint causes parricide to sink into earth to his knees. (Cf. D1713, Q211.1.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q552.2.3.4 | Earth swallows man intending treachery. (Cf. Q261.1.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q552.3 | Failure of crops during reign of wicked king. (Cf. Q552.10.1.) Irish: MacCulloch Celtic 72, *Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg; Greek: Grote I 171, 203; Jewish: Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| Q552.3.0.1 | Failure of crops as punishment for uncharitableness. (Cf. Q286.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q552.3.0.2 | Failure of crops as punishment for murder. (Cf. Q211.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q552.3.0.3 | Failure of crops and milk as punishment for adultery. (Cf. Q241.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q552.3.0.4 | Failure of crops for mistreating the dead. Africa (Cameroon): Mansfield 233. |
| Q552.3.1 | Famine as punishment. *Loomis White Magic 95, 102; Irish myth: *Cross; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q552.3.1.1 | Sterility of land as punishment for parricide. (Cf. Q211.1.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q552.3.2 | Famine as punishment for oppression by victors. Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q552.3.3 | Drought as punishment. Irish myth: Cross; Jewish: Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q552.3.4 | Food magically disappears. India: Thompson-Balys; Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 431. |
| Q552.3.5 | Punishment for greed: streams of sugar, molasses, and milk from anchorite's tomb dry up and petrify because of townspeople's greed. (Cf. Q272.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q552.3.6 | Punishment: water famine. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| Q552.3.7 | Murrain upon cattle as punishment. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| Q552.4 | Ear of stolen animal protrudes from thief's mouth. (Cf. Q212.) Irish: Plummer cxliii, *Cross; *Loomis White Magic 98. |
| Q552.4.1 | Stolen animal cries out from stomach of thief. *Loomis White Magic 98; Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| Q552.5 | Monstrous births as punishment for girl's pride. (Cf. M437, Q331, T550.) Child I 210; Ireland, U.S.: Baughman. |
| Q552.5.1 | Man who cuts off tongue of swallow has dumb children. (Cf. Q285.1.1.) Finnish-Swedish: Wessman 19 No. 182; Japanese: Ikeda. |
| Q552.6 | Rich lord who robs poor widow of her cow chokes on first mouthful. (Cf. Q212.) Herbert III 35ff. |
| Q552.7 | Mary-image descends and chastises clerk who scoffs at its rude carving. (Cf. Q225.) Ward II 676 No. 61. |
| Q552.8 | Dead cock rises, crows, and spatters scoffers so that they become leprous. (Cf. Q225.) Alphabet No. 117. |
| Q552.9 | Punishment: woman who has prevented birth of children casts no shadow. (Cf. Q251.) *Type 755; *Fb "skygge" III 347ab; Finnish-Swedish: Wessman 19 No. 186. |
| Q552.10 | Plague as punishment. Irish myth: *Cross; Swiss: Jegerlehner Oberwallis 165; German: O. Busch Nordwestthüringer Sagen 145, E. Handreck Müllersagen 194, O. Schöppner Sagenbuch d. bairischen Lande I 72; Spanish Exempla: Keller; Jewish: *Neuman. |
| Q552.10.1 | Recurrent plague during reign of wicked king. (Cf. Q552.3.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q552.11 | Punishment: meeting frightful apparition. (Ghost, mysterious animal, devil.) Finnish-Swedish: Wessman 17ff. Nos. 158—161, 167, 169-71, 179. |
| 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. |
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