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JAILOR    

N 853 (Bm) Helpful jailor [gatekeeper, guard, watchman]

JEALOUSY    

H 911 Tasks assigned at suggestion of jealous rivals
K 2247 Treacherous lord [vassal]
Q 301 Jealousy punished
S 11.4.1 (Jealous) father vows to kill [kills] daughter’s suitors
T 200 Married life
T 257 Jealous husband or wife.
T 257.12 (Bm) Jealous husband confines wife to tower
T 381.0.2 Wife imprisoned in tower (house) to preserve chastity
W 181 Jealousy
W 181.4 Jealous fox betrays wolf to peasant and then appropriates wolf’s cave and food
W 195 Envy

JESTER    

K 1818.3.2 Lover approaches mistress disguised as fool
P 192 Madmen (fools, professional fools)

JEW    

A 1660 Characteristics of various peoples – in personal appearance.
A 1681.2 Why Jews do not eat pork [origin of food tabu]
M 201.0.2 Covenant between heathen and Israelites
M 301.7 Biblical worthy as prophet
P 715 Particular nations (races, religions)
P 715.1 Jews
T 131 Marriage restrictions
V 110 Religious buildings [and institutions]
V 332 Baptism of heathen
V 350 Conflicts between religions
V 356 Christian hero (saint) overthrows heathen idols
V 360 Christian and Jewish traditions about each other
V 363 Jewish child thrown into oven by father for taking eucharist
V 363.1 Jewish child resurrected (saved by power of Virgin Mary) after being burned [from being burned] to ashes for eating consecrated bread in Christian church

JEWEL    

B 101.7 Serpent with jewel in head
D 1071 Magic jewel (jewels)
D 1076 Magic ring
D 1361.19 Magic jewel renders invisible
D 1380.11 Magic jewel protects
D 1382.1 Magic pebble [gem] prevents burning.
D 1383.6 Magic red stone protects from poison.
D 1385.3.2 (Bm) Magic stone in ring protects against witchcraft.
D 1389.9.1 Magic red stone protects against poverty.
D 1400.1.14 Magic stone (jewel) gives victory.
D 1472.1.2 Stone provides food.
D 1503.6 Magic jewel heals wounds
D 1561.1.7 Magic stone brings good luck.
D 1645.1 Incandescent jewel
F 162.0.1.2 (Luminous) precious stones in otherworld (dwelling)
F 162.2.10 Jewels in streams of otherworld
F 165.3.2 Jewelled walls in otherworld dwelling.
F 771.1 Castle of unusual material
F 771.1.1 Golden castle (palace, house)
F 771.1.1.1 Castle paved with gold and gems
F 771.1.5 Palace of jewels
F 774.1 Pillars of precious stones
F 788.1 Remarkable jeweled bier
F 809.11 (Bm) Marvelous stone – extraordinarily cold
F 811.2.2 Tree with leaves of jewels
F 813.2.1 Clusters of diamond and emerald grapes
F 826 Extraordinary jewels
F 827 Extraordinary ornaments
F 828 Extraordinary crown
F 852.1 Glass coffin
H 93 Identification by jewel
H 411.1 Magic stone as chastity test.
N 352.3 Serpent steals jewels
Q 111.7 Jewels as reward
T 455.1.1 Woman sells favors to obtain many jewels

JOURNEY    

B 151.1.6 Dog indicates road to be taken
B 542.2.1 Transportation to fairyland on griffin’s back
B 551.1 Fish carries man across water
B 563 Animals direct man on journey.
B 579.1 Animal accompanies man on journey
C 761.1 Tabu: remaining on journey too long.
C 833 Tabus for journeys
D 1384 Magic object protects from discomfort or from accident on journey
D 1520.6 Magic transportation by cloak (cape)
D 2121.5 Magic journey: man carried by spirit or devil
D 2122 Journey with magic speed.
D 2126 Magic underwater journey
D 2135 Magic air journey
E 721.2 Body in trance while soul is absent
F 1 Journey to otherworld as dream or vision
F 3 Journey to otherworld as invasion
F 7 Journey to otherworld with angel
F 11 Journey to heaven (upper-world paradise)
F 11.1 Journey to heaven [or hell] in trance
F 60 Transportation to or from upper world
F 80 Journey to lower world
F 81 Descent to lower world of dead [hell]
F 81.1.2 Journey to land of dead to visit deceased
F 110 Journey to terrestrial otherworlds
F 111 Journey to earthly paradise
F 112 Journey to land of women
F 116 Journey to the land of the Immortals
F 123 Journey to land of little men (pygmies)
F 129.4 Journey to otherworld island
F 129.7 Journey to land of naked people
F 133.0.1 (Bm) Journey to bottom of sea
F 159 Other means to reach the otherworld
F 159.4 Demon guide to otherworld journey
H 1385.0.1 Unspelling quest: journey to disenchant (free) captives.
L 221 Modest request: present from the journey. Asked what her father shall bring her as a present, the heroine chooses a modest gift. It is usually a flower but sometimes does not turn out to be a such a simple gift at all (golden cloak, golden apple)
M 358 Prophecies connected with journeys
M 358.1.1 Prophecy: death on journey
Q 473 Punishment: disgraceful journey through streets
T 219 (Bm) Wife will no longer love husband if he is gone more than one year.
V 522 Sinner reformed after visit to heaven and hell
Z 72.0.1 (Bm) Year time limit on quest

JOUST    

C 835 Tabus concerning fighting
H 218.1.1 (G) Single combat, joust interrupted by friends of combatants
H 1561 Tests of valor
H 1561.1 Tests of valor: tournament
P 50 Noblemen (knights) [rules of chivalry]
P 52 Knight jousts with all comers
P 52.2 (Li) Knight in service of a lady
P 550.2 (Li) Single combat
P 561 Tournaments

JOY    

B 172.2.2 Magic bird’s song dispels grief.
D 1359.3 Magic object causes joy
D 1359.3.1 Magic music causes joy
D 1359.3.1.2 Magic musical branch soothes listeners
D 1359.3.1.3 Grief dispelled by sound of bell attached to magic fairy dog.
F 165.6 Only joy felt in otherworld dwelling.
F 173 Otherworld land of happiness.
F 262.3.6 Fairy music causes joy (laughter)
F 1041.1.5.4 Death from joy of kiss [love making]
F 1041.25 (Bm) Reactions to excessive joy
F 1041.25.1 (Bm) Swoon from joy
M 151.7.1 (Bm) Vow not to be happy until conquest is achieved [revenge is taken]

JUDGE    

A 675 Judges in the lower world
J 1192 The bribed [false] judge
J 1212 Judge put out of countenance
K 2249.7 (Bm) Treacherous judge and jury
M 50 Other judgments and decrees
P 19.4.1 King as judge
P 421 Judge
P 510 Law courts
P 614 (Bm) Bribes
Q 113.0.1 High honors as reward

JUDGMENT    

A 1002 Doomsday. Catastrophes precede the Day of Judgment.
A 1002.2 Signs before the Day of Judgment.
A 1030 World-fire
A 1075 End of world heralded by coming of Antichrist
A 1082.5 God conquers Satan at end of world.
A 1093 End of world announced by trumpet
E 178 Resurrection at Judgment Day
E 751 Souls at Judgment Day
H 210 Test of guilt or innocence
H 1596.1 Golden apple as prize in beauty contest. Judgment of Paris.
J 1172 Judgment as rebuke to unjust plaintiff
M 20 Short sighted judgments
M 50 Other judgments and decrees
M 90 Judgments and decrees – miscellaneous motifs
P 548 Miscellaneous legal customs [problems]
Q 520 Penances
V 313 Last judgment

JUDICIAL    

H 218 Trial by combat
H 218.0.1 Vindication by champion. Usually noble lady or king accused
H 218.1 Judicial combat interrupted by friends of loser
H 1561.2 Single combat to prove valor
K 3 Substitute in contest
K 528 Substitute in ordeal
P 550.2 (Li) Single combat
P 557.4 Customs concerning single combat

JUGGLER    

L 410.4 Defeated king must be peddler or beggar [juggler]

JUMP    

F 684 Marvelous jumper
F 1071 Prodigious jump
K 17 Jumping contest won by deception
R 219.5 (Bm) Escape by jumping out window

JUNGLE    

F 151.1.3 Perilous forest.

JURY    

K 2249.7 (Bm) Treacherous judge and jury
P 510 Law courts

JUSTICE    

P 12 Character of kings
P 12.2 Injustice deadliest of monarch’s sins
P 510 Law courts
U 10 Justice and injustice
W 35 Justice