Index of Keywords

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F 515.2.2 Person with very long [and sharp] fingernails
F 517.1.4 Person with claws on the feet.
F 531.1.6.1 Giant [wild woman] with nails like claws
F 844 Extraordinary nail
V 140 Sacred relics

F 129.7 Journey to land of naked people
F 568 Naked tribe
F 709.1 Country of the naked
H 1596.3 Women to appear naked in beauty contest
J 2312 Naked person made to believe he is clothed
P 59.5 (Bm) Knight fights naked (without armor) but for sword [spear]
V 68.4.1 Dead not to be buried naked
Z 181.1 Nudity as sign of madness.

A 182.2 God gives name to child
A 2571.0.1 Adam gives name to all animals
C 32.2.1 Tabu: asking name of supernatural husband
D 772 Disenchantment by naming.
F 451.8 Names for dwarfs
F 451.8.2 Proper names for dwarfs
H 467.2 Wife’s faithfulness tested by a proposal in another’s name
H 602.3 Symbolic interpretation of names.
J 1730.1 Hero does not learn his name until after first [particular] adventure.
J 2010 Uncertainty about own identity.
K 1831 Service under a false name
K 1831.0.1 Disguise by changing name
K 1831.0.2 (Bm) Disguise by refusal to reveal name
K 1831.1 Shipwrecked men call themselves by false names
N 131.4 Luck changing after change of name
N 762 Person accidentally met unexpectedly knows the other’s name
P 17.3 Dying king names successor
P 322.2 Guest in disguise or under false name
T 586.1.2.2 King has six [three] sons all named Lugaid [Dietrich]
T 596 Naming of children
T 617.2 Hero learns his name at time of first [particular] adventure.
Z 183 Symbolic names.
Z 252 Hero at first nameless [unaware of birth]
Z 702 (Hi) Eponymous account of place name
Z 703 (Bm) Eponymous account of city’s founding
Z 704 (Bm) Eponymous account of island [valley].
Z 730 (Bm) Eponymous account of personal name
Z 731 (Bm) Eponymous account of nicknames

K 625 Escape by giving narcotic to guards
K 776 Capture by intoxication (or narcotic)
K 873 Fatal deception by giving narcotic

F 151.1 Perilous [narrow] path to otherworld.
F 756.5.2 Perilous glen [narrow passage]

K 304 Nations of thieves
K 2299.2 Treacherous peoples (tribes)
P 715 Particular nations (races, religions)
Z 701 (Bm) Eponymous account of nation’s founding

F 169 Nature of the otherworld – misc.
F 960 Extraordinary nature phenomena – elements and weather
F 960.1.1 Extraordinary nature phenomena at birth of royalty
F 960.2 Extraordinary nature phenomena at death of holy [pious] person (hero)
F 960.4 Extraordinary nature phenomena at anger of saint [goddess]
H 175 Recognition by “force” of nature. Unknown member of family immediately and magically recognized
J 512 Animal should not try to change his nature
J 1930 Absurd disregard of natural laws
N 100 Nature of luck and fate
P 233.4 Natural son preferred to legitimate
Q 100 Nature of reward
U 120 Nature will show itself
U 129 Nature will show itself – misc.
U 280 (Hi) The nature of life – misc.
V 12 Nature of sacrifice

A 875.1 Navel of the earth. Omphalos, the central point on the earth disk.
F 559.2 Long navel.

F 559.5 Remarkable neck

A 499.4.1 Goddess of sorcery
D 1711 Magician
D 1711.2 Virgil as magician
D 1712 Soothsayer (diviner, oracle,)
D 1712.0.1 Astrologer-magician
D 1738 Magic arts studied
D 1760 Means of producing magic power
D 1810.0.2 Magic knowledge of magician
N 845 Magician as helper.

F 271.8 Fees [fairies] engage in needlework
H 35.3 Recognition by unique needlework

J 344 What one has is neglected in search for other things
P 12.11 Uxorious king neglects duties
P 55.1 (Bm) Broken-hearted knight neglects self
Q 223 Punishment for neglect of services to gods (God)
Q 223.3 Neglect to sacrifice punished
T 271 The neglected wife
V 5 Negligence in religious exercise.

N 730 Accidental reunion of families
N 738 Accidental meeting of nephew and uncle
P 17 Succession to the throne
P 17.16 (Bm) Nephew as heir.
P 253.0.1 Sister’s son
P 293.2 Mother’s brother as helper.
P 293.4 Young prince sent to his father’s (mother’s) brother
P 297 Nephew
P 297.3 (Bm) Nephew would avenge his uncle

D 1402.0.5 Nessus-shirt. Magic shirt burns wearer up

A 2431 Birds’ nests
B 11.6.8 Dragon flies to its nest with human being
L 315.3 Fox burns tree in which eagle has nest

D 1196 Magic net
D 1411 Magic object binds person (animal)
F 847 Extraordinary web [net] (of guts)

F 312.1.1 Fairies make good wishes for newborn child
F 317 Fairy predicts future greatness of newborn child
M 301.12 (Three) Fates prophesy at child’s birth
M 311.0.1 Heroic career prophesied for (new-born) child

P 616 Newcomers forced to pass the night with ruling princess. Given sleeping potion. Goods confiscated for failure to consummate marriage.

K 1851.2 (Bm) “False” letters with false news of king’s death
K 1864.1 False tidings of another’s death in order to secure his bride [wife, and usurp kingdom]
N 340.0.1 (Bm) Erroneous news of death

Z 731 (Bm) Eponymous account of nicknames

P 293 Uncle
P 298 Niece
R 162 Rescue by captor’s daughter (wife, mother)[niece]

A 2491.1 Why bat flies by night
D 621.0.1 One shape by day, another by night.
D 621.1 Animal by day; man [woman] by night
D 2146 Magic control of day and night
E 587 Ghosts walk at certain times
F 564.3.2 Person sleeps for three days and nights
F 706 Land of darkness
F 932.6.3 In dead of night waters of stream cease flowing [freeze] and stand perfectly still
H 1412 Fear test: spending night in church
K 675 Sleeping potion given to man who is to pass the night with a girl. (Sometimes magic pillow or magic sleeping card.)
M 151.2.3 (G) Vow not to sleep two nights in the same place until quest’s end
P 616 Newcomers forced to pass the night with ruling princess. Given sleeping potion. Goods confiscated for failure to consummate marriage.
Z 71.1.1 Formula: three days and three nights

F 471.1.2.1 Exorcising the nightmare

Z 71.6 Formulistic number: nine.

H 41 Recognition of royalty [nobility] by personal characteristics or traits
H 41.9 King [noble] recognized by unique ability to occupy certain seat
H 1574.1 Test for noble blood
J 955 Lowly tries in vain to be greater than he is
K 2247 Treacherous lord [vassal]
N 1.3 Betting contest between two kings [nobles]
N 839 (Bm) Noble [vassal, knight] as helper
P 14 Particular practices of kings
P 16.1 King (prince) retires from world (becomes hermit [monk, pilgrim], swineherd [beggar])
P 50 Noblemen (knights) [rules of chivalry]
P 50.0.1 King and vassals: obligations of vassals to king [Feudality: mutual relationship between king and vassals]
P 50.0.2 (Bm) Knight who acknowledges no overlord [Allegiance: loyalty and disloyalty of vassals]
P 55 Wild man of noble birth
P 56 (Bm) Knight [noble] becomes hermit
P 56.1 (Bm) Knight [noble] becomes pilgrim [monk]
P 59.1 (Bm) Impecunious knight
P 60 Noble (gentle) ladies
P 90 Royalty and nobility – misc.
Q 482 Punishment: noble person must do menial service
R 10.3.1 (Bm) Noble child abducted
R 74.4 (Tu) Defeated king [nobleman, knight] becomes conqueror’s vassal
S 334 Tokens of royalty (nobility) left with exposed child
T 91.6 Noble and lowly in love
V 301.1 (Li) The high-minded, noble heathen
W 40 (Bm) Nobility

E 402 Mysterious ghostlike noises heard.
F 531.3.8 Giants’ shouts are storms or great noise
F 966 Voices from heaven (or from the air)
F 1051.2 Miraculously loud noise of mourning for hero
G 303.17.2.3 Devil goes out with great noise

F 514 Person unusual as to his nose
F 543 Remarkable nose.
G 362 Ogre monstrous as to nose.
Q 451.5 Nose cut off as punishment
S 166.5 Mutilation: chin and lips cut off.
S 172 Mutilation: nose cut off or crushed

B 535 Animal nurse – Animal nourishes abandoned child
B 768 Fancied nourishment of animals

C 313.1 Tabu – woman seeing nude man
Z 181.1 Nudity as sign of madness.

D 1273.1.1 Three as magic number
D 1273.1.3 Seven as magic number
D 1761.0.2 Limited number of wishes granted
Z 71 Formulistic numbers
Z 71.1 Formulistic number: three
Z 71.2 Formulistic number: four
Z 71.3 Formulistic number: five
Z 71.4 Formulistic number: six
Z 71.5 Formulistic number: seven
Z 71.6 Formulistic number: nine.
Z 71.8 Formulistic number: twelve
Z 71.8.6 Formulistic number: twenty-four
Z 71.11 Formulistic number: thirty
Z 71.12 Formulistic number: forty [Forty days’ limit]
Z 71.14 Formulistic number: seventy-two
Z 71.16 Formulistic numbers – miscellaneous
Z 71.16.1 Formulistic number- eight
Z 71.16.2 Formulistic number: ten
Z 71.16.11 Formulistic number: fifteen
Z 71.16.12 Formulistic number- seventeen

J 1700 Fools
J 2131 Numskull [Fool] injured

P 29.4 Queen becomes nun
Q 243 Incontinence punished – miscellaneous
R 325.4 (Bm) Nunnery as refuge
T 211.5.1 Wife becomes hermit (nun) after husband’s death
V 118 Monasteries [cloisters, abbeys, nunneries]
V 465 Clerical vices.
V 470 Clerical vows

B 535 Animal nurse – Animal nourishes abandoned child
J 2066.5 Wolf waits in vain for the nurse to throw away the child
P 253.11 (Bm) Woman unwittingly nurses brother’s [uncle’s] slayer.

F 813.3.2 Gigantic nut
J 369.2 Ape throws away nut because of its bitter rind