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G 243 Witch’s sabbath

Q 523.10.1 (Bm) Penance: wearing sackcloth.

V 30 Sacrament [host]

B 811 Sacred animals [dove, falcon]
B 811.5 Sacred swan
C 423.5 Tabu: revealing sacred mysteries.
D 1296 Sacred relic[s] as [part of] magic object
D 1381.20 Sacred relics protect against attack
D 1500.1.10 Sacred objects cure disease
G 303.16.2.3 Devil’s power avoided by blessing [blessed or sacred writing].
G 303.16.3.4 Devil made to disappear by making sign of the cross
M 114 Oath taken on sacred object
M 114.4 Swearing on sacred relics
N 361 Sacred animal unwittingly killed
Q 228 Punishment for (trying to) harm(ing) sacred animal
T 457 Sacred prostitution
V 114 Sacred groves
V 140 Sacred relics
V 150 Sacred objects – miscellaneous
V 151 Sacred writings.
V 290 Other sacred persons [saints]
D 1841.5.1 Man proof against weapons
F 821 Extraordinary dress (clothes, robe, etc.)
V 140 Sacred relics

D 1812.5.0.3 Behavior of fire as omen
D 1812.5.1.12 Animal behavior as bad omen
J 2067 Sacrifice equal to the reward
Q 223.3 Neglect to sacrifice punished
Q 520 Penances
S 200 Cruel sacrifices.
S 260.1 Human sacrifice
S 262.4 Girl offers to sacrifice herself to dragon [heathen] in place of her parents [queen]
S 263 Sacrifice to appease spirits (gods)
T 89.2 Woman [man] sacrifices herself [himself] to save beloved
V 10 Religious sacrifice
V 11.8 Sacrifice to saint
V 11.9 Sacrifice to deity
V 11.10 Sacrifice to idols
V 12 Nature of sacrifice
V 12.4 Animals as sacrifice
V 17 Purpose of sacrifice
V 17.0.1 Sacrifice to deity in order to obtain favors
V 17.3 Sacrifice to get help in danger
V 17.5 Sacrifice to get knowledge
V 19 Religious sacrifices – miscellaneous
V 19.1 Rising smoke as sign of acceptance of sacrifice
W 28 Self-sacrifice

F 868 Extraordinary saddle

P 570 (Bm) Safe conduct

N 781 Hero [heroine] embarks in rudderless boat
Z 140.1 Color of flag (sails) on ship as message of good or bad news

A 182.3 God (angel) speaks to mortal
B 251.2 Animals honor saint (cleric).
B 773.3 Lion (wolf) protects the saint’s body
D 1296 Sacred relic[s] as [part of] magic object
D 1381.20 Sacred relics protect against attack
D 1713 Magic power of hermit (saint, yogi)
D 1810.0.3 Magic knowledge of saints and holy men
D 1841.3.2 Fire does not injure a saint
D 1846.5 Invulnerability bestowed by saint [God]
E 121.4 Resuscitation by saint
G 303.6.2.9 Devil appears to saint (cleric)
H 192 Recognition by supernatural manifestation
K 1811 Gods (saints) in disguise visit mortals
K 1842 Living person acts as image of saint
K 1961.1.5 Sham holy man
M 301.5 Saints (holy men) [hermits] as prophet
N 846.2 Priest as helper
N 848 Saint (pious man) as helper
R 165 Rescue by saint (holy man)
V 11.8 Sacrifice to saint
V 70.3.1 Feast of Saint John the Baptist
V 123.1 God under compulsion: Suppliant threatens to mutilate (crush) holy image if his wish is not fulfilled
V 140 Sacred relics
V 144 Belief in miraculous powers of sacred relics
V 150 Sacred objects – miscellaneous
V 220 Saints
V 221.0.1 Relics of saint cure disease [exorcise]
V 222 Miraculous manifestation acclaims saint
V 222.6 Bell sounds at approach of saint
V 223 Saints have miraculous knowledge
V 226 Saints as hermits
V 227 Saints have divine visitors
V 228 Immunities of saints (holy men)
V 229 Saints – miscellaneous
V 229.2 Sancticity of saints
V 229.3 Saint banishes snakes
V 229.7 Invaders miraculously defeated by saints [Saints as helpers in battle]
V 229.17 Saints blessing causes a river to be best place for fishing
V 290 Other sacred persons [saints]
V 294 The Pope
V 463 Religious martyrdom

B 99.1 Mythical salamander
B 768.2 Salamander subsists on fire
D 1025 Magic skin of animal
D 1382 Magic object protects against cold or burning
D 1382.13 Blood of salamander protects against fire [injuries]
D 1566.2.6 Salamander’s blood quenches fire.
D 1841.3.1 Magic animal proof against burning
F 821.1 Dress of extraordinary material
F 821.11 Clothes remain ever new

C 961.1 Transformation to pillar of salt for breaking tabu
J 1932 Absurd practices connected with crops

D 1323.4.1 Salvatio Romae
Q 36 Reward for repentance
Q 170 Religious rewards
T 315.1 Marital continence by mutual agreement
V 85 Religious pilgrimages
V 118 Monasteries [cloisters, abbeys, nunneries]
V 520 Salvation

D 52.2 Ugly man becomes handsome
D 1244 Magic salve (ointment)
D 1323.5 Magic salve gives clairvoyance.
D 1382.4.1 (Bm) Ointment protects against fire
D 1500.1.19 Magic healing salve.
D 1503.4 Magic balm heals wounds.
D 1508.5 (Bm) Magic ointment cures madness.
D 1821.4 Magic sight by putting ointment into eye.
D 1860 Magic beautification
D 2161.2 Magic cure of wound.

V 70.5 Samhain, Halloween (All Saints Day)

D 1387 Magic object preserves chastity.
F 848 Extraordinary ladder (stairs)

D 1299.2 Magic sepulchre (grave) [sarkophag]
F 852 Extraordinary coffin [sarkophag]
Q 147 Supernatural manifestations at death of pious person

K 2130 Trouble-makers
M 402 Satire [satirist]
M 402.1 Woman satirist
W 110 Unfavorable traits of character – personal

D 1349.1.6 Tiny amount of food magically satisfies.

V 70 Religious feasts and fasts

A 787 Relation of the planets to human life.

B 24 Satyr, Combination of man and goat

B 301.8 Faithful lion follows man who saved him.
E 754 Saved souls
G 303.16.2.2 Person saved from devil [sin] by prayer to Virgin
G 303.16.10 Angels (God) save person from the devil
M 268 Marriage promised to save life
N 650 Life saved by accident.
N 659 Life saved by accident – misc.
Q 10.1 (Bm) Reward for saving land from giant.
T 151.4 (Bm) Girl saved from forced marriage at last minute

B 11.2.10 Scales of dragon.
D 1682 Magic jewel which outweighs many heavy objects in the scale
F 420.1.4.2 Water-spirits have body covered with fish scales
F 521 Person with unusual covering

H 51 Recognition by scar

F 820 Extraordinary clothing and ornaments
K 1872.3 Love letter hidden in apple [scarf, roses]

F 531.6.12.7 Giants driven away by men
K 2324.1 Ferocious animal frightened by ass braying [by unusual sound]
K 2351.3 Mice and hogs let loose put elephant cavalry to flight

E 334 Non-malevolent ghost haunts scene of former misfortune, crime or tragedy.

B 733 Animals are spirit-sighted. Scent danger
D 1889.4 Rejuvenation by smelling apple [flower]
F 169.9 Pleasant fragrance in otherworld

P 10 Kings [King’s famous court]
P 13 Customs connected with kings
P 13.3 Royal purple (golden diadem) [crown] as sign of royalty

D 1738 Magic arts studied
N 846 Cleric as helper
P 429 Miscellaneous learned professions

J 2051 Wise man shortsightedly scorned for his advice
K 2111 Potiphar’s wife
N 656 Scorning stops when it turns out that the scorned has saved the king by fighting alone against four
T 70 Scorned lover [suitors]
T 71 Woman scorned in love
T 71.2 Woman avenges scorned love
T 71.2.1 Woman scorned in love complains of man’s coldness
T 72 Woman won and then scorned
T 75 Man scorned by his beloved
T 75.0.1 Suitors ill-treated
T 75.1 Scorn of unloved suitor punished
T 81.2.1 Scorned lover kills self
T 81.2.1.1 Scorned lover (woman) threatens to kill self

B 17.2.4 Hostile scorpion

P 557.0.2 (Li) Spy. Messenger

F 556 Remarkable voice
F 966 Voices from heaven (or from the air)

P 425 Scribe

A 421 Sea-god
A 421.1 Sea-goddess
A 1116 Origin of sea-waves
C 541.1 Tabu: dead body not to be on ship
D 2151 Magic control of waters
D 2151.1 Magic control of seas
F 133.0.1 (Bm) Journey to bottom of sea
F 711 Extraordinary sea
F 711.2 Sea of unusual substance
F 711.2.6 (Tu) Congealed Sea
F 931 Extraordinary occurrence connected with sea
F 931.11 Speaking sea
H 696.1.1 Riddle: How much water is in the sea? Stop all the rivers and I will measure it
H 1371.2 Quest for the bottom of the sea
P 15.6 King descends to bottom of sea in glass barrel to study ways of fishes [ascends to the sky by griffins]
Q 428 Punishment: drowning
S 139.2.2.12 (Bm) Humiliation of corpse, warrior queen’s corpse cast into lake [river]

B 16.5.1.2 Devastating (man-eating) sea-monster (serpent)
B 17.2.1 Hostile sea-beasts
B 17.2.1.1 Hostile sea-rats
B 17.2.1.3 Hostile sea-cat
B 73 Sea-cat
B 80.2 Monster half-man, half-fish.
B 877.1 Giant sea-monster
G 308 Sea-monster

A 421.1 Sea-goddess

B 71 Sea-horse
B 401.1 Helpful water-horse

H 1221 Quest for adventure
H 1320.1 Quest for magic object: [grail].
M 183.3 Vow to find Holy Grail before returning to Round Table.
N 785 Adventures from seeking water
T 64 King seeks bride only because counsellors insist

V 530 Pilgrimages

D 2145 Magic control of seasons
F 161 Weather in otherworld
M 302.4 Horoscope taken by means of stars
N 120 Determination of luck or fate

D 1151 Magic seat
F 786 Extraordinary chair
H 41.9 King [noble] recognized by unique ability to occupy certain seat
M 302.6 Prophecy inscribed on well [seat]
P 14.10 Kings have seat on hills
P 632 Customs concerning recognition of rank

A 182.1 God reveals secrets (mysteries) to mortals
C 420 Tabu: uttering secrets
C 423 Tabu: revealing the marvelous
C 423.2 Tabu: speaking of extraordinary sight
C 423.5 Tabu: revealing sacred mysteries.
D 1316.5 Magic speaking reed (tree) betrays secret
D 1445.1 Revelation of magic secret permits animal to be killed
K 975 Secret of strength [vulnerability] treacherously discovered
K 1933 Impostor forces oath of secrecy
M 100 Vows and oaths
M 150 Other vows and oaths
M 295 Bargain to keep secret
N 440 Valuable secrets learned
N 450 Secrets overheard
N 451 Secrets overheard from animal (demon) conversation
N 455 Overheard (human) conversation
N 456 Enigmatical smile (laugh) reveals secret knowledge
N 465 Secret physical peculiarity discovered by barber
N 476 Secret of unique vulnerability disclosed
S 350.2 Child driven out (exposed) brought up in secret
T 258.2 Wife insists upon knowing husband’s secret
Z 175.2 Lover’s assignation by symbolic [secret] messages

J 620 Forethought in prevention of others’ plans
P 524 Legal security

K 2126 Knight falsely accused of sedition

D 658 Transformation to seduce
D 658.3.2 Transformation of animal to woman to seduce man [deceive husband]
G 303.9.4 The devil as a tempter
G 303.12.7 Devil’s sexual relations with mortal
K 443.2 Clever wife gets money from those who attempt to seduce her
K 1300 Seduction
K 1310 Seduction by disguise or substitution
K 1315.1 Seduction by posing as a god
K 1315.7.1 Seduction by pretending to instruct (or to need instruction) in marital duties
K 1315.7.2 Seduction under pretence of teaching a game
K 1321 Seduction by man disguising as woman
K 1332 Seduction [abduction] by taking aboard ship to inspect wares
K 1349.5 Access for seduction gained by removing locks [wax-imprints of keys]
K 1363 Seduction of a person ignorant of sexual intercourse
K 1380 Seductions – miscellaneous
K 1397 Woman seduced through threat
Q 243.2 Seduction punished
Q 431.5.1 Banishment for attempted seduction
T 50 Wooing
T 55 Girl as wooer. Forthputting woman
T 320.1 Often-proved fidelity: Repeated attempts to seduce innocent woman, she escapes them all
T 371 The boy who had never seen a woman. The Satan’s [geese]. When he sees a girl and asks his father (tutor) what it is, the father tells him it is Satan [goose]. Asked what he most likes he says “the Satan’s” [geese]

H 607 Discussion by symbols
J 621.1 The swallow and the hemp-seeds
J 1625 Armies like seeds and peppercorns
Z 174 Message or orders given symbolic action

D 1825.2.2 Magic power to see whole country at once.
D 1825.3 Magic power to see invisible creatures
M 151.9 Vow not to see friends until quest is completed
T 251.2.3 Wife becomes obedient on seeing husband slay a recalcitrant horse

H 1381.2.2.1 Son seeks unknown father
N 760.1 (Bm) Chance meeting of seeker and sought
N 770.1 Chance meeting of seeker and sought
N 785 Adventures from seeking water
T 64 King seeks bride only because counsellors insist

W 187 Insolence [Self-conceit]

J 953 Self-deception of the lowly

F 1041.21.6.1 Wounding self because of excessive grief
J 2102.3 Bald man aims at fly: hurts his head
N 397 Accidental self-injury
S 160.1 Self-mutilation
T 26.1 Finger cut because of absorption in the charms of beloved

W 150 Unfavorable traits of character – social

P 55.1 (Bm) Broken-hearted knight neglects self

D 1523.2 Self-propelling (ship) boat

K 1362 Innocent girl sells her “love” and later receives it back
M 211 Man [woman] sells soul to devil
M 211.9 Person sells soul to devil in return for granting of wishes
Q 437 Sale into slavery as punishment
R 61 Person sold into slavery
T 455 Woman sells favors for particular purpose
T 455.6 Woman sells favors for a large sum of money

J 1546 Overcurious wife [mother] learns of the senate’s deliberations

H 82 Identifying tokens sent with messenger
P 555.4 (Bm) Defeated knights [giant, rescued persons etc.] sent under oath to king [lady, queen] (as proof of victory)
S 262.2 Tribute of youths regularly sent to foreign king.
T 41 Communication of lovers

K 2243 Treacherous seneschal
N 839.1 (Bm) [Court official] Steward as helper
P 50.2 Marshall [Court officials: marshall, steward, etc.]

D 1379.1.1 Magic object controls person’s will.
D 1410 Magic object renders person helpless
T 24.1 Love-sickness
T 24.5 Boy [girl] turns red and white from love
T 26 Attention distracted by sight of (remembering) beloved [because of love]

F 112.0.2 Separation of sexes in otherworld
F 566.2 Land where women live separate from men
N 310 Accidental separations
N 315 Separation by being on different banks of stream
N 318 Accidental separation of lovers
N 352 Bird carries off ring which lover has taken from sleeping mistress’s finger. He searches for the ring and becomes separated from her
Q 247 Punishment for desertion of fairy mistress
T 84 Lovers treacherously separated
T 211.9.1 Wife dies of grief for death of husband
T 298 Reconciliation [reunion] of (separated) couple

D 1299.2 Magic sepulchre (grave) [sarkophag]

H 1241 Series of quests. One quest can be accomplished when a second is finished, etc.
P 550.2 (Li) Single combat
P 555.4 (Bm) Defeated knights [giant, rescued persons etc.] sent under oath to king [lady, queen] (as proof of victory)
P 556.0.1 (Bm) Challenge to single combat [feud]

B 11 Dragon
B 11.6 Deeds of dragons
B 101.7 Serpent with jewel in head
B 176.1 Magic serpent
B 765.4.1 Snake attaches itself to a woman’s breast and draws away her milk
B 776.7 Venomous serpent
D 1445.1 Revelation of magic secret permits animal to be killed
F 708.4 (Li) Country without snakes
F 981.1 Serpent bursts asunder
K 953.2 Murder by wrapping snake around man
Q 453 Punishment: being bitten by animal

B 574 Animals as domestic servants
F 171.7 Unseen hands lave feet in otherworld
F 183.1 Automatic service in otherworld: any sort of food desired furnished
F 451.5.1.7 Dwarfs serve mortals
F 531.5.10 Giant as servant to man
F 531.6.16.3 Man [dwarf] as servant of giant.
J 1111.6 Clever maidservant.
J 1114 Clever servant
K 2250.1 Treacherous servant
M 100.0.1 (Li) Oath of allegiance
N 857 Enemy’s servant as helper
P 360 Master and servant
P 361 Faithful servant [vassal]
P 365 Faithless servant
T 133.1 Faithful servant accompanies bride to new home

B 570 Animals serve man
B 579 Animals serve men otherwise
D 1599 Magic object performs services – miscellaneous
F 183.1 Automatic service in otherworld: any sort of food desired furnished
F 451.5.1.7 Dwarfs serve mortals
F 451.5.8 Dwarfs associate with mortals
F 531.5.10 Giant as servant to man
F 531.6.16.3 Man [dwarf] as servant of giant.
H 317 Long term of service imposed on suitor
K 1816 Disguise as menial
K 1831 Service under a false name
M 234 Life spared in return for life-long service [material compensation, peace treaty]
P 50.0.1 King and vassals: obligations of vassals to king [Feudality: mutual relationship between king and vassals]
P 52.1 Knight’s duty to perform as lady bids
P 52.2 (Li) Knight in service of a lady
Q 20.1 Reward for service of god, hero or ascetic for a period
Q 58 (Bm) Obedience [in love-service] rewarded
Q 223 Punishment for neglect of services to gods (God)
Q 482 Punishment: noble person must do menial service
Q 482.1 Princess serves as menial
R 74 Defeated warriors [adversaries] go into [are forced to join] the conqueror’s service
R 74.4 (Tu) Defeated king [nobleman, knight] becomes conqueror’s vassal
T 31.0.1 (Bm) Knight places himself in would-be lady’s service
T 31.1 Lovers’ meeting: Hero in service of lady’s father
V 80 Religious services – miscellaneous
W 48 (Ha) Piety

J 211 Choice: free poverty or enslaved wealth
L 451.3 Wolf prefers liberty and hunger to dog’s servitude and plenty

D 1273.1.3 Seven as magic number
H 706.1 How many days have passed since the time of Adam? The seven days of the week
P 251.6.3 Six or seven brothers
Z 71.5 Formulistic number: seven

Z 71.16.12 Formulistic number- seventeen

Z 71.14 Formulistic number: seventy-two

K 521.1.1 Men sewed in animal’s hide carried off by birds
K 1861.1 Hero sewed up in animal hide so as to be carried to height by bird

C 100 Sex tabu.
C 110 Tabu- sexual intercourse
F 112.0.2 Separation of sexes in otherworld
F 304 Sexual relations with fairy
F 566.2 Land where women live separate from men
G 303.12.7 Devil’s sexual relations with mortal
H 1578 Test of sex: to discover person masking as of other sex
J 1485 Mistaken identity
J 1744 Ignorance of marriage relations
J 1744.1 Bridegroom does not know what to do on his wedding night
K 1345 Tale of the cradle. Two youths pass the night with a family where all sleep in a common room, with a cradle at the foot of one of the beds. The moving of the cradle in the night confuses those walking about so that the strangers sleep with the wife and the daughter
K 1363 Seduction of a person ignorant of sexual intercourse
M 149 Vows concerning sex – misc.
Q 499.9 (G) Humiliating penances: sexual intercourse with animals
S 176 Mutilation: sex organs cut off
T 0 Love
T 400 Illicit sexual relations
T 466 Necrophilism: sexual intercourse with dead human body
X 700 Humor concerning sex

B 575 Animal as constant attendant of man.
F 551.5 Single [Broad] footed people lie on their backs and shade themselves from sun with their soles

L 400 Pride brought low
P 50 Noblemen (knights) [rules of chivalry]

J 625 Prevention of hostilities by agreeing to demands while in danger.
J 2311.4 The dead man speaks up. [A numskull who has lain down thinks he is dead. The wife and the servant are committing adultery before his eyes. He speaks up: “I would have been taken revenge for this, when I was alive”.]
K 115 Pseudo-magic healing objects sold
K 522 Escape by shamming death
K 523 Escape by shamming illness
K 523.1 Escape by shamming madness
K 824 Sham doctor kills his patients
K 1326.1 Seduction by asking for sham cure for sham illness
K 1760 Other bluffs
K 1791 Sham duel in order to bring about recognition
K 1871.2 Sham cure by pretended extracting of object from patient’s body
K 1945 Imposition by sham sickness
K 1950 Sham prowess
K 1953 Sham brave man
K 1955 Sham physician
K 1955.1 Sham physician cures people by threatening them with death
K 1956 Sham wise man
K 1961.1.5 Sham holy man
K 1961.4 Sham bishop
K 1968 Sham prowess in hunting (fishing)
K 1970 Sham miracle
K 1980 Other impostures
K 2369.7 Shammed discussing of peace while getting reinforcements.
K 2380 (Hi) Detection of treachery or deceit

D 621.0.1 One shape by day, another by night.
V 231.1 Angel in bird shape

A 120.1 God as shape-shifter
D 52.1 Transformation: man becomes hideous.
D 100 Transformation: man to animal.
D 300 Transformation: animal to person. [power of transformation]
D 336 Transformation: swine to person
D 341.1 Transformation: bitches to women
D 620 Periodic transformation.
D 621.0.1 One shape by day, another by night.
D 630 Transformation and disenchantment at will
D 631.1.1 Person changes appearance at will.
D 683 Transformation by magician
F 234.1.3 Fairy in form of swine

K 1315.6.1 Trickster persuades women that they must share their marital intimacies with them
P 310 Friendship

B 13 Unicorn
D 1081 Magic sword
F 832 Extraordinary lance
F 833.3 Sword extraordinarily bright, sharp
F 833.5.1 Sword cuts cloth etc, as well as steel and stone
F 838.1 Extraordinarily sharp knife.

M 121 Vow not to shave or cut hair until a certain time
Q 488.2 Head shaved as punishment

B 11.2.0.1 She-dragon

B 211.1.1 Speaking sheep
K 191 Peace between sheep and wolves
K 2010.3 Wolves sign false truce with sheep

B 538 Animals provide shelter
J 740 Forethought in provision for shelter

J 2172 Short-sightedness in caring for live-stock
N 841 Shepherd as helper
P 270.2 Peasant and his wife as foster parents of exposed king’s son
P 412 Shepherd
R 131.3 Herdsman rescues abandoned child
R 131.3.1 Shepherd rescues abandoned child
S 351.2 Abandoned child reared by herdsman
S 354 Exposed infant (child) reared at strange king’s court [at shepherd’s place]

B 12.3 Basilisk killed by seeing own image
D 1101.1 Magic shield
D 1336.4 Magic shield gives weakness
D 1344.9 Magic garment renders invulnerable.
D 1381.3.2 Magic unpierceable (horn) skin protects against attack
D 1381.3.3 A protective garment which spears could not penetrate
D 1381.10 Magic [part of] armor protects from attack
D 1381.10.2 Magic unpierceable cuirass [shield]
F 531.4.1 Giant with millwheel as shield [enormous shield]
F 531.4.5.4 Giant has stone shield.
F 824 Extraordinary [part of] armor
F 824.2 Extraordinarily painted shield
F 839.2 Extraordinary shield
F 855 Extraordinary image
H 1561.1.2 (G) Magic shield as prize in tournament
K 1839.17 (Bm) Disguise by changing armor
P 91 (Li) Heraldic figures and symbols – coat-of-arms
P 550 Military affairs
P 681 Mourning customs
V 150 Sacred objects – miscellaneous

D 1645.3 Magic castle shines from afar.
E 421.3 Luminous [fiery] ghosts
F 961.1.1 Sun refuses to shine when murder is done
F 961.3 Extraordinary behaviour of moon
K 401.1.1 Trail of stolen goods [shining of stolen helmet] made to lead to dupe

A 1445.1.1 (Bm) Argus as first ship builder
B 558.1 Boat drawn by swans (geese)
C 541.1 Tabu: dead body not to be on ship
D 1121 Magic boat
D 1123 Magic ship
D 1520.15 Transportation in magic ship
D 1521.2 Ship with miraculous speed
D 1523.2 Self-propelling (ship) boat
F 242.2 Fairy boat
F 671 Skillful ship-builder
F 806.1 Lodestone draws ship to it
F 841 Extraordinary boat (ship)
F 841.2 Extraordinary equipment of ship
K 1332 Seduction [abduction] by taking aboard ship to inspect wares
N 118.1 Ship’s course left to the winds that it might be carried where fate wills it
N 399.1.1 (Bm) Wind carries ship to hostile [unknown] island [land]
N 781 Hero [heroine] embarks in rudderless boat
P 456 Carpenter
R 12.4 Girl enticed into boat and abducted [by lover]
V 61.1 Dead placed on boat
Z 140.1 Color of flag (sails) on ship as message of good or bad news

K 1831.1 Shipwrecked men call themselves by false names
N 399 Additional unlucky accidents

D 1052 Magic garment (robe, tunic)
D 1381.5 Magic shirt protects against attack
D 1382.6 Magic shirt protects from cold and burning
D 1402.0.5 Nessus-shirt. Magic shirt burns wearer up

H 1591 Shooting contest.

J 2072 Short-sighted wish
J 2137 Death through lack of foresight
J 2160 Other short-sighted acts
J 2172 Short-sightedness in caring for live-stock
J 2173 Short-sighted fool loses his food
J 2199 Absurd short-sightedness – miscellaneous
J 2199.4 Short-sighted economy
M 20 Short sighted judgments

F 531.3.8 Giants’ shouts are storms or great noise
F 688.3 Voice heard over whole land

K 1521.2.1 Lover escapes behind the sheet which wife holds up to show her husband
U 115.1 Apparently happy woman discloses the skeleton of her slain paramour
U 120 Nature will show itself

T 250 Characteristics of wives and husbands
T 251 The shrewish wife
T 251.8 Shrewish wife gives husband beating every morning
V 229.12 Sinful beauty is converted and spends the end of her life doing penance

D 1419.2 Magic object paralyses.
D 1610.35 Speaking [shrieking] river [body of water].
J 672.1 Ears stopped with wax to avoid enchanting song. Odysseus and the sirens.

F 852 Extraordinary coffin [sarkophag]
G 303.15 Places haunted by the devil
V 113.0.1 Miracles at shrine [heroes’ grave]

D 482 Stretching objects.

W 46 (Li) Modesty

C 940 Sickness or weakness for breaking tabu.
D 1342 Magic object gives health
D 1500.4 Magic object causes disease
D 2061.1.4 Persons magically made to decay and die
D 2064 Magic sickness
F 950 Marvelous cures
F 950.1 Sickness cured by napkin of Veronica
F 959 Marvelous cures – miscellaneous
F 1041.9 Extraordinary illness
H 1319.1 Quest for only person who can cure certain sickness
K 1818 Disguise as sick man
K 1945 Imposition by sham sickness
Q 551.6 Magic sickness as punishment
T 24.1 Love-sickness
U 236 False repentance of the sick
V 34.1 Host cures disease

F 969.7 Famine
K 2350 Military strategy
K 2365 Enemy induced to give up siege
K 2369 Military strategy – misc.
P 58 (Bm) Knight aids man [woman] unjustly besieged [assailed]
P 550 Military affairs
P 550.1.1 (Li) Aggression: rebellion; usurpation; invasion; assault
P 555 Defeat in battle [single combat]
P 557.0.4 (Li) Siege
Z 316 Only one way to besiege certain city [castle]

A 671.2 Horrible sights in hell
C 423.2 Tabu: speaking of extraordinary sight
D 1323 Magic object gives clairvoyance
D 1323.5 Magic salve gives clairvoyance.
D 1331.1 Object gives magic sight
D 1331.1.4 Stone gives magic sight
D 1500.1.17 Magic weapon cures disease
D 1505.8.1 Blood from Christ’s wounds restores sight
D 1821.4 Magic sight by putting ointment into eye.
D 1825.3 Magic power to see invisible creatures
F 171 Extraordinary sights in otherworld
F 952.6 Miraculous cures – blindness cured by drop of water from side of crucified Savior
T 11.2 Love through sight of picture
T 15 Love at first sight
T 26 Attention distracted by sight of (remembering) beloved [because of love]
T 286 Sight of mistress’s ring causes husband to withhold himself from his wife
V 230.1 Man beholds angel

A 102.17.1 Miracle as sign of God’s anger
A 197.1 (Bm) Storm as sign of Goddess’s wrath
A 1002.2 Signs before the Day of Judgment.
C 910 Permanent sign of disobedience for breaking tabu
D 788 Disenchantment by sign of cross
D 1766.6 Magic results from sign of cross
G 273.1 Witch [sorceress] powerless when one makes sign of cross
G 303.16.3.4 Devil made to disappear by making sign of the cross
P 13.3 Royal purple (golden diadem) [crown] as sign of royalty
P 678.1 Tearing garments as sign of grief
V 19.1 Rising smoke as sign of acceptance of sacrifice
V 86 Sign of the Cross
Z 157 Olive [palm] branch symbol of peace [victory]

H 135.0.1 (Bm) Love messages on slips of wood sent downstream.
K 1569.5 Husband catches paramour by using wife’s prearranged signal
T 41.3 Lover’s signal

F 569.3 Silent person.
F 1041.21 Reactions to excessive grief
F 1041.25 (Bm) Reactions to excessive joy
M 100 Vows and oaths
M 150 Other vows and oaths
M 151.7 Heroine will not laugh till arrival of destined hero.
Q 535.1 Penance: not to speak
T 24.5 Boy [girl] turns red and white from love

F 757.1.1 Cave of gold, silver and crystal
F 771.1 Castle of unusual material
F 811.1.2 Silver tree
F 815.7.4 (Bm) Silver vines
F 830.1 Silver weapon
F 861.1 Golden wagon (chariot)

F 577 Persons identical in appearance.

J 1700 Fools

D 1714 Magic power of person without sin
E 755.2.7 Devils torment sinners in hell
F 167.10 No carnal sin in otherworld
G 303.16.2.2 Person saved from devil [sin] by prayer to Virgin
Q 36.1 Reward for confession of sins
Q 170 Religious rewards
Q 171.1 Forgiveness of sin for acts of charity.
Q 569.2 Sinners in hell swallowed by dragons [monster]
Q 569.3 Sinners in hell fall into mouth of devil
V 20 Confession of sins
V 21 Confession brings forgiveness of sin
V 522 Sinner reformed after visit to heaven and hell
Z 127 Sin personified

H 314 Suitor’s sincerity tested

D 1615 Magic singing object.
D 2173 Magic singing
F 262.1 Fairies sing
J 953.2 Bad singer thinks he is talented (driven from theatre)
P 428 Musician
T 136.3.2 Marriage odes sung at wedding feast
X 436 The parson sings like a goat [like an ass]

B 264 Single combat between animals
F 531.5.7.0.2 Giant demands girl but is killed in duel about her
F 960.3 Extraordinary nature phenomena during furious battle
F 1084 Furious battle [fight]
H 217 Decision made by contest
H 217.1 Decision of victory by single combat between army leaders
H 217.2 Decision by single combat or holmgang of who is to marry girl
H 217.5 (Bm) Single combat to decide who shall rule land
H 218.0.1 Vindication by champion. Usually noble lady or king accused
H 331.2 Suitor contest: tournament
H 1166 Task: duel.
H 151.10 Combat of unknown brothers [relatives, unrecognized friends] brings about recognition
H 1561.1 Tests of valor: tournament
H 1561.2 Single combat to prove valor
H 1561.2.0.1 (Bm) Loser of single combat will become winner’s servant [subject]
H 1561.2.1 Holmgang: single combat on an island.
H 1561.6 Test of valor: fight with giant [warrior, dwarf-hero, dragon etc.]
K 1 Contest won by magic
M 162 Vow not to be killed by [not to fight] a single opponent.
M 166 Other vows about fighting
N 731.2 Father-son combat
N 733.1 Brothers unwittingly fight each other
N 767.1 (Bm) Unwitting combat between friends. [Unwitting attack on friend]
P 52 Knight jousts with all comers
P 234.5 (Bm) Single combat to avenge daughter’s dishonor
P 253.5.1 (Bm) Single combat to avenge sister’s dishonor
P 314 Combat of disguised [unrecognized] friends. [Unwitting attack on friend]
P 550 Military affairs
P 550.1 (Li) Battle. War
P 550.1.1 (Li) Aggression: rebellion; usurpation; invasion; assault
P 550.2 (Li) Single combat
P 552 Battle formations
P 555 Defeat in battle [single combat]
P 555.8 (Bm) Avenging defeat in battle
P 556 Challenge to battle
P 556.0.1 (Bm) Challenge to single combat [feud]
P 557.0.4 (Li) Siege
P 557.4 Customs concerning single combat
P 557.4.4 Men’s truth. (fir fer)
P 557.4.7 (Li) Rules for single combat
P 677 Customs connected with dueling
Q 11 (Bm) Victory in single combat rewarded

B 53 Siren
B 53.0.1 Siren in mermaid form
B 53.4 Siren’s song causes sleep
B 53.4.1 (Bm) Sirens’ irresistible [beautiful] song
B 81 Mermaid
B 81.11 Mermaid’s singing causes sleep
D 1275 Magic song
F 526 Person with compound body
F 556 Remarkable voice
F 688 Man with marvelous voice

A 164.1 Brother-sister marriage of the gods
K 2212 Treacherous sister.
N 734 Accidental meeting of brother and sister
N 831 Girl [woman] as helper
P 252 Sisters
P 252.1 Two sisters
P 253 Sister and brother
P 253.0.1 Sister’s son
P 253.0.3 One sister and three (four) brothers
P 253.0.5 One sister and six (seven, eleven, twelve) brothers.
P 253.2.1 Brother faithful to persecuted sister
P 253.5.1 (Bm) Single combat to avenge sister’s dishonor
P 274 Foster sister
P 274.1 Love between foster sister and foster brother
R 162 Rescue by captor’s daughter (wife, mother) [niece]
S 73.1 Fratricide
S 73.2 Person [brother] banishes brother (sister)
T 69.1.1 Three (two) brothers married to three (two) sisters
T 95.0.3 Man loves sister [widow] of warrior he has slain
T 104.3 (Bm) Giant tortures [kills] man’s sons to win his daughter.
T 415 Brother-sister incest

K 2212.2 Treacherous sister-in-law
P 264 Sister-in-law
P 253.0.1 Sister’s son

A 601.2 Universe created in six days
J 141 Youth educated by seven [six] sages
P 251.6.3 Six or seven brothers
Z 71.4 Formulistic number: six

B 11.2.12 Dragon of enormous size
D 55.1 Person becomes magically larger.
D 480 Size of object transformed
F 531.2 Size of giant
F 531.2.1 Extremely tall giant
F 771.8 Castle of extraordinary size
K 2351.6.2 (Bm) Branches tied to horses’ tails stir up dust which makes army seem larger and blinds opponents

U 115 The skeleton in the closet. An apparently happy man lets another see the actual misery of his existence.

F 660 Remarkable skill
F 662 Skillful tailor
F 663 Skillful smith
F 667 Skillful fencer (swordsman)
F 668.0.1 Skillful physician
F 675 Ingenious carpenter
F 679.5 Skillful hunter
F 679.8 Skill at chess-playing
F 679.9 Skillful musician (plays nine mouth harps at once)
H 35 Recognition by unique manner of performing an act
H 503 Test of musical ability
J 1111.1.1 Princess skillful in pleading
P 441 Tailors
P 447 Smiths

B 15.7.10 Animal unusual as to skin
B 15.7.10.1 Animal with horny skin
B 81.9.5 Skin of mermaid.
B 81.9.5.1 Mermaid has white skin
B 731.2.1 Horse with crimson mane and green legs [Polychromatic horse]
D 721 Disenchantment by removing skin
D 1025 Magic skin of animal
D 1025.2 Magic fish-skin [Mermaid’s magic skin].
D 1337.2.5 Magic skin makes person appear ugly
D 1344.9 Magic garment renders invulnerable.
D 1381.3.2 Magic unpierceable (horn) skin protects against attack
D 1381.3.3 A protective garment which spears could not penetrate
D 1381.10 Magic [part of] armor protects from attack
D 1381.10.3 Magic unpierceable helmet
D 1840.3 Magic invulnerability of ogres.
D 1889.6 Rejuvenation by changing skin
F 521 Person with unusual covering
F 521.1.1 Woman with animal hair.
F 527 Person of unusual color
F 531.4.7.1 Giants dressed in skin
F 558 Man covered with horn
F 821.1.3 Dress of raw fur
F 821.2.1 Coat [dress] so light that it can be concealed in closed palms of hand
K 521.1.1 Men sewed in animal’s hide carried off by birds
K 1861.1 Hero sewed up in animal hide so as to be carried to height by bird

F 866.4 Cup made of skulls
Q 478.1.2 Adulteress made to drink from paramour’s skull
Q 491.5 Skull used as drinking cup

F 55 Mountain reaches to sky [moon]
F 60 Transportation to or from upper world
F 790 Extraordinary sky and weather phenomena
F 969.1 Skies open, revealing heavenly company
H 1371.5 (Hi) Quest for the sky
P 15.6 King descends to bottom of sea in glass barrel to study ways of fishes [ascends to the sky by griffins]

F 91.1 Slamming door on exit from [after entrance in] mountain otherworld
F 152.2 Slamming drawbridge to otherworld.

K 2100 False accusation
K 2110 Slanders
K 2110.1 Calumniated wife
K 2112 Woman slandered as adulteress (prostitute) [concubine]
K 2116.2 Man falsely accused of murder
K 2119 Slanders – miscellaneous
K 2123 Innocent woman accused of using witchcraft
K 2129 Slanders – miscellaneous
K 2130 Trouble-makers
K 2200 Villains and traitors.
Q 297 Slander punished
T 75.2.1 Rejected suitors’ revenge
W 110 Unfavorable traits of character – personal
W 188 Contentiousness.

G 400 Person falls into ogre’s power
G 462 Person as servant in ogre’s house
J 211 Choice: free poverty or enslaved wealth
L 113.1.7 Slave as hero
L 451.3 Wolf prefers liberty and hunger to dog’s servitude and plenty
Q 437 Sale into slavery as punishment
R 50 Conditions of captivity
R 51 Mistreatment of prisoners
R 61 Person sold into slavery
R 74 Defeated warriors [adversaries] go into [are forced to join] the conqueror’s service
R 211.4 Escape from slavery (pirates)
S 210.1 Child sold into slavery

B 16.2.5 Devastating bear killed
F 531.6.12.6 Giant slain by man
F 531.6.12.10 (Bm) Giant slain by falling portcullis
F 628 Strong man as mighty slayer
F 628.0.1 Precocious strong hero as mighty slayer
F 628.1 Strong man kills many men
F 628.1.0.1 Strong man slays monster
F 628.2 Strong man kills men
F 628.2.3 Strong man kills giant
F 639.4 Strong man overcomes giant
G 512 Ogre killed
H 105 Parts of slain animal as token of slaying
H 105.9 (Bm) Foe’s head as proof of slaying
H 106.2 Severed head as proof of killing
H 1161.7 (Bm) Task: slay fire-breathing dragon
H 1162 Task: killing certain man
H 1561.6 Test of valor: fight with giant [warrior, dwarf-hero, dragon etc.]
K 871.2 Slaughter of drunken enemies in banquet hall [army-camp]
K 1843.0.1 (Bm) Substituted bride to be slain to dispose of witness.
M 166.9.2 (Bm) Vow to revenge unknown wronged (killed) knight
N 338.4 (Bm) Son unwittingly slays father (Slays teacher who was rumored to be his father, finds rumor is true)
P 17.11 Slayer of king [sovereign] marries widow [daughter] and inherits kingdom [domain]
P 253.11 (Bm) Woman unwittingly nurses brother’s [uncle’s] slayer.
P 525.3 He nearest to blood of slain man must avenge his death [Blood-revenge]
P 555.2.1.1 “Publication of slaying”. Heads of slain enemies displayed
R 51.4 Prisoner[s] [hostages, messengers] massacred [killed]
S 110.10 (Bm) City and inhabitants willfully destroyed
S 139 Miscellaneous cruel murders
S 139.2.1.1 Head of murdered man taken along as trophy
S 139.2.2.1 Heads of slain enemies impaled upon stakes
S 264.1.3 (Bm) Princess slain to abate storm and avenge her lover’s murder
S 460 Other cruel persecutions
T 92.10 Rival in love killed
T 93.6 (Bm) Unwanted suitor slain.
T 95.0.3 Man loves sister [widow] of warrior he has slain
T 127 (Bm) Woman weds husband’s [father’s, uncle’s] slayer
T 231.5 Faithless widow marries slayer of her husband.
T 243.1 (Bm) Man slays wife-stealer
T 251.2.3 Wife becomes obedient on seeing husband slay a recalcitrant horse
W 11.5.12 Hero in battle refuses to slay charioteers, women or physicians [Hero refuses to slay suicidal attacker]

B 172.2.1 Magic bird’s song brings sleep
C 735 Tabu: sleeping.
D 1154.5 Magic pillow
D 1364 Object causes magic sleep
D 1364.3 Flowers cause magic sleep.
D 1364.7 Sleeping potion
D 1364.11 Pillow causes magic sleep
D 1364.22 Sleep-charm
D 1364.31 Plant produces [deathlike] sleep
D 1960 Magic sleep
D 1960.4 Deathlike sleep
D 1962 Means of inducing magic sleep
D 1975 Dragon fighter’s magic sleep: while waiting for the fight with dragon hero falls into magic sleep
D 1976.1 Transportation during magic sleep
D 1978 Waking from sleep
D 2161.4.12 Magic cure during sleep
F 564.3.2 Person sleeps for three days and nights
F 1099.11 (Li) Unnaturally long sleep
H 1556.4.1 Lover’s fidelity tested by going to bed with mistress and only kissing
J 21.41 Advice against sleep in strange circumstances “Be cautious before allowing yourself to fall asleep in a strange place.” Counsel proved wise by experience
K 331 Goods stolen while owner sleeps
K 675 Sleeping potion given to man who is to pass the night with a girl. (Sometimes magic pillow or magic sleeping card.)
K 834 Victim killed while asleep in killer’s house
K 959.2 Murder in one’s sleep
K 959.2.2 Heroes dislike to kill sleeping people
K 1514.17 Adulteress together with lover while husband sleeps
K 1843.1 Bride has maid sleep in husband’s bed to conceal pregnancy [lost virginity].
K 2116.5 Warrior falsely accused of having killed his sleeping adversary
K 2378.5 Hero sleeps during the first part of battle and emerges only later [Hero sleeps late on day of battle]
M 151.2.2 (Bm) Vow not to return to court [not to sleep two nights in the same place] until missing knight is found
M 151.2.3 (G) Vow not to sleep two nights in the same place until quest’s end
N 573 Sleeping old king (in mountain) as guardian of treasure
P 616 Newcomers forced to pass the night with ruling princess. Given sleeping potion. Goods confiscated for failure to consummate marriage.
T 36 Girl sleeps in garden to meet lover. Discovered next morning and married
T 299.1 Sleeping with head laid in wife’s lap as sign of tenderness
T 350 Chaste sleeping together
Z 139 Personifications – miscellaneous

T 59.2 (Bm) Sleeve as love token.

H 35.4 Recognition by unique manner of carving chips.
H 135.0.1 (Bm) Love messages on slips of wood sent downstream.
T 41.3 Lover’s signal

W 111 Laziness

D 1349.1.6 Tiny amount of food magically satisfies.
F 420.1.1.3 Water-spirit as small gray man
F 451.2.1.1 Dwarfs are small
F 535 Remarkably small man (Pygmie)
J 350 Choices – Small inconveniences, large gain
L 112.2 Very small hero
L 311 Weak (small) [young] hero overcomes large fighter
L 330 Easy escape of weak (small)
U 11 Small trespasses punished, large crimes condoned

B 732 Panther’s sweet smell protects him from other beasts [attracts other beasts]
D 1889.4 Rejuvenation by smelling apple [flower]
E 821 Sweet smell from corpse
F 169.9 Pleasant fragrance in otherworld

N 456 Enigmatical smile (laugh) reveals secret knowledge

A 142 Smith of the gods
A 677.1 Smith of hell
F 451.3.4.2 Dwarfs as smiths
F 663 Skillful smith
P 447 Smiths

D 1812.5.0.3 Behavior of fire as omen
G 303.6.3 Natural phenomena accompanying the devil’s appearance
V 19.1 Rising smoke as sign of acceptance of sacrifice

J 657.2 Tortoise [snail] lets self be carried by eagle

A 671.2.1 Serpents in hell
A 2434.2.3 Why there are no snakes in Ireland
B 14 Other hybrid animals
B 15.1.2.1.1 Two-headed serpent
B 16.5.1 Giant devastating serpent
B 19.4.2 Fiery serpent
B 29.2.3 Snake body – woman’s head
B 91.3 Horned snake
B 101.7 Serpent with jewel in head
B 147.2.1 Bird of good omen
B 176.1 Magic serpent
B 718 (Bm) Adder creeps out of egg, dies before it can crawl back in
B 765.4.1 Snake attaches itself to a woman’s breast and draws away her milk
B 765.15 Snakes stand up, whistle
B 776.7 Venomous serpent
B 875.1 Giant serpent
D 2176.1 Snakes banned by magic
F 420.1.4 Water-spirits in abnormal form.
F 628.1.3 Strong man kills great serpent [dragon]
F 708.4 (Li) Country without snakes
F 981.1 Serpent bursts asunder
K 953.2 Murder by wrapping snake around man
N 352.3 Serpent steals jewels
Q 453 Punishment: being bitten by animal
V 229.3 Saint banishes snakes

K 736 Snapping door

B 15.5 Animal unusual as to his nose (snout)

F 962 Extraordinary precipitation (rain, snow, etc.)
F 962.11 Extraordinary snow.
J 1532.1 The snow-child: A sailor’s wife bears a son in his absence and says that it came from eating snow. Later the husband makes away with the boy and says he melted in the sun
Z 65.1 Red as blood, white as snow

A 546 Culture hero establishes social system
F 531.6.8.5 Giant’s social relations
H 1574 Tests of social position
J 810 Policy in dealing with the great
J 950 Presumption of the lowly
K 2200 Villains and traitors.
P 19.0.1 (Li) King Arthur as leader of outstanding chivalric society (Round Table)
P 50.2 Marshall [Court officials: marshall, steward, etc.]
P 90 Royalty and nobility – miscellaneous
Q 494 Loss of social position as punishment
T 34 Lovers meet at social gathering
T 91.6 Noble and lowly in love
U 121 Like parent, like child
W 181 Jealousy
Z 201.9.1 (Bm) Hero’s famous possessions – Arthur’s Round Table

P 711.8 Aversion to burial in foreign soil

B 557.11.4 (Bm) Soldiers fight from “castles” on elephant’s backs
F 451.5.2.11 Dwarfs attack soldier (hero)
K 754.1 Trojan wooden horse
P 63 (Bm) Lady in armor (and battle)
P 461 Soldier [mercenary warrior]
P 551 Army
R 187 Horn of Roncevalles. Hero calls aid of waiting soldiers on horn

D 620 Periodic transformation.
N 770.0.1 Feast as occasion for the beginning of adventures or the arrival of questers

H 561 Solvers of riddles

A 511.1.5 Culture hero son of mortal (half-mortal) father [and goddess mother]
D 815.1 Magic object received from mother.
F 305 Offspring of fairy [dwarf] and mortal
F 611.1.2 Strong man son of woman and dwarf
G 303.11.2 The devil’s son
H 11.1.4 Recognition by tracing ancestry
H 151.3 Recognition when parents come to son (priest, pope) to be confessed
H 1381.2.2.1 Son seeks unknown father
H 1385.16 (Bm) Quest for abducted [lost] foster son.
J 121 Ungrateful son reproved by naive action of his own son: preparing for old age- man gives his old father half a carpet to keep him warm- child keeps the other half and tells his father that he is keeping it for him when he grows old
J 1041.2 Miller, his son, and the ass: trying to please everyone
K 1839.11 Disguise as older brother to obtain blessing
L 111.3 Widow’s son as hero
M 312.2.1 Prophecy: son to be more powerful than father
M 343 Parricide prophecy
M 356.3 Prophecy: unborn (new-born) child (girl) to bring evil upon land
N 338.4 (Bm) Son unwittingly slays father (Slays teacher who was rumored to be his father, finds rumor is true)
N 365.1 Boy unwittingly commits incest with his mother
N 731 Unexpected meeting of father and son
N 731.1 Unknown son returns to father’s court
N 731.2 Father-son combat
N 735 Accidental meeting of mother and son
P 16.1.4 Father abdicates in favor of son
P 17.0.2 Son succeeds father as king
P 17.0.2.1 At son’s [daughter’s] wedding [betrothal] king names him [son-in-law] as successor
P 17.10 Three sons each get a kingship, but the youngest [first] the most important in the home country
P 205 Refusal to fight relatives
P 231 Mother and son
P 231.3 Mother-love
P 231.15 (G) Mother revenges herself on her son
P 233 Father and son
P 233.2.1 Father drives away bad son whom the mother prefers (pities)
P 233.4 Natural son preferred to legitimate
P 233.6 Son avenges father
P 233.8 Prodigal son returns
P 233.9 Son chastizes father for scorning mother
P 236.1 Folly of father’s giving all property to children before his death
P 236.4 Son deposes father and usurps throne
P 251.6.1 Three brothers
P 253.0.1 Sister’s son
P 275 Foster son
R 74.2 Defeated enemy’s son turns conqueror’s man
S 11.3.7 Father orders son assassinated
S 11.4 Father plans child’s (son’s) death [injury]
S 11.4.4 Cruel father seeks to kill infant son
S 12.1.1 Treacherous mother and paramour plan son’s death
S 21 Cruel son
S 22 Parricide
S 322.1.5 Boy turned out of doors by father
T 131.1.2 Father’s consent to son’s (daughter’s) marriage necessary
T 412 Mother – son incest
T 412.1 Mother guilty of incest with son forgiven by Pope (Virgin Mary)
T 481.6.1 (Bm) Queen begets son with magician while king is away
T 586.1.2.2 King has six [three] sons all named Lugaid [Dietrich]
T 640 Illegitimate children
T 682 Hero a posthumous son

B 53.4 Siren’s song causes sleep
B 53.4.1 (Bm) Sirens’ irresistible [beautiful] song
B 81.11 Mermaid’s singing causes sleep
B 172.2.1 Magic bird’s song brings sleep
B 172.2.2 Magic bird’s song dispels grief.
D 1275 Magic song
D 1359.3.1 Magic music causes joy
F 556 Remarkable voice
H 12 Recognition by song (music)
J 672.1 Ears stopped with wax to avoid enchanting song. Odysseus and the sirens.
T 41 Communication of lovers
T 75.3 Unrequited love expressed in song (poem)
T 136.3.2 Marriage odes sung at wedding feast
V 234 Songs of the angels

P 17.0.2 Son succeeds father as king
P 17.0.2.1 At son’s [daughter’s] wedding [betrothal] king names him [son-in-law] as successor
S 56 Cruel son-in-law

D 1359.3.1.2 Magic musical branch soothes listeners
D 2156 Magic control over animals

D 1711 Magician
D 1712 Soothsayer (diviner, oracle, etc.)
D 1712.0.1 Astrologer-magician
D 1812 Magic power of prophecy
D 1814.1 Advice from magician (fortune-teller, etc.) [prophet]
K 1825.8 Disguise as astrologer [soothsayer]
M 301 Prophets
M 301.2 Old woman as prophet

D 801.1 Magic objects possessed by witch, sorcerer or evil dwarf
D 812.13 Magic objects gifts of magician.
D 1711 Magician
D 1711.2 Virgil as magician
D 1711.8 Strong man as magician.
D 1810.0.2 Magic knowledge of magician
F 721.2.3 Sorcerer and books in mountain
N 845 Magician as helper.
R 39.1 Abduction by magician.

D 1711 Magician
D 1810.0.2 Magic knowledge of magician
D 1814.1 Advice from magician (fortune-teller, etc.) [prophet]
D 1882.3 (Bm) Rejuvenation by magician (sorceress)
G 273.1 Witch [sorceress] powerless when one makes sign of cross
M 411.12 Curse by witch (sorceress)
N 845 Magician as helper.

A 499.4.1 Goddess of sorcery
D 1317.0.2 (G) Magic ring detects enchantments
D 1385.3.2 (Bm) Magic stone in ring protects against witchcraft.

D 1359.3 Magic object causes joy
D 1359.3.1.3 Grief dispelled by sound of bell attached to magic fairy dog.
D 1514.1 Magic music relieves pain
D 1812.5.1.2 Bad dream as evil omen
F 771.4.8 (Li) Castle of deep sorrow
F 1041.1.1.3 Heart breaks from sorrow
F 1041.1.2 Death from grief for death of lover or relative
F 1041.1.3 Death from sorrow or chagrin
F 1041.9 Extraordinary illness
F 1041.9.1 Going to bed for sorrow
F 1041.21 Reactions to excessive grief
F 1041.21.6 Tearing hair and clothes from excessive grief
F 1041.21.7 Swooning from grief
P 678.1 Tearing garments as sign of grief

A 672.1.1 Charon exacts fee to ferry souls across Styx
E 334 Non-malevolent ghost haunts scene of former misfortune, crime or tragedy.
E 451.2 Ghost laid when penance is done.
E 493 Dead men dance
E 721.2 Body in trance while soul is absent
E 721.7 Soul leaves body to visit hell (heaven)
E 722 Soul leaves body at death
E 722.2 Manner of soul’s leaving body
E 722.2.10 Soul taken away by God (angel)
E 727 Relations of body to soul
E 742 Soul as light
E 750.0.1 Soul cannot enter heaven till body is buried [before acts of charity are not accomplished by relatives and friends]
E 751 Souls at Judgment Day
E 751.1 Souls weighed at Judgment Day
E 752 Lost souls
E 752.1 Soul in jeopardy after leaving body
E 752.2 Soul carried off by demon (Devil)
E 754 Saved souls
E 754.1.5 Condemned soul released by God
E 754.2.2 Souls carried to heaven by angels
E 755.2 Souls in hell (Hades)
E 755.3 Souls in purgatory.
E 756.1 Angels and devils contest for man’s soul.
E 756.4 Saint wrests souls from demons
G 303.6 Circumstances of the devil’s appearance
M 211 Man [woman] sells soul to devil
M 211.9 Person sells soul to devil in return for granting of wishes
Q 520 Penances
Q 560 Punishments in hell
Q 562 Pain of souls tormented in hell alternately ebbs and flows
Q 562.3 Souls tormented in hell (alternately borne up to firmament and) cast down to depths
Q 569.2 Sinners in hell swallowed by dragons [monster]
U 119.3 Handsome exterior does not indicate beautiful soul
V 520 Salvation

C 811 Tabu: heeding persuasive voices.
D 1359.3.1.3 Grief dispelled by sound of bell attached to magic fairy dog.
E 402 Mysterious ghostlike noises heard.
F 966 Voices from heaven (or from the air)
V 222.6 Bell sounds at approach of saint

P 12 Character of kings
P 17.11 Slayer of king [sovereign] marries widow [daughter] and inherits kingdom [domain]
P 50.0.1 King and vassals: obligations of vassals to king [Feudality: mutual relationship between king and vassals]
P 559 (Li) Peace: making and conditions of peace (ransom, reparations, submission)

B 184.3.1 Magic boar
D 658.3.2 Transformation of animal to woman to seduce man [deceive husband]
F 234.1.3 Fairy in form of swine
F 241.0.1 Fairy animal hunted
F 855.3 Gold (silver) statue of animal
F 989.15 Hunt for extraordinary (magic) animal
K 2061.6 Wolf offers to act as midwife for sow
N 774 Adventure from pursuing enchanted animal (hind, boar, bird)

H 1024.5 Task: sowing dragon’s teeth
J 1932 Absurd practices connected with crops

B 525 Animal spares man he is about to devour
D 1841.3.2 Fire does not injure a saint
F 1088.1 Hero (heroine) spared for his (her) beauty
J 21.2.3 “Do not draw your sword against the innocent”: counsel proved wise by experience
M 161.4 Vow rather to die (on a spear) than to accept grace
M 234 Life spared in return for life-long service [material compensation, peace treaty]
M 234.3 Life bought for gold
P 555.4 (Bm) Defeated knights [giant, rescued persons etc.] sent under oath to king [lady, queen] (as proof of victory)
Q 151 Life spared as reward
W 11.5 Generosity toward enemy
W 11.5.5 Conqueror spares city
W 11.5.16 (Bm) Enemy spared who was father’s friend

B 291.1 Bird as messenger
H 82.3 Tokens between lovers
T 59 (Bm) Love tokens

A 182.3 God (angel) speaks to mortal
B 211.1.1 Speaking sheep
B 211.2.1 Speaking stag
B 211.2.4 Speaking wolf
B 211.3 Speaking bird
B 211.3.4 Speaking parrot
C 400 Speaking tabu
C 423.2 Tabu: speaking of extraordinary sight
D 1316.5 Magic speaking reed (tree) betrays secret
D 1610.2 Magic speaking tree
D 1610.5 Speaking head
D 1610.9.1 Speaking sword
D 1610.21 Speaking image
D 1619 Miscellaneous speaking objects
D 1812.3.4 (Bm) Future revealed by speaking tree
E 545 The dead speak
F 569.3 Silent person.
F 931.11 Speaking sea
F 997.1 Sword is spoken to as human being
K 491.2 Horse [donkey] to be taught to speak
Q 535.1 Penance: not to speak
V 510.1 God speaks in Vision to devotee

D 1084 Magic spear
D 1086 Magic lance
D 1355.0.1 Magic spear [bearing love letter] produces love-sickness
D 1500.1.17 Magic weapon cures disease
D 2161.4.10.1 Wound healed [pain from wound alleviated] by same spear that caused it.
F 830 Extraordinary weapons
F 831.3.1 (Bm) Poisoned dart
F 832 Extraordinary lance
F 834 Extraordinary spear
F 991.1 Bleeding lance.
F 991.1.2 (G) Longin’s lance
H 1345 Quest for magic spear
P 19.4.0.1 King’s wand (rod) [regalia]
V 140 Sacred relics
Z 312 Unique deadly weapon

D 2025.0.1 Magic (loss and) recovery of speech
F 1041.21 Reactions to excessive grief
V 60 Funeral rites
V 66 Funeral sermon [speech]

B 11.5.4 Dragon’s miraculous speed.
B 184.1.1 Horse (mule) with magic speed
D 1520.6 Magic transportation by cloak (cape)
D 1521.2 Ship with miraculous speed
D 2122 Journey with magic speed.
D 2157.4 Miraculous speedy growth of a tree
F 681 Marvelous runner [extraordinary speed of runner]
F 989.17 Marvelously swift horse
G 157 Giant ogre’s prodigious speed

D 522 Transformation through magic word (charm)
D 1273 Magic formula (charm)
D 1336.8 Magic spell gives weakness
D 1410.5 Serpent [animal] charmed into helplessness by magic formula
D 1449 Magic object gives miscellaneous powers over animals

H 1558.7 Test of friendship: the power of money. Spendthrift loses friends in poverty
L 114.2 Spendthrift hero
W 131 Profligacy

F 812 Extraordinary forest

A 2091.1 Arachne transformed to spider: vies with goddess in spinning
D 181 Transformation: man [goddess] to spider

A 451.3.1 Goddess of weaving and spinning
A 2091.1 Arachne transformed to spider: vies with goddess in spinning
D 2183 Magic spinning

B 733 Animals are spirit-sighted. Scent danger
D 1385 Magic object protects from evil spirits
D 1385.2.6 Root protects from evil spirits
D 1421.1.3 Magic book summons genie
D 2121.5 Magic journey: man carried by spirit or devil
D 2176.3 Evil spirit exorcised
D 2198 Magic control of spirits (angels, [gods])
E 334 Non-malevolent ghost haunts scene of former misfortune, crime or tragedy.
E 421.3 Luminous [fiery] ghosts
E 423 Revenant in animal form.
E 451.2 Ghost laid when penance is done.
E 728 Evil spirit possesses person
F 401.3 Spirit in animal form
F 401.5.1 Spirit in form of horrible head
F 401.7 Fire-breathing spirit
F 402.1.4 Demons assume human form in order to deceive
F 402.1.8 Spirits put corpse (man) into river
F 402.1.9 Spirit delivers false message
F 411.1 Demon travels in whirlwind
F 420.1.1.3 Water-spirit as small gray man
F 574 Luminous [fiery] person
F 1036 Hand from heaven writes on wall
G 303.3.1.12 Devil in form of woman
G 303.6.3 Natural phenomena accompanying the devil’s appearance
G 303.6.3.2 Devil comes in whirlwind
G 303.16 How the devil’s power may be escaped or avoided
G 303.16.3.4 Devil made to disappear by making sign of the cross
G 303.17.2.5 Devil retreats into hell amid thunder and lightning
M 205.0.1 Promise kept [oath fulfilled] in deed, not in spirit
M 301.11 Spirit as prophet
M 301.14 (Summoned) Dead prophesies

D 2151.1 Magic control of seas
F 931 Extraordinary occurrence connected with sea
F 1041.16.1 Man spits fire when enraged

F 531.6.7.1 Giant possesses treasure
N 538.2 Treasure from defeated giant
P 555.0.1 (Si) Booty. The spoils of war.
P 561 Tournaments

P 634 Feasts
S 139.2.2.4 Part of corpses used in sport

A 427.1 Goddess of springs and wells
B 11.7.2 Dragon guards lake [fountain].
D 925 Magic fountain
D 926.3 (Bm) Knight guards magic well [body of water]
D 927.2 Magic spring [fountain] guarded by demons (monsters) [dragon].
D 1338.1.1 Fountain of youth
D 1541.1.3 Magic fountain causes storm (rain).
D 1551.3 Magic root causes water to divide and close
D 1563.0.1 Magic springs sterilizes or fertilizes earth
F 162.8 Magic fountain in otherworld.
F 716 Extraordinary fountain
F 717.2 Poison pool
F 718 Extraordinary well
F 933 Extraordinary occurrences connected with springs [fountains, wells]
H 411.11 Magic spring as chastity test

K 1551 Husband returns home secretly and spies on adulteress and paramour
K 1812 King in disguise
K 1835 Disguise for spying
K 2357.0.1 Disguise to spy on enemy
P 557.0.2 (Li) Spy. Messenger

P 50 Noblemen (knights) [rules of chivalry]

S 115 Murder by stabbing

B 101.4.1 Stag with golden antlers, silver feet
B 211.2.1 Speaking stag
B 731.7.3 (Bm) Milk-white deer
D 114.1.1 Transformation: man to deer
D 114.1.1.1 Transformation: girl to deer (fawn) (by druid)
D 1840.2.2 Invulnerable stag
F 989.15 Hunt for extraordinary (magic) animal
H 105 Parts of slain animal as token of slaying
H 1154.0.1 Task: bringing head of animal
H 1331 Quest for remarkable animal
H 1387 (G) Quest for lost animal (horse, dog)
H 1592 Hunting contest
J 1032 Stag found by master when overlooked by servants
L 461 Stag scorns his legs but is proud of his horns
N 774.3 Adventures from pursuing animal (not magic)

D 1144 Magic stairs
F 789 Extraordinary buildings and furnishings – miscellaneous
F 848 Extraordinary ladder (stairs)

H 901.1 Heads placed on stakes for failure in performance of task
K 955 Murder by burning
K 2378.1 Person allowed to win first game so that he will play for higher stakes
M 161.4 Vow rather to die (on a spear) than to accept grace
N 2.0.2 Stakes not claimed by winner
Q 414 Punishment: burning alive
Q 414.0.2 Burning as punishment for adultery
Q 421.1 Heads on Stakes. Punishment by beheading and placing heads on stakes
R 117 Rescue from being burned
R 161.4 Lover rescues his lady from the gallows [stake]
R 175 Rescue at the stake
S 112 Burning to death
S 139.2.2.1 Heads of slain enemies impaled upon stakes

F 899.1 Extraordinary standard [banner]

A 250 Star-God
A 761 Ascent to stars. People or animals ascend to the sky and become stars
A 787 Relation of the planets to human life.
D 1291.2.1 Sign in stars as portent
D 1311.6.4 Divination by stars
D 1812.3 Means of learning future
D 1812.5.1.6 Stars furnish omens
F 961.2 Extraordinary behavior of stars
M 302.4 Horoscope taken by means of stars
M 302.4.2 (Bm) Future read in stars
N 120 Determination of luck or fate
Z 150 Other symbols

R 51 Mistreatment of prisoners
R 51.1 Prisoners starved
S 132 Murder by starvation.

P 25 Queen meddles in state affairs

H 599 Other enigmatic statements [acts]

D 1268 Magic statue (doll)
D 1317.9.1 Brass (copper) statue at city gates blows on trumpet at stranger’s approach.
D 1380.0.1 Magic object protects a city [land]
D 1380.0.1.1 Palladium – city impregnable while statue remains
D 1402.19 Magic statue kills
D 1610.21 Speaking image
D 1615 Magic singing object.
D 1620 Magic automata
D 1620.1 Automatic statue of man
D 1620.1.1 Automatic statue of trumpeter.
D 1620.1.5 Magic statue of archer
D 1620.2 Automatic statue of animal
D 1620.2.4 Automatic statue of lion
D 1620.3 Other automatic constructions
F 855 Extraordinary image
F 855.2 Statues animated by water or wind
F 855.3 Gold (silver) statue of animal
J 1794 Statue mistaken for living original
K 1971 Men behind statue (tree) speaks and pretends to be God (spirit)

D 838 Magic object acquired by stealing
D 838.1 Stolen objects powerful in magic
D 838.2 Magic object taken from ogre’s house
D 861 Magic object stolen.
G 610 Theft from ogre
H 84.4 Stolen ring as proof of daring theft
H 1151 Theft as a task
H 1385.1 Quest for stolen princess.
J 1399 Retorts concerning thefts – miscellaneous
K 300 Thefts and cheats – general
K 324 Theft by use of coat [ring] of invisibility
K 330 Means of hoodwinking the guardian or owner
K 331 Goods stolen while owner sleeps
K 331.2 Owner put to sleep and goods stolen
K 332 Theft by making owner drunk
K 341 Owner’s interest distracted while goods are stolen
K 343.1 Owner sent on errand and goods stolen
K 343.2.1 The stingy parson and the slaughtered pig. The stingy parson does not want to give any one part of his pig, which he has just slaughtered. The sexton advises him to hang the pig up in the garden over night so as to make everyone think that it has been stolen. The sexton steals it himself
K 359.1 Theft by means of magic invisibility
K 401.1.1 Trail of stolen goods [shining of stolen helmet] made to lead to dupe
K 1335 Seduction (or wooing) by stealing clothes of bathing girl
K 1371 Bride-stealing
K 2137 The priest’s [husband’s] guest and the eaten chickens [rabbits]. The servant [wife] who has eaten the chickens tells the guest to flee, because the priest [husband] is going to cut off his ears [genitals], and he [she] tells the priest [husband] that the guest has stolen the two chickens.[rabbits] The priest runs after him.
N 352 Bird carries off ring which lover has taken from sleeping mistress’s finger. He searches for the ring and becomes separated from her
N 352.3 Serpent steals jewels
Q 212 Theft punished
Q 413.1 Hanging as punishment for theft
Q 451.1.1 Hand cut off as punishment for theft
R 151.1 Husband rescues stolen wife

B 184.1 Magic horses [extraordinary horse from otherworld]
Z 201.1 (Bm) Hero’s famous horse

D 1081 Magic sword
F 531.4.5.2 Giant with iron bar as weapon
F 828 Extraordinary crown
F 833.5.1 Sword cuts cloth etc, as well as steel and stone
F 835 Extraordinary club [pole]

B 11.2.11 Fire-breathing dragon
B 11.2.11.2 Breath of Dragon kills man [venomous fiery and fetid breath of dragon]
F 687 Remarkable fragrance [odor, smell] of person.
G 303.4.8.1 Devil has sulphurous odor stench
G 303.6 Circumstances of the devil’s appearance
G 303.17.2.8 Devil disappears amid terrible stench

K 2211 Treacherous [half-]brother. Usually elder brother
P 283 Stepbrother
S 73.1.0.1 Murder of stepbrother (foster brother)

D 665.2 Transformation of stepchild to be rid of him [her]
P 281 Stepfather [and stepson]

K 2215 (Bm) Treacherous stepmother [foster mother]
P 282 Stepmother
S 31 Cruel stepmother

C 934.2 Land made sterile because of broken tabu
D 1563.0.1 Magic springs sterilizes or fertilizes earth
D 2081 Land made magically sterile

F 771.5 Extraordinary guard for castle (land)
J 1115.10.2 Clever minister [counsellor]
K 2242 Treacherous steward
K 2243 Treacherous seneschal
N 839.1.1 (Bm) Faithful steward [marshal] as foster father
P 50.2 Marshall [Court officials: marshall, steward, etc.]
P 110 Royal ministers
P 110.0.1 (Bm) Faithful steward [knight] as regent

F 555 Remarkable hair
F 555.8 Hair so stiff that apples falling on it would be impaled. [Remarkably stiff hair].

J 341.1 Fox prefers to bear weight of his tail rather than give part of it to ape
Q 276 Stinginess punished.
W 152 Stinginess
W 152.13 The stingy man and his animals
W 152 Stinginess

F 827 Extraordinary ornaments
F 868 Extraordinary saddle

A 1391 Why other members must serve the belly
D 849.5.1 Magic object found in heart [body] of whale
H 439.1.1 Painting on wife’s stomach as chastity index
J 461.1 The belly and the members

B 101.7 Serpent with jewel in head
B 722 Magic stone in animal’s head.
D 231 Transformation: man to stone.
D 471.1 Transformation: bread to stone
D 931 Magic rock (stone)
D 1071 Magic jewel (jewels)
D 1331.1.4 Stone gives magic sight
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 1388 Magic object protects from drowning
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 1552.1 Mountain opens at blow of divine rod
D 1654.4.1 Sword can be moved only by right person – sword in stone
D 1561.1.7 Magic stone brings good luck.
D 1645.1 Incandescent jewel
D 1654.4.1 Sword can be moved only by right person: Sword in stone
D 1682 Magic jewel which outweighs many heavy objects in the scale
F 162.0.1.2 (Luminous) precious stones in otherworld (dwelling)
F 531.4.5.4 Giant has stone shield.
F 624.2.0.1 Strong man throws enormous stone
F 761 City of precious metals and stones
F 771.1.5 Palace of jewels
F 800 Extraordinary rocks and stones
F 806 Magnetic stone
F 807 Rock of extraordinary color.
F 809 Other extraordinary stones
F 809.7 Transparent stone
F 809.11 (Bm) Marvelous stone – extraordinarily cold
F 826 Extraordinary jewels
F 833.5.1 Sword cuts cloth etc, as well as steel and stone
H 411.1 Magic stone as chastity test.
M 302.6 Prophecy inscribed on well [seat]
Q 422 Punishment: stoning to death
Q 541.3 Penance: Gregory on the stone. Standing on a stone (pillar) as penance for incest
S 119 (Bm) Death by stoning
V 127 Image of deity in wood (stone) [metal]

Q 422 Punishment: stoning to death
Q 499.2 Humiliating death as punishment
S 119 (Bm) Death by stoning

D 2151.2 Magic control of rivers.
F 932.6 River ceases to flow.
H 696.1.1 Riddle: How much water is in the sea? Stop all the rivers and I will measure it
J 672.1 Ears stopped with wax to avoid enchanting song. Odysseus and the sirens.

J 1565.1 Fox and crane [stork] invite each other

A 197 Deity controls elements
A 197.1 (Bm) Storm as sign of Goddess’s wrath
A 1116 Origin of sea-waves
D 900 Magic weather phenomena
D 905 Magic storm
D 1540 Magic object controls elements
D 1541.1 Magic object raises storm
D 1541.1.3 Magic fountain causes storm (rain).
D 2141 Storm produced by magic
D 2141.1 Storm magically stilled
D 2143.1.1 Rain produced by pouring water
F 141.2.1 Storm (snow, hail) as barrier to otherworld
F 709.4 (Bm) Land of two summers and no winters [without extreme weather elements]
F 790 Extraordinary sky and weather phenomena
F 960 Extraordinary nature phenomena – elements and weather
F 962 Extraordinary precipitation (rain, snow, etc.)
F 963 Extraordinary behavior of wind
F 968 Extraordinary thunder and lightning
N 399.1.1 (Bm) Wind carries ship to hostile [unknown] island [land]
Q 222.5.2 Magic storm as punishment for desecrating of temple
Q 552.14 Storm as punishment
S 264.1.3 (Bm) Princess slain to abate storm and avenge her lover’s murder

F 883 Extraordinary writings (book, letter)
H 11 Recognition through story-telling.
H 11.1 Recognition by telling life history
K 2111.0.1 Telling a story to allay woman’s amorous desires
Z 100 Symbolism

H 11 Recognition through story-telling.
H 11.1 Recognition by telling life history

D 1317.9.1 Brass (copper) statue at city gates blows on trumpet at stranger’s approach.
R 169.15 Rescue by stranger [heathen]
W 12.2 Man looks for strangers so as to bestow hospitality on them.

S 113 Murder by strangling

K 910 Murder by strategy
K 2350 Military strategy
K 2369 Military strategy – miscellaneous
P 550 Military affairs
P 559 (Li) Peace: making and conditions of peace (ransom, reparations, submission)
T 323 Escape from undesired lover by strategy

D 478 Water changed to other substance (or vice versa)
D 1242 Magic fluid.
D 2151.2 Magic control of rivers.
F 162.2.10 Jewels in streams of otherworld
F 1084.1 Deep streams of blood flow during battle
G 638 Ogre powerless to cross stream.

S 139.2.2.10 (Bm) Body of dead enemy hero left in street for all to see

D 1335 Object gives magic strength
D 1335.1 Magic strength-giving food
D 1335.2.2 Water as magic strengthening drink
D 1335.4 Magic belt gives strength
D 1335.5 Magic ring gives strength
D 1711.8 Strong man as magician.
D 1830 Magic strength
D 1833 Magic strength by touching earth
D 1835 Other means of acquiring magic strength
D 1836 Magic waxing and waning of strength.
F 451.3.8 Dwarfs are strong
F 565.2 Remarkably strong women
F 610 Remarkably strong man
F 610.0.1 Remarkably strong woman
F 610.1 Wild man of superhuman strength
F 610.2 Dwarf hero of superhuman strength
F 610.4 Man with strength of many men
F 610.4.1 Man with four men’s strength.
F 610.4.2 Man with twelve men’s strength
F 610.5.2 Man with strength of ten elephants [12 mules]
F 610.7 Strong man is so heavy that no horse can carry him all day [that can’t even be carried by two horses]
F 610.8 Strong man so heavy that only his own horse can carry him
F 611.1 Strong man’s birth
F 611.1.2 Strong man son of woman and dwarf
F 611.2.1 Strong hero suckled by animal
F 611.2.4 Strong hero suckled by seven [several] women
F 611.3 Strong hero acquires his strength
F 611.3.2 Hero’s precocious strength
F 611.3.3 Strong hero tests weapons. Breaks first sword
F 612 Strong hero sent from home
F 614.10 Strong hero fights whole army alone
F 618.1 Strong hero tames ungovernable horse
F 624.2.0.1 Strong man throws enormous stone
F 624.8 Strong man throws opponent into the air [against pillar]
F 625 Strong man: breaker of iron
F 628 Strong man as mighty slayer
F 628.0.1 Precocious strong hero as mighty slayer
F 628.1 Strong man kills many men
F 628.1.0.1 Strong man slays monster
F 628.1.1 Strong man kills lion with own hands
F 628.2 Strong man kills men
F 628.2.1 Strong man kills many men at once
F 628.2.3 Strong man kills giant
F 628.2.4 Army of strong men
F 628.2.7 Strong man uses man as weapon.
F 628.2.10 Strong man cleaves horse and rider in two [kills horse and rider at one pole-blow]
F 628.4 Strong man’s mighty spear-cast (sword blow) [pole-blow]
F 639 Extraordinary powers – miscellaneous
F 639.4 Strong man overcomes giant
H 1316 Quest for the strongest [best] knight
H 1561 Tests of valor
H 1562 Test of strength
J 421 Subordination of weak to strong
J 429 Association of strong and weak – miscellaneous
J 684.2 Foolishness of taking on too strong a partner
J 689 Forethought in alliances – miscellaneous
J 1020 Strength in unity
L 311 Weak (small) [young] hero overcomes large fighter
U 30 Rights of the strong

D 482 Stretching objects.

F 171.3 People and things that strike one another in otherworld [mysterious fighting in otherworld].
J 641 Escaping before enemy can strike

H 411.12 Magic harp as chastity test. Plays out of tune [string breaks] at approach of unchaste girl
K 1569.5 Husband catches paramour by using wife’s prearranged signal

D 1131 Magic castle
F 531.6.3.1 Giants live in castles (raths, duns) (ruins of which may still be seen)
F 771 Extraordinary castle (house, palace)
F 771.3 Extraordinary location of castle
F 771.4.3 Abandoned castle
G 111 Giant ogre(s) possess(es) castle
Q 111.10 (Bm) Castles as reward
R 41.1 Captivity in castle

W 167 Stubbornness

J 651 Inattention to danger
J 1705 Stupid classes
J 1706 Stupid animals
L 141 Stupid person surpasses clever

F 133.1 Marine counterpart to land

J 421 Subordination of weak to strong
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 548 Miscellaneous legal customs [problems]
P 555.4 (Bm) Defeated knights [giant, rescued persons etc.] sent under oath to king [lady, queen] (as proof of victory)
P 557.4 Customs concerning single combat
P 559 (Li) Peace: making and conditions of peace (ransom, reparations, submission)
R 75 Surrendering

D 931 Magic rock (stone)
D 1360 Magic object effects temporary change in person
D 1682 Magic jewel which outweighs many heavy objects in the scale
F 711.2 Sea of unusual substance
F 809 Other extraordinary stones
H 614 Explanation of enigmatic phenomenon

K 3 Substitute in contest
K 331.3 Worthless object (animal) substituted for valuable while owner sleeps
K 512.2 Compassionate executioner: substituted heart [liver].
K 525 Escape by use of substituted object
K 528 Substitute in ordeal
K 1515 The animal in the chest, The husband has locked the surprised paramour in a chest while he fetches his family as witness of his wife’s unfaithfulness, She frees the lover, Substitutes an animal and discomforts the husband
K 1840 Deception by substitution
K 1843 Wife deceives husband with substituted bedmate
K 1843.0.1 (Bm) Substituted bride to be slain to dispose of witness.
K 1843.1 Bride has maid sleep in husband’s bed to conceal pregnancy [lost virginity].
K 1843.3 Wife substitutes an old woman for herself in her husband’s bed
K 1851 Substituted letter
K 1911 The false bride (substituted bride)
K 1915 The false bridegroom (substituted bridegroom)
K 1920 Substituted children

F 145 Mountains at borders of otherworld
F 151.2 Mountain pass to otherworld.
F 159 Other means to reach the otherworld
F 721.1 Underground passages
F 721.3 Underground kingdom
F 934 Extraordinary occurrences connected with lakes

H 331.2.1 Suitor contest: success in battle [single combat]
K 1521 Paramour successfully hidden from husband
L 160 Success of the unpromising hero (heroine)
M 369.5 Prophecies concerning invasion and conquest
P 12.10 King is superior to all in strength, beauty, largeness etc

H 941 Cumulative tasks: second assigned so that first can be done
H 1235 Succession of helpers on quest
P 11 Choice of kings
P 16 End of king’s reign
P 16.1.4 Father abdicates in favor of son
P 17 Succession to the throne
P 17.0.2 Son succeeds father as king
P 17.3 Dying king names successor
P 17.3.3 (Bm) King’s rescuer made his heir

F 471.2.1 Succubus- female incubus

G 332 Sucking monster

B 535 Animal nurse – Animal nourishes abandoned child
F 611.2.1 Strong hero suckled by animal
S 352 Animal aids abandoned child(ren)
T 611 Suckling of children

B 301.3 Faithful animal plans suicide when it thinks master dead.
B 751.2 Pelican kills young and revives them with own blood [kills self to give blood to his young].
F 1041.21 Reactions to excessive grief
F 1041.21.6.1 Wounding self because of excessive grief
F 1041.21.8 (Bm) Suicide from grief
J 216 Choice of deaths
J 628 Dissuasion from suicide
M 451.1 Death by suicide
N 343 Lover kills self believing his mistress dead. She has been frightened away by a lion (Pyramus and Thisbe)
N 343.4 Lover commits suicide on finding beloved dead
P 16.3.0.1 King [queen] commits suicide
P 26 Captured queen commits [attempts] suicide
Q 211.5 Suicide punished
R 70 Behavior of captives
T 81 Death from love
T 81.2.1.1 Scorned lover (woman) threatens to kill self
T 81.6 Girl kills herself after lover’s death suicide by drowning
T 94 (Bm) Heroine [hero] attempts suicide on (false) reports of hero’s [heroine’s] death
T 211.2 Wife’s suicide at husband’s death.
W 11.5.12 Hero in battle refuses to slay charioteers, women or physicians [Hero refuses to slay suicidal attacker]

F 821 Extraordinary dress (clothes, robe, etc.)
P 523 Bringing suit in law courts
V 131.3 (Tu) The gray suit of Christ

F 451.5.18 Dwarf loves mortal girl
H 310.1 Tests for hero, husband of supernatural (divine) wife
H 310.3 (Bm) Suitor tasks: knight must perform (three) feats of valor
H 312 Physical and mental requirements for suitors
H 313 Suitor test: obedience and humility before bride [mistress]
H 314 Suitor’s sincerity tested
H 315.2 Suitor contest: bride offered to suitor giving the token of the greater love
H 317 Long term of service imposed on suitor
H 317.4 Test of suitor’s love and endurance by constant postponing
H 328 Suitor test: power of endurance
H 331 Suitor contests: bride offered as prize
H 331.2 Suitor contest: tournament
H 331.2.1 Suitor contest: success in battle [single combat]
H 331.7 Suitor contest: aiming with missile [knife]
H 332.1 Suitor in contest with bride
H 332.1.1 Suitor test: duel with bride
H 332.3 Suitor test: duel with father-in-law
H 335 Tasks assigned suitors
H 335.0.2 Girl assigns tasks to her suitors
H 335.1 Suitor task: avenging bride’s father’s death before marriage.
H 335.1.1 Suitor task: avenging bride’s former fiancé [husband] before marriage.
H 335.3 Suitor task: killing ferocious animal
H 335.4.1 Suitor task: to bring enemy’s head
H 335.4.4 Suitor task: to kill (defeat) unwelcome suitor.
H 336 Suitors assigned quests
H 338 Suitor test: faithfulness
H 345 Suitor test: overcoming princess in strength
H 355 Suitor test: finding an extraordinary object
H 355.4 Suitor test: obtaining flowers [twig]
H 359 Other suitor tests
H 360 Bride test
H 493 Virility test for husband
H 933 Princess sets hero tasks
K 1372.1 Princess tricked into engaging herself to suitor rejected by her father
K 1551.1 Husband returns secretly and kills unwelcome suitor
K 2221 Treacherous rival lover [suitor]
K 2233 (Bm) Treacherous suitors
M 131 Vow of chastity [fidelity]
M 149.2 Vow to die rather than marry unwelcome suitor
R 18 Abduction by rejected suitor
R 111.1.9 Princess rescued from undesired suitor
R 161 Lover [unwelcome suitor] rescues his lady
R 325.4 (Bm) Nunnery as refuge
S 11.4.1 (Jealous) father vows to kill [kills] daughter’s suitors
T 13 Woman falls in love as result of husband’s praise of her (a) suitor
T 46 Suitor outwits watchman to meet lady
T 50 Wooing
T 50.1 Girl carefully guarded from suitors
T 50.1.1 Girl carefully guarded from suitors by mother
T 50.1.2 Girl carefully guarded by father
T 50.2.1 King unwilling to marry his daughter to a man not her equal
T 69 Wooing – miscellaneous motifs
T 70 Scorned lover [suitors]
T 75.0.1 Suitors ill-treated
T 75.1 Scorn of unloved suitor punished
T 75.2.1 Rejected suitors’ revenge
T 91.6.4.4 (Bm) Heroine will not marry knight of lower rank
T 92.7 Rival lovers do battle for girl
T 93.6 (Bm) Unwanted suitor slain.
T 99.4 (Bm) Defeated warring suitor at lady’s mercy is forgiven
T 104.1 Rejected suitor wages war
T 311 Woman averse to marriage
T 320 Escape from undesired lover
T 331.2 Knight unsuccessfully tempted by host’s wife [daughter].

A 671.2.2.3 Rivers of fire [sulphur] in hell

D 1664 Summer and winter garden
F 161.1 Perpetual summer in otherworld.
F 709.4.1 (Bm) Land of two summers and two winters

D 1421.0.1 Magic bell summons helper
D 1421.1.3 Magic book summons genie
D 1421.3 Magic object summons dwarfs
D 1421.5 Magic object summons army for rescue
D 1421.6 Magic object summons fairy
D 1812.3 Means of learning future
E 300 Friendly return from the dead
E 751 Souls at Judgment Day
F 301.1.1.1 Girl [hero] summons fairy lover [mistress] by wishing for him [her]
G 303.6.1.2 Devil comes when called upon
M 301.14 (Summoned) Dead prophesies
P 548 Miscellaneous legal customs [problems]
P 551 Army
P 552.6 (Tu) Conscription of troops: summoning allies as preparation for war
R 187 Horn of Roncevalles. Hero calls aid of waiting soldiers on horn

A 220 Sun-God
A 737.1 Eclipse caused by monster devouring sun or moon [devil swallowing sun]
B 751.3 Eagle tests eaglets by having them gaze at sun
F 383.4.3 Sunlight fatal to fairies
F 833.4.1 Sword shines as fire or as the sun
F 961.1.1 Sun refuses to shine when murder is done
F 961.1.5.2 Sun reappears after being set
F 961.1.5.3.1 Sunset delayed many hours
F 961.1.9 Eclipse of sun at important historical events
F 965.2 Sun darkened at death of holy [pious] person
J 613.1 Frogs fear increase of sun’s power which will dry up all their puddles [Animals fear that sun’s children will destroy everything]
L 351 Contest of wind and sun
M 302.4 Horoscope taken by means of stars
Z 139 Personifications – miscellaneous

Q 223.6 Failure to observe holiness of Sabbath [Sunday] punished

F 610.1 Wild man of superhuman strength
F 610.2 Dwarf hero of superhuman strength

H 1561.11 (Bm) Test of valor: one against five (many)
L 325 (Bm) Victory over superior force
L 325.1 (Bm) Victory over superior force: one against many
L 325.4 (Bm) Victory over superior force: victory over devils
P 12.10 King is superior to all in strength, beauty, largeness etc
V 351 Duel (debate) to prove which religion is better

A 528 Culture hero has supernatural helpers
C 31.1 Tabu: Looking at supernatural wife
C 31.8 Tabu: striking supernatural wife
C 32.2.1 Tabu: asking name of supernatural husband
C 32.2.2 Tabu: asking where supernatural husband comes from
F 159.4 Demon guide to otherworld journey
F 377.1 Supernatural lapse of time in paradise
F 451.10 Dwarfs and other supernatural beings
H 1233.4 Supernatural creature as helper on quest.
M 242 Bargains and promises between mortals and supernatural beings
N 810 Supernatural helpers
T 91.3 Love of mortal and supernatural person
T 111 Marriage of mortal and supernatural being
T 615 Supernatural growth
Z 216 Supernatural origin of hero (magic conception)

V 123.1 God under compulsion: Suppliant threatens to mutilate (crush) holy image if his wish is not fulfilled

D 1040.1 Drink supplied by magic
D 1472 Food and drink from magic object [Grail]
D 1472.1.24.1 Magic drinking horn supplies drink
F 183.1 Automatic service in otherworld: any sort of food desired furnished
V 232.3 Angels supply food to mortal

F 531.6.15.3 Giants and dwarfs friendly
M 150 Other vows and oaths
M 166 Other vows about fighting

D 1053 Magic mantle (cloak)
D 1344.9 Magic garment renders invulnerable.
D 1381.3.2 Magic unpierceable (horn) skin protects against attack
D 1381.3.3 A protective garment which spears could not penetrate
D 1381.4 Magic coat protects against attack
D 1382 Magic object protects against cold or burning
F 821 Extraordinary dress (clothes, robe, etc.)
F 821.1 Dress of extraordinary material
F 824 Extraordinary [part of] armor

P 424 Physician

N 380 Other unlucky accidents
R 4 Surprise capture

M 161.4 Vow rather to die (on a spear) than to accept grace
P 548 Miscellaneous legal customs [problems]
P 550 Military affairs
P 555 Defeat in battle [single combat]
P 555.4 (Bm) Defeated knights [giant, rescued persons etc.] sent under oath to king [lady, queen] (as proof of victory)
P 556 Challenge to battle
P 557.0.4 (Li) Siege
P 559 (Li) Peace: making and conditions of peace (ransom, reparations, submission)
R 74 Defeated warriors [adversaries] go into [are forced to join] the conqueror’s service
R 75 Surrendering
R 75.1 Defeated surrender their city
R 75.2 Warriors surrender after chief’s [queen’s] death
W 11.5 Generosity toward enemy

Z 356 Unique survivor

K 661 Escape from suspicion of crime
K 1084.2 Liar brings enmity between friends
K 2131 Trickster makes (two) friends each suspicious of the other’s intentions
Q 243.0.2 Suspected incontinence unjustly punished.

J 621.1 The swallow and the hemp-seeds

A 737.1 Eclipse caused by monster devouring sun or moon [devil swallowing sun]
F 910 Extraordinary swallowings
F 911 Person (animal) swallowed without killing
F 911.3 Animal swallows man (not fatally)
F 911.4 Jonah. Fish (or water monster) swallows a man
F 912.2 Victim kills swallower from within by cutting
F 913 Victims rescued from swallower’s belly
F 942.1 Ground opens and swallows up person
Q 569.2 Sinners in hell swallowed by dragons [monster]

D 921 Magic lake (pond [swamp]).
D 921.1 Lake (pond) produced by magic
D 1610.35 Speaking [shrieking] river [body of water].
F 162.6 Lakes in otherworld
F 713 Extraordinary pond (lake)

B 172 Magic bird
B 172.2.1 Magic bird’s song brings sleep
B 469.2 Helpful swan
B 558.1 Boat drawn by swans (geese)
B 811.5 Sacred swan
V 231.1 Angel in bird shape

M 110.1 Swearing while one knows that his oath is rendered valueless
M 114 Oath taken on sacred object
M 114.4 Swearing on sacred relics
M 119 Taking of vows and oaths – miscellaneous
M 119.2 Swearing by (clan) gods
P 50.0.1 King and vassals: obligations of vassals to king [Feudality: mutual relationship between king and vassals]
P 311 Sworn brethren
P 311.1 Combatants become sworn brethren
T 61.2 (Bm) Parting lovers pledge not to marry for seven years [swear faithfulness]

E 15.2 Resuscitation by sweating
F 1041.17 Extraordinary result of fear

F 1041.1.2.1 Lover dies beside dying [dead] sweetheart
H 916 Tasks imposed at suggestion of a spouse (sweetheart).
H 1385.3 Quest for vanished wife (mistress)
J 491 Old sweetheart chosen in preference to new
T 23 (Bm) Childhood sweethearts
T 26 Attention distracted by sight of (remembering) beloved [because of love]
T 26.1 Finger cut because of absorption in the charms of beloved
T 81.3 Girl [wife] falls dead on lover’s [husband’s] body
T 211.4.2 Husband’s [lover’s] corpse kept after death.
T 211.9 Excessive grief at husband’s or wife’s death

E 821 Sweet smell from corpse

D 55 Magic change of person’s size
D 1330 Magic object works physical change
D 2064 Magic sickness

B 11.5.4 Dragon’s miraculous speed.
B 184.1.1 Horse (mule) with magic speed
B 184.1.1.2 Horse as swift as a bird
D 1520.6 Magic transportation by cloak (cape)
D 1521.2 Ship with miraculous speed
D 2122 Journey with magic speed.
F 681 Marvelous runner [extraordinary speed of runner]
F 989.17 Marvelously swift horse

F 696 Marvelous swimmer

D 336 Transformation: swine to person
D 341.1 Transformation: bitches to women
F 234.1.3 Fairy in form of swine
K 2351.3 Mice and hogs let loose put elephant cavalry to flight

F 1041 Extraordinary physical reactions of persons
F 1041.1.2.2.1 Woman swoons and is near death at hearing of husband’s or lover’s death
F 1041.9 Extraordinary illness
F 1041.17.2 (Bm) Swoon from fear
F 1041.21.7 Swooning from grief
F 1041.25.1 (Bm) Swoon from joy
F 1084.21.7 Swooning from grief
T 24 The symptoms of love
T 24.2 Swooning for love
T 24.2.1 Fainting away for love (or sexual desire)
F 1041.25.1 (Bm) Swoon from joy
T 24.2 Swooning for love

D 812.10 Magic object received from angel
D 878.1 Magic sword returned to lake whence it was received
D 1081 Magic sword
D 1081.1 Sword of magic origin
D 1402.7.1.2 Magic sword always inflicts mortal wounds
D 1402.7.1 Magic sword kills man
D 1654.4.1 Sword can be moved only by right person – sword in stone
D 1601.4.1 Automatic sword.
D 1654.4 Incandescent sword
D 1654.4.1 Sword can be moved only by right person: Sword in stone
D 1654.4.1.1 Sword can only be used by strong hero
D 2066.1 Sword magically dulled
D 2072.0.1 Sword made magically helpless
D 2163.1 Broken weapons magically restored.
F 152.1.6 Sword bridge to otherworld.
F 611.3.3 Strong hero tests weapons. Breaks first sword
F 628.4 Strong man’s mighty spear-cast (sword blow) [pole-blow]
F 830 Extraordinary weapons
F 833 Extraordinary sword
F 833.2 Sword of Damocles. Sword hung on thin thread immediately above person
F 833.3 Sword extraordinarily bright, sharp
F 833.4 Fiery sword
F 833.4.1 Sword shines as fire or as the sun
F 833.5.1 Sword cuts cloth etc, as well as steel and stone
F 833.6 Sword with poisoned edge.
F 997.1 Sword is spoken to as human being
G 512.1 Ogre killed with knife (sword)
H 101 Identification by broken weapon.
H 1023.8 Task: fixing the two pieces of a broken sword together
P 53 (Bm) Obtaining knighthood
P 54 (Bm) Knighting custom
P 56 (Bm) Knight [noble] becomes hermit
Q 114.3 Sword as reward
T 351 Sword of chastity
Z 201.2 (Bm) Hero’s famous sword
Z 312 Unique deadly weapon
SYMBOLISM
D 1812.3.3.5 Prophetic dream allegorical
D 1813.1 (Allegorical) Dream shows events in distant places
H 591 Extraordinary actions explained
H 602.3 Symbolic interpretation of names.
H 607 Discussion by symbols
H 617 Symbolic interpretations of dreams
H 619 Other symbolic interpretations
J 1625 Armies like seeds and peppercorns
P 13.3 Royal purple (golden diadem) [crown] as sign of royalty
P 91 (Li) Heraldic figures and symbols – coat-of-arms
Q 589 Punishment fitted to crime – miscellaneous
T 596 Naming of children
V 501 (Li) Religious symbolism
Z 65.1 Red as blood, white as snow
Z 71.2 Formulistic number: four
Z 71.5 Formulistic number: seven
Z 71.8 Formulistic number: twelve
Z 71.16.2 Formulistic number: ten
Z 100 Symbolism
Z 140.1 Color of flag (sails) on ship as message of good or bad news
Z 141 Symbolic color: red
Z 142 Symbolic color: white
Z 143 Symbolic color: black
Z 143.1 Black as symbol of grief
Z 145 Symbolic color: green.
Z 147.1 Purple is symbol of royalty
Z 150 Other symbols
Z 157 Olive [palm] branch symbol of peace [victory]
Z 163 (Hi) Wheel symbol of world’s way
Z 174 Message or orders given symbolic action
Z 176 Symbolism of the mass
Z 182 Symbolic wounding of king.
Z 183 Symbolic names.
Z 730 (Bm) Eponymous account of personal name

D 1782 Sympathetic magic: Magic results obtained by imitating desired action
T 215.4 Wife puts out one of her eyes to show sympathy with her husband. He has lost an eye in a tournament and is ashamed to return to her – She shows that it makes no difference to her love

D 2064 Magic sickness
T 24 The symptoms of love
T 24.1 Love-sickness
T 24.5 Boy [girl] turns red and white from love

A 546 Culture hero establishes social system