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Index of Names  J 

Jacob    

A 666 Ladder to heaven (UvEAlx)
K 1839.11 Disguise as older brother to obtain blessing (UvEAlx)

Jaconites    

F 760.0.1 (Bm) Extraordinarily beautiful town (HMvNT, HvFLvT)
F 771 Extraordinary castle (house, palace) (KvWTK)
N 111.3 Fortune’s wheel. (KvWTK)

Jaddus    

P 426.2 Hermit (RvEAlx)

Jaldus    

D 1731.2.3 (Bm) Dream of visit by god (SeAlx)
D 1814.3 Advice from God (or the gods) (SeAlx)
V 73 Fasts (SeAlx)
W 34 Loyalty (SeAlx)

Janfrüege    

D 1131 Magic castle (HvdTCr)
F 771 Extraordinary castle (house, palace) (HvdTCr)

Japhite    

F 778.1 (G) Extraordinary grave (WvGW)
F 852 Extraordinary coffin [sarkophag] (WvGW)
F 1041.1.2 Death from grief for death of lover or relative (WvGW)
F 1041.21.6 Tearing hair and clothes from excessive grief (WvGW)
T 211.9.1 Wife dies of grief for death of husband (WvGW)
V 301.1 (Li) The high-minded, noble heathen (WvGW)

Japyx    

P 424 Physician (HvVEn)

Jason (see also: Iason)   

D 825 Magic object received from maiden. (HMvNT)
H 974.1 Task performed with help of mistress (HMvNT, HvFLvT)
H 987 Task performed with aid of magic object (HMvNT)
H 1024.5 Task: sowing dragon’s teeth (HMvNT)
H 1154.3.8 (Bm) Task: tame wild bulls and plow field with them (HMvNT)
H 1161.7 (Bm) Task: slay fire-breathing dragon (HMvNT, HvFLvT)
H 1210.2 Quest assigned by king (TrojEl)
H 1211 Quests assigned in order to get rid of hero (HvFLvT, TrojEl)
H 1332.1 Quest for golden fleece (HMvNT, TrojEl)
M 108 Violators of oaths (HMvNT)
M 146.8 (Bm) Vow to marry lady who helps achieve task (HMvNT, HvFLvT)
Q 112.0.1 Kingdom as reward (HMvNT)
Q 241 Adultery punished (TrojEl)
Q 414 Punishment: burning alive (TrojEl)
R 225 Elopement (HvFLvT)
S 139 Miscellaneous cruel murders (TrojEl)
T 10 Falling in love (HvFLvT)
T 15 Love at first sight (TrojEl)
T 24 The symptoms of love (TrojEl)
T 24.1 Love-sickness (HvFLvT, TrojEl)
T 24.5 Boy [girl] turns red and white from love (TrojEl)
T 34 Lovers meet at social gathering (HvFLvT)
T 35 Lovers’ rendezvous (HvFLvT)
T 100 Marriage (TrojEl)
T 230 Faithlessness in marriage [love] (TrojEl)
T 400 Illicit sexual relations (TrojEl)

Jechonia    

P 91 (Li) Heraldic figures and symbols – coat-of-arms (HvNAp)

Jeremias    

M 301.7 Biblical worthy as prophet (UvEAlx)

Jeroboam    

P 50.0.2 (Bm) Knight who acknowledges no overlord [Allegiance: loyalty and disloyalty of vassals] (HvNAp)
R 220 Flights (HvNAp)

Jerome    

F 305 Offspring of fairy [dwarf] and mortal (FvS)
F 451.3.3 Dwarf as magician (FvS)
F 451.4.5.1 Dwarfs are ruled by a king (FvS)
F 451.5.2.4 Dwarfs kidnap mortals (FvS)
F 451.5.18 Dwarf loves mortal girl (FvS)
F 950 Marvelous cures (FvS)
F 1041.21.1 Illness from excessive grief (FvS)
N 837 Queen as helper (FvS)
P 20 Queens (FvS)
P 232 Mother and daughter (FvS)
P 282 Stepmother (FvS)
T 55 Girl as wooer. Forthputting woman (FvS)
T 92.1 The triangle plot and its solutions (FvS)

Jeroparg    

D 1711 Magician (FvS)
D 1711.8 Strong man as magician. (FvS)
D 1810.0.2 Magic knowledge of magician (FvS)
D 1830 Magic strength (FvS)
K 1810 Deception by disguise (FvS)
K 1825.1 Disguise as doctor (FvS)
K 1955 Sham physician (FvS)
N 845 Magician as helper. (FvS)
Q 411.4 Death as punishment for treachery (FvS)
Q 414 Punishment: burning alive (FvS)
S 112 Burning to death (FvS)
T 471 Rape (FvS)

Jesan    

F 628.2.3 Strong man kills giant (RosGF)
H 1561.1 Tests of valor: tournament (RosGF)
M 100.0.1 (Li) Oath of allegiance (RosGBr, RosGD)
P 56 (Bm) Knight [noble] becomes hermit (RosGBr, RosGD)
P 556.0.1 (Bm) Challenge to single combat [feud] (RosGD)

Jeschute    

H 1596 Beauty contest (WvEP)
Q 470 Humiliating punishments (WvEP)
S 410 Persecuted wife. (WvEP)
T 298 Reconciliation [reunion] of (separated) couple (WvEP)

Joban    

K 929.1 Murder by (leaving) poisoned wine (GrAlx)
K 2248 Treacherous minister (GrAlx)
P 16.0.1 (Bm) Regicide (GrAlx)
S 111 Murder by poisoning (GrAlx)

Jobas    

K 2248 Treacherous minister (SeAlx)
M 451.1 Death by suicide (SeAlx)

Jocundille    

K 1831.0.1 Disguise by changing name (KvWTK, TrojEl)

Jofrit (Joffrit of Brabant)    

P 16.1 King (prince) retires from world (becomes hermit [monk, pilgrim], swineherd [beggar]) (RvEWO)
T 670 Adoption of children (RvEWO)

Johan (Priest)    

Z 730 (Bm) Eponymous account of personal name (WvEP)

Johann ( Iohannes, Johan)    

D 1812.4 Future revealed by presentiment: “knowledge within” (JohV)
F 531.6.12.6 Giant slain by man (JohV)
F 575.2 Handsome man (JohV)
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] (UvTRW)
F 611.1 Strong man’s birth (UvTRW)
F 611.2.4 Strong hero suckled by seven [several] women (UvTRW)
F 611.3.2 Hero’s precocious strength (UvTRW)
F 628.2 Strong man kills men (JohV)
F 628.2.1 Strong man kills many men at once (JohV)
F 628.2.3 Strong man kills giant (JohV)
F 1041.9 Extraordinary illness (JohV)
H 11.1 Recognition by telling life history (JohV)
H 100 Identification by matching parts of divided token (JohV)
H 1561.6 Test of valor: fight with giant [warrior, dwarf-hero, dragon etc.] (JohV)
J 146.2 (Li) The educated youth (JohV)
K 1810 Deception by disguise (JohV)
K 1920 Substituted children (JohV)
K 2357 Disguise to enter enemy’s camp (castle) (JohV)
L 111.2 Foundling hero (JohV)
N 731.2 Father-son combat (JohV)
P 14.15.1 (Old, wise) Counsellors of court [King’s council] (JohV, KM5, PKRL, StrKG)
P 17 Succession to the throne (JohV)
P 17.0.2 Son succeeds father as king (JohV)
P 52 Knight jousts with all comers (JohV)
P 52.2 (Li) Knight in service of a lady (JohV)
P 53 (Bm) Obtaining knighthood (JohV)
P 122 (Bm) Archbishop and bishop (KM5, PKRL, StrKG)
P 231 Mother and son (JohV)
P 233 Father and son (JohV)
P 270.4 (Bm) Hero raised by foster parents (JohV)
P 274.1 Love between foster sister and foster brother (JohV)
P 275 Foster son (JohV)
R 220 Flights (JohV)
S 301 Children abandoned (exposed) (JohV)
S 312 Illegitimate child exposed (JohV)
S 334 Tokens of royalty (nobility) left with exposed child (JohV)
S 335 Child exposed at palace gate (JohV)
S 354 Exposed infant (child) reared at strange king’s court [at shepherd’s place] (JohV)
T 31.1 Lovers’ meeting: Hero in service of lady’s father (JohV)
T 91 Unequals in love (JohV)
T 475 Unknown (clandestine) paramour (JohV)
T 585 Precocious infant (UvTRW)
T 596 Naming of children (JohV)
T 596.1 Angel names child (UvTRW)
T 615.3 Precocious wisdom [virtue] (JohV)
T 640 Illegitimate children (JohV)
W 32 Bravery (JohV)
W 212 Eagerness for combat (JohV, UvTRW)
Z 251 Boy hero (UvTRW)
Z 730 (Bm) Eponymous account of personal name (JohV)

Johfrit-de-Liez    

N 839 (Bm) Noble [vassal, knight] as helper (UvZLa)

Johiote    

S 110 Murders (Wiga)
S 139.2.2.11.2 (Bm) Humiliation of corpse: body of dead hero left in field for wild beasts to eat. (Wiga)

John    

V 11.8 Sacrifice to saint (JvWW)
Z 201.1 (Bm) Hero’s famous horse (HvNAp)

Joie de la Curt    

D 961 Magic garden (HvAEr)
D 1359.3 Magic object causes joy (HvAEr)
D 1980 Magic invisibility (HvAEr)
F 149 Bounds of the otherworlds – muscellaneous (HvAEr)
F 162.1.3 Trees bloom, others bear concurrently in otherworld garden. (HvAEr)
F 775 Extraordinary tent (HvAEr)
F 818 Extraordinary garden (HvAEr)
H 901.1 Heads placed on stakes for failure in performance of task (HvAEr)
P 52 Knight jousts with all comers (HvAEr)
S 139.2.2.1 Heads of slain enemies impaled upon stakes (HvAEr)

Jomedan    

H 218 Trial by combat (HvNAp)
P 555 Defeat in battle [single combat] (HvNAp)

Jonah    

F 911.4 Jonah. Fish (or water monster) swallows a man (HvAGr)
Z 71.1.1 Formula: three days and three nights (HvAGr)

Joraffin    

F 574.2 Man with luminous arms (JvWW)
P 310.5 Defeated enemy turns true friend (JvWW)
P 324 Host greets guest with gifts [Welcome and parting gifts] (JvWW)
P 555 Defeat in battle [single combat] (JvWW)

Joram    

D 1057 Magic belt (WvGW)
D 1335.4 Magic belt gives strength (WvGW)
F 159.4 Demon guide to otherworld journey (WvGW)
F 302.3.1 Fairy entices man to fairyland (WvGW)
F 527.1.1 Red knight (WvGW)
K 1 Contest won by magic (WvGW)
N 111.3 Fortune’s wheel. (WvGW)
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P 14.15.2 Court messenger (WDieB)
P 296 Godparents (WDieB)

Joseph    

D 1712.3 Interpreter of dreams (UvEAlx)
S 210.1 Child sold into slavery (UvEAlx)

Josweiz    

P 91 (Li) Heraldic figures and symbols – coat-of-arms (WvEW)

Jovis    

V 215 (Hi) Heathen gods (ReivB)

Joyose (Gaudeosa, Tschoyse, Schoyuse)    

Z 201.2 (Bm) Hero’s famous sword (KM3, StrKG, WvEW)

Jubal    

K 2248 Treacherous minister (BaAlx)

Juno    

A 163 Contests among the gods (HvVEn, TrojEl, UvEAlx)
A 164.1 Brother-sister marriage of the gods (TrojEl)
A 182.3.5 God advises mortal (HvNAp)
A 185 Deity cares for favorite individuals (HvNAp)
A 473 God [Goddess] of wealth (TrojEl)
D 1814.3 Advice from God (or the gods) (GoTK)
F 960.4 Extraordinary nature phenomena at anger of saint [goddess] (HvVEn)
H 1596.1 Golden apple as prize in beauty contest. Judgment of Paris. (GoTK, HvVEn, TrojEl)
H 1596.3 Women to appear naked in beauty contest (HMvNT)
M 114 Oath taken on sacred object (HvFLvT)
M 260 Other promises (GoTK)
N 130 Changing of luck or fate (HvVEn)
R 111.1.9 Princess rescued from undesired suitor (KvSGM)
S 31 Cruel stepmother (TrojEl)
T 75.2.1 Rejected suitors’ revenge (KvSGM)
T 104.1 Rejected suitor wages war (KvSGM)
V 1.1 Worship of particular Gods and goddesses (HvVEn)

Jupiter    

A 101 Supreme god (KvWTK, TrojEl)
A 164.1 Brother-sister marriage of the gods (KvWTK, TrojEl)
A 171 Gods ride through air (HvNAp)
K 514 Disguise as girl to avoid execution [danger] (KvWTK)
K 1836 Disguise of man in woman’s dress (KvWTK, TrojEl)
M 114 Oath taken on sacred object (HvFLvT)

Juran    

D 801.1 Magic objects possessed by witch, sorcerer or evil dwarf (StrDan)
F 451.5.2 Malevolent dwarf (StrDan)
F 451.5.18 Dwarf loves mortal girl (StrDan)
F 451.8.2 Proper names for dwarfs (StrDan)
H 1561.6 Test of valor: fight with giant [warrior, dwarf-hero, dragon etc.] (StrDan)
K 2277 Treacherous dwarf. (StrDan)

Jütt    

J 2314 Layman made to believe that he is a monk (HKLFb)
K 1545 Wives wager as to who can best fool her husband (HKLFb)