Appendix 4
Motifs
Sacrifice of human being to dragon. | 193 | |
B 11.11. | Fight with dragon. | 285 |
B 11.2.3.2. | Three-headed dragon. | 194 |
B 211.3. | Speaking bird. | 285 |
B 211.8. | Speaking cat. | 100 |
B 391. | Animal grateful for food. | 285 |
B 422. | Helpful cat. | 100 |
B 451.5. | Helpful raven. | 285 |
B 640.1. | Marriage to beast by day and man by night. | 84 |
C 26. | Wish for animal husband realized. | 84 |
C 225. | Tabu: eating certain fruit. | 117 |
C 421. | Tabu: revealing secret of supernatural husband. | 84 |
C 610. | The one forbidden place. | 84 |
C 757.1. | Tabu: destroying animal skin of enchanted person too soon. | 84 |
C 932. | Loss of wife (husband) for breaking tabu. | 84 |
D 5. | Enchanted person. | 84, 117 |
D 133.2. | Transformation: man to bull. | 84 |
D 576. | Transformation by being burned. | 117 |
D 620. | Periodic transformation. | 69 |
D 621.1.1. | Man by day; animal by night. | 84 |
D 672. | Obstacle flight. | 133, 153 |
D 712.2.1. | Disenchantment by throwing into fire. | 100 |
D 750. | Disenchantment by faithfulness of others. | 69 |
D 763. | Disenchantment by destroying enchanter. | 84 |
D 766.1. | Disenchantment by bathing in water. | 60 |
D 817. | Magic object received from grateful person. | 193, 223, 284 |
D 915.1. | River produced by magic. | 153 |
D 931. | Tasks assigned in order to get rid of hero. | 241 |
D 1022. | Magic wings. | 60 |
D 1081. | Magic sword. | 223 |
Magic cudgel (club). | 223 | |
D 1151.2. | Magic chair. | 84 |
D 1162.1. | Magic lamp. | 117 |
D 1183. | Magic scissors (shears). | 84 |
D 1240. | Magic waters and medicines. | 284 |
D 1313.1. | Magic ball indicates road. | 84 |
D 1335.5. | Magic ring gives strength. | 284 |
D 1401.1. | Magic club (stick) beats person. | 193 |
D 1470.1.1. | Magic wishing-stone. | 84 |
D 1470.1.20. | Magic wishing-box. | 223 |
D 1472.1.8. | Magic table-cloth supplies food and drink. | 84, 284 |
D 1478. | Magic object provides light. | 284 |
D 1521.1. | Seven-league boots. | 133 |
D 1533.1. | Magic land and water ship. | 241 |
D 1611.6. | Magic blood drops impersonate fugitive. | 133 |
D 1652.5. | Inexhaustible vessel. | 117 |
D 1855.4. | Death can be postponed. | 60 |
D 1865. | Beautification by death and resuscitation. | 117 |
D 1964.2. | Magic sleep induced by disappointed suitor. | 69 |
D 1971. | Three-fold magic sleep. | 84 |
D 2003. | Forgotten fiancée. | 133 |
D 2006.1.1. | Forgotten fiancée reawakens husband’s memory by detaining lovers through magic. | 133 |
D 2006.1.3. | Forgotten fiancée reawakens husband’s memory by having magic doves converse. | 133 |
D 2006.1.4. | Forgotten fiancée buys place in husband’s bed and reawakens his memory. | 84 |
D 2206.1.5. | Forgotten fiancée attracts attention by magically stopping the wedding carriage of the new bride. | 133 |
E 33. | Resuscitation with missing member. | 153 |
E 282. | Ghosts haunt castle. | 69 |
E 293. | Ghosts frighten people (deliberately). | 69 |
E 341.1. | Dead grateful for having corpse ransomed. | 60 |
F 92. | Pit entrance to lower world. | 284 |
F 101.6.1. | Escape from lower world on bird. | 285 |
F 151.0.1. | Hospitable host entertains (guides, advises) adventurer on way to otherworld. | 153 |
F 331.3. | Mortal wins fairies’ gratitude by joining in their song and completing it by adding the names of the days of the week. | 76 |
F 344.1. | Fairies remove hunchback’s hump (or replace it). | 76 |
Dwarfs with red heads and red caps. | 193, 223, 284 | |
F 451.3.2.1.2. | Dwarf otherwise caught and forced to procure what hero demands. | 284 |
F 451.5.2. | Malevolent dwarf. | 284 |
F 531. | Giant. | 223 |
F 531.1.2.2.1. | Two-headed giant. | 193, 223, 285 |
F 531.1.2.2.2. | Three-headed giant. | 194, 223, 285 |
F 601. | Extraordinary companions. | 241 |
F 601.2. | Extraordinary companions help hero in suitor tests. | 241 |
F 621. | Strong man: tree puller. | 241 |
F 626.1. | Strong man flattens hill. | 241 |
F 642. | Person of remarkable sight. | 241 |
F 661. | Skillful marksman grazes ear of sleeping person and wakes him. | 241 |
F 681. | Marvelous runner. | 241 |
F 848.3. | Ladder of bones. | 153 |
F 950. | Marvelous cures. | 60 |
F 989.17. | Marvelously swift horse. | 117 |
G 11.3. | Cannibal witch. | 117 |
G 100. | Giant ogre. Polyphemus. | 133, 193, 284 |
G 260. | Evil deeds of witches. | 241 |
G 262. | Murderous witch. | 117 |
G 263. | Witch injures, enchants or transforms. | 69, 84 |
G 263.1. | Witch transforms person to animal. | 84 |
G 269.3. | Witch harnesses man and leads him to dance. | 69 |
G 273.3. | Witch powerless at cockcrow. | 69 |
G 275.8. | Hero[ine] kills witch. | 84 |
G 278. | Death of witch. | 69 |
G 279.2. | Theft from witch. | 117 |
G 312. | Cannibal ogre. | 133, 153, 223 |
G 461. | Youth promised to ogre visits ogre’s home. | 153 |
G 465. | Ogre sets impossible tasks. | 153 |
G 512.1. | Ogre killed with knife (sword). | 193, 285 |
G 530.2. | Help from ogre’s daughter. | 153 |
G 530.5. | Help from old woman in ogre’s house. | 284 |
G 535. | Captive woman in ogre’s house helps hero. | 133, 223, 284 |
G 550. | Rescue from ogre. | 133, 153, 284 |
H 56. | Recognition by wound. | 223 |
H 57.0.1. | Recognition of resuscitated person by missing member. | 153 |
Rescue tokens. Proof that hero has succeeded in rescue. | 194, 285 | |
H 94.5. | Identification by broken ring. | 117 |
H 105.1. | Dragon-tongue proof. Dragon slayer cuts out the tongues and uses them later to prove his identity as slayer. | 194, 285 |
H 105.1.1. | False dragon-head proof. Impostor cuts off dragon heads (after tongues have been removed) and attempts to use them as proof of slaying the dragon. | 194 |
H 310. | Suitor tests. | 60, 117 |
H 331. | Suitor contests: bride offered as prize. | 241 |
H 335. | Tasks assigned suitors. | 241 |
H 335.3.1. | Suitor task: to kill dragon to whom the princess is to be sacrificed. | 194 |
H 511. | Princess offered to correct guesser. | 60 |
H 900. | Tasks imposed. | 241 |
H 901.1. | Heads placed on stakes for failure in performance of task. | 60, 153, 241, 285 |
H 942. | Tasks assigned as a payment of gambling loss. | 153 |
H 972.2.1. | Grateful dead man kills princess’s monster husband. | 60 |
H 1023.5. | Task: pumping out a leaky ship. | 153 |
H 1095. | Task: felling a forest in a single night. | 241 |
H 1142.1. | Task: drinking wine cellar empty. | 241 |
H 1149. | Miscellaneous superhuman tasks. | 153 |
H 1235. | Succession of helpers on quest. | 84 |
H 1239.3. | Quest accomplished by means of objects given by helpers. | 84 |
H 1385.3. | Quest for vanished husband. | 84 |
H 1411. | Fear test: staying in haunted house. | 69 |
H 1511. | Heat test. | 241 |
H 1562.2. | Test of strength: lifting stone. | 284 |
J 229.3. | Choice: a big piece of cake with my curse or a small piece with my blessing. | 241 |
J 2401. | Fatal imitation. | 241 |
K 62. | Contest in squeezing water from a stone. | 241 |
K 81.1. | Deceptive eating contest: hole in bag. | 241 |
K 83. | Rescue tokens. | 223 |
K 337. | Oversalting food of giant so that he must go outside for water. | 117 |
K 526. | Captor’s bag filled with animals or objects while captives escape. | 117 |
K 677. | Hero tests the rope on which he is to be pulled to upper world. | 285 |
Uriah letter. Man carries written orders for his own execution. | 133 | |
K 1210. | Humiliated or baffled lovers. | 133 |
K 1611. | Substituted caps cause ogre to kill own children. | 117 |
K 1911.3. | Reinstatement of true bride. | 84, 133 |
K 1931.2. | Impostors abandon hero in lower world. | 285 |
K 1932. | Impostors claim reward (prize) earned by hero. | 223, 285 |
K 1935. | Impostors steal rescued princesses. | 223, 285 |
K 2211. | Treacherous brother. | 223, 285 |
L 13. | Compassionate youngest son. | 100, 241 |
L 113.1.0.1. | Heroine endures hardships with menial husband. | 223 |
L 113.1.6. | Cowherd hero. | 193 |
L 131. | Hearth abode of unpromising hero. | 100 |
L 145.1. | Ugly sister helps pretty one. | 117 |
L 161. | Lowly hero marries princess. | 100, 194, 223, 241, 285 |
L 162. | Lowly heroine marries prince (king). | 69, 117 |
L 210. | Modest choice best. | 153, 284 |
N 4.2. | Playing game of chance (or skill) with uncanny being. | 153 |
N 221. | Man granted power of winning at cards. | 153 |
N 538.2. | Treasure from defeated giant. | 223 |
N 772. | Parting at crossroads to go on adventures. | 223 |
N 812. | Giant or ogre as helper. | 153 |
N 821. | Help from little man. | 241 |
N 825.2. | Old man helper. | 117 |
P 234. | Father and daughter. | 69 |
P 251.6.1. | Three brothers. | 100, 133, 223, 241, 284 |
P 252.2. | Three sisters. | 84, 117, 223, 284 |
Q 2. | Kind and unkind. | 223 |
Q 40. | Kindness rewarded. | 241 |
Q 41. | Politeness rewarded. | 100 |
Q 82. | Reward for fearlessness. | 69 |
Q 271.1. | Debtor deprived of burial. | 60 |
R 11.1. | Princess (maiden) abducted by monster (ogre). | 223, 284 |
R 96. | Rope to lower world. | 284 |
R 111.2.1. | Princess(es) rescued from lower world. | 285 |
R 222. | Unknown knight. | 194, 223 |
R 235. | Fugitives cut support of bridge so that pursuer falls. | 117 |
Youth sells himself to an ogre in settlement of a gambling debt. | 153 | |
T 11.3. | Love through dream. Falling in love with a person seen in a dream. | 60 |
T 115. | Man marries ogre’s daughter. | 153 |
T 175. | Magic perils threaten bridal couple. | 153 |
T 511.1.2. | Conception from eating berry. | 117 |
T 548.2. | Magic rites for obtaining child. | 117 |
T 551.13. | Child born hairy. | 117 |
T 1115. | Task: chopping down large tree with blunt implements. | 153 |
W 111. | Laziness. | 100 |
X 938. | Lie: person of remarkable sight. | 223 |
Z 10.1. | Beginning formula. | 60, 84, 100, 117, 133, 153, 193, 223, 241, 284 |
Z 10.2. | End formula. | 60, 100, 117, 133, 153, 194, 223, 241, 285 |
Z 14. | “Runs.” Conventional passages of set form within a tale, usually recited in a different voice from the rest. | 241 |
Z 115. | Wind personified. | 153 |