B 11.10.

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

D 1094.

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

F 451.2.7.1.

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

H 83.

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

K 978.

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

S 221.2.

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