Motif-Index of Medieval Spanish Folk Narratives

MOTIF-INDEX
OF
MEDIEVAL SPANISH FOLK NARRATIVES
coeDievAL & ReMAissAMce
xexTS & STuDies

Volume 162
MOTIF-INDEX
OF
by
Harriet Goldberg
CDeDieVAL & R6N2k.lSS2iK]Ce TeXTS & STu&ies

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1998
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Motif-index of medieval Spanish folk narratives / by Harriet
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
SUMMARY OF MOTIFS
INTRODUCTION
Texts Examined for Motifs
Source Texts, Abbreviations, and the Niunber of Entries
Notations Explained
Critical
Works
Consvilted
vi
xiii
xxi
xxv
xxvi
xxvii
MOTIFS A-Z
CORRESPONDENCES BETWEEEN MOTIF NUMBERS

AND TUBACH TOPICAL NUMBERS
21
ALPHABETICAL INDEX
227
SUMMARY OF MOTIFS
A.
MYTHOLOGICAL MOTIFS
A100-A499. GODS
A100-A199. The gods in general
A500-A599. DEMIGODS AND CULTURE HEROES
A900-A999. TOPOGRAPHICAL FEATURES OF THE EARTH
A1000-A1099. WORLD CALAMITIES AND RENEWALS
A1100-A1199. ESTABLISHMENT OF NATURAL ORDER
A1200-A1699. CREATION AND ORDERING OF HUMAN LIFE
A1300-A1399. Ordering of hviman life
A1400-A1499. Acquisition of culture
A1500-A1599. Origin of customs
A2200-A2599. ANIMAL CHARACTERISTICS
A2300-A2399. Causes of animal characteristics: body
A2400-A2499. Causes of animal characteristics:
appearance and habits
A2500-A2599. Animal characteristics: miscellaneous
A2800-A2899. MISCELLANEOUS EXPLANATIONS
B.
ANIMALS
B0-B99. MYTHICAL ANIMALS

B100-B199. MAGIC ANIMALS
B200-B299. ANIMALS WITH HUMAN TRAITS
B250-B259. Religious animals
B300-B599. FRIENDLY ANIMALS
B300-B349. Helpful animals: general
B350-B399. Grateful animals
B400-B499. Kinds of helpful animals
B500-B599. Services of helpful animals
B700-B799. FANCIFUL TRAITS OF ANIMALS
C.
TABU
C0-C99.
10
TABU CONNECTED WITH SUPERNATURAL
BEINGS
C100-C199.
C200-C299.
C400-C499.
C600-C699.
C700-C899.
C900-C999.
vi
SEX TABU
EATING AND DRINKING TABUS
SPEAKING TABUS
UNIQUE PROHIBITION
MISCELLANEOUS TABUS
PUNISHMENT FOR BREAKING TABU
SUMMARY OF MOTIFS
D.
MAGIC
14
D0-D699. TRANSFORMATION
D450-D499. Transformation: object to object
D700-D799. DISENCHANTMENT
D800-D1699. MAGIC OBJECTS
D800-D899. Ownership of magic objects
D900-D1299. Kinds of magic objects
D1300-D1599. Fimction of magic objects
D1600-D1699. Characteristics of magic objects
D1700-D2199. MAGIC POWERS AND MANIFESTATIONS
D1710-D1799. Possession and means of employment of
magic powers
D1800-D2199 Manifestations of magic power

D2050-D2099. Destructive magic powers
D2100-D2199. Other manifestations of magic power
E.
THE DEAD
29
E0-E199. RESUSCITATION
E200-E599. GHOSTS AND OTHER REVENANTS
E200-E299. Malevolent retvim from the dead
E300-E399. Friendly return from the dead
E400-E599. Ghosts and revenants: miscellaneous
E600-E699. REINCARNATION
E700-E799. THE SOUL
F.
MARVELS
37
F0-F199. OTHERWORLD JOURNEYS

F110-F199. Miscellaneous otherworlds
F200-F699. MARVELOUS CREATURES
F400-F499. Spirits and demons
F500-F599. Remarkable persons
F600-F699. Persons with extraordinary powers
F700-F899. EXTRAORDINARY PLACES AND THINGS
F900-F1099. EXTRAORDINARY OCCURRENCES
G.
OGRES
G10-G399. KINDS OF OGRES
G300-G399. Other ogres
G400-G499. FALLING INTO OGRE'S
H.
41
POWER
TESTS
46
H0-H199. IDENTITY TESTS: RECOGNITION

H200-H299. TESTS OF TRUTH
H300-H499. MARRIAGE TESTS
H400-H459. Chastity tests
SUMMARY OF MOTIFS
vii
H500-H899. TESTS OF CLEVERNESS

H530-H599. Riddles
H900-H1199. TESTS OF PROWESS: TASKS
H900-H999. Assignment and performance of tasks
H1200-H1399. TESTS OF PROWESS: QUESTS
H1400-H1599. OTHER TESTS
H1570-H1599. Miscellaneous tests
J.
THE WISE AND THE FOOLISH

J0-J199.
55
ACQUISITION, POSSESSION OF
WISDOM
(KNOWLEDGE)
AND
CONDUCT
UNWISE
J200-J1099. WISE
J200-J499. Choices
J500-J599. Prudence and discretion
J600-J799. Forethought
J800-J849. Adaptability
J850-J899. Consolation in misfortune
J900-J999. Humility
J1000-J1099. Other aspects of wisdom
J1100-J1699. CLEVERNESS
J1100-J1249. Clever persons and acts
J1210-J1229. Clever person puts another out of countenance
J1250-J1499. Clever verbal retorts (repartee)
J1500-J1649. Clever practical retorts
J1650-J1699. Miscellaneous clever acts
AND
OTHER UNWISE
J1700-J2749. FOOLS
J1700-J1729. Fools (general)
J1730-J1749. Absurd ignorance
J1750-J1849. Absurd misunderstandings
J1850-J1999. Absurd disregard of facts
J2050-J2199. Absurd shortsightedness
J2200-J2259. Absurd lack of logic
J2260-J2299. Absurd scientific theories
J2300-J2349. Gullible fools
J2350-J2369. Talkative fools
J2370-J2399. Inquisitive fools
J2400-J2449. Foolish imitation
J2450-J2499. Literal fools
K.
DECEPTIONS
PERSONS
93
K0-K99. CONTESTS WON BY DECEPTION

K100-K299. DECEPTIVE BARGAINS
K200-K249. Deception in payment of debt
K300-K499. THEFTS AND CHEATS
K500-K699. ESCAPE BY DECEPTION
K700-K799. CAPTURE BY DECEPTION
viii
SUMMARY OF MOTIFS
6
3
K800-K999. KILLING OR MAIMING BY DECEPTION

K1000-K1199. DECEPTION INTO SELF-INJURY
K1200-K1299. DECEPTION INTO HUMILIATING
POSITION
K1300-K1399.
SEDUCTION OR DECEPTIVE
MARRIAGE
K1500-K1599.
DECEPTIONS CONNECTED WITH
ADULTERY
K1600-K1699. DECEIVER FALLS INTO OWN TRAP
K1700-K2099. DECEPTIONS THROUGH SHAMS
K1800-K1899. Deception through disguise or illusion
K1900-K1999. Impostures
K2000-K2099. Hypocrites
K2100-K2199. FALSE ACCUSATIONS
K2200-K2299. VILLAINS AND TRAITORS
K2300-K2399. OTHER DECEPTIONS
L.
REVERSAL OF FORTUNE
1 1
L0-L99. VICTORIOUS YOUNGEST CHILD

L100-L199. UNPROMISING HERO (HEROINE)
L200-L299. MODESTY BRINGS REWARD
L300-L399. TRIUMPH OF THE WEAK
L400-L499. PRIDE BROUGHT LOW
M. ORDAINING THE FUTURE

M0-M99. JUDGEMENTS AND DECREES
M100-M199. VOWS AND OATHS
M200-M299. BARGAINS AND PROMISES
M300-M399. PROPHECIES
M400-M499. CURSES
N.
CHANCE AND FATE
1 1
122
N0-N99. WAGERS AND GAMBLING

N100-N299. THE WAYS OF LUCK AND FATE
N300-N399. UNLUCKY ACCIDENTS
N400-N699. LUCKY ACCIDENTS
N440-N499. Valuable secrets learned
N500-N599. Treasure trove
N600-N699. Other lucky accidents
P.
SOCIETY
126
P0-P99. ROYALTY AND NOBIUTY

P100-P199. OTHER SOCIAL ORDERS
P200-P299. THE FAMILY
P300-P399. OTHER SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS
P400-P499. TRADES AND PROFESSIONS
SUMMARY OF MOTIFS
ix
P500-P599. GOVERNMENT
P600-P699. CUSTOMS
P700-P799. SOCIETY: MISCELLANEOUS
Q.
REWARDS AND PUNISHMENTS
134
Q10-Q99. DEEDS REWARDED

Q100-Q199. NATURE OF REWARDS
Q200-Q399. DEEDS PUNISHED
Q400-Q599. KINDS OF PUNISHMENTS
R.
CAPTIVES
AND FUGITIVES
R0-R99. CAPTIVITY
R100-R199. RESCUES
R200-R299. ESCAPES AND
S.
150
PURSUITS
UNNATURAL CRUELTY
153
S0-S99. CRUEL RELATIVES

S100-S199. REVOLTING MURDERS OR MUTILATIONS
S200-S299. CRUEL SACRIFICES
S300-S399. ABANDONED OR MURDERED CHILDREN
T.
SEX
157
T0-T99. LOVE
T100-T199. MARRIAGE
T200-T299. MARRIED LIFE
T300-T399. CHASTITY AND CEUBACY
T400-T499. ILUCIT SEXUAL RELATIONS
T500-T599. CONCEPTION AND BIRTH
T600-T699. CARE OF CHILDREN
U.
THE NATURE OF UFE
171
U0-U99. LIFE'S INEQUITIES

U100-U299. THE NATURE OF UFE:
MISCELLANEOUS MOTIFS
V.
RELIGION
176
V0-V99. REUGIOUS SERVICES

V100-V199. RELIGIOUS EDIFICES
V200-V299. SACRED PERSONS
V300-V399. RELIGIOUS BELIEFS
V400-V449. RELIGIOUS VIRTUES
V450-V499. RELIGIOUS ORDERS
V50(>-V599.
AND OBJECTS
RELIGIOUS MOTIFS: MISCELLANEOUS
SUMMARY OF MOTIFS
W. TRAITS OF CHARACTER
W0-W99. FAVORABLE TRAITS OF CHARACTER
W100-W199. UNFAVORABLE TRAITS OF CHARACTER
X.
HUMOR
199
206
X0-X99. HUMOR OF DISCOMFITURE

X200-X599. HUMOR OF SOCIAL CLASSES
X300-X499. Hvimor dealing with professions
X500-X599. Humor concerning other social classes
X700-X799. HUMOR CONCERNING SEX
X800-X899. HUMOR BASED ON DRUNKENNESS
X900-X1899. HUMOR OF LIES AND EXAGGERATION
Z.
MISCELLANEOUS GROUP OF MOTIFS

Z0-Z99. FORMULAS
Z100-Z199. SYMBOUSM
Z200-Z299. HEROES
Z300-Z399. UNIQUE EXCEPTIONS
SUMMARY OF MOTIFS
210
INTRODUCTION
in
The utility of an index of folk-motifs clearly lies in its ability to present

an orderly framework those transitory flashes of recognition that we ex-
component in
and
pieces are migratory and that they circulate in both time and space. Perhaps even more importantly, a motif index makes those of us interested in
perience
a
new
upon hearing
context.
a familiar story or a familiar narrative
motif-index also shows us that
all storytellers' bits
narratology increasingly aware of the possibilities for combining these narrative units. With this awareness we come close to penetrating the mystery
of the nature of storytelling. In fact, we can say that the narrative impulse
energy from an unspoken awareness of the corpus of tales with-
may derive
Georges recognized that tale types are not

is one which is both rooted in,
and is a manifestation of, intellectual or cognitive processes which are innate rather than learned" ("The Universality of the Tale-Type," 28).
Surely this observation can be extended to include folk-motifs.
There are, of course, various ways to classify folktales. In the early days
in a given culture.
Robert
just research tools:
"The
S.
tale-type concept
of organizing taxonomically the corpus of international folktales, Antti

compiled his tale-type index (originally in 1910, revised 1928,
Aame
Thompson 1960) topically: Animal Tales,

Ordinary Folk-Tales, Jokes and Anecdotes, Formula Tales, and Unclassified Tales. A tale-type, according to David Azzolina, has three features: "A
each tale type
tale type is a story-line distinct from other story lines;
consists of a binding together or sequence of smaller units known as
motifs; ... a tale type is a kind of abstraction which is actually manifested
translated into English by Stith
in multiple versions or variants" (Tale Type-
other words, a tale type simply says: "This
who
is
and Motif-Indexes,
the story of a person
xii).
/
In
animal
."
.
Aame intended
isolating their
to collate complete recognizable folk narratives without
components.
He
cautioned: "It might also naturally be con-
and motifs, yet

would have necessitated such a cutting into pieces of all complete folktales that the scholar would be able to make a much more limited use of
the classification" (cited by Thompson, The Folktale, 417).
Stith Thompson, however, was not deterred by this caveat and underceivable to
work out
a classification of separate episodes
this
took the monimiental task of designing an index of folk motifs because of

the deficiencies in tale-type classification that he fovmd. He explained: "A
type is a traditional tale that has an independent existence" and may consist of one motif or more than one (The Folktale, 415). A motif, on the
other hand, "is the smallest element in a tale having a power to persist in
tradition." Some tale-types are made up of several motifs, but other taletypes are limited to one motif with a single outcome or result, without al-
INTRODUCTION
temative
into
possibilities.
which motifs
fall:
His definition
falters
when he
gives the three classes
actors ("gods, unusual animals, marvelous creatures
like witches, ogres or fairies,
conventionalized
human
characters"), items
background of the action ("magic objects, unusual customs, strange

behefs"), and single incidents {The Folktale^ 415-16). Clearly, actors or
agents are easily identifiable and compatible, but, his "items" are a grouping of unlike quantities. It would require a creative stretch to see a relationship between magic objects and unusual customs. The third class, sinin the
gle incidents, obviously includes
some
motifs that coincide with tale types
Alan Dundes finds these discan be actors and incidents, then they are
hardly units. They are not measures of a single quantity" ("From Etic to
Emic Units" 63).
because they too can
exist independently.
parities disquieting: "If motifs
Besides the classificatory difficulties in Aame's index,
Thompson
fovind
does not include "such pardy literary forms as

the exemplum and the fabliau," nor does it treat non-European traditional
tales {Motif-Index, 1.9 n. 3). To extend the system beyond Europe and beyond the simple folktale and jest, Thompson devised a potentially more inclusive scheme that catalogued single motifs, narrative raw material, "those
details out of which full-fledged narratives are composed" {Motif-Index
it
further limited in that
it
Thus, by identifying motifs the transferable components of

Thompson's index makes possible the discovery of
1.10).^
tales
folk-
cross-cviltural
narrative coincidences.'
The six-volume Motif-Index covered folktales, ballads, myths, fables,

medieval romances, exempla, fabliaux, jest-books, and local legends, and
it generated a series of applications of the technique to specific bodies of
tales (1.12-18). Among these were John Keller's index of medieval
Spanish exempla {Motif-Index, 1949) and a subsequent index with James
H. Johnson of Aesopic fables ("Motif-Index Classification," 1954).'*
The present volimie fits into this genealogy of motif indexes by fulfilling
two principal fimctions. First it expands and extends Keller's pioneering
efforts. The utility of Keller's indexes has diminished since 1949, because
new editions of the sources oi exempla, fables, and folktales have been published since 1949. Apart firom the obvious advantage that more recent texts
are more readily accessible, these new editions are more reliable than their
predecessors. Some texts had appeared only in nineteenth-century editions
in Bihlioteca de Autores Espanoles. Second, the present volume surveys a
wider range of texts than does Keller's, for example, more Aesopic fables,
folktales from chronicles, Marian miracles, and other material excluded
firom the previous indexes. For instance, Alfonso X's Cantigas alone, although composed in gallego-portugues
dred peninsular Marian tales.
is
fiiiitful
source of over
fovir
hvm-
SOURCES
Because
mere
xiv
works of fiction that are not

of the entries in this index are a part of other
folktales are a fi-equent feature in
collections,
many
INTRODUCTION
longer literary works. An examination of a sample text shows that folktales

function in two ways, either as plot devices that advance the action or as
segments of ordinary dialogue. For example, we see in the Libro del
Cauallero Qifar (80 entries) how the narrator begins his accovmt of the
early years of the hero Cifar with a series of folkloric episodes, all of which
advance the action. First he
sets limits to his hero's
good fortime with a
mysterious equine curse (D2089.3.2. Magic spell causes knight's horses to die
in ten days. Qifar p. 5). Then the author frees Cifar to have knightiy adventures unencvmibered by wife and children with the following motifs from
the life of Saint Eustace: He is separated from his young sons (R13.1.2.
Lion carries off child. Qifar p. 26. B535.0.15. Lion as nurse for child. Child
when dogs pursue lion. Qifar p. 27). Then his wife is abducted by
and rescued by the Virgin Mary (V268.4.1. Virgin Mary destroys
devoted woman's abductors. Gives her power to sail ship to safe port and to
dispose of corpses of enemy. Qifar p. 29). The knight will make a second,
rescued
pirates
advantageous but chaste marriage (T315.1. Marital continence by mutual

agreement. Husband and wife to be celibate for two years to do penance for
previous sin of husband [Qifar pp. 49-50]). Finally Cifar and his family
will share a recognition and reconciliation scene (HI 1.1.5.3. Sons recount
separation from family. Parents recognize them. Qifar pp. 55-56; R176.2.
Execution canceled. King recognizes long lost wife. Qifar pp. 55-56).
Folktales, in addition to serving as convenient plot devices in extended
narratives (sometimes through their cultviral resonance), are also used as
conversational devices.
The
author, instead of using a tale to advance the
action, will cause a character in a larger narrative to interpolate

lary tale or at the very least allude to
one
an exemp-
in the course of trying to per-
suade another to undertake a course of action. See for instance the admonitory conversation between the empress of the Islas Dotadas and her
consort, Roboan. She tells him the tale of Truth, Wind, and Water as a
warning (Z 12 1.2.1. Truth, Wind and Water debate. Wind and water easily
found; truth must be guarded and never lost. Once lost never regained.
Qifar p. 136). He must understand that once he departs, he will not be
able to return. While the empress had used a tale to deliver a specific message, sometimes tales are part of an extended conversation, as in the father
and son colloquy between Cifar, now king of Menton, and his sons. The
wise king relates a series of folktales to teach them their princely responsibilities (pp. 75-108).
The Libro de Buen Amor is a rich source of tales used conversationally.

The archpriest's pursuit of amatory adventure is facilitated by his engaging
a go-between
witty
whose
women whom
lover's emissary tries
storytelling skill is rivaled by the adeptness of the

she seeks to persuade (40 entries). Typically, the
to convince a haughty woman to succumb, and she
about the unrehability of suitors.

have become so familiar that an allusion suffices to bring
them to mind. In didactic works like Castigos e documentos. King Sancho
in turn tells a cautionary tale
Some
tales
frequently alludes to tales, knowing that they are a part of the general cultural legacy (e.g., Jl 153.1.
INTRODUCTION
Susanna and
the elders.
Prophet Daniel proves
xv
had accused her
Therefore I have listed

even allusions to them wherever and however
they appear in such didactic medieval texts as Glosa castellana (139
entries), Poridat de las poridades (3 entries), Libra de las armas (2 entries),
and Jardin de nobles donzellas (22 entries).
Fables are represented by Esopete ystoriado (450 entries), but they also
that elders
falsely. Castigos 9.69).
as entries brief narratives or
serve as plot devices in
La
vida del Esopo, the biographical narrative that
precedes the fable collection.
The
Libra de
las
gatas has animal tales that
lustrate Christian topics (85 entries). In Calila e
Dimna (150
entries)
il-
and
John of Capua's Exemplaria (115 entries), tales are a plot device within the
frame story that is in itself a folktale (K2131.2. Envious jackal makes lion
suspicious of his friend, the bull. Lion kills bull. Calila p. 124; Exemplario
llr). In Sendebar (71 entries) and Disciplina Clericalis (73 entries) we find
prevalent high-frequency folktales also set in a frame story.
For epic narratives, I rely on the Primera cronica general (34 entries) and
the Cronica abreviada (39 entries), as well as the Cantar de Mio Cid (18
entries). For miracle tales, my principal Marian sources are Berceo's
Milagras (41 entries) and Alfonso X's Cantigas (345 entries), along with
vida de San Aleja (30 entries) and Los miraglos de Santiago (40 entries).
La
Of
course, some texts have yielded only a few tales, and others abound in
them. For a list of all the source texts and an indication of frequency, see
"Source Texts, Abbreviations, and the Number of Entries."
METHODOLOGY
Maria Jesus Lacarra describes five kinds of brief narrative, and these
groupings constitute a guide for the identification and inclusion of tales in
this index. ^ (1) EXEMPLUM, a short account of events imique in time and
place (anecdote); (2) fabula, a tale that relates events in which the personages are animals (occasionally in contact with humans); (3) ALLEGORIA,
a narrative susceptible of an allegorical interpretation; (4) DESCRIPTIO,
an
account of the custom, appearance, and characteristics of animals (from
bestiaries) or plants; and (5) SIMILITUDO, a comparison of two activities
{"El
libra
de
los gatos:
hacia ima tipologia," 26-34).
My specific methodology, however, relies on the system of classification

developed by Stith Thompson. It is an existing, established system, and
adhering to it both makes this index compatible with it (and thus easier for
readers familiar with Thompson to use) and highlights the changes I have
made. For example, I have added some new subdivisions to suit the medieval Spanish texts consulted: P462 Stonecutter, P463 Baker, P464
Shepherd, P465 Lawyer, P466 Doctors, W46 Compassion, W159 Arrogance. Within these subdivisions are some motifs not already added to the
Thompson corpus by John Esten Keller (Matif-Index 1949).
I have made other, smaller changes in response to the weaknesses I perceive in Thompson's system. For example, Maria Jesus Lacarra is baffled
that neither Thompson nor Keller had classified the tale of the two naked
serving women in Calila (1984: pp. 194-95 n. 100). She connects it with
xvi
INTRODUCTION
moral point "mote and beam parable" (Tubach 511).^ However, she
does not analyze the story to find the elements that combine to make this
"a full-fledged narrative" that deals with the topic of judging the behavior
of others. Briefly, the story tells of a man who had taken two captive
its
women
as wives.
They
are forced to serve
him vmclothed. One of them

Her companion accuses her
finds a scrap of cloth to cover her nakedness.
of using that scrap of cloth to make herself sexually attractive to their husband. The jealous woman says to the husband: "Catad commo cubre esta
su natura; et non lo faze sinon por que ayas sabor della et yoguieses con
ella" ("See how she covers her private parts, so that you will want to lie
with her"). I have assigned this to two narrative areas: (1) to the section
dealing with sexual relationships, T472.1. Women of vanquished city given
to conquerors. Two women must perform all duties naked. Out gathering
wood, one covers genitals with scrap of cloth. Other one accuses her of
lascivious thoughts.
Accused told
accusations, K2131.7.
Two female
to look to
own
thoughts; (2) to unfair
captives deprived of clothing.
One woman
Second complains; captor reproaches

her. She must look to her own shame, not that of another.
Although I add some circumstantial details to the entries in this index,
finds bit of cloth to cover herself.
they are not intended to be tale-types or plot summaries. Early classificatory schemes vacillated between hsting motifs or tale types or a combination of both. If a tale-type
is
a plot
summary
that includes the basic ev-
bundle of motifs, the smallest elements that persist in

tradition. This bimdle tells what the story is about.' Unfortvmately, if one
were to list only the smallest element in many tales, the index would be
excessively reductive. For example: Bl 1.2.1. Dragon as compound animal is
not sufficientiy descriptive. Thompson adds: "(serpent or crocodile, with
scales of a fish for covering, and feet and wings and sometimes the head of
an eagle, falcon, or hawk, and the forelimbs and sometimes the head of a
ents in a tale,
it is
lion)."
As I have noted above, a major flaw in Thompson's scheme is the

mixed nature of his categories (e.g., R. CAPTIVES AND FUGITIVES are
actors; Q. REWARDS AND PUNISHMENTS are outcomes; K. DECEPTIONS are
strategies), but another difficulty is that many tales contain more than one
motif. For example, in the present volume is J643.1. Frogs demand a live
king. King Log. Jupiter has given them a log, but they find him too quiet.
He then gives them a stork who eats them all. The wrongheaded demand
for a king is one motif; the granting them an inanimate ruler is another. In
this second motif a god mocks the group. Their further dissatisfaction with
the inanimate king is still another motif, and finally the punishment meted
out to them in the form of a stork king who will eat them is still another
motif.
many
one category or another

more than one
category. Consider the thematic content of tales of adultery that can fit
into several categories (K. DECEPTIONS, T. SEX, P. SOCIETY). Besides viewing these tales thematically, can we classify them according to the intent of
Furthermore, the assignment of
is
arbitrary
and
subjective,
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and many
tales to
tales
fit
logically in
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the storyteller? If such is the case, then these salty tales could be jokes
intended to provoke laughter (X. humor), stem warnings against sexual irregularity (T. SEX), admonishments to avoid deceptive women (K. DECEP-
TION). Thus some of these stories must appear several times for appropriate classification.
Beyond the obvious organizational flaws of Thompson's system, the

language of many existing entries is clearly in need of revision. Torberg
Lundell commented: "The Motif-Index in general (1) overlooks gender
identity in its labeling of motifs, thus lumping male and female actions or
characters xmder the same, male-identified heading or (2) disregards
female activity or (3) focuses on male activity at the cost of female"
("Gender-Related Bias," 150). She also notes that "passive constructions
abound. While they appear to project generalizations and objective statements, their effect is vitiated by their silence regarding the active person"
("Gender-Related Bias," 152). On a superficial level, I have transformed
all the "girls" into young women if they are of a certain age. Furthermore,
I have shifted the point of view in some motifs. Keller's entry "W167.2.
Woman's stubbornness causes loss of chance to go on pilgrimage. She nags her
husband imtil in rage he breaks the leg of their donkey" now reads:
"W167.2. Stubbornness causes loss of chance to go on pilgrimage. Husband

and wife quarrel. Infiariated husband breaks wife's leg (donkey's leg)." The
compiler's bias
is
also evident in G303.9.4.4. "Devil persuades bishop to sin
My
wording shares the responsibility more or

" Devil persuades bishop and nun to sin."
with nun.''
final difficulty inherent in
Thompson's method
is
less equally:
his fastidiousness
concerning obscene material in the fabhaux: "Fabhaux with obscenity as

the only point have been excluded, though good jests with risque elements
are retained" {Motif-Index, 1.17). One can only wonder what the boimdary
is between a good jest and an obscene one,^ but there is no doubt that
Thompson is over-delicate in his treatment of sexual topics. This timidity
is particularly apparent in the division he assigns to sexual activity or rather
the activities he omits. ^
He
The
juxtaposition of topics verges
on the
bizarre.
explained: "In 'T' are treated together the motifs dealing with sex
Here
particularly
come wooing,
marriage, married
life,
and the
birth of
children, as well as simdry types of sexual relations" {The Folktale, 425). If

it were possible to change some categories, I would place T100-T199.
MARRIAGE, T200-T299. MARRIED LIFE, and T600-T699. THE CARE OF
CHILDREN in the section devoted to societal organization P. SOCIETY where
we find such subdivisions as P200-P299, the family that includes P210
Husband and wife, P230 Parents and children, and P250 Brothers and
sisters.
Compilers of motif-indexes who depend on Thompson and opt to add

entries either mark an entry in Thompson's Motif-Index with an
asterisk and the name of the person who had originated it or mark new
entries with an asterisk without explanation.'" Haim Schwarzbaum, in his
study of a collection of animal fables {The Mishle Shu'alim [Fox FablesJ),
for example, does the former. I have chosen to mark new entries with an
new
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and on occasion, have added new

"X590. Jokes on masters and servants." Although it
might have been less awkward to open a new subdivision about the devil,
I have followed Thompson's lead and use "G303 Devil," a maneuver that
requires longer numbers than are common in the rest of the index.
I use the following conventions: The italicized word at the beginning of
each entry in the list of "Texts Examined for Motifs" is the abbreviation
for that entry. There are separate lists of abbreviations and of the number
of entries in "Source Texts, Abbreviations and the Nvimber of Entries." I
have added a listing that explains the citations that do not refer to simple
page numbers, "Notations Explained." Entries are cross-indexed with
Frederic Tubach's Index Exemplorum: A Handbook of Medieval Religious
Tales. The concordance "Correspondences between Motif Numbers and
Tubach Topical Numbers" lists more than 1,100 correspondences.
asterisk without crediting the source,
subdivisions, such as
NOTES
1.
One wonders
if
Nikita Elisseefs formulation does not offer a
more
For him a motif is "un element qui constitue un episode

complet." He fmds in each motif a second element, the fimdamental idea
expressed by the motif, e.g., "keeping a child safe from destiny." He calls
this second element the theme, and includes a third "I'accessoire epique"
that is an object that drives the action, e.g., a magic ring {Themes et Motifs
des "Milk et Une Nuits, " 85). In his index he categorizes each tale by these
three components, narrative point, moral point, and motivating agent. See
logical base.
also "Classification of Tales" in Esopete ystoriado (Toulouse 1488), ed.
Victoria Burrus
and Harriet Goldberg,
xvii-xxi.
Boggs compiled the Index of Spanish Folktales that added subAame and also included an invaluable alphabetical
index. Stanley Robe extended Aarne's work with an index of tale types
from Mexico, Central America, and the Hispanic United States. Various
folklorists provided specialized motif-indexes to augment Thompson's
monumental work. Rotunda collected the motifs peculiar to the Italian
novella following Thompson's scheme. See Azzolina's bibliography which
serves as a useful guide despite the flaws noted by Hans Jorg Uther in his
review of Azzolina's work. Edward Neugaard has prepared an index of
medieval Catalan folktales with an informative preface and a bibliography
worth consulting. Reginetta Haboucha has amassed a huge volume of tale
types and motifs of Sephardic folktales.
2.
Ralph
S.
divisions to those of
3.
Proppian causality
is
susceptible to re-interpretation into a
new sequen-
tially-arranged narrative scheme. In Propp's scheme, narrative elements are
the action forward. The narrative shape of

viewed as a rigidly designed series of causative
thus expanded and encompasses other folk narratives. The bare
identified insofar as they
the Russian fairy tale,

events,
is
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move
first
bones of the causative sequence becomes a conflation of motifs aroimd

"certain structural imits" (Meletinsky, "Structural-Typological Study,"
21). To try to force exempla lacking in "certain structural units" into the
rigid causative
4. Just
lation.
Proppian scheme
is
fruitless.
what the word exemplum means has led to some convoluted specualternatives: a tale "employed as
Haim Schwarzbaum proposed two
a rhetorical device for various purposes of a conspicuously didactic nature," or a story "representing a rather practical code of behavior, shrewd-
ness and
wisdom
experience of
characteristic of the
common
folk
and the
practical
(1979: p. v).
life"
Because of the shifting chronology in the romancero, ballad narratives,

of which begin in the Middle Ages and continue in the twentieth
century, are not included.
5.
many
6. Matthew 7:24, "Judge not that ye be not judged. For with what judgement ye judge, ye shall be judged; and with what measure ye mete, it shall
be measured to you again. And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy
brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?"
7.
Although Stith Thompson
insists
on
a distinction
between types and
many
of his entries are tale types. See for example: U31. Wolf unjustly accuses lamb and eats him. When all the lamb's defenses are good the
wolf asserts the right of the strong over the weak. (The wolf had accused
motifs,
up water despite the fact that the lamb was downstream from the wolf). See also the motif-index in Esopete ystoriado (Toulouse 1488), ed. Victoria Burrus and Harriet Goldberg, 223-41 and an
analysis based on "narrative hinges" (essential pivotal function) and "tale
roles" (actors) (243-54). Alan Dundes has proposed a refinement of the
the lamb of stirring
concept of the motif.

narrative elements.
("From
8.
Etic to
He suggests
motifeme
a distinction between "etic" and "emic"

is
minimal
The multifaceted approach to folktales
is
evident in the case of tales that
deal with sexual matters (Goldberg, "Sexual

eval
9.
Exempla,"
For example,
distinctive narrative unit
Emic Units," 61-72).
in
Women
Humor in
Misogynist Medi-
in Hispanic Literature).
Elisseef, less timid, devotes a section to "Pederastie"
"Pederastie feinte" (Themes
et
Motifs des "Milk
et
and
Une Nuits," 148).
identifies motif numbers created by Holbek, BodThompson-Balys, Noy, Bodker-Nielssen and Keller-Johnson, marking
them with an asterisk (The Mishle Shu'alim [Fox Fables], 584-600).
10.
Haim Schwarzbaum
ker,
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Texts Examined for Motifs

Cantigas
Alfonso Xj
PCG
Sabio. Cantigas de Santa Maria. Ed. Walter
el
Mettman. 3
vols.
Madrid: Castalia, 1986.
Primera cronica general de Espana. (Estoria de
Espana.) 2 vols. Ed.

Credos, 1955.
Amadis
Ramon Menendez
Pidal.
Madrid:
Amadis de Gaula. Ed. Angel Rosenblat. Adiciones Alicia

Redondo Goicoechea. Odres Nuevos. Madrid: Castalia,
1987.
Barlaam
Ed. John E. Keller and Robert W.

II, Ediciones Criticas
XXI. Madrid: CSIC, 1979.
Barlaam
e Josafat.
Linker. Clasicos Hispanicos, Serie
Milagros
Berceo, Conzalo de. Obras completas.

tra Senora.
Calila
Calila e
II Milagros de NuesEd. Brian Dutton. London: Tamesis, 1971.
Dimna. Ed.
J.
M. Cacho
Blecua y Maria Jesus
Lacarra. Madrid: Castalia, 1984.
CMC
Cantar de Mio Cid. Ed. Alberto Montaner. Biblioteca

Clasica
Exemplario
1.
Barcelona: Editorial Critica, 1993.
Capua, Juan
del
mundo
de. Exemplario contra los enganos
peligros
(1493). 1-1994, Biblioteca Nacional, Madrid.
Ed. Francisco Gago Jover. Madison: Hispanic Seminary

of Medieval Studies, 1989.
Castigos
Castigos e documentos para bien vivir ordenados por
Don Sancho
el
rey
IV. Ed. Agapito Rey. Indiana University
Publications Humanities Series No. 24. Bloomington:
Indiana University Press, 1952.
(MS A
Castigos
Castigos e documentos del rey don Sancho.
MS A BNM
6559 with interpolated material from the Spanish
6559
of Egidio
Romano
de Gayangos.
BAE
Regimiento de principes.) Ed. Pascual

51. Madrid: Rivadeneyra, 1860.
Castigos
Castigos e documentos para bien vivir ordenados por
MS A BNM
Don Sancho
6559
Vol. 0. Madrid: Micronet, 1993.
ADYMTE
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BN
gloss
IV. Ed. Charies B. Faulhaber.
el
rey
ADMYTE
Danza
Danza de
muerte. Para una antologia de la literatura

La Danza de la Muerte. Ed. Margharita Morreale. Aimali del Corso di Lingue e Letterature
la
castellana medieval:
Stxaniere 6. Ban: Publicazioni dell' Universita de Ban,
1964.
Esopete
Esopete ystoriado (Toulouse 1488). Eds. Victoria Bunrus
and Haniet Goldberg. Madison: Hispanic Seminary of

Medieval Studies, 1990.
Especulo
El especulo de
Compendio
XV. Ed. Jose

Hernandez. Madrid: CSIC, 1951.
los legos: texto inedito del siglo
M^ Mohedano
Fray Martin de Cordoba. Compendia de la fortuna. Ed.

Fernando Rubio Alvarez. Madrid: Biblioteca "La
Ciudad de Dios," 1958 (also in BAE 171). Reissued in
Prosistas casteUanas del siglo XV. Ed. P. Fernando Rubio
Alvarez O.S.A. Biblioteca de Autores Espaiioles 171.
Madrid: Adas, 1964.
Jardin
Jardin de nobles donzellas. Ed. Harriet Goldberg.
UNCSRLL 137. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1974.
Glosa
Garcia de Castrojeriz, Fray Juan. Glosa castellana al

de principes de Egidio Romano. Ed. Juan
Beneyto Perez. Biblioteca Espanola de Escritores Politicos. 3 vols. Madrid: Institute de Estudios Politicos,
1947.
Regimiento
Teodor
La
historia de la
Donzella Teodor: ein spanisches Volksbuch
Mettman. Wiesbaden:
Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur, Abhandlungen der Geistes- vind Sozialwissenschafdichen
Klasse, Jahrgang 1962, No. 3. Mainz: Akademie der
arabischen Ursprungs. Ed. Walter
Wissenschaften und der Literatur; Wiesbaden: Franz

Steiner, 1962.
Lucanor
Juan Manuel. Libro del Conde Lucanor. In Obras com2 vols. Ed. Jose Manuel Blecua. Biblioteca Romanica Hispanica IV. Textos, 15. Madrid: Gredos,
pletas.
1981.
Abreviada
Jose
Cronica abreviada. In Obras completas. 2 vols. Ed.
Manuel Blecua.
Biblioteca
Romanica Hispanica
TV.
Textos, 15. Madrid: Gredos, 1981.
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Armas
Libra de las armas. In Obras completas. 2 vols. Ed.
Jose Manuel Blecua. Biblioteca Romanica Hispanica IV.

Textos, 15. Madrid: Credos, 1981.
Estados
Libro de
los estados.
In Obras completas. 2 vols. Ed.
Jose Manuel Blecua. Biblioteca Romanica Hispanica IV.

Textos, 15. Madrid: Credos, 1981.
Ultramar
Mocedades
La gran
conquista de Ultramar. Ed. Louis Cooper. 4 vols.

Bogota: Instituto de Caro y Cuervo, 1979.
Las Mocedades de Rodrigo in Deyermond, Alan D. Epic

and the Clergy. London: Tamesis, 1968: pp. 221-
Poetry
76.
Alexandre
Libro de Alexandre. Ed. Jesus
Canas Murillo. Madrid:
Editora Nacional, 1978.
Apolonio
Libro de Apolonio. Ed.

talia,
Qifar
Carmen Monedero. Madrid: Cas-
1987.
Libro del Cauallero Qifar. Ed. Marilyn A. Olsen. Madison:
Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies, 1984.

Gatos
Libro de
Ed. Bernard Darbord. Annexes des
los gatos.
Cahiers de Linguistique Hispanique Medievale
3. Paris:
Klincksieck, 1984.
Talavera
Santiago
Martinez de Toledo, Alfonso. Arcipreste de Talavera o

Corbacho. Ed. Michael Gerli. Madrid: Catedra, 1979.
Los Miraglos de Santiago. {Biblioteca Nacional de Madrid
Ed. Jane E. Connolly. Acta Salmanticensia.
Textos Recuperados V. Salamanca: Universidad de Sala-
MS 10252.)
manca, 1990.
San
Alejo
La "Vida
de
San Alejo":
Versiones castellanas.
Ed. Carlos
Alberto Vega. Acta Salmanticensia. Textos Recuperados

II. Salamanca: Universidad de Salamanca, 1991.
Grisel
Matulka, Barbara. The Novels of Juan de Flares and Their

European Diffusion: A Study in Comparative Literature.
New York: New York University Comparative Literature
Series, 1931.
Crestomatia
Menendez
eval.
Pidal,
Ramon. Crestomatia del espanal mediMenendez Pidal. Madrid: Univer-
2 vols. Seminario
sidad de Madrid, Facultad de Filosofia y Letras, 1966.
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Disciplina
Petrus Alfonsi. The "Disciplina Clericalis" of Petrus AlLatin to German and edition by Eberhard Hermes
(translated into English by P. R. Quarrie). Berkeley and
fonsi.
Los Angeles: University of California

Disciplina
Disciplina Clericalis.
Press, 1977.
Trans. Esperanza Ducay.
Introduction and notes by Maria Jesus Lacarra. Zaragoza: Guara, 1980.
Poridat
Pseudo-Aristoteles. Poridat de las poridades. Ed.
Uoyd
Kasten. Madrid: pvt. pub., 1947.
LBA
Ruiz, Juan. Libra de huen amor. Ed. G. B.
Monypenny.
Madrid: Castalia, 1991.

a.b.c.
Sanchez de Vercial, Clemente. Libro de los enxenplos por

Ed. John Esten Keller and Louis Jennings Zahn.
Madrid: CSIC, 1961.
a.b.c.
Sendebar
Sendebar. Ed. Maria Jesus Lacarra. Madrid: Catedra,
1989.
Epitus
Dorothy Sherman. "'E ynfante Epitus': The

Complete Castilian Version of the 'Dialogue of
Epictetus and the Emperor Hadrian' ," Bulletin of HisSeverin,
Earliest
panic Studies 62 (1985): 25-30.

Voragine
Voragine, Jacobus de. The Golden Legend. Readings on the

Saints. Trans. William Granger Ryan. 2 vols. Princeton:
Princeton University Press, 1993.
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Source Texts, Abbreviations,
and the Number of Entries

a.b.c. = Libra de los enxenplos par a.b.c, 1046 entries
Abreviada = Cronica abreviada, 39 entries
Alexandre = Libro de Alexandre, 24 entries
Amadis = Amadis de Gaula, 1 entry
Apolonio = Libro de Apolonio, 1 6 entries
Armas =
Libro de las armas, 2 entries
Barlaam = Barlaam e Josafat, 54 entries

Calila = Calila e Dimna, 150 entries
Cantigas = Cantigas de Santa Maria, 345
entries
= (ed. Agapito Rey) Castigos e documentos, 88 entries*

Castigos = (BAE 51 + ADMYTE 0) = Castigos e documentos, 170 entries
CMC = Cantar de Mio Cid, 1 8 entries
Qifar - Libro del Cauallero Qifar, 80 entries
Compendia = Compendia de la fortuna, 3 entries
Crestomatia = Crestomatia del espanol medieval, 1 entry
Danza = Danza de la muerte, 1 entry
Disciplina = Disciplina Clericalis, 73 entries
Epitus - Epitus, 1 entry
Esopete = Esopete ystoriado, 450 entries
Especulo = El especulo de los legos, 600 entries
Estados = Libro de los estados, 8 entries
Exemplario = Exemplario contra los enganos y peligros del mundo, 117 entries
Gatos = Libro de los gatos, 85 entries
Glosa Glosa castellana, 139 entries
Grisel = Grisel y Mirabella, 1 entry
Ilustres mujeres = De las ilustres mujeres en romance, 63 entries
Jardin = Jardin de nobles donzellas, 22 entries
LBA = Libro de buen amor, 40 entries
Lucanor = Libro del Conde Lucanor, 1 28 entries
Milagros = Milagros de Nuestra Senora, 41 entries
PCG - Primera cronica general (Estoria de Espana), 34 entries
Poridat = Poridat de las poridades, 3 entries
San Alejo = La Vida de San Alejo, 30 entries
Santiago = Los miraglos de Santiago, 40 entries
Sendebar = Sendebar, 7 1 entries
Talavera = Arcipreste de Talavera, 140 entries
Teodor = La historia de la Donzella Teodor, 21 entries
Tubach = Index Exemplorum, 1,106 entries**
Ultramar = La gran conquista de Ultramar, 46 entries
Voragine = The Golden Legend, 1 entry
Castigos
* If an item appears in the 1293 version (ed. Agapito Rey), its appearance
in the glossed version of
6559 is not noted (BAE and
MS A BNM
ADMYTE).
** Entries marked
cf.
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differ circumstantially
but share the same folk motif.
xxv
Notations Explained
a.b.c.
= number of
MS
individual exemplum (Paris
MS;
exempla not in Paris
are noted)
Abreviada - book + chapter

Alexandre numbers of four-line coplas (c, cc.)
Amadis = book + chapter
Apolonio = numbers of four-line coplas (c, cc.)
Cantigas = numbers of individual cantigas
Castigos = chapter + page in 1952 edited by Agapito Rey
Castigos MS A
6659 = chapter + page in 1860 edited by Pascual
BNM
BAE
Castigos MS A BNM
Gayangos
6659 ADMYTE
CD ROM ed. Faulhaber 1993
CMC = verse nvimbers (v., w)
chapter
+ page
(recto, verso) in
= numbers of individual exemplum

= numbers of individual exempla + pages
Exemplario = folio number (verso or recto)
Gatos = tale nimiber + page
Ilustres mujeres = (name) chapter + folio number (verso, recto)
LBA = numbers of four-line coplas (c, cc.)
Lucanor = exemplum number
Milagros = miracle nvmiber
PCG = volume + chapter + page
Santiago = chapter + page number
Sendebar = frame narrative = page number; exempla = day + tale number
Talavera = part + chapter + page number
Ultramar = volume nvmiber + book + chapter + page number
Disciplina
Especulo
*A11 other notations refer to page
numbers
in the edition listed in the
"Texts Examined for Motifs."
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A.
MYTHOLOGICAL MOTIFS
A0-A99. CREATOR
A100-A499. GODS
A100-A499. The gods in general.

A106.2.2, Satan's
fall
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equal in wisdom. Talavera 2.9.184.
A139. Nature and appearance of the gods: miscellaneous.
*A1 39.6.1. God's voice teUs faithful to seek out holy man. They must ask
him to pray for them. San Alejo p. 77.

A160. Mutual relations of the gods.
A163. Contests among the gods.
*A163.2. Neptune and Minerva dispute name to be given to city of
Athens. Women of city win by one vote. Neptvme, angered, brought
floods to city. Jardin pp. 243-44;
A500-A599.
DE2VUGODS AND CULTURE HEROES
AS 10. Origin of the

*A5 11.1.5.1.
Tubach 3462.
cultiu*e
hero (demigod).
Culture hero mysteriously or magically engendered
personage in disguise. Alexandre
cc.
by royal
1063-64; Tubach 124.
A600-A899. COSMOGONY AND COSMOLOGY

A900-A999. TOPOGRAPHICAL FEATURES OF THE EARTH
A930. Origin of stream.
A941. Origin of springs.
*A941.7.4. Spring breaks forth at young Jesus's command to palm tree
to bend and bring forth water. Castigos MS A BNM 6559 31.146
(ADMYTE
?>0v).
A1000-A1099. WORLD CALAMITIES

A1018. Flood as punishment.
AND RENEWALS
*A1018.4. Neptune (angered by feminine votes for Minerva) causes flood

to come to Athens. To appease him, citizens promise to deprive
women of right to vote. Jardin pp. 243-44; Tubach 3462.
*A1018.5. World without kings punished for lack of order and discipline
by flood. Castigos 9.75-76.
A1021. Deluge: escape in boat (ark). Castigos MS A
6559 90.226
(ADMYTE 33r); Estados 1.27; Tubach 3478.
BNM
A1100-A1199. ESTABLISH2V1ENT
A1160. Determination of months.
OF NATURAL ORDER
*A1161.
Julius
Caesar adds intercalary year; February gains day. Ghsa
MS
BNM
104z;).
A
6559 (ADMYTE
1.2.6.94-95; Castigos
*A1162. Roman emperors chose twelve months parallel with twelve zodia-
cal signs, with vestigial
names of ten-month scheme. Abreviada
A1200-A1699. CREATION
A1200. Creation of man.
24.
AND ORDERING OF HUMAN LIFE
*A1212.1. Man created in God's image. Woman created so that they

might procreate. Estados 1.38.
A1275.1. Creation offirst woman from man's rib. Created thus so that all
himiankind might have common origin. Jardin p. 145.
A1300-A1399. Ordering of human life.
A1310. Ordering of human's bodily attributes.
*A 1313. 3. 4. 2. Women have two breasts so that they can nurse a son and
a daughter. Estados 1.27.
A1330. Beginnings of trouble for man.

A 1331. Paradise lost. Original happy state
lost
is
because of one
sin.
Estados 1.38.
Al 331.1.
Paradise
lost
because of forbidden
fruit.
A1333. Confusion of languages. Divine retribution
Estados 1.38.
for building
tower of
Babel. G/oâ 3.1.6.35.
A1370. Origin of mental and moral characteristics.

A13S3. Origin of shame for nakedness.
Al 383.1. Shame for
nakedness appears
hears God's voice;
is
to first
woman (and man). Adam
frightened and ashamed. Covers self and Eve.
Castigos 9.74-75.
A1391. Why
other
members must serve
belly.
members of the body. Esopete p. 66;

A1400-A1499. Acquisition of culture.
Result of a debate between
Glosa 2.3.16.311;
Tubach 570.
A 1440.
Acquisition of crafts.
A1441.2. Origin of practice ofyoking oxen, yoking yovmg with old so that
young might learn to pull plow. Esopete pp. 64-65.
A1500-A1599. Origin of customs.
A1541.4.1. Origin of Sabbath dedicated to Mary from a feast dedicated
to Venus, a.b.c. 262.
*A1 599.4.1. Why humans always
look at
own
excreta.
Think they may
have passed brains. Esopete pp. 14-15.
A2200-A2599. ANI2VIAL CHARACTERISTICS

A2200. Cause of animal characteristics.
A2232.1. Camel asks for horns: punishment is short ears. Esopete
Tubach
p. 121;
838.
A2232.2. Bees pray for
lethal sting:
punishment
is
that
first
sting
is
suicidal. Esopete p. 112.
A2232.7. Peacock has ugly feet to prevent too great arrogance. When tail is
raised, is aware of great beauty; when tail is lowered, is ashamed of
ugly feet. Especulo 380^281; Tubach 3631.
MOTIF INDEX OF
*A2282.1. Swallows nest near humans after other birds do not heed
warning about hemp-seeds for hunter's nets. Esopete p. 39; cf.
Tubach 4686.
A2300-A2399. Causes of animal characteristics: body.
A2310. Origin of animal characteristics: body covering.
*A2311.10. Goat claims holiness because its hair is used to make hair
shirts. Its beard is never cut to make it beautifiil to behold. Gatos 27.
*A2311.11. Why bats have fur and no feathers. Esopete p. 62; Tubach
501.
A2320. Origin of animal characteristics: head.

A2325.4. Why camel has short ears. Esopete p. 121; Tubach 838.
A2326. Origin and nature of animals' horns.
*A2326.3.3.1. Antelopes' horns are entangled in tree branches. They cry
out and hvmters find and kill them. Gatos 12; Esopete p. 63; Tubach
4589.
A2346. Origin and nature of animal's sting.

A2346.1. Why bees die after sting. Punishment
for request for lethal
sting. Esopete p. 112.
*A2346.3. King of bees has no

1.2.15.143; Castigos
Tubach
stinger to
MS A BNM
make him compassionate.
6559
(ADMYTE
Glosa
38r, llSv);
547.
A2356. Origin and nature of animal's back.

A2356.2.7. Ass boasts that cross marking on back (shoulders) is reward for
being beast who bore Christ on Palm Sunday. Gatos 27.
A2400-A2499. Causes of animal characteristics: appearance and
habits.
A2430. Animal characteristics: dwelling and food.

*A2431.3.9.
Why
eagles do not nest in dungbeetle season. Beetles destroy
their eggs. Esopete p. 109.
A2440. Animal characteristics: carriage.

A2441.4.2. Cause of crab's walk. Learned from mother. Esopete pp.
20;
19-
Tubach 1311.
*A2441.5. Why vultures drop bones from great heights. They drop bones
they cannot break. Gatos 5.
A2460. Animal characteristics: attack and defense.
*A2466.3. Fox plays dead, extends its tongue to trap prey. Eats them
when they come near. Gatos 53; Tubach 2176.
A2490. Other habits of animals.
A2491.1. Why bat flies by night. Esopete p. 62.
A2491.1.1. miy bat sleeps by day. Esopete p. 62.
*A2491.6. Why nightingales sing at night. Esopete p. 63.
*A2492.3. Why horses first permitted themselves to be saddled and bridled.
Esopete pp. 77-78; Tubach 2619.
A2493. Friendship between animals.
*A2493.36. Friendship between mouse and dove. Mouse gnaws net and
frees captured ringdoves. Calila p. 202; Exemplario 42v.
A2494. Enmity between animals.
A2494.7.1. Enmity between monkey and lion. Esopete p. 67.

*A2494.7.4. Enmity between carnivores and herbivores. Lion and bull
represent their group. Pact between them fails at instigation of other
animals. Lion kills bull. Calila p. 168; Exemplario 13r; Lucanor'Ex. 22,
A2494.12.2. Enmity between mongoose and snake. Calila p. 173.
*A2494.12.11. Enmity of lion and leopard. Lion hates leopard because it
is product of union between a lion and a pardo: leopard hates lion
because it is fearless. a.b.c. 210; cf. Tubach 3014.
A2494.13. Enmities of birds.
*A2494.13.13. Enmity of birds: falcon and nightingale. Esopete pp. 6263.
*A2494.13.13.1. Enmity between falcon and kite. Falcon asks why kite
permits falcon to dominate him. Explanation: kite lacks falcon's
heart. Especulo 51.35.
*A2494.13.14. Enmity between owls and crows. Bitter war, crow is spy to
help crows defeat enemy. Calila pp. 224-52; Exemplario 53^^-56?;;
LucanorEx. 19; Tubach 1358.
A2497. Monogamy among animals.
*A2497.2. Monogamy among animals. Male storks and male lions will
kill mate if she is unfaithful. Especulo 24.17-18; Glosa 2.1.8.40.
A2500-A2599. Animal characteristics: miscellaneous.
A2520. Disposition of animals.
*A2522.8. Some flies bite and cause pain. Some create filth, and others
make
noise. Gatos 10.
A2540. Other animal characteristics.

*A2543. Why snails travel very little. They carry
their
own
house. Gatos
51.
A2545. Animal given certain privileges.

*A2545.3.1. Dogs eat
is left.
kill first.
When
they are sated, crows can eat what
Gatos 17.
*A2562. Why leopard
is
aggressive. Is ftuit of adultery
between
lion
and
pardo. Especulo 28.19.
A2800-A2899. 2VUSCELLANEOUS EXPLANATIONS

A2851. The four characteristics of wine. Noah plants vineyard; fertilizes
with blood of lions for anger, lambs for foolishness, pigs for
ness, and apes for wit. a.b.c. 421; Tubach 5093.
B.
B0-B99.
lustfiil-
ANIMALS
MYTHICAL ANIMALS
BIO. Mythical beasts and hybrids.

Bll. Dragon.
B 11. 2.1. Dragon as compound animal (serpent or
crocodile, with scales
MOTIF INDEX OF
of a fish for covering, and feet and wings and sometimes the head of
eagle, falcon, or hawk, and the forelimbs and sometimes the head
of a lion). Wrramar II.2.24 1.34 1-42.
an
B 11.2.13.1.
Blood of dragon venomous. Causes leprosy in his slayer

cured miraculously by Virgin Mary. Cantigas 189.
is
who
B11.6. Deeds of dragons.

Bl 1.6.5. Dragon guards hermit's food. Frightens off robbers. a.b.c. 3.
*B 11.10.4. Dragon holds sinner down with tail and with its head sucks
soul jfrom sinner's mouth, a.b.c. 438.
B 1 1 1 1 Fight with dragon
B 11. 11.9. Fight with dragon. Hero firees countryside of marauder;
avenges brother's death. Ultramar II.2. 243-48. 346-59.
B16. Devastating animals.
.
*B16.1.4.3. Devastating swine. Industrious ants

and trample it. Especulo 62.43-44.
make
come
anthill. Pigs
B20. Beast-human.
B24. Satyr. Combination of man and goat. Esopete pp. 126-27.
B30. Mythical birds.
B32.1. Phoenix renews youth. Alexandre cc. 2475-76.
*B32.2. Eagle when flies dose to sun is consumed by fire and renews
itself.
Especulo 78.50-51.
*B39.2. Magical bird song bewitches hearer. Owl's harsh song portends
death. Disciplina 8.58-59; cf. Tubach 3556.
B80. Fish-human.
B80.2. Monster half-man, half-fish attacks laundress in river. Other laundresses come to her aid and kill monster. Esopete p. 166.
B100-B199.
B120. Wise animals.
MAGIC ANI2VIALS
B 123.1. Wise serpent. Injured by man, refuses reconciliation.

36; Tubach 4251.
B147. Animals furnish omens.
B147.2.1. Bird of good omen.
B 147. 2. 1.1. Two crows good omen. Esopete p. 16.
B147.2.2. Bird of bad omen.
Esopete p.
MS
B147.2.2.1. Crows as bird of ill omen. Esopete p. 16; Castigos

A
6559 57; Tubach 1366.
*B147.2.2.1.1. Crows seen on left bad omen, seen on right good omen.
w. 10-11.
BNM
CMC
B147.3. Other animals furnish omens.

B147.3.1.2. Bees leave honey on lips of infant. (Plato) to show future eloquence, a.b.c. 180.
*BIA7. 3. 1.3. Ants leave grains of wheat on lips of infant as sign of future
wealth. a.b.c. 180;
*B 147. 3. 1.4. Egg
Tubach 293.
magically caused to bring forth chick with mature
(sign of future greatness of
vmbom
child). a.b.c. 180.
comb
B151. Beast determines road to be taken.

B151.1.1.2.1. Ass carries usurer's body to the gallows instead of to the
church. Especulo 567.461-63; Tubach 375.
B160. Wisdom-giving animals.

B161. Wisdom from serpent. Helps man to prosper. Esopete p. 52; Tubach 4251.
B170. Magic birds, fish, reptiles.
*B 172.5.1. Magic hawk. Catches all prey at which it is loosed, îfar p.
137.
B 176. 1.1. Serpent as deceiver

B180. Magic quadrupeds.
*B 18 2. 1.3. 2. Magic
in paradise. Estados 1.38.
mastiff. Is able to
bring
down any fleeing
stag. Qifar
p. 135.
B184. Magic quadrupeds: ungidata.

*B 184. 1.1. 4. Magic horse that neither
eats nor drinks is faster
than wind.
Qifar^. 137.
B200-B299. ANIMALS WITH

B217. Animal languages learned.
HUMAN TRAITS
*B217.9. Aesop learns animal language. Magical reward for kindness to

angel. Esopete p. 3.
B230. Parliament of animals.

*B236.1.1. Election of king of birds. Owl (raven) elected. Crow argues
against it; persuades birds to revoke election. Calila p. 230; Exemplario 52r.
B240. King of animals.

B240.4. Lion as king of beasts. Esopete pp. 35, 67, 78, 98-100.
B241.2.2. King of monkeys. Esopete p. 77.
B242.1.1. Eagle king of birds. Esopete pp. 17-18,
B242.1.8. Owl proposed as king of birds. Calila p. 230; Exemplario 52r;
Tubach 3554.
B242.2.2. King of doves. Esopete pp. 49-50.
B250-B259. Religious animals.
6559
B25 1.1.1. Animals worship infant Jesus. Castigos MS A
31.145 (ADMYTE
92^;).
*B256.13. Serpent guards monastery garden from thief, a.b.c. 178; Glosa
BNM
3.2.23.214.
B259.4. Bees
in hive build church of wax to
figure of Virgin
Mary and
contain consecrated host and
Child. Cantigas 208;
*B259.4.2. In praise of Virgin Mary swarm of

candles in church. Cantigas 211.
bees
cf. Tubach 2662.

makes wax to restore
B260-B269. Animal warfare.

B260.1. Two groups of animals make peace treaty (wolves, sheep). Esopete
pp. 2, 19, 65; Tubach 5357.
B261 1 Bat in war of birds and quadrupeds. Because of ambiguous form,
.
joins first
Tubach
one side and then the other. Discredited. Esopete
p. 62;
501.
MOTIF INDEX OF
B263.3.
War
between crows
and owls
(ravens).
Crows
victors because of
espionage. Calila pp. 225-52; Exemplario 50r-62r; Lucanor Ex. 19;

Tubach 1358.
B267. Animal
allies.
B267.1. Alliance of dog and wolf. Esopete pp. 93-94.

B267.2. Alliance of sheep and dogs. Esopete pp. 2, 19, 65; Tubach 5357.
B270. Animals in legal relations.
*B270.3. Lawsuit between wolf and fox. LBA cc. 321-71; Esopete p. 54.
*B270.4. Lawsuit between dog and sheep. Wolf, vulture, and kite testify
falsely for dog.
Sheep
loses. Esopete p. 34.
*B270.5. Lawsuit between stag and sheep. Wolfs presence at trial intimidates sheep. Repayment to be made in absence of wolf. Esopete p. 52.
B274. Animal as judge.
*B274.1. Ape as judge in lawsuit, greyhound lawyer for wolf, sheepdog
lawyer for fox. LBA cc. 321-71; Esopeu p. 54.
*B274.2. Fox is judge in dispute between man and snake, a.b.c. 312.
*B274.3. Fox is judge in dispute between farmer and wolf. a.b.c. 363.
B275.1.3.2. Wolves and wild pigs condemned to death in lion's court for
killing and eating sheep. Gatos 20; Tubach 5330.
B290. Other animals with human

B291. Animal as messenger.
B29 1
traits.
1 1 1
Swallow as messenger. Tells knight that Virgin Mary and her
son Jesus Christ will help him save his wife from her enemies. Ultra.
mar 1.1.104.216.
B299. Other animals with
human
traits:
miscellaneous.
*B299.1.2. Panther takes revenge on men who injured him. Spares those
who
treated
him
kindly. Esopete p. 76.
*B299.11. Animals obey nature's law. Carnivores do not eat their
own
species. Estados 1.24.
*B299.12. Animals obey nature's law. Herbivores only eat what they
need. Estados 1.24.
*B299.13. Animals are chaste by nature. Only mate when they
will
pro-
create. Estados 1.24.
B300-B599. FRIENDLY ANIMALS

B300-B349. Helpful animals: general.
B301 1.1. Faithful dog follows master's dead body when
There he keeps body afloat. a.b.c. 59; Tubach 1700.
.
cast into river.
*B301.1.1.1. Faithful dog takes food to imprisoned master. a.b.c. 59.

B301.8. Faithful lion follows man who saved him from serpent. a.b.c.
185; Tubach 3057.
B320. Reward of helpful animal.

*B321 Crow advises eagle to drop
shelled prey on rocks to open it. They

share food. Esopete p. 37.
B325.1. Animals bribed with food. Thief tries to bribe watchdog with
meat. Esopete p. 50; LBA cc. 166-80.
.
B330. Death of helpful animal.
B331. Helpful animal killed by misunderstanding.

*B331.1.2. Falcon left hunter's hand (without release). Strangled
flight.
self in
Especulo 55.38.
B331.2. Llewellyn and his dog. Dog has saved child from serpent. Father
sees bloody mouth and kills the dog. Sendehar Day 5 Tale 1 2; CalUa
p. 265; Exemplario 61 v\ Tubach 1695.
B335.2. Life of helpful animal demanded as cure for feigned sickness.
Flesh of monkey said to be cure. Esopete p. 67.
B336. Helpful animal threatened by ungrateful person. Lion raised by
man is beaten and driven away. Later refuses reconciliation; wounds
6559 27.142 (ADMYTE
healed, insults did not. Castigos MS A
BNM
86r-86z;).
B350-B399. Grateful animals.

B360. Animals grateful for rescue from peril of death.
B361. Lion and eagle grateful for rescue from pit. Lion brings
rescuer; eagle leads him to treasure. a.b.c. 201
kill
to
*B361.1. Jackal and cubs rescued from pit. Grateful to man who freed
them. a.b.c. 185.
B362. Animals grateful for rescue from drowning. Ant and dove. Esopete
p. ill.
B 3 63. 1.1.
Lion
is
by mouse
Tubach 3052.
freed from net
ness. Esopete p. 38;
in return for previous kind-
B370. Animal grateful to captor for release.

B371.1. Lion spared mouse: mouse grateful. Later releases lion from net.
LEA cc. 1425-34; Esopete p. 38; Tubach 3052.
B374.1. Lion eternally grateful to man for having freed it from serpent.
a.b.c. 185; Tubach 3057.
B380. Animals grateful for relief from pain.
B381. Thorn removed from lion's paw (Androcles and the Lion). In gratitude, the lion later rewards the man. Esopete p. 61; Especulo 47.3132; cf. Esopete p. \U\ a.b.c. 186; Tubach 215, 2771.
*B38 1 .3, Hyena, grateful to monk for having cured blindness of cubs, brings
him food and skins, a.b.c. 50; Tubach 2714.
B390. Animals gratefid for other kind acts.
*B391.1.4. Snake grateful for food and shelter. Snake's offspring kills
human's child. Mother snake kills offender and departs from
human's house. a.b.c. 205; cf Tubach 4251.
B400-B499. Kinds of helpful animals.
B400. Helpful domestic beasts.
*B401.2. Horse grabs arm of thief and will not let go until thief is caught.
a.b.c. 242; Tubach 2608.
B411.2. Helpful ox. Hides fugitive deer. Esopete p. 67; Tubach 4596.
B430. Helpful wild beasts.
B437.2 Helpful mouse gnaws net, frees lion. Esopete p. 38; Tubach 3052.
*B437.2.1. Helpful mouse gnaws net of captured ringdoves to free them.
Calila p. 202; Exemplario 41r.
B449. Helpful wild beasts: miscellaneous.
MOTIF INDEX OF
*B449.4. Helpful hyena. Brings food to hermit. a.h.c. 50; cf. Tubach
2711, 2714.
*B449.5. Bear guards holy man's sheep. a.b.c. 329; Tubach 519.
B457.1. Helpful dove. Saves ant. Esopete p. 111.
B469. Helpful birds: miscellaneous.
*B469.11. Eagle brings
large fish to feed starving saint
and
his
company.
Grateful saint takes half and returns half to eagle. Especulo 3.5.
*B469.12. Helpful swan. Enchanted swan leads knight in magical boat
to places
where his knightly protection is needed. Ultramar
1. 1
.68. 1 1 9-
20.
B480. Helpful insects.
B48 1.1.
Helpful ant. Returns previous favor of dove. Esopete p. 111.
B490. Other helpful animals.

B491.1. Helpful
serpent. Esopete pp. 52,
89-90.
B500-B599. Services of helpful animals.

B510. Healing by animals.
B513. Remedy learned from overhearing animal
to cure his
own
meeting.
Hero learns how

and cure king's
blindness, restore princess's speech,
blindness. Gatos 28.
man from death sentence.

B522.1. Serpent shows condemned man how to save prince's life. Bites
prince and then shows man the proper remedy. By thus ingratiating
B522. Animal saves
self,
man
B525. Lion
is
freed from false accusation. Calila p. 318.
spares
Castigos 27.141;
man he is about
Tubach 215.
to devour.
Androcles. Esopete p. 61;
*B525.1.1. Lion spares Christian martyr. Repects her

253; cf. Tubach 3072.
virginity.
life. God had rewarded him

Susanna from false accusations. Castigos 9.70.
B535. Animal nurse.
*B525.2. Lions spare Daniel's
Jardin p.
for saving
*B535.0.15. Lion as nurse for child. Child rescued when dogs pursue
Hon. Qifarip. 27; cf. Tubach 5350 (wolf).
*B535.0.16. Doe as nurse for seven abandoned princelings left in desert.
Ultramar 1.1.56.93; cf Tubach 5350 (wolf).
B540. Animal rescuer or retriever.

B545.1. Deer freed from net by friendly animals: crow, mouse, and tortoise. To save slow moving tortoise from hunter, deer feigns death.
Crow perches on deer. Deer arises, escapes. Archer pursues and
mouse gnaws ropes to free tortoise. Calila p. 221; Exemplario 49r.
B545.2. Rat (mouse) gnaws net. Esopete p. 38; Calila p. 202.
B552. Man carried by bird.
B552.1. Alexander carried through air by two grifiRns with meat held in
front of them. Alexandre cc. 2496-2504; Tubach 125.
B558.1. Boat drawn by swan. Swan Knight arrives in kingdom and
departs in boat drawn by his swan-brother. Ultramar 1.1.71.126,
1.1.135.275-76.
B560. Animals advise people.
B562.1.3. Birds show
show him where
man
treasure.
Doves saved from death by monk
to dig for treasure. CalUa p. 334.
B563.5. Wild leopards guide Jesus and Holy Family through wilderness.
6559 31.145 (ADMYTE 91?;).
Castigos MS A
B575. Animals as constant attendant of human.
*B575.2.1. Man raises baby goat. Tries to keep it as a companion animal. She runs off to join other wild goats grazing in fields. His servants bring her back to house and kill other wild goats. Barlaam pp.
156-57.
B580. Animal helps man to wealth and greatness.
*B581.1. Serpent brings wealth to farmer. Esopete pp. 89-90; Tubach
BNM
4251.
B700-B799.
FANCIFUL TRAITS OF ANIMALS
*B701. Animals help each other. Sheep shelter others from sim; deer will
carry each other across rivers; cranes guide other cranes in flight.
Especulo 87.5.
B730. Fanciful color, smell, etc. of animals.

B732. Panther's sweet smell attracts other animals and protects
other beasts. Especulo 50.35;
cf.
it
from
Tubach 3583.
B741.2. Neighing of stallions in Assyria impregnates mares. Esopete p. 22.

*B749. Eel opens clam/oyster/conch shell. Uses pebble to wedge it open to
eat flesh. Especulo 63.44-45.
*B752.1.1. Enchanted swan sings to signal Swan Knight he must depart
kingdom in boat. Ultramar 1.1.134.274-75.
*B765.4.2. Cow thought to have given birth to snake. She flees; snake pursues; traps her legs
and drinks her
milk. Teats
and
legs are black-
ened. Esopete p. 166.

B770. Other fanciful traits of animals.
B773. Animals with
human
emotions.
*B773.1.1. Cranes love each
and migrate
other,
have a king whose laws they obey,
as a group, a.b.c. 60.
*B773.4. She-wolf ashamed because she stole holy man's bread.

for her and forgave her. a.b.c. 29; Tubach 5344.
*B773.5. Crows care for aged parents. a,b.c. 41; Tubach 642.
C.
He
prayed
TABU
TABU CONNECTED WITH

SUPERNATURAL BEINGS
C0-C99.
CIO. Tabu: profanely calling up spirit (devil).

C12. Devil invoked: appears unexpectedly.
*C1 2.4.2. Man inadvertently breaks tabu by calling out to
10
devil (servant)
MOTIF INDEX OF
to help with shoes. Devil appears, a.b.c. 113; Tubach 1605.

*C12.4.3. Cleric stubs toe on stone and inadvertently praises devil's power.
He is punished with paralysis and blindness. Cantigas 407,
C20. Tabu: calling on ogre or destructive animal.

C25. "Bear's-food." To urge on his horses, a man threatens them with
the bear, calling them "bear's-food." The bear hears and comes for
them. Esopete pp. 144-45.
*C25.2. Child threatened with wolf (ogre). Esopete p. 119.
*C25.2.1. "Wolffood." To urge his ox on, man angrily says he will feed
him to wolf. Wolf comes to claim promised food. Disciplina 23; a.b.c.
363; cf. J2066.5.
C30. Tabu: ofTending supernatural relative.
C32.2.1. Tabu: asking name of supernatural husband. Swan Knight tells
new wife that she must not ask him his name. Ultramar 1.1.68.120.
C32.2.2. Tabu: asking where supernatural husband comes from. Swan
Knight tells new wife that she must not ask him what country he
came from.
L/Zrrawar 1.1.68.120.
C50. Tabu: ofTending the gods.
*C5 1.4.1.1. Bee
offends Jupiter
Esopete p. 112; see
when
she asks
him
for
power
to
kill
men.
A2346. 1
C54. Rivaling the gods.

*C54.1. Multiparous woman
Her
declares self superior to goddesses of fertility.
fecundity was superior to theirs.
Ilustres
mujeres
14,21r-22r
(Niobe).
*C54.2.
Woman skilled at weaving and spinning challenged
to a contest. Defeated, she
hanged
Pallas
herself. Ilustres mujeres 17.
Athena
2424 v-
25r (Arachne).
C55.3. Beekeeper puts consecrated Host into beehive to make colony thrive.
Bees build an altar and put Host on it. He repents sacrilege and
shows the miracle to public. Especulo 254.172.
*C55.3.1. Beekeeper puts consecrated Host into beehive. Virgin Mary and
Child appear in hive. Cantigas 128, 208; Tubach 2662.
C93. Tabu: trespassing sacred precinct.
*C93.3.1. Tabu: privy in churchyard. Saint appears to hermit. Tells him
privy's odor is offensive near church. He must move it. Especulo
212.146.
C94. Tabu: rudeness to sacred person or thing.

C94. 1.1. The cursed dancers. Dancers rude to priest on Christmas Eve.
Curses them to keep dancing imtil released. Especulo 132.90-91;
Tubach 1419.
*C94.1.4. Gambler
heart, a.b.c. 55;
curses Virgin
cf.
Mary. Terrible smell issues from his
Tubach 2240.
C94.4.1. Tabu: calling profanely on God's

a.b.c. 236; Tubach 1949.
*C1 10.2. Tabu:
eyes.
Gambler's eyes
C100-C199. SEX TABU

on night previous
sexual intercourse
to
fall
out.
coming to church.
Devils torment guilty
woman.
Saint's prayers cvire her. Espiculo
96.64-65.
*C 11 4. 1.1. Tabu: incest. Widow commits incest with son. Forgiven by
Virgin Mary. a.b.c. 21 A.
*C 114.3. Tabu: incest. Servant holds candle while nobleman commits
incest with a relative, a.b.c. 166.
*C 114.4. Tabu: incest. Mother tries to commit incest with son. He
refuses and she accuses him of attempted rape, a.b.c. 172; Tubach
2734.
*C1 16.1. Tabu: sexual intercourse in public place. Saint invited by a prostitute offers to have sex with her before a crowd. She will not out of
shame; he asks then how much more shame should she have before
God. Espiculo 350.250.
CI 19. IVIiscellaneous tabus concerning sexual intercourse.
*C 119.1.2.1. Tabu: sexual intercourse on day of consecration of church.
Violators taken by devil. Saint's prayer frees them. Especulo 277.185.
*C 119.1.2.2. Tabu: sexual intercourse on feast day. Defiant couple fovmd
dead embracing in bed next day. Especulo 279.186.
C200-C299. EATING
C221. Tabu: eating meat.
AND DRINKING TABUS
*C22 1.0.1. Ascetic (fasting jackal) vows not to eat meat. Calila p. 309.
*C221.0.2. Tabu: eating meat on Sabbath. Warriors who violate tabu
captured and killed. Those who ate only bread victorious. Cantigas
277.
C230. Tabu: eating at certain time.
*C235. 1 Tabu: eating meat during Lent. Saint has only bacon to give guest
during Lent. Both partake as sign of saint's hospitality. Especulo
297.207-8; cf Tubach 3243.
C270. Tabu: drinking certain things.
*C271.1. Tabu: drinking milk of any other than one's own mother. Angel
appears to pregnant woman warning that baby is not to have wetnurse. tZ?trawar 1.1.84.168-69; Tubach 3283.
.
C400-C499.
SPEAKING TABUS
C400. Speaking tabu.

*C400.01. Old man traveling in company with monks maintains silence as
a sign of wisdom, a.b.c. 335.
*C400.02. Philosopher in desert gains serenity without speaking. a.b.c.
403.
C401.2. Tabu: speaking during seven days of danger. Horoscope indicates

when to be silent. Sendebar p. 73.
C410. Tabu: asking questions.
*C41 1.1. Tabu: asking for reason of an unusual action. King forbids that
anyone ask him why he never laughs. Qifar p. 130.
*C411.2. Tabu: speaking. Consort of fairy queen must not address her
subjects nor ask questions of them. Qifar p. 67.
12
MOTIF INDEX OF
C41 1.4. Tabu: asking questions. Wife violates tabu (asks forbidden questions) and Swan Knight must leave her. Ultramar 1. 1 1 27-35 .264-76.
.
C430. Name tabu.

C436. Tabu: disclosing one's
father. San Alejo p. 74.
C600-C699.
identity.
Saint
must not reveal
identity to his
UNIQUE PROHIBITION
C601. Unique prohibition announced by mysterious voice.

C601.1. Heavenly voice tells pope he may not enter church. To save
money, he ceased payment for eternal oil lamp placed there by Constantine. Especulo 214.147.
C603. Other unique prohibitions.

*C603. Entry to palace forbidden. King opens locked palace and enters
despite prohibition. Opens locked chest despite prohibition. King
who breaks tabu will lose his kingdom to invaders portrayed on cloth
PCG
in chest.
1.553.307; Abreviada 2.100.
*C604. Kissing hands of empress forbidden, îfarpp. 134-37.

C610. The one forbidden place.
Wife ordered to guard household in husband's absence. She is
forbidden to enter oven. Digging arovmd oven she is crushed when
wall falls. a.b.c. 307; Tubach 5277.
C611.1. Forbidden door.
*C61 1.1.2. Church doors will not let woman sinner pass through. All
*C6 10.01.
others enter freely. Prays to Virgin
Mary and
is
permitted entry. Can-
tigas 98.
C620. Tabu: partaking of the one forbidden object.

C621 Forbidden tree. Fruit of all trees may be eaten, except one. Estados
.
1.38.
C700-C899.
MISCELLANEOUS TABUS
C770. 1. Overweening pride forbidden. Man proud that he and his clan
have never known want or unhappiness is swallowed by earth with all
his belongings. a.b.c. 287;
C771.1. Tabu: building
too
Tubach 3938.
high
a tower (Tower of Babel).
Glosa
3.1.6.35.
C777. Excessive worry.

*C777.1. Merchant not to fret over goods on ship at sea. Cannot sleep,
eat J nor drink. Thinks every wind will cause ship to sink. Castigosl .6A.
C900-C999. PUNISH2V1ENT
FOR BREAKING TABU
C901.4. Punishment for breaking tabu: assigner suffers own

penalty.
*C901.4.2. Consul violates sanctuary. Kills enemies captured in church.
Later takes sanctuary himself and emperor executes him. Especulo
211.146.
C950. Person carried to otherworld for breaking tabu.

*C951. Knight breaks tabu. Asks emperor why he never laughs. Set
a-
13
drift in
boat without oars that takes him to otherworld. Qifar p.
30.
C961. Transformation to object for breaking tabu.

C961.1. Transformation
to
pillar of salt
for breaking tabu.
Castigos
50.212.
D.
MAGIC
D0-D699. TRANSFOR2VIATION
DIO. Transformation to person of different sex.
*D12.0.1. Transformation: man to woman. Man drinks water from magical spring. Transformation reversed by tricking a demon. Sendehar
Day
4,
Tale
8.
D117. Transformation: person to rodent.

*D 117.1.1. Transformation: person to rat. Hermit prays that God transform rat-maiden back into rat so that she may marry rat. CalUa p.
244; Exemplario 58^;; Tubach 3428.
D130. Transformation: human to domestic beast.
D136. Transformation: man to swine. Ilustres mujeres 36.43r43z; (Circe).
Transformation: young woman to puppy. Woman threatened
with transformation if she will not acquiesce to a sexual request.
Sendebar Day 4, Tale 10; a.b.c. 23 A (not in Paris MS); Disciplina 13;
*D 14 1.1.1.
Tubach
661.
D150. Transformation:
man
to bird.
D161.1. Transformation: man to swan when magic golden chain is removed from neck. Ultramar 1.1.5^.99; cf. Tubach 1884.
D315. Transformation: rodent to human.
D315.1. Rat-maiden. Hermit prays to God that a rat be changed into a
girl.
Raises her as daughter. Calila p. 244; Exemplario 58v;
Tubach
3428.
D350. Transformation: bird to person.

*D361.2. Swans changed back into youths by replacement of golden
chains arovmd neck. Ultramar 1.1.68.118; cf. Tubach 1884.
D450-D499. Transformation: object to object.
*D451.10. Transformation: wood becomes stone. Rustic who chopped
wood on saint's day is reproached by neighbor. Defends self: "This
wood would turn to stone, if it were wrong to chop it today." It
changes to stone. Especulo 275.185; Tubach 5371.
*D454.3. 1.2. White chasuble^ stained red with wine, miraculously returned
to white by Virgin Mary. Cantigas 73.
D470. Transformation: material of object changed.
*D470.1. Water in river transformed to copper by magician, Virgil. LBA
c.
266.
*D470.2. Saint changes maggots

a.b.c.
14
342;
in sores
of nun into precious stones.
Tubach 2266.
MOTIF INDEX OF
D530. Transformation: putting on skin or clothing.

D536. Transformation: removing chains from neck.
to swans by taking golden chains off neck. Evil
covmtess orders servants to remove chains from grandsons' necks before killing them. Swans escape. Ultramar 1.1.58.98-99; Tubach
D536.1. Transformation
1884.
D630. Transformation and disenchantment at
*D 6 3 0.1. 1.1. Power of self-transformation

Sendebar
Day
4,
Tale
will.
wrested from
demon by
trickery.
8.
D700-D799. DISENCHANTMENT
D788. Disenchantment by sign of cross.
*D788.1. Saint makes spring water safe from serpent with sign of cross.
Especulo 136.95-96; Tubach 1347.
D800-D1699.
MAGIC OBJECTS
D800-899. Ownership of magic objects.

D810. Magic object as gift.
*D81 1.3. Thread supplied magically to sew new
altar cloths for church.
Cantigas 273.
D812.8. Magic object received from lady in dream. Candle crushed in

dream. Nun awakes with piece of candle in hand. Castigos MS A
6559 4.95; cf. Tubach 847.
*D812.16. Gloves and ring given to saint in dream. Sends for them from
distant place as evidence of appearance in dream. Especulo 300.208-9.
D871. Magic object traded away.
D876. Magic treasure animal killed. Goose that laid the golden egg.
BNM
Esopete p. 127.
D900-D1299. Kinds of magic

D906. Magic wind.
objects.
*D906.1. Forbidden church burial, pope orders that his remains be

placed in front of closed church doors. Magic wind blows them open
as sign of his worthiness. a.b.c. 33;
Tubach 2370.
*D906.2. Extraordinary wind blows arrows shot against Christians back

against enemy. PCG 2.568.323; Castigos MS A
6559 10.108
BNM
(ADMYTE
36r); Abreviada 2.115;
Tubach 349, 4773.
D910. Magic body of water.

D915. Magic river.
*D915.7. Magic river carries worldly debris. Especulo 37.26.
D927. Magic spring.
*D915.8. Magic river rises to drown liars. Esopete pp. 100-1.
D927. 1 Gods create magic spring in desert. Alexandre cc. 1 1 70-75; Casti92r).
gos MS A BNM 6559 31.146 (ADMYTE
*D927.6. Magic spring transforms man into woman. Sendebar Day 4,
.
Tale
8.
D960. Magic gardens and plants.

D978. Magic herbs sought by wise man on quest
to India in
hope of
finding
way of
resuscitating the dead. Exemplario 5r-5vy Calila pp.
99-102.
D990. Magic bodily members: human.

*D992.4. Magic skull as source of secret
political information. Especulo
147.100.
D997. Magic internal organs: human.

*D997.1.2. Heart of woman devoted to Virgin Mary bears image of Virgin. Observed in autopsy. Cantigas 188; cf. Tubach 1338, 2497, 2498.
D1030. Magic food.
*D1031.1.2. Monks complain about shortage of bread. Abbot tells them to
have faith and patience. Next day, sacks of flour for bread are left at
their door. Especulo 398.295-96; Tubach 766, 2566.
*D1032.1.1. King's faith in Virgin Mary brings him food for guests. Four
shiploads of fish arrive magically. Cantigas 386.
D1039. Magic food: miscellaneous.
*D1 039.3. Monk

to her Son's
complains about food. Virgin
wounds;
*D1 039.4. Monk
it
will
Mary
tells
him
to touch
it
sweeten. Especulo 5.5-6.
leaves monastery because of food. Jesus Christ touches
bread to his wounds; it sweetens. Especulo 6.6.

D1040. Magic drink.
1040.1. Drink supplied by magic. Virgin Mary replenishes wine
bration of her feast day. Cantigas 351.
at cele-
D1050. Magic clothes.

*D 1052.2. Magic chasuble given to S. Ildefonso by Virgin Mary not to
be worn by any other. It strangles his unworthy successor. Milagros
Cantigas 2; Especulo 375.275-76.
1 Pupil returns from dead to warn master of futility of his studies.
Wears magic cloak lined with perilous fire. Droplet from cloak bums
1;
05 3
master's hand. a.b.c. 417; Tubach 1103.

D1065. Magic footwear.
*D1 065.2.1. Magic slippers given to woman by suitor. Woman unable to
remove them upon husband's return imtil Virgin Mary helps her.
Cantigas 64.
D1070. Magic ornaments.

*D1071.2. Magic stones engraved with image of Virgin Mary and Child.
Have power to enlighten literally and figuratively. Cantigas 29.
D1130. Magic buildings and parts.
Dl 131. Magic castle. Knight led to magic casde at bottom of enchanted
lake. Qifar p. 67.
D1162. Magic Ught.

Dl 162.2. Magic candles dance on
altar
when placed
there by unrepen-
tant sinner. Especulo 492.389.
*D1 162.3. Virgin Mary gives minstrel who sings her praise a magic candle.
Churchman tries to put candle in candlestick, but it returns to the
singer's vihuela (guitar). Cantigas 8.
*D1 162.3.1.
not
16
bum
Magically curative candle
will stay
lit
only for minstrels. Will
for bishop. Cantigas 259.
MOTIF INDEX OF
*D1 162.4.
Candles kept alight magically hy Virgin
man
church by
Mary were
placed in
devoted to her. Cantigas 116.
D1170. Magic utensils and implements.

*D1 171 .6.5. Magic drinking vessel. Man suffering with a swollen mouth
and face, unable to drink, cured by glass brought by pilgrims from
shrine. Santiago 12.74-75.
*D1 171.7.2. Magic pitcher will not hold water. Given task to fill it, sinner
prays to Virgin Mary for help. Fills it with own tears. Cantigas 155.
*D 1206. 1.1.
on
Sickle magically stuck to
Removed
a feast day.
man's hand because he cut grain

when he offered sickle to St.
magically
Peter. a.b.c. 164; Cantigas 289.
D1210. Magical musical instruments.

D1222. Magical horn (ivory, gold, and precious
in palace to
bum in terrible conflagration,
swan. Ultramar
I.l.
jewels), negligently left
saved from
fire
by magical
137. 27S-79.
D1273.1. Magic numbers.
D1273. 1.2.1. Five
as a magic number. Five joys of the Virgin, five
senses, five fingers. Milagros 4.
*D1273.1.2.2. Five as a magic number. Five wounds of Jesus Christ.

Castigos 9.72.
D1298. Magic firewood.

D1298.1. Magic firewood bleeds when cut and curses man who had sent
him. Monk's servant sent to cut it on Sabbath. Returned to monastery to find monk had disappeared. Especulo 280.186-87.
D1300-D1599. Function of magic objects.
D1300. Magic object gives supernatural wisdom.
*D 1300.4.1. Stone said to give magic wisdom: wisdom to fools; restore
hearing to deaf, speech to mutes, sanity to madmen; cure sick; chase
demons. Revealed to be Jesus Christ. Barlaam p. 48.
D1310. Magic object gives supematiu-al information.
*D1310.4.4. Magic sign to show that soul is freed of torment. Black hair
combings secreted by dead lover turn white when she is freed. Especulo 353.251-52; Tubach 2397.
D1317.1. Buttocks as magic watcher. Woman tells slave she can supervise
him even while she sleeps. Esopete p. 16.
D1344. Magic object gives invulnerability.
1344.1 1. Magic sword to give invulnerability given to infant Alexander.
Alexandre c. 94.
D1380. Magic object protects.
D 138 1.5.
Knight protected
makes him
*D 138 1.5.1.
in battle
by magic
shirt.
Virgin Mary's shirt
invulnerable. Cantigas 148.
Mary's
Virgin
blind. After siege
is
of city. Leader is struck

disappears and eyesight restored.
skirt repels besiegers
lifted, skirt
Especulo 373.274.
D 138 1.1 1.1
Magic
circle protects
from wild animals. Ultramar II.2.254-
57.370-78.
D 1381 .20. Sacred relics of Virgin Mary protect ships from pirate's attack.
Cantigas 35.
D1385. Magic object protects from

D1385.19.1. Saint's hose
protect
evil spirits.
woman from
incubus.
a.b.c.
116;
Tubach 1118.
D1400. Magic object overcomes person.
D 1400. 1.1 6. Magic pennant enables bearer to succeed in any imdertaking. Qifar^. 138.
D 1402. 7.
Sword
that causes death to foe
when drawn
given to yovmg
Alexander. Alexandre c. 94.

D1443. Magic object expels animals.
*D1 443.2. Saint excommunicates flies that are plaguing a monastery.

They all die. Especulo 269.181.
D1500. Magic object controls disease.
*D 1500.0.2. Book devoted to Virgin Mary has curative powers when
placed on royal body. Cantigas 209.
D 1500. 1.7.2.
Magic healing
spittle.
Jesus cures blind
man
with
saliva.
Castigos 1.39-40.
*D1500.1.7.3.5. Blood flows from side of crucifix that has been stomped
upon and tormented. Used as cure, a.b.c. 91; Tubach 1373.
D1505. Magic object cures blindness.
D 1505.5.4.
Magic spring cures blindness. Location overheard by man

blinded by monkey-king. Gatos 28.
D1507. Magic object restores speech.
D1507.5. Magic cake chewed first by a fox restores speech of princess.
Gatos 28.
D1515. Magic antidote for poison.
*D1 5 15.2.2. Words of mass can protect humans from snake venom. Castigos
4.54.
D1520. Magic object affords miraculous transportation.

*D1 524.9.1. Magic wind transports hero. Saint's boat is carried at great
speed to destination. San Alejo p. 74.
D1525. Magic submarine (boat). Alexander explores sea floor. Alexandre
cc. 2305-17; Castigos MS A BNM 6559 153.33 (ADMYTE
104z;);
Tubach
123.
D1550. Magic object opens and closes.

D1551. Waters magically divide and close (Red
BNM 6559 15.122.
Sea). Castigos
MS A
D 1557.1.
Pilgrims denied entrance to tomb of Santiago pray to him. Saint

causes doors to shatter and they enter. Santiago 18.94-96.
D1560. Magic object performs other services for owner.

D 156 1.2.2. Magic treasure. Magic treasvire (coins hidden in mouse hole)
gives mouse power to leap into basket of food suspended up high by hermit. Deprived of treasure, loses power. Calila p. 210; Exemplario A5v.
*D 156 1.2. 5. Magic
power
down. Metalworker able
in six golden chains
to
make requested
when melted
from one chain;
changes
vessel
reserves five. LTZrrawar 1.1.58.100.
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MOTIF INDEX OF
D1600-D1699. Characteristics of magic objects.

D1620. Magic automata.
*D1 622.4. Image of Virgin Mary placed in bed by nuns changes
tosses
and turns
as if she
color
and
were in labor. Cantigas 361.
Tubach 1373.
D1624.2.
Crucifix bleeds after being stabbed. a.b.c. 90;
D 1639. 2.
Image of Virgin saves painter who had painted ugly picture of
devil.
Devil had pulled scaffold away.
Cantigas 74; a.b.c.
Tubach 3573.
*D1 639.2. 1 Image of Virgin cvires queen at point of death.
D1650. Other characteristics of magic objects.
.
D 1652. 1.1.
Charitable person's supply of bread
146, 147; Especulo 169.114; Cantigas 203;
is
263;
Cantigas 256.
inexhaustible. a.b,c.
Tubach 766.
D1654. Immovable object.
D 1654.9.1.
Corpse cannot be moved. Corpse of priest's concubine magiheavy to carry. Only other concubines can carry her. Especulo 111.72-73; Tubach 1265.
D1654.il. Letter in hand of dead saint (pilgrim) can only be removed by
pope (abandoned wife, patriarch, bishop, king). San Alejo pp. 78-79;
cally too
Armas p. 128.
*D1 654. 11.2. Letter
in hand of dead convert to Christianity can only be

removed by bishop who converted him. a.b,c. 283.
D1700-D2199. MAGIC POWERS AND MANIFESTATIONS

D1710-D1799. Possession and means of employment of magic
powers.
D1712. Soothsayer (diviner, oracle).
D1712.3 Interpreter of dreams. Bishop interprets
king's dream. a.b.c. 61;
Tubach 1785.
*D1712.4. Queen
brothers
bom
casts lots
France
in
and
will
reads stars to foretell ftature. TTiree
come
to
conquer holy land. Ultramar
1.1.166.323.
*D1712.4.1.1.
Interpreter of dreams. False interpretation given
enemy. Must
by
king's
family and advisers, bathe in their blood, and de-
kill
stroy his defenses to avoid losing his realm. Calila p. 280; Exemplario
lOv.
D1713. Magic powers of hermit (saint).

*D1713.1. Magic powers of saint. Beam for construction of church in
honor of saint found to be too short. Saint magically extends it. Especulo 206.143-44; cf Tubach 512.
*D1713.2. Saint's prayers enable man to return from dead to do pen-
ance. a.b.c. 129;
*D1713.3. Saint
Tubach 4151.
and cuts them in half without peril.

Tubach 4151; cf Tubach 4279.
*D1713.4. Magic powers of saint enable him to win dice game with gambler. a.b.c. 252; Tubach 2239, 4151.
*D1713.5. Magic powers of saint show him face of death. a.b.c. 296;
Tubach 4151.
a.b.c.
holds scorpions
237;
*D1713.6. Magic powers of
saint give
him second
sight,
a.b.c.
378;
Tubach4151.
*D1713.7. Saint magically causes emperor's throne to bum. Emperor
forced to rise and show him signs of reverence. Especulo 464.368.
*D1713.8. Flood waters stop miraculously at door of saint's church. a.b.c.
31;
Tubach 2091.
*D1713.9. Infant Jesus commands date palm to bend down to give shade
in desert. Castigos MS A
6559 31.145 (ADMYTE 92^).
*D1713.10. Infant Jesus chases dragons away to protect family. Castigos
MS A
6559 31.145 (ADMYTE 92z;).
D1714. Magic powers of person without sin.
*D1714.2. Saint saves man who had pledged fealty to Satan. a.b.c. 23;
BNM
BNM
Milagros 2, 14; Talavera 1.13.90.
D1719. Possession of magic powers: miscellaneous.

D1719.6. Magic power of holy cross. Man taught power of cross. Moses'
magic rod was of the wood of the cross. Especulo 142.98; cf. Tubach
5373.
*D1 7 19.6.1. Magic power
of cross. Enchanted skull unable to speak in

presence of sign of cross. Especulo 147.100.
*D1719.6.2. Magic power of holy cross. David's weapon against Goliath
prefigured cross. Especulo 148.100-1.
*D1 7 19.6.3. Magic power
of
cross.
Victim saves
self
from murder by
making sign of cross with his arms, a.b.c. 94.

D1726. Magic power derived from deity.
*D 1726.0.2.
Old man prays
that
ing spiritual sermons and to
God grant him power

fall
to stay
awake dui-
asleep during evil speech. Especulo
175.119.
D1745. Magic power rendered ineffective.
*D 1745.1.1.
Magician 's power rendered ineffective when king recites John

"In the beginning was the word." Especulo 530.417.
*D1 745.3. Witch comes to cure young saint's headache. He sends her
away. Especulo 529.417.
1:1.
D1760. Means of producing magic power.
D 1766. 1.2.
Prayers of woman cause Virgin
Jesus. a.b.c. 280;
Mary
to
show her
the infant
Tubach 1021, 1022.
D 1766. 1.3.
Garment produced by prayer. Man's prayer to Virgin Mary

weaves garment for her. a.b.c. 276; Cantigas 274; Tubach 3913.
1766. 1.4. Pain stopped by prayer. Priest must give up fornication; in
exchange, pains are cured by saint's prayers. Especulo 110.72.
D1766.1.7. Cleric prays to Santiago for release firom captivity. He appears, imchains prisoners magically, and leads them to fireedom. Santiago 1.45-48, 11.73-74; 14.77-79; cf Tubach 926 (Virgin Mary).
*D1766. 1.7.1. Prisoner's wife prays for his release. Released, he tells her
that in prison, he felt himself fireed firom his restraints. a.b.c. 318;
Especulo 247.169; Tubach 3893.
*D1766.1.7.2 Prisoner chained cruelly miraculously released firom chains
at tierce when mass was said for him. Especulo 249.170.
20
MOTIF INDEX OF
D 1766. 1.8. Food produced by prayer. Cleric unable to feed workmen who
are repairing church dedicated to saint prays to saint for help. Finds
of bread. Especulo 207.144.

Bishop trapped in hill of sand. His wife mourned and left
offerings of food, wine, and candles in church for a year, failing one
day. He was sustained magically for a year (failing one day) imtil he
an oven
full
*D 1766. 1.8.1.
was rescued. Especulo 154.106-7.

*D1766.1.8.2. Sailor drowning at sea saved by mass at moment when it
was said for him. Magically supplied with bread. Especulo 251.170-
71;Tubach4148.
*D1766.1.9. Prayers of community led by saint defeat devil. a.b.c. 23.
*D 1766. 1.10. Hermit prays for companionship. Bear comes to serve him.
a. B.C.
329;
Tubach 519.
*D 1766.1.1 1.
a.b.c.
329;
Prayers of holy
*D 1766. 1.1 2.
a.b.c.
331;
cause four evildoers to sicken and die.
Prayers bring rain. Farmers

cf.
*D 1 766. 1.13.
nied by
man
Tubach 519.
Prayer.
devil.
shown how
to pray devoutly.
Tubach 3885.
Man enters church dark, heavy with sin accompa-
He prays, and
leaves light, bright,
and accompanied by
an angel. a.b.c. 332.

*D1766.1.14. Captive's prayers move mountain. a.b.c. 170; Tubach 3424.
*D1766.1.15. Prince throws weapons down and prays for victory. Wins
battle. a.b.c. 32;
Tubach 3875.
D1766.6. Magic result from sign of the cross.

*D1766.6.4.1. Sign of cross. Saint makes sign of cross over poisoned
wine and is able to drink it without danger. Especulo 141.98.
*D1766.6.4.2. Sign of cross. Saint makes sign of cross and wine glass
containing poison breaks and spills contents. Especulo 138.96.
*D1766.6.4.3. Sign of cross. Evil spirit conjured away by sign of cross.
Sign of cross cures bishop's ruddy face, a.b.c. 157.
D1766.7. Magic results from uttering powerful name.
*D 17 66.7. 1.2.
Philosophers come to dispute with bishop to show him he

should return to their ancient faith. He orders them to be silent in
Christ's name, and they lose power of speech. a.b.c. 431; Tubach
4560.
D1766.7.3. Magic results produced in name of saint. Pilgrim falls into sea,
calls out to Santiago. Friend throws shield to him. Travels safely to
port under Santiago's protection. Santiago 10.72-73.
D1800-D2199. Manifestations of magic power.

D1810. Magic knowledge.
D18 10.0.2. Magic
knowledge. Devil disguised as magician conjures
up
envoy of enemy's plans. Especulo 147.100.

Dl 8 10.0.3.1. Saint perceives cheat. He knows that a boy has hidden a
basket of fruit sent him by a friend. He warns boy that a snake has
hidden in basket, a.b.c. 393; Tubach 4259.
D1810.0.3.2. Saint perceives cheat. Pilgrims hide their clothes in woods
magical skull to
tell
21
and then ask
saint to clothe them.
own clothes in woods,

D1811. Magic wisdom.
their
*D1811.3. Poet
calls
on Virgin
a.b.c.
Mary
He
378;
tells them to return and

Tubach 3805.
for perfect line in
poem
get
to her.
Cantigas 202.
D1812. Magic power of prophecy.
*D1 8 12.3.3.0.4.
Captive interprets royal dream. Grateful king frees him.
a.b.c. 61.
D1812.3.3.8. Pregnant woman's dream reveals future of unborn child. a.b.c.

180; Ultramar 1.1.84.169, 1.1.144.290-91; Alexandre cc. 348-49.
*D1 81 2.3.3.8.1. Father's dream that sun's rays emanated from pregnant
wife's womb. Prophecy of future greatness of unborn child, a.b.c.
180.
*D1812.3.3.12. Death of bishop revealed in deacon's dream.
a.b.c. 65.
D1812.5. Future learned through omens.

D1812.5.0.1 Omens from sneezing (flatulence). Omen makes wolf leave
food behind in hope of better. LBA cc. 766-79; Esopete p. 91-93.
D1812.5.0.2. Kill bird that lands on head. Omen of personal gain or loss
to realm. Good ruler chooses not to kill. Castigos MS A
6559
BNM
57.184.
D1812.5.1.4. Eclipse as
evil
omen.
*D1 8 12.5.2. 12. Omen. Bird
left
Tubach 1475.3; Alexandre
c.
1227.
serpent's egg in king's lap. Sign that
unborn son would rule the world, a.b.c. 180.

*D1812.5.2.13. Omen. Hen's egg heated produced a crested chick.
Omen that imbom royal child would be a son who would rule
empire,
a.b.c. 180.
D1813. Magic knowledge of events in distant place.

*D1813.1.3.1. Dream warns king of uprising and danger to Christian
church. King and queen have same dream of Virgin Mary and child
in danger of fire. Cantigas 345.
*D1813.5. Jesus comes to bishop in dream to lead him to interment of Saint
Martha. Sends for saint's gloves and ring as evidence of his presence.
Especulo 300.208-9.
D1814. Magic advice.

D1814.2. Advice from dream. St. James appears, tells king he will defeat
enemy. PCG 2.629.360.
*D1814.2.1. Advice from dream. Angel appears in dream to three
knights. They must go to holy land and capture it. Ultramar
1.1.188.362-63.
*D1814.2.2. Advice from dream. Cleric dreams of birds of prey; must

htmt usurers. Especulo 565.461.
D1815. Magic knowledge of strange tongues.
D1815.2. Magic knowledge of language of animals. Aesop rewarded for
kindness to traveler. Esopete p.
3.
D1816.2. Lost object discovered by magic.

*D1816.2.1.1. Lost object discovered by magic. Stolen ring
recovered in fish's belly. Cantigas 369; Tubach 4102.
22
lost in river,
MOTIF INDEX OF
*D1 8 16.2.2.
Lost animal (falcon) discovered miraculously. Virgin
Mary
helps noble hunter to find lost falcon. Cantigas 366.

*D1816.2.3. Lost sheep brought safely home by Virgin Mary. Cantigas 398.
Mary. Necklace,
wedding, stolen. Cantigas 212.
*D1 8 16.2.5. Lost ring recovered. Royal ring found by traveler and
returned to owner who had prayed to Virgin Mary. Cantigas 376.
D1817. Magic detection of crime.
*D1 81 6.2.4.
Stolen necklace returned to owner by Virgin
borrowed by poor
woman
for
*D1817.0.1.7. God disguised as pilgrim says he has eyes in back of neck.

Saw theft of pig by barber. Especulo 553.445; Tubach 1018.
Dl 81 7.0.2. Magic sight of blind bishop sees that an archdeacon is about
to poison him. Drinks poison but sends message that evil archdeacon
will not succeed him because he will die magically, a.b.c. 239;
Tubach
697.
D1820. Magic sight and hearing.

D 1820. 1.1. Magic sight of blind holy man
lets
him
see that king
is
king.
239.
a.b.c.
D 182 1.7.
Knight entering a monastery decided
to
remain mute to avoid
Muteness enables him to see demons carry off soul of dying

knight, and angels carrying off soul of another knight, a.b.c. 409.
D1825. Kinds of magic sight.
D 1825.3.2. Magic power of sight. Sees angel in form of bright star over
heads of good people or dark star over the heads of evil people. a.b.c.
error.
203; Especulo 481.378.
D 1825.3.3.1.
through
air
Magic power to see souls after death. Souls of the just

and souls of the damned fall. Especulo 336.237-39.
D1830. Magic strength.

D1831. Magic strength resides
powerless. Castigos
*D 183 1.4. Magic
fly
Samson, shorn by Delilah, is left

6559 22.138 (ADMYTE
80r).
in hair.
MS A BNM
strength in lion skin.
Woman
convinces Hercules to
take off magic garb and to discard magic club. Rustres mujeres
21.27?^28^;(Iole).
*D 1835.7. Magic
faith
strength of short-statured knight-warrior derived firom
and moral rectitude (died
a virgin). Castigos 1.38-39;
Tubach
4656.
D1840. Magic invulnerability.

D 1840. 1.2. Magic invulnerability of
snakes with his bare hands.
D1840. 1.2.1. Saint
a.b.c.
saint.
237;
Able to sunder poisonous
Tubach 4279.
invulnerable to poison. Drinks poison;
divine protection. Estados 1.62;
is
saved by
Tubach 4151.
D 1840. 1.4. Man protected from
damnation by good works. Gave store of

good works to save sinner. Devils will take saintly man now bereft of
good works. Generous act judged sufficient for salvation, a.b.c. 138.
D1841. Invulnerability from certain things.
*D 184 1.1. 2. King's robes unmarked by mud. Kneels to honor host, rises
unsoiled. Castigos MS A BNM 6559 16.127 (ADMYTE
66r);
Tubach
1110.
23
*D1841.1.3. Invulnerability from sword blows. Image of Virgin Mary

resists blows of enemies. Cantigas 215.
*D 184 1.1. 4. Words of mass give invulnerability from venom of poisonous
snakes. Castigos 4.54.
D 184 1.3.
Burning magically evaded;
thrown into
survives being
monk
survives
when
cell set afire;
389; Tubach 2038.

Image of Virgin Mary resists
fiery ftimace. a.b.c.
D1841.3.2. Invulnerability from fire.

burning by enemies. Cantigas 215.
184 1.3. 3. Sacred book or manuscript does not bum in fire. Book of St.
James's miracles does not bum, Santiago p. 45.
1841 .4.4. Rain or snow avoids certain places according to desire of saint or
monk. Saint makes sign of cross and creates an area free of rain in a
D
D
storm. Especulo 140.97.
*D1841.4.6. Invulnerability from drowning. Image of Virgin Mary resists

drowning by enemies. Cantigas 215.
*D1841.4.7. Woman pilgrim falls into sea, calls upon Virgin for help. Is
saved. Cantigas 383.
D1845.2. Clothes
Alexandre
D 1846.4.2.
cc.
confer invulnerability.
Hero
as infant given
magic
gifts.
100-6.
Virgin
Mary
anointing restores
him
sends maidens to anoint dying man.

to
life.
Magic
Cantigas 204.
D1880. Magic rejuvenation.

*D1882.1.1. Magic rejuvenation. Monk, after suffering wasting disease,
prays to Virgin Mary and is rejuvenated. Appears to be twenty. Cantigas 141.
D1890. Magic aging.

*D 1890.0.1. Magic aging. Monk falls to knees at mention of Virgin
Mary. Sickens and ages rapidly. Cantigas 141.
D1920. Other permanent magic characteristics.
D1925.3. Barrenness removed by prayer. After years of prayer childless
couple have child. San Alejo p. 68; Sendebar p. 67; Cantigas 43.
D2000. Magic forgetfulness.
D20 11.1.
Years seem moments while
man
listens to
song of
bird.
Monk
in
search of heaven follows bird of paradise. Returns to monastery 200

years later. a.b.c. 181; Especulo 290.201; Cantigas 103; Tubach 3378.
D2020. Magic loss of speech.
*D2021 .2. Gambler punished for blasphemy. Tongue grew a palm's length
and he lost power of speech. a.b.c. 52; Tubach 677; cf. Tubach 4906.
D2025. Magic recovery of speech.
*D2025.6. Magic
recovery of speech as
reward for hospitality to
traveler.
Esopete pp. 3-4.
*D2025.7. Son, bom mute,
recovers speech
when
his father
is
in danger.
Cries out warning. a.b.c. 173.
D2031. Magic illusion.

D2031.5. Man magically made to believe self to be bishop, archbishop,
cardinal, and pope. When he reftises to reward the magician, the
latter shows him the reality. Lucanor Ex. 1 1
24
MOTIF INDEX OF
D2050-D2099. Destructive magic powers.

D2070. Bewitching.
*D2071.0.4.
Women
with double pupils
kill
those
who
anger them with a
glance. Glosa 2.3.20.340.
*D2071.0.5. Men kill enemies with eyes like a basilisk. Glosa 2.3.20.340.
D2072.0.1. Sword made magically helpless. Executioner's arm paralyzed;
unable to behead holy man. a.b.c. 295.
D2072.0.3. Ship held back miraculously. Man devoted to Virgin Mary is
captive of Moorish pirates. Ships cannot leave port until he is released. Cantigas 95.
*D2072.7. Thief prevented magically from leaving church. Virgin Mary

keeps him there until he confesses and returns stolen money to
fellow pilgrim. Cantigas 302.
D2080. Magic used against property.

D2086.1. Sword magically dulled in attempted execution of innocent
woman. a.b.c. 14; Tubach 4697.
*D2086.2.1. Executioner's sword unable to behead prisoner under protection of Santiago. Santiago 20.99-101.
*D2089.3.2. Magic spell causes knight's horses
D2090. Other destructive magic powers.
D209 1.11.
They
to die in
ten days. Qifarp.
5.
Black cloud magically blown upon army of hero's enemy.

blinded
are
and
begin
striking
each
other.
Ultramar
1.1.105.218.
*D2091.17. Enemy's arrows

turn against the archer.
D2093. Walls
from target magically so that they

2.568.322-24.
deflected
PCG
(Jericho) overthrown by magic. Castigos
MS A BNM 6559
69.198.
D2100D2199. Other manifestations of magic power.

D2105. Provisions magically furnished.
*D2105.2.1. Magically furnished food
for his generosity to her
when
supply. Virgin
she visited
him
Mary rewards man
in disguise. Cantigas
335.
D2106. Magic multiplication of objects.

D2106.1.5. Multiplication of loaves and fishes. Jesus made five loaves and
two fish to feed 5,000 people. Castigos MS A BNM 6559 54.181.
D2120. Magic transportation.
D2 125.1. Magic power to walk on water. Saint sends disciple to save a
youth from drowning. Obedience gave him magical power to walk on
water. Especulo 416.314.
D2140. Magic control of elements.
D2 140.1.
Control of weather by holy man's prayers. Friars
rain in vain; holy
man's prayers more
had prayed
for
powerfiil; they bring rain. a.b.c.
266.
D2 140.1.1. Storm magically stilled, Jesus appears to Simon and other fishermen and saves them from storm at sea.
8.100; Castigos MS A BNM 6559 84.217
Castigos
MS A BNM 6559
(ADMYTE
22r); cf.
Tu-
bach 4649.
25
D2 14 1.0. 9.
of Moorish
pirates
renirn and
Virgin Mary causes storm at sea to impede escape

who have plundered Christian settlement. They
tvim over spoils to king. Cantigas 379.
D2142. Winds controlled by magic.

D2142.0.2. Winds free warship trapped in narrow river. Caused by prayers
to Virgin Mary. Cantigas 27 1
D2142.1. Wind produced by magic. Woman has power to cause winds to
produce tempests. Ilustres mujeres \6.23v (Medea).
D2143. Precipitation controlled by magic.
D2 143. 1.3. Holy man magically produces rain by praying, a.b.c. 331;
Tubach 3885.
*D2143. 1.3.1. Preaching friar promises rain to flock

and pray to Virgin Mary. Cantigas 143.
if
they will repent sins
D2143.2.1. Church spared in flood because of prayers. Flood waters

reached doors of church. a.b.c. 31; Tubach 2091.
*D2 143.4.2. Image of Virgin Mary placed in vineyard protects it from
hailstorm that devastates other vineyards in vicinity. Cantigas 161.
D2 148.3.
Virgin Mary will halt volcanic

poem in her praise. Cantigas 301
D2149.4. Magic control of gravitation.
eruption if
good
man
writes a
*D2149.4.3. Stonemason, falling from great height, calls upon Virgin

Mary. He hangs by fingertips until she comes. Cantigas 242, 249.
*D2 149.4.4. Virgin Mary saves workmen when sand hill collapses and
smothers them. Cantigas 252.
*D2 149.4.5. Virgin Mary saves assembled worshipers. Keeps great wooden
beam from falling. Cantigas 266.
D2150. Miscellaneous magic manifestations.
D2151.1.3. Sea calmed by prayer
to
Santiago. Saint saves ship in storm.
Santiago 9.69-72.
*D2151.9. Magic
control of waters. Bishop's prayers
mend destroyed walls of city. a.b.c.

D2152. Magic control of mountains.
dry up flood and
332.
D2152.1. Magic leveling of mountain. Christians remember Matthew

17:20. To obey sultan's orders to level a mountain, they use prayer.
a.b.c. 170; Especulo 281.188-89; Tubach 3424.
*D2152.1.1. God causes mountain to fall on enemy of Christian army.
PCG
2.568.323.
*D2152.1.2. Mountains caused to fall. Alexander prayed that mountains

seal off captives who had offended their own god. Especulo 283. 1 89-90.
*D2 152.6. Virgin Mary's image's roar causes earth tremors to protect
monk from prosecution for minting money illegally. Cantigas 1 64.
D2156. Magic control over animals.
D2 156.5. Homed
vipers easily controlled
by
saint.
a.b.c.
237;
Tubach
4279.
*D2156.12. Saint shuns eating meat. Requests fish at father's table. A

great fish was caught for him where none had ever been seen.
Especulo 2.4-5.
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MOTIF INDEX OF
*D2156.13. Hero fearlessly leads lion by collar back into cage. CMC w.
2282-2304.
D2158. Magic control of fires.
D2 158.1. Magic kindling of fire. Enchanter's spell causes fire to be
kindled only in contact with a particular woman's private parts.
c.
LBA
263.
D2 158.2. Magic extinguishing offire. Virgin Mary's image uses veil to extinguish church
Cantigas 332.
fire.
D2161. Magic healing power.

*D21 61 .2.4. Magic candle that protects against erysipelas given to devotees
by Virgin Mary. Cantigas 259.
*D2161.2.5. Cure by holy man
MS A BNM
Castigos
effected in absence of patient, a.b.c. 63;
6559 87.221.
D2161.3. Magic cure of physical defect.
D2 16 1.3.1.
Blindness magically cured. Spring cures
all
in
kingdom who
are blind. Gatos 28.
D2 16 1.3. 1.1.
Eyes torn out magically replaced. Monkey-king orders eyes

of truth-teller ripped out. Blinded person overhears animals speak of
secret spring that restores his eyes and cures blindness. Gatos 28.
D2161.3.2. Magic restoration of severed hand. a.b.c. 273, 391; Cantigas
206, 265; Tubach 2419.

D2161.3.6. Loss of speech magically cured by bread (prechewed by
fox).
Gatos 28.
D2 16 1.3. 6.1.
Magic restoration of cut-out tongue. Gambler who loses at

dice blasphemes and cuts out own tongue. Virgin Mary pardons him
and restores it. Cantigas 174.

D2161.4. Methods of magic cure.
D2161.4.9. Baptism as magic cure. Especulo 73.49 (gout); Especulo 74.50
(paralysis); Especulo
*D2 161.4.9.1.
Castigos
75.50 (elephantiasis); Especulo 76.50
(fever).
Blindness magically cured by prayer. Jesus cures blind
MS A BNM
man.
6559 82.221-22.
*D2161.4.9.2. Blindness magically cured. Saint orders blind man to see

in Jesus's name. Especulo 282.189.
*D2161.4.9.3. Blindness magically cured. Jesus uses saliva to restore
blind man's sight. Castigos 1.39.
D2161.5. Magic cure by certain persons.
D21 6 1 .5. 1 Holy man prescribes cure for paralysis. Emperor's son paralyzed
by joy; ctired by anger at preferential treatment of enemy. a.b.c. 204.
*D2 161.5.1.1. Angel appears to man who had sinned by heeding devil's admonition that he accumulate savings. Angel cures his gangrenous foot
when he repents. a.b.c. 355.
*D2161.5.2.3 Cure by milk of Virgin Mary. Saint's sight restored. Can.
tigas 138.
D2161.5.2.4.1. Emperor severs hand ofpurported

stored by Virgin Mary, a.b.c. 273;
traitor.
Severed hand re-
Tubach 2419.
*D2161.5.2.4.2. Severed limb restored by Virgin Mary. Man suffering

pain of erysipelas severed own foot. She restored foot and ciu-es other
27
sufferers' pain. Cantigas 134.
*D2161.5.2.4.3. Severed limbs restored by Virgin Mary. Woman pilgrim's

son captured by thieves who cut off his hands and take out his eyes.
Pilgrim prays to Virgin and she restores his hands and eyes. Cantigas
146.
*D2161.5.2.4.4. Severed tongue replaced by Virgin Mary. Man punished

by heretics able once again to sing her praises. Cantigas 156.
*D2161.5.2.4.5. Severed hand restored by Virgin Mary. Pope severs hand
kissed by woman. Restored miraculously by Virgin Mary, a.b.c. 391;
Cantigas 206; Tubach 2419.
*D2161.5.2.4.8. Severed limbs restored by Virgin Mary. Yovmg man
kicked mother. Begged mother's pardon but could not enter church
he severed offending foot. Virgin restored it. Cantigas 127.
until
D2 16 1.5. 2. 5. Woman
poisoned by spider venom cured by Virgin Mary.
MS
BNM
A
6559 82.216.
*D2161.5.2.5.1. Chaplain swallows spider from communion chalice. Virgin
Mary cures him; spider leaves body through arm. Cantigas 222.
D2 16 1.5. 2. 6. Terrible headaches that prevent monk (nun) from praying
cured by Virgin Mary, a.b.c. 279; Tubach 2488.
*D2161.5.2.7. Virgin Mary removes arrow piercing face (eye) of devotee.
Especulo 363.266; Castigos
Cantigas 126, 129.
*D2161.5.2.8. Blindness cured by Virgin Mary in exchange for vow to go

to church and to abstain from meat. Especulo 562.456.
*D2161.5.5.1. Angel cures man's foot after hearing him confess that he
had sinned by accumulating wealth, a.b.c. 355.
D2163. Magic defense in battle.
*D2 163.3.1.
Statue of Virgin
Mary
intercepts
arrow to protect those
behind her in defense of precious monstrance. Cantigas 51.

*D2163.3.1.1. Virgin Mary protects knight from enemies. She surrounds
him magically with garland of roses. Cantigas 121.
*D2163.3.1.2. Devils cause playful battle at festival to turn serious. Virgin
Mary intervenes so that combatants are not hurt. Cantigas 198.
*D2163.5.3. Military leader, facing defeat, threw down arms and prayed.
Troops rallied and prevailed against enemy, a.b.c. 32; Tubach 3875.
*D2163.5.4. Bishop's prayers visit enemy troops with flies and stinging
insects. Horses and camels flee and siege of city is lifted. a.b.c. 332;
Tubach 2754.
D2167. Corpse saved from corruption.
*D2 167.0.1. Corpse magically saved from corruption. Holy man alwajrs
said Ave Maria. Body buried beneath tree whose leaves bore legend
"Ave Maria." a.b.c. 43.
*D2 167.0.2. Corpse magically saved from corruption because of previous
devotion to Virgin Mary. When grave was opened aromatic flowers
issued from vmcorrupted corpse's mouth. Milagros 3.
*D2 167.0.3. Corpses magically saved from corruption. Saint and wife lived
chastely for thirty-six years. Disinterred, bodies vmcorrupted. Especulo
93.63-64.
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MOTIF INDEX OF
*D21 67.0.4.
Corpses magically saved from corruption.
Emit sweet
fra-
grance. Barlaam pp. 349-50.
D2174. Magic dancing.

D2174. Magic dancing. Enchanted persons dance till released. Priest curses
young dancers for levity and lustfulness on Christmas Eve. They
cannot detach selves and must dance until a year passes. Especulo
132.90-91; Tubach 1419.
D2176. Exorcising by magic.
D2176.3.4. Holy monk drives demon out of his attacker, a.b.c. 291.
*D2 176.3.4.1. Young shepherd's seizures caused by demonic possession.
Devils drown him. Child's imcle makes pilgrimage and Virgin Mary
casts out devils and revives youth. Cantigas 197.
*D2176.3.5.1. Virgin Mary drives demon out of possessed woman who
prayed to her. Cantigas 298.
*D2176.3.6. Mother prays that Virgin Mary drive demon out of possessed
child. She is then able to speak. Cantigas 343.
D2176.5. Burning cut hair to prevent witchcraft, a.b.c. 424.
*D2 176.7. Sinner enters church dressed in black accompanied by devil;
prays and leaves light and clear and accompanied by angel, a.b.c. 330.
E.
THE DEAD
E0-E199.
RESUSCITATION
E63. Resuscitation by prayer.

*E63.3. Husband says
Virgin
to jealous wife that
Mary. Wife stabs
self,
he loves another
and Virgin responds
woman,
to his prayers
the
by
resuscitating wife. Cantigas 84.
*E63.4. Virgin Mary revives man thought to be dead. Already placed in

coffin. Cantigas 223.
*E63.5. Virgin Mary revives pilgrim struck by lightning. He sits up and re-
proaches companion who had doubted.

El 00. Resuscitation by medicines.
Cantigas 311.
ElOl. Resuscitation by ointment. Woman thought to be dead revived by

salve and heat. Apolonio c. 308.
El 05. Resuscitation by herbs. Sage sent in quest to India to find herbs
with power of resuscitation. Exemplario 5r-5v\ Calila pp. 99-102.
E120. Other means of resuscitation.
El 2 1.3. Resuscitation by Virgin Mary. After three miscarriages, woman
has still-born child. Child brought back to life. Cantigas 118, 224.
*E1 2 1 .3. 1 Little girl who had drowned resuscitated by Virgin Mary during
.
fianeral rites. Cantigas 133.
*E 12 1.3. 1.2.
Resuscitation by Virgin
Mary
(Santiago).
Man
devoted to
Santiago, tricked into castrating self dies on pilgrimage. Corpse taken

for burial revives. Santiago 17.86-94.
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*E 12 1.3. 1.3.
Princess sickens
and
dies; resuscitated
by Virgin Mary. Can-
tigas 122.
of Moorish woman resuscitated by Virgin Mary. Mother

converts to Christianity. Cantigas 167.
*E 12 1.3. 2.1. Newly betrothed son dies in fall. Resuscitated by Virgin
*E 12 1.3. 2. Son
Mary because
of mother's prayers. Youth and betrothed enter relig-
ious orders. Cantigas 241.
*E 12 1.3. 2. 2. Woman neglects promise to make pilgrimage;

to Virgin Mary who resuscitates child dead for four
son
dies.
Prays
days. Cantigas
347.
*E 12 1.3. 2. 3.
Virgin resuscitates child
whose parents brought him
to her
shrine. Cantigas 381.
*E 12 1.3. 3. Woman's
last
surviving son dead three days resuscitated
by
Virgin Mary. Cantigas 168.
*E 12 1.3. 4.
Mary resuscitates boy killed and buried by Jew because

"Gaude Maria." Cantigas 6.
Virgin Mary restores life to drowned child. Transports him to
Virgin
the boy sang
*E 12 1.3. 5.
destination of parents' pilgrimage. Cantigas 171.
*E 12 1.3. 5.1.
Man
fleeing
Moorish
Mary. Returns to house after

alive and well. Cantigas 323.
raiders
commends dead son to Virgin

house untouched and son
attack, finds
*E 12 1.3. 6. Virgin Mary resuscitates robber whose soul demons have carried
off. Mother prayed to Virgin who restored his life. Cantigas 182.
*E 12 1.3. 7. Woman killed by robbers resuscitated by Virgin Mary so that
she can confess. Cantigas 231
Virgin Mary resuscitates girl bleeding from the eyes and
thought to be at point of death for three days. Cantigas 378.
El 2 1.4. Resuscitation by St. James. Prayers to Santiago enabled childless
couple to have child. He dies when on pilgrimage. Santiago resuscitates him. Santiago 3.50-52; Tubach 971.
El 2 1.5. Resuscitation by holy man (priest). Disconsolate widow had not
permitted interment, a.b.c. 286; Tubach 4082.
E121.5.2. Resuscitation by holy man. Grieving mother pleads with saint
*E 12 1.3. 8.
to revive her son.
He
does, a.b.c. 301.
El 50. Circumstances of resuscitation.

*E169. Man makes wax figure of valued falcon
that has died. Takes it to

church and prays to Virgin Mary. She resuscitates bird. Cantigas 352.
*E169.1. Royal scribe makes wax figure of dying horse. Takes it to church
and prays to Virgin Mary. Horse survives. Cantigas 375.
*E169.2. During royal hunt, king's pet weasel is trampled by horse. King
calls on Virgin Mary to save its life. Animal revives. Cantigas 354,
E171. Virgin Mary resuscitates half-flayed mule in response to litde boy's
prayers and promise of candle. Cantigas 178, 228.
E200-E599. GHOSTS AND OTHER REVENANTS

E200-E299. Malevolent return from the dead.
E234. Ghost punishes injury received in life.
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MOTIF INDEX OF
E234.0.2. Ghost punishes person who mocks it. St. Gregory strikes dead
evil successor. a.h.c. 100; cf. Tubach 3817.
E235. Return from dead to punish indignities to corpse, or ghost.
E235.4.3.1. Corpse of usurer rises up, destroys church furnishings, beats
monks, kills one, because his soul was suffering torments despite
promises that soul would be prayed out of hell, a.b.c. 149; Tubach
5031.
E235.7. Return from dead to capture thief of sheep. Corpse emanates
power to hold thief captive and to make stolen sheep adhere to him.
Thief has to pass the tomb of a holy man with his stolen sheep magically stuck to him so that he was caught. a.b.c. 99; Tubach 1498 b.
*E235.9. Disinterred corpse
spits
gold at grave robbers.
They
flee. a.b.c.
123.
E243. Ghosts in cemetery attack bishop who had suspended priest who
had said requiem mass for dead each day. a.b.c. 297; Tubach 2424.
E300-E399. Friendly return from the dead.
*E301. Prior returns from dead to tell pious sacristan of his torment and of
how the Virgin Mary had led him to heaven. Sacristan related all to the
chapter. Milagros 12; Especulo 333.234, 376.276.
E301.1.
his
Monk
life
*E301.2.
appears
to friend to tell
him he has been saved because of
as a religious. Especulo 503.395, 510.402-3.

Cleric
who had
refused to accept bishopric returns from
scholar he was better off than those church
oflficials
dead to
among
tell
the
damned. Especulo 471.371.

*E301.3. Monk returns from dead tormented because he had given a pair
of shoes to a nephew without permission. Asks friend to get shoes
and to return them to free him from torment. Especulo 480.377-78;
Tubach 4347.
*E301.4. Monk returns from dead to ask for prayers to shorten his stay in
purgatory. Abbot and monks cut short chapter meeting to pray for
him. Especulo 488.385.
*E301.5. Dead monk tortured and ugly appears to friend to warn him that
pride in disputation and scholarship will be pvinished. Especulo 540.434.
*E301.6. Friendly return of dead monk. Grateful for thirty days of continuous masses said for him. Especulo 150.104-5.
*E301.7. Dead cleric returns to tell friend he is damned. Asked why
confession and sacrament did not save him replied that they had no
effect, because he acted out of fear of God, not out of love. Especulo
552.444-45; Tubach 1188 a) 1.
*E301.8. Pilgrim returns from dead to warn companions to take leave of
their feudal lord who is going to die badly. Lord falls from horse and
surrenders soul to demons. Santiago 16.81-85.
*E301.9. Soul of dead man returns. Warns that he had wasted his time
on earth. Especulo 406.303.

*E301.10. Dead woman returns
Condemned
to
comb
to
warn another of peril of self-adornment.

comb. Jardin p. 285;
hair painfully with iron
Gfosa 2.1.21.106.
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who asks him for genus and species of

philosopher answers that in hell there is no scholarship,
only torment and intemperate winds. Especulo 335.235.
*E302.
Aristotle appears to scholar
Dead
logic.
*E303. Scholar returns from dead to tell friend that he read devil's
message written on his hand; devil grateful for fools who come to
hell because of bad churchmen. Especulo 470.371.
E310. Dead lover's friendly return.
*E312. Young woman returns to ask lover to say mass for her. Their carnal
desire was sin. He says mass and enters religious order. Especulo
353.251-52.
E320. Dead relative's friendly return.
E323. Dead mother returns, grateful to son for having completed her
penance. Especulo 166.111-12.
E323.4. Mother returns from the dead to tell son of torments of hell and
joys of heaven. Especulo 56.38-39.
*E323.9. Dead mother returns. Suffers, covered with fiery serpents. Cleric
son's prayers cannot help because she had adorned herself excessively
in life. Especulo 432.326-27.
E325. Dead sister's ghost returns resplendent. Saint's acts of penance had
freed her from torment. Especulo 163.110.
E326. Dead brother permitted to return to life to repent his sins and save
his soul. While on earth he asks pope to say mass for his dead broth-
er to free him from purgatory. Milagros 10.

*E326. 1 Dead brother's friendly return. Tells brother he has gone directly
to heaven because of his pilgrimage to Holy Land. Especulo 144.99.
E360. Other reasons for friendly return from the dead.
*E361.4. Young woman, delivered from purgatory, rerwm^ to thank deacon
(to thank her employer) who had prayed that she benefit from all his
pilgrimages, charity, and good works. Especulo 317.222, 318.222-23.
E365. Return from death to ask forgiveness.
.
Woman thought to have died without stain on character returns

confessor she had offended her mother during her lifetime.
Devils now torment her. Especulo 440.334; a.b.c. 336.
*E365.0.1.
to
tell
Woman thought to have died without stain on character returns to

confessor that she had listened to and enjoyed secular music.
E365. 1.
tell
Asks forgiveness. Especulo 5.92-93; Tubach 1188 a) 4.

E366. Return from death to aid living.
E366.1. Return of dead monk to tell how Virgin Mary had saved him from
devils. Monk's body twisted and became discolored when devils were
tormenting him. Cantigas 123.
*E367.6. Soul of nun returns to preach repentance. Out of shame she had
not repented her sins when alive, a.b.c. 75; Tubach 1188 a) 4.
E368. Pupil returns from dead to warn master of futility of his studies.
Wears magic cloak bearing sophistries lined with perilous fire. Droplet from cloak bums master's hand a.b.c. 417; Especulo 278.185-86;
Tubach 1103.
*E369. Dead
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apostate's
hand
swells with blood
and
points to heaven.
He
MOTIF INDEX OF
cries
out that another had defeated him. Especulo 54.37-38.
E400E599. Ghosts and revenants: miscellaneous.

E410. The unquiet grave.
*E410.3. Murdered child's grave hidden
in stable,
uncovered by rooting
pig. Talavera 1.24.117.
E411. Saint asks

soul in hell.
if
head
Cannot
is
of a Christian or of a pagan. Severed head's

435; Especulo 330.231-32; Tubach
rest, a.b.c.
3111.
Man stole houses and orchard dedicated to St. Lawrence and St.
Lawrence bruised his arm on Judgement Day. Virgin pleads
for him. Permitted to return to body (bruise is visible) for thirty days
to do penance and then to die. a.b.c. 129; Especulo 215.147-48.
*E4 11.0.2.1.1. Man stole from churches. Given chance to return to body
to do penance. Especulo 216.148.
E41 1.0.2.2. Unconfessed person cannot rest in grave. Priest who delayed to
E41 1 .0.2. 1
Ines. St.
hear confession wept. God grants return for penance. a.b.c. 386;
Especulo 122.82; Tubach 1188 b) 2.
*E41 1.0.2.3. Grave of excommunicated person opened, found to be filled
with foul boiling water. Bishop absolves dead man and body turns to
dust. Especulo 272.183;
Tubach 1924.
E4 11.0.5.1.
Rich man's body dragged from grave by demons and thrown

into grave in unblessed ground, a.b.c. 398; Especulo 513.405-6; Tu-
bach 1254.
E4 11.0.6.
body. Unrepentant sinner told earth will not be

be eaten by birds and beasts. Prophecy fulfilled.
his
Earth
tomb; he
rejects
will
1.0.6.1. Earth rejects buried severed arm of young woman magically

cursed to dance for a year. Especulo 132.90-91.
*E41 1.0.9. Sinner buried in church. Voice from grave says, "I am burning." Grave opened to find only shroud. a.b.c. 400; Especulo
514.406; Tubach 1137.
*E41
*E4 11.0.9.1.
who had sex with goddaughter dies after seven days.

consuming it totally, a.b.c. 404; Tubach 2037.
E411.4. Usurer cannot rest in grave. Insists that monks remove body
from church. Especulo 564.460-61.
*E4 11.4.1. Usurer tormented in grave rises up and attacks monks who
had promised to pray for him. a.b.c. 149; Tubach 5031.
*E4 11.11. Dead knight cannot rest. Had desecrated cemetery attacking
a man. Asks friend to make amends to hermit he had injured.
Especulo 213.146-47; Tubach 2944 d).
*E4 11.12. Dead canon cannot rest because committed sin of vainglory. Asks
for prayers of other canon. Especulo 295.204; Tubach 1464 e).
E412. Person under religious ban cannot rest in grave.
Priest
Fire rises from grave
E412.1. Excommunicated person cannot rest in grave. Nuns threatened

with excommunication leave their grave in church when deacon says
that all excommunicated ones must leave. Especulo 267.180-81;
Tubach 1925.
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*E4 12.1.1. Excommunicated suffer even
in grave.
Their bones are
restless.
Especulo 271.182-83.
E412.2. Unbaptized person can stay in paradise only if he is baptized.

Especulo 77.50; cf. Tubach 475.
*E412.6. Dead man had not completed penance of three years. Friend says
it for him, and he returns partially each year until he is whole at end.
*E412.7. Dead nun cannot rest until penance completed. Abbess and other
nuns do
it
and she
is
Tubach 3213.
*E412.8. Dead scholar
released from torment. Especulo 167.112;
in hell.
Guilty of greed, vainglory and
cf.
lust.
Especulo 296.204-5.
E415. Dead mother cannot rest until son completes her penance. Especulo
166.111-12; Tubach 3667.
E415.2. Dead man returns to rebuke relatives because they had not sold
his horse and given money to poor, a.b.c. 298; Especulo 261.176;
Tubach 3349.
*E4 15.2.1. Dead scholar cannot rest imtil friend who has kept his belongings sells them and gives money to poor. Especulo 162.109-10; Tubach 3349.
*E415.2.2. Dead monk cannot rest until brothers give his belongings to
poor. Especulo 164.110-11; Tubach 3349.
*E4 15.3.1. Dead cleric returns to rebuke bishop who had not used money
left him to pay for masses. Especulo 266.178; Tubach 3349.
E415.4. Dead cannot rest until money debts are paid. Returns weighed
down
with chains.
264.177-78;
cf.
Debts paid, chains
will
be
lifted.
Especulo
Tubach 1499.
*E4 15.5. Dead cannot rest until stolen goods are returned.
Especulo 265. 178.
E420. Revenants.
E42 1.1.1. Ghost
visible to one person alone. Monk, seated with others,

alone sees soul of his brother who died at distant place. a.b.c. 25.
E425.2.3. Revenants as recently dead abbot and monks. Beat cellarer who
had not
distributed alms to poor to honor their deaths. Especulo

163.112-13.
E430. Defense against ghosts and the dead.
*E434.8.2. Sign of cross. Jew in Apollo's temple banishes evil spirits with
sign of cross. Saves bishop from sin. Is converted. a.b.c. 92; Especulo
137.96.
E440. Walking ghost "laid."

E446.2.1. Ghost laid by burning lock of hair. Devil appears disguised as
woman's dead son tells her to find holy relic (Virgin Mary's golden
hair)
tells
and
Her confessor
Tubach 2276.
to climb a very tall tree for special branches.
her to
bum
hair.
Ghost disappears.
a.b.c.
424;
E480. Abode of the dead.

*E481.1.3. Daughter visits mother in hell where she sees mother in
torment. Chooses not to follow mother's evil ways. Especulo 88.61;
Tubach 1450.
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MOTIF INDEX OF
*E481
1 .4.
Daughter
with the
saints.
visits father in
Chooses to
heaven where he disports self happily
live
Tubach 1450.
E490. Meetings of the dead.
*E499.5. Dead in cemetery rise up
good
life like
her father's. Especulo
88.61;
priest
who
to attack bishop
who
has removed
said daily prayers for them. Bishop restores priest. a.h.c.
297; Especulo 153.106, 155.107; Tubach 2424, 3214.

*E499.6. Dead in cemetery rise up gratefully to receive holy water and
prayers offered every Monday by bishop. Especulo 156.107.
*E499.7. Dead in cemetery give responses to prayer for dead. Especulo
157.108, 158.109.
E530. Ghosts of objects.

E533.2.
toll.
Self-tolling bells.
San
When
saint's soul leaves
body,
all bells
in city
Alejo ip.ll.
E540. IMiscellaneous actions of revenants.

*E586.0. 1. Dead person's soul returns at moment of death.
a.h.c. 26.
E586.1. Dead return on burial day. Souls seen ascending by travelers at

sea. a.b.c. 26.
E600-E699. REINCARNATION
E630. Reincarnation in object.
E631.0.2. Flowering tree from grave with "ave" on leaves. Grows from
tomb as reward. Disinterred, body preserved, roots of tree came from
cadaver's mouth, a.b.c. 43; Tubach 430.
E631.0.2.1. Illiterate knight could only learn to read "Ave Maria."
Flowering plant grew on his grave; on each leaf "Ave Maria" was
written in gold letters. Root of plant grew from cadaver's mouth.
a.b.c.
328; Especulo 378.277;
Tubach 427.
E700-E799. THE SOUL

E720. Soul leaves or enters body.
*E721 .0. 1 Man's soul leaves his body. Views four fires representing principal sins of world. Returns to body that is marked by a burn from
these fires on shoulder and cheek. a.b.c. 308; Tubach 818.
.
*E72 1 .0.2. Widow's soul is

as
warning against
sin.
carried to grave of sinner buried in sacred ground
Body
is
corrupted and malodorous. Especulo
515.406.
E72 1.1. Soul
leaves body in sleep.
Dream
is
experience of extracorporeal
sojourn. a.b.c. 142.
*E721.1.2.6. Soul of monk leaves body to be judged in heaven. Returns,

tells brothers of judgement and then dies. Especulo 466.369.
E721.6. On return to body soul crosses on scythe blade (sword blade) as
bridge. a.b.c. 142.
*E721.11.
Monk
vows
silence.
departing from dying people.
E722.1.
Form
of soul as
it
Muteness enables him

a.b.c.
leaves
to
see
souls
316.
body
at death.
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E722.1.1. Soul as black or white spirit hovers over coffin, a.b.c. 203;
Especub 481.378.
*E722.2.1.2. Soul is invisible as it leaves the body of a firiar. a.b.c. 24.
*E722.2.13. Soul heard to speak as it departs. Reproaches person and
promises tonnent in hell. Especulo 104.69.
*E722.2.14. Soul of poor man taken by Jesus Christ. He is promised comfort in heaven. Especulo 447.343.
*E722.3.4. Monk sees soul of brother at moment of brother's death in a
distant city, a.b.c. 25; Tubach 4551.
*E722.3.5. Men at sea saw soul on way to heaven. Later learned it was
soul of a pious man who had died at that moment. a.b.c. 26; Tubach
4551.
E723.6. Appearance of his wraith as announcement ofperson's death. Cleric
appears to servant on trip for master. Especulo 61.42-43.
E727. Relation of body to soul.

E727.1. Debate of body and soul. Crestomatia 2.465-69.
E728. Evil spirit possesses person.
E728.1. Bishop expels evil spirit from his calumniator, a.b.c. 157.
*E728.1.2. Devil cast out of calumniator by prayers of calumniated person.
a.b.c.
117.
E730. Soul in animal form.

in form of dove leaves mouth of saintly monk
Ascends to heaven, a.b.c. 27; Tubach 1760, 4551.
E740. Other forms of the soul.
E732.1. Soul
E741.1.1.2. Star as sign of

hero. Alexandre c. 8.
birth of hero;
as
he
dies.
supernatural birth of culture
E750. PerUs of the soul.

E751. Souls at Judgement Day. The just rewarded by youthful form and
will be in air with God; imjust will be tormented below. Castigos MS
A
6559 89.225.
*E752.1.1.2. Devil disguised as magician acquires man's soul in exchange
BNM
for marriage with beloved. a.b.c. 23; Talavera 1.13.90; Tubach 3566.
E752.2. Soul carried off by demon (Devil). Castigos MS A
6559
89.226; Tubach 4548.
*E752.2.1. Rich man, greedy and avaricious, about to die, asks for one
BNM
night's delay. Devils take soul in
morning,
a.b.c.
119;
Tubach 1050.
E754. Saved souls.

E754. 1.3.1. Monk who had denied God
in cave awaiting restoration
is given penance to pass three weeks

of soul. Asked three times what he had
seen. Third time saw soul return. a.b.c. 106.

E754.1.9. Soul captive in block of ice used to relieve bishop's gout.
Bishop says thirty masses to free captive soul, a.b.c. 28; Especulo
151.105; Tubach 2717, 4151.
E754.1.10. Devil denied soul of monk. Shown switches used to beat him
to cleanse his soul. Especulo 453.352.
E754.2. Knight follows Jesus' steps in Jerusalem. Prays on Mt. Olivet that
his soul follow to heaven. Prayer answered. a.b.c. 434.
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MOTIF INDEX OF
E755. Destination of soul.
E7 5 5. 2. 1.1. Soul
Soul carried
good people.
*E755.2.7.1.
2514.
of sinner wrenched from bodies with pitchforks by devil.

to hell; angels come with music to transport souls of
ofif
a.b.c.
293; Especulo 444.341-42;
Priest's soul seen in hell's torment.
*E755.2.7.2. Soul of dying man

woman capable of prophecy.
cere. Lucanor Ex. 40.
E756. Contest over souls.
E756.1. Angels and devils ready
Tubach
is
spied in hell
He
is
Tubach 4553.
Tubach
Especulo 109.72;
by
diabolically possessed
there because his piety was insin-
to fight
for good abbot's soul, a.b.c. 30;
237.
E756.4.1. Soul of gambler won by saint in dice game. Dice miraculously

split to make higher score for saint, a.b.c. 252; Tubach 2239.
*E756.4.2. Saint regains pact youth signed with devil. Soul restored. a.b.c.
23; Talavera 1.13.90;
Tubach 3572.
E760. Life index.

*E765.4.3.2. Abbot and pupil will die at same moment. Death predicted
by image of Infant Jesus. Cantigas 353; Tubach 1475 b) 1.
E783. Vital head.
*E783.9. Severed head rejoins body. Virgin Mary protects man whose
head had been severed by thieves. Cantigas 96.
F.
F0-F199.
MARVELS
OTHERWORLD JOURNEYS
FIO. Journey to upper world.

Fl 1.1. Abbot in coma for three days. In heaven being judged, dies happy.
a.b.c. 303 (not in Paris MS).
Fl 1.3. Simple man journeys to heaven and learns names of those who will
die from pestilence; proof: returns able to speak foreign tongues.
a.b.c.
383.
F81. Descent to lower world of dead.

*F88. Monk travels to hell to see those in torment. Sees a monk whose sin
was daily drunkenness who hopes for deliverance because he had lit
a
lamp before
St.
Nicholas's altar every day. Especulo 196.137.
FllOF199. Miscellaneous otherworlds.

F129.4. Journey to otherworld island. Hero
in oarless boat lands on shore

of otherworld where doors open magically to him. Qifar p. 133.
F160. Nature of otherworld.

F 174.2. Hero welcomed to otherworld by
beautiful
women who bring him
palfrey to ride to the court of their empress. Qifar p. 133.
F185. Otherworld queen.
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F185. Otherworld queen
gifted with second sight
but cannot
foretell future.
îfarp. 133.
F200-F699.
F302. Fairy mistress.
2VIARVELOUS CREATURES
offers gifts to man to be her lover. She offers a

magic hound, a hawk, and a horse. Qifar pp. 134-36.
F305. OfiFspring of fairy and mortal.
*F305.4. Child of fairy and mortal bom seven days after conception.
Reaches maturity in seven days. Qifar p. 68.
F310. Fairies and human children.
F312.1. Supernatural beings bestow gifts at birth of hero. Sword and shield
made by Vulcan; belt and sheath made by Philosophy; two good
fairies give magical shirt that is protection from drunkenness and
lust; other fairies give magic tunic that is protection from disloyalty,
cold and heat; cloak that is protection from fear and sloth. Alexandre
cc. 89-103.
F370. Visits to fairyland.
F377.1. Supernatural lapse of time in paradise. Knight, in French court,
awakes after three years believes it was only three days, a.b.c. 181;
F302.3.2. Fairy (demon)
Especulo 291.201-2.
*F377.1.1. Supernatural lapse of time in paradise. Cleric granted wish to
follow bird to paradise, spends three himdred years. Returns to
monastery. Cantigas 103; a.b.c. 181; Especulo 290.201; Tubach 3378.
F400-F499. Spirits and demons.

F420. Water spirits.
F420.5.1.7.4. Water spirit returns silver axe to woodchopper in place of
the one he has lost. Esopete p. 112.
F460. Mountain spirits.
F460.1.2. Mountain woman has breasts so long she folds them at her
waist (throws
them over her
F470. Night spirits.

*F471.2.0.2. Holy man
gives
shoulder).
woman a
LBA
1019.
c.
token to free her
from incubus.
a.b.c. 116.
F480. House spirits.

F480.2. Serpent as house
spirit
whose presence guarantees
prosperity.
Tubach 4251.
F500-F599. Remarkable persons.
F510. Monstrous persons.
F5 1 .0.2. 1 Two-headed person. Baby bom with two heads each one
Esopete p. 52;
fac-
ing the other; two bodies joined at chest (conjoined twins). Esopete
p. 166.
F560. Unusual manner of life.

F565. Women warriors or hunters.
F565.1. Amazons. Women warriors create own kingdom (Marsepia
Lampedon). Abreviada 1.467;

cf.
38
Tubach
Ilustres mujeres 1 1.
&
17 r-18ryjardin 249;
92.
MOTIF INDEX OF
children killed by Amazons or given to fathers (Marsepia

Lampedon). Ahreviada 1.467; Ilustres mujeres 11.17r-18r.
F570. Other extraordinary human beings.
F582. Poison damsels. Woman nourished on poison is fatal to sexual
partners. Damsel sent to Indian king bit him; he died. Poridat 41;
F565. 1. 2. All male
&
Glosa 1.2.34.237; Tubach 3830.

F591.1. Prince (emperor) who never laughs pimishes any who ask him
why. (;i/arp. 130; cf. Tubach 4994.
*F591.3. Holy man who never laughs does so when devil is discomfited
in church, a.b.c. 382.
F600-F699. Persons with extraordinary powers.

F610. Remarkably strong man.
BNM
6559
F628. Strong man as mighty slayer (Samson). Castigos MS A
80r).
22.138 (ADMYTE
F640. Extraordinary powers of perception.
*F642.4. 1 Remarkable application of logic enables philosopher to say that
a worm is hidden in stone. Perceived its tmusual warmth. a.b.c. 313;
.
Tubach 5391.
F645. Marvelously wise man.
F645.3. Remarkable application of logic enables philosopher to say that
horse had been nurtured by an ass. Does not run like horse but like
an ass. a.b.c. 313.
F700-F899
EXTRAORDINARY PLACES AND THINGS
F715. Extraordinary river.
*F7 15.7.1. River
will
punish
liars
who
pass over
it.
Esopete pp. 100-1.
F720. Submarine and subterranean world.

F721 .5. Underwater castle. Knight is carried away by mysterious woman.
Qifarp. 67.
F770. Extraordinary buildings.

Indulgent king pleases wife by surrounding palace with lagoons
with rosewater and spices, and sugar and spice wetlands. Lu-
F7 7 1.2. 4.1.
filled
canor Ex. 30.
F772.1. Tower of Babel: remarkably
tall
tower designed to reach sky. Glosa
3.1.6.35.
F772.2.6. Flying tower that touches neither the earth nor the sky. Plan:
boys urge birds to fly by means of meat held out in fi-ont of them.
Trick: someone must deliver meat to boys. Esopete p. 22.
F810. Extraordinary trees, plants, fruits, etc.
*F8 11.2.2.1 Tree whose leaves bear "ave" grows on grave of holy man.
Disinterred, body is preserved, and roots are growing firom mouth.
a.b.c.
F815.1.
43;
Tubach 430.
Vegetables
(plants)
mature
in miraculously short time.
Are
planted, mature, and give fruit each day anew. Qifar p. 68.
F841. Extraordinary boat.

*F841.2.8. Boat without oars. Comes to shore long enough for
get in. (îfar p.
man
to
30.
39
*F841 .2.9. Boat without oars. Fleeing princess finds a boat supplied with
food and embarks. Disembarks in a barren place to which all were
forbidden entry. Ultramar 1.1.47.82.
F900-F1099. EXTRAORDINARY OCCURRENCES

F910. Extraordinary swallo wings.
F912. Victim kills swallower from within. Hydrus (fabulous water serpent)
enters sleeping crocodile's mouth, bites its heart, and kills it. Gatos
13;
seeTubach 1326.
F930. Extraordinary occurrences concerning seas or waters.

F930.1. Book of saint's miracles immersed in water emerges unharmed.
Santiago p. 45.
F933. Extraordinary occurrences with springs.

F933.1.2. Magic spring flows fi-om roots of date palm at command of
Infant Jesus. Castigos MS A
6559 31.145-46 (ADMYTE
BNM
927;).
*F933.1.4. Spring bursts forth in front of altar eight days before death of
king. PCG 2.964.645.
F940. Extraordinary underground disappearance.

*F941 .2.2. 1 Monastery swallowed by earth for year. At end of year Virgin
.
Mary causes it to reappear;

F950. Marvelous cures.
all
occupants are
safe.
Cantigas 226.
F950.2. Physician prescribes anger to cure patient's paralysis. Titus,

enraged at servant's indulgent treatment of despised enemy and servant's neglectful treatment of him, is cured, a.b.c. 204.
*F950.4.1. Demonically induced illness to be cured by marriage with cleric.
Virgin Mary reproaches the bride and groom who both opt for religious lives. Cantigas 125.
F950.7. Marvelous cure. Jesus cures centurion's wife from a distance
without seeing her. Castigos MS A
6559 86.221.
*F950.7.1. Cure by holy man effected in absence of patient, a.b.c. 63; Cas-
BNM
MS
BNM
tigos
A
6559 87.221.
*F950.8.1. Lovesick man cured by marriage with object of his affection.
Qifarpp. 9-11; Disciplina 2.
F952. Blindness miraculously cured.

*F952.0.3. Saint whose sight was restored miraculously prays that
God
re-
store his blindness. Will see angels without interference of worldly

sight. Especulo
319.224.
F954. Muteness miraculously cured.

F954.5. Mute person speaks. Mute son
cries
out to warn father of dan-
ger. a.b.c. 173; Glosa 2.2.4.133.
F959. Marvelous cures: miscellaneous.

*F959.6.3. Virgin Mary cures youth's madness induced by drinking poison
intended to harm his benefactor. Cantigas 334.
F960. Extraordinary natural phenomena: elements and weather.

*F960.1.2. Extraordinary natural phenomena at birth of hero. Sun dark-
40
MOTIF INDEX OF
enedj sea turbulentj earth trembling, hailstorms, anomalous births.

Alexandre cc. 8-11.
F963.2. Extraordinary wind blows arrows shot against Christians back
BNM
against enemy. PCG 2.568.323; Castigos MS A

6559 10.108;
Abreviada 2.115; Tubach 349, 4773.
*F968.1.1. Lightning bolt kills false accuser of saintly person. a.b.c. 15,
172; Tubach 3046.
*F968.1.2. Lightning bolt cleaves blasphemer in two. a.b.c. 324; Tubach
680.
FIOIO. Other extraordinary events.
F 102 1.5. Scoffing woman challenges Virgin Mary who transports her
through air to shrine leaving her prostrate before altar. Cantigas 153.
F 104 1.8. 2. Madness from grief. Mother is cured of madness by Virgin
Mary after death of young son. Cantigas 331.
FlOSl. Prodigious weeping.

F 105 1.1. Barrel filled miraculously with
repent given task to fill barrel.
tear. Especulo 117.77-78.
*F 105 1.1.1.
Not
penitent's tears.
able to
fill it,
Sinner vmable to
and sheds a
returns
away stain of sin marked on man's

swore allegiance to devil by placing thxmib on palm of
other hand. Left indelible mark. Especulo 119.78.
F1066. Arrow shot at heaven angrily returns bloody. Gambler, angry over
losses, blasphemously shoots at God and Virgin Mary. a.b.c. 36, 236;
palm.
Tears of remorse wash
Man
Cantigas 154;
Tubach
324.
F1066.1. Blasphemer plunges knife in ground lo show how he would treat

Virgin Mary's womb. Knife comes out bloody. a.b.c. 54; Tubach
2937.
Fl 068.2. Wound
punished
one
received in dream. Still there
who provoked
another
when person wakes. God

to
perjure
self.
Glosa
3.2.23.213.
F1097.
Mary keeps Moorish and Christian armies fi-om seeing one

Next day they make peace and retire to own territories.
Virgin
another.
Cantigas 344.
G.
OGRES
G10-G399. KINDS OF
G10-G99. Cannibals and cannibalism.
OGRES
G50. Occasional cannibalism.

G60. Human flesh eaten unwittingly.
G61. Relative's flesh eaten unwittingly. Flesh of courtier's children served
to him by cruel king. Castigos MS A BNM 6559 13.1 18 (ADMYTE
52t;).
G70. Occasional cannibalism: deliberate.
41
*G72.2.1. During
Castigos 5.55;
siege of Jerusalem^ starving
PCG
own
child.
eats corpses of
enemy
mother
Tubach 1851.
Starving army rabble
eats
1.135;
G72.2.2. Siege of Antioch.

dead. UZframar II.2. 150.222.
G300-G399. Other ogres.
G303. DevU (The Devil, Satan).
G303.3. Forms in which devil appears.
in hideous form. Man who saw devil would rather

an oven than see him again. Especulo 189.130.
*G303.3.0.2. Devils appear in hideous form, hairy bodies, huge teeth, terrible eyes, sulfurous flames from nostrils. Especulo 190.130-31.
G303.3.1. Devil in human form.
*G303.3. 1 .3. Devil as a distinguished-looking knight consoles an impoverished man. Castigos MS A
6559 83.216.
G303.3.1.3.1. Devil as a raffish traveler (ribaldo) makes offer for man's
soul. Castigos MS A
6559 89.225.
G303.3. 1 .12.2. Devil as beautiful woman tries to seduce bishop (hermit).
a.b.c. 388; Especulo 179.121-23; Castigos ?,1A11-I^y Tubach 214.
G303.3.1.12.2.1. Devil as beautiful young woman seduces man. She
offers him a himting dog that can catch any beast, a hawk that can
capture any prey, and a horse that is faster than the wind. He must
ask his wife the empress for the dog, for the hawk, for the horse.
G303.3.0.1. Devil
bum
in
BNM
BNM
(îfarpp. 134-36.
G3 03. 3. 1.1 2. 3.
Devil as young
youth torments him.
a.b.c.
*G303.1.12.3.1. Devil comes
He
feeds, shelters
woman whom celibate had known

Tubach 1535.
in his
411;
to hermit's
and clothes
her.
cave inform of distressed woman.

he reaches for her she dis-
When
appears and devil materializes. Castigos 37.177-78.

tries to seduce monk from
G303.3.1.12.4. Devil as old woman

a.b.c. 115; Tubach 1553.
cloister.
G303.3.1.15. Devil appears as Jew to entice cleric to deny his belief.

Castigos MS A
6559 82.215; a.b.c. 261; Milagros 24; Cantigas 3.
G303.3.1.16. Devil appears as recently deceased son to tempt mother to
risk her life, a.b.c. 424.
G303.1.17. Devils appear inform, of neighboring people who had come to
BNM
dine. a.b.c. 112;
Tubach 1648.
*G303.3.1.26. Devil as magician. Learned magic arts as prisoner of

Moors. Especulo 147.100.
*G303.3. 1 .27. Devil as magician. Promised wealth and worldly honor to
youth. Especulo 149.101-2.
*G303.3.1.28. Devil as pilgrim. Advocates life of secular social responsibility in world over spiritual asceticism. San Alejo pp. 104-6.
*G303.3.1.29. Devil as black man accompanied by herd of boars menaces monk. Virgin Mary chases them away. Cantigas 83; cf. Tubach
2461.
*G303.3.1.30. Devil as priest who can predict the future. Accuses
woman of incest. Is vanquished by her protector, the Virgin Mary.
42
MOTIF INDEX OF
a.b.c. 21 A.
*G303.3.1.31. Devil as Moorish customer in brothel. Exchanges blows
with monk-reformer, a.b.c. 229.
G303.3.2. The devil in superhuman form.
G303.3.2. 1 Devil appears as Christ. Saint recognizes the imposture. Cas65591.1.88 (ADMYTE 3r)\ Tubach 1536.
A
tigos 1.37;
.
MS
BNM
G303.3.2.2. Devil appears as angel. Tells abbot to revise order's rules.

a.b.c. 4;
Tubach
19.
*G303.3.2.6. Devil appears as angel. Tells

days, a.b.c. 4; Especulo 1 .6-1;
monk to
fast for eight or
G303.3.3. Devil in animal form.

G303.3.3.1.4. DevU inform of bull. Appears to drunken
20;
nine
Tubach 1529.
cleric.
Milagros
Tubach 1812.
G303.3.3.2.7. Devil inform of monkey. Tells archbishop that money in

his chest belongs to devil. Especulo 59.42.
*G303.3.3.2.11. Devil in form of spider bites over-adorned woman.
Abbot brings Host to banish it. Especulo 429.325.

G303.3.5. Devil changes shape.
*G303.3.5.4. Devil sequentially inform of bull, hairy savage man, and then
lion menaces monk. Monk flees to church and Virgin Mary saves
him. Cantigas 47; Tubach 1812.
*G303.3.5.5. Devil appears sequentially as lion, bear, serpent, griffin,
basilisk to frighten man. Barlaam p. 328.
G303.4. The devil's physical characteristics.
G303.4.8.1. Devil has putrid odor because of sins. Exists only to trap
souls of sinners. Especulo 451.349.
G303.6. Circumstances of devil's appearance.
*G303.6.1.8. Demon laughs when sees another clutch at a woman's skirt.
She
25;
lifts
skirt
and demon
falls in
mud.
a.b.c.
407; Especulo 426.324-
Tubach 1660.
G303.6.2.8. Devil appears to dying man who rebukes him. Especulo

181.123.24.
*G303.6.2.8.1. Devil appears to dying man who pleads for more time.
Dies trying to evade devils. Especub 188.130.
G303.9. Deeds of the devil.
*G303.9.4.3. 1 Devil gets ring from faithfid wife by trickery. Tells husband
it was reward for having sex with her. San Alejo p. 106.
G303.9.4.4. Devil persuades bishop and nun to sin. a.b.c. 92; Tubach
1436.
.
Mary and to
renoimce Christianity in exchange for ecclesiastical post, a.b.c. 261.
*G303.9.4.8.2. Devil makes man his vassal; must deny Jesus and the
*G303.9.4.8.1. Devil demands that bishop deny Christ and
Virgin
Mary
to gain worldly success. Cantigas 281.
*G303.9.4.8.11. Devil tempts youth to deny

sign of cross. Especulo 149.101-2.
Christ.
Youth
flees
making
*G303.9.4.1 1. Devil inform ofvictualer. Tempts monks. Only one takes

food from him. a.b.c. Ill; Tubach 210.
43
*G303.9.4. 1 2. Devil poses as pagan god. Monk must deny Christianity to

win woman. Loses soul, a.b.c. 106.
G303.10. Allies and possessions of the devil.
G303.10.5. Where the devil can't reach, he sends an old woman. False old
woman convinces husband to kill wife. a.b.c. 370 (not in Paris MS);
Lucanor Ex. 42; Esopete pp. 149-50; Tubach 5361.
*G303. 10.20. Snake is messenger of devil. Sent to tempt Eve. Estados
1.39.
G303.15. Places haunted by the devil.

G303.15.3. Devils haunts a house. Cleric's servant protected; made sign
of cross on all sides of house. Especulo 61.42-43; a.b.c. 240.
G303.16. How the devil's power may be escaped or avoided.
G303.16.1. Wife pledged to devil. Virgin Mary substitutes self for a
woman whose husband had pledged her to the devil. a.b.c. 268;
*G303.16.1.1. Demons cause monk and knight's wife to run off with monastery's funds
and husband's fortune.
and orders demons
372.272-74; Tubach 3370.

*G303.16.1.2. Cleric can escape
hoarded treasure and gives

Especulo 61.42-43;
Arrested, Virgin
to take their shape
cf.
it
devil's
and place
power
if
to poor. Fails,
Mary saves them
in prison. Especulo
he takes portion of his
demons guard
treasure.
Tubach 4948.
*G303.16.1.3. Disorderly monks threatened by devils call out to Virgin

Mary. Devils spare them. Especulo 526.412-13.
*G303.16.1.4. Devil defeated by saint's ability to answer riddle. a.b.c. 388;
Tubach
214.
G303.16.2. Devil's power avoided by prayer.

*G303.16.2.1.2. Devil's power avoided by prayer.
Monk who was
ted by devil-victualer's spices, prays and saves

culo
self. a.b.c.
temp-
Ill; Espe-
420.319; Tubach 210.
G303. 16.2.3.4. Nun
eating unblessed lettuce eats
a.b.c. 93; Especulo 139. 96-91 \
demon.
Is
possessed.
Tubach 3503.
*G303. 16.2.3.6. Devil's power avoided by prayer. Simple friar's prayers

will protect him from demons even though the words confound him.
Especulo 419.318-19;
Tubach 1594.
*G303. 16.2.3.7. Monk's prayers deter demonic messenger. Devil cannot

pass spot where monk prays for fifteen days. Especulo 422.320;
Tubach 3276.
*G303. 16.2.3.8. Bishop's prayer banishes devil who had posed as good
man's servant. Cantigas 67.
G303.16.3. Devil's power avoided by the cross.
*G303. 16.3.4.1. Sign of cross. Jew vanquishes devil by making sign of
the cross. Saves saint from sin. a.b.c. 92; Especulo 137.96.
G303.16.5. Administering sacrament destroys devil's power.
*G303. 16.5.3. Devil vanquished when priest passes by carrying the Host.
a.b.c.
432;
Tubach 1602.
*G303. 16.5.4. Devil inform of incubus
44
exorcised. a.b.c. 116.
MOTIF INDEX OF
*G303. 16.5.5. Devil vanquished when paralyzed man
Remembers
*G303. 16.8.1. Demons
his heart.
calls upon Jesus in

442.336-37.
leave at mention of Jesus's name. Especulo
his passion. Especulo
409.306.
*G303. 16.8.2. Demons seek place where Jesus's name is unknown. Dwell
in pagan idols. Especulo 410.306.
*G303. 16.8.3. Demons leave man's body at command of Virgin Mary.
Cantigas 109;
Tubach 3449.
*G303. 16.8.4. Monks who had left monastery protect selves from
by calling upon Virgin Mary. Return to monastery grateful for
devils
deliv-
erance. Cantigas 254.
G303.16.9. Devil impotent because of

absolved. Devil
tells
husband
confession of wife's lover
that wife
who
is
committed adultery, but he
cannot remember with whom, a.b.c. 354; Tubach 1508.

G303.16.il. Various holy persons save one from devil.
G303.16.11.5. Saint disputes devil. Devil is superior because he never
eats nor sleeps. Saint sleeps, eats, but has humility; devil has none.
Especulo 308.218.
G303.16.15. Holy man frees demonically possessed man. Devil slaps holy
man on cheek, and holy man turns other cheek. Devil defeated by
his humility. Especulo 309.218-19, 433.330.
*G303.16.15.1. Devil is denied soul when monk does penance for three
weeks in cave. Soul returns, a.b.c. 106.
*G303. 16. 15.2. Holy man chases devil away with noise made from shaking tear-stained object worn around neck. Especulo 349.248.
G303.16.19. Miscellaneous ways in which devil may be escaped or
his power destroyed.
*G303. 16. 19.21. DevU asks saint for apple, but is unable to utter word
"caridad" in request. Receives apple; it bums his hand, and he flees.
Especulo 85.57.
G303.24. The devil in church.

G303.24. 1.3. In church, devil writes names of people who misbehave. Holy
man laughs when he sees that he has run out of room to list them.
a.b.c.
382; Especulo 180.123;
Tubach 1630.
*G303. 24. 1.4.1. Devil unable to

church; frustrated, potmds on
record
names of aU who misbehave
wall; disappears. a.b.c. 382.
in
Tubach
1630.
G303.24. 1.7. Devil
writes
down names of those who
sleep in church. a.b.c.
382.
*G303.24.1.10. Holy man permitted to pray for three days in church. Man
possessed by devil attacks him. Holy man throws devil out of church
and out of man's body, a.b.c. 291.
G303.25. Miscellaneous devil motifs.
*G303.25.3.1. Devils prefer to be in monastery where sinners resut them
strongly (where they are needed) rather than in the world where sinners are weak, a.b.c. 412; Especulo 182.124; Tubach 3329.
*G303.25.3.2. Single devil suffices for dwelling of usurers. Many devils
45
necessary in monastery where
monks
are harder to catch. Especulo
566.461.
*G303.25.3.3. Devil in monastery prevails in choir (lateness, early departure), dormitory (oversleep, think evil thoughts), refectory (overeat,
excessive fasting). Cannot enter chapter. Especulo 184.125-26.
*G303.25.3.4. Devils in monastery stop up ears of those who sleep during prayers, open the mouths of those who yawn, and sit astride
those who do not resist them. Especulo 421.319-20.
*G303.25.20. Before dying, fortune teller (witch) tells children to take
precautions to protect grave from devils. Devils break through and
capture her soul and carry her off screaming, seated on black horse
with great iron hooks on its back. Especulo 527.415-16.
G400-G499.
FALLING INTO OGRE'S POWER
G400. Person falls into ogre's (devil's) power.

G405. Man on hunt falls into she-devil's power. SendebarDay
H.
HI 1.1.
common
Recognition by telling
life
parents to recognize him.
*H 11.1.5.1.
Tale
6.
TESTS
H0-H199. IDENTITY TESTS:

HIO. Recognition by
3,
RECOGNITION
knowledge.
story.
San
Dead
saint's
account of life causes
Alejo p. 79.
Recognition by hearing lament. Captive in brothel cries out
about her
lost parents. Father recognizes her. Apolonio cc. 530-40.

Hero recounts events of life. Long-lost wife recognizes him.
Apolonio cc. 585-89.
*H. 11.1.5.3. Sons recount separation from family. Parents recognize them.
Qifar pp. 55-56.
H50. Recognition by bodily marks or physical attributes.
H51.2. Recognition by joined toes. Imposture uncovered. Abandoned
*H 11.1.5.2.
princess recognized. Ultramar 1.2.43.570.
H71. Marks of royalty.

*H71.10.8. Wild horse bows before prince. Alexandre
c.
117;
Tubach
96.
H84. Tokens of exploits.

*H84.5. Ring taken as proof of woman's
infidelity.
San
Alejo p. 112.
H94. Identification by ring.

H94.0.1. Recognition of wife's ring in friend's possession informs husband
of her unfaithfulness. Especulo 125.83.
H94.5. Identification through broken ring. Son uses half-ring given to
mother to identify self to father and stepmother. PCG 743.441-42,

751.446^8; Abreviada 2.295.
H105. Parts of bodies as tokens of slaying.
*H 105.8. Severed head of enemy proof of slaying. Knight presents
46
MOTIF INDEX OF
severed head to emperor. Ultramar 1.1.80.158.

H119. Identification by cloth or clothing: miscellaneous.
*H 119.3.
Bishop does not recognize impoverished mother when she wears

finery. She returns wearing humble garments, and he
borrowed
recognizes her. Especulo 441.334-35;
Tubach 3420.
H150. Circumstances of recognition.
HI 5 1.4.
Recognition by cup in sack: alleged stolen goods.
Cup
is
placed
in the sack of Joseph's brethren (Aesop, pilgrim); they are (he
accused of theft. This gives cause for recognition. Esopete p. 23;

38; cf Tubach 3796.
*H 15 1.1 1.1.
Recognition.
defended mother in
adultery. Ultramar
Son
he has
from execution for
identifies self to his parents after
judicial
1. 1
is)
a.b.c.
combat
to save her
.64. 1 1 2-1 3.
H171. Animal (object) indicates election of ruler.

*H 17 1.0.1. One who shoots arrow that kills four birds at once
will
be
king.
UZrramar 1.1.166.326.
*H 175.6. Horse is recognized as having been raised by ass because of gait.
Sultan is recognized as son of a baker because his reward to philosopher is loaves of bread, a.b.c. 313; Tubach 2611.
H200-H299.
TESTS OF TRUTH
H210. Test of guilt or innocence.

H215. Magic manifestation at execution proves innocence. Executioner
unable to
kill
innocent woman.
a.b.c. 14;
Tubach 4697.
H218. Trial by combat.
Woman accused of adultery saved

Lucanor Ex. 44; Ultramar 1.1.68.120.
H218.0.1.1. Vindication by champion. Noble women robbed of lands.
Need champion in judicial combat. Ultramar 1.1.70-80.123-57,
H2 18.0.1.
Vindication by champion.
by knight who
fights accuser.
1.1.80.157-60.
H2 18.0.2.
Long-lost son is champion in judicial combat of mother

accused of adultery. Saves her. Ultramar 1.1.64.111-12,
H220. Ordeals. Guilt or innocence thus established.
H221.2. Ordeal by red-hot iron. Saint made to walk on heated iron bars
to prove her chastity. Especulo 94.64; Tubach 3109.
*H221.2.3. Ordeal by red-hot iron. Adulterous woman confessed and
could handle hot iron bar without pain. Sinned again, was burned by
cold iron bar as she put it in fire. Especulo 493.389; Tubach 59.
H221.3. Ordeal by burning oil. St. John not burned by boiling oil. Especulo 95.64.
*H221 .6.
Falsely accused wife proved innocent
at stake.
Had
when
she survives burning
prayed to Virgin Mary. Perjured lover
bums
to death.
Cantigas 185.
H240. Other
tests of truth.
*H242.2. Scourge marks on body prove that
God had appeared
in
dream.
a.b.c. 65.
H251. Test of truth by magic object.
47
H251.3.4. Stick with money

innocence,
a.b.c.
in
it
breaks
and betrays
234; Especulo 459.358;
thief,
who
swears his
Tubach 3352.
H252. Act of truth.

*H252.7. Act of truth: hemorrhage stopped. Is test of truth that priest's
concubine is a demonic beast. Especulo 115.74-75.
H253. Oaths before gods as test of truth.
*H253.1. Bishop accused of simony must swear innocence in name of
Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Proved guilty; cannot utter "Holy
Spirit." Especulo 465.368-69.
H300-H499. MARRIAGE TESTS

H301. Excessive demands to prevent marriage. Here St. Catherine demands perfection in prospective husbands. At last she receives Jesus.
Castigos MS A BNM 6559 81.214; Tubach 899.
H400-H459. Chastity tests.
H412. Chastity test by ordeal.
*H4 12.7.3.
Chastity ordeal: jumping. Wife leaps
chastity. Protected
by Virgin Mary, she
is
from high place to prove

unharmed. Cantigas 341.
H430. Chastity index.

H439.1.1. Painting on
wife's
stomach as chastity index.
Husband
paints
lamb on stomach before leaving on trip. Stays away years; returns to

find ram portrayed (painted by lover in his absence). Wife retorts:
lamb had matured with the years. LBA cc. 474-85.
H460. Wife tests.
H473. Test of wife's obedience.
H473.2. Test of wife's obedience: the one command. Upon wife's insistence
that he test her by giving her one command, husband tells her not to
go into the oven. She does and oven collapses on her. a.b.c. 307; cf.
Tubach 5278.
*H473.3.1. Test of wife's obedience. Husband, knowing his wife is inclined to be contrary, leaves her two vmguents; warns her not to
apply poisonous one but to use other one. She disobeys and dies. Lucanor Ex. 27; cf. Tubach 5278.
*H474.1. Husband proves wife's total obedience. She agrees with all his
absurd statements: direction of a river's flow, identifying cows as
mares. Lucanor Ex. 27.
H479. Wife tests: miscellaneous.
*H479.3. Husband puts wife's chastity to test. Has men offer her gifts.
She
finally
(Prochris);
H480. Father
succumbs
cf.
to promise of jewels. Rustres mujeres
26.33v-A3v
Tubach 5194.
tests.
H486.2. Test of paternity: shooting at father's corpse. Youngest of supposed sons refuses to shoot and is judged the only genuine son of
dead emperor. a.b.c. 174; Tubach 1272.
H490. Other marriage tests.

H491. Test of mother's and father's love for children.
*H491.2. Fathers carry
48
children on
head
to
save them from flood, even
MOTIF INDEX OF
dying.
ty.
Mothers stepped over and on children trying to escape
to safe-
Castigos 5.55.
H500-H899.
TESTS OF CLEVERNESS
H510. Tests in guessing.

*H5 11.1.3. Wrong choice. Two royal wives must choose between a gift
of a crown or of splendid clothes. Favorite chooses crown and is
berated. Calila p. 280; Exemplario 70r.
H530-H599. Riddles.
H540. Propounding riddles.
H540.3. King propounds riddle. Suitor for princess's hand will lose head
if he cannot answer. Apolonio c. 15; cf. Tubach 4098.
H543.1. Devil held off from person by answering his riddles. St. Andrew,
the bishop, and the devil. Devil, in form of beautiful woman, visits
bishop. St. Andrew appears as pilgrim, answers devil's questions, and
defeats devil. a.b.c. 388;
*H548.2. King poses
Tubach 214.
riddle to rival
tribute for failure. Esopete p.
monarch. Solver to get tribute or pay
20
*H548.2.1 Calendar riddle. Esopete pp. 22-23.

*H548.2.2. River-and-fish riddle. Apolonio cc. 505-6.
*H548.2.3. Reed-grass-and-paper riddle. Apolonio cc. 507-8.
*H548.2,4. Boats-and-water riddle. Apoloni cc. 509-10.
*H548.2.5. Bathhouse-and-bather riddle. Apolonio cc. 511-12.
*H548.2.6. Anchor riddle. Apolonio cc. 513-14.
*H548.2.7. Mirror riddle. Apolonio cc. 520-21.
*H548.2.8. Four-wheels-of-cart riddle. Apolonio cc. 522-23.
*H548.3. Clever slave bests rivals in slave market with riddling responses.
Esopete pp. 6-7.
*H548.4. Riddles as test of wit. Prince poses riddles to youth at court.

Youth confounds prince. Epitus pp. 26-29.
*H548.5. Riddles as test of wit. Slave woman (Teodor) answers riddles
propounded by king and sages. Confounds them all. Teodor pp. 10534.
*H548.6. Customer and entertainer in brothel exchange riddles. Apolonio cc.

505-23.
H561. Solvers of riddles.
H561.5. King and clever minister. King propounds riddles and questions
to his clever minister. Esopete pp. 22-23.
Clever minister gives enigmatic answer in riddle form to king's
*H56 1.5.1.
request that he describe court. Esopete p. 23.

*H561.11. Servant saves master from mob. Master's advice solves riddle
who will first see sun at daybreak. First light of day appears in
western sky. Mob pardons master and makes him king. a.b.c. 401.
Riddle propounded from chance experience. Arrival of imknown
person in strange land. Apolonio cc. 518-19.
*H566. Clever slave woman answers series of riddles based on knowledge
of biblical, theological, and classical truths. Teodor 125-29.
H565.
49
H570. Means of solving riddles.

H572. Reductio ad absurdum of riddle: stallions of Babylon. Why is
mare resdess when stallions of Babylon neigh? Hero beats cat
my
for
having strangled a cock last night in Babylon (impossible distance

away). Esopete p. 22.
H580. Enigmatic statements.
H588.7. Father's
counsel: find treasâê within a foot
(Sons dig everywhere and thus loosen

fruitful.) Esopete pp. 113-14.
*H594.4. Enigmatic
responses to queries
birth. Esopete p. 6; Epitus
soil
of the groimd.
of vineyard which becomes
concerning place of origin and
26-29.
H600. Symbolic interpretations.

H604. Symbolic meaning of spiced and bitter tongue served at dinner. a.b.c.
248; Esopete pp. 12-13; Tubach 4898, 4916.
H605. Angel teaches through parable that work is prayer. Shown man
who twists rope and prays, a.b.c. 7, 333; Tubach 275.
*H605.1. Physician
gives king symbolic prescription for salvation. Qifar p.
75.
H606. Symbolic interpretation of sin. Priest drags heavy sack of sand

behind him to show how men are hindered by sin. a.b.c. 1; Tubach
4413.
*H606.1. Symbolic interpretation of sin. Pilgrim carries heavy iron staff
penitentially. Freed of burden at end of pilgrimage. Cantigas 253.
H607. Discussion by symbols.
H607.1. Disputation between Greeks and Romans. Greek shows one finger, open palm; Roman shows three fingers and clenched fist. Greek
thinks gestures mean monotheism, Trinity, divine power; Roman
sees them as menacing physical gestvires. LBA cc. 46-63; Tubach
2275.
H617. Symbolic interpretation of dreams.

*H617.1. Duke dreams of being in a magic forest, attacked by four lions,
three fierce bears, and two flying dragons followed by ferocious dogs.
Wife interprets it as a warning that his enemies were coming to
attack him. Ultramar 1.1.112.231-32.
*H617.2. Countess (pregnant) dreamt of a griffin and two eagles who
cleared temple in Jerusalem of rats, bats, and owls that had nested
on altars. Placed on a throne by them, a grififin pecks out her heart
and entrails and encircles the city with them. Interpreted: her lineage
will be honored in holy land. Ultramar 1.1.144.290-91.
H630. Riddles of the superlative.
H631.5. What is strongest? Truth. Royal handmaidens debate relative
power of kings, of wine, of women, and of truth. King judges debate
and chooses truth. Castigos 33.157-58.
*H63 1.5.1. What is strongest? Debate among wind, water, and truth.
Truth wins. Qifar p. 136.
H642.2. What is highest? The empyrean heavens. a.b.c. 338; Tubach
214.
50
MOTIF INDEX OF
The diversity and nobility of

179.121-23; Tubach 214.
H659. Riddles of the superlative: miscellaneous.
*H659.7.3. What is greatest good? Charity, a.b.c. 96.
*H659.7.3.1. Woman poses riddle to king who desires her. She will be his
if he answers correctly. What is the best character trait? Conscience
(shame). Lucanor Ex. 50; Tubach 954.
*H648.3, What
human
best thing
is
God
has done?
visages. a.b.c. 338; Especulo
H659.7.4. What
H659.19. What
the greatest villainy? Stealing. a.b.c. 96.
is
easiest to lose
is
and
impossible to recover? Truth. Qifar
p. 136.
Rat-maiden wants most powerful mate of

mountain
blocks winds; mountain gnawed by rodents, therefore she must
marry a rat. Calila p. 244; Exemplario 58r;; Tubach 3428.
*H659.28. What ages man most rapidly? Sleeping with many women.
*H659.27. What
all.
is
strongest?
Sun covered by
clouds; clouds controlled by winds;
Teodor 116.
*H659.29. What is heaviest thing in world? Obligation. Teodor 123.

*H659.30. What is sharpest thing in world? Tongue of men and of
women. Teodor
123.
*H659.31. What is faster than arrow inflight? Thoughts. Teodor 123.

*H659.32. What is faster and more burning than fire? Human heart:
Teodor 123. Angry man's heart: Teodor 129.
*H659.33. What is sweeter than honey? Parental love: Teodor 123. Profit:
Teodor 129.
*H659.34. What is bitterer than bile? Bad children. Teodor 123.

*H659.35. What is the most incurable of illnesses? Foolish, shameless
daughter: Teodor 123. Madness: Teodor 129.
*H659.36. What is harder than steel? Truth. Teodor 124.
*H659.37. What is best and worst thing in world? Words. Teodor 129.
H680. Riddles of distance.
H682. Riddles of heavenly distance.
H682.1.10. How far from earth to heaven? The devil knows for he has
fallen this distance. a.b.c. 338; Especulo 179.121-23; Tubach 214.
*H682.1.11. Where is earth higher than the heavens? In the Empyrean,
where Jesus was raised from earth, a.b.c. 388; Especulo 179.121-23.
H690. Riddles of measure.
H696.1.1. How much water is in the sea? Stop all the rivers, and I will
measure it. Esopete p. 15; Sendebar Day 8; cf. Tubach 4028.
H900-H1199. TESTS OF PROWESS: TASKS

H900-H999. Assignment and performance of tasks.
H910. Assignment of tasks in response to suggestion.
H919.4. Impossible
mands
task assigned by aggrieved person.
One-eyed
man
de-
man
accused of having deprived him of his. Must

remove remaining eye to see if it matches one removed by adversary.
Sendebar Day 8, Tale 22.
eye firom
H920. Assigners of tasks.
*H927.3. Angel comes to hermit to tell him to send young man to defend
his mother in judicial combat to prevent her execution for adultery.
Ultramar lA. 63. 108.
*H927.4. Angel appears to youth assigning him task of being defender of

widows, orphans and those who have been disinherited. Ultramar
1.1.63.109.
*H931.3. Seemingly
a
man
impossible task assigned to get rid of clever slave: find
without cares. Esopete p. 13.
H933. Princess sets hero tasks.

*H933.0.1. Princess assigns three tasks to prospective suitors. She marries
the fiirst to accomplish them. Abreviada 1.10.
H950. Task evaded by subterfuge.
*H951.1. Countertasks. Hold back rivers and streams. Hero will drink
sea if conditions are met. Esopete p. 15.
H970. Help in performing tasks.
*H984. 1.1. Task performed with help of Virgin Mary. Sinner imable to fill
magic pitcher with water for two years, prays to Virgin Mary. His
tears finally
fill
pitcher. Cantigas 155.
H1000-H1199. Nature of tasks.

*H 1049.5. Task: Find a man without
HI 110. Tedious tasks.
HI 1 1 1
cares. Esopete p. 13.
Task: carrying hundreds of sheep across stream, a.b.c. 156; Discip-
lina 12; Esopete p. 144;
HI 129.10.1.
Tubach 4310.
Impossible task: assembling huge quantity of fleas:
colored, separated according to sexual identity. Sendebar
Day
many8,
Tale
22.
HI 130 Superhuman
HI 142.3.
tasks.
Task: drinking the seas dry; countertask: stop
Sendebar
Day
8,
Tale 22; Esopete
H1200-H1399.
H1210. Quest assigned.
all
the rivers.
p. 15.
TESTS OF PROWESS: QUESTS
*H1 2 10.2.1.
Quest assigned by king. King sends sage to India in search

of magic herbs that will resuscitate the dead. Exemplario 5r-5v; Calila
pp. 99-102.
H1370. Miscellaneous quests.
HI 3 76. Spiritual quests.

HI 376.1. Young prince protected from knowledge of death goes out into
city and comes upon old man who tells him of its inevitability. Barlaam pp. 42-43; Estados
HI 376.2.1.
Death;
5082
Spiritual quest.
it is
1.7.
Holy man prays that he be shown face of
a horrific beast with a
H1400-H1599.
HI 400 Fear test.

HI 406.1. Fear test.
52
human
voice, a.b.c. 296;
Tubach
b.
OTHER TESTS
Threat of burning to death innocent person in order
MOTIF INDEX OF
to frighten another. Esopete pp. 13-14.
HI 5 10.
Tests of power to survive.
*H151
Widow
1.5.
proves innocence of dead husband
by holding red-hot
Tubach 1284; cf. Tubach 2759.

Vain attempt to kill man on stairway set with
metal, a.h.c. 365;
HI 53 1.2.
razors.
LBA
c.
267.
H1550-H1569. Tests of character.

*H1551. Physiognomist found to have
science
true
is
teristics his face
shows,
ing anger. Castigos
to
work
and reproof without display6559 31.147.

those who enter city gates must endure insults
suffer criticism
Test of patience:
men there who mock them. a.b.c.

HI 553.4. Monk shows patience by enduring
abbot. a.b.c. 238;
Explains that his
overcome the charac-
MS A BNM
of old
HI 553.5.
traits.
to
(îfar p. 78.
H1553. Test of patience.

HI 553.2. Kings and emperors
HI 553.3.
unfavorable
and that he has had
214;
Tubach 3622.
blow with stool thrown by
Tubach 3619.
Test of patience.
Monk
fails
in test of patience. Tries to live
Loses temper at a cup which overturns and breaks it;

fails again. a.b.c. 221; Tubach 252.
*H1 553.7. Test of patience. Would-be philosopher endures insults from
great philosopher. Told he had proved himself by keeping quiet retorted: "I would have known I was a philosopher if you had been
silent." a.b.c. 408; Tubach 3748.
apart to test
it.
H1554. Test of curiosity.

Test of curiosity: mouse hidden between two plates. Monk boasts
of strong character; told by companion not to lift the upper plate.
HI 554.1.
Tempted, he lifts it, and mouse

H1556. Tests of fideUty.
*H 1556.0.3.
Fidelity of vassals.
from count's leprous
*H 1556.0.4.
lesions.
Fidelity of son.
escapes, a.b.c. 376;
Tubach 3427.
Show
devotion by drinking exudations

Lucanor Ex. 44.
King
gives son, suspected of disloyalty, his
Must not resort to poison or hired assassin. Son

swears loyalty. Gbsa 2.2.2.128-29; Tubach 4485.
sword.
repents and
H1558. Test of friendship.
HI 558.1.
friends.
Test of friendship: the half-friend.
Son brags
to father of
son to
and
his friends
Father
tells
man and
kill
a calf (hog)
tell
many
he has
him away,
remains true to him in his feigned
trouble, a.b.c. 18; Disciplina 1; Qifar pp. 7-8; Esopete pp. 137-39;
Castigos 35.165-68; Lwcanor Ex. 48; Especulo 49.34-35 (ADMYTE
lll?>-113r); Tubach 2216, 2407.
HI 558. 1.1. Test of friendship. Of three friends, the least loved proves
true in emergency, a.b.c. 16; Barlaam pp. 115-18; Especulo 35.24-25.
HI 558.2. Test of friendship: whole friend. In despair, man gives himself
up as murderer rather than endure ftirther misery. His friend tries to
take on himself the guilt and be substituted. Real murderer touched
killed a
and only
ask help in concealing body. All drive
his father's half-friend
53
by
his generosity, confesses. Qifar pp. 9-11; Disciplina 2;
Tubach
2208.
*H 1558.2.1.
Test of friendship: whole friend.
whose
to friend
Man
sickness can only be cured
gives
by
up
his betrothed
love. Qifar pp.
9-11;
Tubach 2215.
*H 1558.1 1.
Test offriendship: to take slap publicly
MS A BNM 6603
HI 561. Tests of valor.
*H 156 1.2. 4. Test of
enemy
as they
36.158
valor
came
(ADMYTE
from
friend. Castigos
92v-93r).
among three knights. First two attacked

The most valiant waited imtil enemy at-
near.
tacked him before fighting back. Lucanor Ex. 15.

H1565. Tests of gratitude.
HI 565.1. Test of gratitude. Magician makes pupil believe he has gained
high office. Though he had promised teacher great rewards, pupil
does not keep promise. Magically removed from high office. Lucanor
Ex. 11;
Tubach 3137.
*H1565.2.
Test of gratitude. Prince sends courtiers a series of presents:

good, better, best, and even better than best. First courtier rejects
them all. Second sends his thanks. Ungrateful one jailed; grateful one
rewarded
further, a.b.c. 206.
H1569. Tests of character: miscellaneous.
*H1 569.2.
youngest son shows willingness

Lucanor Ex. 24.
*H1569.3. Test of worry-free nature. Philosopher tries to shake stolidity
of peasant. To frighten him, threatens to immolate wife. Peasant, unshaken, asks for delay so that own wife can be added to fire. Esopete
pp. 13-14.
*H 1569.4. Test of ability to keep secret. Husband tells wife secret; he has
given birth to a crow. She cannot keep secret. Glosa 2.1.24.119-20;
cf. Tubach 5269.
to serve
Test of ability to reign. King's
and
to learn.
H1570-H1599. IVIiscellaneous
H1573. Religious tests.
tests.
HI 573.2.2.
Angel in disguise tests saint's generosity. Begs for platter of

food sent him by his mother. Saint gives silver platter to him. a.b.c.
137; Especulo 236.159-60; Tubach 5076.
*H 1573.2.4. King tests courtiers' wisdom. Chests adorned with gold and
precious stones contain putrefying remains; chests containing royal
treasures covered with pitch. Barlaam pp. 56-58; Especulo 449.34344; Tubach 967.
H1578. Test of sex: to discover person masking as other sex.
*H1 578. 1.4.3. Test of sex. Boy masking as girl: given choice of playthings, chooses arms, not fripperies. Alexandre cc. 411-15.
HI 584. Tests of space.

*H 1584.3. Land measured according to
Dido
amount encompassed by hide of ox.

orders hide to be cut in thin strips; thus gains large territory
(Dido). Uustres mujeres 40.47r--49z;;
PCG 1. 53. 34-35; Abreviada
1.16.
H1596. Beauty contest.
54
MOTIF INDEX OF
HI 596.1.
Golden apple as prize in beauty
contest.
Judgement of
Paris.
Glosa 3.3.17.379-80.
*H1 596.4. Ape-mother
brags to Jupiter that her child will
contest. All laugh. Esopete pp. 122-23;
HI 599. Contest among demons.

*H 1599.1. Test of evil. Devils vie:
storms
at sea, killed
many;
first
cf.
caused a war; second caused
woman
and many
succumb to
third caused marital strife
deaths; fourth lived in desert and caused a

fleshly desires; fifth
win the beauty
Tubach 4873,
monk
to
triumphed because caused saint to touch a

a.b.c. 92.88-90; Especulo 183.124-25;
with palm of hand.

Tubach 1663.
J.
THE WISE AND THE FOOLISH
J0-J199.
JIO.
Wisdom
ACQUISITION, POSSESSION OF
WISDOM (KNOWLEDGE)
(knowledge) acquired from experience.
J15. Serpent having injured human refuses reconciliation. He knows that

neither can forget his injuries. Esopete pp. 52, 89-90; a.b.c. 74; Tu-
bach 4251.
and bird's son brought up together. Bird kills young boy

and king has bird's son killed. Bird reftises reconciliation because
knows that neither can forget injuries. Calila p. 273.
*J15.1.1. Snake having tried to poison man by secreting poison in cooking
pot, refuses reconciliation because knows that man will never forget.
*J15.1. King's son
Exemplario 43r;
Tubach 4251.
*J15.1.2. Snake's offspring bites and kills

offender and leaves, never to return,
*J1 5.2. Lion raised by
ciliation;
27.142
wounds
man
is
beaten
human
a.b.c.
benefactor's son.
205;
She
kills
Tubach 4251.
and driven away. Later refuses reconMS A BNM 6559
healed, insults did not. Castigos
(ADMYTE
S6r-86v).
J16. Dove disregards experience and loses brood building nest in

place where she lost former brood. Calila p. 352.
same
Lazy trout ignores danger. Does not save self from fishermen
had two companions. Calila p. 149; Exemplario ISr.
*J16.1.
as
J17. Tiger learns through experience to fear man. Esopete p. 123.

*J17.2. Young lion learns through experience to fear man. In spite of the
warning of his father, he searches for man and is trapped and beaten.
Esopete ^^. 98-100.
J21. Counsels proved wise by experience.
J21.1. "Consider the end. " Barber sees inscription over door: "Whatever
you do, do wisely, and think of the consequences." He is hired to
cut king's throat, drops razor, and confesses, a.b.c. 69.
55
J21.2.
when angry." Counsel proved wise by experience.

after long absence and sees man lying with his
Restrains self and learns that it is son bom soon after his
"Do
Man
not act
returns
wife.
home
departure. Lucanor Ex. 36.

*J21.2.1.1. "Do not act when angry." Master will not punish servants
when angry. Asks steward to do it. a.b.c. 219; Castigos
MS A BNM
6559 31.148; Glosa 1.2.14.135-36; Tubach 3991.
"Do not leave the highway. " Coimsel proved wise by experience.
Short cut proves longer in time. a.b.c. 414; Disciplina 18; Tubach
4111.
J21 1 2. "Rue not a thing that is past. " Man lets bird go and then, having
listened to bird's false declaration that she had a precious gem in her
body, tries to climb a tree after her and falls. Esopete pp. 142-43;
a.b.c. 124; Disciplina 22; Qifarp. 76; Barlaam pp. 92-94; cf. Tubach
J21.5.
5324.
*J21.12.1. "Never give up what you have in your hand." Man releases
captive bird in the hope of greater reward. Bird escapes. a.b.c. 124;
Disciplina 22; Qifarp. 76; Esopete pp. 142-43; Barlaam pp. 92-94.
J21.12.3. "Do not try to acquire what cannot be acquired." Man tries
vainly to recapture bird he has released, a.b.c. 124; Disciplina 22;
(îfar p.
76; Esopete pp. 142-43; Barlaam pp. 92-94. See also a.b.c.
300 (not
in Paris
MS,
Perdita res irrecuperabilis non est dolendd). Tale
not given.
J21.13.
tells
"Do not believe what is beyond belief. " Man believes when bird
him she has a precious gem in her body, a.b.c. 124; Disciplina
22; Qifar p. 76; Esopete pp. 142-43; Barlaam pp. 92-94.

*J21.13.1. Previously injured serpent warns farmer repeatedly not
advice from one whom one has injured. Esopete pp. 89-90.
to believe
J21.14. "Never try to reach the unattainable." Man cannot reach the
heights to which a bird can fly. Caimot catch escaped bird. Qifar p.
76; Esopete pp. 142-43.
J21.32. "Do not marry more than one woman." Man who wanted three
wives marries one and is greatly weakened. Loses power to turn millstone.
LBA
cc.
181-216; Tubach 3182.

told: "Stay in your cell.
*J21.53. Elderly monk

you will fornicate."
He
Do
not go to
city
where
goes; fathers a child; returns lamenting birth
of child of disobedience. a.b.c. 176; Tubach 3323.

*J21.54. Dove told not to throw fledglings to fox but to tell fox she must
climb tree if she wants to eat them. Saves fledglings. Calila p. 353;
Exemplario 9\v.
*J22.1 Precept of the lion to his sons: beware of man. Esopete pp. 98-99.
J26. Romans learn from vanquished enemy that enemies can be won more
by kindness than by
cruelty, a.b.c.
289 (not
in Paris
MS); Tubach
4127.
*J26.1. Christian does not heed Jew's declaration that in his faith
the right to take the belongings of anyone who is not a Jew.
and belongings
56
stolen. a.b.c. 202;
he has
Horse
Tubach 2796.
MOTIF INDEX OF
*J28. Friar, living alone, away from community in hope of controlling anger,
finds himself overcome by anger by simple act of filling a jug with
a.b.c. 221; Tubach 252.
Companion traps
others.
disdains
disobedience
in
monk
*J29.
mouse between two plates and warns him not to lift: top one. Fool
unable to obey releases mouse. a.b.c. 376; Tubach 3427.
J30. Wisdom (knowledge) acquired by inference.
*J30.01. Philosopher reads gloomy epitaph and decides to give up worldly
life and to become a hermit. Disciplina 32.
water in his solitude. Returns to monastery,

Foolish
*J30.02. Philosophers recognize disparity between golden sepulcher and the

reality of death. Disciplina 33; Especulo 382.282.
*J31.3. Holy man's simple statement of faith vanquishes disputation of
scholar (heretic). a.b.c. 250; Tubach 2548.
J32. Arrow as man's message shows lion (tiger)

must be. Esopete p. 123.
how terrible man
himself
J50. Wisdom (knowledge) acquired by observation.

*J5 1.1. Fox learns from fate of other animal. Fox learns wisdom of giving
lion's share after seeing punishment meted out to wolf. LBA cc. 8288; Gatos 15;
J52.2.
Tubach 3069.
King descends
to
bottom of sea in glass barrel to learn
observing fishes. Castigos
MS A BNM
Tubach 123.
Bad judge flayed and skin put on
wisdom
firom
(ADMYTE
6559 153.33
I04vy, Glosa 1.2.6.94;

*J55.1.
new
the judgement chair.
judge, taught by fate of father to be
good judge.
His son, the
a.b.c.
223;
Tu-
bach 2855, 2859.

*J56.1.1. Ruler learns lesson from virtuous bishop with ruddy and pimply
face. Bishop casts out devils fi-om sword bearer. Lesson: do not judge
a person
by appearance,
a.b.c. 157.
*J57. Ruler learns to be merciful fi-om example of bees

sting, a.b.c. 381.
who
die after they
Wisdom
(knowledge) taught by parable.

Wisdom taught by parable: the good shepherd. Barlaam p. 103.
*J80.0.2. Wisdom taught by parable: the seed sown on good and sterile
ground. Barlaam p. 51; Castigos MS A BNM 6559 50.176.
*J80.0.3. Wisdom taught by parable: turbulence of powder dissolved in
J80.
*J80.0.1.
water subsides in time,
a.b.c. 82; Especulo
496.392.
*J80.0.3.1. Wisdom taught by parable: storm-tossed ship should be saved

and not crashed on rocks. Siimer should be welcomed back into
monastery,
a.b.c.
351.
*J80.0.4. Wisdom taught by parable: guests who do not attend

are idolaters who reftise God's invitation. Barlaam p. 86.
wedding
Wisdom taught by parable: seven wise and seven foolish virgins.

come with oil for lamps. Barlaam p. 87.
*J80.0.6. Wisdom taught by parable: the prodigal son. Barlaam pp.
*J80.0.5.
Wise
virgins
102-3.
*J80.0.7.
Wisdom taught by
parable: the
good shepherd. Barlaam pp.
103^.
57
Wisdom taught by
*J80.0.8.
parable: the unjust steward.
Barlaam pp.
127-28.
*J80.0.9. Wisdom taught by parable: man tells tale of farmer
a calf and an ox to tame tmruly calf. Esopete pp. 64-65.
who yoked
Wisdom
(knowledge) taught by symbolic act.

taught by a symbolic act: monk frightened by evil
Wisdom
*J80.3.1.
thoughts. Abbot tells him to bare his chest and try to receive the
wind. Just as he cannot do this, he cannot prevent thoughts from
coming to him. a.b.c. 290.
*J80.3.2. Wisdom taught by a symbolic act: basket of sand is abbot's sins.
J80.3.
a.b.c. 1;
Tubach 4413.
Wisdom taught by a
*J80.3.3.
symbolic act: chests adorned with gold
and
precious stones contain putrefying remains; chests containing royal

treasures covered with pitch, Barlaam pp. 56-58; Tubach 967.
Wisdom taught by symbolic
*J80.3.4.
Prayer
work.
is
a.b.c. 7;
Tubach
Wisdom taught by symbolic
*J80.3.5.
act:
angel in vision twists rope.
275.
act:
sack of wheat; sinner tries to hft

Sinner's imwillingness to change is
it;
confessor shows sinner heavy
holy
like pull
man
pulls against him.

toward earth. Gatos 38;
Especulo 404.302.
Wisdom taught by symbolic act: saint sends pupil unclothed to

He is to bring back meat balanced on his head. Packs of
dogs and flocks of birds attack him. They are like the devils who
attack ascetics who withdraw from world. Especulo 475.376.
*J80.4. King likens trumpets of death to the call all sinners face when they
*J80.3.6.
market.
Tubach 4994.
Holy man teaches lesson to nephew who had suffered injury. Holy
publicly embraces offender and makes peace with him. Especulo
know
*J80.4.
man
they will die. a.b.c. 192, 292;
1.
437.331.
teUs fable of mule who refused to acknowledge his low-bom
Poet rewarded because he acknowledges his base parentage.
a.b.c. 199; Disciplina 4; Tubach 3829.
*J81.4. Parable comparing filling a hole with sea water using a small spoon
with the task of putting the truth about the Trinity in a book, a.b.c.
413; Especulo 539.433-34.
*J81.5. Parable comparing siege of a city with task of resisting temptation.
Monks must deprive selves of food and water as do besiegers to
cities. Especulo 541.437.
*J81.6. Holy man explains God's image in tranquil, meek hearts. Image's
movement is like coin dropped into glass of water. Especulo 340.240-
*J80.5.
King
father.
41.
*J81.7. Holy man teaches carnally tempted young monk. Just as mother
weans infant by applying bitter medicine to nipples, he must think of
bitter
punishment
for carnal sins after death. Especulo 380.281.
*J83. 1 Philosopher teaches princeling by showing him ravens quarreling over

devastated kingdoms. Youth recognizes that he has been devastating
.
his
58
own
realm. Lucanor Ex. 21.
MOTIF INDEX OF
*J83.2. Wise
man
tells
Alexander that even
for birds of prey. a.b.c. 86;
Tubach
lions,
when
they die, are perches
148.
man warns that thief's marriage will swell number of thieves

marriage of sun would create new suns to dry up world. Esopete p. 35; Tubach 4677.
*J88.2. Wisdom taught by parable. Worse to be bitten by an angry rabid
dog than by a dog who uses teeth to carry pups, a.b.c. 232.
*J89. Dishes of poorly seasoned tongues and of well-seasoned ones compared to unkind and kind speech. a.b.c. 248; Esopete p. 13; Tubach
*J88.1. Wise
just as
4898, 4916.
how to achieve peace of mind by seeing man who

worked and then prayed. Work and prayer are answer, a.b.c. 333;
*J94.1. Saint learns
Tubach
275.
*J99.3. Friar told that those
who do
not sow
and
reap will starve even
who sow and reap badly. Especulo 405.302-3.

Even
is given bam full of grain, she will not stop scratching
hen
if
*J99.4.
the ground: likewise woman will not desist from adultery (told by
before those
Venus
JIOO.
to Jupiter in defense of adultery). Esopete p. 167.
Wisdom
(knowledge) taught by necessity.
JlOl. Crow drops pebbles into water jug to raise

J120. Wisdom (knowledge) from children.
J121. Wisdom from
er.
His
child.
will refuse
it
debar
A man
Day
8,
126.
man refused warm cloth to his
cloth to save for the day
fath-
when he
too
Tubach 2001.
Seducer refrains when child
to his father. a.b.c. 337;
J122.1. Wisdom from

foolish.
Ungrateful
own son begged warm
level. Esopete p.
is
child.
foolish to leave his family
and
to
tells him he is
go whoring. Sen-
Tale 20.
*J122.1.1. Joint depositor tricks old woman. She mistakenly pays him in
court: child advises old woman to demand presence of all three joint
depositors before she repays

8,
money
entrusted to her. Sendebar
Day
Tale 21; Tubach 3353.
J130. Wisdom (knowledge) acquired from animals.

*J132.1. Crow advises eagle to drop snail to break its shell. Esopete p. 37.
*J133.7. Animal gives wise example to man. Cock serves (sexually) fifteen
hens; man can serve only one woman. Esopete p. 167.
J140. Wisdom (knowledge) through education.

*J142.3. Illiterate knight wants to learn to read. Can only learn two words:
"Ave Maria. " a.b.c. 44.
J 144. Well-trained kid obeys
p. 51; cf.
ChUd
mother goat, does not open to wolf. Esopete
Tubach 2312.
him in ignorance of sadness, death, aging, and

Barlaam p. 22.
*J148. Emperor insists that offspring be prepared. Sons to learn manly arts:
running, jumping, throwing lances, swimming; daughters, spinning
and weaving. a.b.c. 325; Glosa 2.1.13.67; Tubach 5383.
J150. Other means of acquiring wisdom (knowledge).
J151. Wisdom from old person.
J 147.
sheltered to keep
infirmity. Useless.
59
*J 15 1,1.1. Aged master hidden by servant during revolt. Master's advice

solves riddle who will first see sun at daybreak. First light of day
Mob
appears in western sky.
pardons master and makes him king.
401.
a.b.c.
*J151.5. Aged nursemaid taught her charge temperance.

wine, a.b.c. 51.
Aged man
Not permitted
"Take main road, not

Tubach 4111.
J152. Wisdom (knowledge) from sage (teacher).
*J151.6.
counsels travelers.
short cut."
414; Disciplina 18;
a.b.c.
Wisdom of simple living. Cynical philosopher (Socrates/Diogenes)

of a large earthenware vessel: open part toward the sun,
closed part toward the wind and the rain, a.b.c. 427; Disciplina 28;
Jl 52.
lives in half
cf.
Tubach 1673.
Wisdom from philosopher. Urinates while walking to protect

head from noon-day sun, to keep feet from burning, and to escape
*J 152.7.
urine's odor. Esopete pp. 7-8.

*J 152.8. Philosopher advises courtier. Advises him to deceive king. Willing
to follow him in exile. a.b.c. 75; Barlaam pp. 26-31; Lucanor Ex. 1.
*J 152.9.
virtue
Wisdom from philosopher. Tells knights that giving is greatest

and robbing the greatest vice. Reproaches them for taking and
robbing every day.

*J152.10. Wise
more he
*J 15 2.1
fails.
107;
a.b.c.
1.
pupil
man
a.b.c. 96.
cannot
King
tell
king what
God
is.
The more he
gives sage three days to tell him.
tries,
the
Cannot do
it.
Tubach 2903.
Philosopher confines pupil
knows
all.
and
self in
room for
six
months
imtil
Sendebar p. 72.
*J152.12. Philosopher counsels illegitimate princeling to wear garments to

remind himself of both his noble and base lineage, a.b.c. 189.
*J152.13. Philosopher writes Alexander's epitaph about Death's powers.

a.b.c. 294.
*J152.14. Philosopher
will, a.b.c. 259.
is
king's superior. Is
guided by reason and king by
man counsels emperor against vengeance against citizens

who had dishonored statue of late empress. Saved from killing many.
*J152.15. Holy
a.b.c.
342 (not
in Paris
MS);
see also a.b.c. 437.
*J152.16. Philosopher reinterprets royal dream. Prophecies of

pretation come true. Calila p. 280.
*J152.17. Philosopher answers riddle for king: most important
tue is conscience. Lucanor Ex. 50; Tubach 954.
new
inter-
human
*J152.18. Philosopher advises father to marry daughter to poor

is good, a.b.c. 422; Lucanor Ex. 25; cf. Tubach 1444.
vir-
man who
Man warned not to eat philosopher's cabbages. Told:
"If you want

you will be a truth teller, not a flatterer." Castigos MS
A BNM 6559 (ADMYTE 107r).
J153. Wisdom (knowledge) from holy man.
*J 153.3. Hermit explains why God granted water for garden but did not
allow inappropriate crop to flovirish. To pray for rain is to presume
J152.19.
to eat them,
60
MOTIF INDEX OF
greater
wisdom than God's,
*J 153.4. Dying saint
tells
a.b.c.
104;
Tubach 3885.
one another as they carry
disciples to love
him
to
church. Especulo 82.56.

*J 153.5. Holy man explains anger. It should not reside in heart but only
in face. Especulo 339.240.
Holy man advises pupil to be like a stone when struck, Especulo

434.330, 435.330.
*J153.7. Saint on deathbed gives monks rules. Do not offend others, but
apologize if you do; believe in the good sense of others; do not seek
revenge if offended. Especulo 505.397-98.
*J 153.8. Wisdom acquired from saint. Santiago appears to devoted man
*J 153.6.
who
insists that
the saint
is
him he
a fisherman. Tells
is
God's
warrior knight. Santiago 19.97-99.
J154. Wise words of father.

J154. Wise words of dying father. Search for treasvire by digging
vineyard. 50/)gre pp. 113-14.
Wisdom from father
*J1 54.0.1.
soil
of
m form
of sententiae. Esopete p. 21; îfar
Youth
learns the nature of friendship.
p. 75.
Wisdom from
*J1 54.0.2.
father.
Esopete pp. 137-39; Castigos 35.165-68; Lucanor Ex. 48; Especulo

49.34-35; (;:ifar pp. 7-8.
J154.1. Dying saint leaves wise message

Ibi?)
but
is
finally
made
to
monks. Message
is
cryptic (Ubi?
clear, a.b.c. 182.
*J 154.2. Wise words from father. Weed small area of field

whole field is firee of thorns. Especulo 403.301-2.
each day until
J155. Wisdom (knowledge) from women.

J155.4. Wife as adviser. King's dream misinterpreted, reluctant to follow
advice, is advised by wife to delay and to seek advice of philosopher.
Calila p. 280.
*J1 55.4.1. Wisdom from wife. King unable to conquer enemy is advised
by queen that he try to conquer by using contrary measures as do

good for evil, kindness for cruelty, a.b.c. 302; Castigos
115r); Qifar pp. 124-25; Glosa
MS A
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physicians:
BNM
1.2.27.204.
*J155.9. Wisdom from astute old woman. Counsels banker against firaudulent depositors. Esopete pp. 139-40; a.b.c. 163; Disciplina 15; Tubach
3355, 4969.
J156.
Wisdom
*J1 56.5.
(knowledge) from fools and madmen.

Wisdom from madman. ^X^ly does hunter spend so much on use-
less activity? Esopete p. 152.
*J156.5.1. Wisdom from simple person. Holy man mortified self to rid self
of lustful temptations to no avail. Simple pilgrini told him to eat and
to regain strength
and to serve God.
a.b.c. 80,
326, 347;
Tubach
3906.
*J1 56.5.2.
Wisdom from foolish
neighbor.
Cut
cat's ears
and
bum
off her
fur to keep her firom wandering. Especulo 356.254-55.
J157.
Wisdom from dream.
61
*J157.4. King
is
judged in dream,
a.b.c. 61.
Wisdom purchased.
J163.
J163.4. Good counsels bought. Counsels sold at different prices: "In land
where you do not know the cuisine, fill up on first dish you are
served" costs a small sum; more valuable cotmsel is "Do not act
when
angry." Lucanor Ex. 36;
cf.
Tubach 5324.
J164. Wisdom from God.

*J164. Wisdom acquired from God's voice. Saint covmseled to use humility
to avoid worldly snares. a.b.c. 194, 231.
*J164.1. Wisdom from Mother of God. Virgin Mary explains nature of
Host to doubting
*J 164.2.
honor
J166.
Virgin
her,
Wisdom
J 167.
cleric.
Mary
Cantigas 149.
appears
to
monk. Tells him he must love her,
and praise her. Cantigas 296.

(knowledge) from visual signs.
Wisdom from continual reminder of foolishness
in past.
Unjust judge
skiimed, his skin stretched over a stool kept in presence of subsequent judges. a.b.c. 223; Tubach 2859; cf Tubach 2855.
J168. Inscription of walls for condensed education. Sendebar p. 72.

*J168.1. Roman temple designed to teach by arrangement of figures and
wall inscriptions, a.b.c. 212.
J172. Account of punishments in hell brings about repentance.
J172.1. Angels take dying saint to heaven, but voice says he first must see
vileness of devils so that he can confess even small sins he may have
forgotten. Especulo 191.131.
J180. Possession of wisdom.

J 1 8 1 1 Years not counted. Philosopher coimts age from time he began to
serve God. Is only forty or forty-five instead of chronological seventy
years. Barlaam pp. 148-50; Tubach 484.
.
J190. Acquisition and possession of wisdom: miscellaneous.

*J191.3. Wisdom acquired from future experience. Holy man fears three
things: departure of soul from body, appearance before Jesus for
judgement, sentence to be passed on him. Especulo 195.135.
J200-J1099.
J200-J499. Choices.
WISE AND UNWISE CONDUCT
J210. Choices between evils.

*J210.2. Choice between time in purgatory or illness. God rewards saint
with choice. He chooses illness. Especulo 485.384-85, 491.386-87;
cf Tubach 4263.
*J210.3. Peasant given choice by nobleman. Pay forty marks, take forty
blows, or eat forty onions. Tries to eat onions; fails, endures the
fails and must pay marks anyway. Especulo 489.385.
Choice:
free poverty or enslaved wealth.
J211.
J211.2. Town mouse and country mouse. Latter prefers poverty with
safety. LBA cc. 1369-85; Esopete pp. 36-37; Gatos 1 1; Tubach 3281.
*J21 1 .3. Dog chooses safety of master's care to promised reward offered by
blows;
62
MOTIF INDEX OF
thief.
LBA
cc.
166-80.
J212. Choice: simplicity with safety or grandeur with danger.

J212.1. Ass envies horse in fine trappings. Sees him after severely
wounded after joust, suffering and put to work in the fields. LBA cc.
237^5;
Esopete p. 62;
cf.
Tubach 2615.
J215. Present evil preferred to change for worse.

J215.1. Don't drive away the flies. Wounded animal (man) refiises to
have flies driven away since they are now sated and their places will
be taken by fierce and hvmgry flies. a.b.c. 225; Especulo 70.47; Tu-
bach 2087.
Do
J215.1.3.
not pluck off well-fed leeches.
Wolf crosses
must cross
lake to escape
pursuit. Tries to rid self of leeches but
lake again. Is
advised to keep the sated leeches rather than to leave place for
hungry ones, (îfarp. 106.

J215.1.4. Old man chooses occasional bud
new
than
chirp of swallows rather
never-ending but soft chirp of sandpipers. Lucanor Ex. 39.

J2 15.2.1. Old woman prays for safety of cruel tyrant. Fears that a worse
A
6559 33.153
one will succeed him. a.b.c. 380; Castigos
MS
(ADMYTE
J215.4.
Monk
plative
life.
BNM
106v).
goes to wilderness to escape worldly work
and
to
In wilderness was tormented by wasps and
fered great hxmger. Returns because he
must work
to
lead contem-
flies
and
live. a.b.c.
suf-
428;
*J21 5.4. 1 Newly arrived friar criticizes abbot for working in garden. Given
cell, awaits in vain a call for meal. Must work and pray to eat. Espe.
342.243-44; Tubach 5386.

*J215.5. Holy man's cell far from water. Moves it nearer. Angel walks behind him and says: "I am covmting your steps to reward you according to your effort." Returns cell to far off location. Especulo 343.244.
*J215.6. Knight urges others into battle. The wounds they will receive will
make them forget the ones they already have. Lucanor Ex. 37; cf.
culo
Tubach
508.
J216. Choice of deaths.

J216.2 Lamb prefers to be sacrificed
wolf. Esopete pp. 128-29.
J216.5. Warrior count prefers
name be famous
in temple rather
to die in battle
than to be eaten by
instead of in retirement.
Thus
Lucanor Ex. 16.

J217. Unsatisfactory life preferred to death.
J217.2 Discontented ass longs for death but changes mind when he sees
skins of dead asses at fair (longing misplaced because his skin made
into drums). Esopete pp. 66-67; cf. Tubach 394, 1747.
*J217.3. Envious ass, desiring easy life of pig who does not work and is fed,
changes mind when he sees pig is slaughtered for meat. Gatos 35;
Tubach 3771.
J218. Enemies make peace rather than slay each other.
*J218.2. Mortal enemies called upon to rule jointly make peace. Glosa
will his
for his deeds.
3.1.2.17.
63
small injustice permitted rather than to cause
J221. Choice:
trouble.
Man would rather pay 500 florins he did not owe than to have it
he did not pay debts. a.b.c. 159; Tubach 1498.
J225. Choice: apparent injustice over greater wrong.
J225.0. 1 Angel and hermit. Angel takes hermit with him and does many
seemingly imjust things. Later shows why each was just, a.b.c. 230;
J221.3.
said
Tubach 2558.
J225. 0.1.1. Angel explains why sinful rich man is buried with honors, and
pious monk is devoured ignobly by lion. Evil will sufifer in afterlife,
good will not. a.b.c. 105; Especulo 511.404; Tubach 3107.
*J225.0.4. Angel explains apparent injustice to hermit. Squire lost knight's
money sack; charcoal burner found it. Knight cut squire's foot off.
Angel explained: Knight lost money because he had stolen it; charcoal burner found money that had belonged to his father. Squire lost
foot for having kicked his mother. Especulo 15.11;
J225.4. Angel
230.
kills
man. Done because
man
is
Tubach 2558.
plotting a murder. a.b.c.
J229.8. Contentment with evil master (tyrant) for fear of worse successor.
106?;).
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A
a.b.c. 380; Castigos
values.
apparent
Real
and
J230-J299.
BNM
MS
(ADMYTE
*J234. Hermit learns that knight's bravery in battle against infidel army is
as valuable as is his life of devotion. Lucanor Ex. 3; Tubach 2561.
*J235. Monk asks abbot what to do with property. Abbot tells him he has
three choices: give
give
it
it
to
Church
so that he will be given preference;
to his family so that they treat
that he will
do the
him
well; give
it
to the
poor so
right thing, a.b.c. 290.
*J235.1. Philosopher absorbed in study will not be interrupted even to

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save self firom marauders. Is killed. Castigos
MS A BNM
15.122, 15.58
(ADMYTE
15vy, Glosa 1.2.7.98.
*J235.2. Philosopher so absorbed in study forgets to lift food to mouth at

6559 15.122; Glosa 1.2.7.97.
mealtimes. Castigos
MS A BNM
J240-J259. Choice between useful and ornamental.

J242.2. Pine and thorn bush dispute as to their usefulness. Beauty of form
does not give worth; pine grows slowly but it will withstand storms.
Esopete p. 124.
J242.5. Peacock and crane in beauty contest. Better to be able to soar like
crane than to strut like peacock. Esopete p. 123.
J242.6. Contest in beauty between swallows and crows (ants and flies).
Worth
lies
not in beauty. Esopete
p. 53.
J245. Useful and ugly preferred to expensive and beautiful.

*J245.2.1. Humble man becomes king. Chooses humble food over royal
fare. a.b.c. 81; Tubach 3843.
*J245.3. King prefers ruling smaller territory of satisfied subjects than larger
one with rebellious ones. Gives up territory, a.b.c. 289.
J247. Goodness preferred to wealth.

J247.1. Man advised to find good husband for
64
his daughter, not
rich one.
MOTIF INDEX OF
a.b.c.
422; Lucanor Ex. 25; Castigos
59r);
Tubach 1444.
*J247.2. Pope's wealth
and
MS A BNM 6559 (ADMYTE
hermit's poverty are equal. a.b.c. 122.
J260-J279. Choice between worth and appearance.

*J260.0.1. Holy man, small of stature, found on ladder lighting lamps. His
greatness of spirit contradicts appearance. Especulo 313.220.
J262.1. Noisy things often empty. Fox finds drum in tree. Makes loud
noise in wind, but when fox opens it, drum is empty. Calila p. 135.
J280. Quality preferred to quantity.
*J282. Man troubled by bird song must choose between ridding house of
swallows with superior song and sparrows. Swallows come and go,
but sparrows stay all year long. Lucanor Ex. 39.
J300-J329. Present values chosen.
J320. Present values preferred to future.
J321.2. Little fish in net kept rather than wait for uncertainty of greater
catch. Esopete pp. 124-25.
J321.4. Present jcrys preferred
good things it can enjoy
certain.
Lucanor Ex.
to future ones.
if
he remains
Dying
alive.
man shows
soul
all
the
Pleasures of fiiture less
4.
*J321.5. Three trout. First sees danger (fishermen) and escapes; second,
having delayed, finds escape blocked and plays dead. Third is lazy
and
is
caught. Calila p. 149; Exemplario 18r.
J330-J369. Gains and
losses.
J340. Choices: little gain, big loss.

J34 1.1. Fox prefers to bear weight of tail rather than give part of it to ape.
Esopete p. 66; Tubach 297.
J342. High wages bring expensive living.
J342.2. Visitor refuses royal offer of wealth and comfort because king's expenses are equal to income. Knows that in emergency wealth will not
be there,
a.b.c.
What one has
155; Disciplina 26;
Tubach 2917.
neglected in search for other things.

J344.
J344.1. The monkey and the lost lentil. Lets fall all others he has in his
hand in order to search for one dropped lentil. Calila p. 292; Exemis
plario 13v.
LBA
*J344.3. Wolf neglects present food in hope of finding better.

766-79; Esopete pp. 91-93.
J347. Wealth and glory sacrificed for freedom and virtue.

J347.1, Man refuses vast wealth because it would cause him to
covetous. Castigos
A
6559 11.140.
MS
cc.
become
BNM
J347.2. King lays aside crown since
it
brings
too
many
cares.
Glosa
1.1.8.43.
J347.2.1.
Crown
head; he
will
accidentally bestowed on knight refiised. Crown falls on

not accept power. Glosa 1.1.8.43-44; Castigos
A
BNM 6559 (ADMYTE
MS
42^;).
J347.3. Duke's son chooses exile and honor over licentious

court. Castigos 1.41-42; Tubach 362.
life
in father's
J347.4. Rich merchant worries constantly about investments; poor
man
is
65
free
from worry. Castigos 7.64.
Man rejects three beds: marriage (marital bed inhabited by dangerous beasts); royal power (royal bed inhabited by dangerous
beasts); wealth (rich person's bed inhabited by dangerous beasts).
J347.5.
Chooses a stair that leads to spiritual happiness. Gatos 23.

Young man uses inherited wealth to feed starving populace.
Rebuked, he replies that he had not put it where it could be stolen or
destroyed, but rather in a safe place that would benefit kingdom.
*J347.6.
a.b.c. 395; Disciplina 29; Tubach 4963.

J350. Small inconvenience, great gain.
*J351.2. Fox, in danger of being caught, plays dead. Allows tail to be cut
off, teeth to be pulled, ears to be cut off, but will not permit heart to
be removed.
LBA
cc.
1412-21; Lucanor Ex. 29; Tubach 2176.
J352.2. Snake suffers indignity of serving frog king as his mount (vehicle).
Eats only those frogs given to him by king. Calila p. 248; Exemplario
61r.
he is so thin and wasted. Fear of God dries bones

wood. Especulo 549.443.
J356. Less inconvenience found in fighting while tired than losing all for a
little rest. Lucanor Ex. 37.
J357. Priest gives donkey to poor because worry for its safety distracts him
from prayer, a.b.c. 327; Tubach 381.
J369. Small inconvenience, large gain: miscellaneous.
*J369.0.1. King chooses small inconvenience of personal troubles to great
*J353. Saint asked
why
just as fire dries
troubles for realm. Castigos 57.184.
J369.2. Ape throws away nut because of its bitter rind. Esopete p. 153;
Gatos 50; Especulo 57.39; Tubach 3510.
*J369.3. Hungry man grudgingly invited to eat accepts invitation.
that eating is more important than pride. Lucanor Ex. 17.
J370. Choices: important and unimportant work.

J37 1.1. Bull refuses to fight goat. Bull being pursued by lion
into cave.
Goat
refiises to let
pursuing, he has
no time
him
in.
Bull
must go on,
Knows
go
tries to
for with lion
to fight goat. Esopete p. 122.
J372. "This is Alaquen's addition. " ICing's invention of flute with extra
hole compared with the construction of great mosque. Lucanor Ex.
41.
*J373. Holy
man
leaves
cell
each day to go
for others. Pupil challenges

gility.
for stones to build
cells
him because of his advanced age and
fra-
to shore
J390. Choices: kind strangers, unkind relatives.

J39 1.1. Lamb chooses her foster mother, the she-goat. Owes more to her
than to her own mother who has deserted her. Esopete pp. 50-5 1
.
J400-J459. Choice of associates.

J401. Scarcity of real friends.
*J4 10.0.2. Half-friend. Son tells father he has many Abends. Father replies that he only has one half-fiiend. Tells son to tell his many
fiiends
66
he has
killed a
man and
needs their help. They refuse.
He
MOTIF INDEX OF
him to his
who
to help him. Disciplina 1; a.b.c.

LucanorEx. 48; Tubach 2216.
J410. Association of equals and unequals.
J411.1. The lion (boar) and the ass. Ass laughs at hon. Lion does not
sends
half-friend
ofifers
18; îfarpp. 7-8; Esopete pp. 137-39;
care to dirty his teeth to bite him. Esopete p. 36;
J41
1 .3. 1
by
Noble poets
Tubach 3060.
Rebuked
refuse to associate with poet of lowly lineage.
king, a.b.c. 183; Disciplina 3;
Tubach 3829.
J411.4. Peasant ashamed of being thrown off by

thrown by such a creature. Esopete pp. 24-25.
ass.
Shameful to be
J411.5. Wolf tries to make friends with lion. Killed. Esopete pp. 85-86.
*J4 11.5.1. Pig tries to make friends with sheep. Is carried off. Esopete pp.
85-86.
J413. Unprofitable association of unequals.
*J413.2. Alexander the Great was raised with a rascal and learned to behave like him. Especulo 531.420.
J420. Association of strong and weak.
J425. Weak fear company of strong.
J425.1. Earthen and brazen pots in river. Brazen pot thinks they should
stay together for company. Earthen pot, however, fears approach of
brazen pot. Esopete
p. 122.
J426.1. Association of rat with cat ceases as soon as mutual danger has
passed. Mouse helps wild cat escape from snares in such a way that
escape
is
possible. Esopete p. 38; Calila p. 267; Exemplario dlv.
J440. Association of young and old.

J441.1. Old ox yoked with young ox. Thus kept
in order. Esopete pp.
64-
65.
J445.1. Foolish youth in love with ugly old woman.

flaws. Gatos 8; Esopete p. 64; Tubach 2454.
J450. Association of the
good and the
Does not
see her
m spite of pleas.
Esopete
evil.
J451. Contagiousness of bad company.

*J45 1.1.1. Weasel caught with mice and
p. 54; Tubach 5228.
killed
J451.2. Stork killed along with cranes. Ill-advised association ends

Esopete p. 111.
*J45 1.2.1. Cricket caught among

*J45 1.3.1. Contagiousness of
locusts.
Esopete pp. 19-20.
bad company.
rested along with other customers. a.b.c.

ciplina 7;
fatally.
Two
scholars in an iim; ar-
349 (not
in Paris
MS);
Dis-
Tubach 2431.
J452. Bad associates bring death to bishop. Lawyer lost his soul for him;
doctor lost his life, a.b.c. 160; Tubach 2999.
*J453. Appearance of associating with women in brothel damages reputation
of good man. Pious man innocently in alley of whores criticized. Luca-
nor Ex. 46.
J460.
Unnecessary choices.
J461. Senseless debate of the mutually useful.

J461.1. The belly and the members. Debate as to their usefulness. All
tually useful. Esopete p. 66; Tubach 570.
mu-
67
J466. Senseless debate about usefulness.

J466.2. Senseless debate. Which is the greater: St. John the Baptist or St.
John the Evangehst. Saints appear in dreams of debaters urging them
to
make
Tubach 2829.
Which is the most
peace, a.b.c. 57;
important: hearing mass or

hearing sermons. Kings of France and England dispute. Especulo
33.22.
J480. Other choices.
*J466.3. Senseless debate.
Widow
J482.1.
to lose him;
refuses
if
second marriage. If husband
bad, she will repent,
J482.2.2. Father chooses poor wise
band. Castigos
1444.
J482.3. Young
man
MS A BNM 6559
man
a.b.c.
368;
is
good, she
will fear
Tubach 3180.
over rich fool for daughter's hus-
15.122
(ADMYTE
58^;);
Tubach
whose mother and grand386 (not in Paris MS); Tubach 955.

J485. Three sins of the hermit. Given choice of covetousness, lust, or
dnmkenness. Chooses drunkenness, and cannot avoid committing
mother were
advised
to choose wife
chaste, a.b.c.
the others, a.b.c. 127;
LBA
cc.
529-43; Especulo 199.139; Tubach
Tubach 2569, 4130.

man. Read religious books;
1816; Apolonio cc. 54-55; cf
give them to
*J485.1. Three choices of holy
others to read; sell them to give proceeds to poor. Saint says fourth
choice
J495.
is
Monk
not to
own
anything. Especulo A16.316.
chooses contemplative solitary life to avoid sin. a.b.c. 82.
J500-J599. Prudence and discretion.

J512. Animal should not try to change nature.
Crow
J512.6.
tries to
imitate partridge's (dove's) walk.
Only
spoils
its
own.
Calila p. 304; Exemplario 78r.
*J512.16.
Daw
tried to imitate eagle.
Attempts to carry off lamb.
Fails.
Esopete p. 109.
J514. One should not be too greedy.

J514.1. Kite tries to carry off so many partridges that he drops them all
(that an archer shoots him easily). Gatos 39; Especulo 17.12; Tubach
3608.
J514.2. Wolf tries to eat bowstring. Finds archer, boar, and stag dead. Decides to save meat and eat only the bowstring. Bow hits him in head
and
kills
him. Calila p. 212; Exemplario 46v.
J514.4. Greedy pig looks up into tree waiting for fruit thrown to
ape. This causes his death. Sendebar Day 5, Tale 11.
him by
J552. Intemperate pugnacity.

J552.3. Serpent (weasel) tries to bite a file. Esopete p. 65.
J557. Intemperance in undertaking labor.
J557.1.1. True penance even for a day is effective. Man counseled that
forty days, even three days might be excessive, a.b.c. 290, 296 (not
MS).
Two travelers carry unequal burdens. One adds to his burden and
The other lightens his load and survives. a.b.c. 260 (not in Paris
in Paris
*J557.2.
dies.
MS).
68
MOTIF INDEX OF
J565. Intemperance in fasting.

*J565.2. Young woman devoted to Virgin
and dies. Cantigas 188.
Mary takes no food
J570. Wisdom of deliberation.

J571.4.2. Master, when angry, will not punish steward
him
for fear that
punishment would be
for a
who
month
has ruined
excessive, a.b.c. 219, 220,
MS) text not given, only tide ("Iracundus non

aliquando liberare"); Tubach 3991.
*J571.5.1. Avoid hasty judgement. Wife counsels king to delay killing all
members of his court because of a dream. He may regret his action.
150 (not
in Paris
debet
modo
CalUa
p. 280.
*J571.6.1. Judge not lest you be judged.

to judge sins of monks, a.b.c. 226.
Abbot admonished by angel not
*J571.6.2. Judge not. Sinner may have confessed and repented; accusation may not be true. a.b.c. 227, 228.
know how to wait. Three men are pursued in battle.

on enemies; second waits a litde; third does not
vmtil the enemy begins. Third one is bravest. Lucanor Ex. 15.
J5S0. Wisdom of caution.
J572.1. Bravest
throws
self
First
fight
J581.2. Lovers quarrel about means of escaping without being caught by

husband. Escape route not as described. They are caught by returning husband. Calila pp. 111-12.
J581.3. Monk's enemies quarrel and thus save him. Thief wants to steal
his cow; devil wants to capture his soul. They quarrel over prece-
dence and he awakens. Calila
p.
239; Exemplario
56i;;
Tubach 4787.
J600-J799. Forethought.
J610. Forethought in conflict with others.
J613. Wise fear of the weak for the strong.
J613.1. Frogs fear increase of sun's power (through marriage)
their puddles. Esopete p. 35; Tubach 4677.
J620. Forethought in prevention of other's plans.
will
dry up
J621. Destruction of enemy's weapons.

J621.1. The swallow and the hemp-seeds. Birds to eat seeds. Heedless
birds are caught in nets made from hemp grown fi-om seeds. Swallow
departs and makes nest in safety of human dwellings. Esopete p. 39;
Lucanor Ex. 6; LBA cc. 745-54; Tubach 4686.
*J621.1.2. Trees not to supply wood for woodman's axe handle. Esopete p.
65;
Tubach 444.
J624. Uniting against a common enemy.

J624. 1 Mountain goats butting each other shed blood. Fox laps up spilled
blood and is killed by goats. Calila p. 138; Exemplario 14r.
.
J624.3. Enemy brothers unite to fight a common enemy when outsider

begins to insult one of them, a.b.c. 311; Tubach 714.
*J624.4. Horses, who had previously been enemies, unite when their
owners turn them over to lion, a common enemy. Lucanor Ex. 9.
J634. King takes measures against assassination.

J634.1. King, to avoid possible assassination, singes beard rather than have
69
barber shave him. Castigos
MS A BNM
6559 25.141
(ADMYTE
84w); Glosa 1.1.6.32.

*J634.1.1. King, to avoid possible assassination, has queen's quarters
6559 25.141
searched before entering. Castigos
MS A BNM
(ADMYTE
SAv); Glosa 1.1.6.32-33.
J640. Avoidance of other's power.

J642.2. Traitor convinces king (Rodrigo)
Enemy prevails. Glosa 2.2.19.29.
to turn
swords into plowshares.
J643. Care against future tyranny.

J643.1. Frogs demand a live king. King Log. Jupiter has given them a
log, but they find him too quiet. He then gives them a stork who eats
them all. Esopete p. 49; LBA cc. 199-206; Tubach 2221; cf. Tubach
292
(ants).
*J643.2.1. Hawk eats doves who have elected him king. Esopete pp. 4950; cf. Tubach 1755, 3554.
J644.1. Fox sees all tracks going into lion's den but none coming out. Does
not enter and saves
self.
Esopete p. 78;
Tubach 2169.
J651. Inattention to danger.

*J65 1.1.1. Hawk, engaged in eating nightingale's chicks, is caught by hxmter. Esopete pp. 62-63.
J65 1.2. Man, inattentive to the danger of drowning, persists in crossing river overburdened
by load of precious
*J651.3. Inattention to danger.

Dreaded serpent awaits his
Ignoring
peril,
Drowns. LucanorEx. 38.
stones.
Man is perched on branches over stream.

fall. Two mice are gnawing his branches.
he sees a beehive above and
eaten through, and he falls into

p. 120; Exemplario 10z;-llr.
eats honey.
mouth of
Branches are
awaiting serpent. Calila
*J651.4. Man, pursued by unicorn, climbs tree and eats apples, enjoys
view. There are poisonous snakes, toads, and other perils at foot.
Roots of tree are gnawed, and he falls into serpents' pit. Gatos 48;
Barlaam pp. 113-15; Especulo 379.280; Tubach 5022.

J655. Approaching danger too familiarly.
*J655.3. Fox laps up bloodshed by battling goats. Calila p. 138; Exemplario
14r.
J656. Avoiding things which are harmful by nature.

J656.1. Thombush blamed by fox for wounding him. He should have
known better than to lay hold of something whose nature is to lay
hold of others. Esopete p. 110.

*J656.2. Emperor, fearful of lightning, takes pains to protect palace
against it. Goes out himting on clear day, but storm overtakes him;
he
is
killed
by
lightning. Qifar p. 27.
J657. Care in selecting the creature to carry one.

J657.2. Tortoise requests flight to see fields and mountains. Eagle drops him
and eats him. Gatos 1; Esopete p. 119; Tubach 625, 1832.
J657.3. Crane persuades fish to let him move him from one lake into another,
eats fish. Calila p. 143; Exemplario 16r-167;.
J670. Forethought in defenses against others.
70
MOTIF INDEX OF
J671. Practical and impractical defenses.

J67 1.1. Belling the cat. Mice decide that a bell should be put on cat, but
none are vsalling to tie it on. Gatos 55; Tubach 566.
*J673.2. Prophet unperturbed when surrounded by enemy. Tells servant that
soldiers are on his side than against him. In morning,
massed to protect prophet are seen. a.b.c. 58.
J680. Forethought in alliances.
J681. Alliances which make both parties vulnerable.
J681.1. Rat and frog tie paws together to cross stream. Both carried
more
58; Esopete pp. 24, 34;
kite. a.b.c.
LBA
cc.
forces
off by
407-16; Gatos 18; Tu-
bach 3425.
J700-J749. Forethought in provision for life.
J701 .2. King improves kingdom by making it smaller, stronger, and richer
before leaving
it
to his sons. a.b.c. 289;
Tubach 2909.
J702. Necessity of work.

J702.2. King (queen) teaches children to work at
for future needs, a.b.c. 325; Tubach 5383.
all tasks
to prepare
them
J710. Forethought in provision for food.

J711. In time of plenty provide for want.
J711.1. Ant and the lazy grasshopper. Lazy bird (grasshopper) is put to
shame by thrift of industrious bird (ant). In winter he is in distress.
Esopete p. 19.
Ant and the greedy fly. Fly bites whom he will and eats best
food from tables but only in the summer; in winter he dies while ant
is secure from the cold beneath the earth. Esopete p. 53; Tubach
2097.
J711.3. King for a year provides for future. Knowing that the custom is
that he is to be deposed and exiled naked and without food to an
island in a year, he has provisions sent to island beforehand. Lucanor
Ex. 49; a.b.c. 366; Barlaam pp. 121-23; Especulo 243.163; Tubach
2907.
J711.5. Industrious ant works always at its harvest to keep it dry. Brings
stored grain out into sim to keep it safe. Lucanor Ex. 23; Tubach
265.
J750J799. Forethought: miscellaneous.
J758. Beware of an interested adviser.
*J758.4. Beware of interested adviser. Crow advises eagle to drop snail to
break shell. Crow eats meat of snail. Esopete p. 37
J800-J849. Adaptability.
J810. Policy in dealing with great.
*J7 11.1.1.
J811.
Wisdom
J81 1.1. The
of concession to power.
lion's share.
ailing lion.
lion
takes bones.
Wolf
kills
LBA
cc.
divides booty imevenly giving entrails to
Fox then divides: gives lion meat and

82-88; Gatos 15; Especulo 534.422; Tubach
wolf.
3069.
J8 11.1.1. Lion divides the booty. Best part goes to himself as king of
71
beasts; second, as strongest; third, as

if
you dare." Esopete
most
valiant; fourth:
"touch
it
p. 35.
*J8 11.2.1. Lion, having broken vow of abstinence from meat, asks courtiers if his breath smells bad. Those who say yes, he kills. Monkey
praises
its
fragrance and survives. Esopete p. 67;
cf.
Tubach 2205.
J811.4. Ruler angered by evil spoken about him is placated by gende explanation that they were spoken when drunk, a.b.c. 419.
*J81 1 .5. Ruler told he forgets nothing, except injuries. Must learn to pardon
injuries. Castigos
MS A BNM 6559 31.148 (ADMYTE
96r); Glosa
1.2.14.134.
J815. Unpleasant truths must be withheld from the great.

J815.1. Liar rewarded by ape-king. King of apes asks visitors how they
like his children (courtiers). Truthfiil visitor tells that they are very
ugly and is pvmished. liar praises their beauty and receives reward.
Esopete p. 77; Gatos 28; Tubach 304.
J816. Tact in reproving the great.
J816.4. Woman tactfully restrains amorous king. SendebarDay 1, Tale 1;
Lucanor Ex. 50; Tubach 954.
*J816.5. King's mother (lion's mother) urges him not to kill falsely
accused counselor (fasting jackal). Calila p. 311.
*J816.6. Conqueror's mother convinces him to be merciful to enemy. Glosa
2.2.4.139.
soft answer turns away wrath. Captives of Romans tells them that
merciful treatment will result in peace, a.b.c. 289 (not in Paris MS);
]^\1.A
Tubach 4127.
*J817.4. Pagan priest beats monk who had addressed him rudely but admires his teacher who treats him respectfully, a. b.c. 21 8; Tubach 1237.
*J817.5. Courtier gives king chance to exculpate self hy relating tale of
farmer frightened by lion's paw prints. King imderstands and excuses

himself from blame answering that lion may have been on land but
had not hurt anyone. Sendebar Day 1, Tale 1.
J830. Adaptability to overpowering force.
J832. Reeds bend before wind (flood). Save themselves while oak is uprooted. Esopete p. 80.
*J836. Courtier pretends he will join king in retreat to leave the court and
live in the wilderness, a.b.c. 75, 215 (not in Paris MS); Barlaam pp.
25-29; Lucanor
"Ex..
1.
J850-J899. Consolation in misfortune.

J860. Consolation by a trifle.
J861.1. Consoled by a drop of honey. Man in pit, precariously supported
by branches being gnawed by rodents, surrounded by perils, comforts
self eating honey from hive. Calila p. 120; Exemplario 107>-llr.
J869.1. Doves (partridges) in net console themselves because they think
trapper's tears are from pity for them. Esopete pp. 76-77; Lucanor Ex.
13;
Tubach 1773, 3606.
J870. Consolation by pretending that one does not want the thing
one cannot have.
72
MOTIF INDEX OF
J87 1 The fox and the sour grapes. Pretends that the grapes he cannot
reach are sour. Esopete p. 75.
J880. Consolation by thought of others worse placed.
J88 1.1. More timid than the hare. Hares take heart when they see that
frogs are more timid than they. Esopete p. 5 1
J883.1. Poor man sadly reduced to eating grain usually fed to cattle is consoled by seeing other man following him eating his discarded husks.
.
Lucanor Ex. 10.

J893. Consolation: spiritual recompense for temporal misfortune.
J893.1. Consolation. Saint tells blind man that even flies have eyes but
that only
man
*J893.1.2. Blind
bach 1950.
has eyes of the soul,
woman
a.b.c. 63.
consoled. Sight
*J893.2. Sick man denied cure.

soul. Especulo 320.224.
is
occasion of
Told that sickness
is
sin. a.b.c.
63;
Tu-
necessary to cleanse
*J893.3. Sick man denied cure. Rust is to iron as sickness

kind. Heat burns it away. Especulo 321.224.
to hviman-
is
*J893.4. Saint prays that arrow wound not be healed. Pain will strengthen
him spiritually. Especulo 323.225.
*J893.5. Dying man asks friends not to pray for cure but for a good end.
Better to suffer here than in afterlife. Especulo 324.225.
*J893.6.
Man
Fears that
*J893.7.
his
Man
ill every year laments when one year he does not.

has forgotten him. Especulo 325.225-26.
who fell
God
whose three companions fall
ill
takes care of them.
Laments
own good health because God had forgotten him. Especulo 326.226.
J893.8. Man feels closer to God when HI than when

that he not be cured. Especulo 327.226.
well.
Cleric will pray
J900-J999. Humility.
J910. Humility of the great.
*J911.2. Friar fasted for seventy weeks to gain understanding. Failed and
went to ask for help of other friar. Angel praised his acknowledgment
of ignorance. Especulo 314.220.

J912. Wise man humble in death.
J912.1. Dying king (sultan) orders that shroud be displayed to public. It is
all he will take with him. a.b.c. 121; Especulo 386.283; Tubach 4355.
J912.2. King accepts offer of monument for his death as reminder of his
mortality and as lesson to others. a.b.c. 294.
J912.3. Rich man (king) humbled by realization he cannot take wealth with
him. He laments the lack of servant after death but learns that he can
lean
on God. Especulo 388.284.
*J912.3. 1 Rich man (usurer) ordered that one-third of wealth be buried with
him. Devils seen tossing gold in cadaver's throat. a.b.c. 123; Tubach
.
5039.
*J9 12.3.2. King declares his love for Jesus
of death. Especulo 31.21.
upon
receiving
Host
at
*J9 1 2.4. 1 Great king says: "Many call me king of great armies.
king of dust." Especulo 305.214-17.
.
moment
say
am
73
Humble man becomes
*J913.1.
Wise
man
king. Falls
ill
because of change of diet.

Tubach 3843.
Even kings are unable to
advises he return to simple foods, a.b.c. 81;
*J913.2. King unable to protect self from fly.

prevail against all. Especulo 312.219-20.
J9 1 4. 1 King David dances with common youths before the Ark of the Covenant to humble himself and please God. Castigos
A
6559
.
MS
(ADMYTE
16.127
BNM
66z;).
*J914.2. King shows humility. Offers drink to holy man before self. Holy
man humbly serves his chaplain before himself. Especulo 225.152.
*J914.3. Holy father removes clothes and bathes self and clothes in river.
Shows humility in face of grand receptions planned for him. Especulo
311.219.
*J914.4. St. John Patriarch used clay drinking vessels to avoid arrogance. Especulo 383.282.
*J914.5.
On
marble.
day man is elected emperor,

Must choose stone for tomb.
knows he
J914.6. King (Xerxes) weeps,

gos
6559
MS A BNM
(ADMYTE
stonemason brings three kinds of

Especulo 384.282.
will
be dead in 100 years. Casti-
88^;).
J915. King of humble lineage cannot be flattered. Will not permit

10; Tubach 2906.
J916. Abbot warned of official
a.b.c. 5;
Tubach
visit
it.
a.b.c.
dresses as a beggar. Avoids vainglory.
13.
*J916.1. Precentor refuses
to
accept praise for wise words, a.b.c. 9.
J921. Noble and ugly holy man embraces man who calls him ugly saying he
loves those who see him as he really is. a.b.c. 320; Tubach 5016.
*J922. Humble abbot covers
people, a.b.c. 63.
his face to
hide such a worldly thing from
*J922.1. Noble man gives up costiy garments when enters religious order.
Better to save soul in vile garments than to be damned in fine silk.
Especulo 427.325.
J950. Presumption of the lowly.

J951.1. Ass in lion's skin unmasked when he raises his voice (when ears
are seen projecting from skin). Esopete p. 120; Gatos 22; Tubach 386.
J951.2. Crow (jay) in peacock's (pigeon's) feathers unmasked. Esopete p.
53; LBA cc. 285-90; Tubach 1360.
J951.4. Weasel paints

75.
*J951.6.
p. 98.
Ram
self (dusts self with flour)
in mastiff's skin
to deceive mice. Esopete p.
unmasked when thorns
tear skin. Esopete
J952. Lowly animal tries to move among its superiors.

*J952.6. Frog attempts to be a great physician. Shamed by fox. Esopete p.
120; Tubach 1692.
*J952.7. Two smaller rams ridicule large ram in flight from danger which
they do not see. Esopete p. 78.
J953. Self-deception of the lowly.
J953.1. Dog proud of his clog. Thinks it is a decoration. Esopete pp. 12021.
74
MOTIF INDEX OF
*J953.10.1.1. Flea descends from camel's back and tells him he can rest.
Camel replies that flea's weight made no difference. Esopete p. 79.
*J953.19. Mule scornful offly that threatens to bite him. He will hasten but
only in fear of master's whip. Esopete p. 53.
*J953.20. Ass thinks all animals fear him because hares flee when he brays.
Lion himibles him. Esopete p. 78; cf Tubach 386.

J954. Foolish boast of ancestry by lowly.
J954. 1. Mule boasts of grandfather who was war-horse. Refuses to acknowledge father who was an ass. a.b.c. 199; Disciplina 4; Tubach 3432,
3829.
J955. Lowly tries in vain to be greater than it is.
J955.1. Frog in vain tries to be as big as an ox. Bursts. Esopete p. 54;
Tubach 2219.
J956. Ambitious branch chosen as king of trees. Vine and fig tree have re-
Tubach 751.
aspects
of wisdom.
Other
J1000-J1099.
JIOIO. Value of industry.
fused. Esopete p. 1;
*J1012. King spends nights in study. Invents self-filling lamp to study

through the night without interruption. Glosa 1.2.7.96-97; Castigos
A
6559 15.121 (ADMYTE 58r).
BNM
MS
J1020. Strength in unity.

J1022. Fight of lions and
bulls.
Lion (here wolf) succeeds only when
bulls are separated. Esopete pp. 123-24.

J 1024.
Ringdoves (quails) caught
They
fly to
them. Calila
mouse
p.
Rise
in net.
friend of leader
up
in a
who gnaws
body and escape.

the net and
firees
202; Exemplario 41r-42r.
when united defeat all enemies. When they fight among

themselves they are destroyed, a.b.c. 60; Tubach 1315.
J 1025.2. Cats unite in battle against wolf. Each one attacking distinct
parts of his body. They destroy wolf Calila p. 343; Exemplario 88r.
*J1 025.3. Horses who had previously been enemies unite when their owners
J 1025.1. Cranes,
turn them over to
lion.
Lucanor Ex.
*J1 025.4. Deer unite
and
hunters cannot attack them. Especulo 102.68;
9.
Tubach 1503.
J1030. Self-dependence.
J1032. Stag found by master when overlooked by servants. Hides under hay
and escapes until master himself comes. Esopete p. 67; Tubach 4596.
J1033. Gardener who plants vegetable tends it best (why wild plants grow
better than tended ones). Esopete pp. 9-10.
J1040. Decisiveness of conduct.
J 104 1.2. Miller, his son, and the ass. Miller blamed when he follows his
son on foot; when he takes son's place on the ass; when he takes his
son behind him; and when he puts son in firont of him. Esopete pp.
153-54; Lucanor Ex. 2; Tubach 382.
J1050. Attention to warnings.
*J1054.1. Chick disregards mother hen's warning to stay imder her wing.
Kite carries him off. Gatos 36.
75
J1060. Miscellaneous aspects of wisdom.

J 106 1.1. The cock and the sapphire (pearl). Prefers a single com to a peck
of pearls. LBA cc. 1387-91; Esopete p. 33; Tubach 3635.
J1062.1. Frog as beauty doctor unable to cure his own ugliness. Esopete p.
120; Tubach 1692.
Mother crab blames children for not walking straight. Esopete pp.
119-20; Tubach 1311.
J1064. Futility of trying to teach the stupid.
J1064.1. Bird killed by apes who will not believe her warning that firefly
is not a fire. Calila p. 170; Exemplario 25r.
*J1 064.2. Swallow unable to convince other birds to eat hempseeds to prevent humans from using hemp for nets. LBA cc. 745-54; Lucanor
Ex. 6; Tubach 4686.
*J1 064.3. Partridges will not believe warning that hunter with tears in his
eyes intends to capture them. Lucanor Ex. 13; Esopete pp. 76-77.
J 1063.1.
J1072. Person to be judged
by own
qualities, not
*J 1072.3. King leaves bathhouse wearing rags.

treated. Lucanor Ex. 51.
Not
by
clothes.
recognized;
is
mis-
*J1 072.4. Madman in rich household given master's clothes. Others cannot
distinguish between them. Especulo 40.27.
J1074. Value of silence.

*J1074.1.2. Value of silence. Would-be philosopher endures insults from
great philosopher. Told he had proved himself by keeping quiet retorted: "I would have known I was a philosopher if you had been silent." a.b.c. 408;
Tubach 3748.
*J1074.1.3. Value of silence. Abbot holds stone in mouth for three years
to learn how to be silent. a.b.c. 409; Especulo 525.412; Tubach 4627.
*J1074.1.4. Value of
meaningful
silence.
Bishop answered plea for edification with

523.411-12.
silence. Especulo
*J1074.1.5. Value of silence. Monk relies on scriptural verse that warns

against misspeaking. Especulo 524.412.
*J1 074.3. Vow of silence gives man power to see
carry off departing souls, a.b.c. 409.
J1085. Money does not always bring happiness.

J 1085. 3. King sees poor man who is far happier than
demons and
angels
himself. a.b.c.
350.
J1100-J1699. CLEVERNESS
J1100-J1249. Clever persons and acts.
JlllO. Clever persons.
Jl
14.0.
ciplina
*J1
Maimundus makes clever retorts to master. Dis195; Tubach 4288.

servant asked how much he could eat. Asks if ques-
Clever slave.
27.89-90;
14.0.2. Clever
tioner
means
eat as
much
a.b.c.
his food or the food of another. If another,
he would
as possible. a.b.c. 195.
J1140. Cleverness in detection of truth.

Jl 141.14. Thief of church funds threatened with excommunication. Returns
money and is absolved. Especulo 170.114-15.
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MOTIF INDEX OF
J1144. Eaters of stolen food detected.

Jl 144.1. Eaters of stolen food detected by the giving of an emetic. Esopete
pp. 2-3.
J1150. Cleverness connected with giving of evidence.

J1152. Witness cannot speak language of accusation: discredited. Rejected
lover taught two parrots in a particular language to accuse mistress
of household of infidelity. When tested, the birds know nothing more
of the language. Calila p. 198; Exemplario 38v-39r; cf Tubach 632,
3147.
Susanna and the elders. Prophet Daniel proves that elders had
accused her falsely. Castigos 9.69; Gbsa 2.2.6.248; Tubach 4584.
Jl 154.1 Parrot (magpie) unable to tell husband details of wife's infidelity.
Wife simulates a rainstorm while cage is covered so that parrot gives
husband a false report. Sendebar Day 1, Tale 2; Exemplario 25v-26v;
Jl 153.1.
cf Tubach 632, 3147.

J1160. Clever pleading.
Jl 161.1. The two (three)
women;
her to
tell
joint depositors.
Two men
entrust
money
to
only in the presence of both. One comes to

her his partner is dead. She hands over money. Other, still
she
may pay
it
demands his money. Before judge, first one must produce his
"dead" partner. Cannot do it. a.b.c. 78; Sendebar Day 8, Tale 21;
Tubach 3353.
Jl 161.4. Money in the stick. Before swearing, the borrower hands a stick
containing the borrowed money to the lender. He then swears it has
been repaid. a.b.c. 234; Especulo 459.358; Tubach 3352.
Jl 161.9. Drunk philosopher wagers that he can drink the ocean dry. Agrees
to do so if the others will hold back streams emptying into the ocean.
alive,
Agreed only to drink the ocean. Esopete

Jl 162.4. Clever pleading.
Youth
p. 15.
in court for calling king a fool, proves
truth of statement because king allowed himself to be
duped by
al-
chemist, îfar pp. 128-29; LucanorEx. 20; cf Tubach 89.

*J1 162.5. Lawsuit over property. Plaintiff sleeps during proceedings; unwilling to see brother's unhappiness. Recovers his property. Especulo
101.67-68.
Tells king just as he
Knight haled before king for beating blasphemer.

would fight to protect king's name, so he should
fight to protect the
name
Jl 164. Clever pleading.
of the King of Kings, a.b.c. 53.
J1169. Clever pleading: miscellaneous.

Jl 169.4. The ass beheaded. Alexander vows to sacrifice first thing he
meets. It is a man riding an ass. Man pleads that ass preceded him.
King amused, man spared. a.b.c. 118; Tubach 3289.
J1170. Clever judicial decisions.
Jl 171.1. Solomon's judgement: the divided child. Two women claim child.
Judge offers to cut it in two. Real mother reftises. Castigos 9.69;
Tubach 4466.
Jl 172.1. Not the same purse as was lost. Finder of purse with 100 gold
coins and a golden serpent (800 guldens) returns it and asks for
77
reward.
To
avoid giving reward, owner says there had been two ser-
pents (900 guldens). In court, wise intermediary helps finder. Judge

rules that finder may keep purse because it was not the one lost.
367; Disciplina 17; Esopete pp. 141-42;
a.b.c.
Tubach 874,
cf.
4090.
man rescues a serpent

J 11 72.3. Ungrateful animal returned to captivity.
(bear) who in return seeks to kill his rescuer. (Snake liberated by
shepherd bites him when
Fox
fireed.)
as judge advises the
man to put
the serpent back into captivity. Esopete pp. 86-87; a.b.c. 312; Disciplina 5; Tubach 4254, 4262.
*J1 172.3.3. Clever judge. Suspects that miscreant is hidden in hollow
tree. Orders that fire be set to smoke him out. Calila p. 171; Exemplario 2(iv-21r,
Tubach 4954.
Jl 174.1. Youth to be killed for kissing duke's daughter (pleads his love for
her).
those
at
Duke says: "If we kill those who love us, what shall we do with
who hate us?" Same prince forgives member of court who spat
him.
a.b.c. 67.
J1176.2. Measuring the dregs. Some ftiU and some half-full oil casks left
with man by landlord, who accuses him of theft. Fraud detected by
measuring the dregs. Half-ftiU casks's dregs were measurably less

than fiiU casks's. a.b.c. 390; Disciplina 16; Esopete pp. 140-41; Glosa
3.2.21.197-98;
Tubach 3524.
J1179. Clever judicial judgements: miscellaneous.

*J1179.1.1. Lawsuit: neither plaintiff awarded judgement. Both fox and
wolf suspect and legally vmable to bring complaint. Esopete p. 54.
*J1 179.5.1. Flea pleads innocence. When he bites man
ing rules of nature. Esopete p. 113; Tubach 2081.
Jl 179.13. Cardinal's clever decision.
sound
clerics
The monks who
he
is
only follow-
arise earliest
may
There had been a great argument between

associated with the church and monks associated with a religbells for matins.
ious order. Lucanor Ex. 3 1
J 11 80. Clever means of avoiding legal punishment.

*J1181.4. Man sentenced to be hanged is permitted to choose tree for his
hanging. Cannot find suitable tree. a.b.c. 130; Tubach 4790.
*J1181.5. Sentenced to have eyes taken out, asked if he could select the
instrument {el clavo). Favor granted, but then he could not find a
nail that suited
him.
a.b.c.
punishment
a.b.c.
Tubach 1947.
151;
*J1 189.4. Judge, forced to sentence

for adultery, offers
own son to the loss of both eyes as

one of his own so that law is satisfied.
224; Glosa 1.2.11.113-14;
Tubach 1944.
*J1 189.5. Execution escaped by false confession
by fiiend
(father's friend).
Esopete pp. 137-39.
J1210-J1229. Clever person puts another out of countenance.

*J1 2 1 5.2. "Eat spiritual food, " says monk to brother who criticizes working at earthly pursuits like gardening. Will not give him "earthly"
food. a.b.c. 425; Tubach 5386.
J1217.2. Simple
that
78
man
wisdom came
puts philosopher out of countenance
by
telling
him
before learning. a.b.c. 392.
MOTIF INDEX OF
*J1217.3. Worldly man asks his brother, a monk, for money. Cannot ask
other brother who is recently dead because he is dead to world.
Monk responds he is
even more dead to world. Especulo All.316-11
*J1217.4. Saint's father leaves him large inheritance. Saint says it is impossible because he died (withdrew from world) before his father.
Especulo Al^.311.
J1250-J1499. Clever verbal retorts (repartee).

J1260. Repartee based on church or clergy.
*J1 26 1.4.1. Moribund refuses sacrament because those offering
it
are not
his peers. a.b.c. 153.
*J1 26 1 1 1 Celibate acquiesces passively to widow's sexual advances. Claims

to be free of guilt because she was active not he. Esopete p. 165.
.
*J1261.12. Bishop abstains from eating meat. Parishioner questions his

sincerity: "You are eating my flesh and blood by stealing the cow
that feeds me." Especulo 68.46-47.
tells bishop he has not eaten dead animals
Bishop responds: "Since I entered religious life, I have not slept, nor have I permitted anyone who complained about me to sleep." Especulo 504.397.
J1262.4. Levity regarding biblical passages.
*J1 262.3.1. "Give and you shall be given. " Monks ask that two servants
who had been dismissed be returned to restore prosperity. They are
named "Give" (Dad) and "Given" (Dado). Especulo 241.162.
Jl 262.5.2. Parishioner hears preacher say that alms are returned "100 to
1." Gives cow expecting to receive 1 00. a. b. c. 1 39; Tubach 176, 4089.
*J1261.13. Saint, served meat,

since he entered religious
life.
*J1 262.5.3. Saintly man's steward dispensed five coins instead of ten to
beggar. Because God returns hundredfold, steward must repay five
hundred
coins, a.b.c. 140;
Tubach
176, 4089.
*J1 262.5.3.1. Merchant gives wealth to God because he will be rewarded

hundredfold. Digs and finds gold worth three hundred silver pounds.
Especulo 244.164.
J1262.6. "You don't blame a toolmakerfor making
all manner of tools, both

and helpftil, so why blame God for making bad beasts as
well as good ones?" a.b.c. 56.
*J1 262.7.1. "Think about Judgement Day just as criminal thinks about
execution day" says abbot to monks. a.b.c. 70; Especulo 194.134-35;
harmfiil
Tubach 1229.
*J1262.10. "If you cannot see the soul in the living man, how can you expect to see it in the dead body?" says wise man to atheist. a.b.c. 24.
J1263. Repartee concerning clerical abuses.

*J1263.1.5. Devil sends archbishop letter saying that
priests
*J1 263.
had been sent him by

.6.
all
ignorant, stupid
devil. a.b.c. 196.
Devil leaves message on scholar's hand. Greets church officials
whose behavior sends so many
to inferno
by example. Especulo
470.371.
*J1263.1.7. Devil marks messenger's face. Carries message of clerical ignorance. Marking cleansed by holy water. a.b.c. 196; Tubach 3032.
79
J1263.4. Repartee concerning clerical luxury.

Jl 263.4.2. Man calls St. Peter and St. Paul fools for enduring poverty if
rich abbots can reach heaven too. a.b.c. 152; Especulo 472.371-72;
Tubach 3716.
*J 1263.5.4. Saintly man's steward told to give beggar three coins, holds one
back; then charitable men give them two hundred coins. Saint says:
"Accept these coins, but know that you took a hundred from me
when you held back one from beggar." a.b.c. 141; Especulo 240.161,
J1269. Repartee based on church or clergy: miscellaneous.
*J1269.14. Holy man sees sinner. "He today, I tomorrow." a.b.c. 228.
J1269.16. "Have you given up as much as I?" Previously wealthy monk,
criticized for sleeping in comfortable bed, responds, a.b.c. 258;
Tubach 539.
J12S0. Repartee with ruler (judge, etc.).
Man
out "Tyrant!"
He
answered: "If I were a tyrant, you

A
6559 31.147
(ADMYTE 96z;); Glosa 1.2.14.133; Tubach 5011.
*J1281.1. Caesar proves he is no tyrant by letting courtiers insult him for
J1281.
cries
would not say so."
his baldness, his
humble
31.148
(ADMYTE
*J 128 1.1. 2. Empress offers judge great honors
ment.
He
replies: "I
BNM
MS
lineage, a.b.c. 346; Glosa 1.2.14.132-33;
MS A BNM 6559
Castigos
is
346; Castigos
a.b.c.
if
do not want honors
he
95r).
will
make
at the price
false
judge-
of the truth."
Especulo 396.292.
*J1281 .2. King retorts to insulting ambassador who had said he should be
hanged. He tells him he is better than those who sent him to insult
him. a.b.c. 345; Castigos MS A
6559 31.148 (ADMYTE 96r).
BNM
"Friend, if I
am
a dwarf, then I have need of good stilts,"

*J1281.3.
responds Julius Caesar to a jeerer who thought to insult him. Castigos
A
6559 13.118, 82.215 (ADMYTE
96v); Glosa
2.1.13.65.
BNM
MS
*J1 28 1
tigos
.3. 1
Caesar hears
insult without anger.
Said to be baker's son. Cas-
MS A BNM 6559.31.147 (ADMYTE
*J1281.3.2. Scipio told he is no warrior.

peror, not warrior." Castigos
A
MS
95r); Glosa 1.2.14.133.
"My mother
BNM
bore
me
6559 31.147
to
be em-
(ADMYTE
96r); Glosa 1.2.14.133.
*J 128 1.3. 3.
Vespasian told that foxes can shed coat but not heart.
The
emperor can shed neither. "To such men we owe laughter, to ourselves correction and to evil ones punishment." Castigos MS A
6559 31.147 (ADMYTE 96r); Glosa 1.2.14.133.
*J1281.4. "Move along where the king won't hear you." King, sitting
behind curtain, hears men reviling him. Lets them know he has
heard, a.b.c. 341; Castigos MS A BNM 6559 31.147 (ADMYTE
BNM
95^;); Glosa
1.2.14.133-34;
Tubach 2908.
*J1281.5. Alexander asks desert philosophers what gift he might give them.
They reply "Immortality." He, as a mortal cannot grant them this.
They reply:
"If you are mortal,
why do you do
so
many
evil
things?"
80
MOTIF INDEX OF
*J1281.6. "/ would rather that you smeUed of other things than unguents
and scents. " Ruler with sensitive nose denies important post to noble
youth,
a.b.c.
*J 128 1.7. King
323.
enemy
invites
flesh of guest's sons.
house
all
if
Alexander he
tell
arrow wound proves
am
is
son of Jupiter.
He
replies:
MS A BNM
mortal." Castigos
and
gift.
Gave man
city.
unworthy. "If you do not merit it, then it

it to you." a.b.c. 97; Castigos MS A
is
Man
not
BNM
1.2.17.155; Qifar^. 99;

*J1 283.2. King excuses
ask.
"In the king's

6559 13.118
MS A BNM
"This
6559
lllr).
*J1 283.1. Alexander
for large
dish prepared with

says:
52^;).
Flatterers
(ADMYTE
him
Serves
meal was good,
meals are pleasing." Castigos
(ADMYTE
J1281.8.
to dinner.
Asked
cf.
amount, and king
When man
Tubach
self from
giving
tells
asks for lesser
fitting for a king, a.b.c.
protested he was
fitting for
me to
give
6559 14.119; Glosa
100.
money
him
it is
to friend.
too
amount, king
Friend
much
tells
first
asks
him
for a friend to
it is
sum
not
321; Qifar p. 99.
J1289.10. King will destroy city. Annoyed by plea of philosopher, says he

will do nothing philosopher asks. Philosopher asks him to destroy
city. City is saved, a.b.c. 233; Tubach 105.
*J1 289. 10.1. Noble will destroy monastery if son does not return to secular
life. Son agrees, provided that father will agree to change law that
sons and fathers must meet the same end. Father enters monastery.
cf.
Tubach 4183.
*J1 289.21. Caesar offers to send lawyer to defend veteran soldier. Soldier
says: "When I was your soldier I fought for you, I did not send in a
Tubach 4181.
Emperor asks pirate: "Why are you a pirate?" Responds: "I
am only doing what you do on a larger scale." a. b.c. 42; Castigos MS
A
6559 31.137 (ADMYTE 95r); Glosa 1.2.10.110-11; Tubach 113.
*J1 289.23. Only booty he had earned from African military campaign was
his nickname, says Scipio Africanus when accused of having profited
firom African campaign, a.b.c. 255; Glosa 1.1.7.38.
*J1 289.24. Knight cuts horseshoe with sword. Duke demands knight's
sword but is unable to cut even a nail with it. Knight says: "Sir, I
gave you the sword, not the strong arm." Especulo 560.453-54;
Tubach 4694.
*J1 289.25. "My tongue does not belong to you," retorts condemned man
to king as he bites it out and flings it at king. Castigos MS A
6559 31.148 (ADMYTE 96r); Glosa 1.2.14.134; cf. Tubach 4911.
Jl 289.26. Physician threatened with death by tyrant. "When you harm
God's creatures, remember that only God can cure you." a.b.c. 373.
*J1289.27. Theodosius condemned to be crucified. "It does not firighten me.
I can die on earth or up in the air." Glosa 1.2.14.134; Castigos MS A
6559 31.148-49 (ADMYTE 95^).
substitute. " Caesar appears in court for him. a. b.c. 31 9;
*J1 289.22.
BNM
BNM
BNM
81
J1310. Repartee concerning wine.

*J1319.2. Mouse in wine vat. Promises cat anything if he will save him.
Breaks promise, telling cat, "I was dnmk when I promised." Gatos
56; Tubach 3426.
J1320. Repartee concerning drunkenness.
*J1 320.0.1.
Bishop
Drunken man
replies:
"You
on
fast day.
dies.
Especuh
taunts bishop with invitation to eat

will
dine today in hell."
Man
10.8.
Why
English are short lived. Drink more in four years than

do in twenty (rather than eat). Teacher explains: "God did
not want to deprive others of sustenance so deprived them of food."
*J1325.
others
Especuh 196.137.
J1340. Retorts from hungry persons.
J1341.5. Hungry apprentice attracts master's attention by saying he is insane. a.h.c. 102; Disciplina 20.76-78; EsopeteY>^. 151-52; Tubach 2753.
J1369.
Rude
retorts: miscellaneous.
*J1 369.6. "Cursed be the words of your mouth,

flatterer
9;
" retorts precentor to false

has said "blessed be the words of your mouth." a.b.c.
2078.
who
Tubach
J1370. Cynical retorts concerning honesty.

*J1374. Philosopher sees bailiffs leading thief to gallows.
greatest thieves leading a lesser
He
says: "I see
one to the gallows." Especuh 66.46.
J1390. Retorts concerning thefts.

*J1397.1. Owner of sheep rebukes neighbor. Man asks neighbor what happened to sheep when he chased the wolf that had stolen it. Neighbor
says he caught wolf but ate the sheep instead of returning it to owner
who
says:
"You
are as
bad
as the wolf." îfar p. 60.
J1420. Animals retort concerning danger.

J 1421. Peace among the animals (Peace fable). Fox tries to beguile cock
by reporting a new law establishing peace among animals. Dogs appear; the fox flees. "The dogs have not yet heard of the new law."
J1430. Repartee concerning doctors and patients.
*J1 432.1. "It hurts where you touch me," says sick ass to wolf as his
doctor. Esopete p. 78.
J1434. Streniwus cure for madness. Doctor throws patient into a pit of
water. Servant warns hunter (a person who engages in a mad activity) to flee before master throws him into the pit also. Esopete p. 152.
*J1434. 1 "/ am well. Take me out of the pit. " So says patient put in pit
of water as cure for insanity. Esopete p. 152.
.
J1440. Repartee: miscellaneous.

*J1440. 1 Man considering taking holy orders told to be like an ass: obedient. a.b.c. 31 A; Tubach 390.
J1442.1. Cynic wants sunlight (Socrates to royal hunters) or (Alexander
to Diogenes): "What can we do for you?" "Get out of my sunlight.
.
Don't take away from
me what you
can't give
me."
a.b.c.
348, 427;
Tubach 1673.
82
MOTIF INDEX OF
J 1442. 1.1. Plato says he is ruler's superior because

and ruler is guided by will. a.b.c. 259.
he
is
guided by reason
*J1442. 14. "/ know where my shoe pinches, " says man rebuked for leaving his wife whom all regard as good. a.b.c. 371 (not in Paris MS);
Tubach 4339.
*J1442.15. "Thanks for your kind words, but may your deceitful eyes go
blind." So says wolf to shepherd who hid him from hunter but
winked
in hunter's direction to betray him. Esopete p. 75.
lion and the statue. A man points out the statue to show the
supremacy of man. The lion: "If it had been a lion sculptor, the lion
would have been standing over the man." Esopete pp. 78-79.
J1473.1. The greedy dreamer. Shepherd dreams he is offered a price for
his sheep. In dream demands an even higher one. Wakes, finds he
was dreaming and is willing to accept the lower one. Disciplina 31;
J1454. The
Tubach 1788.
*J1476.1. The earthen pot humbled. Rain water: What is your name? Pot:
A fine pot made for years of service. River: You shall soon be mud
again. Esopete p. 128.
J1488. What the bear whispered in his ear. Paid guide climbs tree and
leaves traveler to mercy of bear. Traveler feigns death, and the bear
sniffs him and leaves. The guide: "What did the bear say to you?"
He said, "Never trust a coward like you." Esopete pp. 121-22.
*J1489. Evil king finds sentry asleep. Sentry says he was not asleep: "I
was thinking that the magpie has as many white feathers as black."
Is spared because it is so. Caught again he replies: "I was thinking
that the vixen has as
spared because
you
it is
are the devil's
many bones
Caught a
man, and he
so.
in her tail as in
her spine."
Is
he says: "I was thinking

come and get you." That day
third time
will
come and carry off evil king, a.b.c. 114.

J1494.1. Lame knight says he is better soldier. Will stand and
devils
flee.
fight,
not
Glosa 1.2.13.125.
J1500-J1649. Clever practical retorts.

J1510. The cheater cheated.
1 0. 1 Fraudulent claim by stag made in presence of wolf whose presence intimidates sheep into acknowledging debt. Repayment scheduled for when wolf will not be present. Esopete p. 52.
*J1510.2. Usurers cheated. Warrior deposits sand-filled chests with
usurers as surety for a loan.
w. 80-212.
rule must work both ways.
J1511.
*J1 5 11.9.1. Employer says she has eyes in buttocks to supervise clever
slave's actions. He uncovers them while she sleeps. Esopete p. 16.
*J151 1.21. Envious guest collects all bones from meal and heaps them on
plate of favored newcomer, leaving his own plate empty. Calls attention to newcomer's greed. Newcomer retorts: "I have done what is
natural. I have eaten the meat and left the bones. My companion has
behaved like a dog. He has eaten both meat and bones." Disciplina
*J1
CMC
21.
83
J1512.2. To return the eye to the one-eyed person. "Let me have yovir other
eye so that I can see whether the one I bring you matches." Sendebar
Day 8, Tale 22.

J1521. Swindler's plan foiled.
*J 152 1.1.1. Peasant kills fox who betrayed wolf in order to get wolfs food
supply. Esopete p. 63.
J1522.
Rebuke
to the stingy.
*J1 522.3. Gemstone merchant hires artisan to polish stones. Artisan sees
stringed instrument. Merchant tells him to play it. End of day, mer-
chant denies him his pay. Answers:
"You
told
me
to play it." Calila
p. 113; Exemplario 9r.
J1528. Dream interpretation answered by new interpretations.

*J1528.1. Malicious interpretation of royal dream corrected by new interpretation by philosopher. Revised prophecies come true. Calila p.
286.
J1530. One absurdity rebukes another.
J1531.2. The iron-eating mice. Rogue claims that mice have eaten the
iron entrusted to him by dupe. Dupe abducts rogue's son; says that
a falcon carried him off. Explains that in land where mice eat iron,
falcons can carry off children. Rogue retvims iron; dupe returns son.
K1667.
abdomen to ensure her chastity
Calila p. 175; Exemplario 19r; Esopete p. 167; cf
*J1531.4. Husband paints lamb on
wife's
during his absence. Returns after long absence to find that her lover
it; it is now a full-grown ram. LBA cc. 474-87.
*J1 539.2.1. Aesop's master steals pig's foot from pot to incriminate him.
Aesop and master both replace stolen pig's foot in pot. Too many in
has repainted
pot. Esopete p.
0.
J1540. Repartee between husband and wife.

J1546. Woman curious about senate's secret deliberations. Son (husband)
tells her they have decided that each man may have many wives.
Gullible
woman
believes
it.
a.b.c.
J1550. Practical retorts: borrowers
394; Tubach 5269.

and lenders.
Holy man allows borrowers of bread to repay what they owe on

honor system. Violator who has not ever repaid finds storehouse
*J1 552.5.
empty. a.b.c. 310; Especulo 233.157-58.

J1565. Inappropriate hospitality repaid.
Fox and crane invite each other. Fox serves the food on a flat
dish so that the crane cannot eat. Crane serves his food in a botde.
Esopete p. 52; Tubach 2170.
Jl 565.1.
who eat very litde. Beedes

and serve them animal dimg. Bees do not eat. Gatos 34.
Jl 566.1. Philosopher spits in king's beard because no place in elegant
Jl 565.2. Bees serve honey for dinner to beetles
invite bees
palace
is
suitable for spitting. a.b.c. 188;
Tubach 525.
J 1577. Deceptive invitation to a feast. Vulture invites birds to dinner
eats
them
(lion
and
foxes). Esopete p. 78; cf
and
Tubach 2169.
J1580. Practical retorts concerning almsgiving.

*J1 580.0.1. Saint leaves possessions to poor. Tells his
84
two vmmarried
sis-
MOTIF INDEX OF
ters:
"God who made you
me."
Especulo 43.29-30.
will
provide for you just as he did for
*J1592. Impoverished scholar gives knowledge

instead of alms, a.b.c. 131; Tubach 173.
J1600. Practical retorts: miscellaneous.
"What
J 1607.
lost
matters
The
form of grammar
lesson
Man asks sword who lost it. Sword:

how many men I have lost." Esopete p. 79.
testament of the dog. The owner of a dog has him given a
Who
*J1 600.1.
in
the sword?
is
Christian burial. Hearing protests, the bishop thereupon pretends

that the
cf.
dog has
left
the church a large legacy. Esopete pp. 152-53;
Tubach 4949.
J1608.1. Fox asks mule about its identity, its parentage, its name.
says its father wrote information on hoof. Fox sees through
Esopete p. 85;
Mule
trick.
Tubach 3432.
Drunkard cured of seeing double. Returns home drunk, sees

wife and his two children. Accuses her of infidelity because sees four
*J1 623.1.
children.
Kills
her and children.
Sober, he
kills
self.
Especulo
198.138.
Drunkard returns home. Demands that wife undergo ordeal by

burning metal. She agrees but tells him he must hand her the red-hot
poker. Pain restores him to sobriety. Especulo 200.139-40; cf. Tubach 59.
J1634. To follow the king. In order to test a favorite, king says he will
retire firom world and offers him the regency. On advice fi-om philosopher, favorite says that he will accompany king into retirement.
a.b.c. 215 (not in Paris MS); Lucanor Ex. 1; Barlaam pp. 25-29.
*J 1623.2.
J1647. Priest asked to preach short sermon says, "He who is of God hears
his word, therefore you are not of God." a.b.c. 362; Tubach 4244.
*J 1647.1. Preacher tells king who is too busy hunting to hear sermon that
sermons are for those who
will listen
and
benefit
from them. Qifar p.
75.
J1650-J1699. Miscellaneous clever acts.

J1661. Deductions from observations.
*J1661.1.2.2. Deduction that prince (king's son) is not his. Sickened by
cooked meat. Queen's lover ate only raw meat, a.b.c. 175; Tubach
500.
*J 166 1.1. 2. 3. Deduction that king
is illegitimate. His nature is revealed by

rewards favorites with bread, therefore he is son of
a baker. a.b.c. 313; Tubach 500.
J 166 1.1. 5. Deduction that horse was reared on milk of a she-ass. Horse is
observed to shake ears like an ass. a.b.c. 313; Tubach 2611.
J1661.1.6. Deduction by feeling stone to test value. Warmth of stone shows
that it contains a worm, a.b.c. 313; Tubach 5391.
J1662. Cat's only trick. She can climb tree to escape hunting dogs, but
fox, who brags about knowing many tricks, is captured. Gatos 40;
Esopete pp. 87-88; Especulo 24.16; Tubach 2180.
J 167 5. Clever dealings with a king.
his behavior.
He
85
Jl 675.0.1. Knight hailed before king for beating blasphemer. Tells king just
as
he would
the
name
fight to protect king's
of the King of Kings.
name, so would he
fight to protect
a.b.c. 53.
AND OTHER
UNWISE PERSONS
J1700-J2799. FOOLS
J1700-J1729. Fools (general).
J1730-J1749. Absurd ignorance.
J1733. Why the pigs shriek. The sheep does not understand why the pig
being carried to slaughter shrieks. Esopete p. 1 1; Tubach 3775.
J1744. Ignorance of sexual relations.
*J1 744.2. Naive new bride compares husband's penis with that of an ass
and finds him wanting. Esopete pp. 165-66.
*J1745.1.1. Absurd ignorance of sex. Pious maiden (mm) convinced by
go-between that God does not see what is done at night. Spends
night with go-between's customer. a.b.c. 108; Tubach 1436.
*J1 745.3. Foolish young woman sees copulation between youth and ass.
Told he
is
giving beast sense, she asks for
same treatment.
Esopete
p. 24.
*J1 745.4. Sheltered prince shown all forms of human

first time was told that young women are devils
Asked what he
liked best, chose the "devils."
women
dow
is
who
life
for
deceive men.
Barlaam pp. 261-63.
woman) is told
by what he had seen through winunable to eat (meat) because he felt so sorry for the poor
*J1 745.5. Inexperienced young
that
and animal
monk
(never having seen a
are goats. Obsessed
goat. a.b.c. 300.
J1750-J1849. Absurd misunderstandings.

J1750. One animal mistaken for another.
*J1 756.2. Horse thief mistakes lion for horse and movmts him and rides
until daybreak. Sendebar Day 6, Tale 14.
J 1760. Animal thought to be an object.
J1761.3. Firefly thought to be afire. Bird who tries to keep monkeys firom
this error is killed by them. Calila p. 170.
J1772. One object thought to be another.

*J1772.15. File thought to be food. Esopete p. 65.
J1780. Things thought to be devils, ghosts, etc.
*J1781.4. Man thought to be devil (storm) by lion. Man rides lion
night, thinking it to be a horse. Sendebar Day 6, Tale 14.
all
Shadow mistaken for substance.

J1791 .3. Divingfor cheese. Animal sees moon reflected in water and think-
J1790.
Tubach 1699.
Crossing a stream with
meat in his mouth, he sees his reflection; thinking it another dog
with meat, he dives for it and loses his meat. Esopete p. 34; Exemplario 9v; Calila p. 114; LBA cc. 226-29; Especulo 41.a.28; Tubach
1699.
J1791.8. Duck dives for star, thinking it is fish. The next day when she
sees fish, she lets it escape. Calila p. 155.
ing
it
J1791.4.
86
cheese, dives for
Dog drops meat
it.
Disciplina 23; a.b.c. 363;
(cheese) for the reflection.
MOTIF INDEX OF
J1792. Picture mistaken for original.

J1793. Mask mistaken for face. Esopete p. 53.
J1810. Physical phenomena misunderstood.
*J1 8 10.0.1. Bird mistakes falling of leaf for falling of sky. Frightened.
Gatos 3.
J1812.2. Hares think sound of waves
is
great danger to them.
LBA
cc.
144-
50.
J1820. Inappropriate action from misunderstanding.

*J1 820.1. Satyr drives man away because he blows on hands to
them and on wine to cool it. Esopete pp. 126-27.
*J 182 1.2. Birds see watery eyes of hunter
pity. Esopete pp. 16-11 , Gatos 4.
and
warm
think he weeps for them in
Abbot sends monk for manure; he returns because a lioness lives

where the manure is. Told to rope her and bring her here. Credulous
monk tries, and she resists imtil he tells her that abbot had sent him.
Abbot says: "Just as you are witless, you have captured a witless
*J1 849.5.
beast." a.b.c. 317; Especulo 415.313-14;
Tubach 3075.
*J1 849.6. Goose too heavy to fly well asks crow to help.
Crow
him but cannot and accuses goose of resisting. Gatos
tries to lift
38.
Absurd disregard of facts.

Money from the broken statue. Fool sells goods to a statue,
and when it will not pay him, knocks it to pieces. He finds a treasure
J1850-J1999.
Jl 853. 1.1.
inside. Esopete p. 110.
J1880. Animal or objects treated as if human: miscellaneous.

J 188 1.2. Animal sent to go on errand by itself.
J 188 1.2. 2. Peasants must make overdue payment. They tie money to the
neck of a fleet-footed animal, a hare, telling it to take it to creditor.
Gatos 44.
J1891. Object foolishly blamed.

*J1891.4. Blacksmith not to be blamed because tools can cause damage.
a.b.c. 56.
J1900. Absurd disregard or ignorance of animal's nature or habits.

J 1909.1. Fisherman fails to make fish dance to his flute. Later they jvimp
about without the aid of his flute. Esopete p. 110; cf Tubach 2053.
*J1909.1.2. Hyena (jackal) captured by peasants. Good peasants plead
for his safety
takes revenge
and feed him in pit where he is captive.

on those who wanted to kill him. Esopete
He
escapes,
p. 76.
J2050-J2199. Absurd shortsightedness.

J2061. Castle-in-air shattered by lack of forethought.
J2061.1. Air-castle. Jar of honey suspended over hermit's head. He
dreams of selling honey and through successive transactions becoming tremendously wealthy. In dream he will punish disobedient
offspring. Raises stick and shatters jug of honey. Calila p. 264; Exemplario 66r-667;; Tubach 3286.
*J206 1.3.1. Air-castle. Jar of honey to be sold. Woman on way to market to sell honey laughs with joy at future wealth and knocks jar off
head. Lucanor Ex. 7; Tubach 80.
87
J2066. Foolish waiting.

J2066.4. Wolf scorns salt meat in
166-19; Esopete pp. 91-93.
false expectation
of other food.
LBA cc.
J2066.5. Wolf waits in vain for nurse (mother) to throw away child. She
has threatened to throw the child to the wolf. Esopete p. 119.
J2070. Absurd wishes.

J2071. Three foolish wishes. Three wishes will be granted: used up foolishly. Wife tells man to wish for many women. Unhappy with many
women, she advises him to wish that God free him from women.
Wish granted. He is alone. Then must use third wish to restore his
wife. Sendebar Day 1, Tale 17; Tubach 5326.
Camel wishes for horns. Punishment: his

cropped instead. Esopete p. 121; Tubach 838.
*J2072.5.2. Short-sighted wish. Bees wish for lethal sting. Punishment:
*J2072.5.1. Short-sighted wish.
ears are
their sting
is
suicidal instead. Esopete p. 112.
J2074. Twice the wish to the enemy. (The covetous and the envious.) A
can have a wish, but B will get twice the wish. A wishes to lose an
eye so that B may be blind. a.b.c. 217; Esopete p. 125; Especulo
328.228-29; Alexandre cc. 2360-65; Tubach 560.
J2080. Foolish bargains.
*J2084. Buyer of sandalwood bums a small bit to convince seller that it
is worthless in his town. Will take it for whatever seller will ask.
Seller learns it is worth weight in gold. Seller asks impossible task or
return of merchandise. Sendebar Day 8, Tale 22.
J2092. The trusted porters. Man finds treasure but is robbed by porters
he has hired to free him from trouble of canying it. Calila pp. 91-92;
Exemplario 2r.
J2100. Remedy worse than disease.
J2102.3. Bald man aims at fly. Hurts his head. Esopete p. 52; Tubach
458.
*J2102.3.1. Heretic aims at fly that lights on head. Hits it so many times
that heretic dies. Gatos 6.
J2103. Expensive extermination of rodents.

J2103.1. The cat to guard the cheese. Man puts cat in chest to keep
mouse from eating cheese. Cat kills mouse and then eats cheese.
Gatos 16; Especulo 65.45-46; Tubach 886.
J2107. Taming the
bull
by cutting
off
its
horns.
It
makes him more
vio-
lent. Esopete p. 126.
J2 112.1. Young wife plucks husband's grey hairs. Old wife his black. Soon
all are gone. Esopete p. 113; Tubach 2401.
*J21 19.1.2. Man asked friend for advice for eye pain. Take them out and
put them in your pocket. a.b.c. 76; Tubach 1952.

J2120. Disregard of danger to objects (or animals).
J2129.3. Getting all the eggs at once. Hen lays golden eggs;
Alexandre c. 143.
J2130. Foolish disregard of personal danger.
*J2131.1.2. Blind men given pig on the condition they beat
88
it
is
killed.
to death
MOTIF INDEX OF
with
sticks.
They beat each
other instead. a.b.c. 64;
Tubach 698.
*J2 121.1.4. Numskull deceived into removing eyes to cure headache,

76;
a. h. c.
Tubach 1952.
*J2131.5.8. Disregard of danger. Lamb disregards danger of seeking

refuge among wolves when fleeing dogs. Alexandre c. 1780.
J2132.5. Animal allows self to be tied to another's tail and is dragged to
death. Esopete pp. 24, 34;
Tubach 3425.
J2133. NumskuU faUs.

J2 133.9. Blind men fall into abyss. A blind man, accepting as his guide
another blind man, falls with him into abyss. Lucanor Ex. 34; Tubach 701.
J2135. Numskull starves self.
*J2135.1.1. Members to starve belly. This brings about death of entire
body. Esopete p. 66; Tubach 570.
J2136. Numskull brings about own capture.
J2136.5.1. Thief stops to admire beautiful things before stealing them.
Caught. a.b.c. 101; Disciplina 30; Tubach 4782.
*J2136.5.10. Careless thief in poor man's house steals last bit of poor
man's flour. Putting it imder his cape he drops goods stolen else-
where. Poor man attacks thief who leaves without cape and stolen
items. Exemplario 4r-4v; Calila pp. 96-97.
J2137. Death through lack of foresight.
J2 137.1. The louse invites the flea. The flea bites the man and jumps
away.
The bed
J2137.5. Sheep
is
killed
searched, and the louse killed. Calila p. 152.
by butcher,
who they
are persuaded will spare them.
They
betray each other. Esopete p. 76.

*J2 137.5.1. Young rams butchered because they did not heed advice of
elders. Esopete p. 78.
*J2 137.8. Tiger as proposed defender of other animals is unexpectedly

wounded by well-hidden hunter's arrow. Esopete p. 123.
*J2 159.1.
river
Man
inattentive to the danger of
drowning persists in crossing
overburdened by load of precious stones. Drowns. Lucanor Ex.
38.
*J2 159.2. Man loads selfyfixh such heavy burdens that the weight causes
his death, a.b.c. 260 (not in Paris MS); Tubach 2135.
J2160. Other shortsighted acts.

J2172. Shortsightedness in caring for livestock.
J2 172.1. The shepherd who cried "Wolf too often. When the wolf really
comes, no one believes him. Esopete p. 111.
J2175. Shortsightedness in dealing with children.
J2175.4. Man lets son play in river. Son drowns, and
to save him. Sendebar Day 2, Tale 3.
man drowns
trying
J2190. Absurd shortsightedness: miscellaneous.

J21 99.4.1. Fool protects shoes. Treads on thorns to protect shoes and
hurts feet. a.b.c. 37; Tubach 4351.
*J2 199.5. Greedy husband supplies wife to an inexperienced fat prince because he believes him to be impotent. When the prince and the wo-
89
man
evidently enjoy each other, the
Day
4,
Tale
husband
kills
himself. Sendebar
9.
J220O-J2259. Absurd lack of logic.

J2211. Logical absurdity based upon certain false assumption.
*J221 1.5. Man shows lion a picture of a lion overcome by a man. Lion not
convinced. Later in amphitheater he defeats the man. Esopete pp. 7879.
J2238. Book gives wisdom. A man believes himself wise because he has
a book that he uses but does not vmderstand. Calila pp. 92-93.
*J2238.1. Fool asks for rhetorical rule. Given Ciceronian rule, memorizes
it, and recites it to audience instead of applying it. Exemplario 2r,
Calila p. 92.
J2260-J2299. Absurd scientific theories.

J2273. Absurd theories concerning the sky.
J2273.1. Bird thinks sky will fall if it does not support
and
frightens
it.
Gatos
J230(H2349. GuUible
it.
Leaf falls on
feet
3.
fools.
husband and wife both believe evil old woman. a.b.c.

370 (not in Paris MS); Lucanor Ex. 42; Tubach 5361.
*J230 1.4.1. Gullible husband believes wife's accoimt of an admonitory
dream. Her actions have saved him. Sendebar Day 6, Tale 16.
*J2301.4.2. Gullible husband. Heron finds spot where fish abound.
Wants it all to himself and his family. Heron wife tells her fiiend (a
curlew) to pretend to be willing to share another such spot with hus*J2301.4. Gullible
band. Husband invites curlew. Calila p. 339.

*J2301.4.3. Husband hides under wife's bed. She spends night with lover
and tells lover how much she loves husband. In morning, gullible
husband commiserates with her over her sleepless night and urges
her to stay in bed. Calila p. 241.
*J2301.4.4. Husband's good eye treated so that lover can depart. Had returned with one eye woxmded. a.b.c. 161; Disciplina 9; Esopete pp.
147-48; Talavera 2.10.188; cf. Tubach 1943.
*J2301.4.5. Wife outwits husband with extended sheet. Enables lover to
leave house unseen, a.b.c. 162; Esopete p. 148; Disciplina 10.
*J2301.4.6. Wife entertains lover during husband's absence. Husband returns and mother-in-law (guardian) counsels lover to pretend he is
from street rufiSans. Disciplina M; Esopete pp. 145-46; Tubach 4692.

*J2301.4.7. Husband locked out. Wife tricks husband into thinking she
has drowned in well. He leaves, and she locks him out. a.b.c. 303;
fugitive
Disciplina 14; Talavera 2.1.147 n. 36;
Tubach 5246.
*J2301.4.8. The husband temporarily blinded so that lover can leave unseen. Wife sprays his eyes with mother's milk. He hears noise; she
tells him it is the cat. Talavera 2.10.188; cf Tubach 1943.
*J2301.4.9. Wife's lover under bed. Husband returns home. She has husband turn round to brush hair off his clothes. He hears lover leave;
she tells him it is the cat. Talavera 2.10.188-89.
90
MOTIF INDEX OF
*J2301.4.10. Wife's lover under bed. Husband returns home. Wife tips
over candle, extinguishing it. Sends husband out for hght. Talavera
2.10.189.
*J2301.4.11. Wife's lover behind curtains. Husband returns home. Wife
shows husband a new kettle she says has holes in it. Holds it in jfront
of his eyes, slaps
loudly.
it
Husband
neither sees nor hears lover
leave. Talavera 2.10. IS9.
*J2301.4.12. Husband paints lamb on wife's stomach before leaving on trip.

Stays away years; returns to find ram portrayed (painted by lover in
his absence). Wife retorts: lamb had matured with the years. LBA cc.
474-85.
*J2304. Gullible
J2312. Naked
make
priest believes tricksters
who
tell
him
that deer (bought
dog. Calila p. 236; Esopete pp. 167-68; Tubach 2975.

person made to believe he is clothed. Tricksters pretend to
for sacrifice)
is
clothes for the emperor. Cloth
gitimate birth.
Finally a slave
is
visible only to those
of
le-
None at court are willing to admit they cannot see it.

who has nothing to lose tells emperor he is naked. Lu-
canor Ex. 32; cf. Tubach 3577.

*J2314.1. Gullible hermit believes apparition who tells him devil will
come to him in shape of aged man holding a scythe. Mistakes father
him. a.b.c. 87; Tubach 2570.

husband made to believe he has cut off his wife's nose.
Barber's wife, whose nose has been cut off when she took friend's
place, returns home. Her husband made to believe that he has accidentally cut off her nose when he threw razor at her. Calila pp. 139-
and
for devil
kills
J2315.2. Gullible
41; Exemplario \Av-\5r.
*J2326.2.1.
enemies.
Gullible king believes false
He
is
to
kill
dream
family, relinquish
interpretation
sword and
by
his
battle elephant.
Calila p. 282; Exemplario 12r-12v.
J2338. 1 Cuckold made to believe that God

lover has given them. Esopete p. 149.
.
is
donor offine things that wife's
*J2339. Trickster fox convinces wolf to ask mule

tage,
hoof.
its
name, knowing
Wolf kicked.
that
mule
Esopete p. 85;
its
identity, its
will say that the
paren-
information
is
on
Tubach 3432.
*J2342.6. Wife convinces husband that he is guilty of breaking mutual fidelity pact, when she is found in compromising situation. Sendebar Day
Tale 10.
J2350-J2369. Talkative fools.
J2357. Tortoise disregards warning and speaks. Loses grip on stick that
holds it aloft as helpful birds carry it through the air. Calila p. 165;
4,
Exemplario 22v-2'ir,
Tubach 1832.
J2370-J2399. Inquisitive fools.

J2378. What will the robber do?
do waits
to intervene
and
A man
falls
curious as to what a robber will
asleep. Calila pp.
93-94; Exemplario
2v.
J2400-J2449. Foolish imitation.

J2410. Types of foolish imitation.
91
J2412.1. Hot onion to the eye. Doctor had cvired his sore foot with this
remedy, a.b.c. 283; Tubach 3530.
J2413.1. Ass tries to caress master like the dog. He is driven off. Qifar pp.
33-34; Esopete p. 38; LBA cc. 1401-8; Tubach 372.
J2413.3.
Daw
tries to
carry off sheep like eagle. Fails, claws are caught in
fleece. Esopete p. 109;
Tubach 2346
*J24 13.5.1. The young fox

colt.
He
tries to pull
down
owner who
carried to
tries to
kills
(raven and fat goose).
imitate
zvolf
who
has pulled
mare (but he) cannot
down
get loose
and
a
is
him. Esopete pp. 96-98.
J2415. Foolish imitation of lucky person.

*J2415.1.3. Good poet justifies his low birth. Tells king that a rose grows
among thorns as he did among humble persons. King sends him
away with many gifts. Bad poet justifies self because of high birth.
Unrewarded, imitates other poet; tells king that rye grows among
wheat. King sends him away without gifts. Disciplina 3.
*J24 15.3.1. Crow wants to imitate ringdove. Seeks fiiendship of mouse.
Denied because it is crow's nature to hunt mice. Exemplario 42z;;
Calila pp. 205-6.
*J2415.8.
Man
hides in tree to overhear animal's secrets, as
had
his
com-
panion who had reaped great rewards from king for revealing them.
Is mistaken for companion and is killed by animals for having revealed secrets. Gatos 28.
man becomes
Tubach 3843.
*J2416.1. Humble
a.b.c. 81;
king. Tries to eat like a king. Falls
ill.
J2450-J2499. Literal fools.

J2460. Literal following of instructions.
Monk sent to fetch manure complains that the

near a lioness's den. Impatient abbot tells him to fetch lioness
too. Monk does so. a.b.c. 317; Tubach 3075.
J2466. Literal following of the count.
J2466.1. Man drags heavy sack symbolic of sins. A man cannot remember
the nxmiber of his sins. Puts a pebble in a sack for each. Comes to
confession with three sacks of pebbles. a.b.c. 1; Tubach 4413.
J2469.1. A lentil in the soup. "You said you wished a lentil soup; so I
put one in. If you had wished more lentils, you should have said so."
*J2461.1.9. Literal fool.
pile
is
Esopete p. 10.
*J2469.1.1. Food for master's most dearly beloved given to pet rather than
to wife by literal-minded slave. Esopete pp. 11-12.
*J2469. 1.1.1.
Literal obedience.
specified exactly
what
vessel. Brings foul
Slave
sort of water
water in wrong
tells master he should have

he wanted and in what sort of
vessel. Esopete p. 10.
*J2469.1.2. Instructions followed literally. Master sends to know if bathhouse is crowded. Slave reports only one man present. All others had
stumbled over obstruction at entrance. Only one man acted to avoid

danger. Others did not act like men. Tells master only one man is
there. Esopete p. 14.
*J2469.5.3. Literal obedience. Slave told that mistress's buttocks have
92
MOTIF INDEX OF
eyes, bares
them while she
sleeps so she can
watch food on
table.
Esopete p. 16.
*J2469.5.4. Literal obedience. Slave told to admit only wise men. Admits
only one who does not fall into his verbal trap. Esopete p. 16.
*J2469.6. Literal fool calls servant "devil" thereby calling upon a real de-
mon, and orders him to loosen his

a.b.c. 113;Tubach 1605.
boots. Real
demon
dissolves laces.
*J2469.7. Literal fool denies God. Devil's power is greater than God's because devil put stone in his path. He is punished with paralysis and
blindness. Cantigas 407.
J2470. Metaphors literally interpreted.
J2475. "Greasing the judge's palms." Woman misunderstands instructions to grease bishop's hands. Literally applies oil to them. a.b.c. 95;
Tubach2421.
K.
K0-K99.
DECEPTIONS
CONTESTS WON BY DECEPTION
*K97.3. Batde won by deception. Dead hero's corpse arranged in saddle

with mighty sword in hand to lead troops against enemy. Abreviada
2.150-60.
K100-K299.
*K 17 1.0. 3. Wheat
crop
DECEPTIVE BARGAINS
divided unfairly.
smaller share "to protect
it."
Trickster covers partner's
Partner returns the favor, moving sheet
to larger share. Trickster gets the smaller share. Calila p. 95;
Exem-
plario 3r-3v.
Kl 7 1
Truth
and lies takes the trunk and
Deceptive crop division: above the ground, below the ground.
takes the roots of jointly
owned
tree
branches. Lucanor Ex. 26.

K171.5. Deceptive division of animals. Evil tells Good to take the lambs;
he will take the milk and wool; Evil will take piglets and give Good
the milk and wool of pigs. Lucanor Ex. 43.
*K 17 1.5.1.
Deceptive division of vegetables. Evil takes turnip roots; Good

the leaves. Evil takes leaves of cabbage, leaving roots to Good. Luca-
nor Ex. 43.
K171.7. Deceptive division of shared wife. Evil takes lower half of wife;
Good takes upper half. Child begotten by lower half not permitted to
nurse the top half, which belongs to Good. Lucanor Ex. 43; Tubach
1921.
*K171.10. Who will inherit apple tree? Eldest son will choose all that is
straight and twisted; the second will choose all that is green and dry;
the yovmgest will choose roots, trunk, and branches. Esopete pp. 9496.
93
*K1 71.11. Who
will inherit goat? Eldest wishes that goat be so large that

might be able to drink the seas dry; the second wishes that all the
rope and wood in the world would not be enough to tie it; the
youngest wishes that it be so large that an eagle in flight will see only
the goat from on high. Esopete pp. 9496.
it
*K 17 1.1 2. Who
will inherit the mill?
The
greatest
liar.
The
eldest
is
so
lazy that water that drips in his ear has caused his brains to leak out.
Esopete pp. 94-96.
K185. Deceptive land purchase.

K185.1. Deceptive land purchase: ox-hide measure. Dido orders
cut in thin strips to outline large territory (Dido).
it
to be
Ilustres mujeres
PCG
53.34-5; Ahreviada 1.16.

and wolves. As condition for peace wolves demand that sheep send away dog guards. When unprotected, wolves
kill sheep. a.b.c. 415; Esopete pp. 2, 19, 65; Tubach 5357.
K192. Man helps horse against stag. Horse must agree to be saddled and
bridled. Man then refuses to release him. Esopete pp. 11-1^; Tubach
40.47r-49r;
K191. Peace between
sheep
2619.
K200-K249. Deception in payment of debt.

K218.4. Devil cheated of promised soul by intervention of Virgin Mary.
6559 82.215.
Castigos MS A
K220. Payment precluded by terms of the bargain.
*K227. Price of horse and falcon to be doubled each day. When payment is
BNM
due, payment is impossibly high. PCG 709.410; Abreviada 2.254.

K230. Other deceptions in the payment of debt.
*K231.2.2. Gem merchant hires assistant who sees harp. Asked to play it.
Spends day playing harp. Merchant refuses payment but is reminded
that he had requested music. Calila p. 113; Exemplario 9r.
K231.3. Refusal to make sacrifice after need is past. Woman in labor
promises to keep feast day. After she gives birth, she works on feast
day and is paralyzed, a.b.c. 165; cf. Tubach 4138.
K236. Literal payment of debt (not real).
*K236.5. Money in the stick. Before swearing, debtor (ostensibly to free
hands) hands a stick containing repayment of loan to lender. Swears
he has repaid loan. Retrieves stick, a.b.c. 234; Tubach 3469.
K264. Deceptive wager.
*K264.3. Combat between wolf and hare. Hare bets he will defeat wolf.
He outruns wolf, vmtil exhausted wolf can run no more. Wolf asks
him why he hadn't stood and fought. Fleeing is his way of fighting.
Gatos 58.
K265. Other deceptions: miscellaneous.

*K267. Woman mixes husked and unhusked barley together. Only she
knows that dog has urinated on husked grain. Calila p. 212 n. 116.
K300-K499.
K305. Contest in stealing.
K305.2.1. Friends enter
94
THEFTS AND CHEATS
into stealing contest.
Friend marks
own
share;
MOTIF INDEX OF
other friend changes mark. Thieving friend steals
own
share. Calila
pp. 95-96; Exemplario 3r-3v.
K330. Means of hoodwinking owner or guardian.
*K33 1.1.1. Dog hoodwinked into letting wolf Ml sheep. Made to think that
shepherds will feed him more if he appears weak. Esopete pp. 93-94.
K334.1. Raven (crow) with cheese in its mouth. The fox flatters it into
it drops the cheese, a.b.c. 11; LBA cc. 1437-43; EsoLucanor Ex. 5; Tubach 2177.
*K334.1.1. Small dog gives bed to larger dog who speaks sweetly to her.
Large dog keeps bed. Esopete p. 35.
*K335.1.0.2. Frightened thief leaves sheet behind. He extends sheet to
catch few wheat grains in poor man's house. Chased away, leaves
sheet behind. Calila pp. 96-98.
*K335.1.0.3. Thief comes to rob poor man. Finds only a bit of flour. Poor
man, enraged, attacks thief, who leaves behind spoils from other
singing so that
pete p. 37;
houses. Exemplario 4r-4v.
*K344. 1.5. Owner persuaded
that deer (goat)
is
worthless
Calila p. 236; Exemplario 55r; Esopete pp. 167-68;
dog by
tricksters.
Tubach 2975.
K345. Sympathetic helper robbed.

K345.2. Thief sent into well by trickster. A weeping boy tells a passing
thief that he had lost a silver cup in well. The thief takes off his
clothes and goes after the cup, intending to keep it. He finds
nothing. When he comes up child has stolen his clothes. Esopete p.
125.
K346. Thief
trusted
by
cleric
to guard goods steals
them and runs
off.
Calila p. 138; Exemplario 13?;.
K354. Trickster asks hospitality; expels owner.

*K354.2. Alexander, disguised as knight, steals host's golden flatware.
Caught. Says that in Alexander's court it is customary to give flatware to guests. Shames royal host. a.b.c. 34; Tubach 112; cf U45.
K400. Thief escapes detection.
K40 1.1.1. Trail of stolen goods made to lead to victim. Heron counseled by
crab to free itself from snake's depredation: leave trail of fish leading
to snake's nest. Mongoose follows trail, kills snake and her yoxmg,
and then kills heron and her yoimg. Calila p. 173.
K401.2. Stolen goods taken to dupe's house. Book hidden in bedchamber.
Dupe is accused, a.b.c. 117; Tubach 2431.

K401.2.2. Crow drops necklace in snake's hole. Leads hunters there.
Calila p. 145; Exemplario 15t;.
K402.3. The ass without a heart. Jackal (fox) tells sick lion that ass's
heart and ears are a cure for illness. Brings him an ass, who escapes.
Lion recaptiares and kills ass. Jackal eats ears and heart; tells lion that
ass had neither ears nor heart. Calila pp. 259-61; Exemplario 64ve5v; LBA cc. 892-906; Tubach 717.
K420. Thief loses goods or is detected.
K427.1. Clever animal betrays thief. Horse catches arm of thief and holds
on until help comes. a.b.c. 242; Tubach 2608.
95
K439. Thief loses goods or is detected: miscellaneous.

K439.3. Thief tricked into robbing self. Has covered companion's goods
with a sheet to mark them. Companion misunderstands, switches the
sheet to protect the other's goods. Calila pp. 95-96; Exemplario 3r3v.
K440. Other cheats.

*K44 1.3.1. Lawyer
takes two fees in a single case.
support, a.b.c. 309; cf
Higher
fee
wins greater
Tubach 2851.
K444. Dream bread: the most wonderful dream. Three pilgrims (two
townsmen and a rustic) agree that the one who has the most wonderful dream shall eat the last loaf Rustic eats it and in morning tells
others he had dreamt they were dead. a.b.c. 98; Esopete p. 142; Disciplina 19; Especulo 532.420-21; Tubach 1789.
K445. The emperor's new clothes. Tricksters pretend to make clothes for
the emperor. Cloth
is
visible only to those of legitimate birth.
None
admit they cannot see it. Finally a slave who

has nothing to lose tells emperor he is naked. Lucanor Ex. 32; cf.
Tubach 3577.
K451.3. Concealed confederate as unjust witness. Rogue and dupe hide
money imder a tree. Rogue steals it; accuses dupe of theft; enlists
confederate to hide in tree hollow to testify against dupe. Judge sets
fire to tree smoking out confederate. Calila p. 171; Exemplario 2(>vat court are willing to
llr.
K475. Cheating through equivocation.

*K475.4. Saintly bridegroom determined to remain chaste tells new bride he
is going to the Holy Sepulcher, the name of a nearby church. He
leaves for the Holy Land. San Alejo p. 101.
K476. Cheating by substitution of worthless articles.
*K476.1.3. Gold deposited with monk (Julian the Apostate) for safekeeping.
He replaces gold with ashes and flees. Especulo 54.37-38.
K476.2. False articles used to produce credit. Chests filled with stones left
as deposit. a.b.c. 163; Esopete pp. 139-41; Disciplina 15;
CMC w.
65-212; cf Tubach 965.

K477. Attention secured by trickery.
*K477.4. Entry into enemy's camp by pretending to be angered by mistreatment at hands of own camp. Crow, battered and bloody, offers services
to owls. Calila pp. 224-52; Exemplario 53v-5(iv; Lucanor Ex. 19;
Tubach 1358.
K500-K699.
ESCAPE BY DECEPTION
K510 Death order evaded.

*K5 11.1.1. Death avoided
thing seen.
11 8;
Man
Tubach
on
by
trickery.
ass convinces
Alexander vows to sacrifice first

him that ass is seen first. a.b.c.
131, 3289.
K512. Compassionate executioner.
*K5 12. 0.1.1.
Compassionate executioner spares calumniated wife and

abandons seven princelings instead of killing them, Ultramar 1. 1 .55.92.
96
MOTIF INDEX OF
*K512.0.1.2. Compassionate executioner. Spares young woman. Uses

dog's heart as proof. Ultramar 1.2.43.562.
*K5 12.0.3. Compassionate executioner. Servants charged with killing the
infant hero are touched by his beauty and leave him in care of shepherds. Alexandre cc. 355-56.
K512.1.1. Compassionate
executioner.
condemned
king's favorite wife
King's counselor spares
to death hastily.
life
of
Shows king bloody
sword as proof of execution. Calila p. 280; Exemplario 12v.

*K512.5. Compassionate executioner hides victim in tomb instead of killing
him. Esopete p. 20.
*K513. Execution of three knights. Three sentenced to be hanged: compassionate one falsely repotted he had killed first one; second one did
not bring the alleged assassin to justice; the third did not obey orders
to kill the first, a.b.c. 222; Glosa 3.2.22.204; Tubach 4229.
K520. Escape from danger by disguise, shamming, or substitution.
K52 1.4.1. Disguise in clothes of other sex so as to escape (Wives of the
Minias). Ilustres mujeres 29.36r-37^;; Alexandre cc. 410-16; PCG
718.420-21.
K521.6. Abbot escapes from lover's suspicious husband in disguise of priest.
K522.4.1. Trout pretends to be dead. Floats on surface; thrown on bank
near water is able to escape to safety. Calila p. 149; Exemplario 18r.
*K523. 1.1. Hermit leaves cave to pray for soul of dead youth. Feigns madness in order to be permitted to rettim to isolation of cave. a.b.c.
405.
treasure. Dido throws overboard
with sand to fool pursuers. PCG 52.33-34.
K527. Escape by substituting another person in place of intended
victim.
*K525. 1
sacks
Escape by substituting sand for
filled
*K527.3.1. Exchange of clothes between rich man and poor man. Rich man
intent on giving up worldly life gives rich garments to poor pilgrim.
San
Alejo p. 101.
K528.2. Escape by
condemned to die. Holy man

deacon held by enemy. a.b.c. 295; Tubach 4153.
substituting selffor another
substitutes self for
K544. Escape by fooling captor.

K544. Monkey escapes death; it is custom
responds to request for his heart
that he has left it at home. Calila
(as
p.
Monkey
to leave
heart at home.
remedy
for turtle's ailing wife)
258; Exemplario 64r.
K550. Escape by false plea.

K551.4. Escape by pretending to go for bath. Woman avoids sexual act by
saying she must bathe first. Sendebar Day 1 , Tale 1
*K551.29. Wolf is persuaded to kill ass where neighbors will not see to save
him embarrassment. Esopete pp. 88-89.

*K551.30. Flea pleads for liberty because biting
heeded. Esopete
K558.
Man
p. 113;
allowed
to
pick out
his liking, a.b.c. 130;
is
his nature. Plea
is
im-
Tubach 2081.
tree to be
hanged on. Cannot find one to
Tubach 4790.
97
*K558.3. Sentenced to have his eyes taken out, asked if he could select the
instrument. Favor granted, but then he could not find a nail that
suited him. a.b.c. 151;
Tubach 1947.
K561. Escape by persuading captor to talk (sing).

*K561.0.2. Attempted escape by persuading captor that animal was only
joking
fails.
Esopete pp. 88, 98.
K561.1. Animal captor persuaded to talk and to release captive. Usually

cock and fox, fox and wolf, or mouse and cat. Esopete p. 86.
K56 1.1.1. Cat and cock debate usefulness to household. Cat: "Even so, I
do not intend to fast." Esopete p. 110.
*K561.1.1.1. Weasel pleads that she has kept man's house free of mice. Is
killed anyway. Esopete p. 54; Tubach 5228.
K561.2. Sheep (goats) persuade wolf to sing. LBA cc. 766-79; Esopete pp.
91-93.
*K574. Escape from invasion by convincing Alexander his campaigns will
bring
him enemies,
a.b.c. 6;
Tubach
139.
K579. Escape by false plea: miscellaneous.

K579.5.1. Wolf acts as judge before eating the rams. They are to go to
the end of the field and run to him. They nm at him and kill him,
LBA cc. 766-79; Esopete pp. 91-93.
K600. Murderer or captor otherwise beguiled.
*K601.3. Dove tells marauding fox she will not throw chicks down for her to
eat. Fox must climb tall tree to get them. Fox does not climb tree.
Calila p. 352.
K604. The
three teachings of the bird. In return for release
the bird gives the
man
three teachings. These usually
from
captivity,
mock
the
man
what he had. a.b.c. 124; Disciplina 22; (îfarp. 76;

Esopete pp. 142-43; Barlaam pp. 92-94; Tubach 322.
K640. Escape by help of confederate.
K640.1. Escape by help of son-in-law as confederate. Lucanor Ex. 25.
K650. Other means of escape.
K65 1 Fox escapes from well. Persuades wolf to descend into well in one
for having released
bucket thereby rescuing fox in other. Esopete pp. 144-45; Disciplina

23; Gatos 14; Tubach 5247; cf Tubach 2175.
K652. Fox climbs from pit on wolfs back. Esopete p. 109; Tubach 5247.
K700-K799. CAPTURE BY DECEPTION

K713. Deception into allowing self to be fettered.
K713.1.2. Animal allows self to be tied to another for safety. Carried to
death.
LBA
cc.
407-16;
a.b.c.
358; Esopete pp. 24, 34, 86-87;
his
Tu-
bach 3425.
*K7 13. 1.2.1. Animal allows self to be tied to another to gain importance.
Wolf persuaded by captive ass to permit ass tied to him to follow
him as his slave. Ass leads wolf to man. Esopete pp. 88-89.
*K721 .2. Cock persuaded to descend from tree to receive kiss of fealty from
deceitful fox. Eaten. Esopete pp. 63-64; Tubach 3629.
K730. Victim trapped.
98
MOTIF INDEX OF
K730.3. Leopard traps lion by having two doors to cave, one large one,
one small. Lion enters large entrance, and leopard leaves by small
one and attacks back of lion. a.h.c. 210; Tubach 3014.
K746. Birds allow selves to be captured in net because of greed for food.
Castigos 1.36.
*K746. 1. Fish swallow hook because of greed for bait. Castigos 1.36.
*K747. Fleeing man's hair caught in tree limb. Castigos MS A
6559 (ADMYTE 80z;); Glosa 1.1.11.59-60.
BNM
OR 2V1AI2VIING BY DECEPTION
K800-K999. KILLING
K810. Fatal deception into trickster's povtêr.

K810.1. Fox lures wolf into lion's power telling lion that wolfs skin is cure
for illness. Wolf had told Hon same story about skin of fox. Esopete
pp. 90-91.
*K81 0.1.1. Agreement
Man
between lion and
ensnares lion and clubs
*K810.1.2. Fox
lures
man not
to touch
one another.
to death. Esopete pp. 98-100.
wolf (with story that moon's
and leaves him

23;seeJ1791.3.
well
*K81 1.3.
him
a cheese) into
144-45; Disciplina
reflection is
there, a.b.c. 363; Esopete pp.
Cruel king lured into enemy's power by invitation to false execu-
He speaks imprudently to crowd and is

stoned to death. Cî/arpp. 99-100; Castigos
A
6559 31.148
tion of count's daughter.
MS
(ADMYTE
K812.2.
Men
BNM
96r).
lured to their death
defeats them. Castigos
when
MS A BNM
K813.1. Curlew (whimbrel)
leads lover
their fields are set
6559 22.138.
to cave where a
on fire.
jackal (lion) kills
and eats her. Calila p. 350; Exemplario 90r.

*K813.3. Curlew convinces heron's wife to feed mate a fish with
Husband dies. Calila p. 350; Exemplario

KS15. Victim lured by kind words.
in
it.
K815.2. Spider
in
web
is
invites
wasp
to rest
eaten. Gatos 29;
K815.3. Dogs
listen to
Samson
stick
hidden
90r.
on her "white curtain." Wasp caught
Tubach 4571.
wolves' hypocritical words.
Are
killed. Esopete
pp. 2,
19, 65.
*K8 15.4.1.
Vulture's birthday party. Vulture invites other birds to party
and eats them. Esopete p. 78.

K815.7. Cat acts as judge between sparrow and
lila
p.
hare. Eats
them both. Ca-
232; Exemplario 53v.
K815.8. Hawk persuades doves to elect him king. Kills them. Esopete pp.
49-50; cf. Tubach 1755, 3554.
K815.13. Cat makes truce with mice. When time is up mice still do not
leave. Cat eats them. Calila p. 347.
K815.14. Fish tricked by crane into letting selves be carried from one pond
to another. The crane eats them. Calila p. 143; Exemplario 16r-16t;.
*K81 5.20. Fox tricks wading bird and kills him. Asks him to show how he
protects self from cold. Puts head vmder wing and fox kills him. Calila p.
99
*K8 15.21. Fox
K824. Sham
by gnawing
tricks cock
Cock, convinced
Lucanor Ex. 12.
it is
it.
not
tree
trunk
moves
safe,
Told
and slapping tail against

and is caught.
to other trees
mix medicine for an ailing prinpoison in his concoction. King

orders him to drink his own medicine. Calila p. 192; Exemplario 35 v.
*K824.2. Devil tells monk to fast for 8 or 9 days. Almost dies. a.b.c. 4;
K827. Dupe persuaded to relax vigilance, seized.
doctor
kills
patient.
to
cess, unwittingly includes a fatal
K828.1. Fox in sheepskin gains admission to fold and kills sheep. Gatos 25.
K828.2. Fox, feigns illness, admitted to hen roost; kills the hens. Gatos 24.
*K828.4. Brigands wear monk's garb to deceive traveling merchants. Merchants permit them to join their party and are robbed and killed.
Gatos 26.
K870. Fatal deception by narcotic (intoxication).

K871.1. Slaughter of drunken enemies in banquet hall. Food and doctored
wine left for them after feigned retreat. a.b.c. 420; Ilustres mujeres
^1.5Ai>-55v (Tamires); Tubach 5304.
K872. Judith and Holofernes. Woman chosen to sleep with intoxicated

general kills him in bed. Castigos MS A BNM 6559 83.217.
K910. Murder by strategy.
*K91 1.6. Young king feigns illness to lure traitors to his chambers. His courtiers kill
them. Qifar
p. 80.
K940. Deception into killing own family or animals.

K943. Hermit (deceived by devil) kUls his own father, supposing him to be
the devil, a.b.c. 87;
Tubach 2570.
K950. Various kinds of treacherous murder.

K952.1. Animal killed from within. Hydrus (fabulous water serpent)
enters crocodile's mouth while it sleeps, bites its heart, and kills it.
Gatos 13; see Tubach 1326.
*K953.3.5. Crab learns crane intends
and kills him. Calila p. 143.
to kill
him. Squeezes bird's throat
K959. Other kinds of treacherous murder.

*K959.7. Mother-in-law orders son-in-law to be shut in wine cellar and
murdered there. a.b.c. 272; Tubach 2737.
K960. Other fatal deceits.
K961. Flesh of certain animal alleged to be only cure for disease; animal to
be killed. Esopete pp. 67, 90-91; Calila pp. 259-61; Exemplario 64v65?;.
K961.1. Cure for illness is monkey's heart. Monkey and tortoise friends.
Wife wants tortoise to abandon friend and return to her. Tonoise
told that cure for wife's illness is monkey's heart. Calila p. 253;
Exemplario
K9
(i?>v.
1.1.1 Tit for
overhears
it.
tat.
Wolf tells
Later fox
sick lion that
tells lion
himself in the wolfs skin. Wolf
K962. Camel induced
100
fox does not esteem him.
that only cure lies in his

is
killed. Esopete
to offer self as sacrifice.
Fox
wrapping
pp. 90-91.
Other animals pretend to
MOTIF INDEX OF
offer themselves to the lion as food.
lion convinced of
wholesomenesSj eats the camel. Calila
p. 158; Exemplario
K975.
it.
Secret of strength treacherously discovered.
Castigos
cc.
6559 22.138
Samson
(ADMYTE
tricked to reveal
80r).
Man carries written order for his own

258-59; PCG 738.435; Abreviada 2.282.
K978. Uriah
LBA
MS A BNM
their vin-
20r-20v.
letter.
execution.
K978.1.2. King sends woman's husband to battle in order to be able to seduce her. (See K978, Uriah letter.) Sendebar Day 1, Tale 1; Lucanor
Ex. 50; Tubach 1453; Talavera 1.17.101-2.
K1000-K1199. DECEPTION INTO SELF-INJURY

KIOIO. Deception through false doctoring.
KlOll. Eye remedy. Under pretense of curing eyesight, crow blinds
eagle. Gatos 31;
Kl
1 1
Tubach 3530.
Fool tricked into curing headache by removing his eyes.
K1021. The
tail fisher.
through a hole in the

loses his
The
ice.
bear
is
When he
persuaded to
is
fish
a. b. c.
with his
76.
tail
attacked and tries to escape, he
Tubach 2074.
Carmot escape through
93-9 A; Especulo 11.8; Tubach 4092,
Esopete pp. 90-91;
tail.
Kl 022.1. Wolf
overeats in the cellar (larder).
narrow opening. Esopete pp.

5346.
K1040. Dupe otherwise persuaded into voluntary self-injury.

K1041. Borrowed feathers. Dupe lets self be carried aloft by bird and
dropped. Esopete pp. 37, 119.
into trying to climb down moonbeam. Man hearing a
robber enter house tells his wife to ask him where he found his
wealth. He answers that he said magic words and climbed down a
moonbeam and climbed up again to enter through a window. Thief
tries it and falls, a.b.c. 11; Disciplina 24; Calila pp. 109-11; Exemplario 8r-Sv; Tubach 4778.
K1054. Thief tricked
*K 1075.1. Fox
who kicks him to

Tubach 3432.
K1080. Persons duped into injuring each other.
K1081. Blind men duped into fighting each other. Given sticks and a pig,
told to kill it. They hit each other when pig escapes. a.b.c. 64; Tutricks
wolf into asking questions of mule
death. Esopete p. 85;
bach 698.
*K1 084.4.1. Calumniators

to fight.
Both
cause king of carnivores
lose power.
and king of herbivores
Lucanor Ex. 22; Calila
p. 168;
Exemplario
13r.
K1085. Woman makes
trouble between husband and wife. Tells wife to increase her husband's love by cutting a hair firom his beard. Also tells
husband that wife will try to cut his throat, a.b.c. 370 (not in Paris
MS); Esopete pp. 149-151; Especulo 463.362; Lucanor Ex. 42; Tubach 5361.
KlllO. Deception into self-injury.
*K1111.4. Deception into self-injury. Lamb, fleeing dogs, seeks refuge
among
wolves. Alexandre
c.
1780.
101
Kl 121.1.
Lion (wolf) as sham doctor approaches too near to horse (to

loosen smith's nail in hoof); kicked in face. Esopete p. 61; cf. Esopete
pp. 85, 91-93; LBA cc. 298-303; Tubach 2605.
kicks wolf into stream when he comes to baptize her pigs.
Thus she saves them from him. LBA cc. 766-79; Esopete pp. 91-93;
Tubach 4554.
Kl 121.2. Sow
K1200-K1299. DECEPTION INTO

K1210. Humiliated or bafQed lovers.
K121 1. Virgil in the basket.

window is left hanging
HUMILIATING POSITION
A man who
is
to be pulled
up
to his lover's
in the basket in the public gaze.
LBA
cc.
261-68; Talavera 1.17.100-1.

*K1 21 1.1.2. Man caught in a net. Descending from tower where he had
been with a woman, is caught and left suspended for all to see. Talavera 1.17.03.
K1215.
Aristotle
and
Phyllis: philosopher as riding horse for
woman. Phi-
losopher warns against vixoriousness. In revenge, woman tricks

philosopher into letting her ride him on all fours. Husband comes
and sees them. Talavera 1.17.99-100; Tubach 328.
K1227. Lover put off by deception.
*K1 227.4.2.
Clever
woman
tells
him
amorous youth
to strip off clothes,
then
down, puts chxmk of bread in

mouth, douses him with water, and tells neighbors he had choked.
Proves to him he knows nothing of womanly guile. Sendebar Day 8,
shouts for neighbors. Tells
to
lie
Tale 18.
K1240. Deception into humiliating position: miscellaneous.

K1265. Parsimonious employer falsely reported insane when does not feed
apprentice. No one will believe him. a.b.c. 102; Disciplina 20; Esopete
pp. 151-52;
Tubach 2753.
*K1290. The dog and the sheep. Dog accuses sheep of having taken
bread from him. Sheep convicted. Esopete p. 34.
K1300-K1399. SEDUCTION OR DECEPTIVE MARRIAGE

K1315. Seduction by impostor.
K1315.1. Seduction by posing as a god. Woman tricked into offering self
to god by deceitfiil priests in service of seducer. a.b.c. 385; Tubach
4221.
K1317. Lover's place in bed usurped by another.

K1317.1. Serving-man in his master's place. Man devises disguise to enter woman's house safely. Servant uses disguise to lie with master's
beloved. Master visits her, learns truth, beats servant, and destroys
disguise. Calila p. 184; Exemplario 32v.
K1340. Entrance into woman's (man's) room (bed) by trick.

Kl 343.1. Man drawn up into female bedchamber in hsisket. LBA cc. 26168; Talavera 1.17.100-1.
K1350. Woman persuaded by trick.

K1351. Weeping bitch. A procuress throws pepper
in eye of bitch so that
102
MOTIF INDEX OF
she weeps. Procuress pretends to a virtuous woman that bitch is a

woman transformed as punishment for failure to respond to her
lover. Woman, fearful of similar transformation is persuaded, a.b.c.
234 (not
Day
in Paris
MS);
Esopete pp. 146-47; Disciplina 13; Sendebar
Tale 10; Tubach 661.
4,
Kl 353.2. Woman
deceived into seduction.
Thinks that invader
her, but afterwards he discards her. a.b.c. 246;
K1397.
Lucretia seduced through threat. Sextus says he will
leave a
yields.
naked
slave in her
Later kills herself.
62; Jardin pp. 257-58;
bed
her and
kill
to bring dishonor to her house.
Ilustres mujeres
Ghsa
will spare
Tubach 1081.
She
46.52z>-54z' (Lucrecia); a.b.c.
2.1.19.94;
Tubach 3095.
DECEPTIONS CONNECTED
WITH ADULTERY
K1500-K1599.
K1510. Adulterous wife outwits husband.

K1511. The husband locked out, excessive precautions
home
to assure wife's
her husband
She threatens to throw herself in the well. Husband leaves house to see if she has drowned. She enters the house
and bars him from house, a.b.c. 303; Disciplina 14; Talavera 2.1.147
n. 36; Tubach 5246; see T481.9.
K1512. The cut-off nose. Carpenter's wife has another woman, a barber's
fidelity.
Despite
efforts, wife returns
late at night;
refuses to admit her.
wife, take her place while she goes to her lover. Carpenter speaks to
wife's friend, gets
wife returns and
no answer and cuts
still
off her nose. In the
Husband made
has nose.
stored miraculously. Barber's wife,
to believe
whose nose has been cut
she took friend's place, returns home. Her husband

that he has accidentally cut off her nose
made
when he threw
morning
was re-
it
off when
to believe
razor at her.
T481.10
K1514.1 The husband in the chicken house (dovecote). Husband retvims
unexpectedly and surprises his wife with her lover. She makes the
husband believe he is pursued and hides him in the chicken house.
Calila pp. 139-41; Exemplario 14z^l5r; see
Esopete pp.
K1516. Wife
48-49; see T48 1 1 1

husband with extended
.
outwits
seen, a.b.c.
T481.20.
K1516.1. The husband's good eye
unseen,
sheet.
Lover leaves house unTubach 4319; see
162; Esopete p. 148; Disciplina 10;
a.b.c.
161;
can leave house

147-48; Talavera
treated so that lover
Disciplina
9;
Esopete
pp.
2.10.188; cf Tubach 1943; see T481.12.

*K1 5 16.1 .2. Wife's lover under bed. Husband returns home. She has husband turn round to brush hair off his clothes. He hears lover leave;
she tells him it is the cat. Talavera 2.10.188-89; see T481.14.
K1516.3. Wife's lover under bed. Husband returns home. Wife tips over
candle extinguishing it.

2.10.189; seeT481.15.
Sends husband out for
light.
Talavera
K1516.7. Wife washes husband's

is
hair. Lets lover escape while husband

thus blinded. Talavera 2.10.188-89.
103
K1516.8. Wife shows husband new

front of his eyes, slaps
it
loudly.
kettle to look
Husband
for hole in
it.
Holds
it
in
leave. Talavera 2.10.189; see T481.16.

K1516.9. Wife shows husband how full her breasts are of milk. She squirts
milk in his eyes and lets lover escape. Talavera 2.10.188; see
T481.13.
K1517. Lover escapes by disguise.
K1517.1. Two lovers are pursuer and fugitive. Wife is visited by two
lovers. When the husband arrives, one goes out with drawn sword
and the other hides in house. She convinces her husband that she
has given refuge to a fugitive. Sendebar Day 2, Tale 5; Tubach 4693;
seeT481.17.
Wife entertains lover during husband's absence. Husband returns and mother-in-law (guardian) counsels lover to pretend he is
Kl 5 17. 1.2.
fugitive from street ruffians. Disciplina

bach 4693; see T48 1.1 8.
K1517.6. Husband returns while abbot is in
11; Esopete pp. 145-46;
Tu-
house. Errant wife enlists aid

of friar who brings extra habit next day. Abbot escapes wearing friar's
habit. Sendebar Day 8, Tale 22; see T481.19.
K1518. The enchanted pear tree. Wife and lover are up in tree. Blind
husband hears them and prays to Jupiter for restoration of sight.
Prayer is answered. Wife convinces cuckold that her adultery convinced Jupiter to grant his wish. Esopete p. 147; Tubach 3265; see
T481.21.
*K1518.1.1. Husband made
to believe that birth
of child to wife
committed adultery is a gift from God. Esopete p. 149;

K1521. Lover successfully hidden from husband.
K1532. Gullible husband under bed.

K1532.1. Wife, in bed with lover, knows
bed. Tells lover
plario
how much
that
husband
who has
cf.
Tubach 971.
is
hiding under
she loves husband. Calila p. 241; Exem-
51 r, Esopete p. 168; see T481.22.
Wife drugs husband's wine and has husband made monk while he
unconscious, so as to get rid of him. a.b.c. 304; Tubach 1803.
Kl 536.
is
A go-between obtains a
by leaving a marked cloth in woman's house.
Husband beats woman; she leaves and is tricked into thinking that
K1543. The marked
woman
cloth in the wife's room.
for a client
sex with the go-between's client will help her solve her problem.
Go-between tells husband that she had left the cloth in his house,
and husband
is
deceived. Sendebar
*K1 544.2. Husband

husband supplies
Day
5,
Tale 13.
unwittingly instrumental in wife's adultery.

his wife to
an inexperienced
fat
Greedy
prince because he
him to be impotent. When the prince and the woman evidendy enjoy each other, the husband kills himself. Sendebar Day 4,
believes
Tale
9.
*K1 544.2.1. Husband
unwittingly instrumental in wife's adultery. Believes
that wife will spend night with god, Anubis, not with trickster posing
as god. a.b.c. 385;
104
Tubach 4221.
MOTIF INDEX OF
*K1 544.2.2. Husband
unwittingly instrumental in wife's adultery. Wife's
lover (an apothecary) substitutes earth for needed medicine. Wife

returns with packet; tells husband she was run down by a horse on
money. Used a sieve to find missing money and could

Husband replaces money. Exemplario 28u.
K1580. Other deceits connected with adultery.
*K1 584.1 Maidservant is go-between for knight who wants to seduce another's wife. Convinces wife to don magic slippers sent by suitor. Can-
way and
not find
lost
it.
tigas 64.
OWN
TRAP
K1600-K1699. DECEIVER FALLS INTO
K1612. Message of death fatal to messenger. Man is sent to kiln where
attendants have been instructed to throw the first arrival into oven.
Intended victim stops to pray and is delayed. Messenger sent to inquire about execution is first arrival and is burned instead, a.b.c. 8.
K1613. Poisoner poisoned with own poison. Calila p. 192; Exemplario 35v.
K1613.1. Person trying to blow poison into another's nose accidentally
poisoned. Victim sneezes and poison enters throat of poisoner. Calila
p. 138.
*K1613.6. Man, posing as physician, mixes a fatal poison in medication

for princess. She dies and king orders him to drink his own medicine. Calila p. 192.
K1626. Would-be-kiUers kiUed.

*K1 632.1. Animal victim of own ruse. Heron leaves trail leading mongoose to snake's nest. Snake killed but heron and young also killed.
Calila^. 173.
K1635. Partnership between partners Evil and Good. Evil cheats his partner. Takes lower half of wife; Good takes upper half. Child begotten
by lower half not permitted to nurse fi-om top half, which belongs to
Good. Lucanor Ex. 43; cf. Lucanor Ex. 26.
K1667. Dishonest banker deceived into delivering deposits by making him
expect even larger. Refuses to return traveler's
money
chest. Traveler
sends friends with ten chests filled with stones to make false deposit.
In order to make the impression of honesty in the presence of new
money chest.
Tubach 3355, 4969.
depositors, banker agrees to return traveler's

Disciplina 15; Esopete pp. 139-40;
*K1 667.2. Money
lenders deceived into accepting chests filled
as surety for loan.
K 168 1.1.
CMC w.
a.b.c.
163;
with sand
65-212.
first sufferer. Inventor of death machine is

Cruel tyrant orders him to be first victim. a.b.c. 316;
cf. Tubach 3134.
*K1 684.1 Rich man wants relic of Sl Augustine. Guardian of relics gives
him finger, saying it was Augustine's. God impressed by rich man's
faith and good works, substitutes a real relic. Guardian denies its
authenticity and is punished, a.b.c. 103.
first
Originator of death
to use
it.
05
K1700-K2099. DECEPTIONS THROUGH SHAMS

K1710. Ogre (large animal) overawed.
K1715.1. A weak animal shows a powerful one his reflection and frightens
him that this animal is threatening to kill him (usually hare

and lion). Calila p. 146; Exemplario \lr-\lv.
K1716. Hare as ambassador of the moon. Hare tells elephants that moon
disapproves of their mistreatment of weaker animals. Shows elephant
king moon's reflection in spring. Elephant drinks from spring, disturbs water, and believes that moon is angry. Calila p. 230; Exemhim. Tells
plario 52z;.
K1771. Bluffing threats.

*K1771.10. Cleric threatens devils with imprisonment in flask if they do
not obey him. Cantigas 125.
*K1775. Bluff: insult repeated as harmless remark. The trickster makes an
insulting remark, but when called on to repeat what he said, he
changes
*K1 784.3.
so as to turn aside wrath. Esopete pp. 88, 98.

Sandpipers and sea. Sea washes away fledglings. Sandpipers
it
enlist aid of the
who
relents
king of the birds {falcon
and returns young to
oriol) to
confront the sea
their parents. Calila p. 164]
Exem-
plario 22?;.
K1800-K1899. Deception through disguise or illusion.

K1810. Deception through disguise.
*K1 8 10.2.1. Ram wears mastiff's skin to protect herd from wolves. Detected. Esopete p. 98.
*K1 8 10.2.2. Cat who had
killed all but
one mouse in monastery wears
monks' robes, takes place at monks' table

believes cat to be merciful now that he
Gatos 9;
to catch big
is
mouse. Mouse
eats mouse.
monk. Cat
Tubach 888.
K1811. Gods in disguise
*K1 8 11.0.3.
visit
mortals.
Christ in guise of poor
man comes
to saint's household. Is
fed. a.b.c. 136.
*K1811.0.4. Angel
in guise of beggar
comes
to saint.
Given money and
valuables. a.b.c. 137.
*K1811.4.3. Abbot deceived by devil disguised as angel. Told to create divisive rules in monastery, a.b.c. 4; Tubach 19.
*K1 811.6. Angel appears to saint as man who has lost everything in shipwreck; is given alms. Later comes to him as his guardian angel, a.b.c.
137.
K1815. Disguise.
Kl 8 15. 1.1.
unknown in his father's

San Alejo pp. 78-79.
Pious pilgrim dies
clutched in hand
is
read.
house, until letter
*K1815.3. Calumniated courtier advised by his counselor to dress as pilgrim to convince king of his loyalty and willingness to accompany
him on retreat from world. a.b.c. 215 (not in Paris MS); Lucanor Ex.
1; Barlaam pp. 25-29.
K1832. Disguise by changing voice. Wolf tries to fool kids by assuming
mother goat's voice. Fails. Esopete p. 51.
106
MOTIF INDEX OF
Kl 837.7. Woman
in a
(St.
man and unrecognized

Tubach 1915.
Eugenia) living disguised as
monastery becomes abbot,
a.b.c.
158;
*K1 837.8.2. Widowed queen masquerades as son who is heir to throne ruling
in his stead. Once in power, drops imposture and rules on her own.
Eustres mujeres 2.6r-8r (Semiramis)j Tubach 4224.
K1840. Deception by substitution.
K1841. Virgin Mary substitutes for a mortal.
K1841.3. Virgin Mary takes place of woman whose husband had pledged
6559
her to devil. a.b.c. 268; Cantigas 216; Castigos MS A
BNM
Tubach 5283.
K1860 Deception by feigned death
83.216;
(sleep).
*K1867.1.1. Cat feigns death in order to catch mice. Detected. Esopete

pp. 110-11; cf. Tubach (fox feigns death) 2176.
K1900-K1999. Impostures.
K1911. The false bride.
False bride detected when her mother comes to see her. She
does not have joined toes of real bride. Ultramar 1.2.43.566
Kl 91 1.3.7.
K1955.
Sham
physician.
*K1 955.0.1. Sham
Wolf offers
Tubach 4554.
physician.
tected. Esopete p. 50;
to help pregnant sow.
De-
Sham physician. lion offers to cure horse. Is kicked. EsoTubach 2605.

*K1955.0.3. Sham physician. Wolf visits sick ass. "Where does it hvirt?"
"Where you touch me." Esopete p. 78.
*K1 955.0.4. Frog attempts to be a great physician. Shamed by fox. Esopete
p. 120; Tubach 1692.
*K1955.0.2.
pete p. 61;
*K1 955.2.2. Crow
offers to cure eagle's eyes. Applies onion juice, blinds it,

young. Gatos 31; Tubach 1833.
*K1955.10. Sham physician tells emperor he has universal cures: an
herb to drink, an unguent, and a powder for baths. Needs two hundred camels to fetch herbs from a distant place. Must go alone. Qifar
pp. 127-28.
eats
its
K1961. Sham clerical person.

Kl 96 1.2.1. Woman in disguise becomes pope (Pope Joan).
101.103r-103t;;
Rustres mujeres
Tubach 2813.
monk. Wolf attired
*K1961.6. Wolf as
as monk says "cordero" or "carnero" instead of "paternoster." Gatos 19; Tubach 5338.
*K1961.7. Cat as monk. Wears monks' robes, takes place at monks'
table to catch big mouse. Mouse believes cat to be merciful now that
he is monk. Cat eats mouse. Gatos 9; Tubach 888.
K1962. False prophet.
Kl 962.1. Mohammed
med's
ear.
trains
dove
to eat
grains of wheat placed in
Tells people that dove
21.128; Tubach 1762.

*K1 962.2. Mohammed convinces new
is
Moham-
God's messenger. Castigos
wife that palsy
is
message from the
angel Gabriel. Castigos 21.130.
107
*K 1962.3. Mohammed took servant's wife. Told all that the angel Gabriel
had sent her to him. Castigos 21.131-32.
*K1 966.2. Alchemist. Trickster convinces king he can transfonn lead into gold. Needs ten camels loaded with silver to purchase needed ingredients, îfarpp. 128-29; LucanorEx. 20; Tubach 89.
K2000-K2099. Hypocrites.
K2010.3. Wolves sign false truce with sheep. Dogs to be dismissed. After
the dogs have been dismissed, the wolves devour the sheep. Esopete
pp. 2, 19, 65; Tubach 5357.

K2030. Double dealers.
K2031.1. Dog at master's table is friendly to guests. On the street growls

at them, a.b.c. 208; Tubach 1703.
*K2031.2. Snake helps man and then harms him. Farmer tramples snake.
Snake prophesies weather, and man finds his advice profitable. When
man sends child to reward snake, the reptile kills child. Esopete pp.
89-90; Tubach 4251.
*K2031.3. Bat tries to be bird, then to be quadruped. Esopete p. 62; Tubach 501.
K2041.1. Double-dealing physician offers to poison king if king's enemy
will pay him. Enemy refuses and sends him as prisoner to king. Glosa
1.2.12.122; a.b.c. 315;
K2042. Crow
Tubach 3761.
him out. Having learned
and leads them to vic237; Exemplario 53z;-56z;; Lucanor Ex. 19;
goes to owls saying crows have cast
secret hiding places of owls, returns to crows
tory over owls. Calila p.
Tubach 1358.
K2052. False modesty.
K2052.1. Bride insists upon wearing chemise to bed. Husband must wear
underclothes. Castigos MS A BNM 6559 (ADMYTE
17r).
K2058. Pretended piety.
*K2058.3. Elderly monk about to die, admits that he had always eaten
when they thought he had been fasting, a.b.c. 438; Especulo 8.7;
Tubach 1850.
*K2058.4. Hypocritical cleric participates passively in sexual acts with
widow. Exculpated because he did nothing actively. Esopete p. 165.
K2060. Detection of hypocrisy.
K2061.1. Wolf acts as shepherd: plan detected. Wolf to guard sheep while
shepherd is away kills and eats them. On return, shepherd sees wolfs
tooth marks in skins. Gatos 21; Tubach 5343.
K206 1.1.1. Wolf proposes abolition of dog guards for sheep. Plan detected
too
415; Esopete pp. 2, 19, 65. Tubach 5357.

Shearer pretends that wolf has eaten woman's sheep. She prays
late. a.b.c.
*K2061
1 .2.
to Virgin
Mary and then
hears sheep bleat revealing
its
presence.
Cantigas 147.
K2061.4. Wolf tries

pp. 125-26;
cf.
to entice
goat from high place: plan detected. Esopete
Tubach 2309.
K2061.6. Wolf offers to act as midwife for sow. Plan detected.

766-79; Esopete p. 50; Tubach 4554.
108
LBA
cc.
MOTIF INDEX OF
K2061.9. Cat hangs on wall pretending to be dead. Mice detect plan.

Esopete pp. 110-11.
K2062. Thief tries

Esopete p. 50;
to
feed watchdog
LBA
and stop
mouth.
his
Dog
detects plan.
166-80.
cc.
*K2064.1. "Holy" hermit revealed as sinner. Is owner of blasphemous

portrait of Jesus hidden in secret chamber. Talavera 4.1.262-67.
K2090. Other hypocritical acts.
*K2094.1. Dogs are hypocrites. Beg for morsels at table but are in-
when
different
there
is
no
K2101
Tubach 1703.
cf.
FALSE ACCUSATIONS
K2100-K2199.
.
food. a.b.c. 208;
Falsely accused minister reinstates himself hy his cleverness.
lows advice of his own adviser and deceives king.

pp. 26-31; Lwcanor Ex. 1.
*K2101
Falsely accused royal physician vindicated
andre cc. 902-13; Glosa 1.2.13.124;
Tubach
a.b.c.
He fol-
75; Barlaam
by royal
trust.
Alex-
134.
*K2101.2. Falsely accused minister reinstated because of devotion to Virgin Mary. King's investigator proves him innocent. Cantigas 97.
*K2103. Letter said to have been written by priest is false evidence of
treason. Virgin Mary's intervention proves his innocence. Cantigas
206, 265; a.b.c. 273, 391; Tubach 2419.
*K2 1 03. 1 Woman vendor falsely accused of stealing ring left in pawn for mer.
chandise.
Accuser lost it in river; recovered in
*K2105. Boy
adultery
is
substitutes crow's egg for stork's.
stoned by other fledglings,
fish's belly.
Mother
Cantigas 369.
stork accused of
a.b.c. 13.
K2110. Slanders.
*K2 110.2.
father.
Son, denied horse by mother, accuses her of infidelity to his
She
is
fi-eed firom
prison by intervention of wise
man
at court.
Abreviada 2.333.
K2111.
Potiphar's wife.
K21 1 1 .5.
him of rape,
Empress demands sex
firom courtier.
Spumed,
365; Sendebar pp. 74-76.

Mother importunes son sexually. Denied, she falsely accuses
accuses
a.b.c.
of trying to rape her.
a.b.c.
172;
him
Tubach 2734.
K21 1 1.6. Young woman falsely accuses saint of having fathered her child.
a.b.c. 89; Especulo 436.330-31; Tubach 648.
*K2 11 1.6.1. Widow falsely accuses St. Eugenia of rape (thinking she is
man), a.b.c. 158; Tubach 1915; cf. Tubach 3380.
K2112.
Woman
slandered as adulteress.
*K21 12.0.1. Woman falsely

sign that
husband
lied
accused of adultery by her husband. Prayer for

answered; he develops leprosy as pimish-
is
ment for calumny. Lucanor Ex. 44.

*K21 12.0.2. Susanna and the elders. Lustfial
elders accuse
of adultery. Prophet Daniel proves they have
lied.
woman falsely
Glosa 2.2.6.148;
Castigos 9.69; Tubach 4684.

*K2 112.0.3. Woman falsely accused
of adultery by husband. Knives fail

three times to cut her throat. After fourth stroke, apparendy dead, is
revived magically
and
freed. a.b.c. 14;
Tubach 4697.
109
K21 12.2. Woman
bathes leper and puts him in her bed. Husband returns.

Accuses her, but finds nothing but fragrant roses in bed. Especulo
304.210-11; Tubach 3020.
K2115. Animal-birth slander. Evil mother-in-law writes to absent son,

telling him his wife has given birth to seven hounds. Ultramar
1.1.53.89.
*K21 16.5. 1 Man falsely

.
to pray to Virgin
accused of having murdered unfaithful wife. Flees
Mary. She
delivers
him from
pursuers. Cantigas
213.
K2117. Calumniated
wife:
substituted
letter
(falsified
message).
Evil
mother-in-law substitutes letter for one announcing birth of children

for one that says wife has given birth to seven hounds. Ultramar
1.1.53.89.
K21 17.1. Husband's

altered
killed.
letter
ordering that calumniated wife be treated well
is
mother-in-law to say that wife and her sons are to be

Ultramar 1.1.53.90.
by
evil
K2130. Trouble-makers.
K2131.2. Envious jackal makes
kills bull.
*K2131.6.
lion suspicious
of his friend, the
bull.
LucanorBx. 22.
Told to attend to own
Lion
Calila p. 124; Exemplario llr;
Monk
accuses another to abbot.
Tubach 3389.
*K2131.7. Two female captives
faults.
a.b.c. 88;
deprived of clothing.
One woman
finds bit
of cloth to cover herself. Second complains; captor reproaches her.

to her own shame, not that of another. Calila pp.
194-95; Exemplario 37 r.
She must look
K2141. Jealous
courtiers
shake
lion king's confidence in his counselor,
the
virtuous jackal, by accusing the non-meat-eating jackal of stealing
meat from
lion. Calila pp. 306-10; Exemplario 79r-80w.

Jealous courtiers accuse king's favorite of disloyalty.
He is adready to give up wealth and accompany

king on a retreat (pilgrimage) to prove loyalty, a.b.c. 75, 215 (not in
Paris MS); Barlaam pp. 25-29; LucanorBx. 1; Voragine 2.180.356-
*K2 141.1.
vised to pretend that he
is
57.
K2150. Stepmother
rape. Innocent
K2155.
(king's favorite wife) accuses prince of
made
Silver goblet planted in luggage of
theft, a.b.c. 38;
attempted
to appear guilty. Sendebar pp. 74-76.
man.
Made
to look guilty of
Cantigas 175; Santiago 5.57-61; Esopete p. 23;
cf.
Tubach 3796.
*K2155.1.2. Envious monk hides book in another's bed and accuses him
of theft. a.b.c. 117; Tubach 2431 b).
*K2155.1.3. Meat belonging to lion left in quarters of fasting jackal.
Calila p. 309; cf Tubach 2431 b).
*K2 155.4. Innocent woman made to look like murderer. Told to hold razor
to husband's throat to cut a hair, a.b.c. 370 (not in Paris MS); Lucanor Ex. 42; Esopete pp. 149-50; Tubach 5361.
K2 155.5. Crow leads hunters to serpent's nest, dropping jewels in nest to
attract
110
men.
Calila p. 145; Exemplario \5v.
MOTIF INDEX OF
Innocent man accused of treason because of falsified letters purportedly written by him. Esopete p. 20; a.b.c. 273.
*K2 156.1.
*K2176. Monk spends
nights with prostitutes to reform them.
but
falsely of fomication,
Accused
after his death, truth revealed. a.b.c. 229.
K2200-K2299. VILIjUNS AND TRAITORS

K2210. Treacherous relatives.
K2213.1. Matron of Ephesus (Vidua). A woman motirns night and day
by her husband's grave. A knight guarding a hanged man is about to
lose his life because of the corpse he has stolen from the gallows.
Grieving widow offers him her love and substitutes her husband's
corpse on the gallows so that knight can escape. Esopete p. 64;
Tubach 5262.
K2214.1. Treacherous daughters
(sons) afQicted
with terrible
illness. a.b.c.
260.
K2217. Treacherous
uncle tried to subvert
young
king's power. Qifar p.
79.
K2217.1. Treacherous nephew
kills
uncle for money, a.b.c. 120;
Tubach
accuses innocent wife. Puts
Moorish
5020.
K2218. Treacherous mother-in-law
slave in wife's bed. Cantigas 185.
*K2219. Treacherous sons beaten by father for returning territory to

enemy. Glosa 1.2.12.120.
K2230. Treacherous lovers.
K2232.1. Treacherous lover (man) betrays woman's love and deserts her.
Eneas leaves Dido fearing disclosure of his part in Trojan losses.
Co^rtiôj
40.185-86.
K2240. Treacherous officers and tradesmen.

K2241. Treacherous innkeeper. Steals pilgrim's goods. Santiago
restores
goods. Santiago 6.61-64.
*K2241.1. Treacherous innkeeper plants evidence of theft in baggage of

guest. Treachery detected. Santiago 5.56-61; a.b.c. 38.
*K2242.1. Treacherous steward. King's steward, in charge of treasury,
takes double his fee and becomes rich. King names others to guard
against losses. They too steal from treasury, îfar p. 106.
*K2242.2. Treacherous steward who kills Jew imder royal protection is
executed. a.b.c. 167;
Tubach 2799.
*K2242.3. Treacherous steward mismanaged estate of absent employer.

a.b.c.
219.
K2246. Treacherous
other
who
King sells privilege of judging crimes to anThose who were misjudged rebel and king re-
prince.
sells justice.
pents. Qifarp. 107.
K2248.0.1. Treacherous
ministers.
Advised high taxes and debased coin-
age. Qifarp. 105.
K2250. Treacherous servants and workmen.

*K2255.3. Drover left behind to care for wounded bull. Tires of task and
abandons it; tells master bull has died. Calila p. 123; Exemplario 1 Ir.
1 1
K22S0. Treacherous churchmen.

*K2284.0.1. Treacherous churchmen. Pope
is
warned against peculations
of cardinals. Qifar^. 107.
*K2284.0.2. Treacherous
plative
monk,
K2285.0.1.
kill
his
believers in active ministry, jealous
animal
Villains disguised as
firiend,
a bear. a.h.c. 329;
of contem-
Tubach 519.
monks. Brigands wear monk's garb to
deceive traveling merchants. Merchants permit
them
to join their
party and are robbed and killed. Gatos 26.
K2290. Other villains and traitors.

K2292. Treacherous physician offers to poison ruler to please ruler's
enemy, a.b.c. 315; Glosa 1.2.12.122; Tubach 134.
K2294. Treacherous host. Pilgrim's wife dies in host's house. Host keeps
all his possessions. At destination St. James tells him evil host's
house will be burned. Especulo 305.211-12; Tubach 3790.
K2300-K2399. OTHER DECEPTIONS

*K2310. 1 Hunter who has promised not "to touch" lion catches him in trap
and beats him to death with club. Esopete pp. 98-100.
K2315. Peasant betrays fox by pointing. The peasant has hidden the fox
in a basket and promised not to tell. When the himters come, he
saySj "The fox just went over the hill," but he points to the basket.
.
Esopete p. 75.
K2350. Military strategy.

K2351.1. Fire tied to foxes' tails destroys enemy. Glosa 1.1.10.59; Ca^tigos MS A BNM 6559 (ADMYTE
80r).
K2357. Disguise to enter enemy's camp (castle). Alexander enters Porus'
castle disguised as a simple knight, a.b.c. 34.
K2365. Enemy induced to

K2365.2. Besieged citizens
lift
siege.
surrender city to king
golden apples of great value.
K2365.3. Enemy
a.b.c.
309;
who showers them with
Tubach 317.
persuaded by show of great wealth to desert to

Alexander in guise of envoy, steals
golden tableware. Says his king always lets guests take it away. Solsoldiers
visiting king's side. Invited to dine,
diers desert to his side, a.b.c. 34;
*K2365.4. Enemy lured
into
Tubach
112.
ambush. Splendid banquet
Invaders attacked while eating,
a.b.c.
209;
left
unattended.
Tubach 5304.
K2369.3.1. Treacherous teacher delivers children of besieged city to enemy.

Enemy will not accept these hostages and returns them. Teacher punished. City gratefially surrenders to enemy. a.b.c. 256; Glosa
1.2.12.121;
cf.
K2369.6. Military
Enemy
Tubach 1082.
strategy.
City
won by
diverting river that fed moat.
march through empty river bed into the city. a.b.c.

340 (not in Paris MS); Tubach 4109.
*K2369.7. 1 King proposes sending poison to enemy. Senators warn enemy.
Would rather win in batde. Glosa 1.2.12.121.
K2370. Miscellaneous deceptions.
*K2372. Abbot orders monks to insult young monk to take his mind off his
soldiers
112
MOTIF INDEX OF
At end of year he
lascivious thoughts.
is
cured, a.b.c. 213;
Tubach
3097.
L.
REVERSAL OF FORTUNE
L0-L99.
VICTORIOUS YOUNGEST CHILD
LIO. Victorious youngest son.

*L10.3 Youngest of three brothers is wisest. One undertakes to maintain
the peace; second chooses to visit the sick; third chooses to withdraw
from the world. The first two could not fulfill their aims. They went
to the third who solved their dilemma with parable of powder in turbulent water, a.b.c. 82; cf. Especulo 496.392; Tubach 803.
*L1 3.2. Youngest son best fitted to reign. Yovmgest son shows greatest willingness to learn and to serve. Lucanor Ex. 24.
L50. Victorious youngest daughter.
*L54.2. Youngest of three daughters agrees to marry virtuous elderly warrior.
Her sisters had rejected his suit earlier. Lucanor Ex. 27.
L100-L199. UNPROMISING HERO (HEROINE)

LI 14.1. Lazy hero. Least truthful son to inherit mill. Three sons
about their laziness. Esopete pp. 94-96; Tubach 3005.
LI 40. The unpromising surpasses the promising.
lie
man poisons poor man's bees. Poor man used last bit of oil
and vinegar to cure bees. a.b.c. 15; cf. Tubach 551.
L146.1. Ape tries to flee with favorite child. Neglected child saves self.
*L143.3. Rich
Favorite child
is
killed
Especulo 41.27-28;
L200-L299.
through mother's over-anxiety. Esopete
p. 128;
Tubach 299.
MODESTY BRINGS REWARD
Modest choice: three casket type. Objects from which choice is to be

made are hidden in caskets. The worst-looking casket proves to be
the best choice. Chests adorned with gold and precious stones contain putrefying remains; chest containing royal treasures covered with
pitch. Barlaam pp. 56-58; Especulo 449.343-44; Tubach 967.
*L2 12.1.1. Modest choice best. Second royal wife gains favor over favorite
by choosing reward of splendid clothes rather than crown. Calila p.
L21
L213. Youth chooses poor
bride rather than rich one. Will live like a
poor
man
with family. Her father reveals great treasure, a.b.c. 286 (not in
Paris MS); a.b.c. 387 (not in Paris MS) (tale not given); Barlaam pp.
140-43; Tubach 3841.

*L2 13.3. Father will choose poor husband for daughter over rich
for a man to need money than for money to need man.
Lucanor Ex. 25; Tubach 1444.
one. Better
a.b.c.
422;
OF THE WEAK
L300-L399. TRIU2V1PH
*L302. Poorly armed animal overcomes
demands
stronger one by chance. Evil falcon
him
that nightingale sing for
to save offspring. Displeased,
he begins to eat them. Hunter captures
falcon. Esopete pp. 62-63;
Tubach 4388.
L310. Weak overcome strong in conflict.
L311 Weak (small) hero overcomes large fighter. David and Goliath.
.
Casti-
gos 10.77, 36.172.
L315. Small animal overcomes large one.

L315.2. Mouse torments bull who cannot catch him. Esopete
L315.3. Fox bums tree in which eagle has nest. Revenges
Esopete p. 37;
theft of cub.
Tubach 2181.
L315.7. Dungbeetle keeps destroying
and
p. 127.
lays eggs in Zeus's lap.
eagle's eggs.
The dungbeetle
Eagle at
last
goes to sky
causes Zeus to shake his
apron and break the eggs. Esopete p. 109.

L315.9. Eagle threatens falcon who has caught a heron. Falcon must attack
and defeat eagle to retain its prey. Lucanor Ex. 33.
L350. ZVIildness triumphs over violence.
L350.1. Mildness triumphs over violence. Queen advises husband to use
kindness (in manner of physicians) to enemies. Qifar pp. 124-25;
a.b.c.
302; Castigos
1.2.27.204;
cf.
MS A BNM
6559
(ADMYTE
115r); Glosa
Tubach 5381.
*L350.1.1. Mildness triumphs over
violence.
King must be physician to

from the obese, cutting
subjects, feeding the thin, withholding food
where necessary, easing pain, and

L350.2. Holy
Christian.
man
uses
kind words
Pagan repents and
is
appljring remedies. Castigos 37.

to
pagan
priest
who
60.
has just hit a
converted. a.b.c. 218.
L361.1. Sinner given grave penance kills priest. Next priest gives mild
penance and succeeds where others failed, a.b.c. 299 (not in Paris
MS); Tubach 3674.
L390. Triumph of the weak: miscellaneous.
L391.1. Reed pricks dog and drives him away when he urinates on it. Gatos
47;
Tubach
L392. Mouse
812.
and mountain: rat-maiden. Calila p.

244; Exemplario 58z>; Tubach 3428.
L392.1. Mosquitoes and horseflies sting Pharaoh. Show they are stronger
than person who cannot escape them. Castigos
A
6559
75.206.
*L396. Sheep successfully resists deer's fraudulent claim of a debt. Reftises
stronger than sun, wind,
MS
payment because promise
to
pay made
BNM
in presence of wolf. Esopete p.
52.
BROUGHT LOW
L400-L499. PRIDE
L410. Proud ruler (deity) humbled.
L410. 1. Proud king humbled. Realizes that pomp, possessions, power are
of short duration. All that he rules will be turned to dust. a.b.c. 361;
Castigos MS A
6559 (ADMYTE 88z;).
BNM
114
MOTIF INDEX OF
*L4 10.1.1. Proud king requires subjects

aware of his mortality, repents.
L410.1.2. Proud king punished for
to
Wounded in battle,
worship him.
a.b.c.
215.
Forced to
bestial acts.
live
naked
in
wild like a beast. Castigos 9.71.

L41 1. Proud king displaced by angel. (King in the bath.) While king is in
bath an angel in his form takes his place wearing his clothes. The
king, wearing rags, is rejected by all vmtil he repents of his excessive
pride. LucanorEx. 51.
L413. Golden grave of Alexander. Philosophers say that his power and
treasures no longer matter. Disciplina 32.
L414. King vainly forbids tide to rise. When he almost drowns, he discards his crown and acknowledges his weakness. Castigos MS A
6559 28.143 (ADMYTE 88r); Glosa 1.1.9.47; Tubach 4863.
L416.1. Proud king humbled when imprisoned by enemies but laughs at
BNM
the pursuit of worldly goods, a.b.c. 418.

*L416.2. Rulers of great city inattentive to defenses.
that feeds
moat and
destroys city. a.b.c.
Enemy
340 (not
diverts river
in Paris
MS); Tu-
bach 4109.
*L416.3. Enemy arrogantly threatened Christians with destruction. Christian army triumphs. Defeated enemy's son imprisoned, tortured, and
killed. a.b.c. 416.
*L416.5. Knight abuses servant, punching and kicking him. Servant, a frequent pilgrim, calls out to Santiago who saves him. Santiago 13.7576.
L420. Overweening ambition punished.

*L420.0.2. Emperors of Persia, Greece and Rome aspired
lived like sinners, a.b.c. 360;
to be gods.
Many
Tubach 2323.
L421 Attempt to fly to heaven punished. Car supported by eagles. Alexan.
dre cc.
L424.
2499-2500.
Man who
with
all
has never
known unhappiness
his household. a.b.c. 287;
is
swallowed up by earth
Tubach 3938.
L430. Arrogance repaid.

L435.1.1. Self-righteous monk rebuked by abbot for attacking others for
sin without looking at his own sins, a.b.c. 88; Tubach 3389.
L450. Proud animal less fortunate than humble.
L451. Town mouse and country mouse. Wild animal finds his liberty
better than tame animal's ease. Esopete pp. 36-37; Tubach 3281.
L451.3. Wolf prefers liberty and hunger to dog's servitude and plenty.
Esopete pp. 65-66; a.b.c. 245; Tubach 5337.
L452.2. Ass jealous of war-horse until he sees him wounded. LBA cc.
237-45; Esopete p. 62; cf. Tubach 2615.
L460. Pride brought low: miscellaneous.
L461 Stag scorns his legs but is proud of his horns. Caught by his horns in
trees. Esopete p. 63; Gatos 12; Tubach 4589.
*L461.1. Goat, having seen the reflection of his horns in water, believes self
capable of fighting wolf. Meanwhile, wolf approaches from behind
and seizes the goat. Esopete p. 88; cf. Tubach 4589.
.
1 1
L49 1
One out of twelve monks proudly refused to eat meat. Asked for
Next day leftover meat was fine white bread; leftover bread
was mass of frightful worms. Especulo 516.407.
*L491.1. Monks told that food eaten by all others, and charity lead to good
.
bread.
life. Must avoid attention to own possessions. Especulo 517.407-8.

*L491.2. At mealtime monk called for salt because he did not eat cooked
food. Sent to eat in own cell. Especulo 518.408; Tubach 36, 4138.
*L492. Visiting monk complained about wine served to him. Went to a cave
Found half-dead in debris. Abbot orders cave to be

maintained as warning against singularity. Especulo 519.408-9.
*L493. Saint leaves off wearing hair shirt. Dresses as other members of
order. Especulo 520.409.
*L493.1. Saint on deathbed. Tells brothers he had never exercised his
own will. Especulo 521.409.
*L494. Monk so committed to maintain silence refiised to confess except
by gestures. Admonished, he left order. Especulo 522.409-10.
that collapsed.
M. ORDAINING THE FUTURE

M0-M99.
JUDGEMENTS AND DECREES
*M2.2. Inhuman decision of king. Man pleads that king spare one of his
sons. King kills all three. Castigos MS A
6559 13.118
BNM
(ADMYTE
52z;);
Tubach 1494.
*M2.3. Courtier advises king to drink less. Angry king proves sobriety by
shooting arrow into courtier's son's heart. Castigos MS A BNM 6559
13.118
(ADMYTE
52v).
*M2.4. King invites enemy
to dinner. Serves him dish prepared with flesh

of guest's sons. Has severed heads brought to table. Castigos
A
6559 13.118 (ADMYTE 52^).
MS
BNM
*M2.5. Enemy
captive
shown severed heads of seven sons.
PCG 743.441-
42.
MIO. Irrevocable judgements.
Ml 3.
Sentence applies
have eyes put out.
to king's
When
own
son.
king's son
Those caught
in adultery are to
found guilty, king has one of

his own eyes and one of his son's eyes put out to satisfy law. a.b.c.
224; Castigos MS A
6559 9.105-6; Tubach 1944.
Ml 4. Irrevocable judgement of king upheld. King leaves laws that must be
kept imtil he returns. He dies and orders that his bones be cast into
is
BNM
the sea. a.b.c. 243; Glosa 3.2.24.219; Tubach 3101.

M50. Other judgements and decrees.
*M57. Even one involuntary act of charity outweighs lifetime
of sins. Mis-
man
has neither stick nor stone, so throws loaf of bread at

beggar. Sees that it balances out evil lifetime, sells all, and gives to
poor, a.b.c. 135; Especulo 239.160-61.
erly
116
MOTIF INDEX OF
*M58. One generous act sufficient to ensure

away good deeds to another, a.b.c. 138.
M100-M199.
MIOO. Broken oaths.
salvation for saint.
Gave
VOWS AND OATHS
Ml 01. 4. Woman
vowed to keep St. Francis' day to ensure a successful parShe broke vow by working on that day, and her hand with-
turition.
ered, a.b.c. 165;
cf.
*M10 1.4.1. Woman
Tubach 4138.
breaks
for eight days. Virgin
vow
Mary
not to eat meat.
She has bone
in throat
cures her, and she renews vow. Especulo
562.456; Tubach 727.
*M101.4.2. Ailing
vow
breaks
cleric
promises
to join
Cured, he
him, and he
order if prior cures him.
three times. Third time, devils
come
for
dies. Especulo 563.456-57.

*M101.4.3. Woman neglects promise to make pilgrimage, son dies. Prays to
Virgin Mary, who resuscitates child dead for four days. Cantigas 347.
*M102. Thief swears innocence with oath to God and Virgin Mary. Caught
soon after stealing again; is hanged. Cantigas 392.
M120. Vows concerning personal appearance.
*M1 2 1.1. Vow
not
to cut
beard until hero's exile
is
terminated.
CMC w.
1240.
*M121.2. Vow not to cut beard or hair until king has found good husband for daughter. Apolonio cc. 550.
Ml 22. Vow: queen not to bind hair till enemy is conquered (Semiramis).
Ilustres mujeres
M161.
Vow
*M161 .7.
2.6v-8r, Jardin p. 247;
Tubach 4224.
never to
flee in fear of death.
Refusal
accept conquest.
to
children and themselves after
Women of conquered town kill their
men have been killed by enemy.
Ilustres
mujeres 80.82^-83?; (Wives of the Cimbros).
M177.
Vow
*M1 77.
change
to
1
religion.
King swears
to be
come Christian
after saint cures
him. Casti-
gos 10.76.
Ml 83.
Religious vows.
*M183.5. Nuns vow not to ever leave convent. Great fire approaches, and
archbishop urges them to break vow in order to save their lives. They
stand firm and fire ceases. Especulo 561.455-56.
M200-M299. BARGAINS AND

M201. Making of bargains and promises.
PROMISES
*M201.0.1.2. Hermit makes bargain with God. Asks for wealth for a man
who had sheltered him. Must promise he will use it well. Especulo
64.45.
*M201.0.3. Prince makes bargain with Virgin Mary. He will light candles
and praise her name if she helps him fmd his lost hawk. Hawk
magically appears in his hand. Cantigas 44.
*M201 .0.4. Warrior promises Virgin Mary to pay for 1,000 masses after he
succeeds in his futvire military campaigns. CMC w. 221-25.
1 1
M202.
Fulfilling of bargain or promise.

*M202.0.2. Pilgrim promises woman to bring back image of Virgin Mary
from Holy Land. Virgin Mary protects him from lion, from thieves,
from shipwreck. On return, Virgin Mary fc)rces him to keep promise.
Cantigas 9.
M202.2. Captive
keeps word to return to enemy
arrange exchange of prisoners
fails.
if
mission to his people to

counseled against ex-
He had
change. a.b.c. 311 Qifarip. 105; Glosa 1.2.12.118.

M203.1. King's promise irrevocable. King punishes his steward who had
robbed a Jew to whom king had promised safe conduct through a
wood. a.b.c. 167; Tubach 2799.
*M203.4. King's promise irrevocable. Promises to do nothing that philosopher requests. Clever philosopher asks him to destroy city. King
must refuse to destroy city, a.b.c. 233; Tubach 139.
*M203.5. King's promise irrevocable. Alexander vows to sacrifice first
thing he meets. It is a man riding an ass. Man pleads that ass
preceded him. King amused, man spared. a.b.c. 118; Tubach 131,
\
3289.
M205. Breaking of bargains or promises.

*M205.0.2. Fox promises to pay boatman for passage. Payment is a slap in
face with wet tail. Gatos 49.
*M205.0.3. Mouse in wine vat. Promises cat anjfthing if he will save
him. Breaks promise, telling cat, "I was drunk when I promised."
Gatos 56;
Tubach 3426.
*M205.0.4. Hawk (crow) breaks promise to spare nightingale's (dove's)

young if she sings for him. He kills them because song was not good
enough. Hunter snares falcon. Breaking promise punished. Esopete
pp. 62-63; Gatos 41; Especulo 71.47-48; Tubach 4388.
*M205.1.3. Man in storm at sea promises St. Michael a calf if he is saved.
Three times when sea has calmed he refuses to keep promise. Third
time he is drowned along with his calf and his cow. Especulo 551.444;
Tubach 1297.
M205.2. Curse
Youth broke promise to

appeared to torment him until he confessed
and kept his promise. Especulo 284.191.
*M205.2.1. Pilgrims promise to take care of each other until they reach goal.
All break promise save one who had refused to pledge. Santiago
appears to keeper of pledge, helps him, and sends word that breakers
of promise must atone. Santiago 4.53-56.
*M205.5. Dragon (monster) does not give promised wealth to rescuer.
Threatens to eat him. Rescuer returns him to previous peril on advice of fox as judge. Esopete pp. 86-87; cf Tubach 4254.
*M205.6. Mother breaks promise to Virgin Mary. Child dies but is
brought back to life through mother's prayers to saint. Cantigas 43.
*M205.7. Woman who had promised not to sew on the Sabbath broke
promise. Pxmished by losing use of hands. Sent to Chartres to be
cured by Virgin Mary. Cantigas 117; cf Tubach 4138.
a
118
woman
as punishment for broken promise.
friend. Devils
MOTIF INDEX OF
*M205.8. Leatherworker broke promise not to work on feast day. Pvmished

by swallowing needle that sticks in throat. Virgin Mary cures him at
altar where he coughs up needle. Cantigas 199; cf. Tubach 4138.
M210. Bargain with devil.
M211. Bargain with devil. Virgin Mary brings man pact he signed with
devil and frees him from devil's power. a.b.c. 261; Milagros 24;
Cantigas 3; Especulo 361.264-65; Talavera 1.13.91; Castigos
BNM 6559
M21 1.1.
Drunken man
tavern and
sells
MS A
Tubach 3572.
82.215;
unwittingly selb soul to devil. Penniless,
soul to stranger. Stranger says he
buyer of horse owns

197.137-38; Castigos MS
as
halter.
Man
he enters
owns body
too, just
disappears forever. Especulo
A BNM 6559 89.225-26; Tubach 4540.

*M2 11.10. Devil will make man rich. After he appears to him three
times, man will surrender his soul. Three times in lifetime devil
disguised as poor man visits him. Returns to carry him off. Especulo
186.126-27.
repudiates bargain with robber. Devil helped thief
Thief on gallows told to stand on devil's shoulders. Devil slips out from weight, and thief is hanged. LBA cc. 145479; Lucanor Ex. 45; Especulo 185.126; cf. Tubach 2235.
M217. Devil bargains to help man win woman. Monk (servant) desires
daughter of pagan priest (nobleman). Required to deny Christ. Repents. a.b.c. 23, 106; Especulo 187.127-29; Tubach 3566.
*M217.1. Man makes pact with devil. Will deny Jesus and Virgin Mary
and will be guaranteed worldly success. Cantigas 281; Milagros 24.
M212.2. Devil at gallows

in
exchange for
soul.
M242. Bargains and promises between mortals and supernatural

beings.
*M242.4. Man, whose granary was burning, promised God he would give
grain to poor if fire were extinguished. Breaks promise. Gatos 57.
*M242.5. Woman promises Virgin Mary she will make her a wimple if the
Virgin will cure her silkworms. Forgot promise, but silkworms magically worked on wimple for her. Cantigas 18.
*M242.6. Peasant promises calf to Virgin Mary if she will protect it from
wolves and thieves. Breaks promise. Calf breaks free and runs to her
church. Cantigas 31.
*M244.3. Captured
bird promises to give captor three counsels in
for freedom. Esopete pp. 142-43;
exchange
Tubach 322.
M250. Promises connected with death.

M25 1.1. Dying monk promises there will be room for his pupil in his grave.
When grave is opened, it is too small to accommodate two bodies.
Monk's body turns on its side to make room. a.b.c. 399; Tubach
1271.
*M253.1. Dying man promises friend he

world. Suffers
will return to tell him about otherbecause of his obligation. Especulo
torment
in purgatory
dying
man broken.
286.192.
M256. Promise
*M256.2.
to
Pilgrims to Santiago de Compostela break promise to help dying
1 1
man stays with him. Santiago carries body to his

church; rewards faithful one and denies benefits of pilgrimage to
companion. Other
others. Especulo 285.191-92.
M300-M399. PROPHECIES
M302. Means of prophesying.
*M302.4.2. At birth, stars say prince will live long life but
at twenty will
experience troubles with father (threat of death to self or to father).
Sendebar p. 67.
*M302.4.3. Stars say prince must be
Tubach 4703.
*M302.4.4. At birth stars
silent for
seven days. Sendebar p.
13;
say prince
must not
see either sunlight or
fire.
he were to see it he would be blind. Barlaam pp. 262-63.

M310. Favorable prophecies.
M3 12.0.2. Prophecy: future greatness as rAeror prophesied by bees leaving
honey on lips of child, a.b.c. 180.
M3 12.0.2.1. Prophecy: future wealth o/ c/'W prophesied by ants leaving
grains of wheat on lips. a.b.c. 180; Tubach 293.
M3 12.0.2.3. Prophecy: future greatness of unborn child prophesied by egg
magically caused to bring forth chick with mature comb, a.b.c. 180.
M3 12.0.4. Prophecy: pregnant woman's dream foretells child's fiiture
If
greamess.
a.b.c.
*M3 12.0.4.1.
180;
cf.
Tubach 647.
Prophecy: pregnant woman's dream while pregnant.
Baby
her in dream she

must baptize immediately upon birth before nursing her. Baby must
not drink any milk but her mother's. Ultramar 1.1.84.169; Tubach
3283.
daughter's heirs will foimd a great
*M3 12.0.4.2.
line.
Angel
tells
Prophecy: pregnant woman's dream prophesies that her
honored in Holy Land. A griffin and two eagles clear

temple in Jerusalem of rats, bats, and owls that had nested on altars.
Placed on a throne by them, a griffin pecks out her heart and entrails
and encircles the city with them. Ultramar 1.1.144.290-91.
*M312.0.4.3. Prophecy: pregnant woman dreams prophesy that one of her
sons will be instrumental in avenging Jesus' death. Armas p. 1 22.
*M3 12.0.4.4. Prophecy: pregnant woman's dream. Son will kill father.
lineage will be
Ilustres mujeres
23.29^^-30r Qocasta).
*M312.10. Prophecy: angel Gabriel appears
in hero's
*M3 14.6.
be
its
dream prophesying
CMC w.
405-9.
M314. Man will become king.
*M314.5. Hermit's dream prophesies that knight
pp. 36-37.
future success.
Knight dreams that
will
become
king. Qifar
exiled king will conquer occupied territory
and
king. Abreviada 3.26.
M340. Unfavorable prophecies.

M341 Death prophesied.
.
*M341.0.4. Prophecy of death. Monk given names of those who

soon, including his own. Fulfilled, a.b.c. 375.
120
will die
MOTIF INDEX OF
*M341.0.5. Prophecy of death. Simple young monk, dying of pestilence,

given letters by mysterious youth giving names of all who were to die
of pestilence, a.b.c. 402; Tubach 1475 b) 1.
*M341.0.6. Prophecy of death. Simple man returns from heaven knowing
who in household will die of pestilence, a.b.c. 383.
*M341.0.7. Prophecy of death. Captive bishop confirms king's prophetic
dream. a.b.c. 61.
M341.1. Prophecy of death. Bishop's death foretold (thirty days) if he refuses to remove sinner's body from church. Refuses and dies. a.b.c.
353;
Tubach 1267.
*M341.1.1.1. Prophecy of death. God appears to deacon in dream. He

must tell bishop he will die on the Day of the Apostles. a.b.c. 65.
*M341.1.5.3. Prophecy of death. Image of infant Jesus tells young boy he
will join him in heaven tomorrow. Cantigas 353.
M341.2. Prophecy: death by particular instrument.
M341.2.4. Prophecy: five-fold death. Prince to die from stoning, burning,
falling off a cliff, hanging, and drowning. It so happens. LBA cc.
123-65.
M342. Prophecy of downfall of kingdom.
M342.1. Prophecy of downfall of king. King sends emissaries to philosopher who tells them that they may return because cruel king has
been replaced. Disciplina 25.
*M342. 1.1. Prophecy of downfall of king. Dream interpreted falsely by his
enemies to say that king must kill family and advisers and bathe in
their blood to avoid losing his realm. Calila p. 280; Exemplario 12v.
*M342.1.2. Prophecy: enemies will attack duke and his forces. Duke
dreams of being in a magic forest, attacked by four lions, three fierce
bears, and two flying dragons, followed by ferocious dogs. Wife interprets it a warning that his enemies were coming to attack him. Ultra-
mar 1.1.112.231-32.
*M342.1.3. Prophecy of downfall of emperor who persecuted Christians.
Will lose battle and will die. Especulo 221.150.
*M342.3. Monk sees vision of king swallowing one leg of image of Christ
crucified and trying to eat the other: one leg is the clergy; other one,
the people. King does not heed vision, is assassinated while hunting.
M35 1 Prophecy that youth will abandon his religion and become Christian. Barlaam p. 22.
*M356.6. Wise men sent to hear sage's prophecy. Kingdom to be destroyed; evil king to die to be replaced by a just one. Wise men re.
turn to find
it
fulfilled, a.b.c.
M360. Other prophecies.

M362. Prophecy: death of ruler to
whose king
dies.
Castigos
379.
insure victory. Battle will
MS A BNM
6559
be
won by side
10.110;
Glosa
1.2.12.119.
M363. Coming of religious leader prophesied.

M363. 1 Coming of Christianity prophesied. Alexander the Great told high
.
121
priest of Jerusalem that
he saw the face of
God
in priest's face.
Especulo 220.150.
M364.7.2.1. Story of Genesis and "In the beginning was the word"
prophesied by pagan. a.b.c. 244.
M370. Vain attempts to escape fulfillinent of prophecy.
*M370.2. Prophetic dream of bishop's death fulfilled. Man witnesses
solemn trial; bishop condemned. Dreamer goes to palace and finds
bishop dead. Especulo 468.369-70.
*M370.3. Prophetic dream of pope's death fulfilled. Cardinal and two holy
women wimessed solemn trial where Jesus Christ found him guilty.
Pope found dead next day. Especulo 469.370.
M372. Confinement in tower to avoid fulfillment of prophecy. No one to approach prince until he reaches young manhood. Barlaam pp. 34-35.
*M372.2. Prophecy: weaver's son
to
be royal
bailiff.
Despite paternal
pressure, child chooses studies over weaving. Poridat 45-46.
*M372.3. Prophecy:
princeling to be blacksmith. Despite paternal efforts,
child refuses studies in favor of labor. Poridat 46.
*M375.2. 1. Slaughter of unborn and newborn children to avoid fulfillment

of prophecy that one of them would be king of Rome. a.b.c. 180.
M400-M499. CURSES
M410. Pronouncement of curses.
*M4 11.1.3. Mother curses children who have mistreated her. a.b.c. 260;
Tubach 1440 c).
M41 1.8.2. Hermit curses men who kill his companion-bear. They die of
a dreaded illness, a.b.c. 329.
M420. Enduring and overcoming curses.

*M423.1. Mother's curse lifted by prayer and reverential penitence. a.b.c.
260; Tubach 1440 c).
M470. Curses on objects or animals.
M474. Curse on land. Man whose land bordered church lands cultivated
church lands. His oxen broke their yokes and ran wild. He died
within ten days. Especulo 219.149.
N.
CHANCE AND FATE
N0-N99.
WAGERS AND GAMBLING
NO. Wagers and gambling.
N 1.2.1.
man
The miracle of broken

to win. a.b.c. 252;
die saves soul
of gambler, allowing saintly
Tubach 2239.
*N. 1.2. 1.1. The miracle of broken die makes man winner. Virgin Mary
helps him win over opponent because he had promised property to
her if he won. Cantigas 214; cf. Tubach 2239.
122
MOTIF INDEX OF
NIO. Wagers on wives, husbands, or servants.

N12. Wager on wife's obedience. Lucanor Ex. 27; cf. Tubach 4354.
N50. Other wagers.
*N67.1. Wager: stingy man can he forced to give alms. Pauper taunts him;
angered miser, not able to find stick or stone to throw, throws a loaf
of bread at beggar. a.b.c. 135.
*N68. Wager based on reductio ad absurdum of task. When an impossible
task is given, the hero responds with a countertask so absurd as to
show the manifest absurdity of the original task. Wager: drink the
seas dry: counterwager stop up all the rivers. Esopete p. 15; Sendebar
Day 8, Tale 22.
N100-N299. THE WAYS OF LUCK AND FATE

NllO. Luck and fate personified.
Nlll. Fortuna. Luck (fate) thought of as a goddess. Talavera 4.2.27698; Compendio pp. 251-73; cf. Tubach 2154, 2155, 2156.
N120. Determination of luck or fate.
*N126.3. Queen casts lots to foresee future events in realm. Ultramar
LI. 166.323.
N130. Changing of luck or fate.

N134.2. Corpse brings bad luck to
ship.
Cast overboard. Apolonio
cc.
273-
83.
N140. Nature of luck and fate: miscellaneous.

N142. Destiny (fate) better than work, show, or intelligence. Laborer makes
very little by his work; handsome nobleman more by pleasing a
woman; merchant more by speculation; prince most of all because of
his royal heritage. Calila p. 324; Exemplario 83v-S4r.
N146. Man not fated to die cannot be killed.

*N146.1. Christian captured by Moors sentenced to death. Stoned, throat
cut, but does not die. Calls upon Virgin Mary to send for priest so
he can confess. Then he dies. Cantigas 124.
N170. The capriciousness of luck.
N172. Prodigal son favored over faithful son. Barlaam pp. 102-3.
*N1 74. 1 Emperor,
afraid of lightning, constructed underground retreat. Left

only on fine days, but storm overtook him and killed him. Qifar p.
.
it
27.
*N178.1. Broken leg saves man from fatal fight. King has ordered that he
be killed in a fight. He breaks leg and cannot go to palace that day.
King forgives him when learns of his innocence. Lucanor Ex. 18.
*N181.1. Rich man tells poor man that he is rich because he finds money on
the way to church. Poor man goes and gets both spiritual and temporal sustenance. Especulo 228.152-53.
N200. The good gifts of fortune.
N21 1.1. Lost ring found in fish. Returned to queen who uses it to prove
her fidelity to husband. Especulo 125.83; Tubach 4102.
*N212.2. Money will go to its destination. Man told that money he found
23
belongs to another. Hollows out tree trvrnk; puts money inside and
throws it into sea. Trunk washes up at door of rightful owner who
uses it for firewood; gold begins to melt. His wife finds trunk and
hides it. First man is beggar now, and wife of rightful owner bakes
bread with money inside; gives it to first man. He sells bread to
fishermen who begin to feed it to horses. Wife gives them oats for
her bread. Money has returned to owner. Especulo 58.41; Tubach
4954.
N250. Persistent bad luck.
*N252.2. Messenger announces misfortune to holy man. Someone has set
fire
to his crops.
He
accepts his luck, a.h.c. 343.
*N252.3. Servant (messenger) reports successive misfortunes to master who

has said he does not need to hear bad news. a.h.c. 195; Disciplina 27;
Tubach
N253.
1705.
Safety in shadow of wall. After escaping a series of misfortimes,
man
when
apparently safe
is
him. Calila
sheltering wall
falls
on him and
kills
p. 124.
N255. Escape from one misfortune into worse.

N255.2. Ass gets progressively worse masters. Finally farmer beats him
while alive and will not spare his hide even when he is dead. Esopete
pp. 66-67;
Tubach
387.
N270. Crime inevitably comes to

*N275.5.2. Sheep
light.
thief confesses in
thief to bleat, a.b.c. 179;
church when bishop orders belly of
Tubach 4317.
N300-N399. UNLUCKY ACCIDENTS

N330. Accidental killing or death.
N332.3. Serpent carried by bird lets poison drop into milk and poisons
drinkers. Sendebar
Day
8,
Tale 19.
N333. Aiming at fly has fatal results.

N333.1. Heretic killed by hitting fly on
his face. Gatos 6; Esopete p. 52;
Tubach 2103.
N340. Hasty killing or condemnation (mistake).
N340.2. King
Castigos
hastily has thousands
MS A BNM
put
to
death for stoning his judges.
6559 10.107-8; Glosa 1.1.13.67-68; Tubach
1494.
*N340.2.1. King wrongly advised
to kill wife, son, counselor, philosopher, war elephants, charger and to bathe in their blood to avoid destruction of realm. He does not. Calila p. 280.
N340.3.
Woman
wrongly judged
to be
drunk
when seen
to drink a ftiU
glass of wine, a.b.c. 51.
N341
Emissary of evil noble
killed in
place of intended victim of ambush.
a.b.c. 8.
N346. Pigeon
mate for stealing wheat stored in nest. It has

less. With moisture it swells, and
self in remorse. Sendebar Day 6, Tale 16; Calila p. 291.
hastily kills
dried out and appeared to be
pigeon
kills
Exemplario 73r.
124
MOTIF INDEX OF
N347.1. Cleric accidentally suspected of crime had wandered into a tavern

and was arrested among a group of spies. Executed despite innocence, a.b.c. 349 (not in Paris MS); Disciplina 7; Especulo 533.421;
Tubach2431.
N347.2. Holy man
enters brothel to reform prostitutes.
Accused of loose
behavior, a.b.c. 229.
N350. Accidental loss of property.

*N352.1.1. Eagle carries off official's ring and drops it in slave's lap.
Esopete pp. 17-18.
N380. Other unlucky accidents.
N381. Drop of honey causes chain of events. Hunter drops honey in a
shop; bee lights on honey; storekeeper's cat kills bee; hunter's dog
kills cat; storekeeper kills dog; hunter kills storekeeper; villagers and
neighbors of storekeeper kill hunter; villagers and neighbors of hunter
come, and the two groups kill each other. Sendebar Day 3, Tale 7.
N383.2. 1 Man is sickened when he realizes he has eaten bread from flour
used for abscess plaster. Sendebar Day 2, Tale 4.
.
N388. Blind men
accidentally hurt each other (trying to kill pig). a.b.c. 64;
Tubach 698.
N400-N699. LUCKY
N410. Lucky business ventures.
N41 1.5.
Seller
of sandalwood learns
8, Tale 22.
its
ACCIDENTS
value in land lacking sandalwood.
Day
Sendebar
N440-N499. Valuable secrets learned.

N451.1. Secrets of animals (dwarfs) accidentally overheard from tree.
Animal tells others that it will help him rid themselves of man. Man
in tree overhears and shoots the speaker. Esopete p. 123.
N455.2.1. Cheaters' secrets overheard and used in court against them.
N500-N599. Treasure trove.

N510. Where treasure is found.
N5 1 1
Treasure found in ruined wall. Stonecutter rewarded for hos-
when he tears down old wall. Especulo 64.45.

*N5 11.1.9.1. Treasure buried under roots of tree. Grateful doves lead
monk to spot. Calila p. 334.
pitality, finds a treasure
N514. Treasure hidden in religious shrine (object).

*N514.3. Treasure found in broken statue. Man, angry at
religious statue,
smashes it against wall. Finds hidden gold. Esopete p. 110.

N530. Discovery of treasure.
*N531.6. Virgin Mary appears in dream to king. Tells him where he
will
find buried treasure. Cantigas 348.
*N534.7.2. Hermit digs in mouse's hole and finds hidden coins. Calila p.
N535.1. Treasure indicated by stone cross on palace floor. Cross dug up
reverently; treasure found beneath it. a.b.c. 144; Tubach 4950.
125
*N535.2. Treasure indicated by shadow of extended figure of statue, a.b.c.

241; Tubach 2720, 4611.
*N535.3. Eagle carries off official's ring and drops it in slave's lap. Esopete
pp. 17-18.
N538.1. Treasure pointed out by
soul that has left
body
in dream, a.b.c.
142.
*N545.1.1. Eagle leads
rescuer to site of great treasure. a.b.c. 207.
N590. Treasure trove: miscellaneous.

*N592. Golden tablets unearthed bearing message warning of the
avarice, a.b.c. 35;
N600-N699. Other lucky accidents.

N635. The triple tax. Poet is given by king
hunchbacks
sin of
Tubach 4175, 4702.

the right to
demand
a coin
from persons with head lice; from

persons with scabies; from one-eyed persons, from those with
hernias. He demands coin from hunchback who protests. In tussle,
fi-om
to enter city;
hxinchback is revealed to suffer all

each, poet demands another coin,
Disciplina 6; Especulo 489', 386;
N685. Fool passes
as wise
*N699.3.1. Accused man
With
revelation of
84; Esopete pp.
143-44;
Tubach 4892.
man by remaining
silent, a.b.c.
interrupts trip to pray.
P.
Pa-P99.
infirmities.
a.b.c.
408.
Avoids ambush,
a.b.c. 8.
SOCIETY
ROYALTY AND NOBILITY
PIO. Kings.
Pll. Choice of kings.
*P1 1.0.2. Choice of king through force. Man is forced to accept office.
Barlaam p. 321; Castigos 11.112.
*P11.7. King chosen for a year provides for future. Knowing that the
custom is that he is to be deposed in a year, he sends provisions to
a safe place out of the kingdom. Lucanor Ex. 49; a.b.c. 366; Barlaam
pp. 121-23; Especulo 243.163; Tubach 2907.
*P11.8. Gods tell people to choose king whom they find eating from an
iron table. Choose a farmer they see eating on a metal plough blade.
a.b.c. 384.
PI 2. Character of kings.
PI 2. 5. Good king never
retreats in battle.
(Cid) body on his charger leads troops to victory
2.956.636-38.
*P 12.5.0.1. Hero-king's
in battle.
PCG
PI 2.9. Nobility of character a mark of kings. King (Alexander, Scipio Africanus) shows nobility by sending women captives back unharmed.
a.b.c. 83; Castigos MS A
6559 23.140 (ADMYTE 82z;); Tubach 3971.
BNM
126
MOTIF INDEX OF
*P 12.9.1. Roman consul invites captive enemy to

a.b.c. 211;Tubach 1900.
join
him
in deliberations.
*P12.10.1. Caesar was generous to heirs of his enemy, a.h.c. 211.

*P12.15. Great king accepts explanation that great power is temporary
and hollow. a.b.c. 361.
*P12.16. Just king accepts explanation that people who had criticized him
were dnmk. Truthful admission cools his anger. a.b.c. 419.
P13. Customs connected with kings.
PI 3. 9. 1.1. King deserves great privileges. Alexander sought advice from
Parmenyon. Told by Parmenyon: "If I were Alexander I would accept." Replies: "I am not Parmenyon, but Alexander and deserve
greater gift." a.b.c. 257; Glosa 1.2.19.168-69; Tubach 90.
P14. Particular practices of kings.
PI 4. 19. King goes at night to observe his subjects. Hears them say he is
greatest fool in land because he gave trickster wealth to fetch secret
ingredient to change lead into gold. Qifarp. 129; Lucanor Ex. 20.
*P14.24. King never permits execution of those sentenced to death. Killing
human beings wrong, a.b.c. 397.
*P 14.25. King does not permit anyone to ask him why he never laughs.
Penalty is beheading, îfar p. 130; Tubach 4994.
*P14.26. King spares life of respected stranger who violates prohibition.
Qifar^. 130.
P15. Adventures (deeds) of kings.

PI 5. 1.2. King pardons person who has mistaken a remarkably
beautiful
entourage for him. a.b.c. 314; Tubach 2910.

*P15.1.3. Emperor pardons defeated king. It is honorable to defeat enemy
and then to pardon him. a.b.c. 125.
PI 5.6. Alexander descends to bottom of sea in glass barrel with rooster to
courtier in his
tell
time. Learned tactics from fish. Castigos
(ADMYTE
33.153
P16.
End
104^;);
Tubach
MS A BNM
6559
123.
of king's reign.
*P16.1.3.1. Evil king who had abused power destroyed by divine instigation. Consults philosophers. They recommend that he send for advice to a wise man, Mariano, a.b.c. 379; Disciplina 25.
*P16.1.5. King
retires from world. Abdicates in favor of son. Son abuses

power. King returns to defeat tyrant (takes out his eyes and imprisons him). Crowns younger son. a.b.c. 22.
*P16.1.6. Pious king abdicates
to retreat to ascetic life.
Leaves kingdom to
Barlaam pp. 319-22.

PI 7. Succession to throne.
*P1 7. 1 1 1 Rustic healer made adviser to ruler. Poisons him, seizes power,
and rules cruelly. a.b.c. 384.
P19. Other motifs associated with kings.
*P19.3.1. King grants all wishes of those who come to him. They must not
leave unhappy, a.b.c. 364.
PI 9.4.2. King inadvertently disobeys law. Enters court armed; kills self.
Glosa 1.2.11.114; Castigos MS A BN 6559 (ADMYTE
31v).
advisor.
27
P20. Queens.
*P29.4. Queen
to spin
insists
that frivolous idle
woman who
disdains spinning learn
or that she not appear at court. Castigos 6.59.
P50. Nobility.
*P50.0.2. King and
vassals: lion
vassals. Esopete pp.
king sets out to avenge mistreatment of
98-100.
P100-P199.
OTHER SOCIAL ORDERS
PI 10. Royal ministers.

Pill. Banished minister found indispensable and recalled. Esopete p. 21.
*P1 1 1 1 Minister who spared life of king's favorite wife pardoned and re.
stored to office. Calila p. 280.
P150. Rich men.

PI 52. Rich man
him gain
sees that his wealth will not help
eternal
life.
Enters religious order. Especulo 39.26-27.
P200-P299.
P210.
Husband and
THE FA2VULY
wife.
*P214.2. Wife kills self when abandoned by husband (to join dead husband). Castigos 40.185-86; Ilustres mujeres 40.47r-49r (Dido).
P230. Parents and children.
*P230.4. Parents must chastise son when young. Lesson from tale of farmer who yokes a calf and an ox to tame the calf. Esopete pp. 64-65.
*P231.3. Mother love. Noble woman insists on nursing her own
dren. Will not permit them to have wemurse. Castigos MS A
chil-
BNM
6559 (ADMYTE 7r).

*P23 1.4.1. Mother (Empress
295 (not in Paris MS).
Irene) orders that son's eyes be
P232. Mother and daughter.

*P232.3. Daughter who had offended mother during
put
lifetime
out. a.b.c.
is
pimished
in afterlife. Especulo 440.334.
*P232.4. Mother curses children who mistreated her. Treacherous daughters and sons afflicted with terrible illness. Cured by saint. a.b.c. 260;
Tubach 1440
c).
*P232.5. Devils torment daughter who had verbally abused her mother,
a.b.c.
336.
P233. Father and son.

*P233.2.2. Poor widow
tells
emperor his son had killed
hers.
He
gives his
son in exchange. Especulo 348.247-48; Abreviada 1 .206; Tubach 4989.

P233.8. Prodigal son returns. Barlaam pp. 102-3.
*P233.9.1. Duke's son chastises father for licentious ways. Will only acknowledge him because of mother's honor. Chooses not to inherit
dukedom. Castigos 1.41-42; Tubach 362.

*P233.9.2. Evil king defeated by enemies flees. His own son imprisons
him, tortures him, and kills him. a.b.c. 416.
*P233.9.3. Son mocks father when he sees him drunk and naked (Noah).
a.b.c. 421.
128
MOTIF INDEX OF
*P233.12. Father
dies in his son's stead. Justice
demanded
that one die.
339; Tubach 2005.

*P233.13. Santiago rewards pilgrimage of father. Sustains falsely accused
son on gallows until innocence is proved, a.b.c. 38; Santiago 5.56-61;
a.b.c.
Tubach 3796.
*P233.14. Sentence applies to king's own son. Those caught in adultery
are to have eyes put out. When king's son is found guilty, king has
one of his own eyes and one of his son's eyes put out to satisfy law.
31u); Tubach
6559 (ADMYTE
a.b.c. 224; Castigos MS A
BNM
1944.
*P233.15. Son on gallows
bites his
mother's (father's) nose
off.
punishment
for lack of discipline in youth. a.b.c. 338; Qifar pp. 82-83; Esopete
pp. 112-13; Castigos 1.41;
Gbsa 2.2.2.129-30;
Tubach 3488.
*P233.15.1. Three sons condemned to hang. Parents had not stopped
them from their evil ways. Especulo 289,198-99; see Q586.
*P233.16. Spoiled child blasphemed God, and when a pestilence came he
fell ill. In a deliriimi, saw devils coming for him. He died, and so did
his father. a.b.c. 52; Especulo 79.52; Tubach 684.
*P233.16.1. Father lets son play in river. Son drowns, and man drowns
trying to save him. Sendebar Day 2, Tale 3.
*P233.17. Test of paternity. Shooting at father's corpse. Youngest of
supposed sons refuses to shoot and is judged the only genuine son of
dead emperor, a.b.c. 174; Tubach 1272.

*P233.18. Man cruel to his father, told by his
mistreated in his old age.
a.b.c.
own son
that
he
337; Especulo 439.333-34;
will
be
Tubach
2001.
*P233.19. Father and sons. Father leaves will saying that treasure is
buried in vineyard. At his death, sons dig up vineyard; learn that
treasure is cultivations of land. Esopete pp. 113-14.
P234 Father and daughter.

*P234.3. Daughter suckles imprisoned parent denied food by jailers. Ilustres
mujeres 65.69r-70r (unknown yoimg Roman woman); a.b.c. 171,
173; Glosa 2.2.4.137-38; Tubach 3969.
*P234.4. Father ties infant daughter to lance. Throws her across stream to
save her from pursuers. Ilustres mujeres 37.43r-45r (Camilla).
*P234.5. Daughter saves father from attacker. Ilustres mujeres 62.67r
(Claudia).
*P234.6. Daughter saves fatherfrom death sentence. Ilustres mujeres 15.22r23r (Hypsipyle).
P236. Undutiful children.
P236.2. Satiric legacy. Supposed chest of gold induces children to care
for aged father, a.b.c. 126; Tubach 965.
*P236.8. Undutiful children. Dying father hears children crying out,
"Where will we go, what will we do when our father dies?" He reminds them they will enjoy the wealth he has amassed. He asks why
29
what
are they not concerned with
will
happen
to him. Especulo
389.284-85.
P250. Brothers and sisters.
P25 1.3.1.
Hostile brothers
come
to each other's aid
when
threatened by
outsider. a.b.c. 311.
P251.5.5. Brother unjustly imprisoned by brother. PCG 825.502-3.

*P253.1. Sister kills her brother (husband) to wrest throne from him. Ilustres
mujeres 89.88r-90r (Cleopatra).
P260. Relations by law.

*P266. Daughter-in-law stays in husband's
has abandoned her. San Alejo p. 89.
family's household after
he
P300-P399. OTHER SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS

P310. Friendship.
P315. Friends offer to die for each other. Each falsely confesses to crime to
save the other. Neither guilty. Disciplina 2; Qifar pp. 9-11; Esopete
pp. 137-39; Glosa 1.2.28.211;
P317.1. Plato
refuses to believe that
20, 168; Glosa 1.2.13.124-25;
Tubach 2208, 2215.

Xenocrates has spoken
ill
of him. a.b.c.
Tubach 2211, 3820.
*P317.1.1. Alexander takes supposedly poisoned medicine showing confidence in physician firiend. a.b.c. 168; Glosa 1.2.13.124; Tubach 134,
1401.
P320. Hospitality.
*P324.2.1. Host treats guest with excellent food. Guest had imbibed foul
water before entering. Vomits and is unable to eat. Especulo 36.2526.
*P324.4. Saint eats gluttonously to please guests. Repents next day. Especulo 298.208.
*P324.5. Saint has only bacon to give guest during Lent. Both partake as
sign of hospitality. Especulo 297.207-8; cf. Tubach 3243.
P325. Host surrenders wife to guest who unwittingly falls in love with the
wife. The host, on being informed, out of pure generosity repudiates
wife and has her marry the guest. Esopete pp. 137-39; Disciplina 2;
Qifarpp. 9-11.
P340. Teacher and pupil.

*P344. Teacher gives pupil Ciceronian rule for rhetoric. Student memorizes
rule and recites it instead of applying it. Exemplario 2r, Calila p. 92.
*P344.1. Teacher writes all worldly wisdom on walls and confines pupil to
room
to learn
it
in short time. Sendebar p. 72.
P360. Master and servant.

P361. Faithful servant dies instead of master. Puts on master's clothes and
ring; throat is slit, a.b.c. 166; Glosa 2.3.15.304; Tubach 2209.
*P361.1.4. Servant kills master to save him from dying at enemy's hands.
Kills self. Glosa 2.3.15.304.
*P3 6 1 8 1 Faithful servant undergoes torments in master's place, a.b.c. 166.
*P36 1 .10. Servant deceives invading enemy. Pretends he has thrown cruel
master on pyre. Saves him. Glosa 2.3.15.304,
.
130
MOTIF INDEX OF
*P361.1
1.
Servants deceive enemy; they are carrying off mistress to

Save her. Gbsa 2.3.15.304.
kill
her
for cruelty.
*P36 1 .12. Servant asked to
help
kill
king by prince. Supplies harmless sub-
stance instead of poison. Glosa 2.3.15.305.
P400-P499.
P435. Usurer.
TRADES AND PROFESSIONS
*P435.3. Ass carries usurer's body to the gallows instead of to the chvirch.
*P435.4. Corpse of usurer rises up, destroys church furnishings, beats
monksj kills one, because his soul was suffering torments despite
promises that soul would be prayed out of hell, a.b.c. 149; Tubach
5031.
*P435.5, Church
148;
cf.
built
Tubach
by usurer's money made
to collapse
by
devil. a.b.c.
1053.
*P435.6. Usurer and his descendants punished in hell, ten generations who
had benefited arranged on a ladder, a.b.c. 385 (not in Paris MS); cf.
Tubach 5027, 5062.
*P435.7. Saint who accepted alms from usurer punished in hellfire by bum
on
his cheek. Especulo 12.9-10.
*P435.8. Usurer gave abbot money to pray for him. God said all but one
coin had been earned dishonestly. Accepted only one coin on altar.
a.b.c. 132.
*P435.9. Punishment from otherworld: leprosy, erysipelas, and poverty.

Executors of usurer's will do not make restitution of his ill-gotten
wealth. Especulo 262.176-77.
*P435.10. Usurer's soul condemned to eternal torment despite generosity

to monastery. Returns and attacks monks, a.b.c. 149.
*P435. 1 1 Man who deserted his usurer father and brother sees them roasting
in hell and blaming each other for their plight. a.b.c. 430; Tubach
5027.
*P435.12. Usurer leaves wealth to friends and family. Leaves nothing for
his soul. Acknowledges the omission to priest and then dies. Especulo
659.462-63; Tubach 5050.
*P435.13. Dying man (usurer) reproaches soul for desire to leave him despite his great wealth and comfort. Lucanor Ex. 4; Especulo 568.462.
*P435.14. Dead moneylender's heart found in strongbox. Saint tells
mourners at funeral of moneylender. Lucanor Ex. 14; Tubach 2499.
*P435.15. Hero (Cid) deceives moneylenders. Gives them chests filled
with sand as surety for loan.
w. 65-212.
P446. Barber.
P446.2. Distrust of barbers. Barber sees inscription over door: "Whatever
you do, do wisely, and think of the consequences." He is hired to
cut king's throat, drops razor, and confesses, a.b.c. 69.
P446.2.1. Distrust of barbers. King to avoid possible assassination singes
beard rather than have barber shave him. Castigos MS A
6559
25.141 (ADMYTE
84^;).
.
CMC
BNM
131
P448. Butcher.
P448.1. Sheep
They
P458.
killed
by butcher,
who
they are persuaded will spare them.
betray each other. Esopete p. 76.
Woodsman.
P458.1. Trees not to supply wood for woodsman's axe handle. Esopete p. 65;
Tubach 444.
*P458.2. Water spirit returns silver axe to woodchopper in place of the
one he has lost. Esopete p. 112.
P460. Other trades and professions.
P462. Stonecutter.
*P462.1. Treasure found in ruined wall. Stonecutter rewarded for hospitality, finds
a treasure
when he
tears
down
old wall. Especulo 64.45.
P463. Baker.
*P463.1. Sultan is recognized as son of baker because his reward to philosopher is loaves of bread, a.b.c. 313; Tubach 500.
*P463.2. Unreasonable threat of punishment to cook, to baker, and to
host's wife to fiighten guest. Esopete pp. 13-14.
*P463.3. Bakers use matter from abscess in bread dough. Sendebar Day 2,
Tale 4.
*P463.4. Prince whose father was really the court baker (cook) advised to
remember both his royal and his humble heritage, a.b.c. 189.
P464. Shepherd.
*P464.1. Shepherd who cried "Wolf too often.
comes, no one believes him. Esopete p. 111.
When
the wolf really
P465. Lawyer.
*P465.1. Dying lawyer offers self to God. God says he must be judged.
Refuses to be judged by his equals and so dies without commimion
and confession. Especulo 19.14; cf. Tubach 2991.
*P465.2. Widow gives lawyer a cart as fee. Adversary gives him ox to pull
it. She loses case and says: "The cart does not go well." He replies
that it needs an ox to pull it. Especulo 23.16.
*P465.3. Man's lawyer is bribed to lose a lawsuit. Appears in court saying
he has "esquinanâ" ('quinsy') and cannot speak. His client says he
does not have "esquinanga" but rather "argen?ia" ('money disease').
a.b.c.
309.
*P465.4. Dying
lazvyer says: "I appeal.
confession and goes to
hell.
" Asks
for defense.
Especulo 21.15;
Dies without
Tubach 2991.
*P465.5. Nose cut off as punishment for theft. Lawyer stole land firom
church. Saint appears and tells him to retvim it. Third time cuts off
nose as sign of perjury and theft. Especulo 458.357-58.
*P465.6. Lazvyers bathe in special hell's fire, a.b.c. 12.
P466. Doctors.
*P466. Doctor prescribes same remedy
cure his
own
for a sore eye that
he had used to
sore foot. Patient blinded. a.b.c. 283.
P482. Painter.
P482.1.1. Devil pulls scaffold from under painter's feet. Virgin rescues him.
a.b.c. 263; Tubach 3573.
132
MOTIF INDEX OF
P500-P599. GOVERNMENT
P510. Law courts.
P511. Criminal to choose method of execution.
P51 1.2. Sentenced to have eyes taken out, is granted favor of selecting
in-
unable to find suitable nail, a.h.c. 151; Tubach 1947.

*P51 1.3. Man to choose tree for his hanging is unable to find suitable tree.
Is not executed. a.h.c. 130; Tubach 4790.
P520. Lawsuits.
*P521.1. Lawsuit between wolf and fox. Ape is judge; greyhound lawyer
for wolf; sheepdog lawyer for fox. LBA cc. 321-71.
*P521.2. Fraudulent claim by stag made in presence of wolf whose presence intimidates sheep into acknowledging debt. Repayment scheduled for when wolf will not be present. Esopete p. 52.
strument.
Is
P522. Laws.
*P524.3. High-bom woman pledges son as security with usurer. Unable to
repay, calls on Virgin Mary, who helps her rescue him. Cantigas 63.
P525. Contracts.
*P525.4. Borrower offers Virgin Mary and Christ as guarantors of repayment of debt. Repajrment put in sea, miraculously reaches Jewish
creditor on time. Milagros 23; cf. Castigos 7.64; Cantigas 25; Tubach
2797.
P530. Taxes or tributes.

*P532.1. Unpaid tithes
result in pestilence or crop failures. Especulo
171.115.
P550. Military affairs.

P555. Defeat in battle.
P555.0.1. Defeated
soldier tells
emperor that
battle
was
lost
because of
emperor's impiety. Especulo 217.148.
P600-P699.
CUSTOMS
P612. Trumpet blown before house of one sentenced to death, a.b.c. 192,
292; Barlaam p. 55; Especulo 192.133-34, 294.202-3; Tubach 4994.
P672. Pulling a man's beard as an insult. CMC w. 3280-90.
*P672.1.5. Jew touches dead hero's beard. Corpse unsheathes sword to
punish him. PCG 2.961.642-43.
*P672.6. Insult: throwing blood-filled object (cucumber) at another is
cause of dishonor. Abreviada 2.281.
P690. Political customs.
*P691 Women punished to appease Neptune. Not to vote, not to take part
in public councils, not to give their name to offspring. Jardin pp.
243-44; Tubach 3462.
.
P700-P799. SOCIETY:
P71
1.7.
Man
rises
BNM6559
from
sick
MISCELLANEOUS
bed to battle for his country. Castigos
P711.9. Patriotism: agreement that battle

leader
is
MS A
57.184.
killed in battle.
Duke
will
be
won by
those whose
disguised as pilgrim joins battle
and
is
133
killed. a.b.c.
340; Castigos
MS A BNM
6559 57.184,
MS A BNM
6559 10.110; Gbsa 1.2.12.119.
Q.
REWARDS AND PUNISHMENTS

Q10-Q99.
DEEDS REWARDED
Q20. Piety rewarded.

*Q20.3. Emperor of great piety, vowed never to take the life of another
being. Forgave his enemies and ruled in peace. a.b.c. 68.
*Q20.3.1. Compassionate ruler forgives friends who have offended him.
Treats them with love, a.b.c. 67.
*Q20.3.2. Compassionate emperor told
to
bathe in pool of infant blood as
God rewards him with cure

316.183-86; Abreviada 1.342.
*Q20.4. Pious holy man preaches the word of God, after God restored his
sight. Mission completed, he returns, and his soul is transported dicvire,
takes pity
(Constantine).
on mothers and
refuses.
PCG
rectiy to heaven, a.b.c. 27.
*Q20.5. Militant pope fought to defend church land. God sends wind to
open church doors to reward his piety, a.b.c. 33; Tubach 2370.
*Q20.6. Cleric overwhelmed by sins confesses in writing. Great contrition
causes written words to be magically erased, a.b.c. 72; Tubach 1202.
Q21. Reward for religious sacrifice.

*Q2 1.0.1. King rewards his son's piety and prudence. Youth had given all
his wealth to poor where it would always be safe. Disciplina 29; Tubach 4963.
*Q21.0.2. Bishop told he would die prayed from tierce to nones. Rewarded
for his piety. a.b.c. 65.
Q21. Reward for religious
sacrifice.
Q2 1.1.
Old woman gives her only cow believing she will receive a hundred in
return from God. A bishop hearing her faith sends her a htmdred.
a.b.c. 139; Tubach 4089; cf. Tubach 176.
*Q21 .2. Saint gives all his good deeds to a sinner. Sinner will be pardoned.
Devils come to get saint but sacrifice saves him. a.b.c. 138.
Q28. Reward for pilgrimage.
*Q28.1. Pilgrim goes direcdy to holy places while companions seek lodging. While at worship, his horse found him lodgings and awaited him
there. Especulo 231.154-55.
*Q28.2. Reward for pilgrimage. Old woman falls ill on way to Holy Land
and dies. Celestial light descends, and she ascends to heaven. Especulo 143.98-99.
*Q28.3. Reward for pilgrimage. Sick man, fearful of purgatory, told to
make pilgrimage. Dies and goes direcdy to heaven. Especulo 144.99.
*Q28.4. Reward for pilgrimage. Frequent pilgrim to Santiago de Compos-
134
MOTIF INDEX OF
on saint for help in fight. Victorious, he is asked by

opponent to call upon saint to cure broken limb. Santiago 13.75-76.
Q39. Piety rewarded: miscellaneous.
*Q39.2. Reward for church attendance to holy man. Elected bishop. Espetela calls
cm/o 229.153.
*Q39.3. Virgin Mary promises young woman that she will be rewarded if she
does not dance or engage in frivolous behavior. She joins Virgin and
other maidens in heaven, a.b.c. 85; Tubach 1424.
Q42. Generosity rewarded.

Q42.8. Holy man gives credit for good deeds to dying woman (man) so that
she can go to heaven. He is rewarded. Especulo 83.56; a.b.c. 138.
*Q42.8.1. Abbot awards good deeds to knight. When knight dies he goes
to heaven; abbot is rewarded. Especulo 84.56-57.
*Q42.10. King gives clothes to leper and lifts him into his saddle. Leper
asks king to blow his nose for him. King does so and finds a huge
ruby in his hand. Leper disappears magically. Castigos 7.61-62; cf.
Tubach 3489.
Q44. Reward for almsgiving.
Q44.1. Shepherd sent away from monastery for excessive almsgiving restored after wolves eat monastery's sheep. a.b.c. 143.
Q44.2. Steward pardoned for short accounts when it is learned that he has
given the money to the poor where it is safe from thieves, a.b.c. 145
(not in Paris MS); cf. Tubach 4963.
*Q44.5. Emperor rewarded for almsgiving. Great treasure unearthed beneath floor of palace, a.b.c. 144; Tubach 4950.
*Q44.7. Bread shared with poor replenished magically by God. a.b.c.
146, 147; Tubach 766, 2566.
Q45. Hospitality rewarded.
*Q45.0.1. Poor fisherman who had shared his only garment with shipwrecked man is rewarded richly. Apolonio cc. 632-37.
Q45.1. Angel entertained unawares. Hospitality to disguised saint (angel,
god) rewarded. Esopete p. 3; Castigos MS A
6559 54.181; cf.
Tubach 2533, 3653.
BNM
Q51. Kindness to animals rewarded.

*Q51.3. Holy man cures hyena cubs. She rewards him with sheep skins
and food, a.b.c. 50; Tubach 2714.
Q60. Other good qualities rewarded.
Q61. Self-abnegation rewarded. Man who declares self unworthy to look
heavenward pardoned. Castigos MS A BNM 6559 87.223.
*Q62.1. Youth invents false report of senate proceedings to keep secret true
proceedings. Senate rewards him with permanent permission to attend. a.b.c. 394;
Tubach 5269.
Q69. Obedience rewarded.

*Q69.1. Obedience rewarded. Scribe called by abbot interrupts work. Returns to fmd it miraculously completed in gold. Especulo 417.314.
Q72. Loyalty rewarded.
Q72. 1.1. Captured knight asked by captor what fate he merits. He asks for
135
death because he will never be disloyal to his master. Captor frees

him. a.b.c. 79; Glosa 2.3.15.303.
Q80. Rewards for other causes.
*Q85.1. Reward for graceful answer. Lowly poet tells king that a rose
grows among thorns as he did among humble persons. King sends
him away with many gifts. Disciplina 3.
Q86.1. Reward to ant for industry. Ant has food all winter because she
keeps it safe and dry by airing it in the sun. Lucanor Ex. 23; Tubach
265.
Q94. Reward for cure.

*Q94.1. Truthful man reveals secret cures to king. Magic spring cures
blindness; bread partially eaten by fox restores princess's voice.
Rewarded with many gifts and great wealth. Gatos 28.
Q100-Q199.
NATURE OF REWARDS
QUO.
Material rewards.
*Q111.9. In exchange for
restoration of lost riches,
husband agrees
to
deliver his wife to devil, a.b.c. 144.
*Q1 11.10.
Finder of great treasure,
statue of goldj silver,
is
and jewels
make
Tubach
rewarded by commimity; they

in his honor, a.b.c. 241;
2720; cf. Tubach 4611.

Ql 12.0.5. Kingdom and hand of princess reward
for virtuous
life.
Castigos
1.41.
Q121. Freedom as reward.

*Q121.2. Freedom as reward. Captive interprets king's dream. Reward is
his freedom and that of all the other captives, a.b.c. 61; cf. Tubach
1785.
Q140. Miraculous or magic rewards.

Ql 4 1 Monks who always shared with the poor receive miraculous supplies
of flour and bread, a.b.c. 146, 147; Tubach 766.
Q147.1. Body of saint miraculously rolls over in grave to make room for his
pupil to whom he had promised interment with him. a.b.c. 399; Tubach 1271.
Q147.2. Magic wind blows open locked doors of church to show that pope
deserves to be buried there, a.b.c. 33; Tubach 2370.
Q150. Immunity from disaster as reward.
*Q 15 1.8.1. Life spared as reward for bravery and constancy. Captive tells
captor that death or release are the same to him. In either case he
would be lost to his master, a.b.c. 79.
Q151.il. Man rewarded by God for good deed. Daniel imharmed by seven lions. Castigos 9.69-70.
Q170. Religious rewards.
Q171. Immunity from punishment as reward. Robber baron saved from
devil by his daily devotion to Virgin Mary, a.b.c. 45.
Q172. Reward: admission to heaven.
.
*Q1 72.0.3.
Friar scribe's soul admitted directly
luminating Virgin's
136
name
to
heaven as reward for
il-
in three colors. Cantigas 384.
MOTIF INDEX OF
*Q1 72.0.4. Angel promises
admission
to
heaven
to
good monk
killed
by a
beast, a.b.c. 105.
*Q1 72.0.5. Knight

Olives he was
Q 172.2.
followed steps of Jesus in Jerusalem.
carried
man on
Evil rich
to heaven. a.b.c. 434;
deathbed given chance
On Mount
of
Tubach 3797.
to repent gives all his
pardoned because of one act of charity.
to poor. Is
wealth
up
a.b.c. 135.
Q 172.2.1.
The rich man's trial in heaven. Piece of bread given to beggar

is placed on scales. a.b.c. 135.
*Q1 72.2. 1.1. Evil rich man angrily throws a loaf of bread at a beggar. On
deathbed, is pardoned because of one act of involuntary charity.
a.b.c. 135.
Q172.3. Evil robber repents; is given chance. He must embrace and live
with next creature he encounters. It is a serpent whose venom kills
6559 82.224.
him, but he goes to heaven. Castigos MS A
BNM
DEEDS PUNISHED
Q200-Q399.
Q211. Murder punished.
carried off to hell
and plunged into boiling
many cruel murders, a.b.c. 114.

*Q2 11.0.4 Herod punished for murders
of innocents. Castigos 9.71.
Q2 11.0.3.
Emperor
*Q21 1.0.5. Greedy nephew murdered

120; Tubach 5020.
rich uncle.
Q211.3. Uxoricide punished. Courtier
young woman
in the court
*Q2 11.4.3. Snake

bites
chases frog into
man's child
mount
king's
who had
instead.
kills
Caught and
oil for
killed. a.b.c.
wife, mistaking her for a
sinned. Castigos 33.159.
man's house. Tries to bite frog but

curse on snake. He will be frog-
Man puts
forever. Calila p. 248.
Q212. Theft punished.

*Q212.5. Thief caught when he steals from monastery garden. His foot
catches in fence, and he is caught; released, a.b.c. 178; Tubach 4782
b).
*Q212.6.
Monk
attacked by marauding Goths robbed of horse. Goths'
horses will not cross
continue journey,
river;
a.b.c.
they returned his horse and then he could
191;
Tubach 2636.
*Q212.7. Theft of money offerings on altar punished by blindness and paralysis. Moor's companions replace stolen money, and health is restored. Cantigas 329.
*Q212.8. Theft of meal for

pierces
move
mouth of
it.
thief.
fritters
punished. Tasting knife magically
Prayers to Virgin
Mary enable
priest to re-
Cantigas 157.
Q220. Impiety punished.

*Q220.2. Monk tormented with pains of all those for whom he had not
prayed when alive. Especulo 161.109.
*Q220.3. Friar criticizes royal adoration of religious images that neither
speak nor move. Has bad luck for rest of life. Cantigas 291
*Q220.4. Cleric stole altar cloth to make underclothes for self. Awakes with
body contorted. Prays to Virgin Mary and is ciured. Cantigas 327.
37
*Q220.5. Pharaoh punished for disobedience
Red
to
God's word.
Drowned
in
Sea. Castigos 9.70.
*Q220.6. Nebuchadnezzar pyimsh&d.

naked, grazing
for impiety.
Condemned to wander
like a beast. Castigos 9.71.
Q221.1. Discourtesy
god punished. Blasphemer rouses king's wrath.
to
Especulo 34.22-23.
Q221.3. Blasphemy punished.
*Q22 1.3.1. Blasphemer extends
right hand to blaspheme. Cut off and himg

door of the church. Especulo 210.145-46.
*Q221.3.2. Spoiled child blasphemed God and when a pestilence came, he
fell ill. In a delirium saw devils coming for him. He died, and so did
at the
his father. a.b.c. 52;
Tubach
684.
*Q221.3.3. Blasphemer punished by blood flowing from mouth until death

comes, a.b.c. 55; Tubach 681, 2240.
*Q221.3.4. Nun said crazy things; after church bvirial she was seen in a
vision before altar. Punishment: cut in half; evil part burned. a.b.c.
247; Tubach 723.
*Q221.3.5. Blasphemer's eye drops out on game board as punishment for
swearing on God's eyes. a.b.c. 55, 236; Tubach 681, 1949, 2240.
*Q221.3.6. Blasphemer struck dead. Horrible odor issues fi-om his heart.
a.b.c. 55; Tubach 681, 2240.
*Q221.3.6.1. Gambler lost at dice in tavern and blasphemed against Virgin
Mary. Struck dead. Cantigas 72; Tubach 2240.
*Q221.3.6.2. Woman gambler lost at dice, threw stone at image of Virgin
Mary. King ordered her dragged through streets. Cantigas 136;
Tubach 5152.
*Q221.3.7. Blasphemer, exposed buttocks to figure of Christ, paralyzed, save
his tongue. Power of speech retained to say "ave." a.b.c. 47.
*Q221.3.8. Blasphemer punished; cursed the Virgin. Tongue elongates,
and he cannot speak. a.b.c. 52; Tubach 773.
*Q221 .3.9. Blasphemer doubts authenticity of Virgin Mary's slipper. Suffers
great pain and mouth is twisted. Slipper applied to afiQicted area
cvires him. Cantigas 61.
*Q221.3.10. Blasphemer carried off by demons after denying Virgin Mary.
Cantigas 238; Jardin p. 219.
*Q221.3.11. Arian bishop blasphemed God. Angel struck him dead with
heavenly fire. a.b.c. 169.
*Q221.3.12. Beguine commissions a blasphemous painting and hides it in a
secret room. Discovered. Hanged. Talavera 4.1.264-67.
Q22 1.5.1. Disobedience to God punished. Lot's wife transformed into
pillar
of
salt.
Castigos 50.212.
*Q221.9. Punishment:
cruel death.
Apostate emperor had stolen church
property. Especulo 209.145.
Q222. Punishment for desecration of holy places (images).

Q222. 1.1. Renegade priest killed for allowing Moors to desecrate Host. Christian captive knight kills him. Lucanor Ex. 28.
Q222.2. Punishment for
138
desecration of figure of Christ. Virgin
Mary
leads
MOTIF INDEX OF
mob
wax
to Jewish quarter
figure of Christ.
MUagros
where Rabbi of Toledo is found crucifying

punishes him and the Jews of Toledo.
Mob
18.
*Q222.2.3. Punishment for throwing image of Virgin Mary into sea. Fish in
sea disappear as long as statue is in sea. Fish appear again when
statue restored to place. Cantigas 183.
Q222.3. Foul portrayal of Jesus on cross brings punishment to artist and

to one who commissioned painting. Talavera 4.1.264-67.
*Q222.4.1 Mayor takes church lands, falls ill, and asks bishop to pray for
cure in exchange for return of land. Reneges and falls ill again. Bishop refuses cure and is sent for forceftiUy. Mayor enters church and
drops dead. a.b.c. 128.
Q222.5. Punishment for desecration of church dedicated to Virgin Mary.
.
Men commit murder in her church; she sends Saint Marcial's (Saint
Anthony's) fire (erysipelas) to punish them. MUagros 17.
*Q222.5.4.1. Thieves trapped in hermit's cell. Powerless to open door.
a.b.c.
423.
Q223. Punishment for neglect of religious duties.

*Q223.1.1. Neglect of religious duties. Sickle suspended in church as reminder of farmer who used it on a feast day. It had adhered to his
hand imtil he repented. a.b.c. 164; cf Tubach 4138.
*Q223.1.2. Neglect of religious duties. A woman in labor suffered so
much that she promised St. Francis that she would keep his feast
day; forgot and her right arm was afflicted. a.b.c. 165; cf. Tubach
4138.
*Q223.1.3. Leather worker broke promise not to work on feast day. Punished by swallowing needle that sticks in throat. Virgin Mary cures
him at altar where he coughs up needle. Cantigas 1 99; cf Tubach 4138.
Q233.4. Priest tends his vineyard, neglects hearing confession of dying parishioner, a.b.c.
386.
Q223.6. Woman who had promised not to sew on the Sabbath broke promise. Punished by losing use of hands. Sent to Chartres to be cured by
Virgin Mary. Cantigas 117; cf. Tubach 4135.
*Q223.6.1.1. Failure to observe holiness of Sabbath punished. Sinner crippled until confessed his sin. Especulo 273.184, 274.184-85; Tubach
4135.
*Q223.6.2. Failure to observe saint's day punished. King who carved stick
on saint's day reproached. Burned shavings on his own palm. Especulo
216. l%5.
Q223.8. Failure
days to
live.
to
do penance punished. Angel gives ailing sinner three

ways. Spends one day in
Must do penance and change
carnal pleasure
and
dies before able to
do penance. Especulo 354.252;
Tubach 3684.
*Q223.8. 1 Penance postponed. Man dies before he has chance to do penance. Especulo 407.303-4; Tubach 3668.
*Q223.8.2. Failure to do penance punished. Sinner repents too late.
Devils come and take his soul. Especulo 452.351-52; Tubach 3662.
.
139
Q223.9.1. Failure
to fast
punished by dragon
who
will carry off
monk's
Tubach 1850.
to fast punished by serpents and demons who
soul to hell. a.b.c. 438; Especulo 8.7;
*Q223.9.1.1. Failure
ment with flames and beatings. Especulo 9.7-8.
Q225. Punishment for scoffing at religious teachings.
Q225.
Scoffer punished.
preaching.
Many
Man
asses
tor-
says he prefers braying of asses to clerical
come
to his interment, attack his corpse,

*Q225.0.1. Scoffer punished. Man says he prefers baying of greyhoimds
to preaching. Two greyhounds in his bed attack him and tear him to
pieces. Especulo 227.152; cf. Tubach 620.
Q225.1. Heresy (Arian) punished. Arius made to excrete his entrails.
knock
it
and kick
to ground,
it.
a.b.c. 187.
*Q225.4. Jews punished for breaking God's commandments. Castigos

50.212-13.
*Q225.4.1. Punishment for denying Christian God. Persecutor of Christians struck down. Especulo 223'. 151.
*Q225.5. Neglect to attend church punished. Blacksmith in monastery neglected his religious duties. Sees place in hell reserved for him.
Q227. Punishment for opposition to holy man.
*Q227.4. Opposition to holy man punished. Man who stole his horse was
magically detained at river. Could not cross until he returned stolen
mount, a.b.c. 191; Tubach 2636.
Q227.5. Woman punished for slander against bishop. She carmot give birth
to her child until she admits she accused bishop falsely, a.b.c. 89,
285;
Tubach 648.
Q232. Punishment for change of religious faith.

*Q232.1.1. Christian who became Arian to please king
lack of constancy in
own
faith, a.b.c.
Q233.1. Punishment for exchanging
Unable
his soul for
to attend church, a.b.c. 23;
ordered killed for
169.
marriage with beloved.
Tubach 3566.
Q233.1.2. Punishment for exchanging soul for worldly
success.
Unable to
enter church. Cantigas 281.
*Q235.2. Disobedience punished. Cleric suffers damnation for not having

obeyed without complaint. Especulo 418.314-15.
Q240. Sexual sins punished.
*Q241.3. Woman damned forever for one adulterous act. None of her good
works nor son's prayers could save her. Especulo 27.19.
Q241.4. Male storks punish their adulterous mates. Offspring of adultery
also pxmished. Castigos MS A
6559 83.208; Glosa 2.1.8.40;
Tubach 4640.
Q242. Incest punished. Suffer in this life and in next. Castigos 1.40-41.
Q242.2. Father-daughter incest punished. Father and daughter struck
down by lighming. Apolonio c. 248.
*Q242.5. Brother-sister incest punished. Woman bitten by poisonous spider. Castigos MS A
6559 82.216.
BNM
BNM
140
MOTIF INDEX OF
Q243. Incontinence punished: miscellaneous.

*Q243.0.1. Punishment by extinction of royal line for cohabiting with a
Jewish woman from Toledo. Wounded in batde. Loses battle. Castigos 21A33.
*Q243. 0.1.1. Punishment for taking heathen
*Q243.0.3. Punishment for

Castigos
MS A BNM
wives. Castigos 20.133.
excessive carnality.
Deluge to destroy
sinners.
6559 22.138.
*Q243.7. Dying man punished for depraved sexual acts with devil disguised as young woman. Especulo 355.252-54.
Q244. Punishment for rape: hanging. Youth falsely accused is put on gallows. Saved by Virgin Mary. Cantigas 355.
Q244.2. Knight who had raped nun captured when she is mounted miraculously before him on his horse and holds reins until he is taken
6559 (ADMYTE
prisoner. Castigos 19.121-22; Castigos MS A
BNM
47r-48^).
*Q244.4. Lustful behavior punished. Lecherous

carded. a.b.c. 246:
woman
abused and
dis-
Tubach 1081.
*Q244.5. Hangman, taken with beauty of murderess, has sex with her
body after he cuts her down. Publicly flogged. Talavera 1.24.1 17.
*Q244.6. Woman punishes man who had raped her, severing his head and
presenting it to her husband to restore her honor. Ilustres mujeres
13.1(iv-l^r (Wife of Orgiaguntes).
Q260. Deceptions punished.

Q260. Deceptions (treachery) punished. Hawk breaks promise to nightingale, and is caught by hunter. Esopete pp. 62-63.
*Q261.3. Treachery punished. Teacher who handed children of besieged
city to
enemy punished. Grateful

Tubach 1082.
citizens surrender. a.b.c. 256; Glosa
1.2.12.121; cf
*Q261.4. Emperor severs hand of purported traitor. Severed hand restored

by Virgin Mary, a.b.c. 273; Tubach 2419.
Q263. Lying (perjury) punished.
Q263.1. False accusers of innocent woman proven to be perjurers. Condemned to death (Susanna and the Elders). Castigos 9.70; Tubach
4684.
*Q263.2. Three false accusers of bishop swear, if not true first would die
of fire; second of erysipelas; third would lose sight. First two
punishments occur, and third false accuser cries so much that he
loses his sight, a.b.c. 235; Especulo 461.359.
*Q263.3.1.
vision
Monk falsely
and orders him
accuses another of
theft.
God
appears to
him
in
to be punished, a.b.c. 359.
*Q263.4.1. Lender forces lying neighbor to perjure self, to swear he had not
received a loan. Judge punishes lender seriously for sin of destroying
another's soul. Especulo 457.357.
*Q263.5. Heretic conceals on person written declaration of his heresy. Presents written orthodox statement at same time. Swears to truth of
what he had written. Punished later when he miraculously excretes
own entrails. Especulo 460.358-59; Tubach 2534.
141
*Q263.6. Woman struck by lightning as punishment for perjury. Had falsely

accused saint of rape. a.b.c. 158; Tubach 3046.
Q265.1. Judge who accepted bribes from condemned punished by king.
(îfar
pp. 107-8.
Q265.3. Bad judge flayed, and skin put on the judgement chair. His son,
the new judge, taught by fate of father to be good judge. a.b.c. 223;
Tubach 2859.
Q270. ZMisdeeds concerning property punished.
Q272.1.1. Rich
to spare
him
man postponed
repentance until dying; pleads with devils
until next day. Plea denied. Is carried off. a.b.c. 119,
357.
Q272.2. Avaricious man has neck broken when lid of his treasure chest
falls on him. Castigos MS A
6559 7.99-100 (ADMYTE 21r-
BNM
21z;).
Q272.3. Miser tries to eat his adored money and chokes to death. a.b.c. 39.
Q272.4. Avaricious woman and her gold in her grave consumed by hell's
fires. a.b.c.
40;
Tubach 2036.
*Q272.4.1. Demons
in grave throw avaricious
man's gold into throat of
dead man. a.b.c. 123; Tubach 5039.

*Q272.5. Executor of will keeps money destined to pay masses
for
dead
Damned. Especulo 263.177.

*Q272.6. Virgin Mary brings avaricious man back from dead
archbishop.
seen hell's torments.

Milagros 10.
He has
thirty days to save his soul
after he has
with prayers.
Q273. Usury punished.

Q273.3. Man who deserted his usurer father and brother sees them roasting
in hell and blaming each other for their plight. a.b.c. 430; Tubach
2006; cf. Tubach 5027.
Q273.4. Church built by usurer's money made
148;
cf.
to collapse
by
devil. a.b.c.
Tubach 5031.
*Q273.5. Usurer and his descendants punished
in hell,
ten generations
who
had benefited arranged on a ladder, a.b.c. 385 (not in Paris MS).

*Q273.6. Saint who accepted alms from usurer punished in hellfire by
bum on his cheek. Especulo 12.9-10.
*Q273.7. Usurer gave abbot money to pray for him. God said all but one
coin had been earned dishonestly. Accepted only one coin on altar.
a.b.c. 132.
*Q273.8. Usurer's soul condemned to eternal torment despite generosity to

monastery. Returns and attacks monks. a.b.c. 149.
Q277. Covetousness punished.
*Q277.1. Covetousness punished. Fox betrays wolf to shepherd and eats
wolfs stores. Shepherd kills fox. Esopete p. 63.
Q281. Ingratitude punished.
Q281.1. Devils torment daughter who abused her mother. a.b.c. 336; Especulo 440.334; Tubach 1442.
Q281.1.2. Daughter cursed by mother is punished with an illness. Cured by
saint. a.b.c. 260; Tubach 975, 1440 c).
142
MOTIF INDEX OF
*Q281.5. Ingratitude punished. Ungrateful serpent freed from

returned to captivity
Tubach 4254.
when
Q292. Inhospitality punished.

*Q292.1.1. Fox punished for serving
stork's
house given food
captivity;
bites rescuer, a.b.c. 312; Disciplina 5;
in tall
stork
(crane) food in flat dish. In
narrow container. Esopete
p.
52;
Tubach 2170.
Q300. Contentiousness punished.
Q301. Jealous monks punished. Dismissed good shepherd who fed poor
from flock. Wolves and bears came to eat sheep after dismissal. a.b.c.
143; Tubach 4088 (p. 417).
*Q302.0.1. Envy and covetousness punished. Twice the reward to other
(loss
of eye). Esopete p. 125;
cf.
Tubach 3983.
*Q305. 1 King made war against Christians. Refused to make peace. God
helped Christians, and they defeated evil aggressor. Pimished him
.
severely, a.b.c. 416.
Q312.4. Fault-finding with God's handling of weather. Complaining gardener punished. Seeds will not grow, a.b.c. 104; Tubach 5233.
Q320. Evil personal habits punished.
Q321.1. Laziness punished. Queen insists that idle woman who disdains
spinning yam learn to spin or that she not appear at court. Castigos
6.59.
Q327. Discourtesy punished.

Q327. Nun rebukes prior for the way he addresses her. He will not choose
her for post of prioress of nunnery because of her impatience. Especm/o
438.331.
Q330. Overweening punished.

Q331.2.1.5. Devil rides on long skirt of woman. Falls off into mud. Other
devil laughs at him. a.b.c. 407; Tubach 1660.
*Q331.2.1.6. Woman in a grand procession exposed to ridicule when her
wig is snatched
bach 2400.
off"
by a monkey.
a.b.c.
334; Especulo 431.326;
Tu-
woman prays for green eyes (more beautiful eyes).

Blinded. Prays for restoration of sight. Old eyes are restored. a.b.c.
371; Especub 536.431-32.
*Q331.2.1.7. Vain
*Q331.2.3. Jezebel's pride punished. Displays self in window of tower.

Tower topples; her flesh eaten by dogs. Castigos MS A
6559
6.97 (ADMYTE
17r).
*Q331.2.4. Noble poet writes poor verses. Demands reward from king because of his lineage. King sends him away unrewarded, telling him
his good lineage has worsened in him. Disciplina 3; Tubach 3829.
*Q331.2.5. Man in church boasts of his good deeds and decries sins of
others. Condemned to hell for not confessing his own sins. Castigos
BNM
MS A BNM
6559 86.223.
*Q331.3. Overweening pride punished. Boastful rich man and his belongings swallowed up by the earth, a.b.c. 287; Tubach 3938.
*Q331.4. Woman's vanity punished. Came to mass adorned excessively;
143
form of spider bit her and could not be removed until abbot
brought Host to banish spider. Especulo 429.325-26.
*Q331.5. Vain woman will only bathe in rain water from the coimtryside.
God pxmished her with sores that gave off foul odors. Castigos MS A
devil in
BNM
6559 (ADMYTE
17r).
*Q332. Vanity of monks punished. Wearers of silken sashes, silvertrimmed shoes. St. Martin and angel killed them all. Especulo 428.325.
Q340. Meddling punished.
Q341. Curiosity punished. Man kills wife for looking at other men
through her window, a.b.c. 63.
*Q341 1 Inquisitiveness punished. Monkey sees carpenter astride a beam,
.
wood
with a wedge. Tries imsuccessfrilly to perform task;

and are crushed. Carpenter returns and beats
him. Calila pp. 125-26; Exemplario llr-llz;.
splitting
genitals fall into split
Q380. Deeds punished: miscellaneous.

Q385. Panther captured in pitfall beaten by first peasants
released by newcomers. When recovered, panther kills
ing to the peasants
who
it but
belong-
to find
cattle
mistreated him. Esopete p. 76.
Q386.1. Devil punishes young woman who loves to dance. Returns to tell
of torment in hell where she must dance forever. Especulo 134.92;
Tubach 1429.
Q393. Evil speech punished.
*Q393.0.1. Evil speech punished. Man spoke ill of bishop. Bit off his own
tongue and died. Especulo 176.119.
Q393.1. Punishment for talking too much. Talkative mm's dead body cut
in half and burned, a.b.c. 247; cf Tubach 4706.
Q393.2. Gossip punished. St. Augustine did not tolerate those who spoke
ill of others. Especulo 173.117-18.
*Q393.3. Gossipers reproached. Moribund monk scolds brothers who
speak ill of him. Especulo 174.118.
*Q393.4. Flatterer punished for praising. Beheaded. Castigos MS A
BNM
6559 35.156 (ADMYTE

lllr); Glosa 1.2.8.100.
*Q393.5 Returned pilgrim tells others not to make pilgrimage. Pvmished,
falls, and bites own tongue off. Especulo 146.99-100.
Q395. Disrespect punished.
*Q396. Author dreams he is beaten by angry women for misogyny. Talavera 4.3.305; Grisel 367-70.
*Q397.
Soldiers loot holy person's
cell,
eat Host, drink sacramental wine,
beat him. Half a league away, one bites
own tongue and
chokes;
others die miserably. Especulo 222.150-51.
Q400-Q599.
KINDS OF PUNISHMENTS
Q410. Capital punishment.

*Q411.11.3. Desecrating sanctuary punished. Consul
ing sanctuary. Kills enemies captured in church.
ary himself, and emperor executes him. Especulo
*Q4 11.16. Death as punishment for having buried
144
makes law abolishLater takes sanctu211.146.

unshriven sinner in
MOTIF INDEX OF
church. Bishop paid
by rich
sinner,
warned by
sacristan that
he would
die in thirty days. a.b.c. 353; Especulo 512.405.
*Q4 11.17,
who kills Jew under royal protection is

Tubach 2799.
Monks, ordered bumed alive by king, achieve mar-
Treacherous steward
executed. a.b.c. 167;
Q414. Burning alive.

tyrdom. Barlaam p.
31.
*Q414.0.3.2. Stepmother who lusted after stepson^ rejected, accuses him of

rape. Deceit proven. Punished by burning. Sendebar p. 155.
Q415.8. Heretic preaching against God's creation hits fly that has landed
on his head so many times that he falls dead. Gatos 6; Tubach 2103.
*Q415.10. Witch hanged in doorway of man she had poisoned. Body taken
away to be bumed. Talavera 2.13.198.

Q422. Punishment: stoning to death. Evil king stoned by populace.
Qifar
p. 100; Glosa 1.2.14.134.
*Q422. 1 Punishment:
.
ABNM6559
stoning as
punishment
for adultery. Castigos
MS
9.103.
Q431. Punishment: banishment.

*Q43 1.3.1. Visiting prince who violated royal prohibition against asking why
king never laughed is banished from realm. Sent away in an oarless
boat. C^t/arp. 130; Tubach 4994.
*Q43 1 .20. Calumniated hero banished.
CMC w. 1 1-64; 267.
King's advisers accuse
him falsely.
Q432. Punishment: ejection.

Q432.1. Owl hatched by hawk ejected for fouling nest. Especulo 535.422.
Q436. Unrepentant priest excommunicated. Dies when begins to say mass.
Especulo 268.181;
Tubach 3211.
*Q436.1. Associating with the excommunicated punished. King stricken

dead in house of offending count. Especulo 270.181-82.
Q450. Cruel punishments.

Q451.1. Hand severed as punishment for treachery. a,b.c. 273.
Q451.4. Tongue cut out as punishment.
*Q451.4.6.1. Tongue cut out by heretics. Pious man who sang praise of
Virgin
Mary punished.
Q451.4.8.1. Tongue
Cantigas 156.
bitten off
by wife
as
punishment
for adultery. Tala-
vera 1.24.119.
*Q451.4.8.2. Tongue cut (bitten) as punishment. Man who had told

others not to make pilgrimage falls and bites own tongue of. Especulo
146.99-100.
Q451.S. Nose cut off as punishment.

Q451.5.2. Nose cut off as punishment for theft. Lawyer stole land from
church. Saint appears and tells him to return it. Third time cuts off
nose as sign of perjury and theft. Especulo 458.357-58.
Q451.7. Blinding as punishment.
*Q451.7.0.3. Magic blindness as punishment for perjury. Monk has said he
will go blind if he lies, a.b.c. 235.
*Q451.7.0.4. Eyes fall out magically as punishment for blasphemy. a.b.c.
236;
Tubach 1949.
45
Q451.7.5. Eyes gouged out as punishment for cruelty and idolatry. Royal
son permitted to rule. a.b.c. 22; Tubach 705.
*Q45 1 .7.6. Blindness punishment used as weapon against enemy. Covetous
and envious. Twice the wish to the enemy, a.b.c. 217; Esopete p. 125;
Tubach 3983.
*Q451.7.7. Blindness as punishment for adultery, a.b.c. 224.
*Q451.7.8. Mother (Empress Irene) orders that her son's eyes be put out.
a.b.c.
295 (not
in Paris
*Q451.7.9. Knight
MS).
stricken blind for scofifing at Virgin
Mary. Cantigas
314.
Q451.10. Punishment:
genitals cut off.
Wife punishes husband
for
un-
faithfulness. Talavera 1.24.118.
Q455. 1 Walling up as punishment for conspiracy to murder seven princelings and their mother. Ultramar 1.1.66.1 16.
Q467.1. Man accused of rape put in sack sealed with pitch and thrown in
.
river, a.b.c. 172.
Q469.7. Punishment:
twisting entrails from body. a.b.c. 187;
Tubach 2534
(excreting).
Q470. Humiliating punishments.

Q492. Woman must relight magic fires as punishment. Magician, in repayment for ill-treatment by woman, causes lights of the city to go out.
They can only be relighted from the genitals (naked body) of the
woman. None can be

261-68.
*Q493.2. Devil transforms
relighted vmtil
all
have applied torches.
LBA
cc.
priest's
concubine into mare. Devil rides her to
blacksmith's shop. She identifies self as blacksmith's mother. Especulo
113.13-1 A.
*Q495.2. Woman raped and mutilated for
Impaled vaginally.
lechery.
246.
a.b.c.
*Q499.2.3. Humiliating death questioned. No

death at hands of asses. Esopete pp. 24-25.
sins
committed
to merit
Q500. Tedious punishments.

Q501.9.
Man
punished for
sin;
must be perpetual bathhouse attendant.
Saint's prayers free him. a.b.c. 372; Especulo 152.106, 159.108-9;
Tubach
504.
*Q501.10. Saintly man punished for single sin. Must be perpetual bathhouse attendant. Freed because of previous virtuous life. a.b.c. 150;
Tubach
504.
Q520. Penances.
Q520.2. Robber does penance. Will live with next creature he encounters.
Castigos MS A
6559 82.224.
Q520.4. King who gave many death sentences accepts penance. Postpones
sentence until thirty days' period of examination has passed. Glosa
BNM
1.13.68-69; Castigos 10.107-8.
Q520.5. Penance
in wilderness as
orders to marry.
God
146
for having
One
punishment for two
spent year weeping about
been saved.
a.b.c.
356;
friars
sin;
who
left
holy
second, praising
Tubach 3670.
MOTIF INDEX OF
Q522.3. Penance for desiring to leave monastery to marry: creeping naked

through thorns, a.h.c. 251.
*Q522.4.1. Penance: Man afflicted with leprosy as punishment makes pilgrimage to Holy Land to die there. Lucanor Ex. 44.
Q522.8. Penitent wears poisonous snake wrapped around him. Is bitten
and dies. Castigos MS A
6559 82.224.
Q523.2. Penance: walking on all fours, naked and grazing like a beast.
BNM
a.h.c.
387.
*Q523.7.1. Sinner demands penance of three years: denied, then one year;
denied, then forty days. Told that three days suffice if sincere. a.h.c.
296 (not in Paris MS)] Tubach 3690.
Q535. Negative penances.

Q535.2. Penance: lion forgoes meat. Hunter kills her cubs. Jackal tells her
he and other animals have had same experience at her hands. She
gives up meat and lives on grass. Calila p. 300; Exemplario 11 r.
*Q535.2.1. Penance: lion forgoes fruit. Advised that trees are not bearing
enough fruit because of her appetite. Eats grass. Calila p. 300.
*Q535.2.2. Penance for seven days: covetousness eat chick peas;
porridge; spinach; anger

gluttonybread and water; envybeans. LBA
1163-69.
pride
^vetches;
avarice
lust
lentils;
cc.
Q550. JMiraculous punishments.

*Q551.3.2.9. Punishment: snake transformed into frog-king's mount, condemned to eat only those frogs given him by king. Calila p. 248.
Q551.6.4. Magic sickness as punishment for theft. Apostate emperor stole

holy vessels and sat on them. Pans of body that had touched vessels
when he sat rotted, and he died. Especulo 209M45.
*Q55 1.6.4.1. Magic punishment for theft. Priest who stole silver from
cross in Virgin Mary's church blinded. His nose grew down to cover
his mouth. Could neither eat nor drink. Cantigas 318.
Q551.6.5. Magic sickness as punishment for desecration of holy places
(images, etc.). Military commander urinates on altar; Jew in holy vessels. Excrement pours out of commander's mouth, and he dies;
blood pours from Jew's mouth, and he dies. Especulo 210.145-46.
Q551.6.5.1. Magic manifestation: blood flows from blasphemer's mouth.
a.b.c. 55.
Q551.6.5.2. Magic manifestation: eyes
fall
out of sockets of blasphemer.
a.b.c. 55.
Q551.8.6. Magic punishment for denying the Virgin Mary: tongue extends
a palm's width and protrudes from mouth; dies, a.b.c. 52.
*Q551.8.8. Magic strangulation for violating holy object. Chasuble woven
for
good
Milagros
priest
by Virgin Mary strangles bad
priest
who wears
it.
1.
*Q551.8.9. Magic punishment for arson. Man who ordered burning of

Virgin Mary's church blinded. Cured after he orders its reconstruction. Cantigas 316.
*Q551.8.10. Magic punishment for damaging Virgin Mary's church. Man

kicking door breaks leg, loses senses and speech. Spends rest of life
147
able to utter only her name. Cantigas 317.

*Q551.9.2.1. Magic illness: Monk says he hopes he
if he has perjured himself. a.b.c. 235.
*Q551.9.3. Magic illness: plague visited on man
will suffer erysipelas
who
attacked saint.
a.h.c. 100.
*Q551.9.4. Magic illness: man who denied Jesus and Mary suffers internal bleeding and dies. a.b.c. 55.
*Q551.9.5. Magic illness: heretic denied Trinity and was struck dead by
three blows from angel, a.h.c. 169.
*Q551.9.6. Magic illness: man accuses wife unjusdy. She prays that God
send sign of innocence. Husband miraculously contracts leprosy. Lucanor Ex. 44.
*Q551.9.7. Magic illness: ghost of St. Gregory strikes mortal blow to

head of his successor who had spoken ill of him. a.b.c. 100.
*Q551.9.7.1. Magic illness: priest falls ill and dies after speaking ill of
saint, a.b.c. 100.
*Q551.9.8. Unrepentant sinner's body burned by invisible fires. Clothing

intact, body ravaged by punishing fire. Especulo 120.78-79.
*Q551.9.9. Punishment from otherworld: leprosy, erysipelas, and poverty.
Executors of usurer's will do not make restitution of his ill-gotten
wealth. Especulo 262.176-77.
Q552. Prodigious event as punishment.

Q552.1. Creditor in pursuit of poor debtor curses God and the Virgin Mary.
Is cleaved in two by lighming. a.b.c. 324.
Q552.1.7. Lightning bolt kills false accuser of saintly person. a.b.c. 158;
Tubach 3046.
*Q552. 1.7.1. Mother who lusted after own son, rejected, accuses him of
rape. Struck by lightning and burned to cinders, a.b.c. 158, 172; Tubach 2734.
*Q552.1.8.2. Blasphemer cleaved in two by lightning, a.b.c. 324; Tubach
680.
Q552.4.1. Voice of sheep comes from thiefs belly when bishop calls for an
admission of theft, a.b.c. 179; Tubach 4317.
*Q552.18.4. Bears and wolves miraculously appear to devour sheep of
cruel and unjust monks who have sent away charitable shepherd.
a.b.c. 143; Tubach 519; see Tubach p. 417 for 4088.
Q554. Mysterious visitation as punishment.
Q554.1. Punishment. Devil carries off thief who stole tithes from church.
Q554.1.1. Punishment. Charlemagne carried off to hell for having given
tithes to his knights. Especulo 172.115.
Q558. Mysterious death as punishment.
*Q558.4.1. Farmer, angered by storm that destroyed vineyard, curses,
raises knife to sky to harm God. Knife falls and cuts his throat.
Especulo 80.52.
Q559. Other miraculous punishments.

Q559.5.1 Birth of
148
child prevented until
woman
confesses slander. She
MOTIF INDEX OF
had accused
31;
cf.
436.330-
saint of fathering her child, a.b.c. 89; Especulo
Tubach 648, 1915.
Q559.5.2. Woman's hand withers as punishment for breaking oath to
God.
165.
a.b.c.
Q559.il. Heretic miraculously made to excrete his- entrails. Especulo

460.358-59; a.b.c. 187; Tubach 2534.
*Q559.12. Man who bared his rear parts to Jesus paralyzed except for
tongue leaving him able to say "Ave Maria." a.b.c. Al.
*Q559.13. Sailor, punished for scoffing at churchgoers, goes to tavern and
body swells to bursting point. Cured when prays to Virgin Mary.
Cantigas 244.
Q560. Punishments in
*Q560.2.4.
hell.
Nun condemned
that there
is
no
to eternal
damnation, returns to
respite in hell, a.b.c. 73;
cf.
tell sisters
Tubach 1188
a) 4.
*Q560.2.5. Saint would choose to go to hell over committing mortal sin.

Knows he would be released from hell if sinless. Especulo 450.34849.
*Q560.4. Sinner condemned
to serve eternally
as bathhouse attendant saved
by prayers of holy man. a.b.c. 372; Tubach 3685.

Q561.3. Seau heating in hell for sinners. If they do penance,
away. Especulo 455.353;
seat falls
Tubach 4216.
*Q563. 1 Usurer and his descendants punished in hell, ten generations who
had benefited arranged on a ladder. a.b.c. 385 (not in Paris MS).
.
*Q563.1.2. Bad Christians
in
even lower position in
had been redeemed and had not valued

Q566. Punishments by heat in hell.
their
hell
than Jews.
redemption.
They
a.b.c.
435.
"
*Q566.1. Sinner buried in church. Voice from grave says "I am burning.
Grave opened to find only shroud, a.b.c. 400.
*Q566.2. Angel tells saint that hellfire is hotter than earthly fire. Tells
listeners
earthly fire
is
like
a painting; hellfire
is
real.
Especulo
329.231.
*Q566.3. Fire
a.b.c.
404;
rises
from grave of sinner showing he was burning in
hell.
Tubach 2037.
*Q566.4. Man who deserted his usurer father and brother sees them roasting
in hell and blaming each other for their plight, a. b. c. 430; Tubach 5027.
*Q566.5. Lawyers bathe in special hell's fire. a.b.c. 12.
*Q566.6. Avaricious woman and her gold in her grave consumed by hell's
fires. a.b.c.
40.
*Q569.6. Soul wrenched from

off to hell. a.b.c. 293;
bodies with pitchforks by devil.
Soul carried
Tubach 4553.
*Q569.7. Hideous punishment of lecherous cleric. Cauldron of pitch and

sulphur; red-hot metal pans applied to body. Especulo 355.252-54.
Q570. Punishment and remission.
*Q570.2. Magic foul disease as punishment for persecution of Christians.
Remitted when persecution is ceased, a.b.c. 373; Tubach 4362.
Q571. Magic
blindness as
punishment remitted.
Woman
repents, a.b.c.
371.
49
Q578.
Spirit in hell freed from humiliating punishment as
dant. a.b.c. 372;
bathhouse atten-
Tubach 2534.
*Q578.1. Woman unable to give birth until she admits falsehood of accusing bishop of fathering the baby. Remitted when she confesses, a.b.c.
89, 285.
*Q578.2. Woman's arm withered for breaking vow not to work on feast
day. Repents and repeats her vow. Punishment is remitted. a.b.c.
165.
Q580. Punishment fitted to crime.

built a hollow metal bull as instrument of punishment to curry favor with ruler. Victims put inside and bull heated.
*Q581.1.1. Metalworker
Ruler insists that metalworker be first victim, a.b.c. 316; Tubach

3134.
Q582.9. King falls dead when he sees his sons whom he had never punished
killed in battle, îfar p. 83.
*Q583.5. Punishment for false
accusations.
Ghost of evil
man appears and
mutilates tongue. Especulo 61 .A6.
Q586. Son on gallows
bites his
mother's (father's) nose
off:
punishment
for
lack of discipline in youth. a.b.c. 338; Qifar pp. 82-83; Esopete pp.
112-13; Castigos 1.41; Glosa 2.2.2.130; Especulo 287.196-98; Tubach
3488.
*Q586.1. Father who raised dissolute sons punished. They will die before
his eyes, and then he will perish. Castigos 1.40.
Q588.1. Man cruel to his father, told by his own son that he will be mistreated thus in his old age. a.b.c. 337;
Tubach 2001.
*Q595.5. Loss of property as punishment. Merchant's cargo and vessels

lost at sea until he returns ill-gotten gains to church. Especulo 13.10.
*Q595.6. Loss of property as punishment. Pet monkey steals merchant's
ill-gotten gold coins and tosses them into the sea. Especulo 14.11.
*Q599.2. Unreasonable threat of punishment to cook, to baker, and to
host's wife to frighten guest. Esopete pp. 13-14.
*Q599.2.1. Gluttony punished. Three diners at saint's table pxmished.
Floor gives way under them injuring them badly. Especulo 1.4.
R.
CAPTIVES AND FUGITIVES

R0-R99. CAPTIVITY
RIO. Abduction.
Rl 1.2.1.1.
Soldier recognizes that evil emperor
is
devil's
and carry off their man. a.b.c. 114.

*R1 1.2.1.2. A rich man, greedy and avaricious, about
man. Devils come

to die,
asks for one
night's delay. Devils take soul in morning. a.b.c. 119, 357;
cf.
Tu-
bach 1643.
150
MOTIF INDEX OF
*R1
1.2.1.3. Devils carry off daughter
who abused
her mother,
336;
a.b.c.
Tubach 1442.
*R1 1.2.3. Devils carry off evil judge who had always prayed to Virgin
Mary. Throw him into boiling pit. Virgin rescues him. Cantigas 119;
cf.
Tubach 2852.
R12. Abduction by pirates.

R12.1. Princess abducted by
391-94.
pirates.
They
sell
her as
*R1 2.2.2. Holy man abducted by Moors. Ships caimot
slave.
Apolonio cc.
sail imtil
he
re-
is
leased. Cantigas 95.
*R12.5. Knight's wife abducted
in boat
by
sailors.
Qifar p. 27.
R13. Abduction by animal.
R 13. 1.2.
Lion
carries off child,
Rl 3. 1.5.1. Wolf
îfarp. 26.
carries off child
beside a stream. Ultramar II.2.254-
57.370-78.
R39. Abduction: miscellaneous.

*R39.3. Deacon carried off by enemy intent on
killing him. a.b.c. 295.

*R39.4. Princess abducted by Jupiter disguised as bull. Eustres mujeres
9.\5v-\6r (Europa).
*R39.5. Queen abducted by lover. Taken away in ship. Eustres mujeres
35.A\iÂ3v (Helen).
R45. Captivity in mound (cave, hollow,
R45.2. Imprisonment
in lion's den.
hill).
Lions show reverence for captive
(Daniel). Castigos 9.69-70.
R70. Behavior of captives.

*R81.2.
Woman
suckles imprisoned parent
denied food by
jailers. Eustres
(unknown young Roman woman);

173; Glosa 2.2.4.137-38; Tubach 3969.
mujeres 65.69r-70r
a.b.c.
171,
R100-R199. RESCUES
*R1 11.4.1. Young woman betrothed to a prince brought to Alexander (Africanus) for his use. He sends her back untouched to her betrothed
(Tercia Emilia). Eustres mujeres 74.78r-78v; a.b.c. 82, 83; Glosa
1.2.15.140;
R121.
Tubach 3971; cf Tubach
Means of rescue from
R121.6. Virgin
Mary
138.
prison.
(Santiago) enters prison, breaks devotee's fetters.
She
(he) departs without guards seeing him. Cantigas 83, 158, 176, 301,
325; Santiago 1.45-48, 11.73-74, 20.99-101; Tubach 2768.

Virgin Mary appears to captive Jew, shows him advantages of
Christianity. Freed, he enters monastery. Cantigas 85; Tubach 2768.
*R 12 1.6. 4. Virgin Mary appears to Christian captive of Moors; transports
*R 12 1.6. 3.
her (him) magically to homeland. Cantigas 325, 359.

Virgin Mary. Captive beaten by Moorish
captors, rescued magically without captors' knowledge. Cantigas 227.
*R1 21 .6.5. Rescue from prison by
*R 12 1.6. 6.
Rescue from prison by Virgin Mary. Captive tortured by capCrosses river without getting wet to reach monastery safely.
Cantigas 245.
tors.
*R121.6.7. Rescue from prison by Virgin Mary. Scholar imprisoned for

having raped a woman repents and composes a song in praise of Virgin. She frees him so that he will serve her for rest of life. Cantigas
291.
*R121.11. Captive interprets king's dream. Reward is his freedom and
that of all the other captives. a.b.c. 61; Tubach 1785.
*R 123.1. Captive prayed for release to Virgin Mary. Sees doors open, fetters broken, is able to flee Moorish prison. Cantigas 83; Tubach 926.
*R123.2. Prisoners promise to give money to church. Virgin Mary frees
them miraculously. Cantigas
*R 123.3.
106.
Troubadour imprisoned sings song for Virgin Mary. Finds himself
magically freed. Cantigas 363.
R130. Rescue of abandoned or lost persons.
Rl 3 1.1 0.2. Hermit
rescues seven
abandoned princelings
who had been nur-
tured by doe in desert. Ultramar 1.1.56.93-95.
R141. Rescue from well (body of water).

*R141.1. Virgin Mary
rescues royal falconers
from drowning.
Had
fallen
into water. Cantigas 243.
*R141.2. Fox rescued from well. Persuades wolf to descend into well in
one bucket, thereby rescuing fox in other. Esopete pp. 144-46; Disciplina 23; Gatos lA; Tubach 5247; cf. Tubach 2175.
R150. Rescuers.
R152.1. Wife (wives) rescues husband from prison by exchanging clothes
with him; she remains in prison; he leaves. Ilustres mujeres 29.36r-37z;
(Wives of the Minias); PCG 2.718.420-21; Abreviada 2.263; Castigos
MS A BNM 6559 77.209;
Glosa 2.1.8.42-43; Jardin p. 267;
Tubach
5328.
*R1 52. 1
Brother rescues
sister from brothel.
Exchanges clothes and takes
place. Jardin p. 258; Glosa 2.2.20.214.
*R152.1.2. Princess frees captive in exchange for promise of marriage. PCG

2.710.413; Abreviada 2.255; cf. Tubach 3811.
Rl 53.3.1. Father and son captured. One must die, and one must escape.
Father chooses to die. a.b.c. 339; Tubach 2005.
Rl 53.3.5. Fathers carry children on head to save them from flood, even
dying. Mothers stepped over and on children oying to escape to
safety. Castigos 5.55.
*R154.4. Son-in-law rescues father-in-law from
captivity.
Lucanor Ex.
25.
R165. Holy man rescues deacon. Captors have warned that he will die if
deacon flees. Holy man relies on God's protection. a.b.c. 295; Tubach 4153.
R165.1. Rescue of poor young woman. St. Nicholas tosses a golden apple
through poor man's window so that his daughter can marry and not
be sold into slavery. Castigos 7.62-63.
R165.2. Hanged youth saved miraculously by saint. Father returns after
three months to find son alive on gallows. Saved by Virgin Mary
(Santiago), a.b.c. 38; Santiago 5.56.61; Cantigas 175;
152
Tubach 3796.
MOTIF INDEX OF
*R167.1.
Monk who
left
monastery rescued from dragon
eating him. Calls for help. Other
monks
who
intends
rescue him, and he returns
to monastery. Especulo 53.31
R16S. Angels as rescuers.

*R168.1. Man hanging on edge o/ c/ij^ miraculously rescued by angel in
form of poor man with whom he had shared food. Especulo 245.16465.
*R168.2. Angel enters prison, breaks

37.174; Tubach 926.
R169. Other rescuers.
*R 169.0.1.
cliff.
saint's feturs,
and
frees
him. Castigos
Mary rescues Jewish woman who had been thrown off

promises conversion and devotion to Virgin. Cantigas
Virgin
Woman
107.
R169.6 Youth saved from death
sentence
by
father's friend. Esopete pp.
137-39; Tubach 2209.

*R169.15.1. Young woman rescued by pirates. Her would-be assassin
flees. Apolonio cc. 384-86.
R170. Rescue: miscellaneous motifs.
*R176.1. Executioner's arm miraculously frozen in midair. Condemned
holy man saved, a.b.c. 295.
*R176.2. Execution cancelled. King recognizes long-lost wife and sons.
Qifar pp. 55-56.
R200-R299.
ESCAPES AND PURSUITS

ox. Owner
Tubach 4596.
*R243.2. Deer rescued from hunters by

(eats him). Esopete p. 67;
S.
S0-S99.
MS A BNM
him
UNNATURAL CRUELTY
SIO. Cruel relative.

*S1 1.3.9. Father asked
would rather
spies him. Spares
leave
CRUEL RELATIVES
to leave child
them
all.
6559 13.118
with another for his pleasure says he
Draws sword and
(ADMYTE
kills
three. Castigos
52vy, Glosa 1.3.7.270.
to leave child with another for his pleasure, draws

sword and dismembers child, leaves the pieces. Castigos MS A
6559 13.118 (ADMYTE 52?;); Glosa 1.3.7.270.
*S11.8. Cruel Jewish father throws son in oven. Enraged because son went
to church and took communion, a.b.c. 269; Milagros 16; Cantigas 4;
*S11.3.10. Father asked
BNM
Tubach 2041.
*S1
1.9. Cruel
and
dissolute father seeks to corrupt son.
tance and leaves. Castigos 1.41-42;
*S 11.10. Cruel
sister.
Kills
Tubach
Son
gives
up
young brother, throws dismembered
inheri-
362.
parts in
53
path of pursuing father to delay him.

(Medea).
S12. Cruel mother.
SI 2.2. Cruel mother
kills
child
and
eats
it
Ilustres mujeres
\6.23r-23v
during siege of her
city.
PCG
1.135; Castigos 5.55; Abreviada 1.196.

*S 12.2.2.4. Cruel mothers step over and on children to escape flood. Castigos 5.55.
kills newborn babies, offspring of sexual union
with godfather. Cantigas 201.
*S12.2.5. Depressed mother plans to kill baby penetrating head with needle.
Virgin Mary intervenes; saves baby; woman enters religious order,
*S 12.2.4. Depressed mother
Cantigas 399.
SI 2.2.6. Mother shamed (maddened) by brutal violation by invading army

throws baby into sea. Ultramar III.4. 155.570.
*S1 2.3.1. Cruel mother. Has lover kill her child to prevent child's
revealing their secret. Talavera 1.24.117.
*S 12.3.2. Son-in-law killed by order of mother-in-law who lusted after

him. Cantigas 255.
SI 2.4. Cruel mother. Empress Irene ordered son's eyes taken out. a.b.c.
295 (not in Paris MS).
SI 2.4.1. Cruel mother. Kills children because husband has new love.
Ilustres mujeres \6.23r-23v (Medea).
SI 2.8. .(4// male children killed by Amazons or given to fathers (Marsepia
&
Lampedon).
Ilustres mujeres
11.17r-18r; Abreviada 1.467.
*S12.9. Queen mother kills all heirs

mujeres 49.56^>-58r (Athaliah).
to
throne so that she
can
rule. Ilustres
S20. Cruel children.

*S20.3. Children do great harm to mother. She curses them. a.b.c. 260.
*S21.6. Cruel son's victims are his father's servants. Father is told to yoke
young ox to old one to show how cruel son should be disciplined.
Esopete pp. 64-65.
521.7. Cruel son mistreats father. Told by his own son that he will be
mistreated thus in his old age. a.b.c. 337; Tubach 2001.
521.8. Cruel daughter. Soul is tormented because she had mistreated
mother. a.b.c. 336; Tubach 1440.

S22. Parricide.
*S22.4. Daughter suffocates father and
installs lover in house.
Talavera
1.24.117.
*S22.5. Royal son tortures father and then orders him killed. a.b.c. 416,
S60. Cruel spouse.
*S61. Amazon women kill surviving husbands so that no woman among
them be favored over others. Ilustres mujeres 11.17r-18r (Marsepia &
Lampedon).
S62. Cruel husband.
*S62.5. Husbands assault wives, leave them battered to die in woods,
w. 2697-2762; Abreviada 3.135.
S70. Other cruel relatives.
CMC
154
MOTIF INDEX OF
S73.3. King blinds his three brothers for plotting treason.

2.685.391; cf. Tubach 705.
S74. Cruel nephew. Kills uncle for his money.
a.b.c.
PCG 2.656.376,
120;
Tubach 5020.
S100-S199. REVOLTING MURDERS OR MUTILATIONS

SI 10. Murders.
*S1 10.0.1. Emperor orders death of seven thousand citizens as pimishment
6559 10.107-8;
for stoning of two officials. Castigos MS A
BNM
Tubach 1494.
*S1 10.0.2. King,
sobriety
told
by advisor that he drinks too much, demonstrates his
by shooting an arrow through heart of advisor's son. Castigos

6559 13.118; Glosa 1.3.7.270.
MS A BNM
*S1 10.0.3. Cruel king

Castigos
serves the flesh of his enemy's children to
MS A BNM
6559 13.118
(ADMYTE
52^;);
him.
Glosa
1.3.7.270-71.
*S1 10.6. Queen (Beronice) pursues killer of her sons, lancing him and running her chariot over his body. Ilustres mujeres ll.ldr-ltv.
*S110.7. Queen (Clytemnestra) tricks husband with shirt with no opening
for head. Once donned, he is blinded and handed over to assassins.
Ilustres mujeres
34.40^^-4 It*.
Sill. Murder by poison.

*S1 11.10. Husband, knowing his wife is inclined to be contrary, leaves her
two unguents. Warns her not to apply poisonous one but to use other
one. She disobeys and dies. Lucanor Ex. 27; cf Tubach 5277.
*S1 11.11. Husband wants to kill unfaithful wife. Tells her not to drink
poisoned wine (knowing she will disobey). She dies. Talavera
2.7.175; cf. Tubach 5277.
*S1 11.12. Husband wants to kill wife. Prepares a chest armed with a
crossbow. When opened, arrow will kill opener. Tells her not to open
chest, and she does. Talavera 2.1. Ill; cf. Tubach 5277.
SI 12. Burning to death. Man swears he will bum to death if accusation
of another's guilt is not true. Burned to death, a.b.c. 235.
*S112.8. Torturer who invented a machine to bum others is burned to
death in his own machine, a.b.c. 316; Tubach 3134.
*S1 13.2.4. Murder by suffocation. Daughter suffocates father so that she
and lover can live in his house. Talavera 1.24.117.
*S 113.3. Murder by drowning. Husband and wife quarrel over whether
she has a knife or a pair of scissors. Murderous husband kicks her
into river. She drowns shouting "scissors," using fingers to signal
"scissors." She dies. Talavera 2.7.178; cf. Tubach 5284, 5285.
*S1 13.4. Husband warns wife not to enter empty furnace (oven) (knowing
that she will disobey him). She does so, and it falls in upon her.
a.b.c. 307; Tubach 5277.
S139. Miscellaneous cruel murders.
*S 139.0.1. Cruel king uses courtier's son as living target. Shoots arrow at
boy to prove marksmanship. Castigos MS A
6559 13.118
BNM
(ADMYTE
52?;).
155
8139.2,2.1, Heads of slain enemies as
*S139.7, Cruel king has
Dish
is
served
(ADMYTE
to
PCG 742.440.
trophies.
courtier's children killed,
father,
Castigos
dismembered, and cooked.
MS A BNM
6559
13,118
52^;),
S140. Cruel abandonments and exposures.

*S 144,2, Infants abandoned in wilderness by compassionate executioner
who could not kill them, Ultramar 1,1,50,92,
*S 144,3, Newborn baby set adrift in chest in sea. Amadis 1,1,
SI 46. Abandonment in pit.

*S 146, 1,1, Abandonment in well. Thieves leave cleric in well who cried
out to Virgin Mary as he falls; he survives and is rescued by shepherds, Cantigas 102,
5160. Mutilations.
5161. Mutilation: cutting off of hands.
SI 61, Emperor severs hand of suspected traitor, a.b.c. 273,
*S 16 1,1, 2, Self-mutilation. Holy man severs offending hand, a.b.c. 273.
S163. Mutilation: cutting (tearing out) tongue.
SI 63, Wife bites off deceitful husband's tongue. Addresses now-mute mate:
"With this you will never speak to her again nor deceive another,"
Talavera 1.24,119,
*S 163,1, Punishment for false accusations. Ghost of evil man appears and
mutilates own tongue repeatedly, Especulo 67,46,
*S 163,2, Man (woman) bites off own tongue and spits it in torturer's face
rather than divulge names of co-conspirators, Ilustres mujeres 48,55v56z; (Leena); a.b.c. 376 (not in Paris MS); cf, Tubach 4911,
*S 163,2,1, Pythagorean virgin spits tongue in face of man who threatens her.
Jardin p, 251; Glosa 2,2,21,220,
*S1 63,3,
Man
king cut
it
bites off own
out, Castigos
tongue
and spits
it
in king's face rather
MS A BNM 6559
31,148;
Ghsa
than
let
1,2,14,134.
S169. Beheading.
*S 1 69, 1 Prince who had raped kinswoman is killed and beheaded, a. b. c. 62,
*S 169,2, Severed head. Caesar cried upon seeing Pompey's severed
,
head,
a.b.c. 66,
*S 169,3, Severed heads of seven
sons
Abreviada 2,287;
and
their tutor
displayed to father for
PCG
743,441,
*S 169,4, Victorious queen puts severed head of enemy in wineskin filled
with blood of her soldiers. He will now drink their blood, Ilustres
mujeres ^1 .5^v-55v (Tamires),
*S169,5, Wife brings severed head of captor who raped her to her husband
to repair her damaged honor, Ilustres mujeres 73,76t>-78r (Wife of Oridentification,
giaguntes).
Si 76. Mutilations: sex organs.

SI 76.1.
Woman cuts off penis of unfaithful lover.
ber: "Neither for yourself,
Addresses severed memnor for me, nor for another woman will
you serve," Talavera 1,24,118,

SI 77, Lecherous duchess physically abused by conqueror. Used her for one
156
MOTIF INDEX OF
handed her over to his soldiers for their use; disposed

impaled vaginally. a.b.c. 246; Tubach 1081.
of,
night;
S200-S299.
CRUEL SACRIFICES
5262. Periodic sacrifices to monster (enemy).

S262.2. One hundred maidens to be sent as tribute to enemy in exchange
for a promise of peace. PCG 2.629.329.
5263. Sacrifice to appease spirits (gods).
*S263.2.4. Man is willing to sacrifice son (throw him into an oven) to
enter monastery.
Son
saved, a.b.c. 109; Glosa 1.2.27.201;
Tubach
4476.
S300-S399.
ABANDONED OR MURDERED CHILDREN
S354. Abandoned infant (Oedipus) reared at strange king's

mujeres 23.29v-3Qr Qocasta).
T.
SEX
T(V-T99.
T24. The
T24.1.
court. Ilustres
LOVE
symptoms of love.
Love-sickness. Princess cured of love-sickness
by marriage with
beloved. Apolonio cc. 197-238.
*T24.9. Love-sickness. Man gives up his betrothed to friend whose sickness can only be cured by love. Disciplina 2; îfar pp. 9-1 1
*T24.10. Love-sickness. King sends his concubine to ailing prince, his
son, to cure him. Glosa 2.2.2.129.
T30. Lovers' meeting.
*T32.2. Lovers' meeting: man in woman's father's (brother's) prison. They
have child. Abreviada 2.282; cf. Tubach 3811.
T41. Communication of lovers.

T41.1. Communication of lovers through
hole
in
wall.
Ilustres
mujeres
12.18r-9t; (Thisbe).
*T4 1.3.1. Mantle
used as signal for rendezvous with lover used by serving-
man to deceive her. Calila

T51. Wooing by emissary.
p.
84; Exemplario 2)2v.
*T51.1.2. Go-between. Makes love with

ent. LBA cc. 113-21.
client's beloved; disappoints cli-
T53. Matchmakers.
*T53.4. 1
Virgin
Mary as matchmaker. Young couple plighted
troth;
wo-
man's father married her to rich man instead. Virgin saves her and
arranges that she marry her first love. Cantigas 135.
T55. Woman as wooer.
*T55.1.2. Princess gives prince horse and sword in exchange for promise
57
of marriage in his land. She will convert to Christianity. Abreviada

2.145.
*T55.1.3. Count's daughter helps her father's assassin in exchange for a
promise of marriage. Abreviada 2.275; PCG 730.427.
T61. Betrothal.
*T61.4.6. Betrothal arranged by king as "rogador." Prospective brides
v. 2080.
handed over by "manero."
*T69.6. Father gives daughter to man who desires her in exchange for
CMC
promise to provide
T80. Tragic love.
for her. Cantigas 195.
T81.8. Wife swallows hot coals because husband

6559 79.211; Glosa 2.1.10.51.
A
MS
is
unfaithful. Castigos
BNM
T93. Fate of disappointed lover.

*T93.3. 1 Queen Dido immolates self when consort abandons
ada 1.62.
.
her. Abrevi-
T100-T199. 2VIARRIAGE
T121. Unequal marriage.
*T121,3.2. Mysterious empress weds prince who visits her magic realm.
Interdiction: can never return if he should leave her realm, (îfar pp.
137-40.
*T 12 1.3. 3.
Knight marries queen of underwater realm. Interdiction: speech

with subjects of kingdom forbidden, îfar pp. 67-70.
*T122.4. King enters queen's bedchamber only after his men have
A
searched it. Castigos
6559 (ADMYTE S4v).
MS
BNM
T130. Marriage customs.
*T 13 1.1. 4. Woman
woman.
Castigos
advises
chaste
MS A BNM
maiden
6559
to
marry.
(ADMYTE
Angel rebukes
74v-75r).
T200-T299. MARRIED LIFE

T210. Faithfulness in marriage.
T21 1.1.2. Husband learns from augurs that if he saves self from serpent his
wife will die. Lets self be bitten to save wife. Castigos MS A
6559 78.210; Glosa 2.1.9.48.
*T211.1.5. Wife disobeys father's orders to kill new husband. Imprisoned
by father. Rustres mujeres \3.\9v-2lr (Hypermestra).
T211.2. Wife immolates self in husband's fioneral pyre. Castigos MS A
6559 77.209; Glosa 2.1.8.43.
*T2 11.2.3. Wife swallows hot coals because husband is dead. Ilustres
BNM
BNM
mujeres 82.84r-85r (Portia); Jardin p. 266.
on sword when wife dies. Castigos MS A BNM

6559 78.210; Glosa 2.1.9.48.
*T2 11.4.3. Widow ingests husband's ashes. Builds him a magnificent
tomb. Ilustres mujeres 55.62r-63z; (Artemesia); Jardin p. 261.
*T2 11.4.4. Wife sees husband's bloodstained clothes; fears he has died. She
T2 11.3.1. Husband falls
dies. Ilustres mujeres 81.83t^-84r Qulia); Glosa 2.1.10.50.
T215. Faithfulness of married couple in misfortune.
158
MOTIF INDEX OF
T215.4. Wife puts out one of her eyes in sympathy with her husband. He
has lost an eye in combat and is ashamed to return to her. She shows
that it makes no difference in her love. Lucanor Ex. 44.
6559
*T215.8.1. Wife follows husband into exile. Castigos MS A
BNM
77.209; Glosa 2.1.8.42 (Stdpicia).

*T215.8.2. Wife hides exiled husband at home pretending to
absence.
Ilustres mujeres
mourn
his
83.85r-85i' (Curia).
*T215.9. Faithful wife follows husband into battle rather than be separated
from him. Ilustres mujeres 100.101r-102r (Cenobia); Ilustres mujeres
(Hypsicratea);
78.80^^-81 ?;
Castigos
MS A BNM
Ilustres
6559 79.21
1;
mujeres
96.97t;-98r (Triaria);
Glosa 2.1.10.51-52.
*T215.9.1. Wife goes to battlefield in defiance of law to find husband's

body and to cremate it. Ilustres mujeres 21.?>Av-35v (Argia).
*T215.10. During prolonged absence of husband wife fasts. Eats no meat
and subsists on bread and water. Lucanor Ex. 44.
*T215.1 1. Conqueror refuses to let wives join husbands in captivity. Women
6559 78.210; Glosa 2.1.9. Al.
hang themselves. Castigos MS A
*T215.12. Wife throws self overboard to preserve her honor when hus-
BNM
band's ship
is
captured. Glosa 2.1.19.93-94.
T221. Woman's naivete proves her fidelity. Man is told he has bad breath
and rebukes wife for not having told him. She says she thought all
men had bad breath. a.b.c. 368; Tubach 775.
T222. Wife hides husband's unfaithfulness and even shelters his mistress
after his death; weds his lover to a man in her household. Ilustres
mujeres lA.l^r-l^v (Tercia Emilia); Castigos MS A BNM 6559
77.209; 2.1.8.42.
*T223. Wife unwilling to differ with husband agrees when he says horses
are cows. Lucanor Ex. 27.
T230. Faithlessness in marriage.
*T230.3. Adulteress is like cuckoo. Puts eggs in others' nests. Especulo
28.19.
*T231.6. The faithless widow. For love of a yoimg knight, grieving widow disinters her husband's corpse to conceal knight's neglect of duties. Esopete p. 64; Tubach 5262.
*T232.6. Widow, attracted to handsome beggar, invites him to dine. She
seduces him while he consents declaring his passive acquiescence to
exculpate himself. Esopete p. 165.
wife vows never to
*T238.1. Adulterous
not
his. a.b.c.
tell
husband which of
their sons
is
174.
T250. Characteristics of wives and husbands.

T251. lU-tempered wife.
*T251.0.4. King's favorite wife angered when he praises another. Hits him
with plate of rice. King orders her killed. Calila p. 280; Exemplario 72r.
T251.2. Taming the shrew. By outdoing his wife in disagreeable behavior, husband renders her docile and obedient. Kills dog, cat, and
horse when they disobey impossible
nor Ex. 35; Tubach 4354.
command
to fetch water. Luca-
59
T251.2.3.2. Husband tries to frighten wife into obedience. Kills rooster

when it disobeys impossible command to fetch water. She ignores
him because she knows he will not hurt her. Lucanor Ex. 35; Tubach
4354.
T252. The overbearing wife.

T252.2. Cock shows browbeaten husband how
wife.
to rule (serve sexually) his
Can rule many hens; man cannot even handle one woman.
Eso-
pete p. 167.
T254. The disobedient wife.

T254.1. Husband knows his
Warns her not
wife
is
inclined to be contrary, leaves her two
one but to use other one.

She disobeys and dies. Lucanor Ex. 27; cf. Tubach 5277.
T254.4. Husband wants to kill wife. Prepares a chest armed with a crossbow. When opened, arrow will kill opener. Tells her not to open
chest and she does. Talavera 2.1 .111; cf. Tubach 5277.
T254.5. Husband warns wife not to enter empty furnace (knowing that she
will disobey him). She does so and it falls in upon her. a.b.c. 307;
unguents.
to apply poisonous
Tubach 5277.
T254.6. Husband warns wife not to drink poisoned wine (knowing she will
disobey). She dies. Talavera 2.7.176; cf. Tubach 5277.
T255. 1 Husband and wife quarrel over whether she has a knife or a pair
of scissors. Murderous husband kicks her into river. She drowns
.
shouting "scissors," using fingers to signal "scissors."

that she will
win argimient with
river
and
She
survive.
Husband
jests
dies. Talavera
2.7.178-79; cf. Tubach 5285.

*T255.1.1. Husband and wife quarrel over whether bird is a thrush or a
throstle. Enraged, the husband breaks her arm. Their pilgrimage to
pray for a child was altered to a pilgrimage for a broken limb. Talavera 2.7.179; cf. Tubach 5285.
T257. Jealous wife or husband.

*T257.2.3. Jealous wife prays to Virgin Mary to harm her husband's lover. Virgin makes her see that devil made her wish ill to other woman.
Cantigas 68.
*T257.12. Jealous husband

protects her
tigas
when she
insists
wife prove her innocence. Virgin
leaps firom a high place
and
is
Mary
unharmed. Can-
341.
T261. The ungrateful wife.

*T261.2. King indulges wife's every whim. Creates "snowstorm" of almond blossoms, a "pond with muddy banks" firom perfumed water,
sugar, and spices. She is imgratefiil and complains of his inattention.
Lucanor Ex. 30.
T280. Other aspects of married life.
T284. Frightened wife shows marks of affection for husband. Joins husband
in bed for protection. This is so rare that husband is gratefiil to thief
who
fi^ghtened her. Calila p. 238; Exemplario 56r.
T299. Other aspects of married life: miscellaneous.

*T299.3. Young man rendered impotent after placing ring on finger of statue
160
MOTIF INDEX OF
of Venus consults magician.
He
is
to go to crossroads at certain hovir
moxmted woman followed by man (the devil).

Devil reads letter and sends for ring on finger of statue to return to
young man. Especulo 528.416-17; Tubach 4103; see T376.
and
give letters to
T300-T399. CHASTITY
T310. Celibacy and continence.
AND CELIBACY
*T310.2. Virgin Mary grants freedom from
man. He
lustful
lives chastely fireed fi:om his desires.
behavior to devoted
Cantigas 336;
Tubach
3098.
*T310.3. Warrior attains unusual strength xhiou^ chsisxivy Castigos 1.38;
Tubach 4656.
T311. Woman averse to marriage (sexual intercourse).
.
*T3 11.0.2. Woman's aversion to marriage motivated through promise to

Virgin Mary to remain chaste. Husband inflicts incurable wotind with
knife. Husband dies in fire; wife is cured by Virgin Mary. Cantigas
105; Tubach 3176.
*T3 11.0.3. Woman's promise to Virgin Mary to be chaste causes seducer
to
renounce
He
his sexual desires.
sends her to convent. Cantigas
Tubach 5142.
195;
*T3 11.0.4.
Elderly princess pledged to remain chaste obliged to wed and

produce heir to throne. Ilustres mujeres 103.104t>-1057; (Constancia).
T311.1. Princess flees to escape arranged marriage. Ultramar 1.1.81-82.
*T3 11.3.1. Beautiful young woman shuts self in tomb to save soul of
young man who desires her

2.2.20.215-16; Tubach 4894.
T3 14.1.
Father
kills
carnally.
daughter lest she
become
Especulo
482.380;
Glosa
the property of a wicked
tyrant. Ilustres mujeres 56.63^^-65r (Virginia); Jardin p. 256;
Tubach
3436.
T315. Continence in marriage.
T3 15.1.
Husband and
wife to be
for previous sin of
husband.
Marital continence by mutual agreement.
celibate for
two years
to
do penance
Qifar pp. 49-50.
T315.2. Marital
new
continence.
Bridegroom committed
San Alejo p. 70.
to celibacy gives
bride a ring and leaves her.
*T315.4. Husband and wife enter religious houses. Husband visits his wife
twice; she entices him, and they have two children. He confesses and
does penance of seven years. Especulo 390.286-87.
*T315.5. Husband and wife make vow of future chastity after God had
granted them a child. San Alejo p. 99.
T317.
The repression of lust.
*T317.1.1. Repression of
was suffering and
lustful thoughts
illness, a.b.c.
by
visiting places
where there
370.
*T317.1.2. Repression of lust by removing one's eyes to avoid temptation. a.b.c. 370.
T317.2. Desert monk who longs for wife he left behind advised to pray and
to do good works. a.b.c. 347.
161
*T3 17.2.1.
to gain
Lustful thoughts banished
God's pardon.
T317.4. Youth counseled
a.b.c.
to fast
by prayer. Young monk must
resist
326.
and pray
in
Tubach 1992.
Young man told to work to avoid
woods
to repress lust, a.h.c.
197; Especulo 4.5;
*T3 17.4.1.
sexual temptation. Especulo
90.61-62.
T317.6. Only abuse and cruel treatment from his fellow monks can conquer
monk's lust. a.b.c. 213; Tubach 3097.
*T317.7. Elderly monk learns that advanced age is no protection against
lust, a.b.c.
176.
*T317.8. Repression of
lust.
Pope
severs
hand
kissed
by woman. Re-
stored miraculously by Virgin Mary, a.b.c. 391; Cantigas 206;
cf.
Tubach 2419.
*T317.9. Husband judges wife to be unchaste because she looks at men
from her window. Kills her. a.b.c. 63.
T317.10. Sight of cock and hen provokes lustful thoughts in hermit. a.b.c.
127; LBA cc. 529-43; Tubach 2569.
T320. Escape from undesired lover.

T320.4. Woman escapes lust of king by shaming him. Leaves book of laws
condemning adultery where he will read it. Sendebar Day 1, Tale 1;
Lucanor Ex. 50.
T320.5. Beautiful young woman gives up wealth to escape lecherous emperor, a.b.c. 369.
*T326.4. Chastity preserved. Noble wife commits suicide rather than

submit to emperor's lustful desire, a.b.c. 190.
*T326.5. Chastity preserved. Noble wife leaps into fire with her two
young sons to save self and them from invaders. Jardin p. 261.
*T326.6. Saint, mother, sisters drown to maintain saint's chastity. Jardin
p. 257.
T327. Mutilation to repel lover.

T327. 1 Nun sends king her eyes because he had admired them and coveted
her, saying; "You wanted my eyes, take them." a.b.c. 370; Glosa
2.2.20.215; Tubach 4744 b).
*T327.3.1. Saint prays for a deformity to save her from marriage. Loses
sight in one eye. Especulo 92.63; Jardin p. 259.
*T327.4.1. Young women smear breasts with foul-smelling rotting chicken
.
flesh to escape rape, a.b.c. 246.
*T327.8.1.
Woman prays for deliverance from
emperor's desires.
Uses knife
483.380-
to disfigure face before meeting with his emissaries. Especulo
82r).
81; Glosa 2.2.20.215; Castigos MS A BNM 6559 (ADMYTE
T330. Anchorites under temptation.
T331.9. Celibate man yells "thief" to repel sexually aggressive woman.
When she comes to his bed, he screams. a.b.c. 177.
*T331.10. Bishop saved from temptation. Evil spirit banished by non-
believer
who made
sign of cross, a.b.c. 92.
*T331.1 1. Holy man refuses to see his mother in this life so that they
meet in the next. Especulo 391.287; Tubach 3418.
162
will
MOTIF INDEX OF
*T331.12. Holy man, forced
to
meet
his sister after fifty years
of separation,
and permits her to see him. Especulo 392.

T332. Man tempted by fiend in woman's shape.
T332. Monk, suffering from carnal desires, is tempted by devil in shape of
woman. He slapped her, pushed her off his lap, and she disappeared.
Foul smell lingered on hands for two years. a.b.c. 411.
*T332.2. Ascetic hermit tempted by woman who appeared at door of his
cave. When he forgets his vows and reaches for her, she disappears
and reappears as the devil who laughs at him. Castigos 37.177-78; cf.
closes his eyes
Tubach912.
T333.
Man
mutilates self or otherwise removes self from temp-
tation.
T333.2. Tempted man bums off his finger tips. An elderly monk was
tempted by the presence of a woman in his house. He burned his fingers in a candle's flame to distract himself. a.b.c. 253, 254;
4741.
*T333.2.2.
Man
tied to stake in
meadow
able to resist her he bites off his
is
tempted by
lustful
own tongue and
Tubach
woman. Un-
spits
it
at her.
Especulo 90'. 62.
T333.3. Handsome youth, troubled by temptation, used a knife to disfigure

his face so that he would not be admired by women, a.b.c. 370; Glosa
1.2.15.139; Castigos MS A
6559 (ADMYTE 82r).
T333.4. Virgin saves life of pilgrim who, at devil's instigation, had castrated
self to atone for sin of fornication. Offending organ not restored.
MUagros 8; Cantigas 26; Santiago 17.86-94; cf Tubach 3800.
*T333.6. To escape temptation: man crawls naked through thorns after
almost succumbing to carnal temptation. a.b.c. 251; Especulo 90.6162; Especulo 322^.225; Especulo 548.439; Tubach 4840.
*T333.7. Saint applies red-hot iron rod to body. Pain curbs sexual desires,
BNM
T334. 1 Monk
goes into desert to avoid temptation of women, the source

of sin. a.b.c. 306; cf Tubach 5366.
*T334.1.1. Philosopher retreats to countryside to avoid temptations of city.
a.b.c. 370.
.
*T334. 1.2.
him
Monk unable to endure temptation leaves
monastery. Angel
to stay in monastery. His nine years of suffering are his
tells
crown
and strength. Especulo 542.437.

*T334.1.3. Elderly monk was tempted in dream. His pupil directed seven
strong thoughts to him that he saw as seven crowns in dream, Especulo 543.437-38.
*T334.1.4. Abbot, tired of walking, sits down in a cucumber patch. Preoccupied by his thoughts steals (eats) a cucumber. Says that yielding
to temptation of theft is like yielding to carnal temptation. Especulo
544.438.
*T334.1.5. Saint puts foot in fire. If this pain is unendurable, how much
worse would be eternal pain of hell? Especulo 545.438.
*T334.1.6, Monk tormented by carnal desire asked for prayers of holy man.
63
Prayers do not help him. Holy

desires.
Monk must
resist.
man
sees
him
svirrounded by his
*T334.1,7, Monk asks why he is unable to free selffrom temptations. Told

that he has rid himself of temptation but has retained his desires.
Especulo 547.439.
*T334.1.8. Man unable to fight temptation goes to church and gives self
to
God. Especulo 548\439-40.
*T334.1.9.
Priest
must give up fornication. In exchange, pains are cured
by saint's prayers. Especulo 110.72.

T336. Sight or touch of woman as sin.
T336. Monk on his deathbed refuses to see woman he had loved before he
entered the order (wife before he entered order). He says: "Go away,
woman, because even a

393.288.
*T336.2.1. Holy
tiny flame can ignite straw." a.b.c. 396; Espe-
culo
from afar
a.b.c.
to see
man
will not allow
woman, even though
she has journeyed
him. Later hears that she has a fever and consoles her.
305.
*T336.2.2. Monk will not see his sister in fine clothes since sight of her is
sovirce of sin. Only when she dresses modestly will he see her. a. b. c.
299.
*T336.3. Monk wraps hands in cloths to keep from touching aged mother's
body as he carries her over a stream. Touch of all women is a source
of sin. a.b.c. 306; Especulo 394.289; Tubach 3419.
T338. Virtuous man seduced by women.

*T338.2. Celibate prince falls ill resisting father's pressure to experience
sex with a woman. Barlaam pp. 277-80.
*T338.4. Celibate prince's father replaces all his attendants with seductive
young women. Barlaam p. 264.
T360. Chastity and celibacy: miscellaneous.
T362.1. Abbess informed that bishop wished to visit her convent sent word
that she refused to look upon a man. Castigos 17.107.
T37 1 Youth who had never seen a woman: the Satans. Sheltered prince
shown all forms of human and animal life for first time was told that
young women are "devils" who deceive men. Asked what he liked
best, chose the "devils." Barlaam pp. 261-63.
*T371.2. Inexperienced young monk (never having seen a woman) is told
that women are goats. Obsessed by what he had seen through
window is unable to eat (meat) because he felt so sorry for the poor
.
goat. a.b.c. 300.
T376. Young man mistakenly betrothed to statue. Puts ring on finger of

statue of Virgin Mary. She closes finger over ring; later forbids him
the embraces of an earthly wife. Especulo 528.4416-17; Cantigas 42;
see T299.3.
T376.1. Canon previously pledged to Virgin Mary marries because of importvinities of family. Leaves his bride on wedding night to continue
to serve Virgin. Milagros 15; Cantigas 132.
164
MOTIF INDEX OF
*T376.2.2. Betrothed
a.b.c. 291.
woman flees
T400-T499. ILLICIT
to church,
choosing to be God's bride.
SEXUAL RELATIONS
sexual relations.
*T400.0.1. Princess has baby after secret marriage. Her brother, the king,
imprisons father of baby and sends her to convent. Abreviada 2.164.
*T400.0.2. Daughter, pregnant, thrown off cliff. Father of baby beheaded.
T400.
Illicit
Gfoâ 2.2.21.218-19.
*T400.0.3.
Vestal
Virgin has baby.
Punishment: buried
alive.
Glosa
2.2.21.219.
secretly delivered of her child by Virgin Mary.
Milagros 2\; Especulo 362.265-66; Cantigas 7.
T401.1. Pregnant abbess
*T401.2. Vestal Virgin falsely accused. Carries water in sieve without

spilling any to prove her virginity. Glosa 2.2.21.219.
T410. Incest.
T411. Father- daughter incest.
T4 11.1. Lecherous father. Unnatural father wants to marry his daughter.
Esopete p. 25.
*T41 1 .1.3. Royal father forces
himself on daughter. Sets unreasonable con-
ditions (riddle) for potential suitors so
he
will
not have to give her
up. Apolonio cc. 6-14.
T412. Mother-son incest.

T412.1. Widow guilty of incest with son forgiven by Virgin Mary.
a.b.c.
274; Cantigas 17.
*T412.5. Mother treats son as husband. Found in bed with son, thought
to be behaving incestuously. Lucanor Ex. 36; Qifar p. 55.
*T412.6. Mother importunes son sexually. Denied, she falsely accuses him
of trying to rape her. a.b.c. 172; Tubach 2734.
*T412.7. Queen justifies incestuous union with her son by passing law
allowing intrafamiliar unions.
bach 4224.
T415. Brother-sister incest.
*T415.8. Brother and sister have
poison. Virgin
Mary
Ilustres mujeres
three children.
cures her, and she
BNM 6559
363.286; Castigos MS A
*T415.9. Tamar raped by her
(ADMYTE
6r-8r (Semiramis);
Tu-
She kills them and takes

becomes nun. Especulo
82.216.
brother.
Castigos
MS A BNM
6559
80z;).
T417. Other incest.

*T417.2. Mother-in-law accused of sexual
relations with son-in-law. a.b.c.
272; Cantigas 255; Tubach 2737.

*T426. Noble accused of incest with relative. Servant to
candle for master, a.b.c. 166.
*T427. Young woman promised
to
Virgin
Mary
testify that
he held
has sexual relations with
Has three children by him. Cantigas 201.

*T427.1. Priest who had sex with goddaughter dies after seven days.
rises from grave consuming it totally. a.b.c. 404; Tubach 2037.
godfather.
Fire
165
T450. Prostitution and concubinage.

*T450.0.1. Queen, vain about her virtue, declares she would never surrender her body to a lover for wealth. Challenged with increasingly
large rewards, is at last tempted. Talavera 2.1.146-47.
*T451.1. Prostitute shamed by offer of sexual intercourse in public place.
Saint ofifers to have sex with her before a crowd. She refuses; then
how much more shame should she have before God? Especulo
350.250.
*T451.2. Aging
who
prostitute offers
young daughter
as substitute to procurer
462.361.
*T451.3. Whore cheats brothel keeper, not charging a favorite customer
for services. Brothel keeper tried to blow poison through a straw into
will arrange clients for her. Especulo
customer's nose. Customer sneezes, and she inhales poison. Calila

pp. 138-39.
T452. Bawds, professional go-betweens.

*T452.2. Procurer sets high price for first use of virgin captive. Subsequent
patrons pay less. Apolonio c. 401.
*T452.3. Go-between tricks woman into believing she will be transformed
into a dog if she does not accede to a man's sexual request. a.b.c. 234
(not in Paris
MS);
Disciplina 13; Sendebar
Day
4,
Tale 10; Tubach
661.
tricks woman into believing that sex with a client
her marital problem. Sendebar Day 5, Tale 13.
*T452.5. Go-between makes trouble between husband and wife: the hair
from his beard. Tells wife to increase her husband's love by cutting
a hair from his beard. Also tells husband that wife will try to cut his
*T452.4. Go-between
will solve
throat, a.b.c.
370 (not
in Paris
MS); Lucanor Ex.
42; Esopete pp.
149-51.
*T452.6. Would-be-lover employs go-between repeatedly. LBA cc. 77-81,
111-22, 580-891, 1332-1507, 1508-12, 1618-23.
*T459. Pious maiden convinced by go-between that God does not see what
we do at night. She consents to spend night with go-between's customer,
a.b.c.
108;
Tubach 1436.
*T459.1. "Prostitute gives great pleasure to men," says saint. Prays for
whore's soul but also prays for her own ability to please God as the
whore pleases men. Especulo 425.324.

T460. Other sexual practices.
T463. Homosexual love (male).
T464. King uses young man sexually, a.b.c. 341; Tubach 2598.
T466. Necrophilism: sexual intercourse with dead human body.
T466.1. Necrophilism: executioner struck by beauty of woman has intercourse with her after she
is
hanged. Talavera 1.24.117.
T470. Illicit sexual relations: miscellaneous.

T471. Rape and seduction.
*T471.0.2. Knight who had raped nun is captured when she miraculously
is movmted before him on his horse and holds reins tmtil he is taken
prisoner. Castigos 19.121-22.
166
MOTIF INDEX OF
*T471.0.3. Squire tries to rape woman who takes refuge in Virgin Mary's
church. Trying to kick in door, breaks leg, loses senses, speech, and
thereafter can only utter her name. Ends life as a beggar. Cantigas 317.
*T47 1.0.4. King rapes daughter of courtier. Father helps enemy to conquer realm to avenge the injury. PCG 1.554.307-8; Castigos 6.60;
Abreviada 2.101.
*T471.0.5. King sends woman's husband to batde in order to be able to
seduce her (See K978. Uriah letter). Sendebar Day 1, Tale 1; Lucanor
Ex. 50; Talavera 1.12.101-2; Tubach 1453.
*T471.0.6. Courtier rapes woman; threatens her with revealing secret. She
kills self to guard honor. Ilustres mujeres 46.527>-54t; (Lucrecia);
Jardin pp. 257-58; a.b.c. 62; Tubach 3095.
*T471.0.7. Captor rapes enemy's queen. Ransomed, she orders her soldiers to behead him. She presents head to husband to restore her
honor. Ilustres mujeres 13.1()v-l^r (Wife of Orgiaguntes).
*T472.1. Women of vanquished city given to conquerors. Two women

must perform all duties naked. Out gathering wood, one covers genitals with scrap of cloth. Other one accuses her of lascivious thoughts.
Accused, told to look to own thoughts. Calila p. 198; Exemplario 37r.
*T472.2. Young woman returns to ask lover to say mass for her. Their carnal desire was sin. He says mass and enters religious order. Especulo
353.251-52.
*T472.3. Magic sign shows lover is freed of torment. Black hair combings
secreted by dead lover turn white when she is freed. Especulo
353.251-52.
*T472.4. Husband and wife sin. Engage in sexual intercourse on holy
eve. Child conceived is possessed by devils. Virgin Mary drives them
away. Cantigas 115.
*T475.2.2. Incubus makes sleeping woman think she is having sexual intercourse, a.b.c. 116.
T481. Adultery.
*T481 .8. Woman

looks at other
husband accuses her of lustful behavior. She

through window, a.b.c. 63.
killed because
men
*T481.9. The husband locked out, excessive precautions to assure wife's

fidelity. Despite efforts, wife returns home late at night; her husband
refuses to admit her. She threatens to throw herself in the well. Husband leaves house to see if she has drowned. She enters the house
and bars him from house, a.b.c. 303; Disciplina 14; Talavera 2.1.147
n. 36; Tubach 5246; see K1511.
*T481.10. The cut-off nose. Carpenter's wife asks a barber's wife to take
her place while she goes to her lover. Carpenter speaks to wife's
friend, gets no answer and cuts off her nose. In the morning wife returns and still has nose. Husband made to believe it was restored
miraculously. Barber's wife, whose nose has been cut off when she
took friend's place, returns home. Her husband made to believe that
he has accidentally cut off her nose when he threw razor at her.
Calila pp. 139-41; Exemplario 14v-15r; see K1512.
167
1. The husband in the chicken house (dovecote). Husband returns

Esopete pp. 148-49; see K1514.1.
*T481.12. The husband's good eye treated so that lover can leave house
unseen (vintner), a.b.c. 161; Disciplina 9; Esopete pp. 147-48; cf.
*T481.1
Tubach 1943; see K1516.1.

*T481.13. The husband temporarily blinded so that lover can leave
unseen. Wife sprays his eyes with mother's milk. He hears noise; she
tells
him
it
the cat. Talavera 2.10.188;
is
cf.
Tubach 1943;
see
K1516.9.
*T481.14. Wife's lover under bed. Husband returns home. She has husband turn round to brush hair off his clothes. He hears lover leave;
she
tells
him
the cat. Talavera 2.10.188-89; see
it is
Husband
Kl 5 16. 1.2.
home. Wife
tips over
candle extinguishing it. Sends husband out for light. Talavera
2.10.189; see K1515.3.
*T481.16. Wife's lover behind curtains. Husband returns home. Wife
shows husband a new kettle she says has holes in it. Holds it in front
*T481.15. Wife's
lover under bed.
returns
Husband

K1516.8.
*T481.17. Two lovers are pursuer and fugitive. Wife is visited by two
lovers. When the husband arrives, one goes out with drawn sword
and the other hides in house. She convinces her husband that she
has given refuge to a fugitive. Sendebar Day 2, Tale 5; Tubach 4693;
seeK1517.1.
*T481.18. Wife entertains lover during husband's absence. Husband returns, and mother-in-law (guardian) counsels lover to pretend he is
fugitive from street ruffians. Disciplina 11; Esopete pp. 145-46; Tubach 4692; see Kl 5 17.2.
*T481.19. Husband returns while abbot is in house. Errant wife enlists aid
of friar who brings extra habit next day. Abbot escapes wearing friar's
habit. Sendebar Day 8, Tale 22; see K1517.6.
*T481.20. Wife outwits husband with extended sheet. Lover leaves house
unseen, a.b.c. 162; Esopete p. 148; Disciplina 10; Tubach 4319; see
of his eyesj slaps
it
loudly.
leave. Talavera 2.10.189; see
K1516.
*T481.21. The enchanted pear tree. Wife and lover are up in tree. Blind
Prayer is answered. Wife convinces cuckold that her adultery convinced Jupiter to grant his wish. Esopete
p.
147;
Tubach 3265;
see
K1518.
*T481.22. Wife,
in
bed with
lover,
knows
that
husband
is
hiding under
how much
she loves husband. Calila p. 241; Exemplario 51 r, Esopete p. 168; see Kl 532.1.
*T481.23. The marked cloth in the wife's room. A go-between obtains a
bed. Tells lover
woman
for a client
Husband
168
beats
by leaving
woman;
marked
she leaves and
is
cloth in
woman's house.
tricked into thinking that
MOTIF INDEX OF
sex with the go-between's client will help her solve her problem.
Go-between tells husband that she had left the cloth in his house,
and husband is deceived. Sendehar Day 5, Tale 13.

*T481.24. Husband unwittingly instrumental in wife's adultery. Greedy
husband supplies his wife to an inexperienced fat prince because he
believes him to be impotent. When the prince and the woman evidently enjoy each other, the husband kills himself Sendebar Day 4,
Tale 9.
*T481.25. Husband unwittingly instrumental in wife's adultery. Believes
that wife will spend night with god, Anubis, not with trickster posing
as god. a.b.c. 385; Tubach 4221.
*T481.26. Husband unwittingly instrumental in wife's adultery. Wife's
lover (an apothecary) has assistant who substitutes earth for needed
medicine. Wife returns with packet; tells husband she was run down
by a horse on way and lost money. Used a sieve to find missing
money and could not find it. Husband replaces money. Exemplario
28^.
*T481.27. Maidservant is go-between for knight who wants to seduce another's wife. Convinces wife to don magic slippers she cannot remove
sent by suitor. Cantigas 64.
*T481.28. Spanish count's wife runs off with French count. He follows her
to France and kills both offenders. Returns with severed heads. Abreviada 2.274-75.
T495. Humiliation or abuse.

*T495.1. Lover humiliated. Philosopher
ousness. In revenge,
woman
tricks
(Aristotle)
warns against uxori-
philosopher into letting her ride
him on all fours. Husband comes and

Tubach 328.
sees them. Talavera 1.17.99;
*T495.2. Lover humiliated. Virgil suspended in basket halfway up his

lover's tower; not permitted to ascend further. Seen by passersby.
LBA cc. 262-65; 1.17.100-1.
*T495.3. Lover humiliated. Man tricked into escaping firom a prison
tower to visit his lover. Enemies intercept the descent, catch him in
a net, and leave him suspended for all the world to see. Talavera
1.17.100-1.
*T495.4. Lecherous duchess physically abused by conqueror. Used her for

one night; handed her over to his soldiers for their use; disposed of
with a stick inserted vaginally until it reaches her upper body. a.b.c.
246;
Tubach 1081.
*T494.5.
Woman
must relight magic fires as punishment. Magician, in retreatment by woman, causes lights of the city to go
out. They can only be relighted from the genitals (naked body) of
the woman. None can be relighted until all have applied torches.
LBA cc. 261-68.
payment
for
ill
T500-T599.
CONCEPTION AND BIRTH
T510. Miraculous conceptions.
69
because of prayer. King and favorite wife have son after

prayer. Sendebar pp. 66-67; Cantigas 171; Tubach 971.
T526. Conception
much
T540. Miraculous birth.

T541. Birth from unusual part of body.
*T541.0.1. Birth from wound in mother's side. Pregnant
to aid of slain husband is cut with sword. Baby is
woman who goes
bom
as she dies.
Cantigas 184.
T547. Birth from virgin.

*T547.1. Birth from virgin. Divine intervention caused Mary to be impregnated and remain virgin. Angel explained to Joseph that Holy
Spirit had engendered Jesus. Estados 1.40.
T548. Birth obtained through magic or prayer.
*T548.1. Child bom in answer to prayer. Sendebar -p. 67; Cantigas 43; San
Alejo p. 68; Santiago 3.50-52;
T550. Monstrous births.

T551.2 Child bom with two
Tubach 971.
heads, each
one facing the other; two bodies
joined at chest (conjoined twins). Esopete p. 166.
*T551.2.1. Child bom with head on backwards. Punishment to Jewish

father who had denied Virgin and Jesus Christ. Cantigas 108.
T554,2.1. Woman gives birth to animal. Evil mother-in-law writes to absent son telling him his wife has given birth to seven hounds. Ultra-
mar
1.1.53.89.
T573. Short pregnancy.

*T573.2. Unusually short pregnancy. Enchantress
gives birth seven days
after conceiving child. Qifar p. 68.
T574. Prolonged pregnancy.

*T574.3. Woman accuses saint offathering her
until she confesses, a.b.c. 89, 285;
cf.
child.
Unable to give birth
Tubach 648, 1915.
T584. Parturition.
*T584.0.7. Jewish
twins
who
T586. 1 Many
.
woman
unable
to give birth,
prays
to Virgin
Mary. Has
are baptized. Cantigas 89.

children at one birth. Saint's wife,
birth to seven children,
all
rewarded by God, gives
of whom are saints themselves. Castigos
.39.
*T586.1.2. Seven children at one birth, each one wearing a golden chain.
Ultramar l.\.5Q. 81.
T586.3. Multiple birth believed to be result of sexual relations with several
men. Magical golden chains aroimd infants' necks proof that their
birth is divine. Woman exculpated. Ultramar 1.1.50.81, 1.1.61.106.
T590. Conception and birth: miscellaneous motifs.
T591. Sexual performance.

*T591.0.1. Impotence induced by magic. Lover is impotent in presence of
image of Virgin Mary. Moves to other house to complete sex act.
Cantigas 312.
*T591.0.2. Impotence induced by magic. Husband impotent with young
wife because he is faithfial to Virgin Mary. Cantigas 132.
*T591.0.3 Virgin Mary induces impotence in knight given to
lustfiil
be-
havior. Cantigas 137.
170
MOTIF INDEX OF
*T591.0.4. Climate (external temperature) at moment of conception

determines sex of baby. Ghsa 2.1.17.81; Jardin 1.9.186-87.
T600-T699.
CARE OF CHILDREN
T615. Supernatural growth.

T615.1. Precocious speech. Girl at age four appears to be fully grown.
Speaks as well as a person of ten or twelve years. Ultramar
1.1.110.230.
T617. Youth reared in ignorance of world.

in ignorance of world. Must go to spring in
40 days and pray for a wife. Disgusting, odoriferto him and tells him she is sin of lust. He returns to
*T617.0.1. Youth raised
woods and fast

ous hag comes
celibate
life,
for
a.b.c. 197.
*T617.3. Young, inexperienced monk, raised without ever having seen a

woman, is tempted by sight of one. Brother monk tells him she is a
goat. He cannot eat meat because of tenderness and pity he feels for
goat. a.b.c. 300.
*T617.4. Beautiful young captive woman sent to seduce celibate prince who
had not known women. He tries to convert her to Christianity. She
will become Christian if he spends one night in her bed. Barlaam pp.
270-72.
T640. Illegitimate children.
*T646.2. Illegitimate prince counseled to wear special garments to remind
self of both noble and base lineage. a.b.c. 189.
*T646.3. Illegitimate prince, unaware of fate of parents, reared by royal
uncle. Abreviada 2.164.
*T647.1. Crow's egg placed mischievously in stork's nest. When fledglings
recognize that chick is not one of them, they stone mother for adultery, a.b.c. 13.
*T647.2. Illegitimate offspring said to be unable to see magically invisible

cloth. Lucanor Ex. 32; cf Tubach 3577.
T6S0. Care of children: miscellaneous motifs.
T681.1. Each likes own children best. Owl mother sends hare to fetch
baby's shoes for a beauty contest. Tells hare to take shoes to the
most beautiful among all other contestants. Animals mock her. Gates
1; Esopete pp. 122-23; Tubach 4873.
U.
THE NATURE OF LIFE
U0-U99. LIFE'S INEQUITIES

UIO. Justice and injustice.
U11.2. He who steals much (Alexander)
little is
is
called pirate, a.b.c. 42; Castigos
Glosa 1.2.10.110-11;
Tubach
called king.
He who
MS A BNM
steals a
6559 31.147;
113.
*U11.3 Apparent
injustice.
hermit devoured by
Evil rich
lion.
man
buried with honors; pious
Angel explains that heavenly
justice will
Tubach 223.
rectify earthly injustice, a.b.c. 105; Especulo 51 1.404-5;
*U15.2. Saint prays for perfection. Voice tells him he never will achieve
the perfection of two saintiy women who live in city, a.b.c. 216;
U21. Justice depends on the point of view.
U21.4. Wolf objects to fox stealing rooster from him, although he himself is
a thief. LBA cc. 321-71.
*U2 1.4.1. Wolf accuses fox of theft. Ape judge says that wolf may not
have lost anything but that fox had stolen in past. They must watch
each other. Esopete p. 54.
U25. Theft to avoid starvation justified. Youth and sister rob graves to
avoid starving to death. Lucanor Ex. 47.
U30. Rights of the strong.
U31. Wolf unjustly accuses lamb and eats him. When all the lamb's defenses are good, the wolf asserts the right of the strong over the weak
(usually accused of stirring up water downstream). Esopete pp. 32-33;
Especulo 72.48;
U3 1.1.
Cat
Tubach 5334.
unjustly accuses cock
fenses are good, the cat
and
eats
him. Esopete
*U3 1.1.1. Dog
and
tells
eats him.
him
Although
that she can
all
the cock's de-
no longer go hungry
p. 110.
accuses sheep of taking bread. Esopete p. 34.
U31.2. Crow rides on sheep because sheep cannot prevent it. Esopete p. 79.
*U31.3. Hunter exercises his right of the strong over the horse when it fails
to run down deer. Horse will be saddled forever. Esopete pp. 77-78;
Tubach 2619.
*U31.4. Crow (hawk)
exercises rights
of the strong over dove (nightingale)
who cannot defend self. Dove at crow's request sings to save her brood,
but crow kills them because song was not good enough. Gatos 41;
Esopete pp. 62-63; Especulo 71.47-48; Tubach 4388.
*U31.5. Spider kills fly easily. Retreats to web when wasp approaches.
Gatos 52; Tubach 4569.
*U31.6. Tortoise treads on toad, injuring it. Gatos 54.
*U31.7. Pigs exercise rights of strong. Ants store wheat grains for future
use, and pigs come and eat them. Gatos 45.
U33. Cock is killed by its captor despite his plea of usefulness to man.
Esopete p. 110.
*U35.3. Defeated empress

Paris
turns wealth over to victor, a.b.c.
295 (not
in
MS).
unjustly strikes monk with footstool, bruising him badly.

Next day, monk asks permission to perform errands. Abbot begs his
pardon and monk throws himself to floor so that he can say that he
*U35.4. Abbot
bruised himself when he fell, a.b.c. 238.

*U45. Dog gives up bed to bitch that is about to whelp. She may keep
bed while puppies grow up. Later they help her drive owner off.
Esopete pp. 35-36;
172
Tubach
660.
MOTIF INDEX OF
U60. Wealth and poverty.
*U61 1 Saint calls poor masters. They are honored by God and can help
humankind enter heaven. Especulo 448.343.
*U62. Poor man with a single blanket to cover his feet, luckier than rich
people in hell whose feet are tormented in stocks. Especulo 445.342.
.
*U62.1. Abbot, previously rich, grateful he may now beg in God's name.
*U62.2. Rich man happy to live simply in monastery. His servant lives luxuriously. Reproached, servant replies that master has what he did not
have before, and he too now enjoys what he did not have before
Especulo 502.394.
*U72. Hermit hides money under pillow. When robbers enter, he throws
it to them so that he will fear robbery no longer. a.b.c. 355; Especulo
38.26;
*U72. 1
it
Tubach 3364;
Tubach 4810.
cf.
Socrates throws great quantity of gold in sea so that
before
drowns him.
it
a.b.c.
he can drown
355; Especulo 443.340; Glosa 1.1.7.36-
37; Tubach 2343, 3366.

*U72.2. Devil convinces gardener to accumulate sums of money to pay for
future medical treatment. Uses money to cure foot to no avail. Asks
God's pardon for having sirmed and foot is cured. a.b.c. 355; Tubach 2139.
THE NATURE OF UFE:

MISCELLANEOUS MOTIFS
U100-U299.
UllO. Appearances deceive.
*U1 11
Statue (mask)
is
beautiful to zoo// but
is
recognized as
lifeless.
Esopete p. 53.
U114. Mountain
in labor brings forth
a mouse (mole).
LBA
cc.
98-102;
Esopete p. 50.
Ul 19.3. Handsome appearance does not indicate beautiful soul. Angel holds
nose when handsome youth passes by just as he had done when
burying a rotting corpse. a.b.c. 351; Especulo 351.250-51; Tubach
2559.
Ul 19.4. An ugly face does not mean an ugly soul. Rustic refuses to believe
ugly man could be the holy man he sought, a.b.c. 320; Tubach 5016.
*U119.6. Bishop with red face wrongly judged to be drunkard. a.b.c.
157.
*U1 19.7.
Chests adorned with gold
and precious
stones contain putrefying re-
mains; chests containing royal treasures covered with pitch. Barlaam
pp. 56-58;
Tubach 967.
U120. Nature will show itself.

*U120.1 Flea bites man because
*U 120. 1.1.
Crow,
evil
it is
his nature. Esopete p. 113.
by nature, rides on sheep's back and annoys her.
Esopete p. 79.
U121. Like parent, like child.

U121.1. Crab walks sideways. Mother walks sideways. Esopete pp. 11920;
Tubach 1311.
173
U121.3. Farmer's son and

to
rustic
life;
Son of farmer takes

son takes to chivalric pursuits. Talavera
noble's reared in country.
noble's
1.18.108.
U121.4. Like father like son. Alleged son of king proved to be bastard
when he displayed habits of his true father. It is his nature to eat raw
meat,
a.b.c.
*U 12 1.5.1.
175;
member both
Tubach
Tubach 500.
Prince whose father was really the court baker advised to rehis royal
and
his
humble
189;
heritage. a.b.c.
cf.
500.
U 12 1.6.1. Horse behaves like an ass. Was nurtured with ass's milk. a.b.c.
313;
Tubach 2611.
*U 12 1.6. 2.
Sultan gives bread as a reward thereby acting like a baker, is

not sultan's son, but rather the son of a baker, a.b.c. 313; Tubach
500.
*U121.7. Countess determined that offspring should only be fed on her milk.
They will imbibe her nature with her mother's milk. Causes son who
accidentally had been fed by wemurse to vomit. Ultramar 1. 1 1 5 1 .300;
.
Tubach 3283.
U 122.0.1.
wife
is.
Butterfly visits flowering trees
Prefers dimghill to
all
and returns
to dunghill
other spots. Gates 30;
cf.
where
Tubach
3645.
U122.1. Beetles treated like oxen are tied to plow but do not accompany
man and oxen to vespers to worship (stop at cowpatch). Gates 33;
Tubach 1309.
raised in human household. Owner tries to keep it
companion animal. She runs off to join other wild goats grazing
in fields. His servants bring her back to house and kill other wild
goats. Barlaam pp. 156-57.
U127. Fawn (stag) in spite of his strong horns runs from dog. Esopete p. 63.
*U122.2. Young goat

as a
*U129.4. Virgin Mary helps people regain beehives stolen from church.
Thieves abandon them when pursued by justice. Cantigas 326.
*U 129.5. Evil and debauchery recognized by physical attributes: left eye
small and squinty, nose inclined to right, wide-set eyebrows, body
hair sprouts in threes, watches groimd while walking, shifty eyed. Calilap. 193.
*U129.6. Four youths
Each one obtains
it
accord-
ing to his nature: worker's son cuts wood; noble's son meets
woman
who
sent out for daily food.
becomes broker;
son is
chosen to reign. Calila pp. 323-34; Exemplario 83z>-86r.
U130. The power of habit.
*U130.2. Man given to sin of lust asked by saint to be chaste for three
days, then three days more, and three more. Finally man is accustomed to chaste living. Especule 103.68-69; Tubach 3906.
*U130.3 Ascetic so accustomed to fasting and penance foimd them to be
pleasurable. Especule 105.69-70.
*U 130. 3.1. Alexander the Great unable to refrain from accustomed sins.
supplies food; merchant's son
Especule 106.70;
174
Tubach
king's
101.
MOTIF INDEX OF
*U130.4. Heron asks eagle to carry him over the sea. Eagle refuses because
herons have habit of fouling the land wherever they go. Especulo
107.70]
Tubach 1828.
U131. Familiarity takes away fear.

*U133.2. Man used to foul odor of stables passed a spice shop and fainted
because he was unaccustomed to sweet smell. Cured by applications
of manure to nostrils, a.h.c. 323; Especulo 556.452; Tubach 3645.
U134. Knight doesn't want to go to heaven unless there are birds and
hvmting dogs there. Gatos 32.
U135. Longing for accustomed food and living.

*U135.3. Rustic becomes king and sickens on fancy foods. Cured by return
to accustomed diet, a.b.c. 384; cf. Tubach 3652.
U140. One person's food is another's poison.
U144. Nightingale cannot endure hoopoe's nest because of manure in nest.
Prefers singing and going from tree to tree all night. Gatos 42; Tubach 3475.
*U147.1. At lion's dinner party, flesh of other animals served. Pig
chooses not to attend; prefers eating acorns. Gatos 32; Tubach 3774.
*U147.2. Bees serve honey for dinner to beetles who eat very little. Beetles
invite bees and serve them animal dung. Bees do not eat. Gatos 34;
Tubach
554.
*U147.3. At lion's dinner party, a cat is honored guest so that rats and
moles are the fare. Other animals complain and leave. Gatos 37; Tubach 3059.
U160. Misfortune with oneself to blame hardest to bear.
U161. Eagle killed with arrow made with its own feather. LBA cc. 270-75.
*U161.1. Last series of rams to die at butcher's hand rebuke selves for
failure to escape when there was time. Esopete p. 76.
*U162. Tree cut down with axe for which it has furnished a handle. Esopete p. 65;
Tubach 444.
U180. In vino Veritas.

*U182. Thief in jail will not confess crime. Given wine and made drunk,
he tells truth. Especulo 203.141; Tubach 4789.
*U183. Man accuses wife of drunkenness. She accused him publicly of
murder. Proven guilty, he was hanged. Especulo 204.141-42; Tubach
5272.
U230. The nature of sin.

U230.0.1. Monk leaves monastery when he sees devil there tempting brethren. Returns when in the world he sees scores of devils tempting
people. a.b.c. 412; Tubach 3324; cf. Tubach 3336.
U231 1 Monk rebuked other monks for succumbing to temptation. Later he
too succumbs and finally understands power of sin. a.b.c. 410.
*U231 .2. Monk is proud he has turned away from sin. Wise elder tells him
to expose himself to sin and to grow strong in resisting it. a.b.c. 410.
*U233. Odor of sin is fouler than that of a rotting corpse. Handsome sinful
youth smells worse than corpse, a.b.c. 352; Especulo 351.250-51; Tubach 2559.
.
175
*U233. 1 Virgin Mary serves splendid meal that gives offfoul odor to sinner
who prays to her daily. Sins make his devoted prayers malodorous.
.
Especulo 352.251.
U235. Lying
Can be
is
incurable.
Nephew
is
lustful, gluttonous,
corrected, but not for lying, a.b.c. 284;
and a gambler.
Tubach 3102, 4053.
U236.1. False repentance of a kite. When sick, kite begs prayers from
mother but is reminded that when well had defiled altars and temples. Esopete p. 39;
Tubach 2933.
U260. Passage of time.
*U26 1.1. Time in purgatory more than a thousand times longer than time on
earth. Dead monk explains dying movements of body as torment in
purgatory. Especulo 490.386; Tubach 3378.
*U261 .2. Time in purgatory more than a thousand times longer than time on
Man given choice between two days in purgatory or two years

of illness. Chooses two days in purgatory but learns that time is longer there. Returns to body and suffers two years of illness. Especulo
491.386-87; Tubach 4001.
earth.
V.
V0-V99.
RELIGION
RELIGIOUS SERVICES
V20. Confession of sins.

V20.1. Sinners protected by confession. Devil carmot reveal identity of
wife's lover because lover had already confessed and been absolved.
a.b.c. 354; cf. Tubach 2800, 2804.
*V20.1.3. Archdeacon cannot confess. Holy man offers his soul as surety
for him. He prays, is able to confess, renounces his worldly possessions, and enters order. Especulo 126.83-84.
V21. Confession brings forgiveness. Hermit tempted by devil in human fe-
male form confesses and saves
*V2 1.0.1.
confess,
self.
Castigos 3)1.\11-1S.
Confession brings forgiveness. Conspirators suffer torments,
and are
forgiven. Milagros 17.
*V2 1.1.1. Good woman unable to confess because of shameful sin (incest)
Prayers of monks free her to confess, a.b.c. 133; cf. Tubach 2738.
*V21.1.2. Two women sinners confess and are forgiven. Angel declares
their pardon. Especulo 124.82-83.
V21.2. Mother-in-law commits incest with son-in-law. Murders him out of
fear of disclosure. Confesses and Virgin Mary saves her. a.b.c. 272;
Cantigas 255; Tubach 2737.
V21.4. Prior pardons sinning friar who has confessed. Hid bread and ate it
secretly. Especulo 121.81-82.
V21 .5. Sinner confesses desire before sirming carnally and is saved by confession. a.b.c. 71; Tubach 1161.
176
MOTIF INDEX OF
V21.6. Sinner's tear marks on written confession cause bishop to pardon him.
Sins were unusual so were shown to bishop who found that tears had
miraculously erased them. a.b.c. 72; Tubach 1202, 4421.
*V21.7. Count unable to enter church without confessing. Virgin Mary enables him to confess. Cantigas 217; cf. Tubach 1062.
*V21.8. Sinner's list of confessed sins weighed in moneychanger's balance
outweighs all his gold. Cantigas 305; cf. Tubach 1501 d).
*V21.9. Sinner leaves list of sins on Santiago's altar. Parchment is blank;
sins are absolved. Santiago 2.48-49.
V22. Condemnation because of death without confession.

*V22.1. Courtier refuses confession. Has been shown vision of slim book
of his good deeds and great book of his sins. Demons will carry him
off to hell. Especulo 127.84-85;
*V22.2. Sinner
told he has three
day indulging
culo 128.85;
*V22.3.
Tubach 1501
days
c).
he dies. Spends one

he has time to confess. Espe-
to confess before
in carnal sins. Dies before
Tubach 4076.
Woman reluctant to confess

Husband
to priests
who know
her part in her fath-
friars. She does

not and kills her three children and herself. Especulo 129.85-86.
*V22.4. Nun, too ashamed to confess sexual dalliance with knight, died.
Condenmed to hell, she appeared to her sisters in convent to warn
them. a.b.c. 73; Tubach 1188 a) 4.
er's death.
tells
her to confess to itinerant
V23. Miracle to permit confession.

*V23.3. Knight who built a chapel for
confess a mortal
sin.
Mary restored to
Tubach 2944 c) 1.
Virgin
Especulo 208.144;
life
to
*V23.4. Man, apparendy dead, showed signs of life before interment so that
priest could come and hear confession before he died, a.b.c. 198.
V24. Miraculous manifestation at confession.

*V24.2. Confession of adulterous deacon gives him power. His prayers
lieve
*V24.3.
re-
water shortage. Especulo 123.82.
Man
given silver spoon by devil confesses. Silver spoon
earth from above into his lap.
130.86;
He
gives
it
falls
to
to confessor. Especulo
Tubach 4575.
V29. Confession: miscellaneous motifs.

*V29.10. Queen confesses her adultery. Confessor miraculously able to
help her convince husband of fidelity. Returns lost ring to her. Especulo 125.83.
V30. Sacrament.
V33. 1.1. Doubt about sacramental transformation of Host is dispelled. Jesus'
body and blood appear on altar. a.b.c. 433; Tubach 2689.
V34. Miraculous working of the Host.
*V34.5. Dying man cannot accept Host; prayers transform it so that he
can swallow wafer; he is received by God. a.b.c. 154; Especulo
257.173; Tubach 2649; cf. Tubach 2671.
*V34.6. Corpse rejected by earth. Host applied and burial
is
completed.
77
*V34.7. Host held high by priest chases demons from church. Espiculo
252.171.
*V34.8. Priest celebrating mass sees Host in form of the Infant Jesus waving his arms and legs in air. Especulo 253.171-72; Tubach 2689 c).
*V34.9. Cleric who dropped the Host three days confesses and does penance. Fallen Host restored self as did wine in chalice. Especulo
454.352-53; cf. Tubach 2654, 2655.

*V34.10. Host applied to spider bite. Devil in form of spider bit overadorned woman. Abbot brings Host to banish it. Especulo 429.32526.
The
stolen sacrament.
V35.1. Friend brings Host to Jewish friend who promises to convert. Jew
throws it into pig trough where pigs will not disturb it. He repents
and is converted. Especulo 260.174; Tubach 2687.
V35.1.1. Horse kneels before sacrament that priest is taking to a sick man.
Youth misimderstands and tries to make horse rise. Especulo 255.172.
*V35.3. Thieves leave box that had contained stolen Host. Pigs kneel before
V35.
it.
Swineherd shows miracle to town and
priest restores
it
to
its
place. Especulo 256.172-73.
*V35.4.
Head
Woman
Host
steals
to
make
lover stay with her; hides
it
in coif.
bleeds. Cantigas 104.
V39. Sacrament: miscellaneous motifs.

V39.8 Dying man refuses to take sacrament. Goes
to hell, a.b.c. 153.
*V39.10. Ailing Jew offered Host, attacks it with knife. Blood flows from
Host, curing him. Repents and is converted. Especulo 259.174.
V40. Mass.
V4 1.1. Emperor trapped
in cave-in in silver mine kept alive a year by wife's

devotion to Virgin Mary and to masses. Cantigas 131; Tubach 3892.
V41.2. Hearing masses causes triumph in tournament. Knight devoted to
Virgin
Mary
stops
on way
to tourney to hear mass, never reaches
tourney, but attends miraculously in

ance. Especulo 232.155, 258.173;
*V4 1.2.1. Hearing masses
spirit.
Others praise his perform-
Tubach 4925.
causes knight to miss battle. Virgin
serves miraculously in his stead. Cantigas 63; Castigos
Mary
(angel)
MS A BNM
6559 4.94 (ADMYTE

127^13r); cf. Tubach 4925.
*V41.2.2. Stopping to hear mass causes falsely accused courtier to avoid
being burned to death in oven. His accuser burned instead. Cantigas
78; cf. Tubach 4925.
*V41.3. Mass said by priest cures pestilence. Farmer's family and stock
saved. Especulo 246.169.
*V41.4. Wife had masses said for husband in prison. Was freed. Especulo
247.169; Tubach 3893.
*V4 1.4.1. Prisoner chained cruelly miraculously released from chains at
tierce when mass was said for him. Especulo 249.170; Tubach 926.
*V41.5. Sailor drowning at sea saved by mass at moment it was said for
him. Magically supplied with bread (wafer). Especulo 251.170-71;
Tubach 4148.
178
MOTIF INDEX OF
*V42.1. Masses free soul trapped
m block of ice.
a.b.c. 28;
Tubach 2717.
V49. Mass: miscellaneous motifs.

V49.2. King goes hunting and does not attend mass at appointed hour.
Angel holds mass. King returns and tells priest to celebrate mass.
Priest refuses. a.b.c. 368 (not in Paris MS); Tubach 3228.
V50. Prayer.
Mary teaches her to pray more

more devoutly. Especulo 424.321; Tubach 438.
V52. Miraculous power of prayer.
V52.1. Prayers save lecher. He carries Gospel with him and prays to be
saved from lechery. Whores reject him because they see his potential
*V51.6.
Nun
prays too rapidly. Virgin
slowly and
salvation, a.b.c. 80.
*V52.1.1. Prayers of holy
must
man
do not save
temptation.
Monk
when battle goes

Tubach 3875.
badly.
monk from
also pray, a.b.c. 326.
V52.3. Prayers win
battle.
Military leader prays
and he prevails,
*V52.3.1. Christ's name uttered in
a.b.c. 32;
Soldiers rally
battle brings victory.
Enemy defeated by
Christians. Especulo 411.306-7.
*V52.3.2. Prayers
tory.
to Virgin
Mary
ensure raiders' success in Moorish
terri-
Victorious, they present her with precious cloth. Cantigas 374.
*V52.6.1. Priest swept overboard prays to Santiago and is tossed back on

ship miraculously. Saint appears amid waves. Santiago 8.66-68.
V52.10. Prayers free husband from prison. Coincident with moments of
prayer, he experienced sensations of freedom even while in
318;
jail.
a.b.c.
Tubach 3893.
*V52.16. Prayer cures gluttony. Monk prays and resists devil who tempts
him. a.b.c. Ill; Tubach 2304.
*V52. 17. Nun teaches young girl to pray to Virgin Mary using knuckles as
guide. Girl dies, and Virgin shows her to grieving nun. Her fingers
glow like precious gems. Especulo 377,276-77; Tubach 3915.
*V52.18. Prayer and work help man free cart from mud. He had despaired, but then God helped when he made effort. Especulo 408.304;
Tubach 3646.
*V52. 19. Even prayers not understood are efficacious. Simple friar's prayers
will protect him from demons even though the words confotmd him.
*V52. 19.1. Prayers best weapon against demons. Especulo 420.319.
*V52.20. Prayers to Virgin Mary expedite reward to illuminator of manuscripts. Royal letter of authorization delayed until Virgin intervenes.
Cantigas "ill
*V52.21. Woman prays that Virgin Mary show her her son. He appears
and answers her Benedictus fructus ventris tuy with "Well, I am he."
a.b.c.
280.
*V52.22. Sinner
troubled, enters church, prays,
and leaves protected by an
angel. a.b.c. 320.
*V52.23. Priest's prayers

bathhouse keeper for
condemned
Tubach 504.
relieve suffering
of spirit
eternity. a.b.c.
372;
to serve as
79
*V52.24. Prayers to Virgin Mary cause king to grant land. Supplicant

promises offering to Virgin. Cantigas 382.
V57. Purpose of prayer.
*V57.4. Holy man's prayer brings needed rain. Friars had prayed for rain
but not wholeheartedly. Especulo 423.320; a.b.c. 331; cf. Tubach 3885.
*V57.5. Prayers for child answered. Childless couple have baby. Sendebar
p. 67; Cantigas 43;
San
Alejo p. 68;
Tubach 971.
*V57.6. Bishop's prayers bring swarm of insects

Tubach 2754.
to defeat
enemy.
a.b.c.
332;
*V57.7. Prayers miraculously demolish a mountain. Captives, ordered to

move moimtain, recall Jesus's words about mustard seed and mountain. a.b.c. 170; Tubach 3424.
*V57.8. Saint's prayers free the emperor Trajan from hell. Especulo
160.109, 423^321; Tubach 2368.
*V57.9. Prayers to Virgin Mary cause king to grant land. Supplicant
promises offering to Virgin. Cantigas 382.
V60. Funeral
rites.
V64.1. Money placed in coffin of body cast overboard to ensure burial.

Apolonio c. 282.
V80. Religious services: miscellaneous.
V82. Circumcision to erase
original sin
and
as a
mark of difference from
others. Estados 43.
V85. Religious pilgrimages.

*V85.1. Man makes pilgrimage to Holy Land and follows via
Prayed to be able to follow Jesus to heaven. Prayer granted.
crucis.
a.b.c.
434; Tubach 3797.

*V85.2. Old woman falls ill on way to Holy Land and dies. Celestial light
descends, and she ascends to heaven. Especulo 143.98-99.
*V85.3. Sick man, fearful of purgatory, told to make pilgrimage. Dies and
goes directly to heaven. Especulo 144.99.
*V85.4. Returned pilgrim tells others not to make pilgrimage. Punished,
falls and bites own tongue off. Especulo 146.99-100.
*V85.5. Empress goes to Jerusalem seeking true cross. Finds three; tests
them; only one cures dying woman. Abreviada 1.346.
V86. Sign of the cross.
*V86.1.4. Sign of cross. Saint makes spring water safe from serpent with
sign of cross. Especulo 136.95-96; Tubach 1347.
*V86.1.5. Sign of cross. Saint makes sign of cross and wine glass
containing poison breaks and spills contents. Especulo 138.96.
*V86.1.6. Sign of cross. Saint makes sign of cross and creates an area
free of rain in a storm. Especulo 140.97.
*V86.1.7. Sign of cross. Apostate emperor protects self with sign of
cross. Especulo 145.99.
*V86.1.8. Sign of cross vanquishes evil magic skull. Enchanted skull

unable to speak in presence of sign of cross. Especulo 147.100.
*V86.1.9. Sign of
cross.
Magician protects
self
from
devils with sign of
cross. Especulo 148.100-1.
180
MOTIF INDEX OF
*V86.1.10. Sign of cross. Youth makes sign of cross to escape assemblage of devils. Especulo 149.101-2.
V86.2. Martyr with sign of cross and
inscription
on heart. "Jesus
my be-
is
loved." Especulo 29.21.
V100-V199.
*V101. Nails
them
RELIGIOUS EDIFICES AND OBJECTS
that pierced Jesus's hands
for bit for horse
and
and feet given
to emperor.
Uses
for helmet. Abreviada 1.346.
VI 10. Religious buildings.

VI 11. Churches.
VI 11.2. Stones for building church
miraculously found. Cantigas 358;
Tu-
bach 4638.
*V1 11.2.1. Wood for building church miraculously supplied by Virgin
Mary. Cantigas 356.
*V1 1 1 .4. Church protected by Virgin Mary. Attack by Moorish soldiers repelled. They are blinded and maimed. Cantigas 229.
*V111.5. Virgin Mary tells pope to build her church where it snows in
August. Cantigas 309.
VI 16.
*V1
Altars.
Mary
16.1. Virgin
insists
All other oils will not
that lamps on altars
bum.
bum
only pure olive
oil.
Cantigas 304.
V120. Images.
* VI 2 1.1. Impious image carved in marble turns black near
Mary and
image of Virgin
Son. Prayers restore marble. Cantigas 219.
VI 22.1. Image of Jesus descends from cross and wounds nun in cheek with
nail when she tries to leave convent to join lover. Castigos 19. 1 17-1 8.
*V122.2. Image of Virgin Mary prevents father from killing son's slayer.
Cantigas 201
VI 23. Image blamed by
supplicant for misfortune.
er's belongings, a.b.c.
436;
Did not keep
safe
own-
Tubach 2721.
VI 25.1. Woman
takes infant from statue of Virgin Mary because her own

being hanged. Cantigas 76.
VI 25.2. Realistic image of Virgin Mary convinces heretic that a virgin bore
a child. Cantigas 306.
son
is
V126. Image of saint speaks and acts.

*V126.1. Image of Jesus nods its head in approval to holy man.
a.b.c. 94;
Tubach 1375.
*V126.2. Image of Jesus speaks
to
monk who
embrace him and save him from the

tery.
is
devil.
leaving monastery. Will
Monk
retvims to
monas-
Gatos 43.
*V 126.3. Monk,
leaving monastery, salutes image of Virgin Mary. Devils

take his soul after he drowns in river. She saves him. Especulo
369.271-72.
*V 126.4. Image
of Virgin Mary and her Son to be washed in clear water.

Child, sick with scrofula, will be cured by drinking this water for five
days. Cantigas 321.
*V126.5. Image of Virgin Mary placed
in battlements turns
away
attackers.
Cantigas 187, 394.
*V126.6. King places image of Virgin
Mary
in church.
Cures
many
ill-
nesses. Cantigas 349.
V127. Image of deity in stone.

VI 27.1. Marble stone riven for church construction. Image of Virgin Mary
and child appear in riven stone. Cantigas 342.
V128. Motions of various kinds attributed to images.
VI 28. 1.1. Child offers food to image of Infant Jesus. Image responds: "Tomorrow you will eat with me in heaven," Cantigas 139.
*V128.3. Woman loses at dice and angrily throws stone at image of Virgin
Mary and child. Image raises arm to protect child. Statue resists restoration by painter. Cantigas 136; Tubach 5152.
*V1 28.3. 1 Woman loses at dice and angrily throws stone at image of Virgin
Mary. Figures of angels intercept stone and save image. Cantigas
.
294.
*V128.4.
Man
throws stone at statue of Virgin
reaches out to keep infant's
wounded
arm from
Mary and
falling.
Jesus. She
Blood flows from
statue. Cantigas 38.
*V128.5. Sinner's sins to be pardoned when image of Virgin Mary moves

from one side of church to the other. Image moves in response to
woman's
prayers. Cantigas 272.
*V128.6. Image of Virgin Mary causes
cloth in front
of her
to rise
and
descend. Cantigas 405.
*V129. Image of Virgin Mary wears sash characteristic of pregnant woman.

Sash moves miraculously to convince heretic that a virgin could give
birth. Cantigas 306.
*V129.1. Bishop moves image of Virgin Mary. Image repeatedly moves

back to original place. Cantigas 162.
*V 129.2. Roar of Virgin Mary's image causes earth tremors to protect
monk from prosecution for minting money illegally. Cantigas 164.
*V 129.3. Virgin Mary's image kisses hands of king dedicated to her. Acknowledges his gifts and songs to her. Cantigas 295.
*V129.4. Man, mute for two years, speaks in presence of splendid image
of Virgin Mary. Cantigas 324.
V130. Other sacred objects connected with worship.
V132. Holy water.
VI 32.2.1. Archbishop sprinkles holy water and removes mark placed on
man's face by the devil. a.b.c. 196.

*V1 32.2.2. Holy water unable to disperse demons who menace
citizens of besieged city
is
city.
Among
a fornicating priest. Especub 114.74.
V140. Sacred relics.

*V140.5. Relics of Virgin Mary preserved miraculously while others were
damaged. Cantigas 257.
VI 42. Devout possessor offalse relic (St. Augustine's finger) miraculously
receives authentic one through divine intervention, a.b.c. 103; Tubach 2029.
182
MOTIF INDEX OF
V200-V299.
*V205.2. Emperor insists on
V210. Religious founders.
family
desert.
in
(ADMYTE
*V2 11.1.8.5.
own
divinity. a.b.c.
Infant Jesus causes date palms to
*V2 11.1.8.4.
his
SACRED PERSONS
his
Castigos
360.
bend and give shade to

6559 31.145-46
MS A BNM
92v).
Infant Jesus tames dragons (serpents). Sends
way. Castigos
MS A BNM
6559 31.145
(ADMYTE
them on
their
91t;).
V211.2.1.1. Christ disguised as leper. Saint gives him his robes and takes
him to monastery. Rewarded. Especulo 301.209; cf Tubach 985.
*V21 1.2.4. Jesus Christ appears to bishop to reproach him for praying for
the destruction of sinners. a.b.c. 110.
Christ appears in dream to woman
*V2 11.5.2.
show him
hers.
who
could not confess.

Now she must
is cleaned after
open wound.
She awakens with bloody hand that
Tells her to touch his heart through
confession. Especulo 131.87.
*V21 1 .5.3.
culo
Christ appears to saint attacked by demons. Saint cured. Espe-
357.258-59.
*V21 1.5.4.
Christ appears to saint
who
erred in rejoicing over sins of an
enemy. Especulo 359.259-60.
*V2 11.5.5. Christ appears walking on water

Calms seas and winds. Castigos 7.64.
to save ship in stormy seas.
V220. Saints.
V221. Miraculous healing by saints.
V221.2. Saint restores dumb man's speech. Esopete p. 3.
V221.6. Santiago rewards pilgrimage of father. Sustains falsely accused
son on gallows until innocence is proved. a.b.c. 38; Santiago 5.56-61;
Tubach 3796.
*V221.13. Saint frees man's hand magically attached to sickle. Exacts
promise that man will never again work on saint's day. a.b.c. 164;
Cantigas 289, 396.
*V221.14. Saint's remains cure illness of pilgrims. Mute regains speech;

blind recover sight; and lepers cured. San Alejo p. 81.
V222. IVliraculous manifestation acclaims saint.
*V222.1.5. Unjustly vilified saint denied burial. Asks that body be placed
outside locked church doors. Magic wind blows doors open so that
he can be buried, a.b.c. 33; Tubach 2370.
*V222.6.2. Bell sounds to call saint for canonical hours. To escape vainglory, prays to God that only he be able to hear it. Especulo 293.202.
V222.8. Holy man's cell set afire. It bums, and he does not. Persecutors
throw him into a baker's oven. Next day he was alive and well
though his clothes had burned, a.b.c. 389.
V222. 15. Saint changes maggots in the sores of a nun into precious stones.
a.b.c.
342;
Tubach 2266.
*V222.17. Christ appears to Saint Francis and puts the marks of his crucifixion on his body (stigmata). Especulo 443.337.
V223. Saints have miraculous knowledge or powers.
83
*V223.7. Saint
for
Leaves spades
garden instead of rob-
anticipates arrival of robbers to his garden.
them and prepares
food.
They spade
his
bing him. a.b.c. 291.

*V223.8. Santiago saves ship of Christian pilgrims from Moorish attack.
Santiago 7.64-66.
V229. Saints: miscellaneous.
*V229.7.2. Knight promises a pilgrimage if Santiago helps to defeat Moors.
Promise not kept until he is reminded. Santiago 6.69-72.
*V229.7.3. Knight fleeing battle calls on Santiago for protection from pursuers. Promises to make pilgrimage. Santiago 15.79-81.
V230. Angels.
6559
V230.3. Angel and mortal (Jacob) struggle. Castigos MS A
BNM
87.223.
V231.5. Angel appears
to
woman
into marriage. Castigos
to
warn her not to force young woman

6559 18.132.
MS A BNM
V232. .\ngel as helper.

V232. 1.1. Angel appears and
helps
young prince to
slay treacherous tmcle.
Qifar pp. 79-80.
*V232. 1 .2. Angel as
helper.
Teaches through parable that work
is
prayer.
soul.
Angels
a.b.c. 7.
*V232.1.3. Angels and

prevail. a.b.c. 30;
devils ready to fight for
good abbot's
Tubach 1492.
*V232.1.4. Prophet arranges for army of angels
to
save king from enemy,
a.b.c. 58.
to holy man. Angel had
good man's platter; killed the good man's son; given platter
to an evil man. Good man had stolen platter; son had intended to
*V232.3.2. Angel reveals truth about divine justice

stolen a
man to be damned for possession of stolen

Tubach 2558.
*V232.3.3. Angel explains why sinful rich man is buried with honors, and
kill
father next day; evil
property, a.b.c. 230;
pious
monk
is
devoured ignobly by
lion. Evil will suffer in afterlife,
511.404; Tubach 223.

V232.8. Angel helps saint escape from prison. Castigos 37.174.
*V232. 1 1 Angel assures husband that devil had lied about his wife's fidelity.
good
will not. a.b.c. 105; Especulo
Explains she had sent ring to
him
as token.
San
Alejo p. 107.
*V232.12. King gives angels disguised as goldsmiths jewels and gold to

create a cross for the altar of his church.
PCG
2.616.349.
V235. Mortal visited by angel.

V235.3. Angel bars abbot from his cell because he has cast out a monk
who had sinned, a.b.c. 226.
*V235.3.1. Abbot visited by devil disguised as angel in vision. Told to
change rules in monastery. a.b.c. 4; Tubach 19.
*V235.3.2. Monk sees dark angels over heads of those who were to die.
a.b.c.
203;
Tubach 1468.
*V235.4. Saint
shelters freezing, starving beggar.
Christ. Especulo 303.210; cf
Beggar
is
angel sent by
Tubach 3653.
V246. Angel counsels mortal.
184
MOTIF INDEX OF
*V246.0.3. Angel appears in vision to king. He must interrupt journey,

sail to EphesuSj and tell his story at Diana's temple. Apolonio cc.
577-83.
V249. Angels: miscellaneous motifs.
*V249.3. Host of angels summoned by Virgin Mary appear to defend town
under attack by Moorish army. Cantigas 165, 395.
V250. Virgin Mary.

V251. Virgin Mary
V25 1.1.
ments.
He
a.b.c.
201.
delays death so as to save sinner's soul, a.b.c. 98.
Mary
brings man back from dead after he has seen hell's torhas thirty days to save his soul with prayers. Milagros 10;
Virgin
Sacristan had always honored Virgin Mary. He drowns without time for prayer and repentance. She resuscitates him so that he
*V25 1.1.1.
can die shriven. Milagros 2.

St. Peter and Virgin Mary
*V251.1.2.
him
tate
intercede for foolish sinner. Resusci-
to save his soul. Milagros 7.
Mary intercedes for sinner. His soul is

mend his ways. Cantigas 14.
*V251.3. Virgin Mary helps excommunicated man to restore
*V251.1.3. Virgin
return to
body
permitted to
to
self.
Cantigas
65.
V252.2. Virgin Mary saves woman responsible for murder of son-in-law

from fire at stake, a.b.c. 272.
*V252.2. 1 Virgin Mary saves calumniated wife from fire at stake. Cantigas
.
185.
*V252.3. Virgin Mary saves unjust banker who had sworn
money
*V252.3.1. Virgin
gas
falsely
about
in his keeping. Cantigas 239.
Mary saves
empress falsely accused of infidelity. Canti-
5.
*V252.4. Virgin Mary saves woman devoted to her from three suicide attempts. She dies and goes to heaven with angels. Cantigas 201; Tubach 4672.
*V252.5. Virgin Mary grants freedom from lustful behavior to devoted
man. He lives chastely freed from his desires. Cantigas 336; Tubach
3098.
*V252.6. Virgin Mary substitutes for woman whose husband has pledged her
to the devil.
83.216;
Devil
flees.
Cantigas 216; Castigos
MS A BNM
6559
Tubach 5115.
*V252.7. Moroccans sally forth against Abu Yusuf with insignia of Virgin
Mary to protect them; they defeat the invader. Cantigas 181.
V254. Efficacy of saying "Aves."
V254. 1.1. Virgin Mary supports robber on gallows. He said "Ave Maria"
often. Keeps him alive three days; persuades executioners to cut him
down, a.b.c. 48, 270; Cantigas 13; Milagros 6; Tubach 2235.
*V254. 1 .2. Nobleman says "Ave" while being dragged behind horse on way
to decapitation. Devotion to Virgin Mary saves him. a.b.c. 278.
*V254.1.3. Virgin Mary saves robber from hangman's rope and from the
knife. He had prayed to her daily. Unable to kill him, they free him.
85
a.b.c. 270; cf. Tubach 2235.

*V254.1.4. Virgin Mary cures leper
who had
said a
thousand "Aves."
Cantigas 93.
Mary saves greedy,
*V254.2.1. Virgin
ing his soul to
hell.
He had
evil
man from
devils
who
are carry-
always said "Ave Maria." Milagros 11.
V254.3.1. Blasphemer paralyzed
in all
tained to say "Ave." a.h.c. 47;
members save tongue. Power re-
Tubach 4904.
*V254.3.2. Gambler blasphemes upon losing at dice. Loses power of

speech; regains it after praying to Virgin Mary. Cantigas 1 63; cf. Tu-
bach 4904.
V254.7.1. Criminal who said "Ave" beheaded. Severed head
edly
"Ave Maria"
calls repeat-
(or Jesus Christ). a.b.c. 46; Especulo 30.21;
Tu-
bach 2482.
*V254.7.2. Thief, devoted to Virgin Mary, beheaded. Denied confessor,
severed head speaks until confessor comes, and he confesses. Especulo
367.270.
*V254.7.3. "Ave" appears on leaves of tree planted over grave of person
who said the prayer every day. a.b.c. 43; cf. Tubach 430.
*V254.7.4. Virgin Mary saves life of little boy carried off to sea in the surf.
Child, taught by mother to say "Ave," said it as he was carried away.
a.b.c. 282.
*V254.7.5. Virgin
Mary
prayers. Cantigas 71;
teaches
nun
to
say
"Ave Maria" to abbreviate
Tubach 438.
V254.8. Devil lives in household of robber baron devoted to Virgin Mary.

Awaits day he will not say "Ave" so that he can carry him off. Devil
faUs. a.b.c. 45, 266; Especulo 368.270-71; Tubach 1558.
*V254.8.2. Virgin Mary diverts stream from greedy knight's land to monastery land. Cantigas 48.
V255.
Virgin
Mary
has dissolute
monk
buried in consecrated ground. Mila-
gros 3.
V255.1. Virgin Mary causes flower
grow from mouth of dead devotee so

Tubach 2094.
V255.2. Virgin Mary gives private mass to devout woman unable to attend mass in chiorch. a.b.c. 265; Tubach 3218.
*V255.3. Virgin Mary intercedes for man who has died and gone to hell.
Resuscitated, he returns to earth to repent and to do penance, a.b.c.
that his grave
is
to
discovered. Milagros 3; Cantigas 24;
201.
*V255.4. Virgin Mary shows greedy cleric the value of humility. She blesses
poor old woman who is dying while cleric attends a rich man who is
besieged by devils. Cantigas 75.
*V255.4.1. Monk insists on rich foods and wine in monastery. Virgin
Mary offers taste of sacred lectuary to other monks. Cantigas 88.
*V255.5. Rosebush with five roses grows fi-om mouth of dead nun, reward
for five psalms to Virgin Mary. Cantigas 56; Tubach 437.
V256. Miraculous healing by Virgin Mary.

*V256.1.1. Virgin Mary cures chronic headaches of monk
ways prayed to her. a.b.c. 279; Tubach 2488.
186
(mm) who
al-
MOTIF INDEX OF
*V256.1.2. Virgin Mary's milk cures dying monk. Cantigas 54.

*V256. 1.2.1. Virgin Mary's milk cures sinful cleric given to seizvires. Angel
intervenes, and image produces milk miraculously. Cantigas 404.
Mary cures shepherd boy. Boy returns and awakens

from dream able to preach even though he was unlettered. Cantigas
*V256.1.3. Virgin
53.
Mary
*V256.1.4. Virgin
101, 234, 269.
*V256. 1 .4. 1
Mary cures
Virgin
man who
cures
blind
is
deaf and mute. Cantigas 69,
monk. In dream
Tubach 692.
Mary cures girl bom blind
is
promised he
will
see after mass. Cantigas 92;
*V256.1.4.2. Virgin
in response to
mother's
prayers. Cantigas 247.
*V256.1.4.3. Virgin Mary

wife's prayers punished.
tigas
Knight who scorned

cured because he prayed to Virgin. Can-
restores sight to scoffer.

Is
314.
*V256. 1 .4.4. Virgin Mary cures young man's blindness. Sight regained, he
vows to eat nothing but vegetables. Cantigas 338.
*V256.1.4.5. Virgin Mary cures blindness of man who had denied God and
praised devil. Cantigas 407.
*V256.1.5. Virgin
*V256. 1.5.1.
Mary cures paralyzed woman. Cantigas 77, 179, 268.

Mary cures woman whose face is distorted. Mouth so
Virgin
twisted she could not eat. Prays for nine days and
is
cured. Cantigas
357.
Virgin Mary cures woman afflicted with snake in her stomach.
After prayers, snake emerges from her mouth. Cantigas 368.
*V256. 1 .5.2.
*V256. 1.5.3. Virgin Mary cures man paralyzed (stroke) by blow to head
from falling stone during church construction. Cantigas 385.
*V256.1.5.4. Virgin
Mary
cures girl
whose feet were twisted and turned to
the rear. Cantigas 391.
*V256.1.6. Virgin Mary cures paralyzed man

grimage. Cantigas 166, 218, 263, 333.
who promised
Mary
woman
*V256.1.7. Virgin
Cantigas
*V256. 1.7.1.
cures
wounds of son of
to
make
pil-
devoted to her.
14.
Virgin
Mary pulls out arrow from squire's side. Cures wound.
Cantigas 408.
*V256.1.8. Virgin Mary cures young prince of mortal illness after queen
took him on pilgrimage to pray to Virgin. Cantigas 221.
*V256.1.9. Virgin Mary cures woman's blindness after vigil. She advises
blind man that he pray for sight also. Cantigas 278.
*V256.1.10. Virgin Mary cures twisted mouth and arm of man pvinished
for disrespect. Cantigas 293.
*V2 5 6.1.11.
Virgin Mary cures child vnth grain stalk germinating in

stomach. Stalk miraculously emerges from his left side. Cantigas 315.
*V256.1.12. Virgin
372, 393.
*V256.1.13. Virgin
and modest
Mary
Mary
cures child
cures child
(woman) with
rabies.
Cantigas 319,
whose parents promise a pilgrimage
offerings. Cantigas 389.
87
*V256.1.14. The Virgin Mary's relics cure blind goldsmith so he can replace chest that had contained them before fire. Cantigas 362.
*V256.1.15. King's mortal illness cured by Virgin Mary. Cantigas 235.
V256.3. The Virgin Mary restores severed hand to Saint John Damascene.
a.b.c. 273; Tubach 2419.
*V256.3.1 Holy man severs own hand because a woman had kissed it. Did
not celebrate mass. Virgin restored hand so he could celebrate mass.
a.b.c. 391; Tubach 2419.
V256.4. Virgin (Santiago) saves life of pilgrim who, at devil's instigation,
had castrated self to atone for sin of fornication. Offending organ not
.
restored. Milagros 8; Cantigas 26; Santiago 17.86-94.
*V256.4.1. Virgin Mary restores feet to

cause of pain. Cantigas 37.
man who had
severed
them be-
*V256.4.2. Virgin Mary heals man with kidney stones (gallstones) so that
he can continue to pray to her. Especulo 371.272; Cantigas 173; Tu-
bach 4632.
*V256.4.3. Virgin Mary cures leprosy of devoted pilgrim. In combat with
dragon, blood had transmitted disease. Cantigas 189.
*V256.4.4. Virgin Mary cures dropsical woman who prayed to her. Cantigas 308.
Mary
*V256.4.5. Virgin
Cantigas 346.
*V256.4.6. Virgin
Mary
cures
woman whose arm
cures king's illness.
swelled dangerously.
Swollen limbs are restored to
health. Cantigas 368.
V256.5. Virgin Mary defeats devils who want soul of drowning monk who
practiced lechery but always prayed to her. a.b.c. 267; Cantigas 111;
Tubach 5139.
*V256.5.1. Sacristan, who always had saluted image of Virgin Mary, was
tempted by devil. On his way he drowns, and he is restored to life because of his devotion. Milagros 2; cf. Tubach 5139.
*V256.5.1.1. Virgin Mary saves life of wife drowned in sack and thrown
into sea by husband. She confironts him in church, and they both go
on pilgrimage. Cantigas 287.

*V256.6. Carter
lost
Martial's disease.
oxteam
He put
in river
and
contracted St. Anton's
and
St.
diseased bone in church dedicated to Virgin
Mary. She tells him to replace bone and cures him. a.b.c. 164; Tubach 2139.
V256.6. 1. Virgin Mary cures devotees afflicted with erysipelas. Cantigas 81,
91.
*V257.
ly
ill.
Woman prays
to Virgin
Mary for baby. Baby is born but
is
death-
Virgin cures him. Cantigas 21.
*V257. 1 Assassins pray to Virgin Mary. They are punished with dreadful
skin diseases. She cures them. Cantigas 19.
*V257.2. Man with bone stuck in throat prays to Virgin Mary. As he prays
he coughs and expels bone. Cantigas 322.
*V257.3. Virgin Mary cures bandits who had robbed women who had
.
188
MOTIF INDEX OF
stopped to eat at a spring. They promise not to rob anymore. Cantigas 57.
Mary protects
thirty workmen building a church when tower

on them. Cantigas 364.
*V258.1. Virgin Mary saves child after he and his horse fall from high
bridge. Father had called out to her for help. Cantigas 337.
V261. 1 Virgin Mary enables unlettered priest to regain his office because of
*V258.
Virgin
and
collapses
falls
his faith. Miraculously sews bishop's vestment, a.b.c. 264;
Tubach
3231.
reproaches bishop who had denied vinlettered
mass. (He will die in thirty days.) Milagros 9;
Mary
*V261.1.1.1. Virgin
priest's right to say
Cantigas 32.
V261.2. Virgin Mary pardons man who repented for enlisting
devil's
help
in election to bishopric. a.b.c. 261.
*V261 .2. 1
Virgin
Mary selects simple parish priest
to
be
new bishop despite
his lack of learning. Milagros 13; Cantigas 87.
*V261.3. Virgin Mary protects widow accused of incestuous relations with

her son. Woman confesses sin and is absolved, a.b.c. 274; Tubach
2734.
*V261.3.1. Virgin Mary saves woman who had three sons by her broth6559 83.216; cf. Tubach 2728, 2729.
er. Castigos MS A
*V261.4. Knight leaves wife in care of Virgin Mary when he leaves for
BNM
battle. Cantigas 64.
V262.
Virgin
Mary
supplies
mead
(wine) for xmprepared hostess of the
king. Cantigas 23.
*V262.1. Virgin Mary sends mountain goats to monastery to be milked by

monks. Cantigas 52.
V264. Virgin Mary rescues devotees.
V264. Virgin Mary rescues drunken cleric who is attacked by devil disguised as a bull. Milagros 20;
Tubach 1812.
V264.1. Virgin Mary brings man pact he signed with devil and frees him
from devil's power, a.b.c. 261; Milagros 24; Cantigas 3; Especulo
361.264-65; Talavera 1.13.90; Castigos MS A
6559 82.215;
Tubach 3572.
*V264.1.1. Virgin Mary rescues greedy man from devils who are carrying
his soul to hell. He had always said "Ave Maria." Milagros 11.
*V264.1.2. Virgin rescues from falling a painter whose scaffold has been
removed by devil. a.b.c. 263; Tubach 3573.
*V264.2. Virgin Mary rescues pilgrim whose ship sinks at sea. Cantigas 33.
*V264.2.1. Virgin Mary saves woman whose ship sank. A sack of flour
serves her as raft to reach shore. Cantigas 37 1
*V264.3. Virgin Mary exchanges places with wife of man who had promised to deliver her to devil. Defeats devil. a.b.c. 268; Castigos MS A
6559 82.216; Tubach 5283.
*V264.3.1. Virgin Mary takes place of nun who had left convent to be
with lover so that her absence went unnoticed. Cantigas 94; Tubach
BNM
BNM
536.
189
*V264.2. Devotee of Virgin stops to pray. Delay foils ambush, a.b.c. 8;

Tubach 4925.
*V264.5. Pregnant woman caught in tides calls on Virgin Mary. She is rescued and comes ashore holding her baby. Milagros 19; Cantigas 86;
Tubach 4864.
*V264.6. Virgin Mary saves farmer wounded mortally by enemies of his
master. Cantigas 22.
*V264.7. Virgin Mary protects merchant thrown in sea by robbers. Despite

weight tied to body he surfaces and calls for help. Cantigas 193.
*V264.8. Virgin Mary protects minstrel waylaid by servants of host sent to
rob and kill him. Cantigas 194.
V265. Virgin Mary miraculously prevents nun from leaving convent to join
lover. a.b.c. 281; Cantigas 58, 59, 285; Castigos 19.118-20.
persuaded to leave monastery and marry. Virgin Mary
him to return to monastery, a.b.c. 271.
V268. Miracles performed under protection of Virgin Mary.
*V268. 1.1. Virgin Mary resuscitates boy killed and buried by Jew because
the boy sang "Gaude Maria." Cantigas 6.
V268.2. Virgin Mary restores life to drowned man who always had saluted
*V265.2.
Monk
convinces
her. Cantigas 11.
V268.3. Virgin Mary

a.b.c.
destroys
Moorish army besieging Constantinople.
275; Cantigas 28, 264;
Mary
*V268.3.1. Virgin
Tubach 349.
sends saintly warrior in battle to
kill
enemy of
Christians. Cantigas 15.
*V268.3.3. Moorish commander spares church because Virgin

it.
Mary protects
Cantigas 169.
*V268.3.4. Virgin Mary convinces Moorish leader to cede city to Christian

rule. Alcanate becomes Puerto de Sta. Maria. Cantigas 328.
V268.4. Virgin Mary saves shipwrecked sailor. Milagros 22; Tubach 4334.
Mary
*V268.4.1. Virgin
power
destroys devoted
to sail ship to safe port
and
woman's
abductors. Gives her
to dispose of corpses of
enemy.
Qifar p. 29.
*V268.4.2. Sailors call upon Virgin Mary during storm at night. She appears on mast and guides them to port. Cantigas 36.
*V268.4.3. Merchant calls upon Virgin Mary during storm at sea. Ship's
broken mast is restored; storm abates. Cantigas 172; Tubach 4649.
*V268.4.3.1. Cleric calls upon Virgin Mary during storm. Dove appears,
ship is illimiinated, and seas become calm. Cantigas 313.
*V268.4.4. Virgin Mary appears to guide lost pilgrims through mountains.
Cantigas 49.
*V268.4.5. Virgin Mary saves storm-tossed ship laden with grain. Sailors
had prayed to her. Cantigas 112; Tubach 4649.
*V268.4.5.1. Virgin
Within ten days
Mary
it
*V268.4.5.2. Virgin
calms sea and saves merchant's ship in storm.
arrives safely in port. Cantigas
Mary
261
saves sinking ship. Sailors bail out water,
and
three fish plug hole in ship bottom. Cantigas 339,
*V268.4.6. Virgin
190
Mary saves
mother and baby from shipwreck. She walks
MOTIF INDEX OF
on ocean waves to safety. Cantigas 236.

V268.5. Image of Virgin Mary works miracles.
*V268.5.1. Image of Virgin Mary keeps boy safe from fire after he is
thrown in oven by his father. a.b.c. 269; Milagros 16; Cantigas 4; Tu-
bach2041.
*V268.5.2. Moorish invaders defeated
when
they try to destroy image of
Virgin Mary. Cantigas 99.
*V268.6. Cleric prays to Virgin Mary. Saves friend from fierce bull running through streets. Cantigas 144.
*V268.7. Woman falling from great height calls upon Virgin Mary. She
lands unhurt. Cantigas 191.
*V268.8. Lightning
and bums
it to ground. Seated figure of

untouched. Milagros 14.
*V268.8.1. Monastery chapel bums, statue of Virgin Mary does not.
Virgin
Mary and
strikes
chapel
Jesus survives
fire
Cantigas 39.
*V268.8.2. Fire destroys church but does not bum relics of Virgin Mary.
Cantigas 35; cf Tubach 1054.
*V268.8.3. Virgin Mary saves monastery from boulder. Course of falling
boulder is diverted. Cantigas 113.
*V268.9. Virgin Mary gives youths extraordinary strength. Able to lift

marble slabs for construction of church. Cantigas 23 1
*V268.10. Virgin Mary opens closed church doors late at night for worshiper who had forgotten Sabbath. Opens town gates. Cantigas 246.
*V268.11. Virgin Mary intervenes in fight between sailors who battle before altar. Cantigas 248.
*V268.12. Thieves steal beehives given to church. Parishioners call upon

Virgin Mary. She sends a man who himts thieves down. Cantigas
326.
V276. Virgin Mary appears to erring person.

V276. 1 Virgin Mary, in unfinished garb, appears to erring cleric and urges
him to resume prayers that will complete her garments. a.b.c. 276;
.
Tubach 3913.
*V276. 1.1.
finished
Virgin
Mary
appears
to
monk fleeing monastery. She holds im-
garment he had begun
for her.
He
returns to monastery.
Cantigas 274.
V276.2. Virgin Mary appears and pardons young monk who has been too
overworked to pray to her. a.b.c. 277; Tubach 5129.
*V276.4. Virgin Mary causes great wind to open shutters closed against
vision of miraculously illuminated church.
Sinning cleric leaves mistress
and enters monastery. Cantigas 151.

*V276.5. Virgin Mary defends monk falsely accused of theft. Cantigas 151.
V277. Virgin Mary appears to devotee.
V277.1. Nun prayed that Virgin Mary would show her her son. She appears with infant who addresses nun. a.b.c. 280.
*V277.2. Young woman yearned for baby Jesus from early childhood. Rewarded for devotion, she accepts Host and accompanies Virgin Mary
to heaven. Cantigas 251.
*V277.3. Virgin Mary appears to knight given to sin. Brings him beautiful
platter filled with putrid matter to convince him to give up foul ways.
Cantigas 152.
*V277.4. Virgin Mary appears
woman
to
unwilling pilgrim to her shrine. Insincere
magically transported to
Cantigas 153.
altar.
V278. Virgin Mary appears to young girl. Promises her admission to

heaven if she gives up games, dancing, and diversion. Girl dies in
thirty days and goes to heaven, a.b.c. 85; Especulo 133.91-92; Cas6559 82.216-17; Glosa 2.2.21.220-21; Cantigas
tigos MS A
BNM
79;
Tubach
1424.
*V279. Lovelorn knight prays
to Virgin
Mary.
He pledges
self to
her and
forgets past love. Cantigas 16.
V290. Other sacred persons.

V292.3. St. Peter appears to martyred pope who had ordered that he not
be buried because of his having sinned. a.b.c. 193; Tubach 3851.
V300-V399. RELIGIOUS BELIEFS

V310. Particular dogmas.
V312. Belief in Virgin Birth. Divine intervention caused Mary to be impregnated and remain virgin. Angel explained to Joseph that Holy
Spirit had engendered Jesus. Estados 1.40.
*V312.3. Monk questions transubstantiation. Host transformed into bleeding flesh. a.b.c. 433;
Tubach 2689.
V316. Efficacy of prayer.

*V316.2. Saint
offers
prayers
to priest in
pain
in
exchange for promise
to
cease fornicating. Especulo 110.72.
*V316.3. Enmity between contemplative and active friars. Both serve God.
a.b.c. 329, 425; Tubach 5386.
*V316.3.1. One of two friars leaves monastery to live like the angels in the
desert. Returns, starving and bitten by flies and wasps, begging to
return. Permitted to enter only if he will work, a.b.c. 428; Especulo
341.242-43.
V320. Heretics.
*V324. Heretic king (Arian) orders death of Christian courtier who denied
his faith and became Arian to please king. a.b.c. 169.
*V324.1. Arian bishop, in bath, visited by angel who kills him. a.b.c.
169.
*V327.1. Heretic
is
the Infant Jesus
convinced of transubstantiation by actual appearance of

altar, offering him true body and blood. a.b.c.
on the
390.
*V329. Heretic made to excrete his own entrails, a.b.c. 187; Tubach 2534.
V330. Conversion from one religion to another.
V331.1. Conversion to Christianity by miracle of seeing blood flow firom
crucifix. a.b.c. 90, 91; Glosa 1.1.13.66-67; Tubach 1373.
V331.1.2. Conversion to Christianity through appearance of cross and
6559
A
host of angels in dream (Constantine) Castigos
10.107; PCG \. 3\(). 1^3-^6; Abreviada 1.339; Tubach 1218.
.
192
MS
BNM
MOTIF INDEX OF
*V331.1.5. Unpaid debt (money in stick) scattered on road. False debtor,

lying dead in road. Jewish creditor will not take repayment unless
dead man is resuscitated. He will accept baptism if miracle is performed. a.b.c. 234; Tubach 3352.
*V331.1.6.
Conversion
to
swayed by apparition of
Robbery victim and
Christianity.
St.
thieves
Nicholas. a.b.c. 436.
King gives half the realm to son

kingdom are converted. Finally
father is converted as well. Barlaam pp. 302-7.
*V33 1 .1.8. Conversion to Christianity. Virgin Mary frees Jew from captivity in thieves' lair. Shows him visions of hell and heaven. Cantigas 85.
*V331.1.9. Conversion to Christianity. Virgin Mary appears to Moorish
slave assaulted by devil. Will free him if he converts. Cantigas 192,
*V331.1.7. Conversion
who
is
to Christianity.
a Christian. Subjects in son's
397.
*V331.1.10. Conversion through miracle. Heretic conjures up devil to

cure a woman's infertility. Devil is vanquished when priest bearing
the Host passes by. Heretic is converted, a.b.c. 432.
*V33 1.1.11.
Conversion
to Christianity
through miracle. Generous man's
food supply miraculously replenished.
woman and
child (Virgin
Mary and
He
converts after mysterious
child) disappear without trace.
Cantigas 335.
*V331.1.12. Jew converted to Christianity when dead hero's hand is

raised against him. PCG 2.962.643.
*V331.1.13. Son of Moorish woman resuscitated by Virgin Mary. Mother
converts to Christianity. Cantigas 167.
V331.10. Conversion
to Christianity.
Pagan philosopher converted
after
disputation with young celibate prince. Barlaam p. 298; Estados 42.

V331.10.1. Conversion to Christianity because of goodness of saintly
monk. Pagan priest beats rude monk but admires

218; Tubach 1237.
*V331.10.2. Conversion
his teacher, a.b.c.
through admiration of happy

Good king sees happiness of
poorest of his subjects, a.b.c. 350; Barlaam pp. 134-39.
*V331.1 1. Conversion to Christianity. Moorish woman with small son in
arms appears on battlements of besieged city. Christians, moved by
resemblance to Virgin Mary, spare her. In gratitude she converts and
has son baptized. Cantigas 205.
V332. Baptism of pagan. Is told of Christ and is baptized. Barlaam p.
Christian
life
to
Christianity
in anticipation of heaven.
298.
V336. Conversion to Judaism.

V336. Nebuchadnezzar converted
to Judaism. Convinced by Daniel's

miraculous survival in hons' den. Castigos 9.69-70.
V340. Miracle manifested to nonbelievers.
V345. Dove flies out of mouth of monk who wants the daughter of a
pagan. Evidence that he has denied his God. a.b.c. 106; Tubach
1760.
*V345.1. God restores sight of monk, sightless for forty years, so that he
193
can preach to other monks. When he dies, his soul leaves body in
form of a dove, a.b.c. 27.
*V348. Miracle holds fast horses of oppressors. Horses cannot cross a
stream, a.b.c. 191;
Tubach 2636.
V350. Conflicts between religions.

V351. Debate to prove which religion
is
better.
Pagan philosopher acknow-
ledges that simple Christian bishop has convinced him. a.b.c. 250.
*V351.1.2. Debate between Christian and Jewish scholars. Emperor arranged debate to convert mother. Abreviada 1.344.
V352. Bishop wins debate with pagan philosophers miraculously. He orders
them in Jesus' name not to speak. They lose power of speech, a.b.c.
431; Tubach 4560.
*V352.2. Christian knight in pagan court accused of disloyalty (political
and religious) by envious courtiers, a.b.c. 215 (not in Paris MS).

*V353. Christians defeat foe who had tried to force them to worship sim.
a.b.c.
416.
V360. Christian traditions concerning Jews.

*V360. 1 Jew vanquishes devil by making sign of the cross. Saves saint
from sin. Is converted, a.b.c. 92.
*V360.2. King punishes steward who had robbed a Jew. King had promised safe conduct through a wood, a.b.c. 167; Tubach 2799.
*V360.3. Jew tells Christian his faith tells him he has right to take
belongings of non-Jews. Steals Christian's mule and reminds him of
.
202; Tubach 2796.

dead in road. Jewish creditor will not take repayment unless dead man is resuscitated. He will accept baptism if
miracle is performed, a.b.c. 234; Tubach 2793.
*V360.5. Bad Christians in even lower position in hell than Jews. They had
been redeemed and had not valued their redemption. a.b.c. 435.
previous warning,
*V360.4. False
a.b.c.
debtor, lying
V363. Jewish child thrown

vived by Virgin Mary,
2041.
*V363.1. Virgin
Mary
into
oven by father for taking communion; re269; Milagros 16; Cantigas 4; Tubach
a.b.c.
takes synagogue
and
turns
it
into church. Cantigas
27.
*V364.1. Jew
it
stabs statue of Jesus.
in well, a.b.c. 90;
Blood flows from wovmd; he throws
Tubach 1373.
*V364.2. Jew beats statue of St. Nicholas because it had not protected
house from thieves. Saint recovers goods; Jew converts. a.b.c. 436;
Tubach 3471.
*V364.3. Ailing Jew offered Host, attacks it with knife. Blood flows from
Host, curing him. Repents, and is converted. Especulo 259.174; Tu-
bach 2689
*V364.4. Jew
b).
steals
painted image of Virgin Mary.
Jew
dies,
and Christian
rescues image. Cantigas 34.
*V364.5. Jews
crucified
wax figure
of Jesus Christ. Cantigas 12; Milagro
18.
V380. Religious beliefs: miscellaneous.
194
MOTIF INDEX OF
V385. Roman
council will not include Jesus Christ in
preached poverty and had few followers,
a.b.c.
pantheon because he
349;
Tubach 1008.
V400-V499. RELIGIOUS VIRTUES

V400. Charity.
*V401. King grants all wishes of those who come to him. They must not
leave unhappy, a.b.c. 364; Tubach 1459.
V410. Charity rewarded.
V4 10.1.1. Poor man who shared the little he had was rewarded by the Virgin Mary when he died. Milagros 5.
*V411.2.1. Rich man gave fox furs to beggar. After he died, a religious
appeared wearing fiirs that have kept him warm and safe. Especulo
242.162-63.
V41 1.3.
Man
who had been charitable sinned by saving money against fuHas foot amputated. Restored miraculously when he confesses sin. Previous charity rewarded. a.b.c. 355; Tubach 2139.
*V4 11.3.1. Saint gives silver plate and contents to poor man. Hand that
ture illness.
gave charity is incorruptible forever. Especulo 237.160.

1.5. Wealth given away by saint restored. Meets a lad who produces
gold magically and gives it to him. Cantigas 145.
*V41 1 .5. 1 Merchant gives wealth to God because he will be rewarded hun-
*V41
dredfold.
Digs and finds gold worth three himdred
Especulo 244.164;
Tubach
silver
pounds.
176.
*V4 11.5.2. Saint gives all his money to poor. Others criticize him. Later
sack of money mysteriously left for him. Especulo 402.297.
V411.7. King gives clothes to leper and lifts him into his saddle. Leper
asks king to blow his nose for him. King does so and finds a huge
ruby in his hand. Leper disappears magically. Castigos 7.61-62; cf
Tubach 3489.
V41 1.8. Jesus appears to St. Martin when he gives cloak to beggar. Castigos 7.62; Tubach 3192.
*V4 11.10. Saint gave alms to all comers. One day Christ came seeking
alms. Saint's generosity rewarded. a.b.c. 136.
*V4 11.11. Angel

wreck;
is
appears
to saint
as
man who has lost everything in shiphim as his guardian angel. a.b.c.
given alms. Later comes to
137.
V412.1. Bread taken by
St.
Nicholas for purpose offeeding poor
is
miracu-
lously restored. Castigos 7.63.
V412.2. The more bread
(flour)
monks give
to poor,
the
more God places

Tubach
in their bins miraculously, a.b.c. 146, 147; Especulo 169.1 14;
766.
*V412.3. Charitable woman's bread dough magically replenished because

prayed to Virgin Mary. Cantigas 258.
*V412.4. Muslim converted to Christianity when he hears that charity will
be returned hundredfold in hereafter. His goods to revert to his children if promise not fulfilled. Grave opened and cadaver held letter
certifying that he had received his himdredfold reward. a.b.c. 283
95
MS); Tubach 176 a).

Steward accused of cheating his master
(not in Paris
V4 16.1.
is
absolved of
guilt.
He
had given the money to the poor, a.b.c. 145; cf. Tubach 4963,
*V417.1. Young man uses inherited wealth to feed starving populace. Rebuked, he replies that he had not put it where it could be stolen or
destroyed, but rather in a safe place that would benefit kingdom.
395;
a.b.c.
Tubach 4963.
carries burden of poor woman who joins party; gives mount

poor ailing pilgrim. Falls ill; Santiago defeats devils who try to capture his soul. Santiago 16.81-85.
*V418. Pilgrim
to
V420. Reward of the uncharitable.

*V421.1. Uncharitable rustic denied food to beggar. Coimcil of demons in
possession of his soul and of his food. Especulo 86.57-58.
*V423. Bears and wolves miraculously appear to devour sheep of cruel and
unjust monks who have sent away charitable shepherd, a.b.c. 143;
Tubach 4088, 519 (see Tubach p. 417 for 4088).
*V424. Usurer leaves wealth to friends and family. Leaves nothing for his
soul. Acknowledges the omission to priest, and then dies. Especulo
659.462-63; cf. Tubach 5050.
*V425. Alms given with harsh words shame recipient. Monk told to give
charity cheerfully. Especulo 395.291-92; Tubach 168.
V433. Charity of saints.

*V433.1. Learning that an impoverished man was planning to live off the
illicit earnings of his daughters, St. Nicholas tossed a golden apple
through the man's window so that his daughters could marry. Castigos 7.62-63.
V440. Other religious virtues.

V44 1 Forgiveness. Holy man forgives slayer of brother when asked in
the name of the Holy Cross, a.b.c. 94; Tubach 3438.
*V441,2. Pope convinces father of slain son to forgive killer. Says he had
seen father in devil's power. Will not be free until he can pardon
.
Especulo 506.398.
killer.
Killer of father of knight asks for forgiveness on

granted. Especulo 507.398-99.
*V441.3.
is
V450-V499.
*V452.
Woman who had
Good
Friday.
It
RELIGIOUS ORDERS
been betrothed
and wed fled
to
convent.
Granted
permission to take habit because she had left her earthly spouse.
a.b.c. 291.
V460. Clerical virtues and vices.
V461. Clerical virtues.
*V461.0.1. Bishop takes captive's place. a.b.c. 61; Tubach 4484.
V46 1.1. Obedient and industrious nun (thought to be mad by other nuns)
is the worthiest in the convent, a.b.c. 406; Tubach 3504.
V461.6. Monk lives where people speak ill of him to avoid danger of flattery, a.b.c. 49.
*V46 1.6.1. Abbot
196
behaves improperly to avoid worldly praise. Deceit for
MOTIF INDEX OF
good ends.
V461.7.
a.b.c. 5;
Tubach
13.
Clerical virtue of absolute faith.
God
confident that
Man
him
will protect
captxired
that he
is
by robbers
is
so
saved, a.b.c. 288;
Tubach 1961.
saintly virtue. Monk's sin not removed until he gives
up his "siete libras de moneda." a.b.c. 203; Tubach 4009.
*V461 .9. Saint neglects just once to give alms. Vows to never neglect duty
V461.8. Poverty a
again, a.b.c. 134.
*V461.10. Harmonious
living.
Two
elders try to create discord but can-
not. a.b.c. 249.
*V461.1
Old monk knows value of keeping one's own counsel and not
1.
talking senselessly. a.b.c. 335.
*V461.12. Preacher,
gives
it
away so
*V461.13. Novice
a.b.c. 31 A.
V462. Asceticism.
V462. 1
distracted
told that
Ascetic flees
maintained.
by thoughts of ass
tied
that he can pray. a.b.c. 327;
a.b.c.
a monk's
life is
an
like
man who wants to speak

387; Tubach 4372.
V462.1.1. Hermit laughs with joy because he
is
up outside of church,
Tubach
to
381.
ass's constant
him. Silence
alone;
is
work.
to
be
sadness comes
all
human contact, a.b.c. 403; cf. Tubach 2869.

*V4 62. 1.1.1. Monk counseled to stay in cell where he will
firom
learn
all
good
Tubach 3327.
*V462.1.1.2. Aged monk advised not to go to city for medical help because of danger of fornication. Goes and fathers a child. Returns to
things. a.b.c. 176;
monastery to
cell. a.b.c.
cf.
tell his
176;
brethren to avoid occasion of
sin.
Returns to
Tubach 3323.
*V462.2.4. Saintly ascetic flees house of rich man who has never suffered
deprivation. Earth opens up and swallows rich man's house and
family, a.b.c. 287;
*V462.2.5.
Monk
peripatetic ascetic
V462. 12.
Tubach 3938.
gives
up worldly comforts
monk,
a.b.c.
Monk prefers to live with
executed.
LBA
cc.
test
gets drunk, rapes
530-41;
cf.
monastery by example of
temptation since he considers
thening to have it ever present to

V465. Clerical vices.
V465. 1.1.1. Hermit
in
258.
him.
woman,
a.b.c.
410;
kills her,
it
streng-
Tubach 4736.
is
captured,
and
Tubach 2569.
*V465.1.1.5. Fire pours from throat of dead priest v/ho seduced the young
woman he had baptized, a.b.c. 404; Tubach 2037.
*V465.1.1.6. Monk (distracted by thoughts offornication) neglects duty to
pray, a.b.c. 326; Tubach 3906.
V465.1.2. Nun tempted into sinning with man. Go-between tells her God
cannot see what happens in the dark, a.b.c. 108; Tubach 1436.
V469. Conformity to divine will. Hermit told that water for garden granted by God; inappropriate seeds do not grow. a.b.c. 104; Tubach
5233.
V469. 1
Cleric rejoices in the fiery torments of the sinner
who had
converted
97
a Christian to Islam
110;
and of the convert. Jesus rebukes him,
a.b.c.
Tubach 3881.
V470. Clerical vows.

V475. Renunciation of clerical vows.
*V475.6. Christian deacon renounces vows and is killed by Arian king who
reproaches him for disloyalty, a.b.c. 169.
*V476. Pope put incense in receptacle for non-Christian idol. Repented, but
later martyred, body left without burial, a.b.c. 193; Tubach 3851.
*VA11. Two hermits leave desert and take wives. Return and are given
penance of a year on bread and water, a.b.c. 356; Tubach 3336.
*WA11. 1 Monk leaves monastery because devil is there. Goes to city and
sees more devils. Returns to monastery. a.b.c. 412; Tubach 3329.
*V478. Canon previously pledged to Virgin Mary marries because of importimities of family. Leaves his bride on wedding night to continue
to serve Virgin. Milagros 15; San Alejo p. 70; cf. Tubach 5148.
.
V500-V599. RELIGIOUS
V510. Religious visions.
MOTIFS: 2VUSCELLANEOUS
*V510.3. Virgin Mary grants vision to devoted woman. After nine days
of prayer, she is rewarded and is carried off to heaven. Cantigas 262;
Tubach 5123.
*V510.4. Virgin Mary and chorus of angels appear to pilgrim. Dies and
goes straight to heaven. Cantigas 288.
*V510.5. San Fernando appears in dream vision. Says that ring placed on
finger of his statue be placed on finger of statue of the Virgin Mary.
Cantigas 292; cf. Tubach 4103.
*V510.6. Virgin Mary appears in dream three times. Member of religious
order must give king the seal of his order. Cantigas 299.
*V510.7. Virgin Mary appears in dream to doubting monk. Sees a soul

being carried to heaven. Cantigas 365; cf. Tubach 4235.
*V510.8. Virgin Mary appears in dream to sacristan. He must seek out
holy man and permit him to enter the church. San Alejo p. 73.
*V510.9. Angel appears to hero to predict fiiture trivmiphs. CMC w.
405-9.
*V510.10. Saint appears to aging hero. He will defeat enemy after his
death. PCG 2.952.633-34.
V511. Visions of the other world.
V5 11.1. Vision of heaven, locus amoenus, golden chairs, glorious people;
resplendent city peopled by saints. Barlaam pp. 275-76.
*V5 11.1.3. Canon
hears magical bird song. Experiences joys of paradise.
Especulo 292.202;
*V51 1.1.4. Hermit's
Tubach 3378.
soul will leave body accompanied by
David and heav-
enly musicians, a.b.c. 293.
*V5 11.1.5. In vision nun sees

Queen of heaven gives her a
(ADMYTE
198
13^^-14r);
cf.
remarkable temple with glorious people.

6559 4.95
candle. Castigos
Tubach
MS A BNM
847.
MOTIF INDEX OF
*V51 1.2. Dying man's
soul seen in hell
He
capable of prophecy.
Lucanor Ex. 40.
*V5 11.2.1. Monk, near
is
by
diabolically possessed
woman
there because his piety was insincere.
death, rescued from eternal hellfire by angel. Soul
returns. a.b.c. 200,
*V5 11.2.1.1. Monk travels to hell to see those in torment. Sees a monk
whose sin was daily drvmkenness. Especulo 196.137.
*V5 11.2.1.2. Blacksmith in monastery neglects his religious duties. Sees
place in hell reserved for him. Especulo 230.153-54
*V5 11.2.2.1. Man sees torments of hell,

tells him to repent. Especulo 332.23.
V5 11.2.3. Woman
sees
many
acquaintances. Voice
of mother suffering in hell for past sins.

of her father who is in heaven as model. a.b.c.
sees vision
Chooses the good
life
426; Tubach 1450.

*V2 11.2.3.1. Priest's soul seen in hell's torment. Especulo 109.72.
*V51 1.2.4. Vision of Nero in hell bidding a band of lawyers to join him
in bathing in hell's
fire, a.b.c.
12; Especulo 88.61.
*V5 11.2.6. Nun condemned to eternal damnation, returns to tell sisters

that there is no respite in hell, a.b.c. 73; Tubach 1188 a) 4.
*V51 1.2.6.1. Devil punishes young woman who loves to dance. Returns to
tell
of hell's torments; she must dance there forever. Especulo 134.92;
Tubach 1415.
*V5 11.2.7. Man
returns from torments of hell determined to do good

works. Reproached because he bathed naked in icy waters, retorted:
"Leave off, for I have seen worse." a.b.c. 201.

*V51 1.2.8. Virgin Mary shows torments of hell to sinners
in
dream
visions.
Cantigas 58, 85.
*V51 1.2.9. Angels
have forgotten. Especulo 191.131.

V515. Allegorical visions.
V515.4. Constantine sees vision of cross
W. TRAITS OF
PCG
in sky after baptism.
IS3-86; Abreviada 1.339; Glosa 1.1.13.66-67; Castigos

6559 (ADMYTE 34r); Tubach 1218.
1. 31 6.
BN
must
he may
take dying saint to heaven, but voice says he first
see vileness of devils so that he can confess even small sins
MS A
CHARACTER
W0-W99. FAVORABLE TRAITS OF
CHARACTER
WIO. Kindness.
Wll. Generosity.
Wl 1.2.1.
a.b.c.
Emperor thinks day
364; Castigos
Glosa 1.2.18.161;
is
wasted
when he has not
given any
MS A BNM 6559 42.166.97 (ADMYTE
gifts.
55^;);
Tubach 1459.
99
*W 11.2.3.
shelter
King
on
own
clothes,
and
major portion of income
to poor.
God
increases his
to beg.
Supply mir-
gives ragged beggar his
his horse. Castigos
*W1 1.2.4. King gives
wealth as reward. Castigos 14.120.

*W 11.2.5. Holy man shares bread with
aculously replenished.
*W1 1.3.1.
Steward
145;
a.b.c.
*W1 1.3.2.
a.b.c.
steals from
carries
him
to
7.61-62.
all
146, 147;
master
to
who come
Tubach 766, 2566.
give to poor
where
be
safe.
safe. a. b. c.
395;
it
will
Tubach 3363.
Prince gives inheritance to poor where
it
be
will
Tubach 4963.
*W1 1.17.
Christian kind to
Jew who
steals his
mule,
a.b.c.
202;
Tubach
2796.
*W11.18. Elderly friar sees another friar stealing from his cell. Decides to
work harder to replace stolen possessions because the other friar
must need what he stole. Especulo 346.245.
*W1 1.19. Monastery's shepherd feeds poor. Monks sent him away to keep
food for selves. a.b.c. 143.
Learning that an impoverished man was planning to live off the
illicit earnings of his daughters^ St. Nicholas tossed a golden apple
through the man's window so that his daughters could marry. Casti-
*W1 1.20.
gos 7.62-63.
W12.
Hospitality.
*W12.3. Saint gives food and water to all who come to his home. Christ
comes disguised as pauper, receives hospitality, and rewards saint.
a.b.c.
136; cf
Tubach 987.
*W12.3. 1 Saint gives money and his family silver to shipwrecked

who reveals that he is an angel. Rewards saint. a.b.c. 137.
.
W16.
Self-sacrifice: bishop
traveler
exchanges places with captive so that captive can
return to his mother, a.b.c. 61;
Tubach 4484.
W19. Kindness: miscellaneous.

*W19.1. Kind
birds shelter
aged parents with wings,
a.b.c.
15;
Tubach
642.
*W19.2. Poor man
saves his bees by giving all he owns for their cure
poisoning, a.b.c. 15;
W20. Other favorable

W26.1.
214;
Man passes
Tubach
from
551.
traits.
test
of patience, endures insults at gates of
city. a.b.c.
Tubach 3622.
*W26.2. Philosopher endures loss of possessions without anger, a.b.c. 220.

*W26.3. Monk leaves monastery to avoid occasions of anger. Frustrated
filling a
jug of water, experiences anger. Retiuns to monastery,
Tubach 252.
*W26.4. Holy man accepts destruction of crops, his only
that evildoer suffers more than he. a.b.c. 343.
a. b. c.
221, 344;
*W26.5. Alexander
suffers criticism
Gbsa 1.2.14.132-33;
94vy, Tubach 107.
*W26.5.1. Alexander
200
of dissolute ways patiendy. a.b.c. 345;
MS A BNM 6559
31.147
(ADMYTE
enemy knight who had bravely
tried to kill
Castigos
frees
sustenance, saying
MOTIF INDEX OF
MS A BNM
him. Castigos
Tubach
1.2.14.135;
*W26.6. King suffers
who
dor
*W26.7.
(ADMYTE
6559 31.148
96vy, Glosa
114.
and
insults patiently,
has insulted him.
a.b.c.
asserts superiority to
ambassa-
345.
Julius Caesar permits insults about baldness. a.b.c. 346; Castigos
MS A BNM
6559 31.147.
*W26.7.1. Caesar permits man

1.2.14.133; Castigos
to
him tyrant. a.b.c. 346; Glosa

6559 31.147 (ADMYTE
94?;);
call
MS A BNM
Tubach 5011.
*W26.7.2. Scipio answers
critic patiently.
346; Castigos
rior. a.b.c.
Bom
MS A BNM
to be emperor, not war-
6559 31.147
(ADMYTE
96r).
*W26.7.3. Vespasian acknowledges faults patiently. a.b.c. 346; Castigos IAS

6559 31.147 (ADMYTE 95z;).
A
*W26.7.4. King called dwarf by enemies, pleased that his own people do
not malign him. Glosa 1.2.14.135; Castigos MS A
6559 31.148
BNM
BNM
(ADMYTE
96v).
W26.7.5. King
refuses lavish gifts
MS A BNM
best. Castigos
from
vassals.
6559 23.140
Rich vassals serve him
(ADMYTE
82i^83r).
*W26.8. Humble nun endures insults of her sisters without complaint. She
is honored by saint who comes to convent. a.b.c. 406; Tubach 3504.
*W26.9. Cato's teeth knocked out. Says he is better off without them.
Glosa 1.2.14.134; Castigos MS A
6559 31.148 (ADMYTE
BNM
96r).
W27. Gratitude.
Man
W27.1.
weeps with gratitude
to
God
that he does not resemble a
toad, a.b.c. 184.
*W27.2. Mistreated animal spares those who rescued him. Jackal who escaped from pit attacks only its tormentors. Esopete p. 76.
*W27.3. Caesar grateful for services of old legionary and lends him legal
assistance, a.b.c. 319; Glosa 1.2.15.141-42.
W31. Obedience.
*W3 1.1.
Obedience valued more than abstinence in monks. Value tested on
Obedient
trip.
monk
monk
crosses stream
and
is
spared by crocodiles. Ab-
man; abbot tells him

was obedient one's prayers. Especulo 413.312-13.
*W31.2. Obedience valued over gratitude, charity, asceticism. In divine
judgement, obedient ones are adorned with gold. Especulo 414.313.
W32. Bravery.
W32. 1 King Richard leads army to victory by leaping his horse overboard
to attack enemy (Muslims) on land. His religious devotion in form of
stinent
thinks he has resuscitated a dead
it
brave acts
is
equal to that of cloistered
clerics.
Lucanor Ex.
3.
W34. Loyalty.
*W34.5. Courtier refuses physician's proposal to poison
to ruler, a.b.c. 315;
W35.
king. Brings traitor
Tubach 3761.
Justice.
*W35.3. Empress
offers
judge great honors in exchange for false judgement.
201
He
replies: "I
do not want honors
396.292.
*W35.4. Cardinal returns bishop's
court. Says:
*W35.5.
thief
is
"Now I am
thief
at the price of the truth." Especulo
of palfrey given for services at
gift
my
redeeming
and good man
quarrel.
liberty." Especulo 397.292.
When
Quarrel settled by saint.
judged guilty of crime, good
man
pleads for clemency for
him. Especulo 100.67,
W46. Compassion.
*W46.1. Compassion. Conqueror
upon
cries at suffering
of conquered.
Weeps
seeing enemy's severed head. a.b.c. 66; Glosa 1.2.15.143;
BNM
6559 12.115 (ADMYTE 47r).

Castigos MS A
*W46.1.1. Compassion. Conqueror cries at sight of defeated city. a.b.c.
6559 12.115 (ADMYTE
66; Glosa 1.2.15.143; Castigos MS A
BNM
47r).
*W46.1.2. Compassion. Conqueror does not permit defeated enemy to

6559
kneel before him. Glosa 1.2.15.144; Castigos MS A
47r).
12.115 (ADMYTE
*W46.1.3. Compassion. Conqueror restores crown of conquered enemy.
6559 (ADMYTE 47r).
Glosa 1.2.15.143; Castigos MS A
*W46.2. Compassion. Prince forgives man who spat in his face. a.b.c. 67.
*W46.2.1. Compassion. Emperor forgives traitors, invoking his divine
BNM
BNM
right to rule, a.b.c. 68.
*W46.3. Compassion. Emperor forgives
relative
who plotted
against him.
a.b.c. 68.
*W46.4. Compassion. Emperor revokes all death sentences. Wild beasts

kill people; he does not. a.b.c. 397.
*W46.5. Ailing emperor told to bathe in pool of infants' blood takes pity on
mothers and refuses. God rewards him with cvire. Abreviada 1.342;
PCG
316.183-86.
W100-W199.
WHO.
UNFAVORABLE TRAITS OF CHARACTER
Unfavorable
traits:
personal.
Will. Laziness.
Wl
1 1
Contest in laziness.
cites instances
Woman to marry lazier of two suitors. Each

LBA cc. 459-67; cf Tubach 2896,
of his laziness.
3005.
Will. 1.3. Man
in bed when water drips in eyes (ear).

94-96.
to eat when table is full of food even after
fasting for fifteen days. Esopete pp. 94-96.
*W1 11.1.4. Man so lazy he will not wipe his running nose. This causes
him to lose prospective bride. LBA cc. 463.
*W1 11.1.5. Man floating in river too lazy to drink to slake thirst. His voice
is damaged. LBA cc. 461; Esopete pp. 94-96.
will not
move
LBA cc. 465; Esopete pp.

*W1 11.1.3.1. Man too lazy
*W1 11.1.7. Man

lamed.
202
LBA
climbing a ladder
cc.
is
too lazy to
lift
foot. Falls
and
is
460.
MOTIF INDEX OF
*W1 11,1.8. Man
so lazy that water that drips in his ear
is
has caused his
brains to leak out. Esopete pp. 94-96.
W111.2. The lazy servant.

Wl 11.2.0.1. Lazy slave gets others
Wl 11.2.2.
Servant
to close
not have to open
Wl 11.2.3.
Lazy
it
perfonn
to
next morning.
servant. "If
it is
a.b.c.
day, give
The master has told servant

195; cf. Tubach 4288.
sleep."
a.b.c.
Wl
1.2.4.
a.b.c.
Lazy
servant calls
dog
it is
and
in
it
me
open so that he
food;
if it is
day and time
feels
will
Tubach 4288.
195;
paws
to see
to
night
let
me
go to work.
if it is raining.
Tubach 4288.
195;
Wl 1 1.2.5.
his duties. Esopete p. 5.
door at night. Leaves
iMzy
servant, asked if candles (torches) in
house are
lit,
feels
warm, a.b.c. 195; cf. Tubach 4288.

*W111.6. Lazy animals. Lazy trout does not escape fisherman as had
his two companions. Calila p. 149; Exemplario 18r.
W121. Cowardice.
W121.2.1. Ass and other animals attack dying lion. Hvmiiliated lion, uncat to see
if
she
is
able to attack them, tears out his
pp. 37-38;
own heart. LBA
cc.
31 1-16; Esopete
Tubach 3065.
W121.2.3. Crow
sits
on sheep's back. Afi-aid to
sit
on
dog's. Esopete p. 79.
Wl 21 .5. Spider kills fly easily but retreats to web when wasp approaches.
Gatos 52.
*W121.9. Cowardly
it
courtiers hide
when
to cage easily. Abreviada 3.131;
lion escapes from cage.
CMC w.
Cid returns
2286-2301.
W125. Gluttony.
*W1 25.5.1.
Gluttonous wife roasts chicken.
the good parts.
He
through with the
*W125.6. Saint
is left
spit.
with roasting
Especulo 60.42;
Makes husband
spit.
give her
all
Furious, he thrusts her
Tubach
969.
eats gluttonously to please guests.
Repents next day.
Especulo 298.208.
W126. Disobedience.
*W126.2. Pharaoh disobeys God's commandments. He and troops are
drowned. Castigos MS A BNM 6559 90.226.
W128. Dissatisfaction.
W128.4. Peacock
dissatisfied with his voice.

128.4.1. Ass dissatisfied with hard
*W
life
Wants
to sing like nightingale.
and beatings. Even
after death,
beaten as part of drum. Esopete pp. 66-67.

*W1 28.4.2. Envious ass, dissatisfied with life of hard work, desires easy life
of pig until he sees him slaughtered for his meat. Gatos 35; Tubach
3771.
skin
is
W 128.5. Monk
dissatisfied with what God has granted him is admonished

God's will. a.b.c. 103; Calila p. 303; Exemplario 11 v.
*W128.7. Dying man (usurer) reproaches soul for desire to leave him
despite his great wealth and comfort. Lucanor Ex. 4; Especulo
to accept
568.462.
W150. Unfavorable
traits
of character: social.
203
W151. Greed.
*W 15 1.9.1.
Greedy wolf overeats and drinks in farmer's larder. Sings and

found and killed. Esopete pp. 93-94; Tubach 4092, 5346.
*W151.11. Greedy horse who overeats dies of bloat. LBA cc. 298-303.
*W151.12. After solemn funeral mass for wolf, lion serves a feast to the
animal mourners. They hope for another such occasion for a feast.
is
Gatos 46.
W152. Stinginess.
*W 152.6.1.
Stingy
deposed.
prince
Never
invited
Glosa
guests.
1.2.20.172.
W152.ll. Stingy man

a.b.c. 37;
W153.
takes off shoes to walk on thorns to save shoes.
Tubach 4351.
IVIiserliness.
W153.1. Dead moneylender's
heart found in strong-box. Saint tells moiu:-
ners at funeral of moneylender. Lucanor Ex. 14;
Tubach 2499.
W154. Ingratitude.
W154.2. Snake
ungrateful. Bites
man who
saves
it.
Disciplina 5; a.b.c.
312.
Wl 54.2.1.
Serpent ungrateful
to
shepherd
who had
carried
him
to safety.
Intends to eat man. Judgement: return to previous hazardous place.

Esopete pp. 86-87; cf. Tubach 4262.
15 4. 2. 1.1. Snake, rescued from winter's cold, kills rescuer when warm
*W
weather
arrives.
LBA
cc.
1348-54; Esopete
p. 36;
Tubach 4256.
W154.3. Crane pulls bone from wolf's throat: wolf refuses promised payment.
"That you were allowed to take your beak from my throat is payment enough." LBA cc. 252-56; Gatos 2; Esopete p. 35; Tubach
5332.
W154.4. Hunter beats dog

66; Esopete p. 51;
Wl 54.5.1.
Fox promises
face with wet
W154.8.
tail.
that has
Tubach
to
grown old
in his service.
LBA
pay boatman for passage. Payment
Gatos 49;
and
man
1357-
is
a slap in
Tubach 2020.
Grateful animab, ungrateful man. Traveler saves
ger, snake,
cc.
1701.
(goldsmith) from a
pit.
Monkey
monkey, bad-
gives
him
fruit;
badger leads him into city to place where he finds jewels. In royal
palace, goldsmith accuses traveler of killing king's daughter and of
stealing jewels. Serpent saves traveler; bites king's son, and shows
traveler the remedy for the venom. Calila p. 318-22; a.b.c. 207;
Exemplario 81z>-83r;
W154.19.
a.b.c.
Tubach 256.
Ungrateful Jew steals horse of Christian
who
has lent
it
to him.
202; Tubach 2796.
Wl 54.20.
Messenger brings gifts-one good, one better, two much bener.

gifts. Spits in face, throws him into
Recipient abuses bearer of king's
beats him. a.b.c. 206; Tubach 2280.

Magician makes pupil think he has become pope. Pupil ungrateful. Does not reward magician who returns pupil to previous status.
Lucanor Ex. 1 1; Tubach 3137.
*W1 54.29. Man laments his ingratitude to God for having created him in
mud, and
Wl 54.28.
204
MOTIF INDEX OF
his
own image
instead of a toad's. a.b.c. 184.
W155. Hardness of heart.

W156. The dog in the manger. Has no use for manger but
it up to oxen. Esopete p. 93; Tubach 660.
*W156.1. Fox
prefers to bear weight of tail rather
refuses to give
than share part of
it
with ape. Esopete p. 66; Tubach 297.

*W156.2. Bitch about to give birth pleads with other to let her use her
bed. Later will not give it up. Esopete pp. 35-36; Tubach 660.
W158. Inhospitality.
*W158.1. Fox serves meal to stork in flat dish. Stork responds with meal
served in tall narrow vessel. Esopete p. 52; Tubach 2170.
W159. Arrogance.
*W159.1. Two lepers
to cleanse
*W159.2. Saint
scrutinizes
some
know why some
are rich; others are poor.
God
tells
to cease. Especulo 538.432-33.
*W1 59.3.
tuous
of
Especulo 537.432.
God's judgements. Wants to
die young; others live long;
him
each other's lesions for cure. First one
wash the second.
cured, then refuses to
Scholar told attempts
by
child
filling
a.b.c.
who
to
understand nature of Trinity are presumpfruitless, impossible task
appears to be engaged in
a hole with
all
the water of a river. Especulo 539.433-34;
413.
*W 159.4.
Dead monk,
and ugly, appears to friend to warn him

and scholarship will be punished. Especulo
tortured
that pride in disputation
540.434.
W167. Stubbornness.
W167.2. Stubbornness causes loss of chance to go on pilgrimage. Husband
and wife quarrel over whether a bird is thrush or throstle. Infuriated
husband breaks wife's leg (donkey's leg). They must return to pray
for her welfare. Talavera 2.7.179; cf
*W 167.3.
Tubach 5284, 5285.

Husband and wife
Stubbornness causes wife's drowning.
over whether he
quarrel
holding a knife or a pair of scissors. Infuriated

husband kicks her into river. She disappears with current, insisting
that they are scissors. Talavera 2.7.178; cf Tubach 5284, 5285.
\V171. Two-facedness.
W171.1. Man winks at both buyer and seller. He tries to appear friendly
is
to both. Esopete p. 75.
*W 17 1.1.1.
Bat, because of ambiguous physical traits, tries to join forces

with beasts and with birds. Fails. Esopete p. 62; Tubach 501.
*W171.2. Shepherd betrays wolf to himter with wink. Esopete p. 75.
W185. Violence of temper.

W185.4. Monk
loses
temper at pitcher and breaks
it.
a.b.c.
221;
Tubach
252.
W 185.5.
Violence of judge's temper leads
him
to
condemn man
to death
unjustly. a.b.c. 222.
W185.6.
Insult worse than
wound.
The
man: "The woimd has

remains." Castigos 26.141.
lion to the
healed, but the pain of harsh words
still
W189. Mischievousness.
205
*W189.1. Novice given
to antic
behavior fears reproach. Prays to Virgin
Mary that pranks be forgotten

W196. Lack of patience.
if
she repents. Cantigas 303.
controlled by patience. Youth counseled to control

anger at brother's impatience. Especulo 97.66.
*W196.1. Impatience
X.
HUMOR OF DISC02V1FITURE
X0-X99.
*X22.
Man
whose
liver
has been temporarily removed hears passerby ask
surgeon to give him the
*X35. Son
men
liver to feed his cat.
Lucanor Ex.
8.
mother, inventing wild tales about secret senate debate:
lies to
to have
HUMOR
two wives; women to have two husbands. She divulges

and they confront senate. Woman made to look
secret to others,
foolish. a.b.c. 394;
*X36. Husband
tells
unable to keep
Tubach 5269.
wife
secret. Is
secret.
made
He
has given birth to a crow. She
is
ridiculous. Glosa 2.1.24.119-20.
X52. Ridiculous nakedness or exposure.

X52. Woman in procession, devils ride on the
train
of her
skirt, a.b.c.
407;
Tubach 1660.
X52.1. Woman in a grand procession exposed to ridicule when her wig is
snatched off by a monkey. a.b.c. 334; Tubach 2400.
X54. Humor of self- deprecation.
*X54.1. Madman in bath throws pails of hot water at other bathers.
Proprietor does same to him. Madman warns other bathers: "Beware. There is another madman in this bathhouse." Lucanor Ex. 43.
*X70. Humor of incongruity. Woman's timidity inconsistent with her willingness to commit heinous acts. Proverb: "Sister dear, you are frightened by sound of gurgling water but not by sound of the rending of
a corpse's neck bones." Lucanor Ex. 47.
X200-X599. HUMOR OF SOCIAL CLASSES

X300-X499. Humor dealing with professions.
X310. Jokes on lawyers.
X315. Dying lawyer says: "I appeal." Asks for defense. Dies without
confession and goes to hell. Especulo 21.15; Tubach 2991.
*X315.2. Dying lawyer offers self to God. God says he must be judged.
Refuses to be judged by his equals and so dies without communion
and confession. Especulo 19.14.
X316. Lawyers in hell. Nero has reserved place
in hell for lawyers. a.b.c.
\2; Especulo 88.61.
*X318.1. Man's lawyer is bribed to lose a lawsuit. Appears in court saying

he has "esquinan?a" (quinsy) and cannot speak. His client says he
206
MOTIF INDEX OF
does not have "esquinanga" but rather "argengia" (money disease).

a.b.c.
309.
*X319.2. Widow gives lawyer a

it.
She
loses
and
says:
it needs an ox to pull
X370. Jokes on scholars.
*X37 1.1.
cart as fee.
"The
it.
Adversary gives him ox to pxill

go well." He replies that
cart does not
Especulo 23.16.
Impoverished scholar gives beggar
grammar
lesson instead of
alms. a.b.c. 131.
X372. Jokes on doctors.

*X372.6. Doctor prescribes same remedy for a sore eye that he had used to
cure his own sore foot. Patient blinded. a.b.c. 283; Tubach 3530.
X410. Jokes on clerics.

*X434.3.
who tell him that deer (bought

dog. Calila p. 236; Exemplario 55r, Esopete pp. 167-
Gullible priest believes tricksters
for sacrifice)
is
68.
X457. Jokes on monks.

*X457.2. Abbot advises monk
questions:
"Where
is
to listen to prisoners.
the judge, and
when
cf Tubach 2867.
*X457.3. Abbot sends monk for manure.
He
will
They
ask the right
he come?"
a.b.c.
70;
rettims because a honess
where the manure was. Told to rope her, and bring her here.
Credulous monk tries, and she resists tmtil he tells her that abbot
had sent him. Abbot says: "Just as you are witless, you have captured
lived
a witless beast." a.b.c. 317;
Tubach 3075.
*X457.4, Inexperienced young monk (never having seen a woman) is told

that women are goats. Obsessed by woman he had seen through window, is unable to eat (meat) because he felt so sorry for the poor
goat. a.b.c. 300.
X50O-X599. Humor concerning other social classes.

X500. Humor concerning royalty.
*X501. Philosopher spits
in king's beard. It is only place in excessively elegant palace that is suitable. a.b.c. 188; Tubach 525.
*X502. The emperor's new clothes. Tricksters pretend to make clothes for
the emperor. Cloth is visible only to those of legitimate birth. None
at court are willing to admit they cannot see it. Finally a slave who
has nothing to lose tells emperor he is naked. Lucanor Ex. 32; cf Tubach 3577.
X520. Jokes concerning prostitutes.
*X521. Only prostitutes can carry the corpse of a prostitute. Especulo
11 1.72-73; Tubach 1265.
*X522.
shamed by offer of sexual intercourse in public place. Saint

have sex with her before a crowd. She refuses; then how
much more shame should she have before God? Especulo 350.250.
*X523. Queen, vain about her virtue, declares she would never surrender
her body to a lover for wealth. Challenged with increasingly large rewards, is at last tempted. Is in effect potential prostitute. Talavera
2.1.146-47.
Prostitute
offers to
207
X590. Jokes on masters and servants.

X591. Clever servant asked how much he could eat. Asks if questioner
means his food or the food of another. If another, he would eat as
much
as possible. a.b.c. 195.
X592. Employer
actions.
He
says she has eyes in buttocks to supervise clever slave's
uncovers them while she sleeps. Esopete p. 16.
HUMOR CONCERNING SEX
X700-X799.
X710. Jokes on husbands.
*X7 11.1. Hie
cut-off nose. Carpenter's wife has
another
woman, a barHusband
ber's wife, take her place while she goes to her lover.
speaks to her, gets no answer, and cuts off her nose. In the morning,
wife returns and
still
has nose. Husband
made
to believe
it
was
re-
stored miraculously. Calilapp. 139-41.
*X711.2. Husband
hides under wife's bed. She spends night with lover

and tells lover how much she loves husband. In morning, gullible
husband commiserates with her over her sleepless night and urges
her to stay in bed. Calila p. 241; Exemplario 57r, Esopete p. 168.

*X711.3. Woman mixes husked with unhusked barley. Serves it to husband. Only she knows that dog has urinated on husked grain. Calila
p.
212
n. 116.
*X71 1.4. The husband locked out. He had taken
excessive precautions to
assure wife's fidelity. Despite efforts, wife returns
home
late at night;
her husband refuses to admit her. She threatens to throw herself in

the well. Husband leaves house to see if she has drowned. She enters
the house and bars him from house, a.b.c. 303; Tubach 5246.
*X711.5. Parrot (magpie) unable to tell husband of wife's infidelity. Wife
simulates a rainstorm while cage is covered so that parrot gives husband a false report. Sendebar Day 1, Tale 2; Exemplario 25z>-26z;;
Tubach 632, 3147.
*X711.6. Husband paints lamb on wife's stomach to ensvire her chastity
during his absence. Returns after long absence to find that her lover
has repainted it; it is now a full-grown ram. LBA cc. 474-87.
*X711.7. The husband in the chicken house (dovecote). Husband returns
Esopete pp. 148-49.
*X711.8. The husband's (vintner's) good eye treated so that lover can
leave house unseen. a.b.c. 161; Disciplina 9; Esopete pp. 147-48; Tubach 1943.
*X711.9. Lovers as pursuer and fugitive. Wife is visited by two lovers.
When the husband arrives, one goes out with drawn sword, and the
other hides in house. She convinces her husband that she has given
reftige to a ftigitive. Sendebar Day 2, Tale 5; Tubach 4693.
*X7 11.10.
Wife entertains lover during husband's absence.
Husband
re-
turns and mother-in-law (guardian) counsels lover to pretend he
208
is
MOTIF INDEX OF
fugitive from
bach 4692.
street ruflfians. Disciplina 11; Esopete pp.
145-46; Tu-
Wife outwits husband with extended sheet. Lover leaves house

162; Esopete p. 148; Disciplina 10; Tubach 4319.
*X7 11.12. Husband is made to believe that adulterous wife's pregnancy is
*X7 11.11.
unseen,
gift
a.b.c.
of God. Esopete p. 149; Tubach 971.

enchanted pear tree. Wife and lover are up in
*X7 11.13. The
tree.
Blind

Prayer is answered. Wife convinces cuckold that her adultery convinced Jupiter to grant his wish. Esopete p. 147; Tubach 3265.
*X712. Greedy husband supplies wife to inexperienced fat prince because he

believes him to be impotent. When the prince and the woman evidently enjoy each other, the husband kills himself. Sendebar Day 4,
Tale 9.
X740. Jokes on men.
*X741. Cleric participates passively in sexual acts with widow. Exculpated
because he did nothing actively. Esopete p. 165.
*X742. Clever woman tells amorous youth to strip off clothes, then
shouts for neighbors. Tells him to lie down, puts chunk of bread in
mouth, douses him with water, and tells neighbors he had choked.
Proves to him he knows nothing of womanly guile. Sendebar Day 8,
Tale 18.
*X742.1. Aristode and Phyllis: philosopher as riding horse for woman. Philosopher warns against uxoriousness. In revenge, woman tricks philosopher into letting her ride him on all fours. Husband comes and
sees. Talavera 1.17. 99-100; Tubach 328.
*X743. Wife frightened upon hearing thief in house, joins husband in bed
for protection.
Husband
grateful to thief. Calila p. 238; Exemplario
56r.
X770. Humor of sexual naivete.

*X771. Naive new bride compares husband's penis with that of an ass
and finds him wanting. Esopete pp. 165-66.
*X77 1.1. Sheltered princeling, shown all forms of human and animal life
for first time, was told that young women are devils who deceive men.
Asked what he liked best, chose the "devils." Barlaam pp. 261-63.
*X771.2. Inexperienced young monk (never having seen a woman) is told
that women are goats. Obsessed by what he had seen through window is unable to eat (meat) because he felt so sorry for the poor
goat. a.b.c. 300.
*X772. Absurd ignorance of sex. Pious young woman convinced by gobetween that God does not see what is done at night. Spends night
with go-between's customer,
a.b.c.
108;
Tubach 1436.
*X772. 1 Foolish young woman sees copulation between youth and ass. Told
he is giving her sense, asks for same treatment. Esopete p. 25.
*X772.2. Woman's naivete proves her fidelity. Man is told he has bad
breath and rebukes wife for not having told him. She thought all men
had bad breath. a.b.c. 368.
.
209
HUMOR BASED ON DRUNKENNESS
X800-X899.
*X801. Englishman
Taken
in
France
in
drunken stupor
in tavern as if
dead.
to confessor, could only say "cup, cup." Priest, unable to
him, and he died. Especub 201.140.

drunken stupor in tavern in foreign land as if dead. Taken
to confessor, cannot speak. A neighbor whispers to him in his
tongue: "Neighbor, have some wine." He responds: "Let me drink"
understand,
*X802.
Man
left
in
and dies. Especub 202.141; Tubach 1808.

*X803. Mouse in wine vat. Promises cat anything if he will save him.
Breaks promise, telling cat, "I was drunk when I promised." Gatos
56;
Tubach 3426.
HUMOR
OF LIES AND
X900-X1899.
X904. The teller reduces the size of his lie.
*X904.2.1. The great fox: as
saw
large as
a fox as large as a deer.
river that
drowns
geration imtil fox
liars.
is
deer.
EXAGGERATION
master he once
soon be at oracular
squire weakens his exag-
Squire
Master says they
As they near
river
tells
will
correct size. Esopete pp. 100-1.
X905.3. Claim of property based on unusual lie. Goat to be inherited by

son who can best exaggerate its size. Esopete pp. 94-96.
*X905.3. 1 Claim of property based on unusual lie. Mill to be inherited by
son who tells best lie. Esopete pp. 94-96.
.
Z.
MISCELLANEOUS GROUP OF MOTIFS

Z0-Z99. FORMULAS
Hundreds of sheep to be carried
across stream, one

of the tale arranged so as to continue
indefinitely. Esopete p. 144; Disciplina 12; a.b.c. 156; Tubach 4310.
*Z19.3. Ages of women. Speaker attributes qualities to each age from
Zll. Endless
tales.
at a time, etc.
The wording
twenty to eighty. Teodor p. 118.

*Z19.4. Beauty of women. Speaker calculated eighteen qualities in sets
of three. Teodor p. 118.
Z40. Chains with interdependent members.
Z42. Stronger and strongest. Rat-maiden wants most powerful mate of all.
Sun covered by clouds; clouds controlled by winds; mountain blocks
winds; mountain gnawed by rodents, therefore she must marry a rat.
Calila p. 244; Tubach 3428.
*Z43.7. Sequential tale. Jar of honey suspended over hermit's head. He
dreams of selling honey, and through successive transactions becoming tremendously wealthy. In dream he will pimish disobedient offspring. Raises stick and shatters jug of honey. Calila p. 264; cf.
Lucanor Ex.
210
7;
Tubach
80.
MOTIF INDEX OF
*Z43.7.1. Sequential tale. Jar of honey to be sold. Woman on way to

market to sell honey, dreams of future wealth. Inattentive, lets jar
drop. Lucanor Ex. 7;
cf.
Calila p. 264;
Tubach
80.
*Z43.8. Money will go to its destination. Man told that money he fovind
belongs to another. Hollows out tree trunk; puts money inside and
throws it into sea. Trunk washes up at door of rightful owner. He
uses it for firewood; gold begins to melt. His wife finds tree trunk
and hides it. First man is beggar now and wife bakes bread with
money inside; gives it to him. He sells bread to fishermen who begin
to feed it to horses. Wife gives them oats for her bread. Money has
returned to owner. Especulo 58.41;
Tubach 4954.
money sack. Charcoal burner foimd it. Knight

cut squire's foot off. Angel explained: Knight lost money because he
had stolen it; charcoal burner found money that had belonged to his
*Z43.9. Squire
lost
knight's
father. Squire lost foot for
having kicked his mother. Especulo 15.11;
Tubach 223.
*Z46.1. Climax of horrors. Clever slave, told not to give master bad
news, says: pup is dead; (how?) mule fiightened it; (how?) mule fell
in well and drowned; (why?) master's son fell off roof and frightened
mule; mother of child died of grief. (Who is guarding house?) No
one; it burned down when daughter's candle tipped over during vigil
over mother's cadaver. (How did he escape?) He saw dead daughter
and fled. a.b.c. 195; Tubach 1705.

*Z46.2. Climax of horrors. Drop of honey causes chain of events. Hunter
drops honey in a shop; bee lights on honey; storekeeper's cat kills
bee; himter's dog kills cat; storekeeper kills dog; hunter kills storekeeper; villagers and neighbors of storekeeper kill hunter; villagers
and neighbors of hunter come, and the two groups kill each other.
Z49.2. Cumulative pursuit.
Z49.2.2. Sequential pursuit of abductor. Child carried off by wolf; ape
steals it; lions threaten; thieves capture it. Pursuer rescues it firom
thieves. Ultramar II.2.254-57, 370-78.
Z100-Z199.
SYMBOUSM
*Z 100.01. Symbolic acts. Saint sends pupil imclothed to market. He is

to bring back meat balanced on his head. Packs of dogs and flocks of
birds attack him. They are like the devils who attack ascetics who
withdraw firom world. Especulo 475.376.
*Z 100.02.
Knight's arms represent soul's protection: tunic
is
fear of
God;
chaplet, understanding; shield, faith; lance, strength; sword, justice;

legs and feet, humility; hands, chastity. Castigos 1.38.
*Z105. Symbolic dream. Man in search of eternal happiness rejects: marriage (marital bed inhabited by dangerous beasts); royal power (royal
bed inhabited by dangerous beasts); wealth (rich person's bed
inhabited by dangerous beasts). Chooses a stair that leads to spiritual
happiness. Gatos 23.
21
*Z106. Father's dream that sun's rays emanated from pregnant wife's
womb. Prophecy of future greatness of vmbom child. a.b.c. 180; Tubach 647.
ZllO. Personifications.
Zll 1.3.1. Death allegorically portrayed as an animal made up of several
different animals. a.h.c. 296 (not in Paris MS); Tubach 5082 b).
*Z1 1 1 .7. Death personified as human woman or as himian man. Appears
talking to powerful worldly figures (Dance of death). Talavera
4.2.271;
Danza
de la muerte.
*Z121.2. Truth and Lies personified. Deceptive crop division: above the
ground, below the ground. Truth takes the roots of joindy owned
tree, and Lies takes the trunk and branches. Lucanor Ex. 26.
*Z 12 1.2.1, Truth, Wind, and Water debate. Wind and Water easily
found; Truth must be guarded and never lost. Once lost, never regained. Qifarp. 136.
*Z121.3. Evil and Good personified. Deceptive division of shared wife.

Evil takes lower half of wife; Good takes upper half. Child begotten
by lower half not permitted to nurse the top half, which belongs to
Good. Lucanor Ex. 43; Tubach 1921.
Z127.1. Sin (Lust) personified as the goddess Venus: as woman because
inconstant, naked because shameless, swimming in sea because of
pleasure, conch shell because of songs and revelry, a.b.c. 429.
Z133.1. Poverty personified as diseased beggar woman. Debates with Fortune. Talavera 4.2.276-92; Compendio pp. 251-73; cf Tubach 2154.
Z134. Fortune and Poverty personified. Fortune a beautiful horsewoman,
Poverty a wretched beggar. Talavera 276-98; Compendio pp. 251-73;
cf Tubach 2154.
Z139.3.1. Wine personified with face of young woman, bare breasts,
horns on head, riding on serpents (Bacchus), a.b.c. 421.
*Z 139.9. Philosophy personified gxês infant hero magical shirt. Alexandre
cc. 89-103.
Z150. Other symbols.

*Z161.1. Basket of sand shows that
4413.
Z216. Supernatural
sins are a
burden,
a.b.c. 1;
Tubach
Z200-Z299. HEROES
magic (mysterious) conception. Alex-
origin of hero:
andre cc. 19-20, 1063-64.

Z230. Extraordinary exploits of hero.
Z231. Boy hero kills count in battle. Captures his sons. Mocedades w.
320-25.
Z300-Z399. UNIQUE EXCEPTIONS

Z310. Unique vulnerability.
*Z311.5. Witch kUls man by means of poison in his armpits. Talavera
2.12.198.
212
CORRESPONDENCES BETWEEN MOTIF

NUMBERS AND TUBACH TOPICAL NUMBERS
Imperfect correspondences where circumstantial details differ are marked
as
cf.
MOTIF
MOTIF
MOllF
MOTIF
MOTIF
MOTIF
MOTIF
MOTIF
MOTIF
MOTIF
MOTIF
MOTIF
MOTIF
TUBACH
NUMBER
V462.1
V462.1.1.1
V462.1.1.2
V462.12
V465.1.1.1
V465.1.1.6
V465.1.2
V469
V469.1
V477
V477.1
V478
V510.3
V510.5
V510.7
V511.1.3
V511.2.3
V515.4
Wll.2.1
Wll.2.5
Wll.3.1
Wl 1.3.2
W11.17
W12.3
W11.17
W16
W19.1
W19.2
W26.1
W26.3
W26.5
W26.5.1
Wlll.2.2
Wlll.2.3
Wlll.2.4
Wlll.2.5
W125.5.1
W128.4
W128.4.2
W151.9.1
W152.ll
W154.2.1
4372
cf. 3327
3323
4736
cf. 2569
3906
1436
5233
3881
3336
3329
cf. 5148
5123
cf. 4103
cf. 4235
3378
1450
1218
1459
766, 2566
3363
4963
2796
cf. 987
2796
4484
642
551
3622
252
107
114
4288
cf. 4288
4288
cf. 4288
969
3632
3771
4092, 5346
cf.
4351
cf. 4262
MOTIF
ALPHABETICAL INDEX
Abbess: refuses audience to bishop (man)
T362.1
behaves
Abbot:
avoids
badly,
praise
V46 1.6.1
covers face to hide worldliness J922
convinces
devil
change
to
G303.2.2, K181
1.4.3,
V235.3.1
monk,
grateful
he can beg
woman
K1517.6,
T481.19
judged
Aging:
with poor
heaven,
saints
cucumber,
temptation
Air-castle:
J1074.1.3
throws footstool
woman
J2061.3.1
criticism
debates philosophers J 1281
disguised,
to fetch
patiently
steals
host's
him they
pirate tells
flatware
are
both thieves
J1289.22, U11.2
lions,
thieves Z49.2.2
.5
D1525
K354.2
sails
shipV268.4.1
Abduction: sequential; wolf, ape,
raised with rascal J413.2
pridefial:
from meat, mocked
J1261.12,J1261.13
Abuse: lustful duchess, by conquering
recipient of gift protests, gift denied
J1283.1
returns captive
army S177, T495.4
T3 17.6
false: bumed
Alliance:
dog and wolf B267.1
sheep and dogs B267.2
lust
at stake
to death
in
maiden to betrothed
P12.9
from other monks, conquers monk's
H221.6
Q263.1
dream,
punishes
doth:
stolen,
twisted
Q220.4
Altar
Amazons:
Q263.3.1
strikes
allows
descends in submarine
queen, by lover (Helen) R39.5
homing
jar
money
needs
W26.5
Jupiter in
Virgin aids, disjxjse of bodies,
appears
ages
Kl 966.2
ingredients
monk U35.4
form of bull R39.4
God
knees,
to
fells
drops honey
false,
Alexander:
at
Abducted woman: Europa by
condemned
Z19.3
dream of wealth from honey jar
Alchemist:
stone in mouth, three years, silent
Accuser,-
from fraud
J2061.1
T334.1.4
Abstention,
men most
D 1890.0.1
J1263.1.7
steals
ages
protects another
women
monk
Ages: of
he be
lest
women,
H659.28
J155.9
J571.6.1
in
in city, fathers diild, returns
rapidly
Q42.8.1
rich
life
nursemaid teaches temperance Jl 5 1 .5
good deeds, rewarded
judge
saves
riddle,
V462.1.1.2
lover, leaves dressed as friar
to
solves
J151.1.1
sleeping with
gives knight
against lust
counsels travelers J151.6
master
U62.1
not
man
Aged:
rules
blindness
illness,
fire,
Q263.2
Advanced age: no protection
T317.7
dresses as beggar, avoids vainôry
J916
former rich man,
by
swear
Susanna, elders Jl 153.1, K21 12.02
ALPHABETICAL INDEX
kill
male
body
male children or give to
kill
fathers
woman Q263.6
underclothes,
SI 2.8
infants or
send them away
F565.1
227
kill
surviving husbands S61
women
Ambush:
create
man
foiled,
stops
N699.3.1,V264.2
Anger:
cure
monk
monk
K1811.0.4
W12.3.1
monk
fix)m
D2 16 1.5. 1.1
mate only
alms
V411.ll
said to
beggar,
saint
first
to hell
V5 11.2.9
enters prison,
cut
woman
pit: grateful
B299.13
T554.2.1
and ungrate-
B25 1.1.1,
Jesus
infent
man
D 1846.4.2
fi-ees
prisoner R168.2
off foot,
lost
dispute beauty with
money
1 .5
J242.6
rescue from drowning
for
gratefijl
flies
B362
unequal
fate,
helps dove
holy
evil,
predict
hermit
to
acts
rewarded
fi^t devils for abbot's soul V232.1.3

cross
create
for
altar
V232.12
evil
uncle V232.1.1
escape
saint
fitsm
prison
plotting
murder
V232.8
is
food
U31.7
it
grasshopper lazy J7 1
dead
hanging on
homs
industrious,
entangle
in
trees
A2326.3.3.1
Ape:
J225.4
flees
with
fevorite
diild,
caught
L146.1
cliflF
edge
R168.1
judges dispute of fox and wolf B274.1

bird, told
kill
wed
J1064.1
mother
ê-mother: her
not force other to
V231.5
them
firefly
not
fire
throws away nut, bitter rind J369.2

to
champion
his
H927.3
man to be defender of weak
H927.4
has
ant, safe in winter, fly
fly:
Ant and grasshopper: ant
mortal struggle V230.3
man
industry,
store grain, pigs eat
Ant and
Antelopes:
man who
woman
for
J711.1.1
helps prince slay
man
wealth
future
Q86.1
J225.0.1
goldsmiths,
348 1.1
infant's
B147.3.1.2
unjust
e:q>lains
228
Ant: carries stored grain out to dry J71
V232.3.3
sets task,
to
Anointing: restores dying
explains heavenly justice V232.3.2
sends
bom
be
worship
Z43.9
says
71
V211. 1.8.5
dying saint to heaven,
saves
wool
fiilW154.8
host rewarded
guest,
as
Q45.1
kills
tied to anotfier
for procreation
saved fix)m
shelters
V235.4
helps
be
W12 1.2.1
attack dying lion
piglets,
man,
shipwreck
as
self to
division of, deceptive: lambs, wool;
V235.3.2
explains
asks another to punish
in,
J2132.5, K713.1.2, K713.1.2.1
cures gangrenous foot
explains
W26.3
alone in desert
experiences,
Animal: allows
dark over heads of those to die
disguised
goes to desert to avoid
servant J2 1.2. 1.1
Moors V249.3
disguised
D2 16 1.5.1,
paralysis
to reside in face, not heart J153.6
by Virgin, defend town
disguise
for
not to act
V235.3
called
wife
W26.3
as shipwrecked traveler, saint feeds,
bars abbot, for injustice to
saves
lied,
F950.2
V510.9
clothes
prayer V232.1.2
is
devil
V232.ll
pray
to
man
tells
Angel: appears to hero, predicts victory
as beggar to saint's house
work
teaches
own kingdom F565.1
test
child to
win beauty con-
HI 596.4
iôstate: protects
self,
sign of the cross
V86.1.7
ALPHABETICAL INDEX
sat
on holy
body
vessels,
used to
e^lainsT481.26
Asking:
man
i^pearance: holy
city surrenders
judgement of
HI 596.1
poor man's window
wtio will inherit? K171.10
^prentice: hungry,
carries
skill
C54.2
in bath, kills
visits
envies horse's rich
insincere
heavenly
fire
V324,
convert
no study
him woun-
rides
saddles,
in, kills
man Z31 1.5

God,
defleaed:
squire's
tum back on
archer
side.
Virgin
privacy
in
kill
outside
church,
he
gives
distracts
it
away
it,
denies
it
K402.3
Ave: blasphemer paralyzed, except power
Virgin
blasphemer regains speech to say
Virgin
child
tosayV254.3.1
by
image
of
V254.3.2
from
by
face
D2161.5.2.7
terrible
man
F 1066
is
of not to be cured:
strengthens
victim
J32
pain
spiritually
devil
away,
saved
of prideful
ALPHABETICAL INDEX
man
awaits day
man
will
not say
Virgin's
devotee
V254.8
leaves
on
grave.
V254.7.3
leper
J893.4
house
swept
says,
V254.7.4
shot at heaven, returns bloody
how
widiout a heart: fox eats
removes
D2163.3.1
flees
up
preadier,
to king lion
V256. 1.7.1
wound
wolf,
V461.12
D2091.il
Ascetic:
persuades
tied
shield
Z100.02
lion
man
K551.29
knight's: tunic, fear of
shows
on, seen before
masters of progressively worse N255.2
Armpits: poison
removed
unmasked when brays
skin,
K511.1.1
cures
F1097
intercepted
it
J951.1
man mounted
Vii^
V256.4.5
in
K961
J1432.1
lion's
humiliates,
Armies: miraculously unable to see each
Arrow:
heart, eyes cure for disease
in hell, only
K1215, X742.1
Arm: swollen dangerously,
faith
J212.1
envious of war horse, sees
until
ded L452.2
torment E302
Arms,
life
slau^ter
pigs,
hurts where wolf doctor touches
Aristode: returns,
other
drums
sees
envies
Q221. 3. 11
V475.6
woman
gallows
to
J217.3, W128.4.2
blasphemy,
kills
body
of ass skins J2 17.2
V324.1
king
usvurer's
B151. 1.1.2.1
ceases to long for deadi, sees
Arachne: challenges Athena's
strikes
husband forbidden C32.2.2
J953.20
back marked with cross A2356.2.7
employer insane K1265
Arian: bishop, angel
bishop,
of husband forbidden C32.2.1
origin of
master insane
calls
J1341.5
calls
questions
Ass: animals flee bray, thinks they fear
R165.1
unfed,
ask
to
C411.1
saint tosses in
tree:
pleasurable
not to ask v/hy king never lauîs
K2365.2
prize in beauty contest,
Paris
not
consort
name
J260.0.1
him V462.1
it
C411.2
unprepossessing
Apple, golden: beseiged
speaks to
fasting, finds
U130.3
Apothecary's aide: dirt not medicine, wife
Apple
man who
flees
church goods, punished Q221 .9
stole
V462.2.4
parts rot
Q55 1.6.4
says
one
thousand,
cured
V254.1.4
229
on gallows
prayer, protects robber
B261.1
man from demons
saves greedy evil
man
by
dragged
horses
from
robber
executioners
why
why
Bathe:
ni^t A249 1
flies at
by day A249 1.1.1
sleeps
woman to use only

Q33 1.5
rain water for,
punished
V254.1.3
head
severed
then quadruped
bird,
K2031.3
V254.1.2
saves
be
to
tries
V254.2.1
saves
then quadrupeds in war
joins birds,
V254.1.1
of
criminal
says
Bathhouse attendant: perpetual, punish-
ment
V254.7.1
Virgin teaches
nun
to say V254.7.5
for sins
Q501.9
Q578
in hell freed
Battle: losing, leader prays, soldiers
Babel: tower of A1333, C771.1, F772.1

Bailiffs
lead thief to gallows; bystander:
due
lost
king
illegitimate,
is
son
is
of
J1661. 1.2.3
son
of,
Caesar said to be J1281.3.1
threatened to frighten guest P463.2

uses matter from abscess in bread
P463.3
won by side whose king

M362, P711.9
won in Christ's name V52.3.1
to
hits fly, hurts self J2 102.3
Baldness:
Caesar permits
and wolves,
itable
about
insults
be
W26.7
fell
ill.
Virgin cures
caliminiated
hero
banished
falsely
J155.9,
deposits
felse
K1667
vow not
K871.1
killed
D2 16 1.4.9
Baptism: magic cure
own beard
P446.2.
by
to Jesus, punished
Barley: urine-soaked, wife serves
woman
mixes
it
suspended
in,
230
seardied
before
T 172.4
man
Z105
rejects three: marriage, wealth,
Beehives:
from
feathers
diurch,
man
to
stolen.
Virgin
find
thieves
stolen
from church, Virgin recovers
U 129.4
Beekeeper:
of sand: abbot's sins J80.3.2
joins birds,
over
V268.12
1 925.
on tower
T495.2
no
exile
Beds: dream: marital, roj^, wealth, dan-
sends
Barrenness: relieved by prayer
Bat: fur,
until
power J347.5
on:
K267
lover
cut
queen's,
gerous
husband
X711.3
Basket:
P672
to
king enters
Q22 1.3.7, Q559.12
urinates
wed
Beauty: of women Z19.4
Bedchamber:
draws P446.2
parts:
daughter
until
M121.1
Barber: hired to cut king's throat, with-
fears, singes
cut
to
M12J.2
pulling, insult
Banquet: enemy drugged,
dog
P672.1.5
not
deceived by
paralysis
C25
Bear's-food: threat to horses
about money, saved
V252.3
Bare rear
it
Beard: Jew touches dead hero's beard
Banker: swears
unjust:
to fish through ice, loses
tail
K1021
Q431.20
king
traveler not to trust guide J 1488
uses
them V257.3
Banishing:
eat sheep of unchar-
monks Q552.18.4, V423
guards holy man's sheep B449.5

tells
women,
dies
Beam, for church: extended magically

D1713.1
Bear:
Bald man:
Bandits: rob
of emperor
impiety
to
P555.0.1
great thieves lead thief J1374
Baker:
win
V52.3
A23 11.11
then quadivQjeds
Host,
hive.
Virgin,
Child
appear C55.3.1
71
puts consecrated Host in hive C55.3
ALPHABETICAL INDEX
Bees: die after stinging A2232.2, A2346.1
no
of,
stinger,
shelter
song
guard Host in hive B259.4

king
compassionate
aged parents with wings W19.1
of,
power
in
future
honey
mals F960. 1.2

earth trembles F960.1.2
to
Jl 565.2,
beetles
hail
for
sting,
lethal
sun darkens F960.1.2
punished
multiple: result of sexual acts, sev-
J2072.5.2
Beedes
storms F960. 1.2
sea turbulent F960.1.2
U147.2
wish
{see also Dttngbeedes):
dung to
serve
saint's wife
treated like oxen, stop at dunghill
seven
Bishop:
who raped kinswoman
S169.1
earliest
risers
sound
to
V222.6.2
toll
when
none
E533.2
willing to bell
it
members
Best and worst in woild, what
is:
A 1391
words
H659.37
trait:
conscience (shame)
H659.7.3.1
dies
Q411.16
pardons
V261.2
curses
on
fa&i
inviter
day taunted,
who
dies
J1320.0.1
is
king teams from error J56. 1
magically silences pagan debaters
prayer
of:
banishes devil as servant
G303. 16.2.3.8
God's: diversity of
human
H648.3
responds with meaningftil silence

J 1074. 1.4
Betrothal: vassal's daughters, king arranges
T6 1.4.6
Betrothed,
J452
V352
Best charaaer
what
life
church,
in
judged by king from appearance:
J671.1
Belly: debates with other
visage
sinner
invited to eat
saint's soul departs
Belling the cat:
Best,
him, doaor his
devil helps elea. Virgin
J1179.13
sound, saint prays he alone hears
"Holy
utter
associates: lawyer lost his soul
for
buries
matins,
Bell:
knight's
H253.1
Spirit"
bad
Q221.3.12
birth,
cannot
accused,
blasphemous painting
Beheaded: prince
T586.1
one
at
wife T586. 1.2
Beggar: ragged, king gives clothes, ride
Wl 1.2.3
has seven babies,
saints
all
U122.1
orders
men T586.3
eral
bees Jl 565.2, U147.2
Beguine:
confesses
of hero: anomalous births of ani-
eloquence
B147.3.1.2
serve
denied
slander Q559.5.1
mortal sting denied A2232.2

baby's
woman
prevented until
for candles
diurch B259.4.2
predict
B39.2
Q227.5
A2346.3
make wax
to bewitch
Birth: delay until false accusation
V46 1 .0. 1
takes c^tive's place
to die, prayed fit)m tierce to
married
convent, admitted
woman:
V452
flees
to
M244.3
carries dupe aloft, drops K1041
carries serpent, venom drops in milk
N332.3
caugjit in net K746
Bird: captured, promises counsels
doubt swallow's warning, hemp-seed

J 1064.2
misunderstand trapper's tears J869.
ALPHABETICAL INDEX
Wl 6
nones
Q2 1.0.2
trapped in
hill
of sand: sustained
magically by food D1766.1.8.1

Bitch: pleads for use of bed
Bitterer than bile,
what
is:
W156.2
bad children
H659.34
Blacksmith: neêcts religious duty, sees
hell
V5 11.2.1.2
no blame,
if
tools
damage
objects
J1891.4
231
Blasphemer: angrily shoots arrow
at
punishment
sky
God's
Virgin
Q221.3.5
Q22 1.3.9
gambler
Virgin cures monk's V256. 1.4.1
Q22 1.3.6.1
Virgin cures scoffers, wife prays
V256. 1.4.3
F1066.1
punished, blood flows from
mouth
Blood: bathe in infants', emperor refuses
Q22 1.3.3
Q20.3.2,
hand
cut
Q551.6.5.1
Q221.3.1
shows buttocks
to Jesus
Q22 1.3.7
grows:
Boat
comes for man,

him F84 1.2.8
Body: aged mother's, source of sexual
N388
temptation T336.3
ravaged by invisible
wine
poison
deteas
man, knows king
is
king
lover
cure
wife,
Bone:
K1081
each
hitting
into
K1081
woman, told si^t is
Virgin
restores,
cures
throat, crane
removes
W154.3
man
stuck in throat,
prays, frees
V257.2
occasion of sin
Book, dedicated to Virgin Mary: has cura-
by
prayer
festing,
tive
saliva
D2 161 .4.9.
D2 16 1.3.1
Book of
by prayer
cvjred
by
saint
D2 16 1.4.9.1
in fire
D 184 1.3.
when comes
Mary's
pledge
milk
for
Virgin,
more J 1552.5
Christ
security
P525.4
D2161.5.2.3
man
undamaged
Borrower: bread, not returned, box empty
D2161.4.9.2
Virgin
water,
miracles of St. James: does not
bum
cured by magic spring

cvired
in
F930.1
cured by Jesus D2161.4.9.1

cured by Jesus's
D 1500.0.2
powers
immersed
D2161.5.2.8
heaven
will see
Boulder: Virgin diverts, saves monastery
V268.8.3
better F952.0.3
232
debate E727.1
from wolfs
other
J893.1.2
Q571
altar,
V256.6
told hit pig, hit each other
penitent,
soul:
diseased.
X711.13
cured, holy
Q551.9.8
doubts dispelled V33.1.1
Body and
D1820.1.1
husband thinks
by
fire
Body and blood of Jesus: appear on
D1817.0.2
cvired
transports
F841.2.9
artist
Blind: accidentally hurt each other
cured
of
transports princess to barren land

Jesus:
portrait,
punished Q222.3
Blindness:
image
VI 28.4
oarless:
speech
loses
D2021.2
tricked
from wounded
flows
Virgin
tongue, elongated Q221.3.8
conversion
crucifix,
V331.1
Q22 1.3.6
holy
from
flows
struck dead, noxious odor issues
bishop,
W46.5
from blasphemer's mouth
flows
displayed
off,
rouses king's anger Q221.1
Blasphemous
mother prays
girl;
V256. 1.4.2
knife in ground, emerges bloody
tongue
cures
Virgin
dies
curses,
loses,
nonbeliever's
cures,
V256. 1.4.5
deformed
slipper,
enemy
Q451.7.6
drop out
eyes, eyes
doubts Virgin's
ri^t
Q451.7.7
twice the punishment for
demons Q221.3.10
carried off by
cvirses
for adultery
pionishment for perjury Q451.7.0.3
F1066
punishment
remitted
Boy:
killed
by
father.
Virgin
revives
E121.3.4
ALPHABETICAL INDEX
sang Gaude Maria,
impatience
buried
killed,
sends thief into well,
his
steals
and
sister:
Bravery, knight in battle: equals hermit's
Bravest
kni^t
to wait: third
waits for attack J57 1.6.
returned;
not
borrowed,
Bread:
empty when comes

J1552.4
with abscess
made
for
box
more
N383.2.1
monks
to
D1031.1.2
mute
pre-chewed by fox cures
D2161.3.6
Q581.1.1
not to fi^t goat, must fight lion
tamed cut
Virgin arranges for dissolute
replenished
magically
dough:
Bumed
Burning: Image of Virgin
two,
to
nurse
son,
dau^ter
ably with ass's J 1744.2,
X771
deteaed by mother H51.2,
resists
Virgin's
wears
modest,
chemise
bed
to
Butcher:
kills
sheep, they think he will not
P448.1
Butterfly:
prefers dunghill
over flowers
Buttocks: magic watcher
D1317.1
mistress's see, servant bares
K2052.1
chosen,
choice
virtuous
L213.3
poor, chosen, wealth revealed
celibate,
leaves
church, arsonist blinded
U 122.0.1
K1911.3.7
gives
bride
L2 1
ring,
them
X592
shown to figure of Jesus by blasphemer Q22 1.3.7, Q559.12
watchers of lazy slave Jl 5 1
.9.
T3 15.2
new
bride,
Virgin
serve
not going to church but Holy Land
K475.4
kill
K2285.0.1
rob
travelers
K828.4
to
old soldier, legal aid
insults,
baldness, lineage
J1281.1
responds to insult about stature
Broêl: brother changes clothes with

ter in, rescue
to
W27.3
permits
garb
truth-teller
them J152.19
Caesar: defends soldier in court J1289.21

gratefiil
Brigands: disguised as monks, rob
monks'
Cabbages: philosopher's,
say he wants
T376.1
in
Mary
Q55 1.8.9
Bride: compares husband's penis unfavor-
leaves
monk
D1841.3.2
A1313.3.4.2
Bridegroom:
to
stepmother, &lse accuser,
alive:
V412.3
poor,
adds
rape Q414.0.3.2
V412.1,V412.2
false,
one
violent
V255
to poor, replenish magically Q44.7,
Breasts:
homs, more
burden, dies J557.2

Burial: denied, wind opens church door
M57
Bread
off
J2107
Burdens, two travelers:
V222.1.5
counts as charity
at beggar,
U25
with lion (wol^)
J1022
hollow metal, heated, torture tool
D 1652. 1.1
supply inexhaustible
thrown
kills
J371.1
fluid
supplied
magically
rob graves, keep ftom starving

Bull: divided, lose fight
J234
know how
have three ofispring, she
them T4 15.
goods K345.2
life
youth to curb anger
atW196.1
V268.1.1
devout
of,
sis-
R152.1.1
J1281.3
be baker's son J1281.3.1
said to
whore cheats brothel keeper T45 1 .3
Cake, magic:
common
speech
Brother: hostile, unite against
danger P25 1.3.1
ALPHABETICAL INDEX
chewed by fox
restores
D 1507.5
Calendar: Caesar adds leap year
A1161
233
Calumniated: wife, saved ficom burning
women
at
Camel:
homs
denied
A2232.1,
to
why
K962
as sacrifice
has
A2232.1,
ears
short
they
are
D2161.2.4
Castration:
woman
on wakening D812.8
will
by
Dl 162.2
Mary
Virgin
siege of Antioch
song,
not to run
only
paradise
joking
as,
crosses
river
dream,
eyes,
fears seeing
priest,
persuades captor to
wtien
sister
visits
T331.12
freed
prince
falls
mother T33 1.11

ill,
pressure
sexual
T338.2
profene Host
prince,
fadier
surrounds
women T338.4
prince, woman tries
Q222.1.1
talk, release it
with
to
seduce
yells "thief," repels sexual
advance
T617.4
K561.1
release.
Virgin
frees
T331.9
R123.1
234
trapped
J1261.ll
Rl 2 1.6.3
for
exits, large, small, lion
closes
fiêd fix)m prison, con-
renegade
them
K730.3
magically
R121.il
verted
cat eats
Celibate: acquiesces to sexual advances
king's
interprets
and mice,
K1810.2.2
Cave: two
without captors' knowledge
captors,
J817
climbs tree to safety
wears monk's garb, catch mouse
confirms king's dream of
R121.6.5
tells
fiir
unite in batde with wolf J 1025.
K604
R121.6.6
prays
bum
cut ears,
K815.13
death M341. 0.7
kills
eats dieese J2 103.1

off,
trick,
truce, cats
K56 1.0.2
bird as, buys fi'eedom with coun-
as,
both
J1662
Captive: animal as, plea for liberty, only
Jew
eats
J156.5.2
V511.1.3
fi-eed,
sparrow, hare,
mouse,
kills
G72.2.1
G72.2.2
bird
mice
catch
to
K8 15.4.1
him by kingG61
fi-eed,
wall
Kl 867. 1.1
judges
siege of Jerusalem
bishop
death,
feigns
minstrel
to
gives
Dl 162.3
sels
on
hangs
K2061.9
Mary
magical
monk, catches mouse
death,
feigns
Cannibalism: courtiers' children served to
Canon:
him anyway
K1961.7
bum for bishop D 1 1 62.3.
not
pilgrim. Virgin (Santiago)
U31.1
Dl 162.4
Virgin
self,
disguised as
alight
D1131
Cat: cock pleads, cat eats
T481.15
altar
H548.2.8
cures V256.4
holds
tipped over, lover leaves in dark
Candle, magic: dance on
species
underwater, knight lured to F721 .5
erysipelas
against
Q243.0.3
own
mud, work, prayer
flx)m
Casde: at bottom of lake
received in dream,
kept
eat
V52.18
lit
Wlll.2.5
protects
not
Cart: four wheels of cart riddle

fireed
warm,
cat
if
do
B299.1.2
A2325.4
Candle:
of clothes
Carnality: punished with deluge
Carnivores:
J2072.5.1
oflFers self
deprived
as,
K2131.7
stake V252.2.1
mercy brings peace
Cell:
monastic,
there
monks
learn
goodness
V462. 1.1.1
ALPHABETICAL INDEX
Chains,
magic changes when
golden:
melted D1561.2.5
Champion:
saves
woman
for
women
H2 18.0.1
son
mother
saves
shames
Charity: harshly given
recipient
Chariemagne:
in
gave
hell,
Child, horse:
couple,
Childless:
returns
it
by
Choice of
Mary
Choices:
D1052.2,
priest
of,
golden,
read holy books, give to others,
neck
miser's
heart,
hold
U119.7
as beggar, saint feeds
future
power
warning,
carried
carry
enemy
sin
V2 11.5.5
oflF
P233.16, Q221.3.2
Christ's
answer to prayer T548.1
seven days after conception
F305.4
name: nonbelievers rendered
lent
on backwards
Christian: at
pagan coun, accused of
with two heads, conjoined
dis-
V352.2
becomes Arian,
killed
T551.2
si-
by D1766.7.1.2
loyalty
T55 1.2.1
to
please
king,
Q232.1.1,V324
does not heed Jew's warning,
is
his
right to take his horse J26.
days.
Virgin
revives
E121.3.2.2
dies
saint
walks on water, saves sinking ship
devils
head
on
V2 11.5.4
in
K1514.1,X711.7
blasphemed,
shelters
V222.17
rebukes, saint's joy over
J1054.1
four
saint
V211.2.1.1
off
Chicken house: wife hides husband
dead
Kl 8 11.0.3,
puts maiics of crucifixion
M312.0.2.3
demons
W12.3
disguised as leper,
B147.3.1.4
baby's
touches
V2 11.5.3
treasure
Chick: crested sign of future greamess
with
woman
appears, saves saint fix)m
pitch-covered,
in
dream,
hand bloody V21 1.5.2
V2 11.2.4
to beat oneself
P236.2
disregards
drvinken-
lust,
appears to bishop, rebukes malice
Q272.2
no gold found, dub
crested,
sell
ness J485
Christ: appears in
breaks
J80.3.2,
covetousness,
sins,
matter
putrefying
U119.7
&lls,
to Church, femily, or
poor J235
J485.1
jeweled or tarred L21
hold
makes bad
wife
H5 11. 1.3
money
Q55 1.8.8
Chest: choice
royal
gift:
choice
to white D454.3.1.2
bad
strangles
bom
baby
have
pray,
Children, royal: prepared to woric J148,
men H479.3
Chasuble: stained with wine. Virgin
bom
fix>m bridge. Virgin saves
J702.2
Chastity, test of: wife offered fine gifts
bom
bom
fell
to
titiies
knigJitsQ554.1.1
Child:
curses, they suffer aflQiction
P232.4
D1925.3, E121.4, V57.5
V425
lid,
cooked,
V258.1
H218.0.2
other
dismembered,
served SI 39.7
sheltered, deadi, aging, sadness J 147
H218.0.1.1
long-lost
mature in seven days F305.4
mother
land
regains
knight
is
killed,
combat
judicial
on pilgrimage, Santiago revives

E121.4
hami modier, she curses them S20.3
ALPHABETICAL INDEX
resist
sun worship, defeat foe V353
throat cut, survives until confess
N146.1
Christianity:
coming
of,
prophesied
M363.1
235
conversion to caused by:
devil as bull attacks. Virgin saves
V264
appearance of cross and host

of
angels
dream
in
he
appearance
KI771.10
of Host,
heretic
in tavern,
of
Nicholas
St.
V276.4
Mary
of Virgin
passive
of
Christian
resume
Jew, freed from
by Virgin
jail
thieves leave in well. Virgin saves
miracle of blood from crucifix
S146.1.1
V331.1
from
freed
by Virgin Mary
V331.1.9
dead son by
Mary V33 1.1. 13
Church: anacked by Moors, Virgin saves

V268.3.3
in
August
V111.5
money
collapses
P435.5
V21.7
rape
prevents
pope warned
sin,
mark
dif-
V82
shower
surrenders,
V462. 1.1.2
of
golden
K2365.2
siege likened to ascetic
and
bum
hand of doubter
D1053, E368
K445, X502
adultery
K1543
sister, res-
cue R152.1.1
women,
deprived
of
K2131.7
emperor's new,
D 1845.2
invisible, tricksters
thief,
exchange, rich
man and
poor
man
good man pleads
exchanged with prisoner K521 .4. 1,
R152.1
cat
is
T48 1.14
Cloud: blinds enemy D2091.il

for
W35.5
Cock: copulation with hen, hermit aroused by T338.3
on
Virgin,
dove calms sea
V268.4.3.1
claims passive part in sex act, not
X741
damned for disobedience Q235.2
sin
236
Cloak: droplets
hair brushed off, lover leaves, noise
temptation J8 1.5
Cleric: calls
foot,
K527.3.1
City: going to, occasion of sin
Clemency: for
lift
K445, X502
K2284.0.1
Circumcision: erase original
under
too lazy to
confer invulnerability
treacherous,
apples
classical
Will. 1.7
falls
captive
church
T47 1.0.4
ference
H566
Climbing ladder: man
riddles
Clothes: brother changes with
vinable to enter, without confession
Churchmen:
answers biblical and
slave:
marked by go-between,
built with usurer's
Virgin's
Clever
Cloth: visible only to legitimate children
where snows
it
V255.4
Virgin teaches humility
resuscitation of
build
prayers, finish Virgin's robe
stubs toe, invokes devil C12.4.3
Mary V331. 1.8
slave,
buD
V276.1
V331.1.12
Virgin
guilt
V268.6
Jew, dead hero's hand raised
slavery
no
acts,
prays Virgin, save friend fixjm
life
V331. 10.1, V331. 10.2
Muslim
sexual
in
K2058.4
V331.1.11
goodness
V469.
monastery
leaves mistress, enters
V331.1.6
appearance
wrongly arrested N347.1
joyful in suffering of enemy
V331.1.10
appearance
imprison devils in flask
will
V331.1.2
by
killed
captor, pleads usefiilness
U33
pleads
usefiilness
to
escape
cat
K561.1.1
rules
many
hens,
man
fruls
with
ALPHABETICAL INDEX
Corpse:
one T252.2
man
disinterred
Combings: dead
sinless
in
heaven Fl
in
Corpse uncorrupted: emit sweet fragrance
D2167.0.4
K512.0.3
flowers
baby T59 1.0.4

Condemned man: eyes taken out, choose
instrument K558
to select hanging tree K558
saint
marks erase
sins
cries,
sees
Count: wife runs
both lovers
kills
U121.7
Country mouse: chooses poverty with safe-
sees enemy's severed
head
ty J21 1.2
Courtier:
him W46. 1.2
hears
accompany
mass,
misses
ambush
V4 1.2.2
defeated enemy's crown
fireed
disguised, pilgrim
kingK1815.3
pretends he will join king in retreat
W46.1.3
from torment, confess
J836
V2 1.0.1
slim book,
cross
in
dream
in
sky,
sins
V331.1.2
Q20.3.2,
uses tale to teach king J8 17.5

Courtiers malign king: pardoned because
baptism V515.4
Covetous and envious: twice the wish to
W46.5
Consul: invites captive
were drvink J8 1
enemy
the
to consult
Cow:
P12.9.1
active: friais,
both prayers
V3 16.3
beauty,
apple
prize,
HI 596.1
fiigjiten guest
ALPHABETICAL INDEX
P463.2
.4
enemy J2074
snake
drinks
milk
fix)m
teats
B765.4.2
Crab:
golden
judgement of Paris
Cook: threatened to
good deeds, big book
V22.1
infants
blood
bathe,
vision, cross, after
valued
he
H951.1
does not permit enemy to kneel
Contest:
ofiF,
T481.28
conquered lands
W46.1
Contemplative,
"Ave"
with
Countess: babies to drink only her milk
W46.1.1
refuses,
D2 167.0.3
leaves
D2 167.0.1
in
confession V21.5
Constantine:
mouth
Countertask: hold back rivers to drink sea
Q20.6
written, tear
Conspirators:
and wife
bears
tree
erases
contrition
written,
from
issue
D2167.0.2
Conception: climate determines sex of
before
vic-
punishes disrespect P672.1.5
care of shepherd
spares king's wife K512.1.1
restores
El 71
K97.3
tory
intombK512.5
cries,
in grave
Corpse of dead hero: leads troops to
Compassionate executioner: hides victim
Confession:
makes room
usurer, destroys church
lover, turn white, sign
baby
over,
Q147.1
1.1
T472.3
leaves
by them
X521
rolls
judged
carried only
prostitutes'
heart
J81.6
in:
carry
to
D 1654.9.1
ished, king loses batde Q243.0.1
Coma, abbot
heavy
too
magically
woman: pun-
like tranquil
gold at robbers
spits
holds sheep robber fest E235.7
V64.1
Coin: dropped in water,
sea
at
E235.7
can only serve one wife J133.7

CoflBn: cast overboard with money, burial
Cohabitation with Jewish
ship
luck,
N134.2
serves sexually fifteen hens,
Conqueror:
bad
brings
sapphire in dungjiill J1061.1
mother scolds children
for
gait
J1063.1
mother teaches
to
walk sideways
A244 1.4.2
237
squeezes
crane's
throat,
by nature,
evil
kills
K953.3.5
walks
sideways,
from
learned
new
carries fish to
peacock's
W 154.3
have
other,
pretends to cure eagle, blinds
united defeat
on sheep, sheep
U31.2
seen on left bad
rides
locusts J45 1.2.1
Crocodiles: spare obedient
monk
crossing
W3 1.1
above, below
deceptive:
and
tree roots,
wheat,
eagle to drop snail,
tells
it
K171.1
leaves
divided:
Crow
Crow's egg:
N252.2
man
holy
Cross:
arms
accepts
viaim
save
D1719.6.3
magic
silences
Dl 7 19.6.1
wine
rendered
safe
dog,
on
sits
sheep
bloody
ill
serve
will
owls
omen
eagle's
eyes,
necklace
onion
238
theft
baptism
D2 16 1.5.1
D2 16 1.4.9
Q94.1
blindness
for
in
magic
spring
magic
spring
water,
blindness
marriage
cures
lovesickness
absent treatment by
man D2 16 1,2.
man cures at
juice
holy
distance
F950.7.1
in
snake's
drops pebbles in water jug,
JlOl
proof of
holy
hole
K401.2.2, K2155.5
rises
sack:
Cure, marvelous:
B147.2.2.1
K1955.2.2
drops
in
H151.4
F950.8.1
care for aged parents B773.5
cure
D 1622.4
stomped
Q94.1
K477.4
bird of
when
D2161.3.1
W121.2.3
battered,
when stabbed
D1500.1.7.3.5
B321
breaks J132.1
of
cares
bread chewed by fox restores voice
eagle to drop shells
advises eagle to drop snail, shell
afiiaid
excessive
Cure: anger cures paralysis
David's sling D1719.6.2
Moses's rod D1719.6
Crow: advises
Crucifix: bleeds
Cup, placed
D1766.6.4.1
wood of
punished T647.
brings
J347.2,J347.2.1
bishop's ruddy face cleared
D1766.6.4.3
Cross,
refiased,
bleeds
poisoned
accused of adul-
K2 105
on earth J1289.27
V331.1.2
of:
U31.4
Crucified: philosopher, can die in air or

skull
Cross, angels: appear, convert emperor
Cross, sign
eats
B147.2.1.1
stork's nest, stork
Crown:
crossed
omen
stork's nest,
tery
W26.4
crow
(hawk, falcon): song for safety of

dove's chicks
Crops: burned, holy man accepts patiently
destroyed,
omen
J758.4
two, good
covers
trickster
Kl 7 1.0.3
smaller share
helpless
B147.2.2.1.1
ground K171.1
Crop,
it
KlOU
enemies J1025.1
all
cau^t among
division,
spy
K2042
laws
serves food to fox in bottle Jl 565.1
Crop
camp,
A2494.13.14,B261.1,K477.4,
B773.1.1
stream
enemy
infiltrates
J657.3,K815.14
each
unmasked
feathers
J951.2
them
lake, eats
walk J512.6
imitates partridge's
in
Crane: bone from wolfs throat
Cricket:
on sheep
rides
U120.1.1
mother U121.1
love
Jesus cures
woman
at a distance
F950.7
level
Curlew: heron, feed mate

in
it
fish
with stick
K813.3
ALPHABETICAL INDEX
leads lover to
ambush and death
Dead
Curse:
lifted
by prayer, penitence M423.1
Cvirse
on
man cultivated
cursed M474
Cut-off nose: dupe thinks he cut
cleric: returns, insincere
masses
returns,
ofif
prayers of
not
paid
E301.2
restor-
Dead kni^t:
X711.1
wives of barber, carpenter T48 1.10
friend to
make amends
Dead man: penance completed by

C94.1.1,D2174
retums,
retums
Q281.1.2
suffocates fether, installs lover
retums,
retums,
ill-
K22 14.1
fails
of salvation
tells
how Virgin
saved
him
him E366
kills
Dead
motfier: retvims, covered with fiery
V475.6
snakes E323.9
Deacon, confession
of:
power
retums, grateful for son's prayers
to relieve
E323
drought V24.2
Dead: give responses to prayer
for
dead
retums,
E499.7
good
priest's prayers
Dead nun:
rise grateful for
tells hell's
abbess, nuns complete her
penance E412.2
holy water, prayer
Dead
E499
pilgrim: retums,
lord to die
Dead abbot and monks: punish
cellarer
Dead
apostate's hand: swells, points to
E369
returns to do penance
prior:
Dead
in defeat
Dead
E326.1
ALPHABETICAL INDEX
their
tell
of torment
Dead
ftitile
master studies
E368
scholar: in hell for vainglory, greed,

lust
pilgrimage
retums to
pupil: retums, tells
are
E325
by
warns that
E30 1.8
E243
alms not given E425.2.3
saved
pain, heaven's
E323.4
joy
E481.1.4
returns,
friend
retums, twisted, demons torment
J512.16
renounces vows, Arian king
brother:
tells
E366
Deacon: abduaed by enemies R39.
Dead
pride
against
E301.1
Daughters: treacherous, afQiaed with
imitates eagle,
warn
to
E301.5
band's family P266
heaven
masses E301.6
E301.3
Daugjiter-in-law: deserted, stays with hus-
Dead
grateful for
retums
S22.4
Q28 1
torment
ungrateftol, devils
for
goods to
E301.2
suckles imprisoned parent P234.3
for
give
retums to restore shoes to owner
P234.6
grateful
must
retums to ask brothers for prayers
saves father from death sentence
Daw:
brothers
poor E4 15.2.2
cures
saint
saves father from attacker P234.5
ness
debts
his
E415.3.1
Dead monk:
curses,
are
retums, stolen goods, be returned
promise to marry
T55.1.3
mother
chains
E41 5.3.1
P232.3, P232.5, S21.8

father,
friend
E412.2
Daughter: abused mother, soul tormented
kill
for
E411.il
his sin
Dancers: cursed to dance until released
helps
for
E4 15.3.1
wife's
retums, scholar saved, bishop not
miraculous
believes
ation
him
nouseE301.7
K1512
nose
man
Dead
church
land:
land,
canon: asks canons to pray for
E411.12
K813.1
E412.8
sister:
prayers
retums grateful for
saint's
E325
239
Dead
commended
son:
Vii^,
to
revived
E121.3.5.1
Dead
thief:
Dead
usurer: resdess in grave in church
do penance
retvims to
H301
Demon: carry
days E41 1.0.2.1
monks
attacks
grave,
monk,
asks
returns,
lover
for
to
comb
for-
Deny:
E365
mother
returns, offended
blows from angel Q551.9.5
E361.4
in past
E365.0.1
testimony
if
rabbi's
false
is
by
dragging
asses,
humiliation
Q499.2.3
Destiny: better than work, intelligence,
as
dance
Z111.7
and pupil die
predicted: abbot
visits
when dead,
skin
is
as
Debate: belly and other members A1391,
soul E727.1
cat, cock, usefulness
K56 1.1.1
Christian, Jewish scholars
V35 1
fer
.2
saint
is
greater: saints, in
as
from net by
unite, safe
Demands:
240
cleric
Christ,
deteaed
imposture
childhood
hermit's
love
Jew,
wants
G303. 16.5.4
deric
renege
to
monkey,
will
money
steal
G303.3.3.2.7
as
fiiends
as
as
old
woman, monk
to
leave
as
B545.1
from hunters J1025.4
excessive to prevent marriage
pagan god G303.9.4.12
spider,
woman
bites
G303.3.2.11
suf-
dishonor J22 1 .3
filled
Kl 8 1 1 .4.3
drunken
G303.3.1.12.4
dream, urge peace J466.2

Debt not owed, better to pay: than to
Deer:
strife
to
G303.3.1.15
V351
wWdi
rule
G303.3. 1.12.3
as
hear masses, hear sermons J466.3

simple bishop, pagan philosopher
Debate,
abbot,
bull
as incubus exorcised
J461.1
body and
change
G303.3.2.1
ass
drum W128.4.1
days
G303.3.3.1.4
as:
from beating: beat
respite
as:
at
same time E765.4.3.2
nine
fast
V235.3.1
seen as composite beast Zl 1.3.1
W46.4
to
abbot
tells
all
rules
G303.3.2.6
monk names those to die M341 .0.4

sentences, king revokes
revise
G303.3.2.2
monk
figure leads worldly
G303.6.2.8;
abbot to
angel:
deacon bishop to die
tells
man
Devil: appears to dying
M341. 1.1.1
Death,
mob storms
house Q222.2
charm N142
S112
Death
man pun-
dying
acts:
Q243.7
Desecration, image of Christ:
Death: bishop's foretold M341.1
by burning
Q551.9.4
Depraved sexual
ished
Deaf, mute: Virgin cures V256. 1 .4
human
punished, three mortal
Trinity,
Virgin, punished, internal bleeding
returns, grateflil for prayers
God
power
losing
into
D630.1.1.1
diaracter flaw
confesses
returns,
Virgin
ofif.
G303. 16. 1.1
tricked
condemned
ever E30 1.10
run
knigjit's wife
saves
masses E312
returns,
command
Virgin's
at
G303. 16.8.3
E41 1.4.1
Dead woman:
name
Jesus's
G303. 16.8.1
leave
from
robber's soul E121.3.6
hearing
at
flee
E411.4
rises
oflF
dwell in pagan idols G303. 16.8.2
thirty
victualler,
tempts
monks
G303.9.4.11
bishop to renege
for
new
post
G303.9.4.8.1
ALPHABETICAL INDEX
carry
daughter
abusive
off:
Rl 1.2.1.3
emperor Rl 1 .2. 1
judge Rl 1.2.3
evil
evil
cast out of calumniator
cause
injuries
at
putrid odor of G303.4.8.1
mock
by
by
sends
take
traveler
raffish
woman,
shelter
tricks
time
for
churchmen send
sinners
monk
reformer
nun
to
wealth
fether
name
who
wife's lover
all
who
G303.24. 1.4.1
herd
of
boars
attacks
G303.3.1.29
cest
woman of in-
G303.3.1.30
Moors
taugjit
him
man's
soul
G303.3. 1.3.1
vassal
his
G303.3.5.4
huge
teeth,
come
to
dine
G303.1.17
bear,
basilisk,
M211,V264.1
G303. 16.5.5
go
wtiere
monk
prays
away
holy
man
by
G303.16.15.2
cheated of promised soul
attacks
asceticism
G303.3.1.28
prayers
fiiar's
G303. 16.2.3.7
chased
vanquishes
prayer
griffin
G303. 16.2.3.6
cannot
returned to signer, saved
nostrils
fiery
G303.3.5.5
Devil defeated: by simple
G303.9.4.8.2
charity
G303. 16. 19.21
G303.3.0.2
lion,
be
who
lion
hairy,
for
offer
ty," flees
Devil changes form: bull, hairy savage,
G303.3.1.26
pilgrim,
killing
Devil begs for apple: cannot utter "chari-
promises
G303.3.1.26
pilgrim
into
Devil as false priest: accuses
mud
G303.6.1.8
paralytic's
hermit
unbearably hideous G303. 3.0.1
sin
G303.9.4.4
laughs utien other &lls in
paa with,
Christ
unable to record names of
with
G303.3.1.31
nei^bors
deny
misbehave in churdi
induces bishop and
must
to
confessed V20.
in brodiel, fi^ts
man
&st nine days, almost
youth
unable to
haunts house, exorcised G303.15.3
makes
fortvine
K943
J1263.1.6
magician.
hoarded
K824.2
tempts
G303.6.2.8.1
magician
tempt humans
to
G303.9.4.8.11
G303. 1.12.3.1
pleads
dying man,
grateful,
monk
dies
G303.3. 1.3.1
distressed
snake
cleric's
tells
as
discord
G303.16.1.2
off
disguised as gentleman G303.3.1.3
disguised
for
woman,
old
G303. 10.20
confession
Rll.2.1.2
bishop
G303.10.5
riddler
G303.16.9
deny delay to miser, cany him
with
G303.3. 1.3.1
sends
sinner's
laugh
woman
seductive
bishop
skirt, falls
devils
Q331.2.1.5
mother
G303.16.1.4
defeated
other
off,
battle
G303.3.1.16
defeated
on woman's long
rides
E728. 1 .2
endangers
son,
fix)m painter
P482.1.1
D2163.3.1.1
dead
away
scaffold
pulls
confession
protects
K2
8.4
against
G303.16.9
over
asceticism
G303.3.1.28
ALPHABETICAL INDEX
vanquished
by
sign
of
cross
G303. 16.3.4.1
241
when
vanquished
Host
K1290
passes
G303. 16.5.3
Devil disputes
ty
begs at table, indifferent elsewiiere
saint: saint
wins for humili-
K2094.1
G303. 16. 11.
chooses safety over
Devil gets woman's ring: uses
it
to accuse
herG303.9.4.3.1
eats
soul returns G303.16.15.1
man
holy
names
proud of its dog J953.
misbehavers
of
sleepers
says sheep stole bread
G303.24.1.7
B301. 1.1.1
enter chapter G303.25.3.3
tricked
Devils anack fleeing monks: Virgin pro-
Dog, sent
them G303. 16.8.4

G303.25.20
Devils in monastery: do mischief
among
monks G303.25.3.4
prefer
it
because
Dog, testament
resist
Doors:
church,
given Christian burial
may
C6 11. 1.2
sinner
through
saint
D1713.4
sovil
Virgin helps gambler win
N. 1 .2. 1
may
enter
sees Virgin in
dream
pilgrims
Doubting monk:
V510.7
lover as priest to escape
husband
Dove: elea hawk as
K521.6
K2357
wolf changes voice to
fool
punished in
grateM
knows
H682.1.10
sinM monk's mouth
for rescue
from drowning
B362
have king B242.2.2
Physician):
hot onion
cures foot, cures eye
P466
poisons princess, to drink poison
K824
same remedy,
X372.6
lead
man
to treasure B558.1
not to throw chicks to fox K601.3

not to throw fledîngs to fox, fox
to
sore eye, sore foot
dimb
to get
them J21.54
trained to eat grain, prophet's ear
Kl 962.1
abandoned babies B535.0.16
Dog: accuses sheep of
242
out of
V345
hell
W159.4
mouth
V345.1
flies
in,
Distance: earth to heaven, devil
raises
out of dying monk's
flies
kids
K1832
Disputation: pride
Doe:
their king J643.2.1,
K815.8
to enter enemy's castle
too
pass
D1557.1
K52 1.4.1
also
not
V268.10
shatter,
when persecution ceases
Q570.2
(see
priest
church. Virgin opens for worshiper
Nl.2.1
Disguise: in clothes of other sex
Doctor
rains,
J352.2
sinners
Die, broken: saves gambler's
Disease: remitted
of:
paws wet,
Wl 1 1.2.4
J1607
Donkey: given to poor, distraas
G303.25.3.1
Dice game: won by
by wolves K815.3
out, called in:
paws dry not
Devils attack witch's grave: capture her

soul
B331.2
U3 1.1.1
takes food to imprisoned master
Devil reigns in parts of monastery: cannot
tects
him
she drives
saves child, killed in error
names
street
keeps master's body afloat B299. 13
of
G303.24.1.3
writes
on
fierce
away U45
G303.24.1.10
writes
home,
gives bitch bed,
by
remains
eats
K2031.1
G303.24. 1.4.1
out
crow
first,
friendly at
Devil in church: fiustrated by length of

list
kill
A2 545.3.1
Devil has monk's soul: monk's penance,
thrown
reward
tfiief s
J211.3
theft
of bread
Dove's femily
killed:
builds nest in
same
place Jl 6
ALPHABETICAL INDEX
Dovecote: husband hides
warns of danger D1813. 1.3.1
Downfall of emperor, persecutes Chris-
false-
M342. 1.1
philosopher knows M342.1
down
with
tail
rescued, breaks promise, returned
M205.5
leprosy
causes
blood:
Bll.2.13.1
victories
found
girl,
royal
line
M312.0.4.1
M312.0.4.1
M370.2
captive interprets D1812.3. 3.0.4
death
bishop's
sees
D1812.3.3.12
enemies
will attack
false interpretation
father
sees
duke M342.1.2
future
infant's
hermit's, knight to
be king M314.5
D 181 3.5
woman
by
bishop
conquer
to
territory
Holy
fi-ee
M314.6
Land
fulfilled
M370.3
M312.0.4
Drowned: man, prayed
sack
wife,
to Virgin, revives
in
sea.
Virgin
saves
V256.5.1.1
Drowned
child:
Drowned
on pilgrimage. Virgin
re-
El 2 1.3.5
girl child:
Virgin revives during
river
S113.3
image
of
Virgin
avenge
Christ's
death
M312.0.4.3
will kill father
Mary
resists
confession, revived
V251.1.1
monk. Virgin saves soul of V256.5

Drowning man: saved by Santiago's name
D1766.7.1.2
saved
to
Virgin,
is
D 184 1.4.7
noise in wind,
is
empty
J262.1
Drunk: unable to speak to confessor, dies
M3 12.0.4.4
sun's rays fi-om wife's
shows
man, without
Drum: makes
re-interpreted J 1 528.
Virgin
die
to
him V268.2
man. Virgin resuscitates V256.5.1
Drowning woman: prays
pregnant woman's D1812.3.3.8
son
bull
D 184 1.4.6
pregnant woman, son's greamess
will
wounded
leaves
K2255.3
M342.3
M3 12.0.4.2
son
devotee's. Virgin cures
V256.4.4
Drowning: husband, kicks wife into
interpreted
pope's death
causes chain of events
Z43.7.1
D1712.3
knight's,
wants
funeral E121. 3.1
king will be assassinated
lineage
entrails:
be honored
oflFered price for sheep,
vives
king judged in J157.4
king's,
endrcled by
city
more J1473.1
D17 12.4. 1.1
D1812.3.3.8.1
Jesus appears
Dream, holy
Drover:
bishop's death fulfilled
deacon
Dream vision: hero will defeat enemy

when dead V51 0.10
Dropsy:
milk
mother's
only
drink
of prey: must hunt usurers
Drop of honey:
M312.10
baby,
townsmen
tricks
rustic
H617.2
future
prediCTs
baby
Dream bread:
K444
Dream of birds
Dreamer:
advises in D1814.2.1
angel
H6 17.1
come
interpret: lineage will
venomous Bll.2.13.1
Dream: angel
enemy
beasts attack: interpreted,
D1814.2.2
Bll.10.4
Dragon's
Dream
will
Dragon: guards hermit's food Bll.6.5

victim
beat author for misogyny
Q396
Downfall of king: dream interpreted
holds
women
M342.1.3
tians, will die
ly
V5 11.2.8
wife with
in,
T481.il
lover
womb Z106
hell's
torments
ALPHABETICAL INDEX
X802
Drunkard
sees double: sees four children,
kiUswifeJ1623.1
243
11
Drunkard's wife to undergo ordeal: he
must
hand
wife
iron
Emissary: killed in place of intended vic-
man
dies
Emperor: answers,
N341
tim
J1623.2
Drunken
Emetic: detects theft of food Jl 144.1
red-hot
punished,
taunt:
Jl 320.0.1
Drunkenness: leads hermit to covetousness, lust

sin of
monk
V5 11 .2. 1
common
to
daily
soldiers
win batde F711.9
descends to sea
L315.7
called,
in boiling oil in hell for
good end, not cure
insists
on own
Host, goes to hell V39.8
knows
who
will
V205.2
C951,F591.1
die
be trained to rule
to
oflEspring
J148
death
orders
own feathers
Eagle: arrow fi-om
kills
U161
of
7,000
citizens
SI 10.0.1
brings fish to saint B469.1
pardons defeated
do not
dungbeede season
refuses cure, bathe in infant blood
ring in slave's lap
rewarded,
nest,
A243 1.3.9
drops
oflBcial's
drops tortoise and

close
flies
to
kills it
sun,
is
J657.2
consumed
B32.2
leads rescuer to treasure
B36
sea; they foul
Employer:
Empress:
V34.6
on
with pebble
B749
create discord, monastery
V461.10
Election: king of birds B236.1.1
K1265
work
J151 1.9.1,
X592
defeated,
turns
D1317.1,
over
wealth
U35.3
falsely
can destroy Jl 476.1
insane
her buttocks have eyes to
check
body. Host applied, accepts
river
clothes: invisible, tricksters
falsely called
says
who cau^t heron
L315.9
fail,
fiiend
V41.1
Emperor's new
U130.4
threatens felcon
dams
physician
in
floor
K445, X502
not carry heron over
opens
under
P317.1.1
tain
beedes shake
L315.7
Elders: try,
PI 5. 1.3
trapped in mine, wife's prayers sus-
lays eggs, Zeus's lap,
Earthen pot:
treasure
Q44.5
shows feitii
king of birds B242. 1.1
Eaiith: rejects
fte
Q20.3.2
N352.1.1
244
divinity
never laughs, punishes questioners
M341.0.5
Eel:
murders
Q2 11.0.3
people W26.7.4
monk:
son died
P233.2.2
J893.5
refiases
son to woman,
gives
Jl 28 1.3
for
peace
in
Q20.3
he needs
replies
tomb
J914.5
A243 1.3.9
king called, by enemies, not by
Dying
floor, glass barrel
foi^ve enemies, ruled
destroy eagje's eggs
Dying man: prays
subjects
eleaed, to choose stone for
defeats eagle
{see also Beetle):
own
courtiers,
P15.1.3
sacrifices self to
stilts
to
gifts
Wl 1.2.1
T495.4
Dwarf: Caesar
sinners
like
live
L420.0.2
in hell
handed over
Dungbeede
to rule, not fi^t
be gods,
aspire
J485
Duchess: abused, impaled vaginally SI 77
Duke:
bom
J1281.3.2,W26.7.3
accused of
infidelity,
saved
V252.3.1
Jerusalem, seeks true cross V85.5
orders son's eyes put out
Enchanted pear
tree:
ers in tree,
P23 1 .4.
blind husband, lov-
cured
K1518
ALPHABETICAL INDEX
Enemy:
carries
deacon,
ofif
will kiU
him
diou^ts,
Evil
R39.1
ambushed
by banquet,
K2365.4
Ivired
make peace
J80.3.1
bones resdess in grave E41 1.12

grave
K871.1
Excreta:
show
by
persuaded
of
wealth
escaped by
common en-
Enemy brothers: unite,

emy J624.3
fight
English,
drink
short-lived:
has
nightingale
crows
A2494.13.14,
Executors, usurer's
flicted
heresy Q469.7
out
removal
for desecrating
remove
sand
of,
punishment
as
cure
for
to repress lust
sent to king
band's loss
treasure
K525.il
Eyes
wife,
T317.12
who admired them
wife removes one to

for
headache
T327
K574
and Good: share
re-
KlOll.l
churdh
Escape: invader convinced he would suf-
Evil
remove
Q451.7.8
against
Q222.5
substitute
restitution, af-
Q55 1.9.9
mother orders son's eyes put out

protects
usurer's heirs subjea to P435.9
fer
no
Q451.7.5
cures
Virgin
will:
illness
Q45 1. 7.0.4, Q55 1.6.5.2

gouged
D2161.24
punishment
woman
maining eye to match J1512.2

Eyes:
fidl
out,
punishes blasphemy
V256.6.1
candle
with
to the one-eyed person:
own K477.4
devotees'.
magic
innocent
Expenses, royal: exceed income J342.2
Entry into enemy's camp: pretending mis-
Erysipelas:
K512.0.1.2
kill
H215
Eye
twisted fixjm body, to punish
treatment in
to
dead Q272.5
B261.1.K477.4, K2042
Entrails:
princelings
Executor of will: does not pay masses for
mongoose and snake A2494.12.2

monkey and lion A2494.7.1
and
woman
unable
and leopard A2494.12.2
owls
and
wife
spares
A2494.13.13
lion
woman
hanged
K512.0.1.1
A2494.13.13.1
and
mid-air
in
fix)zen
with
sex
spares
herbivores
A2494.7.4
falcon
confession Jl 189.5
T466.1
X801
kite
.3
D2072.0.1, R176.1
excessively
France drunk, cannot
and
Al 599.4.1
K512.5
arm
Executioner:
carnivores
self V25
look at
false
three knights
J1320.0.1
and
why humans
Execution: cancelled R176.1
K2365.3
felcon
boiling water
foiol
helped to restore
overcome, banquet, doctored wine
speak
with
filled
E4 11. 0.2.3
L416.3
Enmity:
association with,
punished by death Q436.
in order to rule jointly
J218.2
in
bare
hinder
to
inability
Excommunicated person:
of Christians defeated, son killed
Englishman:
to hinder:
inability
wind,
chest,
upper and
tom
out:
match hus-
T215
magically
replaced
D2161.3.1.1
lower parts K1635, Z121.3

Evil rich
man: bury with honors,
hermit
lion eats
U 11.3
Evil spirit: e^qjelled fix)m bishop's
E728.1
ALPHABETICAL INDEX
Face:
woman
disfigures, saves self fixim
kingT327.8.1
enemy
youth
disfigures, to avoid
tion
tempta-
T333.3
245
Faiiy
cloak protects from fear and
gift:
sloth
F312.1
proteas
tunic
fether dies
against
F312.1
Father, Jewish:
revives
Virgin
figure.
Father's advice: find treasiore, dig soil in
vineyard J 154
eats chicks, hunters catch
hand,
hunter's
L302
in
W26.7.3
miraculously
Favorite: accused of disloyalty
D1816.2.2
great height. Virgin saves
woman
to
enemies wound. Virgin saves
God,
to
knife
tiTroatQ223.1.3
kills
fells,
man uses sickle on D1206.1.1

woman works, right arm affliaed
Fast, failure to: devils, flames torment sin-
Q223.1.2
ner Q223.9. 1.1

carries off sinner
Fasting: excessive,
Q223.9.1
number of days, Caesar

mines All 61
February:
devotee of Virgin
kills
T317.4
Wl 11.1.3.1
K812.2
between
Figjit:
J482.2.2
child,
over depravity
File:
thought to be food J 1 772. 15
Fire:
chapel,
church, image Viipn, Child, safe
three children, over depravity
V268.8
Sll.3.9
daugjiter,
from tyrant
save
church. Virgin's
son play in
river,
both drown
kindled magically
P233.16.1
V465.1.1.5
Virgin's veil extinguishes
S11.9
he
die,
tests son's loyalty
dies
Q586.1
HI 569.04
weds
marry daughter T41
daugjiter to
vides
man who
thou^t
Fish:
cau^t
keep
pro-
T69.6
Father and son captured: one must die,
246
Firefly:
to be
fire
Firewood, magic: bleeds
throws infent across stream P234.4

tries to
D2 158.1
raped goddau^ter
priest's throat,
seeks to corrupt son, son leaves
bad sons
unharmed
relics
V268.8.2
T314.1
sees
V52.7
unharmed
Virgin,
statue
V268.8.1
P236.8
lets
Virgin intervenes
Fingers: knuckles guide to prayers
dying overhears children's greed
kills
sailors.
V268.ll
P233.12
Sll.3.10
kills
owners burned to death
Fields: set afire,
dies instead of son
to rear. Virgin cures
V256.1.5.4
chooses husband for daughter
dismembers
tum
twisted,
Fasts fifteen days: too lazy to eat, table of
food
deter-
Feet: self-severed. Virgin restores V256.4.1
J557.2
represses lust
Father:
in retirement
J1634
Q558.4.1
dragon
accompany king
Feast day: leatherworker, sews, needle in
V264.6
raises
by coxortiers
K2141.1
V268.7
Farmer:
small patch every day J 154.2
emperor acknowledges patiendy
Faults:
found
form of sententiae Jl 540.2
weed
strangles
B331.1.2
Fall:
son wtio sang "Gaude
Jewish, puts son in oven S1I.8
wax
E169
lost:
kills
Maria" E121.3.4
L315.9
dies,
Falcon
asked
killer,
by pope V44 1.2
evil-doing
Falcon: attacks threatening eagle, wins
leaves
Rl 53.3
Father of slain son: forgives
magically
litde
one
when
cut
D1298
D2156.12
in net J321.2
swallows hook,
is
caxoght
Fish for royal guests: Virgin

magically
D2 158.2
J1761.3
K746.
Mary supplies
D 1032. 1.1
ALPHABETICAL INDEX
Fishennan:
make
to
feils
dance to
fish
flute Jl 909.1
goods to shipwrecked
re-
sailor,
ward Q45. 0.1

joys
five
number,
D1273. 1.2.2
magic
woxmds
five
cannot
avoid
"This
to,
proves
Rea:
bites,
wound
arrow
am
mortal" J 128 1.8
its
nature Jl 179.5.1,
is
it
controls camel J953. 10.1.1
it
Flesh of child: eaten by starving mother
fetfier
Nl 1
personified as beautifiil equestrian
Fox: bears
tail's
wei^t,
not share
will
afiOia
insects:
enemy
have eyes: only blind humans have
over hungry ones
pull vehicle,
stores
his
tree with eagle's nest
L3 1 5.3
K828.2
feigns illness, enters roost
pun-
L421
Floating in
eat
J1521.1.1,Q277.1
blames tiiombush for injury J656.1
grapes, out of reach, they are sour
J215.1
Fli^t to heaven: eagjes

ished
wolf to
betrays
bums
soul's eyes J893.1

Flies, sated preferred:
river:
J871
great fox, squire
man
Win. 1.5
laps blood shed
A1018.4
changes
lies,
tale
infearX904.2.1
too lazy to drink
Flood: as punishment, Neptune, Athens
by
goats,
is
killed
J655.3
lures
wolf into well K810.1.2
A 1021
Neptune punishes Athens A 163.2
plays
world
punished for inhospitality Q292. 1
escape in boat (ark)
without
punished
kings
A1018.5
meal to
D2151.9
waters:
prayer
Flower grows
stoik, flat dish
dead
to trap prey
W158.1
A2466.3
.
rescued fi^m well, wolf trapped
R141.2
dried: bishop's prayers protect city
serves
church saved
fi?om
by
crane
food
in
dish
flat
Jl 565.1
D2 143. 1.3.1
sheds coat but not hean J1281.3.3
fix)m moutfi of dead: Virgin
tail
causes, grave discovered

Flute, extra hole in: valued
V255.1
filth,
noise
A2522.8
excommunicated
D 1443.2
head
J2102.3.1,
N333.1
ALPHABETICAL INDEX
together, set afire, destroy
enemy K235 1.1

lion,
tells
make
dispute beauty with ants J242.6
heretic's
not to be shared with ape J341.1
tails tied
more than
mosque J372
Fly: bite, create
on
it
W156.1
D2163.5.4
Flood
power of holy
Z134
and stinging
Flood
N685
VI 32.2.2
Fortvina: personified as goddess
G61
Flies
fare
D2161.5.2.4.2, D2161.5.2.4.8
Fornicating priest: disables
G72.2.1
Flesh of children: king serves to
Flies
ridi
Foot severed: restored by Virgin Mary
water
K551.30, U120.1
thinks
over
Fool: passes as wise, remains silent
punished, beheaded Q393.4
reply
chosen
J245.2.1
supplied magically D2105.2.1
M341.2.4
Flatterer:
D 1039.3
V331.1.11
humble,
prince
death:
Food: Christ's wounds sweeten
generous man's supply replenished
D1273.1.2.1
Five-fold
mule scorns
J953.19
Flying tower: touches neither earth nor
sky F772.2.6
number,
magic
Five:
threatens to bite mule,
wolf skin
is
remedy
K810.1
tracks going in lion's den,
none
exit
J644.1
tricks:
bear, fish with tale in ice
K1021
247
wing
under
head
bird,
of peace
kiss
hoof
ass's
restores
plays dead: does not permit removal
Gardener:
cends K651
Garland
K8 15.21
Friar: critic, idolatry,
bad luck
rest
of
life
punished,
of
Garment
Gem:
Mary: woven by
gem
in
if tfiey
pray
Genesis:
by other
friar
Genitals:
cut
by wife
off
D2 158.1, Q492,
V3 16.3.1
Friar leaves monastery to control anger:
angered
filling
for
adultery
fires
T494.5
E243
kills
evil
person
who mocked
it
E235.1
in cell J2 15. 4.1
to die for each other P3 1

mouse and dove A2493.36
returns, lover say mass, carnal sins
oflfer
H1558.1,
H1558.2,
T472.2
H1558.1.1,
H1558.2.1,
H1558.il
Ghost, pope:
kills evil
Gift:
unable
power J6 13.1
for love
cure
J952.6,
54.20
F302.3
Girl:
age
denied J1283.1
four, fiolly grown,
articulate
T59 1.0.3
K1955.0.4
husband believes lover

X711.10
Future: foretold by queen D1712.4
recipient protests unworthiness, gift
self
J1062.1
physician
much better
magical, fairy gives hero, exchange
J955.1
to
L311
W35.4
good, better,
inflates self, bursts
Q55 1.9.7
cardinal refuses, maintains liberty
a live king fix)m Jupiter
fear increase of sun's
successor
Giant: small hero defeats (Goliath)
J643.1
Fugitive:
pagan
Ghost: attack bishop, defend good priest
jug J28
Friar scorns garden work: waits hungrily
be
by
prophesied
story
Q451.10
woman's, magically re-li^t
to desert, returns starving, bitten
physician,
to polish
artisan
M364.7.2.1
WILIS
is
hires
gemstonejl 522.3
replaces goods stolen
to
protects
D 1766. 1.3
merchant
understanding
without
D2143.1.3.1
tries
magically
bodyJ21.12
promises rain to flock
demand
God's
bird says she has precious
V52.19
Frog:
Virgin
at
criticized
Virgin
for
V21.4
of
roses:
prayer
hid bread, ate secretly, confesses
test
stone
kni^tD2163.3.1.1
Q220.3
Friendship:
D2 16 1.3 .6.1
weadier Q312.4
Fox, cock: gnaws trunk, cock descends
Friends:
Mary
tongue. Virgin
Q221. 3.6.2
Fox, and wolf: well, fox ascends, wolf des-
he
it
threw
lost,
of heart J35 1.2
alone,
own
cuts out
fold
K828.1
prayers,
eyes
Mary C94.1.4
curses Virgin
enters
God's
C94.4.1
K1075.1
sheepskin,
on
profenely
calls
wolf into nearing
tree
Santiago
Gambler: blasphemes, tongue grows N9.2
K721.2
Fox
by
V221.6
cock to receive
wears
supported
youth,
K815.20
is
bleeding fipom eyes. Virgin revives
E121.3.8
Virgin promise heaven,
no dancing
V278
Gallows: robber on, supponed by Virgin
V254.1.1
248
Give and you
shall
be given: punning
J1262.3.1
ALPHABETICAL INDEX
Glass: Ixeaks,
spills
poison, sign of cross
disguised as pilgrim sees dieft of
sviflferer
pigD1817.0.1.7
D1171.6.5
Gloves and ring received in dream: sent
proof D8 12. 16
for as
gives
floor
monk
voice heard A139.6.1
Goddaughter: has sex with godfather,
way,
they
Gold: foimd, hidden, burned, in
thrown
V52.16
reproaches
Virgin
Go-between: creates discord, husband,

wife
with
husband
client, wife
puppy is woman who refused

lover T452.3
tells
maiden sex
act at
ni^t unseen
nun God cannot
see in darit
wife,
wear
slippers
lover's
Grain:
solve
problems
woman, don magic
slippers
into sex with client
repeatedly
by
failed
lover
shirt
A2311.10
boasts
man damned
of,
for, lions
tries to
spare
life
teach to
D876
trickster
covers
Ql 5 1
fly Jl 849.6
share
partner's
Grain to poor, promised:
Grateful:
fire,
God
to extin-
promise broken M242.4
man, he does not resemble toad
Grave:
woman's,
cursed
dead
arm
severed
E41 1.0.6.1
child's,
hidden
in
stable
flowering
plant,
leaves
"ave"
opens,
sinner's
kept as pet, runs oflFB575.2.1
priesdy
U122.2
out
thrust
sex
L46 1.1
V262.1
of:
eagles see
all
rope
K171.il
in fig^t: fox laps
bums
demons drag to unE41 1.0.2
blessed ground
Virgin sends to monastery for milk
description
abuser's,
E41 1.0.9.1
rich man's,
thinks able to fight wolf
it;
body
E41 1.0.2.3
raised in house, runs to wild goats
up
blood, killed by goats J624.
Goblet: planted in luggage, accuse theft
K2155
God: abducts
once
E63 1.0.2
Goat: daims holiness, hair for hair
Goats shed blood
at
E410.3
T452.6
largest
different prices
thrust out
maiden
cannot hold
bou^t:
all
W27.1
J1745.1.1
Goat,
diem
golden egg
guish
T481.27
used
deed:
reward
T452.4
tricks
hen, get
K1712.1
Kl 584.1
tells woman sex will
tells
counsels
Goose: crow
V465.1.2
tells
kill
Q33 1.2.5
T459
tells
eggs:
finds
J163.4
Good
T481.23
says
who
J2129.3
Good
T51.1.2
maiiced doth,
drowns
QUI. 10
treasure
love
client's
it
reward to one
statue:
Golden
T452.5
love
in sea, before
owner U72.1
Gold
V255.4.1
fish, re-
tum Z43.8
prays, resists temptation
monk's.
makes
T427
three children
fall
Q599.2.1
Gluttony:
by
created
beasts
Jl 262.6
Glass, magic: fix>m shiine cures
Glvrttons:
good
bad,
V86.1.5
room
in promised, body
makes room M251.1
sinner's,
turns,
malodorous E72 1.0.2
sinner's speaks, says "I
am
burn-
ing" E41 1.0.6.1
Grave, golden: sages see, power no longer

matters
L413
Greeks and Romans: disputation by signs

princess, rapes her
R39.2
ALPHABETICAL INDEX
H607.1
249
GrifiBns: piill chariot througji air
B552.1
magically catches
meat during Lent to please host
Head: pagan's, soul
leaves plate empty,
bones on other
severed,
is
tree
limb
daugjiter
wed
until
victory
evil
gjiost
Half-firiend, fether has:
poisons
Healer:
D 13 10.4.4
bears
Heart:
of
Mary
Virgin
V86.2
magically
replaced
severed,
golden
severed, restored
by Virgin Mary
Heaven, journey
people
severed, saint's restored
V256.3
broken
pvinishes
oath
to:
man, able
Fl 1 .3
to speak
foreign tongues
D2161.5.2.4.1, D2161.5.2.4.5
Heir: inheritance to poor V417.1

Hell:
daughter
mother
sees
suffer
E481.1.3
Q559.5.2
eyes: restored
by Virgin Mary
D2161.5.2.4.3
K264.3
reflection, lion
afi^d
grave
is
F88
avaricious
Q566.2
fire
lawyers special
Q566.5
fire
fix)m grave of
rises
woman,
Q566.6
hotter than earthly
man
in hell
Q566.3
seek
men J99.4
Herbivores:
K1715.1
elephants moon
to
consumes
Hemorrhage stopped: test of truth H252.7

Hen: scratches grovind, so woman will
J881.1
race with wolf
monk travels
Hellfire:
Handsome: youth malodorous like rotting

corpse U119.3
Hangman: sex with body of hanged woman Q244.5
Hare: fi-ogs are more timid than they
its
E481.1.4
ôrious
V511.1
D2161.3.2
lion
fetfier
chairs,
box
strong
in
W153.1
Heaven: dau^ter visits
severed for treachery Q451.1
angry Kl 7 1
Hawk: breaks promise, caught by hunters
250
image
moneylender's
restores
V256.3.1
Q260
throne
seizes
martyr's, bears sign of cross
Virgin
self-severed.
tells
king,
D997.1.2
son has hvmdreds
J4 10.0.2
shows
Mary
Virgin
P16.1.6
Hair combings: turn wtote
Hands and
by
cured
Virgin cures nun's V256.1.1
banishes
E425.2.3
withers,
confessed
until
D2161.5.2.6
M122
bvjming:
to
V254.7.2
Headache:
M121.2
queen not to bind
Hand:
speaks
severed,
cut until
shown
sons,
M2.5,S169.3
fether
K747
Hair
seven
severed,
cau^t on
Maria"
V254.7.1
witchcraft
D2176.5
fleeing man's,
"Ave
repeats
severed,
prevent
to
husband
to
rapist's,
S169.5
protects vineyard
D2 143.4.2
not to
Pompeys, Caesar weeps
severed,
Mary
wineskin
in
S 169.2
lust
T6 17.0.1
burned
E41
S169.4
festing youth,
Hag: appears to
enemy's
severed,
guest's Jl 5 11. 21
Hair:
prey B172.5.1
all
in hell
is
severed, as trophies S139.2.2.1
P324.5
Hailstorm: Virgin
caught
chicks,
J651.1.1,M205.4
P324.2.1
eat
ni^tingale
eats
Guest: drinks foul water, at dinner vomits
eat
only
what they need
B299.12
Herbs: power to resuscitate sought D978,
E105
ALPHABETICAL INDEX
Heretic: excretes entrails Q225.1, Q415.8,
Q559.il, V329
with sea water with spoon:
fill
N333.1
power of Host converts V33 1 1 1
.
Holy man: counsels emperor, no vengeance against offenders J152.15
declarations, swears to truth of
cures hyena cubs, mother grateful
Q51.3
both Q263.5
Hermit: asks God, wealth to benefector
men who
M41 1.8.2
dream of, kni^t

M314.5
bear
his
killed
become king
in brothel to save whores, accused
N347.2
is
to return to cave
feith,
tic's
mouse's
in
hole
sad
alone,
company
in
V462.1.1
penitent
V477
lings
preadies after
Rl 3 1.1 0.2
art
woman,
by
V21
money
confesses,
lust,
woman
no more
Holy water,
sin,
covetousness,
drunkenness J485
at door of cave, disappears
Honey:
kills
count, batde, captures
engendered magically
to
cage
A5 1 1
events
on
by
collar
P12.5.0.1
N381,Z46.2
of baby,
future
orator
future
at price
of honesty
W35.3
Horn, magic: saved
dying,
wax
D1222
K192
fix)m fire
Horse: agrees to be saddled

figvire.
Virgin revives
milk
fed
of
ass,
acts
like
ass
J1661.1.5
mongoose
kills
mark,
E169.1
Hero-king's corpse: leads troops to viaory
leads
lips
Honey jar: hermit (woman) dream,
F174.2
goose
demon's
VI 32.2.1
Honors: judge refuses
1 .5.
D2156.13
welcomed to otherworld by women
Heron
removes
face
wealth, jar drops Z43.7
conceived miraculously Z216
lion
comers
M3 12.0.2
sons Z231
leads
V222.8
all
droplet, causes sequential tragic
T332.2
Hero: boy,
fire
soul, sinner's surety, able to confess
man's
one
to choose
with
V20.1.3
to tfiieves,
U72
fear
bread
Wll.2.5
saved
tfirows
restores sigjit
torn persecutor's
shares
K2064.1
tempted
God
Q20.4
safe
blasphemous
sinner,
bishop
Q39.2
rescues seven abandoned prince-
secret
eleaed
rewarded,
piety
D1766.1.10
is
discomfited F591.3
companion
bear
bring
angel re-
water,
to
bukes him, moves J215.5

never lau^s, lau^s when devil
leave monastery, take wives, return
prayers
words J3 1.3
kind words convert pagan L350.2
moves dose
N534.7.2
laughs
deacon R165
more convincing than here-
surety for
K523.1.1
coins
heaven
in
helps others build cells J373
executed
kills,
V465.1.1.1
finds
judgement
dreads
J191.3
will
rapes,
madness
audience
traveler
T336.2.1
cvirses
feigns
woman
denies
M201.0.1.2
drunk,
like
explaining Trinity J80.5
hits fly, kiUs self J2102.3.1,
two
Hole,
to snake:
snake
and
Kl 632.1
ALPHABETICAL INDEX
monheron
finds
lodgings
for
pious pilgrim
Q28.1
gait ijroves
him son of ass HI 75.6
251
arm,
thiefs
grab's
foiled
theft
Hunter: beats old dog, no longer
kneels before Host, will not rise
swift, neither eats
nor drinks
into she-devil's
cannot cross stream
V348
vine
overeats, dies of bloat
51
like ass,
son of ass
U 12 1.6.1
of
saint:
protects
woman
him
abandons
assaults wife,
woods
in
has
believes: cat
V34.8
wife's
it
had cut
mud
lover
D1841.1.2
in pig
wife
in coif,
K1512,
is ftigitive
head bleeds
is unfaithftil,
wife
her
devil has
unfaithful, leper in her
is
bed
stolen, pigs kneel before container
fix)m street bul-
K1517.1, T481.17,
ringG303.9, V232.ll
K2294
V35.4
wife
K2 11 2.2
mate
to
with
god
Kl 544.2. 1,T48 1.25
V35.3
P325
surrenders wife to guest
transformed, dying
man
blind,
wife,
low V34.5
lover
blinded:
milk
breast
has
extended
in
eye
blown
out
sheet
K1516,
T481.20, X711.ll
cannot eat
eye treated (vinmer) K1516.1,
rich food J913.1
T481.12, X711.8
merchant digs up three
hundred coins J1262.5.3.1

Muslim leaves money to God,
tree
K1516.3, T481.15
Hostess: Virgin supplies wine for royal
king:
pear
K1516.9,T481.13
candle
P463.2
in
K1518
can swal-
Host's wife: threatened to ftighten guest
meal V262
Humble man becomes
K1516.3,
X711.9
trou^, pigs respea
itV35.1
hidden
noise, not
off wife's nose
lies
keeps dead person's goods
made
lover
T481.10, X711.1
held high chases demons V34.7

king, kneels in
X7 11.3
T481.14
restores self V34.9
cures spider bite V34.10
urine-soaked
serves
wife
barley,
barley to
appears to priest as baby Jesus
hair
re-
return of alms J1262.5.2, J1262.5.3
coin for beggar, owes one
hundred J1263.5.4
wealth to God, returned V411.5.1
washed K1516.7
ketde obscures view K1516.8,
T481.16
turn V412.4
252
execution
survives
V39.10
steals
is
S62.5
Host: ailing Jew attacks, blood cures
Hundredfold:
she accuses
K2112.0.3
D1385.19.1
stolen,
K2 11 2.0.1
husband of murder, he
she
walks
Jew puts
X71 1.12
punished with
hanged U183
unite against lion J1025.3
honored by
falsely,
of drunkenness,
Q212.6
cleric drops,
K1518.1.1,
leprosy
thieves's horses unable cross river
Hose
believes wife's child di-
gift
accuses wife:
permits self to be saddled A2492.3
power G405
foiled to catch
liberty,
stagU31.3
Husband: absent,
B184.1.1.4
oppressor's,
fEills
horse lost
V35.1.1
magic,
useftil
W 154.4
B401.2
breaks wife's leg

chest,
W 167.2
armed crossbow, warns wife
S111.12, T254.4
chicken house, hides in K1514.1,
ALPHABETICAL INDEX
T481.il, X71
proves wife's obedience, she agrees
1.7
widow substitutes for

hanged man, K22 1 3 1 T23 1 .6
corpse
toaUH474.1,N12, T223
of,
drowns
wife: after trivial
pvinished for doubting wife, leprosy
argument
S113.3,T255.1,W167.3
sack thrown in sea V256.5.1.1
K2112.0.1, Q551.9.6
sacrifices life to save wife
sends
&lls
locked
jealous,
excessively
wife
to
god
with
lie
sent
T211.3.1
to deliver wife to devil for wealth
name, or
wife
cuts
K1514.1
off
tongue, binen ofiFby wife SI 63
H479.3
wife to test loyalty
gives wife to devil
for
under bed, wife and lover
wife
X711.2
impotent
to
prince
Husband,
X712
T25 1.2.3.2
good
chicken W125.5.1
wife, devil
warns she
G303.10.5,
gerous
is
J2301.4,
covered,
T3 1 5.4
leaves
old wife plucks black hair,
young
Kl 5 16.1
grey J21 12.1
compared
penis
J 1744.2,
serpent bite him, saves wife
loves other
eye
house
dan-
sex
sin,
vow
T211.1.2
woman,
wife
in
wife, given
magic
not
T481.27
to
enter
C610.0.1,H473.2, T254.5
paints lamb, wife's stomach, chas-
index H439.1.1, J1531.4,
X711.6
baby
is
bom
slippers
by
lover.
after
Mary
Virgin
them
wife
of ass
that
on holy eve T472.4
chastity
disagreeability
T251.2
warns
to
X771
T315.5
Virgin Mary,
wife stabs self E63.3
tity
celibate
lover
K2155.4
oven,
be
to
enter religious orders, lapse

fails
gluttonous wife, wants share of
outdoes
agree
wife:
T315.1
J2199.5, K1544.2, T481.24,
hollow threat,
bed
in
J2301.4.3, K1532.1, T481.22,
promised
Ql 11.9
riches
gives
(Uriah)
die
to
battle
Q111.9
ori-
Q451.10
gifts to
to
K978.1.2,T471.0.5
told of pursuit, hides in dovecote
angry
genitals,
lets
.2
Kl 544.2.1
out
gin C32.2.1
kills
K1511,T481.9,X711.4
on sword, wife is dead
forbids wife to ask his
kills
Kl 544.2.1
drugged, tonsured, in monastery
K1536
T2 1 1
sends wife to apothecary (lover)
helps her remove
D1065.21,
Hydrus: enters crocodile,
kills
K1584.1,
fiom within
F912, K952.1
Hyena: brings food to hermit B437.2

hermit cures cubs B381.3
parrot, to report
on
wife's fidelity
J1154.1,X711.5
poisoned
unguent,
warns
wife
Slll.lO, H474.4.1,T254.1
poisoned
wine,
warns
wife
S111.11,T254.6
precautions
fail,
enjoy
saint not to reveal identity to
father
C436
Illegitimate: offspring,
unable see magic
doth T647.2
wife meets lover
T481.9
presumed impotent
Identity:
prince, illegitimate, not forget line-
age T646.2
prince,
T384
ALPHABETICAL INDEX
wife
prince,
unaware of
fate
of parents
T646.3
253
God
hviman closer to
brings
Illness:
mortal,
Virgin
king's.
ion
ctires
Incest: brother, sister
J893.7
bishop
moves,
moves back
it
for misfortune
in&nt
Jesus,
child
punished in
son
widow
Jesus,
nods head, approval V126.1
Jesus,
wounds nun
leaving convent
V122.1
Image of Virgin Mary: angels protect
appears to be in labor
D 1622.4
causes cloth to rise and
mute man
fall
V128.6
to speak
VI 29.4
woman
prayers
quake,
monk
D 1639.2
V126.5
attackers
water
cures
In&nt
punished for
dragons
magic spring
Ingratitude:
human,
toad's
to
Virgin
causes
T591.0.2
(serpents)
away
at foot
of palm tree
in
God's image not
Wl 54.29
Injured person: leams to embrace offender

J80.4.1
presence of image of Virgin
T59 1.0.1
254
palms bend, give
F933.1.2
woman
cures
in
D1713.10, V211.8.5
Q495.2
Virgin
seven
shade D171.9,V21 1.1.8.4
Virgin V121.1
in
mad, worthiest
abandons
causes
Jesus:
chases
devotion
shameless
wilderness SI 44.2
scrofula
Image, impious: tums black near image of
Impaled: vaginally,
is:
S354
Q222.2.3
V126.4
Impotence:
most, what
H659.35
In&nt: abandoned, raised at royal court
wears sash that moves VI 29
lust
illness,
executioner
in sea, fish die
tums away
banishes
ofaUV461.1
V126.2
washed,
token
Industrious nun: thought
speaks to monk, not to leave order
thrown
asleep thinks having sex
daugjiter
D2152.6,V129.2
saves painter
T475.2.2
Incurable
protects
man's
holy
woman
hands VI 29.
V128.5
V2 1
her
major portion to poor
king,
F47 1.2.0.2
arm, protects baby VI 28.3
roars,
commits: cannot confess,
fiêe
Wl 1.2.4
Incubus:
moves, response to prayers to parsins
by
Q242.2
lightning
Incest,
bitten
both struck by
father-daughter:
Incest,
king puts in church, cures V126.6
don
woman
Q242.5
spider
keeps boy safe in oven V268.5.1
VI 22.2
V21 .2
Virgin saves her

Incest, brother-sister:
Income:
fix)m killing
and next Q242
by Virgin Mary
C114.1.1
convinces heretic of virgin birth
V125.2
this life
forgiven
Incest with son-in-law, murder: confesses.
image of Virgin V128.3.1
raises
rape
cries
CI 14.3
woman
diedV125.1
kisses king's
.3
nobleman's servant holds candle
food
ofifers
in&nt Jesus, taken,
man
CI 14.4
VI 23
V128.1.1
keeps
T4 1 1
spumed,
mother,
blamed
T415.9
king, daughter
V129.1
causes
den, lions show res-
lion's
pea R45.2
of divine attention J893.6,
sign
X712
is
Imprisonment:
V256.1.15
Image:
T59 1.0.3
Impotent: husband thinks wife's compan-
J893.8
Injuries:
emperor must pardon
injuries
J811.5
lascivious
knight
Injustice: e^qjlained
by angel J225.0.4
ALPHABETICAL INDEX
Innkeqjer
of
evidence
plants
theft
child: father
steals pilgrim's
on
Inscription:
goods K2241
S11.8,
V363
converted: dead hero's
hand
walls to teach J 168
creditor:
V57.6
Insignia:
Moroccan
protects
crucify
army V252.7
Insiilt:
in
W26.6
city's
gate
throw blood-filled object
at
W26.1
above
hell,
bad
Christians
V360.2
knifes Host, bleeds, cured, converts
another
V364.3
P672.6
Invaders: Virgin's image defeats V268.5.2
machine,
first
commandments
punished, breaking
Q225.4
victim
revived after being bvimed in oven
K1681.1
by hungry
Invitation, grudging: accepted
V363.1
man J369.3
image of Jesus, blood flows
stabs
Invulnerability: clothes confer
words of mass grants
Dl 845.2
V364.1
D 184 1.1.
steals horse, lent to
Invulnerability of saint: clothes unsoiled
poison
W 154. 19
dies
V364.4
and
warns,
survives
D 1840. 1.2.1
other's
steal
will
goods
V360.3
sunders snakes widi bare hands
Jezebel:
D 1840. 1.2
from tower, dogs eat
fells
flesh
Q33 1.2.3
one
mice:
him
painting,
Virgin's
steals
bymudD1841.1.2
Iron-eating
V364.5
king protects, steward robs, punish
endures, at
drinks
figure of Jesus
V360.5
king permits, superior to insulted
death
wax
V360.1
K2372
Inventor:
debtor
if
V360.4
defeat devil, sign of cross, converts
abbot orders, banish lasciviousness
man
convert,
will
revived
Virgin's,
rises
V331.1.12
defeat enemy, bishop's prayers
Insects:
throws in oven, took
communion
K2241.1
generates
lie
Joint depositors:
all
three
must be present
to claim Jl 22. 1.1
anotiierJ1531.2
Judge: accepted bribes, punished Q265.1
ape judges dispute of fox and wolf

Jackal: accused of breaking fest
K2141
B274.1
attacks tormentors, spares helpers
bad,
W27.2
stirs
discord, between lion
and
and
cubs:
B274.3
woman
image of
him
in
unjustiy
fox judges dispute of former, wolf
rescuer
to
gratefiil
to market, dreams,
fox judges dispute of
drops Z43.7.1
Jesus,
son
W185.5
B361.1
Jar of honey:
reminds
bad temper, condemns
bull
K2131.2
Jackal
skin
flayed,
Q265.3
infant: tells boy, will see
heaven
reftises
M34 1.1.5.3
Jew: accept baptism, dead
man
revived
beats saint's image, failed to pro-
tea house V364.2

Virgin
Judge
flayed,
to be
fiês,
converts
V331.1.8
ALPHABETICAL INDEX
honors for
felse
judgement
J1281.1.2
V331.1.5
captive,
man, snake
B274.2
made
into chair: son learns
good judge J55.1, J167
Judge not: sinner

J57 1.6.2
Judgement Day:
may
like
have confessed
execution day for
criminals J1262.7.1
255
Jupiter:
bee offends asking
sting
lethal
forgives
who were drunk
critics
P12.16
C51.4.1.1
among
goes
secretly
subjects
P14.19
Kettle: held, look for holes, lover goes
grants
Kicking door
church:
of Virgin's
breaks,
leg
speech
sense,
loses
hears subjects
humble
Kidney stones
who
stole
P14.19
fool
be dust L410.1
in
kill
family
bathhouse,
in haste
son
courtier's
superiority
insulters
to
money
never lau^s,
friend
to
punishes
inquiries
offers drink to saint, saint to aide
live like
beast
propounds
three
riddles, clever minister
H561.5
solves
L410.1.2
treasonous brothers
proves sobriety, arrow in child's
ruby
punished for war against Christians
heart
S73.3
leper's
nose,
left
in
self
from
fly
J913.2
says
cannot take wealth with him J912.3

captured, laughs at captor L416.1
subjects
like
physician
L350.1.1
chosen by people, eats
power
woman
sends
of
poor
captive
back un-
harmed P12.9
sends woman's husband
to battle
K978.1.2,T471.0.5
enemy
serves
life
hollow, temporary
is
P12.15
at iron table
P11.8
happy
M2.3
Q305.1
Q42. 10, V41 1.7
cannot protea
serves
flesh
flesh
of
of sons J1281.7
enemy's
child
SI 10.0.3
V331.10.2
great privileges
PI 3.9. 1
serves flesh of subject's sons to
him
M2.3
disobeys law, enters court armed,

kills self
punished
J914.2
J1283.2
punished,
bestiality
demands
become PH. 02
innocents,
C4I1.1, P14.25, Q431.3.1
giving
converts,
forced to
Q211.0.4
J1281.2
for
place
thousands N340.2
kills
murdered
SllO.0.2
cloth
takes
K811.3
man
shoots
asserts
angel
L411
and court
N340.2.1
angry,
subjea's three
invited to public execution, trapped
P16.1.5
advised to
kills
M2.2
sons
PI 6. 1.6
live ascetic life
abdicates, son cmel, king returns
singes beard, saves self from barber
P19.4.2
does not permit executions
P 14.24
destroyed by divine
power
J634.1
son
of
baker,
bread
rewards
J1661. 1.2.3
P16.1.3.1
256
him
V49.2
his
muleWll.17
King: abdicates to
evil,
will
all
ignores plea,
Kind: Christian, to Jew
cares
call
lineage, flattery not per-
humbled,
Virgin heals
(gall stones):
V256.4.2
blows
leave sad
hunts, misses mass held by angel
J142.3
blinds
none
mitted J9 15
Q551.8.10
Kid: obedient, denies entrance to wolf
avoids
wishes,
all
P19.3.1,V401
T481.16
K91 1 .6
L414
of stranger P14.26
feigns illness, lures traitors
spares
forbids tides to rise,
spends nights studying J 1
fails
life
ALPHABETICAL INDEX
stoned by hostile crowd

uses young
men
K81 1.3
T464
gave sword to duke not strength
sexually
vows to convert
J1289.24
V4 1.2.1
M177.1.1
when wounded
worshiped,
hears mass, wins
repents
L410.1.1
tia
King David: dances before Ark J9 14.1

King descends to bottom of sea: leams
from
King
fish
1.3,
J71
PI
leaves
it
V229.7.2
T121.3.3
rapes nun, flight halted magically
J1289.10
it
T47 1.0.2
King, bird injure each other: bird refuses

Knuckles:
reconciliation J 1 5.
King, election
of:
one whose arrow

sun
will first see
daybreak
at
Ladder:
hell,
two
son: to lose
eyes, king
Lamb:
one M13, P233.14
bottom Q273.5,
flees
dogs, hides
painted on wife,
V331. 1.7
Kite: ailing, prayers denied, fouled altars
Lameness: asset
many
partridges, drops
quarrel
leads
to
wife's
W167.3
Knight: asks captor, death over disloyalty
breaks tabu, set adrift in oarless
boat C951
Lamp:
altar,
bum
only olive
oil
oil
for
VI
16.1
through the
ni^tJ1012
Land: grant, prayers obtain V57.9
granted, prayers to Virgin, facilitate
knowledge B217.9, D1815.2

Lapse of time:
horseshoe
sword
with
J 1289.24
cleric
spends three hun-
dred years, returns F377.1.1

in paradise, three years equals three
calls
on
Santiago
V229.7.3
via
not
Language of animals: Aesop given magic
beats blasphemer J 1 164
follows
in batde, knigjat will
V52.24
Q72.1.1
batde,
chooses death in temple: to being

eaten by wolf J2 16.2
device to supply
death SI 13.3, T255.1,
cuts
after years
flee J 1494.1
J5 14.1
scissors:
ram
prefers foster-mother, goat J391.1
U236.1
all
is
H439.1.1,J1531.4
Lamb
carries so
among wolves
K1111.4
subjects, Christian prince, con-
flees
guide to
Q563.1
Kingdom and hand of princess: reward

for virtuous life Ql 12.0.5
Kissing: empress's hands forbidden C604
Knife,
of,
bad Christian lower than
in hell, usurers at
King, wife: pray for son, she gives birth
vert
teaches use
JewQ563.1.2
H561.il
Kingdom:
nun
prayer V52. 17
kills
H17 1.0.1
four birds
gives
dogs
queen weds, no speech, subjects
to be contrary: asked to de-
stroy city, saves
T526
King's own
V261.4
birds,
promises pilgrimage, defeat Moors
ognized J1072.3
who
no
if
U134
to sons
leaves bathhouse: wears rags, unrec-
King vows
stand and fi^t J 1494.1
will
not go to heaven,
J701.2
King
read only "Ave Maria"
leaves wife in Virgin's care
island
1.7
King improves kingdom:
in absen-
E631.0.2,J142.3
lame,
on
toumey
V4 1.2
illiterate,
J52.2
for a year: provides food

exile
him
hears mass, angel in batde for
cure
for saint's
daysF377.1
Lawsuit: ape
cmcis,
soul
E754.2
ALPHABETICAL INDEX
follows
is
judge B274.1
between dog and sheep B270.4
between wolf and fox B270.3
257
wolf suspects,
fox,
cannot
guide holy femily through desert
sue
B562.1.3
J1179.1.1
sheep, in presence of wolf
stag,
why
P521.2
during
trial
Lepers, cleansing lesions:
hell fire
bribed, lose (esquinanga
P465.6
fuses to help other
argengia)
Q522.4.1
pull
Leprosy to accuser: calumniated wife's
X319.2
offers self to
innocence
God, not peers
Letter:
by peers
X315
forged,
opposition ox to pull
V52.20
substituted
same
wins
case, higher
Letter in
queen makes
idle
women
spin
Letter in
in
brains
ear,
out
win
battle
mistaken
sky
for
M205.8
fix>m
forces borrower to
ambush
lie:
punished
damage to soul Q263.4.1

lost: monkey lets fell others
God
one J344.1
prepared with
mother, accused son, rape
Q552. 1.7.1
kills saint's felse
to
only
one
J2469.1
Leopard: fnat of adulterous union, cause
of mutual enmity A2494. 12.11
accuser F968.1.1,
Q552.1.7
Li^tning, emperor
find
258
cursed
N174.1
kills
one
soiqj
wô
Q552.1
impossible to avoid, emperor struck
man
N178.1
for
blasphemer in two
cleaves
F968.1.2, Q552.1.8.2
over hungry
preferred
onesJ215.1.3
Lentil,
Q151.8.1
cleaves creditor
sated:
Leg: broken saves
Lender
K2103
K171.12
him
V52.1
removed
spared, loyalty valued over liberty
Lighming:
Lecher: carries Gospel, whores reject
saint:
rewarded by ape-king J8 15.1

Liar, greatest: water drips in ear, brain out
Life:
Leatherworker: works feast day, needle in
removed
654. 1 1 .2
Liar:
falling
J1810.0.1
D 1654.1
saves accused
rally,
V52.3
Leeches,
felsely
Letter, forgery: evidence of treason. Virgin
K171.12
Leader: prays, soldiers
convert:
hand of dead
only by pope
Q321.1
tiiroat
hand of dead
only by bishop
K441.3.1
falls,
accuses
letter
K2117
P465.5
Leaf:
of treason
reward delayed. Virgin intervenes
X316
church lands, nose cut off
drips
man
accuse
K2156.1
it
P465.2
special place in hell
water
re-
ward V412.4
says, "I appeal"
Laziness:
wife
dead had hundredfold
certify
X315.2
fees,
kill
K2117.1
refuses to be judged
two
Q55 1.9.6
care for wife,
altered,
P465.1
stole
cured, re-
first
W159.1
penance pilgrimage
punishment,
needed ox to
dying: asks for appeal P465.4
fee, cart;
A2562
Leprosy: pilgrim's. Virgin cures V256.4.3
P465.3, X318.1
cart as fee, loses,
aggressive
is
V411.7
sleeps
plaintiff
Jl 162.5
Lawyer: bathe in special
leopard
Leper: king to blow nose; ruby in doth
wolf, fox; ape judge P521.1
Lawsuit over property:
K730.3
traps lion in cave
struck
by
fearfiil of:
out hunting
lightning J656.2
Lion: allows self to be roped by
monks
J1849>5
brings food to rescuer B361
ALPHABETICAL INDEX
12
carries
ofiF
child R13.1.2
Liver:
dinner party of meat served, pig

leaves, eats acorns
U 147.1
man
follows
wtio rescued him/her
removal of thorn fix>m
paw B381
Loaves and
for
B336
peacefully
Lost
helps find
in fish belly
Lot's wife: pillar of salt

Lots:
cure
kicked
horse,
it
D1816.2. 1.1
Mary D1816.2.5
by Virgin Mary
Q22 1.5.1
N126.3
casts to see future
by marriage
F950.8.1,T24.1,T24.9
B535.0.15
it
queen
cured
Love-sickness:
own concubine
&ther sends
B525
to cure
Daniel B525.2
to son
him T24. 10
fiiend gives betrothed, cures fiiend
mouse B363. 1.1
T24.9
sons
woman B525.1
to fear man J22.1
ass:
ass
princess, cured
saintly
laughs,
forget loss
V279
ignores
lion
by marriage T24.1
Lovelom: knight. Virgin helps
Lover: caught in net, humiliated, sus-
J411.1
Lion and statue (sculpted by human): de-
disguised as pursuer
Lion disregards warning: seeks out man,
little
J51
1,
J81
bedchamber
enters
21
fiigitive
basket
in
Kl 343.1
fi-om
fugitive
Lion king: avenges mistreatment of vassals
ruffians
street
K1517.1.2, T481.18
P50.0.2
hidden, wife sends husband for
Lion raised by man: cannot
forgive insults
Kl 52 1.4.1
kindling
in basket, humiliated,
J15.2
Lion, dinner party
of: cats guests,
meet,
man
man
is
prisoner
T32.2
quarrels about escape route J581.2
uses
clubKSlO.l.l
kills
suspended
mid-tower K1211
served
moles U147.3
Lion, man: agree not to toudi,
speak through hole in wall
those
who
say
it
smells
altar, later is
blank
treacherous, leaves
T4 1
Dido K2232.1
Lucretia seduced: threatened witfi loss of
J811.2.1
List of sins: left
and
K1517.1
is
caught and beaten J 17.2

Lion kills wolf for taking greater share: fox
leams to take
pended mid-tower
human supremacy J1454
Lion's breath:
warm
in
D1816.2.3
spares: Androcles
rats,
found
mate
K1955.0.2
picts
ring:
Lost sheep: returned
adulterous
saves diild, nurtures
Lion and
worm
Mary
by hero
A2497.2
tells
X71L4
returned by Virgin
cage
to
kills
to
tricks
D1816.2.2
refuses reconcili-
D2156.13
oflFers
husband, wife
Lost &lcon: Virgin
man
lion
out:
stone F642.4.1
release
king of beasts B240.4
male
multiplied by Jesus
Logic applied: perceives
B363.1.1
led
fishes:
F645.3
mouse
to
ation
Locked
B30 1.8
by
by
Logic: parentage of horse, runs like ass
rescue torn snake B374.1
injvired
arrives miraculously
D2106.1.5
grateful for:
grateful
to
sea P525.4
B301.8
rescue
it
X22
Loan repayment:
W121.9
escapes cage, courtiers flee
removed, passerby requests

feed cat
on
V21.9
outwei^ moneychanger's
V21.8
ALPHABETICAL INDEX
honor K1397
Lust:
gold
man,
fireed
from
lustful
behavior
V252.5
personified as
Venus Z127.1
259
repressed by fasting T317.4
maligns bishop, bites off tongue
crawds throii^ thorns
repressed,
Q393.0.1
T333.6
stimulated by actions of cock and
ished
hen T3 17. 10
perched on branch, ignores danger,
Lust, gluttony, gambling: curable, lying
brief periods
for
from
returns
monk
Lustful thoughts:
must
pray
seeing
by
devil
lion
J1781.4
tongue
tied to stake, tempted, bite
suffering
T333.2.2
T317.1.1
repressed, removing eyes T317.1.2
other
incurable,
be
thougjit to
by
M341.0.6
bathes in icy
hell,
V5 11.2.7
water
T317.2.1
repressed
knows wiio
will die, pestilence
U130.2
Lying:
J65 1 .3
returns from heaven
man, chaste
Lustful:
eats honey, fells
is
U235
not
known unhappiness, punL424
never
are
sins
transformation to
woman
D 12.01
treacherous, winks at both buyer,
not
seUerWni.l
U235
unworthy, looks heavenward,
Madman:
wants three wives, marries one,
nized J1072.4
questions good sense of hunters
J156.5
madman
warns against other
Mande:
for,
grief
Mary
in nun's
into jewels
Magician:
scripture
Mass:
shows pupil
demons,
sign of cross
reality
D2031.5
at night
Master,
from
Ul 1 1.1.1
venom
snake
solves riddle for
life,
when
angry: withholds punish-
ment J57 1.4.2
not seen by
down
Mastiff: magically brings
woman
tells
slippers sent
woman
wed
to
her love T53.4.1
to
by knight
prey
all
B182.1.3.2
Matchmaker: Virgin helps
S262.2
Maidservant: go-between,
Mayor:
Kl 584.1
takes
church
lands,
&lls
ill
Q222.4.1
Man: burden of precious
stones,
drowns
Measure land with hide of

long diin
J651.2
created in God's image A1212.1
fipeedom
fix)m
in coffin. Virgin revives
in peril, comforts self with
J861.1
honey
ox: cut into
HI 584.3
Jl 176.2
Meat:
E63.4
strips
Measiiring the dregs: fitiud detected by
desires
T310.2
260
Virgin
servant J151. 1.1
GodJ1745.1.1
granted
for face J1793,
protects
Master: servant saves
Maidens: one hundred, tribute to enemy
don magic
illness.
D1515.2.2
V86.1.9
Maiden: told sex
cure for
counsels maiden to wed,
Mask: mistaken
D470.2, V222.15
self,
up
rebuked Tl 3 1.1.
D1745.1.1
protects
cleric:
woman
by
it
reproaches F950.4.1
wound: transformed
defeated
give
rendezvous
lovers'
signal,
Marriage of
F959.6.3,
F1041.8.2
Maggots
by love J21 .32
no need, not
T4 1.3.1
F1041. 8.2
stand in water J 1434
cured by Virgin
in,
W156
in
bathX54.1
cure
debilitated
Manger: dog
Madness: caused by
re-
warded Q61
man's garb, unrecog-
in rich
ascetic
vows not
to
eat
meat
C221.0.1
belonging to lion, put in jackal's
room K2 155. 1.3
ALPHABETICAL INDEX
on
eating
Sabbath
forbidden
Miscreant: hidden in hollow tree,
men
meat on Sabbath,
eat
battle
lose
Lent
during
serves
of chest
lid
weaning:
bitter for
artisan,
N67.1
play
Q272.3
gold to God, dig, find hundredfold
Virgin grants thirty days to repent
V41 1.5.1
Q272.6
woman,
payment
requests music, refiises
storm. Virgin restores broken mast
Monastery swallowed by
V268.4.3
throw
in sea. Virgin saves
Money:
given to poor, safe firom thieves
sh^) at sea
J347.6,W1
marked
&ce,
by
N212.2
saving for future care, sin
to arrive,
first
to death
K1612
tied to hare, for rapid
and prays
Military leader: discards arms
wemurse
Milk: baby forbidden to have
monk
cures
Mongoose:
own
Monk:
inherit:
greatest
liar
K171.12
heed opinions of
others Jl 04 1.2
of
Athens,
dispute
A163.2
K2248.0.1
accused,
cleverness
saves
K2101
accused, Virgin
meat, prideful
other, attend
own
&ults
K2131.6
adomed with
Q332
silk, silver,
teaches,
give
punished
up worid
V462.2.5
attention
banished, recalled to court Pill
K40 1.1.1
L491
ascetic
Minister: advise taxes, debased coinage
with sand
heron, eats snake, and
abstinence fix)m
acciises
Miller, son, ass: not to
falsely
tricks
heron A2494. 12.2,
chil-
dren P23 1.3
filled
K1667.2, P435.15
seizures
V256. 1.2.1
nursed
money
chest P435. 14
deceived, chests
saint's motfier,
repayment of
debt Jl 161.4, K236.5
V256.1.2
Etlsely
in the stick: literal
Moneylender: dead, hean found in
C271.1, M312.0.4.1
Virgin Mary's cures dying
Mary's
U72.2
repayment
J1881.2.2
Money
D2163.5.3
naming
1.3.1
returns to owner, series of events
devil
J1263.1.7
to arrange death,
Minerva:
F94 1.2.2.1
U72.2
on
C777.1
will
eardi: reappears
advises saving for future
devil
V264.7
wô
consumes
fire
magically after year
worries over goods
Mill,
heU
gold,
Q272.4
K231.2.2
Virgin
chokes to death
tries to eat gold,
music Jl 522.3
burned
neck
teased into giving bread to poor
like bitter
for carnality J81.7
Merchant: denies pay to
Messenger:
breaks
falls,
Q272.2
punishment
tfiieves
in
Q272.4.1
tfiroat
C235.1
Medicine,
demons throw gold
Miser: in grave,
C221.0.2
saint
f)oor
smoked
out Jl 172.3.3
C221.0.2
to
possessions rebuked
L491.1
avoids sin, told to esqperience
it first
U231.2
Mary
saves
K2101.2
kills,
heaven
entry
in
adiieve
martyrdom
Q172.0.4
spares royal wife, pardoned

Minstrel: waylaid. Virgin saves
beast
PI 1 1 ,1
V264.8
ALPHABETICAL INDEX
burned
alive,
Q414
261
bums
finger
repress
tips,
lust
V461.6
chooses contemplative
life
V462.12
loses
J215.4
no cooked
warded B38 1.3
K2058.3
old,
desert, longs for wife
woman's shape, tempted

tempts, prays, saves
menace,
call
W128.5
demons out of
counsel
punished, wolves, bears eat sheep
rebuked
for fault-finding
refiises
wine, singularity rebuked
L492
repents,
woman he loved
T336
replaces
devil his soul

if
steal
rescued
gold
with
ashes,
flees
dragon,
fix)m
retvims
fix)m
hell,
retvims
soul
V511.2.1
perjury
Q55 1.9.2.1
soul
R167.1
cow,
J58 1.2
commits
his
K476.1.3
rescued
Q393.3
denied
devil
E754.1.10
dying, scolds brothers for gossip
enemies quarrel, thief to
falsely
K2176
will
D2176.3.4
dying, fears seeing
L435.1.1
accused
whores,
reforms
attacker
drives
salutes Virgin's image, safe fix)m
flees devil, devil in city
too V477.1
Virgin appears, to finish robe
devil
VI 26.3
scolds others for sin, sins himself
U231.1
V276.1.1
follows bird of paradise, returns
hundred
two
see his sister, she
years
D2011.1
estly
sees
goes to desert, avoid temptation
must
dress
mod-
T336.2.2
devil,
goes out, sees
more
U230.0.1
sent for manure, returns with lion
T334.1
book
in
other's
bed
inexperienced, told
eat
woman
goat
is
goat,
Jl 745.5,
T371.2, T617.3, X457.4
knows who will

M341.0.4
J1849.5,J2461.9, X457.3
share bread with poor, magically
K2I55.1.2
die, including self
learn fi-om prisoners,
262
own
Q414
mouse
plate, releases
lifts
is,
to keep
returns E752.2.1
on Virgin to
H1554.1,J29
dissatisfied, must accept God's
judge
knows
penance: await soul in cave, soul
them G303.16.1.3
carmot
rebuked
pride
pains of people, not prayed for
selfG303.16.2.1.1
hides
food,
Q220.2
devil, victualler
after
it
V461.ll
T317.2
byT332
erysipelas
at pitdier, breaks
L491.2
deathbed, had eaten \dien &sting
flees.
temper
W185.4
cures hyena cubs' blindness, re-
save
with temptation, strengthens
lives
J495
chooses work over contemplation
disobeys,
constant work
where criticized, avoids flattery
lives
V276.2
devils
ass's,
V461.13
busy, no prayers. Virgin pardons
devil, in
an
like
life
T333.2
replenish
Q141.1
si^t restored to preach to
otfiers
V345.1
silence
justified
with
scripture
J1074.1.5
ask where
when come X457.2
survives burning cell
tempted, holy
man
D 184 1.3
prays,
monk
ALPHABETICAL INDEX
must pray too V52. 1

thou^ts
of
woman,
distraa
fornication
to leave monastery. Virgin saves
V265.2
bear
friend's
kills
K2284.0.2
B335.2
cure
M41 1.1.3,
K544,
Q341.1
is
lover
godfrither
eats diild during siege
kills,
merchant's
coins
stolen
lover
SI 2.2
clemency J8 16.
child,
guard secret
kills
S12.3.1
tom
and
storks
who
tells
plans to
out D2161.3.1.1
practice
lions
kill
newborn. Virgin saves
S12.2.5
pledges son as security for loan
A2497.2
P524.3
Monster: half-human,
half-fish
B80.2
rebuflfed
Months: February, days determined by

Caesar Al 161
of,
of
sign
by
accuses
son,
rape
K2111.5, T412.6
rescue selves, step on, over chil-
Rome Al 162
king's
dren, in flood SI 2.2.2.4

mortality
son's eyes put out SI 2.4
throws child into sea SI 2.6
J912.2
looks like cheese in well, wolf
J1791.3, K810.1.2
Moonbeam:
newborns, &ther
kills
king's, urges
Monkey-king: punishes traveler
Moon:
him to be mer-
husband has
children,
kills
Q595.6
Monviment:
mistreated her
S12.2.4
imitates carpenter, crushes genitals
naming
who
P232.4
cifiilJ816.6
K961.1
Monogamy:
Virgin
dies,
S12.4.1
disease
for
Pharaoh
M205.6
invader's persuades
flesh of, cure for illness
eyes
sting
flies:
curses children
have king B24 1.2.2
trutfi,
sacrament: ofiered by
J1261. 4.1
saves
sin
V345
maimed
L392.1
wants to leave monastery T334. 1 .2
steals
blinded,
Mother: breaks vow, diild
souls of dying E721.il
heart,
refiises
inferiors
can see departing
silence,
wants pagan woman, sign of
Monkey:
church,
Mosquitoes, horse
admonished
speak,
L494
vows
V33 1.11
V111.4
Moribund
fathers child J2 1.53
to
converts
R12.2.2
sail
attack
told not to go to city, fornicates,
unwilling
son, batdements, spared,
gratefril
Moors: abdua holy man, ships cannot
V465. 1.1.6
treacherous,
thief to climb
down
to exit
house K1054
saves city, destroys
Mary
who
V268.3
revives.
converts E121.3.2
caused
Virgin
Mary
lover goes
Mother-in-law:
storm
on
sea,
V268.4.6
husband's eye,
in
T48 1.13
accused
son-in-law
kills
D2141.0.9
of incest with
T4 1 7 .2
son-in-law, rejected advances
S12.3.2
orders
son-in-law's
murder
K959.7
appears, frees
frxjmdevil V331.1.9
woman, son of. Virgin revives, converts
safety
Mother
pirates, forced to return to port,
slave, Virgin
son as husband T412.5
Mother's milk: spray
Moorish: army destroyed by Virgin
child, Virgin
treats
Virgin saves baby, walk
V331. 1.13
ALPHABETICAL INDEX
puts slave in daughter-in-law's bed
K2218
says dau^ter-in-law gave birth to
seven hounds
K21 1
263
Movintain:
seals
falls,
captives
ofif
Nebuchadnezzar: Daniel,
D2152.1.2
God
causes
to
to
on enemy
fall
birth
mouse
to
Necklace:
U114
D2 1 52.
'
moved by prayer V57.7

Mountain woman: grotesque long breasts
doves A2493.36,
Nephew: mvirders
B437.2
frees lion
X803
clouds, moun-
stronger, sun, wind,
Nero:
of in
vision
Newborn:
with
hell
identity written
on
E171
lawyers
hoof, kicks fox
filth
why
Niobe:
SI 44.3
Virgin cures
ill,
V257
not endure hoopoe's nest
Nightingale:
J1608.1
Mvirder: in church, punishment, erysipe-
U144
sing at night A2491.6,
goddess's
challenges
U144
fecundity
C54.1
Q222.5
accused
adrift in chest
deathly
half-flayed. Virgin revives
of.
Virgin
saves
No bad news: pup dead,
events
mount
in
horror Z46.1
K2116.5.1
Muslim, leaves money
to Christian
God
Noble: and son both enter monastery
V412.4
J1289.10.1
demons
D1821.7
sees
carry
off
souls
forces
son to return to lay
wam
of dan-
gives
ger F954.5
up
fine
garments in monas-
tery J922.1
Noble
wife: kills self, escapes emperor's
T326.4
desires
from
life
J1289.10.1
Muteness cured by need to
crucifixion, given to
leaps into fire with sons, escapes
emperor VI 01
thinks
invaders
all
men
have bad
penis with ass's J1744.2,
sodomy, youth,
T326.5
Non-believer: sign of cross, saves bishop
T331.10
breath X772.2
Naive young woman: compares husband's
ass,
gives
X771
X772.1
off,
mark of
Q586
perjtary,
theft
P465.5
cut
God X772
iousness T472.
cut
by
captive: covers self, sign of lasdv-
Nakedness: shame for Al 383.1
Nose: bitten off by son on gallows
sense
thinks sex at night, not seen
264
dispute
Net: lover suspended in T495.3

father, ass
J80.5,J954.1
Naked
money
for
V511.2.4
torments bull L315.2
wife:
unde
A163.2
L392
Mule: ashamed of low-bom
Naive
kills
naming of Athens,
Neptune:
J1319.2, M205.0.3,
Nails: metal,
it
K2217.1
pleads inebriety, breaks promise,
Mute:
wolf, eats
uncle, caught, killed
treacherous,
to free animal B545.2;
las
sees his
Q211.0.5, S74
B437.2.1
man,
man
Q225.5
Neighbor: saves sheep from
place in hell
J 1374
net: frees
tain
Mary
Virgin
Neglect to attend church:
F460.1.2
Mouse: gnaws
by
returned
D1816.2.2
by prayer
leveled
eat grass
Q220.6
gives
labor,
wander naked,
impiety,
D2152.1.1
in
converted
lions,
Judaism V336
ofif,
punishment
for
theft
Q451.5.2
cut
oflF,
barber's
wife
K1512,
T421.10. X711.1
poison, straw, inserted in K1613.1,
T451.3
ALPHABETICAL INDEX
grows,
thief s
seals
mouth
off
Q551.6.4
Not
same piorse as was

owner foiled J1172.1
the
ashamed
of
on head D1812.5.0.2
crested
chick
crows birds of ill

crows
cannot
sexuality,
endures insults of
W26.8
leaves convent. Virgin takes place
One
many
red-hot
not hurt H221.3
woman bumed cold iron

H22 1.2.3
woman confesses, can handle redhot iron H22 1.2.3
Q244.2,T47 1.0.2
returns from hell to
warn
repeated,
sisters
Q560.2.4
says
no
respite
in
hell
V511.2.6
Otherworid:
sends eyes to king
on
walks
saint
iron,
H221.2
raped by kni^t, magically reins his
who wants them
journey
oarless
to,
boat
F129.4
T327.1
talkative,
saint
oil,
unharmed H412.7.3
V277.1
returns,
monastery
for
jumping ftom height, innocent wife
son, she does
punished for impatience Q327

horse
needed
G303.25.3.1
Ordeal: boiling
show
Dl 8 12.5.0.1
devil suffices for usurer's dwelling:
V264.3.1
down V51.6
bad omen
sneezing (flatulence): wolf leaves
food for better
prays rapidly. Virgin helps slow
prays Virgin
B147.2.2.1
left
two crows good omen B147.2.1.1
Omens
sisters
omen
D1812.5. 1.4
ecl?)se evil
lettuce,
on
seen
B147.2.2.1.1
confess V22.4
eats unblessed
G303. 16.2.3.4
omen
good
D1812.5.2.13
greedy
lost:
Novice: prays, fieed fix)m antics W189.1
Nun:
bird lands
queen, second si^t (past only)
corpse halved, half
bums
Q221.3.4, Q393.1
F185
Oven:
woman
V265
temple V511
wife
S113.4
Virgin stops her leaving convent
vision, heavenly
husband warns
collapses,
forbidden
to
enter
C610.01,H473.2
.5
Overboard: husband
killed,
wife throws
selfT215.12
Obedience: of wife, wager
valued
over
all
N12
other
W31.2
Obedience,
test
man
warns against
poison unguent H473.3.1
not to enter oven H473.2

wife agrees with absurdities
Odor,
spices
U133.2
foul, sinner's
sin,
H474.
fouler
Overhears, husband: wife
rotting
tells
lover she
husband Kl 532.1, T481.22,
X711.2
song portends death B39.2

corpse
OflBce-seeker: denied post, for use of per-
mother,
drops serpent egg in lap
D1812.5.2.12
ALPHABETICAL INDEX
calls
chicks
most
beautiful
T681.1
war
fume J1281.
Ointment: revives drowned woman El 01
bird
move
Owl: hatched by hawk, ejected Q432.
U233
Omen:
revilers to
king of birds B242. 1.8
food U233.1
tfian
tells
along J 128 1.4
loves
of stable, rustic prefers over
foul:
V52.6.1
Overhearing: king
swept back on stvp
priest prays,
qualities
between
owls
and
crows
A2494.13.14,B261.1,K477.4,
K2042
Ox: hides
fugitive stag
yoking
B41 1.2, R243.2

A1441.2
of, origin
265
young and old yoked together

J441.1
Ox-hide measure: deceptive land purchase
K185.1
doubt that teary hunter to
Partridges:
them J 1064.3
Passage: payment for, slap of
M205.0.2,W154.5.1
and
Paternity: son
kill
fox's tail
raw meat
father eat
U121.4
Paa
with
worldly
for
devil:
M217.1
owns body and
M211.1
to get desired
success
Paternity, test of: son to shoot arrows at
corpse
soiol,
disappears
woman M217
Payment:
M211,
V264.1
tail
Peace
J817.4
V331.10
converts,
saint's
goodness
and
prayer
V332
Peasant:
ashamed of being thrown by
betrays fox, winking
level rises
C603
lagoons,
Q385
given
fi\iit
A1331.1
blow to head. Virgin cures
tences
man
sins
days,
sinner
fails
chastise
into
kill,
mild sirmer
re-
Q520.4
meat Q535.2
dies before
he has chance
Q223.8.2
children
when
true, effective,
time j)eriod vinim-
portantJ557.1.1
giving false
repon
Penis:
naive bride compares husband's
J1154.1, X711.5
speak
with
foreign
tongue:
learn accusation in foreign- tongue
266
mortal
L36 1.1
lion forgoes
young P230.4
J1152
is
man
king, agrees to postpone death sen-
woman's V256.1.5
man vows pilgrimage. Virgin
cannot
three
pent
cures V256. 1.6
Parrots,
of seven
grave, sinner
A1331
tricked
him,
Q535.2.2
Virgin cures
Parrot:
kills
Q223.8
forbidden
must
each
for
V256.1.5.3
Parents:
who
goes to heaven Q172.4
done him/her
injiaries
B732
Paralyzed:
K2315
JlOl
serpent
sugar
spice
sweet smell attrarts other animals
Paralysis:
ass
Penance: embrace next creature seen,
F77 1.2.4.1
sin
cure blind husband
Pebbles in water jug: crow drops, water
spitXSOl
entry to forbidden
lost:
W128.4
J411.4
H439.1.1, J2301.4.12, X711.6

Palace: elegant, king's beard only place,
tree
T481.21
Painting on wife's stomach: chastity index
one
cock from
J242.5
tree: lovers in,
Painter: devil takes scaffold. Virgin saves
B299.1.2,
fox lures
fable:
boatman with
M205.0.2,W1 54.5.1
Peacock and crane: dispute usefulness
Pear
V264.1.2
take
Peacock: ashamed of ugly feet A2232.7
celibacy
D1766.1.4
Panther: avenges
marks,
envies ni^tingale's voice
told of Christianity, baptized
Paradise
forty
J1421
Peace of mind: work and prayer J94.
V331.10.1
rosewater
choices:
for passage, fox hits
philosopher, converts after debate
cured:
of
insults, gates
blows, eat forty onions J210.3
Pagan: beats rude monk, admires saint
Pain
endures
cityW26.1
Virgin regains, saves signer
priest
H486.2
man
Patience:
ass's J 1 744.2,
X771
unfeithfiil lover's, cut off
Pennant,
magic:
ensures
Si 76
victory
D1400.1.16
ALPHABETICAL INDEX
Perfection: saints not equal to
two
saintly
Physician:
women U15.2
of Christians, struck
Persecutor:
down
sham: crow, to cure
by mass V41.3
Pharaoh: disobeys God, drowned in
Red
blinds
Sea Q220.5, W126.2
fix)g tries
has universal cure, needs camels,
J152.8
money
answers riddle for king J152.17

confines self
and pupil
six
months
in study, killed
warns
M203.4
wolf will
gloomy epitaph, becomes
dream
retreats to countryside
J 152. 16
Pig:
shriek
man tells, wisdom preceded
sheep,
on way
carried
ofl"
beard J 1566.1
forgets to lift food
to slaugjiter J 1662
J514.4
Pig's feet: too
many
Pigeon: wrongly
spits in king's
to
mouth J235.2
wheat
in
kills
pot Jl 539.2.1
mate
for stealing
N346
Pilgrim: aids
falls
all,
ill,
Santiago saves
himV418
superior to king, guided by reason
castrates self, atone for fornication
J152.14
E121.3.1,T333.4
marry daughter to
to
good man
Jl 52. 18
kni^ts that robbing
is
wrong
ridicules,
rides
him
like
rides
all
die
li^tning
Virgin
strikes.
revives
E63.5
writes royal epitaph J152.13
lost
Philosophers see disparity: between golden
F312.1, Z139.9
mountains. Virgin guides
heaven
V510.4
Virgin
rescues
in
sinking
ship
V264.2
Phoenix: renews youth B32.1

reveal
in
V268.4.4
sees Virgin, angels, dies, to
J30.02
Philosophy: personified gives infant magi-
attributes:
to
V277.4
him on
foursK1215
reality
prays
cruets,
insincere, Virgin transports to altar
horse X742.1
tricks,
via
Q172.0.5, V85.1
helped by Santiago in fi^t Q28.4
odor J 152.7
cool, escapes
heaven
Q28.3, V85.3
follows
J152.9
goes to
purgatory,
fears
urinates wivie walking, keeps feet
Physical
with
fiiends
waits under fig tree, ape throws figs
T334.1.1
learning J1217.2
cal shirt
his
J411.5.1
re-interprets royal
tomb and
K1955.0.3
contradicts
feauiresH1551
hermit J30.01
woman
Kl 955.0.1
treat sick ass
Physiognomist's nature:
earthenware vessel J 152.1
woman
only he can cure
tyrant,
birth
of,
advises destroy city J 1289. 10,
tells
Kl 955.0.2
him
J1289.25
wolf pretends to help sow give
himP317.1
king to act contrary to advice
fiither
K1955.10
K1613.6
by marauders
does not believe friend maligned
tells
it
poisons princess, king poisons
J235.1
studies,
to find
lion asks to cure horse
J152.ll
simple
eagle's eyes,
him K1955.2.2
to be, sham recognized
K1955.0.4
Philosopher: advises courtier, deceive king
reads
K2041.1,
K2292
Pestilence: cured
lives in
king
poison
to
offers
Q225.4.1
deep
vindicated
accused,
falsely
K2101.1
evil
U129.5
ALPHABETICAL INDEX
nature
warns against pilgrimages, punished V85.4
267
woman, &lls ill,

light
climbs
K1613.6
celestial
Q28.2
senators
Pilgrimage: knight in Jerusalem, to heaven
E754.2, Q172.0.5
woman
fer
poison
to
directly
heaven Q28.2
thom
Pine and
bush: dispute usefialness
Poor: feet cold, rich, feet in stocks in hell
power
tongue
out
cut
heretics
Q45 1.4.6.1
whores J453
does what emperor does J1289.22,
abdua
princess R12.1
wards V410. 1.1
attack
Mary
R168.1
causes storm, forced
D2141.0.9
Pope: humbles
Pitch: sulphur, red-hot metal, applied to
Porters: steal treasure
on
visited
attacker
saint's
mature
in miraculously short time
philosopher
grow
better,
God tends them
hu-
wiriiout
anger
Plotter: against
rose
birth,
W46.3
bom among
thoms Q85.1
noble, demands reward, king
bukes
and brazen: earthen
Poverty: diseased beggar
best
Prayer:
fears as-
disdains
weapons
re-
base-bom poets
flood,
save dty
brings rain D1766.1.12
D 1766. 1.9
holy man's causes evildoers to die
entage J80.5
D1766.1.11
gives
perfea
line
D1811.3
in
diurch,
enlightens
literally
D1766.1.13
poison
in
man
kills
Z311.5
moves mountain
D 1766. 1.1
obedient monk's,
damsel, exudes poison,
kills
men
F582
king makes
up
bishop's dry
defeats devil
rewarded, acknowledged base par-
physician
demons
D2151.9
J41 1.3.1
Mary
woman Z 133.1
against
V52.19.1
Q33 1.2.4
armpits,
sex, re-
sociation J425.1
emperor, forgiven
humble
demands
K21 11
Pots, earthen
ner V277.3
268
loses
Potiphar's wife: empress
fused
Platter: putrid matter. Virgin brings to sin-
&lse
saint's
W26.2
J1033
Poison:
J2092
by
miUtyG303.16.15
FBI 5.1
Virgin
woman
by
Possession: demonic, fi-eed
Q55 1.9.3
noble,
kissed
T317.8
with
souls
Q569.6
Poet:
hand
severs
wrench
J914.3
not to enter chvirch C601.1
it
D1171.7.2
devils
batiies in river
V476
al
fill
self,
incense for pagan idol, denied buri-
Q569.7
sinners in hell
Pitcher, magic: Virgin Mary's tears
Plants, wild:
another worse off than he
shares food with disguised angel
to return to port
Plants:
poisoned
share his goods, dies. Virgin re-
woman,
young
R169.15.1
Plague:
man
J883.1
rescue
Pitchforks:
rich
L143.3, W19.2
sees
U11.2
Virgin
humankind U61
to help
Poor man: saves bees,
in alley of
Pirates:
K1613.1,
poisoner
kills
U62
man:
Pirate:
against, pre-
T451.3
J242.5
Pious
warn enemy
viaory in batde K2369.7.1
Poison blown into victim's nose: sneezes,
goes
dies,
monk's
prisoners fiêd
poisons
princess,
him drink
it
too
produces
over abstinent
W3 1.1
by
food
saint
for
D 1766. 1.7
workmen
D1766.1.8
ALPHABETICAL INDEX
saint oflfers, priest to stop fornica-
fix)m
dead D1713.2
Virgin
to
to
show
court
Prince:
enemy
defeats
not eat meat J1661. 1.2.2

forgives
husband
believes
T481.24
God's
fix)m
baby
cliff,
in
HI 376.1
promises Virgin candles to find
vinusually short, seven days
queen weds, may not return
emerges with newborn V264.5

given
symbolic,
to
leaves
king
horse, falcon, doubled eadi day
treacherous,
violates
Pride, overweening:
proud man swallowed
C621
shon sermon
after
ill,
maligning
saint
bows
to
H7 1.10.8
wed T3 11.0.4
arranged marriage T311.1
prince horse, sword, promise
wed
T55.1.2
ignorant, sent to Chvirch
by
devil
sickens,
Virgin
revives
successful
riddler
dies.
E121.3.1.3
J1263.1.5
man, interment delayed,
revived
by
will
many
H540.3
E121.5
neêcts hearing confession Q233.4
prayer save bathhouse keeper, hell
Prisoner: diained cruelly,
mass
said, fireed
V4 1.4.1
masses, paid by wife,
V52.23
sex with goddau^ter, dies seven
woman,
fiêe
him
V41.4,V52.10
promise money to church, fied
daysT427.1
sex with pseudo god
R123.2
released
K1315.1
vinlettered. Virgin helps regain post
at
time
of
mass
D1766.1.7.2
senses wife's prayers D1766.1.7.1
V261.1
unlettered.
banished
T400.0.1
fornication, pain leaves
T334.1.9
trick
K2246
has baby, secretly wed, imprisoned
Q551. 9.7.1
up
sells justice
prohibition,
Princess: elderly forced to

flees
J1647
gives
devils Jl 745.4,
are
Q43 1.3.1
wild horse
asked to preach
tills
he
T371,X771.1
K227
earth
if
T121. 3.2
women
told
H605.1
by
lost
hawk M201. 0.3
T573.2
Pregnant woman, tides catch: Virgin saves,
Priest:
J152.12
quest of knowledge of deatfi
beheaded
T400.0.2
Price:
wear garments to
to
illegitimate,
recall lineage
woman thrown
Prescrqjtion:
safe
ignorant of sex, wife supplied to
giftX711.12
of
face
his
in
poor vdiere
gives wealth to
refuses to accept praise J916.1
father
man, spat
W46.2
Q2 1.0.1
Precentor: curses false flatterer J1369.6
illicit,
P463.4,U121.5.1
does not eat meat, queen's lover
sermon J 1647.1
illicit,
remember
son,
baker's
origins
V52.21
see Jesus, fulfilled
woA, man makes rope and prays

H605
Preadier: reproaches king who misses
Pregnancy:
V21 1.2.3.1
concubine: transformed into mare
Q493.2
son
her
D1766.1.14
woman's
he begins
as
vision of soul in hell

Priest's
D 1766. 1.2
warrior's,
dies
mass Q436
sinner back
brings
saint's
unrepentant,
V3 16.2
ting
Virgin
Mary
protects
V261. 1.1.1
ALPHABETICAL INDEX
Privy in diurdiyard:
odor
is
oflFensive
C93.3.1
269
Procurer:
on
price
higji
sets
T451.1,X522
virgins
T452.2
Pupil: fox, lonsuccessfvil hunter, tried to
Prodigal son: fevored over
feithiia]
son
N172
returns P233.8
attack J80.3.6,Z43.7.1
M205.2
Promise: broken, youth cursed

rescue
for
calf
at
not to
broken
sea,
M205.1.3
Puppy:
M242.6
Virgin's church
woman
Purgatory: time
two days
M256.2
M202.2
Jew M203.1
do as sage requests
king's to protect
not to
king's,
hurt J 1 53.7
W 154.28
be transformed
to
into
thousandfold U261.1
is
or two years of
in,
illness
U261.2
J210.2,
hostage returns to captor
when
magician
D141.1.1.
broken
companion,
dying
retaliate
ungratefiil to
calf to Virgin, broken, calf runs to
help
be
master before pupil J24 13.5.1

naked, meat on head, dogs, birds
Purse: not the one lost Jl 172.1
Pursuer, fugitive: husband thinks lovers
areX711.9
M203.4
hunter not to touch
literal,
clubs
it
moribund
lion,
Queen: abduaed by lover R39.3
K23 10.1
bedchamber searched before king
to return to
tell,
enters
suffers
M253.1
in purgatory
back Virgin's image
pilgrim, bring
brings her rapist's head to king
son
broken,
T47 1.0.7
dies
MlOl.4.3
to
join
confessor
order
counsels
by
inherited,
unusual
disguised as son, heir to throne
M372, M372.2,
K1837.8.2
M372.3
Prophet:
calls
immolates
angels to
save
kingdom
wife palsy
K1962.1
kills all
divine message
is
courtier
Prostitute: aging, oflEers
dau^ter
Quest:
only ones permitted to carry prosti-
see fece of Death, horrible
com-
to
posite beast
Raft: sack
high price for her body
X523
270
dead
herbs
H1376.2.1
soul to please
GodT459.1
flovnr.
Virgin rescues
of sex in public
woman
V264.2.1
Raiders: pray to Virgin,
offer
aa
HI 185.2
X521
men,
to offer for sexual
resuscitate
find
owner T451.3
tute's corpse
T412.7
T450.0.1
as sub-
T45 1.2
cheats brothel
shamed by
him over
T47 1.0.7
rejects
succumbs
sets
SI 2.9
runs
raped, brings rapist's head to king
poison king,
queen
killer,
passes law, legalizes incest
W34.5
pleasure to
spin cloth
S110.6
Kl 962.1
stitute
woman
heirs to throne
lances sons'
takes servant's wife, says angel sent
Proposal:
abandons her
P29.4
K1962.2
her
lover
insists that idle
eats grain fixsm ear
predicts victory J673.2

tells
self,
T93.3.1
V232.1.4
dove
enemy
with
kindness
L350.1
lie
X905.3,X905.3.1
Prophecies: unfulfilled
name
her clear
helps
V29.10
broken
cured,
if
MlOl.4.2
Property:
him
SI 10.7
M202.0.2
pilgrimage
T172.4
blinds husband, assassins kiU
win
in
Moorish
land V52.3.2
ALPHABETICAL INDEX
Rain: area, free of in stonn, sign of cross
of
comes
repent
sins
Religious teachings: like braying of asses,

asses violate
D2143.1.3.1
presumptuous J153.4
for,
of
prayers
man
holy
mock
small,
Remains:
ram
large
fleeing
danger J952.
wears mastiff skin, detected J95 1 .6,
saint's cures
Remedy:
eye
song
for
Virgin,
freed
paws
together, kite
kills
D 11 7 D3
.
dau^ter by lamentation
Hll. 1.5.1
husband by
life
story
woods
in
B123
poor
at
it
J912.3.1
soul E752.2.1
dying, wealth to poor, pardoned
earth swallows, house
H 11
money on way
finds
dog thinks
it
it
urinates
L391
other dog, drops
monk
prays
up more than poor man
J1269.16
lives pxjorly, servant richly
to
from
goldsmith
V256.1.14
divine intervention
in
trial
sight, fix reliquary
makes real
K1684.1, V142
of Virgin Mary, preserved miracu-
V140.5
ALPHABETICAL INDEX
eternal
life
in
monastery
P152
genitals of
woman Q492, T494.5
come
Q272.1.1
Virgin
seeks
fire
U62.2
postpones penance, devils
D1882.1.1
Rekindling: magic
to beggar, later cleric wears
fior
V411.2.1
mouth J 179 1.4
diurch
to
N181.1
gives
J832
dog when
and goods
Q331.3
fox
lously
and pray
Q172.2
fine, clothes
U119.6
false,
bad
past:
stool J55.1,
buried with gold, corpse spits
Reed: bend before wind, oak uprooted
Relic: cure
in
on
Rich man: angrily throws bread
Red-feced: bishop mistaken for drunkard
Rejuvenation:
fast
lust:
HI 1.1.5.2
humble, not
H119.3
saint by life story
in
foolishness
dying, asks for delay, devils take
fromJ83.1
meat
from animal meeting
T317.4
Recognition:
Reflection:
out
J167
Ravens: quarrel, prince learns governance
pricks
them
Q172.2.1.1
c^)e J426.
Rat-maiden: transformed
in
take
pain,
Reptile: wise, refuses reconciliation
bothJ681.1
Rat, cat: cat freed, rat leaves time to es-
mother
halt
judge's skin used
Repress
frog: tie
mute,
B513
Reminder of
Q244
R121.6.7
Rat and
blind,
V144.3
ovetheard
raped by brother T415.9
writes
cures
saint's,
punished by hanging. Virgin saves
Rapist:
mutes, lepers, blind
J2119.1.2
Rape: punished by beheading S169.1
youth
scoffer
V221.14
K1810.2.1
sister
baying,
attacked Q225.0.1
butcher, killed U161.1
flee
ftineral
grejôund's
like
bring
D2143.1.3
Ram: do not
scoffer's
Q225
holy man's prayers, bring V57.4

prayer
ship
protects
D1381.20
people
if
Mary,
Virgin
V86.1.6
heaven,
bread on scale
Q172.2.1
worries over investments J347.4
Rich sinner buried with honors: pious
monk
eaten by lion J225.0.1.1
man most rapidly: sleep

many women H659.28
Riddle: ages
with
271
anchor H548.2.6
water in sea, measure: stop aU
based on chance event H561.il
ers
bathhouse and bather H548.2.5

than
bitterer
bad
bile:
wêre
H659.34
H659.37
Riddle contest: customer, entertainer in
conscience (shame), best character
H659.7.3.1
brothel
Riddle
knows H682. 1.10
Ring: half, identification
devil
mares
empyrean:
higjiest
fish in river
H642.2
oflBdal's,
H56 1.5.1
H548.2.2
heavens, wât
is
heart:
who
hiêr
than:
em-
impossible,
fire
and more
H659.32
unwed
princess
T411.1.3
wife's, sign
Ringdoves:
drowns
away
in net, fly
who
to-
D915.8
over
pass
it
diverted,
dty
H594.4
won
K2369.6
D915.7
magically carries off debris
monarch H548.2
and paper H548.2.3
rival
Roasting: in hell, usurers
Robber: penance,
live
Q566.3
with next creature
he sees Q520.2
Q171
demons E121.3.6
saved by devotion to Virgin
saint defeats devil, answers
tongue
of
H543.1
men
and
soxol
H659.27
women,
first
trudi:
to see
it
looks
sweeter than honey: parental love
revives
God
p>rotects
Robbers: capture man, sure
Rogue: in
tree
trunk,
Romans: disputation by
H607.1
learn
H659.33
judge sets
afire
signs with
Greeks
from enemy, kindness better
than cruelty J26
than
arrow
not indude Jesus, preached poverty
H659.31
V385
easiest lost, hardest to re-
cover H659. 19
human, diversity
H648.3
best woric
Virgin
K451.3
west H561.il
faster
off.
himV461.7
H63 1.5.1
daybreak:
carried
E121.3.6
strongest of sun, wind, mountain,
strongest of wine,
carried off by
soul
women H659.29
272
liars
moat,
feeds
responder's origin, place of birth
visage,
of infidelity H94.0.1
up
gether Jl 024
burden
heaviest
H659.29
truth:
rise
D915.8, F715.7.1
mirror H548.2.7
thoughts:
man
impotent
there,
it
T299.3
dau^ter H659.35
at
1^
slave's
Virgin's finger,
placed
River: carries worldly debris
incurable illness, most: shameless
obligations:
in
seen as token of infidelity H84.5
faster
burning than
dropyped
on image of
pyrean H682. 1.11
rat: rat
D1816.2.1,
fish
N535.3
four wheels of cart H548.2.8
sharpest:
in
N211.1
enigmatic answer to
reed grass
found
lost,
H572
sun
H540.3
H548.3
token H94.5
brings death
Riddling: dever slave beats rivals
distant stallions impregnate
truth
H548.6
test: feiliare
from earth to heaven:
distance
posed to
daybreak
at
words: best and worst in worid,
calendar H548.2.1
human
sun
see
first
H561.il
children
boats and water H548.2.3
trait
riv-
H696. 1.1
Rope: twisting as work

Rosebush,
of:
God's
five roses:
of dead
like
prayer J80.3.4
grows fix)m moutfi
nun V255.5
Ruler: forgets nothing, save injuries J8 11 .5
ALPHABETICAL INDEX
love
returns
offenses,
forgives
learns mercy, tale of bees dying

after sting
enters
lazy to wipe, loses
U135.3
demons take
Rustic: as king, fine food sickens
denies beggar food,
himV421.1
felsely
fear of
Sabbath: origin, feast dedicated to Venus
(Mary) A1441.2
disabled
sinner
Sack of wheat: sinner
pulls,
man
holy
man
pitch:
thrown in
dream, to seek holy
manV510.8
D1840.1.4, Q21.2
up hair shirt,
L492
avoid singularity
V4 11.5.2
helps
by mass
said for
himD1766.1.8, V41.5
abduct knight's wife R12.5
to
marry,
storm
D 17 13.7
R165.2
cryptic
message,
ex-
later
plained J 154.1
leaves
for
robbers
lErees
area of
food
spades,
V223.7
Sailors:
guides,
D1713.6
sigjit
young woman
holds back flood water
leaves
Sailor drowning: saved
ni^t
at
makes
sign of cross,
rain or
V268.4.2
Virgin saves, bail out water, fish
plug holes V268.4.5.2
snow
moribund,
D 184 1.4.
monks
gives
rules
J153.8
Saint: accepts usurer's alms, hellfire
marks
moribund, never exercised own
will
L493.1
P435.7
accused of Withering child T574.3
comes
Christ
as beggar
V411.10
causes throne to
neglects to give alms, will not again
V461.9
perceives
bum
maggots
D1713.7
into
gems
hell
cheat:
knows boy has
hidden basket
knows
V222.15
chooses
V221.13
to sinner, saved
keeps pilgrim's son alive on gallows
punish rape Q467.1
changes
to sickle
good deeds
avoid slavery R165.1
pulls against J80.3.
all,
man's house V462.2.4
hand stuck
has second
Q223.6
Sacristar: Virgin says,
wastes body
like fire,
gold to poor, magic sack of money
Q223.6.1.1
alms to
God
gives
woman sews on, loses use of hands
Virgin
accused of fethering baby
flees rich
gives
river,
cap-
fetters, firees
R121.6
J352.2
fi:es
Sack sealed with
W125.6
breaks
K2111.6
Will. 1.4
violated,
jail,
tive
J57
Running nose: man too

bride
eats gluttonously to please guests
P324.4,
Q20.3
uêre
D 18 10.0.2
hid
pilgrims
clothes D1810.0.3.2
over
mortal
sin
prays
for
deformity,
eye
loses
T327.3.1
Q560.2.5
T334.1.5
did not tolerate gossip Q393.2
puts foot in
disguised as pilgrim, dies, Other's
questions God's judgment, cease
W159.2
house K1815.1.1
disinherits sisters,
God
will
provide
tells
red-4iot iron to
body, repress
lust
T333.7
J 1577
dying,
fire
monks, love each
otfier
dying, to see hell
restore mute's speech, for kindness
V221.2
J153.5
first
to confess
sins J 172.1
ALPHABETICAL INDEX
revive
foolish
sinner,
save
soul
V251.1.2
273
son of pleading mother
revives
E121.5.2
man
saves
half-human, half-goat
Scholar: gives
pledged
Satan
to
alms Jl 592,
D1714.2
in
Scholars in tavern: arrested with criminals
Scipio Afiicanus: gained
with
fish
J451.3.1
eagle
helpful
Scissors,
poor, hand blessed
Scoffer: attacked
V411.3.1
man on
day:
violated,
body
gallows P233.13
punished
king
Q223.6.2
man
blind
D 1500. 1.7.2
C961.1
by one generous aa
Salvation: ensured
M58
ring
on
Virgin's finger
Q451.7.9
swells to bursting
Q559.13
Q225
woman: transported througji air

F102 1.5
Scorpions: held safely by saint D 17 13.3
Scourge marks: prove events of dream
H242.2
to shrine
illuminates
of animals
H606, Z161.1
bit to
is worthless J2084
Sandalwood merchant: profits
show
Q561.3
overheard
N451.1
overheard, used in court N455.2.1

wife unable to keep,
husband says
gave birth to crow
fi-om scar-
HI 569.4,
X36
Sandpipers: eggs caught by tide, bird king
K1784.3
Santiago: carries pilgrim's
body
to shrine
shamed
by
woman's
child
Sentence, death: postponed until thirty-
day period Q520.4
God's warrior knight J153.9

pilgrim,
Sentence, eye put out: permitted selea
sustains
on
V22 1.6
tool,
unable
find
to
Jl 181.5,
P511.2
saves pilgrim's ship, Moorish attack
V223.8
DevU):
Seducer:
J122.1
M256.2
Sentence, hanging: permitted select tree,
unable to find Jl 181.4, P511.3

fall
firom
heaven
A106.2.2
Satiric legacy: father tricks
Sentence, obligatory loss of both eyes:
judge gives one eye, son loses one
tempts Eve with apple Al 06.2.3

greedy children
Satisfied subjects, small territory:
eye Jl 189.4
Sentry asleep:
come
P236.2
chosen
over large, rebellious J245.3
Satyr fears man, blows to cool, to

J 1820.1
(dwarfs)
fi-om hiding place

it
N41 1.5
{see also
heaven
enters
Seats: heating in hell for sinners
Secret:
of, like sins
gallows
book,
Sea: Virgin calms, saves ship V268.4.5.1
punished
violator
Sandalwood buyer: bums a
rewards
in
Q172.0.3
fails
C901.4.2
intervenes
done
goldQ69.1
V510.5
Q411.11.3
violated,
274
quarrel
by greyhounds Q225.0.1
grave violated
go on
statue, to
Sanctuary: abolisher seeks sanctuary,
city
wife
Scribe: abbot calls, returns, woric
San Femando:
cam-
Scoffing
cures
Jesus,
Salt: pillar of. Lot's wife
Sand: basket
fix)m
W167.3
at Virgin blinded
sustains
of
husband,
knife:
S113.3, T255.1,
silver plate to
name
paign Jl 289.23
B469.il
Satan
X37 1.1
heU E412.8
W11.20
sees fece of death D1713.5
sends witch away D1745.3
shares
Saliva:
B24
lesson instead of
saves poor family's daughters fix)m

prostitution V433.1,
Saint's
grammar
Serpent
tells
for
{see also
king devils will
Snake): advice of, brings
wealth to
warm
evil
him J 1489
human B581.1
bites prince, gives fiiend
remedy
W154.8
ALPHABETICAL INDEX
B161
causes fermer to prosper
Shearer:
B 176. 1.1
deceiver in paradise
Sheep: breaks promise to deer, wolf pres-
guards monastery garden B256.13
carried across stream, endless tale
within
house
F912
brings
spirit
Zll
prosi)erity
persuade wolf to sing K561.2
human,
injures
away guard dogs

from
voice:
from death
J1172.3, Q281.5,W154.2.1
extended,
Sheet:
him
Shepherd: alms, sent away, wolves eat
sheep Q44.1
betrays wolf to hunter
appears
devil
"devil,"
cried
C12.4.2
P361
dies in place of master
how much
could
eat,
another's Jll 14.0.2,
wimess to noble's
be open
will
in
Virgin, in dream, teadies to preach
V256.1.3
if
day,
sleep
sinks. Virgin helps, fish
let
if
fights infidels, as-
Shipwrecked:
Shirt:
no opening
Kl 3 17.1
H105.8
Shirt, magic: protects in
Shoes:
forbidden:
1 1
before
T3 17.4.1
extorts
near
horse's
riches
fixjm
repents
ness
cure: rust is to iron, sick-
is
to
human J893.3
sickness cleanses soul J893.2

Sickle,
stuck
magic:
hoof,
Si^t, magic:
stars
bad persons
kicked
K1121.1
She-wolf:
man denied
to
man's
hand
D1206.1.1
emperor K1955. 10
too
ty J912.1
Sick
6.
on consecration day CI 16.1

on feast day CI 19.1.2.2
Sexual temptation: youth to work and
physician:
D 138 1.5
Shroud: of king displayed, sign of mortali-
CI 10.2
church attendance
in public place
batde
walk barefoot on thorns
Shrine: dead child revived at E121.3.2.3
Q244.5
intercourse
save,
W152.ll
Sex with dead woman: punished, public
pray
for head, blinds victim
SI 10.7
Severed head: proof of slaying in batde
flogging
rescues
Virgin
sailor.
V268.4
J234
Serving-man: disguised, sex with master's

love
plug holes
V268.4.5.2
God: knight
cetic prays
wolf
J1442.15
Ship: held back magically D2072.0.3
ni^tWl 11.2.3
Service to
hidden
betrays
winks,
morning
Wlll.2.2
Servant to master: feed
monks send him away
W11.19
if
T426
incest
W17 1 .2
"wolf" too often P463.4
feeds poor,
more
X591
Servant to close door at night: leaves
open,
T481.20,
X711.ll
knight, saint saves
L416.5
called
thief
husband
blinds
K1516,
J2301.4.5,
not heeded J2 1.1 3.1
by
K191
of
belly
N275.5.2, Q552.4.1
retumed
rescue,
for
warns against advice from victims,

Servant: abused
for peace
Sheep's
B522.1
ungratefiol
sun B701
Sheep, wolves: peace between them, send
man
accused
shelter others fix)m
reconcili-
refiises
ation J15,J15.1.1
saves
L396
ent
F480.2
Sham
sheep, deteaed
from
destroys
crocodile,
enters
Sexual
says wolf ate
K2061.1.2
over heads of good or
D 1825.3.2
Sign of cross: banishes
evil spirits
of dead
E425.2.3
stealing
holy
bread B773.4
ALPHABETICAL INDEX
man's
Silence: gives
man power
to see spirits
J1074.3
275
philosopher
serene
desert
in
C400.02
sign of wisdom
C400.01
ofispring,
strength J156.5.1
rescued in cold, bites in spring
against future illness
woman's stomach. Virgin cures
vqj
W154.
V411.3
Sinner:
confesses
desire,
saved
wrapped around
church, daxk, leaves light
V52.2I
Socrates: asked king not to block his sun^
shine Jl 52.1
Q560.4
do penance
V255.3
dismembers brother, delays pursuit
assassins'.
P253
Virgin
denied
hanged,
unborn
to avoid danger
confounds
master
&ther
dead three days. Vir-
dukedom,
LI 14.1
licentious fother
naked
drunken,
diampion
H151.4
mother's
fadier
newly betrothed,
in
combat
dies, Virgin re-
vives E121.3.2.1
Virgin's applied to defomiity, cure
never punished, die in batde, fother
Q22 1.3.8
dies
carry own house A2543
(see also Serpent): bites
man who
Wl 54.2
mount
Q211.4.3, Q551.3.2.9
Q582.9
of king chosen to reign U129.6

of
merdiant
becomes
broker
U129.6
enemy mongoose A2494.12.2
276
kills evil
P233.9.3
D1065.2.1
king's
youth
in
P233.9.1
man forgives V441
removed by Virgin Mary
son
noble's
uncorrected
mocks
Wl 11.2.0.1
Slayer of brotfier: holy
rustic,
least trutfiful to inherit
gets others to perform his duties
frog
mother
gin revives E121.3.3
leaves
Jll 14.0.1
it
accuses
U 12 1.3
last surviving,
cleverly
saves
repeat
P233.9.2
D992.4
M375.2.1
Snake
own son wiQ
imprisons, tortures,
V86.1.8
little,
court
life
P233.15.1
muted, by sign of cross
Skull, magic: tells political secrets
Snails: travel
son
courtly
Mary: repels besiegers of
dtyD1381.5.1
Slipper: magic,
at
horse,
former's
cures
V257.1
Slaughter: babies,
servants S21.6
K2110.2
brother to gain tiirone
Skull: evil magic,
child
J121, P233.18, Q588.1, S21.7
Sll.lO
Slave:
fetiier's
cruel to father,
V22.2
Skirt of Virgin
divided
J347.3
three days to confess, sins more,
disease,
judgement:
chooses exile over
Q233.1
.kills
tongue,
J1171.1
Son: abuses
magically unable to enter diurdi
cell, bites
Q397
dies
Solomonic
in hell, Virgin revives,
Skin:
monastic
Soldier: loots
eternal bathhouse keeper in hell
Sister:
penance
waist,
Q522.8
demands long penance Q523.7.1
dies
2.1.1
V256. 1.5.2
carnal
V21.5
enters
diild
money
removed, gives
money
human's
kills
B391.1.4,J15.1.2
V461.8
save
him
K2031.2
Simple person: advises ascetic to regain
Sin: monk's,
B391.1.4
gratefial for shelter
helps fermer prosper, harms
J352.2,
of noble finds
woman
to feed
him
U129.6
of worker cuts
wood U129.6
ALPHABETICAL INDEX
on gallows, bites mother's

noseP233.15
E72 1.0.2
(fadier's)
to
seen
S263.2.4
tortures, kills royal father
revives,
by brother, moment of death
E586.1
E722.3.4
fly,
bad
body E755.2. 1.1

good
transport
miasic
speaks as
carried ofiFby devil
seen by
E754.1.9,V42.1
men
at
views four
sea
wants to leave body
visible
extra-corporeal
trip
gambler's, saint wins in dice
game
is
C411.2
David,
with
C401.2
devils
Speech: recovered,
by fox
musicians
seen
in
Spell:
departs E722.2.1.2
living
and
dead
in
J1262.10
judged in heaven, returns,
magic, kni^t's horses die after ten
days D2089.3.2
Spider: afiaid of wasp,
tells
rewarded, unjust tormented
bites
over-adomed
invites
in
hell,
wasp,
Virgin
Mary
swallowed,
aim
E366
woman Q331.4
on
"white
body
tfirough
rest
K815.2
curtain"
insincere
V511.2
leaves
D2 16 1.5.2.5.1
Spiritual food: not novnishing as earthly
seen
in
torment
hell's
promised to
devil E752.1.1.2
at
moment
of
Spjring:
death
on
silver devil gives to
bursts
blade
ALPHABETICAL INDEX
bridge
forth
in
man V24.3
front
of
altar
F933.1.4
flows at
E586.0.1
time on earth wasted E301.9
body
food Jl 2 15.2
Spoon,
E755.2.1.1
to
by
cured
bite,
nun's, returns, preaches repentance
returns:
U31.5,
D2161.5.2.5
E751
priest's
fly
kills
W121.5
E72 1.0.2
moribund's,
D2025.6,
magically
D2025.7
hell
E755.2.7.2
bread pre-chewed
eat,
D2 161. 3.6
recovered
V511.1.4
man
days
seven
during
forbidden
good abbot's, angels and

fi^tforE756.1
in
all
J99.3
E756.4.1
it
reap badly: better than not at
Speaking: consort not to speak to subjects
E72 1.0.2
just
E4 15.3.1
only to one person
E756.4.2
Sow and
E732.1
invisible
body
youth's, saint regains fix)m devil
dove leaves mouth of dying person
invisible as
returns to
fires,
marked E63 1.0.2
W128.7
insincere
departs E722.2.13
trapped in ice freed by masses
E752.2
E722.3.4
hermit,
it
taken by Jesus E722.2. 14
asked to stay in body J321 .4
dream
wrench from
pitchforks
sinner's,
to
fell
E755.2.1.1
dissatisfied,
spirit
fether-in-law
good
departing,
white
ascending by travelers at sea
earth D1825.3.3.1
angels,
or
E722.1.1
K640.1, R154.4
Soul: after death,
more
mother converts
captive
frees
no
sin
black
as
S22.5
V331.1.15
Son-in-law:
to
V251.1.3
oven, enter monastery
sacnifice, in
Virgin
body,
command
of infent Jesus
A941.7.4, F933.1.2
gods create in desert D927.1
277
magic, curative powers

safe
D 1505.5.4
K2242.2, Q411.17
from serpents, sign of cross

V86.1.4
man
transforms
T47 1.0.3
John Damascene, hand of severed
St.
John
D2161.5.2.4.1, Q261.4, V256.3
humbly uses
Patriarch:
clay
V41 1.8
victim,
Stinginess: prince
Stolen
golden
apple
house
in
riven. Virgin,
warmth
pope he merits Christian
symbolic
Stonecutter:
wolf present
sheep,
in
tree
D 107 1.2
treasure
finds
in
wall
Stonemason: saved from
falling
by Virgin
D2149.4.3
kill
man
Stoning to death:
neighing,
impregnate
not
punishment
distant
Stork:
see
sunli^t
fire,
among
prophesy,
at
crisis
kills
adulterous
mate
male, punish offspring of adultery
twenty
age
thinks
it
meal to fox
fish
in
tall
thin
vessel
W158.1
J1791.8
say prince to be silent seven days
M302.4.3
of
birth
sign:
hero
E741. 1.1.2
Storm:
stilled
Storm
at
magically
sea:
inside
D2 140. 1.1
impedes
pirate's
escape
D2141.0.9
Santiago calms
money
it,
D2 149.4.5
Storm-tossed ship: Virgin saves V268.4.5

Stream: Virgin diverts to monastery land
J1853.1.1
contest:
Q422.1
Q241.4
duck
kicks
for adultery
A2497.2, Q241.4
M302.4.2
reflection,
Q422
cranes, killed J451.2
male,
M302.4.4
king stoned by
evil
populace
mares B741.2
compete
friends
K305.2.1
Steward: gave master's
money
K2 150
to poor
Q44.2, V416.1
Jew under
V254.8.2
Strength: in hair (Samson)
Stepmotfier: accuses prince of rape
278
inside F642.4.1,
Stoned: king tricked into talking to crowd
H1531.2
kills
worm
K811.3
Stairway set with razors: does not
Stealing
of,
N511. 1.6.1, P462.1
L461
fool
Child appear within
to enlighten
from dogs U127
proud of horns, tangled
Statue:
.2
with image of Virgin Mary, power
dropped,
sin: carried,
J1510.1
celestial
1 1
J1661.1.6
found by master J 1032
intimidates
Star,
man's
magic powers of Dl 300.4.1
V292.3
prince
fasting
in
K40 1.2.3.1
V127.1
Stag: has horns, but runs
Star:
Wl 52.6.1
Stone: for church, found magically VI
end of pilgrimage H606.
Stallions:
deposed
hidden
meat:
house
V433.1
hides,
revives
Stolen goods: hidden in dupe's house
thieves,
convert V331.1.6
Staff, iron,
Mary
Virgin
child:
E121.3
bread to poor, replenished V412.1
burial
breaks, thief betrayed
in:
K401.2
appears,
St. Peter: tells
K2242.3
H25 1.3.4
vessels J914.4
Martin: gives cloak to beggar
tosses
money
Still-bom
St.
Nicholas:
money, watchers too
K2242.1
Stick,
Squire: tries to rape, disastrous injuries
St.
estate
steals king's
woman
into
D927.6
St.
mismanages
royal
lost, after
D1831
conjugal activity J2 1.32
secret of, revealed
K975
unusual. Virgin gives to worianen

protection
V268.9
ALPHABETICAL INDEX
Strength, magic: in lion skin
club
and magic
Stubborn husband,
has
is lost,
husband
drawn
\viien
lost
many
lives J 1600.1
T481.17
lovers, pursuer, ftjgitive
magic, given to infant D1344.1
W167.2
husband pushes wife
in
Sword blows: image of Virgin Mary resists
D 1840. 1.4
W167.3
Submarine: Alexander descends
deacon
foe
to
into plowshares J642.2
wife: quarrel,
breaks wife's leg
Substitution:
death
D1402.7
D 183 1.7
moral rectitude
river
Sword:
83 1.4
Strong man: migjity slayer F628
quarrel,
in
for captive
D1525
K528.2
Synagogue:
Virgin
turns
into
church
warn
against
V363.1
Suffocation: daughter, father SI 13.2.4
woman
attempts,
three
Suicide:
saved
V252.4
Tablets, golden: unearthed,
woman
Suitors: lazier of two,
marry
to
Wlll.l
baker's son, gives
like
tongues
creates
more
suns, dry world:
wed, create thieves J88.1
magic
fill
of hero
by
exonerated
clever
deduction
other
birds
B29 1.1.11
why
nest near
and
courtier
humans A2282.1
crows:
dispute
beauty
H1143.1
Teadier: delivers
Swallows' loud chirp, sporadic: chosen

over low constant sparrows J2 1 5. 1 .4
knight's boat throvi^ water
men D361.2
knight
in
boat
magical
transformed into D161.1

departure time to knight
men
Tears: of hunter, birds mistake for pity
Swollen
limbs:
hills
of
Virgin,
fill
magic
picture
penitents
fill
barrel
F1051.1
F1051.1.1
Teeth: knocked out,
rviler
says better off
W26.9
transformed into
trample ant
con-
wash away thumb mark on palm
B752.1.1
Swine:
P344
wall, pupil
Dl 171.7.2, H984.1.1
B469.12
signals
wisdom on
J1821.2
golden neck chains transform them
man
enemy
fined P344.1
B558.1
leads
children to
gives pupil rhetorical rules
puts
Swallows, sparrows: choose between J282
to
city's
K2369.3.1, Q261.3
J242.6
Swan: draws
HI 154.7.4
symbolic, dip sea out with spoon
seeds J62 1.1
Swallows
re-
eye to match H919.4
retrieve royal heron. Virgin protects
hemp
about
man's eye,
replace one-eyed
move
Swallow: divine messenger
son
fleas,
HI 129.10.1
man without cares
H931.3
by elders J 1 1 53.
K21 12.0.2
warns
multicolored
impossible, find
falsely
helps
males, females
gifts at birth
F3 12.1
Susanna: accused
Virgin
pitcher.
H984.1.1
gather
J1442.1
Si?)ematural beings: bestow
Hll 11
HI 142.3
drink seas dry
Sunlight: hunters block, philosopher protests
HI 185.2
carry sheep across stream
U121.6.2
thieves
body SI 39.0.1
Task: buy best possible food, slave buys
bread as reward H175.6, P463.1,
Sun weds,
N592
Target: living, child's
behaves
Sultan:
avarice
D136
mother dog's benign, rabid dog's
B 16. 1.4.
king's,
Virgin
V256.4.6
ALPHABETICAL INDEX
dangerous J88.2
heals
Temples: teach, with
figures,
insertions
J168.1
279
Test: ability to reign, youngest son pre-
anger, royalty
out
lift
plate
plates,
Theft of meal for
HI 554.1
saint
arm bruised
E41 1.0.2.1
Thief:
of
HI 406.1
excommunicated,
Mend HI 558.2,
whole
fiiendship:
of three
best
is
mistakes lion for horse, rides
oath
HI 573.2.2
magician's
gically at river
pupil
again
ma-
Q227.4
of sheep, belly bleats in church
fails
H1565.1
N275.5.2, Q552.4.1
three
on gallows,
recipients
HI 565
devil supports,
then lets
him hang M212.2

exu-
paralyzed, blind, returns loot, cured
parental love, fathers save children,
prevented fitjm leaving church by
loyalty,
drink
vassals
dations
foul
HI 556.0.3
Q212.7
mothers not H491.2

shoot
paternity,
abbot
monk feils,
endures blows of
trapped in hermit's
HI 553.3
loses
tricked
temper
at
cup
into
H1553.5
climb
tricked,
HI 553.7
tries to
bribe
trusted
by
valor, knight
HI 553.3;
who waits
choose
chests
Thom:
H548.4
Thread magically
cloths
sages pose riddles to slave
wo-
natvire,
H1569.3
by
lion's
bed
in
ft)r
paw B381
svqjplied:
sews
altar
D811.3
Threat: to child to throw
man H548.5
unmoved
K346
husband
wanting to leave order Q522.3
removed from
poses riddles to youth
worry-fite
watchdog K2062
cleric steals
creep naked dirough, penance
three
HI 573.2.2;
wit: prince
self
X743
until at-
among
from
down moonbeam
wife hears, joins
HI 561. 2.4
tacked
wisdom,
Q222.5.4.1
K1054
visitors suffer insults at city's
gate
cell
stealing
K439.3
pupil endures philosopher's insults
boy K345.2
trapped by horse K427.1
monk
patience:
Mary D2072.0.3
Virgin
sent into well by
corpse
fether's
P233.17
280
steals
of holy man's horse, detained
generosity, saint gives special food
gifts,
of innocence,
M102
H1558.il
tiiree
it
J1756.2
take publicly, slap from friend
gratitude:
behind
K335.1.0.2
H1558.1.1
to visitor
ftinds
sheet
leaves
fiigjitened,
HI 558.1
loved
least
returns
J1141.14
H1558.2.1
half-friend
Day
Judgement
attacked by poor victim K335. 1 .0.3
innocents
killing
knife pierces
fritters:
mouth, prays Q212.8
thiefs
woman HI 596.4
threat
monk
Theft: false accusation, Virgin saves
V276.5
winner makes
devils,
touch
fear,
critidsm with-
mouse between
not to
HI 578. 1.4.3
tiiings
suflFers
HI 553.2
curiosity,
evil,
sexual identity, dioice of play-
HI 569.2
vails
it
to wolves
C25.2
peasant
to horses to throw
them
to bear
C25
threats
to
ox to throw to wolf C25.2.1
ALPHABETICAL INDEX
11
Thrush or
husband, wife quairel
tfirostle:
forgiven, ruler invokes divine right
W167.2
W46.2.1
quarrel, wife's leg
broken T255. 1
Tiger learns fixjm e:qjerience:
fears
man
Charlemagne
gives to his knights,
punished Q554. 1
unpaid,
bitten
V57.8
human
crops
by betrayed wife
off:
wife
maggots to
gems
SI63
to rat
man
man
to
swan D161
to
woman
D 12.01
rat to
maiden D315.1
swan
to
man D361.2
D470.
puppy D141, K1351
water, river to copper
spat in fece of inquisitor S163.2
woman
man discouraged
Q45 1.4.8.2
pilgrims
bitten,
restored
out,
wood
magically
man's tongue
throws
at
it
king
for
accusation
false
wine
Q393.5
served
bitter
dinner
at
severed: restored
spits at
woman
by Virgin Mary
D2161.5.2.4.4
in
of
roots
tree
buried in vineyard, sons to dig
soil
doves
man
lead
to
treasure
eagle
leads
rescuer
to
treasure
broken statue N514.3
found
in
found
in ruined wall
N5 11.1.6.1
magic, gives mouse access to food
soul leaves body, finds
N538.
extended finger points to
statue's
N535.2
stone cross nuuks on palace floor
tures J1262.6
Torments of hell: man
warning
sees, hears
V5 11. 2. 1.2
N535.1
dream
N531.6
Virgin,
on toad,
it
U31 .6
bum
others
injuring
Torturer: invents machine to
S112.8
vision
Treasure-seeking sons: to dig
tells
up
king
soil in
vineyard H588.7
Tower: confinement
in,
avoid prophecy
M372
Town mouse
buried
Treasvire:
D1561.2.2
well or pooriy: kind or
unkind speech J89

Toolmaker: makes tools, God makes crea-
Tortoise: treads
body
to
B361,N545.1.1
T333.2.2
voice
Host
B562.1.3,N51 1.1.9.1
H604
tempted man bites,
Tongues seasoned,
blood.
to
P233.19
pilgrim bites, told others not to go
Tongue
doubts. Host, bleeding flesh
V312.3
N511. 1.9.1
Q583.5, S163.1
spiced,
to
V327.1
V133.1.1
J1289.25
mutilated
appears
Jesus
heretic, convinces
Q451.4.6.1
bites,
IMS 1.10
to stone
monk
D2161.3.6.1
man
to
Transubstantiation:
extends, denying Virgin Q551.8.6

heretics cut pious
E>470.2,
D1I7. 1.1
maiden
spat at king S163.3
cut
D136
to swine
preciovis
V222.15
poor
Q45 1.4.8.1
by
fix)m hell, saint's prayers
fi-eed
pestilence,
P532.1
Tongue:
Trajan:
Transformation:
J17
Tithes:
11
Treaty: sheep
and wolves B260.
Tree: axe fiwm
and country mouse:
preferred to ease
liberty
L451
Traitor emperor severs hand. Virgin restores
Q26 1 .4, S 1 6
ALPHABETICAL INDEX
own wood
cuts
it
down
U162
foot of one tree forbidden
C621
king of J956
not to siqjply wood for axes P458. 1
281
on
grave,
F81
leaves
bear
"ave"
supply wood for axe handle J62 1
branches
.2
Unconfessed person:
Under
worthless
is
K344.1.5
says
Uriah
gullible cleric his
deer
is
dog
X434.3
on
to
lazy
Trout,
fishermen
lazy: disregards
danger J 16.1
share
Wind and
easily
descendants
sand
in
hell
in
hell
marked
box P435. 14
in hell, lineage arranged
on ladder
Q273.5
branches,
tree,
nothing for soul, confess,
leaves
Water: Wind, Water
found, Truth not Zl 2 1.2.1
dies
V424
leaves wealth, family not to church
P435.12
Q94.1
legacy brings illness, poverty P435.9
the reward to other: envious, covet-
one devil enough
(three) joint depositors:
all
present to redeem J 1 1 6 1
Two-headed: baby
man
must be
to call
him
build
church,
collapses
rebukes soul for wanting to leave
P435.13
Tyrant preferred: over uncertain future
condemned,
soul
despite
alms
P435.10
ruler J2 15.2.1
soul
Ugly: holy man, rustic doubts holiness
U119.4
torment, despite
in
call
him ugly J921
charity
Q273.8
Usurer, corpse
who
Unbaptized person: needs baptism to stay
E412.2
monastery
Q273.4
J1281.3, W26.7.1
in paradise
in
G303.25.3.2
pays to
holy man, embraces those
in usurer's house,
many needed
bom F5 11.0.2.1
Tyrant: Caesar permits
282
seen
heart found in strong
ous, loss of eye Q302.0.1
Two
son
gives alms to saint, saint
Truthful man: reveals secret cures to king
Twice
with
Q273.6
roots Z121.2
Truth,
and
forebears,
caught J321 .5
Lies:
filled
P435.6
Trumpet: announces death sentence P612
Truth and
chests
J1510.2, P435.15
P435.11,Q273.3
Trout, in danger: two evade, third lazy

is
is
honest P435.8, Q273.7
W111.6
one
he walks, J152.7
father
escape
from
Usurer: alms to abbot, only one coin
Trout: pretends to be dead K522.4.1

too
blood
vessels,
excrement pours from
altar,
cheated,
ones J369.0.
own
mouth Q55 1.6.5
Troubles, personal: king chooses over political
holy
sage, as
Rl 23.3
carries orders for
mouth Q55 1.6.5
Troubadour: sings for Virgin, freed magically
man
in
Triple tax: poet collects coins at city gates
N635
believes wife's
murder K978
Urinate,
Trophies: severed heads as S139.2.2.1
husband
him X7 11.2
Trinity: intellectual arrogance
letter:
god, spends night
T481.24
restless in grave, re-
W159.3
only joking
K1771.10
is
usurp power
1.0.2.2
wife's bed:
love for
Understand
another,
wife believes
E41
turns
roots,
K17 1.10
Trickster: fool owner, goat
tell
tries to
K2217
Tree, apple, division, deceptive:
insults
Uncle: treacherous,
1.2.2.1
not
of: ass carries to
church
gallows,
B151. 1.1.2.1,
P435.3
rises
up,
destroys
church
E235.4.3.1,P435.4
ALPHABETICAL INDEX
Vegetables,
Vendor, accused of
fish
17 1
V255.2
found
theft: ring
in
beUyK2 103.1
Visitation: carries off diief of church tithes
goods Q595.5
if
pregnant
proves
virginity
accused,
K1612
treats, lover
by
birtfi:
beam
vision
not
to
man
in
in
fall
M203.4
not
city, will
MlOl.4.1
churdi
not to leave convent, nuns stand
back
dead
fix)m
firm in fece of
sacrifice
D2176.3.5.1
winds
to
M183.5
riding
ass,
Jl 169.4,
M203.5
D2142.0.2
Vulture: invites birds to feast, eats
Moors
cede
to
them
J1577, K815.4.1
city
why
V268.3.4
delays death, sinner to
man
beheaded
ass
F312.1
ships
free
fire
creature seen,
first
Vulcan: gives infent hero sword and shield
causes storm at sea D2141.0.9
convinces
broken, hand wither
not to eat meat, bone stuck throat
V510.6
demons D2176.3.4.1,
out
causes
feast day,
not to comply with request, destroy

times
three
V251.1
casts
halts
M101.4
D2149.4.5
brings
Mary
Virgin
eruption:
Vow: keep
V312
appears
dream
burning"
D2 148.3
D2156.5
saint
belief in
Mary:
Volcanic
goes
K1516.1,T481.12, X711.8
Virgin
am
"I
grave,
God's, counsels humility J 164
Vinmer: eye wound, wife
Virgin
from
Q566.1
T401.2
Victim: avoids death, stops to pray
Vipers: controlled
king
P15.1.2
Voice:
T400.0.3
felsely
Q554.1
Visitor: takes beautiful courtier for
buried alive
virgin:
monk he must love her J164.2
tells
merchant church
Vessels, lost at sea: until
Vestal
says private mass, ailing devotee
turnip,
deceptive:
division,
root; cabbages, leaves
do penance
bones
drop
fix)m
height
A2441.5
V251
drives devil out, robber
tie
baron cas-
V254.8
e}q>lains
Host
Wager: drink seas dry Jll 6 1.9, N67.1

to doubting
monk
Walk on
J164.1
fiiees
Christian,
transports
home
R121.6.4
gives birth.
Holy
Walk on
Spirit
engenders
mishaps
Walling up:
halts volcanic eruption
D2 148.3
in place of woman pledged to devil
princes
beast,
ing R14I.1
power
D2 125.1
on man pvirsued by
N253
conspiracy to murder
for
Q455.1
thrown down magically D2093
War:
restores speech of diild
between
D2176.3.6
man D2 149.4.3
woman falling,
birds
and
quadrupeds
B261.1
between
cliff
crows
and
owls
A2494.13.14,B261.1,K477.4,
R169.0.1
trapped
falls
tion J 168
rescues royal falconer from drown-
men
like
Walls: inscribed with condensed educa-
K1841.3
saves: felling
water: magical
Wall, sheltering:
T547.1
Jewish
graze
fours:
all
penance Q523.2
K2042
in
sand
D2149.4.4
ALPHABETICAL INDEX
hill
Warrior:
abstain
fix)m
meat,
viaors
C221.02
283
choose deadi in batde over death

in retirement J216.5
promises
Virgin
one
for
military
masses
from
success
sick
ingests husband's ashes
bed
P7 1 1 .7
to batde
sends
batde
to
strength through chastity
Water
T3 10.3
proves
D 1551
refiises
by
God V469
loses eye
Water
man too
move,
Water
safe
by
sign of
gives silver axe to
woodman
delay Jl 55.4
danger
J1812.2
dying horse. Virgin revives
unguent T254.1
church. Virgin revives
enters
E169
division of, deceptive, above,
waist
refused, fear of covetousness J347.1
dusts self with flour to fool mice
J951.4
plea, keeps house free of mice
Virgin
killed.
revives
husband
dead
reported
extends sheet in
extinguishes
D2 140.1
Weeping bitch: woman, transformed

puppy K1351
Wheat grains: lips of baby, future
into
of husband
fix)nt
lover
leaves
during
husband's
absence
husband
in
bed
T284
handsome beggar
husband, to help lover
T231.6
accuses
&sts
fears thief, joins
M3 12.0.2.1
to
candle,
K1516.3
T215.10
T232.6
284
husband un&ithful
T81.8
K1516, K1516.1.4
tries to bite file J552.3

Weather: controlled by prayer
&lsely
W125.5.1
eats hot coals:
T211.2.3
E169.2
attracted
husband left with spit,
stabs wife
K561. 1.1.1
pet,
below
Kl 7 1.7
eats diicken,
Weasel: caught with mice, killed J45 1.1.1
disinters
T254.6
oven T254.5
opens armed chest T254.4
V411.5
Widow:
evil
disobeys warning: applies poison
drinks poison
Wealth: given away, magicaUy returned
wealth
for
J155.4.1
E169.1
royal
good
return
king,
for
figure:
in
against killing courtiers
J571.5.1
Waves: hares mistake sound
falcon
husband
blinds
H22 1.6
counsels:
D788.1
spirit:
P2 14.2
calumniated, survives burning at
F420.5. 1.7.4, P458.2
Wax
milk
breast
stake
made
kills self
K1516.9
in river: transformed into copper
cross
second marriage J482.1
T223
lazy to
Will. 1.3
in spring:
innocent
agrees with husband, horses, cows
D470.1
Water
husband
dead
Wife: abandoned,
drips in ear: washes out brains
drips in eye:
interment
H1511.5
K171.12, Wlll.1.8
Water
husband's
E121.5
Watchdog: refuses thief s bribe B325.1

for garden, sent
man K2213.1
hanged
prevents
V268.3.1
Water: divide
T2 1 1 .4.3
of Rhesus, husband's corpse, for
Virgin
saint,
widi son. Virgin forgives
T412.1,V261.3
thousand
M201.0.4
rises
K2111.6.1
incest
follows
husband
into batde
follows
husband
into exile T2 1 5.8.
T215.9
forbidden to join men, hang selves
T215.il
saint
of
rê
frees
husband from prison R152.1
ALPHABETICAL INDEX
41
has drugged husband
made monk
K1536
Wildemess: penance
mourns
hides husband at home,
D2 142.0.2
husband: indulges whims T261.2

for looking at
under bed,
lover she loves
tells
magic,
men Q341
opens church door, pope enters

Virgin causes, open shutters church
V276.4
T211.4.4
husband's pyre
woman
he
king,
her
kills
T25 1.0.4
under bed, husband turns,
coat brushed
Kl 5 16. 1.2
mistaken for another,
at men throu^,
woman T48 1.8
Wine: four charaaeristics of A2851
Mary supplies D 1040.1

woman, bare breasts, horns, seen
cliff
T257. 12
devil. Virgin takes place
warning hired to cut king's
harm husband's
lover
throat, confesses J2 1
"Do
T257.2.3
puts out eye, to match husband
husband's body T21 5.9.1
stabs
T2 1 1
.5
"I
men, bad breath 7^2
thou^t unchaste,
T317.9
washes husband's
looks
at
men
not
tell
woman mocked
Q331.2.1.6,X52.1
them,
for
eating
woman
mocked X35
invented:
is
wiio
give
it
has
short
pindies":
wife
left
up what you have
your hand":
in
man releases bird,
"Never
try to reach the unattain-
man
cannot
hei^t of birds J2 1
to try to acquire
be acquired":
sheep
ALPHABETICAL INDEX
"Rue not a
lets
repeats
thing that
attain
what cannot
man
capture bird J2 1
B275.1.3.2
tales,
beyond
J1442.1.4
"Not
J2112.1
Wig: monkey snatches,
Wild
man
says
able":
young, plucks husband's grey hairs
killed
son
for better J2 1.1 2.1
which son not hus-
band's T238.1
pigs:
is
man
know where my shoe
"Never
hair, lover leaves
K1516.7
Wild
not believe what
belief": bird tells
cut proves long J21 .5
life
R152.1
will
"Do
T222
Virgin revives E63.3
all
man
in wife's bed, his
husband's place in prison
self.
thinks
angry":
gem inbodyJ21.13
"Do not leave the highway":
spares husband's
takes
man
when
J21.2
husband's mistress
shelters
not act
sees
T215.4
retrieves
man
learning, says simple
J1217.2
"Consider the end": barber heeds
G303.16.1,V264.3
to
Z 139.3.1
as
Wisdom: before
ordeal by leîng off
adulterous
Virgin
Q2 11 .3
killed
J2112.1
prays
winds
cause
to
Window: look
old, plucks husband's black hairs
pledged to
able
D2 142.1
T211.2
hits
boat
saint's
D906.1, Q20.5, Q147.2
husband's bloody clothes, dies
self in
transports
D1524.9.1
husband Kl 532.1
immolates
enemy
against
trapped in narrows
frees warships
K1516.8
lover
left
D906.2, F963.2
holds pot before husband's eyes
jealous,
wlio
ftiars
Wind: blows arrows back
T215.8.2
kills
in,
order Q520.5
tries
to re-
1 2.2
is
past":
man
bird go, tries to recapture
it
J21.12
285
taught by parable: good shepherd
invited
attend,
to
prodigal son J80.0.6
to
seed sown on good and
cure
dogs to go away
K2010.3
bowstring, shoots self
J514.1
uses mother goat's voice to fool
unjust steward J80.0.8
yoking calf and oxen J80.0.9
kids
God
describe
to
deteaed
fraud
ass,
tries to eat
J80.0.5
unable
be midwife to sow, detected
treaty with sheep,
J80.0.2
ship in storm at sea J80.0.3.1
man:
thefts
K1955.0.3
sterile
seven wise and foolish virgins
Wise
fox
K2061.6
idolaters J80.0.4
soil
of
U21.4
not
guests,
complains
steals,
J80.0.1,J80.0.7
J152.10
Wishes: third used to remedy foolish two
Kl 832
waits for children to be thrown
awayJ2066.5
Wolf and dog:
liberty preferred over ease
L451.3
J2071
Witch: hung in victim's doorway, burned
Wolf, fox: guard against each other's theft
Q415.10
Withdrawal: from world
Wolf-food: threat to ox C25.2.1
U2 1.4.1
earthly
death
Woman:
J1217.3,J1217.4
betrayed by fox J1521
disguised
accused
.1 .1
monk,
as
deteaed
K1961.6
K2061.4
hope more
W151.12
eating
rams
K579.5.1
makes
sheep B275. 1.3.2
hopes
friends
for better J344.3
with
lion,
killed
sow
pregnant
help
to
in
larder,
cannot leave
K1022.1, W151.9.1
permits
captive
ass
to
it
dismiss
dogs
U31
salt
is
286
discourages
God's
seducer
T3 11.0.3
kills
K872
to
dance forever in
hell
Q386.1
them
V21.1.2
Al 275.1
created to procreate A1212.1

for
one adulterous act
Q241.3
cure for lion king's disease
kicks into stream
herK1353.2
delays sexual aa,
K961.1.1
sow
be
deceived, thinks invader will spare
meat, hopes for better
J2066.4
skin
will
Rill. 4.1
(family)
chastity
damned
lamb dirties water downstream
scorns
flees,
bride T376.2.2
created fix)m man's rib
guard
K2061.1.1
says
Z 19.3
confess sins, angel pardons

lead
K713. 1.2.1
proposes
unable to
beauty of Z19.4
condemned
K1955.0.I
overeats
falsely,
Q227.5
chosen to sleep with enemy,
J411.5
offers
execution magically
c^tive, prince returns to betrothed
killed for eating
leaves food,
self
kills
K2 11 4.1
give birth
betrothed,
before
race
fialsely,
impeded
ages of
funeral feast, animals
rape,
to
accuses bishop
entices goat, high place, detected
judges
accedes
T47 1.0.6
Wolf: as shepherd, deteaed K2061.1
must bathe
first
K551.4
disfigures face, saves self fixim king
Kl 121.2
T327.8.1
ALPHABETICAL INDEX
disguised as
man
is
abbot
dupes married couple,
shames
magically kindle
to
up
wealth,
told felse secret J 1546
told
T311.3.1
devil,
V252.6
tricks
becomes
wrongly called drunk N340.3
pope
yeams, baby Jesus, joins him heav-
en V277.2
Jewish, unable to give birth, twins,
Wood:
baptized T584.0.7
for building church. Virgin sup-
confesses
revives,
plies
VI 11. 2.1
transformed into stone D451.10
E121.3.7
lechery punished
Q244.4
Neptune P691
lose vote to appease
voting
Athens
privilege
Words: hurt more than wound, says

Woilc on
feast day: sickle

er's
of conquered dty,
kill
children,
woman
Ml 6 1.7
si^tQ331.2.1.7
pregnant, dreams: child's greamess
M312.0.4,
M312.0.4.1,
M312.0.4.2, M312.0.4.3
will
kill
his
&ther
M312.0.4.4
breaks promise, works on
K23 1.3
day
Workmen: saved, churdi tower

V258
collapses
Would-be philosopher: endures
insults,
proves self J 1074. 1.2
Wound:
in
mother's
of
ones J2 15.6
food
Christ,
bom
baby
side,
T54 1.0.1
new battle's, soldiers
promises chastity, ruins marriage
T311.0.2
adheres to farm-
hand Q223. 1.1
feast
prays for green eyes, blinded, wants
lion
W185.6
A1018.4
to forget old
touched
to,
improves D1039.3
puts leper in bed, only roses found
Virgin cures, mother prays, son's
K2112.2
V256.1.7
raped by captor, severs his head,

carries to
chil-
self,
V510.3
K1961.2.1
child
kills
of blessed, prays, heaven
vision
X70
Virgin
amorous youth Kl 227.4.2
dren V22.3
inconsistent, timid, but able to rob
disguise
near man's
razor
K21 55.4
unable to confess,
of sense JI745.3
corpses
hold
to
throat
saved
ignorant, believes sex act, injection
selves
not
V26 1.3.1
husband pledges to
lose
breasts,
three sons, brother. Virgin pardons
king
escapes
hide in tomb, save youth's chastity
killed.
revives
raped T327.4.1
T320.5
in
ointment
smear foulness on
cow, hundredfold rewanl
Q21.1
gives
king T320.4
ElOl
D2158.1
gives only
lustful
shipwrecked,
fire
Virgin
stricken.
M205.7
cures
saves
K2110.2
genitals,
heaven
fether
hell,
V511.2.3
sews holy day,
man
wise
accused,
mother
sees
each
K1085
other
falsely
Kl 837.7
kill
husband Q244.6
restrains
amorous king J8 16.4
returns,
dances eternally in
Wraith:
appears
to
announce
death
E723.6
hell
V5 11. 2.6.1
saved
from
burning
at
V252.2
ALPHABETICAL INDEX
stake
Years not counted:

service to
real life
began with
God J181.1
287
Young woman: rewarded
for not
dancing
love
in
Q39.3
Yovmgest:
davigjiter
will
marry
elderiy
one,
tested
P233.17
woman
ridiculed
LI 3.2
to
Youtfi: calls king fool, proves case J1162.4
choose, wife, mother, grandmother
abandon
M351
told woman
avoid temptation
T333.3
devils,
is
be Christian
goat, loves goats
told
women
are devils, likes devils
T371, X771.1
sign
of
cross
V86.1.10
fiiend
religion,
X771.2
chaste J482.3
fiice,
woman X742
F959.6.3
son, wisest L10.3
disfigures
by older
takes poison instead of bene&ctor
son, best fitted to reign
father's
old
Q62.1
genuine
only
escapes
ugly
invents false report to keep secret
warrior L54.2
son
with
J445.1
tricked
by woman, appears
ridicu-
lous K1227.4.2.25
saves
fix)m
death
R169.6
288
ALPHABETICAL INDEX
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MOTIF-INDEX

coeDievAL & ReMAissAMce

xexTS & STuDies

MEDIEVAL SPANISH FOLK NARRATIVES

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CORRESPONDENCES BETWEEEN MOTIF NUMBERS

B0-B99. MYTHICAL ANIMALS

TABU CONNECTED WITH SUPERNATURAL

D1800-D2199 Manifestations of magic power

F0-F199. OTHERWORLD JOURNEYS

H0-H199. IDENTITY TESTS: RECOGNITION

H500-H899. TESTS OF CLEVERNESS

THE WISE AND THE FOOLISH

K0-K99. CONTESTS WON BY DECEPTION

K800-K999. KILLING OR MAIMING BY DECEPTION

DECEPTIONS CONNECTED WITH

L0-L99. VICTORIOUS YOUNGEST CHILD

M. ORDAINING THE FUTURE

CHANCE AND FATE

N0-N99. WAGERS AND GAMBLING

P0-P99. ROYALTY AND NOBIUTY

REWARDS AND PUNISHMENTS

Q10-Q99. DEEDS REWARDED

S0-S99. CRUEL RELATIVES

THE NATURE OF UFE

U0-U99. LIFE'S INEQUITIES

V0-V99. REUGIOUS SERVICES

RELIGIOUS MOTIFS: MISCELLANEOUS

X0-X99. HUMOR OF DISCOMFITURE

MISCELLANEOUS GROUP OF MOTIFS

The utility of an index of folk-motifs clearly lies in its ability to present

a familiar story or a familiar narrative

motif-index also shows us that

all storytellers' bits

Georges recognized that tale types are not

just research tools:

of organizing taxonomically the corpus of international folktales, Antti

Thompson 1960) topically: Animal Tales,

in multiple versions or variants" (Tale Type-

other words, a tale type simply says: "This

the story of a person

to collate complete recognizable folk narratives without

cautioned: "It might also naturally be con-

and motifs, yet

a classification of separate episodes

took the monimiental task of designing an index of folk motifs because of

gives the three classes

actors ("gods, unusual animals, marvelous creatures

like witches, ogres or fairies,

background of the action ("magic objects, unusual customs, strange

gle incidents, obviously includes

motifs that coincide with tale types

parities disquieting: "If motifs

Besides the classificatory difficulties in Aame's index,

does not include "such pardy literary forms as