Motif-Index of Folk-Literature

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  1. paradoxical tasks
  2. paradoxical tasks
  3. parents and children
  4. parliament of animals
  5. particular dogmas
  6. passage of time
  7. payment precluded by terms of the bargain
  8. penances
  9. perils of the soul
  10. periodic habits of animals
  11. periodic transformation
  12. permanent sign of disobedience for breaking tabu
  13. persecuted wife
  14. persistent bad luck
  15. person becomes cannibal.
  16. person betrayed into ogre’s power
  17. person carried to other world for breaking tabu
  18. person falls into ogre’s power
  19. person unwittingly killed
  20. person with extraordinary powers
  21. personifications
  22. persons duped into injuring each other
  23. persons with extraordinary powers
  24. phantom hosts
  25. phantom sailors
  26. physical characteristics of giant ogres
  27. physical phenomena misunderstood
  28. piety rewarded
  29. places of captivity
  30. plant characteristics as punishment
  31. plant characteristics as reward
  32. plants originate from experience of holy person
  33. policy in dealing with the great
  34. possession and means of employment of magic powers
  35. possession of magic powers
  36. possession of wisdom
  37. possessions of fairies
  38. possessions of giant ogres
  39. power of mind over body
  40. practical retorts connected with almsgiving
  41. practical retorts – miscellaneous
  42. practical retorts: borrowers and lenders
  43. practical retorts: hosts and guests
  44. prayer
  45. pregnancy
  46. present values chosen
  47. present values preferred to future
  48. presumption of the lowly
  49. pretended virtue
  50. pride brought low
  51. pride brought low
  52. pride brought low -- miscellaneous
  53. primeval human pair
  54. primeval water
  55. princes
  56. princesses
  57. promises connected with death
  58. pronouncement of curses
  59. prophecies
  60. prophecies
  61. prophecies – miscellaneous motifs
  62. prophetic animals
  63. propounding of riddles
  64. prostitution and concubinage
  65. proud animal less fortunate than humble
  66. proud ruler (deity) humbled
  67. prudence and discretion
  68. prudence in ambition
  69. prudence in demands
  70. punishment and remission
  71. punishment fitted to crime
  72. punishment for breaking tabu
  73. punishment for breaking tabu
  74. punishments in hell
  75. pursuits