Motif-Index of Folk-Literature
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cannibalism
cannibals and cannibalism
capital punishment
captives and fugitives
captivity
captivity
captor persuaded into illusory punishment
capture by deception
capture by deception
capture by decoy
capture by ogre
care of children
care of children
care of children – miscellaneous motifs
causes of animal characteristics: appearance and habits
causes of animal characteristics: body
celibacy and continence
chains involving a single scene or event
chains with interdependent members.
chance and fate
changes in the earth
changing of luck or fate
characteristics of magic objects
characteristics of ogres
characteristics of various peoples – in habits
characteristics of various peoples – in industry and warfare
characteristics of various peoples – in personal appearance
characteristics of witches
characteristics of wives and husbands
chaste sleeping together
chastity and celibacy
chastity and celibacy
chastity and celibacy – miscellaneous
chastity index
chastity test
chastity test by magic objects or ordeals
chastity tests
childbirth
children sold or promised
children unwittingly promised (sold)
choice between evils
choice between useful and ornamental
choice between worth and appearance
choice of associates
choice of associates
choice: real and apparent values
choices
choices
choices: important and unimportant work
choices: kind strangers, unkind relatives
choices: little gain, big loss
choices: small inconvenience, large gain
christian and jewish traditions about each other
church dignitaries
circumstances of murder or exposure of children
circumstances of recognition
circumstances of resuscitation
class tabu
class tabu
clever dividing
clever judicial decisions
clever man puts another out of countenance
clever means of avoiding legal punishment
clever persons
clever persons and acts
clever pleading
clever practical retort
clever practical retorts
clever verbal retorts (repartee)
clever verbal retorts – general
cleverness
cleverness connected with the giving of evidence
cleverness in detection of truth
cleverness in law court – general
cleverness in the law court
cleverness in the law court – miscellaneous
color symbolism
conception and birth
conception and birth
conception and birth – miscellaneous motifs
conditions of captivity
confession of sins
conflict of good and evil creators
conflicts between religions
consolation by a trifle
consolation by pretending that one does not want the thing he cannot have
consolation by thought of others worse placed
consolation in misfortune
consolation in misfortune – miscellaneous
consummation of marriage
contentiousness punished
contest in strength won by deception
contest won by deception – general
contests in endurance
contests in other physical accomplishments won by deception
contests won by deception
continuous winter destroys the race
conversion from one religion to another
cosmogony and cosmology
cowardly fools
creation and condition of the stars
creation and ordering of human life
creation of animal life
creation of animal life – general
creation of animals as punishment
creation of animals from unusual primeval mating
creation of animals through transformation
creation of animals – other motifs
creation of birds
creation of canidae and other carnivore
creation of carnivore
creation of charidriiformes
creation of ciconiiformes
creation of coleoptera
creation of coraciiformes
creation of diptera
creation of earth by creator
creation of falconiformes
creation of felidae
creation of fish
creation of fish
creation of fish and other animals
creation of hemiptera
creation of hymenoptera
creation of insects
creation of lepidoptera
creation of mammals
creation of man
creation of man by creator
creation of man through evolution
creation of man – other motifs
creation of miscellaneous birds
creation of miscellaneous insects
creation of mountains
creation of mustelidae
creation of orthoptera
creation of other mammals
creation of particular fishes
creation of passeriformes
creation of plants by transformation
creation of primate
creation of reptiles
creation of rodentia
creation of the earth
creation of the heavenly bodies
creation of the moon
creation of the sun
creation of the universe
creation of ungulate
creation of universe by creator
creator
creator
creator – miscellaneous motifs
creator’s advisers
creator’s companions
crime inevitably comes to light
crimes punished
cruel abandonments and exposures
cruel children and grandchildren
cruel grandparents
cruel parents
cruel persecutions
cruel persecutions
cruel punishments
cruel relatives
cruel relatives
cruel relatives-in-law
cruel sacrifices
cruel sacrifices
cruel spouse
cruel step- and foster relatives
culture hero establishes law and order
culture hero still lives
culture hero’s (demigod) departure
culture hero’s (divinity’s) expected return
cumulative tales
cumulative tales
cumulative tales – miscellaneous
curses
curses
curses -- miscellaneous
curses on families
curses on persons
customs
customs
customs of giant ogres
cynical retorts concerning honesty