Motif-Index of Folk-Literature

  1. cannibalism
  2. cannibals and cannibalism
  3. capital punishment
  4. captives and fugitives
  5. captivity
  6. captivity
  7. captor persuaded into illusory punishment
  8. capture by deception
  9. capture by deception
  10. capture by decoy
  11. capture by ogre
  12. care of children
  13. care of children
  14. care of children – miscellaneous motifs
  15. causes of animal characteristics: appearance and habits
  16. causes of animal characteristics: body
  17. celibacy and continence
  18. chains involving a single scene or event
  19. chains with interdependent members.
  20. chance and fate
  21. changes in the earth
  22. changing of luck or fate
  23. characteristics of magic objects
  24. characteristics of ogres
  25. characteristics of various peoples – in habits
  26. characteristics of various peoples – in industry and warfare
  27. characteristics of various peoples – in personal appearance
  28. characteristics of witches
  29. characteristics of wives and husbands
  30. chaste sleeping together
  31. chastity and celibacy
  32. chastity and celibacy
  33. chastity and celibacy – miscellaneous
  34. chastity index
  35. chastity test
  36. chastity test by magic objects or ordeals
  37. chastity tests
  38. childbirth
  39. children sold or promised
  40. children unwittingly promised (sold)
  41. choice between evils
  42. choice between useful and ornamental
  43. choice between worth and appearance
  44. choice of associates
  45. choice of associates
  46. choice: real and apparent values
  47. choices
  48. choices
  49. choices: important and unimportant work
  50. choices: kind strangers, unkind relatives
  51. choices: little gain, big loss
  52. choices: small inconvenience, large gain
  53. christian and jewish traditions about each other
  54. church dignitaries
  55. circumstances of murder or exposure of children
  56. circumstances of recognition
  57. circumstances of resuscitation
  58. class tabu
  59. class tabu
  60. clever dividing
  61. clever judicial decisions
  62. clever man puts another out of countenance
  63. clever means of avoiding legal punishment
  64. clever persons
  65. clever persons and acts
  66. clever pleading
  67. clever practical retort
  68. clever practical retorts
  69. clever verbal retorts (repartee)
  70. clever verbal retorts – general
  71. cleverness
  72. cleverness connected with the giving of evidence
  73. cleverness in detection of truth
  74. cleverness in law court – general
  75. cleverness in the law court
  76. cleverness in the law court – miscellaneous
  77. color symbolism
  78. conception and birth
  79. conception and birth
  80. conception and birth – miscellaneous motifs
  81. conditions of captivity
  82. confession of sins
  83. conflict of good and evil creators
  84. conflicts between religions
  85. consolation by a trifle
  86. consolation by pretending that one does not want the thing he cannot have
  87. consolation by thought of others worse placed
  88. consolation in misfortune
  89. consolation in misfortune – miscellaneous
  90. consummation of marriage
  91. contentiousness punished
  92. contest in strength won by deception
  93. contest won by deception – general
  94. contests in endurance
  95. contests in other physical accomplishments won by deception
  96. contests won by deception
  97. continuous winter destroys the race
  98. conversion from one religion to another
  99. cosmogony and cosmology
  100. cowardly fools
  101. creation and condition of the stars
  102. creation and ordering of human life
  103. creation of animal life
  104. creation of animal life – general
  105. creation of animals as punishment
  106. creation of animals from unusual primeval mating
  107. creation of animals through transformation
  108. creation of animals – other motifs
  109. creation of birds
  110. creation of canidae and other carnivore
  111. creation of carnivore
  112. creation of charidriiformes
  113. creation of ciconiiformes
  114. creation of coleoptera
  115. creation of coraciiformes
  116. creation of diptera
  117. creation of earth by creator
  118. creation of falconiformes
  119. creation of felidae
  120. creation of fish
  121. creation of fish
  122. creation of fish and other animals
  123. creation of hemiptera
  124. creation of hymenoptera
  125. creation of insects
  126. creation of lepidoptera
  127. creation of mammals
  128. creation of man
  129. creation of man by creator
  130. creation of man through evolution
  131. creation of man – other motifs
  132. creation of miscellaneous birds
  133. creation of miscellaneous insects
  134. creation of mountains
  135. creation of mustelidae
  136. creation of orthoptera
  137. creation of other mammals
  138. creation of particular fishes
  139. creation of passeriformes
  140. creation of plants by transformation
  141. creation of primate
  142. creation of reptiles
  143. creation of rodentia
  144. creation of the earth
  145. creation of the heavenly bodies
  146. creation of the moon
  147. creation of the sun
  148. creation of the universe
  149. creation of ungulate
  150. creation of universe by creator
  151. creator
  152. creator
  153. creator – miscellaneous motifs
  154. creator’s advisers
  155. creator’s companions
  156. crime inevitably comes to light
  157. crimes punished
  158. cruel abandonments and exposures
  159. cruel children and grandchildren
  160. cruel grandparents
  161. cruel parents
  162. cruel persecutions
  163. cruel persecutions
  164. cruel punishments
  165. cruel relatives
  166. cruel relatives
  167. cruel relatives-in-law
  168. cruel sacrifices
  169. cruel sacrifices
  170. cruel spouse
  171. cruel step- and foster relatives
  172. culture hero establishes law and order
  173. culture hero still lives
  174. culture hero’s (demigod) departure
  175. culture hero’s (divinity’s) expected return
  176. cumulative tales
  177. cumulative tales
  178. cumulative tales – miscellaneous
  179. curses
  180. curses
  181. curses -- miscellaneous
  182. curses on families
  183. curses on persons
  184. customs
  185. customs
  186. customs of giant ogres
  187. cynical retorts concerning honesty