Motif-Index of Folk-Literature

  1. magic
  2. magic aging
  3. magic animals
  4. magic animals: miscellaneous motifs
  5. magic automata
  6. magic beautification
  7. magic birds, fish, reptiles, etc.
  8. magic bodily members
  9. magic bodily members -- animal
  10. magic bodily members – human
  11. magic body of water
  12. magic buildings and parts
  13. magic changes in man himself
  14. magic clothes
  15. magic control of the elements
  16. magic conveyances
  17. magic drink
  18. magic dumbness
  19. magic flight
  20. magic food
  21. magic forests
  22. magic forgetfulness
  23. magic fruits and vegetables
  24. magic furniture
  25. magic gardens and plants
  26. magic hideousness
  27. magic invisibility
  28. magic invulnerability
  29. magic knowledge
  30. magic land features
  31. magic memory
  32. magic musical instruments
  33. magic object
  34. magic object a gift
  35. magic object acquired by trickery
  36. magic object affords miraculous transportation
  37. magic object as provider
  38. magic object changes person’s disposition
  39. magic object controls disease
  40. magic object controls the elements
  41. magic object draws person (thing) to it
  42. magic object effects temporary change in person
  43. magic object found
  44. magic object furnishes treasure
  45. magic object gives power over animals
  46. magic object gives power over other persons
  47. magic object gives supernatural information
  48. magic object gives supernatural wisdom
  49. magic object miraculously opens and closes
  50. magic object otherwise obtained
  51. magic object overcomes person
  52. magic object performs other services for owner
  53. magic object protects
  54. magic object pursues or captures
  55. magic object renders person helpless
  56. magic object rescues person
  57. magic objects
  58. magic objects effect changes in persons
  59. magic objects works physical change
  60. magic ornaments
  61. magic power from animal
  62. magic powers and manifestations
  63. magic quadrupeds
  64. magic rejuvenation
  65. magic sight and hearing
  66. magic sleep
  67. magic speaking objects
  68. magic strength
  69. magic transportation
  70. magic tree
  71. magic used property
  72. magic utensils and implements
  73. magic waters and medicines
  74. magic wealth
  75. magic weapons
  76. magic weather phenomena
  77. malevolent or destructive fairies (pixies)
  78. malevolent return from the dead
  79. malevolent return from the dead
  80. man made from mineral substance
  81. man made from vegetable substance
  82. man unwittingly commits crime
  83. manifestations of magic power
  84. mankind made from miscellaneous materials
  85. man’s growth and maturity
  86. marital impostures
  87. marplot at creation
  88. marriage
  89. marriage
  90. marriage customs
  91. marriage of person to animal
  92. marriage or liaison with fairy
  93. marriage tests
  94. marriage to animal in human form
  95. marriage to person in animal form
  96. married life
  97. married life
  98. marvelous creatures
  99. marvelous cures
  100. marvels
  101. mass
  102. master and servant
  103. material rewards
  104. means of entering house or treasury
  105. means of hoodwinking the guardian or owner
  106. means of producing magic power
  107. means of solving riddles
  108. means of transformation
  109. meddling punished
  110. meetings of the dead
  111. members of dupe’s family killed
  112. metaphorical riddles
  113. metaphors literally interpreted
  114. mildness triumphs over violence
  115. military affairs
  116. military strategy
  117. miracle manifested to non-believers
  118. miraculous birth
  119. miraculous conception
  120. miraculous or magic rewards
  121. miraculous punishments
  122. miscellaneous actions of revenants
  123. miscellaneous animal motifs
  124. miscellaneous aspects of wisdom
  125. miscellaneous circumstances of transformation
  126. miscellaneous clever acts
  127. miscellaneous deceptions
  128. miscellaneous explanations
  129. miscellaneous explanations: characteristics
  130. miscellaneous explanations: origins
  131. miscellaneous gods of the earth
  132. miscellaneous groups of motifs
  133. miscellaneous lies and exaggerations
  134. miscellaneous lies and exaggerations
  135. miscellaneous magic objects
  136. miscellaneous magical manifestations
  137. miscellaneous otherworlds
  138. miscellaneous punishments
  139. miscellaneous punishments for breaking tabu
  140. miscellaneous quests
  141. miscellaneous reasons for plant characteristics
  142. miscellaneous service of helpful animals
  143. miscellaneous tabus
  144. miscellaneous tabus
  145. miscellaneous tasks
  146. miscellaneous tests
  147. miscellaneous transformation incidents
  148. miscellaneous worlds
  149. misdeeds concerning property punished
  150. misfortune with oneself to blame the hardest
  151. modest business plans best
  152. modest choice best
  153. modest request best
  154. modesty brings reward
  155. modesty brings reward
  156. monstrous births
  157. monstrous persons
  158. moon-god
  159. motive for transformation of others
  160. mountain-spirits
  161. murder by strategy
  162. murderer or captor otherwise beguiled
  163. murders
  164. mutilations
  165. mutual relations of the gods
  166. mythical animals
  167. mythical beasts and hybrids
  168. mythical birds
  169. mythical fish
  170. mythological motifs