Motif-Index of Folk-Literature

  1. real and apparent values
  2. reasons for abandonment of children
  3. reasons for promise (sale) of child
  4. reasons for voluntary transformation
  5. recapture of fugitive
  6. recognition by bodily marks or physical attributes
  7. recognition by resemblance
  8. recognition of witches
  9. recognition through common knowledge
  10. recognition through personal peculiarities
  11. recovery of magic object
  12. reductio ad absurdum of question or proposal
  13. refuges
  14. refuges and recapture
  15. refuges and recapture
  16. regular cannibalism
  17. reincarnation
  18. reincarnation
  19. reincarnation as animal
  20. reincarnation in object
  21. reincarnation: miscellaneous
  22. reincarnation: other forms
  23. relations by law
  24. religion
  25. religious animals
  26. religious beliefs
  27. religious beliefs
  28. religious beliefs – miscellaneous
  29. religious buildings
  30. religious edifices and objects
  31. religious edifices and objects
  32. religious fasts and feasts
  33. religious founders
  34. religious rewards
  35. religious sacrifices
  36. religious services
  37. religious services
  38. religious services – miscellaneous
  39. remarkable man’s extraordinary possessions
  40. remarkable persons
  41. remarkable persons
  42. remarkable physical organs
  43. remarkable skill
  44. remarkably strong man
  45. remedies worse than the disease
  46. repartee based on church or clergy
  47. repartee concerning beggars
  48. repartee concerning doctors and patients
  49. repartee concerning drunkenness
  50. repartee concerning false reform
  51. repartee concerning fatness
  52. repartee concerning the parentage of children
  53. repartee concerning wine
  54. repartee with ruler (judge, etc.)
  55. repartee – miscellaneous
  56. repeated reincarnation
  57. repeated transformation
  58. rescue from ogre
  59. rescue of abandoned or lost persons
  60. rescue of captive
  61. rescue – miscellaneous motifs
  62. rescuers
  63. rescues
  64. rescues
  65. resuscitation
  66. resuscitation
  67. resuscitation by arrangement of members
  68. resuscitation by magic
  69. resuscitation by medicines
  70. resuscitation by rough treatment
  71. retorts between husband and wife
  72. retorts concerning debts
  73. retorts concerning thefts
  74. retorts from hungry persons
  75. return from dead to inflict punishment
  76. return from dead to repay obligations
  77. revenants in conflict
  78. reversal of fortune
  79. revolting murders or mutilations
  80. revolting murders or mutilations
  81. reward of helpful animal
  82. rewards and punishments
  83. rewards and punishments
  84. rewards for other causes
  85. rewards – miscellaneous
  86. rich men
  87. riddles
  88. riddles based on the bible or legend
  89. riddles based on unusual circumstances
  90. riddles of comparison
  91. riddles of distance
  92. riddles of explanation
  93. riddles of numbers
  94. riddles of the superlative
  95. riddles of value
  96. riddles of weight and measure
  97. rights of the strong
  98. royal ministers
  99. royalty and nobility
  100. royalty and nobility
  101. royalty and nobility – miscellaneous
  102. rude retorts