Back to motif List page

Back to Thompson motifs main page

Back to Masa Site

Back to Hebrew Masa site

 

Search the database


Next group

Prevuius group

Group No. 217


Letter

S. Unnatural cruelty

Group No.

S400 – S499

Group name

Cruel persecutions

Description

S400. Cruel persecutions.
 
S401. Unsuccessful attempts to kill person in successive reincarnations (transformations). Egyptian: Petrie Egyptian Tales (London, 1895) I 36ff., Von Sydow “Den fornegyptiska Sagan om de två Bröderna” Yearbook of the New Society of Letters of Lund, 1930, 53ff.; India: *Thompson-Balys.
 
S410. Persecuted wife. *Types 450, 705, 706, 707, 708, 712, 872*; *BP II 236, 284; *Schlauch Constance and Accused Queens (New York, 1927); *Hibbard 29, 35ff.; *Wehrhan 51; *Krappe Anglia XLIX 361ff. – Missouri French: Carrière; Spanish: Keller, Espinosa II No. 105; India: *Thompson-Balys; Eskimo (Greenland): Rasmussen I 365, III 104, Rink 441, (Cumberland Sound): Boas BAM XV 198.
 
S411. Wife banished. India: *Thompson-Balys; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 526.
 
S411.1. Misunderstood wife banished by husband. She has decorated the house for his homecoming, but he thinks that she is expecting a paramour. *Type 890 (Christiansen Norske Eventyr 113); Japanese: Ikeda.
 
S411.2. Wife banished for some small fault. India: *Thompson-Balys.
 
S411.2.1. Queen banished for saying that man‘s condition depends on what kind of wife he has. India: Thompson-Balys.
 
S411.3. Barren wife sent away. India: *Thompson-Balys.
 
S411.4. Wife banished because she eats by stealth. India: Thompson-Balys.
 
S412. Heroine taunted with her unknown past. (Cf. F302.) Dickson 74.
 
S412.1. Husband expels wife because her industry indicates her peasant origin. Chinese: Graham.
 
S413. Unfaithful husband and his mistress persecute his wife. Italian Novella: Rotunda.
 
S413.1. Ogress-wife orders raja to turn out his six wives. India: *Thompson-Balys.
 
S413.2. Second wife orders husband to persecute first. India: *Thompson-Balys.
 
S414. Woman abandoned when with child. Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 1038.
 
S416. Queen banished when she defeats king in argument. India: *Thompson-Balys.
 
S430. Disposal of cast-off wife.
 
S431. Cast-off wife exposed in boat. *Hertel Zs. f. Vksk. XIX 83ff.
 
S431.1. Cast-off wife and child exposed in boat. Hibbard 26ff.; English: Wells 115 (Sir Eglamour of Artois), 117 (Sir Torrent of Portyngale), 129 (Emare), Chaucer’s Man of Law‘s Tale; Italian: Basile Pentamerone I No. 3; Greek: *Frazer Apollodorus I 155 n. 3; India: Thompson-Balys; Japanese: Ikeda.
 
S432. Cast-off wife thrown into water. (Cf. S142.) *Types 403, 450, 707; India: *Thompson-Balys; N. A. Indian: *Thompson CColl II 382ff., (Teton): Dorsey JAFL II 137.
 
S433. Cast-off wife abandoned on island. (Cf. S145.) Type 890 (Christiansen Norske Eventyr 113); Spanish: Espinosa II Nos. 105, 119.
 
S435. Cast-off wife abandoned in pit. (Cf. T581.2.) India: *Thompson-Balys; Indonesia: DeVries’s list No. 202.
 
S436. Cast-off wife‘s head shaven. India: Thompson-Balys.
 
S437. Cast-off wife sent to herd cows. India: Thompson-Balys.
 
S438. Abandoned queen blinded. India: *Thompson-Balys.
 
S441. Cast-off wife and child abandoned in forest. (Cf. S143.) India: *Thompson-Balys.
 
S442. Outcast wife and her son live in poverty. India: *Thompson-Balys.
 
S445. Abandoned wife hidden under a tub. Cox 501; Grimm No. 9.
 
S446. Rejected wife asks to take away only what she brought. Type 887; Chinese: Graham.
 
S450. Fate of outcast wife.
 
S451. Outcast wife at last united with husband and children. *Types 706, 712, 938; *Loomis White Magic 118; *Chauvin VI 167ff. No. 327. Chauvin discusses the following stories having this motif: St. Clement, St. Eustace, Crescentia, Hildegarde, Florence, Octavianus, Sebile, Genevieve of Brabant, Euriant, the Maiden without Hands, Helena of Constantinople, the Count of Toulouse. – Missouri French: Carrière; Spanish: Espinosa II Nos. 105, 119, Espinosa Jr. Nos. 138 – 41; India: *Thompson-Balys; Indonesia: DeVries’s list Nos. 201, 202.
 
S452. Outcast wife commits suicide when confronted with heads of relatives killed in revenge for her wrong-doing. Irish myth: Cross.
 
S453. Exposed woman helped by magician. India: Thompson-Balys.
 
S460. Other cruel persecutions.
 
S461. Tale-bearer unjustly drowned for lack of proof of accusation. Irish myth: Cross.
 
S463. Jealous wife has merchant turn out queen and son, whom he had befriended and taken into his home. India: Thompson-Balys.
 
S464. Deity appears before persecuted youngest brother and gives him a flock of sheep. India: Thompson-Balys.
 
S465. Abandoned person in woods comforted by prophet and birds. (Cf. S143.) *Grünwald Hessische Blätter für Vksk. XXX – XXXI 315.
 
S466. Practice of one‘s religion forbidden. Jewish: *Neuman.
 
S471. Persecuted sons of co-wife. (Cf. K2222.) India: Thompson-Balys.
 
S481. Cruelty to animals. India: Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 181 No. 123.

Next group

Previous group