Folktales of the Jews, Volume 2: Tales from Eastern Europe

Motif Indexes

Motif Indexes A. Mythological Motifs Number Motif IFA Tale(s) A101 “Supreme god” 7755, 8794, 14026 A154 “Drink of the gods” 960 A165.2.2 “Birds as messengers of gods” 11165 *A183.2 “Messiah invoked” 14460 A187.1 “God as judge of men” 14026 *A582 “Messiah: cultural hero (divinity) who is expected to come” 6306, 14460 A661 “Heaven” 14026, 21022 A661.0.1 “Gate of heaven” 19585, 21022 *A661.0.6 “Angel as porter of heaven” 19585 *A661.0.1.3.1 “Angels measure on a heavenly scale the good and the bad deeds” 19585 A671 “Hell” 19585, 21022 A671.1 “Doorkeeper of hell” 19585, 21022 *A694.2 “Jewish paradise” 5377, 14264, 19585, 19892 *A694.3 “Selling one’s share in paradise” 19892 A1321 “Men and animals readjust span of life” 6655 A1674 “Tribal characteristics—stealing” 4541 A1674.1 “Why it is not a sin for a gypsy to steal” 4541 B. Animals Number Motif IFA Tale(s) B103.0.4 “Gold-producing snake” 8004n B103.0.4.1 “Grateful snake gives gold piece daily” 8004n B184.6 “Magic sheep” 8915 B211.1.5 “Speaking cow” 8021 B211.2.3 “Speaking bear” 5361 B211.5 “Speaking fish 8889 B274 “Animal as judge” 8004 B279 “Covenant with animals” 8004 589 B336 “Helpful animal killed (threatened) by ungrateful hero” 8004 *B339.2 “Death of a pet animal (bird) from eating gold coins and precious stones” 18130 B412 “Helpful sheep” 8915 B435.4 “Helpful bear” 5361 B450 “Helpful birds” 11165 B457.1 “Helpful dove” 11165 B491.1 “Helpful serpent” 8004n B592 “Animals bequeath characteristics to man” 6655 B765.6.1 “Snake drinks milk” 8004n C. Tabu Number Motif IFA Tale(s) *C51.1.16 “Tabu: stopping a prayer before its completion” 9797 C58 “Tabu: profaning sacred day” 5609 C115 “Tabu: adultery” 7755 C220 “Tabu: eating certain things” 18140 C221.1.1.5 “Tabu: eating pork” 18140 C300 “Looking tabu” 4024 *C416 “Tabu: harboring suspicion” 18601 C423.1 “Tabu: disclosing source of magic power” 4024 C428 “Tabu: revealing time of Messiah’s advent” 14460 C560 “Tabu: things not to be done by certain class” 7755 C575 “Tabus of bastards” 8794 C611 “Forbidden chamber” 779 C631 “Tabu: breaking the Sabbath” 5609, 13908 C631.1 “Tabu: journeying on Sabbath” 13908 *C631.7 “Carrying money on person on Sabbath” 13908 C786 “Tabu: stealing” 7755 C897.3 “Calculating time of Messiah’s advent” 14460 D. Magic Number Motif IFA Tale(s) D42.2 “Spirit takes shape of man” 8792 D133.1 “Transformation: man to cow” 5361n, 8792 D133.2 “Transformation: man to bull” 8021 D313.3 “Transformation: bear to person” 5361 D333 “Transformation: bovine animal to a person” 8972 D475.4.5 “Tears become jewels” 7202 D672 “Obstacle flight” 8021  590  Folktales of the Jews: Volume 2 D771 “Disenchantment by use of magic object” 8792 D812.12 “Magic object received from dwarf” 7202 D817 “Magic object received from a grateful person” 7202 *D849.6.1 “Magic object under skull’s tongue” 779 D1030.1 “Food supplied by magic” 4024 D1040 “Magic drink” 960 D1046 “Magic wine” 960 D1133 “Magic house” 7290 D1133.1 “House created by magic” 7290 D1162 “Magic light” 8915 D1171.8 “Magic bottle” 960, 4024 D1174 “Magic box” 7202 D1242.4 “Magic oil” 4024 D1252.3 “Magic gold” 8256 D1271 “Magic fire” 6098 *D1273.7 “Magic script” 7912 D1472 “Food and drink from magic object” 4024 D1472.1.17 “Magic bottle supplies drink” 960 D1482 “Magic object produces oil” 4024 D1500.1.2.2 “Magic healing ashes” 6098 D1502.1.1 “Charm for headache” 7912 D1652.1 “Inexhaustible food” 4024 D1652.1.0.1 “Miraculously increasing of small quantity of victuals or drinks to feed a great number of people” 4024 D1652.2 “Inexhaustible drink” 960 D1652.5 “Inexhaustible vessel” 960, 4024 D1711 “Magicians” 779 D1713 “Magic power of hermit (saint, yogi)” 4024, 8792 *D1739.3 “Magic power maintained by holding a thirdgeneration rabbi in captivity” 779 D1792 “Magic results from curse” 8257 D1810.0.3 “Magic knowledge of saints and holy men” 708 D1810.8 “Magic knowledge from dream” 4032 D1810.8.2 “Information received through dream” 3892, 4032 D1810.8.3 “Warning in dreams” 4032, 8255 D1810.8.4 “Solution to problem discovered in dream” 18132 D1812.5.1.12.1 “Howling of dog as bad omen” 11165 D1814.2 “Advice from dream” 4032, 8255, 8257 D1817.2 “Saints magically detect crime” 708 D1820.1 “Magic sight of saints” 708 D1825...