S241.1 Unwitting bargain with devil avoided by driving dog over bridge first, 51
T. SEX
T255.1 The obstinate wife: cutting with knife or scissors 75, 76
T332 Man tempted by fiend in human shape, 34
T540.1 Supernatural birth of saints, 35
V. RELIGION
V411.6 Food given away by saint miraculously restored, 33
W. TRAITS OF CHARACTER
W111.3 The lazy wife, 79
X. HUMOR
X111.2 Deaf peasant: travelers ask the way, 71
X410 Jokes on parsons, 55
X424 The devil in the cemetery, 60
X435.1 What says David ?, 61
X438 The dream: All parsons in Hell, 59
X459(d) Parson arrives late (B), 59
X459(e) Minister tells of seeing parishioner in hell (B), 82
X597* Jokes about new arrival in Heaven (B), 56
X688*(a) Molly Swett, denied tea and snuff by charity board (B), 82
X800 Humor based on drunkenness, 68
X1021.1(a) Man falls with rubber boots on, bounces without stopping. He is shot to keep him from starving to death (B), 90
X1215.1.1 Lies about animals, 89
X1301 Lie: the great fish, 91
X1435.1 Lie: large potatoes, 91
Z. MISCELLANEOUS GROUPS OF MOTIFS
Z552 The mysterious disappearance. Guest mysteriously disappears from hotel room (B), 47
SHAGGY DOG STORIES
From Jan Harold Brunvand, “A Classification for Shaggy Dog Stories,” Journal of American Folklore, LXXVI (1963), 42–68.
Class B The ordinary shaggy dog story (psychological non sequitur), 85
Class B 300.2 Poker-playing dog, 84
Class B 350.1 Horse plays cricket, 86
Class B 500 The turtle that was sent back, 88
Index of Tale Types
Type numbers are from Antti Aarne and Stith Thompson, The Types of the Folktale: A Classification and Bibliography [Folklore Fellows Communications, No. 180, Helsinki, 1961]. [B] after a title indicates a new number assigned by Ernest W. Baughman, A Type and Motif-Index of the Folktales of England and North America (Indiana University Folklore Series, No. 21; The Hague: Mouton and Co., 1965).
I. ORDINARY FOLKTALES
A. Tales of Magic (300–749)
425C Beauty and the Beast, 1
480 The Spinning-Women by the Spring. The Kind and the Unkind Girls, 2
500 The Name of the Helper, 3
503 The Gifts of the Little People, 8
