Proyecto del romancero pan-hispánico
Índice alfabético de motivos folklóricos en el Romancero
Motif-Index of Folk Narratives in the Pan-Hispanic Romancero de Harriet Goldberg
(modificado y aumentado para optimizar su implementación y funcionalidad en la
Web)
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- storm as punishment for princess`s
- carries off youngest sister of three
- English prince carries off youngest daughter
- eyes out, hand foot severed, in water to waist
- hands feet off, eyes out, cut in pieces
- ignores protests of captive
- kills victim when she resists, returns body to family
- pirate lures woman with tree with golden apples
- promises woman wealth, position
- tricked into lending knife, is killed
- tries to force captive to renege, Virgin Mary rescues
- woman borrows captor`s knife, kills him
- lure wetnurse into captivity, tied to post; made to suckle snakes
- of queen, king`s army punishes
- tell husband they have impregnated captive wife
- tricked into crossing river
- angels protect in furnace
- precocious, teaches people at three
- Virgin Mary, angel, tells to kill lamb, not son
- saved from burning, drowning, hanging
- legs, arms severed, eyes, tongue cut out, stoned
- women not to marry bald men
- family elder, infant scarred, grown avenges insult
- carried message through enemy lines
- 300 mounted on unicorns, 1000 mounted on camels approach Troy
- knight prepares, daughter dallies with victim
- lover killed on way to love`s house
- of nephews, uncle arranges
- woman`s nine brothers attack, kills eight, dies
- food to captive in lion`s lair, who shares food with lions
- God sends to Jesus, he must submit to crucifixion
- guardian, saves cursed gambler
- guides holy man through desert
- protect Abraham in fiery furnace
- rescues sea captain overboard
- saves sailor offered rescue at sea in exchange for soul
- shares food with lions who spare captive man
- takes shepherdess who made cross for Virgin to heaven
- takes St. Catherine`s soul to heaven
- tells hermit`s daughter and cleric she will go to hell
- tells Virgin Mary of her pregnancy
- warns man about to wed nun
- kills butcher, slays ox, drinks water etc.
- rear culture hero left in cave (Abraham)
- carry incest victim to heaven
- carry Jesus`s soul to heaven, blood into chalice
- create Christ`s figure in retable for king
- give fine raiment to infant Jesus
- give Virgin rich cloth to wrap babe
- blessed for honoring infant Jesus
- golden, goddess offers as prize
- has sex with two daughters and mother, all are pregnant
- tries to rape princess, she kills him
- removed to punish adulterer
- severed so man cannot fight
- husband`s, day wife is to marry another
- lover`s, on woman`s wedding day
- wife`s, on long-absent husband`s wedding day
- St. Catherine`s to heaven causes storm at sea
- come to kill royal mistress
- fails to kill king, caught, hanged
- demands payment from princess
- lures king to entry to besieged city
- permit woman to nurse baby before killing her
- sought to murder daughter`s lover
- would-be, condemned to death
- princes will die in battle
B [top]- sleepless, sign of terrible crime
- abandoned, letters in blood on throat
- abandoned, will kill father in future
- born to dead woman, survives
- men not good marriage prospects
- threaten woman; she kills three, sends two away
- brags about courage, later shows fear
- cuts monkey`s tail (sequence absurd events)
- at sea, only one ship survives
- standard, king offers to most valiant
- lots cast, for task of seeking hero`s body
- searched for dying warrior
- swear by, father to avenge dishonor
- described, head to toe, toe to head
- distracts priests, behave absurdly
- man`s, causes goddess to love him
- denied in life, rewarded in after life
- at order of saint ordered by princess
- defeated commander by king
- leader, besieged city by enemy
- of abductor by father of his captive
- of enemy by king`s loyal vassal
- of saint for preaching Messiah`s coming
- to keep daughter away from religious life
- announce penitent king`s ascension
- lover hears, knows beloved is dead
- toll at death of mistreated daughter
- fails to free father from prison
- father in prison, secret revealed
- fights duel to rescue father
- fights duel to rescue father
- vassal`s daughter`s, king arranges
- makes excessive demands; affianced changes mind
- carries message from murdered woman
- carries message to count to rescue woman to be hanged
- names murderer of woman`s sister
- rabbi finds king`s lost bird
- teases hepherdess, escapes
- tells father location of son`s body on battlefield
- tells husband wife is unfaithful
- enclosed in house to save crops
- restless, sign of terrible crime
- magic song causes them to perch on ship`s mast
- Christ`s, fish drink water in rivers
- hero`s, seas calm, moon full
- woman, buried nine months gives
- identifies returning person
- buries the dead, captured on battlefield
- warrior, captured on battlefield
- king blames subjects for defeat, they blame him
- denied delay for confession by Death
- of bread chases devil away
- Christ`s flows into chalice
- drop in dead woman`s chest set in gold jewel asks why lover wed another
- trail of, marks Christ`s path
- who drinks Christ`s will be earthly and heavenly king
- golden oars, crystal hull
- turned back magically by Virgin Mary
- without sails, princess sails in
- offers pretty woman free ride, refused
- daughter and lover, in sack thrown into sea
- hero`s on battlefield with multiple wounds
- slain hero`s, fisherman finds
- buys blind, lame, mangy horse, falls into swamp
- creates spring, to slake thirst
- ties self to camel, camel bolts, boy dies
- irresistible to women, rejected by princess
- will defeat women`s lovers, replace them
- apple tree lower for Mary not Joseph
- entwined from lovers` graves
- drips blood, miserly sister hangs self
- magically supplied when Christ as beggar comes
- taken from starving beggar, turns into blood in cooking pot
- poisoned, woman serves to seducer
- admired, young woman to potential abductor: they will be ready to be shared in future
- severed, displayed on plate to woman`s father
- demanding, groom changes mind
- forced to wed, lover carries her off
- asks sister to be his wife
- beat man who rested head in sister`s lap
- believes wife`s lies, kills brother
- cries for help heard, ignored
- defend sister, kill two men, third will marry her
- desires sister sexually, refused, bowmen to shoot her
- each leads army in battle for throne
- kill man who wants to marry sister, they die
- kill sister, unwilling to wed.
- king`s, ordered to court, ambushed, killed
- knows sister, by her skillful embroidery
- promises sister any boon she will ask
- quarrel cutting wood, one kills other
- recognizes captive sister
- rescues sister from captivity
- rescues captive sister, married to Moor
- rescues sister from seven abductors
- rescues sister, kills captor
- rescues sister from slavery
- rescues sister; she has children by captor
- restores sister to parental home
- too late to save thee students, kills officials and accusers
- traveling companion is sister
- tries to save from execution arrested students
- rapes sister-in-law, cuts out tongue, beheads her
- intend to kill sister`s suitor, they die
- kill man, had rested head in sister`s lap
- mother asks not to fight, is killed
- wearing his love`s colors comes to fight
- daughter, dead lover in sack, tossed in sea
- husband`s in deep grave ensures he will not return
- place of chosen, battlefield
- Burial spot chosen by dying man
- defeated Moor, battlefield, converts to Christianity
- hair above ground; women will know him
- in public place, to say he died for love
- rapist in cattle yard, arm extended
- children in oven, saint revives
- evaded magically, angels protect Abraham in furnace
- bush, God speaks to Moses
- princess, to be burned at stake for having sex with count
C [top]- blood droplet in chest asks why lover left
- heart inverted in, woman died for love
- message in chest, farewell to true love
- bolts, boy tied to, boy dies
- fishing boat, youths kill for lack of bread, wine
- grants compassionate leave to soldier
- overboard, avoids giving soul to devil
- refuses single combat with enemy warrior
- abuses captor`s daughter after release
- accused falsely of murder
- asks father, mother, suitor for ransom
- baby interchanged by servants with queen`s
- bound, confined in coffin. captor sleeps atop coffin
- escaped, mother does not recognize
- escapes in boat that is wrecked
- father, birthmark identifies
- given arms, competes in games, fights to freedom
- in coffin at sea, Virgin Mary causes to return to safety
- in coffin, hands, feet bound, captor sleeps atop
- longs for family, owner`s wife facilitates escape
- man resists woman captor, escapes
- mistreated, captor`s wife comforts him
- muzzled, chained, not eat seeds he grinds
- owner`s wife helps escapes
- promises marriage to captor`s daughter
- queen, give birth at same time
- refuses to kill captor`s husband
- refuses to renege, killed
- refuses woman captor`s love, he escapes
- returns, birthmark identifies
- right arm cut off, sent to announce enemy`s triumph
- runs off with captor`s wife.
- sees blood on rescuers`s clothes, is enemy`s
- sees boat, sails away, wrecks boat
- sees rescue boat approach
- sends for weapons to kill parent captors
- speaks name brother recognizes
- speaks sister`s name, recognized