Pan-Hispanic Ballad Project
Index of Folklore Motifs in the Romancero
Harriet Goldberg's Motif-Index of Folk Narratives in the Pan-Hispanic Romancero
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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
- will not convert, in fire, locked in chest, captors relent
- woman captive wins at dice N.2.5.3
- woman ordered to renege, refuses, is killed
- woman seeking absent lover, captured, sold into slavery
- woman, in cell, no windows
- woman sent for water, meets father there
- hits captive woman when she sees husband-rescuer approach
- kills husband for slave, refused accuses slave of murder
- kills three women when father comes to their rescue
- Moorish ship captain frees woman
- orders captive woman`s execution as husband approaches
- rests head in captive woman`s lap, she slits his throat
- says he has impregnated man`s wife(his captive)
- to marry captor`s daughters, escapes to ships in harbor
- wife of, runs off with captive
- woman, jealous, mistreats women slaves; they die
- woman asks captive to murder husband
- woman, requires sex from male slave; he escapes
- in church assigns religious symbols to cards
- built for her, Mary mourns in
- great treasure inside chestnut tree
- Jacob, Abraham, twelve thousand angels surround
- of gold, sapphire shines in tower
- blood of, darkens river water
- fifteen thousand Moors die in battle, lose city
- beats wife so much he falls ill
- faithless wife says noise is caused by
- joyful about invitation to wed falls to his death
- nine lives, sardine`s odor revives
- only eats, sleeps, owner beats him, he escapes
- tries to kiss beloved, falls, breaks limbs, ribs
- troops fight valiantly against invaders
- troops serve Spanish king
- marital, mutually agreed upon
- golden, soldier gives to compassionate officer
- Moors of Christians, Christians win
- of city and king by grotesque warrior
- of city for crime of regicide
- of king`s knights, by foreign knight
- warrior`s, of cousin`s slayer
- warrior`s, of father`s slayer
- outside besieged city, seeks opponent
- count vindicates empress, queen
- defends falsely accused wife
- sword of, king puts between sleeping lovers
- test of, make woman love him, she relents, he wins,
- game interrupted by king`s grandson
- king, captive play, stakes city
- forbidden causes king to lose throne
- dead woman`s, opened, farewell message to lover
- abandoned to conceal pregnancy
- abandoned, cared for by doves in forest
- abandoned, rescued by hermit
- asks Virgin Mary to sponsor baptism
- born in forest, abandoned, flourishes
- exposed to prevent future parricide
- leaves house to fight Moors
- murdered by mother, revived by Virgin Mary
- noble, raised by humble folk, disdains menial tasks
- set adrift in chest in sea
- unmarried princess`s abandoned
- forty days confinement after
- queen sends assassins to kill royal mistress with offspring
- burned in oven, saint revives
- hide in oven, mother lights oven, they die
- murdered by father, revived by Virgin Mary
- starving, father plays music, they dance to exhaustion
- beautiful widow can choose any man she wants
- of three daughters for wife
- princess: marriage, convent or heaven
- three penances: be candlewick, be in oven, be in cave with serpents
- three penances: sweep streets Madrid to León, oven, candlewick,
- appears as child, helps man keep promise to say mass
- appears as wounded man, hospitality to rewarded
- asks disciples who will die for him (who will betray him)
- blood of in chalice, drinker to be earthly king
- comes sailing over the sea to redeem world
- crown of thorns, arms nailed, hands pierced, whipped
- disguised as beggar, given bread (inexhaustible hospitality supply granted)
- disguised as beggar given shelter
- disguised as beggar rewards farmer
- disguised as beggar rewards hunter
- disguised as beggar, farmer feeds
- disguised as beggar, rich man shelters
- disguised as beggar, rich man turns away
- disguised as beggar, to convent
- disguised as beggar, woman refuses request for water
- disguised as child says mass
- disguised as leper, in queen`s bed
- disguised as pilgrim, woman gives lodging
- disguised as poor wounded man sheltered
- gives shepherd candle to quench in river
- infant causes drought to cease
- one who drinks blood of, to be king, on earth and in heaven
- returns tired, saved Christians
- stumbles, falls three times
- tells Virgin Mary people villify him
- tells Peter to cast nets, they fill miraculously
- tests hospitality, Samaritan woman
- suffered to save humankind
- to heaven after crucifixion
- woman who tended as leper, rewarded
- daughter, loves Turkish captive
- defeated, convert to Islam
- prince, given to Moorish princess as slave
- promises marriage to captor`s daughter
- refuses conversion to Islam, punished harshly
- refuses conversion, hard labor, burned, locked in chest
- refuses rewards for conversion to Islam
- slave kills Moorish owners, crucified
- slave will not marry Moorish captor`s daughter
- to convert, if given heads of three heroes
- to marry captor`s daughter, escapes
- will not convert, punished
- would have killed Muslim king, if unwilling to convert
- asks king for justice for the Counts of Carrion offense
- challenges courtier wh insulted his father
- collects tribute from Moorish king.
- convinces Moorish king to pay tribute
- cuts off hand that had slapped his father
- cuts out enemy`s tongue that had insulted father
- daughter to trap Arab king
- defeats Moor, threatened enslave family, capture city
- forces king to swear not guilty of regicide
- horses`s whinny signals approach
- kills enemy on battlefield, beheads him
- knocks French king`s seat over, placed too high
- makes king swear he was not guilty of regicide
- offered Moorish princess, refused tribute, kills all in court
- pursues king Búcar who escapes in boat
- rebellious, challenges father`s enemy
- rebellious, condemns father`s ties with king
- rebellious, exiled, fights on frontier, returns triumphant
- rebellious, extends exile for two years
- rebellious, ordered to share wealth, refuses
- rebuked for insolence in papal court
- refuses conversion, offer of Moorish princess
- tells king he had conquered enemy
- threatened with excommunication, threatens violence
- youthful, returns from exile
- saddened by regicide accusation
- accepts challenge of royal supporters
- challenged collectively for regicide
- defeated Moor points out features of
- defends self against attack
- inaccessible, besieged unsuccessfully
- one defends against invasion
- plundered, populace killed
- walls of sugar, gates of cinnamon. Xauxa
- hidden in flour sack, woman`s husband discovers
- wearer protected in childbirth
- wearer protected in combat
- exchanged with servant, woman escapes suitor
- hero kills enemy, changes clothes
- hero wears cook`s, escapes
- saint donates to poor man, family thinks saint is dead
- captive in at sea, Virgin Mary causes to return to safety
- captive, hands, feet bound, captor sleeps atop
- lover asks that beloved`s be large enough to accommodate him
- golden for dead niece`s hair
- champion vindicates empress
- champion vindicates queen
- champions (four) vindicate sultana
- hero and offending counts
- promises man`s release for sex with his wife
- arrogant, arbitrarily punished troops
- defeated, flees, king executes
- defeated, gutted, stuffed, displayed
- defeated, loses all, beheaded
- denies bread, money, women to those who do not fight
- desires woman, orders captain to abduct her
- failed, pleads personal losses
- enlists only unmarried solders
- gutted, stuffed displayed
- kills, pardons arbitrarily
- kindness rewarded, gold chain
- orders victory banquet, enemy defeats him
- permits young recruit to go to new bride
- premature victory banquet, enemy defeats
- promises woman wealth, position
- punished for losing city to enemy
- uses unmarried soldiers in attack force
- vigilant eats on horseback
- woman invited to tent of, beheads him (Judith)
- Moses, forty days, nights in heaven, returns
- princess to father, he had not arranged marriage for her
- blasphemer denied delay by Death
- sinner denied day for communion and confession
- Virgin Mary`s based on Ten Commandments
- entices woman to give up love affair, accept him
- sin so grave, cannot absolve
- forty days after giving birth
- Christian knight offered princesses, but refuses conversion to Islam
- Moor converts after miraculous spring bursts forth
- king puts on throne to honor assassinated beloved
- lodger finds under bed, substitutes for self in bed
- lover`s, woman keeps for seven years.
- abducts woman, promises wealth, power
- asks king for woman affianced to another, fights, wins
- boasts, no woman can resist him
- breaks promise to wed princess
- called to court for their offense
- carries off woman from ball
- charges horse, sprays king with sand, water
- defeated, rides horse backward, tail for reins, beaten
- dies trying to rescue drowning man
- disguised as friar, frees empress
- disguised as friar, rescues princess
- disguised as friar rescues princess on scaffold.
- dreams wife in arms of another
- drowns in small boat trying to rescue drowning man
- falsely accused, offered freedom for sexual favors
- followers to swear not to divulge identity
- imprisoned for rape on pilgrimage, shackled, seven counts guard him
- imprisoned, impregnated king`s sister
- imprisoned, impregnated woman pilgrim
- imprisonment (long term) for rape (making love to) princess
- kills falsely accused wife
- king and courtiers imprison him
- lists qualities of ideal wife
- loves affianced woman, fights, defeats her affianced
- new wife of, is prisoner, until he takes her to Portugal
- obeys unwillingly royal summons to court
- ordered to fight enemy for seven years
- pursues boar into hidden monastery
- rapes noble woman on pilgrimage, punishment deferred they will marry
- rapes princess (noblewoman) on pilgrimage, condemned to die,
- rapes princess on pilgrimage, condemned to die, cousin rescues him,
- recognizes approaching multitude as rescuers
- refuses royal summons to court
- rescued from gallows by nephew
- says he has better, mount, garments, sword than king
- spies woman at ball, falls in love
- summoned to court, goes unwillingly
- summoned to court, refuses
- swears not to lay down arms, nor lie with wife
- threatens new bride, she is prisoner
- vows not to return, nor eat, nor send letters
- denied chance to nurse baby before she is killed
- falsely accuses enemy of sexual threats
- in exile in forest gives birth to child
- kills king to avenge son`s death
- must drink poison planned for son
- suitor to choose one of her three daughters
- envious, accuse wife of infidelity
- envious count accuses duke
- falsely accused to be executed
- lends knife to princess, she stabs him
- murdered, all responsible die within the month
- punished, returns widowed queen`s property
- refuses king`s request to fight enemy warrior
- sees Christ disguised as leper in queen`s bed, accuses her of adultery
- spies on princess and lover, tells king
- intends to wed woman; she elopes with lover
- rescues count about to be hanged
- attack female cousin`s lover, one wounded, one killed
- go to Rome for permission to wed
- blessed, humans will eat her flesh
- warms holy infant with her breath
- herd to produce exraordinary bulls for bullring
- God created heaven, earth, air, water
- man cursed for: rob churches, dishonor women, kill priests, burn cities
- signaled by miscarriages, babies` cries
- Christ rewards generous priest with silver
- Christ, as beggar, leaves to farmer
- marks graves of woman`s victims
- king refuses to surrender to enemy
- crown of thorns,. whipped pierced with lance
- Mary weeps in castle Jesus built for her
- Mary weeps, blesses swallows who extract thorns
- Mary weeps, Jesus says John will take his place
- Mary weeps, asked why she does not sing, weeps for
- uses wife to win bet; about bull`s horns
- magical denied to wicked queen
- magical, bathing in water of Jordan
- charcoal maker, be consumed by fire
- crows eat eyes, eagle heart, dogs flesh
- cuckoo for eating cherries
- emperor to nephew for not rescuing captive wife
- fairies: princess to spend seven years in tree
- father: son turned into white-footed deer, dog, Moor
- ignoble death for broken promise
- knight in search of wife: lack of bread, wine, shade trees, a page, only one son
- man robbed churches, shamed maidens, killed priests
- mother`s: bad son: oceans turn to fire, wife betray him
- mother: may son`s ship not return
- prisoner curses archer who killed bird
- scorned woman: oceans crossed turn to fire, wife betray him
- scorned woman: may shepherd`s children be hungry
- scorned woman: may shepherd`s children be orphans
- scorned woman: may shepherd`s flock be dead
- scorned woman: may shepherd`s wife be unfaithful
- wife: may crows take out husband`s eyes
- wife: may eagles take out husband`s heart
- wife: may Moor`s lance pierce husband`s heart
- wife: may eagle kill husband`s falcon
- wife: may husband`s dogs die of rabies
- wife: may husband`s path be hindered
- wife husband`s flesh eaten by dogs
- wife: may husband`s eyes be plucked out
- wife :may husband`s heart be eaten by eagle
- wife: physician for not curing husband
- greeting, woman does not respond to stranger`s greeting
D [top]- chosen over jewelry, proof of gender
- golden, assaulted woman uses to kill abuser
- hidden under mattress, victim finds
- husband stabs wife`s insulter
- lecher, killed by his own
- rape victim stabs rapist with his own
- youth asks woman to leave chores and go to dance with him
- abducted, father will not pay ransom, lover does
- asks king for reparation (husband) for father`s death
- brings mother`s head to king, asks justice
- broke clay pot, pleads for mercy, is ill
- captive, meets father at spring
- captor`s, loves Turkish captive
- consoled by mother about love`s disappointments
- convinces father to banish mother`s lover
- disinherited, will be prostitute
- escapes room, kills parents weds lover
- father comes to village dance to punish for disobedience
- in love with lowly captain, punished
- jailor`s, pleads for prisoners` life
- hanged by father along with lover
- locked in tower, little food, no water, refused incestuous demand
- in tower to keep her from lover
- mother hides from rapists
- mother warns against bad choice of man
- mother takes her place in incestuous father`s bed
- parents sell to Moor, kills Mor, kills parents
- punished for converting to Christianity
- rather suckle devil than mother`s new-born
- tells bereaved father she will raise siblings
- tells father mother`s lover had tried to force her
- tells father to banish mother`s lover
- to wash clay pot, breaks it
- unmarried, hidden in castle in middle of sea
- weeps, conceals mother`s infidelity
- will not be nun, will marry
- will not marry, care for siblings
- will tell king of queen`s sexual adventure
- accused of mistreating mother-in-law, cursed her
- not to help brother`s young wife to give birth
- left willingly with captors
- pregnant with other man`s child
- sews shirt for husband, bonnet for his mother
- unfaithful, son must kill her
- unfaithful, son disbelieves kills mother
- warned about stingy employer
- comes for man, gives him an hour more to live
- countess`s; king, princess, count all responsible
- hero`s, soldiers bring news
- husband`s, pregnant wife not to know until she gives birth
- personified, denies sinner day for confession
- preferred over life without amputated arms
- return from, to rebuke heartless lover
- woman bathes in spring foresees her own
- magical, marauds countryside
- woman, makes excessive, before marriage
- carry off infanticide`s soul
- woman assigns impossible tasks
- feminine beauty, head to toe, toe to head
- as horrible cats torment evil sinner
- asks for captain`s soul in exchange for rescue
- asks for man`s soul in exchange for rescue from well
- asks for seaman`s soul in exchange for rescue
- asks woman, what will pay to revive lover
- captures woman who broke vow
- causes man to kill wife and son
- disguised, feet betray him
- help refused, angel saves sailor
- help refused, sailor drowns, soul to God
- invoked unwittingly to take woman`s gambler son
- no power over drowning sailor
- offers rescue at sea in exchange for soul
- pact with to help win woman
- pilgrim recognizes toe nails track on ground
- say they have God`s permission to torment evil sinner
- serpent woman must suckle
- tells pilgrim, wife is unfaithful
- warns man his wife is in bed with stranger
- will resuscitate dead lover
- takes refuge in cave, with Eneas awakes naked, in love
- newly-rich, departs, leaving fortune behind when woman`s brother arrives
- royal, beheaded, imprisoned
- women, flirt, lock him out
- with Mary, take Jesus down, prepare body for burial
- count as friar rescues woman
- husband as knight, tests wife
- husband as pilgrim, tests wife
- husband as stranger tests wife
- man, as nun, to seduce woman
- woman as man, accused of seduction
- woman as man pursues murderer
- woman as man pursues rapist
- woman as man, to be lover`s servant
- woman as soldier commands armada
- woman as soldier goes to war
- protested by Mary Magdalen
- twenty, unable to cure princess`s canary
- honors master`s severed head
- falls in stream, owner`s house locked, wife scorns him (chain of unlucky events)
- falls in stream, owner`s house locked, he is cuckold (chain of unlucky events)
- all in sight, open, omen of terrible crime
- of palace open magically for princess in search of love
- brings magic flower to shepherdess
- feeds, cares for devout person seven years
- magic, hunter finds weeping
- messenger, tells princess, husband is wounded
- messenger, tells husband wife is abducted
- nourishes abandoned child in forest
- princess, in form of, leads hero to safety
- father unable to provide, daughter must go to convent
- carries off princess, across seas
- defeated king warns queen to flee
- finder of duke`s body is murderer
- Fortuna appears to vanquished king
- fulfilled, daughter dreams she will wed king
- handmaiden misinterprets queen`s
- husband sees wife with lover
- interpreted, daughter will marry well
- king sees daughter with lover
- mother misinterprets princess`s
- nephew sees uncle on gallows
- reveals death of absent husband
- Virgin Mary dreams of crucifixion
- unborn baby`s father vs. affianced suitor
- between two lovers same woman
- knights fight over love of same woman
- Mudarra and uncle to avenge death of seven princeling
- of insults: Leonese king, Castilian count
- of insults: sexual sexually aggressive, litter of 7 babies
- sisters-in-law, of insults
- king orders to court, hanged
- holy infant causes drought to cease
- to be buried in spot chosen
- to be buried in market place
- to be buried with hair above ground
- says his friend is guiltless in his murder
E [top]- brimstone kindles, water cloud extinguishes
- preacher calls for to punish city
- man promises woman happiness in his land
- man will kill love partner, she weeps, he repents
- princess tells father she is in love
- help refused, angel saves sailor
- brother knows sister, by her skill
- breaks promise to give daughter in marriage to king
- curses nephew unless he rescues wife
- to exonerate servant in exchange for sex
- falsely accused of sexual acts with steward
- rescued by count disguised as friar
- hunter and shepherdess, she does not return next day
- young woman, clandestine meeting with man
- boasts he will make hero`s wife, daughter slaves, hero defeats him
- gigantic, eats prodigiously
- massacres people, violated churches, women
- persuades king to kill her enemy
- invites discarded woman to his wedding, she poisons him
- abandons princess on rock in middle of sea instead of drowning her
- charged to kill child, substitutes animal heart
- compassionate, will not shoot royal sister
- helps woman and her husband escape from gallows
- spares youth`s tongue, eyes, legs, only cuts off arms
- count leaves without money, horses, knights
- father trains son in chivalric arts
- in woods, mother raises son
- princess for pregnancy, survives in woods with son
- punishment for killing count
- voluntary extension of period
- youth kills father`s enemy
F [top]- makes husband forget wife
- predicts man will triumph in combat
- seducer accuses woman of infanticide
- locks up daughter, must not see lover
- offers shelter to Holy Family, rewarded
- of woman kills her suitor, she kills self
- feeds beggar, later finds silver crucifix in house
- rewarded for sheltering poor wounded man
- abandoned baby adopted, will kill father in future
- ashamed daughter unmarried, puts her in tower
- bereaved, finds joy in new love
- chooses loathsome mate for daughter
- curses daughter, pregnant with royal baby
- daughter quartered, hung from window, unwed mother
- desires daughter sexually, mother takes her place
- desires daughter sexually, she consents, dies
- drives off daughter`s rapists
- exiled, trains son in chivalry
- fails to rescue three daughters; captor kills them
- hangs daughter and her lover
- heads of seven sons shown to him
- imprisons daughter without food, water in tower
- imprisons saintly daughter, beheads her when she insists on converting
- incestuous request denied, daughter in tower to die
- kills captor who killed his daughters
- kills his three children, Virgin Mary revives them
- kills triplet daughters without baptism
- learns daughter is pregnant
- mourns loss of fugitive son
- mourns sons killed in single combat
- mourns son`s death in battle
- orders death of daughter`s suitor
- orders hanging of daughter and lover
- put daughter in convent, against will, she complains
- rebukes son for having killed fewer enemies than he
- rescues abducted daughter, beheads abductor
- rescues three captive daughters
- St. Anthony resuscitates on gallows
- sends daughter to convent, lover to be hermit, if she is nun
- sends daughter`s suitor away, frees her, they run off
- shamed by daughter`s unmarried state hides her in tower
- shoots men who come to rape daughter
- son deposes, usurps throne
- son in battle, father rescues son
- suspects daughter is pregnant, skirt too tight
- threatens to throttle daughter for disobedience
- unable to give daughter dowry
- unwittingly consents to illicit sexual union
- uses daughter to lure enemy into ambush
- vows on beard to avenge daughter`s dishonor
- will avenge son`s death in battle
- daughter (unmarried) in castle in middle of sea
- criticized for riding ass, for not riding ass
- intercepts son-in-law`s clandestine departure with new-born
- Candlemas, Mary at mass 40 days after birth
- St. John`s, Christians, Moors, Jews honor
- St. John`s, Moors celebrate with tourneys
- performed to win princess`s hand
- erupts when man calls on woman
- old man affronted, scars infant; infant avenges insult
- Jesus gives soldier shoe, soldier arrested, figure saves him
- of Virgin Mary shown to Moorish king, infuriates him
- Virgin Mary and shepherdess put in grotto
- visits shepherdess, put in church, returns to shepherdess
- of handkerchief to wed king
- executioner substitutes animal`s as evidence of execution
- nails, prisoner`s have grown over years
- missing, identifies long-lost son
- take holy water with only two, for good luck
- must be fatal, subsequent ones harmless
- drink the water of the river, at news of birth off Christ child
- leap out of sea, magic causes
- miracle of fish and loaves to feed guests at wedding
- multiplicity of, made to appear in waters by saint
- miraculous, Virgin Mary shows sailors
- population in sea restored by saint
- asked to recover ring from sea
- louse want to wed, lack household goods
- sets out to capture Narbonne
- of child cooked, served to father
- knight eats enemy`s heart
- starving mother to eat child`s
- starving sailors eat captain`s
- son`s from father`s wrath
- beautiful woman`s tread produces
- fragrance sustains shepherdess seven years.
- placed around door, signal of lover`s presence
- seeks lover on city streets, he is with another woman now
- made from reeds from victim`s grave
- magic, babies without crying
- magic, only one person can sound it
- magic, painless childbirth
- lions roar, lioness answers
- snake is born; serpent answers
- fairy makes husband forget wife
- appears to vanquished king
- in heaven, Moses returns with Ten Commandments
- confinement after childbirth
- gold, silver, sweet water, clear water
- spouts of silver, give gold, silver, precious gems
- asks rooster to extract tooth, rooster refuses
- leaves one hundred twenty nuns and one cook pregnant
- combat disguised, recognition of
- duel for love of woman, her brothers kill both
- false, hires assassin to kill Moorish slave, fails
- women get drunk, make jokes, husband angry
- tells woman he is her uncle
- granted for army to fight Moors
- angels protect Abraham in
G [top]- unable to endure harsh life
- loses wife in wager N.2.6.0.1
- mother of, gives him to devil
- wagers wife as stake for bet
- deceives fine lady, marries her
- loves noblewoman, she fears gossip
- Virgin Mary asks if has seen Jesus
- rending of, sign of grief
- bribed to let enemy in guarded city
- will choose jewelry not dagger
- will choose jewelry in market
- disguised as pilgrim haunts palace, seeks prisoner`s release
- hag`s captive, frees self and other children
- royal replaced by boy-child at birth
- loses way, requests shelter from woman shepherd
- Virgin Mary takes her to heaven, tends flock
- asks hunter if he believes
- created heaven, earth, water, fire
- sends Death to non-believer
- speaks to Moses, burning bush
- visits dying person who seeks forgiveness
- voice, tells man to go home
- falls in love with unusually beautiful man
- will protect goddaughter from stepmother
- David defeats, severs head
- kills wife`s lover, and his servants
- finds three children murdered by father
- grandson to punish for death of his mother
- magical, walking on, causes pregnancy
- of Moroccan king for kindness to daughter
- side by side, flowers grow
- tree on one, spring on other
- frightened by corpse who speaks
- custom violated, woman does not return stranger`s
- inappropriate on St. John`s morn
- sign of: pulling out of hair
- sign of: rending of garments
- sign of: tearing at facial skin
- abducts devout princess, kills, throws in gravel pit
- abducts, rapes. kills host`s daughter
H [top]- ladder to tower made of woman`s long
- life line, drowning man made of woman`s long
- long, blond, queen recognizes sister
- long, life line for drowning man
- pulling out, sign of grief
- avenges deaths of seven brothers
- child asks mother to keep hand as keepsake before she eats his body
- not expiatory will not to clear Pilate`s conscience
- Pilate`s, signals declaration of sentence
- seven sons of, refuse to convert, beheaded
- severed, princess demands (St. John)
- severed, given to woman responsible for murder
- severed, loyal dog honors master`s
- severed, seven sons, shown to father
- severed: presented to king
- severed: speaks, brother not to fear
- severed, for refusal to convert
- dead lover`s, woman will wed in his stead
- executioner substitutes animal`s as evidence of execution
- inverted in cadaver of scorned woman
- lover asks friend to take heart to beloved
- entry, refused to ungenerous rich man
- entry granted to sinner after Virgin`s intercession
- enticed to ship to see treasure
- magic, cures lovesickness
- symbolic, bitter, wormwood, purge, absinth given to Christ on Cross
- touching causes pregnancy
- converted by Virgin Mary, apostles, Holy Spirit
- fears presence of fugitive princess on island
- rescues abandoned child again, when grown
- shelters noble couple; she gives birth in forest
- lovers remains transformed into
- murdered woman`s remains transformed into
- birth of illegitimate, mother banished
- bleeding body found on battlefield
- boy, confronts grandparents, reconciled
- captures two hundred horses, gives them to king (Cid)
- carried off by fairy, magical sleep
- challenges evil brother at court
- challenges, defeats, beheads enemy (Cid)
- cuts out enemy`s tongue that insulted father (Cid)
- defends friend, angers king
- deploys forces in four parts (Bernardo)
- displays skill at game, knocks down tablado
- exiled, returns to family sheltered in abbey (Cid)
- gives magic ring to beloved, cures wounds
- God gives him Law (Moses)
- kills enemy, takes clothes
- kills father`s enemy, eats his heart (Cid)
- protests mistreatment of friend, king slaps
- severs enemy`s hand that had slapped father (Cid)
- swears not to return until avenges self
- teaches will of God to people (Abraham)
- wins princess, captures enchanted stag
- guests, given gifts, meal
- pursued by royal emissaries
- received kindly, hosts rewarded
- born in corral, mule kicks him, cow warms him
- calms Virgin Mary, by dying he will save humankind
- falls in well, St .Anthony to rescue
- illuminates world at birth
- transforms stony hillside into wheat field
- if blown brings aid in battle
- severed, evidence bull is dead
- asks for bread, winesop in exchange for aiding hero
- deceptive sale of crippled
- demons eat condemned souls
- ghostly, eat condemned souls
- magic, uncle gives to hero to seek missing wife
- rescues hero three times (seven)
- speaks, will help if given treats
- speaks, denies culpability for rider`s death
- speaks, will lead man to his abducted wife
- makes amorous advances to woman who ride with him
- Christ asks Samaritan woman
- nun, sacrilegious rolls it into ball
- stolen, burned, cast into river
- stolen, half eaten, half fed to horse
- stolen, put in thief`s shoes
- rewarded for kindness to Holy Family
- adapted symbolically to lover`s suffering
- adapted symbolically to suffering souls in purgatory
- finds enchanted princess in tree
- makes sexual demands of woman traveling with him
- wants to marry shepherdess, must ask her family
- shepherdess does not return to meet next day
- tells God he does not believe
- after 30 years returns, castle, cattle are another`s
- allows adulterous wife to nurse baby for last time
- arrives when wife is about to marry another
- asks wife to leave king`s bedside, refused, kills her
- captive, tells wife to re-marry
- condemned to death, wife to remarry
- departs, wife is to remarry if he does not return
- denies wife chance to nurse baby before killing her
- dies, no one is to tell pregnant wife
- discovers lover`s presence
- disguised as knight tests wife`s fidelity
- disguised as pilgrim, wife at roadside
- does not permit wife to go to mass
- dying, threatens wife, she is happy to see him go
- emperor orders him: rescue wife in captivity
- enters dark house, wife thinks he is her lover
- faithless, says wife is faithless too
- finds wife in bed with man,
- finds lover`s hat, cape; wife says they are gifts from her father
- forces wife to appear naked before guests
- forces wife to mount horse immediately after giving birth
- hits wife, knocks out teeth
- kills falsely accused wife
- kills princess, cuts off breasts, displays to father
- kills wife, page who defends her, regrets act
- kills wife and stranger in her bed
- leaves new bride to go on pilgrimage
- long-absent, arrives on wife`s wedding day
- long-absent recognizes wife
- must kill wife, to marry princess
- orders wife to work; she sews silk banner, sells it
- permits lover to spend night with wife
- permits wife`s abductor to keep her for one night
- pretends to be passing soldier, tests wife`s loyalty
- rescues captive wife, kills captor
- rescues wife from execution
- returns, his mother has made wife herd sheep
- returns home, wife has been prepared for death
- returns, wife`s lover flees, he pursues
- seeks vanished wife, fears she bears abductors child
- searches for abducted wife
- sells human flesh: wife`s, lover`s
- sent to fetch deer meat from lover`s land, kills lover
- served son`s flesh, by wife
- severs wife`s breasts, displays them on plate to father
- shamed into rescuing captive wife
- to give wife red necklace, bloody throat
- tricks wife`s abductors cross river
- twisted body, squint, bad teeth, no penis, testicles
- wife abducted, plays chess
- wife, children abducted by Moors, does not rescue them
- wife follows to another woman`s house
- wife`s lover in cupboard sneezes; she says it is cat
- will rescue wife if abductors say she is chaste
- accuses wife of plotting his death
- attack wives, abandon them in forest
I [top]- Christ`s face on cloth (Veronica)
- Christ`s found in river, brought to convent
- throws woman overboard, takes her place
- delayed, daughter to bathe and dress, mother takes her place
- offers daughter rich raiment
- mother takes daughter`s place in incestuous father`s bed
- in womb, speaks, will kill parents
- royal, mother has died, shepherd raises
- unborn reproaches parents for having sex on feast day
- soul of, demons carry off
- refuses shelter to poor man.
- seven sons are like a swine` s litter
- exchanged: Leonese king, Castilian count
- exchanged; two highborn woman
- Virgin Mary asks saints to permit sinner to enter heaven
- three sisters assail, kill
- abduct woman for lustful commander
- facilitated by angry courtier
J [top]- denies daughters plea for mercy for condemned prisoners
- demands sex of prisoner`s wife in exchange for release
- asks disciples who will die for him
- as child, beaten by other children
- tells Mary he will be buried in three days,
- young, Jesus, debating in temple
- young, lost, woman shelters
- young boy, playmates taunt, he weeps for them
- parents punish for conversion to Islam
- queen orders expulsion of
- play flutes, trumpets on Calvary
- tell Mary and infant they will crucify Jesus
- Prince, falls ill, incurably, three hours to live
- takes Christ down from cross
- jealous, Mary pregnant in his absence
- people challenge him, he is too old to be husband
- prepares bed of roses for Mary
- seeks shelter from frost on ground
- travel to mountains with Mary; she will be in heaven
- betrays Jesus for thirty pieces silver
K [top]- of owner and family, slave tied to cross to die
- absent for twenty-two years
- adulterous queen causes to be wounded on hunt. He dies
- allows self to be captured, joins beloved R0.1
- angered by hero`s defense of friend
- arranges betrothal of vassal`s daughter
- asks nobles for small tax; all but one refuse
- assassin lures to entry to besieged city
- avenge courtier`s death, slayer to marry daughter
- away for twenty-two years, conquering other lands
- beheads defeated commander
- blames subjects for defeat, they blame him
- breaks promise to release nephew`s father
- breaks promise, vassal takes leave
- calls for volunteer for dangerous task, one man comes
- cancels execution of daughter`s lover
- captured, asks courier to arrange rescue R0.2
- captive, in chains, rescued
- captivity unknown, sends word to his people R0.2
- compassionate, returns captive princess to kingdom
- complains; son replaced him
- considers killing daughter, fears loss of realm
- conspires with courtiers to trap count
- covets humble man`s wife, takes her
- covets man`s wife, she refuses, is nun, haunts palace
- crowns his lover`s dead body queen
- daughter put in boat at sea punishment
- dead wife`s ghost bids him goodbye
- defeated in battle, wanders
- defeated, flees battle mounted on zebra
- demands fulfillment of emperor`s promise
- deposed, sends crown to another king to request aid
- desires woman, husband jealous, kills her
- desires peasant woman, she says he must marry her (empower her )
- die for crimes against people, family
- does not heed warning, orders informant`s death
- dreams daughter in arms of lover
- dreams, tells queen to flee to Asturias
- dying, divides realm among sons; disinherits daughters
- dying, told to prepare will
- dying gives wealth and position to illegitimate son
- enters forbidden castle, opens forbidden chest
- executes nobles to whom he had given a stay, he dies
- executes wife, avenges mistress` death
- exiles cousins who threatens his throne
- far-off, hears of Cid`s exploits, wants to reward him
- fearsome shepherd accosts
- forced to swear he was not guilty of regicide
- forgives man who had sex with princess; they wed
- freed, his troops capture enemy king
- French, captive in Spain R0.2
- gazes at naked countess all night; leaves shoe behind
- has brother defenestrated
- helps exile to circumvent vow not to pass through gates
- imposes unpopular tax on nobles, all but one refuse
- imprisons brother (kills)
- imprisons man whose wife he covets
- intends to kill courtier for returning widow`s property
- invites duke to dine, imprisons him
- invites enemy to dine, beheads him
- killed by countess to avenge son`s death
- kills countess`s son, she avenges the death
- kills nephew for having sex with queen
- laments death, regrets years spent in conquest
- leaves wealth and position to illegitimate son
- loses city, mother contemptuous
- loves bride`s attendant, bride dies, people want attendant to die
- lusts after nephew`s wife
- lusts after peasant woman at spring, rejected
- lusts after woman in street; she is his daughter, he dies, she has his baby and dies
- marries sister to renegade king
- nephew demands release of imprisoned father
- offers standard to warrior who will guard it
- orders arrest of man who raped royal niece
- orders brother to court, kills him
- orders death of newborn males
- orders death of princess` lover; he flees
- orders queen killed for her part in mistress`s death
- orders wife to dance naked before guests
- orders duke to court, imprisons him
- orders execution of falsely accused nobles, he dies
- permits erring daughter to dress as peasant, leave realm
- passes law; forbids provocation for duel
- passes law; men to marry the woman they love
- Portuguese, kind to Moorish princess
- puts sword of chastity between sleeping lovers
- rapes courtier`s daughter
- seeks volunteer for mission; one man offers self
- sees prisoner`s mother (wife) frees him
- sends army to rescue beloved R0.1.1
- sends assassin to kill queen
- sends count to fight enemy
- sends for woman, she sends servant instead
- sends foreign troops to attack realm
- sister of, wed to Moorish renegade king
- smitten by new bride`s attendant; bride dies
- son usurps power, king must leave
- sprayed by sand, water by count
- surrenders to be with beloved R0.1
- swears not guilty of regicide
- tickles queen, she calls him by lover`s name
- to ride to Rome, build a temple
- to swear, not guilty of regicide
- tries to break promise of princess`s hand to hero, forced to comply
- urges courtier to challenge enemy warrior
- violates tabu, opens forbidden chest
- warned of danger, has informant burned alive
- widow tells; he killed husband unjustly
- will not greet ugly woman
- woman asks king for reparation for father`s death
- woman persuades to kill her enemy
- worries, no news of his cities
- wounds nephew who loved queen
- three, come to adore holy infant
- three, seek Jesus, he says mass in Rome
- hostile, extracts evil king`s soul
- borrowed, used to kill owner
- accuse empress of sexual congress with steward
- armed. seeks opponent in besieged city
- boasts of sex with princess, king overhears
- challenges famous knights, is killed
- comes to court, challenges all
- curses bread, wine, wife, no page, no shade tree
- disguised as pilgrim wears arms under clothes
- drowns retrieving princess`s jewel in sea
- earth opens, swallows knight
- fights duel with beloved`s fiancé
- finds missing cousin on battlefield
- finds sash, will return if woman has sex with him
- frees brothers, father from captor
- indecisive, loses princess
- killed by prince desirous of wife
- loved by all women at court, queen sends on mission
- mistaken for uncle, rides uncle`s horse
- names husband`s flaws, loyal wife sends him away
- offers self to serve adversary`s lovers
- offers self to bereaved woman, rejected
- pilgrim (crusader) defeats emperor of Jerusalem
- rebellious, pope excommunicates (Cid)
- reproached for marrying another
- shares good deeds with lost soul
- tells woman, her lover is dead, he will replace him
- to battlefield, seeks cousin
- tries to rape woman pilgrim; she kills him
- tries to seduce shepherd`s wife, fails
- will kill king, marry princess
- young, boasts of having sex with older woman
- two abduct woman, she kills one, marries the other
- traveled seven days; fought seven hunters
L [top]- loves noble woman, rejected, she loves another
- sexually insatiable princess seeks, for satisfaction
- angel extinguishes Moorish king`s
- carried off to man`s family home
- sings as she uses king`s perfumed soaps
- king passes: no crossing bridge unless guard defeated
- king passes: visitors to leave arms outside realm
- king passes; forbids provocation for duel
- king passes; men to marry one they love
- pursues woman, she falls in sea, dies
- assigns evil father to hell
- daughter to father, recounts violation
- galley salve sends to family to ransom him
- says man married with children
- woman sends to absent lover
- Virgin sends warning to priest in church
- saw: cat court ox, ox play guitar
- asks three women for lodging; all four go to bed
- assaults maidservant, she flees, he accuses her of theft
- boasts of sex with beautiful woman, describes her
- boasts, of sex with count`s daughter
- deserts lowborn love to wed highborn woman
- caught in sex act, will not marry sex partner
- disguised as blind beggar abducts woman
- leaves one hundred twenty nuns and one cook pregnant
- persuades woman to run off, she has baby, Virgin protects her
- princess invites to bed, he is not to boast
- rapes his affianced; she pursues and kills him
- returns wife does not permit him to enter
- sex with mother, two daughters
- spends three nights with woman, leaves
- prince says he is son of poor family
- protects woman from sexual aggressor
- drawn, man to kill one who crosses it
- king throws newborn to, she respects his royalty, nurtures baby
- seven, maraud countryside
- seven, set loose to guard daughter from lover
- comic, districts and products
- substitutes corpse for self in bed, foils assassin
- flea, want to wed, lack household goods
- cast: to search for hero`s body on battlefield
- cast: which brother will descend into well
- cast: which brother will sleep with woman
- cast: whose child will be eaten
- cast: which wolf will enter sheepfold
- cast: who will climb rigging
- Cast: who will retrieve myrtle sprig form spring
- causes king to surrender self to be with beloved R0.1
- infuriates recipient and her father
- to woman, she chooses to be nun
- absent too long, woman marries another
- asks king to execute him for sexual intercourse with princess, refused
- at door, not admitted, parents are at home
- accused of murder, beloved frees R0.3
- absent too long, woman weds another
- beaten by woman`s father, she takes pity
- burial in market place, passersby to know why died
- curses woman who scorns him
- delayed, woman hears he has died
- denied entry to beloved`s house, patrol wounds him
- dies in beloved`s garden, she buries him
- discarded, offered friend`s sister
- disguised as confessor, saves woman
- disguised as friar, saves princess on gallows
- drowns, swims to see beloved (Hero and Leander)
- exiled, beloved takes new lover
- faithless, returns to warns others
- finds beloved dead in tomb, she revives
- follows woman from church
- gives token to child`s mother to prove paternity
- hidden in oven, oven lit, dies
- income, source of, says faithless wife
- killed by beloved`s brothers
- kills rival and beloved`s family, they run off
- laments beloved`s absence
- must leave beloved, has killed two men
- preferred over bad husband
- outside beloved`s house, shoots patrol, arrested
- rejected, makes exaggerated promises
- rejected, offers to perform impossible tasks
- rejected, rosebush too tall, his breath bad
- reproached by dead woman for having caused her death.
- rescues beloved from execution
- rescues captive woman from new master
- returns from hell to warn others
- returns from wars, goes to beloved`s house (husband away)
- returns, beloved in tomb, she revives
- seeks beloved, is told she is dead
- slaps woman for disobedience
- sorrows and dies, beloved`s father sent her away
- thwarted by woman`s family will return as soldier
- tells beloved he has kept love secret
- unable to forgive unfaithful woman
- visits beloved, she died of yellow fever
- wicked, tied woman to tree
- will perform impossible task to win woman
- writes asking woman to wait for him
- bodies in sack, tossed in sea
- die at moment when they are reunited
- disappointed die in one another`s arms
- flee to avoid prosecution for murder
- fleeing, pirates abduct, sell as slaves
- flee to avoid murder charge
- transformed into hermitage after death
- doctors cannot cure woman`s
- physicians unable to cure king`s
M [top]- to find most beautiful of women
- rejects master`s advances, accused of theft, flees
- pregnant, runs off, master pursues
- refuses alms, food to Christ disguised as beggar
- ambushed, kills eight attackers, killed by ninth
- attacked by woman`s husband in her house
- celibate, marries in haste, repents
- chooses rich wife over royal one
- compares sorrows to those of passersby
- courts another`s wife, shamed by husband`s kindness
- curses cuckoo for eating cherries
- dead, returns as skull leads rake to grave
- disappointed, friend offers sister
- disguised as charcoal-maker comes to take beloved away
- disguised as woman, gains entry to woman`s bed
- dying, defends friend who had killed him
- dying, God visits, has three hours, to prepare soul
- falls in love with woman seen in church
- falls in love with woman in castle, captures castle, she has disappeared D.8
- flees to avoid murder charge
- follows woman on street, rejected, she is married
- given to drink, interrupts own funeral at wine vendor`s approach
- holy, guided through desert by angel
- imprisoned for having sex with princess; languishes in prison(Virgilios)
- in well, refuses to give soul for rescue
- killed in fight for woman`s love
- learns traveling companion is sister
- on legitimate errand, visits woman, husband attacks him
- on way to gallows, wife tells brother not to help him
- rebuffed, accuses maid servant of theft, she flees
- seeks vengeance, sees former owner on battlefield
- takes sexually, a sleeping woman
- tells woman lover is dead, she pushes him off tower
- threatens to kill woman captive
- under spell, has son with fairy
- unjustly condemned, voice tells to seek justice in city
- who never sleeps guards maiden
- will learn new trade to wed woman
- will not forgive lover`s infidelity
- will not marry woman who would have sex with him
- wins woman in fight, is killed
- without money, relies on beautiful eyes to marry well
- outruns son; she is Moorish king`s mount
- on newborn`s throat, will kill father
- instructions to man about to wed
- angel comes to remind bride of promise to God, new husband flees
- others rewarded, she is not; she will be in heaven
- seeks Jesus, he has already passed by
- compassionate, frees slave
- stingy, withholds servants` pay, devil makes him pay
- asks princess to release prisoner who loves her
- says lover to enter garden disguised
- says prospective husband is rich
- servant arranges meeting, reward ring
- suitor and beloved give jewelry
- suitor, calls on woman; families fight
- tell woman Jesus is demon come for soul
- captive sent from battlefield, right arm severed, not able to fight again
- mortally wounded, brings news of beloved`s capture R0.1.2
- tells king enemy troops are advancing
- recognized on battlefield
- turned by blood of orphans
- dons magistrate`s clothes, has sex with magistrate`s wife
- accuses husband of infidelity
- fish and loaves to feed guests at wedding
- wheat, rapid growth of deceives pursuers of holy family.
- king`s, takes refuge in monastery
- royal, tells king his brother fathered queen`s child
- appears magically at site of saint`s death
- hidden, buried, hunter, following boar finds
- caught in underpants, loses them, shamed
- cures woman`s wound, she is pregnant from cure
- declares love, woman tells him "go to devil"
- in monastery against will complains
- leaps out window, donkey bites ear, he thinks it is woman
- night in convent, 120 nuns pregnant
- nun, meet secretly at grating
- teased by two women, goes home with them
- does not appear, sign of terrible crime
- abducts young woman who had flirted, orders her to renege
- asks for field burial and conversion to Christianity
- captures, kills morisca on way to Rome for baptism
- challenge Christian troops, defeated
- Christian master`s daughter frees slave
- disappears, enamored man cannot find her
- kills Jewish orphan adopted by royal couple
- king boasts how he will humiliate hero
- king, defeated, denies Mohammed, regrets battle casualties
- prince, lover of Christian captive, converts
- princess, converts to Christianity to resolve quarrel
- princess, shipwrecked in Portugal
- punishes daughter for conversion to Christianity
- soldiers, fifteen thousand die in battle; lose city
- tells Christian wife to renege, refuses, throws her overboard
- Virgin Mary rescues at sea, converts
- warrior, dying, converts to Christianity
- warrior, vacillates, chooses Islam
- woman, converts to Christianity for lover
- abduct woman, she marries has children
- capture Christian fugitive at sea
- capture prince, give to Moorish princess as slave
- surrender city to Christian army
- has three hours to prepare for death
- enchanted mates with fairy
- forty days and nights in heaven, returns with Ten Commandments
- God says lead Jews out of Egypt
- not to wear shoes on holy ground
- asks son not to fight bulls; he is killed
- bribes daughter to conceal her adultery
- consoles daughter, love`s disappointments inevitable
- consoles son, beloved is courted by dukes, counts
- contemptuous of son`s failure
- daughter, give birth at same time
- daughter to bring severed head to king to ask for justice
- exiled, raises son in woods
- falsely accuses son`s wife, son kills mother
- gives poison to son; she must drink first
- hires assassin to kill daughter`s suitor
- imposes impossible task to fulfill daughter`s wish
- intent on marrying enemy, tries to poison son who is impediment
- invited to son`s wedding, finds him dead, king has had him killed
- invokes devil unwittingly to take gambler son
- orders death of daughter`s lover
- poisons daughter`s medicine
- promises princess to assassin
- proposes test, gender of warrior woman
- reproaches daughter`s killer
- sees son`s mutilated corpse, kills king
- sends daughter to wash clay pot
- son confides despair to, his despair greater than all others
- son consults, gender of warrior woman
- son consults how to save beloved on gallows
- son consults, how to seduce
- son to swear to avenge father`s death
- son will tell father she is unfaithful, kills, cooks him,
- takes daughter`s place in incestuous (husband) father`s bed
- to enter convent, two daughters in service to others, one to her, son to monastery or army
- told son had fallen from horse, dies
- tricks daughter into guiding false blind man
- tries to buy daughter`s silence about her adultery
- warns daughter against bad choice of man
- warns daughters against love
- wishes devil take son, he does
- daughter-in-law mistreated her, cursed them both
- daughter-in-law must herd sheep
- daughter-in-law pregnant with other man`s child
- daughter-in-law unfaithful, son must kill her
- daughter-in-law unfaithful, son disbelieves kills mother
- daughter-in-law left willingly with captors
- daughter not to help son`s young wife to give birth
- no help to pregnant daughter-in-law, dies in childbirth
- overhears men speak suggestively of daughter-in-law
- says daughter-in-law ran off with captors
- sends pregnant daughter-in-law away
- sends son`s wife away to have baby
- has sex with traveler, threatens, pursues him
- at grave will not love again, mourning dove joins him
- grave of love, meets mourning dove
- to wear special garb: sign of grief
- joins mourning lover at grave
- discovered, blows out candle, escapes
- pleads with cat, permission to write warning testament on wall
- shoemaker cat is dangerous
- avenges death of seven half-brothers
- cursed, ate grass Mary intended to wrap infant
- cursed, dogs will eat its flesh
- sterility, punishment for offenses against holy child
- tries to kick holy infant
- begs forgiveness at victim`s shrine, denied
- kills thirty people, sister from convent, two children, etc..
- leaves victim`s corpse in woods,
- of seven brothers; man kills
- reproached by victim`s mother
- hands, feet cut off before throwing off cliff
- hands, feet cut off, eyes plucked out, unburied
- necklace, red, wounded throat
N [top]- red, way of speaking of slit throat
- sees wife go to hermitage, accuses her of adultery
- speak of adultery; wife says they speak of hat, hair
- will tell returning husband wife has lover
- defies uncle, demands father`s release
- reminds king: promise to release imprisoned father
- cast again, Christ says, filled miraculously
- abandoned to prevent future parricide
- given to gardener to find it a home
- hidden in cave, speaks (Abraham)
- leaves womb through stab wound
- smuggled out of palace by lover
- names father, proves mother`s innocence
- of noble mother abandoned in woods
- royal, sent to be raised by commoner
- speaks: grandmother cruel, father rashly hasty
- speaks, reveals dark secret
- smuggled out of palace under man`s cloak, discovered
- beloved`s death, man mourns
- of hero`s death, love sees other soldiers return
- learns her song at royal court
- on gallows shows concern for faithful servant
- laborer loves she loves another
- loves gardener, she fears gossip
- denies God, punished, sleep on flaming bed
- twelve apostles, ten commandments, seven sacraments etc.
- basket weaver, double entendre
- forced into convent, grieves for lost love
- in convent, against will complains
- loves soldier, elopes, returns repentant
- novice, does not confess sexual longings
- without belongings, sustained by Jesus, St. Francis, Virgin Mary
- invite sexual predator into convent; he fathers 121 babies
- sleeps, baby burns to death, maid dies remorseful in morning
- assassins permit woman to nurse baby before killing her
- babies refrain from, reaction to horrible event
- countess denied chance to nurse baby before she is killed
- husband allows adulterous wife to nurse baby for last time
- husband denies wife chance to nurse baby before killing her
- permitted to pray and nurse baby before dying
O [top]- king forced to swear innocence of regicide
- gives compassionate leave to recruit
- table without bread, salt
- orchard keeper blind gives Mary
- Virgin Mary cures blindness
- royal couple adopt; marauding Moors kill him
- man meets mysterious page
- children in oven, saint revives
- hiding place, man dies when lit
P [top]- tells king princess had sex with count
- locked, entry forbidden, king enters
- lost because Adam and Eve ate forbidden fruit
- sinner to make pilgrimage to Jerusalem
- daughter imprisoned in tower; she and lover will elope
- escapes room, kills parents weds lover
- infant in womb, speaks, will kill parents for their sexual transgression
- punish daughter for conversion to Islam
- of lovers oppose union, young man dies of grief
- promise Virgin Mary daughter to God for cure, break promise
- punish daughter for conversion to Islam
- sell daughter to Moor, kills Mor, kills parents
- send daughter`s suitor away; she pursues him
- suspect daughter`s pregnancy, skirt tight
- woman`s, reject daughter`s lover, he weds another
- warns woman not to trust men
- absurd: woman gives birth to oxen, monkeys, casserole
- of time reported deceptively
- makes indecent proposal to woman, husband kills him
- wants to wed Virgin Mary, angels rebuke him
- baby born wearing clerical garb
- wounds lover on street, unable to enter beloved`s house
- choices: be candlewick, be in oven, be in cave with serpents
- choices: sweep streets Madrid to León, oven, candlewick,
- for incest, walk barefoot to Rome, no food, nor drink
- Mary Magdalen, seven years in desert eating herbs
- chooses to be in cave with serpents over other penances
- confesses incest with sister
- incest, walk barefoot to Rome, no food, no wine
- live seven years in desert, eat herbs
- night in cave with seven-mouthed serpent to gnaw his vitals
- sweep streets, be in hot oven, be candlewick, chooses oven
- offered freedom for sexual favors
- rose, fall on grave, rosebush grows
- God punishes for mockery, sends plagues
- tells dying king, told to prepare will
- dismiss king`s illness, only oldest tells moribund king he is dying
- unable to cure king`s illness
- unable to diagnose prince`s illness
- of woman causes man to fall in love
- believes devil`s calumny, kills wife
- finds dead man on road. prays to Virgin Mary
- woman kills three robbers, sends two away
- lures woman to ship with false promise
- abduct fleeing lovers, sell as slaves
- soldier in church reproved for playing cards in church
- never to lie to master, violated
- parts of, symbols of Christ`s Passion
- mother gives to son, she must drink first
- scorned woman serves to ex-lover
- demand provisions in small town
- woman calls upon to free imprisoned lover
- kills saint who announces Messiah`s birth
- natural signs at birth of child, sea calm, moon full.
- new queen orders expulsion of Jews
- Ave Maria for Jesus`s wounds said one hundred times a day
- God hears childless woman`s
- three times before bed (every Friday)
- calls earthquake to destroy city
- drinking magic spring water causes
- eating magic flower watered by lover`s tears causes
- eating magic pears causes
- walking on magic grass causes
- of princess punished, beaten by father
- of princess, punished, beating, beheading, quartering defenestration
- punished; immersion in waist high water, baby to die
- punished; quartered, hung out window
- punishment thwarted magically
- woman threatened with beheading; rescued by lover
- execution delayed, pardoned
- asks maid for chocolate, nine months later she is pregnant
- baptizes girl child, enamored, seduces her
- falls from steeple when beauty enters church
- kills father, brothers, one sister in tavern, one sells opium
- lusts after girl child, seduces her
- miller`s wife hides him in sack
- spills communion wine when beauty enters church
- tears pages from missal when beauty enters church
- seven, smitten by beautiful woman
- sold miraculous water, spring dries up
- abducts woman, promises wealth, power
- desires knight`s wife, kills knight
- disguised as pilgrim enters castle
- dying ensures welfare of beloved
- elopes with woman affianced to another
- enamored of woman dressed as man
- imprisoned for sexual excesses
- lover buried in joint grave
- loves woman whose picture he has seen
- mysterious sailor abducts
- physicians unable to cure
- rapes his affianced; she pursues and kills him
- rapes woman (her 12 brothers seek vengeance) (Dina)
- tells woman he is son of poor family
- asks humble youth to elope
- asks king for brother`s release
- borrows courtier`s knife, stabs him
- complains to father, he had not arranged marriage for her
- demands matrimony; lover has wed another
- devout, abducted, killed, thrown in gravel pit
- dies for demanding death of count`s wife
- dragon carries off across seas
- dreams she will marry well
- elopes with lover, father ordered his execution
- eloping, sends word to father
- forced to wed count; her lover kills count, she dies
- frees prisoner in exchange for promise to wed
- gives birth, lover smuggles newborn out of palace
- has baby, secret marriage, imprisoned, has baby, secretly wed,
- leaves castles to poor, cloak to mother
- makes love in garden with count
- hires assassin to kill king
- in tree for one year (seven)
- intercepted on way to lover`s bed
- king offers to appease troublemaker
- leaves island in sail-less boat
- lover dies, throws self from tower
- lover marries another, she demands matrimony
- lustful, man to kill wife
- makes count kill wife, and marry her
- offered as bribe to appease troublemaker
- offered as prize to hero who kills giant (David)
- offered as reward to assasin
- offered to Christian knight as reward for conversion, refused
- pleads for father`s lands
- pregnant, mocked, insulted, lover must take her away
- prize to captor of marauding stag
- offered as prize to hero who kills giant (David)
- offered as reward to assassin
- outwits emperor, regains family land lands
- pleads for father`s lands
- pregnant, mocked, insulted, lover must take her away
- reminds knight of gifts from king
- rejected by male captive; has im killed
- reproaches hero for marrying another
- reproaches king, for not arranging her marriage
- reproaches knight for wedding another
- requires count to kill wife, marry her
- requires love service from page
- runs off with humble lover
- rushes to see wounded lover, too late
- says rosary, Virgin Mary says she must retreat seven years, thence to heaven
- sexually insatiable, seeks man to satisfy her sexual appetite
- slips out of palace, seeks her lover
- spends three nights in garden with lover
- threats between admiral and princess
- to be beheaded, saved by lover
- princess, to be burned at stake for having sex with count
- to wed foreign prince, worries if her beauty suffices
- urges king to free captive, make him ambassador; they marry
- weeps; before captor-king; returns her to her kingdom
- will not marry suitor, wants count
- captor`s sister comforts; she has child by him
- long-time, beard reaches feet
- promises marriage to princess for release from prison
- shackled, in waist high water
- sings, king hears song, frees him
- unable to see neither day nor night, bird only signal of day or night
- whole world is happy, save him
- hanged, despite princess`s pleas
- king sees from tower, they are his father and brothers
- wastes fortune, wife must work
- abductor will show woman magic tree, golden apples
- breaker, to suffer ignoble death
- broken, youth marries another
- broken, man boasts of sex with woman
- brother to sister: future favor
- celebration, gifts to all
- Christ to Mary Magdalen: a place in heaven
- dead son resuscitated, mother and son to serve God
- emperor to give daughter to king for service, broken
- false promise of marriage, seducer spends night
- freedom in exchange for marriage; captive will not marry rescuer
- God to pious woman; he will care for her people
- king breaks, imprisoned man not released
- king to release imprisoned man
- knight to gild sword if he defeats enemy
- knight to give horse extra rations for safety
- marriage in exchange for escape from prison
- not to boast of having sex with woman
- to say mass, kept magically
- wife remarry if husband not returned in fourteen years
- woman asks seducer to wait till dawn; she kills him
- woman to await lover to wait six years
- woman to passing horseman: wait for St. John`s morn when she will be ready for love
- woman will find beauty, happiness in foreign land
- abandoned baby will kill adoptive father
- avoided by execution of queen
- drinker of Christ`s blood to be earthly king
- dying prince`s unborn child to be queen
- heavenly signs predict loss of realm
- king will be killed for crimes
- king`s brother will inherit throne
- king`s daughters will turn out bad
- shepherd to king: he will be assassinated
- unborn infant will kill father
- Virgin Mary: foresees woman to have sons, kings, daughter queen
- Virgin Mary weeps, foresees Christ child`s crucifixion
- beheading, for losing city
- beheading, quartering defenestration
- drawing by horses, beheading, hands off, quartering
- immersion in waist high water, baby to die
- punished; immersion in waist high water, baby to die
- stay in cave with seven-headed serpent
- young, teacher declares love for
- deceived by magical wheat field
- hermit asked if it is evil
Q [top]- husband and wife, exchange blows
- and captive`s babies interchanged by servants
- asks lover to poison king; he refuses
- calls king by lover`s name
- childless, jealous of king`s lover who has children by him
- death of to avoid evil prophecy
- falsely accuses count`s wife of adultery
- favorite, accused of sexual misconduct
- found in carnal union with youthful vassal
- frees woman imprisoned for bearing illegitimate child
- has object of king`s lust killed
- has sex with count, tries to bribe daughter for silence
- helps knight kill king, marry princess
- jealous, falsely accuses count`s wife of infidelity
- jealous of captive`s beauty gives her rough tasks
- king executes, avenges mistress` death
- leper in her bed is Christ, his identity saves her
- pregnant by brother-in-law
- orders death of daughter`s suitor, daughter dies
- orders death of woman king desires carnally
- orders execution of mother of king`s children
- pleads release of hero`s father
- responsible for execution of innocent woman
- seeks assassin to murder daughter`s lover
- sends knight beloved of all women at court on mission
- sends husband to his death
- slave give birth at same time
- slave recognized as sister of
- urges knight to dangerous exploit
- answer fulfilled: What are you planting? --Stones. -- Stones they are.
R [top]- man`s mount, has no horse
- invites to dinner, skull leads him to grave
- galley slave pleads with family
- horseman offers for father, brothers, combats captor
- page tells captive ransom ship approaches
- wife offers wealth, daughters for husband
- of noblewoman on pilgrimage, marries her, not punished
- of woman pilgrim attempted ; she kills him
- buried in cattle yard, arms out of grave
- killed with own golden dagger
- mocks victim`s shrine, dies
- of woman pilgrim, punished
- victim, prays to Virgin, carried to heaven
- by armor, embroidered banner
- by clothes, jewels, gold ring
- by mole on tattoo on back
- captive knows ship`s name
- husband knows wedding dress
- sister knows family lands
- wife knows husband`s voice
- asks leave to visit new bride