Pattern Explorer

Wisdom

"Look and see which way the wind blows before you commit yourself."

Divine Judgment

Mercury appears, learns the cause of grief, dives into the river, and brings up a golden axe, a silver axe, and then the missing axe; the Woodman says the first two are not his.

Sacred Exchange

A herdsman misses a fine young bull, searches without success, and vows to sacrifice a calf to Jupiter if he discovers the thief.

Sacrifice

At a village festival everyone keeps holiday; the ox is turned loose into pasture, while the heifer is seized and led away to sacrifice.

Mystical Quest

“I am subject to birth, to decay, to disease, to death” and “There is, there must be a road ... that I may obtain release from existence.”

Departure

The Iwanai chief and two sons go sea-lion hunting, are caught by a gale, drift to a beautiful land, and see women descend from the mountains carrying a beautiful woman in a litter.

Royal Legitimacy

Benfey is reported as arguing that the Pancha Tantra originally contained eleven to thirteen books and was designed to teach princes right government and conduct.

Shapeshifter

A cat falls in love with a handsome young man and begs Venus to change her into a woman.

Seasonal Cycle

On a fine winter day after a long rainy spell, Ants dry their damp store of corn.

Death And Rebirth

The shark laughs at Okikurumi; Okikurumi cuts the rope, reaches land after a long time, and revives the dead Samayunguru.

Return

The chief and sons sail away with a fair wind, reach Iwanai, find their wives wearing widows' caps, recount woman-land, and show the marked scabbard.

Initiation

Enkidu forgets his birthplace after the woman; she tells him to leave roaming with cattle, go to Erech and Eanna, clothes him, and leads him by the hand.

Resurrection

The shark laughs at Okikurumi; Okikurumi cuts the rope, reaches land after a long time, and revives the dead Samayunguru.

Divine Beloved

The woman learns that sunlight through the roof opening caused conception; in a dream a god says he gave her a child because he loves her, that she will become his wife after death, and that their son will have many children.

Divine Parent And Holy Child

The woman learns that sunlight through the roof opening caused conception; in a dream a god says he gave her a child because he loves her, that she will become his wife after death, and that their son will have many children.

Ascent

A man searching for his lost wife reaches an oak-tree that is also a house; the old man inside identifies himself as the oak-tree god and tells him to ride a golden horse to the sky while singing.

Duality

In winter, the satyr saw the man blowing on his hands; the man explained that he was warming his hands.

Afterlife Journey Map

A skilled young hunter pursues a large bear through dangerous mountain heights until it disappears into a hole on a bleak mountain summit.

Trickster At The Boundary

A Cat hears that Birds in an aviary are ailing.

Stolen Or Lost Beloved

A man searching for his lost wife reaches an oak-tree that is also a house; the old man inside identifies himself as the oak-tree god and tells him to ride a golden horse to the sky while singing.

Annihilation And Union

The passage describes issuing forth without return, attaining the goal as death, being annihilated yet existing as convergence into One, and birth and death as not absolute beginning or end.

Serpent

In winter, a farmer finds a viper frozen and numb with cold; out of pity he picks it up and places it in his bosom.

Covenant

Dartaid is summarized as fairy vengeance for breach of faith; Flidais as a raid resembling Scottish Border riding ballads; Regamon as a merry foray by boys and girls with a good ending; Flidais and Regamon are said to lack supernatural elements.

Sacred Birth

The woman learns that sunlight through the roof opening caused conception; in a dream a god says he gave her a child because he loves her, that she will become his wife after death, and that their son will have many children.

Sacred Marriage

The woman learns that sunlight through the roof opening caused conception; in a dream a god says he gave her a child because he loves her, that she will become his wife after death, and that their son will have many children.

Culture Hero

Okikurumi, with his younger sister Tureshihi, taught the Ainos arts such as bow-and-arrow hunting, netting fish, and spearing fish.

Miraculous Child

The woman learns that sunlight through the roof opening caused conception; in a dream a god says he gave her a child because he loves her, that she will become his wife after death, and that their son will have many children.

Sacred Tree Or Axis Mundi

He looks at his body, finds himself transformed into a serpent, and his cries and groans become serpent hisses.

Chaos

Shu and Hu say all men have seven holes for seeing, hearing, eating, and breathing, but Hun Tun has none.

Sacred Theft

At the town gates, a crier announces a reward for information about a thief who stole something from the city temple.

Forbidden Knowledge

In ancient days, the new world is unsettled and burning beneath a thin crust, so people stay in huts; Okikurumi fishes for them and sends Turesh with food, while commanding them not to ask questions or look at her face.

Descent Into The Underworld

A skilled young hunter pursues a large bear through dangerous mountain heights until it disappears into a hole on a bleak mountain summit.

Sibling Pair

The fable introduces a man with two children, a boy and a girl; the boy is good-looking, while the girl is plain.

World Center

Majjhima-desa is described with boundaries and as sacred land regarded as the center of Jambudvīpa, compared with China as Middle Country and with peoples treating their own capital as the navel or center of the world.

Perilous Sea Passage Through Monstrous Waters

Goibniu is healed in the well; Octriallach orders the Fomor to throw stones into the well of Slaine until it dries up and a cairn is raised over it.

Ark Or Preserving Vessel

The woman tells Connla to come into her shining ship to go to the Plain of Victory, saying they will reach that country before night.

Flood And Renewal

Prometheus and Pronoia produce Deucalion and Pyrrha, only survivors of the deluge; they have Hellen, ancestor of the Hellenic race, with further descent into Magnesians, Macedonians, Dorians, Ionians, and Aeolians.

Mother Goddess

Badb, Macha, the Morrigu, Eire, Fodla, Banba, Eadon, Brigit, and Dana are described with battle, naming, poetry, healing, smith-work, dual appearance, fiery-arrow name, and mother-of-gods associations.

World Destroying Fire

Loka-byūhā angels, weeping and dressed in red garments, announce a new dispensation after one hundred thousand years, the drying of the ocean, the burning of the earth and Sineru, the passing away of the world, and moral duties of mercy and family honor.

Death And Return

The Einheriar eat the flesh of Sæhrimnir, cooked by Andhrimnir in Eldhrimnir; the boar is slain daily and comes to life again before the next meal.

Cosmic Mountain

Triton, Rhoda, and Benthesicyme are children of Poseidon and Amphitrite; giant sons Otus and Ephialtes threaten the gods and try to scale heaven by piling mountains, but Apollo destroys them with arrows.

Funeral Fire Seen From The Departing Ship

Balor orders his eyelid lifted; Lugh throws a red spear through Balor's eye, the fallen eye kills three times nine Fomor, Ireland would have burned in a flash if it were not put out, and Lugh beheads Balor.

Sacred Twins

The two sons of Actor and Molione are said to have Poseidon as father and are described as twins with two joined bodies.

Underworld Descent Through Mountain Cave

A skilled young hunter pursues a large bear through dangerous mountain heights until it disappears into a hole on a bleak mountain summit.

Sacred Vessels Preserved From Destructive Fire

He looks at his body, finds himself transformed into a serpent, and his cries and groans become serpent hisses.

Survivor Pair

The opening of 'The Man who Married the Bear-Goddess' describes a once-abundant village struck by famine; only the chief's older daughter and younger son survive, and the sister gives the boy a cloth bag so he may buy food and live.

Labyrinth Initiation

Aphrodite inspires Ariadne’s attachment to Theseus; Ariadne secretly gives him a sharp sword and a clue of thread with instructions for finding and leaving the Minotaur’s lair.

Threshold Cavern With Many Gates As Oracular Boundary

A skilled young hunter pursues a large bear through dangerous mountain heights until it disappears into a hole on a bleak mountain summit.

Single Combat At A Ford

Ailill Finn expels the visitors; Fergus calls for combat at the ford; Ailill Finn goes himself; Dubhtach wounds Ailill Finn through both thighs and is pierced by Ailill Finn’s javelin.

Cosmic Egg

The duck builds a nest, lays six golden eggs and one iron egg, warms them for three days, and the water-mother's knee and shoulders become burning hot.

Cattle Raid

Ailill, Medb, and Fergus hold counsel; Ailill proposes sending someone to Regamon for cattle to feed the men of Ireland when the cattle are raided from Cualgne, and Medb proposes the Maine because of their love for the daughters.

Divine Aid In Battle

Hector is said to be aided by favoring gods; Mars appears in mortal arms, and the Greeks are warned that they fight the gods, not only Troy.

Divine Intervention In Battle

Mars hovers with a sable shield; after the blue-eyed maid retires, Apollo produces neas from his fane alive, unharmed, and vigorous from his wound, while battle-deities and battle-cries intensify the field.

Miraculous Water From Rock

The people are divided into twelve tribes; God tells Moses to strike the rock with his rod, and twelve fountains gush out, with each group knowing its drinking-place.

Paradisal Garden With Flowing Rivers

Believers who do right will enter "gardens beneath which the rivers flow" and abide there forever.

Ritual Purification Before Prayer

Believers addressing themselves to prayer are instructed to wash faces and hands to the elbow and wipe heads and feet to the ankles.

Animal Carried Through The Air By Companions Using A Stick

The geese bring a stick, hold its ends, and tell the turtle to take the middle in his mouth and not speak until they reach home.

Atonement Rite

For the life of the flesh is in the blood... for the life of all flesh is its blood.

Battle For The Body Of A Fallen Hero

The argument states that the seventh battle is for the body of Patroclus and that Menelaus defends it; the scene is in the fields before Troy.

Beauty Causing Involuntary Self Wounding

The mistress invites the women, prepares a banquet, gives each a knife, and has Joseph appear; they cut their hands and call him not mortal but an angel; she threatens him with prison if he refuses.

Combat At A Ford

The men of Ireland choose Ferdia, a great champion, to fight Cuchulain; Ferdia and Cuchulain have the same teachers and similar battle skill, while Cuchulain has the Gae-bulg and Ferdia has horny skin-protecting armour.

Contest Over A Dead Hero's Arms

The Aethiopis is summarized as including Penthesilea's aid to the Trojans and death, Memnon's arrival and fall, Achilles' death by Paris' arrow, and the dispute of Odysseus and Aias over Achilles' arms.

Creation By Divine Speech

"He who hath created the Heavens and the Earth, in truth, and when He saith to a thing, 'Be,' it is."

Descent Into The Earth At The Conclusion Of A Prophecy

The future Buddha grants the deities' prayer, declares the time has arrived to become a Buddha, enters the Grove of Gladness in the City of Delight, is attended by angels who remind departing beings of merit, leaves that realm, and is conceived in Lady Mahā Mā

Divine Incitement Of Opposing Armies

Each host joins battle under a god's inspiration: Mars incites one side and Minerva the other; Discord is personified as growing vast, stalking earth, and causing nations to bleed.

Divine Intervention

God of the silver bow! thy shafts employ, Avenge thy servant, and the Greeks destroy.

External Or Detachable Soul

Germany entry lists sacred groves, tree-felling ceremony, harvest customs, beating as a charm, oak as sacred tree, oak log burnt on Midsummer Day, and external soul in German stories.

External Soul Located Outside The Body

In a Mongolian story, Joro captures the wasp-form soul sent by the enchanter-lama Tschoridong and controls the lama's consciousness by opening and shutting his hand.

False Token Of Death

The brothers place Joseph at the bottom of the well; a revelation says he will later tell them of the deed. They return weeping with a wolf story and a shirt with false blood; the father says they have managed the affair and invokes patience and God’s help.

Funeral Games Honoring The Dead

Achilles and the Myrmidons honor Patroclus; his ghost demands burial; wood, procession, hair offerings, animal and captive sacrifices, pyre, libations to Winds, bone collection in a gold urn, tomb, and funeral games are listed.

Heavenly Aid In Battle

When the believers seek succor, God promises aid with a thousand angels, rank on rank, as good tidings and reassurance; succor comes from God alone.

Heavenly Water As Purification And Strengthening

Sleep falls on the faithful as security; water from Heaven cleanses them, removes Satanic pollution, strengthens hearts, and establishes feet.

Heroic Single Combat At A Ford

Maev’s compact provides a daily champion to oppose Cuchulain; the army may advance while the combat lasts but halts until morning if the champion is killed. Before Ferdia, Cuchulain has killed many champions in duel.

Hunter Becomes Hunted

The fox tries to steal a lamb from a flock, but the shepherd sees him and sets dogs on him.

Inescapable Chain Of Existence

Philosopher and Doctor are "one Link in an eternal Chain" that none can slip, break, or overreach.

Inexhaustible Food Supply

The rice bag remains inexhaustible despite daily use for meals for the knight and his family.

Insatiable Hunger Leading To Self Consumption

Eresicthon, son of Triopas, angers Demeter by cutting down her sacred groves, and she punishes him with constant insatiable hunger.

Life Bound To An External Object

At Meleager's birth, the Moirae enter Oeneus' house and point to a burning piece of wood, declaring that Meleager will die when it is consumed; Althea stores it in a chest.

Lost Ring Recovered Through A Fish

A maid brings a dish into the palace with a honey-dressed broiled salmon, and a gold ring is on the salmon.

Origin Of Iron Through Divine Maidens And Colored Milk

Three Luonnotars are created by Ukko rubbing his hands on his left knee; they walk the crimson cloud borders, sprinkle white, red, and black milk over hills and mountains, and become mothers of iron.

Purification After Bloodshed

Achilles kills Thersites after Thersites abuses and reviles him for supposed love for Penthesileia; an Achaean dispute follows over the killing.

Recognition By Bodily Scar

The boar rushes out with raised bristles and flashing eyes, wounds Ulysses above the knee, and is then struck through the right shoulder by Ulysses’ spear and dies.

Purification Of The Heart

A voice tells Rabia she cannot keep both the world and divine love; Rabia turns from earthly love and prays for absorption in God's love.

Sacred Fire

Yahweh's angel appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the middle of a bush... God said to Moses, "I AM WHO I AM."

Saint's Tomb As Pilgrimage Center

Rabia died in A.D. 752, was buried near Jerusalem, and her tomb became a pilgrimage center during the Middle Ages.

Threatened Burning Of Enemy Ships

The counsellor tells Hector that danger surrounds him, urges him to cease fury, convene chiefs and kings, and choose whether to burn the Greek ships or withdraw after the day's conquest.

Transformative Waters

The waters of Ammon freeze at midday and warm at sunrise and sunset; Athamanis kindles wood under the waning moon; a Ciconian river petrifies entrails and touched things; the Crathis and Sybaris make hair amber- or gold-colored.

World As Temporary Lodging

The world is a battered caravanserai with alternate night and day as doorways; sultans with pomp stay briefly and go on their way.

Abandoned Beloved's Self Destruction

Dido receives Aeneas in her home and affection; on a pile raised under pretext of sacred rites she falls on a sword.

Abandoned Sleeper On A Strange Island

The narrator prepares trade goods, sails a second time with merchants, lands at a place with fruit trees and springs but no houses or people, and falls asleep by a clear brook while companions gather flowers and fruit.

Abandoned Survivor Among Monsters

The speaker identifies himself as Achemenides from Ithaca, formerly in Ulysses' company, and says his comrades abandoned him in the Cyclops' vast cave.

Abandoned Survivor Rescued From A Hostile Monster Land

The survivor hides many days, eats acorns and grass with leaves, sees a ship, signals for deliverance, reaches the shore, and is received by a Trojan ship.

Abandoned Wounded Hero In Isolation

Ajax says the son of Poeas was exposed on Lemnos through their guilt, is concealed in sylvan caves, moves the rocks with groans, and wishes Ulysses the punishment he deserves.

Abandonment After Rejected Aid

The dog bites his master as soon as he comes within reach and hurts him considerably.

Abandonment Of The Corruptible Body

Sumedha argues that he must abandon the perishable body and enter the city of Nirvana, using similes of a corpse on the shoulders, filth on a dungheap, an unseaworthy ship, and robbers threatening jewels.

Abducted Captives Guide Rescuer Through Hidden Entrance

The damsels say they are daughters of Daimios, captives of the Demon King, taken from their homes, forced to serve him, and afraid he will kill and eat them.

Abducted Infant Later Found Imprisoned

The embassy asks the Ousel of Cilgwri about Mabon, taken from his mother at three nights old; the Ousel says it has never heard of him, describes the worn anvil as a marker of age, and offers to guide them to older animals.

Abducted Infant Whose Fate Is Unknown

Mabon son of Modron is the only huntsman who can hunt with the dog; he was taken from his mother when three nights old, and his location and life status are unknown. Eidoel son of Aer, his blood kinsman and cousin, is needed to seek him.

Ablution With Old Garments Carried Away By Water

During Cherokee ablutions, people enter the water and let old clothes be carried away by the stream, supposing impurities removed.

Abolition Of Artificial Standards Restores Natural Integrity

The passage says Sages' wisdom contains instruments of government and instructs readers to discard wisdom, jade, pearls, tallies, signets, measures, scales, and sage restrictions so people may return to natural integrity and receive Tao.

Abolition Of Coercive Widow Inheritance

"O true believers, it is not lawful for you to be heirs of women against their will... nor to hinder them from marrying others..."

Abraham As Primordial Monotheist Ancestor

The people of scripture are asked why they dispute about Abraham when the Law and Gospel were sent down after him, and why they dispute about what they do not know; God knows and they do not.

Abrogated Or Vanished Revelation

Contradictory passages are addressed by the doctrine of abrogation: God commanded some things in the Koran that were later revoked and abrogated.

Absence Creates Longing For One’s Kind

Hsü Wu Kuei tells of an outlaw of Yüeh who, after longer absence, is glad to meet anyone connected with home. He adds a wilderness example of rejoicing at a human footfall or relative’s voice, and says the Prince has long lacked the voice of a pure man.

Absent Champion Invoked To Restore Courage

Trojans are frightened and give way; Greeks press on and spoil the dead; Phoebus appears from Ilion's height and urges the Trojans to fight, saying Achilles fights no more.

Absent Or Shameful Warrior Blamed For Communal Ruin

Hector says he will rouse Paris to war, calls him shameful and the ruin of Troy's race, and wishes earth and the dark abyss would take him.

Absent Protectors Invoked In Crisis

“Then Rávaṇ raised her up, and bare / His captive through the fields of air,” while she calls on Ráma and Lakshmaṇ; her amber garments gleam around him like fire.

Absent Younger Rival Who Would Have Won

Chiron tends swift-footed Achilles, son of Peleus, on woody Pelion while Achilles is still a boy; the passage says Achilles would have prevailed for Helen if she had been unwed, but Menelaus won her first.

Absorbed Lover Remains Silent And Defeats Interrupters

Arthur and his household search for Peredur and see a knight with a long spear by a brook. Peredur, absorbed in thought of his beloved, gives no answer and unhorses a youth and then twenty-four more youths.

Absorbing Collective Order Over Kinship

The State is described as a higher unity that treats family as disruptive, is all-sufficing for human wants, and absorbs other desires and affections, with a comparison to the later idea of the Church.

Abstention From Animal Slaughter Because Animals May Contain Human Souls

Everything in heaven and earth changes form; humans are bodies and fleeting souls that may enter beasts or cattle, so animal bodies may contain the souls of kin or humans and should be unmolested.

Abstract Principle Treated As Divine Power

Terms such as being, essence, unity, and good are said to have extraordinary influence, to become forms comprehending all things, to satisfy a human need, and to be treated as gods in a new mythology associated with elder deities.

Absurd Exchange Value Reveals Corruption

A horse-dealer brings five hundred horses; the foolish valuer values all five hundred at one measure of rice, and the horses are placed in the stable.

Absurd Valuation As Moral Exposure

A horse-dealer brings five hundred horses; the Valuer says they are worth a mere measure of rice, and the king orders that payment and the stabling of the horses.

Abundance And Cultivated Fertility Imagery

Vertumnus is described as the god of garden and field produce who personifies seasonal change and natural transformation from leaf-buds to blossoms and fruit.

Abundance Giving Cow

Bricriu asks about Ailill's wife Flidais and is told of her marvellous cow, able to supply milk to more than three hundred men at one night's milking; Flidais returns, is welcomed by Bricriu, praised with her cow in a poem, and recompenses him.

Abundant Dairy Yield At A Raiding Camp

The warriors camp at Belat Aileain; the place is renamed for abundant curds and milk, and also for cattle-stalls, byres, bothies, and huts made for the herds and droves.

Abundant Faraway Land

Menelaus describes Libya as a place where lambs have horns at birth, sheep lamb three times a year, and cheese, meat, and milk are abundant because ewes yield all year.

Abundant Food And Drink In The Marvelous Land

The Great Plain and Great Country are contrasted favorably with the plains and ale of Fal/Ireland; the passage also says a young man there does not go before an old man.

Abundant Hospitality And Ritual Feeding

The hall has painted rafters, hearth-stones, abundant barley beer, salmon-waters and nets; Wainola's sons and daughters assemble and live without regret while landlord and hostess prosper.

Abundant Pictorial Simile

The passage describes Homer's similes as exuberant, pictorial, ornamented, and capable of heaping several comparisons together.

Abundant Wedding Feast Followed By Song

The bride and bridegroom are served abundant foods and drinks, including reindeer, barley loaves, wheat biscuits, beer, honey cakes, butter, fish, salmon, and mead; the passage asks who will lead the singing and songs of Kalevala.

Abused Animal As Unexplained Daily Spectacle

In a square, a crowd watches a young well-dressed man drive a horse at full speed with spurs and whip until the animal is covered with foam and blood; bystanders say it happens daily at the same hour.

Abused Helper Killed After Failed Forced Service

The neighbor tells his wife of his plan, takes a spade, forces Shiro to his field, threatens him to find coins, and holds his head down until he scratches.

Acceptance Of Destiny After Loss

Tzŭ Ch'an mocks Shên T'u Chia's shortcomings; Shên T'u Chia replies that few fail to keep their toes because they do not disguise faults, and says acquiescence in Destiny belongs to the virtuous man.

Acceptance Of The Final Draught

While the rose blooms by the river brink, the addressee is told to drink ruby vintage with old Khayyam and to accept the angel's darker draught when it draws near.

Accidental Death By Received Weapon

Cephalus receives from Procris a dog and a javelin; the dog and a fox are changed into stone, and the javelin inadvertently causes Procris's death.

Accidental Death Concealed As Crime

At the tailor's supper the hunchback eats fish, swallows a large bone, dies of suffocation, and the tailor and his wife fear they may be imprisoned for murder.

Accidental Death Mistaken For Murder

At supper the tailor gave the hunchback fish; a bone lodged in his throat and he died in a few minutes despite efforts to help.

Accidental Encounter With Supernatural Beings In A Wild Place

On a mountain pass, rain and thunder overtake the old man; he finds shelter in a large hole in a hollow tree trunk.

Accidental Killing By The Would Be Protector

The narrator laughs inwardly at the thought of killing the harmless boy, promises friendship and protection, does not reveal that he is Agib, serves him, and spends thirty-nine days underground with him.

Accumulation Of Perfections Across Many Births

Among many almsgiving births, the Wise Hare sees one coming for food and offers his own self, giving up his life to acquire the Supreme Perfection of Almsgiving.

Accumulation Of Wonderful Objects

The traveller trades the diamond for the axe, commands the axe to cut off the old man's head, then retrieves the diamond and sleeps in the hut with two magic things.

Accusation Of Black Magic Leading To Condemnation

Certain persons accuse the witch of black magic, carry her before judges, and demand death for dealings with the Devil.

Accusation Of Foreign Source For Revelation

The commentary discusses Boheira's possible names, says Mohammedan writers do not indicate that he left his monastery for Arabia, and says his Bosra acquaintance with Mohammed was too early to support the claim that he helped with the Koran.

Accused Killer Denies Guilt And Reframes Death As Accident

The Frogs gather in council; Pot-visitor, son of Cheese-carver, brings the Mice's message that Puff-jaw slew Crumb-snatcher and that the Frogs should prepare for battle.

Actions Explained By A Past Loss

A great storm sinks the boat and cargo, but the three travellers reach land.

Adaptation Of Older Sacred Customs Into Reformed Worship

The passage says many ceremonies were observed by pagan Arabs before Mohammed, especially compassing the Caaba, running between Saf and Merw, and throwing stones in Mina; Mohammed confirmed them with alterations such as requiring clothing during circumambulati

Admired Feature Becomes Cause Of Ruin

A thirsty stag goes to a pool, sees his reflection in the water, admires his spreading antlers, and despises the weakness and slenderness of his legs.

Adopted Predator Betrays The Flock

“A Shepherd found a Wolf's Cub straying in the pastures, and took him home and reared him along with his dogs.”

Adult Ignorance About Birth And Marriage

A scholion says Margites, though grown, did not know whether his father or mother gave him birth and would not lie with his wife because he feared she might speak badly of him to her mother.

Adulterous Divine Lovers Caught In A Hidden Snare

Vulcan angrily goes to his smithy, forges unbreakable chains, spreads them invisibly around the bed, and pretends to depart for Lemnos.

Adultery Ordeal By Ritual Drink And Oath

A woman suspected of adultery without evidence is tried by drinking the bitter water of jealousy and by an oath of cursing to which she says “Amen”; the passage says this resembles Mohammed’s expedient on a like occasion.

Advance Delayed For Reinforcements

When Conchobar asks why they delay, the men say they await his sons Fiacha and Fiachna, who have gone with a division to Tara to fetch Erc so that he may bring his muster, troops, levy, and forces.

Adventures Of A King

“PURUSHA-PARĪKSHĀ, the Adventures of King Hammīra.”

Adversarial Being Followed By The Unfaithful Majority

Eblis finds his judgment about them true, and all except a faithful remnant follow him.

Adviser Fails To Follow Own Counsel

A Hind addresses her grown and strong Fawn as her son, notes his powerful body and stout horns, and asks why he is cowardly enough to run from hounds.

Aerial Animal Transport Conditional On Silence

The wild ducks say they can carry the tortoise if he holds his tongue; he agrees, bites a stick, and the ducks take the two ends in their teeth and fly into the air.

Aerial Conveyance To Witness Battlefield Devastation

The warders bring the car to the grove where Sita mourns Rama, place her in it, fly through the air, and she sees slain Vanars, triumphant Rakshasas, and Vanar chiefs near the fallen brothers.

Aerial Divine Errand In A Dragon Drawn Chariot

Ceres instructs Oreas to go to a bleak region of Scythia where Hunger dwells and gives her the chariot and dragons to guide aloft.

Aerial Transport Of Royal Heroes

The Vanars move over the broad way; Vibhishan stands armed on the strand; Sugriva tells Rama to ride Hanuman and says Angad should help Lakshman through the air.

Aetiological Explanation Of Animals And Constellations

The tales are described as mostly children’s tales including aetiological myths that explain animal markings and habits, constellations, and related phenomena.

Aetiology Of Pearls And Bird Plumage From A Hero's Tears

Wainamoinen's tears flow from his eyes down his face, beard, breast, girdle, clothing, and shoes; they go partly to earth and partly to water and form streamlets into the blue mere and crystal waters.

Affinal Household As Hostile Environment

The speaker hastens to other fields, compares herself to berries, says elm, aspen, willow, and the forest try to harm her, and journeys to her husband and his mother.

Afflicted Bride Whose Marriage Is Blocked By A Supernatural Warning Voice

In 'The Bride Bewitched,' a beautiful girl has many suitors, but bridegrooms flee when a voice from her body warns them to desist; river immersion does not help, and she runs to the mountains and throws herself down at a magnolia-tree.

Afflicted People Promised Succession In The Land

Chiefs ask whether Pharaoh will let Moses and his people go; Pharaoh says their male children will be slain and females spared so that his side prevails.

Afflicted Person Seeks Removal Of Bodily Growth

A good old man has a tennis-ball-sized wen on his right cheek; doctors and medicines fail, and the lump grows larger.

Afflicted Righteous Supplicant Appeals To Divine Mercy

Job cries to his Lord: "Verily evil hath afflicted me: but thou art the most merciful of those who show mercy."

After Death Reunion Of A Purified Pair

First one and then the other falls asleep, appears to the unwise to die, and they are reunited in another state of being.

Afterlife Continuation Of Earthly Fixation

He says farewell to the beloved youth in vain, Echo repeats farewell, he lays his head on the grass and dies; even in the infernal abodes he looks at himself in Stygian waters.

Age Contrast In Paired Women

“A Man of middle age, whose hair was turning grey, had two Sweethearts, an old woman and a young one.”

Age Renewal Through Medea's Arts

Most manuscripts read Tetheiâ/Thetide, but Burmann replaces it with Æetide, daughter of Æetes; the note argues that Bacchus would ask Medea, not Tethys, to renew the age of his nursing Nymphs after seeing Medea do so for Aeson.

Aged Champion Returns Under Provocation

Acestes reproaches Entellus for inaction, invoking Eryx and Sicilian renown; Entellus says glory remains but age has weakened his body.

Aged Hero Recalls Lost Youthful Power

“Then spake good Jámbaván the sage, / Chief of them all for reverend age”

Aged Warrior Maintaining Battlefield Strength

Idomeneus calls Antilochus, Deipyrus, Merion, and Aphareus to aid him, saying Aeneas is sprung from a god, youthful, and bold, while he is old in arms.

Aged Warrior's Final Battle For Communal Honour

Iliach, an old man cared for by Loegaire Buadach in Rath Imbil, hears that the provinces of Erin have ravaged Ulster, the Picts, and Cualnge and are carrying off women, children, cattle, flocks, herds, and horses.

Aging Singer Laments Loss Of Voice

The gray-beard says he once sang heroic legends across waters, valleys, mountains, fields, and forests with a voice compared to rivers, waters, snow-shoes, and a ship, but now his songs are discordant.

Agonistic Debate As Combat

Socrates and Polemarchus say they will oppose attributing the rejected saying to Simonides, Bias, Pittacus, or another wise man or seer; Socrates instead suggests Periander, Perdiccas, Xerxes, Ismenias the Theban, or another rich and mighty man as possible sou

Agonistic Debate Between Questioner And Forceful Opponent

Thrasymachus interrupts and enters like a roaring savage animal; he tells Socrates to stop pretended argument, defines justice as the interest of the stronger, explains rulers make laws for their own interests, and Cleitophon introduces 'thinks' to adjust the

Agricultural Deity With Harvest Attributes

The Romans, following a custom of identifying their deities with Greek gods of similar attributes, declared Cronus identical with their old agricultural divinity Saturn.

Agricultural Goddess With Crop And Torch Emblems

Demeter is represented as majestic, tall, matronly, golden-haired, fully draped, sometimes with a winged-dragon chariot, wheat-ears, a torch, poppies, or a hair-riband.

Aid To An Injured Animal Repaid By Gratitude

The lion appears but does not attack; it fawns, whines, lifts its swollen paw, and the slave removes a large thorn and dresses the wound.

Aid To The Needy Traveler

Abdallah is approached while mounting his camel; he gives the camel and its load to the needy traveler, asking only that the sword attached to the saddle, formerly belonging to Ali, not be parted with. The camel carries silk vests and 4,000 pieces of gold, whi

Alarm Messenger Announces Enemy Advance

A messenger rushes in, alarming the royal house and town with news that Teucrians and Tyrrhene forces are marching by the Tiber and filling the plain; the populace demands arms amid fear and noise.

Alarm, Pursuit, And Defeat After Theft

The maidens gather cows, swine, and sheep without being observed and secretly pass to the camp of the sons' comrades.

Alchemical Transformation Through The Grape

The grape is said to confute the Two-and-Seventy jarring Sects with absolute logic and to act as a sovereign alchemist turning life’s lead into gold.

All Things Contained In Divine Unity

Self-sufficiency is defined as all modes, states, aspects, properties, qualities, and presentations of the One Real Being being present in the secret thought of the Divine Being and contained in His Unity.

Allegorical Figures Explained By A Host

Cuanna explains that the giant with the squealing pig is Sluggishness and that the girl shoving him along is Liveliness, which pushes on sluggishness.

Allegorical Ruler Or Captain As Populace

Socrates is said to meet the objection and explain through an allegory in which the people are distinguished from professional politicians and represented by the image of a noble captain who is slow in perception.

Alliance With Animal Or Semi Divine Helpers

The note raises the possibility of Ráma’s alliance with monkeys and describes south Indian monkeys as intelligent, organized, locally attached, and moving in groups over mountains and rivers.

Allied Host Gathered For Heroic War

Rāma praises Sugrīva’s truth and friendship, says a Rākshas stole his queen, predicts the demon’s death, and compares the matter to Anuhlāda with Queen Śachī and Indra slaying Queen Paulomī’s sire.

Allies Arrive To Rescue Or Reinforce A Wounded Fighter

Hanuman and Nila come to Angad’s aid; Nila sends a mountain peak, Hanuman kills Devantak, and Nila crushes Mahodar with a mountain crowned with trees.

Allies Recognize Comrades By The Sound Of Blows

Caoilte, Oisin, and Lugaidh's Son attack the strangers; Conn Crither and Glas, son of Bremen, hear the blows, recognize them as Fianna blows, join the attack, and destroy all who came to land.

Ally Counselor Restores Courage After Apparent Defeat

Sugriva trembles at the bloodied fallen princes, with tears in his eyes and anger rising.

Ally Dies Or Nearly Dies For The Captive

The battle is described as between the lord of giants and the noblest bird; Jaṭāyus fights faithfully, but Rāvaṇ uses a sword to wound his wings, side, feet, and throat, and the bird falls nearly lifeless.

Ally Restrained From Unleashing An Overpowering Weapon

Krishna says he will smite the foe with his fiery discus, throws the reins to Arjun, leaves the chariot, and rushes into battle.

Altered Food Token Signals Changed Fidelity Status

After staying in the cave, Diarmuid leaves broken bread the next day instead of the unbroken bread he had left on other days as a sign to Finn that he had kept faith with him.

Alternate Traditional Ending For A Mythic Death

A different tale says Manannan aided in the slaying of Fuamnach and Mider in Bri Leith; the quoted verse says Bri Leith was burned by Manannan.

Alternative Rousing Of The Incapacitated Hero

The Literary form begins with Cuchulain being roused from his sick-bed; the agency differs, with a son of the fairy king in the Antiquarian form and Emer in the Literary form.

Altruistic Reception Of Refugees By Fellow Believers

Believers settled in Medina love those who fled to them, bear no want toward what is given the Mohajern, and prefer them despite indigence.

Amazon Like Maiden Warrior In Battle

Camilla rages in battle as a quivered Amazon, using javelins, a battle-axe, and the golden bow and armor of Diana; she can shoot while retreating.

Amazonian Warrior Women Living Apart From Men

The Amazons are described as warlike women living apart from men, renewing their numbers through temporary intercourse, burning the right breast for archery, recurring in ancient poems, and appearing in traditions involving Priam and Bellerophon.

Ambiguous Or Substitute Fatherhood

Footnote 115 identifies Merops as king of Ethiopia, husband of the nymph Clymene, and either Phaëton’s stepfather or putative father.

Ambiguous Oracle Misunderstood Across Generations

Hyllus consults Delphi and is told to wait for the third fruit; taking this as the third summer, he invades, meets Atreus' opposition, proposes single combat, and is killed by Echemon, after which the Heraclidae withdraw for fifty years.

Ambiguous Supernatural Identity Of A Strange Captive

Ravana, angry and uncertain, asks if Hanuman may be Nandi, an Asur, or Bali’s son, and orders questions about who he is, where he came from, and why he damaged the grove and fought the captains.

Ambiguous Truth Used As Fatal Deception

Drona continues the battle; his son Aswa-thaman is a renowned chief, and a battle elephant bears the same name; Bhima kills that elephant.

Ambitious Courtier Betrays Benefactor

Hassan-Sebbah asks for a place at Court. The minister grants everything; Khayyam returns to his village as chief, and Hassan-Sebbah takes his place at Court.

Ambivalent Ecstatic Expression

Hasan speaks to a disciple who groans and throws himself down at Qur'an recitation, comparing controllable groans to destructive fire, allowing that uncontrollable groans would indicate higher piety, and saying such groanings are generally Satan's work.

Ambivalent Sacred Animal Becoming Demonized

The pig is described as a being endowed with high supernatural powers and regarded with religious awe and fear, blending reverence and abhorrence.

Ambush Causes Exile And Loss Of Status

About a month into the journey, the party sees a swift cloud of dust and discovers it hides a band of fifty robbers.

Ambush In Narrow Wooded Mountain Pass

Turnus praises Camilla, reports that Aeneas' light cavalry has gone ahead while Aeneas marches by a mountain ridge, and says he will block a wooded gorge while Camilla fights the Tyrrhene cavalry with Messapus and allied divisions.

Ambush Of The Enemy Spy

Ulysses notices hostile footsteps and tells Diomed the man may be a spy or plunderer; he instructs that they let him pass, then rush behind and cut off his return to Troy.

Ambush Overcome With Lone Survivor

Tydeus is described as entering hostile Thebes alone, challenging chiefs at a feast, subduing them with Pallas’ aid, and defeating a fifty-man ambush led by Mason and Lycophon while sparing one survivor.

Ambush With A Divine Weapon

Earth rejoices, hides Cronos in ambush, puts the jagged sickle in his hands, and reveals the whole plot.

Analogous Explanations For Similar Body Cutting Customs

The note says the reason alleged by the Indians was that if girls' nails were cut sooner they would be lazy and unable to embroider in porcupine quill-work, and adds that this is probably a late invention like European reasons for a similar custom, commonly th

Ancestor Or Founder Sepulchre Veneration

The pyramids are said to be fancied as sepulchres of Seth, Enoch, and Sabi, regarded as first propagators of the religion.

Ancestors Or Dead Persons Embodied In Trees

The passage says some trees are believed to contain souls of the dead, including transformed fathers or forefathers; an Annamite story has a bleeding tree embodying an empress and three daughters, and the passage notes a comparison with Polydorus in Virgil.

Ancestral And Household Exhortation Before Last Stand

The Greeks retreat toward the sea and stand by the tents and ships; Nestor urges them to be men and remember honor, wives, infants, parents, ancestors, safety, and fame.

Ancestral Custom Resisting Revealed Correction

“we found our fathers practising a religion; and we are guided in their footsteps.”

Ancestral Dispossession Used To Justify Taking From Outsiders

Frequent robberies of merchants and travellers are said to have made the name of Arab almost infamous in Europe.

Ancestral Exempla For Harsh Obedience

Rāma replies that he cannot break his father’s command and cites precedents of obedience by Kaṇḍu, the sons of Sagar, and Jamadagni’s son.

Ancestral Exemplar And Son’s Reputation

The monarch finds Tydides with steeds, chariots, and Sthenelus, reproaches him through comparison with Tydeus, and recalls Jove forbidding aid while comets warned of the Theban war.

Ancestral Exemplars Judging Later Imitators

The passage lists rhetoricians' traits, says Plato valued genius above art, contrasts sophists and rhetoricians with ancient famous writers, and describes the Platonic Socrates as fearing disownment by the latter.

Ancestral Feud Continuing Through Bloodline

The passage states that slaughter has not ended with the day and that feud and a father's anger continue in the children's blood.

Ancestral Footprint Preserved In Stone

The stone in Abraham's place is said to show his footsteps; traditions connect it with building the Caaba or with Abraham having his head washed; it is enclosed in an iron chest, associated with pilgrims drinking Zemzem water and prayer, and was hidden by temp

Ancestral Heroic Memory In Epic Formation

Rig-veda hymns are described as celebrating Indra’s heroic deeds, divine combats and victories over enemies, and memories of ancient heroes.

Ancestral Inheritance Overcome By Conscious Action

The passage says people inherit mental and physical qualities from parents, remote ancestors, race, and general human conditions, but that these cannot be precisely defined or estimated and form only a small part of each individual.

Ancestral Mother Of Hostile Beings

A daughter of Daksha became one of Kasyapa’s wives and mother of the Daityas, called the general mother of Titans and malignant beings.

Ancestral Objects Triggering Curse

Polyneices, called heaven-born and golden-haired, sets a silver table once belonging to Cadmus before Oedipus and fills a golden cup with sweet wine; Oedipus perceives his father's treasures and is grieved.

Ancestral Or Heroic Weapons Carrying Memory Of Prior Combat

Entellus throws down giant gloves of sevenfold oxhide sewn with lead and iron and says they belonged to Eryx and were used in the fight with Alcides.

Ancient Exemplum Used To Overcome Revenge

Phoenix urges Achilles to obey the reconciling goddesses, says honors have been sent by the general through noble Greeks, and introduces an ancient example of men who conquered revenge.

Ancient Giant Race

Some commentators describe the old Adites as 60 to 100 cubits tall; the tribe of Thamud is introduced as descendants of Thamud son of Gather son of Aram, and Salih is sent to restore them from idolatry.

Ancient Oral Tale Transmission

The stories are described as tales old women in country places tell to grandchildren; nobody knows their age or first teller.

Ancient Poems Preserved Through Editorial Transmission

The passage states that Peisistratus's labours were probably editorial and that his taste would lead him to preserve an ancient traditional order rather than reconstruct the poems fancifully.

Ancient Unconquered People Resisting Empires

Wars among Arabian princes allowed Selim I and Soliman to seize Red Sea coasts and part of Yaman with a fleet from Sues, but later successors retained little beyond Jodda with a weak Basha.

Angel Mediated Descent Of Revelation

A copy from the preserved table is said to have been sent by Gabriel to the lowest heaven in Ramadan on the night of power; Gabriel then revealed it to Muhammad by parcels over twenty-three years at Mecca and Medina, and showed him the whole volume annually, t

Angelic Bearer Offers Transformative Drink

At the tavern door at dusk, an 'Angel Shape' bears a vessel, bids the speaker taste it, and it is 'the Grape.'

Angelic Descent With Divine Decrees

Angels and the spirit of Gabriel descend in that night by permission of their Lord with decrees concerning every matter.

Angelic Guardianship Around Human Beings

God knows concealed and public speech, night hiding and day emergence; each person has successive angels before and behind watching by God's command.

Angelic Hierarchy And Mediated Divine Command

A higher angelic region is governed by the Great King; faithful servants fulfill His commands, lack evil inclination, guard the Kingdom's frontier, occupy crystal and precious-stone forts, and are immortal.

Angelic Mediation Of Revelation

Whoever is an enemy to Gabriel is addressed; Gabriel caused the Koran to descend on the prophet's heart by God's permission, confirming earlier revelation and giving direction and good tidings.

Angelic Messenger And Guardian Functions

Enemies of God, angels, apostles, Gabriel, or Michael are enemies opposed by God; evident signs are sent down and disbelieved only by evil-doers.

Angelic Messengers With Multiple Wings

Chapter opening praises God as creator of heaven and earth and describes angels as his messengers with two, three, and four pairs of wings.

Angelic Obedience And Restricted Intercession

God did not create the heavens and earth as sport; truth confounds vanity; all in heaven and earth are subject to him, and angels in his presence praise him night and day without tiring.

Angelic Proclamation Of A Coming Sacred Age Or Figure

The Bodisat is dwelling in the City of Delight when the Buddha proclamation occurs; the text introduces three proclamations on earth.

Angelic Promise Of Success Before Conflict

Gabriel descends with a promise that Mohammed will either take the caravan or beat the succours.

Angelic Prostration Before A Newly Created Human

God says he will make man of clay, form him, breathe his spirit into him, and command worshipful prostration; the angels prostrate, except Eblis, who is proud and unbelieving.

Angelic Transmission Of Ritual Practice

Muslims are said to regard the ceremonies as ancient as Abraham; God enjoined them on Abraham; Gabriel, appearing as a beautiful youth, showed ablution; some trace the ceremonies to angels teaching the first parents.

Angelic Vision Authorizing A Mission

The passage lists early events: visions of Gabriel in Muhammad’s fortieth year during retreat for devotion and meditation at Mount Hira, a period of depression and reassurance, a pause awaiting another angelic vision, private work for three years, and about fo

Anger Restrained By Dharmic Kinship Appeal

Bharat restrains Śatrughna: “Forgive! thine angry arm restrain: / A woman never may be slain,” adding that Ráma would condemn killing Kaikeyí or the maid.

Animal Alarm Before Strangers Arrive

The Northland watch-dogs bark fiercely. The master asks daughter, wife, and son to investigate, but each refuses because of household or work tasks.

Animal Alarm Saves A City Stronghold

Geese are praised for giving the alarm that saved the Capitol when threatened by the Gauls.

Animal Allied Host Performs Superhuman Labor

Rama commands; the Vanars obey, seek the forest, uproot palms, asokas, sals, bamboos, flowering trees, and creepers, and draw timber to the sea.

Animal Ally Fights The Abductor

Jaṭāyus addresses the fiend, swoops on the giant’s back, and wounds him with talons, beak, claws, wings, and feet.

Animal Ally Reveals Paternal Friendship

On the way to Panchavati, Rama sees a giant vulture of unmatched size and strength; the bird gently says he is an old friend of their royal father.

Animal Analogy For Civic Function

Socrates says guardians are like watch-dogs; male and female dogs share employments, so women with the same employments as men need the same education in music, gymnastics, and war, though this may provoke jokes about riding, weapons, and naked exercise.

Animal And Elemental Similes Intensifying Battle Narration

The passage compares Atrides to a lion leaving a fold at dawn after darts and blazing brands drive it off.

Animal And Shadow Counterpart

“THE FOX WITHOUT A TAIL ... THE FOX AND THE LION ... THE DOG AND THE SHADOW ... THE BEAR AND THE FOX”

Animal Armies Wage A Mock Heroic War

Ares equips the Mice; their armor and weapons include bean-pods, ferret skin, reeds, lamp centers, bronze needles, and pea-nut shells.

Animal As Moral Emblem

The speaker sees clay shapes and a dog, asks the Potter why such a faithful soul was sunk so low at birth, and sees a vase design of a temple where a dog supports a main support; an inscription names the dog faithfulness in heaven.

Animal Associated With Prophecy

Picus is represented as a youth with a woodpecker on his head, and the bird is thereafter regarded as prophetic.

Animal Attackers In Heroic Combat

Cuchulain says Loch mangled his thighs and wounded his sides; a grey-red wolf bit him and an eel dragged him down; Laeg sent Aife's spear downstream, and Cuchulain hurled it so that Loch fell.

Animal Avoidance And Sacred Animal Protection

Entries state that a rattlesnake is not killed, include superstition about killing sables, note that a turtle is not eaten by the Samoans, and say birds and beasts of the wood are held sacred by the Samogitians.

Animal Behavior Explained By An Origin Story

Ants were once men and made their living by tilling the soil.

Animal Bodhisattva Bears An Unmatched Burden

At Jetavana, after the Double Miracle and Descent from Heaven, monks praise the Tathāgata’s unequalled power; the Teacher says that in a former animal birth no one else could drag the weight he dragged.

Animal Body As Temporary Location Of A Living Person's Soul

The Battas of Sumatra are said to believe that a living person's soul may enter an animal body; a doctor may be asked to extract a patient's soul from a fowl where an evil spirit hid it.

Animal Body Explained By Ancestral Punishment

The Dragon King orders a severe punishment: the jelly fish’s bones are drawn out, he is beaten with sticks by palace servants, thrown into the water, and left to adjust to bonelessness.

Animal Bride Chooses Animal Husband

A fable is said to be carved in bas relief around the Great Tope at Bharhut, where a fair gosling is represented choosing the peacock for her husband; it is also referred to in a Pañca Tantra stanza and said not to have reached Europe.

Animal Centered Fable Encounter Headings

Titles include 'THE WOLF AND HIS SHADOW,' 'THE PLOUGHMAN AND THE WOLF,' 'MERCURY AND THE MAN BITTEN BY AN ANT,' 'THE WILY LION,' 'THE PARROT AND THE CAT,' and 'THE STAG AND THE LION.'

Animal Centered Fable Title Pattern

The supplied passage is a sequence of fable titles from 'THE OX AND THE FROG' through 'THE FROGS AND THE WELL'.

Animal Centered Moral Tales

Animal-centered titles include “The Banyan Deer,” “The Greedy Antelope,” “The Deer who would not Learn,” “The Cunning Deer,” “The Monkeys and the Demon,” “The Dog who turned Preacher,” horse, elephant, bull, ox, pig, peacock, quail, fish, bird, partridge, and

Animal Champion Defending An Abducted Woman

The vulture sees Sítá weeping in the car, ignores his wounds, attacks again, and breaks Rávaṇ’s jeweled bow; Rávaṇ takes another bow, which the vulture also snaps.

Animal Charm For Protection

Pliny notices tortoise flesh against witchcraft; Geoponica prescribes a living tortoise as a charm to protect vineyards from hail.

Animal Chooses A Side In Battle

Mac Datho brings out the hound on a leash to test which army it will choose. The hound joins Ulster, attacks the fleeing Connaughtmen, seizes Ailill and Maev's chariot poles, and is struck by Ferloga; the plain of Ailbe is explained as named from the hound.

Animal Combat At Water As Heroic Death Simile

Hector pursues the bleeding Patroclus and gives him a mortal wound; the fall is compared to a lion killing a boar near a spring after contesting the water.

Animal Communicates A Request For Sacred Construction

The king sends Mahinda to learn why the state elephant refused food; Mahinda finds that the elephant wants a Dāgaba built, and the king has the temple built at once.

Animal Companions Recruited For A Quest

The dog lowers its tail, bows to the ground, apologizes for rudeness, says it has heard of Momotaro's strength, and asks to be taken as a follower to the Island of Devils.

Animal Companions Steal And Divide Goods

At the beginning of the world, a fox, otter, and monkey are intimate friends. The fox proposes stealing from the Japanese; they steal a bag of beans, a bag of salt, and a mat from a rich man, and the fox distributes the salt to the otter, the mat to the monkey

Animal Conveyance Protecting Traveler From Time Or Mortality

Oisin asks leave of the king and Niamh to return to Ireland; Niamh fears he will not return, warns him not to get off the white horse or touch the ground, says he would become old and blind, and gives him a farewell kiss.

Animal Counselor Directs Vengeance

A raven answers from a tree, telling Kullerwoinen to take a shoot or birch-rod, drive the herd through marshes, lead parts to wolves and bear-dens, call wolves his children and bears his standard-bearers, and repay the hostess.

Animal Counterpart Killed, Human Dies Simultaneously

Zulu belief: every man has an ihlozi, a mysterious serpent that guards and accompanies him underground; a man without one must die, and if the serpent is killed the man dies while the serpent revives.

Animal Court Investigation Identifies The Holder Of A Lost Object

Ryn Jin summons many sea creatures and tells them that the visitor is Hohodemi, the august grandson of Amaterasu, who has come to the bottom of the sea seeking the stolen or missing hook.

Animal Court Mimicking Human Kingship

The travellers come to the land of Apes, and the King of the Apes orders them brought before him.

Animal Devotee Recognizes And Venerates A Buddha

Paduma has three assemblies and dwells in a forest grove; the Bodisat as a lion venerates him in trance, attends seven days without seeking prey, puts faith in the Order, and receives a prophecy of future Buddhahood. Paduma's city, kin, disciples, Bo-tree, hei

Animal Disguised As A More Fearsome Animal Is Exposed By Its Voice

The hawker dresses the ass in a lion's skin, releases him in a barley-field, and the watchmen and villagers react fearfully, with villagers bringing weapons, chanks, and drums.

Animal Disguised By Another Animal's Skin

THE OWL AND THE BIRDS; THE ASS IN THE LION'S SKIN; THE SHE-GOATS AND THEIR BEARDS

Animal Embodiment Of A Deity

Osiris is regularly identified with Apis of Memphis and Mnevis of Heliopolis; Frazer is uncertain whether they are corn-spirit embodiments or distinct deities fused by syncretism, and notes their worship by all Egyptians.

Animal Epithets For The Warrior

The servant's poem describes the rolling chariot, a large warrior above it, swift movement, hound and hawk imagery for Cuchulain, and the expectation that he brings defeat.

Animal Explanation Of Human Life Stages

When the storm abates and the animals are about to leave, they decide to show gratitude by dividing the life of Man among themselves and endowing each part with their own qualities.

Animal Fable Figures

Selected story titles include "The Ass in the Lion’s Skin," "The Talkative Tortoise," "The Jackal and the Crow," "The Wise Judge," "Sakka’s Presents," and "A Lesson for Kings."

Animal Fable Of Stronger Over Weaker

In a fable, a hawk carries a speckled-necked nightingale in his talons among the clouds and says the stronger may take, eat, or release the weaker.

Animal Fable Pairings

THE OX AND THE FROG

Animal Fattened For Celebratory Slaughter

The farmer’s only daughter is soon to be married, and her mother orders that the Pig be fattened for the wedding feast.

Animal Feature Explained By Divine Grasp

The gods drag the stream; Loki evades two attempts but is caught by Thor in mid-air, and the salmon's slim tail is attributed to Thor's grasp.

Animal Figures Paired Or Grouped In Fable Titles

The line range lists fable titles including “THE FOX AND THE HEDGEHOG,” “THE CROW AND THE RAVEN,” “THE WITCH,” “THE OLD MAN AND DEATH,” “THE MISER,” “THE FOXES AND THE RIVER,” “THE HORSE AND THE STAG,” “THE FOX AND THE BRAMBLE,” “THE FOX AND THE SNAKE,” “THE L

Animal Flight By Holding A Stick, Lost Through Speech

The future Buddha reasons that the tortoise made friends with wild ducks, bit a stick while they carried him through the air, tried to speak, let go, fell from the sky, and died.

Animal Form Fugitive Seeks Urban Refuge

Amina beats the dog-formed narrator with a stick, pursues him into the courtyard, and tries to crush him with the street gate, but he escapes with only his tail hurt.

Animal Friends Rescue One Another

The Woodpecker and Turtle come to help; the Woodpecker tells the Turtle to gnaw the leather trap while she keeps the hunter away.

Animal Grief Mirrors Human Grief

Credhe sees a crane with two nestlings threatened by a fox; the crane stretches over the birds and would rather die than have them killed; Credhe comments on her own love in relation to the bird's distress.

Animal Guarded Holy Figure In Mountain Refuge

The note reports an opinion that Pharaoh's men pursued the true believer, who fled to a mountain, prayed, was guarded by wild beasts, and whose pursuers returned frightened and were killed by Pharaoh.

Animal Guardian As Disciplined Auxiliary

A noble spirit is described as persisting until it slays or is slain, or until it hears reason as the shepherd’s voice telling the dog to bark no more; the State’s auxiliaries are likened to dogs and rulers to shepherds.

Animal Guardian At Sacred Threshold

The sleepers appear awake though sleeping; they are turned right and left; their dog stretches its forelegs at the cave mouth; a viewer would flee in fear.

Animal Guardian Pledges Protection Of A Beloved Woman

Jaṭáyus says he will be Ráma’s helper and will stand by Sítá when Ráma and Lakshmaṇ pursue the chase.

Animal Guide In A Monster Hunt

The Empress's little dog guides Peredur, rouses the stag, and drives it toward him; the stag attacks and Peredur beheads it with his sword.

Animal Guide Marks A Sacred Or Civic Site

Cadmus searches unsuccessfully for years, consults Apollo's oracle at Delphi, and is told to abandon the search and found a city where an unyoked heifer lies down.

Animal Guide Marks Sacred Settlement Site

Cadmus consults the oracle of Phoebus; the oracle says an unyoked heifer will meet him in lonely fields and that he should build a Boeotian city where she lies down.

Animal Guides Indicating The Lost Person's Path

The deer rise in pity, gaze toward the quarter where Ravana took his captive, move that way, and Lakshman identifies their looks as guidance southward.

Animal Headed Hostile Armies

Nine Fianna search many Irish places for a pup; they see three armies coming toward them, one Cat-headed, one Dog-headed, and one White-backed.

Animal Heart Substituted For Murdered Child

The husband orders two servants to kill the child and bring back her heart; they spare her, kill a dog instead, secretly return the child to her mother, and bring the dog's heart to the stepmother, while the mother flees with the child.

Animal Helper Avenges A Murdered Spouse

A nearby good-natured rabbit hears the farmer crying, learns the story, becomes angry at the badger, and tells the farmer he will avenge the wife's death.

Animal Helper Brings Prosperity To Human Host

The baker tells neighbors; they test Rufus with bad money, he succeeds, and crowds come to the shop, increasing the baker’s trade.

Animal Helper Carries Heroes To Hidden Captive

The Salmon of Llyn Llyw says it travels upstream toward Gloucester with every tide and has found wrongdoing there; Kai and Gwrhyr ride on its shoulders to the prison wall and hear lamentation from the dungeon.

Animal Helper In Battle

Owain is attacked and hard pressed; the lion comes to his assistance and together they overcome the young men, who complain about having to contend with the animal.

Animal Helper Obtains Magical Ingredient

A bee flies over the ocean for three days to islands, water-cliffs, and grottoes; it finds a sleeping maiden in honey-fields, dips its wings and fingers in honey and flower juices, and returns with honey to Kapo.

Animal Helper Repays Human Aid

A countryman witnesses the encounter, assists the eagle, frees him from the serpent, and enables him to escape.

Animal Host As Possible Memory Of Human Tribe

The note says Hindús regarded monkeys as half human and half divine and suggests Rámáyana monkeys were confused with aboriginal peoples, perhaps including Marawars or armies accompanied by monkey bands.

Animal Host Retaliates Against Human Attackers

A ruddy youth comes from a bright yellow tent topped by a red lion and reports that Arthur's attendants are killing some of Owain's Ravens and worrying others; Arthur again tells Owain to play.

Animal Household As Organized Moral Agents

The sparrows remember that the old woman cut off the Lady Sparrow’s tongue after she ate rice-paste by mistake; they love the old man, hate the old woman, and determine to punish her if they can.

Animal Human Boundary Ambiguity

A Bushman reportedly did not distinguish man from brute and imagined a buffalo might shoot with bows and arrows; Alaskan islanders reportedly took Russians for cuttle-fish because of clothing buttons.

Animal Hunt Preceding Fire Kindling

“before the fires were kindled it was customary to hunt squirrels in the woods.”

Animal Inadvertently Reveals Escape Route

The narrator hears a breathing form, follows it through a cranny and narrow rock passage, sees increasing light, emerges at the seashore, and concludes a small animal showed the escape route.

Animal Informer Carrying Hidden Knowledge To A Divine Master

The bird of Phoebus discovers Coronis’s infidelity and flies to his master to disclose the hidden offence.

Animal Lacking A Body Part

“THE FOX WITHOUT A TAIL ... THE FOX AND THE LION ... THE DOG AND THE SHADOW ... THE BEAR AND THE FOX”

Animal Mark Punishment For Foolish Judgment

The fable summary says Pan challenges Apollo; Tmolus judges in favor of Apollo; Midas alone disagrees, receives asses’ ears, conceals them, and is exposed by his barber.

Animal Messenger Bringing Distant Royal News

Solomon reviews the birds, notices the lapwing is absent, threatens punishment unless she has an excuse, and the lapwing returns with news of a woman ruling Saba with a magnificent throne.

Animal Messenger Carries Death Tidings

After Aino vanishes, bear, wolf, and fox are considered as heralds but rejected because they would harm cattle, lambs, ducks, or chickens; the hare is accepted as herald and agrees to tell her kindred.

Animal Mistaken For A Demon

The boys had never seen a turtle and were afraid, thinking it was a demon; they report, “There is a demon on the bank of the lake.”

Animal Model For Human Guardian

Guardians need both gentleness to friends and fierceness to enemies; dogs are gentle to friends and fierce to strangers, and human watchdogs must be philosophers or lovers of learning, requiring education.

Animal Morally Transformed By Human Speech

“It is me they are teaching. I am in future to be harsh, violent, and cruel.”

Animal Mourning For Human Master Or Companions

A cited poetic passage describes an inactive horse by a manger, refusing grain and weeping for slain associates and master.

Animal Name Origin And Ant Like People

The Myrmidons are located in southern Thessaly, traced to Myrmido son of Jupiter and Eurymedusa, fancifully linked to ants, and described as early field-dwellers using dens and tree cavities until Ithacus settled them.

Animal Name Origin From Figures' Disappearance Or Memory

The black fellows conclude that the brothers turned into little white-throated birds to escape vengeance; those birds are called Weeoombeens, and Piggiebillah's memory is linked to a porcupine ant-eater with miniature spear-like skin.

Animal Named Totem Clans

The note says the names Hare, Carp, Bear, and Gull can be learned as Otawa totem clan names from cited sources.

Animal Names Encoding Traits And Functions

The footnotes gloss many dog names from Greek terms for actions and traits such as tracing, eating, sight, ranging, killing, storm-like speed, hunting, catching, barking, strength, whiteness, soot, snatching, blackness, hair, greed, wild tooth, and subduing be

Animal Nature Corrupted By Training Instruments

Poh Loh says he understands horse management, then brands, clips, pares, halters, shackles, stables, hungers, thirsts, trots, gallops, grooms, trims, bridles, and whips horses, causing many deaths.

Animal Omen Interpreted As War And Peace

Four snowy white horses graze on the plain; Anchises says horses signify war but can also bear harness and yoke in concord, giving hope of peace.

Animal Omen Or Guide Toward The Beloved

The blossom-bearing wind now feels like fire; a dark-winged bird that warned of grief sings from a tree; the speaker addresses Lakshman and describes birds, a bee at the Tila tree, and the Aśoka tree.

Animal Or Bird Ally Defends A Threatened Woman

Jaṭāyu is identified as a semi-divine bird, friend of Rāma, who fought in defense of Sītā.

Animal Or Bird Witness As Messenger

Sítá, carried through the air by Rávaṇ, sees a vulture on a lofty tree and asks him to tell Ráma and Lakshmaṇ that she has been torn from her home.

Animal Or Lizard Form Of The Soul As A Variant Marker

Notes a similar Hindu story and says the lizard form of the soul is not mentioned.

Animal Or Semi Divine Helper As Messenger

Ráma speaks with Sugríva, they form friendship, Báli is slain, Sugríva reigns, hosts and spies are organized, Ráma gives a ring, a cave is mentioned, Sampati becomes a friend, and Hanumán leaps across the sea toward Lanká.

Animal Or Woodland Allies In Heroic War

The note explains Vánar as a frequent name for the monkeys of Ráma’s army and as possibly derived from vana, wood, meaning forester or inhabitant of the wood.

Animal Pair Encounter Title

The passage lists fable titles from The Gnat and the Lion through The Bear and the Fox, with a section heading In Black and White and many animal-pair or animal-object titles.

Animal Pair In Conflict Or Encounter

THE LION AND THE BOAR

Animal Pair Or Animal Group Fable Heading

THE EAGLE, THE CAT, AND THE WILD SOW

Animal Pairings In Fable Titles

The opening sequence lists titles: 'Prometheus and the Making of Man,' 'The Swallow and the Crow,' 'The Hunter and the Horseman,' 'The Goatherd and the Wild Goats,' 'The Nightingale and the Swallow,' and 'The Traveller and Fortune.'

Animal Pairs Gathered From The Whole Land

Caoilte asks how to get freedom for his master; the king says Finn will be released if Caoilte can bring together a couple of all the wild creatures of Ireland.

Animal Part As Sacred Food, Luck Object, Divinatory Object, Or Token

Hunters commonly cut out the tongues of killed animals; Omaha hunters remove a slain buffalo’s tongue through the throat, treat the tongues as sacred, keep them from tools or metal except in kettles, and eat them as sacred food.

Animal Performs Labor Beyond Ordinary Draft Animals

At the river bank, a man is troubled because heavily loaded wagons cannot be drawn by oxen through the shallow water.

Animal Pleads Usefulness To Avoid Death

The partridge asks, "Surely you won't kill me?" and says she helps bring birds to the fowler's nets.

Animal Possessor Loses Magic Object To Human Trickery

A wild boar finds a magical gem in a forsaken village, holds it in his mouth, rises into the air by its magic, and travels to an island in the ocean.

Animal Progenitor Explains Origin Of Horses

The oak-god returns the woman and golden horse to the man, forbids more sky journeys, tells them to breed from the horse, and its descendants eventually fill Aino-land.

Animal Protagonists In Didactic Fable

The names are described as corruptions of the Indian names of two jackals, Karatak and Damanak, who take a principal part in the first fable.

Animal Refuses To Violate Sacred Space

The large elephant Mahmd refuses to advance toward Mecca, kneeling when forced in that direction but moving briskly when turned elsewhere.

Animal Remains As Medium For Harmful Magic

Australian aborigines burned animal bones because an enemy might use the bones with charms to cause the death of the person who had eaten the animal.

Animal Retaliation For Killing

Camaralzaman sees birds fighting in a tree; one is killed and buried by two larger birds, who later bring back the killer bird, kill it at the grave, and tear open its body.

Animal Returns Bearing Proof Of Death

The horse turns back to Emain with the shield on the horse and the head on the shield.

Animal Reverence Through Tabooed Killing And Eating

The passage contrasts two forms of animal worship: animals are revered and spared, or revered because they are killed and eaten; expected benefits include help, protection, non-injury, flesh, and skin.

Animal Sign And Cult Foundation

The note explains Smintheus as an epithet of Apollo associated with mice, including an oracle story in which field-mice gnaw baggage straps and armor thongs, leading settlers to found a temple to Sminthean Apollo.

Animal Simile For Usurpation And Vengeance

Menelaus is shocked, says the suitors would usurp a brave man's bed, compares them to a hind's young in a lion's lair, says Ulysses would swiftly punish them if he returned, and promises to report what the old man of the sea told him.

Animal Similes For Martial Force And Order

Aeneas hears, shifts from pity to rage, and approaches combat; Idomeneus stands against him and is compared to a fierce boar on a mountain awaiting hunters.

Animal Skin That Grows To A Wounded Body

Ailne refuses to bring the cup at first; after Conan says he only asks not to die stripped bare, she brings a sheepskin, puts it on his back, and it fits, grows to him, and covers his wounds.

Animal Storyteller Frame

The Śuka Saptati is described as the seventy stories of a parrot, with Greek, Persian-derived, Hindustani, and English versions listed.

Animal Taboo Based On Mythic Death

Virbius is identified with Hippolytus, killed by horses, restored by Aesculapius, hidden by Diana at Nemi from Jupiter, and worshipped as a forest king; horses are excluded from the sanctuary because they killed Hippolytus.

Animal Trait Explained By Prior Human Action Or Sound

After death, Deereeree is changed into the willy wagtail, whose night cry repeats her plaintive call.

Animal Traits Explained By Divine Boons

Rāvaṇa interrupts Marutta's sacrifice; gods take animal shapes to escape—Indra as peacock, Yama as crow, Kuvera as lizard, Varuṇa as swan—and give boons explaining animal traits and funerary associations.

Animal Treated As Kin Before Ritual Killing

The Goldi sometimes capture and cage a bear, feed it well, call it son and brother, parade it at a festival, kill and eat it, and suspend its skull, jaw-bones, and ears on a tree against evil spirits; eating the flesh is believed to give hunting zest and coura

Animal Vengeance And Interspecies Blood Feud

The passage explains that, from the described viewpoint, animals have human-like feeling and intelligence and souls that survive death or are reborn; killing an animal may expose the killer to vengeance by the animal’s spirit or its species kin, understood thr

Animal War In Mock Heroic Form

The speaker invokes the Muses from Helicon and announces the war of Mice against Frogs, saying the Mice rivaled the exploits of the earth-born Giants.

Animal War Interrupted By Divine Intervention

The Battle of the Frogs and Mice tells of a quarrel between frogs and mice and their battle, which Zeus ends by sending crabs.

Animal With Human Understanding Responding To Speech

Cormac strikes the Brown Bull with a spearshaft and rebukes him; the Brown Bull hears because he has human understanding, becomes infuriated, circles the Whitehorned, and breaks his lower leg.

Animalized Appetitive Life

Those who do not know wisdom and virtue are said to move only up and down as far as the mean, never reaching the true upper world; like cattle, they look downward, feed, breed, and fight one another with iron horns and hoofs because of insatiable lust.

Animals And Things Speak As End Time Sign

Signs listed include the Euphrates revealing gold and silver, demolition of the Caaba by Ethiopians, speaking beasts and inanimate things, fire in Hejz or Yaman, a descendant of Kahtan driving men with a staff, and the coming of the Mohdi.

Animals Gather Under Apocalyptic Terror

The terror of the day causes nursing women and pregnant she-camels to be neglected; animals may gather in one place, forgetting natural fierceness and timidity, because of the trumpet and shock of nature.

Animals Lamenting A Slain Human Companion

Note 333 compares the passage to Homer, where Achilles’ horses lament with tears after learning of Patroclus fallen in the dust, slain by Hector.

Animals Reveal The Captor’s Trail

The Maithil lady laments over Jaṭāyus, speaks of omens, says birds and deer show the captor’s path, says the royal bird died for her sake, and calls on Rāma and Lakṣmaṇ to rescue her.

Animated Cult Image Made By Magical Craft

In the cited tradition, Al Samiri collects ornaments, melts them in a furnace into a calf, adds dust from Gabriel's horse's footsteps, and the calf lows and becomes animated; the Israelites worship it.

Animated Idol Made From Communal Ornaments

Al Smeri, not Aaron, is said to cast a calf from ornaments; Israelites worship it; dust from Gabriel's horse's footsteps thrown into its mouth makes it low and become animated.

Animated Images Responding To Music

Ailill asks whether Fraech's harpmen should play. They carry harps in decorated otter-skin cases, wear roe-hide and white cloaks, and have gold, silver, and bronze harps with serpent, bird, and hound figures that move when the strings are played.

Animated Or Life Like Manufactured Image

The people say they carried loads of gold and silver ornaments and cast them into fire; al Smeri likewise cast in collected material and produced a corporeal lowing calf, which he and companions called their god and Moses' god.

Animated Or Sounding Calf That Misleads Israel

Note cites a tradition that the calf came forth lowing and that Samuel entered it and lowed in order to mislead Israel.

Animated Or Speaking Weapons And Instruments

Ogma finds Orna, the sword of Tethra, draws and cleans it, and the sword tells all deeds done by it.

Animated Speaking Cosmos

The preface describes birds, beasts, fishes, serpents, celestial bodies, blood, people, ships, trees, and waters as animated, speaking, magical, or capable of shapeshifting.

Animation Of A Clay Bird By Breath

Jesus announces signs: making a bird-like clay figure and breathing on it so it becomes a bird by God’s permission; healing the blind from birth and the leper; raising the dead; and telling people what they eat and store.

Animation Of A Cult Object By Supernatural Residue

The dust of Gabriel's horse's feet animates the golden calf.

Animation Of Clay Creatures

A note says some identify the made bird as a bat, while others suppose Jesus made several birds of different sorts.

Annihilating Breath Reduces Bodies To Ashes

Three men come out and kill the King of Ulster's sons; the hound breathes on them, they turn to ashes at once, and no blood, flesh, or bone is found afterward.

Annual Expulsion Of Evil From The Community

Guinea towns annually banish the devil; at Axim an eight-day feast allows lampooning, then the devil is hunted and pelted out of town, and women wash vessels to remove uncleanness and the devil.

Annual Festival Honoring A Victory Deity

A festival in honor of Nike was celebrated on April 12.

Annual Night Theft Of Newborn Animals

Teirnyon Twryv Vliant, lord of Gwent Is Coed, has a beautiful mare whose colts vanish every first of May night; he resolves to watch armed.

Annual Purification

Aaron shall cast lots for the two goats... The goat shall carry all their iniquities on himself to a solitary land.

Anonymous Champion Defeats Repeated Challengers

A knight challenges someone in the meadow beside Arthur's palace; Peredur fights and overthrows him, then overthrows one knight every day for a week.

Answering Landscape Denying Help

The maiden recalls childhood plenty, berry-gathering in woods, uplands, and mountains, losing the homeward path, weeping, climbing a lofty mountain, and hearing the woods and hills answer that no help will come and home is far away.

Anthropomorphic Divine Attributes Left Unexplained

The Seftians are described as affirming God's eternal attributes, being called Attributists, and treating hands, face, and eyes as declarative attributes used in narration.

Anthropomorphic Or Corporeal Deity

The Moshabbehites or Assimilators are described as allowing resemblance between God and creatures and supposing God to have members or parts and local motion, including ascent and descent.

Anticipated Heroic Death As Carrion In Hostile Land

Lemminkainen seeks a pathway and asks Tiera whether they will reach their destination; Tiera/Kura says they came for vengeance but may perish in Sariola and become food for vultures, ravens, crows, and eagles.

Anticipated Victory Thanksgiving

Hector says the troubles will cease by Jove's decree when they crown the bowl to heaven and liberty, while the foe mourns frustrated triumphs and Greece returns through the seas.

Anticipation Of Future Life

Near the end of the Republic, the pattern in heaven replaces the city of philosophers on earth; the distant kingdom is also the rule of human life, prepares for future life, and the political ideal is realized in the individual.

Apocalyptic Barrier Restraining Gog And Magog

"when this wall was finished, Gog and Magog could not scale it, neither could they dig through it"

Apocalyptic Warning Horn

Heimdall receives a flashing sword and Gjallar-horn; the horn is to be sounded when enemies approach and at the final battle.

Apology And Honor To Slain Dangerous Animals

Kafir hunters address an elephant as great captain and mighty chief while spearing it; after death they excuse the killing as accidental and solemnly bury the trunk because it is called the elephant's hand.

Apostasy And Replacement Of A Religious Community

Sale's note describes predicted apostasy, listing Arab groups, leaders, and prophetic claimants, and then reports commentator disagreement over groups who supplied the loss of renegades.

Apostasy During The Leader's Absence

Moses is asked why he hastened from his people to receive the law; he says they follow close and he hastened to please the Lord; God replies that the people have been tried since his departure and that al Smeri seduced them to idolatry.

Apostasy Followed By Divine Replacement Of A Community

If believers apostatize, God will bring other people in their place, loved by God and loving God, humble to believers, severe to unbelievers, fighting for God's religion without fearing detractors.

Apostolic Hierarchy And Manifest Signs

The passage says these are signs of God; some apostles are preferred over others, Jesus son of Mary receives manifest signs and the holy spirit, and later people contend after signs have come.

Apotropaic Diversion Of Predator Hunger

Otso is told to cast malice and hunger onto mountains and trees and to eat forest foods, roots, ant-hills, and Metsola’s honey rather than the herd’s grass.

Apotropaic Mirror Repels Spirits

Chinese brass mirrors are hung over household idols because evil spirits entering the house and seeing themselves in the mirrors are thought to be scared away.

Apotropaic Plant Against Evil Spirits

Frazer says Virgil represents Aeneas taking the mistletoe to Hades, perhaps because the mistletoe was supposed to repel evil spirits.

Apotropaic Refuge Prayer Against Harmful Forces

The speaker seeks refuge with the Lord of daybreak against created mischief, the overtaking night, weird women, and the envier when he envies.

Apotropaic Removal Of Death And Disease From Village Or House

The passage reports beliefs that no one will die within the year in the house from which Death has been carried, and that a village from which Death has been driven may be protected from sickness and plague.

Apotropaic Shield Covered With Terrifying Battle Imagery

Heracles’ shield is described as glittering with precious materials; at its center is Fear in adamant with fiery eyes, and Strife hovers above, while enemies’ souls go to Hades.

Apotropaic Smoke Averts The Evil Eye

According to Persian superstition, smoke from burning rue has power to avert the evil eye.

Apparent Cruelty Explained By Hidden Cause

The Caliph says he saw Sidi-Nouman treat a horse in a barbarous manner, says onlookers blamed him, and demands the whole truth about the repeated flogging and spurring.

Apparent Death Followed By Signs Of Life

Trijaṭá consoles Sítá, saying Ráma lives; she points to hopeful Vánar faces, the army’s firm array, and the beauty remaining on the blood-wet heroes as signs that they are not dead.

Apparent Defeat Of Heroes Reported To Hostile King

“He ceased: o’erpowered by shaft and spell / The sons of Raghu reeled and fell.”

Apparent Freedom Undone By A Remaining Bond

A man catches a jackdaw, ties string to one leg, and gives it to his children as a pet.

Apparent Pleasure As Shadow

"now comes the third trial, which is dedicated to Olympian Zeus the saviour"; a sage says only the wise person's pleasure is true and pure and all others are shadow.

Apparent Weakness Becomes Advantage

The fable opens with an Olive-tree taunting a Fig-tree over the loss of her leaves at a certain season.

Appeal For Inclusion Of Old Heroes In A New Divine Order

"For the strength of your love, Patrick, do not forsake the great men; bring in the Fianna unknown to the King of Heaven."

Appeal For Liberation From Bonds

Oisin says bells have deafened him, laments Patrick's crozier and clerks in the place of battles, and calls on Conan, Osgar, Diarmuid, and Caoilte for aid or presence.

Appeal From Lesser Authority To Supreme Teacher

The young nun says Devadatta is not the Buddha and asks the nuns to take her to the Master at Jetavana; they travel the forty-five leagues from Rājagaha and present the matter to him.

Appeal To A Powerful Otherworld Or Enemy Ruler For Aid

Elathan tells Bres to go to Balor of the Evil Eye, chief king of the Fomor, to see what advice and help he will give.

Appeal To Divine And Elder Protectors During Crisis

Pritha asks Vidhata to end her sorrows, asks Krishna, Bhishma, Drona, Kripa, and Pandu for help, and specifically asks Sahadeva to stay beside her.

Appeal To Hostile Divinity For Death As Relief

Hercules' blood hisses and boils with burning poison; he raises his hands to the stars, addresses the Daughter of Saturn, and asks that death end his agonies.

Appeal To Nature And Local Divinities As Witnesses

Sítá bids farewell to Janasthán’s lawns, glades, forest dells, and cassia trees, asking them to tell Ráma that Rávaṇ bears his wife away.

Appeal To Substitute Ritual Mediators After Priestly Refusal

Triśanku asks his priest Vaśishṭha for help, but Vaśishṭha says the hope is beyond the monarch’s scope.

Appearance Of Christ In Human Form With Identity Proclamation

A produced book says Christ appeared in human form and declared: "Thou art the invitation: thou art the demonstration: thou art the camel: thou art the beast: thou art John the son of Zacharias: thou art the Holy Ghost."

Appearance Of Virtue Rewarded Over Virtue Itself

Glaucon reports that eulogists of injustice would say the just man thought unjust will be scourged, racked, bound, blinded, and finally impaled.

Appeasement Of Heroic Wrath

Nestor advises Agamemnon, recalls opposing the seizure of the maid from Pelides' tent, says Agamemnon wronged a man admired by men and gods, and urges ending his wrath by prayers or gifts.

Appeasement Of The Slain Animal

Hunters cannot spare all animals, so they kill some for food while seeking to appease victims and their kin through respect, excuses, concealment of responsibility, and honorable treatment of remains.

Appetite Leads To Captivity Or Control

The king descends, sees the trembling creature, and says that although an antelope normally avoids places where it has seen men or been frightened, this one has come there because it is bound by the lust of taste.

Appointed Battlefield Contingency Guard

Nine chariot-fighters from Norseland and three foot-warriors arrive, followed by governors of the men of Erin whose office in battle is to kill Conchobar if he is defeated and rescue Ailill and Medb if they are defeated.

Appointed Cup That All Must Drink

“offering his Cup, invite your Soul / Forth to your Lips to quaff--you shall not shrink.”

Appointed Day Of Death

"Each hath his own appointed day; short and irrecoverable is the span of life for all"

Appointed Death Fulfilled By Attempted Escape

A frightened man comes to Solomon’s court, says the Angel of Death looked at him, and asks Solomon to command the wind to carry him to Hindustan so he might save his life.

Appointed Tryst Prevented By Sudden Sleep

Etain tells Ailell she will heal him, kisses him, and tells him to come at daybreak to the house outside the fort.

Appointment Of Twelve Authorized Representatives

Mohammed chooses twelve from their number to have the same authority among them as the twelve apostles of Christ had among his disciples.

Approaching Army Mistaken Or Feared As Fraternal Threat

Lakshmaṇ climbs a high Sál tree, sees a northern armament of elephants, cars, horses, foot soldiers, and banners, and urges Ráma to put out the fire, send Sítá to a cave, and ready armor, arrows, and bow.

Approaching Warrior In A War Chariot

“I hear the creaking of a chariot / with a beautiful silver yoke,” and a perfected male figure rises from or is associated with the chariot wheels as it passes named places.

Arch Rebel's Cruel Public End After Long Resistance

Afshid conducts Babec to al Mutasem, who orders his ignominious and cruel death; Babec is said to have resisted the Khalifs for twenty years, killed more than 250,000 people, spared no men, women, or children among Mohammedans or allies, and left sectaries who

Archaic Motif As Later Literary Insertion Or Adaptation

Grotesque or savage passages are often assumed to indicate high antiquity or Druidic originals, but the passage says this is uncertain; some passages in Leabhar na h-Uidhri romances may be antiquarian scribal insertions and ancient.

Archaic Or Non Iron Tool Retained For Ritual Use

Roman and Sabine priests used bronze rather than iron for shaving; the Arval Brothers offered expiatory sacrifices when an iron graving-tool entered and left the sacred grove.

Archaic Simplicity Of Rulers And Heroes

The passage notes simple archaic scenes: monarchs without guards, princes tending flocks, and princesses drawing water from springs.

Archer Hero Kills Multiple Giant Foes With Few Arrows

Lakshman lays Virupaksha low with one arrow; Rama's giant foes shoot at his head and breast, and after their missiles are spent he sends four arrows that sever giant heads from trunks.

Argument As Waves To Be Passed

“The first wave having been passed, we proceed to the second—community of wives and children. ‘Is it possible? Is it desirable?’”

Armed Accuser Summons A Champion To Prove Treachery By Combat

A warrior-sized knight arrives armed, greets Arthur and the household except Gwalchmai, and bears a gold-ingrained shield with a blue fesse and matching blue armour.

Armed Arrival By Ship As Possible Threat

Eumaeus says that from the crest of the hill of Mercury above the town he saw a ship entering harbour with many men, shields, and spears; he thought they might be the suitors but was not sure.

Armed Avenger Threatening The Warrior Class

Vaśishṭha and the saints gather in fear, wondering if anger over his father’s fate will make him slay warriors again; they recall earlier seas of warrior blood.

Armed Avoidance Of Dangerous Claimants

Lugh is at a fair outside Teamhair with the King of Ireland; when he learns the sons have landed, he enters Teamhair, shuts the gate, puts on Manannan's armour and the cloak of the daughters of Flidais, and takes his arms.

Armed Beings Generated From Sown Dragon Teeth

Pallas-Athene commands Cadmus to sow the dragon's teeth; armed men arise, fight until five remain, and those survivors help Cadmus build Thebes; later noble Theban families claim descent from them.

Armed Champion Combat To Settle A Claim Of Honor

Before dawn the party rises and goes to the meadow. The Knight of the Sparrow-Hawk asks his lady-love to fetch the Sparrow-Hawk; Geraint stops her and says another maiden has the better claim, challenging the knight to battle.

Armed Child Warrior In Variant Reconciliation

The note says the Conlaoch battle is usually placed at the end of Cuchulain's life, but here appears before the War of Cualgne; it suggests an early legend of fighting Aife's son may later have made him Cuchulain's son, while the Yellow Book of Lecan makes Con

Armed Founder Succeeds Where Unarmed Founder Fails

A political observation is cited: armed prophets have succeeded and unarmed ones failed; Moses, Cyrus, Theseus, and Romulus are named as examples who needed arms to establish institutions.

Armed Friend Guarding The Sleeping Hero

Guha has the horses watered and fed. Rama performs evening rites in bark, drinks stream water drawn by Lakshman, has his feet bathed, and rests with Sita by the river while Guha, Lakshman, and the charioteer keep watch.

Armed Goddess Manifests With Cosmic Response

Athena springs quickly from the immortal head, stands before Zeus who holds the aegis, and shakes a sharp spear.

Armed Guardian Goddess Of A City

As war-goddess she wears armour and a plumed helmet, carries the aegis, and holds a golden staff that grants youth and dignity to her chosen favourites.

Armed Hero Awakened From Sleep

Ulysses wakes at Nestor's call, asks why Nestor wanders in the silent night, hears that safety depends on this night, takes his painted shield, and joins the chiefs.

Armed Heroes In Ascetic Guise

Hanuman bows, praises the two as godlike ascetic youths, asks why they have come near Pampa's waters, and describes their bows, arrows, quivers, and swords with serpent imagery.

Armed Human Paired With Dangerous Animal

THE ARCHER AND THE LION

Armed Men Generated From Sown Dragon Teeth

The fable summary states that Cadmus’s companions are devoured by the dragon guarding the fountain of Mars; Cadmus slays it; Minerva advises him to sow its teeth; armed men arise, fight, and five help build Thebes.

Armed Protection Of The Beloved In Wilderness Refuge

Lakshmaṇ climbs a high Sál tree, sees a northern armament of elephants, cars, horses, foot soldiers, and banners, and urges Ráma to put out the fire, send Sítá to a cave, and ready armor, arrows, and bow.

Armed Quest To Recover Or Defend A Valuable Bull

Three similarly dressed and armed youths arrive; Fergus identifies them as Ros, Dare, and Imchad, the three sons of Fiachna, in quest of their bull and ready to fight for their bull and drove.

Armed Ritual Performance Against Demons

The Salii are described as dancing priests who in March went through the city dancing, singing, and clashing swords against shields; Frazer suggests they may have routed evils or demons as preparation for transfer to Mamurius Veturius.

Armed Vow To Destroy The Ally's Oppressor

Rama says the best fruit of friendship is helping a friend in need and promises that his feathered, golden-emblemed, snake-like shafts will make Bali fall.

Armed Watcher Defeats Supernatural Seeming Intruder

Teirnyon Twryv Vliant, lord of Gwent Is Coed, has a beautiful mare whose colts vanish every first of May night; he resolves to watch armed.

Arming Against A Feared Special Weapon

Ferdiad dons elaborate armor, including an adamant stone or flag and iron kilt against the Gae Bulga, takes spear, falchion, and shield, and performs unprecedented feats.

Arming Before A Liminal Night Mission

Diomedes and Ulysses arm themselves: Diomedes with sword, shield, and plain leather helmet; Ulysses with sword, bow, quiver, and a wool-lined boar-tooth helmet with a traced chain of possession.

Arming For Combat With Animal Marked Equipment

Tiera/Kura lies near the hearth and fire, arms himself with girdle, javelin, scabbard, and copper mail, and pledges aid to Lemminkainen by touching his javelin to Ahti's spear.

Armored Or Protected Enemy Defeated Through A Single Exposed Point

Druimderg has the deadly inherited spear Croderg. Seeing the king's open mouth as the only unarmoured part, he casts the spear into it; the king falls, the shield's flame goes out, and Druimderg beheads him.

Army Breaches City Defenses With Natural Forces

The Vánars shout, fill the moat with stone, trees, rocks, and mountains, scale the ramparts, attack guards, and tear down parts of portals, towers, battlements, gates, posts, and pillars; chieftains lead forces at the four portals.

Army Builds A Bridge Across The Sea

Rama commands; the Vanars obey, seek the forest, uproot palms, asokas, sals, bamboos, flowering trees, and creepers, and draw timber to the sea.

Army Encamped At Liminal Shore

Sugrīva stays the host on the coast beneath trees, the army appearing like a second sea.

Army Gathering From Mountains And Distant Regions

Sugríva says Vánar chiefs have roamed the earth and gathered legions from distant regions, including fierce bears, monkey troops, and varied apes dwelling in groves and woods.

Army Mustered For Siege Of Enemy City

“Sword, spear and shaft shall strew the plain / Dyed red with torrents of the slain. / To-day the Vánar troops shall close / Around the city of our foes.”

Army Musters With Urgent War Readiness

The men of Ulster rise together in the train of their king and in response to Laeg's call; they are naked except for their weapons and move through their tents rather than around them.

Army Rout After Champion’s Death

Ráma sends three rapid arrows, cuts off Triśirás’s three heads, and the headless trunk, streaming blood and smoke, falls motionless.

Army Seeks A Champion To Face An Overwhelming Hero

Fergus brings Etarcumul to Ailill and Medb's tent, cites the maxim about restoration and restitution, and argues that Cuchulain is too dangerous for even major warriors of Erin to face.

Army Suffers Under Extraordinary Snow Without Shelter

At Cul Sibrille, heavy snow covers men, horses, and chariots; no shelters, food, or drink are prepared, and the men cannot tell friend from foe until sunrise.

Army Summoned From The Earth

The young man beats the other side of the drum; the earth trembles, holes appear, fully armed warriors sprout from them, and he marches into the city, becomes king, and lives happily.

Aromatic Resin Exuding Like Drops From A Sacred Or Valued Tree

Frankincense exudes from tree bark in drops and is called stacta or stacte; ancient wines were flavored with myrrh.

Arrival And Recognition Of An Exceptional Warrior

MacRoth reports an army-sized, gleaming company at the mound in Slane of Meath, led by a fair-cheeked youth with curled yellow hair, differently colored eyes and brows, rich clothing, shield, spear, and sword.

Arrival And Recognition Of Heroic Companies

MacRoth reports another company at the mound in Slane of Meath, led by a tall, broad warrior with black hair, red cloak, silver brooch, white linen shirt, red shield with gold boss, sword, and spear.

Arrival Of Allies By Sea At A Moment Of Danger

Finn considers challenging Daire Bonn; Caoilte takes the day's fighting with men from the Fianna. A fleet arrives, Oisin identifies the newcomers as Fiachra and Duaban Donn with friendly forces, and they help kill the son of the King of the Great Plain after C

Arrival Of Outsider As Beginning Of Communal Decline

Some older people remember Major Mitchell, called Mitchellan; mothers feared first wheel tracks and lifted children over them, comparing the danger to sores from treading on a snake's track; the legends were told to children around camp-fires.

Arrival Of Stranger Through Guarded Threshold

The prince mounts the horse, turns the peg without instruction, rises rapidly toward the sky, later finds another screw, turns it, and descends until he reaches the palace roof after midnight.

Arrival Of The Drunken Reveller At The Feast

After Socrates' speech the company applauds; Aristophanes begins to answer, but loud knocking at the door and the sound of a flute-girl interrupt, and Agathon sends attendants to inspect the intruders.

Arrival Recognized By Animals

At daybreak Ulysses and Eumaeus have lit a fire in the hut and are preparing breakfast; Telemachus approaches, and the dogs fawn rather than bark.

Art As Enchantment, Illusion, And Moral Danger

Poets are described as representatives of falsehood and feigning, like sophists and rhetoricians, and as false priests, false prophets, lying spirits, enchanters, and friends of tyrants.

Artificially Fashioned Woman Endowed By Multiple Gods

Zeus orders Hephaestus to mix earth and water and fashion a maiden-shape; Athene, Aphrodite, and Hermes are assigned to give her skills, charms, longing, and deceitful nature.

Artisan Excellence Provoking Envy And Murder Plot

Manawyddan makes fine leather shoes with gilded clasps; customers buy from him instead of others, so the cordwainers become envious and plot to slay him.

Artistic Image Modeled On Divine Poetic Epiphany

Phidias is said to have cited Homeric lines on Jupiter's majesty as the pattern for his Olympian Jupiter statue; viewers reportedly wondered whether Jupiter had descended or Phidias had ascended to see him.

Ascetic As Serpent

The passage contrasts Jami's and Von Hammer's judgments of Hafiz and quotes Hafiz: “The ascetic is the serpent of the age!”

Ascetic Austerity Threatens Divine Status

Dharmabhrit says the lake is Panchapsaras, made by Mandakarni through ascetic power; Mandakarni lay in the stream for ten thousand years and fed on air for ten thousand years, causing the gods led by Agni to fear he would gain one of their seats.

Ascetic Charity As Sign Of Female Sanctity

Fātima is described as a saint who continually works miracles, fasts by day, keeps night watch, eats only once in three days, and gives food and raiment to the poor, orphans, and widows.

Ascetic Command Summons Divine Manifestation

The hermit meditates, faces east, addresses deities, and they appear amid fragrant winds, falling immortal flowers, heavenly drums, Apsarases, gods, minstrels, lutes, and celestial music.

Ascetic Discipline Undone By Pleasure And Wine

The cited C. 170 verse says that when the speaker inclined to prayer and fasting he thought salvation had been attained, but ablutions were destroyed by pleasures and the fast annulled by half a draught of wine.

Ascetic Guardians Forbidden Corrupting Wealth

The guardians are to have no property, limited pay, and common meals; divine gold and silver are in their souls, while earthly gold is accursed to them, and private property would make them tyrants and bring ruin.

Ascetic Imitation Of An Ancient Model

Because Yü sacrificed himself to the commonwealth, later Mihists wear short serge jackets and straw sandals, toil day and night, practice self-mortification, and say they must follow the Tao of Yü.

Ascetic Power Challenging Divine Order

Viśvámitra threatens to create another Indra or leave the world without Indra, and begins forming new gods.

Ascetic Power Restrained To Preserve Merit

The hermits say their penance powers could destroy the night-rovers, but they refrain from using a curse because they do not want to bring to nothing the merit gained by long toil, even though saints are slain for food.

Ascetic Power Sustains Nature And Alters Time

Atri says Anasúyá spent ten thousand years in severe penance, caused roots and fruit to grow during a ten-year drought, made Gangá flow, freed saints from cares, and made ten nights one for the gods.

Ascetic Self Mortification And Self Denial

“The narrative of Ráma’s exile in the jungle is one of the most obscure portions of the Rámáyana,” and it is difficult to find original tradition or actual life beyond “self-mortification and selfdenial” attributed to old Brahman sages.

Ascetics Threatened By Demonic Disruption Of Rites

An aged sage says Sita is not to blame, but fear of fiends has spread; Khara, Ravana’s gigantic and cruel brother, vexes Janasthan, feeds on human flesh, and hates Rama.

Assassination Following Political Disgrace

Alp-Arslan dies and leaves power to Malek-Chah, recommending Nizam-el-Moulk; Malek-Chah removes Nizam-el-Moulk's turban and inkstand; Nizam-el-Moulk is found assassinated under his tent and writes verses recommending his twelve sons.

Assault On An Island Fortress

Sugríva tells Ráma to abandon despair, notes that Sítá and the foe’s dwelling have been located, and urges the building of a bridge across the sea to the city on an island mountain by the beach.

Assembly Of Chiefs Before Final Battle

Six of Ket's seven rivals are said to appear among the eighteen Ulster chiefs gathered on the Hill of Slane before the final battle of the Tain; Angus is the exception, and Fergus mac Lets and Feidlimid are mentioned elsewhere in the tale.

Assimilation Of Local Underworld To Greek Hades

With Greek mythology, Roman Orcus became Greek Hades; Romans worshipped Aides as Pluto, also called Dis and Orcus.

Assimilation Through Marriage Alliance And Adoption Of Language

Ishmael is said to have been Hebrew by origin and language, to have allied with the Jorhamites by marrying a daughter of Modad, and to have adopted their manner of living and language so that his descendants blended with them.

Astral Intermediaries Beneath A Supreme Deity

The Sabians are described as believing in one God, adoring stars or angels/intelligences residing in them and governing under the Supreme Deity, pursuing four intellectual virtues, and believing wicked souls are punished for nine thousand ages before mercy.

Astral Remnant Of A Beheaded Deer

To save the object sought by the rite, the sacrifice speeds away like a deer, flees skyward, and is pursued by Rudras who strike off its head.

Asylum Secured By Supplication And Marriage Status

The Argonauts are hosted by Alcinous and Arete; Medea supplicates Arete; the Phaeacians refuse to surrender her because she is Jason's lawful wife, and the Colchians settle there.

Athletic Contest In Honour Of A Goddess

Young maidens run races in the Altis in honour of Hera; the fastest receives an olive-wreath and sacrificial flesh; the races occur every four years and are called Herae.

Athletic Contest With Ranked Prizes

Aeneas leads the crowd to a grassy plain enclosed by wooded hills and a valley amphitheatre; Trojans and Sicilians gather, with named runners including Nisus, Euryalus, Diores, Salius, Helymus, and others.

Attachment To A Beloved Followed By Mourning At The Tomb

The narrator says that in youth he became sincerely attached to a young man whose beauty and society seemed incomparable.

Attachment To Homeland Over Otherworldly Reward

"We would not give up our own country--Ireland--if we were to get the whole world as an estate, and the Country of the Young along with it."

Attack On A Personified Wind Or Whirlwind

Herodotus is said to report that the Psylli marched to make war on the south wind after Sahara wind dried the water-tanks; the simoom then buried them in the desert.

Attack On A Time Signal Worsens Hardship

The servants must rise when the cock crows; they dislike this, especially in winter, and believe the cock wakes their mistress early.

Attack On Ships By Fire

At a high ship, Ajax and Hector contend: one seeks to fire the ships, while the other defends the vessel.

Attempt To Evade Prophetic Disclosure By Changing The Murder Weapon

Cian asks for mercy, says killing him in human shape will bring an exceptionally heavy fine, and says the arms used will tell the deed to his son; Brian answers that stones, not weapons, will kill him.

Attempt To Gain Loyalty Through Excessive Favors Fails

The goatherd gives his own goats only survival rations, but feeds the wild goats abundantly because he wants them to stay.

Attempted Economic Exclusion Of A Sacred Community

The hypocrites tell Medina's inhabitants not to bestow anything on the refugees with the apostle so that they may separate from him; the passage says the stores of heaven and earth belong to God.

Attempted Fiery Destruction Of Enemy Ships

Hector and Polydamas lead Trojans toward the works to attack the fleet and wall with flames, but a heaven-sent omen stops the host.

Attempted Reconciliation Of Institutional Religion And Mysticism

Ghazzali is described as attempting to reconcile orthodox Islam with Sufi doctrines, especially in The Revival of the Religious Sciences, and as forming a system combining dogmatic theology with Arab mystical theosophy.

Attempted Restraint Increases Destructive Anger

Cadmus, Athamas, and other friends rebuke Pentheus and try in vain to restrain him.

Attempted Suicide Interrupted By Caregiver

Myrrha decides death is preferable, ties her girdle to the top of the door-post, bids Cinyras farewell, and places the noose on her pale neck.

Attendant Warns Hero Against Doomed Journey

Ferdiad orders the chariot yoked; the charioteer warns him not to go. Ferdiad refuses interference, citing his promise to Medb and Ailill before the men of Erin and the shame of appearing afraid.

Attendant Warns Or Praises Before Battle

Ferdia's servant wakes him and recites a poem describing a silver-yoked chariot, the approaching warrior, and Cuchulain as Hound of Emain Macha and battle-Hound.

Augural Bird Sign Prompting Battle

Juturna shows a sign: Jove's tawny bird pursues shore birds, seizes a swan from the water, is attacked by the flock, drops the prey into the river, and flies into the clouds.

Auspicious And Inauspicious Calendar Days Govern Human And Practical Actions

The sixth of the mid-month is unfavorable for plants, good for male birth, unfavorable for a girl to be born or married; the first sixth is bad for a girl's birth but good for gelding kids and sheep and fencing a sheep-cote; a boy born then will favor sharp sp

Auspicious And Sacred Numbers

Eighty and seven are identified as lucky numbers; thirty-six is described as a sacred number.

Auspicious Flame Omen

Indrajit goes through Lanka's gate to the plain, worships the Lord of Fire with prescribed offerings, a sable goat, and ritual implements; the flame gives auspicious signs of victory, and Brahma-bestowed weapons are charmed with spells.

Auspicious Omens Before Battle

Rama commands the host to go to the southern coast, says the demon lord stole his queen, vows to slay the fiend and free his consort, and mentions favorable omens.

Auspicious Timing For Royal Rite

The auspicious morning is described; the rite's materials include a holy wooden throne, golden urns, royal car with tiger skin, sacred waters from the Jumná-Gangá confluence and other waters, honey, curd, oil, rice, grass, milk, eight girls, an elephant, gold

Austere Heroic Warrior Regimen

Ordinary athletes are criticized as sleepy and fragile; warrior athletes should be like wakeful dogs, keen in sight and hearing, and able to endure changes of water, food, summer heat, and winter cold on campaign.

Authoritative Compilation After Disorder

Returned originals were placed promiscuously in a chest without chronological order, making the dates of many passages uncertain.

Authoritative Standardization Of Sacred Scripture

Variant readings arose and caused serious disputes under Othman; Hodzeifa warned against allowing the people to differ regarding scripture as Jews and Christians did.

Authority Halts Excessive Combat To Spare The Defeated

Aeneas stops the fight, rescues Dares, says “the gods are changed” and “Yield thou to Heaven”; Dares is led away bleeding, and the palm and bull are left to Entellus.

Authority Restores Separated Companions

The king says he will send word all over the country asking the man who bought the dog to turn him loose, and will repay the purchase price.

Authorized Falsehood For Civic Good

Truth is valued; lies are compared to medicine. Rulers may lie for the public good, but private persons who lie to rulers may be punished for harming ship or State.

Authorship As Public Immortality

Socrates says approval of a law delights the author, rejection causes mourning, and powerful ruler-orators such as Lycurgus, Solon, or Darius may gain immortality of authorship and be thought godlike.

Autochthonous Identity As Children Of The Soil

The grasshopper tale is said to be suggested by the scene; the grasshoppers represent Athenians as children of the soil and as chirruping beings who tell the Muses in heaven about those who honor them on earth; the story marks a subject change and preserves th

Autochthonous Origin From Mushrooms

Corinth is called Pirenian Ephyre and its inhabitants are said to have sprung from mushrooms.

Automated Or Self Moving Sacred Objects

Hephaestus builds a golden palace on Olympus, makes dwellings for the gods, is attended by two moving golden female statues, forges Zeus's thunderbolts with the Cyclops, and receives Aphrodite in marriage; Aphrodite does not love him and mocks him.

Autonomous Magic Weapon Of A God

Frey receives a marvellous sword that fights successfully by itself when drawn; he uses it chiefly against frost giants and is sometimes confounded with Tyr or Saxnot because of the weapon.

Autonomous Or Enchanted Game Board

Peredur enters the open castle and hall, sees chessmen playing by themselves, hears the winners shout as if alive, and throws the chessboard into the lake.

Avenger From The Dead Person's Dust

Dido invokes the Sun, Juno, Hecate, avenging sisters, and gods of dying Elissa; she prays for Aeneas' war, exile, separation from Iülus, early unburied death, and commands Tyrian hatred of his seed, calling for an unnamed avenger and perpetual battle between d

Avenger Of The Swallowed God

The combatants fight hand to hand: Odin with Fenris, Thor with the Midgard snake, Tyr with Garm, Frey with Surtr, and Heimdall with Loki; Fenris grows enormously and swallows Odin.

Avenging A Murdered Parent

The young crab confronts the helpless monkey about murdering his father; the monkey blames the father; the crab cuts off the monkey’s head, and the narration states that the father’s death is avenged.

Avenging A Slain Companion

Achilles declares vengeance for Patroclus and says Hector will be mangled; Hector pleads not to be left for dogs and asks for sepulture, an urn, and return of his ashes.

Avenging A Slain Kinsman Or Ally Through Single Combat

Meargach says: “Meargach of the Green Spears is my name,” and says he will fight any man brought against him “to avenge Tailc, son of Treon.”

Avenging Descent Toward Death’s Domain

Rama asks Sugriva where the cruel fiend was seen to fly and where he dwells; he declares that the thief of the Maithil lady has opened Death’s portal and will go to Yama’s halls.

Avenging Expedition For A Wronged Sister

Bendigeid Vran reads the letter, grieves over Branwen’s woes, summons the island, and counsel resolves to go to Ireland.

Avenging Father Mobilizes War After Son's Death

Aegeus' jealousy is linked to Androgeus' death; one account says the Bull of Marathon killed him, while others say Aegeus caused the murder.

Avenging Hero As Consuming Fire

Márícha describes Ráma as dutiful, virtuous, and exiled to fulfill his father’s promise; he warns that taking Sítá is like stealing the sun’s glory and describes Ráma’s anger and weapons with fire imagery.

Avenging Insult To Humble Or Marginal Figures

Peredur identifies Kai as the knight he injured and says this began to avenge the insult to the dwarf and dwarfess; Gwalchmai embraces him, names are exchanged, and fellowship is pledged.

Avenging Pursuit And Beheading Of Deceiver

After Etain's disappearance, Mac O'c meets Mider; Fuamnach is absent, and Mider says she has deceived them and may harm Etain if she sees her in Ireland.

Avenging Wounded Warrior

MacRoth reports another company with a large noble fiery man at its head, red hair, crimson eyes, cloak, brooch, shield, lance, shirt, sword, spear, and a blood-smeared company; the man himself is covered with wounds and blood.

Avoid Corrupting Contact

"we are sweet and drinkable" before mingling with the Sea, after which the waters become "briny and unpalatable."

Avoidance Naming Of Feared Underworld Deity

The Greeks feared to name Pluto directly and used descriptive titles such as Host of Many.

Avoidance Of Extremes As Path Of Happiness

The narrator says to choose the life that makes the soul more just, carry adamantine faith in truth and right into the world below, avoid wealth and other evil allurements, choose the mean, and avoid extremes as the way of happiness.

Avoidance Of Ground, Sunlight, And Open Air For A Restricted Person

Latin note says the person’s feet never touched the earth, the sun’s rays never illuminated the head, and the person did not go into open air.

Avoidance Of Raw Flesh Or Blood To Prevent Spirit Contact

The Flamen Dialis is said to be forbidden to touch or name raw flesh.

Avoidance Of Sharp Instruments Near The Dead Or The Soul

The passage connects the Burmese rule with customs after death that avoid sharp instruments near the ghost; Roumanians avoid an edge-up knife while the corpse is in the house lest the soul ride on the blade.

Avoidance Of Single Exit Refuges

After the night meal and sleep, Angus advises Diarmuid not to enter single-exit refuges and not to cook, eat, sleep, and rise in the same places; Angus then says farewell and leaves.

Awakening Call At Dawn

“Wake! For the Sun behind yon Eastern height / Has chased the Session of the Stars from Night” and ascends to Heaven's field, striking the Sultan's Turret with light.

Awakening From Dreamlike Ignorance

For one who is not a dialectician, “life is but a sleepy dream,” and many die before being well awakened.

Axe Bearing Adversary Of The Warrior Caste

Paraśuráma, Ráma son of Jamadagni, is called Ráma with the axe and described as the terror of the warrior caste.

Bacchic Frenzy As Simile For Emotional Upheaval

Dido foreknows the plan, hears Rumour’s news that the fleet is being readied, and rages through the city like a startled Thyiad in Bacchic rites when Cithaeron calls.

Backbiting As Cannibalistic Abomination

Believers are told to avoid suspicion, prying into others' failings, and speaking ill of someone in absence; the latter is likened to desiring to eat a dead brother's flesh.

Backbiting Figured As Eating A Dead Brother

Believers are told to avoid frequent suspicions, not to pry, and not to traduce one another in absence; the passage asks whether one would like to eat the flesh of a dead brother and says this would be loathed.

Bad Companionship

XVII THE LION IN BAD COMPANY

Bad Company Leads A Stronger Figure Into Danger

The young Lion had been told by his father and mother not to make friends with wolves, but accepts this Wolf after the Wolf calls him "Great Lion."

Bad Omen Reversed By Favorable Interpretation

Lane's note tells of a Sultan who sees standards striking lamps as an evil omen before a raid; an officer says the standards have reached the Pleiades, and the Sultan proceeds and returns victorious.

Bad Rule Through Wealth Replacing Skill

Socrates asks what would happen if pilots were chosen by property and a better poor pilot were refused permission to steer; the answer is that they would shipwreck.

Baited Capture Through Sweet Or Desired Food

During a festival, Tissa’s parents mourn his absence; a slave-girl asks what dish he liked most and promises to bring him back if granted authority.

Baited Food Leads To Capture

The Fox is disgusted by the Monkey's promotion, finds a trap with meat in it, takes the Monkey there, and presents the meat as a morsel reserved for the King.

Baited Trap Catching The Unwary

The lark examined the nets with curiosity and saw the bait.

Balanced Battle Turned By A Champion And Fate

The battle is compared to balanced scales; Hector’s might, with fate prevailing, turns the scale and he calls out to his host.

Balanced Combat Without Bloodshed

From early twilight until noon each casts missiles at the other and defends with feat-shields; throwing and defense are equally excellent, neither bleeds or reddens the other, and they cease the bout and throw the gear to their charioteers.

Balanced Mutual Destruction In Battle

The passage opens with equal slaughter and no retreat; the gods in Jove's house pity mortal agony, Venus and Juno watch from opposing sides, and Tisiphone rages among the warriors.

Balder's Life In The Mistletoe

Frazer says Balder's life in the mistletoe fits primitive thought; an object may be a person's life or death, and a person may be killed by the object containing it.

Banishment Of A Harmful Spirit To Remote Or Contrary Realms

Lemminkainen warns Frost not to benumb him, says he will kindle fire in stockings, shoes, garments, and rigging, and threatens to banish Frost to Northland, where Frost may freeze caldrons, hearth-coal, women at dough, an infant, and a colt.

Banishment Of Afflictions To Inaccessible Or Chthonic Containment Places

Wainamoinen asks the heavenly God for a fire-sword and lightning blade to subdue the monsters and send pains to Tuoni, east-winds, wicked islands, demon caverns, mountain rocks, and iron beds.

Banishment Of An Invading Evil From The Body

The speaker questions whether evil has come to his heart and body, calls it a dog of Lempo and monster from Manala, and orders it to leave his immortal body, liver, and vitals.

Banishment Of Poets From The Ideal Order

Plato rejoices in banishing poets, associates them with inferior faculties, treats Homer and Hesiod as no rule of life, and is described as opposing poetry to philosophy, sense to abstract ideas.

Banishment To Fiery And Watery Torment

Lemminkainen begins incantations; lightning and flames appear from him; by his singing he silences witches and wizards and banishes heroes and minstrels to barren places, waters, fire, boiling waters, and torment.

Banquet Transformed Into Battlefield

An unnamed attacker strikes a protector; the son of Ægeus hurls a huge ancient figured bowl at him, and he falls vomiting blood, brains, and wine.

Baptismal Identity Marker

Travellers call them Christians of St. John the Baptist; they claim discipleship and use a kind of baptism, called their greatest mark of Christianity.

Bardic Performance Nested Within The Main Narrative

A servant fetches Demodocus’s lyre; nine stewards prepare the dancing space; young dancers perform nimbly, delighting Ulysses.

Barter As Exchange

Theophilus is said to refer to the annotated lines as the most ancient mention of barter.

Battle As Divine Or Celestial Dance

A battle is compared to a Gandharva dance; the note says Gandharvas were viewed as celestial musicians but may earlier have been heroic warriors, and adds that a Homeric expression about a war-dance before Ares is similar.

Battle As Storm And Torrent

Greek battalions are compared to storm-driven sea waves and move silently under chiefs' commands; Trojan clamor is compared to bleating flocks and lambs in the hills.

Battle Associated Female Ritual Specialists

Prophetesses called Idises, Dises, or Hagedises officiate at forest shrines and sacred groves, accompany armies, urge warriors to victory, perform bloody-eagle rites on captives, use tubs of blood in a dance, receive sacrifices, and later are degraded to witch

Battle At A Ford As Contested Boundary

After ceasing combat, the warriors give weapons to charioteers, embrace and kiss, share horses' paddock and charioteers' fire, receive fresh-rush couches and healing herbs; Cuchulain sends an equal portion of herbs and plants west across the ford to Ferdia.

Battle At A Liminal Crossing

Fergus says Cuchulain's terms require one champion of the men of Erin each day, combat at the ford, conditional continuation or halting of the army, and no cattle taken across that ford by day or night while awaiting possible Ulster help.

Battle Between Members Of A Warrior Band

Diarmuid and Osgar move toward one another despite the Fianna between them; Diarmuid strikes down those in his way, and Osgar's spear-throwing scatters the Fianna with sounds compared to wind and falling water.

Battle Catalogue Of Named Heroic Chiefs

Sáraṇ obeys, views the Vánar force, and identifies Níla at the head of forest-bred warriors; Níla’s voice and battle cry shake Lanká, groves, lakes, and hills.

Battle Compared To Cosmic Or Elemental Opposition

The clash is compared to opposing winds in the air, with clouds and sea not yielding, and the Trojan and Latin ranks pressed foot to foot.

Battle Deferred Until Prophecy And Leader’s Recovery

The men of Erin say Menn may leave without dishonour; the hosts will go a day’s journey north and wait until Conchobar rises from his Pains and the foretold great battle at Garech and Ilgarech occurs.

Battle Delayed Until Favorable Omen

Conchobar tells Sencha to stay the men of Ulster until there comes “the strength of a good omen and favourable portent,” and until the sun and sunshine fill the land; they wait until this occurs.

Battle Described Through Natural And Animal Similes

Polyptes and Leonteus, Lapith-descended chiefs, guard the gates; they are likened to tall oaks and to wild boars, and they resist Asius' fighters while Greeks defend the wall and fleet with stones and darts.

Battle Disturbing The Natural World

The fight casts the river from its bed and course, leaving almost no water except what falls from the two heroes as they trample and hew at each other.

Battle Ended By Lowering A Banner

Arthur crushes the golden chessmen to dust; Owain orders Gwres son of Rheged to lower his banner. The banner is lowered, and all is peace.

Battle For Possession Of A Fallen Hero’s Body

The combat is compared to conflicting fires. Darkness covers the fight over Patroclus’ body, though the surrounding field remains in clear sunlight; Nestor’s sons skirmish at a distance without knowing Patroclus’ fate.

Battle For Possession Of A Hero's Corpse

Hector addresses the hosts, tells them to conquer or die, and promises equal honors, spoil, and fame to whoever wins and drags Patroclus to the Trojan train.

Battle For Recovery Or Dishonor Of A Hero's Corpse

The Greeks are driven toward the Hellespont by Hector's force, and they have not yet carried Patroclus' body safely to the tents; Hector's rage is likened to flame through ripe corn.

Battle For The Fallen Companion's Body

Menelaus debates whether to abandon Patroclus' remains, saying he yields not to Hector but to heaven, and wishes Ajax were within hearing so they could still fight for what remains of Patroclus.

Battle Foretold By Druids

The men of Erin say Fintan may withdraw without disgrace; they will give Crimthann back, retreat one day's march north, and Fintan will cease attacks until the foretold great battle at Garech and Ilgarech with Conchobar.

Battle Frenzy Or Twisting Fit Of The Hero

Cuchulain's twisting fit comes upon him; twenty-seven skin tunics and wound supports are described; his spring scatters bindings and dressings to named places and into the air; his wounds fill ditches and furrows with blood and gore.

Battle Frenzy Transformation With Fiery Sign

Contortions take hold of the lad: his hair rises, fire is likened to each hair, one eye closes narrowly while the other opens widely, his mouth stretches open, and a champion's light rises from his crown.

Battle Fury Terrifying An Army

Nemain, glossed as Badb, attacks or alarms the host; Dubthach’s noise disturbs sleep, fear spreads, he hurls a great stone at the throng, and Medb checks him before the host marches across sloughs and streams to Granard Tethba.

Battle God's Weapon Signal

In war Odin rides the eight-footed grey steed Sleipnir, bears a white shield, throws a glittering spear over combatants to signal battle, and shouts a warcry.

Battle Halted By The Arrival Of A Grieving Queen Woman

As the two armies prepare to attack, a beautiful golden-haired woman comes crying; both sides stop, and Meargach's army recognizes her as their queen, Ailne of the Bright Face.

Battle Horse Oath Imagery

“BY the war-horses which run swiftly to the battle, with a panting noise; and by those which strike fire, by dashing their hoofs against the stones”

Battle In Darkness With Confused Identities

After sunset, night intensifies the battle; warriors cannot easily distinguish foe from friend and identify one another by speech.

Battle Magnified By Divine War Simile

Vánars scream defiance; earth, sea, and sky echo; battle sounds include elephants, horses, steel, and chariot wheels. The fight is likened to gods battling rebel fiends. Giants use axes, spears, and maces; Vánars kill with rocks, trees, nails, and teeth.

Battle Named By Color From Absence Of Blood On Survivor

The men of Erin say the battle is white for Rochad son of Fathemon because eight hundred brave warriors fell for him, while he goes safe and whole to his own country and land without blood-shedding or reddening on him.

Battle Of Gods Within A Human War

Minerva overtakes and strikes Venus; Venus falls; Minerva says the defenders of Troy should meet the same fate; Juno approves.

Battle Omen At The Ford

In a verse exchange, Ferdiad urges haste to battle at the ford where Badb will shriek and speaks of killing Cuchulain; the henchman answers that staying is better and warns of death and sorrow.

Battle Over The Body And Armor Of A Fallen Warrior

Hector throws at Teucer, misses, and kills Amphimachus of Neptune's line; Hector attempts to take the helmet, Ajax repulses him, and the Greeks recover the slain.

Battle Rage And Vengeance After A Comrade's Death

Helenus strikes Deipyrus on the temples with a Thracian blade; the helmet falls and remains a possible prize while Deipyrus lies dead.

Battle Sequence Indicated By Headings

Book III is titled “The Battle of the White Strand” and lists chapters on enemies of Ireland, Cael and Credhe, Conn Crither, Glas son of Dremen, the Men of Dea, the Fianna's march, fighters, royal sons, Labran's journey, a great fight, and Credhe's lament.

Battle Site Etiological Naming And Memorial Stones

The ford contains a rock marked by sword-hilts, knees, elbows, fists, and spear butt-ends; twenty-nine standing stones were set up; the ford is named Fuil Iairn because of blood over weapons there.

Battle Standard As Emblem Of Martial Dominance

As the day declines, Bhishma forces a path through the Pandav ranks; his palm-tree standard advances, and Matsyas, Kasis, and Panchalas do not face his chariot.

Battle Tide Through An Opened Breach

Sarpedon pulls at the battlement; stones yield, ruins roll, a breach appears, and war rushes in like a deluge.

Battle Transformation Under Pressure

After Cuchulain's allies fall, Ferdiad presses him hard. Laeg rebukes Cuchulain, who swells and becomes bow-like, then rushes at Ferdiad with violent animal comparisons.

Battle With Sea Waves

A white army with many horses follows Cuchulain on every side; they are called people of Manannan Mac Lir and are associated with Eogan the Stream.

Battlefield Aristeia Of Agamemnon

As morning brightens and the fight remains balanced, the Greeks finally pierce the black phalanx and let in the light.

Battlefield Arrow Storm

Khara sends a thousand darts at Ráma; the night-rovers attack with arrows and weapons including sword, club, mace, pike, spear, and axe.

Battlefield Arrow Storm Obscuring The Sun

Ráma and Khara shoot volleys of arrows that fill the sky; Ráma’s shafts are compared to torrents from Parjanya, and the sun is obscured behind an arrowy veil.

Battlefield As Corpse Feeding Deathscape

The field is described as red and ghastly, covered with skulls, clotted hair, streams of gore, warrior limbs, elephants, horses, slain chiefs, headless trunks, and severed heads.

Battlefield As Harvest Or Threshing

The earth is described as deluged with blood and compared to Ceres' threshing floor; Achilles' horses, chariot wheels, and axles crush and drip with gore, while Achilles stands grim with dust and blood.

Battlefield Carrion Birds Foretold

Ferdiad says he has fallen, says the blow from Cuchulain's right foot was mighty, and says it was not fair to fall by Cuchulain's hand. In verse he speaks of Cuchulain's guilt, his own blood, Medb turning his hand, and rooks and crows coming to eat flesh and b

Battlefield Identification Of Enemy Champions

Ráma sees the opposing array and asks Vibhishaṇ who leads it; Vibhishaṇ identifies Akampan, Indrajít with Brahmá’s gifts, a bow like Indra’s and a lion flag, Atikáya with a huge bow, and crowned Rávaṇ under a moon-bright canopy.

Battlefield Phantom Tests Or Shames The Hero

On the dark battlefield, Cuchulain sees a man with half a head carrying half of another man; the figure asks him to carry the load, throws it at him when refused, and grapples with him.

Battlefield Rescue Of An Endangered Elder Or Ally

Nestor is wounded by Paris and overtaken by Hector; Diomedes rescues him while Ulysses flees; the note refers to Homeric words given to Diomedes.

Battlefield Slaughter Goddesses

The Keres, frequently mentioned by Homer, are goddesses who delight in battlefield slaughter.

Battlefield Vow Restores Heroic Action

Krishna, Arjun's chariot-driver, sees the broken Pandav forces and rebukes Arjun against shameful flight.

Bear Nursed First Ancestor

A legend is mentioned that attributes Aino hairiness to their first ancestor being suckled by a bear; the author cautions that this is no proof of totemism without other evidence.

Beautification By Bath Before Presentation

The merchant advises keeping her in Khacan's house for a fortnight, giving care, baths, and fitting dress because she is tired from the journey and tanned by the sun.

Beautiful Hybrid Warrior Beloved

Cyllarus is described as golden-haired and handsome in his human parts, with a fine horse body, black coloring, and white tail and legs.

Beautiful Youth With Untimely Death

The note states that Troilus is named once in the Iliad and that his youth, beauty, and untimely end interested later poets.

Beauty As A Decisive Temptation

God shows Iblis the beauty of women, said to deprive men of reason and self-control; Iblis claps, dances, and says he will prevail with these.

Beauty Contest Judged By Supernatural Umpire

Danhasch and Maimoune dispute whether the princess or prince is more beautiful; Maimoune proposes bringing the princess to lie beside the prince for comparison.

Beauty Paired With Pain (sweetness With Sting)

The speaker says he no longer grieves at harshness, since a rose is not without thorns and honey is not without sting.

Becoming Another Through External Orientation

A person who sees and takes possession of others rather than himself becomes someone else; this is called a fatal error that both Robber Chê and Poh I can commit.

Beggar Rewarded By Adapting To A Patron's Humor

The narrator introduces Schacabac, who inherits one hundred silver drachmas, loses them, becomes a beggar, and uses manners and servant connections to enter rich houses.

Beheading And Display Of Enemy As Proof Of Victory

Aillen retreats to Sidhe Finnachaidh on Slieve Fuad; Finn follows, spears him through the heart at the door, cuts off his head, and sets it on a crooked pole until sunrise.

Beheading Of Defeated Enemies

Taistellach, one of Finn's messengers, refuses to leave until fighting; he challenges the ships, fights Coimhleathan, and beheads him in the sea.

Believers Threatened By Tyrant Accept Martyrdom

Pharaoh accuses the magicians of believing without permission and plotting in the city, and threatens opposite-side amputation and crucifixion.

Beloved Addressed By Disguised Lover

Socrates begins a tale about a very fair youth with many lovers and a cunning lover who pretended not to love him while actually loving him, and who argued that the youth should accept the non-lover rather than the lover.

Beloved As Life Giving Beauty

In youth the narrator has close relations with a young person who has a melodious pipe and moon-bright form; the young person's cheek and lips are praised through images of immortality and sweetness.

Beloved As Wounder And Healer

No tainted eye may gaze on the Lady's face; an unsullied heart reflects her grace; her locks are like snakes that wound, and her red lips hold bezoar-like healing power.

Beloved Centered Conversation Around The Lover

"If thou knowest that the inclination is reciprocal, accommodate thy story to the temper of the hearer"; a discreet man in Mujnun's company would speak only with encomiums on Laila.

Beloved Companions Forced Into Mortal Combat

Cuchulain calls Ferdiad his foster-brother, comrade, and friend and pities that he fights on a woman's counsel; Ferdiad says he would be in ill repute with Medb and Erin's nobles if he left without combat.

Beloved Encoded In Nature Imagery

In 'The Moon and Roses,' a solitary lover pours out invocations involving sun, moon, hyacinth-hidden roses, cypress, and weed; a puzzled hearer asks why he speaks of moon and roses instead of his mistress.

Beloved Envisioned Through Black White Red Natural Signs

Peredur lodges at a hermit's cell; in the morning snow has fallen, a hawk has killed a wild fowl, a raven alights on it, and Peredur compares the raven, snow, and blood to the black hair, white skin, and red cheeks of the lady he loves.

Beloved Foster Brothers Forced Into Combat

Ferdiad says Medb's gifts are great but refuses to accept them if they require battle with Cuchulain, whom he calls his foster-brother, ally, beloved, and equal in arms.

Beloved Hero Mourned By City And Nature

Sumantra says the realms mourn Ráma: trees hang low, shoots and flowers are dead, waters are dried, beasts are still, serpents do not crawl, woods are hushed, and blossoms and fruits lose their former charm.

Beloved Imitators Assume The Hero’s Bodily Mark

Leborcham goes to Cuchulain with the women’s request; Cuchulain reacts angrily, and Leborcham says the women have assumed blindness on his account, imitating the eye distortion he shows when angry.

Beloved Insider Allies Aid Raiders Or Suitors

Mingar identifies himself as son of Ailill and Maev and says they have come for cattle and brides. The maiden warns that the request will be resisted, asks about his force, and the maidens say they side with him and will consult their sisters.

Beloved Or Female Speaker Rousing A Hero

The note states that a translation of Emer's “Awakening of Cuchulain” may be found in Thurneysen and that some points differ from that rendering.

Beloved Or Spouse Won Through Persuasion Or Enchantment

Finn secretly visits Grania; she rejects him harshly, but he continues gentle and loving speech until he brings her to his own will.

Beloved Perceived Only By The True Lover

A Caliph asks Layla if she is the woman for whom Majnun became distracted, since she does not seem exceptionally beautiful; Layla tells him to be silent because he is not Majnun or his pair.

Beloved Recalled Through Triadic Color Imagery In Nature

Peredur rests on his spear; Gwalchmai approaches without hostility. Peredur explains that he was thinking of his beloved through snow, raven, and blood drops from a hawk-killed bird, comparing their colors to her appearance.

Beloved Recognized By Three Color Signs

In winter, Deirdre's foster-father skins a calf on snow; Deirdre sees a black raven drinking the blood and says she will love only a man with hair black as the raven, cheeks red as blood, and body white as snow; Levorcham names Naisi son of Usnach.

Beloved Recognizes Hidden Hero

Frithiof removes the hairy hide and appears as a noble-looking youth; the courtiers do not recognize him, while Ingeborg’s changing color and heaving breast reveal deep emotion.

Beloved Refuses Elopement From Kin Duty

Before sailing, Frithiof asks Ingeborg to elope south and become his wife, but she refuses because her father is dead and she must obey her brothers.

Beloved Refuses To Abandon The Hero And Is Killed

Berach Brec, yellow-haired queen loved by Finn, is wise, comely, generous, and hospitable from Samhain to Beltaine; the sons of Morna, who fostered her, demand she give up Finn, but she refuses and Art son of Morna kills her with a spear.

Beloved Removed, Dangerous Remnant Left Behind

A man’s beautiful wife dies; her elderly mother remains because of the dowry. He tells a comforting friend that the wife’s absence is less intolerable than the mother’s presence and uses rose/thorn and treasure/snake images.

Beloved Reunion After Battle Victory

Lakshmaṇ and Sítá come out from the mountain cavern; Sítá sees Rama alive, his foes dead, and embraces him with joy.

Beloved's Cry Awakens The Wounded Hero

The Earl strikes Enid; her louder cry causes Geraint to revive from his swoon, rise on the bier, take his sword from the hollow of his shield, kill the Earl at the table, and cause the company to flee in dread of a dead man rising.

Beloved's Hair As Entangling Snare

A Persian image describes the beloved's hair as entangling and entrapping the unfortunate lover; long locks are compared to deadly snakes and curls to hooks that catch and tear the lover's heart.

Beloved’s Presence As Cure

Ailill refuses to confess the cause of illness; Eochaid leaves Etain behind near him so she can perform funeral duties if he dies; Etain visits daily, and his sickness is eased by her presence.

Beloved’s Presence Transforms Hardship Into Bliss

“Each path which near to thee I tread / Shall seem a soft luxurious bed.”

Beloved’s Pursuit Leads To Unintended Death

Æsacus avoids cities and the court, frequents lonely mountains and fields, sees Hesperie drying her hair by her father’s stream, and pursues her when she flees in fear.

Beloved's Self Death And Placement Beside Dead Hero With Sword Boundary

Sigurd is laid on the pyre in armor with the Helmet of Dread, his steed, and faithful servants; Brunhild then distributes possessions, dresses richly, and stabs herself on her bed.

Beloved's Vow Of Exclusive Attachment

"I shall not throw my mind on another youth in Erin after thee," says Find-abair.

Beloved Supplies Weapon For Hero’s Rescue

After Ailill asks for more berries, Fraech goes into the middle of the water and a serpent catches him; he asks for a sword, but no man dares give it because of fear of Ailill and Medb.

Beloved Used As Envoy To Obtain Cattle

The fairy woman tells Ailill that Dartaid's forty cows may be won by sending his son Orlam, whom Dartaid loves, with forty princely youths from Connaught; she promises them bright garments that had decked the recently slain princes.

Beloved Wounds The Hero During A Quarrel

Diarmuid takes his sword to kill Ciach; Grania strikes a knife into Diarmuid's thigh; Diarmuid kills the Fomor and runs away through the storm without speaking to Grania.

Benefactor Becomes Predator

A parable says a mighty man rescued a sheep from a wolf, but later cut the sheep's throat; the sheep reproached him for proving to be a wolf himself.

Benefactor Repaid With Harm

A walnut-tree grows by the roadside and bears a plentiful yearly crop of nuts.

Benefactor Slandered By Jealous Counsellor

Douban enters the hall and bows; the king seats him beside himself, honors him, gives him a rich robe of state, two thousand sequins, and further favors.

Beneficent Fairy Realm Under A Divine Lord

Frey dwells in Alf-heim as god of golden sunshine and warm summer showers; elves and fairies obey him and are described as beneficent spirits.

Benefit Friends And Harm Enemies

By analogy with medicine, cookery, the physician, the pilot, war, and alliances, Polemarchus accepts that justice gives good to friends and evil to enemies.

Benevolent Aerial Nature Spirits Tending Plants And Animals

Light or white elves inhabit the air between heaven and earth, are governed by Frey from Alf-heim, and are described as lovely, beneficent, pure, and innocent.

Benevolent Creation From Goodness

The Idea of good is compared with the creator of the Timaeus, who created all things out of goodness.

Benevolent Goddess Grants Gifts To Humans

The speaker will sing of Cytherea, born in Cyprus; she gives kindly gifts to men and has smiles and brightness on her face.

Bereaved Child Discovers Slain Parent

The monkey flees; the crab's son finds his father's smashed head and broken shell, with unripe persimmons around the body, and weeps.

Bereaved Father Mourning A Fallen Son

Evander comes to the bier, clasps Pallas with tears, laments the son's reckless first battle, says he has survived his child, does not blame the Teucrians or treaty, and asks that Turnus be treated as the debt claimed by father and son.

Bereaved Mother Laments Last Child And Ruined House

The Trojan matrons receive Polyxena, count the children of Priam whom they have had to mourn, and lament the losses of Priam's house and Hecuba's reduced state.

Bereaved Mother's Dying Curse

Millindooloonubbah, a widow, enters crying that she was left to travel alone with many children; at each water hole she found only mud after the others drank the water, and her children died one by one for want of a drink.

Bereaved Parent Incites Collective Revenge

Crumb-snatcher dies on the water; Lick-platter sees it and tells the Mice, who summon an assembly at Bread-nibbler's house at dawn.

Bereaved Spouses Transformed Into Paired Birds

After Halcyone plunges into the sea following the shipwreck and death of King Ceyx, Thetis transforms husband and wife into kingfishers, which fly in pairs.

Bereaved Survivor Whose Family Is Replaced By Spouse

Andromache, tearful and foreboding, warns Hector that she may become a widow and their son an orphan; she recounts Achilles’ destruction of Thebe, the death and burial of Aetion, the deaths of her seven brothers, and her mother’s death after captivity and rans

Besieged Camp Protected By Obedience To Absent Leader

Aeneas had ordered the Trojans not to fight in the open if trouble arose; they therefore bar the gates and wait armed behind walls and towers.

Besieged King Awakens Giant Champion In Crisis

Ravana asks Brahma to spare Kumbhakarna from death and instead make him sleep with fixed waking times; Brahma decrees six months asleep and one day awake. Vibhishana says Ravana has now roused him to feed on slaughtered Vanars.

Besieged Woman Seeks Aid From A Visiting Hero

The maiden says the house can withstand attack while provisions last, but provisions and the nuns' supplies are exhausted; the earl will attack, and she asks Peredur to take her away or defend her.

Besieging Host Before A Fortified City

Ráma and all his legions wait embattled close to Lanká’s gate.

Best Not To Be Born

Homer answers that for humans it is best never to be born, or once born, to pass quickly through the gates of Hades.

Bestowal Of Immortality

Ganymedes, youngest son of Tros, king of Troy, draws water from a well on Mount Ida; Zeus sees his beauty, sends his eagle to carry him to Olympus, grants him immortality, and makes him cup-bearer to the gods.

Betrayal For A Second Reward

Battus lives on top of a rock, hears the heifers, comes out, knows the cattle are stolen, and asks for a reward to tell no one.

Betrayal Of A Besieged City For Love

Heracles besieges Themiscyra on the Thermodon but cannot take it; Antiope, loving Theseus, betrays the place.

Betrayal Of A Later Husband To Restore A First Marriage

Helen married Deiphobus after Paris died, betrayed Deiphobus when Troy was taken, and was received again by Menelaus.

Betrayal Of A Protector

"I deserve my fate for my treachery in feeding upon the leaves of my protector."

Betrayal Of A Sleeping Warrior By Removal Of Weapons

Deiphobus blames fate and the Laconian woman, recalls the horse carrying armed infantry into Troy, her feigned procession and flame, his sleep in the bridal chamber, the removal of arms and sword, and the entry of Menelaus and the Aeolid.

Betrayal Of Duty Punished

The Wolves contrast their freedom with the Dogs' service to mankind, mentioning beating, heavy collars, guarding flocks and herds, and bones as food.

Betrayal Of The Fugitive Heir By A Kinsman

Zein-el-Abeddin’s short reign involves conflict with Mansur; Timur overruns Southern Persia and takes Shiraz; Zein seeks refuge with Mansur, who imprisons and blinds him.

Betrayal Through Feast Or Drink

Deirdre says Fergus brought ruin, that they crossed the ocean and trusted him, and that his honour was bought by a cup of ale.

Betrayal Through Feigned Honor And Hospitality

Sahel recognizes Babec, lures him by offers of service and respect, treats him as a prince, mocks him at table, orders a smith to put fetters on him, refuses ransom, and has Babec's mother, sister, and wife ravished before him in retaliation for Babec's treatm

Betrayed Guests Make A Doomed Last Stand

The Niblungs ride to Atli's hall, discover they have been entrapped, kill Knefrud, and prepare to sell their lives dearly.

Betrayed Safe Conduct

The sons call the news welcome, agree to come, ask for Fergus, Dubhtach, and Cormac as sureties, and are moved to pass over the sea.

Betrayed Secret Disclosed By Divine Revelation

Mohammed asks Hafsa to keep the affair secret, tells her Abu Becr and Omar would succeed him, Hafsa tells Ayesha, and Mohammed says God revealed her betrayal; he divorces Hafsa and separates from his wives for a month in Mary's apartment.

Betrayer Bound In The Store Room

Melanthius says he will bring arms from the store-room, then goes by back passages and brings twelve shields, twelve helmets, and spears to the suitors.

Betrayer Destroyed By Own Treachery

The Fox whispers to the Lion: "I'll manage that you shall get hold of the Ass ... if you'll promise to let me go free."

Betraying Object In Night Escape

Volscens' cavalry approaches the wall, sees the two turning away, and Euryalus' forgotten helmet glitters in the night and betrays him.

Betting And Economic Testing

The index lists a bull who lost a bet, a bull who earned wages, Big-red as an ox, and Blackie as the old woman’s bull.

Binding And Muzzling Supernatural Or Forest Dogs

Knippana, king of forests and gray-beard of the woodlands, is asked to watch his dogs, stop their scent with sponge and acorn, and tie their eyes with silk so they cannot see the cattle.

Binding Injunction Or Prohibition By Honour

Geis is described as “an adjuration by the honour of a man”; the adjured person was compelled or duty-bound to do something, or more commonly prohibited from doing it.

Binding Obligation Compels Dangerous Action

Women constrain Cuchulain by geasa and inviolable bonds to check the heifer; Cuchulain makes an unerring cast from his sling-stick and shatters one of the Morrigan's eyes.

Binding Of A Dangerous Being

The listed titles include “Thor and the Mountain,” “The Binding of Fenris,” and “Loki and Thiassi.”

Binding Of A Dangerous Monster By The Gods

Odin leads Fenris to Asgard; the gods fear the wolf, only Tyr feeds him, and the gods decide to bind him rather than desecrate their peace-steads by killing him.

Binding Parental Word Causes Shared Marriage

The five sons of Pandu bring Draupadi to the potter's house; their mother tells them to enjoy the gift in common, and Draupadi becomes wife to all five because the maternal mandate cannot be disregarded.

Binding Underworld Food

Persephone rejoices; Hades secretly gives her sweet pomegranate seed, prepares his golden chariot and deathless horses, and Hermes drives her to Demeter's temple.

Bird Arising From City Flames As Name Explanation

The note says the heron arising from Ardea's flames is a poetic explanation of the bird's Latin name, possibly suggested by resemblance to ardeo, meaning to burn.

Bird As Emblem Of Conjugal Fidelity

The male kingfisher was said to remain constant after his mate's death; the sea was thought calm while the female sat, giving rise to the phrase 'Halcyon days.'

Bird Informants On The Fate Of Kin

He sees an eagle and asks the majestic bird to tell him where his mother has gone and where he may find her.

Bird Like Aerial Messenger

Śuka, with wings and bird plumage, flies through the air over the sea, stands above Sugrīva, speaks the message, and is struck on head and wings by the Vānars and brought down.

Bird Messenger Bearing Royal Summons

Solomon writes a letter to Bilkis, seals it, and commands the lapwing to fly with it, deliver it, and listen for the answer.

Bird Messenger Revealing Secret Sexual Or Marital Deeds

Coronis lives near Twin Hills and Boebian lake; a crow tells Apollo that Ischys has wedded Coronis.

Bird Of Prey Drops Sign At Altar

The king prays; Zeus hears, sends his sacred eagle with a fawn in its talons, and the bird drops the prey before the altar.

Bird Omen Confirms Companions' Safety

Venus says Aeneas has reached the Tyrian city with divine favor, tells him to go to the queen's courts, and interprets twelve swans as a sign that his ships and crews are safe or entering harbor.

Bird Omens Of Wealth, Disease, And Fire

Male and female cuckoos live in the sky, descend in spring to build white bottle-shaped nests, and are associated with prosperity, disease, or house fire depending on human possession of the nest or the bird's contact with the house.

Bird Receives Fatal Or Transformative News From Its Own Kind

The merchant says he told the parrot’s grief to a flock of green parrots, and one of them gasped, expired, and fell down.

Bird Transformed As Divine Punishment For News

The crow was originally white but was turned black by Apollo in anger at the news the bird brought.

Birth Binding Gesture And Charm

Alcmena describes seven nights and seven days of labor, invoking Lucina and the Nixi; the goddess comes corrupted beforehand and sits on the altar with knees and fingers joined.

Birth By A Named River With Name Derived From Place

Menapolus' daughter Crithes is left an orphan; Homer is described as her first child and named Melesigenes because he was born near the river Meles.

Birth Date Determines Or Signals Character And Fate

The sixth of the mid-month is unfavorable for plants, good for male birth, unfavorable for a girl to be born or married; the first sixth is bad for a girl's birth but good for gelding kids and sheep and fencing a sheep-cote; a boy born then will favor sharp sp

Birth Episode Indicated By Chapter Title

Book I is titled “Finn, Son of Cumhal” and its chapter titles include Finn's coming, Finn's household, the birth of Bran, Oisin's mother, and the best men of the Fianna.

Birth Of Named Hero

Book VI lists chapters: Birth of Diarmuid; How Diarmuid got his Love-Spot; The Daughter of King Under-Wave; The Hard Servant; The House of the Quicken Trees.

Birth Or Generation As Access To Immortality

Diotima says love is the love of generation and birth in beauty; generation is a sort of eternity and immortality for mortal creatures, so love is of immortality.

Birth Substance Transferred To Life Plant

Maoris bury the navel-string in a sacred place and plant a sapling over it; the tree is a sign of life for the child, with flourishing or withering read as good or bad omen.

Birth Visitation And Destiny Gifts

In the Nornagesta story, the three sisters visit Denmark and enter a nobleman's home at his first child's birth; two make favorable predictions, while crowding pushes the third from her chair.

Black Animal Or Black Smoke As Cloud Making Charm

Frazer gives animal-based rain charms involving a black sheep, black cat, black smoke from an ox stomach, a black pig sacrificed for rain, and a black goat offered on a high mountain; he states that blackness is part of the charm because it darkens the sky wit

Blame Shifted Away From The Hunter

Kamtchatkans make excuses to animals, offer cedar-nuts and other gifts, treat the animal as a feast guest, and in a bear rite wrap and gift the head, blame Russians, and ask the bear to tell other bears of its good treatment.

Bleeding Or Blood Distilling Plant

The passage cites Homer's speaking horses and Virgil's myrtles distilling blood as marvellous fictions that exceed probability.

Bleeding Plant Reveals A Murdered Dead Person

Aeneas sacrifices to his mother and the gods, slaying a bull; near a mound covered with cornel and myrtle, he tears up wood for the altar and black blood flows from the broken roots.

Blemishless And Sinless Condition Of Inhabitants

“Stream smooth and sweet flow through the land, / there is choice of mead and wine; / men handsome (?) without blemish, / conception without sin, without crime.”

Blessed Abode For Heroic Demi Gods

Hesiod divides the world into ages and places a fourth age of heroes between the brazen and iron ages; this divine race fought at Thebes and Troy, are demi-gods, and live in the islands of the blessed by Jupiter’s care.

Blessed Garden And River Afterlife

The pious dwell among gardens and rivers, in the assembly of truth, in the presence of a most potent king.

Blessed Island With Painless Divine Death In Old Age

Eumaeus describes Syra as an island with good pasture, wine, wheat, no dearth, and no sickness; when people grow old, Apollo and Diana kill them with painless shafts; his father Ctesius ruled both communities.

Blessed Ritual Greeting At Domestic Threshold

Entering houses is to be accompanied by a blessed and welcome salutation on God's part, and God declares signs so that the hearers may understand.

Blessing After Separation Through Prophetic Descendants

After Abraham separates from them and what they worship, God bestows Isaac and Jacob on him, makes each a prophet, gives merciful gifts, and grants a lofty tongue of truth.

Blessing Against Widowhood Before Threatened Death

On the fated morning, Savitri silently prays, offers oblations to Fire, bows to forest Brahmans and parents, and stands with joined hands.

Blessing And Anger As Channels Of Saintly Power

The passage says Muslim saints are held to be successors and spiritual inheritors of prophets from Adam to Muhammad; through communion with God they know mysteries and can overrule nature, give death or disease by anger, and health or prosperity by blessing, i

Blessing Of The Wedding Feast And Community

Prayer to Ukko asks blessing on the feast and company, and asks bread and beer to bring joy, abundance, and contentment to Pohyola.

Blind Elder Deceived By Simulated Weather

When Oisin has no sight left, he nightly carries one of the serving-men on his shoulders to inspect the cattle.

Blind Poet Receives Identity Through Blindness

At Cuma, Melesigenes asks for public maintenance in exchange for glorifying the city. A speaker objects to feeding Homers; the pension is denied, and the passage explains Homer as a Cuman term for blind men.

Blind Poor Bard Remembered As Sweetest Singer

A quoted passage says a 'stranger from the sea' may ask which bard sings sweetest; the answer is 'A blind old man and poor' who dwells on Chios's rocky shore.

Blinded Cannibal Monster Pursuing Escaped Voyagers

A blinded giant rages around Aetna, searches the woods, reaches into the sea with blood-stained arms, curses Greeks, and wishes to devour Ulysses or his companions.

Blinding Of A One Eyed Cannibal Giant With Heated Spits

At sunset a horrible giant enters: tall as a palm tree, black, with one burning eye in the middle of his forehead, sharp teeth, a hanging lower lip, elephant-like ears, and claw-like nails.

Blinding Of The Single Eyed Monster

Ulysses and companions wait until the giant is drunk and asleep, pray to the gods, surround him, and pierce the huge single eye under his brow, avenging the dead.

Blocked Ford And Place Name Origin

Ailill's sons place hurdles of white-thorn and black-thorn at the ford; Regamon cannot cross before Ailill's troops arrive; the ford is named from the hurdles and geographically identified.

Blood As Life

For the life of the flesh is in the blood... for the life of all flesh is its blood.

Blood As Prohibited Food And Transgressive Preparation

The Qur'an is said to prohibit blood, swine flesh, carrion, idol-slain animals, strangled animals, and animals killed by blows, falls, or beasts; the passage compares these rules to Jewish law and notes camels as an allowed difference.

Blood As Promised Satisfaction For Injury

"For Ráma and his brother go / This day to Yáma's realm below"; Khara also vows Ráma will be slain before sunset and his blood will satisfy his sister.

Blood Betrays Concealed Killing

Narahdarn returns to camp alone without honey. The wives' two little sisters see his blood-covered arms and fierce look, and report this to their mother.

Blood Breaks Enchantment

Some nearby Fianna hear the sorrowful music and fight Miodac’s forces but cannot withstand them. Diarmuid kills Miodac and the Three Kings and removes the enchantment from the floor of the House of the Rowan Trees with their blood.

Blood Causing Transformation Of A Tree's Fruit Color

The daughter considers stories of Dercetis in pools with scales, a winged daughter in white towers, a Naiad changing young men to fish and undergoing the same, and a tree whose white fruit became purple from blood.

Blood Changes A Plant's Color

The summary names the tale of Pyramus and Thisbe, whose blood turns the mulberry from white to black, and the discovery of Mars and Venus's intrigues through information from the Sun.

Blood Compensation Replacing Or Competing With Retaliation

Wilful murder may be compounded by a fine to the deceased's family and freeing a Moslem from captivity; the next of kin may accept satisfaction or demand the murderer's death.

Blood Contains The Animal's Life Or Soul

Frazer states that the taboo is probably based on the belief that the soul or spirit of the animal is in the blood.

Blood Debt Wordplay At Death

Glass macDelga briefly escapes while Cuchulain is beheading the rest; Cuchulain races after him, Glass runs around Ailill and Medb's tent and can only say 'Fiach! Fiach!' before Cuchulain beheads him. A note explains the wordplay with Fiachu's name and 'debt.'

Blood Drinking Giant Slain By Magical Weapon

The giant wishes aloud for a bowlful of blood and begins drinking; the young man commands the axe with 'Heads,' and the axe splits the giant's head in two.

Blood Etiologically Changes A Tree's Fruit Color

"The fruit of the tree, by the sprinkling of the blood, are changed to a dark tint" and the root tints the hanging mulberries purple.

Blood Forming A River

The gods fasten Gelgia through rock Gioll to boulder Thviti, put a sword in Fenris’s mouth to silence his howls, and his blood forms the river Von; he remains chained until the last day when he will break free.

Blood Like Atmospheric Omen Or Marvel

A note discusses “Red drops of blood” and cites Tasso's image of warm, sanguine dew wetting the earth.

Blood Mark Explains Red Breast

Little Gwineeboo repeatedly cries that he wants kangaroo; Quarrian says this shows he saw it. Goomai strikes the boy's mouth, making blood trickle down his breast and stain it red; the women then quarrel.

Blood Must Not Fall On The Ground

“It is a common rule that royal blood must not be shed upon the ground”; the Siamese king is killed in an iron caldron so divine blood is not mixed with earth.

Blood Of The Slain God Marked In Landscape And Flower

The Byblus celebration is linked to spring discoloration of the river Adonis, when red earth from the mountains tinges the river and sea blood-red, believed to be the blood of Adonis wounded by the boar on Mount Lebanon.

Blood Omen From Heaven Before Heroic Death

"Assents to fate" and the heavens distill "A shower of blood" over the field.

Blood Omen In An Abandoned Object

Lemminkainen, combing his hair and beard, throws his brush to the wall and says evil will overtake him when blood flows from that hairbrush and its bristles.

Blood Omen Revealing Absent Hero's Danger

Kyllikki looks in Lemminkainen's chamber and sees scarlet blood-drops oozing from the golden bristles of his hair-brush.

Blood Permanently Colors A Place And Explains Its Name

The alligator smells them, lashes the water with its tail, drowns all the fishers, and the bank and stump become red with blood; the place is called Goomade and is red forever.

Blood Pollution Makes A Warrior Unfit For Prayer

Hector refuses wine, says blood-stained hands are unfit for prayer, and instructs Hecuba and the matrons to offer odors, the finest mantle, and twelve heifers to Minerva so Troy may be spared from Tydides.

Blood Pollution Of A Sacred Hermitage

Báli lifts the corpse and hurls it a full league away; blood drops from it are blown by the wind and fall by Saint Matanga’s hermit cell.

Blood Revenge Contained By Asylum And Waiting Period

Among the Jews, a manslayer who reached a city of refuge had to stay there until the high priest's death; if he left before then, the revenger of blood could kill him without guilt.

Blood Stained Token Falsely Indicating Death

After drinking from the spring, the lioness returns toward the woods and tears the abandoned thin covering with its blood-stained mouth.

Blood Water Portent Of Slaughter

Ailne says the stream near the dun turned to blood, an eagle came over the dun, and the tree before the dun withered.

Bloodied Garment As Deception Of A Parent

The brothers bind Joseph, remove his inner garment, and plan to stain it with blood to deceive their father.

Bloodless Battle

The passage calls the episode Fergus's White Battle, since no "blood on weapons" resulted, and then says the host marches past Cuchulain and camps in Crich Roiss.

Bloodless Execution Of Sacred Royalty

“It is a common rule that royal blood must not be shed upon the ground”; the Siamese king is killed in an iron caldron so divine blood is not mixed with earth.

Boar Episode

Book VII lists chapters: The Flight from Teamhair; The Pursuit; The Green Champions; The Wood of Dubhros; The Quarrel; The Wanderers; Fighting and Peace; The Boar of Beinn Gulbain.

Boast Answered By Bodily Comparison

A Dog and a Sow argue over whose young are finer; the Sow says hers can see at birth while the Dog's are born blind.

Boast Answered By Supernatural Opposition

Lemminkainen says he can travel in the snow-shoes, takes quiver, bow, and snow-cane, and declares that no creature in woodlands, Ukko’s world, or under heaven can escape Lylikki’s snow-shoes and his strides.

Boast Before Combat Followed By Decisive Defeat

Epeus chooses the combat, seizes the beast, challenges someone to take the bowl, claims the mule as his certain right, and warns that his hand will crush his opponent's frame and bones.

Boast, Counter Boast, And Vengeance Duel

The son of Panthus looks on the dead hero, claims that his hand laid Patroclus low, and tells Menelaus to give up the spoils and depart alive.

Boast Of Many Children Against A Divine Rival

Niobe cites her beauty, seven daughters, seven sons, future in-laws, and fortune; she contrasts her abundance with Latona’s two children and says even losses would not reduce her to Latona’s number.

Boastful Challenger Immediately Destroyed

The Arcadian boasts that men’s weapons surpass women’s and that he will destroy the beast despite Diana; the beast gores Ancaeus with its tusks, and his blood and entrails fall to the earth.

Boastful Comparison Followed By Reversal

The fable opens with an Olive-tree taunting a Fig-tree over the loss of her leaves at a certain season.

Boastful Comparison Overturned By Events

The Wild Ass taunts the Pack-Ass, claiming freedom, no work, and abundant fodder in the hills, while saying the Pack-Ass depends on a master, carries heavy loads, and is beaten.

Boastful Contestant Humbled In Combat

A note and cited Virgil lines describe Dares entering the lists, displaying strength, seeking a match, and boasting when none answers him.

Boastful Courage Exposed By Danger

"I am not a bit frightened! See, I'll step right into the water!"

Boastful Demon King Displays Cosmic And Royal Power

After Sítá’s cutting words, she grows pale and trembles; the stranger, terrible as Death, watches her fear and recounts his triumphs, titles, pedigree, and name.

Boastful Lesser Light Humbled By Extinction

The lamp, filled with oil and burning steadily, becomes proud and boasts that it shines more brightly than the sun.

Boastful Recounting Of Past Victories To Silence Challengers

Munremur disputes Ket's right to divide the boar; Ket says he struck off three Ulster warriors' heads, the middle one being Munremur's firstborn son, and Munremur sits down.

Boastful Vow To Kill Before Sunset

"For Ráma and his brother go / This day to Yáma's realm below"; Khara also vows Ráma will be slain before sunset and his blood will satisfy his sister.

Boasting When Detection Is Impossible

“you're quite safe: I'm sure none of your ancestors will rise up and expose you.”

Bodily Omen Before Death Or Disaster

The next morning Cuchulain sees an evil mien and dark mood in Ferdiad, including darkened hair, drowsy eye, and altered form; a note says unusual hair colour betokened misfortune.

Bodily Omen Of Right And Left Eye Throbbing

Right-eye throbbing in a man is auspicious and left-eye throbbing inauspicious; for women the meanings are reversed; the note compares ancient Greeks.

Bodily Penalty Mirrors The Offending Body Part

Theft is described as punished by cutting off the hand, while the Sonna is said to require the stolen object to be of a certain value before this punishment is inflicted.

Bodily Prostration As Solemn Adoration

Muslim prayer postures are said to match those prescribed by Jewish rabbis, especially prostration with the forehead touching the ground; a Jewish polemical claim links this to Baal-Peor.

Bodily Restoration After Injury

The old man reaches a bamboo wood, finds his sparrow waiting, hears her speak, sees that a new tongue has grown, and realizes she is a fairy rather than a common bird.

Bodily Return To Earth

The note says the sentiment is traceable in C. 189; the cited lines say to be happy because a time will come when all bodies are hidden in the earth.

Bodily Wounds As Proof Of Service

The speaker lists many enemies he says he killed and then pulls aside his garment to show his breast and wounds as evidence of service.

Bodisat Appearing Across Many Forms And Statuses