Folktale Heroines Aarne Thompson folktale motifs Motif Index of Folk Literature folktale types AT Tale Type 720 The Juniper Tree tale type index started to be put together by Anti Aarne revised by Stith Thompson helps identify reoccurring plot patterns a single element or an idea in a story not entire stories an example is that a magic ring is a folktale motif an example is character that is found in stories of different cultures such as wicked witch Classification of narrative elements put together by Smith Thompson 1867 1976 website where you can look up different motifs type of story example myth ballad fable ex Dragon Slayer stories that can be found in many different cultures My Mother She Killed Me My Father He Ate Me Includes The Juniper Tree The Crow s Nest The Rose Tree German man and woman have a son but when tale the son is born the mother dies the man has a daughter with the second wife stepmother then chops the son up into black pudding the daughter takes the bones that are left of her brother buries them next to the juniper tree a bird comes out of the smoke and fire Marlinchen The Crow s Nest The Rose Tree of the juniper tree and sings a song gets a gold chain from a goldsmith a millstone from a miller by singing red shoes from a shoemaker the song again kills stepmother with millstone Younger Sister in The Juniper Tree Found brother dead with apple in his hand Mother tricked her into touching him so his head would fall off and it would be her fault She weeped and weeped Buries stepbrothers bones under Juniper Tree hungarian man and woman have older daughter tale and son SAME MARRIAGE mother sent her daughter to borrow a peel while she was gone killed her son mother kills the son and puts him into stewed cabbage and daughter delivers it to the father on the field he eats it daughter finds out and gathers bones and takes them to a hallow tree to bury them a crow comes out of the tree hatches bones as the boy in crow form sat in tree and sung gets a cloak and a crutch stick from a man and a millstone from a miller when he sings the song again for them THEY GIVE HE DOESN T BARGAIN sister cloak father stick for old age and support mother millstone and killed english brushing her hair evil stepmother kills her daughter with an ax from previous marriage tale and cooks the heart and liver and stews it and feeds it to the husband AT Folktale Type 425 Cupid and Psyche husband doesn t like tastes son wont eat son gathers up the bones and takes them to burry under the rose tree a bird comes from rose tree and sings a song gets red shoes gold watch chain and millstone by singing the song again when asked red shoes to son watch to father millstone on mother to kill her The Search for the Lost Husband 5 parts the monster as husband disenchantment of the monster loss of the husband search for the husband recovery of the husband embedded narrative original story written by Lucius Apuleius King Queen had 3 daughters First 2 of charm the 3rd beautiful Cupid sent by Venus to make her fall in love with an ugly man Because of mothers demands Cupid puts bitter of Psyches lips while sleeping Touched her with his arrow and then himself accidently Then poured joy in her hair She went to mountain to meet her new husband she had never met Welcome to palace Felt imprisoned because she could not see him wanted her sisters Sisters came and persuaded her to sneak up on him in his sleep with knife and cut his head off if he is an ugly monster Saw how beautiful he was but oil dripped from the lamp on him and woke him He flew away disappointed in her Palace taken away sisters rejoiced Psyche took Ceres advice to speek to Venus Given impossible tasks cupid sent ant to help her separate hay get wool box of beauty She opened the box of beauty although she was not suppose to beauty was not in there Stygain took possession of her and she fell He was recovered and came to save her slipped through cracks of his chamber Jupiter convinced Venus it was ok and Mercurygave favor Drink this Psyche and be immortal nor shall Cupid ever break away from the knot in which he is tied but these nuptials shall be perpetual son of Venus Had child Pleasure pricks himself with arrow falls in love with psyche flys away from psyche when she comes up on him in his sleep and is being suspicious Marries cupid Youngest daughter human woman so beautiful that other human beings begin to worship her Cupids wife Venus is envious of her Becomes Olympian goddess of sexual desire becomes jealous that Psyche is receiving essentially divine worship mother of cupid Cupid Psyche Venus Lucius Apuleius The Singing Soaring Lark Tale of Tulisa says that this woman is to fall in love with someone who is not worthy of her original writer of Cupid and Psyche wrote this story as an embedded born around 125 CE from Madaura narrative Africa also wrote a work called Metamorphoses or the Golden Ass The Singing Soaring Lark german tale German Father goes on trip and asks what daughters want him to bring them back tale Pearls diamonds singing soaring lark Makes deal with lion that he can have the first person to greet him for lark Youngest daughter greets him and has to face lion They get married Lion turns into dove because ray from burning candle fell on him She follows him for 7 years feather and blood drip every 7th step She looses him Shes asks sun moon winds if they ve seen him South wind saw him in lion form fighting princess dragon Followd instructions struck dragon with 11th stick They fly away together on griffin she is Witch tricks him into forgetting about Second time sleeping next to him he Sneaks away and they are reunited with tall and beautiful child Indian tale devastated his wife remembers set in city of Varanasi Husband is snake monster Basnak She does not know this Sarkasukis tricks Tulisa in disguise of old women to ask husband his name This gives husbands mothers strength Dau back Loses her husband Regains him by crossing river of snakes laying egg and being queens slave Happily ever after setting of the Tale of Tulisa country where the Tale of Tulisa came from Tulisa Daughter of a wood cutter nor singh and his wife Voice at the well asks to marry her Marries without ever seeing her She is poor but then rich when husband marrying him Poor woodcutter Father of Tulisa Consents his daughter to marriage King of the snakes Name of Tulisa a husband Could not tell her his name Becomes reconciled with wife setting of the Tale of Tulisa
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