21 motifs match “class”  ·  back to the chapters

• Creator appoints a chief for each class of created things: Lucifer for demons, Sion for mountains, etc. A1187
• Origin of different classes – social and professional. A1650
• The various children of Eve. Eve has so many children that she is ashamed when God pays her a visit. She hides some of them and they fail to receive the blessing that God gives those in sight. Thus arises the differences in classes and peoples. A1650.1
• Custom of differentiating social classes by color of dress introduced. A1650.2
• Origin of different classes – miscellaneous. A1659
• Origin of spider. [Note: In folk thought the spider is classed as an insect and not with the other arachnida.] (Cf. A1751.) A2091
• Trees classified as "pleasant trees, herb trees, shrub trees." A2855
• Woman slays faithful mongoose which has saved her child. "A Classical Indian Folk-Tale as a Reported Modern Event: The Brahman and the Mongoose" B331.2.1
• Class tabu. C550
• Tabu: things not to be done by certain class. C560
• Unclassified tabus. C830
• Additional unclassified tabus. C899
• Transformation to person of different social class. D20
• Transformation to a person of different social class – miscellaneous. D29
• City's inhabitants transformed to fish. Different classes to different colored fish. D692
• Unclassified ogre motifs. G650
• Stupid classes. J1705
• Unlucky classes. N256
• Punishment for consorting with one of lower class. Q243.5
• Humor concerning other social classes. X500
• Humor concerning sex. [Note: Thousands of obscene motifs in which there is no point except the obscenity itself might logically come at this point, but they are entirely beyond the scope of the present work. They form a literature to themselves, with its own periodicals and collections. In view of the possibility that it might become desirable to classify these motifs and place them within the present index, space has been left from X700 to X749 for such motifs.] X700