Alphabetical Directory/Index to Thesaurus of Themes

Alphabetical Directory/Index to Thesaurus of Themes

Alphabetical Directory/Index to Thesaurus of Themes

including their Narrative Units and Aspects

(version 2.2)

2015/5   

            This directory indexes all the narrative Themes and their contents in order to guide the user to appropriate themes used in classifying the ballad plot elements.

 

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Abandonment

520

Abductions

310

Abuse

550

abusive orders or commands

280.1

Accidents

620

accidents, individual

620.2

accompanying

157

Accusations

910

acts of prowess; cf. 470.

573

admonitions from the hereafter

910.1

adultery

210.1

adventure, search for

320.2

Adventures

500

adversary relationships

C

adversities of being an outsider, of being on one's own

520.1

ADVERSITY

500

Advice & Warning

156

Affiliations (Religious, Political, Ideological)

290

aid

152

aid (should go to 152?)

151

alms

152

Animals

N

animals, competition with

470.3

another preferred

120.7

another preferred, broken faith

110.6

apparent death

630.1

apprenticeship

320.2

Approbation Reward, Praise

140

arming oneself

420.1

arrest

850.2

arresting

850

Arrival as a Stranger

824

Arrivals

820

arson

610.1

artisans' relationships

O

assassination

245a.1

assassination

290a

assistance in kind

152

assistance in act

151

attempted murder or killing

650.1

aubade

115.3

authority

I

avenger relationships

V

award

140.1

awkwardness

585.1

Bad Times

574

Bargains (making them)

170

Bargains (keeping them)

270

battle to free someone --> I think co-class with 450

150c.14

battles

454.1

bearing false witness under oath

245a.1

beatings

550.1

beggary

580.5

belated discovery or recognition

810.4

bequests

640.2

bereavement, problem of [635?]

590.5

bereavement??

635.1

bestowal of the bride or groom

120.8

betrayal

245.a

betrayal of a lover  + 210

245.a

betrayal of one's family 220

245.a +

220

betrayal of one's class

245.a +
245.6

betrayal of or disloyalty to friendship or acquaintance

245.a +

245.4

betrayal of stewardship over someone not related

245.a.
+ 245.5

biblical figures' relationships

S

biblical figures' relationships

R

blackmail

150c

blasphemy

245a.1

blasphemy

290.2

blindness

580.4

blood gushing onto someone

910.2

blood relationships

F

blood, drinking human

750.5

Boast

445

bonnet

125.4

Bosses

180

bragging

445

Brawls

454

bride too young

120.2

bringing home the bride or booty or prisoners

823

broken faith

110.6

burial

720.3

butchering a human being

650.3

Calendrical Events

577

calling forth

850.1

Captivity

560

captivity

560.1

captivity, non- or extra-legal

560.2

capture

850.2

capture, temporary, unavailing, aborted, inconclusive

850.3

Captures

850

Catastrophes (natural)

620

catastrophes, communal

620.1

celebration

750.1

Celebrations, private, personal

750

celebrations, public

710.1

Challenge

445

character hinders courtship

120.1

character, complaints of

590.1

character, profession, general pride hinders courtship

110.4

childbirth

580.3

choice of death

650.2

chores

572.1

Christ's relationships

S

Christ's relationships

R

claiming the bride

850.1

Claimings

850

class hinders courtship

110.3

class hinders courtship

120.1

clever excuse

410.2

cloister

560.2

clothes

125.1

clothes

152

Cockaigne

125.3

cohabitation

115.1

cold

620

Combat

450

Combat

454

Combat (move to 454)

453

Combatants

C

commands, abusive

280.1

COMMITMENTS

200

Companionship

157

Compassion

153

compassion

153b

competition

400

competition with animals or machines

470.3

Competition, physical

450

competition, physical (move to 470)

453

Competitions

470

Complaints or Laments

590

Complaints about family, family members

590.7

Concealment of self or of others

430

confession in combination with 590

910.3

Confessions

910

Confinement

560

confinement

560.2

conflict relationships

C

confrontation with a misdeed in a non-trial setting [can occur in conjunction with 910.2]

910.5

CONNECTIONS

800

consolation

960.2

Conspiracies

270

Conspiring

170

Contestants

C

CONTESTS

400

Contests of Prowess

470

Contests, Physical

450

Contests, Verbal

410

contract, journey

320.2

Contracts

170

Contracts

270

Conviviality

750

Costuming

420

costuming

420.1

couple relationships

L

court-martial

910.2

courtiers

120

courting relationships

L

Courtship

110

Courtship II vis-à-vis family

120

cowboy' relationships

O

cowboys and Indians relationships

C

crime here the "legal" aspect

260

crime here the "moral" aspect

245a

criminal relationships

V

curse + ?

960.4

dance floor

710

Dances

710

daughter-in-law

220.1

daughter. thankless

220.2

dawn song

115.3

days (calendrical events)

577

Deals

170

Deals

270

death bells

720.2

death messages

640.1

Death-Bed

640

death, complaints about

590.5

Death, Natural, accidental, in combat.

630

Death, Sympathetic

635

debate

410.1

debt, manipulation through

280.2

Deceptions

440

defiling food

245a.1

delicacies

125.1

Deliveries (of person)

910

 delivering oneself or another person up

910

deludings

440

DEMANDS

100

demands

180.2

demolition

610.2

Denunciations

910

DEPARTURES

300

Departures

320

Desertions

330

disability

150a.9

Disability

580

disabled

580.4

disadvantageous success

490.2

Disasters (Contrived)

610

DISCOVERIES

800

Discoveries

810

discoveries, gratuitous

810.1

Discovery

810b

discovery or recognition too late

810.4

discovery through use of token, mark, sign, ring, etc.

810.5

discovery, unwelcome

810.4

Disguise

420

disguises

420.2

dishonor

245a.2

disobedience

280.3

diversions

440

divine justice + 815.1

960

divine justice + 960

815.1

dodges

440

Domestic Metaphors

002

drawing lots

470.1

dressing (i.e., no disguise)

420.1

duckers

720.3

Duel

452

earth‑quake

620

eating & drinking

750.3

Economic Figures

O

eels, eating them

750.4

Elopements

310

Embarking

320

emigration

320.6

employment

180.1

Employment

280

Employment

572

employment, departure for, search for

320.2

enchantment

560.2

Enlisting

180

Enterprise

572

Enticements

310

Entrapments

440

equivocations

440

Erotic Encounters

115

Escapes

330

Execution (legalistic)

660

exile

320.5

EXPECTATIONS

200

exploitation relationships

V

exploitation through authority

540.2

faithfulness

125.2

faithfulness

210.3

faithfulness

245

faithfulness

210

faithfulness

220

false accusations in combination with 910

440.2

false dead relationships

S

 

 

False Perception

810a

falsehoods

440.2

 falsified information and falsified reports often in combination with 815.5

440.2

family or other personal interference

120.4

Family:

F

famine

574.1

Farewells

320

farewells

640.1

Farmers' relationships

O

Feats

573

festivals, fairs

710.1

festivities, public

710.1

fetched by angels or the devil

850.1

fetching water, wine, etc.

572.1

Feuds

454

feuds

454.2

fights among groups

454.1

fining, gratuitous

540.2

fire, flood

620

fish, eating them

750.4

fleeing from something

330

flesh, eating human

750.5

flight (from something)

330

flyting (insult contest)

410.1

food

152

food & drink

750.3

forced marriage

120.9

Forgiveness

153

forgiveness

153b

Fortunes of Employment Occupation or Enterprise

572

Fortunes of Travel

571

fraud

440

Frevel

245a.1

friendship, personal loyalty

245b.4

funeral

720.3

Funerals

720

galleys

560.2

gallows scenes in general

660.2

Games of Chance and Skill

470

gaming relationships

C

geächt

520.1

gebannt

520.1

Geilheit?

580

godly life

290.3

gold

125.1

Good and Bad Times

574

gottgefälliges Leben

290.3

governmental institution (acting as such)

I

Gratuitous Figures

G

graveside, graveyard

720.1

guarantee

125.5

hard times, hard times litany

574.1

hardheartedness (refusal, rejection)

150a.8

Harm

610

harvesting, gathering, picking

572.1

Hazards of Employment Occupation or Enterprise

572

Hazards of Travel

571

hearing of something by chance

810.6

heat.

620

heaven

153

heaven

850

Heile Welt

574.2

help

151

helper relationships

V

Helping Hand

150

Hiding of self or of others

430

Hiring

180

Historical or Political Events

576

hoisted on his own petard

490.1

 homesickness

590.6

honor kept

245b.2

honor, promise of honor

125.2

horrid conditions, poverty, hungar, complaints of

590.8

hospitality pointedly fulfilled

245b.3

hospitality violated or withheld expressly

245a.3

hours (calendrical events)

577

house arrest, legalistic

560.1

hunting

460.2

Hunts

460

husband relationships

L

I-wish-I-had-never-been-born-type

590.3

Ideological Affiliations

290

illness

580.2

imprisonment

560.1

inability

150a.9

incest

245a.1

Incidents of Employment Occupation or Enterprise

572

Incidents of Travel

571

Indemnity

170

Indians and cowboys relationships

C

ineptitude

585.1

infirmity

580.2

inflation

574.1

INFORMATION

800

injured

580.1

inn

750.3

innkeepers' relationships

O

insanity (as illness)

580.2

Institutional Figures:

I

instruction

151

Insult

445

intercession

151

intercession on someone's behalf

151

Interdictions

235

interference, family or other personal

120.4

Interrogation - official questioning - Verhör +

810.7

JOURNALISTIC ACCOUNTS

500

journey between two points

340

JUSTIZ

900

RECHT

900

GERECHTIGKEIT

900

Recht gehört Gott allein

960.2

Töten (nicht-legalistisch)

650

Tötung, versuchte

650.1

Könige (die als solche handeln)

I

Verwandschaftliche Verantwortung

220

Verantwortung, verwandschaftliche

220

Kirmes

710.1

ladies (acting as such, like lords)

I

Laments

590

Last Farewells

640

last-goodnights

640

Law (complied with or violated)

260

lawmen (acting as such)

I

laziness

280.4

legal matters (complied with or violated)

260

Liebesprobe

810.2

lies

440.2

Life-Cycle Events or Biographies

575

looking after someone

151

lords (acting as such)

I

Loskauf

150c

love token

125.4

Love, Erotic Metaphors

001

lovers vs others

120

Lovers:

L

loyalty vs.  betrayal

245.b

loyalty  + 245.b

245.b +
210.b

loyalty  + 245.b

245.b + 220.b

machines, competition with

470.3

maidens' wreath

125.4

maiming in a fight or battle

610.2

making oneself/itself known

810b

manhunt

460.1

manipulation

540.2

manipulation through debt, withholding pay or pensions

280.2

manipulations which are not particularly exploitative

440

Manslaughter

650

Marital Relationships

210

marriage

110.7

marriage, forced

120.9

marriage, promise of marriage

125.2

married, complaints of, about married or romantic partner,

590.2

meal

750.3

measure for measure

490.1

medical attention

152

Menschenschlächterei

650.3

mercilousness (refusal, rejection)

150a.8

Mercy

153

Messages

815

messages

815.4

METAPHORICAL NARRATIVES

000

military and naval combat

454.1

Military Service

280

military services

572.2

military, departure for

320.1

miners

O

Mistreatment

540

mistreatment, exploitative gratuitous or not,

540.2

mistreatment, gratuitous, violent

540.1

money

125.1

money

152

money

150c

months (calendrical events)

577

Mores & Morals

245

morgue

720.3

mother-in-law

220.1

mother-in-law vs. daughter-in-law

220.1

murder

245a.1

Murder + 245

650

murder + 650

245

murder, attempted

650.1

music, playing music as help or condition

150.11

music, playing music as help or condition — again???

150c.12

mythological relationships

S

mythological relationships

R

naïveté

585.2

nationality

120.1

Nature's, Natural, Non-Human Figures

N

Neglect

550

Non-Discovery

810a

Non-Recognition

810a

Non-Recognitions

810

numinous relationships

S

numinous relationships

R

OBLIGATIONS

200

occupation

180

Occupation

572

Occupational Responsibilities,

280

Occupational/Economic Figures:

O/Ec

Occupational/Economic Figures:

O

OFFERS

100

old age

580.2

omens

815.1

One against Many

451

ongoing relationships

210

Oracles

815

oracles

815.1

ORDEALS

500

ordeals

520.1

orders, abusive

280.1

Orphanage

520

orphanage

520.2

Ostracism

520

Other Metaphors

005

outlaw relationships

V

Outlawry--"merry" or "criminal"

520

outrageous or heinous trespasses

245a.1

outsider

520.1

Outsiders

520

overhearing

810.6

Pacts

170

Pacts,

270

pardons, spontaneous

153.b

contracts

 

deals

 

 

 

 

 

parents

220.3

parents

F

parents' interference

120

parting, complaints of

590.6

party

750.1

passing the time of day, greeting, meeting  casually, conversation

110.8

penance - Buße imposed by church, someone else

960.5

penance, leaving on journey of

320.3

penance - Buße self imposed = confessions

910.3

pension

280.6

Permission

155

personal sacrifice

151

pestilence

574.1

guarantee of relationship

125.5

Physical Competition

450

Physical Contests

450

pilgrimage

320.3

Pity

153

plague

574.1

Plants

N

plants or birds on the grave, BUT NOT ominally, just present

720.5

Ploys

440

poaching

460.2

police (acting as such)

I

Political Affiliations

290

Political Events

576

Political Metaphors

003

poor service

280.4

popes (acting as such)

I

possession by the devil

560.2

poverty

520.3

poverty, grinding poverty

580.5

praise

140.1

pregnancy

580.3

premonitions, dreams, visions

815.2

preparation for death

640.3

press gang

850.4

pretensions

420.2

prison

153

prize

140.1

profession

120.1

professionals' relationships

O

promise as a price,

150c

Promises (between Lovers)

210

Promises (as broken faith)

245

Promises (within family )

220

Promises (as deals, pacts)

270

Promises (in enployment)

280

Promises & Vows

125

Promises & Vows B Deleted

225

prophecies, predictions

815.3

Proselytizing.

180

prostitution

115.2

psyching out

440

psychological battle/contest relationships

C

Psychological Contests

400

punishment

153

punishments

960

Pursuit

460

pursuit

460.1

quest, leaving on

320.4

questions as test or for information

810.2

QUESTS

300

races

470.4

raising the children by parents or adoptive parents

220.5

rangers' relationships

O

ransom

151

ransom

152

ransom

153

ransom

150c

ransom from the grave or from death ???

150c.13

reclusion

560.4

Reclusion)

560

Recognition

810b

Recognitions

810

recovering the body

720.3

refusal

150a.8

rejection

150a.8

rejection of the parents in favor of the wooer

220.3

Release

153

relentlessness (refusal, rejection)

150a.8

Religious Affiliations

290

religious institution (acting as such)

I

Religious Metaphors

004

religious relationships

S

religious relationships

R

Religious/Supernatural Figures

S

remuneration

280.6

rendezvous

110.1

Repasts

750

repentance in combination with 590

910.3

repentance, in combination with 910: accusation

590.4

Reports

815

reports

815

reports

815.5

Reproaches

910

REQUESTS

100

requests for hospitality

824

requests for lodging

824

requests, last

640.3

rescue

151

responsibilities of ongoing relationships

210

Retribution[1]

960

Retribution + 960.

660

Return, Arrival, Reunion

823

Reue

590.4

reunion in heaven

820.7

reunion of recognized or "known" relations, lovers or friends

823

Reunions

820

Revelations?

810

Revelations?

815

revenants' relationships

S

revenants' relationships

R

revenge

960

Reversal of Situation or Role

490

reward

140.1

reward of marriage

120.8

riches

125.1

riddling

410.1

Ride

340

riding out

571.1

ring,

125.4

robbery

540.3

theft

540.3

thief

V

robber

V

Robin Hood

V

Romantic Relationships

210

rue the day

590.4

rumors ?

815.6

Ruses

440

sabotage

610.2

sacrifice

150c

sailors' relationships

O

saints' relationships

S

saints' relationships

R

sale of humans

550.4

scene at the inn,

750.3

Schaden

610

scheiden & meiden tut weh

590.6

Scheintod

630.1

Scheintote relationships

S

Scheintote relationships

R

Schlaraffenland

125.3

Schnur & Schwieger

220.1

search for employment

320.2

search for persons, objects, &c.

320.4

seducing relationships

L

Seduction

110

seeking one's fortune

320.2

self-accusations

910

self-praise

445

self-presentation.

810b

Self-Transformation

420

separation from loved ones

590.6

shams

440

shipwreck

620

Shortcomings

585

Sightings, simple

578

signals

815.4

signs

815.4

Simple Demand for Justice

154

Simple Encounters or Sightings

578

simple reproach, perhaps without "criminal" implications

910.4

Single Combat

452

Skill

470

slavery

560.3

snakes, eating them

750.4

social conventions

245

SOCIAL EVENTS AND INCIDENTS

700

soldiers' relationships

O

solicitations

180.2

son, thankless

220.2

spices

125.1

Spieß umgedreht

490.1

Sports

470

sports (move to 470)

453

step-parents

F

stepparents

220.4

stewards

F

stewardship

151

stewardship not over kin

245b.5

stewardship over kin

220.5

storm

620

strike

280.3

Strokes of Fate

620

stupidity

585.2

subservience to class distinctions

245b.6

substitutions of another person or thing

440.1

succor

152

sufferers relationships

V

suicide

635.1

supernatural relationships

S

supernatural relationships

R

supernatural retribution, mostly in combination with 815

960.3

support in kind, tangibles

152

support with actions

151

symbol of  engagement

125.4

Sympathetic Death

635

sympathetic madness? cf. 590.5 or 635 or 580.2

580

Tabus

235

taking a walk

571.1

taking prisoner

850.2

Tasks Imposed

240

tattlers

120

taunt

445

teaching

151

team competition  (move to 470)

453

Team Contests (move to 470)

453

team sports (move to 470)

453

telling on someone +815

910.6

temporary, aborted, inconclusive arrivals, reunions

820.2

testaments

640.2

Tests

810

tests, tortures in combo w/ 550.2

810.2

tests: of a disguise, identity, character, of suitability (e.g., a suitor's), or loyalty

810.2

thankfulness

140.2

thankless son or daughter

220.2

thanks

140.2

the adventures of being an outsider, of being on one's own

520.1

the world

120

the world in order

574.2

threat of retribution, punishment

960.1

threats, except the gallows scene of 660

550.3

tidal wave

620

too late, unwelcome arrivals, reunions

820.1

too young

110.5

torture, in combination with 810.2 used as a test

550.2

Tradesmen, Tradespeople

O

train wreck

620

Transformation

420

transforming oneself in general

420.2

transportation, being "sent away," "thrown out of the house"

320.5

traps,

440

Travel

571

travel between two points

340

treason

290.1

Treue

210.3

Trial

950

trial by ordeal + 815.1

950.3

trial by ordeal + 950 Trial

815.1

trial by ordeal, in conjunction with 815

950.3

trial, civil

950.1

trial, legal)

950.1

trial, military

950.2

tricking questions.

440

Tricks

440

trip between two points

340

Triumph

445

true accounts

520.1

true or good service

280.5

undressing

420.1

unfaithfulness - Untreue

210.2

unwilling transformation

560.2

verbal battle of wits

410.1

Verbal Contests

410

verpetzen +815

910.6

Versöhnung

153b

Victims

V

Visions

815

vogelfrei sein

520.1

Vows

210

Vows

245

Vows

220

Vows

270

Vows

280

Wagers

170

Wagers

270

wagers, gambling, cards, dice

470.2

Wanderschaft

320.2

War

450

warning (=156 ??)

815.4

warnings ??

156

warrior relationships

C

Wars

454

weakness

585.1

wedding

750.1

wedding day - death day

720.4

weeks (calendrical events)

577

whose blood is that?;

910.2

wife relationships

L

window

110.2

word, one's word

125.5

Workers

180

workers' relationships

O

wounded

580.1

wounding

610.3

years (calendrical events)

577

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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Spezifikationen? Attribute? Charakteristika???Spezifika??? Einzelheiten???  Spezifische Ausprägungen?

 

 



[1] Maybe „Reward and Retribution“ or „Retribution and Reward“ as being opposites?  Combined with 140 „Reward Praise“??? but then here, not there.  It IS justice somehow.  Can it be differentiated with „153.b: Versöhnung, compassion and forgiveness“ ??  In Ermenrichsa Tod (Dvldr 2) it was both retrib and praise!