μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Why the sea is salt: magic salt mill. Stolen by sea-captain, who takes it aboard and orders it to grind. It will stop only for its master; ship sinks and mill keeps grinding salt.

Mythological motifs. · Establishment of natural order. · Establishment of present order: waters. · view the constellation · filed as A1115.2

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Scholars’ trail — 3references

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

  • general *Type 565
  • general *BP II 438ff. – Icel.: MacCulloch Eddic 283
  • general cf. Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 108.
Within the index

Filed under Why the sea is salt.

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Why the sea is salt: because of wrecked salt shipWhy the sea is salt: heavy rain showers on ashes of wood burnt by primeval fire
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