μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Woman created from dog's tail. Eve.

Mythological motifs. · Creation and ordering of human life. · Creation of man. · Creation of man through evolution. · view the constellation · filed as A1224.3

Filed across the traditions
  • Estonian Aarne FFC XXV 140 No. 10
  • Livonian Loorits FFC LXVI 82 No. 17
  • Flemish DeMeyer XXXVII 83 No. 11
  • Lithuanian Balys Legends Nos. 36ff., 52, 65.
  • general *Dh I 114ff.
  • general *Bolte Zs f. Vksk. XI 255 n. 3
  • general Polívka ibid. XVI 212. – Finnish: Aarne FFC VII 5 No. 11, XXXIII 52 No. 11
Within the index

Filed under Descent of man from animals.

Filed beside it
Mankind is descended from marriage of human being and animal Mankind descended from tadpoles Mankind descended from worms or larvae Mankind born from a cow Descent of men from monkeys Mankind descended from fish Creation of man by creator from ants. He commands them to become men
Carried in tale types

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