μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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.

  • North CarolinaBrown Collection I 633.
Within the index

Filed under Animal characteristics from miscellaneous punishments.

Filed beside it
Hare punished for perjury: eyes deep in head. (Cf. A2332.4.1.)Fly punished for failing to answer question: is speechless, buzzes and associates with foul things. (Cf. A2426.3.3, A2433.5.2.)Ass betrays deity's secret: hence his ugly brayAnimals punished for assaulting womenAss has cross on shoulders from being struck by Balaam. (Cf. A2356.2.7.)Crocodile is punished for trying to attack man he is carrying: has only half tongueAnimal punished for hardheadedness (frog toothless, mole sightless)Why mouse is crushed whenever she crosses a road: elephant's curseWhy elephant hurts himself when running through the grass: mouse's curse

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