μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
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.

  • IndiaThompson-Balys
  • ChineseGraham.
  • general *Dh III 141ff. Arawak and Carib: Alexander Latin American 274
Within the index
11 finer motifs beneath it
Cock and ptarmigan in contest: winner to live in town. (Cf. A2433.1.1, A2433.4.2, A2433.4.3.)Lizard wins contest with toad: why snakes and lizards change their skinsAnimal characteristics from contest in carryingAnimal characteristics determined by raceAnimal characteristics from jumping contestBird characteristics from flying contestsAnimal characteristics result of lawsuitAnimal characteristics from contest in watchingAnimal characteristics from duelAnimal characteristics: as a result of quarrel[First Edition: A2259. Animal characteristics from miscellaneous contests.]

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