μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Man in moon is person thrown or sent there as punishment.

Mythological motifs. · Cosmogony and cosmology. · The heavens. · The moon. · Nature and condition of the moon. · view the constellation · filed as A751.1

Filed across the traditions
  • Lithuanian Balys Index No. 3907
  • Rumanian Schullerus FFC LXXVIII 84 No. 4
  • Chinese Eberhard FFC CXX 37f. No. 25
  • general *Dh I 254ff.
  • general *ibid. II 242 (Judas)
  • general Köhler-Bolte I 114 (Judas), III 597
  • general *Fb "måne" II 659b.
  • general Kristensen Danske Sagn II (1893) 275ff., (1928) 171
  • general Madison County Virginia (U.S.A.): Hench JAFL XLVIII 384. – Isthmian tribes (Panama): Alexander Lat. Am. 192 (punishment for incest)
  • general Yuracare (West Brazil): Alexander ibid. 314.
Within the index

Filed under Man in the moon. A man is said to be seen in the moon. Various explanations are given as to how he came to be there.

4 finer motifs beneath it
Man in moon has punishment for burning brush on Sunday Man in moon is put there as punishment for cursing God Man in moon as punishment for disdainful sacrifice (Cain) Man in moon banished there for stealing bundle of thorns
Filed beside it
Man in the moon a rabbit (hare, other animal) Frog in moon Man in the moon: tarring of the moon. Man sets out to tar the moon and remains with his tar-bucket in the moon Man in the moon from scratches or paint Cotton tree and nettles on moon Two children in moon with yoke and bucket Woman in the moon Miscellaneous images on moon Particular individual is man in the moon Other marks on the moon
Carried in tale types

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