μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 5references

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.

  • India*Thompson-Balys
  • JapaneseAnesaki 339. – Aztec: Alexander Lat. Am. 57, 89
  • S. Am. Indian (Yuracare)Métraux BBAE CXLIII (3) 503 (jaguar).
  • general *Werhan Die Sage 65
  • general Fb "måne" II 659b. –Hindu: Keith 137, Penzer I 109 n. 1, II 82, V 101 n. 2, IX 143, Jataka Index s. v. "moon", Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 675, 1079
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.

Filed beside it
Man in moon is person thrown or sent there as punishmentFrog in moonMan in the moon: tarring of the moon. Man sets out to tar the moon and remains with his tar-bucket in the moonMan in the moon from scratches or paintCotton tree and nettles on moonTwo children in moon with yoke and bucketWoman in the moonMiscellaneous images on moonParticular individual is man in the moonOther marks on the moon
Carried in tale types

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