μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Man in the moon: tarring of the moon. Man sets out to tar the moon and remains with his tar-bucket in the moon.

Mythological motifs. · Cosmogony and cosmology. · The heavens. · The moon. · Nature and condition of the moon. · view the constellation · filed as A751.4

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Scholars’ trail — 4references

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.

  • Finnish*Aarne FFC VIII 4 No. 8
  • Livonian*Loorits FFC LXVI 81 No. 7
  • Estonian*Aarne FFC XXV 140 No. 6.
  • general XXXIII 51 No. 8
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 punishmentMan in the moon a rabbit (hare, other animal)Frog in 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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