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.

  • IndiaThompson-Balys.
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.

1 finer motif beneath it
Spots on moon a banyan tree planted there by creator to diminish its light
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: 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 paintTwo 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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