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.

  • French CanadianBarbeau JAFL XXIX 11. – N. Am. Indian: Thompson Tales 282 n. 45
  • German New GuineaDixon 112. – Siberian: Holmberg Siberian 421
  • ChineseGraham.
Within the index

Filed under Nature and condition of the moon. Many motifs in A720 to A739 refer to the moon and are not here repeated.

1 finer motif beneath it
Moon buried in pit
Filed beside it
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 thereMoon as a personCauses of moon's phasesMoon as sun's representative at nightMoon-boatTheft of moon. Moon is kept by a monster. It is stolen and brought to earthCondition and nature of the moon – miscellaneous. For eclipse of the moon see A737, where both eclipses of the sun and moon are handled
Travels with
Moon's phases caused by its being put in box. (Cf. A754). When it is closed up in the box, it is dark; when taken out of the box, light

wander