μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Scholars’ trail — 2references

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.

  • Icel.MacCulloch Eddic 325f.
  • JewishNeuman. Eskimo (Cape York): Rasmussen III 47.
Within the index
9 finer motifs beneath it
Origin of rocks from breaking of God's sieveIndentions on rocks from prints left by man (beast). (Cf. A901.)Origin of stones: punishment for discourtesy. Jesus asks a man what he is sowing. He answers, "Stones." Jesus turns the crop to stones. This is how stones originateRocks from transformation of people to stoneWhy stones became hard. By God's order. (Cf. A968.1.)Why rocks at river are covered with mossOrigin of particular stones or groups of stonesOrigin of mineralsOther stories about stone origins

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