μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 9references

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.Boberg
  • DanishSchmidt DF XXXIX 13ff.
  • FrenchSébillot France I 369ff.
  • IndiaThompson-Balys. – N. Am. Indian: Krickeberg Indianermärchen aus Nordamerika 245, Calif. Indian: Gayton and Newman 59
  • AztecKrickeberg Märchen der Azteken 60, 204, and passim
  • S. Am. Indian (Tupinamba)Métraux BBAE CXLIII (3) 132.
  • general *Fb "sten" III 552b
  • general *Andree Ethnographische Parallelen (1878) 96
  • general Dh II 8. – Irish: Thurneysen Irische Helden-u. Königssagen 189, Cross
Within the index

Filed under Origin of rocks and stones.

7 finer motifs beneath it
Indentions on rocks from imprint of gods and saintsIndentions on rocks from footprints of fairies (angels, devils)Holes in stones caused by piercing by saint's fingerImprint of horse in rocksIndentions on rocks from marks of various personsIndentions on rocks caused by giantsGreat fish killed by hero and cut into sixteen pieces: the great stones may still be seen
Filed beside it
Origin of rocks from breaking of God's sieveOrigin 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
Travels with
Topographical features caused by experiences of primitive hero (demigod, deity). Footprints of the gods, thoroughfares of heroes, etc

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