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.

  • general Type 531
  • general BP III (Gr. No. 126).
Within the index

Filed under Truth-telling animals.

5 finer motifs beneath it
Truth-telling ass (mule)Horse warns hero of dangerHorse reveals treachery. (Cf. B131.2.)Speaking horse-head. The helpful magic horse (B181) is killed (B330). The head is preserved and placed on the wall. It speaks and reveals the treachery practiced against the heroineHorse refuses to carry one who speaks falsehood
Filed beside it
Bird of truth. A bird which reveals the truth. (Cf. B122, B141, B172.)Truth-speaking cowTruth-telling dogTruth-telling catTruth-telling deer
Travels with
Horses in tales and legends. (Cf. B41.1, B41.2, B103, B133, B149.1, B151, B181, B811.1.)
Carried in tale types

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