μῦθοι Mythoi
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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.

  • Irish mythCross.
Within the index

Filed under Animals with unusual limbs or members.

5 finer motifs beneath it
Many-eyed animalBeasts with fiery eyesDogs with eyes like plates, tea-cups, etcAnimal with human eyes (transformed man)One-eyed pig
Filed beside it
Animal unusual as to his headMany-mouthed animal. (Cf. B15.7.2.)Animal unusual as to his hornsAnimal unusual as to his nose (snout)Animals with unusual legs or feet. (Cf. B19.1.)Other animals with unusual limbs or members. (Cf. B20, B142, B92.)
Travels with
Monster three-legged ass. Stands in the ocean. Has three feet, six eyes, nine mouths, two ears, one horn, a white body. Two eyes are in eye position, two on top of his head, two on his hump. He renders powerless by the sharpness of his eyes. He has three mouths in his head, three in his hump, and three in the inner parts of his flanks. Each mouth is the size of a cottage. (Cf. B13, B15.1, B15.2, B15.4.)

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