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.

  • Jewish*Neuman. – Africa (Kaffir): Theal 169, (Basuto): Jacottet 240 No. 35. – Cf. the giant blue ox of Paul Bunyan (B871.1.1).
  • general Types 510, 511
  • general cf. Wesselski Märchen before Grimm, introd. – French Canadian: Barbeau JAF XXXIX 16. – Icel.: Boberg
Within the index

Filed under Magic cow (ox, bull).

2 finer motifs beneath it
Magic ox from unusual sexual union of animalsMagic cow (ox, bull) from water world
Filed beside it
Magic white cowMagic cowMagic bullMagic oxMagic calf
Travels with
Animal as soothsayer

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