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.

  • Irish mythCross
  • N. Am. Indian (Seneca)Curtin-Hewitt RBAE XXXII 161 No. 27.
Within the index

Filed under Magic animals: miscellaneous motifs.

4 finer motifs beneath it
Magic birds die when owner is killedMagic pig burned to prevent resuscitationRain-withholding deer killed: rain releasedTreasure-producing bird killed to please a paramour
Filed beside it
Animal as magician. (Cf. B154.)Otter carries flaming wood in mouthMagic animal used by hero in contest grows bigger with every round
Travels with
Magic bull to be flayed. The bull orders the hero (heroine) to flay him and to use his skin for magic purposes. (Cf. B192, B335, B411.1.)

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