μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
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, *MacCulloch Celtic 166.
Within the index

Filed under Animal language learned.

2 finer motifs beneath it
Animal languages learned from eating serpent. (Cf. B176.)Animal languages learned from eating dragon's heart
Filed beside it
Animal languages learned from eating plantAnimal languages learned from ghosts (spirits)Animal languages learned from carrying churchyard mould in hatBird language learned by having ears magically cleansedAnimal languages learned by exchanging tongues with helpful dragonStone deity (image of) confers upon man powers of understanding animal languageLanguage of animals learned by Adam from Eve

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