μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Community of toads.

Animals. · Animals with human traits. · Animal kingdom (or community). · view the constellation · filed as B226.1

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“He sat down and was sad, then all at once he saw that there was a trap-door close by the feather. He raised it up, found some steps, and went down them, and then he came to another door, knocked at it, and heard somebody inside calling, "Little green maiden small, Hopping hither and thither; Hop to the door, And quickly see who is there." The door opened, and he saw a great, fat toad sitting, and round about her a crowd of little toads.”

Grimm's Household Tales: With the Author's Notes, Tale 63 · served from our shelf  receiptuncorrected OCR — being verified against the scan

Attested across traditions
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.

  • GermanGrimm Nos. 63, 127.
Within the index

Filed under Kingdom of amphibia.

Filed beside it
Community of frogs
Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes
Magic forgetfulness for breaking tabuAttendants of disenchanted person automatically disenchantedOtherworld in hollow mountainCarriage made from turnipQuest for the most beautiful rugQuest for the most beautiful ringTest of heirship

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