μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
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.

  • general Penzer I 104, VI 123 n. Chinese: Giles Strange Stories of a Chinese Studio (New York, 1927) 547. – Africa (Basuto): Jacottet 222 No. 33.
Within the index

Filed under [First Edition: B31. Giant birds.]

2 finer motifs beneath it
Giant blackbirdGiant bird pulls up oak tree by roots
Filed beside it
Roc. A giant bird which carries off men in its clawsThe Bird Gam. Throws sand in a stream and makes a lake. Appears at turn of century. Also carries men. Leaps into the sea and sleepsGiant ravens. They sit on mountain; when they fly, avalanche comesGiant batSimorg: giant bird

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