μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Filed across the traditions
  • Arabian Burton SV 326
  • India *Thompson-Balys
  • Japanese Anesaki 322
  • Breton Sébillot Incidents s.v. "fourmi". – N. Am. Indian: *Thompson Tales 316 n. 146a., CColl II 327f., 333, 342, 417
  • Indonesian De Vries's list Nos. 56, 65ff., 135
  • Malay Dixon 216
  • Philippine Fansler MAFLS XII 167. – Africa (Basuto): Jacottet 214 No. 31.
  • general *Types 329, 480, 531, 554, 554*, 559: *BP I 207ff. (Gr. No. 24), 227, II 21 (Gr. Nos. 17, 62, 191), 454 n. 1, III 18ff. (Gr. No. 126), 365 (Gr. No. 191)
  • general Hartland Perseus III 193ff.
  • general Clouston Tales I 223ff.
  • general Penzer I 100f., V 157ff., VI 291, VIII 219, IX 156
  • general *Chauvin II 107 No. 71
  • general *Saintyves Perrault 32ff. Irish myth: Cross. – Greek: **Marx Griechische Märchen von dankbaren Tieren
  • general *Frazer Apollodorus I 86 n. 2 → on our shelf: The Library (Bibliotheca), BOOK I, ch. IX
  • general *ibid. 218 n. 23
Within the index
Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes
Thunderbird. A mythical giant bird usually thought of as a thunder-god Sleepless dragon Brazen-footed, fire-breathing bulls. (Cf. B15.6, B15.5) Roc. A giant bird which carries off men in its claws Animal languages learned from serpent (not eaten). (Cf. B176.) Bird language Helpful animal. See also entire section B300–599, especially B350 Helpful wild beasts – felidae Helpful serpent Animal nurse. Animal nourishes abandoned child Bat rescues man from height. Bat lets him down in a spider-web basket Tabu: falsely claiming the powers of a god
Carried in tale types

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