μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 6references

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.

  • EnglishWells 66 (Ywain and Gawain), 118f. (Octavian). – *Hibbard 271 n. 3. – Spanish Exempla: Keller. – Italian Novella: Rotunda. – Saintyves Saints Successeurs 252. – French Canadian: Sister Marie Ursule
  • Missouri FrenchCarrière. – Jewish: Neuman. – India: *Thompson-Balys. – Africa (Gold Coast): Barker and Sinclair 131 No. 24, (Zanzibar): Bateman 82 No. 6.
  • general *Type 156 (see all references for B381), *Type 590
  • general *BP III 1 (Gr. No. 121)
  • general *Fb "löve" II 518b
  • general Dickson Valentine and Orson 107 n. 17, 118 n. 51. – Icel.: Boberg. – Irish myth: Cross
Within the index

Filed under Helpful wild beasts – felidae.

Filed beside it
Helpful leopardHelpful tigerHelpful panther
Travels with
Girl saved by lion from ravishment. (Cf. B443.)Lion leads lost king from forest. (Cf. B431.2.)
Carried in tale types

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