μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 9references

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.

  • BretonSébillot Incidents s.v. "talisman"
  • Missouri-FrenchCarrière. – India: *Thompson-Balys
  • ChineseEberhard FFC CXX 37 No. 24. – Africa (Zanzibar): Bateman 221 No. 10, (Basuto): Jacottet 214 No. 31. See also references in B375.1.
  • general *Types 560, 561
  • general *Aarne MSFO XXV 3–82
  • general BP II 451ff., 537
  • general Type 554*
  • general *Köhler-Bolte I 440
  • general Hartland Perseus III 199
Within the index

Filed under Magic power from animals.

3 finer motifs beneath it
Magic object received from animal brother-in-lawAnimal tells hero where to find magic object. (Cf. B560.)Magic song received from fish. (Cf. B470.)
Filed beside it
Animal gives part of body as talisman for summoning its aid
Carried in tale types

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