μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Scholars’ trail — 14references

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.

  • French Canadian*Barbeau JAFL XXIX 15 (dog)
  • Missouri-FrenchCarrière
  • Spanish ExemplaKeller
  • SwissJegerlehner Oberwallis 328 No 17 (dragon). – Jewish: Neuman
  • India*Thompson-Balys
  • Buddhist mythMalalasekera I 217, II 655, 1158
  • ChineseGraham
  • AfricaStanley 329, (Angola): Chatelain 129 No. 19
  • Eskimo (Greenland)Rasmussen I 143, III 80, 198, Rink 227, 413, 462, Holm 84, (Cumberland Sound): Boas BAM XV 222, (Central Eskimo): Boas RBAE VI 638, (Smith Sound): Kroeber JAFL XII 176. – S. Am. Indian (Toba): Métraux MAFLS XL 6, (Chiriguano): Métraux RMLP XXXIII 155.
  • general *Basset 1001 Contes III 295 (birds)
  • general *Wesselski Märchen 249 No. 57
  • general Toldo Studien zur vgl. Littgsch. VIII 21
  • general *Fb "hind" I 612 (deer)
  • general Alphabet Nos. 361. 636. Irish myth: Cross, Saints' legend (Irish): Plummer cxliv (otter). – Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "nourriture" (bird, dog)
Within the index

Filed under Animals nourish men. Provide food, shelter, or other necessities.

5 finer motifs beneath it
Infants fed by beesUnusual milking animalHelpful animal recovers magic food-producing skin from river bottomHelpful animal drops magic foodBirds save man from hunger by pitching themselves to roast in fire he has made
Filed beside it
Mythical frog as host to womanElephants look after ascetic in jungleAnimal nurse. Animal nourishes abandoned childHelpful animal cares for wounded (sick) masterAnimals adopt mysterious housekeeperAnimals provide shelter

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