μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Scholars’ trail — 3references

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.

  • India*Thompson-Balys
  • ChineseEberhard FFC CXX 28.
  • general Type 400 and references on the whole section in this work concerned with Helpful Animals (B300–599), since advice is very frequently part of the help. – *BP I 134
Within the index
6 finer motifs beneath it
Grateful dragon king gives hero adviceAnimals tell hero their secrets. Do so voluntarilyAnimals' advice leads man to wealthAnimals direct man on journeyParrot gives advice to queen playing chess, and she always winsAnimals advise men – miscellaneous
Travels with
Animal tells hero where to find magic object. (Cf. B560.)
Carried in tale types

wander