μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 10references

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.

  • ChineseEberhard FFC CXX 28, 80 No. 46. – Carib: Alexander Lat. Am. 264
  • Quichéibid. 174
  • Italian NovellaRotunda
  • Missouri-FrenchCarrière.
  • general *Type 554
  • general BP I 134, II *21ff.
  • general Köhler-Bolte I 397
  • general *Fb "fugl" I 381a
  • general Köhler Zs. f. Vksk. VI 71 (to Gonzenbach No. 32). – Arabian: Burton S VI 9–11. – Indonesian, Malay: Dixon 216, 217, *218 n. 23. – India: *Thompson-Balys
  • general Chincha: ibid. 231
Within the index

Filed under Animals serve men.

4 finer motifs beneath it
Animals help man overcome monster with external soul. Discover where he keeps his soulAnimal who arrives late performs tasks for man. (Cf. L147.1.)Animals fight together with their masterBear husks millet for man
Filed beside it
Animals as carpenter (builder)Animals as domestic servantsAnimal as constant attendant of manAnimal as guardDogs track down law-breakersAnimals serve man otherwise
Travels with
Helpful animal performs spinning task. (Cf. B571.)Task: embroidering blanket in one day. (Help from animals.) (Cf. B571.)
Carried in tale types

wander