μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Scholars’ trail — 4references

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.

  • JewishNeuman
  • IndiaThompson-Balys
  • TongaGifford 77 (shark), 84
  • FijiBeckwith Myth 131 (hawk, prawn).
Within the index

Filed under Animals serve men.

5 finer motifs beneath it
Animal as guard of person or houseAnimals guard treasureAnimal as herdsmanAnimal guards master's dead bodyAnimal as guard of shop
Filed beside it
Animals perform tasks for manAnimals as carpenter (builder)Animals as domestic servantsAnimal as constant attendant of manDogs track down law-breakersAnimals serve man otherwise

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