μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 8references

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. – Japanese: Anesaki 332
  • N. Am. Indian (Thompson River)Teit MAFLS XI 42
  • DanishBoberg.
  • general *Type 301, 650
  • general *BP II 300ff., 285ff., especially 293
  • general *Dickson Valentine and Orson 123 n. 76
  • general *Krappe Le Moyen Age XLI 96ff. Irish myth: Cross
  • general Gaster Oldest Stories 169
Within the index

Filed under Offspring of marriage to animal.

11 finer motifs beneath it
Son warns animal motherBoy kills his animal father for rewardAnimal mother of man helps himHuman beings descended from sealsFish bears men-children. Has swallowed rinsings of man's mouthLioness bears man childCow bears man childTigress bears men-childrenHuman offspring of marriage of person and jaguarHuman offspring of marriage of person and lionHuman offspring of marriage of person and snake
Filed beside it
Animal offspring from marriage to animalHuman and animal offspring from marriage to animalMonstrous offspring from animal marriageHuman foster-child with animal qualitiesOffspring of human and animal intercourse
Travels with
Marriage to bear. (Cf. B611.1, B631, B635.1)Bear paramour. (Cf. B601.1., B631, B635.)
Carried in tale types

wander