μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Cow with changing colors. Changes every four hours: white, red, black.

Animals. · Fanciful traits of animals. · Fanciful physical qualities of animals. · Fanciful color, smell, etc. of animals. · view the constellation · filed as B731.4

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“Surprised at this sight, Polyidus applied the same herb to the body of Glaucus and raised him from the dead.? Minos had now got back his son, but even so he did not suffer Polyidus to depart to Argos until he had taught Glaucus the art of divination. Polyidus taught him on compul- sion, and when he was sailing away he bade Glaucus spit into his mouth. Glaucus did so and forgot the art of divination.”

— The Library (Bibliotheca), BOOK III, ch. III · served from our shelf uncorrected OCR — being verified against the scan

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Filed under Fanciful color of animal.

2 finer motifs beneath it
Cow with white earsCow with red ears
Filed beside it
Animals of strange and varied coloringGreen she-goatGreen horseMulticolored llama. Wool red, blue, and yellow. No need to dye it for weavingSilver, gold, and diamond birdsHound of every colorFancifully colored deerRed (green) swinePurple wetherMulticolored worm (serpent)Blue serpentSilver fish with gold finsBird with changing colorHyena with three hundred sixty-five different colors
Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes
Medicine shown by animal. It heals another animal with a medicine (herb, water, etc.) and thus shows the man the remedy. Sometimes the medicine resuscitates the dead. (The animal is most frequently the serpent. (Cf. B491.)Man falls into jar of honey and is drowned. Chases a mouse

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