μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Scholars’ trail — 2references

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.

  • general Frazer Pausanias IV 217
  • general **Wesselski Archiv Orientální IV 1ff.
Within the index

Filed under Miscellaneous animal motifs.

4 finer motifs beneath it
Animals debate as to which is the elderAges of animals (birds, fish) compared with age of human beingsDog so old his head is skinlessStags live one thousand years
Filed beside it
Elephants in folktalesHorses in tales and legends. (Cf. B41.1, B41.2, B103, B133, B149.1, B151, B181, B811.1.)Sacred animalsAnimals try in vain to repair sleigh. They get unsatisfactory materialsFaithful old dog to be killedImmortal animalsWild animals herdedMonkeys construct a bridge across the oceanLions placed in city to prevent entranceMan unharmed in den of animals. (Cf. B771.2.1.)When cow calls her calf, all cattle grazeBirds perch on ears of cowsEach of grazing herd of cows eats same amountMan and bear in the rick of hay. The bear, persecuted by wolves, runs onto the hay-rick where the man was hidden, and defends himself from the wolves with bunches of hayAnimal avenges injury
Carried in tale types

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