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.

  • IndiaThompson-Balys.
  • general Borgese "Giganti e Serpenti" Archivio per lo Studio delle tradizioni popolari XX 507ff., XXI 90ff., 161ff. Hindu: Penzer I 109 n. 2, II 90 n. 2, 266, III 259 n. 1. – Indo-Chinese: Scott 301
Within the index

Filed under Other mythical animals.

7 finer motifs beneath it
Naga. Serpent demonPlumed serpentHorned snakeSky-traveling snakeSea-serpentSerpent causes floodSerpent is immortal
Filed beside it
Other mythical reptilesMythical spiderMythical crustaceanVegetable lamb. Generated from ground. Umbilical cord is in the ground and the lambs will die if it is forcibly severed. They are frightened into severing it themselves and then live. Vertebrae of the neck planted to produce new onesBeast with human head and shape of smith's bellowsMythical frogMythical animals – miscellaneous

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