μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Filed across the traditions
  • Norse Elton Saxo Grammaticus xxxi, 319, Corpus Poeticum Boreale II 347, Ragnarssage Loðbrókar 128
  • Greek Frazer Apollodorus I 169 n. 2 → on our shelf: The Library (Bibliotheca), BOOK II, ch. IV
  • India Thompson-Balys
  • N. Am. Indian *Thompson Tales 335 n. 209
  • Calif. Indian Gayton and Newman 99
  • Eskimo (Greenland) Holm 47, Rasmussen III 134.
  • general *Schoepperle Tristan and Isolt II 298
  • general Crawley Mystic Rose (1902) 343ff.
  • general *De Vries Zs. f. deutsche Philologie LIII 276ff.
  • general Penzer II 248, VIII 25 n. 1. – Irish myth: Cross
Within the index

Filed under Tabu: sexual intercourse.

1 finer motif beneath it
Tabu: intercourse with resuscitated wife for particular number of days
Filed beside it
Tabu: sexual relationship with girls of nobility while having sore on body Tabu: loss of chastity. Hero loses power with loss of chastity Tabu: sexual intercourse with unearthly beings. (Cf. C122.) Tabu: sodomy Tabu: incest Tabu: adultery Tabu: sexual intercourse in sacred precinct. (Cf. Q551.3.) Tabu: violating woman Miscellaneous tabus concerning sexual intercourse
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
Girl may remain virgin for three days after marriage. (Cf. C117.)
Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes
Devastating fox. Monthly human sacrifice Tabu: loss of chastity. Hero loses power with loss of chastity Transformation: man to stone Miscellaneous forms of transformation Petrification by glance Transformation to husband's (lover's) form to seduce woman Magic pastry (bread, cake, etc.) Magic sandals Magic cap Magic cap renders invisible: tarnkappe. (Cf. D1067.2, D1361.16.) Magic sandals bear person aloft. (Cf. D1065.5.) Night magically lengthened

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