μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

The offended skull (statue) (Festin de Pierre). A skull (statue) is invited to dinner. Attends the dinner and takes his host off to the other world.

Tabu. · Tabu connected with supernatural beings. · Tabu: profanely calling up spirit (devil, etc.). · view the constellation · filed as C13

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Scholars’ trail — 16references

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 *Type 470
  • general **D.E. MacKay The Double Invitation in the Legend of Don Juan
  • general *BP III 483 n. 1
  • general *Wesselski Märchen 241 No. 51
  • general Armeto La Leyenda de Don Juan (Madrid, 1908)
  • general *DeCock Studien en Essays 108–152, 308ff.
  • general *Lancaster PMLA XXXVIII 471 n. 1
  • general G. de Bevotte La Legende de Don Juan (Paris, 1906) (bibliography pp. 517–521)
  • general Manning PMLA XXXVIII 479
  • general *Waxman JAFL XXI 184
  • general *Pauli (ed. Bolte) no. 561
  • general *Fb "menneskehoved" I 579b

Showing a bounded trail of 16 from 16 references.

Within the index

Filed under Tabu: profanely calling up spirit (devil, etc.).

1 finer motif beneath it
Prince invites angel to wedding. Taken to other world
Filed beside it
Druidism forbiddenThe Old Man and Death. Weary old man wishes for death. When Death appears at the summons he asks for help with the loadDevil invoked: appears unexpectedly"Adversity" summoned: king says he has heard people speak of adversity but has never seen it; genius of adversity appearsWish for supernatural husband (wife) realized. (Cf. C26.)Tabu: offending spirits of the dead
Travels with
Return from dead to punish kicking of skull. (Cf. C13.)Light remark about what person would do if ghost appeared causes ghost to appear. (Cf. C10, C13.)
Carried in tale types

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