μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Filed across the traditions
  • Greek Frazer Apollodorus I 39 n. 4, Gaster Thespis 191, Oldest Stories 232 → on our shelf: The Library (Bibliotheca), BOOK I, ch. V
  • India Thompson-Balys
  • N. Am. Indian *Thompson Tales 338 n. 217c.
  • Melanesian Codrington 277
  • Hawaii Beckwith Myth 148.
  • general *Cosquin Études Folkloriques 192
  • general *Fb "mad" II 524b
  • general Golther Germanische Mythologie 477
  • general Hdwb. d. Abergl. II 1053
  • general Güntert Kalypso 154ff.
  • general Boberg Bjergfolkenes Bagning (DF XLVI) 56ff. Norse: Herrmann Saxo II 586ff., MacCulloch Eddic 321
Within the index

Filed under Tabu: eating in certain place.

3 finer motifs beneath it
Tabu: eating in fairyland Tabu: eating in lower world Tabu: sky dwellers eating on earth
Filed beside it
Married man not to eat in country of his parents Tabu: eating from certain place – miscellaneous
Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes
Goddess divides time between upper and lower worlds. Persephone spends six months on earth and six in Hades Flying dragon. (Cf. B11.2.1.11.) Tabu: profanely calling up spirit (devil, etc.) Tabu: drinking Looking tabu Magic chariot Magic chariot bears person aloft. (Cf. D1114.) Reincarnation. Return from the dead in another form Descent to lower world of dead (Hell, Hades) Orpheus. Journey to land of dead to bring back person from the dead Quest for vanished daughter

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