μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Filed across the traditions
  • Icel. Herrmann Saxo II 586ff., MacCulloch Eddic 321f., Boberg
  • Spanish Exempla Keller
  • India *Thompson-Balys. – N. Am. Indian (Zuñi): Parsons JAFL XXIX 393
  • general *Fb "stum"
  • general *Type 451, 705, 710
  • general Frazer Golden Bough XII 461 s. v. "silence", Wuttke Volksaberglaube 161, 323
  • general Wimberly Folklore in Ballads 281
  • general Rantasalo FFC XXXII 69ff.
  • general F. L. Grundtvig Dania VI 184ff. Irish myth: Cross
  • general (Navaho): Alexander N. Am. 174, (Seneca): Curtin-Hewitt RBAE XXXII 90 No. 4.
Within the index
3 finer motifs beneath it
Tabu: speaking during certain time Tabu: speaking before certain time Silence preserved in fairyland
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
Tabu: speaking in otherworld. (Cf. C400.)
Carried in tale types

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