μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Filed across the traditions
  • Icelandic Boberg
  • Jewish Neuman
  • India Thompson-Balys
  • Maori Dixon 59
  • N. Am. Indian *Thompson Tales 329 n. 190, 331 n. 196a
  • Africa (Zulu) Callaway 64, 234, (Upoto): Einstein 125
  • Jamaica Beckwith MAFLS XVII 263 No. 67.
  • general *Type 313
  • general *BP II 527 n. 1
  • general *Fb "spytte" III 514b, 515a
  • general Penzer VIII 59 n. 3. Irish: Plummer clxxxiii, *Cross
Within the index

Filed under Magic bodily members – human.

Filed beside it
Magic hair Magic head Magic eye. See references to D2071 Magic foot Magic hand Magic internal organs – human Magic private parts – human Magic excrements Magic blood – human Magic tears Magic breath Magic buttocks Magic bone (human). (Cf. D1013.) Magic human flesh Magic bodily members (human) – miscellaneous
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
Magic spittle of animal. (Cf. D1001.) Speaking spittle reveals truth. (Cf. D1001.) Beautification by use of saint's spittle. (Cf. D1001.) Saint's spittle protects fugitive from attack. (Cf. D1001.) Magic circle of saliva kills dragon. (Cf. D1001, D1272.) Treasure from spittle. (Cf. D1454.2, D1001.) Magic healing spittle. (Cf. D1001, D1505.2.) Spittle restores sight. (Cf. D1001, D1500.1.8.) Spittle restores hearing. (Cf. D1001.) Magic spittle causes storm. (Cf. D1001.) Magic spittle controls rain. Makes rain on everyone but possessor of spittle himself. (Cf. D1001.) Saint's spittle splits rocks. (Cf. D1001.) Magic spittle impersonates fugitives. (Cf. D1001.) Evil eye averted by spitting. (Cf. D1001, D1776.) Sea formed from giant's spittle. (Cf. D1001.) Resuscitation by spittle. (Cf. D1001.)
Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes
Magic excrements Magic tears Magic ornament provides treasure Magic building provides treasure Old man of the sea. Burr-woman. Ogre who jumps on one's back and sticks there magically Quest assigned because of feigned dream Heat test. Attempt to kill hero by burning him in fire Tree-pulling contest Deceptive eating contest Escape by shamming death: blood and brains. The trickster covers himself with paint (or the like) so that he will be thought to have bled to death (or with milk so that it will be thought that his brains have been knocked out) Substitute smoker. The hero is compelled to smoke a fatal pipe, but the helpful insect which he carries on his head smokes the pipe for him The false bridegroom (substitute bridegroom). Takes the place of the true bridegroom

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