μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

River says, "The time has come but not the man". Man thus induced to drown himself.

Magic. · Magic objects. · Function of magic objects. · Magic objects effect changes in persons. · Magic object gives supernatural information. · view the constellation · filed as D1311.11.1

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In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Scholars’ trail — 7references

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.

  • Finnish-SwedishWessman 54 No. 460
  • LithuanianBalys Index No. 3495
  • LivonianLoorits in FFC LXVI 45 No. 44f.
  • EstonianAarne in FFC XXV 136 No. 95.
  • general *Fb "tid" III 789b
  • general *Lizbarski Am Urds-Brunnen IV 56. – England: Baughman
  • general Netherlands: Sinninghe FFC CXXXII 52 No. 1
Within the index

Filed under Oracular river. (Cf. D915.)

Carried in tale types

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