μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 2references

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.

  • Irish myth*Cross
  • GreekIliad XXI lines 234ff. N. Am. Indian (Menomini): Skinner and Satterlee PaAM XIII 257.
Within the index

Filed under Magic object pursues or captures.

1 finer motif beneath it
Water gradually envelops girl filling pitcher and drowns her. Work of malevolent rice-spirit
Filed beside it
Magic object pursuesMagic hair stretches after fugitive. (Cf. D991.)Magic weapon pursues victim. (Cf. D1080.)
Travels with
Magic body of Water

wander