μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Scholars’ trail — 8references

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*Cross, Plummer clxxxiv
  • India*Thompson-Balys
  • JapaneseAnesaki 315
  • JavaDixon 209
  • Philippineibid. 221ff.
  • Melanesiaibid. 224 n. 28
  • N. Am. Indian*Thompson Tales 335 n. 210, (Calif.): Gayton and Newman 70, 100.
  • general Fb "tønde" III 934b
Within the index

Filed under Inexhaustible object. Keeps magically renewing itself or expanding.

11 finer motifs beneath it
Miraculous increasing of small quantity of victuals or drinks to feed a great number of peopleInexhaustible bread. (Cf. D1031.1.)Cake magically increases. (Cf. D1031.2.)Inexhaustible grainEver-renewing cheese. (Cf. D1036.1.)Inexhaustible chestnut. (Cf. D1035.1.)Inexhaustible coconut. (Cf. D1035.2.)Inexhaustible fruitMagic pill on which one feeds self for years. (Cf. D1243.)Inexhaustible meat. (Cf. D1032.)Inexhaustible fish
Filed beside it
Magic object causes thing to become inexhaustibleInexhaustible drink. (Cf. D1040, D1472.1.16.)Inexhaustible milk. (Cf. D1018.)Magic gun is always loaded. (Cf. D1096.1.)Inexhaustible vessel. (Cf. D1171.)Ever-burning lamp. (Cf. D1162.1, D1645.)Unfading garlands. (Cf. D975.)Inexhaustible cloth. (Cf. D1051, D1052, D1652.12.)Monkey cut in two by magic sword becomes two monkeys. (Cf. D1081.)Inexhaustible fuelEver-burning candle. (Cf. D1162.2.)Mantle ever new. (Cf. D1053.)Everlasting wine-odor. (Cf. D1046.1.)Sheep with inexhaustible wool. (Cf. B184.6, B412.)Inexhaustible well. (Cf. D926.)Lime (for building church) miraculously renewed by power of saint
Travels with
Magic foodMultiplication of food by saint. (Cf. D1652.1.)Fairy grateful for loan of meal causes the vessel to remain full thereafter. (Cf. D1652.1.)
Carried in tale types

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