μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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.

  • IndiaThompson-Balys.
Within the index

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

1 finer motif beneath it
Inexhaustible firewood. (Cf. D1298.)
Filed beside it
Magic object causes thing to become inexhaustibleInexhaustible food. (Cf. D1030, and in general D1470–D1499.)Inexhaustible 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.)Ever-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

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