μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Scholars’ trail — 5references

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
  • Icelandic*Boberg
  • India*Thompson-Balys. See also all references to motifs D1470–D1475, as indicated below.
  • general *BP I 361
  • general *Aarne JSFO XXVII 1–96 passim
Within the index

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

11 finer motifs beneath it
Magic goblet (cup) cannot be filled. (Cf. D1171.6.2, D1472.1.14.)Inexhaustible barrel. (Cf. D1171.9.)Inexhaustible measure (for meal or flour)Inexhaustible pitcher. (Cf. D1171.4.)Inexhaustible vase of bonbons. (Cf. D1171.7.)Inexhaustible bowl. (Cf. 1170.)Inexhaustible pot. (Cf. D1171.1.)Inexhaustible food basket. (Cf. D1171.11.)Inexhaustible food bag. (Cf. D1193.)Inexhaustible rice-stores. (Cf. D1033.1.)Inexhaustible meal sack. (Cf. D1193.)
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.)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
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Magic vessel

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