μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
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.

  • WelshMacCulloch Celtic 191, 198
  • Irish myth*Cross
  • Icelandic*Boberg
  • SpanishBoggs FFC XC 67 No. 508A*
  • French CanadianBarbeau JAFL XXIX 10.
  • general Penzer I 109 n. 1, VI 72 n. 1, VIII 154 n. 2
  • general *Thien 30
  • general *Fb "sværd" III 690a
Within the index

Filed under Infallible weapon.

1 finer motif beneath it
Sword causes a man's death every time it is drawn
Filed beside it
Unerring spear. (Cf. D1084.)Infallible sling. (Cf. D1087.)Unerring bow. Always hits mark. (Cf. D1091)Unerring arrow. (Cf. D1092.)Unerring stone missile. (Cf. D1093.)Infallible gun. (Cf. D1096.1.)Magic mirror as infallible weapon. (Cf. D1080, D1163.)Infallible dagger. (Cf. D1083.1.)
Travels with
Magic sword

wander