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.

  • Icelandic*Boberg
  • JewishNeuman.
  • general *Fb "rundt" III 96b
  • general Frazer Golden Bough X 233ff.
  • general *Penzer X 109 s. v. "circumambulation"
  • general Cowell Jātaka index s. v. "rightwise"
  • general Cosquin Études 356ff.
  • general *Saintyves Essais 196ff. Irish myth: *Cross
Within the index

Filed under Means of producing magic power.

2 finer motifs beneath it
Dextrosum (sunwise) circuit (for good luck)Withershins (countersunwise) circuit (for ill luck)
Filed beside it
Magic results produced by wishingMagic results produced by commandMagic results produced by religious ceremony. (Cf. G224.5, V70.)Magic results from laughingMagic results from speakingMagic results from lickingMagic results from spittingMagic results from power of thoughtMagic results from contact with earthMagic results from singing. (Cf. D1275, D1275.3.)Sympathetic magic. Magic results obtained by imitating desired actionReverse magic. Magic results obtained by imitating reverse of desired resultsMagic results from breathing. (Cf. D1557.)Magic telepathy. Influence at a distanceMagic power at cross-roadsMagic results from burning
Travels with
Tabu: doing thing in certain manner. (Cf. C643, D1791.)Magic circlePower of prophecy induced by crawling backward around grave. (Cf. D1791.)Ghost will vanish if seer walks around it nine times. (Cf. D1791, D1273.1.5.)Fairies made visible when person walks three times around field where cows are grazing at night. (Cf. D1791.)Person gets witch power by walking twelve times around a church backward at midnight

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