μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Future revealed in dream. (Cf. D1810.8, D1812.5.1.2, D1813.1.)

Magic. · Magic powers and manifestations. · Manifestations of magic power. · Lasting magic qualities. · Magic knowledge. · view the constellation · filed as D1812.3.3

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Filed across the traditions
  • Norse Sofus Larsen Antik og Nordisk Drømmetro (Aarbøger for Nordisk Oldkyndighed 1917, 37ff.), G. D. Kelchner Dreams in Old Norse Literature and Their Affinities in Folklore (Cambridge, England, 1935)
  • Icelandic MacCulloch Eddic 311–12, *Boberg
  • Spanish Exempla Keller
  • Greek Frazer Apollodorus II 46 n. 1 (Hecuba) → on our shelf: The Library (Bibliotheca), BOOK III, ch. XII
  • Jewish Neuman
  • India Thompson-Balys
  • Chinese Werner 276, Graham. – S. Am. Indian (Cherentes): Alexander Lat. Am. 308 → on our shelf: Myths & Legends of China, Chapter X
  • Eskimo (Greenland) Rasmussen I 134
  • Africa (Angola) Chatelain 67, 249, (Fjort): Dennett 39 No. 5, (Kaffir): Theal 128, (Bushman): Bleek and Lloyd 17, (Zulu): Callaway 146, (Gold Coast): Barker and Sinclair 124.
  • general *Type 725
  • general *BP I 324
  • general *Fb "sove" III 472b
  • general *Hartland FLJ IV 321
  • general *Pauli (ed. Bolte) Nos. 182, 183, 287, 328, 466, 826–830
  • general *Gaster Exempla Nos. 215, 216, 218, 219, 242
  • general Loomis White Magic
  • general Alphabet Nos. 266, 305
  • general Child V 477 s. v. "dreams"
  • general *Encyc. Religion and Ethics s. v. "Dreams and sleep"
  • general Loomis White Magic 17f.
  • general Corpus Poeticum Boreale I 334, 347. – Irish myth: *Cross

…and 1 more.

Within the index

Filed under Means of learning future. (Cf. D1810.8, D1976.2.)

14 finer motifs beneath it
Druid interprets prophetic dream. (Cf. D1711.4, D1812.3.3.5.) Poets interpret dreams. (Cf. P427.7.) Dream interpreter corrects dream Truest dreams at daybreak Fortune-telling dream induced by sleeping in extraordinary place (position) Prophetic dream induced by incantation. (Cf. D1799.3.) Prophetic dream loses force after a year Prophetic dream allegorical. (Cf. D1812.3.3.0.1., V515.) Prophetic dream induced by eating meat of bull Eve in vision sees Cain drink Abel's blood Dream by a (pregnant) woman about fate of her unborn child Future husband (wife) revealed in dream Dream interpreted by opposites Death of another revealed in dream
Filed beside it
Future learned by sitting on hide Fortune told by cutting sand
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
Magic knowledge from dream. (Cf. D1812.3.3, D1812.5.1.2, D1813.1, D1814.2, D1817.2.1, D1819.2.) Bad dream as evil omen. (Cf. D1810.8, D1812.3.3, D1813.1.) Dream shows events in distant place. (Cf. D1810.8, D1812.3.3, D1812.5.1.2.) Dream reveals death of brother. (Cf. D1812.3.3, D1812.5.1.2.)
Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes
Blind god. Hödhr Cupbearer of the gods Goddess of mercy Creation of diver (bird) Animal as servant to man Animal as domestic servant Helpful tiger Man carried by bird Transformation: man to tiger Transformation: ant to person Transformation: instruments of torture to lotus flowers Magic object acquired as reward for religious austerities
Carried in tale types

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