μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Scholars’ trail — 12references

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.
  • general *Kittredge Witchcraft 44, 398 n. 170
  • general *Pease Classical Philology VI (1911) 429ff
  • general *Tylor Primitive Culture (First Am. ed.) I 97ff.
  • general Knowlson Popular Superstitions (1910) 175ff.
  • general Schweizer Volkskunde (1912) 20f.
  • general Encyc. Rel. Ethics IX 398f.
  • general Penzer III 303ff.
  • general Gessler Bull. bib. et péd. du Musée belge XXX (1926) 193ff.
  • general Saintyves L'Eternuement et le Baillement (Paris, 1921) 148
  • general *Fb "nyse" II 704
  • general Hdwb. d. Abergl. s. v. "niesen" VI 1076ff.
Within the index

Filed under Future learned through omens.

Filed beside it
Omens from flight of birdsBehavior of fire as omenRising smoke as omenHaruspices: divination by condition of animal's liverDivination by throwing objects into water. If they swim the omen is bad; if not, goodDivination from first person (thing) metDivination from animal fightDivination from howling of dog. (Cf. D1812.5.1.12.1.)Divination from clouds. (Cf. D1812.5.1.11.)Divination from sound of voiceDivination from sound of chariot wheelsMagic manifestation as omenStone changes from red to green as auspicious sign. (Cf. D1293.1, D1293.2, D1317.12.)Weather signsPrognostications for year from winds blowing on January 1. (Cf. D1812.5.0.7.3.)Divination by choice of roads: which son to be born first

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