μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Scholars’ trail — 4references

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
  • IndiaThompson-Balys.
  • general *Penzer III 46, 86, X 251 s. v. "Omen, evil."
Within the index

Filed under Future learned through omens.

31 finer motifs beneath it
Prodigy as evil omenBad dream as evil omen. (Cf. D1810.8, D1812.3.3, D1813.1.)Breaking mirror as evil omenEclipse as evil omen. (Cf. F961.1, F965.2.)Moon furnishes omenStars furnish omensMeeting certain persons (animals) a bad omenBad omen for two bridal processions to meetSight of mermaid bad omenSight of phantom ship a bad omenRed (gray, etc.) clouds as evil omens. (Cf. D1812.5.0.10.)Animal behavior as bad omenFairy music as evil omenHoly man's fall from horse a bad omenHailstorm as bad omenDry river bed as bad omenSpectre as evil omen. (Cf. D1812.5.1.1.6.)Snow on house omen of approaching death. (Cf. D1812.0.1.)Plague as bad omenWithering of tree as bad omenForgetting leashes of hounds as bad omenBad omen: seeing unusual sight on road homeMan killed by accident when ship is pushed into the sea taken as an evil omenRoaring of waves augurs danger to king. (Cf. D911.1, D1812.5.2.7.) +7 more
Filed beside it
Omens from sneezingOmens 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.)

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