μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Filed across the traditions
  • Irish *Cross, O'suilleabhain 71, Beal XXI 326
  • Spanish Exempla Keller
  • N. Am. Indian *Thompson Tales 311 n. 120.
  • general Chauvin VI 189 No. 356
  • general Crane Liber de Miraculis 88 No. 15
  • general Günter Christliche Legende 234 s. v. "Feuer"
  • general Cosquin Indiens 439ff.
  • general Toldo Studien VI 298
  • general Alphabet No. 308
  • general *Loomis White Magic 114. Jewish: *Neuman, Spence 51f., Gaster Rabbis 191 No. 28, 185 No. 28
Within the index

Filed under Invulnerability from certain things.

3 finer motifs beneath it
Magic animal proof against burning Fire does not injure a saint Sacred book or manuscript does not burn in fire
Filed beside it
Man proof against iron, stone, and wood Man proof against boiling water Man proof against wet. (Cf. D1524.1, D1540, D1551, D2125, D2151.) Invulnerability from weapons Immunity from drowning. (Cf. F222.1.1.) Magic animal proof against hound Man proof against poison. (Cf. D1840.1.2.) Invulnerability from demons
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
Incombustible objects. (Cf. D1841.3; D2158.2; F979.5.)
Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes
Sun father-in-law Animal bribed with food. (Sop to Cerberus.) Animal as guard of person or house Guardian animals evaded Transformation: man to feather Protean beggar: Person assumes successive forms in order to beg Transformation combat. Fight between contestants who strive to outdo each other in successive transformations Transformation to reach difficult place Transformation to escape difficult situation Transformation to receive food Resuscitation by arrangement of members. Parts of a dismembered corpse are brought together and resuscitation follows. (Sometimes combined with other methods.) Resuscitated eaten animal. (Cf. E171.) An animal is eaten. When his bones are reassembled he revives

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