μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Scholars’ trail — 3references

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 mythCross
  • JewishNeuman
  • IcelandicBoberg.
Within the index

Filed under Immortality. (Cf. D1346.)

6 finer motifs beneath it
Witch delays person's deathDeath postponed if substitute can be foundSaint delays person's death. (Cf. V220.)Death can be postponed if man does not break tabu for forty daysLife prolonged a thousand years by traveling six months each yearDeath postponed for three generations
Filed beside it
Immortality useless without eternal youthWoman changes into an immortalImmortality bestowedImmortality exchanged. Wounded Centaur immortal but cannot be cured. He gives away his immortality to Prometheus and is thus allowed to dieGiant immortal so long as he touches land of his birthDeath evaded. Person enters on the next life without dyingMagic longevity
Travels with
Magic object gives longevityMagic longevity

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