μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Scholars’ trail — 6references

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
  • JewishNeuman. – S. Am. Indian (Carajá): Métraux MAFLS XL 48, (Toba): ibid. 87
  • Africa (Ekoi)Talbot 273.
  • general See references to following motifs: D732, D733, D621.3. – BP I 86ff., 99ff., 165ff., 207ff. (Gr. Nos. 11, 13, 21, 24)
  • general *Loomis White Magic 82
  • general Cox Cinderella 481 n. 12. References to BP and to Cox concern motif Q2 (Kind and Unkind) which usually involves magic hideousness. – Irish myth: *Cross
Within the index
3 finer motifs beneath it
Girl magically made hideousMan made hideousObject magically made hideous
Travels with
Magic object makes beautiful or hideousMagic beautificationCurses
Carried in tale types

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