μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Scholars’ trail — 10references

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.

  • IcelandicPanzer Sigfrid 113ff., Krappe Scandinavian Studies X (1928) 14–25, *Boberg
  • French CanadianBarbeau JAFL XXIX 11
  • JewishNeuman
  • IndiaThompson-Balys
  • ChineseEberhard FFC CXX 236
  • Philippine (Tinguian)Cole 144
  • Eskimo (Greenland)Rink 428, Rasmussen I 310, 367, II 168, 197.
  • general *Type 410
  • general *BP I 440, III 261
  • general *Fb "sove" III 472b. Irish: *Cross, O'Suilleabhain 35(a), Beal XXI 312
Within the index
15 finer motifs beneath it
Seven sleepers. (Rip Van Winkle.) Magic sleep extending over many yearsKyffhäuser. King asleep in mountain (Barbarossa, King Marko, Holger Danske, etc.) will awake one day to succor his peopleSleeping Beauty. Magic sleep for definite period (e.g., a hundred years)Deathlike sleepSleepless watcher magically put to sleep. Usually has a magic watchful eye, which remains awake while his many other eyes sleep. (Argus)Means of inducing magic sleep. (Cf. D1364.)Magic sleep induced by certain personGuardian magically made to sleep while girl goes to lover. (Cf. K1349.4, T30.)Person in magic sleep surrounded by protecting fireThree-fold magic sleep. Husband (lover) put to sleep by false bride. Only on the third night (the last chance) he wakesLover's magic sleep at rendezvous. A lover (husband) is to meet his mistress but magically oversleepsMagic sleep: in order to sleep off period of enchantmentDragon-fighter's magic sleep. While waiting for fight with dragon, hero falls into magic sleep. (Cf. D1962.2.)Experiences during magic sleepWaking from sleep

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