μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Scholars’ trail — 7references

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.

  • Icelandic*Boberg
  • BretonSébillot Incidents s. v. "oubli"
  • JewishNeuman
  • IndiaThompson-Balys
  • Eskimo (Greenland)Rink 457, Rasmussen III 145.
  • general *Cox Cinderella 511
  • general *Kittredge Witchcraft 55, 406 nn. 241, 242. Irish myth: Cross
Within the index
5 finer motifs beneath it
Forgotten fiancée. Young husband visiting his home breaks tabu and forgets his wife. Later she succeeds in reawakening his memory. (For details of the ways in which the memory is lost and regained see D2004 and D2006Means of bringing about magic forgetfulnessMagic reawakening of memory. (Cf. D1360, D1910.)Years thought days. (Cf. F379.5.) Years spent in the other world or asleep seem as days because of magic forgetfulnessMoments thought years. In a moment a person seems to experience events of many years

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