μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Filed across the traditions
  • Irish Plummer lxxx, Cross.
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Filed under Magic forgetfulness.

2 finer motifs beneath it
Forgotten fiancée reawakens husband's memory Sight of old home reawakens memory and brings about return from other world
Filed beside 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 D2006 Means of bringing about magic forgetfulness Years thought days. (Cf. F379.5.) Years spent in the other world or asleep seem as days because of magic forgetfulness Moments thought years. In a moment a person seems to experience events of many years
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
Magic object effects temporary change in person Magic memory
Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes
Trickster's burnt flesh becomes gum on trees Transformation to be put in food-bag Transformation to seduce Magic treasure animal killed. (Goose that laid the golden egg) Magic garment (robe, tunic) Killed game revives and flies away Disintegration: man eats himself up or dismembers himself Person eats self up Trickster joins bulrushes in a dance. He thinks they are dancing when he sees them waving Person frightened into falling down a cliff Deceptive scratching contest Thief frightens owner from goods

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