μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Years thought days. (Cf. F379.5.) Years spent in the other world or asleep seem as days because of magic forgetfulness.

Magic. · Magic powers and manifestations. · Manifestations of magic power. · Temporary magic characteristics. · Magic forgetfulness. · view the constellation · filed as D2011

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Scholars’ trail — 16references

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.

  • BretonSébillot Incidents s. v. "temps"
  • WelshMacCulloch Celtic 101
  • ScottishMcKay Bealoideas III 138
  • EnglishChild V 290a
  • Spanish ExemplaKeller
  • LithuanianBalys Index No. *472
  • IndiaThompson-Balys
  • ChineseGraham
  • JapaneseIkeda
  • Eskimo (Greenland)Rasmussen III 299, (Bering Strait): Nelson RBAE XVIII 459
  • N. Am. Indian*Thompson Tales 314 n. 143.
  • general *Type 470
  • general *Fb "tid" III 790a
  • general Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 561, 562
  • general *Köhler-Bolte II 224ff., 406ff.
  • general *Hartland Science 162ff. Irish: MacCulloch Celtic 116, 119, 181f., *Cross
Within the index

Filed under Magic forgetfulness.

3 finer motifs beneath it
Years seem moments while man listens to song of birdTwo friars perceive no passing of time from Shrovetide till following Easter while they talk of ChristYears are as moments to creator
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 D2006Means of bringing about magic forgetfulnessMagic reawakening of memory. (Cf. D1360, D1910.)Moments thought years. In a moment a person seems to experience events of many years
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