μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Provisions magically furnished. (Cf. D1470.)

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“Then the father said, " And thou, my dearest child, how much dost thou love me ? " "I do not know, and can compare my love with nothing." But her father insisted that she should name something. So she said at last, " The best food does not please me without salt, therefore I love my father like salt." When the King heard that, he fell into a passion, and said, " If thou lovest me like salt, thy love shall also be repaid thee with salt."”

— Grimm's Household Tales: With the Author's Notes, Tale 179 · served from our shelf  receiptuncorrected OCR — being verified against the scan

Attested across traditions
Scholars’ trail — 9references

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.

  • Irish myth*Cross
  • Icelandic*Boberg
  • GermanGrimm Nos. 90, 121, 179
  • IndiaThompson-Balys
  • ChineseGraham
  • Eskimo (Greenland)Rink 229, 325, 422, 454, Holm 40
  • S. Am. Indian (Chiriguano)Métraux BBAE CXLIII (3) 484, (Toba) ibid. (1) 368
  • Africa (Angola)Chatelain 115 No. 9, (Ibo): Thomas 119.
  • general Rasmussen I 239, 374, III 51, (Mackenzie Area): Jenness 63, (Cumberland Sound): Boas BAM 245
Within the index

Filed under Magic wealth. (Cf. D1450.)

7 finer motifs beneath it
Provisions provided in answer to prayerProvisions provided by messenger from heavenRubbish magically becomes food and clothingDrink magically furnishedSaint causes fish to come out of lake to satisfy guests for whom he has no food. (Cf. D1444.1, F986.2.)Showers of grain called downFruit obtained from tree by magic
Filed beside it
Inexhaustible treasure. (Cf. D1652.)Coin multiplies itself. (Cf. D1288, D2106.)Treasure magically discoveredGold magically producedSilver magically producedMagic multiplication of objectsWarrior's equipment magically furnished
Travels with
Magic object as provider
Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes
Transformation to black manTears become jewelsGradual disenchantment. (Cf. D617.)Disenchantment at midnight after owl hoots three timesAttendants of disenchanted person automatically disenchantedMagic object found in gardenMagic skin makes person appear ugly. (Cf. D1005.)Magic staff defeats enemies. (Cf. D1254.)Beautification by removal of skin. (Cf. D1889.6.)Thumbling carried in pocketStrong hero suckled by giantStrong man lifts plow
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