μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
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.

  • Italian NovellaRotunda
  • JewishNeuman
  • IndiaThompson-Balys
  • ChineseFerguson 128
  • Eskimo (Greenland)Rasmussen I 219
  • Africa (Benga)Nassau 214 No. 33.
  • general *Type 400
  • general *Huet RTP XXXII 97, 145
  • general Wesselski Theorie 23. Irish myth: Cross
Within the index

Filed under Magic transportation.

15 finer motifs beneath it
Magic journey by wishing. (Cf. D1761.)Magic journey with closed eyes. Person must not open eyes while on the journey. (Cf. C300.)Magic journey through power of imaginationMagic journey by making distance vanish. The road is contracted or the earth folded upMagic journey: man carried by spirit or devilMagic journey during which one must not think good or evilMagic journey in cloud. (Cf. D2135.)Magic journey by throwing knife into whirlwindMagic transportation from kick of a horseMagic journey on sunbeamMagic journey: man left on land appears in shipPower to go through closed doorsSailing in a leaky boat without sinkingSaint rides on thorn tree and drags its roots through earth to dig out canalMagic compulsion to make journey
Filed beside it
Journey with magic speedMagic journey over waterMagic underwater journeyMagic underground journeyMagic air journeyObjects magically movedNatural law suspended
Carried in tale types

wander