μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 10references

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. "transport"
  • Jewish*Neuman
  • IndiaThompson-Balys
  • ChineseEberhard FFC CXX 195
  • KoreanZong in-Sob 65, 73
  • Eskimo (Greenland)Holm 24
  • Africa (Vai)Ellis 207 No. 24, (Benga): Nassau No. 24 (version 2).
  • general *Loomis White Magic 93
  • general Penzer II 223 n. 1, VI 213, 279, VII 24, 225 n. 1, VIII 57 n. 2. Irish: Plummer clxxxvi, *Cross
Within the index

Filed under Magic transportation.

6 finer motifs beneath it
Journey to otherworld with magic speed. (Cf. F0.)Magic speed by eating magic grains (medicine)Hundred-league strideMagic journey as swift as thought. (Cf. G242.)Journey with speed of angelsJourney with magic speed by saint
Filed beside it
Magic journeyMagic journey over waterMagic underwater journeyMagic underground journeyMagic air journeyObjects magically movedNatural law suspended
Travels with
Ghost travels swiftly. (Cf. D2122.)

wander