μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 7references

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.

  • IrishCross, O'Suilleabhain 15, 18, Beal XXI 305f.
  • Icelandic*Boberg
  • LithuanianBalys Legends Nos. 200ff.
  • IndiaThompson-Balys
  • HawaiiBeckwith Myth 120.
  • general Dh I II 61ff.
  • general England, Scotland: Baughman
Within the index

Filed under Magic control of soil and crops.

3 finer motifs beneath it
Rice grows in single dayMagic quick growth of saint's cropsSaint causes wheat to ripen prematurely in the time of a famine
Filed beside it
Land made magically fertile. (Cf. D1563, D2081, F349.4, F733.)Withered and dead trees suddenly blossom at saint's commandMiraculous speedy growth of a treePoor soil transformed into lovely garden overnightField cultivated and sowed by magic
Carried in tale types

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