μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 2references

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 mythCross.
  • general *Fb "holde" IV 219b
Within the index

Filed under Magic adhesion. (Cf. D1413.)

4 finer motifs beneath it
Magic adhesion to gooseMagic adhesion to swanMagic adhesion to turtleMagic adhesion to hose
Filed beside it
Object magically attaches itself to a personMagic adhesion to monster (witch, ogre, etc.). (Old Man of the Sea, Burr-Woman.)Objects magically stick together. (Cf. D1413.)Persons magically stick together. (Cf. D1171.2, D1413.14.)Clothes cling supernaturally to bodyMan's feet fixed to pavement so that he cannot move until he makes vowWitch causes milk to stay in overturned pail
Travels with
Journey to otherworld by clinging magically to an object

wander