μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
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 *Krappe The Legend of Walther and Hildegund (Journal of English and Germanic Philology XXII [1923] 75–88).
Within the index
5 finer motifs beneath it
Transformation flight. Fugitives transforms themselves in order to escape detection by the pursuerObstacle flight. Fugitives throw objects behind them which magically become obstacles in pursuer's pathReversed obstacle flight. Magic obstacles raised in front of fugitiveMagic flight with the help of a he-goat. Speaking he-goat saves the girl promised to the devilSea turns to ice to permit flight

wander