μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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.

  • general Scotland, U.S.: *Baughman.
Within the index

Filed under Disenchantment with missing member. While in transformation a person loses a bodily member. When disenchanted, he still lacks the member.

Filed beside it
Cat's paw cut off: woman's hand missing. A man spends a night in a haunted mill, where he cuts off a cat's paw. In the morning the miller's wife has lost her hand. (Cf. D142, D621.1.1.)

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