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.

  • Icelandic*Boberg. – Ila (Rhodesia): Smith and Dale II 404 No. 1
  • IndiaThompson-Balys.
  • general Maynadier The Wife of Bath's Tale
  • general Taylor Washington Univ. Studies IV (2) (1917) 177 n. 9
  • general Vogt MLN XXXVII 339
  • general Coomaraswamy On the Loathly Bride (Speculum 1945, 391ff.)
  • general Krappe Philological Quarterly XXVI 352ff. – Irish myth: *Cross
Within the index

Filed under Disenchantment by submission. The helper must submit to the will of the enchanted person.

1 finer motif beneath it
Disenchantment of girl by carrying her on back
Filed beside it
Disenchantment by obedience and kindnessLoathly bridegroom. Woman disenchants loathsome man by embracing himDisenchantment of animal by admission to woman's bedDisenchantment by kissDisenchantment of monster when prince promises to marry the monster's mother. The prince imagines falsely that the mother is also a monsterDisenchantment by promise to marryDisenchantment by sexual intercourse. Man disenchants woman in form of a bearDisenchantment by feeding enchanted animals
Travels with
Magic beautification of fairy. (Cf. D732, F234.)
Carried in tale types

wander