μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 3references

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.

  • IrishPlummer cl, Cross
  • French CanadianBarbeau JAFL XXIX 12
  • Jewish*Neuman, Gaster Exempla 225 No. 206.
Within the index

Filed under Magic fountain. (Cf. D926, D927.)

4 finer motifs beneath it
Fountain bursts forth where water is not available for baptismal ceremonies of future saintSaint produces fountain by means of his tearsFountain gushes up at place where saint's head was cut offSamson makes sweet water flow from jawbone
Filed beside it
Magic oil-spouting fountainMiraculous well yielding milk, beer or wineFountain is inhabited by sacred oracular fish
Travels with
Magic staff draws water from stone. (Cf. D925.1, D1254, D1567.6.)Magic object produces fountain. (Cf. D925.1.)Magic fountain produced by prayer. (Cf. D925.1.)Fountain produced from sign of the cross. (Cf. D925.1.)Location of fountain revealed in dream. (Cf. D925, D925.1, D1731.)

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