μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Filed across the traditions
  • India Thompson-Balys
  • N. Am. Indian *Thompson Tales 281 n. 41.
  • general See all references to E361. *Jellinek Zs. f. Vksk. XIV 323f
Within the index

Filed under Ghost summoned.

Filed beside it
Summoning souls punished: in hour of man's death they overwhelm him Ghost summoned by pouring blood of sacrifices into trench Ghosts summoned by sacred book Ghost summoned by music Vigil of husband at wife's grave calls her forth Other means of summoning ghost Reasons for summoning of ghosts Ghost summoned – miscellaneous
Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes
Theft of light. Light originally absent is stolen by culture hero Light kept in box (basket). Stolen Theft of light by being swallowed and reborn. The hero transforms himself to a particle. The daughter of the guardian of light swallows him as she is drinking water. He is reborn. As a child in the house he steals light

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