μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Bridge to land of dead.

The dead. · Ghosts and other revenants. · Ghosts and revenants – miscellaneous. · Abode of the dead. · view the constellation · filed as E481.2.1

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Filed across the traditions
  • Icelandic *Boberg
  • Finnish Holmberg Finno-Ugric 74
  • India *Thompson-Balys
  • Persian Carnoy 344
  • N. Am. Indian Brinton Myths of the New World (New York, 1868) 248, Skinner PaAM XIII 86.
  • general Type 471
  • general *Fb "bro" IV 62b
  • general Wimberly 110ff.
  • general Ward Catalogue of Romances II 399, 420, 607, Herbert ibid. III 279
  • general Moe Samlede Skrifter III 212, 226ff.
  • general Frazer Immortality III 150
  • general Kachin: Scott Indo-Chinese 265
Within the index

Filed under Land of dead across water.

2 finer motifs beneath it
Frightening thing at bridge to land of dead Unstable bridge to land of dead
Filed beside it
Island of the dead Boat to land of dead
Carried in tale types

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