μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Scholars’ trail — 2references

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.

  • Irish mythCross.
  • general Frazer Golden Bough III 41
Within the index

Filed under Soul of sleeper prevented from returning to his body.

Filed beside it
Soul of sleeper prevented from returning when it is captured in animal formSoul of sleeper prevented from returning by burning the bodySoul of sleeper prevented from returning to his body when soul as bee leaves body and enters hole in wall beside which he is sleeping. (Cf. E734.2.)Frightened soul cannot return to body
Travels with
Head of beheaded man separated from body (by walking between them) to prevent return. (Cf. E721.1.2.2.)

wander