μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Scholars’ trail — 12references

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
  • IrishPlummer cxxxviii, Cross, Beal XXI 315, O'Suilleabhain 41
  • BretonSébillot Incidents s. v. "vie"
  • French CanadianBarbeau JAFL XXIX 24
  • SpanishBoggs FFC XC 82 No. 708A*
  • JewishNeuman
  • Eskimo (Greenland)Rasmussen III 48
  • N. Am. Indian*Hultkrantz 260ff.
  • Africa (Fang)Trilles 133.
  • general *Type 332
  • general Fb "sjæl" III 214b, "lys" II 482a
  • general BP I 377ff., *388
Within the index

Filed under Other forms of the soul.

3 finer motifs beneath it
Soul as taper (candle)Soul as will-o-the-wisp. Appears as a ball or fire or a figure in a fiery garmentSouls of dead as Aurora Borealis
Filed beside it
Soul in form of heavenly bodySoul as shadowSoul as weather phenomenonSoul as object. (Cf. E765.)Soul as mannikin (child)The soul as a guardian spirit
Travels with
Luminous ghosts. (Cf. E530.1, E742.)

wander