μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
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.

  • RussianRalston Russian Folk-Tales 102.
  • general Gaster Exempla 251 No. 373
Within the index

Filed under Blood as life token.

Filed beside it
Life token: water turns to blood. (Cf. F961.3.1, V211.2.3.2.)Life token: horn fills with bloodLife token: track fills with bloodLife token: blood of fish calls outLife token: blood boilsLife token: comb drips bloodLife token: cloth becomes bloodyLife token: hero's horse stands in stable in blood up to his kneesLife token: milk becomes bloodyLife token: roof spouts of castle run with bloodLife token: meal ground in mill is the color of bloodBlood stops flowing from wound when captives escape

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