μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 11references

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.

  • FrenchSébillot France III 433
  • India*Thompson-Balys
  • JapaneseIkeda
  • Philippine (Tinguian)Cole 93, 96 n. 3, 97
  • PapuaKer 61
  • Africa (Angola)Chatelain 87 No. 5, (Kaffir): Kidd 225, (Madagascar): Dandouau Contes Populaires de Sakalava 231.
  • general *Bolte Zs. f. Vksk. XX 70 n. 1
  • general Fb "lilie"
  • general Böckel Psychologie der Volksdichtung 255
  • general *Loomis White Magic 125f. Breton: Sébillot Incidents s. v. "flétrissement"
  • general Indonesian, Polynesian: Dixon 234 n. 46
Within the index

Filed under Life token. (Cf. E760.) Object (animal, person) has mystic connection with the life of a person, so that changes in the life-token indicate changes in the person, usually disaster or death.

4 finer motifs beneath it
Life token: bamboo stalks grow with joints upside downLifen token: fruit decays on treeLife token: fruit falls from treeLife token: trees prostrate themselves
Filed beside it
Blood as life tokenLife token: staff stuck in groundLife token: object darkens or rustsLife token: object breaks (bursts)Life token: troubled liquid. (Cf. D1242.)Life token – miscellaneous

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