μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Life token: mirror becomes black (misty). (Cf. D1163.)

The dead. · The soul. · Life index. · view the constellation · filed as E761.4.3

Filed across the traditions
  • Armenian Macler contes Arméniens 28
  • Japanese Ikeda.
  • general *Bolte Zs. f. Vksk. XX 70 n. 5
Within the index

Filed under Life token: object darkens or rusts.

Filed beside it
Life token: knife stuck in tree rusts (becomes bloody) Life token: picture burns black Life token: ring rusts Life token: silver object turns dark Life token: charm dries Life token: sword rusts Life token: beads cling together Life token: milk turns dark
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
Magic mirror

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