μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 4references

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.

  • BretonSébillot Incidents s. v. "vie"
  • Icelandic*Boberg.
  • general Fb "lys" II 483ab
  • general Gaster Thespis 275f.
Within the index

Filed under Life dependent on external object or event. Person's life is mystically connected with something else and comes to an end when that thing is destroyed.

3 finer motifs beneath it
Life bound up with candle. When the candle goes out, person diesLife bound up with burning brand (torch)Life-lights in lower world. Each light mystically connected with the life of a person. When light is extinguished, person dies
Filed beside it
Life bound up with that of animal. Person to live as long as animal livesLife bound up with objectLife bound up with external event. Death to come when certain thing happensOne person's life dependent on another's
Travels with
Life token: light goes out. (Cf. E765.1.)
Carried in tale types

wander