μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Scholars’ trail — 3references

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.

  • IndiaThompson-Balys
  • N. Am. IndianHultkrantz 364.
  • general *Krappe in Penzer Ocean of Story VIII 107
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.

6 finer motifs beneath it
Life bound up with magic object. When magic object is lost, person diesPerson to live as long as church standsLife bound up with calabash. As calabash grows, so does girlLife bound up with treeGirl lives until her cowslip is pulledMan's magic contains his life essence
Filed beside it
Life bound up with light (flame)Life bound up with that of animal. Person to live as long as animal livesLife bound up with external event. Death to come when certain thing happensOne person's life dependent on another's

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