μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 6references

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.

  • Irish myth*Cross
  • IcelandicBoberg
  • Spanish ExemplaKeller
  • Jewish*Neuman
  • India*Thompson-Balys
  • West IndiesFlowers 432.
Within the index

Filed under Vital bodily members. They possess life independent of the rest of the body. (Cf. F1096.)

8 finer motifs beneath it
Head cut off and successfully replacedSevered head regrowsSevered head reddens and whitensSevered head opens eyesVital head speaksHeadless body vitalHeadless man lives four (seven) years. (Cf. Q551.8.5.)Dead head grateful for burying it
Filed beside it
Vital body: kills attacking enemiesAnimal bodily members transferred to person or other animal retains animal powers and habits. (Cf. E781, E782.)Eyes successfully replacedLimbs successfully replacedFlesh regrowsVital skin. Retains life after death of ownerHeart successfully replacedStomach borrowed by animal. Later returnedSevered pap regrows when woman bears childVital bodily members – miscellaneous
Travels with
Magic headBeheaded man swims. (Cf. E783.)Person unusual as to his head. (Cf. F501.)Man cuts off own head, picks it up and replaces it. (Cf. E783.)

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