μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Filed across the traditions
  • Russian Ralston Russian Folk-Tales (London 1873) 231ff.
  • Italian Novella Rotunda
  • Babylonian Spence 130 (Ishtar)
  • India *Thompson-Balys, Penzer X 210 s. v. "Life, water of"
  • Buddhist myth Malalasekera II 347
  • Arabian Burton Nights S VI 213ff., 221
  • Siberian Holmberg Siberian 494
  • Indonesian DeVries Volksverhalen II 359 No. 104
  • Hawaii Beckwith Myth 74, 121, 153, 264
  • Fiji ibid. 76
  • N. Am. Indian *Thompson Tales 355 n. 279a
  • Africa (Bushman) Bleek and Lloyd 27, 67, 137.
  • general Types 550, 551
  • general *BP I 513, II 400
  • general **Wünsche Lebensbaum
  • general Chauvin VI 73f.
  • general Hertz Abhandlungen 47ff.
  • general *Fb "vand" III 1001b, "livets vand" II 439b, "flaske" I 309a
  • general Dawkins Alexander and the Water of Life (Medium Aevum IX 173–192)
  • general Jacobs' list s. v. "Water of Life"
  • general Köhler-Bolte I 186, 562. – Icelandic: Hrólfssaga Gautrekssonar (ed. Detter) 46, 64
  • general Pelew Islands: Dixon 252
  • general (Calif. Indian): Gayton and Newman 64
Within the index
6 finer motifs beneath it
Resuscitation by bathing Resuscitation by wet cloth over corpse Resuscitation by water (in basket, overnight) Resuscitation by holy water Water of life and death. One water kills, the other restores to life Water of death
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
Resuscitation by sprinkling ambrosia. (Cf. E80.)
Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes
Basilisk. A mythical lizard or serpent whose hissing drives away all other serpents Water of life and death. One water kills, the other restores to life Blind Dupe. A blind man's arrow is aimed for him by his mother (or wife) who deceives him into thinking that he has missed his aim. She eats the slain game herself

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