μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Journey to other world.

Marvels. · Other world journeys. · Journey to other world. · view the constellation · filed as F0

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Filed across the traditions
  • Welsh MacCulloch Celtic 114ff.
  • Icelandic Gould Scandinavian Studies and Notes IX (1927) 190
  • German *Siuts Jenseitmotive im deutschen Volksmärchen
  • Jewish *Neuman
  • Hindu Tawney I 58f., 417ff., 526f., II 267ff., 288ff.
  • Arabian Burton Nights VIII 70, IX 181ff., S II 85ff., S IV 443ff.
  • Russian Kuzenow Ueber den Glauben vom Jenseits und den Todtenkultus der Tcheremissen (Internationales Archiv für Ethnographie IX No. 4, X No. 2)
  • N. Am. Indian *Thompson Tales 330 n. 192.
  • general *Patch Some Elements in Mediaeval Descriptions of the Otherworld (PMLA XXXIII 601–643)
  • general *Wimberly 108ff.
  • general *Ward II 396ff.
  • general *von Negelein Zs. f. Vksk. XI 16ff., 149ff., 263ff
  • general *Encyc. Rel. Ethics s. v. "Other world"
  • general *Henne-am Rhyn Das Jenseits (1881). – Irish: Nutt The Irish Vision of the Happy Otherworld and the Celtic Doctrine of Rebirth (in Meyer, The Voyage of Bran), *Cross
  • general Brown Iwain 56ff.
  • general Melanesia (Ysabel): Codrington 365, (Mono-Alu-Fauru): Wheeler 21f., 33, (Buin): ibid. 47, (Papua): Ker 7
Within the index
8 finer motifs beneath it
Names for otherworld Journey to otherworld as dream or vision Translation to otherworld without dying. (Cf. F12.3.) Journey to otherworld as invasion Journey to otherworld as hunt Journey to otherworld as penance Departure to otherworld (fairyland) attributed to death Journey to otherworld with angel
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
Journey to otherworld with magic speed. (Cf. F0.)

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