μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Scholars’ trail — 16references

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.

  • WelshMacCulloch Celtic 114ff.
  • IcelandicGould Scandinavian Studies and Notes IX (1927) 190
  • German*Siuts Jenseitmotive im deutschen Volksmärchen
  • Jewish*Neuman
  • HinduTawney I 58f., 417ff., 526f., II 267ff., 288ff.
  • ArabianBurton Nights VIII 70, IX 181ff., S II 85ff., S IV 443ff.
  • RussianKuzenow 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 otherworldJourney to otherworld as dream or visionTranslation to otherworld without dying. (Cf. F12.3.)Journey to otherworld as invasionJourney to otherworld as huntJourney to otherworld as penanceDeparture to otherworld (fairyland) attributed to deathJourney to otherworld with angel
Travels with
Journey to otherworld with magic speed. (Cf. F0.)

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