μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Hero shoots monster (or animal) and follows it into lower world.

Marvels. · Other world journeys. · The lower world. · Visit to lower world – miscellaneous motifs. · view the constellation · filed as F102.1

Filed across the traditions
  • Africa (Ekoi) Talbot 99.
  • general *Type 301
  • general *Krappe Balor 100 nn. 22, 23
  • general *De Vries Nederlandsche Tijdschrift voor Volkskunde (1924) 97–123. – Indonesia: De Vries's list No. 163, Dixon 213 n. 12
Within the index

Filed under Accidental arrival in lower world.

Filed beside it
Sound of drum followed into ghost town Rescued princess leaves her necklace behind in flight; hero returns for it and is left in underworld Boy follows nut into lower world
Carried in tale types

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