μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Accidental arrival in lower world.

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

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Filed under Visit to lower world – miscellaneous motifs.

4 finer motifs beneath it
Hero shoots monster (or animal) and follows it into lower world 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
Filed beside it
Return from lower world Dead oppose return of living from land of the dead. (Cf. F93.1.1.) Youths grind in mill of underworldlings Youths tutored by Vulcan, smith of Hell Nature of underworld inhabitants Visit to lower world – additional motifs

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