μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 3references

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.

  • IndiaThompson-Balys
  • JapaneseIkeda
  • KoreanZong in-Sob 161.
Within the index

Filed under Other extraordinary events.

2 finer motifs beneath it
Bean, straw, and coal go journeying. Coal burns straw in two and falls into the water. Bean laughs until it splitsTurtle's war-party. Turtle recruits war-party of strange objects (knife, brush, awl, etc.) and animals. Because of their nature the companions get into trouble
Filed beside it
Sunbeam as supportDice game that lasts for nine yearsExtraordinary occurrences connected with shoesMan carries extraordinary luggageMan washes clothes blindfoldedExtraordinary flights through airExtraordinary descent into oceanCreation of a person by cooperation of skillful menShip wrapped with feather-beds and canvass and pitched (so as to save it)Person walks unceasingly for yearPerson lives without food or drink for a year (or more)Person concealed in another's bodyDisintegration: man eats himself up or dismembers himselfHand from heaven writes on wallObject thrown from heavenPerson without shadow

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