μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Objects go journeying together.

Marvels. · Extraordinary occurrences. · Other extraordinary events. · view the constellation · filed as F1025

Filed across the traditions
  • India Thompson-Balys
  • Japanese Ikeda
  • Korean Zong 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 splits Turtle'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 support Dice game that lasts for nine years Extraordinary occurrences connected with shoes Man carries extraordinary luggage Man washes clothes blindfolded Extraordinary flights through air Extraordinary descent into ocean Creation of a person by cooperation of skillful men Ship wrapped with feather-beds and canvass and pitched (so as to save it) Person walks unceasingly for year Person lives without food or drink for a year (or more) Person concealed in another's body Disintegration: man eats himself up or dismembers himself Hand from heaven writes on wall Object thrown from heaven Person without shadow

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