μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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.

  • general *Penzer VII 114ff.
Within the index

Filed under Other extraordinary events.

5 finer motifs beneath it
Husband concealed in wife's earMagician carries mistress with him in his body. She in turn has paramour in hersPerson's thigh as hiding placePerson's armpit as hiding placeOther parts of person's body as hiding place
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 menObjects go journeying togetherShip 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)Disintegration: man eats himself up or dismembers himselfHand from heaven writes on wallObject thrown from heavenPerson without shadow

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