μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Scholars’ trail — 5references

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.

  • SpanishBoggs FFC XC 47 No. 325A*.
  • general *Type 755
  • general H. C. Andersen "Skyggen"
  • general Fb "skygge" III 347
  • general *Hdwb. d. Abergl. IX Nachträge 133ff.
Within the index

Filed under Other extraordinary events.

2 finer motifs beneath it
Man attends devil's school to learn witchcraft, has no shadow afterwardMan has witch aid him in reaping contest, the devil to get the hindmost. The devil tries to take the man but gets shadow instead. (Cf. G303.19, K210.)
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)Person concealed in another's bodyDisintegration: man eats himself up or dismembers himselfHand from heaven writes on wallObject thrown from heaven
Travels with
Demons cast no shadow. (Cf. F1038, G369.3.)
Carried in tale types

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