μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Person without shadow.

Marvels. · Extraordinary occurrences. · Other extraordinary events. · view the constellation · filed as F1038

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Filed across the traditions
  • Spanish Boggs 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 afterward Man 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 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 Objects go journeying together 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
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
Demons cast no shadow. (Cf. F1038, G369.3.)
Carried in tale types

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