μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Night spent in tree. Hero goes into tree to spend the night.

Marvels. · Extraordinary occurrences. · Other extraordinary events. · view the constellation · filed as F1045

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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
Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes
Man carried on goat's horns. (Goat is transformed man.) Transformation: man to goat (he-goat, she-goat, kid etc.) Transformation: man to smoke Castle magically made smaller Men transformed to animals fight Disenchantment by being wakened from magic sleep by proper agent Magic rock (stone) Magic elevator. Stone on which one steps carries one underground. (Cf. D931.) Dwarfs clad in motley Dwarfs' house of reeds Subterranean world Suitors assigned quests
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