μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Prodigious weeping. Usually by saint.

Marvels. · Extraordinary occurrences. · Other extraordinary events. · view the constellation · filed as F1051

Filed across the traditions
  • India Thompson-Balys
  • Buddhist myth Malalasekera I 633
  • Chinese Eberhard FFC CXX 87, 260f.
  • Africa (Upoto) Einstein 127.
  • general Toldo II 96
Within the index

Filed under Other extraordinary events.

2 finer motifs beneath it
Barrel filled miraculously with penitent's tears Miraculously loud noise of mourning for hero
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

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