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.

  • IcelandicBoberg.
Within the index

Filed under Other extraordinary events.

4 finer motifs beneath it
Flame indicates presence of beautiful woman. (Cf. F1041.8.1. and cross references.)Color of flame indicates what is burning. Blue for furniture, white for money, red for personBurning pit will close only if armed rider will plunge into itFlame indicates place where innocent person was murdered
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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

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