μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 8references

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.

  • Irish myth*Cross
  • Icelandic*Boberg
  • India*Thompson-Balys
  • Philippine (Tinguian)Cole 103
  • MarquesasHandy 114
  • TuamotuStimson MS (z-G. 13/499).
  • general Type 530
  • general Cosquin Contes indiens 333ff.
Within the index

Filed under Other extraordinary events.

2 finer motifs beneath it
Crossing a river with help of a fig tree whose branches touch the opposite bankJumping over a ditch which is really an ocean
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
Carried in tale types

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