μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Extraordinary escapes.

Marvels. · Extraordinary occurrences. · Other extraordinary events. · view the constellation · filed as F1088

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Filed across the traditions
  • Irish myth *Cross.
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Filed under Other extraordinary events.

4 finer motifs beneath it
Hero (heroine) spared for his (her) beauty Hero unharmed by serpent which coils around his waist Extraordinary escape from drowning Animal escapes by slipping out of skin
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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