μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 18references

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.

  • ScotchCampbell Tales III 420
  • WelshMacCulloch Celtic 112f.
  • North CarolinaBrown Collection I 636
  • Breton*Le Braz Légende de la Mort II 37ff.
  • Spanish ExemplaKeller
  • SlavicMáchal 270
  • India*Thompson-Balys
  • JapaneseIkeda
  • HawaiiBeckwith Myth 69
  • MaoriClark III
  • N. Am. Indian (Klikitat)Jacobs U Wash II 7
  • AfricaWerner African 188, 206, (Gold Coast): Barker and Sinclair 39 No. 4, (Basuto): Jacottet 122 No. 17, 204 No. 30, 224 No. 33.
  • general Patch PMLA XXXIII 627 n. 92, Other World *380 s. v. "Land-beneath-the-waves"
  • general Wimberly 134
  • general Ward II 525
  • general Chauvin V 151 No. 73
  • general Penzer VI 280
  • general Smith Dragon 109. Irish myth: *Cross
Within the index

Filed under Location of otherworld.

5 finer motifs beneath it
Marine counterpart to land. All that exists on earth has its parallel in the seaEmpty under-water houseSubmarine monastery. (Cf. F725.6.)Otherworld at bottom of pondOtherworld at bottom of well
Filed beside it
Land of India (Greece) as otherworldSpain as otherworldAncient Ireland as location of otherworldOtherworld in hollow mountainOtherworld on lofty mountainOtherworld on islandBruidhen (banqueting-hall) as otherworldDirection of otherworldDistance of otherworld

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