μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 2references

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.

  • general *BP III 302
  • general Ovid Metamorphoses IV lines 457–463.
Within the index

Filed under Extraordinary sights in otherworld.

6 finer motifs beneath it
Man in otherworld loaded down with wood. Then more and more put on himPeople in otherworld pour water into tub full of holesTrying to get a beam through a door crosswise in otherworldPeople in otherworld with horses both before and behind wagon. They pull against each otherMan in otherworld kindles fire. It burns out repeatedly while he is gathering more woodPeople in otherworld thatch house with birds' wings. Thatch blows away while they go for more
Filed beside it
Enigmatic happenings in otherworld, which are later explainedFat and lean kine in otherworldBroad and narrow road in otherworldPeople and things that strike one another in otherworldFighting animals seen in otherworld. Rams and she-goats or wild boarsAnimals in otherworld pass in and out of church and become human beingsUnseen hands lave feet in otherworldDemon eats sand; gambler lives wretched life in otherworld
Carried in tale types

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