μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Scholars’ trail — 3references

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
  • India*Thompson-Balys.
  • general Child V 482 s. v. "hair"
Within the index

Filed under Remarkable hair. (Cf. F521, F531.1.6.3.)

5 finer motifs beneath it
Hair recedes into headNude woman clothed in own hair (Godiva)Holy man's hair of enormous length, so long has he remained praying at one spotHair so long that girl can cover herself with itRapid growth of hair as protection against being seen nude
Filed beside it
Gold hairSilver hairVery thick hairMulti-colored hairMan has drop of blood on end of each hairPoisonous white hair in eyebrow that causes death to the first person who sees it each dayHair so stiff that apples falling on it would be impaledHair so curly that nuts falling on it would be heldHair emits sound

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