μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Scholars’ trail — 4references

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, O'Suilleabhain 28, Beal XXI 309
  • Icelandic*Boberg
  • Jewish*Neuman
  • ChineseEberhard FFC CXX 206f.
Within the index

Filed under Other extraordinary human beings.

8 finer motifs beneath it
Old man with hanging eyelids. So old that the eyelids hang down to his chin and must be lifted upSending to the older. Old person refers inquirer to his father, who refers to his father, and so on for several generationsVery old womanMan so old he sleeps in cradleKing so old that he only can take food from a hornKing so old that he cannot get on horseback without helpPerson hundreds of years oldMan lives for nine generations
Filed beside it
Dancers upon whom icicles hangNegro so black that he makes whole garden somberLuminous personRemarkable beauty. (Cf. F574.1.)Extraordinary ugliness. (Cf. A2402.)Persons identical in appearance. (Cf. F1072.)[First Edition: F581. Woman who drives those who see her mad. (Inadvertant duplication of F1041.8.1.)]Poison damsel. Woman nourished on poison is fatal to her husbands. Sometimes the poisoning is from fatal look or breath, sometimes from intercourseHero has lain motionless since birthPerson remarkably light in weightPhantomsPerson who never laughsMan's ferocious glance kills (causes swooning)Person's extraordinary body temperature. (Cf. F546.5)Man whose entrails are visible when he laughsMan's body exudes sweet scent

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